Mukarram Khan Atif, Pakistani journalist and reporter, was shot and killed

Mukarram Khan Atif was a Pakistani journalist and reporter working for Dunya News and Deewa Radio.^[1] He was killed in Pakistan on January 17, 2012 by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan because of his anti-Taliban reporting.^[2][3][4] He was the first reporter killed in Pakistan in 2012.^[5]

^{(Birth: unknown - Death: January 17, 2012)} 

Personal life

Mukarram Khan Atif had one wife and no children. He had arrangements to marry a second wife in February, 2012.^[6] He had two brothers, the younger one named Muslim Khan.^[7] Mukarram Khan Atif and his family were native to the Mohmand tribal region.^[8] They were relocated after receiving threats from militants to Shabqadar, a subdivision of the Charsadda district roughly 15 miles north of Peshawar.^[4]

Career

Mukarram Khan Atif was a reporter for Dunya TV and Deewa Radio, a Pashto language radio channel of the Voice of America’s Pashto language service.^[9][10] He had been working for Deewa Radio since 2006.^[2] Atif was also the President of the Mohmand Agency Press Club.^[3]
Safiullah, the bureau chief of Dunya TV, stated that Atif was a pleasant, hard worker. David Ensor, director for Voice of America, stated "Atif risked his life on a daily basis to provide his audience with fair and balanced news from this critical region and we mourn the loss of our colleague."^[2] Atif was trained to educate journalists on how to protect themselves.^[6]

Death

On January 17, 2012 Mukarram Khan Atif was praying in a mosque near Peshawar after sunset.^[11] Local police officers told reporters that two armed men came in and killed him with several shots, some to the head. They fled on motorcycles.^[12] Nasruminallah, an Imam at the mosque, was also injured in the attack.^[1][3]
Atif was taken to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar where Rahim Jan, a senior doctor, stated that he was dead before he arrived.^[5][12]
His funeral prayer was offered on the Subhan Khur high school grounds. Police were present to avert any unwanted actions at the funeral and burial grounds.^[6] Despite the fears of attack, many different people, including members of Tribal Union of Journalists and journalists from Peshawar, attended the funeral. No government officials attended. Atif was buried in Akhwand Zafar Baba graveyard of Shabqadar.^[13]

Tehrik-i-Taliban claim responsibility

Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesperson for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility for Atif’s murder.^[3] In a telephone conversation with Peshawar journalists, Ehsan stated “We have been warning him to stop his propaganda against us in the foreign media. He did not include our version in his stories.”^[14]

Reactions

Many people condemned Mukarram Khan Atif's murder. The list includes:

• The United States embassy in Pakistan.
  • On January 18, 2012 The United States Embassy in Pakistan condemned Atif's murder stating "Mr. Atif’s reporting on security and extremism from the tribal belt brought to light the threat extremism poses to the peace and stability of Pakistan and the region. We admire his commitment to finding the truth wherever it led him, in accordance with the highest principles of his profession. We urge a full and transparent investigation that identifies the culprits of this crime and brings them to justice.The United States stands in solidarity with the journalists of Pakistan. A free and open press is the best guarantee of the freedom and security of the Pakistani people."^[15]
• Irina Bokova, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).^[8]
• Tanvir Shahzad, president of the Electronic Media Reporters Association
  • Shahzad asked the government to take action against those responsible. He stated that "Atif’s death is irreparable loss; he was a brave and dedicated journalist."^[16]
• Dr. Firdous Ashiq Aawan, Minister for Information and Broadcasting^[17]
• Tariq Chaudhry, acting president for Pakistan Federal Union of Journalist and Secretary General Amin Yousuf^[10]

In response to Atif's death, Reporters Without Borders stated “The Pakistani authorities must at all costs take action to protect journalists, especially those who are subjected to threats. Otherwise, there will be no improvement in conditions.”^[18]


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David Phiri, Zambian businessman, Governor of the Bank of Zambia, died he was 74.

David Abel Ray Phiri ^[1] was a Zambian businessman who was a former Governor of the Central Bank of Zambia and Chairman of the Football Association of Zambia died he was 74.. He died in Lusaka, Zambia^[2] on 16 January 2012 from complications arising from a brain stem infarction he suffered 10 days earlier. He had two sons with Elizabeth Ann Phiri: Sipho Philip Masewera (1967) and Guy David Zingalume (1969). He had two brothers, Dr. Mannasseh Phiri and Chris Phiri, both of whom live in Lusaka, Zambia, and four sisters: Irene Kabwe, Zondiwe Maboshe, Cecilia Phiri and Hlupo Phiri (18 March 1959 – 16 March 1998).

