Mike Edwards, English cellist (Electric Light Orchestra), died from a car accident. he was , 62

Mike Edwards , known as Swami Deva Pramada or simply Pramada, was an English cellist and music teacher. His wide-ranging career was most widely notable for his membership of the Electric Light Orchestra.

(31 May 1948 – 3 September 2010)

 Early life

Mike Edwards was born in 1948 in London. After secondary school he attended the Royal Academy of Music.^[2]

 

Career

Mike Edwards joined the Electric Light Orchestra when original 'cellist Hugh McDowell departed with Roy Wood to form Wizzard and he played with the band from their first live gig in Croydon in 1972 until he departed, of his own choosing, in January 1975.^[3] Previously he had had little interest in non-classical music, though he had played on recording sessions for Barclay James Harvest.^[4]
Although his band-mates remembered him as a small, shy, broadly-smiling classicist in formal attire,^[5] his eccentric 'cello playing (fingering the strings with an orange or grapefruit) and bizarre costumes were a major ingredient of early ELO concerts: his 'cello solo spots, often The Dying Swan or Bach's Air, ended with his instrument exploding in pyrotechnics (actually Edwards mimed on a rigged instrument).^[5][6] He contributed to the albums ELO II, On the Third Day, The Night The Light Went On (In Long Beach) and Eldorado. He was replaced by Melvyn Gale.
He changed his name to Pramada on becoming a sannyasin of Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh):^[7] the name means "divine contentment". During the 80s he lived in the group's large British Medina commune and in Archway, north London. Subsequently he appeared for three years as a duo with dancer Avis von Herder: their show involved improvisation. In later years, his work involved stage plays, arrangements and cross-genre recordings such as the album Terra Incognita. Always considered a "musician's musician", he was a founder member of the Devon Baroque Orchestra^[3] after moving to Devon, and also of L'Ardito, a baroque trio ('cello, recorder, harpsichord).

Death

Edwards was killed on the A381 between Harbertonford and Halwell near where he lived in Totnes in Devon, on 3 September 2010, when a cylindrical hay bale weighing 600 kilograms (1,300 lb) rolled down a hillside and collided with the van he was driving.^[3] As of September 2010^[update], Devon and Cornwall Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating the cause of the accident.^[8][9][10]

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Noah Howard American jazz saxophonist. died he was , 67,

Noah Howard ^[1] was an American free jazz alto saxophonist died he was , 67,.^[2]


(April 6, 1943 – September 3, 2010)

Biography

An American born in New Orleans, Howard played music from childhood in his church. He first learned trumpet and later switching to alto, tenor and soprano saxophone. He was an innovator influenced by John Coltrane^[3] and Albert Ayler. He studied with Dewey Johnson first in Los Angeles and later on in San Francisco. When he moved to New York he started playing with Sun Ra.

He recorded his first LP “Noah Howard quartet” as a leader in 1965 and his second LP “Noah Howard at Judson Hall“ in 1966 both for ESP Records, but found little critical acclaim in the USA. In the Sixties and Seventies he performed regularly in the USA and Europe and moved to Paris in 1968.
In 1969 he appeared on Frank Wright's album One For John and on Black Gypsie with Archie Shepp. As leader he recorded The Black Ark ^[4] with Arthur Doyle among others. In 1971 he created his own record label AltSax ^[5] and published most of his music under that label .
In 1971 he recorded Patterns in the Netherlands with Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink. He moved to Paris in 1972, lived in Nairobi in 1982 and finally moved to Brussels late 1982, where he had a studio and ran a jazz club. He recorded steadily through the 1970s and 1980s, exploring funk and world music in the latter decade and recording for AltSax. In the 1990s he returned to his free jazz origins, releasing on Cadence Jazz among others, and experienced a resurgence in critical acclaim. His last two albums Desert Harmony (2008, with Omar al Faqir) and Voyage (2010) reflected his interest in World Music and were influenced by Indian, Latin American and Middle Eastern music.

