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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Northside Learning Hub and Sunday Times Host Leviathan Political Cabaret

THE THOMONDGATE based Northside Learning Hub are to co-host the city’s second Leviathan Political Cabaret event this Wednesday. The event is being held in association with the Sunday Times and takes place in Dolan’s Warehouse.
Late Late Show band leader Paddy Cullivan (of The Camembert Quartet fame) will host the evening of musical satire and lively discussion, with a debate to be held under the heading “Is Music Worth Paying For?”, to form the central part of the evening.
Among the panel to discuss this topic are Spin South West DJ Michelle McMahon, Mick Dolan of Dolan’s Warehouse, Kathleen Turner of the ICO, Alan Owens of the Limerick Leader and Chronicle, David O’Connell, principal of Limerick School of Music, James Blake of the Brad Pitt Light Orchestra and the Learning Hub and David O’Donovan of and the Limerick Event Guide.
This event is to mark the launch of the Learning Hub’s brand new Music Hub at Kileely House, which will house a fully equipped recording studio and music rehearsal space.
For more information see here. Please come out and support this event if you can.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

OOAL Drop Split 7" Single This Sunday In Dolan's

HUGELY POPULAR local record label Out On A Limb Records are gearing up to “drop” a new split 7” vinyl single release from two of the countries most exciting up and coming bands, Ennis band C!ties and Dublin’s Guilty Optics, and celebrate by holding a special launch party Upstairs in Dolan’s this Sunday.
The launch party, which will feature both of the bands present on the superb new single, will also feature the excellent Jogging, who released one of the best Irish records of the year with the blistering "Minutes", and Baby Blue Eyes (featuring ex members of Limerick band Hatch 77 and Scott from Sea Dog).
C!ties, a young instrumental trio from Ennis Co. Clare, have been regualr visitors to Limerick on and off for the last 18 months and incorporate a wide range of styles, chiefly thumping electro-rock.
Their self produced EP, released in November 2008, impressed many and bolstered the young band’s reputation. The band present their wide-eyed and giddy slab of instrumentalism with “Krakatoa” on this single release, OOAL’s second split release.

Guilty Optics, on the other hand, formed more recently - in 2008 - and feature Alan Finnerty, Peter Lee and Ruadhan O’Meara and have a particular type of melodic rock’n’roll that is starting to gain them a wider reputation and offer the shuddering “White Teeth” on this single, recorded using vintage analogue equipment.

OOAL, home to Windings, Crayonsmith and more, has been noted in the past for discovering new acts, and this spilt release is no different.
Ciaran Ryan of the label says they are “delighted” to be doing a split 7" with both bands.
“Both bands played OOAL shows during our label tour in February and we were mightly impressed,” says Ciaran.
“They are two of the most exciting newish bands in the country, and sound completely different to each other, so it made perfect sense for us to throw them on a single together,” he adds.

The OOAL launch party takes place at 6pm this Sunday Upstairs in Dolan’s and it is a free show. The 7” will be available to buy at the gig and selected independent record stores. Each comes with a unique downloadable code. For more see here.

Album Review - Robert Plant 'A Band Of Joy'

Robert Plant
‘Band of Joy’

I, FOR one, am glad Robert Plant turned down a reported $200 million offer to reform Led Zeppelin following their reunion gig in 2007.
If the seminal rock band had reformed, we might not have seen the release of two of the finest albums produced in the intervening period - Plant’s album Raising Sand, released in 2007 with Alison Krauss, and his latest offering, the new release Band of Joy.

Raising Sand went on to win six Grammy Awards, including Grammy for Album of the Year in 2009, and was a masterpiece, Krauss’s delicate and hushed voice intertwining perfectly with Plant’s gruff, often falsetto, timbre.
This album picks up where that left off, but finds Plant with a new band of collaborators, including Nashville legend and guitarist Buddy Miller, multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott - both of whose fingerprints are heavily featured on this album - and country singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, who manages to avoid merely copying Krauss and brings her own individualism to the project.
Band of Joy takes its title from Plant’s first group, formed in the ‘60s, and his decision to resurrect the name burns with symbolism, the former Led Zep frontman allowing the first rate musicians he has assembled to steer him back to his roots, as it were.

The album opens with to the throbbing, groaning guitar lines on an incredibly diverse interpretation of Los Lobos's 'Angel Dance' - a delicate banjo the perfect counterpoint to Plant’s dulcet tones, and the Southern blues of Miller’s guitars.
The bluegrass, brush-drum tones of ‘House of Cards’ follows, the perfect vehicle to demonstrate Plant’s vocals as they twist and turn with Griffin’s softer tones.
The slow-building exhalation of blues-rock that is Low's 'Silver Rider' is one of the most intoxicating offerings on the album, while the upbeat, chugging snarl of the Beatles-influenced ‘You Can’t Buy My Love’ is an eye-opener.
The beautiful swoon of The Kelly Brothers' Sixties soul classic 'Falling In Love Again' and the deliciously vibrant ‘The Only Sound That Matters’, provide a nice balance to the feedback drenched ‘Monkey’, the standout track on the album.
This is a majestic offering from one of rock’s most royal members; a comprehensive reworking of some old standards and classic tunes that is varied, rich and vibrant.
Truly a thing of joy.

Album review - Supermodel Twins 'Raincloud Free'

Supermodel Twins
‘Raincloud Free’
(Gohan Records)

IF EVER there was a more appropriate album title, we haven’t heard better than the much anticipated debut from local power-popsters, Supermodel Twins.
‘Raincloud Free’, unlike other obscure monikers we have heard in the past, does exactly what it says on the tin; delivering a blistering, 11-track, 35-minute collection of upbeat pop-rock songs in the mould of Weezer, Nada Surf et al, with a Beach Boys-meets Green Day dash thrown into the mix.

The album will certainly brighten up your day and take your attention away from the deluge currently falling outside your window.
This is undoubtedly the album’s strength and sees the Limerick five-piece wear their hearts on their sleeves, unashamedly allowing the above influences to ring clear on the album, avoiding any kind of pretension at trying anything other than blasting out good solid pop songs.
Produced under the expert gaze of The Cranberries’ axe-man Noel Hogan, the glossy sheen on this album add greatly to the wholesome sound - a testament to Hogan’s growing production skills.

However, and we offer this by way of constructive criticism, where the album falls down is its reluctance to vary from its obvious formula, sticking rigidly to a heavily Weezer-influenced sound, all American-twang vocals and loud guitars.
Simply put, Raincloud Free is inhibited by its style and lack of originality, but, it is fun, and there are some really decent pop songs on offer here.
The first couple of tracks set the scene and surprisingly, offer some deliciously off-kilter and quite subversive lyrics buried within the seemingly saccharine melodies; on opener While You Were Out, the singer details snooping around said girl’s apartment; on the superb One Step Behind, reminiscent of early Foo Fighters material, a song which boasts taut melodies and coruscating guitars, we hear elements of the same theme, “everywhere you go, I’ll be there / always one step behind”.
The toned down and more reflective My Girl presents engaging melodies a la Fountains of Wayne and shows more depth, as does the excellent Bruises, popping with handclaps and effervescent melodies.