(22 May 1937 – 16 January 2012)

Family history and early life

David Phiri, or 'DARP', as he was affectionately known, was born in Zimbabwe, on 22 May 1937, to Abel Masewera Phiri and Elizabeth Sibanda. Abel Masewera Phiri had decided to leave Kapela village near Chadiza, Northern Rhodesia, in what is now know as the Eastern Province of Zambia, to find work in the mines of Southern Rhodesia. Abel Masewera Phiri had the firm belief that the traditional village life of the African was going to end and turned down a Chewa chiefdom to enter the 'new world'. He left Kapela village on foot with two companions and headed South eventually ending up in a mine town called Kwekwe, where he found work at the Globe and Phoenix Mine. Abel Phiri married a local of the Shona people, Elizabeth Sibanda, and David was born in the Globe and Phoenix mine compound, the only child of this marriage.

Education

Phiri was an exceptional student, despite his tendency to play truant in order to play football which he preferred to the rigors of study, and was noticed by Mr. Green, a manager at the Rhodesia Iron and Steel Company (RISco), subsequently known as Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO), where Phiri's father Abel was now Head Clerk. Mr. Green took personal interest in Phiri's education and encouraged him to well in school and gave him books, and along with his father's stern educationalist beliefs and disciplinarian approach to achieving the highest grades, Phiri would continue to excel educationally and became involved in many charitable trusts providing scholarships to young Africans, including the Beit Trust in Zambia. His son, Guy David Zingalume Phiri, spoke of this belief at his memorial service at the Anglican Cathedral in Lusaka on the 20th of January 2012, whilst relating a story of how DARP got his first watch. Phiri was forced to enroll in Latin classes and at the end of the school year proudly presented his report to his father, wherein it showed that DARP had come second in his Latin class. His father, proud of his son's achievement told Phiri that as he had done so well in Latin he would buy him his first watch, a considerable source of pride for DARP. It was only about 30 years later that DARP confessed to his father that there were in fact only two people in his Latin class.

Primary school

In 1945, when Phiri was 8 years old, he was sent to a Presbyterian School, the Gloag Branch Mission School, near Bulawayo. Here he developed his love of gardening, where it was taught as a subject, and it remained his hope that gardening would one day be taught as a school subject in Zambian schools.

Secondary school

In 1951, Phiri went on to secondary school at the prestigious Goromonzi High School, considered by many as the Eton of black schools. His first Headmaster at the school was a Mr. Miller, a Cambridge graduate, inculcated in him the belief that Oxford and Cambridge were the best Universities in the world. His self belief that there is nothing that stops an African child achieving whatever they want to achieve and race, religion or circumstance were no obstacle to self belief and determination becomes all the more evident when it is remembered that Phiri decided in a colonial, black only school, in the early 1950s, that he would go to Oxford University. Phiri led a full school life, becoming Head boy, captaining the school football team, playing football at national schoolboys level as well as being the conductor of the school choir. Phiri graduated from Goromonzi with amongst the best A level results in Southern Africa at the time, with 2 'A's and 2 'B's in English, History, Geography and Chemistry.
In 1957, in order to earn a full scholarship to study in the UK, Phiri had to return to Northern Rhodesia for a year and returned to Lusaka by train, where he was met by a colonial government official and given housing in Matero, a high density suburb of Lusaka. He was given his first job at Government Stores in Lusaka, a job he thoroughly detested, however his lifelong ethic of making the best of all situations allowed him to persevere and perhaps his greatest asset, his ability to communicate and get along with everyone he came into contact with, came to his rescue. Whilst humming a hymn, a white colleague struck up a conversation with him and ended up inviting him to attend the then white only Methodist Church, Trinity Church on Church Road in Lusaka. It was here he met Phyllis and Don Fluck, who soon invited him to live with them, a shocking occurrence in the then racially segregated community. Phiri also met another member of the congregation at trinity, Mr. Henry Fosbrooke (10 October 1908 – 25 April 1996), the Head of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute(RLI) from 1956, the first local anthropological research facility in Africa and notably RLI anthropologists have since been lauded by some as "liberal, anti-racists," furthering the cause of African independence. Mr Fosbrooke arranged for Phiri to leave Government Stores and work at the RLI. Here he discovered anthropology which he would go on to study at Oxford.
In June 1958, DARP was informed that he had been awarded a 'grant' to study for a Diploma in Social Work at Bristol University for 2 years. He rang Mr Green at RISco who informed his father of the good news. In September of the same year Phiri would get on his first flight and leave to the UK. At his farewell party many people gave him money to help him on his way, further testimony to his astounding ability to connect with people. One of the most generous contributors, with a fifty pound gift, was a Dr. Scott, father of Zambia's current Republican Vice President Dr. Guy Scott the current Republican Vice President of Zambia.

