Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, Filipino painter died he was , 78.

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz was born on June 6, 1932 in Santa Cruz, Manila. He was the 6th of 11 Children of Mariano Aguilar a Lawyer and a Musician and Encarnacion Alcuaz. He finished early schooling at the Dr. Albert Elementary School and San Beda High School. He studied law at the Ateneo de Manila and finished his degree in 1955. In 1949-1950 he took up painting subjects at the University of the Philippines (UP) School of Fine Arts. In 1955 he went to Madrid with a scholarship at the Academia de San Fernando which he got thu the help of the Jesuits at Ateneo. In 1956 he chose Barcelona as his career base.He also became a member of the La Punalada Group which counted among its members Tapies, Cuixart and Tharrats. In the same year he began signing his paintings with Aguilar Alcuaz to distinguish himself from two other Aguilars who are also members of the La Punalada Group. In 1959 he met Ute Schmitz, a German girl from Hamburg, who he married 3 years later and they had 3 sons: Christian, Andreas and Matthias.

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz  was an award winning Filipino Painter who exhibited extensively Internationally and whose work earned him recognition both in the Philippines and abroad died he was , 78..
Alcuaz was conferred the title of National Artist for Visual Arts, Painting, Sculpture and Mixed Media in 2009. However, four nominees for the award other than Alcuaz became embroiled in the 2009 National Artist of the Philippines Controversy, which led the Supreme Court of the Philippines to temporarily issue a status quo order on August 25, 2009, blocking the conferment of the awards on all seven nominees - despite the fact that no objections were ever raised regarding the conferment of the award to Alcuaz and two other nominees.^[1]

(June 6, 1932 - February 2, 2011)

Awards

• 1st Prize, UPCFA Art Competition, 1953
• 1ST Prize, Roadside Squatters, 4th SNSAC Modern Painting Category, 1954
• 1st Prize, Montcada Award Barcelona, 1957
• Francisco Goya Award, Cercle Maillol Barcelona, 1958
• Republic Cultural Heritage Award, 1965
• 2nd Prize Prix Vancell, 4th Biennial of Terrassa (Barcelona Spain),1964

Exhibitions (Philippines)

• Solo Exhibition, San Beda College, 1953
• Solo Exhibition, Centro Escolar University, 1954
• Solo Exhibition, PAG, 1955

Exhibitons (International)

• Solo Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, 1956
• Solo Exhibition, Galerias Layetanas Barcelona, 1956
• Solo Exhibition, Galerias Manila Barcelona, 1956
• Solo Exhibition, Hispanic Cultural Hall Madrid, 1957
• Solo Exhibition, Galerias Layetanas Barcelona, 1957
• Solo Exhibition, Galeria Dintel, 1957
• Solo Exhibition, Galeria Dintel, 1958
• Exhibited at th Gallery of the City Hall of Burgos Spain, 1958
• Solo Exhibition , Asociacion Artistica Vizcaina Bilbao, 1959
• Solo Exhibition, Galeria Ilescas Bilbao, 1959
• Solo Exhibition, Galeria Ilescas Bilbao, 1960
• Solo Exhibition, Sala Vayreda Barcelona, 1960
• Solo Exhibition, Galeria Ilescas Bilbao, 1962
• Solo Exhibition, Galeria Ilescas Bilbao, 1972

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Darrel Baldock, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1987) and Minister (1975–1982), died from a stroke he was , 72

Darrel John Baldock commonly nicknamed "The Doc" and "Mr Magic", was an Australian rules football player who in 1966 was the first (and, to date, only) captain of a premiership-winning St Kilda Football Club. Baldock was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a "Legend" and also represented Tasmania in two first-class cricket matches. Baldock served for fifteen years as a member of Tasmania's parliament.

(29 September 1938 – 2 February 2011), 

 Victorian Football League (VFL) playing career

Baldock was recruited from Latrobe in Tasmania and was famous for his football handling skills and balance. "Doc" played at Centre half-forward and was made captain of St Kilda's "Team of the Century" in 2002, and named as the initial "legend" in the St Kilda Football Club Hall of Fame in 2003.
Apart from playing in the Victorian Football League with St Kilda, Baldock played 71 games for East Devonport (1955–1958, club best and fairest 1955); 158 games for Latrobe (1959–1961 and 1969–1974); four games for New Norfolk (1975); as well as 15 Tasmanian state representative games and 20 North-West Football Union representative games.