However things start to unravel on the ill-advised and poppy ‘Hilary’, which includes the following lyric: “ever since I saw you in that movie / where you tried to hide your boobies”, and so on.
The zingy melody of Footprints In The Snow and soft-core rock of Modern Day Robin Hood are better, but overall this album’s lack of scope and depth proves its undoing.

Pity, cause there is some serious potential here.

Album review - Halves "It Goes, It Goes (Forever and Ever)"

'It Goes, It Goes (Forever and Ever)'

TO SIMPLY label this album from Dublin trio Halves as “cinematic” would be vaguely correct, but simplistic.
While the superb opening track Land/Sea/People might indeed be at home on a Cameron Crowe or Nick Cave soundtrack, the sheer depth and variety on this album makes it too difficult to pigeon-hole into one genre.
Indeed, it would also be simplistic to simply class this highly-awaited debut album from the band as “post-rock”, but there are undoubted elements of this multi-faceted genre on what is a genuinely haunting and spine-tingling album.
The scale of the instrumentalism - deep, dark drums, soaring guitars, bouncy melodions, rich and vibrant cellos and haunting violins - present on this album is astounding, while the pacing and narrative structure are adhered to cleverly without becoming overly rigid.
This is a brooding, grandiose and epic album, but unlike the raucous noise of the undoubted influence of Scottish post-rock specialists Mogwai, there are also tender, heartbreaking vocals on It Goes, It Goes, some from vocalist Tim Czerniak and some from the haunting Amy Millan (of Stars fame) on the superb I Raise Bears and the criminally underrated Katie Kim on the unfolding rhythm of Growing & Glow.
With this release, recorded live on tape in Montreal’s Hotel2Tango studios, the Dublin trio (Brian Cash, Tim and Elis Czerniak) end a five year wait for their debut album, preceded as it was by two well received EPs.
Halves live show has long been lauded, correctly, for being a dramatic mix of sweeping visuals, guitars and live drums, but on this record they have managed the seemingly impossible; an ability to conjure up a sweeping visual vista in the listener’s mind, simply by allowing the strength and epic nature of their music to spark the imagination.
Quite simply, a brilliant record, made to be listened to again and again.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Bell X1 and Rubberbandits for Eightball gigs in Daghdha this weekend

THE DELIGHTFUL St. John’s Church - home to Daghdha Dance Company - plays host to two very special live gigs this weekend, as Bell X1 play a special acoustic gig on Friday and Limerick’s own Rubberbandits take to the stage on Saturday.
Promoters are very excited about these two exceptional gigs, as are we, both of which have the potential to be the most talked about of the year - for very different reasons.

Bell X1 arrive in Limerick as part of a national tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of the release of their debut album, ‘Neither Am I’, and after tremendous success over recent years. The band will play a special stripped back, acoustic set from their entire catalogue as well as debuting some new material, with their fifth studio album due in Spring 2011. The gig is sold out.

Saturday will be a completely different affair as the dastardly duo of The Rubberbandits take to the stage in the 15th century church, for what should be a memorable show.
The Bandits’ arrive in Limerick for a very special - and possibly unique - gig, billed as an “Intimate Evening With The Rubberbandits”, featuring the comedic/rap duo in conversation with Cian Hallinan, host of the Voice Box in Dublin’s Twisted Pepper.

Never fear, the show will be in two parts and will also feature the Limerick duo performing a number of their by-now classic tunes at the gig, which comes hot on the heels of their weekly appearances on RTE’s Republic of Telly, presented by Limerickman Dermot Whelan. The ‘Bandits segments have also had 100,000 hits on YouTube.

City Life got in touch with the Rubberbandits to find out what the gig will consist of, and Blind Boy Boat Club, one-half of the ‘Bandits, told us: “A lively debate on everything from Friedrich Nietzsche to tying your shoelaces with fags in both hands”.
Asked to account for their recent rise in fame and fortune, Boat Club replied: “Telling jokes about fannies and willies coupled with an extensive knowledge and insight of the human psyche, if the human psyche was but a shallow pool of water in the paw prints of a greyhound”.

After the lively and existential debate, expect songs about horses, glue and honda civics - and expect to leave with a stomach sore from laughing. Tickets for Bell X1 are sold out. Tickets for The Rubberbandits are available from Euro Empire 061-317211.

Doors for both shows open at 8pm.


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Monday, July 25, 2016

Pantry Clean out and Blue Apron

When we put a contract on our house (two years ago - really - we've been in the house two years!!), I didn't realize that our new house did not have a pantry.  On the day we MOVED into the house, I realized that we had no pantry!!  How did I miss that very important fact????  We have this little closet under the stairwell and I purchased shelves and organizers, etc.  The problem is that the shelves get "junked up" so fast.  I clean it out and in just a few weeks, it is messed up again.  About twice a year, I have to do a major clean out and re-organize everything and throw away expired items (because I can't find them to use them!).

I forgot to take a true before picture (life must be really boring this week if I'm blogging about reorganizing my pantry!!).  Here is the picture of the empty pantry.  There is a little "secret" (not anymore!) door that truly goes up under the steps and Mark put a "let's get organized" small bookshelf in the space for my cookbooks.

There was this much stuff on those shelves!

Finished!  I took this picture using Mark's phone because it was sitting on the counter.  His phone is old and the pictures are not as good as with the Iphone 6!!!  You can't see what I'm going to tell you about but can you see the shelf with the campbell's cans (just barely in the bottom of the picture)?  I went out to the garage and got a 1 by 6 (or a 2 by 4) or some piece of wood and placed it along the back of the shelf.  It is just high enough and sturdy enough and I lined canned goods all the way down the back of the shelf.  Really helped!!

On an entirely different topic (it is about food!), we've also been ordering a few boxes of food from Blue Apron (they are not paying me to write this and have no idea that I'm blogging about them!)

I had heard of pearl couscous but had never eaten it.  This was a shrimp dish that could have been better - my fault - should have added the whole spice pack.  Blue Apron says that each meal serves two people but Laura was home and we all three had a nice size serving.  Mark says this was one of his least favorite meals we've received (once again - my fault entirely).

Mark and I both loved this meal -- empanadas with lime creme fraiche - so good!

I'm pretty sure I've blogged about those two meals because my words sound familiar in my head!!

This last meal was chicken and green beans and tinkerbell peppers (sooo cute!!)

over rice.  I loved the little peppers!!  This meal was quite tasty!  All of these meals have really nice names describing the items, etc. but I can never remember what they are called!!

As of right now, we aren't scheduled for a delivery anytime soon . . .but I'm watching the menus!

What's happening in your world on this Monday?

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Monday, November 4, 2013

Pioneer Woman's Applesauce

I love looking up recipes online but every time I find one I always wonder if it's actually as good as the person who wrote it says it is.  Most cases it's delish as promised, however there have been a few things I've made, so excited about how great they would taste, that ended up bleh.

