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'Scalia/Ginsburg' Opera by Derrick Wang to Receive World Premiere Production at Castleton Festival in July 2015
Castleton, VA – December 10, 2014 – Scalia/Ginsburg, a new American opera about U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, will receive its world premiere production on July 11, 17, and 19, 2015, at the Castleton Festival in Virginia.
In the plot of this comic opera, Justices Ginsburg and Scalia must pass through three cosmic trials to secure their freedom. The catch: they may have to agree on the Constitution. Derrick Wang's Scalia/Ginsburg is a valentine to law and opera, where the law's leading players go toe-to-toe and trill-to-trill in a (gentle) parody of operatic proportions. Opinions will be offered. Dissents will be delivered. And justice will be sung.
Scalia/Ginsburg began its journey in a presentation at the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2013, and since then, excerpts from the opera have been presented in concert by musical and legal organizations including the Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Maryland Opera Studio, National Constitution Center, and Second Circuit Judicial Conference (co-sponsored by Columbia Law School) with artists from Opera Saratoga.
One such concert presentation was at the Castleton Festival, a music festival founded by the late conductor Maestro Lorin Maazel and Dietlinde Turban Maazel. At the Castleton Festival, selections from Scalia/Ginsburg were enthusiastically received as part of Justice Ginsburg's sold-out "Law in Opera" presentation in June 2014. This presentation inspired the Castleton Festival to commission the world premiere production of Scalia/Ginsburg.
"I am excited to work with the Castleton Festival on the world premiere production of Scalia/Ginsburg," said Derrick Wang, the opera's composer and librettist. "Castleton embodies Maestro Lorin Maazel's dedication to new work, young artists, and the transformative power of opera. It is a great honor to take part in his musical legacy."
A publication of the annotated libretto [script] is forthcoming, with prefaces by Justices Ginsburg and Scalia.
About Derrick Wang (Composer & Librettist, Scalia/Ginsburg)
Derrick Wang (composer and librettist of the opera Scalia/Ginsburg) is an interdisciplinary composer, lyricist/librettist, pianist, and speaker. His compositions have been honored by ASCAP and BMI, performed by groups such as the American Modern Ensemble, Washington National Opera, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and heard in venues from New York to Shanghai. His annotated libretto to Scalia/Ginsburg will be published, with prefaces by U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, by the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts in 2015. As a speaker, Derrick Wang engages audiences in the United States and abroad in discussing interdisciplinary topics, including the intersection of music and law. Recent appearances include presentations for the National Constitution Center, the Second Circuit Judicial Conference, and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Previously, he was a Resident Artist (Composer-Librettist) in American Lyric Theater's Composer-Librettist Development Program. He is a graduate of Harvard University, the Yale School of Music, and the University of Maryland Carey School of Law.
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Is the personal-computer boom back?
Most indicators for the quarter that ended Sept. 30 suggest PC sales are on the upswing. Two research companies, IDC and Gartner, reported double-digit worldwide sales growth year-over-year 15.7 percent from IDC and 14.1 from Gartner. In the United States, the figures were 16.1 and 19.1 percent.
That equates to 38 million to 42 million computers sold globally during the period, depending on which figures are cited.
The numbers are encouraging to a sector that has been languishing for the past three years, battered by the dot-bomb, a flagging economy and a mountainous inventory of used equipment that sold at auction for far less than even the cheapest new computers.
In confirmation, Intel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and others reported stronger-than-expected PC-related sales in quarterly earnings. Summer PC sales were driven by demand in the U.S., Japan and Europe, said John Connors, Microsoft's chief financial officer.
As moribund as 2003 looked a few months ago, PC sales were not supposed to show even a hint of rebound till the fourth quarter, when holiday shopping traditionally provides a boost. Analysts still are offering a cautious outlook, saying early 2004 may witness another dip.
Investors seem skeptical as well. Despite positive earnings from several tech companies, the stock market tumbled. Hardest hit was Microsoft. Its stock dropped 8 percent after the company said long-term contracts covering software licenses weren't selling to expectations.
While I doubt we'll see a return to the glory years of 20 percent growth quarter after quarter, I also believe the worst is over for PC sales. The reason: Equipment purchased before 2000 before the Y2K crisis (which never happened) is getting old. The same holds true for the dot-com inventory.
Those millions of computers will have to be replaced over the next year or two.
Upgrades beget more upgrades. People talk about their new machines. And they do more with the upgraded equipment, boosting software and Web applications. In three areas, expanded capabilities are driving PC upgrades:
Another is CD and DVD burning. Digital cameras and camcorders, along with improved PC software, are creating a boom in content-sharing. Blank CDs have surpassed recorded CDs in sales, and digital photos have overtaken film.
Finally, there's portability. Wireless Internet access through home and public Wi-Fi networks is pushing laptop and notebook sales to record levels. Especially for kids, the portable PC is becoming requisite.
Another big factor looms: Microsoft's release of the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. It's an ambitious project and may not be publicly available till 2006 or 2007. But it will almost certainly drive equipment upgrades on several fronts.
It's probably a bit early to expect a minimum-requirements list for Longhorn. We can hope that Microsoft, as soon as is practical, will settle on a "base machine" for the upgrade. That will give guidance on memory and processor requirements to those forced to replace aging equipment before Longhorn's release.
When I refer to PC sales and upgrades, I include Apple Macintoshes and Linux PCs in the mix. Apple is doing some remarkable innovation in the digital-lifestyle category, and Linux continues to get better, to the point it already provides a workable alternative to Windows in many categories.
In any case, the PC is back. Even though doubts about economic recovery continue, rising PC sales can't help but drive the tech sector back to health starting with the upcoming holiday season.
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220.127.116.11 - - [14/Nov/2005:14:13:03 +0100] "GET /foo/bar/ HTTP/1.0" 200 4362 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;)" "212.141.2.*, unknown"
sidenote: After some days, traffic on the site (existing since 2001, >1000 pages unique content, more than 6 ODP listings, 2 non-paid Yahoo Directory listings, 2 VLIB listings, misc. college links) visited by the Google IP started to drop to about 50%. Until today.
I do not believe this is a coincidence.
18.104.22.168Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1),gzip(gfe) (via translate.google.com)
Google human raters don't usually fake their UA. They use Firefox ; ) I can give you the ip addresses for both USA and UK if you want.
And while we're talking about IP addresses I'd like to know what's going on with 66-194-6-xx.gen.twtelecom.net - a lot of visits to penalized sites with no referrer.
Having enough experience in log analysis to distinguish a cell phone proxy, translate.google.com and Google service related stuff in general from other log entries, this one was posted here, because I was not the only one who had that visit.
First of all, I found the IP address you mentioned also in my log files and my answer in msg #2 was based on my analysis of that visit. The visitor surfed my website like a normal user: the time it spent on each page was comparable with the amount of content per page, i.e. larger pages took more time before a jump to the next page. There was also a logical sequence in the fetched pages from general information to more specific. It is highly unlikely that a bot would mimic a human in such a way, so I strongly believe that it was a human.
Secondly the visitor read my Dutch language pages, although English language pages about the same subject were also available. I remember from a thread some time ago that Google only recruted quality raters from English speaking countries so IMHO it is unlikely that it was a Google quality rater.
Third, I have several entries in my logfile from the Google WAP/CHTML proxy at IP 184.108.40.206 and 188.8.131.52 with exactly the UA string you mention: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; )". Therefore it was not a guess, that this IP might be used as a secondary IP for the WAP/CHTML proxy, but based on the content of my logfiles.
Fourth, Google has a very strict way of assigning IP addresses. Look at the numbers for the DC's for example. They all end at the same numbers: 104, 99, etc. Therefore--although without scientific proof--the fact that the two IP addresses I know of the WAP proxy end in 136 is an indication that other addresses ending in 136 are also proxies.