Political career

Baldock became a member of the House of Assembly in the Tasmanian Parliament on 22 April 1972. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party and was a state minister from 1975–1982. After a 15 year parliamentary career he resigned on 30 June 1987 to become coach of St Kilda.

Darrell Baldock Tasmanian Tigers
Batting style	Right Hand Batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right Arm Medium (RM)
	First Class	List A Matches	Twenty20 Matches
Matches	2	0	0
Runs scored	86	0	0
Batting average	21.50	0.00	0.00
100s/50s	0/1	0/0	0/0
Top score	54	0	0
Balls bowled	0	0	0
Wickets	0	0	0
Bowling average	0.00	0.00	0.00
5 wickets in innings	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0	0
Best bowling	0/0	0/0	0/0
Catches/stumpings	3/0	0/0	0/0
As of 27 May 2007 Source: Cricinfo.com

Coaching career

Baldock was the senior coach at St Kilda from 1987 to 1989. In his first year he lifted them off the bottom of the ladder but also suffered a minor stroke. He continued to coach for a further two years.

Later life and death

Baldock retired to Tasmania where he raced horses. His biography, Darrel Baldock – The Incomparable Mr Magic, was written by his friend Peter Lyons and published in June 2010. Baldock suffered from illness in his final years. He died of pneumonia and kidney failure on 2 February 2011 following a fourth stroke.^[2]
A state funeral was held at Latrobe, Tasmania, Tasmania on 11 February 2011.^[3]

Honours

Baldock was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in its inception in 1996 (as a player) and was upgraded to Legend in 2006. In 2004, he was named on the half forward flank and as captain in the Tasmanian Team of The Century. Baldock was also honoured by having the Northern Tasmania Football League 2000 Best and Fairest medal named after him.

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Armando Chin Yong, Malaysian opera singer, died from heart disease he was , 53

Armando Chin Yong , also known as Chen Rong to the Chinese-speaking, was a Malaysian opera singer, the only tenor with an international reputation forged in European and Asian opera houses and concert halls.^[1] He received much of his singing education in Rome, Italy^[2] and Vienna, Austria.^[3] He died unexpectedly, aged 52, of a heart attack after walking his dog in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 2 February 2011^[4] leaving his widow, Chu Shoo Woan and their 12-year old son, Ian Chin Yi.^[5] Armando Chin was a devout Christian and worshipped at Gereja Kristen Grace Taman Bukit Maluri (Taman Bukit Maluri Grace Christian Church), Kepong, Kuala Lumpur.

(6 July 1958 – 2 February 2011)

Biography

Born in Bahau, Negeri Sembilan, Armando Chin grew up under difficult circumstances and had to leave school at age 14 to work to help support his family^[6] He was noted for his natural vocal talent even as a teenager. After considerable hardship, he managed to enroll in the Malaysian Institute of Arts^[7] and graduated in 1983, majoring in classical singing. He won the annual Southeast Asian Singing Competition in 1984.^[8] In 1985 he went to Rome for advanced vocal studies of the Bel Canto school under Italian tenor, Angelo Marenzi,^[9] who was himself a student of the legendary Italian baritone, Tito Gobbi. During his time in Rome he also studied operatic stage performance at the Osimo Opera Art Academy.^[10] In 1988, he entered the National Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria to study vocal music and operatic stage performance under Professor Ralf Döring.^[3]
Armando Chin has earned high accolades from European music critics. The Italian newspaper "La Gazzetta" pointed out that when performing the operas of Donizetti and Cilea, he had such an artistic way of controlling the dynamics that it was very close to perfection.^[11] In 1987, after a performance of Puccini's one-act opera Gianni Schicchi in Teatro la nuova Fenice in Osimo, Italy, he was hailed by the newspaper Il Messaggero^[12] as Italy's most outstanding young tenor. Later in the same year he was again hailed for his performance in Bellini's La Sonnambula at the Bilbao National Opera House, Bilbao, Spain. In 1989, Armando Chin was invited to sing at the Wexford Festival Opera in Wexford, the Republic of Ireland.
From 1990 to 1992, Armando Chin was engaged full time by the Dresden Staatsoper^[13] or the Dresden State Opera in Dresden, Germany.
Following his return to Malaysia in 1993, he gave a performance in Taipei, Taiwan followed by a role in Verdi's opera, Rigoletto, in Singapore. In 1994, he sang in Handel's Messiah in Shanghai, China and in Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Hong Kong.
Armando Chin was invited to sing in the 1995 Taipei Charity Concert by Mirella Freni and Nicolai Ghiaurov and sang the encore Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Drinking Song) from Verdi's opera, La traviata, with Mirella Freni. In 1996, he was the solo tenor in the Suntory-sponsored grand production of Beethoven's 9th Symphony with a choir of 10,000 voices performed in Osaka, Japan. In the same year he also took part in the "Remembering Mario Lanza in Concert" tour of Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. He was the Steersman in the 1997 production of Wagner's opera, Der fliegender Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), in Taipei, Taiwan. He was also Rodolfo in Puccini's opera, La Boheme, in a 1997 Taipei production, a role he reprised in 1999.
In 2000, Armando Chin was performing in solo concerts in Taiwan again. He performed at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore in 2003. He sang for former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at a banquet in 2004, and was highly praised by the Prime Minister.
In January 2005, Armando Chin sang in a Chinese-language opera Lei Yu staged in Singapore's Esplanade Concert Hall.^[3] His April 2005 vocal recital at Xi'an, China was highly lauded not only by the public and the students of Xi'an Conservatory of Music,^[14] but also by the professors of music and singing of China.^[11] In 2008, he was actively involved in fund-raising concerts for the Sichuan earthquake fund.
But for his untimely death, Armando Chin had planned a return to the opera stage in Paris and Vienna in 2011.

