Jessica Ghawi Died In Colorado Shooting

The mother of a young woman who was killed while attending the Aurora, Colorado, the midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," said his daughter was "very easy to fall in love."

"It was like a shock of light. Tease her when she came home for a visit that had kept the door, was in chaos automatically by the energy level that has led to a room," beach Phillips, mother of Jessica Ghawar, said this afternoon "20/20."

Ghawar had escaped with the exception of a shooting at a mall in Toronto last month.

"He was very interested to see who has taken the victims of the recovery [Toronto], and realizing that many were close to their age and realized that life was very fragile and had a revelation at this time that could happen to any of us any time and instead of being afraid of it, he embraced a fuller life, "said Phillips.

Ghawar, an aspiring sports journalist, was killed when 24 years, James Holmes, stormed the home of the movie this morning, police said, and began shooting customers, presumably, killing at least 12 people and injuring 70.

Ghawar, which had moved recently to San Antonio, Texas, to Denver, had escaped a firefight on June 2 in a food court in Toronto that killed one person.

Ghawar attended the screening of the film with his friend, Brent Lowak, and had been on Twitter minutes before the movie started.

Lowak said that he and Jessica were sitting in the middle of the theater was full of smoke when a device that was released to the public, according to a report published by her brother filming Ghawar, Ghawar Jordan, on his blog.

Friends dropped in the prone position to escape the hail of bullets.

"Brent was heard yelling and then I realized that Jessica was struck by a bullet in the leg. Brent began to keep the pressure on the wound and tried to calm Jessica. It was during this time that Brent took a walk their lower extremities. While administering first aid but, Brent realized that Jessica was no longer called "wrote Jordan Ghawar.

Lowak "took what could have been his only chance to escape the firing line" and left the theater. Once secured, he contacted the mother of Ghawar.

For six weeks, when the young sports journalist had lost only to get caught up food court in Toronto shooting, reflected on what was lucky, and the fragile life is a blog about the attack.

"I found out after seeing a sitemap minutes after a man was standing on the site just to eat, and opened fire on the crowded food court would be in the same place where a victim was find, "wrote Ghawar.

After graduating from the University of Texas at San Antonio, Ghawar was looking for a job in broadcasting. After the completion of internships with Mike Taylor, a sports commentator on Ticket 760 San Antonio, got a new job in Denver, first covering hockey.

"I really thought I had dodged a bullet, literally, that day and I was so grateful that it was good and the possibilities of their experience as something that never was impossible," said Phillips.

Ghawar brother, a firefighter in San Antonio, came to Denver this morning. Ghawar wrote on her blog that she was "hysterical call and almost incomprehensible," his mother told him that Jessica had been shot, while the midnight show of "The increased dark night."

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Sylvia Woods dies at 86

Sylvia Woods, 86 years, founder of the famous Harlem soul food restaurant that bears his name and is a must for residents, tourists, celebrities and politicians, died Thursday at his home in Mount Vernon, New York; his family has said. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Woods and her husband, Herbert, natives of South Carolina who met as children, Sylvia restaurant started in 1962.

Royal Harlem, the restaurant has politicians during the election campaign and for tourists and locals eager to corn bread, cabbage, ribs, fried chicken and other staples of southern cuisine.

The Reverend Al Sharpton, said Sylvia was "more of a restaurant was a meeting of black America."

He said we had dinner there with many celebrities, including President Obama and Caroline Kennedy.

Since its creation 50 years ago as a restaurant on Lenox Avenue near 127 Street, Sylvia has become a company that includes cookbooks, and a line of food products nationwide.

Woods, resigned to run the restaurant when he was 80 years, leaving in the hands of his sons and forests grandchildren.Herbert died in 2001.

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William D. Pawley Jr. dies at 92

William D. Pawley Jr., 92, a decorated pilot in World War II is often called the first true love, actress Elizabeth Taylor, died July 10 in Florida, his family announced. The cause was not determined.

Pawley, a resident of Pembroke Pines, Florida, was the son of the U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Peru, Mr. William Pawley

He was born June 21, 1920, in Atlanta, Georgia, but grew up in a mansion in Miami Beach from their rich parents. This is where the then 28-year-old veteran of the Army Air Forces began an affair with the actress, then 17 years old.

They met during a visit to Miami for Taylor and his mother in early 1949.

Even if Taylor had been linked with the former football star Glenn Davis in a love story, designed by his mother and his studio, his relation with Pawley was true. But not for long.

The couple announced their engagement in June 1949, but the fall had become the diamond ring given him.

Friends said Taylor is expected to reduce Pawley his career as an actress, once married. The following year she married Nicky Hilton in the first of his eight trips to the altar.

The novel is detailed in more than 60 love letters Taylor wrote Pawley, who has maintained for decades. They were auctioned after his death last year.

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Director of sex comedy 'The Telephone Book' Nelson Lyon dies at 73

Decades later, the writer and director Nelson Lyon launched the X-rated sex comedy "The phone book" in 1971, the film has been acclaimed as a work of art overlooked. Since then, Lyons was a former "Saturday Night Live" writer long for a darker connection: It was in a drug fueled excess with John Belushi in the last days of comics in 1982.

"He was blamed for the death of Belushi, and ruin his career," said Dennis Perrin, author of "Mr. Mike," a 1999 biography of the former "Saturday Night Live" head writer Michael O'Donoghue, who Lyons was a partner was to write.

Lyon, 73 years old, died Tuesday of liver cancer at home in Los Angeles, said Mark Mothersbaugh, lead singer of Devo and a close friend.

When the Los Angeles County jury investigating the death of Belushi overdosed, Lyon said in early 1983 with a grant of immunity from prosecutors. He presented a sordid picture of life in the late Belushi.

Three days before his death, he began a Belushi "by Boys Night Out" at home in Lyon, when the comedian came up with Cathy Evelyn Smith. A former backup singer, who later admitted giving Belushi the mixture of heroin and cocaine that killed him and then serve 15 months in prison.

"I have a surprise for you," says Belushi Lyon said. "Remángate".

Smith injects Belushi and times of several days and Lyon 4 March 1982, the day before the body of Belushi was found at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, according to the testimony of Lyon.

In a private club, Lyon Belushi and mingled with celebrities before the two men who inject Smith with a "Speedball", a mixture of heroin and cocaine. It "made me a walking zombie," said Lyons.

Belushi was ill on the way back to his hut, where the actor Robert De Niro and comedian Robin Williams was stopped, according to Lyon. He stated that Belushi was left exhausted with Smith about 3:30 on March 5. The Belushi 33 years old, was found dead later that morning.

In his testimony, Lyons said he had taken drugs to please Belushi.

Lyon back in place as a director was thin, but "the telephone" has experienced a renaissance after nearly 40 years when it was screened at international level.

Initially rejected by mainstream critics pornographic and obscene, is now considered a "lost gem" said Mothersbaugh.

In its 1971 review of the Times critic Kevin Thomas praised the farce rises to about a woman who falls for an obscene phone call. The satire of pornography was "so bright that people are desperately searching for risks sexploitation always fun to attend," he wrote.

The film "was made with a degree of freedom to insult and attack and the assault on the audience and try to entertain the audience," Lyons said the Wall Street Journal in January. "It was an era of sexual obsession, and the film has focused on the biggest problem in life. Sex"

Through the film, Lyon met O'Donoghue and was soon writing for "Saturday Night Live" in the 80's. The burly and imposing Lyon became the basis of an O'Donoghue recurring characters in the series - the dark lord Mike.

"When he met Nelson, have you seen the pace of entretallats Mr. Mike," said Perrin, "and certainly the black humor."

Taken February 28, 1939, at Troy Hills, New Jersey, he attended Columbia University Lyon.

