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Weight	Players
325	Shaquille O’Neal
310	Yao Ming
285	Andrew Bynum
289	Glen Davis
285	Greg Oden
280	Kendrick Perkins
285	Eddie Curry
278	Roy Hibbert
275	Zaza Pachulia
270	Aaron Gray
300	Kyrylo Fesenko
270	Kwame Brown

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Roberto Piva, , Brazilian poet and writer, has died from complications from Parkinson’s disease he was 72

Roberto Piva was a Brazilian poet and writer. He died from complications from Parkinson’s disease.

(September 25, 1937, São Paulo – July 3, 2010, São Paulo)

The personal story of the poet Roberto Piva starts and revolves around the city of Sao Paulo. He grew up and graduated from the capital and the ancient estates of the father, in the State of São Paulo.. His first poems were published in 1961, when he was 23. Around this time, she joined the famous Anthology of Novíssimos of Massao Ohno, in which he threw several Brazilian poets beginners, who later developed a poetic work of importance. Piva graduated in sociology. In his classes to teenagers in high school used to work the materials from which the poems was read and interpret. It was a very successful professor with a rare vocation as a teacher. In the 1970s, he became producer of rock concerts. Piva lives in Sao Paulo, a city that looks ominous, example of what should not be done against the environment, but it provided all the background for his poetic work.

Bibliography

Booklet

• Ode a Fernando Pessoa, 1961

Individual works

• Paranóia, 1963
• Piazzas, 1964
• Abra os olhos e diga ah!, 1975
• Coxas, 1979
• 20 Poemas com Brócoli, 1981
• Antologia Poética, 1985
• Ciclones, 1997
• Um Estrangeiro na Legião: obras reunidas, volume 1, 2005
• Mala na Mão & Asas Pretas: obras reunidas, volume 2, 2006
• Estranhos Sinais de Saturno: obras reunidas, volume 3, 2008

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Dame Beryl Bainbridge, English novelist (Harriet Said…, An Awfully Big Adventure), has died from cancer.she was , 77

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE was an English novelist has died from cancer she was , 77.

(21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010[1][2])

Biography

Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as “a national treasure”.^[3] In 2008, The Times newspaper named Bainbridge among their list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945″.^[4]

Beryl Bainbridge was born in Liverpool and raised in nearby Formby. Her parents were Richard Bainbridge and Winifred Baines.^[5] Although she gave her date of birth in Who’s Who and elsewhere as 21 November 1934, she was actually born in 1932 and her birth was registered in the first quarter of 1933.^[6] When German former prisoner of war Harry Arno Franz wrote to her in November 1947, he mentioned her 15th birthday.^[7]

She enjoyed writing, and by the age of 10 she was keeping a diary.^[7] She had elocution lessons and, when she was 11, appeared on the Northern Children’s Hour radio show, alongside Billie Whitelaw and Judith Chalmers. Bainbridge was expelled from Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School (Crosby) because she was caught with a “dirty rhyme” (as she later described it), written by someone else, in her gymslip pocket.^[8] That summer, she fell in love with a former German POW who was waiting to be repatriated. For the next six years, the couple corresponded and tried to get permission for the German man to return to Britain so that they could be married. But permission was denied and the relationship ended in 1953.^[7]

In the following year (1954), Beryl married artist Austin Davies. The two divorced soon after, leaving Bainbridge a single mother of two children. She later had a third child by Alan Sharp, a daughter who is the actress Rudi Davies.^[7] In 1958, she attempted suicide by putting her head in a gas oven.^[3] Bainbridge spent her early years working as an actress, and she appeared in one 1961 episode of the soap opera Coronation Street playing an anti-nuclear protester.

To help fill her time, Bainbridge began to write, primarily based on incidents from her childhood. Her first novel, Harriet Said…, was rejected by several publishers, one of whom found the central characters “repulsive almost beyond belief”. It was eventually published in 1972, four years after her third novel (Another Part of the Wood). Her second and third novels were published (1967/68) and were received well by critics although they failed to earn much money.^[8][9] Seven more novels were written and published during the 1970s, of which the fifth, Injury Time, was awarded the Whitbread prize for best novel in 1977.

In the late 1970s, she wrote a screenplay based on her novel Sweet William. The movie Sweet William, starring Sam Waterston, was released in 1979.^[10]

From 1980 onwards, eight more novels appeared. The 1989 novel, An Awfully Big Adventure was adapted into a film in 1995 starring Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant.

