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Thursday, June 12, 2014

John Madin, English architect, died he was 87.

John Hardcastle Dalton Madin  was an English architect died he was 87.. His company, known as John H D Madin & Partners from 1962 and the John Madin Design Group from 1968, were active in Birmingham for over 30 years. Some of the buildings his company designed have now been demolished. Societies such as the 20th Century Society have campaigned to have some of his buildings listed, but have not achieved this. English Heritage has twice recommended the Central Library for listing but without success.[2]

(23 March 1924 – 8 January 2012)


Biography

He was born in Moseley, Birmingham on 23 March 1924[3] and died on 8 January 2012.[4]
He served in Egypt with the Royal Engineers in World War II.
Madin was the indisputable giant of post-war Birmingham architecture. Although dismissed as derivative,[citation needed] Madin's reinterpretations of contemporary styles can now be regarded as significant works in their own right.[according to whom?] Madin's work has been much neglected and is not highly regarded by the current political leadership within Birmingham. Clive Dutton, the city's former Director of Planning and Regeneration, has described Madin's Central Library as a “concrete monstrosity” (Madin's original plans were for the building to be clad in marble; the city, however, was unwilling to foot the bill so a concrete finish was used instead).[5] A replacement, The Library of Birmingham is currently being built in Centenary Square, which will result in the current building being demolished.
John Madin Design Group were also responsible for the early designs for Dawley New Town, which later became Telford. During the 1970s, Madin became increasingly involved in master-planning projects in the Middle East.
Since Madin's period of dominance in Birmingham there have been very few architectural practices able to match his commercial success at home and abroad. Only Associated Architects and more recently Glenn Howells have approached Madin in this respect.



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Edarem, American television presenter and internet celebrity, died he was 79.

Edward Muscare , also known by his pseudonyms of Edarem and Uncle Ed, was an American television presenter and internet celebrity  died he was 79..[1] He gained success in the latter field through his eccentric and comedic posts on the website YouTube, uploaded from 2006 through to 2009.

(September 27, 1932 – January 8, 2012)

Born into a working-class Sicilian immigrant family in Queens, New York, Muscare moved to Hialeah, Miami, as a teenager, before joining the army. He became a presenter for local programming in Kansas City, but his career ended following a conviction for sexual battery in 1987. In 2006, he began posting videos of himself to Youtube, where he achieved widespread popularity. However, probation requirements relating to his 1987 conviction stipulated that he was forbidden to own a computer, and by doing so, he was put on trial in 2010, and sentenced to five years in prison. A campaign was organized by his friends and supporters claiming that his imprisonment was unjust, but he died prior to being released.

Early life

Muscare was born in 1932 in Queens, New York. His mother had been born in 1896 in Caltanisetta, Sicily, and had married his father before the couple emigrated to New York in 1916.[2] Trying to earn a living in their new home, his father worked as a tailor whilst his mother worked as a seamstress.[2] Edward was the youngest of seven children, although shortly after his birth, his father left his mother to have a relationship with another woman.[2] He was raised nominally Roman Catholic, and underwent Holy Communion and Confirmation, but noted that his family rarely followed the moral teachings of the faith.[2]
In 1945, the family moved to Florida, where he attended high school, particularly enjoying Speech class, English class and the Glee club. It was here that he got his first girlfriend and bought his first car, a 1929 Essex.[2] He was voted "Best Personality" in his school's 1951 Year Book. Upon graduation, he moved to New York for a while, where he worked in a dress factory, until returning to Florida.[2] After getting into trouble with the law, Muscare joined the United States Army. He was stationed in Fort Jackson, South Carolina and then West Germany, where he worked as a Morse code operator.[2]
As a television presenter in Kansas City during the 1970s, he went by the stage name "Uncle Ed", and hosted both a late night show (for which he wore a vampire costume), and a children's program.[3][4]
In 1986, Muscare had sexual contact with a 14 year old male. His actions were reported to the police, and the following year he was charged with sexual battery. He was sentenced to imprisonment for 18 months and placed on probation for ten years.[2][3][4] Muscare never reoffended, commenting that "I would never sexually offend again, but we can't help but sin. We're all human beings".[4][5]

