Thursday 17 January 2019

Peter Nambundunga, Namibian military officer, Dead

Major General Peter Nambundunga died on January 14, 2019.

He was a Namibian military commander.

He was designated the Commander of the Army in 2005, supplanting Martin Shalli when he was elevated to Chief of the NDF.

He ascended through the positions of the dissident People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) amid the Namibian War of Independence, possessing different posts until freedom.

Upon autonomy, PLAN and the South West African Territorial Force (SWATF) converged to shape the Namibia Defense Force (NDF) and Nambundunga was given the position of colonel.

In 2000, he was selected to the position of Major General and delegated as NDF Chief of Staff.

Among 2009 and January 2011, Nambundunga was Acting Chief of the NDF, while Shalli was suspended on claims of extortion.

Peter Nambundunga passed away in 2019.

Eli Grba, American baseball player, Died at 84

Eli Grba was born on August 9, 1934 and died on January 14, 2019.

He was a Major League Baseball pitcher.

Amid his five-year baseball profession, Grba, an alum of Chicago's Bowen High School, pitched for the New York Yankees (1959– 1960) and Los Angeles Angels (1961– 1963); he showed up in the 1960 World Series.

The Angels drafted Grba with the primary choice in the 1960 MLB extension draft, and he began the principal diversion in club history on April 11, 1961, contributing nine innings a 7-2 triumph over the Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

Basset burned through two full seasons in the Angels' beginning pivot, and held the group's unsurpassed successes record (19 wins) toward the second's end season yet in addition held the group's untouched misfortunes record (22 misfortunes).

Basset's significant association profession finished amid the 1963 season when he was 28 years of age.

Eli Grba passed away at 84 years old.

Gerard Basset, French-born British sommelier, Died at 61

Gerard Francis Claude Basset was born on March 7, 1957 and died on January 16, 2019.

Basset was the proprietor of Hotel TerraVina, a New Forest Hotel close Southampton in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Basset was at present the main individual on the planet to hold the joined titles of Master of Wine, Master Sommelier, Wine MBA, OIV MSc in Wine Management and World's Best Sommelier.

Basset went to the Lycée Albert Camus in Firminy, France. In the wake of preparing in Lyon, he moved to England to begin his profession as a sommelier, rapidly getting to be Head Sommelier at Chewton Glen, the Michelin-featured inn in Hampshire.

He distributed his first book in 2000 that concentrated on wine sampling intended for wine understudies called The Wine Experience altered by Kyle Cathie.

He was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honors for administrations to the neighborliness business, and chose as the Decanter 2013 Man of the Year.

Gerard Francis Claude Basset passed away at 61 years old.

Julio Vallejo Ruiloba, Spanish psychiatrist, Died at 73

Julio Vallejo-Ruiloba was born in 1945, in Barcelona, Spain and died in January 2019.

He was a Spanish psychiatrist, medical doctor, Chairman of the Psychiatry Departament at the Universitat de Barcelona, ex-President of the Spanish Psychiatry Society, and Academician of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia.

Julio Vallejo-Ruiloba wrote 56 books about psychiatry and more than 350 scientific papers.

In spite of the fact that he has rehearsed general psychiatry his fundamental logical movement has concentrated on the sadness and over the top habitual turmoil.

Vallejo-Ruiloba has centered his examination around there.

He has distributed 357 logical articles in national magazines and global ( on mental issues, has composed 56 books as a fundamental writer, 109 as an optional writer in parts, every one of them related with the psychiatry topic.

He is chief of the diary American Journal of Psychiatry (Spanish release).

Vallejo-Ruiloba was an individual from the Editorial Board of the Spanish Journal of Legal Medicine.

From the non-open perspective he has coordinated for a long time a psychiatry focus that bargains with all mental and mental issues.

Vallejo-Ruiloba passed away at 73 years old.

Tinca Stegovec, Slovenian artist, Died at 91

Tinca Stegovec was born on April 8, 1927, and died on January 14, 2019.

She was Slovenian craftsman.

She was mostly a printmaker and painter and related to the gathering of specialists universally known as Ljubljana Graphic School.

Stegovec is depicted as "exceedingly metaphorical craftsman and an unpretentious eyewitness of her general surroundings and relational relations".

She thought of her works are "profound individual stories, described by a purposeful selection of subjects and cautiously chosen visual methods".

For wellbeing reasons anyway she surrendered printmaking after 1988 and dedicated herself to drawing and painting.

An expansive piece of her life was additionally educating, voyaging, news coverage and deciphering.

Stegovec gave her whole printmaking oeuvre together with frameworks and four illustrations, just as a huge segment of her expert library, to the International Center of Graphic Arts Ljubljana.

Tinca Stegovec passed away at 91 years old.

Ido Abram, Indonesian-born Dutch writer and educator, Died at 78

Isidoor Bert Hans "Ido" Abram was born in 1940, in Batavia, Dutch East Indies and died on January 14, 2019.

He was a teacher and essayist on the idea of Jewishness.

As a little youngster in World War II Abram was an internee in Japanese camps.

After freedom, his family came back to the Netherlands.

He considered science and theory at the University of Amsterdam.

Abram was an educator of the instructional method (hypothesis of instructing) at that organization and has distributed on points with respect to Jewish culture and personality, multicultural training and "Training after Auschwitz".

Abram has been the principal European educator for "Holocaust Education" since 1990.

Abram has built up a model known as the 'five-cut pie diagram' to show the distinctive methods for being Jewish.

He says there are five perspectives that here and there influence the life of each Jew.

These are "religion and custom", "the tie with Israel and Zionism", '"war abuse and survival", "individual history" and the "trade among Jewish and Dutch societies". Exactly how vigorously these diverse angles burden every individual exclusively relies upon the place and time in which one lives.

Over the span of an individual's life the different angles may change in significance.

Ido Abram passed away at 78 years old.

John J. McKetta, American chemical engineer, Died at 103


John J. McKetta Jr. was born on October 17, 1915, in Wyano, Pennsylvania and died on January 15, 2019.

He was an American chemical engineer.

He was known for his research on more efficient ways to create energy and the thermodynamic properties of hydrocarbons.

McKetta was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and, in 2009, was selected by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as one of the "50 Chemical Engineers of the Foundation Age.

McKetta turned 100 in October 2015. John J. McKetta passed away at 103 years old.

Thelma Tixou, Mexican vedette and actress, Died at 74

Thelma Delia Suklenik was born in 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died on January 15, 2019.

She better was known by her stage name Thelma Tixou.

Tixou was a Mexican vedette and actress of Argentinian origin.

Tixou was one of the most popular Mexican vedettes during the 1970s and 1980s. She studied for six years in the Teatro Labardén, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Thelma was a very good jazz dancer. Tixou began her career as vedette at the age of 13.

Then, she was presented in a contest at the Teatro Nacional Cervantes of Buenos Aires, which was chosen among 10 dancers to fill the role of vedette.

She was married her manager and agent, an ex-boxer with whom she suffered various physical and verbal abuses.

Tixou husband abandoned her, leaving her in economic ruin. Subsequently, she endured but emerged from severe depression.

Thelma Delia Suklenik passed away at 74 years old.