I can almost always count on Pioneer Woman to have amazingly great tasting recipes, I actually haven't had one fail me yet and I've tried my fair share.  The other day I was randomly perusing her website when I saw homemade applesauce.  It had honestly never really occurred to me to make my own applesauce but since apples were at an all time low of $0.39/lb at one of my grocery stores I thought "why not?".  Plus I need some more guilt free evening snacks, and it seemed like the perfect thing to make during this Fall season.

I bought 8lbs of apples but 3 of them wouldn't fit in my pot.

(this picture by far is not great but I took it with my cell phone before I forgot to take one at all)
I used water instead of the apple juice she called for in her recipe because I didn't have any and refused to make an extra trip to the store for it.  I added the brown sugar, cinnamon, and 2 shakes of nutmeg and I have to say these apples smelled heavenly the entire time they were cooking.  I stood over the pot a couple times just to get a wif (I don't at all think that's how you spell that word but you know what I mean).
This applesauce was delicious and now I'm wishing I had tried this ages ago.  Making something like homemade applesauce makes me feel like a pioneer woman and I love it.
I was hoping the recipe would make more and if I were canning or freezing this I would have had to buy more apples but for keeping in the fridge and eating before it goes bad I think there was enough.  This batch, which was a pot full of apples, made 1 quart mason jar, 1 barilla pasta jar, and 1 ragu pasta jar full of applesauce.  I gave one jar to my mom so I'm pretty confident we can finish off the other 2 as snacks and a side dish at meals.
If you have ever contemplated making applesauce you should go buy some apples right this second and start cooking them up.  It's one of the easiest things to make and once you make it the first time you will want your own private stash in mason jars or in your freezer so you never have to go without.
I think this will be a Fall tradition from now on, except with a lot more apples.

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Re: [Groff] grops and Unicode, Unicode in general.

From: Alejandro López-Valencia
Subject: Re: [Groff] grops and Unicode, Unicode in general.
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 07:15:27 -0500

On 5/19/05, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Volunteers, volunteers!  I'm swamped with other work.
> >
> > And which approach do you like best? The one you initially proposed
> > -- having internal Char type or going in wchar_t-transparent
> > direction (we would get multibyte input as a bonus)?  The latter
> > seems to me a better approach (judged by standards :), but I'm not
> > sure about portability issues that may arise (there may still be
> > platforms out there that still do not have wide characters).
> I still vote for not using wchar_t.  groff is often used to replace
> old troff installations on old OS versions, and wchar support on such
> platforms is regularly broken.
> > > They aren't stable yet.  The developer has started to play with
> > > fontforge and changed some metrics so that URW is no longer
> > > compatible (w.r.t. metrics) with the standard PS fonts.
> >
> > Hmm. Perhaps, some old release without these issues could be chosen?
> > These fonts were quite good looking from the very beginning (for my
> > non-professional eye :).
> But the older (good) fonts directly produced by URW don't have
> Cyrillic glyphs...  Can you investigate the state of those fonts,
> probably by contacting the author(s) or the ghostscript people, and
> checking the ghostscript bugs page?  Maybe they've meanwhile released
> a new version which fixes those problems.

No, they haven't. In fact, the Aladdin people decided to include the
botched versions in GS 8.x, which was a very dumb thing to do. *Sigh*.
The current source for these fonts is CTAN and TeX distributions based
on the CTAN collection, because there are some TeX users that *care*
about fonts.

Wartan guesses correctly that the best way would be to start from the
original URW++ fonts and add the Cyrillic glyphs to them, but with
some caveats:

1. The addition *must* be done by hand to guarantee that the outline,
hint and subroutine programs are not damaged by a graphical font
editor (believe me, *all* graphical editing be it with a high end tool
(Fontlab, Asia Font Studio, Ikarus or DTL FontMaster), or with a
half-baked tool such as Fontforge *will* destroy the original digital
font program) and each iteration will have lower quality. Postscript
hand editing is not that difficult and it has been done before (e.g.,
when Tom Kacvinsky[1] was at the AMS he corrected most of the hinting
and metrics problems with the AMS Math fonts by hand; I'm not sure if
that work was  published ever).

2. The fonts must have different names. This is one case where it is
clear that a font should not be licensed under the GPL, because a
person can come in and destroy it by forking without renaming it
first. A forced rename license such as the one used on the Bitstream
Vera fonts (the default desktop fonts used in recent GNU Gnome 2.x
distributions) is a more appropriate solution.

3. You don't need to have all glyphs in single font container!!! I
guess most people think that X has the same limitations of MS Windows
and MacOS with fonts. Well... No. X is very happy to use virtual
fontsets, so you can place your Cyrillic glyphs in physically
different containers that appear as one to the graphics display
engine; in fact, that's how CID fonts work, sort of. And you can
recode them on-the-fly so that the glyphs are delivered as Unicode
characters to the client applications. The same goes for groff.
Therefore you could use the original URW++ fonts untouched and add the
Cyrillic glyphs from different physical sources. You could lose the
ability to search eventual PDF output but only if you don't take care
to recode the data stream to some Unicode encoding recognized by the
PDF spec before creating such output.

[1] Personal communication.
Alejandro López-Valencia

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Re: emacs 23 - german characters - babel/rdictcc

From: B. T. Raven
Subject: Re: emacs 23 - german characters - babel/rdictcc
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:58:40 -0500
User-agent: Thunderbird (Windows/20070728)

Hadron wrote:
Hadron <address@hidden> writes:

I can now type german characters just fine in emacs 23.

But when I invoke certain programs which talk to external processes such
as rdictcc, I get escaped characters back in the reply. e.g highlighting
"bridges" and invoking  rdictcc gives a buffer like:

| DE-EN Translations:
| ===================
| | EN-DE Translations:
| ===================
| bridges:
|     - Brücken {pl}
|     - überbrückt
| Don't cross your bridges before you come to them.:

I think native speakers use only the form:
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

|     - Kümmere dich nicht um ungelegte Eier.

Isn't this "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched?"

Can anyone suggest to why this is?I am rather confused about emacs
localisation. I can type DE  chars  in the *scratch* buffer with no

Hmm. They look alright to me above

the ü was in fact (in the buffer) backslash 374

Looks fine even on mswind98 using Thunderbird.

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Re: placement sostenuto

From: luis jure
Subject: Re: placement sostenuto
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:56:24 -0300

on 2011-09-25 at 20:27 David Nalesnik wrote:

>Good idea.

like wow, i couldn't expect that my original post would trigger all this
thread (most of it way over my head, i'm afraid...)

thank you all!

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Re: polychords: a working solution

From: Graham Percival
Subject: Re: polychords: a working solution
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:11:01 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:09:21PM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 2012/2/18 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
> > I'd approach this from a different direction.  First of all - have a look at
> >

huh, I'd completely forgotten that we had that.

> > As it stands now, I believe the files we know won't work under
> > the current development version are in
> > Documentation/snippets/new: when makeLSR is run, these
> > over-write the snippets downloaded from the LSR.
> Do youn mean the files from
> ?

> Am I right that only these files need manual upgrade?

I didn't see anything wrong from a quick glance.

