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BeyondGeography's JournalPaolo Rossi, Italian football great and World Cup winner, dies aged 64
Rossi’s death aged 64 was announced in the early hours of Thursday by the Italian TV channel RAI Sport, for whom the former striker and star of that 1982 team had been working as a pundit.
I don’t know what to say, it’s a bolt out of the blue,” said Dino Zoff, Italy’s goalkeeper and captain in 1982. “We always had a great relationship with Paolo. He was kind, intelligent … We hadn’t heard from each other for a while and they told us something [was wrong], but I didn’t think it was serious. It’s difficult to understand.”
...The former Juventus and Milan player is widely regarded as one of the best forwards of all time and is most famous for his heroics at the 1982 World Cup in Spain. In the final he scored the opening goal as Italy defeated West Germany 3-1. Earlier in the tournament, in what is still considered one of the best World Cup performances, he scored a hat-trick to beat Brazil 3-2 and send one of the favourites out early.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/10/paolo-rossi-italian-football-great-and-world-cup-winner-dies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Nowhere to Run - Martha & the Vandellas (Live)
Koko the Gorilla meets Mr. Rogers
Because they’re showing this on my PBS fundraiser tonight.
Go On Home - Chris Knight
GA's Sterling to Trump: 'Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence'
"It's all gone too far," he said with a raised voice to start the event. "All of it."
It comes after a 20-year-old contractor for Dominion received death threats, Sterling said. He said the worker received threats with a noose on social media -- saying he should be hanged for treason. He said the tech was transporting a report for batches in Gwinnett County.
"He was just trying to do his job," Sterling said. "It's not right."
...Sterling called on everyone, including the President and senators to condemn this type of action.
"Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language. Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop! We need you to step up and if you're going to take a position of leadership - show some."
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/gabriel-sterling-message-to-president-trump/85-ac7f0376-b968-4f38-b97c-96034dc25552
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1333907603857018882
Tony Hsieh, retired Zappos CEO, dies at 46
Source: AP
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer Zappos.com who spent years working to transform the city’s downtown area, has died. He was 46.
Hsieh was with family when he died Friday, according to a statement from DTP Companies, which he founded. Downtown Partnership spokesperson Megan Fazio said Hsieh passed away in Connecticut, KLAS-TV reported. Puoy Premsrirut, a lawyer for Hsieh, told news outlets that Hsieh had been injured in a house fire while visiting Connecticut. Additional details weren’t immediately released. An official cause of death wasn’t announced.
...Hsieh recently retired from Zappos after 20 years leading the company. The online shoe retailer shared a tribute on social media late Friday. “The world has lost a tremendous visionary and an incredible human being,” the statement said. “His spirit will forever be a part of Zappos.”
Hsieh was a Harvard University graduate who joined the company — then called ShoeSite.com — in 1999. Zappos was sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009, but Hsieh had remained with the company until his retirement. For years, he also worked to revitalize downtown Las Vegas, pledging $350 million in 2013 for redevelopment. The same year he moved Zappos’ headquarters into the former Las Vegas City Hall building.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/904fbc743e814485d635000369494fda
Dr. Mary Fowkes, who Helped Science Understand the Pandemic, Dies Suddenly at 66
When Dr. Fowkes (rhymes with “pokes”) and her team began their autopsies, little was known about the novel coronavirus, which was believed to be largely a respiratory disease. The first few dozen autopsies revealed that Covid-19 affected the lungs and other vital organs, and that the virus probably traveled through the body in the endothelial cells, which line the interior of blood vessels.
“We saw very small and very microscopic blood clots in the lungs, the heart, the liver — and significant blood clots in the brain,” Dr. Fowkes said in an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” for a segment, broadcast on Nov. 22, on the long-term effects of Covid-19. She had been interviewed by the correspondent Anderson Cooper on Oct. 30, a little more than two weeks before her death. The clots in the brain suggested that there had been strokes, she told Mr. Cooper.
Mr. Cooper asked if she had expected to see the breadth of damage in so many organs. “No, not at all,” Dr. Fowkes said. “Nobody’s seen it like this.”
Dr. Fowkes “had a curious scientific mind and an uncompromising attitude to doing as many autopsies as possible to produce something that was unique,” Dr. Carlos Cordon-Cardo, chairman of the department of pathology, molecular and cell-based medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said in a phone interview.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/health/dr-mary-fowkes-dead.html
https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1330671744726798345
Alec Baldwin and John Mauceri in Conversation - For the Love of Music
A great conversation between two classical music lovers who come from different places but genuinely respect and enjoy each other’s perspective. If you need a refreshing civilizational time-out you could do much worse than this.
A gracious and bi-partisan (no really) Rudy Giuliani concedes to David Dinkins (RIP) in 1989
Ignore the title of this clip, it’s a good speech, delivered to a typically boisterous NYC crowd. The whole thing is a little crazy, right up to the very end. Well worth watching on its own, but especially now that Rudy has descended into total madness and Mayor Dinkins, who governed in the face of the never-ending hostility of this audience, has passed.
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