Ahmad Alaadeen, American jazz musician, died of bladder cancer.he was , 76
Ahmad Alaadeen [1] was a jazz saxophonist and educator whose career spanned over six decades died of bladder cancer.he was , 76. [2] A longtime fixture on the Kansas City jazz scene, Aladeen came to wider prominence in the 1990s with a series of self-released albums featuring his swing– and hard bop-oriented compositions that led Allmusic critic Scott Yannow to declare that the saxophonist “deserves to be much better known.”
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Biography
Primarily known by his surname, Alaadeen was a student of Leo H. Davis in Kansas City. He began performing professionally at the age of 14, but would later study formally at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, St. Mary’s College Chicago’s DePaul University and Juilliard School. He also spent significant periods of time living in New York, Chicago, Denver, St. Louis and San Antonio. Alaadeen was a veteran of the US military music program, where he served as a member of the 4th US Army Band as featured jazz saxophonist and principal oboist in the organization’s wind ensemble.
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Since 1949, Alaadeen played with many of the greatest names in music; starting with jazz and blues musicians Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Jay McShann, Ella Fitzgerald, The Count Basie Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Eddie Vinson, right up through Motown stars Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations and Sam Cooke.[3] Along the way, he won awards including Billboard songwriting competitions for several of his original compositions. In 1996, his ensemble was picked as Musician Magazine’s Best Unsigned Band.
Alaadeen was recognized in his community and state as a master of the distinctive sound known as Kansas City jazz with his receipt of the Jazz Heritage Award, the Missouri Humanities Council’s Community Heritage Award and the Missouri Arts Award. The Missouri Arts Council and the Mid-America Arts Alliance have awarded grants to Alaadeen and Alaadeen Enterprises, Inc. He was included in both organizations’ Touring Artist Rosters.
In addition to performing with his jazz ensembles, Alaadeen continued to work as a significant jazz educator. Recently, he was inducted into the RT Coles/Lincoln High School “Outstanding Alumni Hall of Fame”. Additionally, Alaadeen served with distinction for 6 years as Board Chairman of the Historic Mutual Musicians Foundation, located in the 18th and Vine Historic District of Kansas City.
On October 12, 2000, Congresswoman Karen McCarthy recognized Alaadeen in the United States House of Representatives for the contributions he has made to his community’s understanding of its heritage. Congressional Record: October 13, 2000 (Extensions) [Page E1781-E1782] [DOCID:cr13oc00-48] See: GPO Online
On June 19, 2002, Missouri Governor, Bob Holden, honored Alaadeen at an official dinner at the Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City. In an effort to acknowledge Alaadeen for making a significant impact in the history, development and performance of Jazz, and to applaud Alaadeen for his outstanding achievements in the art form of Jazz, Alaadeen was issued a Proclamation from the Office of the Governor, State of Missouri.
On April 30, 2010, The American Jazz Museum honored Alaadeen with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Alaadeen developed several projects in the areas of recording, composing and publishing. He oversaw the growth, operations and management of ASR Records. Until his death, Alaadeen was an active performer, and wrote a method book, The Rest of the Story, Jazz Improvization and History. He also prepared many of his original compositions for performance by large jazz ensemble through Fandeen Publishing Company, Inc.
Ahmad Alaadeen died on August 15, 2010, from bladder cancer, at the age of 76.[3]
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Did you know that most forms of albinism are the result of genetically recessive genes?
Did you know what Albinism is? Albinism is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of an enzyme involved in the production of melanin.
Did you know that Albinism is also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis)?
Did you know that Albinism results from inheritance of recessive gene alleles and is known to affect all vertebrates, including humans. The most common term used for an organism affected by albinism is “albino“. Additional clinical adjectives sometimes used to refer to animals are “albinoid” and “albinic”.
Albinism is associated with a number of vision defects, such as photophobia, nystagmus and astigmatism. Lack of skin pigmentation makes the organism more susceptible to sunburn and skin cancers.
Did you know that most forms of albinism are the result of the biological inheritance of genetically recessive alleles (genes) passed from both parents of an individual, though some rare forms are inherited from only one parent?
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Who is Louis Jay Pearlman?
Who is Louis Jay Pearlman? The music and entertainment world knows him as Lou Pearlman, he is a former impresario of the successful 1990s boy bands the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. In 2006 it was discovered that Pearlman had perpetrated one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history, leaving more than $300 million in debts. After getting caught on the run, and pleading guilty to conspiracy, money laundering and making false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding, in 2008 Pearlman was convicted and sentenced to (up to) 25 years.
Early life and career
Pearlman was born June 19, 1954 and raised in Flushing, Queens, the only child of Jewish parents Hy, who ran a dry cleaning business and Reenie Pearlman, a school lunchroom aide. (Pearlman is the first cousin of Art Garfunkel, their mothers being sisters.) His home at Mitchell Gardens Apartments was located across from Flushing Airport, where he and childhood friend Alan Gross would watch blimps take off and land. According to Pearlman’s autobiography, Bands, Brands and Billions, it was during this period that he used his position on his school newspaper to earn credentials and get his first ride in a blimp. (This version of events is disputed by Gross, who claims he was the school reporter, and allowed Pearlman to tag along.)
