Quote:Juha Ilmari Leiviskä (March 17, 1936 – November 9, 2023) was a Finnish architect and designer. He was especially known for his churches and other sacral buildings.

The son of engineer Toivo Ilmari Leiviskä and teacher Sonja Jämsén-Astala, Leiviskä studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, qualifying as an architect in 1963. He established his own office in 1964, while also working as a teaching assistant at Helsinki University of Technology.

Leiviskä also worked with architect Bertel Saarnio, and together they won the architectural competition for the Kouvola Town Hall (1964–68), regarded as one of the most significant public buildings in Finland during the 1960s, brought much critical attention to the young architect.

Leiviskä came to international attention during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s with designs for churches in different parts of Finland, each employing a similar design language. His mature style combines the sensitivity to the dramatics of natural light of German Baroque churches, with compositional principles of Dutch De Stijl architecture of the 1920s, for instance in the way series of parallel, free-standing walls can define space yet deconstruct traditional notions of enclosure.

Leiviskä had a joint architect's office in Helsinki with architect Vilhelm Helander - Vilhelm Helander, Juha Leiviskä arkkitehdit SAFA.

Architecture is closer to music than to the visual arts. To qualify as architecture, buildings, together with their internal spaces and their details, must be an organic part of the environment, of its grand drama, of its movement and of its spatial sequences. To me, a building as it stands, "as a piece of architecture" is nothing. Its meaning comes only in counterpoint with its surroundings, with life and with light.
— Juha Leiviskä, Architecture and Urbanism, (April 1995) p. 13

(11-16-2023 06:24 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  As I held her hand, my beloved grandmother passed tonight at age 89. The word "beloved" is just not a big enough word, she was loved and cherished by so many children, grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren. She was one of the most special people I have ever known and other than my mother no one on this earth ever loved me like she did. She had unwavering faith in Jesus her whole life, and I know she is with Him today.

I would just ask anyone out there to pray for my family through this gut wrenching moment. So much of who I am is because of her, and so much of me was just torn apart as she left this earth. But because of the Gospel I know I will see her again.

I wish everyone could have known and experience what an incredible person she was. Everyone deserves a mother or grandmother like her. She was a beautiful and special woman inside and out and the last of her family of 12 to pass. I love her with everything I am.

Maggie Faye LeMay, 1934-2023

(11-16-2023 06:24 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  As I held her hand, my beloved grandmother passed tonight at age 89. The word "beloved" is just not a big enough word, she was loved and cherished by so many children, grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren. She was one of the most special people I have ever known and other than my mother no one on this earth ever loved me like she did. She had unwavering faith in Jesus her whole life, and I know she is with Him today.
I would just ask anyone out there to pray for my family through this gut wrenching moment. So much of who I am is because of her, and so much of me was just torn apart as she left this earth. But because of the Gospel I know I will see her again.
I wish everyone could have known and experience what an incredible person she was. Everyone deserves a mother or grandmother like her. She was a beautiful and special woman inside and out and the last of her family of 12 to pass. I love her with everything I am.
Maggie Faye LeMay, 1934-2023

(11-16-2023 06:24 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  As I held her hand, my beloved grandmother passed tonight at age 89. The word "beloved" is just not a big enough word, she was loved and cherished by so many children, grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren. She was one of the most special people I have ever known and other than my mother no one on this earth ever loved me like she did. She had unwavering faith in Jesus her whole life, and I know she is with Him today.

I would just ask anyone out there to pray for my family through this gut wrenching moment. So much of who I am is because of her, and so much of me was just torn apart as she left this earth. But because of the Gospel I know I will see her again.

I wish everyone could have known and experience what an incredible person she was. Everyone deserves a mother or grandmother like her. She was a beautiful and special woman inside and out and the last of her family of 12 to pass. I love her with everything I am.

Maggie Faye LeMay, 1934-2023

(11-16-2023 06:24 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  As I held her hand, my beloved grandmother passed tonight at age 89. The word "beloved" is just not a big enough word, she was loved and cherished by so many children, grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren. She was one of the most special people I have ever known and other than my mother no one on this earth ever loved me like she did. She had unwavering faith in Jesus her whole life, and I know she is with Him today.

I would just ask anyone out there to pray for my family through this gut wrenching moment. So much of who I am is because of her, and so much of me was just torn apart as she left this earth. But because of the Gospel I know I will see her again.

I wish everyone could have known and experience what an incredible person she was. Everyone deserves a mother or grandmother like her. She was a beautiful and special woman inside and out and the last of her family of 12 to pass. I love her with everything I am.

Maggie Faye LeMay, 1934-2023

Quote: According to an official biography of the drummer-songwriter posted by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Jersey City, N.J., native had developed an early affinity for jazz drummers Elvin Jones, Art Blakey and Jack DeJohnette when he met neighbor and future Kool & The Gang keyboardist Ricky West. West introduced Brown to the band’s future saxophonist and musical director Ronald Bell and future trumpeter Robert Mickens, and by the mid-1960s they were playing jazz clubs while still in high school.

In 1969 the group, which had performed under various names includes the Jazziacs, became Kool & the Gang and began to develop the blend of jazz, soul, funk, rock and pop music that would become their trademark. The band’s breakthrough came in 1973 with the album Wild and Peaceful, which included the hits “Jungle Boogie” and “Hollywood Swinging.”