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I hope those who celebrated the day had a Happy Thanksgiving. Our office is closed Thursday and Friday and this is a lovely 4 days off for me.
Mostly, I've been reading, Under The Dome by Stephen King. It was just recently released and is still one of the "New Books" at our library. Which means I need to be finished with it by Dec 2nd. 1074 pages. I've got another 300 to go. Good book. I love how Stephen King tells a story. There's just no hurry because you are NOT going to get away from it, whatever it is. So there is time to examine every picking detail.
And, a psychic point of interest....I had begun this post at my other blog called The Spirit Moved Me and Look What Happened. But, it being basically chatty rather than uplifting or in some way spiritually moving the guides suggested to me that I not put it into that blog. A better choice being this one at Where the Psychic Vents where I could write a nice update on my life.
As I began the transfer of post from one blog to the other I saw that this post will be number 222 at The Psychic Vents. And, that is news. Especially, since I was just writing about reading a Stephen King book. See, dear readers, when I turned psychic I was reading a boat load of Stephen King books. I had just quit my job in favor of pursuing life as a writer. But, the first thing I did as a free woman was to get horribly sick. It was over a month that I was sick. My days were turned upside down as I slept all day and was awake at night. And, I had an itch to read a Stephen King book.
I had avoided any of his books all of my life (up until then I was 35 years old and at the present time it is 20 years later). I thought they were just too scary. But, about 2 months before I quit my job to be a writer I was at the library on a Friday evening after work. The goal was to get a big fat book for the weekend. I didn't care what it was going to be about. I just walked into the library wanting a big fat book. I remember I walked around a little bit until I headed into the New Book Section. It was there I saw it. It was about 3 inches thick. It was a newly released, uncut edition of, The Stand. My heart thumped. I saw it was by Stephen King, but I flipped open the fly leaf to read what was there. Poifect. I took it home, read it and was done by Monday. 3 days to read over 1,000 pages. And, from that moment on I was no longer afraid to read Stephen King books.
So, 2 months later as I was fighting and then slowly recovering from that horrible sick I got the minute I quit my job what better way to spend my time than reading a lot of books by Stephen King? I did. And, I got psychic.
The first thing that happened was I began seeing the number 222 everywhere. I mean it was everywhere. The first place was the time on the microwave oven. Then, it was just everywhere. I talked to my sister about it because I was concerned and the next day she telephoned me to excitedly say she had just been in her bank's parking lot, looked up at their sign twirling around on top of a post to see that the time was 222. I don't remember what the temperature displayed on the opposite side of the sign was, but there it was 2:22 in the afternoon. Creepy.
I continued seeing 222 everywhere. Checks that I wrote had a 222 in them. Receipts I got from shopping had 222 in them. To this day, with every book I read, I seem to be aware of that page, 222, as it goes by.
There were other things that began happening too. My dreams got really vivid and wierd. I remember I dreamed about some tall dude coming up my front steps with a huge pumpkin head. I dreamed of myself coming up the front steps hand over hand on the railing as if I was having trouble with the ascent. I began to know that the phone was going to ring before it rang and then I began knowing who was on the other end. I was well and truly freaked by this time.
I went to the library to investigate ESP because that's what I thought this was about. When we were kids we were always interested in hearing about things ESP. But, it never actually happened to us. Just to other people. And, we also weren't real sure that it was real. I found a copy of Colin Wilson's book called ESP. It's a huge book and I read enough of it to find out he didn't consider things ESP to be freakish or alarming. That was enough to settle my breakfast and with a much calmer manner I began to read other books to try to discover what was happening to me.
I read somewhere that 222 is a signal that you are on your spiritual path. That put an entirely different spin on things from the lurid and freaky to a quietly psychic and spiritual path. I was comfortable with that.
I was on my way. So, 222 has a special significance for me and so do the books written by Stephen King. And, today is a special day for this blog.


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Yesterday I was delighted to find myself nominated for the Beautiful Blogger Award by Anna over at Mrs Halford's Blog. Thank you, kind lady, for making me smile. The nomination came as a complete surprise, right out of the blue, and I am therefore very touched.
The rules of the award are that if you accept it you post it on your site, choose (about) 6 people to pass it on to, and then tell ten facts about yourself that others may not know. I hope my nominees will enjoy participating too, but of course there is no pressure if you would rather not.
Here are my nominees:
- Dr Marbles at Medical Marbles. I'm living a Doctor's life vicariously through her blog;
- Sarah at Older Mum in a Muddle, who has two blogs, one of which is an excellent source of information for the slightly older mother, and both of which were early "must follows" for me;
- Anya at Older Single Mum who has some very funny perspectives on life and motherhood, one of my favourite bloggers;
- Kate at Kate on Thin Ice, who writes supportive pieces for those of us trying to add more to our lives in the midst of the sometimes chaos otherwise known as motherhood;
- Claire at Mummy Plum who writes some beautiful, lyrical pieces about her observations on life;
- Zazzy at Zazamatazz and Ally at The Spectacled Bean, who both write thought-provoking and insightful pieces from the other side of the Atlantic.
I know that's seven, but I couldn't leave any one of them out. That's the easy bit, now for the hard part; my ten things people don't know about me.
- I am going to be fluent in French. People know I am studying it and I've written about it a lot recently, but I don't think I've ever said I'm going to be fluent. There we are, declare and share, launch and learn.
- Being a mother is my greatest achievement. Sorry to steal that one from you Mrs H, but it is so true. Nothing else I have ever done or will ever do has or will ever come close.
- When I am up high, I always, always feel like jumping. Not because I want to harm myself, just because I get the urge to launch myself off. Therefore, I am not safe to be at the top of a mountain, or on a high balcony. I don't think I'd ever do it, but I don't like having that feeling. Maybe I was an eagle in a former life. Maybe I will be one in the next life.
- I wore a genuine sari, complete with bindi, at a wedding in India. One of my friends, originally from Mumbai, married a woman from Chennai and I went to their wedding. The sari came from India and I was measured up for the blouse at the side of the road and had it made up there and then.
- I am obsessed with mushrooms. I love them. They go in practically every meal.
- I have moved house 21 times and lived in 6 UK counties. I've wandered a bit, but been in my last place for 7 years now, although I do have itchy feet sometimes. It's a bit more difficult to move now with a husband in a job he loves and a little chap.
- I rolled a car in a crash on the A1 and walked away without a scratch. My own stupid fault, no one else was hurt. I had a hitchhiker with me; the police gave me a hard time about that until I pointed out that he was probably in more danger from me.
- The luxury I would take to a desert island is a memory foam pillow. Nothing like a great night's sleep to see you through the toughest of days.
- My fantasy address would be somewhere on Baker Street in London.
- I played the violin when I was a child and took all my exams without the music. This wasn't because I was clever, it was because I forgot to take the music in with me to the exam room, so I had to do it from memory.
Some of these I think I have put in a previous post, but I got stuck trying to think about what people might find interesting! Thanks again to Mrs H, and I'm looking forward to reading other people's "ten things".


