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I wonder how many youngsters will go "Oh yeah, the bloke that wrote those Xbox games!".
Tom Clancy was an exception to the rule- they made some pretty good movies out of his mediocre novels.
the author who got me interested in books as a kid. his attention to detail was second to none. actually think john clark was his best character, not jack ryan, shame he didnt do more books about him.
Author Tom Clancy dead at 66
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Tom Clancy studied literature at the Loyola College in Baltimore and was originally an insurance salesman before becoming famous for writing technically detailed espionage and military science books.
He is responsible for best-selling books such as "The Hunt for Red October," "Patriot Games," "Clear and Present Danger," and "The Sum of All Fears" — all of which were adapted into major Hollywood films.
In 1996, Clancy co-founded the video game developer Red Storm Entertainment and has had his name on several of Red Storm's most successful games.
Red Storm was later bought by publisher Ubisoft Entertainment for an undisclosed sum.
In 2002, Forbes wrote, "Clancy can produce a guaranteed bestseller just by writing two words: his name."
"When it comes to leveraging his brand across multiple channels, he is positively protean," Forbes continued, noting his income at the time made him the tenth-best earner on Forbes Celebrity 100 list for 2002. His net worth today is reported to be around $300 million.
Clancy has been a lifetime supporter of conservative and Republican causes in America, a member of the National Rifle Association since 1978, and was part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles.
His next book, “Command Authority,” is planned for publication on December"
I knew there was something essentially good about him!:D
First Vince Flynn and now Tom Clancy. There's a conspiracy going here killing off all these Patriotic Americans...:confused:
he was a weird looking bloke
I'm telling you, it's Rodney fucking Dangerfield.Quote:
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Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who masterminded victories against France and the US, has died aged 102.
His defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 effectively ended French colonial rule in the region.
He was North Vietnam's defence minister at the time of the Tet Offensive against American forces in 1968, often cited as a key campaign that led to the Americans' withdrawal.
Gen Giap also published a number of works on military strategy.
He was born into a peasant family in the central Quang Binh province of what was then French Indochina.
At the age of 14, he joined a clandestine resistance movement.
By 1938 he was a member of Ho Chi Minh's Indochinese Communist party and fled to China with Ho, ahead of the Japanese invasion of Vietnam.
Gen Giap organised an army from his Chinese exile and returned to Indochina to wage a guerrilla war against the occupying Japanese.
While he was out of Vietnam, his first wife was arrested and died in a French prison. He later remarried and had three daughters and two sons.
After his role in the war against the French, Gen Giap was credited for his leadership at the time of the 1968 Tet Offensive against US forces.
Troops ultimately under his command attacked more than 40 provincial capitals and entered Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam, briefly capturing the US embassy. But he was not personally involved in the operation, as he was in Budapest at the time.
After the war, Gen Giap retained his position as defence minister and was appointed deputy prime minister in 1976.
However, he found himself sidelined by the regime and retired from government six years later.
BBC News - Vietnam's General Vo Nguyen Giap dies
He didn't seem too bothered about losing an awful lot of men to get his wishes ....
if the poms had not let the french resume their arrogant ways in 1945 it is likely a lot less men would have diedQuote:
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Troy, neither did General Grant, but perhaps you hold Americans to a different standard.Quote:
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General Hal Moore (of "We Were Soldiers Once and Young" fame) comments on his discussions with General Giap below: Harold Moore | The Opinion Mill
One of the things that Giap told Joe and me in our first talk with him in 1990 was that if the Pentagon--and he used the word "Pentagon"--had studied and learned from the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, you would not have picked up the war from the French. I've thought over the years what he meant about that, and I've reached my conclusions. I have concluded that America had a Dien Bien Phu also, and it was Vietnam. As Mr. Karnow has pointed out, the problem began with Truman, extended through six presidential administrations from Truman on with all the different secretaries of defense, all those different secretaries of state, all those different policies.* All the while, the leadership in Hanoi remained the same, with the same objectives, the same men in charge. Giap told us that their strategy was a political-military strategy involving all their people and eventually involving the American people. Based on a simple phrase from Ho Chi Minh, "Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence," Giap told us on that first trip that he thought we had a strategy. "We had a strategy," he said. "It was people's war. But your strategy was helicopter tactics. And it's very difficult to defeat a sound strategy with tactics." He was absolutely right.
