Herbert Matayoshi, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1974–1984) died he was , 82

 Herbert Tatsuo Matayoshi was an American politician and businessman died he was , 82. Matayoshi served as the Mayor of Hawaii County from 1974 to 1984.^[1][2] He was the third Mayor of Hawaii County, as well as its second elected Mayor overall.^[2] Matayoshi was also the longest serving Mayor of Hawaii County to date, holding the office for ten years.

(November 21, 1928 - July 11, 2011)

Biography

Early life

Matayoshi was born on November 21, 1928, in Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii.^[1][3] He graduated from Hilo High School in 1946.^[4] Matayoshi received in bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1950.^[4] He then pursued graduate studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, before completing his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.^[4][5]
Matayoshi worked as a stockbroker by profession.^[5]

Political Career

He was elected to the the Hawaii County Board of Supervisors, the predecessor of what would become the Hawaii County Council, in 1962.^[1] Matayoshi was elected to the newly created Hawaii County Council in 1968, which he held until becoming Mayor in 1974.^[1]

Mayor of Hawaii

In May 1974, Hawaii County's first Mayor Shunichi Kimura resigned following appointment to the 3rd Circuit Court.^[4] Kimura's managing director, Bruce McCall, became Mayor following Kimura's resignation until a special election could be held.^[4] Herbert Matayoshi, a county councilman at the time, won a special election held a few months later to complete the remainder of the term.^[4]
Matayoshi opposed allowing a large number of telescopes at the Mauna Kea Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea.^[2] He also fought the construction of the Prince Kuhio Plaza during the 1970s and 1980s, arguing that the shopping mall would siphon away business from stores in downtown Hilo.^[2] Matayoshi dealt with controversy over the expansion of Hilo International Airport during his tenure. The expansion of Hilo's runways expanded the airport to the edge of a Hawaiian Homelands settlement, leading to protests from Native Hawaiian groups.^[2] He also mediated a dispute between residents and developers on the Kohala Coast, on the northeast portion if the Big Island. Residents and Native Hawaiian advocated had argued that the development to build resorts in the 1970s of Kohala threatened recreational activities enjoyed by locals.^[2]
Matayoshi's managing director during portions of his tenure, Jack Keppeler, told the Honolulu Star Advertiser that Matayoshi sought policies to deliver services to island residents, such as fire and police protection, in a fiscally conservative manner.^[2] Another former Hawaii mayor, Lorraine Inouye, noted that Matayoshi's background in business obscured his commitment to environmental protection, in the eyes of some observers.^[2] Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie credited Matayoshi with implementing many of Hawaii County's major social service programs, including the Elderly Activities Division, championing small businesses and improving the island's infrastructure.^[6]
Matayoshi resigned from the mayor's office in 1984, to pursue an unsuccessful candidacy for Hawaii Senate.^[1] He lost the state Senate election to Richard Matsuura.^[2] His managing director, Megumi Kon, was sworn in to succeed Matayoshi until Dante Carpenter was elected a few months after his resignation.^[4]
Herbert Matayoshi died from heart failure at Straub Clinic & Hospital in Honolulu on July 11, 2011, at the age of 82.^[1][4] He was survived by his wife, Mary Y. Matayosh; daughter, Kathryn; three sons - Jerold, Ronald and Eric; his sister, Edith Harano; eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild.^[1] His daughter, Kathryn Matayoshi, is the superintendent of the Hawaii Department of Education.^[2] Another son, Ron Matayoshi, is the the director of international programs at the University of Hawaii's School of Social Work.^[3][7] Herbert Matayoshi resided in homes in both Hilo and Kahala, a neighborhood in Honolulu.^[2]
Governor Neil Abercrombie ordered all American and Hawaiian flags to be flown at half staff on August 15, 2011, in Matayoshi's honor.^[6][8]

 

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Filoimea Telito, Tuvaluan President of the Church of Tuvalu, Governor General (2005–2010), died from a heart attack he was , 66.

Sir Filoimea Telito, GCMG, MBE was a political and religious figure from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu  died from a heart attack he was , 66..