Discography

• Noah Howard Quartet (1966) with Ric Colbeck, Scotty Holt, Dave Grant
• At Judson Hall (1966) with Dave Burrell, Norris Jones [aka Sirone], Rik Colbeck, Bobby Kapp
• The Black Ark (1969) with Arthur Doyle, Earl Cross, Muhammad Ali, Juma Sultan, Norris Jones [aka Sirone], Leslie Waldron, Earl Freeman (by Freedom)
• One for John (1969) with Frank Wright
• Black Gypsy (1969) with Archie Shep
• Space Dimension (1970) with Frank Wright, Bobby Few, Art Taylor
• Uhuru Na Umoja (1970) with Frank Wright, Bobby Few, Art Taylor
• Live at the Village Vanguard (1972) with Frank Lowe, Robert Bruno, Earl Freeman, Juma Sultan, Rashied Ali
• Church Number Nine (1973) with Frank Wright, Bobby Few, Mohamed Ali
• Patterns (1973) with Han Bennink, Steve Boston, Earl Freeman, Misha Mengelberg, Jaap Schoonhoven (by Altsax)
• Berlin Concert (1975) with Takashi Kako, Kent Carter, Oliver Johnson, Lamont Hampton
• Live in Europe, Volume 1 (1975) with Noah Howard, Takashi Kako, Kent Carter, Muhammad Ali, Oliver Johnson
• Patterns (re-release 1976) with Han Bennink, Steve Boston, Earl Freeman, Misha Mengelberg, Jaap Schoonhoven (by Sun Records)
• Red Star (1977) with Bobby Few, Guy Pederson, Richard Williams, Kenny Clarke
• Schizophrenic Blues (1978)
• Message to South Africa (1979) with Johnny Dyani, Kali Fasteau, Chris McGregor, Noel McGee
• Traffic (1983)
• At Documenta IX (1992)
• Live at the Unity Temple (1997) with Bobby Few, Wilbur Morris
• Expatriate Kin (1997)
• West frm 42nd (1997) with Eve Packer
• In Concert (1997)
• Between Two Eternities (1999)
• Live in Paris (2001)
• Middle Passage (2001)
• That Look (2001) with Eve Packer
• Window 9/11 (2002) with Eve Packer
• NY woman (2002) with Eve Packer
• Dreamtime (2002)
• The Eye of the Improviser (2003)
• Cruisin w/moxie (2003) with Eve Packer
• Migration (2007)
• The Black Ark (re-release 2007) with Arthur Doyle, Earl Cross, Muhammad Ali, Juma Sultan, Norris Jones [aka Sirone], Leslie Waldron, Earl Freeman (by Bo'Weavil Recordings)
• Desert Harmony with Omar al Faqir, Altsax Records (2008)
• Transit Mission (2009) with Bobby Kapp
• Voyage Altsax Records (2010)

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Shoya Tomizawa Japanese Moto2 motorcycle racer, died from race crash he was , 19,

Shoya Tomizawa (富沢 祥也, Tomizawa Shōya^?)  was a Japanese motorcycle racer died from race crash he was , 19,. After a successful career in the All Japan Road Race Championship,^[1] he switched to MotoGP and competed in the 250cc class during 2009.^[2] In the 2010 season he rode in the newly created Moto2 class. Tomizawa won the first race of the new class, at Losail in Qatar, winning by nearly five seconds from Alex Debón and Jules Cluzel.^[3] Tomizawa died after sustaining cranial, thoracic and abdominal trauma at the San Marino Grand Prix.^[4]
 

  (December 10, 1990 – September 5, 2010)

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 Career

Tomizawa was born in Asahi City, Chiba. He started pocket bike racing at age 3 in 1994, and moved on to minibikes around 2001. While attending Sousa High School in Chiba, majoring in English, he started to fully participate in the 125cc class of All Japan Road Race Championship and gained 2nd place for 2006 season. Rookie of the Year was an added bonus to start the fast-paced career.
Tomizawa appeared on both 125cc and 250cc class in the following year, finishing 3rd in the 125, and 8th in the 250 for 2007 season. In 2008, he focused on the 250cc class and finished 2nd with his eyes set for global challenge. Upon his high school graduation in March 2009, Tomizawa was recruited by new CIPMOTO-GP250 Team, ended his full time, first international racing year in 17th place with best results at 10th twice at Motegi and Valencia respectively riding a Honda RS250R.
Tomizawa moved to the new Moto2 class, which replaced 250cc, for 2010. Riding a Suter motorbike, he won the inaugural Moto2 race at Losail, and followed this up with his first Grand Prix pole position and second place at the following round in Spain. He took a further pole position at Brno later in the season. Showing markedly improved form in comparison with his previous years in MotoGP, he was seventh in the championship after ten races. Commentator Toby Moody described him as a "future star".^[5]

Death

Jorge Lorenzo wore a replica of Tomizawa's helmet at the 2010 Aragon Grand Prix as a mark of respect.

