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Dell Rat Ron is back to join me in playing the sweet, sincere vocal group harmonies of the baby boom years, recordings that respectfully celebrated young love and romance without playing the sex card.
Ron, if you don't mind,
I'd like to do the honors
and kick off Volume 5.
Sheila Ross and her Baltimore girl group the Royalettes sounded like the female equivalent of Little Anthony and
the Imperials. That's because their recordings were written and produced by Teddy Randazzo, the New York songwriter who penned many songs for the Imperials and produced and arranged several of their albums. The Royalettes achieved their biggest hit in the fall of 1965 with "It's Gonna Take a Miracle." In spite of its mid 60s release date the record has the feel of vintage 50s doo-wop. Teddy Randazzo arranged a full orchestral backing for the recording session. When there are strings attached I usually tune out, but not this time! I could listen to "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" all day every day. If I'm lyin' I'm dyin'!
"It's Gonna Take a Miracle" - Royalettes (September 1965,
highest chart position #41)
Ron, I got a sneak preview of your first platter. Call me crazy but it also sounds a heck of a lot like Little Anthony and the Imperials!
And for good reason, Shady.
Listening to Jackie and the
Starlites in Volume 1 of
Dueling Doo-Wops brought
this record to mind. It's by
a Brooklyn group originally
known as The Chesters aka
Anthony and The Chesters.
It was Little Anthony and the
Imperials before they changed
their name, signed with End
Records, and recorded their
first hit "Tears On My Pillow."
As The Chesters, Anthony
Gourdine and his colleagues
recorded the excellent ballad "The Fires Burn No More"
and released it in early 1958. The single enjoyed moderate
sales in the New York area and was featured on WEEP
radio in Pittsburgh. For some reason, possibly inadequate
promotion by their label, Apollo, the record stalled and
remained uncharted. I'm sure Jerre knows this one. It
wasn't as frequently requested--- but always a treat.
"The Fires Burn No More" - The Chesters (February 1958,
Now we switch from The Chesters to The Jesters and
another record that was requested probably every week
on the Rock 180 Club and which was also in the old
Dell jukebox. It's a Jerre song called "The Wind."
"The Wind" - The Jesters (June 1960, highest chart
position #110)
WHOA, daddy!
Is it just my
Ron... or did
Suzanne Somers
just whiz by
in a T-Bird?
Call this next segment Heaven Up in Harlem, Ron, because I've got more information about the Jesters plus two more of their records. While performing at an Apollo Theater amateur night, the group was discovered by Paul Winley who signed them to his New York record label. The Jesters did a fine job of covering the recordings of other groups. "The Wind," the wonderful ballad that you just played, was originally recorded by the Diablos. "The Plea" was written by Arlene Smith and turned into a hit by her girl group the Chantels.
"The Plea" - The Jesters (February 1958, highest chart
position #74)
The Jesters' recording of "So Strange," a worthy cover of a Five Dollars original, spent just one week on the Billboard pop chart at position #100 and never showed up on the R&B singles chart! So strange, indeed!
"So Strange" -The Jesters (July 1957, highest chart
position #100)
The Paragons were another fine R&B group that recorded for Paul Winley. The Brooklyn act was led by Julian McMichael who later joined the Olympics. Paragons recordings have an otherworldly quality that puts me into a trance. A great example is the powerful ballad "Florence," the B side of the Paragons' 1957 release "Hey Little School Girl."
"Florence" - The Paragons (March 1957, uncharted)
"Twilight" is the killer bee on the back of the 1958 Winley single "The Vows of Love" which, curiously, was misprinted on the label as "The Wows of Love." With it's soaring falsetto, exquisite group harmony and pounding beat, "Twilight" is simply everything that doo-wop should be!
"Twilight" - The Paragons (October 1958, uncharted)
A Winley Records' battle-of-the-bands style album entitled The Paragons Meet the Jesters is noteworthy for being one of the first compilation albums ever released. It was also the most successful of all doo-wop compilations. If I was judging these two excellent groups in a head to head competition I'd declare the Paragons the winners and their recording "Don't Cry Baby" as my Pick to Click!
"Don't Cry Baby" - The Paragons (November 1958,
Nine years after Tony Bennett released the first hit recording of the song, three years before Bobby Vinton turned it into a #1 smash, and long before director David Lynch used it as the theme of his cult movie, the Paragons recorded a version of "Blue Velvet" that sets the bar higher. As one YouTube commenter exclaimed, "THEY TORE THIS APART AND PUT IT BACK TOGETHER LIKE NO OTHER GROUP!" I agree. I ain't never heard nuthin' like this before! It destroys!
"Blue Velvet" - The Paragons (September 1960,
highest chart position #103)
Ready for a shocker? Not a single one of the records released by the Jesters or the Paragons ever made the R&B Singles chart! The Jesters, a fine R&B group from Harlem and the Paragons, a superb R&B act from Brooklyn - and neither group was acknowledged by the black music chart? What does that tell you about the credibility of that survey?