Also note that once LSR is running 2.14 and the snippets are
updated, some of the files in D/s/n can be removed.  Once that's
done, and after 2.16 is out, the whole process needs to be
repeated to go from from 2.14->2.16, and then remove the other
files from D/s/n.

- Graham

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Seaside Examples?

Yar Hwee Boon hboon at
Fri Jan 13 11:53:40 UTC 2006

On 13-Jan-06, at AM 04:22, Lukas Renggli wrote:

>>> Ok.. sorry I wasn't clear. Are there any example websites that use
>>> Seaside? ... other than, of course.
> *pfff* don't tell anybody: is not a Seaside application, it
> is SmallWiki 1 on Squeak, hope to migrate to Pier sometime ... ;-)
> This is really a FAQ, shouldn't we collect the links somewhere on

I can't speak for, but there is an entry at which I
can update this with. I've been lax on maintaining the FAQ recently and
have recently changed web host breaking the edit functionality. I'll be
install TextPattern or some alternative these few days and port the
entries over along with giving anyone interested write access.

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[Bug 15142] New: Define "UNICODE" as a defacto alias for "UTF-16"

From: <bugzilla@jessica.w3.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:35:25 +0000
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           Summary: Define "UNICODE" as a defacto alias for "UTF-16"
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/parsing#encoding-sniffing
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,

   Define "UNICODE" as a defacto alias for "UTF-16".

   This has 3 implications for encoding determination:

   (1) When "UNICODE" is found inside a data: URI or inside a HTTP
        Content-Type: header, then parse resource as UTF-16 encoded.

   (2) When "UNICODE" occurs inside <meta charset=*> or
        the Content-Type pragma, then treat it as "UTF-8", as
        specced in the Encoding Sniffing Algorithm's following step:

]] 13. If charset is a UTF-16 encoding, change the value of charset to UTF-8.

   (3) When "UNICODE" occurs inside a XML file, then treat it as
        a legal encoding name that nevertheless gets ignored
        (meaning that parsers is defaulting instead
        - to UTF-16 or UTF-8)
        Of course, HTML5 doesn't tell how XML parsing should
        work, but I say it for completeness.

*  <meta charset=UNICODE > works like <meta charset=UTF-8>
    in Webkit (Chrome/Safari) and IE (I checked E6-IE9).
    This makes sense, once one realise that they see it as a synonym
    for UTF-16. (Opera/FIrefox do not yet behave this way.)

*  IE (MSHTML) may save pages with the following charset declaration,
    either by default  or via the user's interation:
    <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type>
   (taken from:
    In the Save menu of IE8, there are two menu items with the value
    "UNICODE" - probably one is UTF-8 and one is UTF-16.-

*  There are (thus) numerous pages on the Web which uses "charset=UNICODE".
    - Opera's MAMA project lists 'UNICODE' as the 29 most used value
    - 150.000 Google hits: http://tinyurl.com/charset-unicode
    - scraping the Web would find many, many more

   JUSTIFICATION for Higher protocols (HTTP),  XML and data URIs:

   The value "UNICODE" is treated

 * as UTF-16  - for HTTP, in XML and in data: URIs - by IE
 * as UTF-16  - for HTTP & in data: URIs - by Webkit
 * as - for XML - a legal but ignored encoding name:Firefox/Webkit/Opera
 * (for HTTP & data:) as unknown, causing locale default: Firefox/Opera

    NOTE: For HTTP Content-Type: and for data: URIs, then "UNICODE"
               is treated (by IE and Webkit) as "UTF-16" regardless of
               whether the document serialisation is HTML or XML.

IANA registration ?

    "UNICODE" should probably be registered as an official alias for "UTF-16":

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Re: side remarks on the shortcut discussion for INSERT/DELETE...

From: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:32:35 +0000
Cc: "SPARQL Working Group" <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <38F47686-1E5F-4F11-B57A-AEDFC5EE08BA@deri.org>
To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@talis.com>

On 12 Feb 2010, at 15:05, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> Sec 4.1.4
> "Note:
> The syntax of this operation can be ambiguous when juxtaposed with
> INSERT/DELETE. Alternatives are to include an optional semicolon at the
> end of each operation, and to change this operation to "DELETE WHERE".
> This is under active discussion."

indeed it is noted, I was just referring to the curRent grammar which still has the optional WHERE part.
> Sec 4.1.5 discusses short form INSERT but I believe that is not
> up-to-date with the discussions.
> "If no WHERE clause is present, then the pattern will be matched in the
> same way"

yeah, that's out of sync with the grammar which has the WHERE clause obligatory
...you mean that whole sentence should be removed, yes? fine by me, if so.

> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2010JanMar/0163.html
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2010JanMar/0129.html
>         Andy
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Re: Semantic Web Activity page use case

From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:25:35 +0100
Message-ID: <45C7688F.7090808@w3.org>
To: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetilk@opera.com>
CC: public-sweo-ig@w3.org
Yes, that paragraph has been there for a long time; it is actually a
quote from a presentation or an interview from Tim. As far as I can
judge, microformats did not exist when that paragraph was put there.

The question is of course the audience. When you say that *this* use
case can be implemented by microformats, that means that you already are
way ahead of the crowd and you *know* what the usage of the web of data
is. The fact that it can be implemented by microformats is something you
know because you know about that stuff already... for lot of reader of
the page the very idea that there is a 'web of data' is new. (And if
people would also make an association with microformats, that by itself
is not so bad. In some way, I regard them to be part of the Semantic Web...)

I am not saying *at all* that you are wrong, and if the example could
indeed be extended a bit, that would be good. But we should not have
more than a paragraph there.

P.S. As for wikipedia: I think there is a general idea that people do
not edit the page of 'themselves', so to say, ie, I, as W3C Team person,
should not edit that stuff...

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> Hi all!
> I'd like to raise an issue, namely what is communicated from the
> Semantic Web Activity page. The current opening statement is this:
> "The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use
> every day, and its not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on
> the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a
> calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing
> when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines in a calendar?"
> As it looks now, I think these use cases will be realized using
> microformats, and that RDF will play a very minor role. I think there
> is a very real risk that developers will think that all Semantic Web
> uses cases can be satisfied with microformats and that the "complex,
> academic stuff" that we're doing is nothing but a unnecessary
> complication of something that can be done rather simply with
> microformats.
> We need simple use cases to start with, but not the ones that will most
> likely happen through other means. So, I think we have a problem here,
> and that this paragraph will have to be rewritten. I don't know what it
> should say, but I hope to start a debate.
> Cheers,
> Kjetil

Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
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Re: What's APPLET doing inside PRE?

Arnoud (
Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:27:41 +0100

From: (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
Subject: Re: What's APPLET doing inside PRE?
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:27:41 +0100
Message-ID: <>

In article <>,
Peter Flynn <> wrote:
>    Is there a particular reason that IMG is not permitted inside PRE,
>    but APPLET is?
> Excellent question. I'm sure it's because one of the browsers allows
> it, so all commonsense is flung to the 4 winds.