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*Supporting "leaders" like Ngo Dinh Diem. . .:rofl:
Far from it...but General Grant hasn't just popped off.Quote:
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My comment could be taken the other way...
If it's worth fighting for then put your full effort into it irrespective of losses. The Brits lost more soldiers in one day at the Somme than the US in Vietnam...
Sir Michael Stoker
Sir Michael Stoker, who has died aged 95, was the first Professor of Virology ever to be appointed at a British university and played a major role in the development of post-war biomedical research, serving as director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories from 1968 to 1979.
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During his years as a research scientist Stoker made contributions to our understanding of the behaviour of bacteria and viruses, to the role of viruses in causing cancer, and to cancer biology, which have helped to transform the field.
This work began when Stoker was stationed in India during the Second World War as a Medical Officer at the central military pathology laboratory in Poona. There he studied Rickettsiae, a genus of bacteria that cause typhus in humans, which were thought, at the time, to be viruses because they are very small and are intracellular parasites. After his return to Britain, where he became a demonstrator and a lecturer in Pathology at Cambridge University, Stoker confirmed that Rickettsiae are in fact bacteria, that their genetic material is DNA and that they undergo antigenic variation (a mechanism by which an infectious agent alters its surface proteins in order to evade a host immune response) — helping to shed light on how Rickettisae cause disease.
At the same time, Stoker embarked on research into the Herpes simplex virus — which causes cold sores. He demonstrated an eclipse phase (the period between when a cell is infected and when the symptoms first appear) during the virus replication cycle of Herpes and, together with Peter Wildy, devised techniques for the isolation of single cells and pure cell clones, a breakthrough which enabled him to study the mechanisms of virus release from individual, infected cells.
After moving from Cambridge to Glasgow to take up the first Chair of Virology in Britain, Stoker began with his colleague Ian Macpherson to look at the polyoma virus, which causes cancerous tumours in rodents, isolating a line of rodent kidney cells, known as BHK21, which could be transformed by polyoma into cells which behave like cancer cells. Not only was this the first cell line to be isolated that enabled the study of the operation of a cancer virus and the behaviour of cancer cells, BHK21 cells went on to prove useful in other areas, including the development of a vaccine for foot and mouth disease.
Stoker discovered that, while normal cells cease to grow in high-density cultures, cancer cells continue to multiply and can grow even when they are not attached to a solid support, which normal cells require for growth. He went on to discover that normal cells can suppress the growth of neighbouring cancer cells — a process which is yet to be completely understood by scientists but which represents a mechanism that could potentially be used to halt the initial growth of tumours.
The son of a doctor, Michael George Parke Stoker was born at Taunton, Somerset, on July 4 1918 and educated at Oakham School, Rutland, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read Medicine. His clinical training at St Thomas’ Hospital, London was interrupted by wartime service in India in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Stationed in Poona, he took a course in laboratory medicine, taught by William Hayes and Douglas Black, which convinced him that his future lay in research.
After gaining his medical qualifications Stoker returned to Cambridge, where he became a lecturer in pathology and a Fellow of Clare, where he became director of medical studies. In 1959 he was invited to Glasgow to start a new Institute of Virology with support from the Medical Research Council.
Nine years later he moved to London to become the director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories which, over the next 10 years, he transformed into an internationally-renowned centre of research excellence, introducing the new disciplines of genetics and molecular biology and carrying out much needed administrative reforms.
After he retired from the ICRF in 1979 he returned to Cambridge, where he was able to devote his time more fully to pure research. In the early 1980s he observed that the behaviour of epithelial cells (the cells of the liver, lung, pancreas, kidney and skin), can be controlled by fibroblasts — the cells of the connective tissues. These studies led to the isolation of a protein, known as “scatter factor”, produced by certain fibroblasts, that causes dispersal of epithelial cell colonies and plays an important role in the relationship between cancerous and non-cancerous cells.
In the 1980s Stoker spent seven happy years as President of Clare Hall, a graduate offshoot of Clare College. He also found time to rekindle an interest in painting, in which he was highly proficient, winning the Baron Dr Ver Heyden de Lancey prize of the Medical Art Society.
Stoker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968 and served as vice-president and foreign secretary of the society. He was appointed CBE in 1974 and knighted in 1980.