(born 1944/1945, Vaitupu - died 11 July 2011)

Personal life

Pierrette Alarie and Léopold Simoneau had two daughters, Isabelle and Chantal. Simoneau died in 2006. Alarie died in Victoria, British Columbia on July 10, 2011, aged 89, from natural causes.
Sir Filoimea Telito, GCMG, MBE was a political and religious figure from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu.
(born 1944/1945, Vaitupu - died 11 July 2011)

Background

He served as principal of the Motufoua secondary school on Vaitupu island, and was a pastor in the Church of Tuvalu (Ekalesia Klisiano Tuvalu), of which he eventually became the president, a position which he held until his death.^[3] In 1996, Telito was honoured for his services to education and the community by being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).^[4]

Governor-General of Tuvalu

On April 15, 2005 he took office as Governor-General of Tuvalu^[5] as the representative of HM Queen Elizabeth II, who is Tuvalu's head of state. He stepped down in 2010. In 2007, Telito was made a Knight Grand Cross of Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG) by Queen Elizabeth II.^[1] Herewith he resumed the practice by Governors-General of Tuvalu of accepting a Knighthood, a practice discontinued on a personal basis by his predecessor to that office, Faimalaga Luka.

Death

He died on July 11, 2011 of a heart attack, and was buried in Funafuti three days later. All government activity ceased on the day of the funeral, in a sign of respect.^[6]

 

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Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano, wife of tenor Léopold Simoneau died he was , 89.

 Pierrette Alarie, CC, CQ was a French Canadian coloratura soprano died he was , 89. She was married to the French-Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau.

(November 9, 1921 – July 10, 2011)

Life and career

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Alarie was the daughter of a choirmaster, assistant conductor of the Société Canadienne d'opérettes, and of a soprano and actress. She studied voice and acting early and performed on radio from the age of 9, first as an actress and later as a singer of popular music. While studying voice with Victor Issaurel, she made her debut in 1938 at Les Variétés lyriques in the operetta The White Horse Inn. She also sang Marie in La fille du régiment and the lead role in Mireille. On a scholarship she went to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to complete her studies with Elisabeth Schumann.
Alarie won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her Metropolitan Opera debut on December 8, 1945, as Oscar in Un ballo in maschera under Bruno Walter. She spent three seasons at the Met singing Olympia Les contes d'Hoffmann, Blonchen Die Entführung aus dem Serail, etc.
She married French Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau in 1946. The two had met in Montréal in the early 1940s. The couple left for France in 1949 where she made her debut at the Opéra Comique in Paris. She sang the lead role in opera such as Les pêcheurs de perles, Lakmé, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Rigoletto. As a team Alarie and Simoneau gained celebrity in Europe and were invited at all the major festivals, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, as well as major opera houses such as Vienna and Munich.
Alarie also had an important career in North America, appearing in opera and in recital in San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, etc. In Canada, Alarie performed frequently on television, Radio-Canada and CBC. She also performed regularly at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and the Vancouver Opera. Alarie gave her last performance in Handel's The Messiah with her husband in Montréal, on November 24, 1970.
After retiring from singing, Alarie became active as a teacher, she taught first at the Ecole Vincent d'Indy in Montréal and later at the Banff Centre. She founded with her husband the Canada Opera Piccola in Victoria, British Columbia in 1982.

Honors

In 1959 she received the Calixa-Lavallée Award. In 1967 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1995.^[2] In 1997, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Québec.

 

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Travis Bean, American guitar maker, died from cancer he was , 63

 Clifford Travis Bean was an American luthier and machinist from California died from cancer he was , 63.

(21 August 1947 – 10 July 2011)

In 1974, he partnered with Marc McElwee and Gary Kramer to start Travis Bean Guitars, which made high-end electric guitars and basses featuring machined aluminum necks.^[1][2] This was an unusual design, departing from more traditional wood necked instruments. The aluminum center section ran through the instrument body, with the pickups directly mounted to the aluminum.^[3] The majority of these instruments featured solid koa wood bodies and humbucker pickups. Though praised for their sound, the use of aluminum necks also made Travis Bean guitars heavier than other electric guitars. Models included the Artist, Standard, Wedge (rare), and TB500 (rare) with single coil pickups.
Kramer and Bean parted ways in 1975, with the former starting Kramer Guitars. The first series of Kramer guitars were redesigned aluminum-necked instruments but utilizing wooden inserts along the back of the neck to cut down on weight and provide a more traditional feel; these modifications also avoided patent violations on Travis Bean's original neck design.
Around 3,600 guitars and basses were produced between 1974 and 1979.
In the late 1990s, Bean teamed with master machinist/designer B. Kelly Condon and produced a run of 24 high end, custom instruments. These guitars and basses were aluminum-neck instruments, each machined from a 125 pound billet of 7075 aluminum.^{[citation needed]} The pans weighed just over 4 pounds when finished and all were serial numbered and identified inside of the pan.
A documentary called "Sustain" about Travis Bean guitars and the individuals that built these historic instruments and the players that play them (past and present) was reportedly in development in 2009.^[4]