Ron, tossing back to you, pal!
Shady, in Volume 3 you featured the
Philadelphia group Little Joey and the
Flips and their single "Bongo Stomp"
which was released on Joy Records.
Your post made me flash on Ronnie
and the Hi-Lites, another group that
had a hit single on that small, inde-
pendent New York label. Fronted
by 12-year-old Ronnie Goodson
and hailing from Jersey City, NJ,
the R&B vocal quintet placed two
of their records at #1 on WSBA,
the first of which was their only career hit "I Wish That
We Were Married".
"I Wish That We Were Married" - Ronnie and the Hi-Lites
(May 1962, highest chart position #16)
While "Married" was their only charted hit on the Billboard
Hot 100, Ronnie and the Hi-Lites released many singles,
16 in all, and this is one of them. Issued in the summer of
1963 on Win Records, "A Slow Dance" got stranded on
the Bubbling Under chart but I believe it is every bit as
good as their national hit.
"A Slow Dance" - Ronnie and the Hi-Lites (August 1963,
highest chart position #116)
Sadly, Ronnie Goodson died of a brain tumor just as he
was entering his 30s. Here's another great single to
remember him by, a 1963 cover of "Valarie," originally
by Eddie and the Starlites.
I read comments on YouTube from people who went to the
same high school as the group and remember being wowed
by Ronnie and the Hi-Lites when they performed it at an
assembly. Pretty impressive! Excellent studio recording!
"Valarie" - Ronnie and the Hi-Lites (1963, uncharted)
Last call for alcohol, Ron!
We're in the home stretch and I'm spinning
a final flurry of treats that are pure doo-
wop delight! I'd like to propose a toast.
Here's to good friends and great music!
The Duprees, featured in two of my posts last summer, made a career out of mixing doo-wop vocals with 1930s/40s swing era big band arrangements. The Rivieras, a northern Jersey R&B group that recorded for the same New York doo-wop label, Coed, was also successful with that formula. I'd like you to hear their signature song. As "Moonlight Cocktail,"
the song was a #1 hit for bandleader Glenn Miller in 1942.
In 1960, the Rivieras registered on the Bubbling Under chart with their own interpretation of the romantic ballad, re-titled "Moonlight Cocktails." Cheers!
"Moonlight Cocktails" - The Rivieras (June 1960, highest
chart position #103)
During the 50s and 60s many vocal groups were named after various makes and models of cars. The Cadillacs, Edsels and Impalas are examples. The El Dorados are another.
The El Dorados were one of those 50s doo-wop groups that were more successful with jump sides than they were with ballads. At the end of 1955 the group scored a hit with
"At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)" which cracked the top 40 on the pop chart and went straight to #1 on the R&B side. The El Dorados had another up tempo hit in the winter of 1956 with the equally catchy "I'll Be Forever Loving You"
a jitterbug gem that missed the pop chart entirely but broke into the top 10 on the black singles survey. As legendary Wibbage jock Joe Niagara used to shout, "Let's hit that floor like never before!"
"I'll Be Forever Loving You" - El Dorados (February 1956,
highest chart position #8 R&B)


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Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at their recent COP17 did not support performance indicators for reporting on the implementation of indigenous peoples' rights in REDD+. However, they did recognise that REDD+ benefits have to go beyond carbon to include biodiversity conservation and support for local livelihoods.
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We have been established for five years and are rebranding ourselves. We require a logo for use on client communications (e.g. memos, letters) and marketing materials (e.g., brochures, email blasts, business cards, advertisements, website, Facebook).
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General Museums
- American Association of Museums Professional organization for more than 3,100 institutional members, including art, history, science, military and maritime, and youth museums, as well as aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, arboretums, historic sites, and science and technology centers. Can search by location for accredited museums.
- Art Museum Network Provides a platform for sharing collections and exhibitions information among its almost 200 members.
- Art Museums Worldwide This Artcyclopedia directory is organized geographically and provides links to the museums' websites.
- Kansas Museums Association The Kansas Museums Association (KMA) is the statewide organization for museums, historical societies, art galleries, nature centers, zoos, convention and visitor centers and libraries. An institutional members directory, which is organized by city, provides links to the websites of most of its member museums.
- Paris: Musées, collections et art dans la ville The website of the City of Paris has links and information for museums, collections and art in the city (in French).
Architectural Museums
- Canadian Centre for Architecture Located in Montreal, the CCA was founded in 1979 to build public awareness of the role of architecture in society, promote scholarly research in the field, and stimulate innovation in design practice.
- Chicago Athaeneum: The Museum of Architecture and Design Founded in 1988, the Museum is dedicated to the Art of Design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial, and product design, graphics, and urban planning.
- Deutches Architekturmuseum Located in Frankfurt am Main, the DAM's collection focuses on 20th century architecture with some 180,000 architectural plans, drawings and sketches, some 600 models as well as pictures and items of furniture.
- National Building Museum Located in Washington, D.C, the National Building Museum is America's leading cultural institution devoted to interpreting the history and impact of the built environment.
