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Actress Lupe Ontiveros dies at 69

Written By Unknown on Saturday 28 July 2012 | 01:21


A former resident of Fulton, died Thursday of liver cancer in a hospital in Whittier, said his agent, Michael Greenwald. He was 69.

The veteran actress Lupe Ontiveros, Step daughter, born of Mexican immigrants, once estimated that he had acted as a servant more than 150 times during his career.

That is why the actress 4-foot-11 was so happy a decade ago, when director Miguel Arteta approached backstage after a theater show, and said he had a script for consideration.

"He said, 'Look at the Beverly'," Ontiveros recalled in an interview on National Public Radio in 2009. "I said, 'Beverly? You said Beverly? Her name is Beverly? And I said:' I would not care what the script is ready, because his name is Beverly.. Mary Guadalupe Conchita Esperanza was not the stereotype of America. "

Ontiveros role as employer mince words home theater in the 2000 movie "Chuck & Buck," said a part was written for a white actress, was a turning point moment.

His best known roles are former fan club that kills pop star Selena and her mother joined in the tradition of the 2002 film "Real Women Have Curves."

"Lupe Ontiveros was a gift," said actor Edward James Olmos, The Times on Friday. "He was part of the evolutionary process of Latin American art form of narrative in the last 30 years or more. It was one of the true pioneers of the art movement in Latin American theater, film and television."

Ontiveros Olmos has appeared with the original Los Angeles production in 1978 by Luis Valdez, "Zoot Suit", which played the mother. He has participated on Broadway in 1979 and played in the 1981 version of the film.

"Selena," starring Jennifer Lopez in the lead role, also featured Olmos.

"His performance was really exciting, because the truth that she was portrayed," he said. As Selena killer, "was so compelling and did an amazing job that the people were angry with her when she walked the streets."

For her role as Carmen Garcia, criticism of the East Los Angeles mother, who prefers to give his daughter to a young and ambitious university to meet with his work in a garment factory in "Real Women Have Curves" , Ontiveros shared a Special Jury Prize for dramatic performance at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival with co-star America Ferrera.

The film also won the audience award at the festival, "spoke to people because of their honesty," Ontiveros said the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2002. "No matter that it was the Romans because it was really all."

In his review of "Real Women Have Curves," Kevin wrote The Times' Thomas: "This is a wonderful role for an actress of ability and stature of Ontiveros, the heat is crucial in maintaining the Carmen innate humanity.
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Neil Reed Dies at 36


The cause was heart complications, said Shanda Herrera, director of Pioneer High School Santa Maria Valley, where Reed had worked since 2007, training of coaches football, basketball, golf and physical education.

Neil Reed, the former Indiana basketball, which was captured on tape choking coach Bob Knight in 1997, resulting in sanctions against Knight and strengthen its reputation as an evil genius, died Thursday after harvesting the pig house in Nipomo, California He was 36.

In March 2000, Reed accused Knight drowned in 1997 during a practice.

When the video of the practice of relying on the backup flotation Reed, Knight, Hall of Fame coach who was known for his tantrums as his success, was put on notice for zero tolerance, Dr. Myles Brand, then president university.

That September, Knight was fired after a student said he grabbed her arm.

Reed moved to southern Mississippi, shortly after the incident of choking and played there in the 1998-99 season.
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Painter Karl Benjamin dies at 86

Written By Unknown on Friday 27 July 2012 | 09:36


Karl Benjamin, a painter of geometric abstractions beam that has established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four in Los Angeles, abstract classical and create a recognized body of work that celebrates the glories of color in all its variants, has died. He was 86 years.

Benjamin died Thursday of congestive heart failure at home in Claremont, said his daughter, Beth Marie Benjamin.

His work was exhibited last year in "Benjamin Karl and the evolution of abstraction, 1950-1980" at Galerie Louis Stern Fine Arts in West Hollywood, as part

Benjamin was a former resident of Claremont and a vital part of the university city of the arts community. After retiring from 20 years of teaching career in elementary and secondary public schools, he was professor and artist in residence at Pomona College 1979-1994 and has taught at Claremont Graduate University. For most of these years, he also pursued a lifelong interest in the orchestration of complex arrangements of color on the canvas.

Working with a full palette and vocabulary of stripes, squares, triangles, circles, rings and irregular shapes are created well balanced compositions that seem to glow, vibrate or explode in space.

His work became fashionable in the 1970 and '80, but made a comeback in recent years his pictures, when suddenly seemed fresh young artists and intelligent critics and curators.

"I can not think of any other artist's paintings radiate the joy and pleasure of being an artist with more intensity than Karl Benjamin, or any other artist's long teaching career is not out of any failure of cynicism in their practice," critical Dave Hickey wrote in the catalog of a 2007 survey of paintings by Benjamin Louis Stern Fine Arts. "It was always the kid in a candy store, the man with the rock in his pocket to draw, showing and exclaimed: 'Hey, check it out." "

Times art critic Christopher Knight, has praised the Claremont Museum of Art for "the right choice for its inaugural exhibition" in its review of a study of 42 years of work by the artist, the 2007. "Benjamin emerges as a colorist of great intelligence and ingenuity," he wrote.

Born December 29, 1925, in Chicago, Benjamin began his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University in 1943, but left that year to enlist in theU.S. Navy.

