Giuseppe Vedovato, Italian politician, died he was 99.

Giuseppe Vedovato was an Italian politician died he was 99.. He was born in Greci.^[1]

^{(13 March 1912 – 18 January 2012)}

He lost his father in the First World War in 1916 and his mother in 1924. In 1930 he joined the Royal Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences "Cesare Alfieri". In 1937 he was appointed chief editor of the Rivista di studi politici internazionali (International Journal of Political Studies), founded three years earlier. In 1951 he was elected provincial councillor for the Christian Democrats and in 1953 he became a deputy, going on to become a senator, a position he held until 1976.
He was head of the Christian Democrat group and then president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1972 to 1975. The Assembly made him an honorary president in 2003.^[2]
He has also been President of the Italian Association of Former Members of Parliament. He is Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He amassed a large library of political and theological works which he donated to the Council of Europe in 1987, and then repatriated to Italy when the Council of Europe closed its library in 2007. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.

Bibliography

• The question of the administration of Italian colonies in Africa under trusteeship (1947)
• Politica Estera Italiana E Scelta Europea (1979)
• La Hongrie vers l'Europe: de la vocation a l'intégration (1998)
• Storia Della CISL Di Venezia: 1950-1968 (2004)

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Yuri Rasovsky, American writer and producer, died from esophageal cancer, he was 67.

Yuri Rasovsky  was an award-winning writer and producer working in the field of radio drama in the United States died from esophageal cancer, he was 67..

(July 29, 1944 – January 18, 2012)

He founded and operated The National Radio Theater of Chicago from 1973 to 1986 and later formed the Hollywood Theater of the Ear (since 1993). In the 1990s, he forsook radio for audiobooks. Many of his radio plays have been published as commercial recordings or as Internet downloads. His new plays are being released by Blackstone Audio. He died in 2012 of esophageal cancer.^[1][2]

Major works

Rasovsky wrote, directed, or produced more than 150 audio plays. Notable examples include:

• The Chicago Language Tape. WFMT. 1972.
• The Odyssey of Homer. National Radio Theater. 1980. Winner of a George Foster Peabody Award.
• Craven Street. American Dialogues Radio. 1993.
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Based on the silent film. Hollywood Theater of the Ear. Revised 1998.
• 2000X: Tales of the Next Millennium (series of 26 one-hr programs). NPR, Hollywood Theater of the Ear. 1999–2000. Winner of a Bradbury Award.
• Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls. Blackstone Audio, Hollywood Theater of the Ear. 2007. Winner of three Audie Awards: Best Audio Drama, Best Audiobook Original and Distinguished Achievement in Production.
• The Maltese Falcon, with Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, Edward Herrmann. Blackstone Audio, Hollywood Theater of the Ear. 2008. Grammy nominated. Winner Audie Award: Best Adaptation.
• Saint Joan, with Amy Irving, Edward Herrmann, Kristoffer Tabori, Gregory Itzin, Armin Shimerman, Granville Van Dusen, et al.. Blackstone Audio, Hollywood Theater of the Ear. 2010. Winner Audie Award: Best Audio Drama of 2010.
• The Mark of Zorro, with Val Kilmer, Blackstone Audio, Hollywood Theater of the Ear. 2011. Grammy nominated.

Books

He was the author of The Well-tempered Audio Dramatist (National Audio Theatre Festivals, 2006) and, with Carol Madden Adorjan, co-author of WKID: Easy Radio Plays for Children (Albert Whitman & Co., 1987).^[3]

Awards

Over the past three-plus decades, Rasovsky's audio work has won:

• two George Foster Peabody Awards,
• three Grammy nominations and another Grammy Award,
• five Ohio State awards,
• nine Audie Awards,
• four Major Armstrong awards,
• four Publishers Weekly Listen Up awards,
• two Corporation for Public Broadcasting awards,
• the Independent Publishers' Audio Award,
• the Gabriel Award,
• the NFCB Golden Reel,
• Mark Time Lifetime Achievement Award,
• Booklist Editor's Pick
• the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Bradbury Award.^[4]

Notable relatives

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Joseph Noiret, French poet, died he was 84.

