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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Nick Harbaruk, Polish-born Canadian ice hockey player, died from bone cancer he was , 67

Mikolaj Nicholas Harbaruk was a professional ice hockey player died from bone cancer he was , 67. Harbaruk played 364 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) and 181 in the World Hockey Association (WHA). Harbaruk played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, St. Louis Blues, and Indianapolis Racers.
Harbaruk was born in Poland and immigrated to Toronto, Canada at the age of five. Harbaruk died from bone cancer on March 10, 2011, at the age of 67. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, Nancy, and two daughters.

(August 16, 1943 – March 10, 2011)

Playing career

Prior to his NHL career, Harbaruk played three seasons with the Toronto Marlboros and helped the Marlies win the 1964 Memorial Cup. Harbaruk then spent five seasons with the Tulsa Oilers, a minor league affiliate of the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he got a college degree. Harbaruk was claimed by the Penguins in the 1969 Intra-league draft. Harbaruk played four seasons with the Penguins. In October 1973 he was traded to the St. Louis Blues. After one season with the Blues, Harbaruk then joined the WHA and spent two 1/2 seasons with the Racers. Harbaruk also played in the minors with Vancouver Canucks, Oklahoma City Blazers, Pittsburgh Hornets and Rochester Americans. After retiring from active play, Harbaruk became the coach of Seneca College in Toronto.

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1960–61 Toronto Marlboros OHA 36 4 8 12 0
1961–62 Toronto Marlboros OHA 31 7 10 17 0
1961–62 Pittsburgh Hornets AHL 1 0 0 0 0
1962–63 Toronto Marlboros OHA 54 15 25 40 0
1964–65 Rochester Americans OHA 2 0 0 0 0
1964-65 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 67 27 43 70 65 12 5 8 13 25
1965-66 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 70 20 46 66 97 11 1 4 5 10
1966-67 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 70 14 26 40 84
1967-68 Tulsa Oilers CPHL 54 20 30 50 96 11 1 6 7 14
1968-69 Tulsa Oilers CHL 69 26 19 45 89 7 2 5 7 18
1968-69 Vancouver Canucks WHL 3 1 1 2 2
1969–70 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 74 5 17 22 56 10 3 0 3 20
1970–71 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 13 12 25 108
1971–72 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 12 17 29 46 4 0 1 1 0
1972–73 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 10 15 25 47
1973–74 St. Louis Blues NHL 56 5 14 19 16
1974–75 Indianapolis Racers WHA 78 20 23 43 52
1975–76 Indianaplis Racers WHA 76 23 19 42 26 7 2 0 2 10
1976-77 Oklahoma City Blazers CHL 42 17 18 35 22
1976–77 Indianaplis Racers WHA 27 2 2 4 2 6 1 1 2 0
WHA totals 181 45 44 89 80 13 3 1 4 10
NHL totals 364 45 75 120 273 14 3 1 4 20

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Gabriel Laderman American painter, died from cancer he was , 81,,

Gabriel Laderman was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and '60s died from cancer he was , 81.
He studied with a number of leading American painters, including Hofmann, de Kooning, and Rothko.
 

(December 26, 1929 - March 10, 2011

Biography

Education

In 1948 he began by doing the exercises in Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook, which at the time was available only in the original Bauhaus edition in German.
In the summer of 1949 he went to Provincetown and studied with Hans Hofmann. Since he already knew about abstract expressionist painting (Willem de Kooning had had his first show) he began painting in that tradition, informed with what Hofmann had taught about forming.
He met de Kooning that summer and began to show him his work in September of that year on a regular basis, while also attending Brooklyn College where he studied with Ad Reinhardt, Alfred Russell, Mark Rothko, Burgoyne Diller, Jimmy Ernst, Stanley William Hayter and Robert J. Wolff (the chairman of the department).
He also began to go to Hayter's Atelier 17, which he used as a shop for printing his engraved and etched plates.
After graduating from Brooklyn, he spent a year as a graduate student in art history in the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. There, he studied Asian art and 14th century Italian art. Both traditions influenced his later work.
In 1955, after two years in the army, he went to Cornell University for his MFA, with an assistantship in painting. During his time there, he began to try to paint from nature with less distortion and invention.

