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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Nasser Al-Kharafi, Kuwaiti businessman (M. A. Kharafi & Sons), died from a heart attack he was , 67

Nasser Al-Kharafi was a Kuwaiti businessman of M.A. Kharafi & Sons died from a heart attack he was , 67. His company has performed $4.3 billion in sales. His net worth increased because of rising share prices of several holdings including Mobile Telecommunications Co., National Bank of Kuwait and Americana, operator of U.S. fast food chains.

(17 June 1943 – 17 April 2011) 

Al Kharafi was also linked to many other chains such as Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, TGI Friday's, Hardees and thousands of others. He also held a major stake in one of the biggest telecom companies in the Middle East and Africa, Zain. His conglomerate business spread from engineering, construction, maintenance to other services related to spheres as diverse as oil,water resources and management, chemicals, power and energy and food. This immense empire did not cease to stop in Kuwait; Kharafi had his businesses and franchies spread over nearly 11 countries, including Egypt, South Africa and Syria. The billionaire had a keen interest in Egypt, where the Al Kharafi group built the port Ghalib International Marina.

Family

His older brother, Jassim who attended Victoria College Alexandria with his younger brother Nasser, is the speaker of Kuwait parliament. His sister, Faiza, was rector of Kuwait University.

Financial status

Nasser has construction contracts in more than 30 countries worldwide. His net worth wass $10.4 billion as of 2011 and he was considered the 77th richest man in the world.
In January 2009 he was linked to a takeover bid for Liverpool F.C.

Death

Nasser died in Cairo, Egypt, on 17 April 2011 in a hotel room from a cardiac arrest. He was not only mourned by relatives and close friends, but thousands of Kuwaiti MPs, Politicians and businessmen along with many other international well known profiles.[2]

 

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Bob Block, British comedy writer (Rentaghost, Life with The Lyons) died he was , 89.

Bob Block was a British radio, television and film comedy scriptwriter died he was , 89..

(1921 – 17 April 2011)

Career

His earliest work was for radio, best known for co-writing the domestic sitcom Life with the Lyons for Ben Lyon, as well as working with Arthur Askey and Frankie Howerd.[3]
Block was best known for writing television comedy series for children, including including Pardon My Genie (1972-73), Robert's Robots (1974–75), Galloping Galaxies (1985) and the BBC's long-running Rentaghost (1976–84).

Notable credits

 Radio

Television

Music hall

  • Kindly Leave the Stage (1968)

 

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Osamu Dezaki, Japanese animator (Space Adventure Cobra, Tomorrow's Joe), died from lung cancer he was , 67.

Osamu Dezaki  (also known as Makura Saki  was a Japanese director of anime  died from lung cancer he was , 67. His older brother, Satoshi Dezaki, is also an anime director.

(November 18, 1943 - April 17, 2011)

While still in high school, Dezaki started out as a manga artist. In 1963, he joined studio Mushi Productions, which was founded by manga and anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka. The year 1970 marked his directorial debut with Ashi-ta no Joe. [4]
He was known for his distinct visual style, which makes use of split-screen, stark lighting, and pastel freeze frames that he calls "Postcard Memories."[5] The latter is perhaps his most famous trademark and features a process where the screen fades into a detailed "painting" of the simpler original animation. Many of techniques that he used became popular afterwards and came to be called a peculiar technique of Japanese animation.
He died of lung cancer aged 67.

Works

TV anime series

TV anime special program

 OVA

    1. Patient's record Ⅰ： Drift ice, the man of the chimera (the original： Hurricane)
    2. Patient's record Ⅱ： Funeral procession game (an original story)
    3. Patient's record Ⅲ： Decoration of Maria (the original： Promise)
    4. Patient's record Ⅳ： Sitophobia, Two Black Doctors (the original： Two Black Doctors)
    5. Patient's record Ⅴ： Owl of San Mérida (the original： Instant that passed away)
    6. Patient's record Ⅵ： Snowy bedtime story, Princess of love (an original story)
    7. Patient's record Ⅶ： White justice (the original： White justice)
    8. Patient's record Ⅷ： Green thought (the original： Bud, Old man and Tree)
    9. Patient's record Ⅸ： Eczema of the human face (the original： Eczema of the human face)
    10. Patient's record Ⅹ： Woman who is depressed (the original： Woman who is depressed(it is collected only by four volumes of the Weekly Shonen Champion Comics of the former edition.)