He was a writer and designer for an advertising agency in New York when she met Andy Warhol in 1966, and later worked for the artist's studio, the Factory.

When Warhol was struggling with a concept for the cover of the 1971 Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" said Lyon to join a work rack in a picture on top of jeans, according to an unpublished report Lyon. After Warhol was the idea, gave five Lyons Marilyn Monroe print to pay for it, the writer later recalled.

Photographs Lyon co spoken word record for the writers William Burroughs and Terry Southern, and took Lyon Burroughs were presented in the galleries.

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Al Franken's 'SNL' Partner Tom Davis dies at 59

Tom Davis, a playwright who collaborated with Al Franken to write memorable songs in "Saturday Night Live," which begins with the opening night of the show in 1975, has died. He was 59 years.

Davis died Thursday at his home in Hudson, New York, his wife, Mimi Raleigh, told AP. His throat and neck.

As a performer, Davis was a quiet, darkened by time of Franken, who is now a Democratic senator from Minnesota.

Davis told the AP in 2009: "If we were Sonny and Cher, Cher would be." The two had a fight in 1990, but later reconciled.

Davis was left with "Saturday Night Live" since the first season until 1980, then returned for another period of 1985-1994 and again in 2002-03.

He was one of "SNL" writers who shared Emmy Awards in 1976, '77 and '89. He won another Emmy in 1978 for writing for a variety show of Paul Simon.

Born August 13, 1952, in Minneapolis, Davis recalls a childhood spent in seeing "The Mickey Mouse Club" on television with the Musketeers ears.

He was the eldest of two brothers. His father worked for 3M and his mother was the queen of the lakes in the Minneapolis Aquatennial 1950, an annual summer festival.

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Former Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman dies at 76

Omar Suleiman, head of Egypt's former spy and confidant of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, has died in the United States, months after his failed presidential attempt to restore the old guard to power after a revolution in national television, the state reported Thursday.

"He was fine. It came suddenly when he was in medical examinations in Cleveland," Hussein Kamal, a subsidiary of Suleiman, who did not give a cause of death, told Reuters.

Suleiman, 76, summed up the state police who suppressed Egypt for three decades. He was an ally of Washington in the fight against terrorism and a key negotiator with the Palestinians and Israelis.

Quickly appointed vice president in recent days the government of Mubarak, Suleiman was overwhelmed, unable to understand the ideals of the uprising that forced the military to seize power in February 2011.

Aftert that Suleiman disappeared from public view for months, the reconstruction as a presidential candidate in the race remains polarized by the Islamists and the Mubarak regime.

His campaign ended in April, when the National Electoral Commission has determined that it had enough authorized signatures on their registration form.

Much of his campaign focused on warning that the Islamists wanted to turn Egypt into a religious state. Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood candidate, was elected president in June.

A good way of spying that has been credited with saving his life in an assassination attempt against Mubarak in Ethiopia in 1995, Suleiman has been criticized by human rights groups for allowing his vast intelligence network Intelligence of torturing suspected Islamic militants. He had close ties with the CIA, especially after the attacks of 9/11 United States.

"When we asked other nations to assist in intelligence operations, Suleiman mukhabarat [intelligence agency] has been willing to take custody of people and the question of Egypt Egypt, and these interrogations have included torture, "said John Sifton, a former researcher at Human Rights Watch who has specialized in issues related arrests and renditions to Egypt, told The Times last year.

"He is directly involved in [the torture], both as a member of the regime and led mukhabarat."

Suleiman was born poor in the Egyptian city of Qena. He attended a military academy and distinguished himself in the Arab-Israeli wars in 1967 and 1973. Appointed head of military intelligence in 1991, when Egypt has cooperated with U.S. forces to expel the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. He became head of security of Egypt in 1993 and was essential for Mubarak, who trusted him with the negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians and other international diplomacy and sensitivity.

It was frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Mubarak. This discourse faded in recent years as Mubarak's son, Gamal, now on trial on charges of financial corruption has often been called the heir apparent.

Some analysts suggest that Suleiman, despite their years in the armed forces, can be removed from the military and its commander in chief, Mohammad Hussein Tantawi quarterback.

"Suleiman was always a bridge between the military wing of the regime and the civil wing. It was the military that was more accepted among the civilian elite," said Ziad AKL, senior analyst at Al-Ahram Center for Studies Political and Strategic Cairo.

But sometime during the 18 days of the revolution, he said, there was a point of conflict between Suleiman and Tantawi and the predominance of the military finally took over.

"The acceptance of Suleiman as president was highly unlikely for the military. The military may have felt betrayed that Suleiman, somehow comparing Gamal Mubarak, the business," said AKL.

In his brief tenure as vice president, Hosni Mubarak, only, Suleiman appeared often uncomfortable, a spy forced to the forefront of a revolution could not stop.

And "when he appeared pale and trembling before a microphone 11 February 2011, Mubarak announced that he had resigned. He offered to become interim president, but was rejected, and the army has taken control.

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Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv dies at 102

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, considered one of the most influential religious officials of his generation, died Wednesday Shaa Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Was 102 and had been in declining health.

Decisions Elyashiv left a deep mark on many Jews who follow their interpretation of religious writings of contemporary problems, for example, whether to keep the patient alive.

Other decisions have influenced Israeli policy, the rabbi was the authority responsible for the Torah of Judaism, a small political party, but powerful.

"The people of Israel has lost a great rabbi, a ruler and a strong man of extraordinary wisdom," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement. "We mourn his death."

Born in Lithuania in 1910 to a line of scholars rabínicos, Elyashiv settled district of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem ultraorthodox after he had moved to Palestine with his family in 1924.

He was mainly self-taught scholar. After taking a seat at the High Rabbinic Court for over two decades, he plunged into the study and who became the ruling most famous rabbi in matters of religious practices.

Respect to its decisions has grown and gained a rare consensus among the orthodox in splinters, the herald of the light as many of the pillars of the Jewish people in modern times.

Elyashiv is considered a literal interpreter of lyrics and a conservative judge. He has challenged colleges for students and scholars of the Torah is opposed to disconnect patients from life support in brain death, saying it was a murder.

Despite the increasing importance, the reputed leader of Lithuanian stream ultraorthodoxy joined his modest lifestyle in the same apartment where he raised his large family and followers received the blessings and seeking answers to religious issues. As was fragile, a small synagogue was erected close to home so you can follow his teachings.

Described as a humble man, Elyashiv not to celebrate a public stand. However, it became a key figure in Israeli politics with the formation of Torah Judaism, an ultra-Orthodox political party, which some governments often key members.

As the supreme authority of the party, Elyashiv ruled government and lawmakers to act on your instructions.

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Bollywood Star Rajesh Khanna Dies at 69

Rajesh Khanna's success as a romantic hero in dozens of films in India in the 1960's and 70 made him one of the first superstars of Bollywood, died Wednesday in Mumbai. He was 69.

His death was said to have followed a long illness, was confirmed by a son-in-law, actor Akshay Kumar.

Mr. Khanna, a handsome actor and aerodynamics of a well-to-Punjabi family, played a leading role in many films that the interception of the greatest social tensions that arise in Indian society during the second generation after independence.

In "Namak haram" (1973), has played a leading trade union struggle against the rich factory owners in Mumbai. In "Love Hit" (1972), he played a man who falls for a prostitute.

He achieved fame in the 1969 film "Aradhana", playing a dashing pilot who dies in an accident, leaving behind the woman who married in secret to live as an outcast, the orphan son.

Mr. Khanna plays a role rather romance, that by convention Bollywood often necessary to perform its most passionate scenes, while the synchronization of lips long passages of opera songs in Hindi, all sung by another person actually .

But among the leaders of his time, was considered hard to choose a number of functions as a bad guy, or at least problems.