At the end of his military service in 1946, moved to California and resumed his studies in what is now the University of Redlands.

Three years later, he graduated, he married Beverly Jean Paschke and taught at an elementary school in San Bernardino County city of Bloomington. After two years he moved to a place of teaching Chinese in public schools. He and his young family moved to Claremont in 1952.

Benjamin's career began in 1951 when he was asked to add a component of the curriculum of his art students. Initially working with cakes, was fascinated with the color options and understand the effect of putting one color next to one. Color, in itself, soon became their object.

At home, he began experimenting with oils and eventually took classes at the Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University), obtaining a master's degree in 1960. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1983 and 1989.

In a 1986 essay, Benjamin writes: "I am an intuitive painter, everything looks clean and my paintings, and are fascinated by the infinite range of expression inherent in the relationships of color." Although often create a structure based on levels of numerical progressions, sequences or modular buildings at random, came up with surprising results.

He has shown his work in 1954 at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1958 and the Long Beach Museum of Art, but shot to fame in 1959-60 with the "Four abstract classicists." The reference sample, even with the work values ??Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin - giving fresh LA artists, hard-edge abstractions as an alternative to abstract emotional relationship of the east coast. After appearing in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the show in London and Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Benjamin then showed his work and has been widely displayed in museums as important as "geometric abstractions in the United States" in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1962, issues 30 and 35 of the "Biennial of Painting American "in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, in 1967 and 1977, and" Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era "at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington, DC in 1976.

Cal State Northridge has organized an exhibition of his work in 1989, and Pomona College, presents a retrospective in 1994, when he became professor emeritus. Benjamin has played a leading role in "Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture in the middle of the century," a traveling exhibition organized by the 2007-09 National Art Museum of Orange County
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Philanthropist Dennis Avery dies at 71


Dennis Avery, who used part of a family fortune to fund philanthropic efforts worldwide and the Artistic Committee of replicas of prehistoric animals of an original sculpture garden in the desert of Borrego Springs, died. He was 71 years.

Avery died Monday at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. No cause of death was given.

Avery was an heir to the fortune of Avery Dennison Corp., which launched what is considered the first commercially viable marketing of self-adhesive, removable labels, the type of supplies are now essential for offices, schools and domestic use .

His father, R. Stanton Avery, a classic rags to riches success story American, founded the company in 1935 after a $ 100 loan to build a machine for making labels for spare parts.

When he died in 1997 at 90 years, his company based in Pasadena, which had merged in 1990 with Dennison Manufacturing in Framingham, Massachusetts, has 16,000 employees and annual sales of U.S. $ 3.2 billion.

Dennis Avery was born in Los Angeles October 23, 1940. After graduating from Cambridge University in England, graduating in law from California Western School of Law in San Diego, where he served as associate dean in 1980.

In 1970 he worked for the prosecutor's office of the City of San Diego and was one of the earliest advocates of consumer fraud.

His colleagues remember him as passionate about protecting consumers and not only interested in living their inherited wealth.

"He loved the law and his Harley Davidson motorcycle," said John Kaheny, who also worked in the office.

Avery and his wife lived for years in Borrego Springs, drawn from the open space and small town atmosphere of 90 miles of San Diego community.

With the eyes of his father for a good deal, Avery buy land where prices have plummeted because of the savings and loan debacle of 1980 and '90.

Although he chose not to follow his father into the business world, has followed his example of the use of wealth on behalf of public education, artistic and otherwise.

His father was a protector of what we might call the artistic creation of Southern California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and the Arts Council of Los Angeles County Music Center, among others.

Artistic interest of the child leaned toward the more populist and unusual. The artwork he bought and set up was not in museums, but open to what he calls the Cookie Meadows estate in Borrego Springs.

Since he was owner of the property through Borrego Springs, sculptures dot the landscape of almost every corner. It soon became a tourist attraction, with great joy Avery.

Although it was a serious student of prehistory, has ignored the criticism that some of the creatures do not seem to comply with what scientists think they seemed.

For Avery, art should be both educational and entertaining. Sometimes delighted visitors to the garden of sculptures, giving his interpretation of the sounds produced by prehistoric animals.
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President of Ghana John Atta Mills dies at 68

Written By Unknown on Thursday 26 July 2012 | 08:34


The president of Ghana, John Atta Mills, who promised that the oil reserves of the country used for the good of the people, died Tuesday shortly after you get sick, officials said.

Mills, who turned 68 on Saturday, had planned to apply for a second term as president in December.

According to reports from Ghana, Mills complained of pain on Monday and Tuesday has died in a military hospital in the capital, Accra.

No details were given, but was told he suffered from throat cancer.

Vice President John Dramani Mahamat, who was sworn in as president after Mills is now dead, said the country was "devastated" by death.

The people shouted in the streets of Accra, to know the news, the Associated Press.

Ghana, which has experienced strong growth in recent years, is seen as a beacon of democracy in West Africa.

Main export is cocoa in Ghana, but the country has started oil production two years ago.

President Obama has visited in 2009, six months after Mills took office.

When Obama has received the Oval Office in March, the President praised 'record' Mills as a leader.

Mills's predecessor, John Kufuor, has submitted his resignation after two presidential terms. Mills had run twice unsuccessfully for president against Kufuor first to capture power in 2008 after a vote that was the closest in history. Mills ran on a platform of change.