 Movie

    1. Hamu Hamu Rando Daibouken/Adventures in Ham-Ham Land (December 15, 2001)
    2. Hamu Hamu Hamu Maboroshi no Purincess/Princess of Vision (December 14, 2002)
    3. Hamu Hamu Guran Purin/Ham-Ham Grand Prix (December 13, 2003)
    4. Hamutaro to Fushigi no Oni no Ehon Tou/Hamtaro and the Mysterious Ogre's Picture Book Tower (December 23, 2004)
  • Air (February 5, 2005)
    • chief director[2]
  • Clannad (September 15, 2007)
    • chief director

 

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Alfred Freedman, American psychiatrist, led effort to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness, died from complications following hip surgery he was , 94.

Alfred Mordecai Freedman  was an American psychiatrist died from complications following hip surgery he was , 94. A long-time educator and advocate of social justice, Freedman is known for leading the effort to have the American Psychiatric Association de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.

(January 17, 1917 – April 17, 2011)

Early life and education

Alfred Friedman was born January 17, 1917 in Albany, New York. After earning his undergraduate degree at Cornell University in 1937, Freeman graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1941. He began an internship at Harlem Hospital but left before completion to enlist in the United States Army Air Corps. He left the service having attained the rank of Major.
After initially studying neuropsychology, Freedman trained in both general and child psychiatry, undertaking a residency at Bellevue Hospital. He became the chief of child psychiatry at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, a post in which he served for five years, before becoming the first person to serve full-time as the department of psychiatry Chairman at New York Medical College, a post which he held for 30 years.

Removing homosexuality as a mental illness

In 1972, Freedman was approached by the Committee of Concerned Psychiatrists, a group of young reform-minded doctors, who encouraged him to run for the presidency of the American Psychiatric Association. He won the election by 3 votes out of some 9,000 that were cast.
In his position as president, Freedman immediately supported a resolution offered by Robert L. Spitzer to delete homosexuality from the list of mental illness diagnoses. On December 15, 1973, the APA's board of trustees voted 13—0 in favor of the resolution, which stated that "by itself, homosexuality does not meet the criteria for being a psychiatric disorder" and that "We will no longer insist on a label of sickness for individuals who insist that they are well and demonstrate no generalized impairment in social effectiveness." LGBT rights organizations have hailed this decision as one of the greatest advances for gay equality in the United States. Freedman himself believed that passing this resolution was the most important accomplishment of his one-year tenure as president. A second resolution called for an end to discrimination based on sexual orientation and the repeal of laws against consensual gay sex.

Other concerns

Freedman was very concerned about the treatment of drug addiction. In 1959 he established in East Harlem one of the earliest drug treatment programs for adults and the following year created a similar program for adolescents. As president of the APA Freedman worked to draw attention to the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He led a delegation to the USSR and challenged the practice of detaining political dissidents in mental facilities. Following his retirement he turned his attention to the role of psychiatry in capital punishment and campaigned for doctors not to participate in executions and against the administration of psychiatric medicines to death row inmates so they could be declared competent for execution.
The Alfred M. Freedman Award for best scientific paper presented at the annual International Society of Political Psychology meeting was awarded from 1993 to 1999.[1]

Death

Alfred Freedman died in Manhattan on April 17, 2011, following complications after surgery to treat a hip fracture. He is survived by his wife, Marcia, sons Dan and Paul and three grandchildren.

 

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Eric Gross, Austrian-born Australian composer died he was , 84.

Eric Gross AM  was an Austrian-Australian pianist and composer died he was , 84.