My first thought as well, but they also handle IMG inside PRE fairly
well (see the KGV[0] for an example). I really doubt that any person
who likes to use applets will use preformatted text as well.

>    Ceterum censeo CLASS addendum esse.
> We all wish for this, but I think only Microsoft is likely to
> implement it right now, and they don't seem to have kept their DTD up
> to date...

I forgot how to say "to HTML 3.2" in Latin. It's a real pain to
advocate both writing valid HTML (meaning 3.2) as well as using
stylesheets for presentation, when you can't use CLASSes or IDs.

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Re: RDF syntax 'improvements'? - was RE: [Fwd: xmlns, uri+name pairs or just uris..? Clarification needed.]

From: Perry A. Caro <caro@Adobe.COM>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:29:52 -0700
Message-ID: <398B35D0.E2C18DD3@corp.adobe.com>
To: "'www-rdf-interest@w3.org'" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>

If you look back at the archives, you'll see a long series of messages about
simplifying the RDF syntax.  The most radical proposal was to reduce the RDF
serialization to simple statements, like:

<srdf:Statement prop="title" res="...URI">Literal Value</srdf:Statement>
<srdf:Statement prop="creator" value="#id001" res="...URI"/>
<srdf:Statement prop="rdf:_1" res="id001">Author 1</srdf:Statement>
<srdf:Statement prop="rdf:_2" res="id001">Author 2</srdf:Statement>
<srdf:Statement prop="rdf:type" value="rdf:Bag" res="id001"/>

etc.  There were several other proposals, including one from Tim

The silence may be a way of saying, "Been there, done that." :-)

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Re: A nit and an addition for the current draft

From: Steven Grimm <koreth@hyperion.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 12:18:11 -0700
Message-Id: <9509181918.AA08609@cadge.hyperion.com>
To: www-style@w3.org
>The intention is that color names are entered as keywords without
>quotes. The reasoning behind this is, that, presumably, the number of
>color names is small, so they can be entered in the parser's hash

I think that's going to prove confusing to lots of people, since it's
inconsistent with HTML (or at least, HTML as widely implemented.)  In
an HTML document, I can write

and they'll be interpreted the same way.  That's the expectation people
will have of the style sheet syntax, it seems to me.

>For inline images, there is currently only text-line (provisional
>name). We forgot to specify that `border' applies to included material
>as well. This should be fixed.

Am I correct in assuming that it's intended to be used like this?

	(a) img : border-style = none

If so, I don't like the "normal" value of border-style, since what's "normal"
is context-sensitive.  Maybe "minimal" instead?

In any case, I don't have a problem with it being supported under level 2;
my guess is that most browser writers, when they add stylesheets to their
browsers, will do all of level 1 and much of level 2.

>Btw. is a line break allowed before/after an image?

Unless it's in a
, I'd say yes.  (BTW, am I correct in thinking
that there's no nowrap attribute for anything but paragraphs in HTML 3?)

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Re: [CSS21] Unclear applicability to XML

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:52:32 +0000 (UTC)
To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
Cc: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508301612010.24100@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Chris Lilley wrote:
>>>> In addition, we have neither a decent test suite for @font-face nor any
>>>> volunteers to write one, which would be another problem with moving
>>>> @font-face through to REC in CSS2.1.
>>> The same applied to most of CSS 2.1, which until recently had only a
>>> copy of the CSS1 tests and no CSS2 tests at all.
>> That is clearly not true;
> Actually it was, until recently, true.

We have had volunteers for the other parts of the spec for many years, we
have not had volunteers for @font-face. So, no, it wasn't true.

>>>> The @font-face feature in CSS2 is still in CSS2, and is also covered
>>>> by a CSS3 spec for which, if I am not mistaken, you are the editor.
>>>> Therefore we do not see any difficulty in the removal of this
>>>> feature.
>>> There is a certain 'difficulty' in having RECs that used to point to
>>> RECs now point to unstable working drafts.
>> I encourage you to finish the CSS3 module, then.
> My point was more general than the one feature. For example, XSL 1.0 and
> 1.1 make normative reference to the CSS2 specification. The impact on
> XSL or removing features from CSS level 2 does not seem to have been
> considered.

XSL 1.0 and 1.1 make informative, not normative, references to CSS2, so
the impact seems minimal. In addition the links given in the spec are
dated, so anyone needing to read that information will have no problem
doing so even if we rescinded CSS2.

> Since we seem to agree on this point, are you saying that CSS 2.1 is
> primarily aimed at UAs that gain benefit from implementing the current
> set of features in CSS 2.1 (ie, the (X)HTML browsers)? If so, please
> state so explicitly in the spec.

I don't really understand why you keep on insisting that CSS might be
specific to XHTML browsers. It applies to any structured document format.
This is stated explicitly in the abstract.

> Its not clear that XUL is a 'document language'. I'm glad to see DocBook
> on the list of markup languages in scope for CSS 2.1 styling. Please
> ensure that at least one DocBook example is in the specification.

We do not see how this would help. There are already multiple examples
applying CSS to non-HTML languages.

>> The abstract currently says "CSS 2.1 is a style sheet language that
>> allows authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts and spacing) to
>> structured documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications)", is
>> this not clear enough? It seems clear to me from this that images (SVG)
>> and chemical data (CML) are out of scope.
> Since the SVG images (in XML) and CML Chemical data (in XML) are both
> XML applications, its not clear at all. If the intent is to apply CSS2.1
> to 'document like' (eg XHTML, SpecProd, DocBook, and such like technical
> documentation formats) then please say so explicitly.

"structured documents". Notwithstanding that other specs abuse the word
"document", this seems to be quite clear.

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> Just made a DivX movie with an Ogg soundtrack. It works perfectly.

Strictly speaking, you're using Vorbis audio *without* the Ogg :-) Or
does the ACM codec actually embed Ogg framing inside MPEG framing?

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10 Dating App Murders

Abraham Rinquist

Dating apps allow like-minded strangers to connect with ease. However, psychopaths and killers lurk in the digital shadows. The number of people who have been murdered as a result of looking for love the 21st-century way is shocking. Beware before you meet online strangers: Your first rendezvous may be your last.

10 Grindr Gorefest

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London police were called to investigate a foul smell emanating from the apartment of Stefano Brizzi. When they entered, they discovered the body of Gordon Semple, age 59, partially dissolved in a bathtub full of acid. Brizzi, 50, admitted to dismembering the former police officer while high on methamphetamine. The two met on the dating app Grindr. According to Brizzi, Semple died accidentally during a “sex game gone wrong.” Prosecutors disagreed.

After Semple’s death, Brizzi was filmed on CCTV buying buckets, metal sheets, and cleaning supplies. Brizzi began dismembering the body and stripping the flesh. Six days later, police discovered flesh globules floating in the tub, bags of bones, part of Semple’s head, and even human fat in the oven. Brizzi revealed that he dissolved Semple’s remains because “Satan told me to.” Jurors convicted Brizzi of the brutal murder in November 2016.