Born in 1944 in western Ghana, Mills had a degree in Law from the University of Ghana.

He received his doctorate from the London School of Oriental and African Studies before studying at Stanford University, Fulbright scholar.

Mills has been teaching at the University of Ghana for many years before entering politics. He also served as vice president of the military leader of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, 1997 and 2001.
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US swimmer Ann Curtis dies at 86


Ann Curtis , the swimmer from San Francisco, which has been denied the chance to win two gold medals in the Olympics due to World War II, died June 26 at home in San Rafael. He was 86 years.

Curtis died June 26 at home in San Rafael, north of San Francisco, ofAlzheimer complications from Alzheimer's, said his daughter Carrie Cuneo.

Born in San Francisco who was trained by the famous swimming coach Charlie Sava, Curtis has established a record by winning 34 championships in Amateur Athletic Union national during his career 1943-1948.

"The world has never seen a girl like that swimmer," said Sava, the 1943 national championship in Indianapolis.

In 1944, the swimmer 5-foot-10, of 160 pounds became the first woman and the first swimmer to receive the James E. Sullivan, which is delivered by the outstanding amateur athlete in the country.

Curtis, who was enrolled as a freshman at UC Berkeley this year, was also named female athlete of the year by an Associated Press poll of sports editors in the country.

Because the Olympics were suspended during World War II, he was able to compete in 1944.

At the time the Games were resumed in London in 1948, Curtis had broken numerous world and national records.

In the 100 meters freestyle, the player 22 years old, slipped a little, "as he plunged into the water and won a silver medal that came from two tenths of a second behind the winner.

However, Curtis established an Olympic record and won the gold medal in the 400 meters freestyle. He won his second gold medal in a swimming installed coming from behind victory over the U.S. 4 x 100 meters freestyle.

Back in San Francisco, Curtis and his Olympic teammates were given a triumphal parade for Market Street.

"It was always exciting!" recalled in an interview in 2008 with the San Francisco Chronicle. "I was lucky to resume the game at a time when I was competing. There were very good swimmers before my time, and it was too late for them."

During its heyday, 1940, Curtis has appeared on the cover of Collier, Newsweek and other national magazines. It also rejected an offer from MGM.

"He was very modest, and dodged any praise," said his daughter. "If someone was to congratulate her swimming, she said:" I had a great coach. ""

Born in San Francisco March 6, 1926, Curtis will be taught to swim in a boarding Ursulines nuns in Santa Rosa and began swimming competitively at age 11.
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Star of TV's 'The Jeffersons' Sherman Hemsley dies at 74

Written By Unknown on Wednesday 25 July 2012 | 01:52


Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of viewers as the next boom black Archie Bunker, George Jefferson in "All in the Family" and then as the star of the comedy LP "The Jefferson" has died. He was 74.

The actor, who owned a house in El Paso, was found dead Tuesday by the Sheriff's Department Pas, his agent, Frank Todd, told the Times. No cause of death was given.

Hemsley time in relative obscurity as an actor in New York for the first time celebrity in 1973 when producer Norman Lear chose to "All in the Family", the controversial comedy starring Carroll O'Connor as the patriarch fan a working class family in Queens.


Like George Jefferson, Hemsley was a burr in the side of Archie, who loved to annoy your neighbors of their prejudices. It appeared in the hit program from 1973 until 1975, when he left to star in the spin-off of The Jefferson Lear Sanford "Elizabeth, who played his wife, Louise.

"The Jefferson" ran for 11 seasons on CBS, so Hemsley one of the most viewed black actors of the environment.

"Sherman was one of the most generous co-stars I've worked," said Marla Gibbs, who played the smart-mouth cleaning Jefferson ", Florence Johnston." He made me so happy that I to win, and I did the same for him. I miss him deeply. "

In 1970, Lear was looking for talents to Broadway when he saw Hemsley, who was playing the role of Gitlow in "Purlie," a musical set in the segregated South. Hemsley audition for the producer the next day, but was not hired.

George Jefferson, quoted in "All in the Family" as Edith Bunker's husband, friend, Louise Jefferson (played by Sanford), but does not appear until 1973, when Lear finally brought the show Hemsley.

"The energy of the man believed he was totally in sync with the image we have created behind the scenes of George," said Lear Albany Times Union in 1999.

When George Jefferson returned a small dry cleaning in a string of successes, moved from Queens to the Manhattan luxury skyscraper to another. His entry into the ranks of the nouveau riche, provided the starting point for "The Jefferson".

"I loved the character, because he knew that people like," Hemsley said in an interview with George Jefferson in 2003 for the Archive of American Television.

Hemsley was born February 1, 1938, in Philadelphia and grew up along the drive south of the city. He was raised by a single mother who worked long hours in a factory.

In his teens he joined a gang and became a "High School begins." After leaving school he worked for four years, the Air Force in Japan and Korea, before returning to his hometown, where he worked as a mail sorter in a post office.

His day job has allowed him to pursue a childhood dream of acting, which was caused by her portrayal of a fire in a school of design for fire prevention week.

"I was at home on stage immediately clear that he brings up and threw water on the floor and rolled said..! Frustrated again," he told the Associated Press 1986.