Art Museums
- Association of Art Museum Directors Intended to support its members in increasing the contribution of art museums to society, the AAMD accomplishes this mission by establishing and maintaining the highest standards of professional practice; serving as forum for the exchange of information and ideas; acting as an advocate for its member art museums; and being a leader in shaping public discourse about the arts community and the role of art in society.
- Art Collecting.com Provides links to more than 4000 art galleries, art museums, and non-profit art centers. Also has information on art appraisers, art auctions, art bookstores, and art fairs. Can be searched by state name or by selected list of city names.
- Art Institute of Chicago Founded in 1879, the collection now encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world.
- Art Museum Network Provides a platform for sharing collections and exhibitions information among its almost 200 members.
- British Museum Located in London and founded in 1753 to promote universal understanding through the arts, natural history and science in a public museum, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history.
- Cleveland Museum of Art The museum's collection includes more than 40,000 objects and has an active program to provide online access to information about and images of each object in the collection.
- Discover Islamic Art A virtual museum of the Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF). 14 countries from around the Mediterranean and the European Union have collaborated on producing a virtual museum of Islamic art and material culture in the Mediterranean region. All these artefacts, monuments and sites cover the various Islamic dynasties and cultures of the Mediterranean region spanning some 1,280 years from 634 when the Muslim Arab armies first entered the Levant, to the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The de Young Museum has a collection of American paintings, decorative arts and crafts, and arts from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, as well as western and non-western textiles, and the Legion of Honor Museum has a collection of European decorative arts and paintings, Ancient art, and one of the largest collections of prints and drawings in the country.
- Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library Located in New York City, the collection consists of some of the best-known paintings by the European artists, major works of sculpture, superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality. There is a searchable database of works of art in the Frick collection. The Library's collections of 300,000 books, 75,000 auction catalogs, and more than one million photographs are complemented by a large collection of microforms and a growing number of electronic resources. In addition, the Library is a repository for archives and special collections documenting the history of art and collecting in America.
- Galleria degli Uffizi One of the most famous museums of paintings and sculpture in the world. Its collection of Primitive and Renaissance paintings comprises several universally acclaimed masterpieces of all time.
- Guggenheim Museums Combined website for the five Guggenheim museums in New York, Venice, Bilbao, Berlin, and Las Vegas. The collections all focus on 20th-21st century art.
- J. Paul Getty Museum With two locations, both in the Los Angeles area, the museum at the Getty Center houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs while the museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu houses approximately 44,000 works of art from the Museum's extensive collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities.
- Joslyn Art Museum Opened in 1931 and located in Omaha, the Joslyn features works from antiquity to the present with a special emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century art from Europe and America.
- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Located in Kansas City, the museum opened in 1994 and has a collection of works by modern and contemporary artists from around the world.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art With more than 100,000 works of art, LACMA is the largest encyclopedic museum west of Chicago.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Located in New York City, the Metropolitan Museum's collection contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. About 6,500 objects-highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of American Paintings and Sculpture-can be accessed online.
- Museum of Modern Art Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, MOMA is located in New York City and dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world.
- National Gallery of Art Located in Washington, DC, the NGA houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present. Records on all of the more than 110,000 objects and images of more than 6,000 objects in the collection are available online.
- National Gallery, London The National Gallery, London houses one of the greatest collections of Western European painting in the world, with works dating from about 1250 onwards. The entire National Gallery permanent collection and long-term loans are illustrated and described in the collection online.
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Located in Kansas City, MO, the Nelson has collections of more than 34,000 works of art with special emphasis on Asian, American, European, sculpture, and photography.
- Philbrook Museum of Art Built on 23 lush acres in 1927 by oilman Waite Phillips, Philbrook has evolved over time from grand family estate to a fine art museum and a showcase of collections from around the world.
- Smithsonian Institution Provides links to the 15 museums that comprise the Smithsonian Institution as well as the various research and outreach divisions.
- Spencer Museum of Art As part of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, the SMA has a permanent collection of more than 25,000 works of art spanning the history of European, North American, and East Asian art. Areas of special strength include medieval art; European and American paintings, sculpture, and prints; photography; Japanese Edo-period painting and prints; and 20th-century Chinese painting.
- Victoria and Albert Museum Located in London, the V&A is a world treasure house with collections of fabulous scope and diversity. The Museum holds over 3000 years worth of artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures.
- Wichita Art Museum Established in 1915, this is the largest art museum in Kansas. Its mission is to collect, preserve and exhibit American art, and educate the public about America's artistic heritage and evolving cultural identity.
Design Museums
- Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design Located in Berlin, this is the world's largest collection on Bauhaus, one of the most important schools of design, architecture and art in the 20th century.
- Chicago Athaeneum: the Museum of Architecture and Design Founded in 1988, the Museum is dedicated to the Art of Design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial, and product design, graphics, and urban planning.