In 1942 he married Veronica English, who died in 2004. He is survived by their three sons and two daughters.
Sir Michael Stoker, born July 4 1918, died August 13 2013
Radiator and Pogue Phil Chevron dies at 56
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Radiators from Space founder and Pogues guitarist Phil Chevron has passed away following a long battle with cancer.
The much-loved musician and songwriter died at around midday today, Tuesday October 8th, at the age of 56.
Chevron was last seen publicly in August at a Testimonial fundraiser at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre that saw actor Aidan Gillen and writer Roddy Doyle join many musical acts to pay tribute to the terminally-ill guitarist.
Born Philip Ryan in the Dublin suburb of Santry, he suffered from a recurrence of head and neck cancer. He was first diagnosed with throat cancer in the summer of 2007 and had been undergoing treatment ever since.
Plans are being put in place for a memorial service, but no date or location have been set at this time.
Chevron was a pivotal figure in the Irish music scene and was a founding member of Irish punk pioneers The Radiators From Space, whose 1979 album Ghostown is a landmark in Irish rock.
Chevron is credited with penning classic Radiators' songs including Television Screen – the first punk single in the world to make the top 20 – as well Ballad of the Faithful Departed and Under Clery’s Clock.
After the Radaitors split, Chevron went on to join The Pogues as a full-time member in 1984 and wrote some of their greatest songs including Thousands are Sailing.
The Radiators From Space - Under Clery's Clock - YouTube
US Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter dies at 88
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Scott Carpenter was commissioned in the US Navy in 1949
Scott Carpenter, one of the last surviving members of the Mercury 7 - Nasa's first group of astronauts - has died aged 88, his family has announced.
In 1962 Mr Carpenter became the second American to orbit the earth, piloting the Aurora 7 spacecraft through three revolutions of the earth.
After retiring in 1969 he took up oceanographic activities.
John Glenn, who flew the first orbital mission, is the last surviving member of the Mercury team.
Scott Carpenter's wife, Patty Barrett, said her husband had suffered complications following a stroke in September and died in a Denver hospice.
He lived in Vail, Colorado.
Mr Carpenter, who was born in Boulder, Colorado, was commissioned in the US Navy in 1949 and served as a pilot during the Korean War.
Overshot landing
In April 1959 he was selected as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts and underwent training with Nasa, specialising in communication and navigation.
He was the backup pilot for John Glenn during preparation for the first US manned orbital space flight in February 1962, and gave the historic send-off to his teammate: "Godspeed, John Glenn.''
During his own flight, Scott Carpenter's capsule landed 288 miles away from where it was meant to, leaving Nasa and the nation waiting anxiously to see if he had survived.
The Navy recovered him from the Caribbean, floating in his life-raft with his feet propped up.
In a joint lecture with John Glenn 49 years later at the Smithsonian Institution, Mr Carpenter recalled his feelings from that time.
"You're looking out at a totally black sky, seeing an altimeter reading of 90,000ft and realise you are going straight up. And the thought crossed my mind: What am I doing?''
Scott Carpenter did not go back into space but later joined the US Navy's SeaLab II programme and in 1965 spent 30 days under the ocean off the coast of California.
After retirement he founded his company Sea Sciences, working closely with diver and researcher Jacques Cousteau.
Unix creator Dennis Ritchie dies aged 70
Pioneering computer scientist Dennis Ritchie has died after a long illness.
Dr Ritchie was one of the creators of the hugely influential Unix operating system and the equally pioneering C programming language.
A vast number of modern technologies depend on the work he and fellow programmers did on Unix and C in the early days of the computer revolution.
Those paying respects said he was a "titan" of the industry whose influence was largely unknown.
The first news of Dr Ritchie's death came via Rob Pike, a former colleague who worked with him at Bell Labs. Mr Ritchie's passing was then confirmed in a statement from Alcatel Lucent which now owns Bell Labs.
Jeong Kim, president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, said Dr Ritchie would be "greatly missed".
"He was truly an inspiration to all of us, not just for his many accomplishments, but because of who he was as a friend, an inventor, and a humble and gracious man," said Mr Kim.
Along with Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna, Dr Ritchie was one of the key creators of the Unix operating system at Bell Labs during the 1960s and 70s.