University

Phiri studied social sciences at the University of Bristol and went on to obtain a degree. He then won a Rhodes scholarship to study for a degree in Social Anthropology at Oxford University. At Bristol, he took up golf, making such rapid progress in just two years that he was appointed captain of the university team. At Oxford, his handicap was reduced to three and he played first in the Divots, the second team, against Cambridge in 1961 (winning both his matches) and for the university team in the varsity golf match in 1962 (again winning both matches) and in 1963. He was also elected a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews, another first for a black African.

Professional career

Phiri had over 30 years' experience in the private and public sector. He began his career in 1963 for Anglo-American Corporation in London and joined Anglo-American Corporation in Zambia the following year in 1964. in 1967 he became Director for Central Africa of Anglo American.^[3] From 1974 to 1982, he was Managing Director of the Roan Consolidated Mines,^[4] from 1982 to 1984 he was appointed Zambia's Ambassador to Scandinavia in Sweden.^[5] Phiri became Governor of the Central Bank of Zambia^[6] from 1984 to 1986, after which he chaired Zambia's Prices and Incomes Commission for a year.^[7] Phiri chaired the boards of several companies in Zambia including Stanbic Bank,^[8] Citibank Zambia, Zambia Venture Capital Fund, Madison Insurance, British American Tobacco, Holiday Inn, ZamBeef, Commonwealth Africa Investment Fund,^[9] Atlas Copco, Barclays Bank and Blackwood Hodge.

Notable events

Phiri designed the golf course at State House in Lusaka, having introduced Kenneth Kaunda to the game of golf
In 1991 Phiri led the Zambian Independent Monitoring Team which monitored the fairness of Zambia's first multi-party general election. This appointment was controversial because of Phiri's close relationship with Kenneth Kaunda.^[10]

Sporting achievements

Phiri became the first black Oxford Blue in Golf^[11] and was a trustee of the Lusaka Golf Club and a member of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club in Scotland. Phiri was the Chairman of the Football Association of Zambia^[12] and various other sports club including the Lusaka Rugby Club. Phiri was awarded the order of "Grant Officers of the Order of the Eagle of Zambia Second Division" for his contribution to sport in Zambia.

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Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch harpsichordist and conductor, died he was 83.

Gustav Leonhardt ^[1] was a renowned Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor  died he was 83.. Leonhardt was a leading figure in the movement to perform music on period instruments. He professionally played many instruments, including the harpsichord, pipe organ, claviorganum (a combination of harpsichord and organ), clavichord and fortepiano. He also conducted orchestras and choruses.

(30 May 1928, in 's-Graveland – 16 January 2012, in Amsterdam)

Biography

He was born in 's-Graveland, North Holland and studied organ and harpsichord from 1947 to 1950 with Eduard Müller at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. In 1950, he made his debut as a harpsichordist in Vienna, where he studied musicology. He was professor of harpsichord at the Academy of Music from 1952 to 1955 and at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1954. He was also a church organist.

Career

Leonhardt performed and conducted a variety of solo, chamber, orchestral, operatic, and choral music from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Among the dozens of composers whose music he recorded as a harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, fortepianist, chamber musician or conductor were Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Heinrich Biber, John Blow, Georg Böhm, William Byrd, André Campra, François Couperin, Louis Couperin, John Dowland, Jacques Duphly, Antoine Forqueray, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, Orlando Gibbons, André Grétry, George Frideric Handel, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Muffat, Johann Pachelbel, Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christian Ritter, Johann Rosenmüller, Domenico Scarlatti, Agostino Steffani, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Georg Philipp Telemann, Manuel Valls, Antonio Vivaldi, and Matthias Weckmann. Central to Leonhardt's career was Johann Sebastian Bach. Leonhardt first recorded music of the composer in the early 1950s, with recordings in 1953 of the Goldberg Variations and The Art of Fugue. The latter embodies the thesis he had published the previous year arguing that the work was intended for the keyboard, a conclusion now widely accepted. The recordings helped establish his reputation as a distinguished harpsichordist and Bach interpreter. In 1954 he led the Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble with the English countertenor Alfred Deller in a pioneering recording of two Bach cantatas. The Ensemble included his wife Marie Leonhardt (born 1928), Eduard Melkus (violins), Alice Harnoncourt-Hoffelner (violin, viola), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (cello) and Michel Piguet (oboe).
In 1971, Leonhardt and Harnoncourt undertook the project of recording the first complete cycle of Bach's cantatas on period instruments; the two conductors divided up the cantatas and recorded their assigned cantatas with their own ensembles. The project ended up taking nineteen years, from 1971 to 1990. In addition, Leonhardt recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion, Mass in B minor, Magnificat, and the complete secular cantatas, as well as the harpsichord concertos, Brandenburg concertos, and most of his chamber and keyboard music; he recorded Bach's Goldberg Variations (three times), Partitas (twice), The Art of Fugue (twice), The Well-Tempered Clavier, French Suites, English Suites (twice), Inventions and Sinfonias, and many other individual works for the harpsichord, clavichord, or organ. To the surprise of some of his associates, ^[2], Leonhardt accepted the role of Johann Sebastian Bach (playerd in a wig) in The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, a 1968 film by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.