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The Johnson County [Kansas] Sun reports that this week marked the 39th commemoration of Kwanzaa, the non-religious, non-political celebration of traditions, ancestors and culture that is observed worldwide by more than 18 million people of African descent.
Although I have searched high and low, I have yet to find another Kwanzaa stamp issued by any other country besides the United States. One design was released in 1997 and another in 2004.
Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, who designed the celebration as a way to preserve, revitalize and promote African American culture.
The first Kwanzaa stamp, designed by Synthia Saint James, was issued in 1997 as a 32¢ stamp. The same design was used for the 33¢, 34¢ and 37¢ Kwanzaa stamps of 1999, 2001 and 2002, respectively.
The name Kwanzaa is rooted in the phrase "matunda ya kwanza" which means "first fruits of the harvest" in Kiswahili. While Kwanzaa itself is only about 40 years old, first-fruit harvest celebrations have been celebrated in Africa for thousands of years, with recorded histories of the celebrations from the ancient Egyptian and Nubian periods.
Kwanzaa celebrates seven principles known as Nguzo Saba, the principles are meant to reflect tradition, reason and guiding values that contribute to building and reinforcing family, community and culture. Each of Kwanzaa's seven days is dedicated to one of the principles. The principles are umoja (unity), kujichagulia (self-determination), ujima (collective work and responsibility), ujamaa (cooperative economics), nia (purpose), kuumba (creativity) and imani (faith).
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Members of the Gade family proudly show off a stash of Indian rupees kept in an unlocked tin barrel in their bedroom, despite their home not having a front door.
In Shani Shingnapur village in western India, residents see little need for such security, thanks to their belief in special protection from the Hindu deity Shani.
As farmers trundle the roads in bullock carts piled high with sugarcane, they pass rows of homes bearing empty door frames — a village tradition that goes back for generations.
"Years ago, Shani came in the dreams of devotees and told them you don't need to put any doors on your homes," housewife Jayashree Gade told AFP.
"He said: 'I will protect you'. That's why we don't have any doors."
According to legend, an iron and stone slab washed up in a nearby river during a flood more than 300 years ago, and began oozing blood when cattle herders poked it with a stick.
In a vision to a villager later that night, the slab was revealed to be an idol of Shani, and today it stands in an open square adorned with garlands of flowers, drawing crowds of pilgrims.
Shani, who is believed to be manifested in the planet Saturn, is considered so mighty that his shrine cannot be kept under a shelter — and he will not let thieves in the village of open homes go unpunished.
"The power of Shani is such that if someone steals, he will keep walking all night and think he has left the village, but when the sun comes up he will still be there," said mill worker Balasaheb Borude.
Some villagers said they put loose panels against their door frames at night, but only to keep out wild animals.
Similarly, the local branch of state-owned UCO Bank prides itself on its "lockless" status. Although money is kept in a strongroom, the front of the building has just a glass door with no lock, to avert stray dogs.
"We have no trouble," said bank official Nagender Sehrawat, gesturing to the queue of customers when asked if they were happy with the arrangement.
Today the center of the village, which lies in Maharashtra state, has the feel of bustling small town, with stalls lining the dusty main road selling souvenirs and flowers to religious tourists.
Home to about 5,000 people, Shani Shingnapur rose to fame across the country after appearing in a devotional Hindi film about its deity in the 90s.
"The whole world got to know that there is a place called Shani Shingnapur, where houses have no doors, there are trees but no shadows, there are gods but no temples," said Sayaram Bankar, a trustee at the shrine.
"Devotees from across the state and across India started pouring in to see this unusual village."
Shani Shingnapur's reputation has been somewhat dented in recent years by reports of a few thefts. In 2010, a visitor from northern India complained that cash and valuables worth US$553 were taken from a vehicle. Bankar dismissed reports of stealing, saying it only happened outside the village. Skeptics of the Shani legend remain unconvinced by the area's appeal.
"When you have a place in the middle of nowhere where no one goes and you have a legend like that — then people will go there," said Narendra Nayak, a leading Indian rationalist who works to expose fraudulent gurus and challenge superstitions. According to a pamphlet handed out at the shrine, Shani Shingnapur is not just free from theft but from all sinful behavior, a "model village" in contrast to the corrupt outside world.


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Police called after couple show up at Merced hospital with fake babies
Merced police were alerted by staff at Mercy Medical Center after two people showed up carrying dolls that resembled real babies.
According to Merced police, the man and woman first showed up at the hospital's emergency room on Saturday, requesting medical treatment. The female was carrying a baby-like doll, which was noted by hospital security.
On Monday, the same people again showed up at the hospital. The woman was able to get to the second floor, where the maternity ward is, by "unknown means," according to police. In her possession was one of the dolls in a baby carrier and a diaper bag.
According to police, nurses immediately notified security. The man who accompanied the woman to the hospital was waiting downstairs, and both were removed from the hospital.
Police were called, but the couple had already left the hospital by the time officers arrived.
Police noted the woman was wearing a nurse's outfit with a log-in sticker from her Saturday visit to the emergency room. Police said law enforcement agencies in the region were notified about the incident.
Merced police Sgt. Jay Struble said the man and woman have not been arrested and that police are looking into whether a crime was committed. Struble said police haven't spoken with the man and woman yet, but plan to.
Bob McLaughlin, spokesman for Mercy Medical Center, said the case was the first time he's heard of someone trying to gain access to a maternity ward with a doll. He said the couple's intentions were still unclear .
McLaughlin said the man was also carrying a fake baby. "We do not why they were in the hospital," he said.
All of the hospital's security measures worked effectively, McLaughlin said, and the woman was denied access through security doors that lead to the Family Birth Center.


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NYC Day Two
Breakfast at the hotel, then off to the Bob Woodruff offices. Shot a 'talking head'-style interview, then met up with our other American hiker, Kirstie Ennis.
Spent mid morning walking through Central Park, getting various camera shots and talking with Kirstie. This is our first time meeting, but we already feel like old friends, most likely due to our shared military experiences.
Swung by the NFL's Headquarters to see the Vince Lombardi trophy, check out the Super Bowl rings, and tour the NFL's 'command center' utilized on game day.
Went on over to Fox News next for a taped interview, and we were able to sneak in a brief tour as well.
Long day overall. Long day for sure.