(16 September 1926 – 17 April 2011)

Biography

Gross was born in Vienna and emigrated to England in 1938. From the age of fourteen, he worked as a pianist in bands and orchestras. He studied at Trinity College of Music, with Wilfrid Dunwell (piano), and the University of Aberdeen, with (amongst others) Reginald Barrett-Ayres, and where he received an MA in 1957 (Crotty 2001). Following professional engagements in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and New Caledonia, he settled in Sydney in 1958.
Initially teaching at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, he joined the staff of the Department of Music at the University of Sydney in 1960 and remained there until retiring in 1991 as Associate Professor of Music. In 1989 he was visiting Professor at the University of Guyana. He was President of the Fellowship of Australian Composers, and from 1981 to 1984 he was also Treasurer and Executive Board Member of the Asian Composers' League. Apart from teaching, Gross was active as composer, arranger and conductor. He received numerous commissions for film scores for Film Australia and TV scores for Screen Gems Columbia, as well as numerous commissions from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1976 he received the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award from Melbourne University.
While working as a conductor of the Pro Musica Society of Sydney University and the St. Andrew's Cathedral Choral Society, Gross wrote numerous works for the orchestras and choirs associated with these societies. Political statements were made in the orchestral work Na Shledanou v Praze (premiered in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia during a period of Russian occupation) which used the Czech national anthem as its main theme. In other works, such as the cantata Pacem in Terris, Gross used pertinent philosophical or political texts. He is also well known for Dussekiana, an orchestral suite based on piano works by František Xaver Dušek.
In addition to a predilection for jazz idioms, Gross's worldwide travels and cultural experiences tended to give his music a cosmopolitan flavour, with traces of Austrian, Scottish, Asian and South American influences emerging from time to time. He also enjoyed experimentation, especially when a sympathetic virtuoso or ensemble such as bass-baritone Alan Light, trombonist Greg van der Struik or Adrian Hooper's Sydney Mandolins, was available.
Gross was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1998.[2] On Australia Day 2006 he was declared to be the City of Canada Bay Cultural and Artistic Citizen of the Year. He remained active as a composer and examiner until shortly before his death, which occurred on 17 April 2011.[3] His wife Pamela died less than a week before he did.

