Vegetarian Ideal


Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
- Albert Einstein

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The Emperor's Secret Garden (2010) 乾隆花园修缮记

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The Emperor's Secret Garden (2010)



The fabled Forbidden City in Beijing, a 178 acre city-within-a-city, clothed in secrecy and surrounded by myth, was for centuries a tantalising mystery to the west. 



Isolated behind high walls for nearly five hundred years, successive rulers built up a collection of the most remarkable and opulent buildings and artworks of Chinese culture. 



The city became The Palace Museum when the Emperor left its sanctuary in 1924. 



But the city had one more secret to reveal; tucked away in the Forbidden City's north-east corner lay something different; a unique group of buildings that had lain unused and virtually untouched for more than two hundred years. 



In 2001, the Palace Museum and a foreign NGO, the New York-based World Monuments Fund partnered to conserve the Garden, choosing to restore Juanqinzhai (倦勤斋, the Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service) first. 



This was the first large-scale interior conservation project and the museum's first international collaboration. 
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May 2010, China's ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming, joined Prince Charles at a showing in the British Museum of "The Emperor's Secret Garden", a documentary sponsored by the Robert Ho Foundation of Hong Kong about the lodge's restoration. 



The film was aired on Sky in June. Later that year furniture and fittings from the garden also began a year-long tour of America, the first such showing outside China.
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Saturday, August 18, 2018

Aretha Franklin - Mary, Don't You Weep [HD]


 

Aretha Franklin - Mary, Don't You Weep [HD]


"Mary, Don't You Weep" is from the 1972 album "Amazing Grace" by Aretha Franklin. 

It ultimately sold over two million copies in the United States alone, earning a Double Platinum certification. 

As of 2010 it is also the biggest selling disc of Aretha's entire fifty year recording career. 

The double album was recorded 'Live' at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during January of 1972. 

It won the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance and also stands as the biggest selling pure Gospel album in history. 

A film documenting the making of the album is set to be released in 2010. 

Personnel featured on the recording: 

Aretha Franklin - vocals, piano 

Chuck Rainey - bass 

Cornell Dupree - guitar 

Kenneth Lupper - organ 

Pancho Morales - percussion, conga 

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - drums 

Southern California Community Choir - background vocals