9 Gable The Gentleman

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In October 2016, the Brisbane Superior Court acquitted Gable Tostee, 30, of murdering a woman he met on the dating app Tinder. According to authorities, Tostee connected with Warriena Wright, 26, before they returned to his Gold Coast apartment. After an argument, Tostee locked Wright on the balcony. Prosecutors alleged that he intimidated her and she felt compelled to climb down from his 14th-floor apartment. Wright fell to her death.

The most important piece of evidence in Tostee’s acquittal was an audio recording he made the night of the murder. On the tape, Wright can be heard crying and pleading to go home. Tostee failed to hear her scream—but saw her fall. Tostee fled the apartment. He indicated that looking over the edge might appear as though he was involved with Wright’s death. His attorneys claimed Tostee merely used “reasonable force” to restrain an “increasingly erratic” woman.

8 Sugar Daddy Slaughter

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In November 2016, a jury convicted Ben Bamford, 18, for the murder of a government tax advisor he met on Grindr. Authorities discovered the naked body of Paul Jeffries, 52, in the blood-splattered kitchen of his Essex home with a tea cozy over his face. Jeffries suffered over 40 injuries, including a severed thumb and a slashed throat. At least three different knives and a candlestick were used in the slaying.

Prosecutors allege that Bamford went to Jeffries’s house to have sex and steal money to cover drug debts. According to Bamford, he was trying to protect himself from Jeffries. Bamford and Jeffries had met two years previously and had recently resumed contact after a break. Jeffries had given Bamford money in the past. After the murder, Bamford was hospitalized for injuries sustained in the attack. He confessed to his mother and turned himself into the Eastbourne police station.

7 Dating App Ambush

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In October 2016, DeKalb County, Georgia, authorities accused Clarissa McGhee, 21, of murdering a man she met on the dating app PlentyOfFish. McGhee allegedly lured Jordan Collins, 23, to a residence, where she and three accomplices waited to rob him. Collins was gunned down in the process. While attempting to help, Jordan’s brother, Chad Collins, was shot five times but survived.

Collins had previously met one of the other suspects, Nashea Poole, 21, on PlentyOfFish. According to Chad, Jordan headed outside, at the request of McGhee, to quiet a barking dog. He heard him say “chill out” and then gunfire. Antonio Avery, 25, and Demarco Butler, 27, were waiting to rob Collins. Police found McGhee’s screen name “Layla234567” on Collin’s cell phone. McGhee claims she was providing escort services to the Collins brothers and showed up with another female and the two men for protection. All four suspects are charged with murder.

6 Self-Described Monster

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A British Court sentenced Carl Langdell to a minimum of 26 years in prison for the murder of a London schoolteacher he met on PlentyOfFish. Langdell, 26, and Katie Locke, 23, had their first and last rendezvous on Christmas Eve 2015 in Hertfordshire at the Theobalds Park Hotel. After a night of heavy drinking, Langdell attacked and strangled Locke to death. He then dumped her body near a dumpster before taking photos and having sexual intercourse with the corpse.

Nine months before the grisly attack, Langdell had confided in a community psychiatric nurse that he wanted to slice a girl’s throat, gloat over he dead body, and fornicate with the cadaver. Langdell had also lied and told Locke that he ran his own law firm. She had no idea that he’d spent time in a psychiatric hospital. After his arrest, Langdell described himself to a psychiatrist as a “monster.”

5 Patel And The Psychopath

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Usha Patel was beaten, strangled, and knifed by a man she met through the Oasis dating app. Patel, 44, invited Miles Donnelly, 35, to her London apartment. The couple drank alcohol and disrobed before the brutal attack occurred. Donnelly beat Patel in the head, choked her, and stabbed her 13 times in the stomach with a bread knife. In his haste to flee, Donnelly left behind his underpants, socks, keys, and a picture of his daughter.

Patel’s father discovered the body the following day. Her five-year-old son had been in the next room when the slaying occurred. Donnelly avoided arrest for several days by hiding out in the residence of his neighbor, Rosie Ferrigno, 43. When Ferrigno refused his advances, Donnelly hit her back of the head with a stool and fled. He was eventually arrested after calling police himself. Donnelly confessed to the killing and was sentenced to life in prison in 2016.

4 The Most Gruesome Act Of Evil

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In 2016, Michelle Martens (left above) was accused of using PlentyOfFish to invite a pair to rape her ten-year-old daughter. Martens, 35, allegedly watched the horrific attack before her daughter, Victoria, was killed and dismembered. Martens admitted to inviting Fabian Gonzales, 31, and his cousin, Jessica Kelley, with the express purpose of sexually torturing her daughter the day after her tenth birthday. Victoria’s body was discovered without arms in a burned blanket in the bathtub of a New Mexico apartment. Investigators revealed she had been injected with methamphetamine before being raped, strangled, and stabbed.

Martens claimed she watched the couple rape her daughter three times. She then had intercourse with Gonzales. Authorities charged Martens with kidnapping and child abuse resulting in death. Gonzales and Kelley were charged with kidnapping, child rape, and child abuse resulting in death. Martens revealed that she had previously watched men, whom she sourced from dating sites, sexually assault her daughter.

3 Florida Catfish

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The naked body of Preston Talley was discovered in the woods of Brooksville, Florida, in 2016. Investigators indicated that the Gainesville man’s death was connected with a dating app. Talley, 35, believed he was in communication with Kayla Morrow, 25. However, he was actually corresponding with Joshua Gardner, 24 (center left above). Gardner lured Talley to Hernando County with promises of methamphetamine and sex. Talley met Morrow and then followed her to a secluded location, where the three other suspects were waiting for them.

Talley was beaten to death with a baseball bat. Along with Morrow and Gardner, Andrew Abbot, 19 (center right above), and Brandon Harrelson, 24 (right above), took $20 and some methamphetamine off Talley before stripping his clothes along with some of their own, most likely to destroy evidence. The suspects fled to Mississippi but later returned to Florida, where they were arrested. Morrow, Gardner, Abbot, and Harrelson have all been charged with first-degree murder.

2 Shallow Desert Grave

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In May 2016, the body of Angela Russo was discovered in a shallow grave in the Arizona desert. Russo, 24, had been missing for a month. Her cause of death was unknown, but investigators found significant signs of foul play. Authorities arrested Lashawn Johnson, 25, and charged him with second-degree murder, kidnapping, and concealing a body.

Russo’s mother indicated that her daughter and Johnson met through a dating app. Investigators revealed that Russo and Johnson had exchanged text messages before she went missing. While searching Johnson’s apartment, they found evidence that it may have been a murder scene. Johnson’s roommate took authorities to the desert outside of Tonopah, where they discovered Russo’s remains near a burned-out sedan. When he was charged with Russo’s murder, Johnson was already in jail for an unrelated charge. Brittany Johnson, LaShawn’s wife, admits to her husband’s infidelity but insists that he is not a murderer.

1 Meet Me, Murder Me

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In August 2016, Edward Bonilla, 30, was convicted of murdering a woman he met through Meet Me and sentenced to life in prison. According to Bonilla’s testimony, on the way home from a party, he and Ashley Pegram, 28, got into a fight. Pegram attacked Bonilla, and he tried to restrain her. Moments later, Pegram fell to the ground, dead. Bonilla returned to the murder scene with his work van, put a plastic bag over Pegram’s head, wrapped duct tape around her neck, and buried her in the woods near Harleyville, South Carolina.