- Design Museum, London Website includes an online archive of modern and contemporary design searchable by designer name or material and online galleries showcasing developments in modern design history.
- Victoria and Albert Museum Located in London, the V&A is a world treasure house with collections of fabulous scope and diversity. The Museum holds over 3000 years worth of artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures.
- Vitra Design Museum Located in Weil am Rhein, Germany, the museum presents a broad spectrum of topics on design and culture, with a special emphasis on furniture and interior design.


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Learn the five major steps that make up semantic segmentation. First, the Image Labeler app allows you to ground truth label your objects at the pixel level. Then, you create two datastores and partition them into training and test sets. Next, you import a pretrained convolution neural network and modify it to be a semantic segmentation network. Finally, you train and evaluate your network.
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His portrait subjects were often other painters such as Francesco Clemente and Lucas Samaras, and his work was shown in the prestigious Pace Gallery in New York City. Then catastrophe struck: Close suffered a collapsed spinal artery, which ultimately left him paralyzed and permanently wheelchair-bound. For weeks, many in the art world thought he might be dead. Certainly, the obituary of his painting career was quickly written. But a scant two years later, the indomitable Close reemerged, his canvasses as large as ever, the heretofore objective distance between him and his subjects foreshortened to make room for a new depth of emotion in the work.
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"Some people wonder whether what I do is inspired by a computer and whether or not that kind of imaging is a part of what makes this work contemporary. I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device."
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Almost all of Closes work is based on the use of a grid as an underlying basis for the representation of an image. This simple but surprisingly versatile structure provides the means for "a creative process that could be interrupted repeatedly without damaging the final product, in which the segmented structure was never intended to be disguised." It is important to note that none of Close's images are created digitally or photo-mechanically. While it is tempting to read his gridded details as digital integers, all his work is made the old-fashioned wayby hand…
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A prolific and celebrated artist, Chuck Close has worked for nearly four decades within a carefully defined practice focused exclusively on portraiture. Close's own image, more than any other, is the touchstone to which he regularly returns…
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Dropped a Tab of U2 in OaklandI have heard that this tour was U2's attempt to give the audience the experience of an acid trip without the audiance's having to take any drugs, and boy did they succeed! This was a fabulous show, based on a very under-rated album: "Mofo," "Discotheque," "Last Night on Earth," "Staring at the Sun," were all great. The band emerging from the lemon on "Discotheque" and "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" were my favorite moments. They still haven't topped the sheer blow-your-eyes-out-of-your-head knock out punch that was the Pop Mart tour.


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Vytautas Baltrushaitis, founder of the innovative new Silence TV World, announced that he has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise €84,500 (approximately $90,000 U.S.), enabling the company to substantially expand its offerings. Silence TV is already available and funding would allow the company to provide a premium channel free of advertising, the equipment to film in full HD, provide dedicated servers, and provide adaptations for people with disabilities.
"We are making weird TV," said Baltrushaitis. "Very weird TV. Slow TV. Silence TV."
Silence TV World exclusively broadcasts non-aggressive content with no negative news. The unique viewing option is gaining traction around the world with people who want to relax, unwind, meditate and contemplate the world at large without a continual influx of violence, conflict and bad news common with traditional networks.
The network is revolutionizing the way TV is perceived. Imaginative, creative and mind-stimulating videos are slowed and quiet. Tranquil frames are presented that feature some of the world's most beautiful natural environments, along with travel content without editing or special effects.
Silence World TV is far more than a repetitive loop of a running river or burning fireplace. Viewers can choose to watch relaxing hobbies such as yoga and the arts. Attractive actions and informative environments are highlighted that can influence feelings and emotions in a positive way.
Broadcasts can be viewed on multiple devices, ranging from traditional TVs and computers to tablets and smartphones. Any media player can be used, including Windows, Android and iOS operating systems.
Funding of the company's Kickstarter campaign will allow Silence TV World to significantly expand it services by adding an additional ad-free premium channel, purchase third-party content, provide adaptations for the disabled, and obtain the equipment needed for the company to film its own content for broadcast in full HD.
The funding would also be used to establish additional servers in North America and Western Europe, develop software to expand the opportunities for viewing, and launch a full CDN. Depending upon the contribution, donors will be rewarded with an IPTV subscription for home or business use.
Silence TV World is already broadcasting and changing the way people perceive their viewing options. With funding, the company can expand to bring more positive content to viewers, allowing them to rest, relax and view the world in a different way.
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Charity records aren't usually that great, are they? Being honest, if you exclude Dark was the Night and some parts of Help, you're left with a whole load of passable covers and a nagging sense that you perhaps ought to have donated some cash to a worthy cause online instead.
So it gives me great pleasure to report that the first album by The Fruit Tree Foundation is not just a great charity record, but a great record full stop.