YouTube fame

In 2006, he created an account on the popular web site Youtube, using the pseudonym Edarem, and posted 130 videos of himself online, featuring him undertaking "strange antics" and lipsynching to songs such as Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman".[3] The uploaded videos became popular with viewers around the world, receiving hundreds of thousands of views, and turning Muscare into an "internet sensation".[6]
In 2007, Muscare moved out of his home in Florida, claiming he had suffered harassment from neighbors who had learned he was on the sex offenders' registry. He relocated in South Carolina where, although he was legally required to inform the local authorities about his status as a former sex offender, he neglected to do so,[2][3][6] fearing that he would be persecuted by angry neighbors if they found out about his criminal past.[4] He then appeared on a television show in Orlando, in which he argued for sex offenders being given a second chance in society, and also stated that he refused to inform the local authorities about his former crime as he feared for his safety.[7] Upon seeing this show, South Carolina police learned that he had moved into their state, and issued a warrant for his arrest.[4][7] Officers came to his house on May 1, 2009, where they confiscated his alcohol and computer, using the justification that under South Carolina law anyone with a previous conviction for sex offences is forbidden from owning either of these.[2] He agreed to allow his computer to be inspected without notice, and it was found to contain no illegal material.[3][6] Rather than being sent to prison for not informing the authorities about his earlier conviction, he was placed on five-year probation, one of the conditions for which was that he was forbidden from owning a computer without permission.[6]
No longer able to upload videos through his computer, Muscare instead got a friend to continue posting his videos on Youtube, believing that this would be permitted under the rules of his probation order.[3] Nonetheless, prosecutors still saw this as a breach of his probation, and he was taken to court in Orlando, where he told the judge that "I'm frankly bewildered that I'm here, I don't think I've done anything wrong".[6] He argued that he was not a threat to society, and was simply "an entertainer, and I've entertained all my life", with his videos simply being "done in fun and I'm sure that most of the people see it that way."[4][5] The judge did not, however, accept Muscare's defense, and on January 6, 2010 sentenced him to five years in prison for violating his probation order.[3]
Fans of Muscare's Youtube videos posted messages of support on the site, many criticizing the judge's decision as unfair.[3][4] His neighbor also claimed that Muscare's imprisonment was unjust, describing him to reporters as "a helpful, warm, loving, kind, friendly neighbor who's always there when you need him".[3] In late 2010, Edarem's YouTube page began being updated regularly by his partner, Marion.

Death

On the evening of Monday January 9, 2012, Muscare's partner Marion announced both on her Facebook page[8] as well as in a video uploaded to his Youtube account[9] that he had died the previous night.


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Herb Clarke, American television weatherman (WCAU-TV), NATAS Governor's Award winner (2007), died from Alzheimer's disease he was 84.


Herbert Spencer Clarke was an American weatherman and television journalist died from Alzheimer's disease he was 84.. Clarke spent thirty-nine years, from 1958 to 1997, as a reporter for WCAU-TV in Philadelphia.[1] Under Clarke, WCAU became the first local television station in the Philadelphia media market to use radar in its weather coverage, beginning in 1982.[1]


(July 10, 1927 – January 8, 2012)


Clarke was born in 1927 and was a native of Eden, North Carolina.[2] He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University.[2] Clarke also served in the United States Navy.[2] He began working in broadcasting in 1948 in Eden, North Carolina.[2] Clarke then worked as a radio and television reporter at a Richmond, Virginia, station before joining WCAU-TV in 1958.[2]
Clarke joined the staff of WCAU on November 24, 1958, as an on-air weatherman and reporter, using the nickname "Atlantic Weatherman."[1] Though most known for weather reports, Clarke also co-hosted Philadelphia regional coverage of events, such as the Mummers Parade, and previously anchored WCAU's Sunday night news.[1] He was also assigned the station's science and health stories as well.[1] WCAU remained a CBS affiliate until 1995, when it switched affiliations to NBC.[1]
Clarke retired from WCAU in 1997.[1] He served as the President of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia from 1988 and 1989. Clarke was named the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia's Person of the Year in 1991 and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 1994. In 2007, Clarke was a recipient of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Governor's Award.
Herb Clarke died on January 8, 2012, died at the Beaumont assisted living facility in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84.[2][3]
Clarke was survived by his wife, Barbara Cawthorne Clarke, whom he had been married to for 56 years;daughter, Ann Million; two sons, John and Robert; and three grandchildren.[3] Clarke and his wife had been long term residents of Haverford, Pennsylvania, before moving to the Beaumont retirement community in 2004.[3] His funeral was held at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.[3]


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Gunnar Dyrberg, Danish resistance fighter, head of Holger Danske (1943–1945), died he was 90.

Gunnar Dyrberg  was a member of the Danish resistance movement during World War II  died he was 90.. Dyrberg headed the Holger Danske, a Danish resistance group, from 1943 to 1945 using the code name, "Herman," to disguise his identity during the German occupation of Denmark.



(November 12, 1921 Faaborg – January 8, 2012)


As head of the Holger Danske, Dyrberg had a very close working relationship with two of the more famous members of Danish resistance group, Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (code named "Citron").[1][2] The 2008 Danish film, Flame & Citron, starring Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen, was based on the Holger Danske members.[1] Dyrberg admitted after the war that he was behind the killing of several German informants and soldiers, though the number has never been publicly revealed.[1][2]
Dyrberg became a businessman after the war.[1] He then became a writer, recalling his accounts of his time in the Danish resistance movement in several books, novels, and memoirs.[1] From 1971 until 2012, Dyrberg owned an operated the Lillesøgård in Høsterkøb, North Zealand.[1]
Gunnar Dyrberg died at his home in Hørsholm following a long illness on January 8, 2012, at the age of 90.[1][2]



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Dave Alexander, American blues singer and pianist, suicide by gunshot he was 73.