He played a drunk truck driver who accidentally runs over and kills a man in "Dushman" (1971), a jealous husband who abandons his pregnant wife in "Kasama AAP Ki" (1974) and a serial killer in "Rose Red" (1980 ).

Mr. Khanna was a star at the top for nearly a decade, until the birth of the action hero of Bollywood genre of late 1970. Between 1969 and 1972, he appeared in 15 consecutive shots. "Khanna witnessed great popularity, so that no one had seen or imagined," Javed Akhtar, a writer and poet, told The Times of India. "In fact, from 1969 to 1973, was a race horse." For their fans has always been known as "Kaka", a nickname meaning "uncle", "brother" or "baby" in some parts of India.

In its glory days as a hero after Mr. Khanna fans around the world, mobbing his public appearances. The women planted kisses on the limousines have ridden in. He said he had received marriage proposals written in blood.

After his film fame diminished, Mr. Khanna was a Member of Parliament for the Congress Party from 1991 to 1996. He remained active in politics until the disease has started to slow last year.

In the television interview in 1990, Mr. Khanna said he was prepared for the celebrities. "I never thought I would be so successful," he said. "At some point I was a superstar." The sudden end of his celebrity disorient him, he said. However, he added: "Of course, the show must go on trends are changing people are looking for something new ..."

Jatin Khanna, who later took the name of Rajesh, was born in Amritsar, Punjab, December 29, 1942, and was adopted by a wealthy couple. He made his film debut with "Aakhri khat" ("The last letter"), the entry in India for best foreign language film Oscar in 1967.

In 1973 he married 16 years, actress, Dimple Kapadia. Although they separated in 1984, the couple never divorced. She survives him with their two daughters, Twinkle Khanna and Rinke.

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Composer & Producer Ilhan Mimaroglu Dies at 86

Ilhan Mimaroglu, a composer best known for its music and electronic music producer best known for his work with Charles Mingus, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 86 years.

The cause was pneumonia, said Mehmet Dede, a spokesman for the family.

During his career, Mr. Mimaroglu (pronounced mee-ma-loo-ROE) was both a researcher and advocate of musical experiments of others.

As a composer, he was involved in electronic music in 1950 when the genre was in its infancy and the recorder was still his main instrument. He remained one of his most important professional synthesizer era.

As a producer of Atlantic Records, has worked with Mingus, jazz bassist and composer idiosyncratic, recently concluded after a long pause the execution and recording in the early 1970 until shortly before his death in 1979. And as the president of his label, Finnadar, has recorded the music of composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen iconoclast.

Although music was his first love, Mr. Mimaroglu was also an expert photographer and author of several books in Turkish, his mother tongue, more recently, a book of film criticism published in 2010.

He once said his main achievement was that he wrote "Utopia Project", a philosophical guide.

Mimaroglu Ilhan was born in Istanbul March 11, 1926, son of a prominent architect, Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, who died shortly after his son was born.

After establishing himself as a music critic and radio producer in Turkey, Mr. Mimaroglu has received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study composition and musicology at Columbia University. Later he returned to Turkey, but in 1959 moved to New York.

He studied with the composer Vladimir Ussachevsky Center of Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music and privately with the composer Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe.

It has also produced programs for electronic music and social commentary for non-commercial WBAI radio in New York. In mid 1960, he began working for his fellow migrants and Turkish Ahmet Ertegun Nesuhi, two executives of Atlantic Records.

Mr. Mimaroglu was involved mainly in the compilation of jazz for reprints to the Atlantic 70's, when he became a staff producer. Its main task was to work with Mingus, who took some of his most important recordings for the Atlantic label and returned after over a decade.

Mr. Mimaroglu oversaw all but one of the album Mingus made for Atlantic in recent years, an artistically fertile period, which ended with two albums, "Something Like a Bird" and "I, myself an eye "where Mingus took a great set, but did not play due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, which had lent him almost motionless.

Mr. Mimaroglu also composed the music of 1971, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard album "Cántame Songmy a song," an unusual blend of jazz, electronic music and more traditional writing for voices and strings.

In 1969, he was one of four composers music was used in the score of the films of Federico Fellini's "Satyricon."

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Top Syria Officials Die in Suicide Attack

An explosion of television that Syria is called a suicide bomb killed at least three advisers of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Wednesday, including the defense minister and powerful brother-Assad.

The explosion in Damascus after three days of fighting in the capital, was hit in the military structure that has led the harsh repression of the revolt of 17 months of age against the Assad regime.

The killings were the first of these senior members of the elite after the riots began and could be a turning point in the conflict, analysts said. The nature and purpose of strengthening the attack of the opposition claims that his forces were marshaled his strength to hit the dense centers of state power.

President Assad made no public statement about the attack and his fate was not immediately clear.

The attack appears to increase tensions between government troops and opposition to violent confrontations registered in various districts of Damascus. There was also a wave of defections in the government reported.

According to state television, the dead including the defense minister, Daoud Rajha, Asef Shawkat, the president's brother-in-law, who was the Deputy Chief of Staff of the army of Syria, Hassan and Turkmen, a former Defense and Military Advisor to the Vice President Farouk SHARAA.

However, the television report rejected accusations of Arab satellite channels that the Interior Minister, Mohammad Shaar, was also killed, and said he was wounded in a stable condition.

Rajha General has been appointed defense minister in August. A Christian, was one of the leading figures of the minority government of Assad used to put a face of pluralism in the armed forces and security Alaouite sect dominated by the President.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad activists, said that all members of the Crisis Group created by President Assad, to try to quell the rebellion have been or are killed or injured .

State television said the three dead and more injured the Interior Minister, the other was only wounded Hisham Ikhtiar, head of security in general.

. The government has moved quickly to project an image control, the appointment of General Jassem Al-Fahed Freijo, Chief of Staff and a man, once assigned to submit conflicting Idlib province in the north, as the new defense minister.

In a statement read by the general Freijo state television, said the army would not be deterred by "cut off any hand that harms the security of the homeland and citizens."

At the Pentagon on the morning of Wednesday, Defense Secretary E. Leon Panetta said the situation in Syria "are losing control" and warned the Assad government to protect their large stockpiles of chemical weapons. "It's obvious what is happening in Syria is a real escalation of the fight," he told a joint press conference with British Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond.

The attack occurred in the diplomatic maneuvers to seek a ceasefire has remained stagnant for the differences between opponents of Syria and its international partners, mainly from Russia, before a vote of the Security Council United Nations program after the possibility of extending the mission of 300 observers from the United Nations.

The work of unarmed observers have been suspended due to violence, and are essentially trapped in their hotel rooms since last month.

In Moscow, the Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennady Gatilov, offering the first official comment on the bombings in Russia, said through his Twitter account that the attack had been the consensus among members of the Security Council even more out of reach.

"A dangerous logic: Although discussions on the resolution of the crisis are held in Syria's UN Security Council, the militants to intensify terrorist attacks, frustrating all attempts," he wrote.

The special envoy of Kofi Annan of the United Nations on behalf of Syria and the Arab League, asked the Security Council to delay the vote until Thursday, and diplomats said they were considering the request.

With tensions already high in Damascus after three days of clashes between the Syrian army and the rebels near the city center, SANA, the official news agency, described the attack as a "suicide attack" , without explanation of how this type of attack could have been done in a heavily protected position. His opponents held a great victory.

"The Syrian regime has begun to collapse," said the activist who heads the Syrian Observatory, which is known under the name of Rami Abdul-Rahman, for reasons of personal safety. "He was not fighting for three days in Damascus, not only was a shootout, and now someone is killed or injured at all these people are important."

Rumors swirled around Damascus that the bomber was a bodyguard of a minister or a senior Baath Party of President Assad, and there have been reports of a second bomb on the street who had broken the windows close . CNN quoted the deputy head of the examination of Syria, Colonel Malek Al-Kurd said that the explosion was caused by a remote controlled bomb, but offered no explanation of how this type of attack could have been done, and there was no immediate confirmation of this claim elsewhere.