The Fruit Tree Foundation is a new independent project in Scotland led by musicians Rod Jones (Idlewild) and Emma Pollock (the solo artist and former Delgado). They formed a group in February 2010 for five days to record a charity album for The Mental Health Foundation, comprising of the best in Scottish talent including Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit), James Graham (Twilight Sad), Jill O'Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop), Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston, which was followed by a couple of high profile gigs. Now a year on, it's being released officially with artwork by Aidan Moffat to further the good work and let those of us that missed it first time around hear what they created.
What you end up with is a collection of songs that hang together remarkably well as a whole yet were conceived by two strangers in a short period of time, giving the whole project a varied feel from song-to-song and a sense of pleasing, fresh spontaneity.
It's one of those records where your favourite tracks vary constantly but the two founding members' passion for the project shines through. They only work together on the penultimate 'Hired Help' - a rousing sing-a-long affair with some wonderful dual harmonies - but whenever their name crops up it's fair to expect something special imminently.
Pollock teams up with Hutchison on 'Singing for Strangers' with fine results, but her duet with Yorkston on 'Forgotten Anniversary' is up there with the very best songs on either artist's previous album, featuring some wonderful lyrical interchanges: Yorkston quips "And although I'm not fucking Poirot I don't believe you've read all those books / by the spiders on untroubled spines" to which Pollock retorts: "Catholics and corsets don't interest me oh you'll have to do better than that / I'm not impressed by your second-hand matter of fact - and your God just bores me."
Her three way harmony with Jill O' Sullivan and James Graham (another recurring pair of names working at the peak of their abilities) on 'Favourite Son' help elevate a very good song to one of the album highlights. The finale repeats over and over "Scream. And scream all you want…" and is powerful stuff.
Elsewhere Rod Jones duets with some slightly less familiar Scottish names and ends up with a collection of songs memorable for very differing reasons. 'The Untrue Womb' sees him lock voices with Alasdair Roberts on a song that feels like it should only ever be admired and not dissected, Scott Hutchison joins in on the slightly epic 'I Forgot the Fall' (which has heavy hints of both males' day jobs coursing through it) and the gorgeous 'Dead Leaves and a Swollen Leg', a breezy and beautiful ode to a tree, finds him teaming up with Jill O'Sullivan. It feels like something that might have soundtracked a pivotal scene in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (if it was made in Scotland). His duet with Graham on 'All Gone But One' is a more instant album standout, with both of them repeating a series of short snappy phrases such as "When the light turns we'll leave her there… I'll throw you on the spire" over one another's take.
In truth though, while the project instigators rightly deserve a lot of credit, it's a fully conceived team effort that echoes issues surrounding mental health but never directly preaches about it. Opener 'Splinter' sets the tone immediately, pitched just perfectly the right side of grand and with a brooding fragility to it that Graham's vocals suit down to the ground - vocals that reappear and couple wonderfully with Karine Polwart on the brief but bright 'Fall Arch'.
Roberts' heavy drawl creates a brooding atmosphere on 'Beware Beware', which Yorkston underpins superbly with some raw, crackling guitar sounds. 'After Hours' is one of those tracks which continues to unveil itself with every listen whereas 'Tooth and Claw' (O'Sullivan / Jenny Reeve) swells from a fairly straight-forward number into a deliberately ominous outro.
A reminder that the whole thing was recorded in a matter of hours arrives as Yorkston and O'Sullivan duet on the affecting closer 'Just as Scared', singing "I don't have the answers / I'm just here with you / Just as lost as you / Just as scared as you". A digital watch beeps in the background, destined to be part of the recording forever more.
It's a reminder that the entire project was conceived, recorded and finished in a matter of days - warts and all - for a cause everyone involved clearly had a lot of good feeling towards; something that comes across throughout this fine collection of songs.
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Baroness Ullens de Schooten: Iran, Iraq & Egypt
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Handicraft Cooperatives and Workspaces in the MENA Region: Tourism, Experience Economy, and Women's Empowerment
International Tangier: Morocco & the Mediterranean in the early 20th c.
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Islam in Europe: Architecture of Muslim Communities since 1900
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Good architectural photographers need to accomplish two things in their work. They must accurately capture a structure or space in a way that accurately represents the subject, and they must do so in an aesthetically pleasing, eye-catching style. Some architectural photographers employ specialized equipment and technologies to accomplish this, others rely more heavily on techniques. Of course most make use of both, but regardless of whether or not they carry around loads of advanced equipment or simply search and wait for the best angles and the best light, a truly great architectural photographer can see and successfully capture both the totality of a structure, and the specific features that make it stand out. This collection presents photographers who are particularly successful at this.
This collection brings together two types of architectural photography. For my purposes I will refer to them as aesthetic and scholarly, though the distinction is not always clear. Aesthetic photographers tend to be more concerned about capturing a project in the most appealing manner possible in order to show a structure at its best. Very often these photographs taken by professionals for presentation panels, touristic brochures, project reports, or for submission to journals and prize committees. While these photographs must not misrepresent a site, the priority is on showing the site as its best. Scholarly photography, on the other hand, is primarily used for research and teaching. The emphasis is on accurately depicting a structure and its features. They may not be intended to show an architectural project at its best. Indeed, the objective may be the exact opposite. A scholarly image may be intended to capture defects in or damage to a structure. It may also make use of lighting effects or unusual angles that are not necessarily flattering, but which effectively capture something illustrative.