Competition Prizes

1st Prize, Southeast Asian Singing Competition 1984
1st runner-up, 6° Concorso Internazionale di Canto "Ismaele Voltolini" (6th Ismaele Voltolini International Singing Contest) in Mantova, Italy from 8 to 13 September 1986.
2nd Prize (tied, no 1st prize awarded), 1° Concurso Internacional de Canto de Bilbao (1st Bilbao International Singing Competition) from 29 November to 6 December 1986 in Bilbao, Spain.
Diploma di Merito, Concorso Internazionale per Pianisti e Cantanti Lirici "Francesco Paolo Neglia" (Diploma of Merit, Francesco Paolo Neglia International Competition for Pianists and Singers) on 12 July 1987, Enna, Italy.
2. Preis, 8. Internationale Hans Gabor Belvedere Gesangswettbewerb (2nd Prize, 8th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition), 1989 in Vienna.^[15]
1. Preis, Förderungspreis für junge Opernsänger (1st Prize, Scholarship Prize for Young Opera Singers) on 1 July 1989 in Vienna.

Choral Associations

Armando Chin Yong was the Vice-President of the Yin Qi Music Centre Sdn Bhd^[16] in Kuala Lumpur which runs the Yin Qi Christian Choir, a non-denominational choir specialising in large sacred works. Armando Chin Yong was a guest soloist in several of their productions.
He also trained seven of the singers in Malaysia's top international chamber choir, Cantus Musicus, including its Music Director, Lisa Ho and its Assistant Choral Director, Timothy Ooi. Maestro Chin was to have had further singing collaborations with Cantus Musicus in 2011 and 2012.

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Jimmy Fell, British footballer (Grimsby Town), died from natural causes he was , 75.

James Irving Fell, was an English footballer, who played in the Football League for Grimsby Town, Everton, Newcastle United, Walsall and Lincoln City died from natural causes he was , 75..

(4 January 1936 – 2 February 2011)

Grimsby Town

Fell attended Clee Boys Grammar School, becoming a chemist at Courtaulds whilst playing part-time for Grimsby Town.^[1]
The 1958-59 season commenced with Fell taking on the role of emergency goalkeeper after regular custodian Clarrie Williams was injured in the season's opening game against Liverpool at Anfield in front of a crowd of 47,502 on 23 August 1958. With no substitutes allowed, Fell replaced Williams between the sticks and performed so heroically in the 3-3 draw that The Daily Mirror presented him with an 'Andy Capp' award.^[2]

Lincoln City

Fell joined Lincoln City in January 1964, debuting in the 2-1 victory at Hartlepools United on 11 January 1964 and scoring his first goal for the club in the 2-1 home defeat to Bradford City on 30 March 1964.^[3] He was a regular in the starting line-up in his first two seasons at Sincil Bank but played just three times at the start of the 1965/66 season before joining Boston United.^[3]

Retirement

A keen angler and cricketer, in his later years he worked at Grimsby Leisure Centre^[1] and died, of natural causes, at his home in Welholme Road, Grimsby on 2 February 2011.^[1]

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Bill Foster, American television director (Benson, Full House, Sanford and Son, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults), died from cancer he was , 78

Bill Foster  was an American television director known for his work with sitcoms died from cancer he was , 78.