The attack occurred despite the massive security presence in conflict areas to isolate the capital.

The victims of the core team of trying to impose a security solution for the revolt in Syria, and at the same time, the climate of suspicion, it was clear that Mr. Assad may find his replacement.

"If a bodyguard were sacrificed, and then there was a serious breach of internal security," said Elias Hanna, a former military officer and expert on Lebanese Syrian military analyst.

 "Who will replace these people," said Hanna. "They are irreplaceable at this stage, it is difficult to find loyal people, now that the doubt is planted everywhere. Anyone can get Asef Shawkat Assad can reach."

"Everyone, even those near the inner circle, will now be under suspicion," he said.

The government acted quickly to project an image control, the appointment of Jassem Al-Fahed Freijo, Chief of Staff and a man, once assigned to submit conflicting Idlib province in the north, as the new Minister defense.

A statement from the army, quoted by state television said in part: "This terrorist act will only increase our persistence in this country to eliminate terrorists, criminals and thugs to protect the dignity and sovereignty of Syria."

The Information Minister Al-Omran Zoubir, was also in a talk show to reject requests to call the beginning of the end.

  "The morale of our people is very high and our armed forces are at their highest level," he said.

The activists have succeeded in Damascus, said the city seemed deserted, apart from the security cordon around the green spear, well-to-do neighborhood where the explosion occurred on the same street of the ambassador's residence U.S., which has been vacant for months. The area is dotted with embassies and government offices.

"All the stores and shops are closed," said an activist in Damascus, came through Skype. "Some people are scared and some are happy, you can hear people firing shots at many places."

The explosion wounded were evacuated to hospital in al-Shami, an elite medical center used for the treatment of the Assad family, ministers and other senior officials. Security forces threw a cordon around the structure.

In the confusion after the attack, and in the absence of an official report of authority, there are conflicting reports about who was shot and survived.

The activists and the media reports spoke of casualties among the most senior figures in Assad's inner circle of government, a close group, including deputy chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Mohammad Sha'ar, Minister of the Interior and Ikthtiar Hisham, the head of national security.

Other team members include Ali Mamlouk January, the chief of intelligence General Abdel-Fattah Qudsiyeh, head of military intelligence, and Mohammad Nassif Kheyrbek, senior security advisor who was near his predecessor as President Assad, his late father, Hafez.

Since the uprising began in March 2011, Syria was administered by a growing circle of military and security officials close to President.

The killings represent as much psychological as physical time, encouraging the opposition, analysts say, and challenging Assad to show quickly that his forces could still face the rebels.

"They can demonstrate the ability to end this challenge and prove that they are on the way to survival?" Said an analyst with long experience in Damascus, who spoke in return for anonymity because they still keep working . "The opposition can not defeat the military regime, but we defeated through psychology."

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Prize-winning columnist William Raspberry dies at 76

Gerd, who had prostate cancer, died Tuesday at home in Washington, DC, his wife, Sondra, told the Post.

William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post and one of the most widely read black journalists of his generation, has died. He was 76 years.

Gerd, who grew up in segregated Mississippi, wrote an opinion column for the post for nearly 40 years, and over 200 newspapers published his syndicated column. He worked at The Times 1968-1988. He retired in 2005.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1994, becoming the second black columnist for the honor. Her winning columns addressed issues such as urban violence, the legacy of civil rights leader and female genital mutilation in Africa.

Gerd started the Post in 1962 as a teletype operator and began working as a reporter in a few months. In 1965, he conducted the Watts riots, and a year later began writing a column on local issues.

Currently, the only nationally syndicated columnist in the leading black media was Carl Rowan. Raspberry column moved to place editorial page in 1970.

"Bill Raspberry inspired a new generation of African columnists and commentators who have followed his path, including me," said Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

Although he considered himself a Raspberry liberal, moderate, has taken nuanced positions on issues like civil rights and arms control, causing criticism from the right and left. He said he was particularly interested in the problems of ordinary people.

Gerd taught journalism for over 10 years at Duke University.

The son of two teachers, raspberries was born October 12, 1935, the city northeast of Okolona Mississippi. He attended the University of Central Indiana, now the University of Indianapolis, and joined the post after a stint as a public information officer with the army.

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Justice Gustin Reichbach Dies at 65

Justice Gustin L. Reichbach, carefree life, what happened to the fraternity to guide the student protests at Columbia University in 1968 after a career as a fiercely independent lawyer and judge, died Saturday in Brooklyn. He was 65.

The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer, his wife, Ellen Meyers said.

Through six decades of countless incarnations, Justice Reichbach condominiums as a student at Columbia, has won a court case that helped legalize the attic of residential life at SoHo and TriBeCa, a state body to jump from the bench to ignore the Medicaid fraud and served as a judge in a court of war crimes in Kosovo.

Elected to the New York State Supreme Court in 1999, has decorated her room with pictures of Paul Robeson, Clarence Darrow and the miners on strike, and a neon sign showing the scales of justice.

Justice Reichbach was born October 9, 1946 in Brooklyn, and grew up in Flatbush, one of the two sons of a driver who organized unions. After graduating from Midwood School, he attended the State University of Buffalo, where he was president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity. As the war in Vietnam was increasing, the arrival of a military recruitment office of the ROTC on campus in a radical spirit was awakened by Mr. Reichbach said Daniel L. Alterman, a friend who participated with him in Buffalo.

His commitment to radical politics took power when he was admitted to Columbia University law. A classmate, Bruce Ratner, now a real estate developer, recalled meeting with him while they were doing to pay tuition fees row in September 1967.

"This guy with long hair and curly, blond, almost white, began to speak with a Brooklyn accent that sounded like the right of 'On the Waterfront' and asked me if I had found a place to stay, "Mr. Ratner said. By the time he reached the top of the line, Mr. Ratner was invited to sleep in his apartment on the road 103.

As leader of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, an organization founded in 1960 to protest U.S. foreign policy and national, Mr. Reichbach shown on the cover of Newsweek magazine face to face with the police during occupation of buildings on campus. "For Gus, was a great thing to go to law school, and these days an arrest could mean they were about to become a lawyer," said Ratner.

Released on parole after harsh disciplinary hearings, Mr. Reichbach discovered when he graduated in 1970 that a teacher had written to the College of Lawyers of New York, opposed to his own admission, a question was His co-author of "The Book Chest" with, among others, Kathy Boudin, then list the most sought by the FBI for blowing up a house in Greenwich Village.

Wait two years to be accepted, he worked for the New York Law Collective, an organization that has shared their profits equally between the attorneys and staff, and has provided legal assistance, among others, Abbie Hoffman and the members of Panthers Reds.

When he was admitted to the extreme, his practice includes artists who had moved to the industrial loft in Lower Manhattan and were evicted by the owners who said they had no right to permanent residence.

His first choice was the civil court judge in 1990, less than 150 votes. It was immediately transferred to a criminal court in the night. Three months after his term, after the arraignments the night parade of prostitutes who were released immediately, Justice Reichbach contact a group that provided condoms and HIV testing and counseling.

"They were not exactly in the courtroom," recalled Justice Reichbach. "I invited them to set up a table right in front of the doors."

To his delight, was called the "Condom Judge" on the first page of the Daily News. This dissatisfaction with their supervisors, who had no knowledge of the initiative, she moved back to civilian courts. We ask that the owner is limited to one of their hazardous properties until the violations have been cleared.

In court, Judge Reichbach wore clothes only during sentencing. A white scarf usually accentuates their three-piece suits, with a Phi Beta Kappa key from his student days. His curly hair lost all its exuberance in gray.