In the 1990s, Bainbridge turned to historical fiction. These novels continued to be popular with critics, but this time, were also commercially successful.^[8] Among her historical fiction novels are Every Man for Himself, about the 1912 Titanic disaster, for which Bainbridge won the 1996 Whitbread Awards prize for best novel, and Master Georgie, set during the Crimean War, for which she won the 1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Her final novel, According to Queeney, is a fictionalized account of the last years of the life of Samuel Johnson as seen through the eyes of Queeney Thrale, eldest daughter of Henry and Hester Thrale; it received wide acclaim.^{[citation needed]}

From the 1990s, Bainbridge also served as a theatre critic for the monthly magazine The Oldie. Her reviews rarely contained negative content, and were usually published after the play had closed.^[8]

Honours/Awards

In 2000, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). In June 2001, Bainbridge was awarded an honorary degree by the Open University as Doctor of the University.^{[citation needed]} In 2003, she was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature together with Thom Gunn. In 2005, the British Library acquired many of Bainbridge’s private letters and diaries.^[7]

Last years

Following what Bainbridge claimed was her 71st birthday (it was in reality her 73rd), her grandson Charlie Russell produced a documentary, Beryl’s Last Year, about her life. The documentary detailed her upbringing and her attempts to write a final novel (Dear Brutus, which she decided to leave unfinished); it was broadcast in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2007 on BBC Four.

In 2009, Beryl Bainbridge donated the short story Goodnight Children, Everywhere to Oxfam’s Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the ‘Air’ collection. Bainbridge was the patron of the People’s Book Prize.

Death

Bainbridge died on 2 July 2010, aged 77, in a London hospital after her cancer recurred.^[11]

Bibliography

Novels

• A Weekend with Claud (1967)
• Another Part of the Wood (1968)
• Harriet Said… (1972)
• The Dressmaker (US title The Secret Glass) (1973) – Shortlisted for Booker Prize
• The Bottle Factory Outing (1974) – Shortlisted for Booker Prize, won the Guardian Fiction Prize
• Sweet William (1975)
• A Quiet Life (1976)
• Injury Time (1977)
• Young Adolf (1978)
• Another Part of the Wood (revised edn) (1979)
• Winter Garden (1980)
• A Weekend with Claude (revised edn) (1981)
• Watson’s Apology (1984)
• An Awfully Big Adventure (1989) – Shortlisted for Booker Prize
• The Birthday Boys (1991)
• Every Man for Himself (1996) – Shortlisted for Booker Prize
• Master Georgie (1998) – Shortlisted for Booker Prize
• According to Queeney (2001)

Short stories

• Mum and Mr Armitage (1985)
• Collected Stories (1994)

Non-fiction

• English Journey (1984)
• Forever England: North and South (1987)
• Something Happened Yesterday (1993)
• Front Row: Evenings at the Theatre (2005)

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M. G. Radhakrishnan, , Indian music director, has died from liver disease.he was 70

M. G. Radhakrishnan was a senior music director and Carnatic vocalist from Kerala. He is highly regarded as one of the most successful light music and film music composer in Malayalam.

(Malayalam: എം. ജി. രാധാകൃഷ്ണന്‍; 8 August 1940 – 2 July 2010)

M. G. Radhakrishnan was born on 8 August 1940 at Haripad, in Alappuzha district, Kerala as the son of music composer and Harmonist Malabar Gopalan Nair and Harikatha exponent Kamalakshi Amma.^[1] He had his college education from the S. D. College, Alappuzha, and took Ganabhooshanam from Swati Tirunal Music Academy. Prominent singer K. J. Yesudas was one of his classmates there. His brother M. G. Sreekumar is a leading playback singer in Malayalam and Tamil cinema.^[2]

M. G. Radhakrishnan was a disciple of Sree Vidyadhiraja Hridayanjali,^[3] an Indian ascetic, and composed music for the ascetic’s lyrics,^[3] which was sung by his younger sister Dr. K Omanakutty,^[3] a Carnatic vocalist. In his official capacity, Radhakrishnan worked as a staff and become the senior music composer(grade 1) in Akashvani, Trivandrum. In 1962, he joined All India Radio as music composer. He used to conduct a 15-minute light music class through AIR, which made him music lovers’ favourite.

He made his debut in cinema as a playback singer through “Unniganapathiye…” from Kallichellamma (1969), which had music composed by K. Raghavan. His famous songs as a vocalist include “Sharike Sharike” from Sharashayya, “Pallanayattin Theerathu” from Ningalenne Communst Aakki etc. Some of his notable concert performances were at N S S Headquarters at Changanassery and at Karrikkakom Chamundeswary Temple at Thiruvananthapuram. He then focussed at composing light music with most of them becoming big hits. Singers Sujatha, G. Venugopal etc. were first introduced through his non-filmy songs.

His debut film as a music director was G. Aravindan‘s Thampu (1978). The songs were fairly noticed, however the first notable work by M.G. was Thakara (1980). Songs from this film, Mouname Mouname and Mukkutti Thiruthali won him several accolades and fame. The other major works by him include Adwaitham, Devasuram, Manichithrathazhu, Rakkuyilin Rajasadassil and Ananthabhadram, which was his last work.