In Philadelphia, he joined a theater company where he gained experience in a variety of roles, including the son of Willy Loman, Happy in "Death of a Salesman" Archibald and Jean Genet "blacks".

In 1967, he moved to a post office in New York, trying to act to work in their spare time. He joined the Advanced performance workshops Negro Ensemble Company and studied with Lloyd Richards, who directed Lorraine Hansberry "A Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway.

His career in television through four decades, with appearances on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and "Family Matters".

In late 1990, he began dividing his time between Los Angeles and El Paso. Information about survivors was not immediately available.

After "The Jefferson" was canceled in 1985, he played Ernest Frye, a deacon of the church Saint-that-you and a lawyer in the sitcom "Amen", which worked on NBC 1986-1991.

He expressed the character B.P. Richfield in "Dinosaurs," a comedy about a family of puppet animals domesticated by prehistoric aired on ABC from 1991 to 1994. From 1996 to 1997 he starred in the short-lived UPN series "Goode Behavior", the former fascinating game with Willie Goode.

None of these characters had the appeal of George Jefferson. Years after the program ended, fans Hemsley often asked him to rebuild the famous George amount of the opening credits of the show. Hemsley, said he was inspired Slopes Philadelphia, a dance that he learned as a child in Philadelphia.

But he insisted that in most other ways, he and his character was very different. "I do not close the doors in the faces of people, and I'm not a fanatic," he told USA Today in 1999. "I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love."

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TV actor Chad Everett Dies at 75


Chad Everett, an actor who played Dr. Joe Gannon sturdy and handsome young man in the television drama "Medical Center", has died. He was 75.

Everett died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles after fighting lung cancer, his daughter Katherine Thorp told AP. Everett's wife of 45 years, actress Shelby Grant, died of an aneurysm in June 2011 to 74.

Although Everett has had a number of roles in television and films in a career that began in 1960, early, he left a lasting impression as Dr. Gannon on "Medical Center".

The drama series broadcast by CBS from 1969-1976 and followed the personal and professional lives in a university hospital in Los Angeles.

"Underestimation is apparently a very salable to TV", a reporter for the Washington Post wrote in an article published in 1975 by the famous man. "Chad Everett, a type of big city in China rarely lethargy histrionics while their rounds in" Medical Center "."

Everett came to Hollywood from the Midwest. It 's born Raymond Lee Cramton in South Bend, Indiana, June 11, 1937, and grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, where his father was a racing driver and racing mechanic. He studied acting at Wayne State University in Detroit.

"I went to acting, so get bored easily," Everett told The Times in 1966, several years after he had changed his name for professional reasons. "I tried - when I was young - music, football, my father's business all his actions seem bores me to vent a lot of different feelings ..".

She landed jobs in episodic television programs from 1961 and then won a role in the TV western "The Dakota" in 1963.

He signed with MGM in 1964 and appeared in "Made in Paris" with Ann-Margret, and "The Singing Nun" with Debbie Reynolds in 1966.

Everett has worked steadily on television before and after "Medical Center", which appears as a regular "Hagen", "The Rousters", "McKenna," "Melrose Place," "Manhattan, AZ" and recently as "Last year in the" Chemistry ", a drama of the USA Network.

His film roles include parts in "Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982), the 1998 remake of "Psycho" and "Mulholland Dr." (2001).
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Oscar-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson dies at 87

Written By Unknown on Tuesday 24 July 2012 | 11:19


A writer by the time she could remember, Frank Pierson wrote his most famous phrase, "What we have here is a lack of communication," for decades for the script of 1967 "Cool Hand Luke."

At the moment, I thought there was any way a refined line she may be decided by the team captain of the south, just to teach Luke Paul Newman is a brutal lesson.

To ensure the state line, Pierson wrote a biography at all to the captain, who has never used, because no one has ever questioned the quote that has become one of the most iconic in the history of film.

This commitment and dedication to the history of the language Pierson helped establish one of the best writers of his generation, and ended up three Oscar nominations and one win for his 1975 screenplay for "Afternoon of dogs." It is one of many honors awarded to the director about six to ten years of his career in Hollywood.

Pierson died Sunday night atCedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after fighting a brief illness, said his manager, Susan Landau. He was 87 years.

The son of a businessman father and screenwriter mother, Pierson began his career as an entertainment correspondent for Time magazine, before they broke into television as a writer of the history of the Western Balkans "Have Gun. In San Francisco "has worked on numerous television shows and settled in the film world with his first film script," The explosive naive. " The comic western starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin won him his first Oscar nomination.

Two years later, he collaborated with the novelist Donn Pearce in the adaptation of "Cool Hand Luke" on a chain gang prisoner played by Newman and challenge other inmates and prison guards.

In 1975, Pierson won the Oscar for his screenplay "Dog Afternoon", not difficult to write a script the man who had known the true life story of the movie is based.

"It was confusing, had these contradictory statements about him and that was for everyone who knew him," Pierson said in an interview with the contemporary. "It took me several months before I was able to conceive of it, because until you have a character motivations are understood, there is no way that you write consistently."

Pierson still mainly identified with being a writer, sitting almost every morning at 10 and head writer until he got into the lunch hour, the leadership transition in the 1970 film "The War the Looking Glass. " He also directed the 1976 remake of "King of the Gypsies", "A Star Is Born" with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and 1978.