Models

• TB500 (Budget Model) - 351 produced
• TB1000S (Standard) - 1422 produced
• TB1000A (Artist) - 755 produced
• TB2000 (Standard Bass) - 1020 produced
• TB3000 (Wedge) - 45 produced
• TB4000 (Wedge Bass) - 36 produced

Musicians who play or have played the Original Travis Bean guitars and basses

Guitar Players

• Steve Albini of Shellac — plays TB500 and Wedge^[5]
• Matthew Bolger of The Redneck Manifesto - plays TB1000S ^[6]
• Duane Denison of The Jesus Lizard - played TB1000S (Sea Foam Green)^[7]
• Jerry Garcia - played TB1000A^[8][9] and TB500^[10]
• Roger Fisher of Heart - played TB1000A
• Stanley Jordan - plays TB1000S^[11]
• Keith Levene of Public Image Ltd — played Wedge and TB1000S
• John MacLean of Six Finger Satellite
• Kim Mitchell
• Ceylon Mooney of Pezz
• Joe Perry - played Wedge and TB1000S^[12] (black and silver)
• Rubberduck Jones, a Finnish punk rock guitarist, who is most well known as the guitarist of several Pelle Miljoona related bands, like Pelle Miljoona & 1980 and the Suspenders.
• Yannis Philippakis of Foals uses a TB1000S (natural and black) and black TB500^[13]
• Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) plays TB1000S
• Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth — played TB1000A (several were stolen in July 1999) ^[14] Also played TB1000S "bullseye" ^[15] (which was destroyed) and TB1000S
• Keith Richards - played a TB1000 on the Rolling Stones 1975 tour and a custom made 5-string TB1000A during the 1979 New Barbarians tour. Used a black TB500 during the Rolling Stones 1978 Saturday Night Live performance.
• Brian Robertson played a TB1000A during his time with Thin Lizzy
• Kelly Ryall played a TB1000 during early High Pass Filter shows.
• Vincent Gallo plays a TB1000A and TB3000 Wedge
• Slash
• Ron Wood - played a TB2000 on the Rolling Stones 1975 tour, a TB1000A and a white TB500 during the 1979 New Barbarians tour.
• Johan Folkesson - of Swedish mammoths Switchblade from Stockholm as well as former bassplayer Anders Stén are known to play Travis Bean instruments.

Bass Players

• Mick Karn of Japan
• Tim Midgett of Bottomless Pit and Silkworm - plays TB4000 Wedge.^[16] During Silkworm, Tim played a TB1000S modified to baritone^[17] and TB2000.^[18]
• Bob Weston of Shellac and the Volcano Suns
• Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones -Wyman used a custom made short-scale TB2000^[19][20] from 1977 until 1986. A total of 4 short-scale TB2000 bases were made for Wyman.
• Peggy Foster, The Runaways, Steve Vai, TB4000 Wedge Bass #25, TB2000 Fretless #248
• Matt Gentling of Archers of Loaf plays a TB2000.

 

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Frank Mascara, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1995–2003), died from lung cancer he was , 81.

Frank Robert Mascara  was a Democratic politician from Pennsylvania who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003  died from lung cancer he was , 81. He was the uncle of St. Lucie County, Florida Sheriff Ken Mascara.

(January 19, 1930 – July 10, 2011)

Early life and education

Mascara briefly served in the United States Army after World War II and was an accountant before entering politics. He obtained a B.A. from California University of Pennsylvania in 1972.

Early political career

Mascara next served as an elected official in Washington County, near Pittsburgh, for nearly 20 years. He was elected county controller in 1973 and as County Commissioner in 1979. He served on the Washington County Commission for 15 years, many of them as chairman.

U.S. Congressional career

Elections

Before 2000 Census

In 1992, Mascara launched a primary challenge to U.S. Congressman Austin Murphy, a 16-year incumbent, in the 20th Congressional District, which comprised most of the southern suburbs of Pittsburgh. He lost the race by 3,000 votes. When Murphy retired two years later, Mascara handily won the Democratic primary to replace him. Although the 20th was considered the most Democratic district in Pennsylvania outside the districts based in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Mascara earned a narrow victory in the general election against Republican businessman Mike McCormick. Mascara faced the same opponent — and another narrow win — in 1996. However, the district reverted to form afterwards, and Mascara was reelected with little trouble in 1998 and 2000.

