VALENTINE'S Gifts
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
DOLLYMIX - Beyonce's letter to Michelle Obama, Apr 17, 2012
NZ HERLAD - Norway gunman's trial by world media, Apr 17, 2012
When the Oslo courtroom doors opened Monday, his wish was at least partly fulfilled.
Some 800 journalists followed his trial for the slayings of 77 people, with broadcasters across Europe showing large chunks of the proceedings live. The extensive coverage triggered a debate over whether the media should provide a platform for a man who admits to killing 77 people to promote his intense anti-Islam ideology."
WASHINGTON POST - Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller, Denmark’s richest man, dies at 98, Apr 17, 2012
A company spokesman confirmed the death but did not disclose the cause.
(LISELOTTE SABROE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) - Danish tycoon Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller, chairman of A.P. Moeller-Maersk, which includes shipping, shipyards, oil, aviation and supermarket chains.
The shy Mr. Mc-Kinney Moeller, who was listed on Forbes magazine’s annual billionaire’s list, turned two small shipping companies that his father had created into a global giant with 108,000 workers in 130 countries. The Moeller-Maersk group owns the world’s biggest publicly held container shipping group, Maersk Sealand."
METRO - Italian footballer Piermario Morosini dies after collapsing during match, Apr 17, 2012
'He suffered a cardiac arrest,' said Dr Edoardo De Blasio, a cardiologist at Pescara's Santo Spirito hospital.
'Unfortunately he was already dead when the ambulance arrived. He never regained consciousness.'"
Dora Saint Died, Apr 17, 2012
"Miss Read specialised in storms in village teacups, and in her fictional hamlets of Thrush Green and Fairacre she conjured up a cosy, idyllic world of thatched cottages, gardens bursting with hollyhocks and roses, and well-tended village greens.
Her cast of characters included mildly eccentric vicars, bossy postmistresses, gentle spinster teachers, farmers’ wives and well-scrubbed children in pinafores and frocks. It was a world where everyone knows everyone else’s business, and which yields only reluctantly to change."
CALGARY HERALD - Roger Caron, bank robber and award-winning author, dead at 73, Apr 17, 2012
The one-time bank robber turned award-winning novelist had been a resident of the Sandfield Place Nursing Home in Cornwall, in eastern Ontario, for a few years. He died there Wednesday, the day before his 74th birthday.
Caron wrote Go-Boy!, a prison memoir that became a national bestseller and won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction in 1977. The book was a powerful and disturbing account of the more than two decades he had spent in jail."
CBS NEWS - Ben Bella, Algerian founding father, dies at 95, Apr 17, 2012
Family members and the state news agency did not give the cause of death, but twice in the last month Ben Bella had been treated at the military hospital of Ain Naadja for discomfort.
The charismatic Ben Bella, a symbol of pan-Arabist ideology as well as the global anti-colonial movement, was president of Algeria from 1963 until he was overthrown in a military coup in 1965 by the army chief of staff, Col. Houari Boumedienne.
Ben Bella was under house arrest until 1980, and he went into self exile in Switzerland until returning to the country in 1990 as part of the opposition to the ruling political party he helped found."
NORTH JERSEY - Beloved Cuban bishop Agustin Roman dies in Miami, Apr 17, 2012
Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman is seen in this undated photo provided by the Archdiocese of Miami.
The Archdiocese of Miami announced Roman went into cardiac arrest and died Wednesday evening. He had suffered from heart disease for several years.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski called Roman a "great patriot" to the Cuban nation.
Officials say Roman and 132 other priests were expelled from Cuba in 1961. He arrived in Miami, where he became a spiritual leader and advocate first for Cuban exiles and later for many other immigrants, including Haitian refugees. He also worked closely with protestant and Jewish leaders."
SGV TRIBUNE - Ed Savko, whose Rock Store on Mulholland Highway provided haven for bikers, dies at 86, Apr 17, 2012
But the patriarch of the Rock Store never took to two wheels. Instead, he and his wife Vern created the world's most famous gathering spot for motorcycles.
"He almost killed himself," said Vern Savko, 84, of Thousand Oaks. "He probably only rode one day."
Hundreds of motorcyclists from throughout Southern California descended Monday on the Mulholland Highway diner to celebrate the patriarch of all motorcycle hangouts."
JEWISH JOURNAL - French reisistance fighter Raymond Aubrac dies, Apr 17, 2012
Aubrac died on Tuesday evening in Paris, at the age of 97, his daughter confirmed.
Aubrac, who was Jewish, was born Raymond Samuel in 1914 in Vesoul in eastern France."
THE GUARDIAN - Christine Brooke-Rose obituary | Books, Apr 17, 2012
LA TIMES - Mark Lenzi obituary: American diving champion dies at 43, Apr 17, 2012
Lenzi's alma mater, Indiana University, announced his death but did not provide the cause. His mother, Ellie, told the family's hometown newspaper, the Free Lance-Star of Fredricksburg, Va., that Lenzi had been hospitalized the last two weeks because of fainting spells caused by low blood pressure.
CENTRO TAMPA - Sales of Kinkade artwork surge after painter dies, Apr 17, 2012
The painting, "Sunday Outing," was being sold on consignment, and when word came Friday night that Kinkade had died, its owner called and asked for the selling price to be raised to $150,000, gallerist Nathan Ross said Monday. The painting sold hours later."
MASS LIVE - Longtime UMass journalism professor Howard Ziff dies, Apr 17, 2012
The longtime professor and veteran newsman was a beloved mentor and friend to hundreds of young journalists whom he inspired during nearly three decades of teaching. Ziff provided his students with the foundation of journalism technique and philosophy while regaling them with tales from the newsrooms and streets of Chicago during the late 1950s and 1960s."
NEWS.CNET - Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83, Apr 17, 2012
Famous for saying that computers should be built "for masses, not the classes," Tramiel played an important role in the early days of personal computing and video gaming, as his company introduced a line of powerful but affordable home computers, including the popular Commodore 64. The latter became the best-selling home computer of all time, with an estimated 20 to 30 million units sold, though Tramiel wasn't one to brag. In fact, he was most content when not in the spotlight."
Frank H. NY TIMES - Strickler, a Watergate Defense Lawyer, Is Dead at 92, Apr 17, 2012
CNN News - Thomas Kinkade, popular artist, dies at age 54, Apr 17, 2012
ABC News - Mike Wallace Dies: '60 Minutes' Correspondent Was 93, Apr 17, 2012
He had been in declining health in recent years but a cause of death has yet to be released. He was 93.
"It is with tremendous sadness that we mark the passing of Mike Wallace," CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves said in a statement on the CBS News website. " His extraordinary contribution as a broadcaster is immeasurable and he has been a force within the television industry throughout its existence. His loss will be felt by all of us at CBS.""
GREEK REPORTER - Greek Singer Dimitris Mitropanos Dies at 64, Apr 17, 2012
Mitropanos was born on April 2nd 1948 in the city of Trikala in northwest Thessaly where he lived until the age of 16. He began his musical career in 1964.
Mitropanos worked with some of the best known Greek composers, such as Mikis Theodorakis,Stavros Xarhakos, Madra Mandicencio, Manos Hadjidakis, Marios Tokas and Thanos Mikroutsikos,and had been one of the top performers of Greek popular music for over four decades."
GREECE Easter April 15, 2012
"Orthodox Easter / Pascha (Eastern + Oriental Orthodox Christianity; Cyprus, Bulgaria, Albania, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Syria, Ukraine, etc.)
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