Pierson has spent most of his career in Hollywood service organizations that help make it a success. "He was the president of the Writers Guild of America for two separate periods, has been teaching at the Sundance Institute, has been an adjunct professor at the USC film school and was the artistic director of the American Film Institute.

It He served as president 31 Âș Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2001-2005, and was a governor of the branch of the writers of 17 years.

"Young rock 'n' rollers are always the old blues musicians as models of how to keep their art more years strong and rebels. For screenwriters, Frank was our master, the old blues for a long time "Phil Alden Robinson Academy governor said in a statement. "It was a great and good man. I miss ya, and I feel very, very fortunate to have known him."

Pierson, born May 12, 1925, in Chappaqua, New York, served in the Army during World War II and earned a degree in cultural anthropology from Harvard University before launching his career.

More recently, Pierson was working as a production consultant and writer on the television series "Mad Men" and "The Good Wife."
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Cuban anti-Castro activist Oswaldo Paya dies at 60


Cuba activist Oswaldo Paya, who has spent decades speaking against the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro and became one of the strongest voices of dissent against the government of his half-century, died Sunday in a car crash in Cuba had 60.

Paya and a man described by the Cuban press as a fellow activist, Harold Cepero Escalante died in a traffic accident in The Seagull, just outside the eastern city of Bayamo, the Cuban authorities said. A Spaniard and a Swede in the car were injured.

Cuba's International Press Centre told the Associated Press reported that witnesses said the driver of the vehicle lost control and struck a tree.

Paya, who draw strength from his Roman Catholic roots, he pressed for the change in his homeland, he again expressed his opposition, after Fidel Castro resigned due to illness in the first months of 2008, calling for the approval of the presidency a disappointment to his younger brother Raul.

Paya has become an activist in late 1980 when he founded the NGO Christian Liberation Movement, which emphasizes the peaceful civic action.

He gained international fame as a top organizer of the Varela Project, a unit of collecting signatures on the authorities to request a referendum on laws guaranteeing civil rights such as freedom of speech and assembly.

Shortly before President Carter visited Cuba in 2002, Paya delivered 11,020 signatures to the parliament of the island in search of this initiative.

He then delivered a second batch of petitions with over 14,000 signatures to the National Assembly, the parliament of Cuba poses a renewed challenge to the socialist island.

The Varela Project was seen as the largest non-violent campaign to change the system greater stability of Castro after the Cuban revolution of 1959.

The government annulled the first set of firms and launched his own successful petition drive to establish the island as a socialist system "irrevocable" in the Cuban Constitution.

Paya has continued its efforts, saying it was important to mobilize human rights in Cuba to ask the government for approval of the project.

However, his influence declined in recent years, particularly its younger activists in the international headlines.

Paya and other former opposition figures are described disparagingly leaked, confidential diplomatic cables Americans as old, divided by petty rivalries and not in contact with young people on the island.

Oswaldo José Paya Sardiñas was born February 29, 1952, the fifth of seven children of a Catholic family.
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First American woman in space Sally Ride dies at 61


Sally Ride, first American woman to travel into space, died Monday after a battle in 17 months against pancreatic cancer, his company. He was 61 years.

Guided tour of the space in the space shuttle Challenger in 1983, when he was 32 years. After his escape, more than 42 American women have flown in space, NASA said.

"Sally was a national hero and a role model. Has inspired generations of girls to get the stars," said President Barack Obama in a statement.

The NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, said Ride "has broken barriers with grace and professionalism -. It literally changed the face of the American space program"

"The nation has lost one of its best leaders, teachers and explorers," he said in a statement.

Volta was an author of five books of physical science for children and president of his company. He was also professor of physics at the University of California at San Diego.

It was selected as an astronaut in 1978, the same year he received his doctorate in physics from Stanford University. She beat five women to be the first American woman in space. Its first flight took place two decades after the Soviets sent into space in a woman

"The launch day, there was much enthusiasm and so going on around us in the crew area, even on the road to the launch pad," he recalled in an interview with the Walk of NASA for the 25 anniversary of his escape in 2008. "I really do not think too much right now - but I have come to appreciate what has been an honor to be selected to be the first to have the opportunity to go into space."

Ride flew in space twice, both the Challenger in 1983 and 1984, logging 343 hours in space. A third flight was canceled when the Challenger exploded in 1986. He was in the commission of inquiry into the incident and later served on the panel for the 2003 Columbia shuttle accident, the only person on both boards.

The 20 anniversary of its first flight also coincided with the loss of Columbia, a bittersweet moment for the laughs, which are discussed in a 2003 interview with The Associated Press. He acknowledged that he was pushing to pass the anniversary of investigating the accident, which killed seven astronauts.

"But in another sense, it is a rewarding opportunity to be part of the solution and of the changes that will occur and improve the program," he said.

Later in the interview, focusing on science education and spoke of "being a role model and that is very visible."

"He was very intelligent," said former astronaut Norman Thagard, who was to walk the first flight. "We had a good time."

E 'was all the work on this first flight, with the exception of the first sprint in the space around the inside of the shuttle, Thagard invoked by telephone on Monday. I did not know who won.

One of the legacies Last Ride will allow high school students to take their own pictures of the Moon with cameras aboard the twin spacecraft of NASA Grail in a race for his business plan.