Joseph Noiret was a Belgian painter writer and poet  died he was 84.. He was also the founder of Cobra and Review Phantomas, and director of La Cambre long.^[1][2]

^{(February 28, 1927 - January 17, 2012)}

Early life

Noiret was born on February 28, 1927 in Belgium. At the young age, as a student he wrote poems from 1944. He was communist millitant and at age 20, joined the "Surrealism revolutionary", the adventure of the ephemeral. He met Christian Dotremont, and in November 1948, in Paris during a conference he met with several international revolutionary groups. He died on January 17, 2012 after suffering long illness. He was the father of choreographer Michèle Noiret.^[1]

Career

Noiret is considered important figure in the field of art and culture of Belgium. He was the last of six founders of the Cobra movement to be alive. He also estalished the cult magazine "Phantomas" in 1953. He was the director of the long school La Cambre in Brussels.^[1]
Noiret has wrritten many poems and articles for exhibitions and reviews of Cobra. After the end of the movement in 1951, he went his own way to make a new shape of Cobra and chose paths where literature was that time at the forefront, without losing the link with the other arts. Later he launched "Phantomas".^[1]
He was also a painter and he continued to mix with painters. His collections of poetry were illustrated by him and by his artist friends as like Mogens Balle, Maurice Wijckaert and Sergio Dangelo.^[1]



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Anthony Gonsalves, Indian film music composer, died he was 84.

Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves was an Indian musical composer and teacher from the village of Majorda (near Margao in Goa, India) who, during the mid-1950s, attempted to merge the symphonies of his Goan heritage with the Hindustani melodies and rhythms in films of the day died he was 84..

(1927 – 18 January 2012)

He found his first job in the city as a violinist in the group of the composer Naushad in 1943. He taught R.D. Burman and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma-( member of the Laxmikant Pyarelal team) and has worked with most of the legendary composers of the 1950s and 1960s. A few examples of his work are B.R. Chopra (Naya Daur, Waqt), Naushad (Dillagi), and Chetan Anand (Haqeeqat). The song "My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves" was Pyarelal's tribute to his violin teacher.^[1]
In 1958, Gonsalves founded the Indian Symphony Orchestra (as distinct from the Symphony Orchestra of India) featuring playback singers Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey as soloists, the works were performed in the quadrangle of St. Xavier’s College in Mapusa, Goa.
In 1965, he quit the film industry and went to the United States, via a travelling grant from Syracuse University in New York. He became a member of the American Society of Composers, Publishers and Authors, and later in returned to India, settled in his ancestral village of Majorda in Goa, and continued composing music, though he never joined the Hindi films again ^[2] He died in 2012 of pneumonia and hypotension.^[3][4]

Music Arrangement in Indian movies

• Dholak (1950)
• Pehli Nazar (1945)
• Mahal (1949)

Influences in Indian popular culture

• My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves, a song in the 1977 film Amar Akbar Anthony
  • My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves (2007), a film based on the song
• Anthony Gonsalves, in Raj Comics by Tarunkumar Wahi

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Mel Goldstein, American television meteorologist (WTNH), died from multiple myeloma he was 66.

Melvin G. Goldstein, known on air as Dr. Mel, was the chief meteorologist for WTNH television in New Haven, Connecticut  died from multiple myeloma he was 66..


(October 23, 1945 – January 18, 2012)

Early life and education

Goldstein was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts in 1945,^[1] where, as Goldstein himself put it, "the conversation was always about the weather."^{[clarification needed]} He earned a degree in meteorology from Penn State in 1967, followed by a doctorate from New York University.

Career

In 1972, Goldstein took up a teaching job at Western Connecticut State University He established the only meteorology bachelor's degree in the state, and began to run WestConn's weather center, which supplied forecasting information to 20 local radio and television stations. Goldstein joined WTNH as a meteorologist in 1986. He became somewhat of a local celebrity in Connecticut from these broadcasts, eventually becoming WTNH's chief meteorologist. In 1999, he authored the Complete Idiot's Guide to Weather. He held the honorary title of Director Emeritus at the Western Connecticut State University Weather Center.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 1996 Goldstein was diagnosed with a multiple myeloma, which his doctors predicted would claim his life within three years.^[2] Hoping to beat the diagnosis, Goldstein underwent a series of treatments at Yale-New Haven Hospital and he far outlived his initial prognosis. He returned to work at WTNH, though on a limited air schedule.^{[citation needed]}

Retirement

On August 23, 2011, WTNH announced Goldstein's retirement after 25 years of service. In celebration of his service, the station produced a prime-time tribute to Goldstein.^[3]

Death

Mel Goldstein died on January 18, 2012, from multiple myeloma, aged 66. He is survived by his wife Arlene and his daughters Laura and Melodie.^[4]


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Ray Finch, British studio potter, died he was 97.