He has also composed the poems of Kamala Surayya, a famous Indian writer, through the album Surayya Padunnu^[4] Radhakrishnan introduced K. S. Chithra, a singer and a student of Omanakutty, to the film and music industry by employing her in the film Attahaasam.^[5][6]

Radhakrishnan died from liver disease on 2 July 2010 at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.^[7]

Awards

Kerala State Film Awards

• 2005 – Best Music Director – Ananthabadram
• 2001 – Best Music Director – Achaneyanenikkishtam

Asianet Film Awards

• 2005 – Best Music Director Award – Anandabhadram
• 2001 – Best Music Director Award – Kattu Vannu Vilichappol

Filmography

No	Film	Film director	Year
1	Thampu	G Aravindan	1978
2	Thakara	Bharathan	1980
3	Aaravam	Bharathan	1980
4	Njan Ekananu	P Chandrasekhar	1982
5	Poochakkoru Mukkuthi	Priyadarshan	1984
6	Parayanum Vayya Parayathirikkanum Vayya	Priyadarshan	1985
7	Ayalvasi Oru Daridravasi	Priyadarshan	1986
8	Geetham	Saajan	1986
9	Sarvakalaashala	Venu Nagavally	1987
10	Jaalakam	Harikumar	1987
11	Nombarathi Poovu	Padmarajan	1987
12	Vellanakalude Naadu	Priyadarshan	1988
13	Adwaitham	Priyadarshan	1991
14	Manichithrathazhu	Fazil	1993
15	Chenkol	Sibi Malayil	1993
16	Ammayane Satyam	Balachandra Menon	1993
17	Devaasuram	I. V. Sasi	1993
18	Kashmeeram	Rajiv Anchal	1994
19	Agnidevan	Venu Nagavally	1995
20	Rakthasakshikal Zindabad	Venu Nagavally	1998
21	Stalin Sivadas	T S Suresh Babu	1999
22	Kannezhuthi Pottumthottu	T. K. Rajeev Kumar	1999
23	Pilots	Rajiv Anchal	2000
24	Narasimham	Shaji Kailas	2000
25	Praja	Joshi	2001
26	Meghasandesham	Rajasenan	2001
27	Nariman	K Madhu	2001
28	Kaate Vannu Vilichappol	Kamal	2001
29	Achaneyanenikkishtam	Suresh Krishna	2002
30	Yanam	Sanjay Nambiar	2004
31	Ananthabhadram	Santhosh Sivan	2005

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Did you know who were the first African-American in Government?

Did you know who the first African-American in Government were?

Local elected official: John Mercer Langston, 1855, town clerk of Brownhelm Township, Ohio.

State elected official: Alexander Lucius Twilight, 1836, the Vermont legislature.

Mayor of major city: Carl Stokes, Cleveland, Ohio, 1967–1971.

The first black woman to serve as a mayor of a major U.S. city was Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, Washington, DC, 1991–1995.

Governor (appointed): P.B.S. Pinchback served as governor of Louisiana from Dec. 9, 1872–Jan. 13, 1873, during impeachment proceedings against the elected governor.

Governor (elected): L. Douglas Wilder, Virginia, 1990–1994.

The only other elected black governor has been Deval Patrick, Massachusetts, 2007–

U.S. Representative: Joseph Rainey became a Congressman from South Carolina in 1870 and was reelected four more times.

The first black female U.S. Representative was Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from New York, 1969–1983.

U.S. Senator: Hiram Revels became Senator from Mississippi from Feb. 25, 1870, to March 4, 1871, during Reconstruction.

Edward Brooke became the first African-American Senator since Reconstruction, 1966–1979.

Carol Mosely Braun became the first black woman Senator serving from 1992–1998 for the state of Illinois.

(There have only been a total of five black senators in U.S. history: the remaining two are Blanche K. Bruce [1875–1881] and

Barack Obama (2005–2008 ).

U.S. cabinet member: Robert C. Weaver, 1966–1968, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under Lyndon Johnson;

the first black female cabinet minister was Patricia Harris, 1977, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under Jimmy Carter.

U.S. Secretary of State: Gen. Colin Powell, 2001–2004.

The first black female Secretary of State was Condoleezza Rice, 2005–.

Major Party Nominee for President: Sen. Barack Obama, 2008. The Democratic Party selected him as its presidential nominee and he became the first black President 2008

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Did you know what actor hold the record for most nominations without ever winning an Oscar in a competitive category?

Peter O’Toole
had eight acting nominations without ever winning an Oscar, for:

O’Toole’s nomination	Year	Winner
Lawrence of Arabia	1962	Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird
Becket	1964	Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
The Lion in Winter	1968	Cliff Robertson in Charly
Goodbye, Mr Chips	1969	John Wayne in True Grit
The Ruling Class	1972	Marlon Brando in The Godfather
The Stunt Man	1980	Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull
My Favorite Year	1982	Ben Kingsley in Gandhi
Venus	2006	Forrest Whitaker in Last King of Scotland

O’Toole did win an honorary Oscar in 2002 that was inscribed
“Whose remarkable talents have provided cinema history
with some of its most memorable characters.” He originally intended
to turn it down feeling that the lifetime award signaled the end
of his career. He wrote the Academy a letter stating that he was
“still in the game” and would like more time to “win the lovely bugger outright.”
It was only after the Academy informed him that they
were bestowing the award on him whether he came to collect it or not that he relented.

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