"Sally literally could do nothing with his life. He decided to dedicate his life to education and to inspire young people. For me, this is something very powerful. E incredibly admirable," said Maria Zuber , Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who heads the mission of the Holy Grail.

Office Ride, Tam O'Shaughnessy said he survived by his partner of 27 years, his mother, Joyce, his sister, Bear, a niece and a nephew.
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Air Force Sergeant Jesse Childress dies at 29

Written By Unknown on Monday 23 July 2012 | 10:26


Jesse Childress, a sergeant of the Air Force for 29 years in the area of Palmdale, was one of 12 people who died in the tragedy.

Childress died as a hero to jump in front of a service member to protect his partner from the bullets. Another service member said Childress saved his life.

"I can not even comprehend the immensity of it," said Thomas Maxwell, a family friend.

The sergeant had gone to see "The Dark Knight Rises" with colleagues from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora.

Childress, who was the town of Lake Los Angeles, was in active service and worked as a computer systems operator. Loved comic books and other sports, said his friends.

"Never heard of this show I feel because I'm so sad," said Laurence Green, a neighbor of the family of Childress. "Nobody should try something."

President Barack Obama has offered comfort to the survivors on Sunday night and the families of the dead, when James Holmes opened fire in a crowded cinema.
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Actress Ginny Tyler dies at 86


As the episodes of "The Mickey Mouse Club" have repackaged for syndication, a court of any new Mouseketeer holding the Main Street Opera House at Disneyland in 1963.

For a year, Ginny Tyler has hosted segments of the new TV series that are woven around the former. As we took viewers behind the scenes of the theme park, plus a note of its resemblance to the original Mouseketeer Annette Funicello.

As one of the "storytellers of Disneyland," said Tyler had these records as "Bambi" and "Babes in Toyland" and would become known to express the characters of animals.

In a role known, has given voice to Polynesia the Parrot, who helps teach Rex Harrison talks to the animals in the 1967 film "Dr. Dolittle".

Tyler died July 13 of natural causes in a nursing home in Issaquah, Washington, said his son, Ty Fenton. He was 86 years.

From a very young age, Tyler "could change my voice at a click of a finger," said the Issaquah Press in 2010.

In the official accounts of Disney, his passion for storytelling and the ability to imitate the sounds of animals has been traced back to his Native American roots.

An ancestor who was a leader of the Snoqualmie Tribe, exchanged their two daughters with a white woman by a piece of property after his wife left him, according to his son. One of the girls was her great-grandmother.

Tyler's talent for the sounds of animals was given probably under his mother, Harriet, an artist who has studied bird song at a school in Los Angeles and joined the organization and play and sing, he Fenton said.

Born Erlandson Merrie Virginia on August 8, 1925 in Berkeley, raised in Seattle. After his parents divorced, she was adopted by his stepfather, Theodore Eggers. He had used very "Ginny", as its name, when he added the name of art "Tyler" in 1950.

A graduate of the University of Washington School of Theatre, Tyler started on the radio before receiving television program for children in Seattle. In late 1950, he moved to Los Angeles soon and saying Disney albums.

In the Disney movie, she played two amorous female squirrels in "The Sword in the Stone" (1963) and sang the parts of different animals to corral "Jolly Holiday" sequence of "Mary Poppins" (1964) .

Among other functions, has expressed its "Casper the friendly ghost" in 1963. "Davey and Goliath" Jan, the damsel in distress in "Space Ghost" cartoons in 1966, and many female characters in the first episodes of the television series 1960

Similarly, a study was established, rare works, in Burbank in 1970 to share their art.

His first marriage ended in divorce. She married Albert Jacobsen in 1980 and moved to Seattle with him in 1994. He died the following year.

In addition to her son, her two surviving brothers, Don and Terry Eggers, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

At Disneyland, organized daily 15-minute segments of "The Mickey Mouse Club", which requires a demanding production schedule. Often told stories through the air, he signed autographs in the park and consider the work of the highlights of his career.

His voice was described in the heart of the Tiki Room birds outside the park.

One day I was raving about how wonderful Disneyland was Walt Disney when he replied. "The same with my narrator Disneyland too" That was me. I never felt more proud, "said Tyler in the 2006 book" The footprints of the mouse, "the story of Walt Disney Records.
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Former Vikings general manager Mike Lynn dies at 76


Mike Lynn, 76, while the executive of the Minnesota Vikings, who made the trade damaged by the Dallas Cowboys Herschel Walker, died Saturday, announced that the Vikings.

Had health problems for years and died at his home in Holly Springs, Mississippi, his son Mike Jr. Lynn told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Lynn, Managing Director of the Vikings from 1975 to 1990 is remembered for one of the biggest trades in NFL history.

The team sent five players and seven draft selections the Cowboys in 1989 for Walker, running back Lynn believes the missing link for a Super Bowl.

Walker has never been shot in Minnesota, Dallas and use the wealth of players and teams to lay the foundation for three Super Bowl wins in 1990.

Known as a relentless negotiator, and leader of the Twin Cities most colorful history of the sport, Lynn rose through the winter of former Vikings owner of Max in a row.

Lynn helped organize an office that has transformed the Vikings into a consistent playoff competitor who has designed and developed three Hall of Fame Randall McDaniel, John Randle and Chris Doleman.