(1933 - February 2, 2011)

His credits, which spanned more than fifty years and encompassed hundreds of hours, included episodes of Full House, Sanford and Son, Amen, Marblehead Manor and You Again?.^[1][2]
Foster directed the 1967 pilot episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, which earned him the only Emmy nomination of his career.^[1][2] Foster went on to direct the television broadcasts of the 23rd and 24th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1971 and 1972 respectively.^[1][2] He also directed the AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Cagney in 1974, for which he won a Directors Guild of America Award in 1975.^[1][2]
In 1986, Foster directed the now infamous live syndicated special, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults, which was hosted by Geraldo Rivera.^[1] The special, which advertised the potential to find the secrets of Al Capone buried in a vault beneath the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, turned up very little.^[1]
Foster spent much of his career directing television sitcoms, especially during the 1970s and 1980s.^[1] He directed 43 episodes of the sitcom, Benson, between 1982 and 1986.^[2] Foster also directed 36 separate episodes of NBC's Amen, which starred Sherman Hemsley and Clifton Davis, between 1986 and 1989.^[2] Foster largely retired after directing 23 episodes of the ABC television series, Full House, from 1989 to 1990.^[2]
Bill Foster died of cancer on February 2, 2011, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 78.^[1] He was survived by his wife, Lynn, and children, Julia and Susan.^[1]

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Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ died she was , 35.

Defne Joy Fosterwas a Turkish-American actress, presenter and VJ.

(September 2, 1975 – February 2, 2011)

Early life

Foster was born on September 2, 1975 in İncirlik, Turkey.^[1][2] Her father Steve is an African American and her mother Hatice is a Turk from İzmir. Defne (sometimes rendered as "Daphne" or "Daphné" in some sources) did her studies in Alsancak primary school and in İzmir Özel Fatih Lisesi, a private school in the same city of İzmir. ^[3]

Career

This section requires expansion.

Foster first appeared on TV screens as a VJ on Kral TV and later went into acting on various TV series.^[4]
She last participated in Yok Böyle Dans, the Turkish version of Dancing with the Stars, where she finished 4th.^[4]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Ruhsar		TV series
2000	Beyaz Yalanlar	Ahu	TV series
2000	Dadı	Defne	TV series
2003	Sihirli Annem	Eda	TV series
2006	Selena	Pandora	TV series
2007	Hayal ve Gerçek	Gizem	TV series
2010	Yok Böyle Dans	Herself	Reality show

Death

Foster was found dead at her friend Kerem Altan's apartment in Istanbul on February 2, 2011.^[5][4][6][7] The results of an autopsy are expected by mid-March 2011.^[8]
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Awal Gul, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, died he was heart attack , 48.

Awal Gul  was a citizen of Afghanistan who died in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba after nine years of imprisonment without charge died he was  heart attack , 48. .^[1][2]


(July 1, 1962 – February 2, 2011)

Personal

The Department of Defense reports Awal Gul was born on July 1, 1962. Sawati Ghundi, Afghanistan.^[1] He was the father of 18 children.^[3]

Relationship with the Taliban

"While the U.S. claims he was a Taliban commander, Gul has long insisted that he quit the Taliban a year before the 9/11 attack because, as his lawyer put it, 'he was disgusted by the Taliban's growing penchant for corruption and abuse.'"^[3] USA Today reported that Gul "had played a key role in persuading Taliban commanders to surrender Nangarhar Province to a council of tribal leaders."^[4] His attorneys wrote in a letter after Gul's death:

The government charged that he was a prominent member of the Taliban and its military, but we proved that this is false. Indeed, we have documents from Afghanistan, even a letter from Mullah Omar himself on Taliban letterhead, discussing Mr. Gul’s efforts to resign from the Taliban a year or more before 9/11/01. . . . Mr. Gul was never an enemy of the United States in any way. . . . We now hear for the very first time in the nearly 10 years since Mr. Gul’s arrest, that (1) he operated a guesthouse for Al-Qaida members, and (2) that he admitted providing bin Laden operational support on several occasions. Over the course of almost 3 years in court, the government has never provided any evidence at all to support this slander. Neither Mr. Gul nor any credible witness has ever said such things. Indeed, this is why the government placed Mr. Gul in the group of prisoners set for “indefinite detention;” it admitted that it lacked any credible evidence to prove its suspicions in a court of law. The government never even made these claims until now, when Mr. Gul is not alive to defend himself. Beginning in the early 1980′s, Mr. Gul was a member of local forces who were allied with the United States against the Soviets. From 1989-1996, he continued to run the local weapons depot in his hometown, not unlike a police commander, which he used to keep the peace. In 1996, the Taliban swept through eastern Afghanistan and took over his city at the barrel of a gun. Mr. Gul was given two options: flee with your family to Pakistan or stay home and operate the depot at the command of the Taliban. It must be remembered that the Taliban was initially greeted warmly by many Afghans, and even the American government, as a source of hope. Mr. Gul stayed home. The Taliban soon proved themselves to be as corrupt and abusive as we can imagine. Mr. Gul discovered this change over time and resigned from the Taliban more than one year before September 11, 2001. He was arrested in December 2001 when he voluntarily traveled to meet American military officials.^[5]

Phillip Smucker, writing in The Asia Times, described being contacted by Matthew Dodge, a lawyer defending Gul before a Guantanamo military commission.^[6] According to Smucker, the prosecution's charges depended on a new alternate theory as to how Osama bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora. The new theory is that bin Laden didn't escape through collusion with corrupt Eastern Shura officials across the border to Pakistan's Tribal Areas -- but rather through Awal Gul's help north to Konar province.

Guantanamo

Gul is one of the Guantanamo detainees whose medical records, and arrival date, were not made public.^[7][8]

Combatant Status Review

Main article: Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Gul was among the 60% of prisoners who chose to participate in tribunal hearings.^[9] A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee.
Gul's memo accused him of the following:^[10][11]

a. Detainee is a member of the Taliban and associated with al Qaida.

1. Detainee was trained in the use of Stinger missiles in Pakistan
2. Detainee associated with Usama Bin Laden on three occasions.
3. Detainee served intermittently as commander of a Taliban supply base near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, for ten years.

b. Detainee engaged in hostilities against the U.S. or its coalition partners.

1. Detainee fought against the Northern Alliance in Kabul on the Gul-Da-Da-Ra front lines and was the commander of a ten-man unit.
2. Detainee was the commander of “Taliban Unit Four,” a 250-soldier unit, for approximately five years.

Testimony

Gul told his Tribunal he thought he surrendered on February 10, 2002.^[12] However press reports his capture on December 25, 2001.^[13][14]

Administrative Review Board

Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee may pose if released or transferred, and whether there are other factors that warrant his continued detention.^[15]
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Awal Gul's first annual Administrative Review Board in 2005.^[16] The two page memo listed nine "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and two "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Awal Gul's second annual Administrative Review Board in 2006.^[17] The two page memo listed eleven "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and five "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Awal Gul's third annual Administrative Review Board in 2007.^[18] The four page memo listed twenty-four "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and thirteen "primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".

Military Commissions Act

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, so all outstanding habeas corpus petitions were stayed.^[19]

Boumediene v. Bush

On 12 June 2008 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the Military Commissions Act could not remove the right for Guantanamo captives to access the US Federal Court system. And all previous Guantanamo captives' habeas petitions were eligible to be re-instated. The judges considering the captives' habeas petitions would be considering whether the evidence used to compile the allegations the men and boys were enemy combatants justified a classification of "enemy combatant".^[20]

Writ of habeas corpus

Gul had a habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf.^[21] On December 30, 2008, United States Department of Justice official Daniel M. Barish informed the court that the DoJ had filed "factual returns" in seven habeas cases, including Gul's.^[21] The petition was fully argued before a federal court in March 2010, eleven months before his death.^[3] No further action was taken.^[3]

Death

Media reports indicate he died after collapsing in the shower following a workout on an elliptical machine.^[22][23]An autopsy completed February 3 indicated a heart attack or a pulmonary embolism was the possible cause.^[24] His attorneys have maintained that "we have no way of knowing whether the government is telling us the truth" about Gul's death.^[5] They further wrote: "It is shame that the government will finally fly him home not in handcuffs and a hood, but in a casket. . . . Justice will now come too late for Mr. Gul."^[5]
5,000 attended the funeral February 7. They ran alongside a vehicle carrying the body. Gul's body was wrapped in white cloth, but his face and beard were visible inside the coffin, which was buried in Jalalabad, east of Kabul.^[25][26]

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