Obituaries for 2021

[Slide Rule]

Understandable that topics should be organized.

I agree with that and have noticed it is easier to find something here.

My why not, was meant as a joke, not a quesiton.

@Slide Rule

[jmyrlefuller]

Understandable that topics should be organized.

I agree with that and have noticed it is easier to find something here.

My why not, was meant as a joke, not a quesiton.

@Slide Rule

Ah, like a Timothy Leary "Why not?" 

[jmyrlefuller]

Broadcast engineer Hank Mahler dies at 84.

https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/hank-mahler-developer-of-the-smpte-color-bars-passes-away

He's best known for inventing the "color bars" test pattern you used to see on TV for decades:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI7FbMes_eU

[PeteS in CA]

Evidently, he had a hand in a lot of significant developments. Re the color bars test pattern:

During the early days of color television, maintaining timing and calibration of the analog color systems was a challenge.  To aid in this calibration process, Hank developed the

SMPTE Color Bars and was recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2002 for standardizing and building the first SMPTE color bar generator.

In the very early days of color TV (the mid 50s), color sets were very finicky, and often had to be positioned carefully in a room and realigned in the owner's home. The classic Indian head test pattern was also designed for aligning TVs. The marvel of the RCA color television design was that it crammed a bunch more info into a signal that was still compatible with older B&W sets.

[Cyber Liberty]

Evidently, he had a hand in a lot of significant developments. Re the color bars test pattern:

In the very early days of color TV (the mid 50s), color sets were very finicky, and often had to be positioned carefully in a room and realigned in the owner's home. The classic Indian head test pattern was also designed for aligning TVs. The marvel of the RCA color television design was that it crammed a bunch more info into a signal that was still compatible with older B&W sets.

By the late 70's, TV stations were transmitting a miniature, one line version of the color bars just off the frame of the picture (near the Sync Pulse across the bottom of the screen).  After that, there was no need to adjust hue and tint on your TeeVee.

[Polly Ticks]

Betty Lynn Dies: Thelma Lou, Barney Fife’s Girlfriend On ‘The Andy Griffith Show, Was 95


Betty Lynn, a veteran actress who was best known as the girlfriend of bumbling sheriff’s deputy Barney Fife on television classic The Andy Griffith Show, has died at age 95. She passed on Saturday in Culver City, Calif. of an undisclosed but brief illness, according to the Andy Griffith Museum.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/betty-lynn-dies-thelma-lou-195244001.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE5VKWyNXeP8I8EBlhIg0y0fQqMFSgUTwqxebng04_74aIzUs8eSNHh0m-jtXUFsSw5fHaVP9x7NKNqZIh2mrPFIpyL8KRCuCj2B7WzN9wvAD75gtjcOXi1_G--YAHEFKmqfFX7lslbOBbULuT_pwEhk02IM6jqomJCq1JNw2kLy\\

[Restored]

She was in Mt Airy NC for a while I believe. Incredibly personable.

[mountaineer]

A little more about Betty Lynn (which really was her name, as she was born Elizabeth Ann Theresa Lynn):

... Betty Lynn appeared in 26 episodes of the Andy Griffith Show with 25 appearances before the departure of Don Knotts, who played Barney Fife, led to her character departing the show as well. She would make one final guest appearance in the sixth season alongside Knotts. ...

Starting at age 18, she was part of a United Service Organization (USO) tour which took her through the China Burma India Theater during World War Two where, at one point, she met recently freed prisoners of war at a hospital in Rangoon.

Aside from her work on the Andy Griffith Show, she is also remembered for her role in a number of movies during the 1940s and 1950s including “Sitting Pretty” and the original “Cheaper by the Dozen” as well as Broadway shows such as “Oklahoma!” and “Park Avenue”.

Lynn remained active at Andy Griffith reunions and festivals, even virtually greeting fans who visited the Andy Griffith Museum, located in Mount Airy. ...

WSAZ

[sneakypete]

She was in Mt Airy NC for a while I believe. Incredibly personable.

@Restored

IIRC,that was Andy Griffin's home town,although he later bought and lived in a house in Martha's Vineyard in Manteo,NC.

[Gefn]

Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies

CNN)Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/politics/colin-powell-dies/index.html

[mountaineer]

Fully vaccinated, dead of covid.

[DCPatriot]

http://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/politics/colin-powell-dies/index.html?fbclid=IwAR10MKbfnWVrXZpZq1Coqo4lRIXWI6KHUM_yqicfShjt1G4WwuMB6rzAmRs

[Wingnut]

Fully vaccinated, dead of covid.