Many of the photographers in this collection are professional photographers who have built their reputation on their skills in photographing architecture; others are prominent scholars who took photographs for purposes of research or illustration of their arguments. But regardless of the purpose for which the photographs were taken, all the artists represented in this collection are celebrated for their skills as photographers.
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Kabul, Afghanistan
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restored 2002-ongoing
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Kabul, Afghanistan
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Kabul, Afghanistan
Constructed phase I 1880-1901, phase II 1901-1919, restoration 2005-2006
Timur Shah Mausoleum Restoration
Kabul, Afghanistan
1793, restored 2002-2008
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Kabul, Afghanistan
Rehabilitation started in 2015 and was completed in 2018
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Hazrat‐e Sayyed, Afghanistan
Restored: 2011-2013
Khwaja Parsa Complex Conservation
Balkh, Afghanistan
ca. 1460/865 AH; restored 1974-1975; restored (on-going) 2012-2016
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Cairo, Egypt
1502-20/907-26 AH, restored 2007-10/1427-30 AH
Amir Aslam al-Silahdar Funerary Complex Conservation
Cairo, Egypt
1344–45, restored 2006-2009
Amir Khayrbak Funerary Complex Restoration
Cairo, Egypt
1502-20/907-26 AH, restored 2000s/1400s AH
Aslam Square Rehabilitation
Cairo, Egypt
Ayyubid Historic Wall Conservation
Cairo, Egypt
1176, conservation 2000s
Darb Shoughlan School Restoration
Cairo, Egypt
19th c., restored 2000s
Darb al-Ahmar Conservation and Revitalisation
Cairo, Egypt
rehabilitation 2000s
Tarabay al-Sherif Conservation
Cairo, Egypt
1503/908 AH, restored 2006-09/1426-29 AH
Umm al-Sultan Sha'ban Mosque and Madrasa Restoration
Cairo, Egypt
1368-69/770 AH, restored 2000s/1420s AH
Jami' Aq Sunqar Restoration
Cairo, Egypt
Constructed: 1346 - 1347, restoration 2009 - 2012
Chausath Khamba Conservation
Delhi, India
16th century, restored 2007-ongoing
Humayun's Tomb Garden Revitalisation
Delhi, India
Constructed 1562-72, restored 2002-2003, inaugurated 2004
Humayun's Tomb Complex Restoration
Delhi, India
1562-1572, restored 2007-ongoing
Conservation of Arab Sarai Gateway
Delhi, India
Constructed in 1627/1036 A.H., restored between 2012-2014
Neela Gumbad Restoration
Delhi, India
17th century, restored 2007-ongoing
Nizamuddin Baoli
Delhi, India
13th century, restored 2007-ongoing
Nizamuddin Basti Area Development
Delhi, India
13th century, restored 2007-ongoing
Sunder Nursery Rehabilitation
Delhi, India
British construction, rehabilitation by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture 2007-2018, inaugurated in February 2018
Humayun's Tomb Site Museum
Delhi, India
Design 2013-2014, Construction 2015-2019
National Park of Mali
Bamako, Mali
Constructed 2008-2010, inaugurated 2010
National Park of Mali Zoo
Bamako, Mali
Constructed 2010-2012, inaugurated 2012
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Financial advisors do a lot of things, but retirement planning is pretty much on the top of their list. That is because of all of life's financial milestones, retirement has the biggest price tag. Whatever a client's "number," the lifelong quest to save and invest for an uncertain future is quantitatively the zenith of the advisor-client relationship.
But, as is generally known, things have changed since the time retirement rose in popularity in the postwar era. Average life expectancy at birth in the U.S. is 75 for men and 80 for women, according to the Social Security Administration (using 2009 mortality rates). For men, that is 14 years higher than it was in 1940 when the Social Security Administration began issuing monthly checks to those who reached the retirement age of 65.
(In fairness, it should be noted that the average life expectancy for a man who has already reached age 65 has risen not 14 but just 5 years, to 17 more years of life from 12 more years, since the advent of Social Security.)
Rising longevity, advances in health care and increasing affluence made current conceptions of retirement possible: images of graying but physically fit couples at the beach or energetically wending their way through a golf course became regular features of Madison Avenue's ad portfolios.
But America's affinity for high-end consumption that this image of the good life represents is in jeopardy. First of all, it is hard to promote private savings in a culture that views consumption as society's cherished goal.
Secondly, the declining base of taxpayers makes an already dubiously financed Social Security system fatally vulnerable. At the latest possible moment, the government will be forced to lessen the generosity of Social Security benefits for workers under 50 years old or massively increase taxes on the working population.
Thirdly, America appears to have entered a stage of protracted slow growth. According to data from the World Bank, America's GDP growth rate for the past 5 years has been 2.2% (2012); 1.8% (2011); 2.4% (2010); -3.1% (2009); -0.4% (2008).