Influence

Leonhardt had a significant influence on the technique and style of many harpsichordists of the second half of the 20th century, through his recordings, editions, and teaching. His students and collaborators included harpsichordists and keyboard players such as Bob van Asperen, Lucy Carolan, Lisa Crawford, Christopher Hogwood, Alan Curtis, Richard Egarr, John Fesperman, John Gibbons, Pierre Hantaï, Ketil Haugsand, Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Charlotte Mattax, Davitt Moroney, Martin Pearlman (Music Director of Boston Baroque), Edward Parmentier, Christophe Rousset, Andreas Staier, Skip Sempé, Colin Tilney, and Glen Wilson ^[3]
Leonhardt served as a member of the jury for the triennial International Harpsichord Concours of the Musica Antiqua Bruges. He was the only jury member who had participated in all sixteen juries from 1965 to 2010.
Among the awards given to him were the Medal of Honour for the Arts and Sciences from the Netherlands, presented to him by Queen Beatrix in 2009, and the 1980 Erasmus Prize, which he shared with Nicolaus Harnoncourt; it honored their recording of the complete Bach cantatas. Leonhardt was doctor honoris causa of the universities of Dallas, Amsterdam, Harvard, Metz and Padua. In 2007 he was made Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and in 2008 Commander of the Order of the Crown in Belgium.
Leonhardt gave his last public performance on 12 December 2011 at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Thereafter he announced his retirement due to illness and cancelled all of his 2012 engagements.^[4] He died in Amsterdam on Monday, 16 January 2012, aged 83.

Bibliography

Gustav Leonhardt in Paris in 2008

• The art of fugue, Bach's last harpsichord work (Nijhoff, 1952)
• In Praise of Flemish Virginals (in Keyboard instruments, by Edwin Ripin et al., Edinburgh University Press, 1971)
• Amsterdams Onvoltooid Verleden [Amsterdam's unachieved past], Architectura & Natura, Amsterdam, November 1996
• « Glanz des alten Klavierklanges » (sleeve text for « Gustav Leonhardt an historischen Cembali », BMG)
• About The art of fugue (sleeve text for recording Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1969)
• « Introduction », in Early Music, vol. 7, No. 4, Keyboard Issue 1 (Oct. 1979)
• « Points d’interrogation dans Froberger », in Hommage à F.L. Tagliavini (Patrone Editore, Bologna, 1995
• Het huis Bartolotti en zijn bewoners [Bartolotti's house and its inhabitants], (Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1979)

About the musician:

• Sur Leonhardt, by Jacques Drillon (Gallimard, Paris, 2009).

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Lorna Kesterson, American newspaper editor and journalist (Henderson Home News), Mayor of Henderson, Nevada (1985–1993), died he was 86.

Lorna J. Kesterson  was an American journalist, newspaper editor and politician died he was 86.. She served as the first female Mayor of the city of Henderson, Nevada, for two consecutive four-year terms from 1985 to 1993.^[1] She remains the only woman to hold that office to date.^[2] Kesterson was also a longtime reporter and managing editor for the Henderson Home News, a local community newspaper.^[3][4]

^{(December 30, 1925 – January 16, 2012)}

Early life

Kesterson was born Lorna Jolley in St. George, Utah, on December 30, 1925, to parents Donal and Nora Jolley.^[4] She was raised in Springdale, Utah.^[1][2] She moved to Boulder City, Nevada, ranch with her family during the 1930s and graduated from Boulder City High School.^[1][2] She and her sisters were nicknamed the "Boulder City Babes" during the 1930s owing to their looks.^[4]
Kesterson received her bachelor's degree in journalism from Utah State University.^[1] She worked as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after completing college, primarily in Philadelphia and New York City.^[4] She returned to Clark County, Nevada, where she began her career and started a family with her husband, Robert "Bob" Kesterson.^[1] She had four children.^[2]
U.S. President Harry S. Truman awarded her the Red Cross Certification of Merit in 1947 for rescuing a boy scout from California who was drowning in Lake Mead.^[2]