Yep.  Tell me again how great these vaxxes are.

[mystery-ak]

Fully vaccinated, dead of covid.

WOW this is a shocker!

[Right_in_Virginia]

WOW this is a shocker!

@mystery-ak  -----  The story is up in National News  https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,451440.0.html

[sneakypete]

I don't get it. He's dead,Jim.

What updates do they have planned? Is he supposed to come back to life,or something?

[Restored]

Colin was being treated for cancer

[mountaineer]

Colin was being treated for cancer

A history of both myeloma and Parkinson's, I hear.

[Bigun]

All the lefties lining up to say what a great man Colin was. Guess they have short memories of what they said before.
Perhaps it was because he was black. Guess they are lining up for deaths of other great blacks as this is the season
for that sort of virtue signaling. Can't imagine what they will say about a certain black Supreme of long standing or
of a certain black Brain Surgeon of substantial merit.

I would rather call a man great while he is alive and active to change things in the here and now.

Colin Powell was a decent man, but his actions did cost many lives and made the war industry untold millions.

He attacked Hussain about weapons of mass destruction at the, was it a UN court? I remember hearing it on the radio.
Perhaps Limbaugh routed it through his program.

Powell was a good boy and took the stab. That likely caused his death.

Colin Powell was an affirmative action general that knew and played the game well but if things had been based on merit alone no one would know who he was.  Flame suit on.

[skeeter]

Colin Powell was an affirmative action general that knew and played the game well but if things had been based on merit alone no one would know who he was.  Flame suit on.

Flame suit unnecessary. IMO Powell endorsed an obviously anti-American socialist candidate twice because they shared the same melanin content. And we are in the state we're in today because of it. That cancels anything else good he may have done before.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Flame suit unnecessary. IMO Powell endorsed an obviously anti-American socialist candidate twice because they shared the same melanin content. And we are in the state we're in today because of it. That cancels anything else good he may have done before.

Well said, @skeeter   

[Cyber Liberty]

Flame suit unnecessary. IMO Powell endorsed an obviously anti-American socialist candidate twice because they shared the same melanin content. And we are in the state we're in today because of it. That cancels anything else good he may have done before.

This is true of many people, like McStain.

This is the obit thread, and there's a free-standing Topic on Colin Powell, so please comment about his faults and attributes there.

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,451440.0.html

Thanks, all!

[skeeter]

This is true of many people, like McStain.

This is the obit thread, and there's a free-standing Topic on Colin Powell, so please comment about his faults and attributes there.

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,451440.0.html

Thanks, all!

I understand. But it is tough avoiding biographical content on an obit thread, even the bad stuff.

[Cyber Liberty]

I understand. But it is tough avoiding biographical content on an obit thread, even the bad stuff.

I agree...up to a point.   

[sneakypete]

Colin Powell was an affirmative action general that knew and played the game well but if things had been based on merit alone no one would know who he was.  Flame suit on.

@Bigun

Anybody that thinks Colon Powell was conservative is delusuional. He was barely smarter than most bricks,and was a total affirmative-action general and presidential "advisor" who would have likely spent his life driving a taxi but for Affirmative Action and Henry Kissinger wanting a "darkie" to carry his briefcase while serving as a bodyguard.

He was so freaking incompetent as an army officer that he is the ONLY US Army advisor to a VN unit in VN that I ever heard of that didn't even get the standard "thanks for not burning down our country" award when his tour ended. A lot of that probably was due to the FACT that in his entire 1 year tour with a SVN Infantry unit,he never went  on combat missions with them to serve as an advisor. Which was a pretty freaking big deal because one reason US advisors were assigned to VN infantry units was that if immediate air or artillery strikes were needed,the officers in the US Army  or aerial units were MUCH more likely to respond to "we need help and here is where we need it!" calls than a voice over the radio with a Vietnamese accent.

He got his Bronze Star for Meritious Service on his second tour,where his job was to carry a briefcase for a General. Which,I guess proved he had the experience Little Henry needed. He got that award for being a PASSENGER in a helicopter flying to a briefing that had mechanial problems and had to make an emergency landing in a jungle clearing. There was NO enemy action involved whatsoever.

I am GUESSING that was when he put himself in for his CIB,because Gawd knows the only shots he ever heard fired were on a firing range.

He should have NEVER been promoted beyone the rank of Captain O-3 after proving he was a coward and a slacker in VN,but along came affirmation action and the need for alleged Republican politicians to "prove" they weren't prejudiced. Powell had found his calling.