Selected works

Opera
  • Amorous Judge, Opera in 1 act, Op. 51 (1965)
Orchestral
  • Concert Overture, Op. 1 (1957)
  • Sinfonietta, Op. 9 (1961)
  • Antubconseas, Op. 11 (1973)
  • Fanfopus, Op. 13 (1973)
  • Moonscape for string orchestra, Op. 32 (1972)
  • Of Strings and Things, Op. 53 (1970)
  • Overture "Cymbeline", Op. 90 (1975)
  • Na shledanou v Praze (Good-bye in Prague), Op. 94 (1976)
  • Concertino for orchestra, Op. 108 (1979)
  • Trilogy, Op. 112 (1979)
  • Symphony No. 2, Op. 123 (1980)
  • Fanfare Scholastic, Op. 129 (1982)
  • Golden Jubilee Fantasy, Op. 158 (1987)
  • Songs of Australia for string orchestra (1989)
  • Little Challenge for string orchestra, Op. 254 (2002)
  • Cherries in the Brook, Op. 291 (2006)
Band
  • Brassophony for brass band, Op. 146 (1985)
  • Concertino for brass band (1987)
  • Fanfare for George for brass band, Op. 157 (1987)
  • Anniversary fantasy for concert band, Op. 199 (1995)
  • Anniversary fantasy revisited for concert band, Op. 199a (1996)
  • Penshurst on parade for concert band, Op. 217 (1997)
  • March ceremonial: Order of Australia for brass band (2002)
Concertante
  • Dussekiana I for violin and orchestra (1975)
  • Dussekiana II for violin and orchestra, Op. 56 (1975)
  • Dussekiana III for violin and orchestra, Op. 58 (1975)
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra, Op. 135 (1983)
  • Concerto No. 2 for mandolin and orchestra (1986)
  • Concerto for oboe and string or chamber orchestra, Op. 152 (1987)
Chamber music
  • Trio for flute, oboe and clarinet, Op. 10 (1962)
  • Merry Peasant Band for wind quintet, Op. 30 (1959)
  • Three Bagatelles for flute solo, Op. 37 (1965)
  • Eugel and Marmaduke, Duet for 2 cellos, Op. 62 (1973)
  • Three Bagatelles for saxophone solo, Op. 96 (1976)
  • Silas Pilgrim Trio for flute, clarinet and bassoon, Op. 97 (1977)
  • Plymouth for string quartet, Op. 98 (1976)
  • Drummoyne for string quartet, Op. 99 (1976)
  • Six Miniatures for trumpet, trombone and tuba, Op. 103 (1978)
  • Three Sketches for trumpet and piano, Op. 121 (1980)
  • Study No. 1 for Misha for violin and piano, Op. 130 (1982)
  • Cadenza I for mandolin solo, Op. 153, No. 1 (1986)
  • Cadenza II for mandolin solo, Op. 153, No. 2 (1986)
  • Cadenza III for mandolin solo, Op. 153, No. 3 (1990)
  • Saxophone Quartet No. 1, Op. 155 (1987)
  • Mandigar I for 2 mandolins, mandola and guitar, Op. 156 (1987)
  • Paul and Adrian, Duet for 2 mandolins, Op. 165 (1989)
  • Tres Piezas para Teresa for guitar solo, Op. 166 (1989)
  • Two Pieces for violin and organ, Op. 167 (1989)
  • Barbara and Deborah, Duet for 2 mandolins, Op. 175 (1990)
  • Romance for mandolin and organ, Op. 177 (1990)
  • Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 183 (1992)
  • Cadenza IV for mandolin solo, Op. 185, No. 2 (1991)
  • Cadenza V for mandolin solo, Op. 185, No. 3 (1991)
  • Triptych for violin solo (1992)
  • Mandigar II for 2 mandolins, mandola and guitar, Op. 190 (1993)
  • Bagatelle for trombone and piano, Op. 196 (1994)
  • Four Movements for horn, trumpet, flugelhorn and 2 trombones, Op. 201 (1995)
  • Three Simple Pieces for trumpet and piano, Op. 205 (1995)
  • Fantasia for trumpet and piano, Op. 213 (1996)
  • Invention No. 1 for viola and piano, Op. 216, No. 1a (1998)
  • Five Dialogues for 2 flutes, Op. 219 (1997)
  • Concerto da camera for mandolin, violin, viola, cello, Op. 220 (1997)
  • Cadenza VI for mandolin solo, Op. 220a (1998)
  • Suite for trombone quartet, Op. 221 (1997)
  • Sequence of Happiness for mandolin and piano, Op. 222 (1997)
  • Frantaphonics for saxophone solo, Op. 228 (1998)
  • Euphonism I B for viola and piano, Op. 230 (1998)
  • Cadenza VII for mandolin solo, Op. 231 (1998)
  • Cadenza VIII for mandolin solo, Op. 239 (1999)
  • For a Gentle Soul for 2 mandolins, mandola, guitar and double bass, Op. 248 (2000)
  • Sonata for mandolin and piano, Op. 251 (2001)
  • Three Inventions for saxophone solo, Op. 253 (2001)
  • Cadenza X for mandolin solo, Op. 255 (2001)
  • Euphonics for cello and piano, Op. 256 (2002)
  • Euphonics II for bassoon and piano, Op. 258 (2002)
  • Euphonics III for bass clarinet and piano, Op. 259 (2002)
  • Altophonics for clarinet and piano, Op. 260 (2002)
  • Romance Bitonal for violin and piano, Op. 263 (2002)
  • Violamorosa for viola and piano, Op. 268 (2002)
  • Cadenza XI for trombone solo, Op. 272 (2003)
  • Cadenza XII for trombone solo, Op. 272b (2007)
  • Two Cellos Go Meandering, Duet for 2 cellos, Op. 284 (2005)
  • Discussion for flute and viola, Op. 296 (2006)
  • Trialogue for mezzo-soprano (and claves), flute and viola, Op. 296a (2006)
  • Cadenza 10.5 for mandolin solo, Op. 299 (2007)
  • Suite Latin American for saxophone quartet, Op. 302 (2008)
Harpsichord
  • Toccata "Not at Three", Op. 226 (1998)
Organ
  • Wedding March, Op. 61 (1971)
  • Two Pieces, Op. 42 (1972)
  • Processional (1972)
  • Organ Prelude on "The Shepherd of Bethlehem", Op. 95 (1976)
  • Bridal March, Op. 104 (1978)
  • Recessional, Op. 126 (1981)
  • Centormedique, Op. 136 (1983)
  • Postlude for Carol and Paul, Op. 218 (1997)
  • Meditation on a Blessed Spirit, Op. 235 (1999)
  • Sydney Sojourn, Op. 246 (2000)
  • Music of the Heart, Op. 271 (2003)
  • Grace of Our Lord, Op. 276 (2004)
  • Mary Immaculate, Op. 277 (2004)
  • Hymn to the Virgin Mary, Op. 278 (2004)
  • In the Stillness of the Evening, Op. 280 (2004)
  • O God beyond All Time and Space, Op. 285 (2005)
Piano
  • Moon Interlude (1972)
  • Little Jazzeroo (1989)
  • Klavierstucke I, Op. 120 (1982)
  • Klavierstucke II, Op. 127 (1982)
  • Thanksgiving, Op. 149 (1986)
  • Klavierstucke III, Op. 150 (1986)
  • Five Simple Pieces, Op. 169 (1989)
    • No. 4 Sydney Harbour Blues (1989)
  • Sonata piccola, Op. 188 (1992)
  • Miniature for Ray, Op. 195 (1994)
  • Glebe Island Minuet, Op. 204 (1995)
  • Pensive Prelude, Op. 208 (1996)
  • Nostalgic Interlude, Op. 209 (1996)
  • Klavierstück IV, Op. 225 (1998)
  • Klavierstück V, Op. 243 (2000)
  • Idyll for Idil, Op. 244 (2000)
  • Jeanelligans, Op. 247 (2000)
  • Sally in the Mallee, Op. 250 (2001)
  • Sallymede, Op. 262 (2002)
  • Sally in a Maze, Op. 290 (2004)
  • Golden Swan, Op. 292 (2006)
  • Marita's Farewell, Op. 294 (2006)
  • Three Fancies, Op. 298 (2007)
  • Playful Sally, Op. 300 (2007)
  • What Is Time, Op. 301 (2007)
Vocal
  • Two Songs for soprano and piano, Op. 45 (1958)
  • Five Burns Settings for bass and piano, Op. 49 (1970)
  • Three Songs for soprano, clarinet and piano, Op. 139
  • Sweet Silence after Bells for mezzo-soprano and piano, Op. 206 (1995)
  • The Maid's Lament for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola and harp, Op. 293 (2006)
  • Donne Trilogy for tenor and piano, Op. 281 (2005)