Bonilla told investigators that he had dropped Pegram off at a gas station before heading home. He even sent a phony Kik message to Pegram in an attempt to throw police off his trail. Bonilla’s story did not account for Pegram’s extensive injuries, however. Nothing in his testimony revealed how blood got onto the ceiling of his van.

Abraham Rinquist is the executive director of the Winooski, Vermont, branch of the Helen Hartness Flanders Folklore Society. He is the coauthor of Codex Exotica and Song-Catcher: The Adventures of Blackwater Jukebox.

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Hey guys ! This week I chose to make you discover a European movie ! One of my favorites, a german movie by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (if you managed to read the entire name, you have my full respect). Das Leben Der Anderen, the lives of others. This movie is just beautiful.

It happens Berlin-east during the cold war, a dark faze of the german history. If you don't know a lot about how european lived that period, this is the perfect movie learn (and i bet you don't because you guys only learn about america during the cold war in school). As you know, at that time Berlin was divided in two parts, west and east Berlin, one belonged to the Allies and the other belonged to the sovietocs. What you maybe don't know is that the living conditions in East Berlin were terrible. The society was controlled by the Stasi (basically the german CIA at the time). And the story starts with two caracters, good in their own way. One, Georg Dreyman, is a successful playwright; the other, Gerd Wiesler, is the Stasi officer who spies on him. The first one is handsome, successful, charismatic whereas the other appears to be the perfect caricature of the Stasi officer: cold, strict and insensitive. As the story goes on, Gerd discovers that Georg is leading illegal activities that could lead to the end of his career. But he also develops a fascination for the artist and, more globally, for art its-self.

The atmosphere is cold and gloomy, very powerful, you can almost feel it. The beautiful soundtrack ties the whole movie together.

This is a very touching movie on the power of art and it's impact on people's lives. Moreover it's about friendship and choices. In depth, it talks about humanity. The end is just magnificent.

I really liked this movie. I am a big fan of historical movies but this one combined it with very strong human emotions. I recommend it to anyone. And please it in german !

Sunday, September 22, 2013

To the wonder - Terrence Malick

I chose to do my weekly review on "To the Wonder", a movie by the one, the only, the great Terrence Malick. As a very very very big fan of his work, I've been wanting to see this movie in ages but just couldn't find the time. Finally, I did. And I wasn't disappointed.

If you're looking for a lot of action, I wouldn't advise this movie to you because as many of Malick's movies, it's all about the beauty of the moment, gestures and silences. Almost no script, it's as you were looking at a moving piece of art. An amazing piece of art. I was captivated from the very beginning. I think his movies have the ability of touching anyone who watches it with attention. Of course, if you try to understand it, it becomes a little complicated. Everything is suggested, nothing is shown, only symbolism. Each one can interpret it as he wants.

In a few words, To the wonder is a complex and tragic love story. It's a one of a kind movie that can be hard to enjoy but i loved it and advise it to any dreamer or lovers of beautiful pictures.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Avant-Garde Project

Hey guys ! As you may (or may not) know, we were asked to make an avant-garde movie in our film class. Here's what I'm planning on doing.

I was thinking about making a video that would be a definition of the word "missing". For that, I'd like to interview a bunch of people and ask them what this word means for them and use their testimonial to inspire my shots. The movie would be in black and white. I picture it pretty melancholic.

So far I have a few ideas for my shots.
- hands touching/holding
- hugging
- a girl sitting on stares
- a girl lying down, looking at the sky
That's not much and it really changes a lot. And as a soundtrack I'd use some parts of the different testimonials I've collected.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Hi everyone ! A new week has gone by so you know what that means... A new film review ! This week I've decided to make a review on "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", an off-the-wall romantic "comedy" (that's what internet says but i think it has mainly a lot of drama) by Michel Gondry. I've already seen it several times but i decided to watch it again for you guys. Awww I'm so committed ! First thing I thought when I saw the movie poster was "Waw, great cast ! A load of famous guys !". In fact, the two main carters are played by Jim Carrey and Kate Winsle. There is also Kirsten Dunst (The Virgin Suicides) , Mark Ruffalo (Shutter Island) and Elijah Wood (Frodo in The Lord of the Rings guys !). I'd say the atmosphere of the movie is pretty particular... Very romantic, strange, sometimes a little confusing and very melancholic. But i loved it (proof is I've seen it again and again).

It's the story of these two lovebirds, Joel and Clementine. One day, Joel receives a letter to inform him that his current girlfriend, Clementine, has erased all hints of their relation ship from her memory by an experimental procedure performed by Dr. Mierzwiak. Confused, Joel walks up to his medical office and finds out that she didn't want to hear about him ever again. In state of chock and sorrow, Joel decides to get his memory erased as well. During the procedure, he realizes he wants to keep those happy memories and has to fight in his own mind to save them.

This movie is the struggle of a man who tries to avert heartbreak. It's imaginative, beautifully made, unusual but magical, captivating and full of emotion. A movie that will leave you pensive and that you won't forget any time soon.

I chose a fan made trailer because the original doesn't correspond to the movie at all. Do not watch the original...

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Film review of the week - Crash by Paul Haggis

Okay guys, English is not my main language so excuse me in advance for all  the spelling mistakes, I did my best haha.

 I recently watched (for the third time) this movie called Crash. It was directed by Paul Haggis. Ring a bell ? I'll refresh your memory. What if I say Million Dollar Baby or Quantum of Solace ? Now you know who I'm talking about. Anyway, I absolutely love this movie. Now I'll try to explain why.

   The movie takes place in Los Angeles. The city "where people never touch". Throughout the whole movie, lives of very various characters will intertwine. All are part of different ethnic groups, blacks, whites, latinos, asians, cops or attorneys, thieves or immigrants, rich or poor. However they have one thing in common: racism. Victims or oppressors, they all end up guilty.  It contains hurt, cruelty and darkness, but this movie is all about second chances.

    The camera work is beautiful, every picture is like a painting (and for that it got the Oscar for the best motion picture). The actors performances are very intense and on top of it all comes a magical soundtrack.

   This movie is fascinating, unpredictable, beautiful and has the ability of reaching your soul, but it mainly is a message of hope.

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Dragon Men In Black III Agent J

Men in Black is a 1997 science fiction action comedy film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The film was based on Lowell Cunningham's The Men in Black comic book series, originally published by Aircel Comics.
Due to its commercial success, it spawned 2 more movies.

The current 12" market is hot, with big players like Hot Toys, Enterbay & Sideshow picking up movie licences and producing some amazing figures.
Due to its cult following, I was not surprised that the Men in Black licence was picked up by not one but 2 companies, Dragon and Enterbay.

After rounds of procrastination, I finally decided to go with Dragon's Agent J.
On picture, I do fancy Enterbay head sculpt of both Agent J & K but not their price.
Dragon's take on Agent J was pretty good while Agent K was a miss.
Finally my wallet had the final say and I went with Dragon's Agent J.