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(I admit it, I'm blatantly borrowing the title of this post from that of Aimee Bender's novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, about a girl who bites into her mother's lemon chocolate cake and discovers she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. I also admit that I haven't read the book, but the play on the title seems apropos for the post. Hope you think so too.)
My friend Niksmom emailed last night, wondering if I might be available today to accompany her and her boy - her sweet, sweet darling boy - to the children's hospital this morning. There would be a test, one requiring sedation, one leading to (hopefully) some answers.
When it comes to caring for our cubs, we Mama Bears are good at so many things ... with the exception of, sometimes, asking for what we need. And in this case, what was needed was moral support, live and in person.
"I'm there," I replied via Facebook.
The morning brought a phone call from Niksmom, asking if I could stop by Starbucks (oh, all right, go ahead and twist my arm, how didya know I wanted a cinnamon dolce latte for the ride, girlfriend?) and get her boy a slice of lemon cake as a post-op treat.
A hour later, with traffic conquered and two pieces of lemon cake hidden in my purse, I arrived at the brand new sparkling MRI Center in the children's hospital, the lyrics from The Jungle Book greeting me in the waiting room. ("Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, forget about your worries and your strife, I mean the bare necessities, that's why a bear can rest at ease, with just the bare necessities of life.")
As we waited - and waited, and waited some more - I got to see Nik in action. You see, being nonverbal, Nik uses a "talker," a specialized computerized iPad-like device (pictured at the top of this post). Indeed, this is more than a computer; it's how Nik engages with his world through a few keystrokes, mastering new ones every day, making himself heard loud and clear. It has become a necessity of his, essential to his life, and transforming his world.
I watched in wonder, taking in his little fingers flying over the screen, and my friend being the incredible mother she is to a boy with multiple challenges. Later, in recovery, we watched the monitors and watched him sleep under sedation.
And then, awake and rehydrated and officially discharged, it was time for lemon cake, which I produced with great flourish and which was met with great joy and a flurry of words.
Cake profferred and accepted.
(You got that right, kiddo. I could live on that Starbucks Lemon Cake myself.)
Such absolute delight and joy you never did see. It was such a simple thing, this asking-via-talker for cake, my giving it to him, and the sheer politeness and gratitude.
We walked down to the lobby like this, Nik being wheeled in a wagon typing, the talker talking, me doling out pieces of lemon cake. It was only then that I became slightly aware of the stares - we're in a children's hospital, this can't be all that strange, and you know, the hell with you all if it is - and then, the recognition and grins of the passersby in the lobby as they began to recognize what was going on. I noticed the corporate-exec looking dude glancing down, his eyes wide with amazement as he watched Nik press an icon that announced "CAKE!" and then "THANK YOU," my eyes meeting his with a triumphant grin at this little boy, communicating through the most modern of technologies, being able to ask for cake just like every other little boy.
We should all be able to experience that kind of happiness, even once in our lives, I thought.
And with whatever the darkness of this night holds, and with whatever answers and results might lie in store tomorrow from the tests today, we have this slice of this day to savor: a little bit of joy, a little bit of laughter, a little bit of happiness from a little piece of lemon cake.
Look for the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
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Dublin District Coroner's Court – Dublin City Coroner's Court
The Coroner is an official charged with the legal responsibility for investigating sudden, unexplained and unnatural deaths in his or her district. The Coroner is appointed by the local authority in whose area the Coroner's district is situate.
A Coroner must be a barrister or a solicitor or a registered medical practitioner of at least five years standing. Although the Coroner system is subject to the general supervision of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, a Coroner is independent in his or her function.
The Coroner acts on behalf of the State in the public interest. Although the office has important medical functions, it is a legal office.
The public policy underlining a Coroner's inquest into deaths was identified in November, 1999 by the Irish Supreme Court in the case of Dublin City Coroner v The Attorney General.
In its judgement the Supreme Court said that "few" would dispute the need to have a public inquiry by a person with appropriate legal or medical qualifications into the death of a person as a result of violence or in circumstances that render such an investigation appropriate.
- Coroner's Act 1962
- Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989
- Criminal Law (Suicide) Act 1993
- Stillbirths Registration Act 1994
- Criminal Justice (Location of Victims Remains) Act 1999
- Dublin City Council
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- An Garda Síochána
- Locktec Locksmith Dublin
- Courts Service
- Health and Safety Authority
- Coroner's Society of Ireland
Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its peoples, their loyalty to high ideals and their regard for the laws of the land.
William Ewart Gladstone


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Thank you for visiting my blog. I do hope you find what you are looking for. The recipes found here are ones that I use and love or other recipes that I have tried and tested – and found that they are worth sharing.
Standing in front of my frying onions, I felt the need to update 'me' on my blog.
The first question that popped into my head was, 'where did you learn to cook?' It is a question I get asked often.
I'm no master chef nor do I have any cooking or baking qualifications – I am one of those people who will try different things, pay attention when other people cook, I don't feel shy to ask questions especially if it's related to the kitchen and to TRY AND FAIL… Get up and try again. That's where I learned to cook and bake!!!
I have found recipe books really difficult purchase. I'm sure there are many of us out there who have bought recipe books only to find one good recipe!
Don't feel embarrassed to ask around for a great recipe book – it's not cheap! And you won't purchase a novel without checking out the reviews, right?
I have many recipe books but I have found the following recipe books really helpful:
Everything homemade by Tarbiyat Publications
Indian Delight by Zuleikha Mayet
Food with flair published by Taalimun Nisa Association
Once you confident in the kitchen, you will find yourself tweaking recipes to suit your pallette. In fairness, not all recipe books will suit your tastes. For example, I have certain books that call for lots of sauces – I'm not a fan of that and it will depend on which recipes need those sauces – a roast leg of lamb or roasted chicken may need sauces.
I have a deep passion for cooking and baking – I admire people who lend their hand to the kitchen. Trying never hurt anyone. We all need to start some where!
As time goes by, you will notice my blog being updated, not just the recipes but I will be adding more pictures to help you through – as we learn we grow…
The aim for my blog is to get the nervous gal or guy to take that step forward, to attempt that recipe you had saved, even though it may fail – you will know where you went wrong or what you would like to adjust for the next time. No one said anything was easy but if you try and practice you will become the best… The best for yourself…
I was definitely not a good cook, infact, i never thought I would be great in the kitchen, I never thought I will be sharing my recipes and tips.
Here I am….


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My Approach
Your needs are just as unique as your business and I believe in doing the best I can for you each and every day. I want to learn everything I can about who you are, what you do, and most importantly; why you do it. Beginning with you in mind, I create valuable content to meet your needs. I'm not just here to do a job. I'm here to write a story... your story.


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Spring Break is over....and Ben and I are back in full swing school schedule. Only 6 weeks of school left, and 67 days until our wedding (AHHHH)....time is running away from us. We are still enjoying engagement but oh so very ready to be husband and wife!
For my last spring break of college I did the most
exciting productive thing ever----went home and worked on wedding plans. Ben and I were in Albany for 10 days and we literally working non stop from sun up to well after sundown. BUT it was so awesome, we got so much done. It feels so great to come back to school knowing the bulk of our wedding planning is behind us. We are definitely not finished yet but the end is in sight and the big work is completed. (I may be doing a little happy dance in my cubicle just celebrating)
While at home there were definitely moments of anxiety and tears...but at the end of the day Ben would remind me of several things....I wanted to share them with you...for those of you engaged, married, or praying to be one day...remember these things.
- A wedding is but a day, marriage is a covenant made for a lifetime.--- A wedding is supposed to be a celebration. A physical, earthly picture to believers and non believers of the wedding feast of the Lamb that is to come.
- Revelation 19:7 "Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted to her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure--for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, 'Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb."
- See a wedding is a BEAUTIFUL picture to the whole world of the covenant that the husband and wife are entering into with each other. It is a picture of Jesus himself and his bride the church...so a wedding should truly be a celebration and time of rejoicing.
- However, the wedding is but a day....it IS NOT the "bride's day" or the "groom's day"....it is the Lord's day. Marriage is the most intimate and literal picture we have of the Lord's relationship with his church of believers....so a wedding should reflect our Savior, not the selfish desires of the bride and groom. It should be about pointing those who attend to the Cross and the Lord rather than solely focusing on the relationship of the bride and groom.
In the greater picture of life and in comparison to the greatness of our God, this small decision is irrelevant...(Example: type of stamps for the invitations, color of tablecloths, printed napkins vs. non printed, the type of car we leave in)
- Colossians 1:15-19 "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, weather thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together...For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross."
- It is all about Christ. Everything goes back to the Cross, the Gospel, and his blood. We brought nothing to the Lord but our sin...nothing else. So anything we have been given (knowledge, wisdom, love, a relationship) comes from him and is maintained through him.
Take a step back and see what all you have been blessed with!
- Colossians 3:2 "Set your minds on things that are above, not things that are on the earth."
- Seek Christ, not things that will pass away. Does this mean never desire an earthly thing ever again? Absolutely not...that's impossible...but it does mean that we make our goal to strive after Christ (2 Corinthians 5:9---we make it our aim to please him) and not things that will ultimately burn and have no eternal value.
- Ben reminds me of this often. I am a wretched sinner saved by unending grace. I am dearly loved by my family and fiance. I have been given the most amazing man who has become my best friend and encourager. I am more in love with him today than ever before, and I am going to call him my husband in just 67 short days.....putting things into perspective like this makes the decision about what guest book to buy seem so petty and silly...remember where you have come from and what you have been blessed with.
I am learning so much through this engagement process. It is hard, and humbling and really difficult to come face to face with so much of my selfishness, materialism, and anxiousness....but my Heavenly Father is good. He is so faithful to humble me through revealing sin in order to show me my great and growing need for him. One of my all time favorite verses is Psalm 119:71, "It is good that I was afflicted because then I heard your decrees." Through pain, discomfort, humility and struggle the Lord teaches us of his Word and reveals more and more to us about his character. Praise Him!!
I do not claim to know how to plan the perfect wedding, but I have learned that neither my wedding nor my marriage will be anything without Christ having my primary focus and priority.
Here are a few pictures from the break!
Check back really soon for a guest post from my handsome fiance, Ben Cox, on the male perspective of engagement and things he has learned along the way.