Journalism

Kesterson reported for both the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Las Vegas Sun during the 1950s.^[5] She covered local Henderson and Boulder City news for the newspapers.^[5]
Kesterson was next hired as a reporter for the now defunct Henderson Home News, a local community paper, for nearly thirty years before launching a career in politics.^[1] She later became the managing editor of the Henderson Home News as well.^[1] Kesterson sold the newspaper's articles to larger publications, including the Deseret News and the Las Vegas Sun.^[4]
She continued to work as a reporter while serving on the Henderson City Council from 1977 to 1985.^[3] She retired as managing editor of the Henderson Home News upon her election as Mayor of Henderson in 1985.^[5]

Political career

Kesterson did not enter politics until she was 49 years old.^[1] She was appointed to the Henderson City Council in 1975.^[4] Kesterson was named as Henderson's woman of the year in 1975, the same year as her appointment.^[1] Two years later, in 1977, Keterson won re-election to the Henderson city council, and served on the council until 1981.^[4] She remained a newspaper reporter and editor while serving on the council until her retirement from the newspaper in 1985.^[3]
In 1985, Lorna Kesterson was elected Henderson's first female mayor, becoming the first (and only) woman to hold that office. She was re-elected to a second, four-year in term in 1989.^[1] Henderson experienced unprecedented population growth during Kesterson's eight-year tenure as mayor,^[4] ultimately becoming Nevada's second largest city after Las Vegas.^[1] Kesterson and the city council planned the city's new infrastructure, neighborhoods, city parks and recreational facilities to accommodate the needs of the new residents.^[1] She left office in 1993.^[2]
In recognition, Henderson named her the "Henderson Woman of Distinction" in 1985.^[1] In 1991, the state of Nevada named her "Nevada Public Official of the Year."^[1] Lorna J Kesterson Elementary School, dedicated in her honor in February 2001,^[4] and a Henderson recreational area are named for Kesterson.^[2][5]
She also served on a number of boards of directors within the Las Vegas Valley, including the Henderson Development Association, the Nevada League of Cities and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.^[2] She held a seat on the Clark County Board of Health throughout the 1980s.^[2]
Lorna Kesterson collapsed and died unexpectedly during a routine visit to her doctor's office on January 16, 2012, at the age of 86.^[1] She was survived by her two sons, Don Kesterson of Henderson and Roger Kesterson; seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren; and two siblings, Venus Marriages and Donal Jolley.^[1] She was predeceased by two sons, Ross Kesterson and Jim Kesterson, and her husband of nearly 40 years, Robert Kesterson.^[4]
Current Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen, who served in the city council during Kesterson's eight-year tenure as mayor, paid tribute to his predecessor saying, "Lorna Kesterson was one of the finest ladies I've had the privilege of working with during my career in public service," said Hafen in a statement. "She was a Henderson icon and a pioneer both in politics and in our community."^[1]

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Pierre Goubert, French historian, died he was 96.

Pierre Goubert was a French historian died he was 96.. A member of the Annales School, he was a noted specialist on the 17th century. He was born in Saumur.^[1]

^{(25 January 1915 – 16 January 2012)} 

Works

• Beauvais et le Beauvaisis de 1600 à 1730 : contribution à l'histoire sociale de la France du XVIIe siècle (1958)
• Familles marchandes sous l'ancien régime : les Danse et les Motte, de Beauvais (1959)
• 1789, les Francais ont la parole : cahiers de doleances des Etats generaux (1964) with Michel Denis
• Louis XIV et vingt millions de Français (1966) in English Louis XIV and twenty million Frenchmen (1970)
• Cent mille provinciaux au XVIIe siècle (1968)
• Louis XIV: le roi, le royaume: dossier (1968)
• L'ancien régime 1. La société (1969) in English The ancien régime. French society, 1600-1750 (1973)
• L'avènement du Roi-Soleil (1971)
• L'ancien régime 2: Les pouvoirs (1973)
• Clio parmi les hommes (1976)
• La vie quotidienne des paysans français au XVIIe siècle (1982) in English The French peasantry in the seventeenth century (1986)
• Initiation à l'histoire de la France (1984) in English The course of French history (1988)
• Les Français et l'Ancien Régime. I - La Société et l'État (1984)
• Mazarin (1990)
• Un parcours d'historien : souvenirs, 1915-1995 (1996)
• Le siècle de Louis XIV: études (1996)

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Sigursteinn Gíslason, Icelandic football player and manager, died he was 43.

Sigursteinn Davíð Gíslason was an Icelandic football player and manager  died he was 43.. A left-sided defender who could also play in midfield, he spent the majority of his playing career in his home country; he started his career with KR and later had spells with ÍA and Víkingur Reykjavík. During the 1999–2000 season, Sigursteinn joined English club Stoke City and played eight matches in the Football League. Following his retirement from playing, he became a coach at his former club KR and went on to spend three years as the club's assistant manager. In 2008, Sigursteinn was appointed as manager of Leiknir Reykjavík, a position he held for more than two seasons before being forced to retire through illness.