Unix's influence has been felt in many ways. It established many software engineering principles that persist until today; it was the OS of choice for the internet; it kicked off the open source movement and has been translated to run on many different types of hardware.
It was also at Bell that Dr Ritchie created C, one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. It is familiar to almost every modern-day developer.
n 1999, Dr Ritchie's influence and accomplishments won official notice when he was awarded the US National Medal of Technology - the highest honour America can bestow on a technologist.
Mr Pike said that with his passing, the world had lost a "truly great mind."
BBC News - Unix creator Dennis Ritchie dies aged 70
The GOD of programming for those, like me brought up on K&R C.....
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He was a mere amateur compared with Field Marshal Douglas Haig who was the British commander at the Battle of the Somme, which saw the highest British casualties in history.Quote:
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Two million men under his command were slaughtered.
Haig simply didn't grasp the concept of mechanised warfare and was happily ordering infantry to charge machine-gun nests with rather predictable results.
A well known supporting actor, probably don't know his name but you must know his face..
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Ed Lauter, a veteran character actor whose showbiz career stretched across five decades, died on Wednesday. He was 74.
The Long Beach, New York, native's death was caused by mesothelioma, which is a rare form of cancer most commonly caused by asbestos exposure, his publicist told the Associated Press.
Lauter is best known for playing stern and authoritative characters in movies and on TV — the military man, police detective, tough prison guard, and no-nonsense dad or coach. And while his name may not be recognizable at first look, his face likely is due to the vast number of roles he's had in popular movies and shows over the last 30 years.
Yusai Sakai
Yusai Sakai left a life of failure to become a Japanese "marathon monk", completing one of the most rigourous athletic challenges on the planet - twice
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Yusai Sakai, who has died aged 87, was a Japanese monk and one of only a handful of men to complete the Sennichi Kaihogyo, a seven-year quest for enlightenment that ranks among the toughest known physical challenges; at the age of 61 he became only the third monk ever to complete it for a second time.
Sakai was one of the so-called “marathon monks” who for 1,300 years have worshipped on Mount Hiei, just north of the ancient city of Kyoto. Unlike most Buddhists, who believe that enlightenment is a process which can be achieved only over several lifetimes through the process of reincarnation, Tendai Buddhists, like the monks of Mt Hiei, consider enlightenment possible in one lifetime.
Not that the process is easy. Enlightenment, they believe, is attained through acts of ascetic devotion to Buddha. The most extreme of these is the Sennichi Kaihogyo, an epic trek through the mountains surrounding their temple, Enryaku.
It involves walking increasing distances over 1,000 days, divided into 100-day chunks, during a period of seven years. The distances gradually increase so that, in the seventh and final year, devotees are walking 51 miles (two marathons) each day. If for any reason – from blister to boar attack – they should fail to complete a day, the traditional requirement is suicide.
By the time that the 60-year-old Sakai was completing his second Sennichi Kaihogyo (literally, “the practice of circling the mountains”), the regime was taking its toll. He would rise at midnight for a simple meal of vegetables and miso soup, his only food for the day. Dressed in white burial robes (in acceptance of death), he set out on hand-woven straw sandals to visit some of the 270 places of worship scattered around the mountain landscape. By his own account, if it was a good day he would be back at Enryaku by 9pm. If not, there were no allowances, and he would be on the move again at midnight. Whatever torments he suffered his face remained impassive.
Apart from a flaming torch to light the way, he carried with him a knife and a rope to kill himself “had Buddha wanted it” and he had not been able to complete the course. The path he followed remains lined with shrines to those monks who had faltered.
But the Sennichi Kaihogyo is not purely a feat of walking vast distances. In the test’s fifth year monks begin the Do-iri – a nine-day fast during which they are denied food, water and sleep. Scientists consider that anything beyond seven days in such conditions risks death. During the Do-iri the monks retreat deep into their temple, emerging only once a day (at 2am) to collect water from a sacred spring 200 yards away. On the first day this process takes minutes. By the ninth day, with the monks drastically enfeebled, it takes hours. The point is to bring the monk face to face with death. Those who have endured it claim that their senses are dramatically heightened, so that they “can hear the ashes fall from incense sticks”.