He presided over the murder of test results, and the occasional fight with the prosecutors did not leave any trace of rancor. "His death is a great loss to the profession," Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, said in a statement.

Reichbach Mr. and Mrs. Meyers were the parents of a daughter, Hope, who died in 2011. Besides his wife, surviving him a brother, Eliyahu Ben-Haim.

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Bewitched director William Asher Dies at 90

William Asher, director of the Emmy Award-winning television, perhaps best known for the direction of 100 episodes of the classic 1950 comedy "I Love Lucy," died Monday in Palm Desert. He was 90 years.

He had Alzheimer's disease, his wife Meredith told AP.

Asher was also the producer and director of the classic 60's comedy entanglements "Haunted," with his then wife, Elizabeth Montgomery. The hit series also earned him an Emmy as director in 1966.

Among many other credits, the program has developed television pilot "Gidget," starring Sally Field - and ran a series of films from 1960, including the beach "Beach Blanket Bingo" and "Beach Party" with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

Later in his career, he has directed episodes of television series such as "Alice," "Private Benjamin" and "bears".

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Former chairman of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder Dies at 99

Richard B. Scudder, 99, founder and president of MediaNews Group Inc., the second largest newspaper, which has also helped to invent a process that allows the recycling of paper for newspapers, died Wednesday at home in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey

Scudder was born May 13, 1913, in a newspaper family in Newark, NJ His grandfather founded the Newark Evening News and his father worked.

After receiving a degree in Economics from Princeton University, Scudder worked as a newspaper reporter for the Boston Herald, he joined the Evening News as a reporter in 1938.

He took over his father as director of the Evening News in 1952 and served for 20 years.

In 1983, Scudder and one of its founding in Denver, MediaNews, William Dean Singleton, began to buy newspapers in New Jersey, Ohio and California. Their collaboration became MediaNews Group, a private company with holdings that include newspaper News of Los Angeles, the San Jose Mercury News, the Denver Post and Detroit News newspaper.

Scudder was president of MediaNews 1985-2009. The company owns 57 newspapers in 11 states with combined daily circulation of 2.3 million, making the nation's second largest company MediaNews newspaper after Gannett Co.

Scudder served in the Army during World War II, earning a Bronze Star. He had learned German as a child and put the knowledge to use scripts for the German radio station to fool the Nazis as part of "Operation Annie".

In early 1950, Scudder had a hand in inventing a process for removing ink from newsprint in newspapers can be recycled into newsprint quality.

After being approached by a vendor release that came with the idea, Scudder tried the process in your office and home settings, before going to university research laboratory. He was admitted to the Paper Industry Hall of Fame in 1995.

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Country music trailblazer Kitty Wells dies at 92

The country singer Kitty Wells had been recording, touring, and transmission, without much success for over a decade when he accepted the offer in 1952 to record a song, before he intended to direct attention to stay home and raise a family.

Most of them were interested in the salary scale of the Union had to get to $ 125 per session, in which he recorded "It was God who made Honky Tonk Angels," a song that not only returned to his career, but also helped to reverse the stereotypical thinking of the way men and women that were were going to.

"I decided I was not going to work harder," Wells told a reporter in 2001, shortly after completing a six-decade career through which he often referred to as the "queen of country music." "When I started making a shot, it was not long before returning to work."

Wells, who died on Monday in Madison, Tennessee, at age 92 from complications of a stroke, soon became the most successful and influential female singer of the 1950's and early 60's, one of the few women who have a significant impact at a time when music was overwhelmingly dominated by men.

"The history of country music can not be written without attention to its great success," said John Rumble, the historian's main Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, The Times on Monday. "She really has left an indelible mark in the history of American music."

Singer Marty Stuart, Monday called for "the undisputed queen of country music. There is more to be a queen if you were calling a queen is a title that was a life of service and influence.

Control of the races [Nashville], and you will not find anyone with more immaculate career of Kitty Wells. "

Wells served as a model for country music singers that started a change in traditional gender roles in rural America with "Honky Tonk Angels." Its always a recording massive response surprisingly strong 1952 Hank Thompson hit "The Wild Side of Life", in which a man whose all the blame on a woman he met in a honky tonk to break their marriage and then leave it go ", where the wine flows and marketing of alcoholic beverages, where he hopes to be the son of nobody."

Wells, singing a song written by JD Miller, replied: "It was God who made Honky Tonk Angels / As you said in the words of your song / Too many times married men think they are still single / caused Besides a good girl to go wrong. "

This recording was number 1 for six weeks in 1952 and began a series of hits that lasted until 1979.

The resolution of the breast with his voice would echo in the later recordings of Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks and even assertive ripples in the songs of Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood.

"Kitty Wells was my hero," Lynn said in a statement Monday. "If I had never heard of Kitty Wells to sing, I do not think I would be singing."

Wells was able to challenge conventional wisdom, in country music during the first half of the century, said that the public does not buy the discs female singers and not pay for tickets to see them play live.

Consequently, women were relegated to supporting roles in Grand Ole Opry broadcasts, the touring car and several recording contracts rarely fell.

After "It was God who made Honky Tonk Angels" has sold over 1 million copies, records managers began to rethink attitudes and began signing artists such as Cline, Connie Smith, Lynn, Wynette , Parton, among others.

Wells was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement in 1991, the same year was presented to Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Marian Anderson.

It was only the third country artist and the first woman to achieve recognition as a result of the previous Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Country Hank Williams and Roy Acuff.

Wells has continued to play an active role in the country of the Grand Ole Opry long after the radio stopped playing his music. He set 81 records in the Billboard charts from 1952 to 1979 in 35 countries to reach the Top 10. He created the vast majority as a solo artist, but also scored hit duets with her husband, singer Johnny Wright, her daughter, Carol Sue, and several singers with Red Foley and Webb Pierce. Wright died last year at 97.

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Author Stephen R. Covey dies at 79

Stephen R. Covey, a former business professor at Brigham Young University, who has mixed personal self-help and management theory in a big bestseller, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," died Monday in a hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was 79 years.

The cause was complications of injuries sustained in a bicycle accident, said Debra Lund, a spokesman for the training of leaders and FranklinCovey Utah-based consulting firm he cofounded.

In April, Covey has lost control of his motorcycle while riding a hill in Provo, Utah. It was hospitalized for two months with a concussion, fractured ribs and a partially collapsed lung, but "never fully recovered," Lund said Monday.

Covey has become a household name when "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" was published in 1989.

The bestseller for four years, has sold over 20 million copies in 40 languages ??and has created a multimillion dollar business empire that markets audio tapes, seminars, training and organizing support to improve personal productivity and professional success.

"The weather was perfect. He really caught the wave that people were becoming increasingly fascinated with leadership. It led to the desire of ordinary people to succeed through leadership and management "said Barbara Kellerman, a management professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Covey clients include three-quarters of the Fortune 500 and dozens of schools and government agencies. He also coached three dozen heads of state including the presidents of Colombia and South Korea and their wardrobes. Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich were among his fans.

Part of Peter Norman Vincent Peale and Drucker, Covey sums up his philosophy into seven "immutable principles" or habits that highlight features such as personal responsibility ("Be Proactive"), have a roadmap or mission ("Begin with the end in mind") and define its priorities ("Put first things first").

His classes were full of words like "synergy" and "paradigm shift", but also urged companies to consider how employees feel.

"Coveyism is total quality management for the character of reengineering the soul of an attractive product at a time versions of the organization of these disciplines have often encouraged the morale hit bottom" , The Economist wrote in 1996.

"We believe that organizational behavior is a collectivize individual behavior," said Covey Fortune magazine in 1994.

Covey says that the idea of ??"7 Habits" came in part from Drucker, the management guru who claimed that "the effect is a habit." Agreed with his critics that his principles were gathered from various sources, including all the major world religions and psychology and classical philosophy. Some critics have said that Covey mormonas beliefs were particularly influential.