Dave Alexander (born David Alexander Elam) aka Omar Sharriff, Omar Hakim Khayam  was an American Texas blues singer and pianist suicide by gunshot he was 73..[1]


(March 10, 1938 – January 8, 2012)


Biography

Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1938, Alexander grew up in Marshall, Texas. His father was a pianist and his mother encouraged him to play in the church. Alexander joined the United States Navy in 1955, moved to Oakland, California, in 1957, and began a long history of working with various San Francisco Bay Area musicians. A self-taught pianist, he played with Big Mama Thornton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and Albert Collins. Later in 1968, he recorded his first songs for the World Pacific label release called Oakland Blues, a compilation album of artists from that city. He also performed at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1970, and played at the San Francisco Blues Festival, many times from 1973 onward. He was also the warm up act at the Last Waltz at Winterland, Thanksgiving 1974. He also performed in Europe.
Alexander recorded a pair of albums The Rattler (1972) and The Dirt on the Ground (1973), for the Arhoolie label under his given name Dave Alexander.[2] Songs include "The Hoodoo Man (The Voodoo Woman & The Witch Doctor)", "St. James Infirmary", "Blue Tumbleweed", "Sundown", "Sufferin' With The Lowdown Blues", "Strange Woman", "Cold Feelin", "Jimmy, Is That You?", "So You Wanna Be A Man" and "The Dirt On The Ground".[3]
In 1976, he began to perform as Omar the Magnificent having changed his name to Omar Khayam.[4]
He was nominated for a W. C. Handy Award in 1993.[5]
In 1993 small blues label Have Mercy! released Black Widow Spider, followed it up with hit Baddass in 1995, and Anatomy of a Woman in 1998.
In the 2000s Alexander lived and performed mostly in the Sacramento area, where he recorded on Have Mercy! Records. He was an articulate writer and advocate for the blues and African American music.[6] He wrote several articles for the Living Blues magazine.[7]
On Martin Luther King Day 2011, NPR Radio All Things Considered broadcast a segment about Marshall, Texas being the birthplace of the boogie-woogie style of piano. The broadcast described how Dr. John Tennison, a San Antonio-based boogie-woogie musicologist, had shared his knowledge of the history of boogie-woogie with the citizens of Marshall, and how Tennison had located Alexander in Sacramento, California. Alexander performed in Marshall during December 2010, to great acclaim.[8] In February 2011, Alexander relocated to Marshall, Texas, where he lived until his death.

Death

On January 8, 2012, Alexander was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Marshall, Texas. He was 73 years old.[9][10]

Discography

Year Title Genre Label Recorded name
1972 The Rattler Blues Arhoolie Dave Alexander
1972 The Raven Blues, Jazz Arhoolie Omar Shariff; CD 1993
1973 The Dirt on the Ground Blues Arhoolie Dave Alexander
1993 Black Widow Spider Blues Have Mercy! Omar Sharriff
1995 Baddass Blues Have Mercy! Omar Sharriff
1997 Omar the Magnificent Blues Arhoolie Omar Shariff
1998 Anatomy of a Woman Blues Have Mercy! Omar Sharriff


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Herbert Wilf, American mathematician, died he was 80.

Herbert Saul Wilf was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory died he was 80.. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote numerous books and research papers. Together with Neil Calkin he founded The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics in 1994 and was its editor-in-chief until 2001.

(June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) 

Biography

Wilf was the author of numerous papers and books, and was adviser and mentor to many students and colleagues. His collaborators include Doron Zeilberger and Donald Knuth. One of Wilf's former students is Richard Garfield, the creator of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. He also served as a thesis advisor for E. Roy Weintraub in the late 1960s.
Wilf died of a progressive neuromuscular disease in 2012.[1]

Selected publications

  • The Number of Independent Sets in a Grid Graph
    NJ Calkin, HS Wilf – SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 1998
  • An inequality for the chromatic number of a graph
    G Szekeres, HS Wilf – J. Combinatorial Theory, 1968

Books




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Hideaki Nitani, Japanese actor (Tokyo Drifter), died from pneumonia he was 81.

Hideaki Nitani was a Japanese actor died from pneumonia he was 81..

(二谷英明 Nitani Hidaki?, 28 January 1930 – 7 January 2012)

Career

Born in Kyoto Prefecture, Nitani attended Doshisha University but quit before graduating.[1] He first worked as an announcer at Nagasaki Broadcasting Company, but in 1956 made his debut as an actor at Nikkatsu.[1] Gaining the nickname "Dump Truck Guy" for his handsome, tough guy roles,[2] he soon became a staple in Nikkatsu Action movies, often playing the second lead, but sometimes starring in his own films. He is probably best known abroad for his role in Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter. Nitani left Nikkatsu in 1971 and moved to television, where he starred in the Tokusō saizensen police detective series, which ran for ten years between 1977 and 1987.[2]
Nitani married the actress Yumi Shirakawa and their daughter, Yurie Nitani, is also an actress.[2] He died of pneumonia on 7 January 2012.[2]

Selected filmography

Film

Television




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Dickey Betts died he was 80

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