Nick Holonyak Jr., pioneer of LED lighting, dies at 93

Quote:One of the earliest researchers in semiconductor materials and a pioneer in the field of optoelectronics – devices that convert electricity into light or vice versa – Holonyak also contributed to technologies in household dimmer switches, lasers that run CD and DVD players, fiber-optic communication lines, and other electronics and communications devices. Two presidents recognized Holonyak with national medals – George W. Bush with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2002, and George H. W. Bush with the National Medal of Science in 1990 for “his contributions as one of the Nation’s most prolific inventors in the area of semiconductor materials and devices.”

Brian Binnie - Navy test pilot and solo private astronaut.

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-09...tuary.html

Anton Fier, who has played the drums with The Golden Palominos, The Feelies, and The Lounge Lizards over the past four decades, has died aged 66. At present, there has been no official statement, but tributes have been pouring in from the musician’s friends and peers.

link: https://twitter.com/bobmouldmusic/status...1101795328

He Don't Be: Doobie Brothers founding Drummer John Hartman Dead At 72

Quote:Hartman played on all of the Doobie Brothers’ hits in the 1970s. He also played on the 1989 reunion album Cycles and 1991’s Brotherhood. Hartman retired from the band in 1992 but was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as part of the Doobie Brothers in 2020.

Pioneering and award-winning wildlife cinematographer Jim Frazier, inventor of the Frazier Lens, dies at 81, but his legacy lives on

Coolio dead at age 59. He died in a friend's bathroom, supposedly of a heart attack.

(09-28-2022 09:15 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Coolio dead at age 59. He died in a friend's bathroom, supposedly of a heart attack.

"Weird" Al is saddened by this loss...

Artist: "Weird" Al Yankovic
Album: Bad Hair Day
Tune: "Amish Paradise"
Original Songwriter: Stevie Wonder (Coolio's 'Gangster's Paradise' itself is a reworking of the Stevie Wonder song "Pastime Paradise")
March 12, 1996 Scotti Brothers Records

Rommy Hunt Revson, who popularized the Scrunchie, dies at 78

If you're not a fan of the way local news is today, blame this guy, Al Primo, the man credited with creating Eyewitness News format: dies at 87

Quote:...Primo had developed the Eyewitness News concept earlier, and was recruited from KYW-TV in Philadelphia, where he had great success with his new approach to storytelling, and brought on talent like Tom Snyder.

While many people helped grow and spread the concept of Eyewitness News, Primo was the one who came up with the idea. Primo dispatched reporters into the field and then back into the studio to share their stories with the anchors, serving as eyewitnesses. Those reporters reflected the diversity of the community.

Primo believed the people presenting the news should look and sound like the audiences they served.

"I was determined to make the reporters the most important element of the program - they were the eyewitnesses," said Primo.

He hired many of Channel 7's legendary anchors and reporters from Geraldo Rivera to Rose Ann Scamardella....The Daily News once described him as 'the man who almost single-handedly changed the face of broadcast journalism.'...

It would seem Marvin Zindler owed his career to this guy.

(09-30-2022 08:51 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  If you're not a fan of the way local news is today, blame this guy, Al Primo, the man credited with creating Eyewitness News format: dies at 87

Quote:...Primo had developed the Eyewitness News concept earlier, and was recruited from KYW-TV in Philadelphia, where he had great success with his new approach to storytelling, and brought on talent like Tom Snyder.

While many people helped grow and spread the concept of Eyewitness News, Primo was the one who came up with the idea. Primo dispatched reporters into the field and then back into the studio to share their stories with the anchors, serving as eyewitnesses. Those reporters reflected the diversity of the community.

Primo believed the people presenting the news should look and sound like the audiences they served.

"I was determined to make the reporters the most important element of the program - they were the eyewitnesses," said Primo.

He hired many of Channel 7's legendary anchors and reporters from Geraldo Rivera to Rose Ann Scamardella....The Daily News once described him as 'the man who almost single-handedly changed the face of broadcast journalism.'...

It would seem Marvin Zindler owed his career to this guy.

Second career

Film at 11...

Judge Laurence Silberman, Iconic Jurist, Dead at 86

Quote:Judge Silberman’s contributions to our nation transcend his stellar service as a judge. Characteristically, [his decisions are] rooted in the Constitution and a deeply principled grasp of the judicial role, which is more than can be said about the high court’s 1964 decision, so beloved by the media and by progressives who look to the judiciary to drive their policy preferences through the Constitution’s strictures....

Just Don't

https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2022/981.html

(10-03-2022 11:03 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  
https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2022/981.html

GeorgeWebb, thoughts?

Loretta Lynn

https://apnews.com/article/loretta-lynn-...bb25ae61e8

(10-04-2022 10:16 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  Loretta Lynn

https://apnews.com/article/loretta-lynn-...bb25ae61e8

They don't make them like her anymore...unfortunatley. She was a gem.

Loretta Lynn, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ icon and country singer, dead at 90

Concordia University Texas Head Baseball Coach Tommy Boggs Passes Away at 66

Pulitzer Prize Winner Charles Fuller Passes Away at 83, wrote 'A Soldier's Play' adapted into the film 'A Soldier's Story'

Quote:Charles Fuller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed drama A Soldier's Play and Oscar-nominated for his work on the film adaptation A Soldier's Story, died of natural causes on Monday, October 3, 2022 in Toronto with his wife Claire Prieto-Fuller by his side.

He was born on March 5, 1939 and he was 83 at the time of his death. He leaves behind his wife, his son, David Ira Fuller, his daughter in law, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Fuller received the Dramatists Guild's Flora Roberts Award for his extensive body of work. Mr. Fuller's creative efforts involve a wide range of theatre, film and television. He was a member of The Negro Ensemble Company, where his Zooman and the Sign won him an Obie and A Soldier's Play won him a Pulitzer Prize, Best American Play and an Edgar Award.

Mr. Fuller's adaptation of his play became the 1984 film A Soldier's Story, which was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, and won a Writers Guild of America Award. He has written screenplays for CBS, PBS and Showtime. He has also mentored young playwrights at Cherry Lane Theatre and was commissioned by Cherry Lane to write a play, One Night, which opened there in 2014.

'A Soldier's Story' starred Denzel Washington, Howard E. Rollins, Jr. & Adolph Caesar in one of his few major (and moste memorable) roles before he died.

If you've never seen it, you really should. It's an amazingly well-done film.

The bell Tolls for thee: Robert Toll, Founder of Home Builder Toll Brothers, Has Died at Age 81

Quote:Robert Toll worked his way through the University of Pennsylvania law school in the mid-1960s to please his parents and got a job with the Philadelphia law firm Wolf Block. He soon found himself toiling in a tiny office and hated the work.

Mr. Toll chucked his legal career and joined his younger brother, Bruce, to found Toll Brothers Inc. in 1967. They built two model colonial-style homes in suburban Philadelphia and soon had contracts to build 20 more.

The first homes were priced at around $17,500, Bruce Toll said, but their father, Albert Toll, advised them to build fancier models that could sell for around $25,000 in Bucks County, Pa. “Those houses today sell for a million dollars,” Mr. Toll said.

The brothers gradually expanded from the Northeast to the Pacific Coast, Southeast, Texas and other regions. Toll Brothers went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1986.

Mr. Toll, who remained chairman and chief executive until 2010, often told colleagues that the kitchen and master bedroom suite, with a luxurious bathroom, were what sold a house.