R.I.P. THREAD

[Tangerine Dream]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!

[Reveal] Spoiler:

[DougC]

Aw shucks!

In dog years, I'm dead already.

[Tangerine Dream]

[DougC]

Give me time.

[DougC]

Boris Vladimirovich Dubin
(December 1946 – 20 August 2014])
Russian sociologist, and a translator for English, French, Spanish, Latin American and Polish literature. Dubin was the head of department of sociopolitical researches at the Levada Center and the assistant to Lev Gudkov, editor-in-chief of the sociological journal Russian Public Opinion Herald published by the Center. Additionally he was a lecturer of sociology of culture at the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Moscow higher school of social and economic sciences.
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James Wright Foley
(October 18, 1973 – c. August 19, 2014)
American photojournalist. He was abducted by Jihadists in northwestern Syria on November 22, 2012 while working for the U.S.-based online news outlet GlobalPost. In August 2014, he was beheaded by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in stated revenge for United States airstrikes on the group. Foley was the first American citizen killed by ISIS.
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[Tangerine Dream]

India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies aged 95.

The man regarded by many as the father of modern yoga, B. K. S. Iyengar, has died, aged 95.

The guru himself practiced the form of yoga he described as both an art and a science for about eighty years.

Until Mr Iyengar fell ill last year, he could still hold a headstand for more than half an hour.
Born: December 14, 1918 (age 95), Bellur, Karnataka
Died: August 20, 2014
Spouse: Ramamani Iyengar (m. 1943–1973)
Children: Geeta Iyengar, Prashant Iyengar, Sunita Iyengar, Vanita Iyengar, Savita Iyengar, Suchita Iyengar
Parents: Sheshamma, Sri Krishnamachar

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[Calilasseia]

Helen Bamber

From the BBC ...

Human rights campaigner Helen Bamber has died, aged 89, the charitable foundation set up in her name has said.

Mrs Bamber began helping victims of torture and atrocities of war in 1945, when she worked with survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.

In a career lasting nearly 70 years she worked to promote human rights and set up the Helen Bamber Foundation in 2005.

Film stars Colin Firth and Emma Thompson paid tribute to a "human rights icon".

In a statement Mrs Bamber's foundation said it was "with deep anguish" that it was announcing the death of its founder.

It said she had helped "tens of thousands of men, women and children to confront the horror and brutality of their experiences".

Later on, the article continues:

In 1945, she was a member of one of the first relief teams to enter the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, helping survivors and the "many thousands" from the camps who remained displaced after the war ended.

Two years later, she was appointed to the Committee for the Care of Children from Concentration Camps, to take care of 722 young orphan children who had been incarcerated at Auschwitz concentration camp.

She helped to establish the first medical group in the British section of Amnesty International, which recorded testimony and documented evidence of human rights violations.

Mrs Bamber founded the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture in 1985 and was named European Woman of Achievement in 1993.

Wikipedia page devoted to Helen Bamber.

[DougC]

Helen Bamber OBE
(née Balmuth, 1 May 1925 - 21 August 2014)
British psychotherapist who worked with Holocaust survivors in Germany after the concentration camps were liberated in 1945. In 1947, she returned to Britain and continued her work, helping to establish Amnesty International and later co-founding the Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture. In 2005, she created the Helen Bamber Foundation to help survivors of human rights violations.
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[DougC]

John Stewart Waugh
(April 25, 1929 – August 22, 2014)
American chemist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] He is known for developing average hamiltonian theory and using it to extend NMR spectroscopy, previously limited to liquids, to the solid state.
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Emmanuel G Kriaras
(28 November 1906 – 22 August 2014)
Greek lexicographer and philologist. He was Emeritus Professor of the School of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was a student of Jean Psychari and the practice and ideology of demotic Greek. His work encompassed all the language matters of Greek and of Greece.
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[DougC]

Hajo Meyer
(12 August 1924 – 23 August 2014)
German-Dutch physicist and Jewish political activist.
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[Kaleid]

Richard Attenborough
(29 August 1923 - 24 August 2014)

British actor and film director Richard Attenborough has died at the age of 90.

He died at lunchtime on Sunday, his son told BBC News.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28923074

[hackenslash]

Probably the best film psycho ever, and director of some pretty awesome films.

[Animavore]

A friend of mine from the past died. My first instict was to assume drink or drug related, or death by misadventure. She simply fell down a stairs and broke her neck...

I don't know how I feel about this.

[THWOTH]

[orpheus]

:hugs:

+1

I'm so sorry to hear this, Ani! My condolences.

[james1v]

90 is a good innings. Unless your ninety.

[Ironclad]

[DougC]

Alexander Galbraith "Sandy" Wilson
(19 May 1924 – 27 August 2014)
English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend (1953).
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Yehezkel Braun
(January 18, 1922 – August 27, 2014)
Israeli composer. In 1975, Braun studied Gregorian chant with Dom Jean Claire at the Benedictine monastery of Solesmes in France. His main academic interests were traditional Jewish melodies and Gregorian chants.
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Valeri Petrov
(22 April 1920 – 27 August 2014)
Popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin.
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[Tangerine Dream]

Brazil's Antonio Ermirio De Moraes, One Of FORBES' Original Billionaires, Dead At 86

Antonio Ermirio de Moraes, a Brazilian billionaire and former chairman of family-owned Grupo Votorantim, Latin America’s fifth-largest diversified industrial conglomerate, died this Sunday from heart failure at his home in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was 86.

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[DougC]

Hal Finney
(May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014)
American developer for PGP Corporation, and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmermann. In his early career, he was credited as lead developer on several console games (Adventures of Tron, Armor Ambush, Astroblast, Space Attack). He was a 1979 graduate of the California Institute of Technology, holding a BS in engineering.
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William Henry Kerr
(10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014)
South African-born Australian actor and comedian. Beginning as a child performer in Australia, he moved to Great Britain after World War II and developed a career as a performer in comedy, especially gaining notice in the radio version of Hancock's Half Hour. In middle age, Kerr returned to Australia and developed a second career as a character actor.
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