“Your nails die during Do-iri and you develop deep furrows in your hands, between your fingers,” Sakai revealed in an interview. “On the second day your lips dry out. On the fourth day you see spots on your body and you start to smell like a rotten fish. You have to burn incense to cover the smell. On the fifth day they bring you water to gargle. You have to spit the water out into a different cup. If the amount you spit out is less than you put in your mouth, you fail the ritual.” By the end of the Do-iri he had lost a quarter of his body weight.
Having completed the Sennichi Kaihogyo for the first time, Sakai became a Daigyoman Ajari, or “Saintly Master Of The Highest Practice”. In Imperial Japan, monks with such status were granted a special place at court, and were the only people allowed to wear shoes in the presence of the Emperor. In modern times those who have completed the Sennichi Kaihogyo become celebrities, with cameras transmitting the final stages of their journey live to the nation. Yet as he completed his first journey, Sakai was not happy. “The first time I didn’t feel satisfied, I could have done a lot of things better,” he said. Such sentiments were a reminder of his early years, before he dedicated himself to the monastery, and when his life was far from spiritual.
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Yusai Sakai was born on September 5 1926 and was, by his own admission, a poor student: “As a child at school I failed my exams again and again.” Unable to graduate, he signed up to the Japanese war effort, serving – according to some sources – in Unit 731, a notorious chemical warfare unit active in China. Others have suggested he volunteered as a kamikaze pilot, only for the war to end before he could make the “ultimate sacrifice”.
His situation did not improve much in post-war Japan. He tried once more to enter university but again failed, drifting instead into various jobs around Tokyo. He got married but at almost 40 was still living hand-to-mouth: “Sometimes I’d find work for a month, sometimes two years, but I’d wander and work, wander and work.” Then his wife committed suicide.
“I was lazy and had a good-for-nothing life,” he said, looking back. Mourning his wife, in 1965 he made a pilgrimage to Mt Hiei on foot from Osaka. There he appealed to the monks to be allowed to join their number. Told he was too old, Sakai was allowed to perform a prayer ceremony that involved standing under a freezing waterfall, then rising from his knees 108 times. “Every time that I rose, I could feel my faith grow,” said Sakai. He was accepted into the order.
Six years later he announced his taste for the harshest ritual when he embarked on the “ceaseless nembutsu”, an incantation of the name of Buddha over 90 days, with only two hours of sleep allowed each day. No one had performed this act of devotion for a century, deeming it too risky. Sakai himself counted it even more daunting than the Sennichi Kaihogyo. “I saw this golden glow in the distance, and all these dancing specks of light, and I remember coming down from what seemed like an immense height and just gliding,” he said afterwards. “I’m sure that if I’d just followed the feeling, and if I hadn’t opened my eyes when I hit the floor, I would have passed over into death.”
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The monks wear hand-woven straw sandals, going through four or five pairs a day in tough conditions - REX
By the end of the Sennichi Kaihogyo the monks are, inevitably, supremely fit (if often a little deformed), taking 20 minutes to complete the 1,400ft climb back up the mountain that novices puff at for three-quarters of an hour. Marathon and extreme endurance runners have attempted to train with the monks on Sennichi Kaihogyo, but the relentlessness of the ritual is unmatched in modern athletics.
In recent years, Yusai Sakai’s celebrity spread beyond the borders of Japan, where people would queue for his blessing. He continued to walk, making journeys in India and China. He was presented to Pope John Paul II in 1995.
“The message I wish to convey is, please, live each day as if it is your entire life,” he said. “If you start something today, finish it today; tomorrow is another world. Life live positively.”
His pupil, Genshin Fujinami, completed the Sennichi Kaihogyo in 2003.
Yusai Sakai, born September 5 1926, died September 21 2013
Bane of parents and friend of dentists the world over....
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Hans Riegel the man behind Haribo dies aged 90
Last updated Tue 15 Oct 2013
Hans Riegel, the man behind Germany's Haribo confectionery and much-loved gummy bears, has died aged 90.
Riegel spent almost 70 years at the helm of Haribo, which was founded by his candymaker father in 1920. From a small firm struggling with the shortages of post-war Germany, he built it into a world famous brand exporting to 100 countries.
Gummy bears.
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Hans Riegel, the man behind Germany's Haribo confectionery and much-loved gummy bears, has died aged 90. Credit: Reuters
Haribo, short for Hans Riegel Bonn originally called gummy bears dancing bears and as they were inspired by the performing brown bears that once appeared at circuses and fetes.