 

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Eddie Leadbeater English cricketer, died after a short illness he was , 83.


Edric "Eddie" Leadbeater  was an English cricketer who played in two Tests in 1951 died after a short illness he was r, 83..[1] He was born in Lockwood, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and died in Huddersfield.

(15 August 1927 – 17 April 2011)

Leadbeater was a right-handed lower order batsman, and a leg-break and googly bowler, who had a couple of good seasons for Yorkshire in 1950 and 1951, but failed to keep his place in the side. He reappeared for Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1957 and 1958, as a possible replacement for Eric Hollies, who retired after the 1957 season; but he failed to take enough wickets and his contract was not renewed.
Leadbeater's leg-spin was always inclined to be expensive: in his two good seasons for Yorkshire, his wickets cost an average of around 25 runs apiece. His selection to replace Derbyshire's injured Bert Rhodes on the 1951-52 MCC tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon was unexpected, and though he played in two Test matches, he was not a success. Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted "Leadbeater was more of an accurate roller, than a traditional leg spinner and his bowling posed few terrors for the Indian batsmen".[1] Wisden Cricketer's Almanack reported that he modified his action to avoid being too expensive on the tour: however, he was never the same bowler again, and the rest of his first-class career produced fewer than 100 wickets.
Dropping out of the Yorkshire side, he joined Warwickshire for 1957 and played fairly regularly in 1958 after Hollies retired. Though he took just 49 wickets (and only 25 of them in Championship matches), he scored his only first-class century in what proved to be his last season: going in as a nightwatchman, he made 116 and shared in a second-wicket stand of 209 with Fred Gardner in the match against Glamorgan at Coventry.
Leadbeater is a rarity as an England Test cricketer, in that he was never awarded a countycap.[1]

 

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Dickey Betts died he was 80

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