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Happy 2016, weirdos! Here's our resolution: to get back to updating this site on a weekly basis again. Also to drink less, exercise more, and spend more time with family. Yeah, we don't like our chances of sticking to any of it, either.
Our first weird band of 2016 was suggested to us by a few readers: Djzen John, Jake Kirby and Andrew. It's no wonder Five Starcle Men comes up frequently when discussing weird music, because even though they're about as obscure as it gets (their fan-created Facebook page has a mere 56 likes), and haven't been active since the '90s, their small catalog of recorded output is about as bizarre as it gets. The most obvious touchstone is The Residents, and there's also a little Captain Beefheart and maybe early Ween, in their early bedroom-stoner tape experiment days. But really, most of the stuff on Gomba Reject Ward Japan, a compilation of Five Starcle Men material released for free by Lost Frog Productions via Archive.org in 2007, exists in its own universe of psychedelic tape loops, thrift-store drum machines, detuned guitars and unintelligible lyrics.
Not much information on Five Starcle Men is out, but it appears to have been mainly the work of two young men from Lancaster, California named Glen Hobbs and Luke McGowan. Lancaster is an outer suburb of Los Angeles in the high desert, near Edwards Air Force Base, a surreal yet crushingly boring corner of America full of ex-military burnouts and neatly grid-patterned streets that lead to nowhere. It makes sense that two smart, creative kids from such a cultural wasteland would do lots of drugs (particularly DXM, a cough suppressant with dissociative properties, similar to ketamine) and invent a whole mythology of "alien drug torture" and "deadly cartoon culture governments," as it says on their Archive.org page. Unfortunately, the experiment came to an abrupt end when Glen Hobbs committed suicide in 1998.
Besides Gomba Reject Ward Japan and its cryptic accompanying bio, which also mentions that "using modern cultural, pharmacological, and other technologies, these young suburban punks constructed highly aestheticized, delusional realities for themselves and their viewers," the other main artifact of Five Starcle Men's existence is a video from a 1993 performance the band gave at Mondo Video here in Los Angeles. The video (embedded below) was shot and later uploaded by a friend of the band's who goes by the name Rich Polysorbate 60. Rich was a longtime member of the L.A. Cacophony Society and has a reputation for making up mythical/historical characters and presenting them as real, so at least one person (a guy from fellow Weird List entrants Baboon Torture Division, in fact) has suggested, not unreasonably, that "it could be a fictitious band invented by Rich."
While this is an intriguing theory, you can see in the video below that there appear to be two young men at the center of the chaos, wearing matching caps and fiddling with gear and cables. Are they Glen Hobbs and Luke McGowan? Perhaps. It's also possible that this is Glen Hobbs' gravesite, even though it's in Colorado for some reason. And Luke McGowan might be the same Luke McGowan who is now a part-time Professor of Psychology at Cal State Fullerton — that doesn't quite match the official bio's note that McGowan "now studies science, philosophy, and history at university," but it's close.
In the end, though, it doesn't really matter who was behind Five Starcle Men. Whoever they are, or were, they left behind some amazing, surreal, alien music. Take a few swigs of Robitussin and enjoy.


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Desert patina on a small concretion along the Fire Wave trail.
Concretions along the Fire Wave trail.
Sandstone formations at Fire Wave.
Raindrops and wind markings in the desert sand at Fire Wave.
Vines on a tree trunk at Southeast Botanical Gardens.
Foliage grows between bridge planks at Hiji Falls.
Desert lily in Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
Desert pincushion flower at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Petroglyph along the Barker Dam Trail.
Desert star daisies in interesting formation.