Tomizawa was competing in the eleventh round of the inaugural Moto2 World Championship, the San Marino Grand Prix at the Misano World Circuit on September 5, 2010. On lap 12, Tomizawa fell at the Curvone, a fast right-hand corner, when he was forced wide and lost grip in his rear tyre. He was then struck by the motorbikes of Scott Redding and Alex de Angelis, and suffered cranial, thoracic and abdominal trauma. He was initially taken to the circuit's medical centre, before being transferred to hospital in Riccione.^[6][7] He died from his injuries at 14:20 local time in hospital, aged 19.^[4] His death was announced at the end of the MotoGP race. The podium flags were lowered to half-mast, and the podium was celebrated without champagne.
Tomizawa was the first on-track fatality at Grand Prix level since his countryman Daijiro Kato was killed in the senior class at Suzuka in 2003.^[8] Tomizawa had placed Kato's racing number 74 on his left shoulder as a tribute to him.^[9]
Questions have been raised about the treatment of Tomizawa in the aftermath of the crash. Both he and Redding were hurriedly removed from the scene and bundled onto stretchers; the stretcher carrying Tomizawa appeared to be dropped in the gravel trap before he was removed.^[10] MotoGP Doctor Claudio Macchiagodena explained that "Many times it is very important to quickly have support. In this situation if you remove quickly, in my opinion, you have more possibility [to help the patient]" - a statement which ignores the possibility of spinal injuries.^[11] Alex Hofmann originally reported on German TV that neither Tomizawa nor Redding had suffered life-threatening injuries; he had apparently received this information from Dorna themselves.
It was reported that Rimini's state prosecutor, Paolo Giovagnoli, would begin an inquest that might involve criminal proceedings against as yet unnamed individuals.^[12]

 

Career statistics

Seas	Class	Moto	Race	Win	Pod	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd	WCh
2006	125cc	Honda	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC	–
2007	125cc	Honda	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC	–
2008	250cc	Honda	1	0	0	0	0	2	26th	–
2009	250cc	Honda	15	0	0	0	0	32	17th	–
2010	Moto2	Suter	10	1	2	2	0	82	13th	–
Total			28	1	2	2	0	116		0

By class

Class	Seas	1st GP	1st Pod	1st Win	Race	Win	Pod	Pole	FLap	Pts	WCh
125cc	2006–2007	2006 Japan			2	0	0	0	0	0	0
250cc	2008–2009	2008 Japan			16	0	0	0	0	34	0
Moto2	2010	2010 Qatar	2010 Qatar	2010 Qatar	10	1	2	2	0	82	0
Total	2006–2010	2006 Japan	2010 Qatar	2010 Qatar	28	1	2	2	0	116	0

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Pts
2006	125cc	Honda	SPA	QAT	TUR	CHN	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR	GER	CZE	MAL	AUS	JPN Ret	POR	VAL		NC	0
2007	125cc	Honda	QAT	SPA	TUR	CHN	FRA	ITA	CAT	GBR	NED	GER	CZE	SMR	POR	JPN 22	AUS	MAL	VAL	NC	0
2008	250cc	Honda	QAT	SPA	POR	CHN	FRA	ITA	CAT	GBR	NED	GER	CZE	SMR	IND	JPN 14	AUS	MAL	VAL	26th	2
2009	250cc	Honda	QAT 12	JPN 10	SPA 12	FRA Ret	ITA Ret	CAT Ret	NED Ret	GER 13	GBR 15	CZE 13	IND DNS	SMR 12	POR Ret	AUS 15	MAL 16	VAL 10		17th	32
2010	Moto2	Suter	QAT 1	SPA 2	FRA Ret	ITA 6	GBR 6	NED 5	CAT Ret	GER 18	CZE 10	IND DNS	SMR Ret	ARA	JPN	MAL	AUS	POR	VAL	13th	82

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Paul Conrad, American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist (Los Angeles Times). died he was , 86

Paul Francis Conrad  was an American political cartoonist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. During college, Conrad started cartooning at the University of Iowa for the Daily Iowan.^[2] While serving with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, during World War II, Conrad received a B.A. in art in 1950.^[3] After receiving his degree, he worked for the Denver Post, where he spent 14 years before joining the Los Angeles Times.