Born in Salt Lake City October 24, 1932, was raised on a farm outside the city. During his teens he developed a bone disorder that forced him to give up sports and focus on the academic.

Often credited with his parents instilled in him a positive attitude, especially his mother, who was standing over your bed and you say. "You can do whatever you want"

At age 16 he entered the University of Utah, a Masters in Business Administration in 1952. Five years later he received an MBA from Harvard.

Covey continued Mormon missions in England and Ireland. Part of their heads of provincial education work of the church throughout the UK, an experience that changed his plans because of the parents take the reins of the family business. "I was so excited by the idea of ??a band that has become the mission of my life," he told the Ottawa Citizen in 2004.

After returning to Salt Lake City, he worked as assistant to the president of Brigham Young University.

In 1969 he began studying for a doctorate in business and education, writing his thesis on the success of American literature since 1776. He received his doctorate in 1976.

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British keyboardist Jon Lord dies at 71

Jon Lord, 71 years, a British keyboardist Deep Purple and Whitesnake, died in London on Monday of a pulmonary embolism after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according to a statement on their official website.

Lord co-wrote some of the most famous Deep Purple songs like "Smoke on the Water", and later had a successful solo career after his retirement from the band in 2002.

The, the musician born in Leicester, England began playing the piano, before taking classical music lessons before moving on to rock 'n'.

After moving to London to attend drama school, he joined the Artwoods Blues Band in 1964 and then toured with the test men known for their hit "Let's Go to San Francisco" before 'join Deep Purple in 1968,.

Deep Purple, which at its peak with the Lord this singer Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, drummer Ian Paice and bassist Roger Glover was one of the first hard-rock in 1970.

Influenced by classical music, blues and jazz, the Lord took his Hammond organ and distorted its powerful sound effects on songs like "Hush," "Highway Star", "Lazy" and "Child in Time ".

The group has sold over 100 million albums before disbanding in 1976.

God has continued to play hard rock band Whitesnake in the 70 and 80 and later rejoined Deep Purple.

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Creator of Encyclopedia Brown Donald J. Sobol Dies at 87

Donald J. Sobol, of 87 years, a popular author of "Encyclopedia Brown" mystery series for children, died of natural causes Wednesday at Miami, said his son John.

Sobol series with amateur detective Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, who would unravel the mysteries of the premises with the help of his encyclopaedic knowledge of events large and small.

The book, published in early 1960, became points in classrooms and libraries across the country.

Have been translated into 12 languages ​​and sold millions of copies worldwide. Sobol has received an Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America.

The Encyclopedia Brown books also had a friend of Brown and detective partner, Kimball tough, athletic Sally.

This year marks the 50 anniversary of the Encyclopedia Brown series. The latest adventure of Donald Sobol Encyclopedia Brown, "Encyclopedia Brown and the football event of the system" will be published in October, according to a statement by Penguin.

Sobol was born October 4, 1924, in New York. He served in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II and graduated from Oberlin College.

He then worked as an editor at the New York Sun, where he became a journalist. His first book, Encyclopedia Brown was laid off two dozen times before publication, said his son.

In 1958, he became a journalist union Sobol success with his "two minutes in Mystery" series, published before "Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective" five years later.

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Actress Celeste Holm dies at 95

Celeste Holm, the versatile actress, who shot to fame on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein production of original musical "Oklahoma!" in 1943 and five years later won an Oscar for Best Actress in the historical film drama "Knight," died Sunday. He was 95 years.

Holm, who over 70 years in the acting career performing in nightclubs, including, died in his apartment on Central Park West in New York, said her husband, Frank Basile.

I had just spent two weeks in a hospital where he was found to be dehydrated and ended up suffering a heart attack. He asked to bring home on Friday, said Basile.

Before admission Holm, briefly a couple had been living away from home because of smoke damage from a fire in a flat actor Robert De Niro in the same building.

"My wife was an extraordinary woman," said Basile. "He lived his life with such grace and dignity."

Holm has had great success on Broadway, 10 productions in the back when he was elected in the starring role of the man making crazy Ado Annie in "Oklahoma!", In which he sang "I Say No Cain 't "

"Every good actress playing a butch crazy, but Celeste Holm played Ado Annie with a mischievous wink in the eye that made her irresistible character," Miles Krueger, president of the Institute based in Los Angeles of the American musical, he was a child when he saw Holm in the role, told The Times in 2007. "It was so beautiful."

Holm's work on Broadway, including the lead in a successful 1944 musical "Bloomer Girl," has led to a long term contract with 20th Century Fox, where his first two films were musical comedy "Three girls in blue" and "Carnival in Costa Rica."

Then came his "gentleman's agreement", his third film, the groundbreaking 1947 drama directed by Elia Kazan and starring Gregory Peck as a journalist that adopting a Jewish identity to explain their first-hand experience in dealing with anti-Semitism.

Kazan fought to melt Holm in the role of the brilliant and sophisticated fashion magazine editor Anne Dettrey. The studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, Holm told the Times in 1998, considered only as a musical comedy actor.

"So that made me make the big emotional scene for the first time such a test," he said. "I knew it was not a test."

Critics see the representation of Dettrey Holm.

"In fact the Academy in the class to win the support is Celeste Holm, who brings joy and happiness, as well as common sense, the screen is completely captivating in its interpretation of its role as a friend to all," wrote the Los Angeles Times film critic Edwin Schallert in his review of the film, which also won the Oscar for Best Film and Best Director.

Holm has received two other Best Actress Oscar nomination, while under contract with Fox - for playing a nun in the 1949 drama "Speak bells" and play the best friend old star Bette Davis' Margo Channing in the Broadway classic 1950 backstage drama "All About Eve."

But he returned to Hollywood in the mid 1950's to play support roles in two MGM musicals: "The single and love," starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds, and "High Society" with Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

He played Aunt Polly in the film version of the 1973 musical "Tom Sawyer" and has appeared in such films as "Three Men and a Baby."

A 1992 inductee into the Hall of Fame American Theatre, Holm has appeared frequently on Broadway, including taking the lead role in the original production of "Mame" in 1967.

On television, he starred in the short-lived 1954 comedy "Honestly Celeste" and played a minor role in the 1970-1971 sitcom "Nancy."

He also made frequent appearances and played the fairy Madrina the 1965 TV musical production of "Cinderella" starring Lesley Ann Warren in the title role.

Holm has received three Emmy nominations, including a 1979 nomination for her supporting role in the miniseries "Backstairs at the White House."

He spent one season in the primetime soap opera "Falcon Crest" in mid 1980 and a year later, in the soap opera "The Heart" in 90 years. I played Patty Greene, compassionate and wise grandmother "Promised Land", the dramatic adventure series 1996-1999 of the family.

An only child, Holm was born in New York April 29, 1917. The Norwegian was born on his father, Theodor Holm, has worked with the American branch of Lloyd's of London and his mother, Jean (Parke) Holm, was a painter of portraits and American writer.

"I think if you do what you like, you go through everything," he told the Asbury Park Press newspaper in 2007. "I knew I wanted to work at 6."

Holm, who has studied singing, dancing and acting like a child, she studied acting at the University of Chicago.

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Isuzu Yamada Dies at 95

Isuzu Yamada, a prominent star of screen and stage, Japan's most recognized in the West for his chilling portrayal of the role of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood", died on 9 July in Tokyo. He was 95 years.

His death was widely distributed by the Japanese media that his office cited as the source.

Ms. Yamada has worked with many great directors from the golden age of Japanese cinema as Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi, the two more clearly modeled her character on the screen. He maintained a lifetime commitment to the theater and in his later years was also a staple of Japanese television.