(25 June 1968 – 16 January 2012)

Playing career

Club

Although born in Akranes, Sigursteinn started his career with KR Reykjavík, where he joined the reserve team in 1985. He was part of the team that beat Þróttur 6–3 in the final of the 1986 Reykjavík Championship,^[3] and was a regular for the side over the following two seasons. On 16 August 1987, Sigursteinn made his first-team debut for KR, coming on as a second-half substitute for Gunnar Skúlason in the 0–1 defeat to Keflavík.^[4] He was given his first start by manager Gordon Lee five days later as the team suffered another home defeat, losing 2–3 to ÍA. By the end of the 1987 season, he had made five senior appearances for KR.^[5]
Ahead of the 1988 campaign, Sigursteinn returned to Akranes to join his hometown club ÍA as one of seven new signings.^[6] He was selected in the starting line-up for the first game of the season against Leiftur on 15 May 1988, but was forced to leave the pitch in the tenth minute after sustaining an injury in a clash with an opposition player.^[7] He scored his first goal in senior football in the 3–1 win against the same club in the return match on 16 July 1988. In total, he played 12 matches and scored twice during the 1988 campaign.^[5] The following year, Sigursteinn scored one goal in 13 appearances as ÍA achieved a sixth-place finish. During the 1990 season, he established himself as a first-team regular, starting every league match.^[8] He also netted three goals, which included two in successive matches against FH and Valur in July. However, the season ended in disappointment for ÍA as they won only 3 of their 18 league fixtures and finished bottom of the division and were thereby relegated to the second tier of Icelandic football.
Sigursteinn played 17 matches and scored 5 goals during the 1991 season as the team regained their place in the top division after a one-year absence. He again missed only one match of the 1992 campaign as ÍA were crowned champions of the Úrvalsdeild for the first time since 1984. Over the next four seasons he remained a regular starter as the side won five consecutive league championships, becoming the first club to accomplish the feat since Fram more than 80 years earlier. In 1994, Sigursteinn was awarded Icelandic Player of the Year, the third ÍA player in succession to win the accolade after Luka Kostic and Sigurður Jónsson.^[9] That year, he was offered a chance to turn professional by moving to Swedish outfit Örgryte IS, but he declined and went on to stay with ÍA until the end of the 1998 season, making well over 160 appearances in all competitions for the club.^[5]
On 14 January 1999, Sigursteinn returned to his first club KR.^[10] During his first season back, KR won the Icelandic league for the first time since 1968. He played a total of 20 league and cup matches and scored once, netting the team's fourth goal in the 5–1 win against Valur on 27 May 1999. In November of the same year, he joined English Football League Second Division side Stoke City on loan,^[11] along with manager Guðjón Þórðarson and a number of other Icelandic players.^[2] Sigursteinn made his debut for Stoke in the 4–0 away win over Wycombe Wanderers on 23 November 1999, although he was substituted for compatriot Einar Daníelsson after suffering a dislocated shoulder.^[11] He failed to firmly establish his first-team place during his time in England, starting only four league matches for Stoke and making a further four substitute appearances. He also played four games in the Football League Trophy,^[2] a tournament that Stoke went on to win that season.
Sigursteinn returned from his loan spell in time for the new season with KR.^[10] The 2000 campaign was another successful one for both him and the team; he played in every match as the side defended their league title. A sixth-place finish followed in 2001, but the next two seasons yielded another two league championships, taking his personal tally to nine Icelandic titles. During his second spell with KR, Sigursteinn played 72 league matches,^[5] in addition to several cup appearances, including 10 games in European competitions.^[12] He finished his playing career with a short stint as player–assistant manager at Víkingur Reykjavík, where he played eight matches during the 2004 season before retiring to concentrate on his coaching career.^[5]

International

Sigursteinn received his first call-up to the Iceland national team for the friendly international against Tunisia on 17 October 1993, one of four uncapped players selected in the 16-man squad by manager Ásgeir Elíasson.^[13] He played the first 58 minutes of the match before being replaced by Ólafur Helgi Kristjánsson.^[14] During the 1994 season he appeared in ten matches for Iceland, including three qualifying matches for UEFA Euro 1996 and three consecutive friendly victories against Bolivia, Estonia and the United Arab Emirates.^[15] Several of his ÍA team-mates also played for Iceland during this time, including Ólafur Þórðarson, Haraldur Ingólfsson and Sigurður Jónsson.^[16] However, Iceland finished bottom of their qualifying group for Euro 1996 with only one win from eight matches. Sigursteinn continued to play for his country for the following three years, although he was not a regular starter for the team. He was dropped following the 0–0 draw with Lithuania on 11 June 1997 and did not appear again for Iceland for over two years.^[15]
On 15 August 1999, Sigursteinn was drafted into the Iceland squad for the friendly against the Faroe Islands after Sigurður Jónsson was forced to withdraw due to injury. It was the first time he had been called up to the national team under Guðjón Þórðarson.^[17] He entered the match as a first-half substitute, coming on for Auðun Helgason in the 35th minute to win his 22nd and final cap for his country.^[15]