His cousin Garfunkel’s fame and wealth helped fire Pearlman’s own interest in the music business. As a teenager he managed a band, but when success in music proved elusive, he turned his attention to aviation. During his first year as a student at Queens College, Pearlman wrote a business plan for a class project based on the idea of a helicopter taxi service in New York City. By the late 1970s, he had launched the business based on his business plan, starting with one helicopter. He convinced German businessman Theodor Wüllenkemper to train him on blimps, and subsequently spent some time at Wüllenkemper’s facilities in Germany learning about the airships.
Suspicions of insurance fraud and pump & dump
Returning to the United States, Pearlman formed Airship Enterprises Ltd, which leased a blimp to Jordache before actually owning one. He used the funds from Jordache to construct a blimp, which promptly crashed. The two parties sued each other, and 7 years later Pearlman was awarded $2.5 million in damages. On the advice of a friend, Pearlman started a new company, Airship International, taking it public to raise the $3 million he needed to purchase a blimp, claiming (falsely) that he had a partnership with Wüllenkemper. He leased the blimp to McDonald’s, for advertising.
He then relocated Airship International to Orlando in July 1991, where he signed MetLife and Sea World as clients for his blimps. Airship International suffered when one of its clients left, and three of the aircraft crashed. The company’s stock, once pumped up to $6 a share dropped to 3 cents and the company was shut down:
After he took his air charter company, Airship International, public in 1985, Pearlman became personally and professionally close to Jerome Rosen, a partner at small-cap trading outfit Norbay Securities. Based in Bayside, Queens, and frequently in trouble with regulators, Norbay actively traded Airship stock. This sent Airship’s stock price consistently higher, enabling Pearlman to sell hundreds of thousands of shares and warrants at ever-higher prices. However, Airship was reporting little revenue, cash flow or net income. In return for keeping his penny stock liquid, Pearlman allegedly paid Rosen handsome commissions, according to a mutual friend, that reached into ‘the tens of thousands of dollars’ per trade.—Roddy Boyd, New York Post
Entertainment industry career
Pearlman became fascinated with the success of the New Kids on the Block, who had made hundreds of 
millions of dollars in record, tour and merchandise sales. Thus he started Trans Continental Records with the intent of mimicking their boy-band business model. The label‘s first band, the Backstreet Boys, consisted of five unknown performers selected by Lou in a $3 million talent search. Management duties were assigned
to a former New Kids on the Block manager, Johnny Wright, and his wife Donna. The Boys went on to sell 100 million albums worldwide, hitting gold and platinum in 45 different countries. Pearlman and the Wrights then repeated this formula almost exactly with the band *NSync, which sold over 56 million records globally.
With these two major successes under his belt, Pearlman had become a music mogul. Other boy bands managed by Pearlman were O-Town (created during the ABC–MTV reality TV series Making the Band), LFO, Take 5, Natural, and US5. Other artists on the Trans Continental label included Aaron Carter, Jordan Knight, Smilez & Southstar and C-Note. Pearlman also owned a large entertainment complex in Orlando, including a recording studio he called Trans Continental Studios, and a dance studio by Disney World named “O-Town”.
Band lawsuits
With the exception of US5, all of the musical acts who have worked with Pearlman have sued him in Federal Court for misrepresentation and fraud. All cases against Pearlman have either been won by those who have brought lawsuits against him, or have been settled out of court. All cases have also ended with a confidentiality agreement, meaning none of the parties is allowed to discuss Pearlman’s practices in detail.
The members of Backstreet Boys were the first to file a lawsuit against Pearlman, feeling that their contract — under which Pearlman collected as both manager and producer — was unfair, since Pearlman was also paid as a sixth member of the Backstreet Boys (i.e., one-sixth of the band’s own income). The band’s 
dissatisfaction began when member Brian Littrell hired a lawyer to determine why the group had received only $300,000 for all of their work, while Pearlman and his record company had made millions. Fellow boy band *NSYNC was having similar issues with Pearlman, and its members soon followed suit.
At the age of 14, pop star Aaron Carter filed a lawsuit in 2002 that accused Pearlman and Trans Continental Records of cheating him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and of racketeering in a deliberate pattern of criminal activity. This suit was later settled out of court.
Talent scouting scandal
In September 2002, Pearlman purchased Alec Defrawy’s internet-based talent company, Options Talent Group f/k/a Sector Communications (previously named Emodel and Studio 58), which would then go through several names including Trans Continental Talent, TCT, Wilhelmina Scouting Network (WSN), Web Style Network, Fashion Rock and Talent Rock. Regardless of the name, all incarnations were based on the business model used by Emodel founder Ayman el Difrawi (aka Alec Defrawy), himself a convicted conman, who played a principal role in running Options / TCT / WSN and setting up Fashion Rock. The companies received unfavorable press attention, ranging from questions about their business practices to outright declarations that they were scams.