After 2000 Census

The Republican-controlled state legislature significantly altered Mascara's district. The district was renumbered as the 18th District, and was considerably more affluent than its predecessor. It was also somewhat friendlier to Republicans, even though there were still 70,000 more registered Democrats in the district than Republicans. A large portion of the area Mascara had represented for the past eight years was shifted to the neighboring Johnstown-based 12th District, represented by 28-year incumbent Democrat John Murtha. The newly drawn district was widely criticized, since portions of several neighborhoods were split between two districts. In some cases, one side of the street was in the 18th while the other was in the 12th; in others, one side of the street was in the 18th while the other was in the Pittsburgh-based 14th. In one of the more extreme examples, most of Mascara's hometown, Charleroi--including most of his neighborhood—was drawn into the 12th. However, a long tendril extending from his house to Allegheny County remained in the 18th. Mascara opted to run against Murtha in the 12th's Democratic primary, since the redrawn 12th contained more of Mascara's old territory than Murtha's. After a bruising primary filled with negative campaigning by both candidates, Murtha won by a wider than expected margin. The 18th was taken over by Republican State Senator Tim Murphy.

[edit] Tenure

In Congress, Mascara was a moderate Democrat who opposed abortion and gun control, but whose voting record was otherwise consistent with the Democratic line. He was regarded as a political powerbroker among Democrats with a record of scoring federal money for local projects.
In both Washington and his home district, Mascara projected a blue-collar, working class image. He liked to say frequently, "I don't go to the nightclubs and big restaurants. ... I don't drink. I don't gamble. I don't whore around."

Death

Mascara died of lung cancer on July 10, 2011 at Mon Valley Hospital in Monongahela, PA.^[2]

Electoral history

Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district: Results 1992–2000[3]
Year		Democrat	Votes	Pct		Republican	Votes	Pct
1994		Frank Mascara	95,251	53%		Mike McCormick	84,156	47%	*
1996		Frank Mascara	113,394	54%		Mike McCormick	97,004	46%	*
1998		Frank Mascara	97,885	100%		(no candidate)			*
2000		Frank Mascara	145,131	64%		Ronald J. Davis	80,312	36%

*Write-in and minor candidate notes: In 1994, write-ins received 12 votes. In 1996, write-ins received 4 votes. In 1998, write-ins received 190

 

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Roland Petit, French ballet dancer and choreographer, died from leukemia he was , 87.

 Roland Petit was a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble, near Paris, France died from leukemia he was , 87. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.

(January 13, 1924 – July 10, 2011)

Biography

Petit trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school under Gustave Ricaux and Serge Lifar and began to dance with the corps de ballet in 1940. He founded the Ballets des Champs-Élysées in 1945 and the Ballets de Paris in 1948, at Théâtre Marigny, with Zizi Jeanmaire as star dancer; Petit and Jeanmaire wed in 1954.
Petit collaborated with Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Saint-Laurent and César and participated in several French and American films. He returned to the Paris Opéra in 1965 to mount a production of Notre Dame de Paris (with music by Maurice Jarre). He continued to rule ballets for the largest theaters of France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, and Cuba.
In 1968, his ballet Turangalîla provoked a small revolution within the Paris Opéra. Four years later, in 1972, he founded the Ballet National de Marseille with the piece “Pink Floyd Ballet”. He directed the Ballet for the next 26 years. For the décor of his ballets, he would work in close collaboration with the painter Jean Carzou (1907-2000), but also with other artists such as Max Ernst.^{[citation needed]}
Author of more than 50 creations across all genres, he choreographed for a plethora of famed international dancers. He refused the free technical effects; he did not stop reinventing his style, language, and became a master in the arts of pas de deux and of narrative ballet, but he succeeded also in abstract ballets. He collaborated also with the nouveaux réalistes including Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely.
Le jeune homme et la mort (“The Young Man and Death”) of 1946 (libretto by Jean Cocteau) is considered his magnum opus and it is also his most well-known work; the choreography and the costumes are of astonishing modernity. In his 1949 ballet Carmen, he made an unusual use of the en-dedans, while he gave a non-figurative treatment to Turangalîla.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 1954, Petit married the dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, who performed in a number of his works. His memoirs were published in 1993 under the title J'ai dansé sur les flots (English: I Danced on the Waves). He and Jeanmaire had one daughter, Valentine Petit, a dancer and actress.^[1][2][3]