Coaching career

Sigursteinn began his coaching career in 1988 when he took charge of the under-14 team at ÍA.^[18] During his time with Víkingur, he also served as assistant manager to Sigurður Jónsson.^[19] In November 2004 he was hired as reserve team coach at his former club KR,^[20] and appointed fellow former Iceland international Einar Daníelsson as his assistant.^[21] Following the sacking of the KR first-team manager Magnús Gylfason after the 1–3 home defeat to Keflavík on 24 July 2005, Sigursteinn was appointed caretaker manager for the last six matches of the 2005 season.^[22] His first match in charge was the 0–2 defeat away at FH on 7 August 2005. A week later he led the team to a 1–0 home win against ÍBV, the first of four consecutive victories. A last-day loss to ÍA meant that KR ended the campaign in sixth place in the Úrvalsdeild. When Teitur Þórðarson was hired as manager for the 2006 season, Sigursteinn returned to the assistant manager position under the new coach.^[23] Teitur was replaced as KR manager two years later by Logi Ólafsson, but Sigursteinn again remained with the club as assistant manager.^[24]
At the end of the 2008 season, Sigursteinn was appointed as manager of 1. deild karla side Leiknir Reykjavík on a three-year contract. He replaced Garðar Gunnar Ásgeirsson, who had led the club to a seventh-place finish in 2008.^[25] He made several new signings ahead of the 2009 campaign; three players arrived from Leiknir's feeder club KB, while Kristján Páll Jónsson returned from a loan spell with Tindastóll. Sigursteinn also signed his former KR team-mate Gunnar Einarsson from Valur as both a player and as his assistant. A number of players left the club during the close season including Jakob Spangsberg, the top goalscorer in 2008, and first-team captain Vigfús Arnar Jósepsson. Sigursteinn appointed midfielder Halldór Kristinn Halldórsson as captain in his place.^[26] In 2008, he led Leiknir to a seventh-placed finish in the 1. deild for the second consecutive year, ending the season with a 3–2 home win over Afturelding.^[27]
A number of new signings were again made ahead of the 2010 season, including the return of former captain Vigfús Arnar Jósepsson. Leiknir started the campaign well, winning five of their first six matches. On 14 July 2010, Sigursteinn was given a one-match ban by the KSÍ.^[28] He guided the team to a third place finish at the end of the season, having won 13 out of 22 league matches. The side also reached the third round of the Icelandic Cup before being knocked out by Stjarnan.^[29] Sigursteinn declared himself happy with the league campaign, despite having missed out on promotion to the Úrvalsdeild on the last day.^[30] Leiknir's 1–3 home defeat to Fjölnir coupled with a 9–1 win for Þór Akureyri over Fjarðabyggð meant that the second promotion spot went to the Akureyri club thanks to their superior goal difference.^[30] In the end of season awards, Sigursteinn was named 1. deild Manager of the Year while several Leiknir players were selected in the Team of the Year.^[31]
In September 2010, Sigursteinn announced he would continue to manage Leiknir for the 2011 season.^[32] He was in charge for the first match of the campaign, a goalless draw with KA on 13 May 2011. The game proved to be his last as manager as four days later he took sick leave after being diagnosed with cancer.^[33] He intended to return to coaching after recovering from kidney surgery.^[34] Assistant manager Gunnar Einarsson and former Leiknir manager Garðar Gunnar Ásgeirsson were appointed to take joint control of the team in his absence.^[33] However, the pair could not guide the team to victory during almost two months in charge, leaving the team in the 1. deild relegation zone. On 11 July 2011 the Leiknir board dismissed Sigursteinn and hired Serbian coach Zoran Miljkovic as manager.^[35] In a statement two days later he thanked Leiknir for his time with the club, but claimed that he had been sacked, rather than being asked to step down as manager.^[34]