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Comment: Nestle turns to emerging markets, Wal-Mart allegations hit the top
By Katy Askew | 30 April 2012
Last week started with a bang, when on Monday morning (23 April) Nestle announced that it had beaten off competition from the likes of Danone to secure the baby food business of US pharmaceuticals group Pfizer.
The news brought to an end months of speculation, with reports suggesting a fierce auction process that saw some heavy hitters in the world of baby food slogging it out to acquire the business.
Nestle paid US$11.85bn - or 19.8x 2012 estimated EBITDA - for the unit. Analysts and the investment community have widely suggested that this price was too high, as it is expected to have a slight downside for shareholders in the short-term.
However, with some clear signs that Pfizer was determined to realise the best price possible for the business, it seems likely that Nestle management was left with little choice but to pay the piper or give way to Danone, who had reportedly upped its competing offer on Friday in a last-ditch attempt to derail Nestle's plans.
On closer inspection, while the price was on the expensive side, some other factors could arguably be included in calculations to bring down the deal's multiples, Alain Oberhuber of Swiss advisory firm MainFirst told just-food. Nestle expects around $160m in synergies per annum. So, 2012 estimated EBITDA of $600m plus the synergies reduce the multiple to 15.1x.
The move is also a reflection of Nestle's focus on long-term gains. It will transform Nestle's infant nutrition business from one based solidly in developed markets to one that has turned its face towards emerging markets.
Pfizer Nutrition operates in more than 60 countries globally and 85% of sales are generated in emerging markets, meaning the acquisition effectively fills in the blanks on the map for Nestle. The deal will catapult Nestle from a weak number five position in China to being the number one or two baby food maker in the country.
The acquisition could well prove the first salvo in a rash of potential M&A in the lucrative infant nutrition sector, as Nestle's rivals respond by shoring-up their emerging market presence. Expect consolidation in the market to intensify in the coming year.
From the world's largest food maker to the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart was not fairing so well in emerging markets last week. The company has been rocked by suggestions that it routinely greased the hands of government officials in Mexico until 2005.
The allegations, which first appeared in the New York Times, could have some far-reaching consequences for the company.
The firm's Mexican business, Wal-Mart de Mexico y Centroamerica, is being investigated by the Mexican authorities and as a result Walmex could find it more difficult to maintain its rapid rate of store openings, which have been the group's primary growth-driver.
However, the impact of the allegations on Wal-Mart could reach beyond just one market.
If the corruption charges are found to stand-up, the group would have violated the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and broken Sarbanes-Oxley rules that require companies to report material violations of securities laws. In this event, US regulators would likely levy some significant fines on the retailer and Wal-Mart could have to contend with a barrage of shareholder lawsuits.
Moreover, the allegations reach up to encompass some of Wal-Mart's highest ranking officials.
The claims implicate Wal-Mart vice chairman Eduardo Castro-Wright as being at the centre of the bribery as he was CEO of the group's Mexican operations at the time.
While it is believed that Wal-Mart's head office did not know of, or authorise, the payments when they were being made, it has been suggested that officials as high-ranking as CEO Mike Duke and former CEO Lee Scott were made aware of the issue in 2005 and then effectively swept it under the carpet.
The group last week confirmed that it is launching a review of its world-wide operations and is creating the new post of global FCPA compliance officer to ensure compliance with US anti-corruption legislation.
On the one hand, this does seem rather like Wal-Mart has closed the stable door after the horse has already bolted. On the other, there is the concern that any such investigation could uncover further evidence of corrupt behaviour in additional markets.
Add to this suggestions that the news could see fresh markets, notably India, closing their doors to Wal-Mart and it is clear that the shock-waves of the scandal will be felt throughout the organisation.
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Once you hire AME for your plant relocation, we get right to work and thoroughly prepare. This prep typically covers four areas:1. Reviewing and understanding your assets list.
First, we break down your assets list into two areas:
- Machinery/equipment
- Tooling
You won't ship tooling and machinery together because they have different declared values and they have different tariff assignments to them. In fact, we've seen some situations where the customers determine it's easier to scrap tooling because the documentation and effort necessary to support getting it relocated wasn't worth the headache of simply purchasing new tooling from our vendor.
Once we've broken down the assets list into these two areas, we identify what you plan to move (e.g. you ship certain components/tooling yourselves as if you're shipping parts) and what we need to move. From there, we can begin to determine the utilities needed to support the equipment once it gets to wherever it's going and to make sure that—on both of our ends—everybody's aware of what needs to happen.
2. Figuring out the packaging plan.
The "packaging plan" is exactly how what it sounds like—it's the strategy for how we'll prep and package your equipment for transport/shipping. The biggest factor determining the "how" is whether you're keeping your plant in the US or you're going overseas (or vice versa). The strategy we use for moving large components across the US will be different from what we do if we're moving to other countries, such as China, Japan, or South American countries.
Why does this matter? Well, consider this: if you're moving your plant overseas, we'll need to package your equipment so that it can withstand ocean transport and weather exposure. Not only that, but we'll need to consider how we're going to break down your equipment (i.e. break bulk or small enough components that fit into sea containers). If it has to be break bulk, then we'll need to carefully consider transportation options to and from the ports at both ends.
As you can see, every decision leads to another decision we need to make. No two relocations are the same for this reason.
3. Determining logistics for staging and shipping.
Once the packaging plan is in place, we turn to logistics. One thing that's easy for our customers to understand is shipping and transport, meaning the actual means we use to get your equipment from point A to point B (the planes, trains, automobiles scenarios, if you will).
But something that surprises customers is the other important piece of logistics, meaning the on-site logistics and staging area where we break down your equipment and prepare it for shipping (e.g. crating it, putting it in sea containers, etc.).
On-site logistics is often a delicate dance. Some facilities decide to break down and move all at once. This is the ideal situation and the most cost-effective one for you since we can do everything in one shot and maximize/leverage trucking, shipping, labor, etc. But plenty of other plants need to do the relocation in increments, meaning we'll remove certain equipment in a specific sequence spread out over time. How we approach setting up a staging area will be dependent upon how we're breaking down and when we're packaging equipment.
Again, the logistics we identify will be unique to your particular plant relocation—no two logistics plans ever look the same.
4. Developing a schedule.
As we go through the three steps above, a preliminary schedule naturally begins to take shape. And, of course, we're mindful of your internal timelines and goals as well.
The key to creating a successful schedule is realistic expectations. Sure, you probably wanted your plant moved yesterday, but you know this is a process—and an involved one. An aggressive plant relocation timeline might sound great (and even look great on paper), but if it ends up failing in the end, then that's a problem, one that can have a big effect on your bottom line.
One of the biggest benefits we bring to the table is the fact we've been successfully relocating plants for decades. Our project managers have an innate sense of what can realistically work—and what can't. And here's the thing: we're going to be honest with you about it.
Once we go through the steps above, we're going to carefully consider your timeline, all available options, and costs involved. Then, we'll narrow it down to a schedule that's cost effective and realistic.
The steps outlined above provide a solid overview of our process, but it's still just an overview. Successfully relocating a plant or factory involves many moving parts (literally and figuratively). We can't stress enough the importance of having a good plant relocation specialist with you from start to finish.
Are you interested in having AME involved in your plant relocation? Go here to request a quote.


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The Treasury of sacred song : selected from the English lyrical poetry of four centuries, with notes explanatory and biographical
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Precast Award for Excellence
Fisher Hill Reservoir Park picked up its second award! The Architectural Precast Association selected the precast water feature at Fisher Hill for their Awards for Excellence.
The idea behind the inclusion of a water feature at the park is to reinforce the fact and connection that this park was once a functioning reservoir. One of the driving forces of the design was to create a water feature that could stand alone as a sculptural element when there is no running water. The design features four different precast finishes set on different planes. The idea behind the different finishes and planes is to observe how water responds to the piece, creating ripples and catching light in distinct ways. The water feature sits to one side of the main promenade with a gentle slope into the moving water flow which allows kids to easily engage with the piece.
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> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:39:47 +0200 > Cc: Bill Meier <address@hidden>, address@hidden > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 19:06, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: > > > Anyway, unfortunately I see none of these problems here. (Does anyone > > else see this on MS-Windows?) > > I cannot reproduce it either. Thanks for testing. Maybe Bill could compare his setup with yours, and that could give a clue. I will try to study the code involved to see if I see some difference between a complete redraw (which evidently doesn't have this problem) and partial redraw (which does). But I'm not familiar with the display-specific code of the Windows port, so chances that I will find something by staring at the code are slim at best.
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GunnaBoy K shows why he's next in Houston with "The Race Freestyle" + "On The Moon"
Written by Greg Harris
If you've been following the mag for quite some time. You're certainly familiar with the sounds of GunnaBoy K. The electric and energy driven artist have made huge strides in the past year with more appearances and shows from Texas and Georgia, and he flexes his muscle even more on "The Race" Freestyle and "On The Moon". On each record K shows his versatility and harmonies over some raunchy trap instrumentation. Make sure to keep your eyes peeled for he has in store for the rest of the year.
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Steve Vai feat. Devin Townsend – "Here & Now" Live in 1993
This song changed my music life…
This live footage was filmed by an audience at "Sex & Religion Tour" live on 16 October, 1993 in New York. The sounds and pictures aren't good enough, but this bootleg is really precious for funs of Steve Vai and Devin Townsend. We can see young and fresh singing of Devin Townsend at the earliest period of his music career.
"Here & Now" is taken from Steve Vai's album "Sex & Religion" (Relativity, 1993).
This is one of the few straight-ahead rock song of Steve Vai. Young Devin Townsend (only 21 years old) sung so powerfully. It's absolutely incredible performance.
* This lineup was formed for "Sex & Religion" tour in 1993
- Devin Townsend – Vocal
- Steve Vai – Guitars
- Scott Thunes – Bass
- Will Riley – Keyboards
- Abe Laboriel, Jr. – Drums
Here we stand, as time keeps turning,
near and far, the fires are burning
Victory, the endless passion,
for a cause, we will take an action
I'm not a savior, I'm not a king,
there's only the voice in your head
But I feel your anger, I speak your peace,
freedom time is here
So are you ready for the here and now
Sacrifice, the soul keeps baring,
bring new life to a world worth sparing
I'm not a prophet, I'm not a prince,
the ego dies with the flesh
You are the garden, I am the seed,
harvest time is here
But tell me are you ready for the here and now
Courage, sacrifice, victory, freedom
One for all, time is fleeting,
hear the call, our world is bleeding
There are no saviors, there are no kings,
the power lies in your hands
So, you be the fire, the light without heat,
precious time is here
So tell me are you ready for the here and now,
so tell me are you ready
Are you ready for the here and now,
so tell me are you ready
Are you ready for the here and now,
so tell me are you ready
Written by Steve Vai
© Relativity Records
Fullset Of This Stage
01.Here And Now
02.Creezy Kids Stuff
03.Sex And Religion
05.Touching Tongues
06.Thunder Kiss '65
07.Dirty Black Hole
08.Drum Solo
10.All Hail The New Flesh
11.Still My Bleeding Heart
12.I Would Love To
14.In My Dreams With You
15.Call It Sleep
16.Down Deep Into The Pain
18.For The Love of God