Death

Petit died in Geneva, Switzerland, aged 87, following a battle with leukemia.^[4]

Ballets

During his career, Petit choreographed 176 works, including:

• Guernica (1945)
• Le jeune homme et la mort (1946)
• Les forains (1948)
• Carmen (1949)
• Ballabile (1950)
• Le loup (1953)
• Notre-Dame de Paris (1965)
• Paradise Lost (1967)
• Kraanerg (1969)
• Roland Petit Ballet (1973)
• Proust, ou Les intermittences du coeur (1974)
• Coppélia (1975)
• La symphonie fantastique (1975)
• Le fantôme de l’Opéra (1980)
• Les amours de Frantz (1981)
• The Blue Angel (1985)
• Clavigo (1999)
• Les chemins de la création (2004)

 

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Kelly Thomas American homeless man, was beaten to death he was 37

Kelly Thomas was a 37 year old homeless man suffering from schizophrenia, and living on the streets of Fullerton, California. He was fatally beaten by members of the Fullerton Police Department on July 5, 2011. Thomas was treated at the UC Irvine Medical Center, but was comatose and was not expected to recover. His parents removed him from life support, and he died from his injuries on July 10, 2011.


(April 5, 1974 – July 10, 2011)

Biography

Kelly Thomas was born April 5, 1974 to Ron Thomas, a former Orange County Sheriff's deputy, and Cathy Thomas.^[2] A diagnosed schizop hrenic, he was a "fixture" among Fullerton's homeless population.^[3]

The incident

On July 5, 2011, at about 8:30 PM, officers of the Fullerton Police Department responded to a call of someone vandalizing cars near the Fullerton Transportation Center. While investigating, they encountered the shirtless and disheveled Thomas and attempted to search him. According to statements given by the officers, Thomas was uncooperative and became physical when they attempted to search him, so backup was called. The officers then repeatedly shocked Thomas with Tasers, beat him with the butts of the Tasers and flashlights, and slammed him into the ground.^[4] A video of the event surfaced, and Thomas can be heard repeatedly screaming in pain while they shock him (up to five times according to a witness statement) in the video, and screaming for his father.^[5] A total of six officers were involved in subduing Thomas, who was unarmed and has a history of mental illness. Thomas was then taken to the UC Irvine Medical Center with severe injuries to his head, face, and neck.^[6]

The aftermath

The story of his beating broke shortly before his death.^[7][8] An investigation into the beating was undertaken by the Orange County district attorney starting on July 7, 2011,^[9] and later the FBI became involved.^[10] The decision to involve the FBI was praised by the American Civil Liberties Union, which claims the Orange County District Attorney has an "abysmal" record when investigating shootings with police involvement.^[11]
Kelly Thomas was removed from life support and died on July 10, 2011, five days after the beating.^[12] Initial reports claimed that Thomas had been very combative with officers and two had suffered broken bones.^[13] Later, the police department confirmed that no officers had suffered any broken bones, and that no one other than Thomas had any significant injuries.^[14] By the end of July, several news outlets had picked up the story and it had become international news.^[15]
On July 18, 2011, a large protest outside the Fullerton Police Department was organized by several people, including the victim's father Ron Thomas.^[16]
On August 2, 2011 many members of the public spoke out about the beating at the biweekly City Council meeting at the Fullerton City Hall.^[17] Over 70 members of the public spoke to the City Council, the vast majority of whom criticized the police. Among the speakers was Ron Thomas, the father of Kelly Thomas, as well as Kelly Thomas's stepmother. The public comment session lasted for approximately three hours. The City Attorney emphasized that the City Council could not respond to the comments, however following the public comment period discussion was given to provide clarification on the city's policy regarding the mentally ill. In addition, Tony Bushala, a local developer and conservative activist, announced plans to recall three members of the City Council thought to have responded insufficiently to the beating.^[18]
On Saturday August 6, 2011, a large street protest was held outside of the Fullerton City Hall. Activists at that protest, which was attended by hundreds of people, called for the release of a surveillance video shot by cameras installed at the bus depot and carried signs with slogans like "Jail All Killer Cops" and "End Police Brutality."^[19]
All six officers involved in the beating were placed on administrative leave and several people, including two members of the Fullerton City Council, have called for the resignation of police Chief Michael Sellers,^[20] who was later placed on medical leave for undisclosed reasons.^[21] The investigation is still ongoing and the Orange County District Attorney is requesting public assistance in the case.^[22] A final report has not yet been released.

 

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