He was chief editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times from 1964 to 1993 and had been syndicated to hundreds of newspapers worldwide. Conrad drew numerous cartoons about Richard Nixon's downfall. One cartoon showed Nixon, during his last days as president, nailing himself to a cross.^[4]

(June 27, 1924 – September 4, 2010^[1])

Another example, the Los Angeles Times refused to run. Just prior to the vote to impeach President Nixon, Conrad drew the president in only a pair of tight fitting underwear, with the caption "The Last Nixon Supporter in Washington."^{[citation needed]} He was also named in Richard Nixon's enemy list in 1973.^[5]
Conrad wrote several books and his work is in the permanent exhibition of the United States Library of Congress.

He earned the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1964, 1971 and 1984.^[6] Conrad has also won two Overseas Press Club awards (1981 and 1970) and in 1988, the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) honored him with his seventh Distinguished Service Award for Editorial Cartooning.
Conrad is survived by his wife, Kay King, a former society writer for The Denver Post, two sons, two daughters and one grandchild.

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Larry Ashmead, American book editor.died he was , 78

Lawrence Peel "Larry" Ashmead  was an American book editor who helped create 100 books a year featuring such authors as Isaac Asimov, Quentin Crisp, Tony Hillerman, Susan Isaacs and Michael Korda at a string of publishers including Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, Lippincott, Harper & Row and its successor HarperCollins died he was , 78.

Ashmead was born on July 4, 1932, in Rochester, New York. He later recalled having been a model for a Kodak photo and then seeing an enlargement of his picture blown up to billboard size when visiting Grand Central Terminal and assumed that they did that for all visitors. When he was nine years old he heard a writer speak at a local library and was less fascinated by the author's writing than by the fact that he worked amid the skyscrapers of Manhattan editing books. He attended the University of Rochester and left after two years to serve in the United States Army. After completing his military service, he earned a doctorate in geology from Yale University as part of a program where the cost of his education was covered by an oil company. Though he was expected to work for the company after completing his education, he decided to abandon the field, making what he called the "only bold decision of my life".^[1]

(July 4, 1932 – September 3, 2010)

He went to work as an assistant for Doubleday, where his scientific education led him to be given an assignment to work on a book written by Isaac Asimov in which Ashmead identified many errors that he pointed out to the author. Though Asimov was able to show in almost all cases that his writing was correct, he was impressed that anyone would devote so much attention to a manuscript and asked that Ashmead be assigned to edit his books.^[1]
Ashmead would place advertisements in newspapers in towns where he was going to visit and would listen to proposals for books. He was receptive to book ideas generated by co-workers, and ended up publishing several books for Kate Morgenroth, a fellow employee at Harper to good reviews. He met business executive Helen Van Slyke at a dinner party and ended up publishing several of her books, which sold in the millions. While visiting London, Ashmead saw a proposal for a book about the Oxford English Dictionary that was going to be rejected by the publisher. Ashmead said "I can make this a bestseller" and worked with the author, Simon Winchester, to create the bestselling book The Professor and the Madman.^[1]
Susan Isaacs credited him with the success of her books, saying in addition to "finding what was wrong", Ashmead "also knew what wasn't there." Michael Korda, a novelist who was editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster and whose books were edited by Ashmead, said he had "possibly the most clear and precise idea of what should be a book and how to get at it that I've ever known in an editor" and credited Ashmead with publishing 100 books a year, when many could only produce 20 each year.^[1]
After retiring from the editing field, he wrote the 2007 book Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People, published by HarperCollins, featuring such people as Hedda Lettuce and Stan Dupp, as well as a dentist named Dr. Fang and Jaime Cardinal Sin of the Philippines.^[2][3]
A resident of Stuyvesant, New York, Ashmead died at age 78 on September 3, 2010, in Columbia County, New York due to pneumonia. His partner, Walter Mathews, had died in 2004.^[1]

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Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian (The Howard Stern Show), died from injuries in a car accident he was , 60

Robert George "Bob" Schimmel  was an American stand-up comedian whose material was often X-rated and controversial  died from injuries in a car accident he was , 60.^[1] He was perhaps best known for his comedy albums and his appearances on HBO and The Howard Stern Show. Schimmel is number 76 on the 2004 program Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups Of All Time.^[2]

(January 16, 1950 – September 3, 2010) Contents

Early life and career

Schimmel was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Betty and Otto Schimmel, Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.^[3] He was voted class clown during high school and was in the United States Air Force for one year during the Vietnam War.^[4] A resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, his career began when, at the urging of his sister, he performed at a comedy club's open-mic night. A club owner in Los Angeles offered to make him a regular, but when Schimmel moved there he found that the club had burned down.^[5]

Undaunted, and with some help from Rodney Dangerfield, who invited him to perform on his HBO Young Comedians Special, Schimmel began making a name for himself.^[6] He wrote material for In Living Color and for comedians such as Yakov Smirnoff and Jimmie Walker.^[7]
Schimmel married his first wife, Vicki, in 1977, and they had four children together. Their son Derek died from cancer at the age of 11.^[8] Schimmel later divorced and remarried, having two sons with his second wife, Melissa.