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- Luke 6:38
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A cape for all seasons
by Gina
For a little while now, we've had some shiny silver and shiny white fabric. It was originally designed to be jacket lining I believe. I see it more as the perfect cape fabric. A while back I made this for my son. It was great fun to make, thinking through the design and whipping it up. I simply cut out the shape, hemmed it and attached snap tape at the neck, elastic bands at the wrists and a "super T" emblem on the back. Voila!
I apologize for the low quality pic—my son is not a fan of having his picture taken, so I had to work with whatever I could get while he was spinning around…
Originally, I put just one elastic wrist band, thinking he'd want his other arm free to swing sabres or something like that. At his request, a second band was added later. It makes it more like bat wings now.
Making his emblem was my favorite part of the project. I found some scrap fabric for the star and used our extra wide twill tape for the T for a little different texture, but fabric would be great for it too.
There's more of the shiny fabric left and it's even marked down. Time for some cape creating!


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With Chris Pronger out for the season with post-concussion syndrome, general manager Paul Holmgren and the Flyers are expected to shop for a minute-eating defenseman to fill the void and solidify the team's blue line for the stretch run.
According to Edmonton Journal reporter Jim Matheson, the Flyers won't have to look outside the Eastern Conference to find that.
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SEASON 27 | October 2014
Ask the Psychopomp
Part of the Psychopomp Project
By Wendy Vastine
Presented by The VORTEX
Ask the Psychopomp is part of a larger performance world called the Psychopomp Project, a manifestation of which will be appearing in the form of a trickster's advice booth in the Pony Shed @ The Vortex over Halloween weekend. The Psychopomp* is IN. At the time when the veil between the worlds is thinnest, for Halloween, the Psychopomp answers your questions as she reaches to the dead in the other realms.
Ask a question. Roll the dice. The answer may arrive in the form of a song, a shift, a letter from the otherworlds, or some other form entirely. There are many possible outcomes. Even the Psychopomp cannot predict which will happen. The outcome depends on you, your question, and of course, the dice. Stay for 5 minutes, or for as long as you want. Come and go as you wish.
Magical Dice built by: Kelly Mae Newhouse
About Wendy Vastine
Wendy Vastine is an Austin- based vocalist, actor, composer, writer, and more. Wendy also is a vocal coach who is especially interested in the voice as a manifestation of the soul. Wendy has worked closely with members of the Roy Hart Theatre (based in Malerargues, France) over the past 15 years and has recently been honored to collaborate with Generic Ensemble Company in Austin.


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In this blog I talk about some of the personal programming I do as a hobby. By trade I'm a Java and database developer but I've dabbled in Haskell, front-end development, etc. I'm currently working as an architect but still enjoy getting my fingers dirty in code!
Thursday, May 14, 2015
EclipseFP end of life (from me at least)
Why am I stopping? Not for a very specific reason, though seeing that I had to adapt BuildWrapper to GHC 7.10 didn't exactly fill me with joy, but more generally I got tired of being the single maintainer for this project. I got a few pull requests over the years and some people have at some stage participated (thanks to you, you know who you are!), but not enough, and the biggest part of the work has been always on my shoulders. Let's say I got tired of getting an endless stream of issues reports and enhancement requests with nobody stepping up to actually address them.
Also, I don't think on the Haskell side it makes sense for me to keep on working on a GHC API wrapper like BuildWrapper. There are other alternatives, and with the release of ide-backend, backed up by FPComplete, a real company staffed by competent people who seem to have more that 24 hours per day to hack on Haskell tools, it makes more sense to have consolidation there.
The goal of EclipseFP was to make it easy for Java developers or other Eclipse users to move to Haskell, and I think this has been a failure, mainly due to the inherent complexity of the setup (the Haskell stack and the Java stack) and the technical challenges of integrating GHC and Cabal in a complex IDE like Eclipse. Of course we could have done better with the constraints we were operating under, but if more eyes had looked at the code and more hands had worked on deck we could have succeeded.
Personally I would now be interested in maybe getting the Atom editor to use ide-backend-client, or maybe work on a web based (but local) Haskell IDE. Some of my dabblings can be found at https://github.com/JPMoresmau/dbIDE. But I would much prefer to not work on my own, so if you have an open source project you think could do with my help, I'll be happy to hear about it!
I still think Haskell is a great language that would deserve a top-notch IDE, for newbies and experts alike, and I hope one day we'll get there.
For you EclipseFP users, you can of course keep using it as long as it works, but if no other maintainers step up, down the line you'll have to look for other options, as compatibility with the Haskell ecosystem will not be assured. Good luck!
Happy Haskell Hacking!
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- Daniel Pratt said...
I have mixed feelings about this announcement. On the one hand, what you accomplished with EclipseFP was really impressive. And it's too bad you couldn't get folks to help you with it.
On the other hand, by far the worst thing about EclipseFP is Eclipse. I do not like Eclipse. At all. So if you end up devoting your considerable talents to creating a better Haskell experience for some other code editor/ide, then maybe this is a win overall.
- Vagif Verdi said...
This is really a failure of Eclipse as a very complex environment to work with and contribute.
The reason you haven't seen many people contributing is because entrance barrier is very high.
I think a much more approachable environments like atom editor would allow more people to join and help.
Look for example how active haskell-mode for emacs is, even though it is for such bizzare (for most people) editor like emacs.
- CessationOfTime said...
A few months back I began playing with creating an IDE using reactive-banana-wx and the wxAuiNotebook widget. I got it to the point I could edit syntax highlighted files and open them from the wxTreeCtrl and began integrating BuildWrapper into it. I'll have to try building off of ide-backend now. But I really think a wxWidgets based IDE would be best, and one that can be built from Nix.
- Unknown said...
Thank you!
It was a reason at least for me to code haskell here and there :-) But I'm too busy to make even pet project worth talking about.
Obviously the community is too small and too fragmented. Some hate this ide, that ide, probably all ides and vast majority of haskellers will hate anything not in written haskell.
It is a pity! You have created really great haskell support. It was not any prove of concept but solid, feature rich ide. Thank you!
- Leonardo de Moura said...
- Sami Badawi said...
EclipseFP is great.
It has helped move Haskell more into the mainstream.
Thanks for all the work!
- Vlatko Bašić said...
Thanks for all your work. EclipseFP helped me a lot to enter Haskell world. :-)
- Rene said...
Thankyou for EclipseFP.I have enjoyed using and have found it very useful.
- clanehin said...
As one of the people who contributed in an extremely minor way and always imagined I would Get A Round Tuit, I'm sorry to hear this. It really was an enormous undertaking for one person, and required a variety of specific and unrelated skills (eclipse plugin, SWT/JFace, haskell compilers) that not many people have. In my case, I do eclipse plugins at may day job and the idea of coming home and working on them was always just . . . no . . .
Thanks for everything you've put into this. I'll look forward to seeing what you do next.
- none said...
EclipseFP really helped me when I was writing Haskell (some years ago now.) So long and thanks for all the fish!
- Daniel F said...
Thank you for your work! I haven't been a big fan of Eclipse, but what you have managed to do with EclipseFP is pretty impressive -- it is actually a very useable and stable solution for developing Haskell projects.
Have fun with new projects!
- Paco said...
I would like to thank you for your great effort in this project. Actually I have been using eclipsefp for three years in a elective course on Functional Programming, using Haskell and .NET technologies, and it has been much useful. Maybe I will continue to use it, while considering other alternative IDEs.
Thanks again, Paco
- lazyswamp said...
Thank you for your efforts! EclipseFP have made my 1st year university students, who had never dreamed of using any text-based editor such as emacs or vi, be easy to access to Haskell programming.
- Andrew Gibiansky said...
Thank you for all your effort with EclipseFP! When I was starting out, it made Haskell seem much more approachable, although I only used it briefly.
If you want to collaborate on some Haskell projects and like IDE-like things, I would love to have help with IHaskell. It's not quite an IDE but in some ways is pretty close, and there's tons of stuff that could be done to make it a really cool environment. Feel free to get in touch, I'm always happy to help onboard people to collaborate :)
- Han said...
Hi JP,
I am very sorry to see that you are stopping with this great project. I am using EclipseFP for a couple of years now, and I really love it. It has a lot of cool features. I think that you have done an excellent job! For windows users like me, EclipseFP has (and still is!) been an easy way to start with Haskell, at least for those that know Eclipse already. I really want to thank you very much for all the work you did. THANK YOU!
I can understand your dissapointment of hardly anybody helping out. It is more fun to work in a team.
I hope you find another cool project with cool peopels to do more cool things!
All the best!
- sn said...
I meandered onto this page via a series of links after getting failures with installing BuildWrapper with the latest 7.10 release of Haskell Package. I totally understand your reasons for having to give up this project, but would you please consider at least putting a warning message on your EclipseFP page http://eclipsefp.github.io/ so others are at least warned that they are attempting to install something that may not install?
- Dmitry said...
For those running into "An error occurred while automatically activating bundle net.sf.eclipsefp.haskell.ui". Install the platform 2014.2.0.0 from https://www.haskell.org/platform/prior.html, if you can live with a 3 years old version.
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- Ernesto said...
I want to make it compatible with latest eclipse versions, where can I start can you provide me some pointers to take ownership of the eclipsefp project?
- JP Moresmau said...
I'm not sure where you would start now, I don't even know it the code is still compatible with a current Eclipse. I also don't think the backend would still work with a current version of the compiler. I would first find a language server for Haskell you could use, then try to reuse some of the Java code on top of that. Good luck!