Riegel underwent a successful operation earlier this year to remove a brain tumour and his death from heart failure came unexpectedly.
"Thank you Hans Riegel, for making our lives sweeter!" fan Kilian Muth posted on the Haribo Germany facebook page.
22 October 2013
Noel Harrison: Windmills Of Your Mind singer dies at 79
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The British singer and actor lived most of his life in America before returning to Devon
The son of the actor Rex Harrison, he was best known for recording the hit song The Windmills Of Your Mind on The Thomas Crown Affair soundtrack.
It won best song at the 1968 Oscars and was later covered by artists including Dusty Springfield.
Harrison spent much of his life in America, as an actor and performer, but moved back to the UK in the last decade or so to live in South Devon.
He once said, of recording The Windmills Of Your Mind: "It didn't seem like a big deal at the time. I went to the studio one afternoon and sang it and pretty much forgot about it."
Harrison continued: "I didn't realise until later what a timeless, beautiful piece Michel LeGrand and the Bergmans had written. It turned out to be my most notable piece of work."
After moving to the US, he starred in the TV series The Girl from UNCLE and had chart hits with A Young Girl and Suzanne, by Leonard Cohen.
On his website he wrote: "I was part of the 'British Invasion' spearheaded by The Beatles. I bought a nice house in Los Angeles.
Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison was married six times
"There was another US charts record and four years of endless TV appearances, theatre tours and star-studded social occasions."
However he revealed he "didn't like being a celebrity" and spent his sixties mixing performing with construction work before moving back to the UK, adding, "I was well out of the goldfish bowl and I liked it."
Ski champion
Harrison was born in London on 29 January 1934, to Rex Harrison and his mother, Collette Thomas, the first of six Mrs Rex Harrisons.
They later divorced and he lived by in Bude, Cornwall, with his mother's parents before she took him to live in the Swiss Alps at 15.
Harrison never went to school again but indulged his passion for ski-racing instead, becoming British champion in 1953.
He was married three times and had children and grandchildren from his first two marriages.
An admirer of Jacques Brel, Harrison created a one-man musical, Adieu, Jacques in the 1980s and, in 2002, released an album of songs from the show.
Harrison played Glastonbury Festival's Spirit of '71 stage in 2011, marking 40 years since his first appearance at the festival.
I particularly liked the version in The Thomas Crown Affair, but I hadn't realized it was sung by Rex Harrison's son.
RIP and thanks, Noel.
Dr Feelgood and Yardbirds guitarist Gypie Mayo has died aged 62.
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He replaced Wilko Johnson in Dr Feelgood from 1977 to 1981, before going on to work with Yardbirds from 1996 to 2004.
Johnson announced the news on his Facebook page today, writing "Very sad to hear Gypie Mayo passed away this morning..RIP Gypie".
Gypie, born John Phillip Cawthra, worked at a printing shop for three years, before joining blues band White Mule in 1969.
After the band split he played in various groups before replacing joining Dr Feelgood. He played with the group for four years and appears on six albums, including Be Seeing You, Private Practice, and As It Happens.
He also co-wrote Dr Feelgood’s only UK top 10 single "Milk And Alcohol", and played on four of the five other Dr Feelgood singles to have appeared in the UK Singles Chart.
Dr Feelgood - Milk and Alcohol - YouTube
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Thailand’s Supreme Patriarch, who headed the country’s order of Buddhist monks for more than two decades, died on Thursday. He was 100.
Doctors said that Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara died at Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, where he had been treated since being admitted for an illness more than a decade ago on Feb. 20, 2002.
“His overall condition deteriorated and he passed away at 7:30 p.m. from an infection in his blood vessels,” the doctors said in a statement.
The Supreme Patriarch was able to perform leadership duties from the hospital for a time, but in 2004, a senior Buddhist monk was appointed to work on his behalf. That monk died earlier this year, raising speculation about who the Supreme Patriarch’s successor will be.
His successor will be formally appointed by Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Thailand is the world’s most heavily Buddhist country, with more than 90 per cent of its 67 million people members of the religion. As the head of the religion, the patriarch has legal authority to oversee different sects of Buddhism.