Lynn has played an important role in the drafting of several bowlers in the future, including Pro Joey Browner and Keith Millard, waivers and claimed by Cris Carter, a disturbing element in Philadelphia, which blossomed into one of the best receivers of his time in Minnesota.

The Vikings won seven titles in the NFC Central Division and played in two Super Bowls, while Lynn was the director general.

Also negotiated an agreement with the winter that led to a 10% revenue from all Metrodome events suites for the lifetime of the building, collecting a large financial aid for decades, even after leaving the team .

Lynn left the Vikings in 1990 to become president of the World League of American Football, it doubled after two seasons.

Born May 18, 1936 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lynn grew up in New Jersey and attended Pace University in New York. Before finishing college he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he directed the movie theaters and retail stores.

After a failed attempt to get an NFL expansion team in Memphis, was hired as a staff assistant in the winter of 1974.
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Barbara Jean Carnegie Berwald dies at 94


Barbara Jean Carnegie Berwald, 94, the first wife of media magnate Jack Kent Cooke and sport, the record of a divorce settlement precipitated the sale of the Lakers, Kings and Forum by Jerry Buss, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Purchase, New York, John Kent Cooke his nephew, Jr. said.

Born in 1917 in Port Perry, Canada, and soon after moved with his family in St. Catharines, in the province of Ontario.

Cooke married in 1934, when he was 17 years old and an inclination of 21 years old encyclopedia salesman in case of success.

He moved to California in 1960 and became U.S. citizens. Her husband has acquired the broadcasting, publishing, sports and real estate worth between $ 80 million and $ 100 million when the property was divided in 1979, two years after her divorce.

They were married for 42 years and had two sons, Ralph Kent Cooke and John Kent Cooke.

To finance the liquidation of approximately $ 41,000,000 ordered by Judge Joseph Wapner, Cooke sold his sports teams Los Angeles and Inglewood arena, as well as a cattle ranch in Northern California, in Buss, who still owns the Lakers. The solution was then a U.S. record.

He kept a pair of Bel-Air, was active in charity in Los Angeles and later married Thomas Berwald.
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Columnist Alexander Cockburn dies at 71

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Alexander Cockburn, radical journalist who had written columns and long-standing and bitter conservative Wall Street Journal and the left output of the nation, died Friday in Germany. He was 71 years.

The writer was influential in fighting cancer, according to its editor, Katrina Vanden Heuvel.

Unlike other prominent writer, Christopher Hitchens, with whom he had often been compared, Cockburn does not share the history of the disease. "It was a rare move in a calm race characterized by a thirst for public debate.

For 28 years, Cockburn has written a column once the Devil in the nation. Her last column appears publication July 30.

"Alexander was delighted to be a disturbing element, and his provocative, controversial style, elegant, usually involved, and their reporting and analysis in the sub-windows open unreported news," Vanden Heuvel, director and editor of the Nation, said in an email to The Times.

"I often felt I was not doing my job well, if we have a dozen cancellations of subscriptions as a result of some columns Cockburn."

Cockburn was born June 6, 1941, in Scotland, the son of writer Claud Cockburn.

It grew up in Ireland and graduated from Oxford University in 1963 with a degree in English literature and language.

He began his journalism career in England before moving to the United States in 1973.

Moved to New York where he began writing a column for the Village Voice review of revolutionary media.

"His legacy was his commitment to truth, his disgust with the pretense of objectivity, his belief that every piece of writing has had an ideological inclination, and had to admit that," Amy Wilentz , a contributing editor nation, the Times said in an email.

Cockburn, who had been critical ofIsrael'spolicies was fired from the Village Voice in 1984, after it emerged that he had accepted $ 10,000 from a group described as pro-Arab. Cockburn said the money was for a book deal.

Like Hitchens, Cockburn began his career as a public intellectual as a radical leftist, and then to drift. Both found that the search for independent thought has given rise to opinions that are contrary to those held by their allies.

Where Cockburn, one of the main problems was left burning his denial of global warming, which brought him a measure of public attention in 2007.

In recent years, Cockburn had withdrawn from its privileged position at the public forum. "He had the intellectual firepower to do whatever I wanted," said writer Marc Cooper, a former colleague who had a fight with Cockburn.

"He became lost in a very influential writer in favor of becoming a controversial release of fang."
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Jacqueline Piatigorsky dies at 100


Jacqueline Piatigorsky was born in the Rothschild banking clan and raised in a palace in Paris, but his silver spoon came with a ball and chain.

Rarely left the house and palace was dominated by a nurse insensitive. She felt invisible to their parents, who expected some "of its sensitivity, the daughter socially embarrassing if not for a good marriage.

"I have been a disappointment," he wrote, "a contraction, the child misunderstood."

It was also the highly competitive nature - and taken to be a child of rich and poor. After a failed first marriage, has found happiness as the wife of Gregor Piatigorsky novelist called sky and raised a family in Los Angeles.

Then, based on his 40 years, the childhood obsession became a series of impressive results: It became a U.S. chess champion - in the top five players in the country in 1950 and '60 - as an influential patron of the game, which Piatigorsky Cup tournament has attracted the greatest masters of any international competition in the United States in recent decades.