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Via David Pogue in the NYTimes, news of a company called Futurephone that allows users to dial a domestic number and use it as a gateway to dial over 50 international countries for free. Many people can dial domestically for free in the evenings or on weekends via their cell carrier, so this is a sweet deal.
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My parents came over for dinner for Iris' birthday. That is the kind of occasion when I try to make something impressive. For starters split pea soup. For the main course a portobello stuffed with crème fraîche and almonds, pommes duchesse from potato and celeriac and carrots caramelised with balsamic vinegar.
Ingredients: 4 portobello mushrooms 100 g crème fraîche 100 g almonds pinch of salt pinch of pepper 3 drops of Worcestershire sauce
200 g potato 200 g celeriac 50 g gruyere 20 g butter
500 g carrots 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 1 tablespoon sugar 1 small hand fresh corriander
For the stuffed portobellos, grind the almonds in a blender, mix them through the crème fraîche and flavour with salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce. Cut the stalks out of the portobellos and scoop the almond mixture in. Place the portobellos in a greased oven proof dish. Pre-heat the oven at 220C. Bake for half an hour (together with the pommel duchesse).
For the pommel duchesse, peel and dice the potatoes and the celeriac. Boil them with little water and a pinch of salt. Meanwhile, grate the gruyere. Drain the potatoes and celeriac and mash them, together with gruyere and butter, salt and pepper to form a thick paste. You need to mash them really well because otherwise the bits left will block the piping bag. Put baking parchment on an oven tray and pipe little mountains of mash onto it. Pre-heat the oven at 220C and bake (together with the portobellos) for half an hour.
For the carrots, heat little oil in a wok, add the carrots, sugar and balsamic vinegar, put a lid on top and cook for 10 minutes. Then remove the lid and turn up the heat. Stir gently until almost all liquid has evaporated. Chop or tear up the coriander roughly and place it in a dish. Scoop the caramelised carrots on top of the coriander and mix together.


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Over the weekend Justin unveiled his Psychedelic Polaroid Portraits, a double-exposure live portrait series deploying his last remaining packs of carefully-hoarded discontinued Fuji FP-100c peel-apart film. Shot using a Polaroid 600SE camera with a Mamiya 127mm lens, these images seek beyond the traditional portrait and into something more personal and emotional.
"After hours of discussing and pondering the nature of portraiture with some of the other teachers, I've been trying to figure out what it is I like about photos of people," says Justin. "When we think of people, even our closest friends and family, we often see a still image rather than a fluid, lifelike memory. I've always thought that looking at a photo of a moment changes your memory's relationship to that moment. But for me it's not a clean, sharp image but rather a fuzzy one. If you were to ask me to picture my mother in my mind, for example, I would have not just one image but a few overlapping freeze-frames suspended in my mind, jockeying for position."
"This serves as the basis for my double-exposure portraits, as they are the closest I can get to replicating the shifting nature of memories." Justin continues. "I think it's particularly relevant to use this discontinued film stock as the medium for these images, since memory is so often accompanied by loss and forgetting. These two feelings still fill me with a certain primal fear, for which photography can often be a positive coping mechanism."
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Without a chance for a breather in his bioterror-fighting career, in Resident Evil Revelations Chris is dispatched to multiple locations including snow-covered mountains and a mysterious ship. He even goes missing at one point (well, not really…).
Dedicated to the mission as always, in the midst of the chaos and in typical Chris fashion he completely ignores Jessica with a "We'll sort it out later. We have to move." (go Chris! Err, well maybe you shouldn't be *too* hasty...). That's the "Original Eleven" for you I guess.
This might be a crazy idea, but I wonder if Chris gets along with Parker, given how they're both so single-minded? That sounds like a great idea for a new episode actually...
My favorite Chris move has to be his uppercut, which of course makes a return in this game - there's nothing better than making enemies see stars (pun intended!).
You can find more about Chris' adventures in the early days of the BSAA in Resident Evil Revelations!
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I shot an editorial with Sirona Ethical Boutique in Galway last month alongside their Autumn / Winter lookbook, and it has just been published in the Sunday Independent LIFE Magazine. It's funny that my work has been in the magazine only twice, and both times with Mallory modelling and Byron styling… the words "Dream Team" come to mind ;) (right, guys?!)
This is how it looks:
Check out the electronic edition of the magazine if you fancy reading the copy; just navigate to page 36. If you can get it to work. I couldn't!