The Supreme Patriarch promotes Buddhism and leads the Sangha Supreme Council, which oversees the country’s Buddhist monks and novices of all sects. The council’s job is to make sure monks follow Buddha’s teachings and do not violate the rules set by the council.
The Supreme Patriarch was a friend of His Holiness Dalai Lama of Tibet, who called the Thai monk “my elder brother.” The Dalai Lama paid several visits to Thailand since his first state visit in 1967, and each time he would visit the temple where the Supreme Patriarch resided to have a discussion.
The Supreme Patriarch was born Charoen Gajavatra on Oct. 3, 1913, in Thailand’s western province of Kanchanaburi, the eldest of the three sons. He was still a boy when his father died, and was raised by his aunt.
He became gravely ill as a boy, and his family made a promise to sacred spirits that he would become a monk if he recovered. He did, and he became a novice when he turned 14.
The future Supreme Patriarch moved to Bangkok in 1929 to a well-respected Buddhist temple to continue his religious studies.
He returned briefly to his hometown to get ordained and became a monk in 1933. He was named Suvaddhano – “one who prospers well” – by the Supreme Patriarch of the time, and rose through the ranks of the monkhood. In 1956, when King Bhumibol spent 15 days as an ordained monk, the future patriarch taught and supervised him.
He served as secretary of the Supreme Patriarch who preceded him, and was appointed the top Buddhist monk in 1989, when he took on the name Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara – “a person of great insight.”
Augusto Odone, inventor of 'Lorenzo's Oil', dies at 80
Sapa-AP | 25 October, 2013 13:21
Augusto Odone, a former World Bank economist who invented a treatment to save his child's life, has died in his native Italy. He was 80.
His daughter Cristina Odone says her father died Thursday after suffering organ failure precipitated by a lung infection.
Odone's battle to help his son Lorenzo was depicted in a 1992 movie, "Lorenzo's Oil," with Nick Nolte playing the elder Odone.
Lorenzo was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy, a neurological disease, when he was 6. Doctors predicted he would die in childhood. But Augusto and his wife Michaela relentlessly sought treatment.
Augusto Odone taught himself enough science to formulate a concoction derived from natural cooking oils for Lorenzo. Studies later suggested the oil appears to delay symptoms.
Lorenzo died in 2008 at age 30.
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Y Viva Espana singer dies aged 82
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Escobar sang in 2010 when Spain's football team won the World Cup
Singer Manolo Escobar, whose best-selling track Y Viva Espana became part of Spain's cultural identity in the 1970s, has died aged 82.
Escobar died at home in the town of Benidorm surrounded by his family, after a long fight against cancer.
He was "a symbol who lived in the musical landscape of Spaniards for half a century," Spain's culture minister, Jose Ignacio Wert, said in a statement.
"Music is my life," Escobar said this month. "I will never surrender."
"I am happy because I have work and because, moreover, people are still prepared to pay to see me on stage," the singer said in an interview with Spanish newspaper ABC.
"I want to return to a few of the places I have been to in my career of more than 50 years and say goodbye for good. I will sing one more time in each one so that I don't go back," he added.
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The singer was married to his wife Anita for 53 years
Born in a small village outside Almeria in October 1931, Escobar had a huge following in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s with hits such as El Porompompero and Mi Carro.
A well-known personality thanks to his television show Canta Manolo Escobar, he also starred in films including The Guerrillas and Father Manolo, in which he played a singing priest.
But it was the success of Y Viva Espana, in 1973, that made him an international star. The track was based on Eviva Espana, the 1971 song written by Belgian duo Leo Rozenstraten and Leo Caerts, and performed, in Dutch, by Samantha.
Escobar's best-selling single - released to coincide with Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy and a boom in international tourism - sold an estimated six million copies.
In 1974, the track was covered by Swedish singer Sylvia Vrethammar, whose English version reached number four in the UK Singles Chart.
One of Escobar's last big acts was in July 2010 when he sang with the Spanish football team to celebrate their victory in the World Cup in South Africa.
He announced his retirement from music at the end of 2012 after 50 years on the stage.
Last month, he had to cancel the final dates of his farewell tour after falling ill.
He was undergoing treatment, reportedly for colon cancer, at Benidorm's Hospital Clinica, but is understood to have left on Tuesday. He died at home two days later.
Escobar leaves a wife, Anita, and one daughter, Vanessa.