Throughout the ’70s and well into the ’80s Kool & the Gang scored a string of hits including “Ladies’ Night,” “Get Down on It,” “Joanna,” “Cherish” and the chart-topping “Celebration.”

The group won a Grammy in 1978 for their work on the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever, which has sold more than 16 million copies in the U.S. alone. Kool & the Gang’s song “Open Sesame” also was featured in the movie.

In all, Kool & the Gang won two Grammys, seven American Music Awards, and was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. They sold 7.5 million albums in the U.S. and more than 70 million worldwide.

Brown spoke about his cancer battle in an interview with TV station KCAL News just last month.

(11-19-2023 03:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who transformed the role of first lady, dies at 96.

(11-19-2023 03:42 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(11-19-2023 03:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who transformed the role of first lady, dies at 96.

I'm not Democrat, but I got a chance to meet and talk with her and she was one of the most pleasant, gracious and unassuming ladies, with celebrity status, that I have ever met. We talked about upcoming projects we both had while we waited to meet the same person. I left most impressed with the genuineness of her humanity and sincerity. It will be a terrible loss for her husband. When you get to be their age, each other is usually all you have left from your own generation.

(11-19-2023 03:57 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(11-19-2023 03:42 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(11-19-2023 03:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who transformed the role of first lady, dies at 96.

I'm not Democrat, but I got a chance to meet and talk with her and she was one of the most pleasant, gracious and unassuming ladies, with celebrity status, that I have ever met. We talked about upcoming projects we both had while we waited to meet the same person. I left most impressed with the genuineness of her humanity and sincerity. It will be a terrible loss for her husband. When you get to be their age, each other is usually all you have left from your own generation.

They put her into Hospice care recently. Jimmy was put in Hospice care months ago. I was thinking he would have gone first. I don't think he have much time left either.

My mother is also on Hospice care, and she is slowly going herself.

(11-19-2023 03:42 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(11-19-2023 03:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who transformed the role of first lady, dies at 96.

I'm not Democrat, but I got a chance to meet and talk with her and she was one of the most pleasant, gracious and unassuming ladies, with celebrity status, that I have ever met. We talked about upcoming projects we both had while we waited to meet the same person. I left most impressed with the genuineness of her humanity and sincerity. It will be a terrible loss for her husband. When you get to be their age, each other is usually all you have left from your own generation.

(11-19-2023 03:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who transformed the role of first lady, dies at 96.

(11-19-2023 04:48 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(11-19-2023 03:32 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who transformed the role of first lady, dies at 96.

Transformed? From what to what?

Quote:“I don’t know anyone else who’s able to go one night from playing a rock concert in front of 5,000 people to playing at the Beat Kitchen in front of 10, and taking both contexts absolutely seriously,” saxophonist Dave Rempis told the Tribune recently. “It’s not even rare; it’s unheard of to move back and forth between all the worlds that he does.”

Williams died Nov. 20 from ampullary cancer, a rare cancer affecting the area around the small intestine, after being diagnosed almost a year ago. He was 68. His death was confirmed to the Tribune by his brother Paul Williams.

“Mars Williams is one of the true saxophone players — someone who takes pleasure in the sheer act of blowing the horn and there are not many saxophone players I can truthfully say this about,” Zorn wrote in the liner notes to “Eftsoons,” Williams’ 1984 duo album with multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell.

Williams also kick-started his parallel career in the rock world in New York, playing punk shows at the music club CBGB and picking up gigs by word-of-mouth. That path eventually led him to the Psychedelic Furs, becoming the band’s longest-serving member after founders Richard and Tim Butler. He played with the Furs from 1983 to 1989, then again from 2005 to the present.

As is the sideman’s lot, Williams was never a household name, though many of the acts he performed with are: Billy Idol, The Killers, Ministry, the Power Station, Billy Squier, Massacre, Die Warzau, Dirty Projectors and Jerry Garcia, to name a few. As a core member of short-lived hit magnets The Waitresses, Williams ripped all over that band’s most enduring tunes, like “Christmas Wrapping” and “I Know What Boys Like.”

(11-21-2023 02:07 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  GO ... I can't begin to tell you how much I do NOT remember from those (X-tacy) days when you never had to worry, mate!






literally hadn't given a thought about those days in quite some time ... that mem bank is a funny farm animal at times ...

(11-26-2023 10:17 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

Marty Krofft, Colorful Producer of ‘H.R. Pufnstuf,’ ‘Land of the Lost,’ and many other shows Dies at 86






Sid and Marty Krofft began their Hollywood careers by designing the characters and sets for Hanna-Barbera live-action series “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour,” which ran on NBC from 1968-70. In 1976 the Kroffts were asked to develop an amusement park for the new Omni International complex in downtown Atlanta. The World of Sid and Marty Krofft was one of the world’s first indoor amusement parks featuring a ride inside a giant pinball machine, located at the top of the Omni International Center complete with an ice skating rink and a ride up to the theme park on what was then the World's Longest Escalator, but attendance was poor and it closed after six months. The building that contained the park was renamed the CNN Center when the site was converted to the headquarters of CNN in Atlanta, Georgia.