Teaching

In 1957 he was appointed Instructor in art at SUNY, New Paltz. After two years at New Paltz he was offered a raise in rank, but chose to return to New York where he taught at Pratt Institute until 1967 when he began teaching at Queens College, CUNY.
From 1967 through 1996 he was artist in residence and lectured at many schools and museums, including Princeton University, Yale University, Bennington College, Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania Academy, University of Pennsylvania, the Tyler School of Art, Moore College of Art, Boston University, The Boston Museum School, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Amherst College, Stanford University, Kansas City Art Institute, Art School of Surabaya, Art Center Jakarta, USIS centers in Japan in Tokyo, Nagoy, Sapporo and Fukuoka, Royal College of Art, Bangkok, Victorian College of Art, Melbourne; College Ballarat, Indiana University, Bloomington, Louisiana State University, Arizona State, American University, Skowhegan, Chautauqua, the Art Students League of New York, and the Yale-Norfolk School.
He retired from teaching in 1996 but continued to paint.

Paintings and exhibitions

His first exhibited painting, in 1949, was abstract expressionist, in the vein of de Kooning's work.
Starting with a show of engravings and intaglios at the The Tanager Gallery in 1960 his work was painted from nature and always representational.
Starting in 1962, he exhibited with the Schoelkopf Gallery until the gallery was closed, due to the death of its proprietor.
Subsequently, he showed with Peter Tatistcheff.[4][5]
His work, starting in the 1980s was usually of the figure including a number of major paintings with subject matter. The early subject matter paintings were all about crimes, and several were based on the Maigret series of detective novels by the Belgian author Georges Simenon.

Death

Laderman died of cancer, at age 81, on March 10, 2011, in Manhattan.[2]

Selected museum exhibitions

Awards and honors

Selected collections


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Emmett J. Rice, American economist and banking official, died from heart failure he was , 91.

Emmett John Rice was a former governor of the Federal Reserve System, a Cornell University economics professor, expert in the monetary systems of developing countries and the father of the current Ambassador to the United Nations in the Cabinet of President Barack Obama, Susan E. Rice died from heart failure he was , 91.. His son, John Rice, received an M.B.A, from Harvard Business School, and is the founder of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (an organization committed to developing top minority talent for leadership roles in the business and non-profit sector).
 

(December 21, 1919 – March 10, 2011)

Background

Rice traced his roots to the American South. He was born in Florence, South Carolina and was the son of Sue Pearl (née Suber) and the Rev. Ulysses Simpson Rice.[3] His father passed away when Rice was 7.[4] He attended segregated schools before his family moved to New York City when he was 16.[5] Rice studied at the City College of New York, receiving a B.B.A. in 1941 and an M.B.A. in 1942 from City College of New York. He then joined the U. S. Army Air Force in World War II, serving with the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, he earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and was a Fulbright scholar in India. Rice integrated the Berkeley Fire Department as a student by becoming its first African American fireman. He next taught economics at Cornell as the university's only black assistant professor. He then served as a governor of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1986.[6]