Later in life, became a sculptor of note, with his first wife, a show in 65 years. Later, he turned back to competitive tennis, winning the national senior tournaments in his 70 years. He continued two interests far beyond his 90 birthday.

"It was a very good fighter," said Laurence Lesser, president of the New England Conservatory of Music, Piatigorsky knew for 60 years. "He was always pushing herself and others around him to do more."

Piatigorsky was 100 years old when he died July 15 at home in Brentwood for a long time. The cause was complications of pneumonia, said his son, Jorem.

Born Jacqueline de Rothschild, 6 November 1911, was the second son of Baron Edouard de Rothschild and his wife, Germaine Alice Halphen.

He spent his childhood in the house of Talleyrand, now part of the United States of Embassycomplex in Paris and the Chateau de Ferrieres, a vast land of lakes, parks, a zoo and private furnished courtesy of Van Dyke and other old masters.

He had an older brother, Guy, and a younger sister, Bathsheba, which has failed for three years because they hated their nannies. Later, they share a nanny, which favored the smaller girl in Jacqueline.

As for his parents, Jacqueline saw the appointment. His quarters were so far from the nursery that "visits to shipments of them seemed," wrote Piatigorsky in 1988 in his memoir, "Jump in the Waves'.

Officials shy and a swarm, was in a perpetual state of confusion and fear, his mother took as a "loser."

At 18, his parents fled the world, marrying Robert Calmann-Levy, editor of the sons of Marcel Proust. The marriage soon took off, especially after learning of his money to support Jacqueline was her lover.

He was 24 when he met Gregor Piatigorsky, the cellist Russian Jew who was in Paris for a concert. They married in 1937. His daughter, Jephthah was born the same year.

Given the fear of the Nazi invasion, he left France in 1939 and settled in Elizabethtown, New York, where his son was born in 1940.

Piatigorsky was devoted to his children, but felt "a burning desire to make something of myself." She has taught to play the bassoon and joined the orchestra of fans, she also learned to fly a plane.

However, his "true love" was chess, taught by a nurse when she was 6 years old, and the recovery of peritonitis. A winter in New York, took pictures to post, including mail exchange with distant opponents in tournaments that have taken a year to complete.

He continued playing after the family moved to Philadelphia and, in 1949, in Los Angeles, where Gregor had accepted a teaching position at USC.

He has played with everyone from the gardener in the arts luminaries as Marcel Duchamp and Sergei Prokofiev.

He referred to the concerns of chess during the week of chess editor of the Los Angeles Times and met Herman Steiner, who became his teacher and his entry into their first meeting face to face tournament.

In 1957 he represented the United States at the Chess Olympiad for the first women in Emmen, the Netherlands, and earned a bronze medal. He finished second in the league of women in the United States in 1965.

Seeing the miserable conditions that require the most tournaments, sponsors, and became an organizer of chess events.

One of his first attempts: a 1961 game between the United States Samuel Reshevsky and Bobby Fischer championship - ended abruptly after Piatigorsky become a game to attend the closing concert of her husband.

Fischer launched an attack and withdrew from the competition, allowing his opponent will be declared the winner.

Another success was the first Piatigorsky Cup tournament, held in 1963 in a ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles Mirror.

His prize of $ 10,000 was the richest in the history of chess in this time and eight great masters, including the first Soviet world champion authorized to enter the United States, Tigran Petrosian. He and Paul Keres, another Soviet champion, tied for first place.

The second contest of the Piatigorsky Cup in 1966 and has 10 international masters, in 1300, the largest crowd I had ever seen a game of chess in this country.

Piatigorsky not only on the condition that the award of $ 20,000, but moves a housing development of innovative system for the analysis stage in the hall.

It also aims to carpet the ballroom at the Hotel Miramar in Santa Monica, where he played the tournament, observers accompanied the seats and controls the crowd.

Fischer, who had boycotted the tournament in 1963, performs well and this time ended in a close second to Boris Spassky.

Jack Peters, who wrote a chess column in the Times for 20 years, said last week that the 1966 competition "could be classified as the best tournament in the history of America" ??for the high level some of the greatest chess players of the game.

Piatigorsky third tournament held, but has left a large legacy. "The two Piatigorsky Cup tournaments, along with the increase of Bobby Fischer on the international stage, has done much to popularize chess in the United States as a legitimate sport, and intellectual activity," said Randall Hough, a chess master and former board member of the U.S. Chess Federation.

The benefactor also introduced thousands of young chess clubs sponsors chess in public schools in Southern California and the invitation of the U.S. Junior, who has produced many great teachers in the future.

He remained a strong contender until two months ago, when he became ill. "When he started a game that had five or six moves ahead," said Petrova Ianka, his assistant and fellow chess frequent. "It's been almost impossible to hit it to end."
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Usher's 11-year-old stepson dies


Usher is 11 years old, died this morning, the stepson of injuries sustained in a tragic jet ski accident in Georgia earlier this month.

Doctors have removed 11 years old, Kyle Glover's life support after it was determined his injuries were too severe to overcome. We were told that the mother of Kyle, Tamek Foster strove greatly to the decision.

According to our sources, Tamek is understandably devastated.

Glover was injured July 8 when he went into an inner tube that was connected to a dock on Lake Lanier.

According to authorities, a family friend who was on a dock behind the jet ski lost control and collided with the tube Glover.
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