Personal life and death

Sigursteinn was born in Akranes, on the west coast of Iceland, on 25 June 1968. He was the only child of Margrét Teitsdóttir and Gísli Víglundsson, although he also had four half-siblings.^[1] He married Anna Elín Daníelsdóttir on 27 November 1994.^[9] The couple had two sons, Magnús Sveinn and Teitur Leó, and a daughter, Unnur Elín.^[1][36] Another daughter, Sóley, was born in 1997 but died in infancy.^[1] While living in Akranes, Sigursteinn combined football with his job at the town council. In 1999, he and Anna moved to Reykjavík when he joined KR. The following year he started work with the transportation firm TVG-Zimsen and later found employment with shipping company Eimskip, where he worked until his death.^[1]
In May 2011, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the left kidney and discovered that the disease had also spread to his right kidney and both of his lungs.^[36] Two weeks after the diagnosis, he underwent an operation to remove his kidneys and was given a course of medication.^[34] Although the cancer was terminal, the surgery was successful in extending his life by several months.^[36] On 18 June 2011, a charity match between his former clubs KR and ÍA was held in his honour. The match featured fifteen of the players and coaches who had appeared in the 1996 Icelandic Super Cup Final.^[37] A crowd of almost 4,000 spectators watched the 2–2 draw, the fourth highest ever attendance at the Akranesvöllur, the home ground of ÍA.^[38][39]
On 16 January 2012, eight months after being diagnosed with cancer, Sigursteinn died at the National University Hospital in Reykjavík at the age of 43.^[1] He was survived by his wife and children.^[40][41] His funeral took place at the Hallgrímskirkja, the largest church in Iceland, on 26 January 2012.^[1] Following his death, many Icelandic football players and managers paid tribute to him. Leiknir midfielder Óttar Bjarni Guðmundsson described him as a great coach and a magnificent person who would always help his players.^[42] Sigursteinn's manager during his second spell with KR, Willum Þór Þórsson, paid tribute to his positive attitude as a player and praised his leadership abilities,^[43] while his former ÍA and Iceland team-mate Ólafur Adolfsson described him as a popular man who always put the interests of the team above his own.^[44]



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Jimmy Castor, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)"), died from heart failure he was 71.

James Walter "Jimmy" Castor was an American pop and funk musician died from heart failure he was 71.. He is best known as a fun disco/funk saxophonist, with his biggest hit single being 1972's million seller, "Troglodyte (Cave Man)".^[1]

^{(June 23, 1940 – January 16, 2012)}

Biography

Castor started as a doo-wop singer in New York.^[2] He wrote and recorded "I Promise to Remember" in 1956. Castor then replaced Frankie Lymon in The Teenagers in 1957 before switching to the saxophone in 1960. Castor played sax on Dave "Baby" Cortez's hit "Rinky Dink." He had a solo hit with "Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You" on Smash Records in 1966. He formed the Jimmy Castor Bunch in 1972 and signed with RCA. As leader of The Jimmy Castor Bunch in the 1970s, and also as a solo artist, he has released several successful albums and singles. The group reached the peak of their commercial success in 1972 with the release of their album, It's Just Begun, which featured two hit singles: the title track and "Troglodyte (Cave Man)," which was a large hit in the U.S., peaking at #6 in the Billboard Hot 100. The track stayed in the chart for 14 weeks and was a million seller by 30 June 1972, and received a gold disc award from the R.I.A.A.^[1]
Castor continued the trend in 1975 with "The Bertha Butt Boogie" and later recorded "E-Man Boogie," "King Kong," "Bom Bom," and "Potential." The Castor band included keyboardist/trumpeter Gerry Thomas, bassist Doug Gibson, guitarist Harry Jensen, conga player Lenny Fridle, Jr., and drummer Bobby Manigault also (guitar) LeBurn Maddox 1976-1979 ^[1] Thomas, who simultaneously recorded with the Fatback Band, left in the 1980s to exclusively record with them. Castor recorded as a solo performer from 1976 until 1988. He had one of his bigger hits in many years with a 1988 revival of "Love Makes a Woman," which paired him with disco diva Joyce Sims. Castor had his own record label, Long Distance, in the 1980s.
Many of the group's tunes have been heavily sampled in films and in hip-hop. In particular, the saxophone hook and groove from "It's Just Begun" and the spoken word intro and groove from "Troglodyte" (namely, "What we're gonna do right here is go back...") have been sampled extensively.
He died in 2012 from heart failure.^[3]

Discography

Albums

• Hey Leroy (1968) (Smash)
• It's Just Begun (1972) (RCA)
• Phase 2 (1972) (RCA)
• Dimension 3 (1973) (RCA)
• The Jimmy Castor Bunch featuring The Everything Man (1974) (Atlantic)
• Butt Of Course... (1975) (Atlantic)
• Supersound (1975) (Atlantic)
• E-Man Groovin' (1976) (Atlantic)
• Maximum Stimulation (1977) (Atlantic)
• Let It Out (1978) (Drive/T.K. Records)
• The Jimmy Castor Bunch (1979) (Cotillion/Atlantic)
• I Love Monsters (1979)
• C (1980) (Long Distance)
• The Return of Leroy (1983) (Dream)
• The Everything Man-The Best of The Jimmy Castor Bunch (1995) (Rhino)

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