After Hotjobs and Monster.com pulled over a thousand of the company’s job ads from their boards, they were further advertised on the Difrawi-founded “Industry Magazine” website. The Better Business Bureau‘s opinion about Options / TCT / WSN was negative (a “pattern of complaints concerning misrepresentation in selling practices”). The New York State Consumer Protection Board issued an alert, naming it the largest example they had found of a photo mill scam (in which agencies force models to shoot portfolios with photographers on their own payrolls), and a State Senator called it trying “to make a quick, dishonest dollar”
The San Francisco labor Commissioner declared it in violation of California law, and several state agencies were reported to be investigating. In Florida, around 2,000 complaints were filed with the then-Attorney General Charlie Crist and the Better Business Bureau, and an investigation was started by Assistant AG Dowd. However, no charges were filed, as the newly appointed Assistant AG MacGregor was unable to find “any substantial violations” and the company had declared bankruptcy, “leaving no deep pockets to collect damages from.”
By June 2004, Fashion Rock, LLC had filed a civil suit for defamation against some who had criticized Pearlman’s talent businesses and outed suspicions of bankruptcy fraud. The case was dismissed and closed in 2006. One of the accused, Canadian consumer-fraud expert Les Henderson, successfully pursued a libel lawsuit against Pearlman, Tolner, El-Difrawi and several others.
Fashion Rock, LLC lived on until February 2, 2007, when its assets were sold in Pearlman’s bankruptcy proceeding.
Allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct
The November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair magazine reported claims of inappropriate sexual conduct made i
n interviews with several former and current boy band members, and male employees of Pearlman’s. Many of the boys had lived in Lou’s Florida mansion, where the inappropriate conduct was alleged to have taken place, but none was willing to come forward publicly, and no charges were ever filed. Backstreet Boy Nick Carter‘s mother, Jane Carter, told the magazine: “Certain things happened and it almost destroyed our family. I tried to warn everyone. I tried to warn all the mothers.” She said, “I tried to expose him for what he was years ago”.
The Ponzi scheme
In 2006 investigators discovered Pearlman had perpetrated a long running Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of $300 million. For more than 20 years Pearlman enticed individuals and banks to invest in Trans Continental Airlines Travel Services Inc. and Trans Continental Airlines Inc., both of which existed only on paper. Pearlman used falsified FDIC, AIG and Lloyd’s of London documents to win investors’ confidence in his “Employee Investment Savings Account” (E.I.S.A.) program and he used fake financial statements created by a fictitious accounting firm Cohen and Siegel to secure bank loans.
Investigation
In February 2007, Florida regulators announced that Pearlman’s Trans Continental Savings Program was indeed a massive fraud and the state took possession of the company. Most of the at least $95 million which was collected from investors was gone. Orange County Circuit Judge Renee Roche ordered Pearlman and two of his associates, Robert Fischetti and Michael Crudelle, to bring back to the United States “any assets taken abroad which were derived from illegal transactions.”
Arrest
Following a flight from officials, Pearlman was arrested in Indonesia on June 14, 2007 after being spotted by a German tourist couple. Pearlman was then indicted by a federal grand jury on June 27, 2007.Specifically Pearlman was charged with three counts of bank fraud, one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud.
Conviction and sentencing
On May 21, 2008, Pearlman was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy, money laundering, and making false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding. U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp gave Pearlman the chance to cut his prison time, by offering to reduce the sentence by one month for every million dollars he helps a bankruptcy trustee recover. He also ordered individual investors are to be paid before institutions in distributing any eventual assets.
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Dan Avey, American radio personality, died from cancer.he was , 69
Dan Avey was a radio personality and newscaster who worked for over 30 years in the Los Angeles area and received more than 30 major journalism awards including 15 Golden Mikes.[1]
Avey died from cancer at Cedars Sinai on August 15, 2010.[2]. . He had been fighting the disease for five years, including during much of his stay at KABC.
(April 26, 1941 – August 15, 2010)
Avey started his radio career at KXLY in Spokane, Washington during his freshman year in college.[1] From 1972 to 1976, he served as the analyst on Los Angeles Kings broadcasts, where he originally was paired with Jiggs McDonald, and later with Roy Storey and Bob Miller, who like Avey has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [3] In 1976, he started at all-news KFWB, and in 1978 he also had a short stint at KWIZ in Santa Ana.[4]. In 1986, he left KFWB when he was hired by KFI to join Gary Owens‘ new morning show.[5] Avey later became the newsman for Geoff Edwards‘ midday talk show at KFI. When Edwards left the station in March 1989, Avey and two other people associated with the show were fired a few days later,[6] and Avey returned to KFWB where he worked for the next twelve years. In November 2001, KABC hired him to be paired with Ken Minyard in the morning. He continued on as KABC news anchor from noon to 6 p.m. during The Sean Hannity Show and the Larry Elder show.[1] Avey has also been a sports commentator for the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, and for 15 years has taught a sports broadcasting class at the University of Southern California.[7][1] For his work in radio, on his birthday, April 26, 2006, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Blvd, in front of the El Capitan Theatre.[8][1] In late 2007, Avey left KABC.[4] Avey, a Vietnam green beret, also served as a coach for AYSO soccer, and a camp counselor for the Dream Street Foundation, which runs a summer camp for children with serious illnesses.[1] [9]
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