Ray Finch MBE , formally Alfred Raymond Finch, was a respected English studio potter died he was 97..^[1] who worked at Winchcombe Pottery for a period spanning seventy five years.

(27 November 1914 – 18 January 2012)

Biography

Early life

Finch was born in Streatham, south London; the eldest child of Alfred William Finch, a commercial clerk, and Rose Ethell Tinniswood.
Finch married Isabel Muriel Beesley, a teacher, in 1940. They had six sons, Anthony (born 1941), Nicholas (1942–1945), Peter (born 1944), Michael (born 1946), Joseph (born 1947), Paul (born 1949) and a daughter Marianne (born 1951).

Career

In 1926 Michael Cardew had founded Greet Potteries at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, where he made pottery in the English slipware tradition, functional and affordable, and fired in a traditional bottle kiln. In 1935 Finch came to Gloucestershire and asked Cardew whether he could join the pottery. Cardew advised him to get basic skills first, and Finch went to the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and studied under Dora Billington^[2] and was recruited by Cardew in 1936. Finch took over the pottery, now known as Winchcombe Pottery, in 1939.
Finch was a deeply religious man, having converted to Roman Catholicism, and during the Second World War he registered as a conscientious objector, working in the National Fire Service. He restarted the pottery in 1946, and worked there until just before his death in 2012.
Finch was interested in stoneware, and in 1952 he started experimenting with the more difficult clay. The experiments were eventually successful and in 1954 the bottle kiln was fired for the last time, since it was too large and unsuitable for stoneware. Slipware production continued by using electric kilns, but was phased out in 1964. In 1974 the wood fired kiln was built to replace the oil fired kiln for stoneware production and has been used ever since.
When the Craft Potters Association's shop was opened in Carnaby street in 1960, Ray Finch's pottery was chosen for the opening exhibition.^{[citation needed]}
Finch championed the workshop apprenticeship system and under his direction, many potters spent valuable time there including Colin Pearson, Jim Malone, John Leach (Grandson of Bernard Leach) and Gwyn Hanssen Pigott^[3] (née John), and Peter Dick.
Finch managed Winchcombe pottery until 1979 when his son, Michael took over the running of the business ^[4] , but he continued potting until 2011. Mike Finch still runs Winchcombe Pottery and his brother Joe Finch runs his own pottery in Wales.
Finch was appointed MBE in 1980^[5] and was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 at the International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth.^[6] Finch's work is represented in many collections of museums in Britain and overseas,^[7] including the V&A.^[8]


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Thérèse Delpech, French nuclear proliferation expert, died from an apparent heart attack, she was 63.

Thérèse Delpech had been described as having been "One of France's foremost intellectuals and prolific writers"died from an apparent heart attack,  she was 63..^[3]

^{(11 February 1948 – 17 January 2012 [1] [2] )}

Thèrese Delpech graduated from the École Normale Supérieure and went on to pass the agrégation of philosophy. During the rest of her career she concentrated on international relations issues. Delpech had been director of strategic studies at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) from 1997.^[4] She served as an adviser to Alain Juppé during his tenure as Prime Minister (1995–1997). She was also a researcher with CERI at Sciences Po, commissioner with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, and international adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross,^[4] and was "one of France's foremost thinkers on international security."^[5] Breaking with many French intellectuals she supported the 2003 American-led intervention in Iraq and had since advocated stronger sanctions against Iran.
She was ranked 81 in the Prospect Magazine 2008 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll.^[6] In 2012, RAND posthumously published what will perhaps be her last book, a detailed study of decades of RAND literature on nuclear deterrence.^[7]

Bibliography

• Iran and the Bomb : The Abdication of International Responsibility (Translator: Ros Schwartz) February 2009^[8]
• Savage Century : Back to Barbarism (Translator: George Holoch) September 2008^[8]
• La Politica Del Caos June 2003^[8]

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