Career

In 1950 and 1951, Rice was a research assistant in economics at Berkeley, and in 1952 he was a research associate at the Reserve Bank of India as a Fulbright Fellow. In 1953 and 1954, he was a teaching assistant at Berkeley.[7]
From 1954 to 1960, Rice was an assistant professor of economics at Cornell University. From 1960 to 1962, he took leave from Cornell to work as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. From 1962 to 1964, he was an adviser to the Central Bank of Nigeria in Lagos.[7]
From 1964 to 1966, Rice was Deputy Director, then Acting Director, of the Treasury Department's Office of Developing Nations. From 1966 to 1970, he was U.S. Alternate Executive Director for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the International Development Association, and the International Finance Corporation.[7]
From 1970 to 1971, Rice was executive director of the Mayor's Economic Development Committee for Washington, D.C., on leave from the Treasury Department. From 1972 he was senior vice president of the National Bank of Washington.[7]
Rice was appointed to the Federal Reserve Board in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. He was the second black member, after Andrew Brimmer, who was appointed in 1966. Rice served on the Board for seven years under Chairman Paul A. Volcker[8]
After leaving the Federal Reserve in 1986, Rice served on corporate boards and consulted.

Death

Rice died at of congestive heart failure on March 10, 2011 at his home in Camas, Washington.[9] He was 91.


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Friday, April 29, 2011

Eddie Snyder, American composer ("Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes")died he was , 92

Edward Abraham Snyder was an American composer and songwriter. Synder is credited with co-writing the English language lyrics and music for Frank Sinatra's 1966 hit, "Strangers in the Night"died he was , 92.

(February 22, 1919 - March 10, 2011)

Snyder was born in New York City on February 22, 1919.[1] He studied piano at the Juilliard School before taking a job as a songwriter at the Brill Building.[1]
The music for "Strangers in the Night" was originally written by Croatian composer Ivo Robic but when it failed to gain recognition in the song festival for which it had been composed, Robic sold the rights to German bandleader and composer Bert Kaempfert, who used it in the spoof spy film A Man Could Get Killed. Snyder subsequently collaborated with British lyricist Charles Singleton, although Snyder always insisted that he also contributed to the final music form, and the song is now credited to all four.[1]

The first vocal version was cut by Jack Jones in April 1966, but the best-known is that recorded by Frank Sinatra three days later. At the session an angry Sintra turned on guitarist Glen Campbell, who had been brought in at the last moment. Campbell did not know the song and busked his way through the first take while listening to the tune. Sinatra was used to recording in a single take, and when told he would have to sing it again, he glared at Campbell and shouted: "Is that guy with us or is he sleeping?". On take two Sinatra himself added the famous "doo-bie-doo-bie-doo" improvisation at the end. In the original 1966 recording, this fades prematurely, but in a recently remastered version, it continues for an additional nine seconds. Despite its popularity, Sinatra is known to have detested the song and often expressed his distaste for it when performing it in concert.[1]
"Strangers In The Night" has been performed an estimate of four million times since Sinatra recorded the originally, won Snyder a Golden Globe for Best Original Song in a Film in 1966.[1] Snyder also composed "Spanish Eyes" for Al Martino in 1965, which later became a hit in the United Kingdom in 1973.[1]
Eddie Snyder died on March 10, 2011, at the age of 92. He was survived by his wife, Jessie.[1]

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David Rumelhart, American psychologist, created computer simulations of neural processing, died from Pick's disease he was , 68.

David Everett Rumelhart is an American psychologist who made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing  died from Pick's disease he was , 68.. He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition, and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories.

(June 12, 1942 – March 13, 2011)

In 1986, Rumelhart published Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition with James McClelland, which described their creation of computer simulations of perception, giving to computer scientists their first testable models of neural processing, and which is now regarded as a central text in the field of cognitive science cognitive scientists.[2]
Rumelhart's models of semantic cognition and specific knowledge in a diversity of learned domains using initially non-hierarchical neuron-like processing units continue to interest scientists in the fields of artificial intelligence, anthropology, information science, and decision science.
In his honor, in 2000 the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation created the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition.[3][2]

Biography

Rumelhart began his college education at the University of South Dakota, receiving a B.A. in psychology and mathematics in 1963. He studied mathematical psychology at Stanford University, receiving his Ph. D. in 1967. From 1967 to 1987 he served on the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. In 1987 he moved to Stanford University, serving as Professor there until 1998. Rumelhart was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991 and received many prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship in July 1987, the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. Rumelhardt, co-recipient with James McClelland, won the 2002 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology.[4]
Rumelhart became disabled by Pick's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disease, and at the end of his life lived with his brother in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He died in Chelsea, Michigan.