A versatile actress, classically trained, Mrs. Yamada played a wide range of characters. But if it is a victim or villain, a rebellious young woman or a "woman fall", as many of his early papers came to be called, has brought a balance to support the signature and tenacity.

Mitsu Yamada was born in Osaka, 05 February 1917. His father was a theater actor onnagata, a male actor specializing in female roles. He studied traditional dance and music since childhood and at 13 joined the Nikkatsu studio, especially when they appeared in period dramas.

While still a teenager, Mrs. Yamada began his association with Mizoguchi, the films have been devoted largely to the condition of women, most often the geisha and prostitutes, a company created by the operation. Many of her heroines are models of self-sacrifice, but Ms. Yamada was his muse when he began to introduce women to cut and bent over in his work.

Ms. Yamada had the starring role in the film by Mizoguchi 1935 "Oyuki the Virgin" and "The Fall of Osen" in both films playing oppressed young women forced into prostitution.

In the next year, "Osaka Elegy", his character, a receptionist, suffered a similar downward spiral, becoming master of his head while striving to maintain his family. But there is a unique challenge in making closure, in which Mrs. Yamada walking directly towards the camera, taking the audience a look that seems to put it in doubt. That same year, "Sisters of Gion", played the most opportunistic of the two geisha sisters affected men determined to exploit this advantage.

After World War II, joined Mrs. Yamada stakeholders in conducting a strike against the studios Toho, your employer during the war. He was placed as a result and has appeared on screen only sporadically in late 1940, but remained active in the scene and helped theater companies are in the 40 and 50.

He has seen a resurgence in the mid 1950's, in collaboration with Kurosawa, as his international reputation is cresting. He played a stingy hostess in "Call any door" (1957) and an intriguing woman in "Yojimbo" (1961). The Lady Washizu is in "Throne of Blood" (1957), a film inspired by the minimalist style of Noh theater, a show was widely praised for his control and technique.

Ms. Yamada has also excelled in more subtle and natural logs, in films such as "Tokyo Twilight" Yasujiro Ozu (1957), as a woman who returns to the family left, Mikio Naruse and the "Current "(1956), as the beleaguered lady a traditional geisha house, a previous version and not the happiest of his characters in the films of Mizoguchi 30 years.

In the 60 years Ms. Yamada diverted his attention from cinema to theater and television. His most famous role was delayed a long time in the television series "Hissatsu". In 2000 he became the first actress to receive the Imperial Order of Culture, the highest honor the country's cultural.

Ms. Yamada has been married six times, most recently with actor Tsutomu Shimomoto, who died in 2000. He was a son of the actress Michiko Saga, with her first husband, actor Ichiro Tsukida. Ms. Saga died in 1992.

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L. Scott Bailey Dies at 87

There were a lot of magazines like Road & Track Hot Rodding and newsstands, when a quarterly magazine called automobile introduced in 1962 with a serious neo-Edwardian.

"A publication that meets the needs of our enthusiasm," wrote the editor, a declared fan of extreme cars ", and found a place in the field of literature the car."

The rigid daily at the hands of the player, he said, could fill this vacuum four times a year in over 100 pages in full color and free of advertising that contains articles richly illustrated encyclopaedic in length, and literary quality, everyone to reflect "the grandeur, majesty, an adventure that is the automobile."

L. Scott Bailey, the real "you" behind this commitment and the founder of Automobile Quarterly, died June 26 at the age of 87 at his home in English Cotswolds, this promise was kept by most accounts .

The magazine has created is known to collectors and thinkers of the garage as the gold standard "literature of the car" in the phrase of Mr. Bailey is a cross between The New Yorker and the Encyclopaedia Britannica in the world Automania, and one of the few magazines always come with a subtitle: The Connoisseur Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow.

In the 24 years before retiring current car Quarterly in 1986, Mr. Bailey has published an unbroken string of quarterly reports of gold in relief, which was a virtual archive of the known universe of the car: long biographical essays of professional pilots, engineers and inventors forgot to innovative technologies for motor vehicles; historical dissertations on classics like Duesenberg, unusual yarns, as the definitive history of the two-wheeled vehicles giroscópicamente balanced, designed in 1914 by Count Peter of Schilovsky Russia, and a scoop.

In 1980, Mr. Bailey was the first to post back-to-a-napkin sketches is said that Hitler did in 1934 to show the car's designer, Ferdinand Porsche, his idea of ??a Volkswagen bug.

Karl Ludvigsen, an historic Mercedes-Benz and quarterly former collaborator of the car, a magazine called Mr. Bailey is an indispensable part of the library of any serious lover of cars. "Every car enthusiast or historian who does not have a collection of indexed Quarterly Motor is operating in a desert," he said in an email Wednesday.

Kit Foster, director of the Journal of the history of the automobile, the journal of the Society of Automotive Historians, Mr. Bailey described as "a genius" good pieces in a row, and find the best writers. Its stability is considered the most illustrious of the field, including Ken Purdy, Griffith Borgeson and Beverly Rae Kimes, who began as secretary to the car and Quarterly has won numerous awards for automotive journalism.

WO Bentley and Ferrari Enzo, founders of dynasties of cars bearing their names, each under his memoirs published in the newspaper Mr. Bailey.

Mr. Bailey said the decision not to accept advertising was partly an aesthetic choice.

Display ads, he wrote, would "get into the editorial pages, cut into pieces, and break stories that challenge the reader to determine the editorial and advertising.

"I was convinced that the magazine would be successful as a result of the" reader acceptance, because of advertising revenue. "

The circulation of the magazine, which has remained in the publication, under different owners since 1986 has never exceeded 35,000 subscribers.

In part to help finance, Mr. Bailey and his wife, Margaret, magazine editor, he founded a company specializing in the history of the automobile, Princeton Publishing, which published more than 50 works by independent historians and as stories of the companies responsible for General Motors, Porsche, Cadillac and Ferrari.

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Wrestler & Bollywood Action Hero Dara Singh Dies at 83

Dara Singh, a famous professional wrestler who has used his fame, and without fear of physical image of a thriving film career in Bollywood as an action hero before in India, died Thursday at his home in Mumbai. He was 83 years.

The cause was a heart attack, said his doctor, RK Agarwal.

His death sparked a wave of national mourning. Miles below the body in a procession to the cremation on Thursday afternoon.

Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, called Dara Singh, a "self-taught son of the earth" that was "an inspiration and an icon for many generations in our country." In a Twitter message, the Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan has asked Mr Singh "our very own Superman."

Mr. Singh, a household name in India, has led to a reputation for winning a seat in the upper house of Indian Parliament, Rajya Sabha's, 2003-2009, serving as a member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

Many of the comparison with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor bodybuilder turned actor turned in California.

Even if you've never seen an actor more than average, Mr. Singh, however, ordered a mass following in the Hindi film Black and White was a hero, while the defense that is right and good with undulating muscles, was also every inch the gentleman. He has sworn to have no temper.

Dara Singh Randhawa was born into a Sikh family of farmers from 19 November 1928 in a village in northern Punjab province, near the border with Pakistan.

Muscle as a child, she decided to pursue wrestling in the traditional Indian style and did a spectacular success, winning tournaments all over India and gaining a reputation for opponents of flats with ridiculous ease .

In 1950 and '60, the British historian Charles Mascall struggle Singh ranked as the tenth best heavyweight boxer of all time.

E 'became Commonwealth champion in 1959 and 1968, world champion when he defeated American wrestler Lou Thesz.

Mr. Singh was at the height of his talent and his fame fighter when he began working in film in 1950.

His body mass and noble image has become ideal for people who personificarà to force men and pride and heroism of the virtues.

Among his successful film in Hindi was "King Kong", "Samson" and "Tarzan arrives in New Delhi." The famous actress of Bollywood Mumtaz appeared in 16 films with him.