Mean-reversion optimists might argue that it's time for a new wave of economic growth that will lift private and public funding levels. But the tepid economic activity of recent years has occurred amidst a backdrop of historically unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus programs. They don't seem to have worked and may actually have crowded out productive uses of capital.
What's more, sophisticated analyses — taking into account an aging population, low birth rate and diminished immigration — suggest that 1% or less than 1% growth is the new normal.
What all this means is that American views of retirement are outdated and unrealistic for most. The average 401(k) balance is somewhere around $80,000, according to Fidelity Investments.
A study by the New School for Social Research puts total retirement savings for the wealthiest segment of Americans at their peak pre-retirement earnings—and specifically those who make use of all available deferred contribution retirement accounts—at $240,000 on average. (Fortunately these wealthy people often have other assets, as well as Social Security.) With the average male living 17 years and the average female 20 years past the age of 65, it's hard to see how the cleverest of financial advisors can make such sums last at anything near preretirement consumption levels. Divide that $240,000 asset pool by 20 and one is left with just $12,000 of spending money a year.
Entrepreneurs are already at work with clever solutions to the problem. A new outfit called Happy Hubs is packaging the retirement dream complete with private chef, in-house massages and surfing and whitewater rafting adventures … in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is a beautiful country, and may be a fine choice for a select bunch. But for the majority of Americans who want to be in a place where English is spoken and children and grandchildren are close at hand, retirement in cheap Latin American or Asian destinations is not going to cut it.
But before making heroic efforts to rescue retirement, maybe it's best to question whether it was ever a good idea in the first place. Adventures, massages and golf are luxuries; they might make life more pleasant but not more meaningful. In contrast, building a legacy through family and playing a role in one's community was, historically, both the privilege and responsibility of a generation's elders.
In other words, maybe retirement was never such a good idea, anyway. Its escapist thrills and partying mentality has only depleted the wisdom and productivity of older Americans, probably contributing to dementia, depression and other illness while undermining younger generations that used to have more reliable babysitting resources at their disposal.
Economic reality is closing in on Americans. By rethinking popular but misguided concepts, they can vastly improve their material and mental well-being and contribute to America's economy and communities at the same time.
Americans should plan on working as long as they are able. If their abilities decline, they should think in terms of de-intensifying their work schedules rather than ending them, as long as that is possible. The added years of earning, likely at or near peak levels, would probably do more to end the later years' funding gap than any other solution.
Older Americans should also give thought to the good they can accomplish with age, experience and the wealth that that usually entails.
In the words of the great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer." Those who have the most to give have withheld those gifts for far too long, to the detriment of American society and themselves.
It is past time to retire current concepts of retirement.


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The comments sections on some newspapers and online news sites can be infamously bad. The Calgary Herald's commenters, many of them frequent enough to be "top commenters", put on a despicable display today. Chief Spence ended her hunger strike, and was hospitalized as a precaution because she's been without proper nutrition for six weeks. Obviously such a drastic diet, with the purpose of forcing an emotional outpouring of support for political ends, is not healthy.
Mike Neumeier · Top Commenter
Look at her, there's no way she was on a liquid-only diet – stop lying already. I'm pretty sure I saw her pounding down 6 mama-burgers at A & W the other day.
Ah yes, fat jokes about the lady who has been starving the past six weeks. Starving because the Prime Minister is too prideful to grant even an hour for himself and the Governor General to meet in person with some First Nations leaders. Starving, because First Nations people across Canada tend to suffer and be murdered at higher rates than other Canadians, yet this is not deemed an emergency that needs immediate correcting, according to the Prime Minister. She was starving for justice, and you mock her.
At least one journalist at CTV realized that there are some stories where there is a clear morally just side, and another where people die needlessly*. Can the corporate media as a whole begin to extend this realization to the issue of racism also? It's not like racism has ever killed millions of people before, but their imaginations need to be stretched (if they can't recall any race based genocide).
I don't know how these people listed below will feel later about their negative comments, but if I'd ever made a nasty comment about someone based on their appearance or their race, I'd feel ashamed. These people signed their names to racist, fat jokes, some while listing their employer. That either takes guts (minus a heart), or a heck of a lack of brains.
Ken Schmied · Top Commenter
Hopefully the poor dear will be able to quickly put on some weight. She looks emaciated.
Reply · 16 · Like · Follow Post · 22 hours ago
David Kolling · Telephony Analyst at Shaw Communications
I think we as canadian tax payers should pony up and pay to send her to a really nice spa for 3 or 4 months to help her heal. You're right she looks awful. Hahahahaha.
Reply · 7 · Like · 17 hours ago
Ken Schmied · Top Commenter
Grand Valley would be a wonderful resort for her to spend 6 to 10 years with time off for good behavior.
Reply · 3 · Like · Edited · 17 hours ago
Alan Beaulieu · Top Commenter · Calgary, Alberta
Looks like she could have done a few pushups and situps while she was Idling.