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

David Viñas, Argentine dramatist, critic and novelist, died from pneumonic infection he was , 83.

David Viñas  was an Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist died from pneumonic infection he was , 83..

(July 28, 1927 – March 10, 2011)

Life and career

Viñas grew up in Buenos Aires, and enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires, becoming head of the student organization Federación Universitaria de Buenos Aires. He published his first novel in 1955, and first came to wide attention when he won the Gerchunoff Prize for his novel Un Dios Cotidiano (1957). He received the Premio Nacional for Jauna (1971). The following year, his play Lisandro won the National Prize for Theater.
Viñas' work centers on Argentine history, and generally does not partake of the magical realism favored by his contemporaries. He is deeply concerned with Argentina's legacy of authoritarianism and the problems posed by the nature and historical dominance of the Argentine military. Two of his children disappeared during the 1976-83 military regime, and he spent that era in exile, returning to Argentina in 1984.
He was an early mentor of critic and essayist Beatriz Sarlo, although he adhered to a more traditional leftist position than did Sarlo in later years. Following the election of left-wing Peronist Néstor Kirchner in 2003, he became a vocal supporter of his, and in 2008 co-founded Carta Abierta ("Open Letter") with journalist Horacio Verbitsky, an informal think tank of left-wing public figures in literature, journalism and academia who regularly publish opinion columns in defense of Kirchnerism and progressive social policy, generally.[2]
Viñas directed the Institute of Argentine Literature at his alma mater.

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Sona Aslanova, Azerbaijanian soprano died she was , 86.

Sona Aslanova  was a Soviet and Azerbaijanian soprano, Meritorious Artist of Azerbaijan Republic known for her historic performances of Azerbaijani, Russian, and international classical and folk vocal music repertoire  died she was , 86.

(4 October 1924 – 9 March 2011)

Biography

Sona Aslanova studied and then taught operatic singing at the Baku Conservatory. Among her professors was Sofia Lisenko-Golskaya, a student of Francesco Lamperti.[3]
She sang in numerous live and recorded broadcasts on the radio and appeared in many films both as a singer and as an actress. Among her most recognized roles is Nigar from Koroglu, Asya from |Arshin Mal Alan, and Asli from Asli and Kerem. All three operas were written by Uzeyir Hajibeyov, who also guided her as she began her operatic career.
Aslanova represented Azerbaijan on tours to Soviet republics and to a number of foreign countries. She worked side by side with such prominent Azerbaijani figures in the arts as the singers Bulbul and Rashid Behbudov. [1]


Honours

Awarded the titles of the Meritorious Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1956 and the Order of the Badge of Honour in 1959.[1]

Filmography

  • Doğma Xalqıma (Koroglu)(1954), film-opera, as Nigar video
  • Görüş (1955) as Firəngiz video
  • Bizim Küçə (1961)
  • Telefonçu Qız (1962), episodic role video
  • Əmək və Qızılgül (1962)
  • Arşın Mal Alan (1965), film-operetta, as voice of Asya video
  • Bizim Cəbiş Müəllim (1969), as Ana video
  • O Qızı Tapın (1970)
  • Gün Keçdi (1971)
  • Ömrün Səhifələri (1974), episodic role video
  • Bir az da Bahar Bayramı (1979)
  • İstintaq (1979)
  • Anlamaq İstəyirəm (1980)
  • Üzeyir Ömrü (1981)
  • Qəmbər Hüseynli (2007)

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Dickey Betts died he was 80

Early Career Forrest Richard Betts was also known as Dickey Betts Betts collaborated with  Duane Allman , introducing melodic twin guitar ha...