Comedic style

Schimmel cited Lenny Bruce as his all-time comedy hero.^[9] Schimmel incorporated any aspect of his personal life into his act, even his cancer and the death of his son. In one signature bit, Schimmel joked about making obscene suggestions to a lady from the Make-a-Wish Foundation.^[7] His act was described as raunchy and sexually explicit, which he claimed as the reason he never appeared on network television.^[10] He said his inappropriate comments on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Hollywood Squares got him disinvited, though he later returned to O'Brien's program.^[11] However, his edgy style made him a hit on The Howard Stern Show.

Personal life

In 1998, Schimmel suffered a heart attack. In June 2000, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. His treatments included chemotherapy and required long stays in the hospital.Schimmel's cancer went into remission, resulting in his decision to return to his wife Vicki, from whom he had been separated.Schimmel reunited with his soon-to-be second wife, Melissa, to whom he had been previously introduced by his daughter, Jessica, which led to the conception of their child.Schimmel divorced Vicki and married Melissa shortly thereafter.^[12]
Schimmel was arrested in Calabasas, California on May 2, 2009 as a result of an alleged confrontation between himself and his wife Melissa. The district attorney eventually declined to press charges, citing insufficient evidence.^[13] On May 8, 2009, Melissa Schimmel filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.^[14]
During an interview on The Howard Stern Show on January 28, 2010, Schimmel announced that he contracted cirrhosis as a result of a hepatitis C infection from a blood transfusion that he received while in the Air Force. His cirrhosis had progressed to the point that he was working to be added to the waiting list for a donated liver.^[1]

Death

On August 26, 2010, Schimmel was a passenger in a car driven by his 19-year-old daughter, Aliyah, when the car flipped onto its side before coming to a stop in the shoulder of the freeway.^[15] Schimmel was hospitalized in serious condition, while Aliyah was hospitalized in stable condition. Schimmel’s son, also in the car at the time, was not injured.^[16]
On September 3, 2010, Schimmel died of his injuries.^[17] He is interred at the Paradise Memorial Gardens^[18] in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Works

Albums

• Comes Clean, Warner Bros. Records, 1996.
• If You Buy this CD, I Can Get this Car, Warner Bros. Records, 1998.
• Unprotected, Warner Bros. Records, 1999.
• Reserection, Warner Bros. Records, 2004.
• Life Since Then, Image Entertainment, 2009.

Book

• Cancer on Five Dollars a Day* (*chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life. Da Capo Press, 2008

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Annie Turnbull, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the UK. has died she was , 111

Annie Ellis Turnbull ^[1] was, at the time of her death, aged &0000000000000111000000111 years, &0000000000000347000000347 days, the oldest person in the United Kingdom since the death of Eunice Bowman on 16 July 2010. Turnbull had been the oldest person in Scotland since the death of Alexina Calvert on 19 September 2008. When asked about the secret of her long life, she said "keeping calm".

(née Walker; 21 September 1898 – 3 September 2010)

Born in Haywood, Lanarkshire, Turnbull moved to Stoneyburn, West Lothian, around 1902. After leaving school at the age of 14 she moved to Edinburgh. She went into service as a table-maid, a job she held for most of her life. She worked in private residences, where she met Rudyard Kipling and Gordon Jackson. She retired aged seventy-six. She lived without hot water until she was 92.
Turnbull moved into the Victoria Manor Care Home prior to her 110th birthday in 2008. She credited her longevity to hard work and a daily glass of sherry.^[2][3]

She had 2 daughters, 4 grandchildren, and 7 great-grandchildren.^[2] She died on 3 September 2010 at the Victoria Manor care home in Leith,^[4] 18 days before what would have been her 112th birthday. Turnbull was the last person living in Scotland who was born in the 19th century and the Victorian Era; Catherine Masters, born in Dundee in 1899, now lives in England.

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