Mr. Singh, who has appeared in nearly 150 films, later went on to character roles. E 'was also involved in the Punjabi film actor, director and producer.

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Documentary Filmmaker George C. Stoney Dies at 96

George C. Stoney, dean of the documentary film American and a leader of the movement of every American citizen has the right to a public access television program of his own, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 96 years.

Mr. Stoney, who has taught film at New York University from 1970 until the last years of his life, was equally acclaimed for his role as director, teacher and prophet of social change in a barrel camera.

In addition to mentoring two generations of students, many of whom have spread in the film industry, Mr. Stoney is dedicated to the training of community activists in the use of film as a tool for people who do not have a voice.

Their role in creating public access television was based on the hope that it would be an outlet for this type of documentary film to create communities.

His 50 documentaries as "occupation" of Canadian students who have taken over the building of McGill University in 1970, "The rebellion of '34" (1995), the brutal legacy of a strike, the textile workers crushed by the owners of factories, and "All My Babies" (1953), a film originally commissioned by the Georgia Department of Public Health to educate midwives who work in poor rural areas. It became a classic.

In the filming of "All my babies," met Mr. Stoney, son of a preacher in North Carolina, all safety practices required by the Ministry of Health requirements.

However, with the hope of a better distribution of information to a largely illiterate public, has hired a midwife of 51 years of age named Mary Coley to play the lead role in a series of dramatic reconstructions.

The film, which includes a sequence of 15 minutes showing a live birth, was widely considered a masterpiece of propaganda, in the best sense.

It became a staple of the curriculum of medical school, and was published by UNESCO and the World Health Organization.

In 2002 the film was introduced at the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, a list that basically defined the canon of American cinema.

Listed in alphabetical order, including "All About Eve" and "All Quiet on the Western Front."

Mr. Stoney had just entered the faculty of the film school at NYU in 1971 when he co-founded the Alternate Media Center, a university project for the education of students and community members to use video cameras, a technology that was new at that time.

This project led him to become interested in another cable and emerging media at significantly expanded its spectrum presents the basis for the film.

With other media savvy activists, including its Media Center co-founder of Red Burns, Mr. Stoney has helped create the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers, who began lobbying industry and government regulatory agencies .

If cable companies are going to put their wires under or over public roads, according to them, should be obliged to give the public a part of the broadcast spectrum for new public access cable. This requirement was introduced in the federal Communications Act in 1984.

"There will be no public access, except for George Stoney," said Rika Welsh, another member of the first cable programmers and lobbying member of the Association Board of Cambridge Community Television, the public access to the operator of Boston. "He understands what could be, and believe in its potential to unite communities."

In an interview some years ago (in a public access program), Mr Stoney said the public access television is not only a question of public access. "We do not see the cable as a way to encourage public action, not just access," he said. "I" as people can get information to your neighbors and your neighbors can take to the streets to organize. "

In another interview, said that public access was not meant to aim, in fact, was a bit "otherwise" anyone famous. "" To celebrate the ordinary people doing things to help each of the "something else".

Cashel George Stoney was born on July 1, 1916, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and made his way through the University of North Carolina, majoring in English and history.

He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and received certification in film education at the University of London.

He worked as an assistant field of research groups in the South for civil rights in 1940, was a Secret Service agent photo during World War II and later worked as a journalist. He has made films for state governmental agencies before starting her film company.

His survivors include a son, James, a daughter, Louise, a sister, Elizabeth Segal, a grandson and a nephew.

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Kenny Heitz dies at 65

Kenny Heitz, 65, who played on three teams in the NCAA basketball championships at UCLA in 1960, died Monday at home in Pacific Palisades, after a battle with cancer, the school announced.

In an era when freshmen were not eligible for college athletics, he joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor), Lucius Allen and Lynn Shackelford first year in the 1965-1966 team that defeated twice national champion varsity champion in the first game played at Pauley Pavilion.

For the next three seasons, Heitz is a 6-foot-3 forward and protection for the Varsity team coach John Wooden. The Bruins finished with a 88-2 record in his career and became the first Heitz school to win three consecutive titles in 1967, '68 and '69.

In Santa Maria native, Heitz came to UCLA as a preparation for the All-American center of the Righetti High School in Santa Maria.

Heitz was an Academic All-American in his senior year and graduated summa cum laude in 1969. Drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA, Heitz chose Harvard Law School and became a lawyer in Los Angeles.

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Willis Edwards dies at 66

Willis Edwards, civil rights and political activist in the African American community of Los Angeles and former leader of the Beverly Hills, Hollywood branch of the NAACP, who was a force behind its Image Entertainment industry awards controversy, died of cancer. He was 66 years.

Edwards died Friday at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, confirmed a spokesman for the hospital.

Edwards was well known in the circles of local and national African American Democratic Party and as a brash but endearing "fixer" who has worked in many elections, including the 1988 presidential campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson.

He was able to break through through charm and potential obstacles to make presentations crucial maneuver or someone you admire in the best photographs.

Among his favorites efforts, has played an important role to ensure the national honor of Rosa Parks, civil rights hero later in his life and sit next to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, when President Clinton delivered the speech on the state 1999 'Union.

"Willis was really a creative genius. He could gain access to the White House or anywhere you wanted. He could have the doors open and the others could not," said former Congresswoman Diane Watson, of Edwards, who has worked as a volunteer and a paid consultant in the elections back in the race for a seat on the School Board of Los Angeles and the state Senate in 70 years. "It was a plug, was an agent. Nothing was impossible for Willis."

Except for a successful career in 1978 for a seat in the State Assembly, Edwards was mostly behind the scenes, but his motivation has always been about civil rights, Watson said Saturday. "Did you see how it feels to be left behind the line, and he would not have it," he said.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, also praised Edwards. "The legacy of Willis Edwards, who made the impossible possible, who fought for justice unfair, spoke strongly in places of silence and stood tall and brave as a leader when others were shrinking, "Villaraigosa has said in a statement.

Beyond racial discrimination, Edwards has fought a battle in the future. Almost died of AIDS 15 years ago, at a time when even some people in the civil rights movement of HIV considered a taboo subject.

Edwards, who was alone and never publicly discussed his sexuality or is infected with HIV, recovered thanks to new drugs and in 2001 took part in a national convention of the National Association. for the Advancement of Colored People on the difficulties of living with HIV.

National Chairman of the organization, Roslyn M. Brock, Saturday, said Edwards, who served aboard the National NAACP for more than a decade, "to promote and protect the image of African Americans in the arts and destroyed the barriers to honest conversation about HIV / AIDS in communities of color. "

Edwards was elected president of the NAACP Beverly Hills / Hollywood branch in 1982.

He convinced the then president Brandon Tartikoff of NBC broadcast nationally Image Awards, a star of the film event that focused on improving the image of the black front and behind the scenes of Hollywood. But later, Edwards was involved with a black television star.

In 1988, comedian Arsenio Hall called Edwards a "mafia" and "tennis shoe pimp" and threatened to sue Edwards has said publicly that Hall had not hired enough blacks working on his talk show, within Hall was $ 40,000 to the NAACP.

Edwards filed a defamation lawsuit against the City, said Edwards, was settled by a considerable sum.

Edwards was elected president of the branch, but resigned in 1989 in the same year of criticism that the group's finances are not managed properly and that has made a payment of $ 25,000 to help produce images of the awards.

Friends described Edwards as a modest life in an apartment in Hollywood, no interest in luxury, but thrive on access to celebrities and power.

Born in Texas in 1946, Edwards was raised in Palm Springs and enrolled at the State University of Los Angeles, where he was the first African American to be elected student body president.

Compiled by the military, was slightly wounded in the explosion of a landmine in the Vietnam War and was awarded a Bronze Star. He later worked as director of student services at USC blacks.

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