Reply · 1 · Like · 2 hours ago
William Kim Parkyn · Top Commenter
Too much media attention has been given to this charleton. Her hunger strike reminds me of her accounting methods.
Reply · 14 · Like · Follow Post · 22 hours ago
David Schafer · Top Commenter · University of Calgary
Gandhi went on a much shorter hunger strike and looked close to death. Spence was on a "hunger strike" for weeks and still is a dead ringer for Jabba the Hut.
Reply · 14 · Like · Follow Post · 21 hours ago
Murray Edel
If Mike Duffy had been on a similar hunger strike, the CBC would have lampooned him on 22 Minutes in a heartbeat.
Reply · 6 · Like · Follow Post · 20 hours ago
Larry Chartrand · Calgary, Alberta
She heard A&W has the Buddy burgers back at tax payer funded $1.75.
Reply · 12 · Like · Follow Post · 20 hours ago
Cinn Dee Anderson · Follow · Burnaby college
this made me lol
Reply · 4 · Like · 20 hours ago
John Martin · Top Commenter · Calgary, Alberta
Why does anyone still pay attention to this crook? The only reason she did her so called hunger strike is to try to take attention away from the money she and her boy friend stole/are stealing from her reserve. Apparently every night she goes to a hotel room to sleep (and I'm sure order room service) in a Hummer or Caddy. No news media reports on this nor do they mention the fact that she has a home in Arizona. And it goes on and on.
Reply · 10 · Like · Follow Post · 19 hours ago
Mildred Johnson · Top Commenter
I wished the media would stop feeling for this beached whale, and start exposing all the monies and properties she has hidden away in the US.
Reply · 6 · Like · 16 hours ago
Mildred Johnson · Top Commenter
I don't believe she was ever on a hunger strike. So she can stop trying to fool herself that she had issues with the gov't. They have let her steal millions of our taxpayer dollars.
Reply · 4 · Like · Follow Post · 16 hours ago
Ron Williams · Top Commenter · Calgary, Alberta
No surprise, it got cold. And was a farce and is exposed. Hopefully now her people will go after her for her lies and theft.
Reply · 4 · Like · Follow Post · 16 hours ago
Ed Tanas · Top Commenter · Calgary, Alberta
Canada after the next election is going to be a very different country, ..and that will be a good thing..
Harper must listen or his political future could be over.. and with the opposition parties now signing this , they will be bound to implement the 13 priories… and thus have the votes of most First Nations and Idle No More supporters..Harper best pack his bags ready to be taken out the door in 2016..
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Mike Neumeier · Top Commenter
Whatever you say Eddie "can of potatoes"!!
Reply · 2 · Like · 8 hours ago
Mike Neumeier · Top Commenter
More garbage coming from your mouth – i say scrap all treaties, put the indian on the same page with today's society, wake up from your stupid dreams already & start fending for yourself.
The money stops now, maybe then you'll gain respect from the whiteman instead of whining all the time because you're not looked after.
Ed, you know why that wouldn't be in the indians best interest – because they wouldn't survive without the whiteman's help – GET IT.
Reply · 4 · Like · 8 hours ago
Warren Peece · Top Commenter
My nomination for leader of the LOOPY LEFT is ….. ED TANAS.
Is there a seconder?
Reply · 2 · Like · 5 hours ago
Mike Neumeier · Top Commenter
Look at her, there's no way she was on a liquid-only diet – stop lying already. I'm pretty sure I saw her pounding down 6 mama-burgers at A & W the other day.
Reply · 4 · Like · Follow Post · 8 hours ago
Mildred Johnson · Top Commenter
If the Indians are so unhappy in Canada, why don't they move to the USA, UK and anywhere else they want to go. Give us a break from giving our tax dollars to them and the fraud and theft they are committing against our people and the gov't.
Reply · 1 · Like · Follow Post · 6 hours ago
Here is Kevin Newman's rationale for covering racism in a different way than pre-Civil Rights America (or perhaps pre-Idle No More Canada).
As I was working on that story for W5, I was also reading Douglas Brinkley's remarkable biography of Walter Cronkite. I was surprised and relieved to learn how Cronkite had driven CBS reporters to cross a similar line in their reporting during the civil rights movement in the U.S. The systemic racism toward African-Americans, he believed, compelled journalists to put aside their notions of neutrality and play a role in shaping American's acceptance of equal rights.
To Cronkite, there was no "other side" that needed equal time in CBS reporting of segregation; there was only one position that was humane and moral. That's how I feel about what I consider the civil rights issue of my time: legal and societal equality for gays and lesbians. I cannot see a valid or moral argument for limiting them. I will not accept that my son has fewer rights, must hide who he is, or be afraid to celebrate true love in front of us.
Cronkite's example helped ease my reluctance to reveal my bias, and as long as I'm being transparent about it, I feel comfortable sharing with W5 viewers and you this aspect of my life I never have discussed before.


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