This version is based on the 3rd installation of the MIB series. But seriously, Agent K was always in the same black suit and hence I felt that the figure could represent him in all the 3 movies.

The packaging is very simple.
The whole box is black with the title and name of the figure in white.
I guess we all know where they have saved to give us a decently priced 12" movie licenced figure.
The figure is not that secure in the box and the face tends to rub against the plastic.
I have seen some scratches and decolourising on other figures' faces so do keep note of that when choosing your piece.

For that price point, the head sculpt of Agent J is pretty decent.
Anybody will be able to recognise Will Smith as Agent J in the sculpting.
The lack of texturing in the skin and mediocre painting makes the head sculpt less realistic.
The flat paint ops on the eyes really hurt the sculpt causing the overall sculpt to be lifeless, however Agent J is not Agent J without his sunglasses so you can cover up that flaw with the glasses.
Based on the pictures on their website, the mass produced figures (the one that we get) are pretty off. I don't see those issues I complained about in the pictures.

I actually wanted to get the head sculpt from Enterbay and attach it to the Dragon's body.
However I was not sure if the head could fit the body plus the price for Enterbay's Agent J does not come cheap. In the end I dropped the idea.

The suit is pretty well done and it fits the body very well.
It is made of some soft material which feels like velvet to the touch.

Much better with the sunglasses on...

The accessories are pretty limited. I really wished he came with some space weapons but all the weapons are packaged with Agent K (2012 & 1969).

The figure comes with:
Cell Phone
Time Stop Watch
A pair of extra hands

The Neurlyzer is a pretty cool accessory to have.

The stand is a no frills display stand. There are no indication on it to state that it came from a MIB licensed figure. I guess that's another area that helped to keep the price down.

Interestingly, Agent J comes with Special Frank the Dog.
If I did not recall wrongly, Frank only appeared in Part 1 & 2 of MIB and not part 3 of MIB which the figure is based on.
Frank did not appear in person in the threequel, but can be seen in a picture in Jay's room as well as on a Coney Island billboard as "The Incredible Speaking Pug". I guess that was reason enough...
Ok I am not complaining, Frank is a cute addition to have.
It is one solid piece with no articulation.

Overall, a pretty cool figure to have since I do like the MIB movies.
Pity I would most likely give Agent K a miss since I can't compromise on bad sculpting but good price for Dragon and great sculpting but high price for Enterbay...Well it means Agent J will go solo for the time being.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Star Wars The Ultimate Action Figure Collection

I do not review books on my blog, however if that book is about Star Wars the Ultimate Action Figure Collection...well that's a different story.
This book covers more than 2,500 Star Wars action figures produced over the last 35 years.
You can now now trace the evolution of each character in toy form from the time of their first appearance through the designs of today. It is totally amazing how the Star Wars action figures had evolved over time, from sculpting to articulation.

Compiled by Stephen J. Sansweet, owner of the world's largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia, the book also showcases and details the rare, popular, forgotten, and beloved figures of the Star Wars universe.

Happy to say that Kinokuniya (Singapore) is stocking this book now.
Amazon is another place to get this book.

A peek into the book.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Hot Toys DX12 The Dark Knight Rises Batman

The Dark Knight Rises was the last installation of Nolan's Batman Trilogy.
To me, the second movie of the Batman trilogy was the strongest by far, but The Dark Knight Returns just manages to end the trilogy nicely.

Of all the Batman movies, I like Burton and Keaton's Batman.
However, Nolan and Bale's Batman is the most complete in terms of characters in the movie, character development and story line.
Hot Toys got the licence to produce 12" figures from the trilogy and has since, churned out figures after figures from the 3 movies.
I don't know why but I never got around to getting the main character which is Batman. I got Two Face, DX Joker, Bank Robber Joker and even kit-bashed the nurse Joker...but never Batman.
When Hot Toys released DX12 The Dark Knight Rises Batman...I finally got my hands on it.

Hot Toys never fail to impress in their packaging and DX's packaging is right at the very top.
Everytime when I open up a DX figure, it feels just like when I was a kid opening up my Christmas presents...ohhhh the excitement.

The figure comes in a box secured with magnets. The design is very simple with a glossy bat logo on a greyish textured box. This time round, "Less is More"

When you first open the box, you are greeted with the blueprint of the Bat!
Yes we all know that the likelihood of getting this in 1/6 scale is almost nil but the blueprint was a nice addition.

Even after opening up so many DX figures, it never fails to amaze me how they package the figure.
It looks so classy and sophisticated. Under the first layer which houses the main figure, you get the stand and his cape.

This being a DX figure, you get the PERS eye system which allows you to position the eyes anywhere you like. In order to use the system, you are given a spatula which has a little cup at the end to interact with the joystick in the head of Batman. I found it very hard to manouvre the joystick using that little spatula.
The spatula also doubles up in aiding the removal of the mouth pieces.

For this figure, you get 3 interchangable mouth pieces.
The stern expression, the stern expression with the corners of the mouth down turned and the open mouth expression. I don't know why people don't like the open mouth expression...Bale does that expression a lot in the movie and I thought it was fitting to do that expression.
The sculpting of the mouths is amazing with all the wrinkles and details...and topped off with amazing painting which is expected of the super high standard of Hot Toys.
People are also complaining about the cowl that it is not movie accurate...seriously it looks damn fine.

That little spatula
The 3 interchangable mouth pieces

Open Mouth

Stern Expression

Stern with corners of mouth down turned

What I like about this figure is that I get an additional Christian Bale head sculpt. The sculpt is based on the The Dark Knight Rises movie hence you get a more older and worn out Bruce Wayne look.
From the promotional pictures the sculpting is amazing but when I got it in my kinda looks different.
Even that little lump on the side of his nose is gone.
Regardless, it still looks amazing but if I got the sculpt from the promotional pictures I would be happier.

The additional head sculp of Bruce allows you to display Bruce in his bat suit without his cowl on, however I rather kit bash a Bruce Wayne figure in a business suit.
Just a note, the holes from the neck and neck connector are smaller and do not fit in your normal Hot Toys naked body without some alteration.
Thankfully I happened to have a 3R 1/6 GM622 Herbert Narrow shoulder Body which fits Bruce's head nicely.

The accessories you get from the figure are:
4 hands
1 grappling gun
2 Batarangs
2 mini mines
2 utility belts
1 sticky bomb gun
1 EMP rifle
1 clip to attach EMP rifle to the Bat Pod

Since this is my first Batman, I was not sure how to open the utility belts.
As I don't want anyone to break the belts given that I almost did that, let me tell you, the catch is at the back of the belts.
The pictures will give you a better understanding on where the catch is.

From what I read from the web, the EMP rifle is the new addition from the DX02 version. Given that this weapon appeared in the The Dark Knight Rises movie, it was appropriate to get this extra "baby". It has light up features plus we are given an extra clip so that it can be attached to the about integration to the other go and buy the Batpod.

Given that I don't have DX02 version, I was mightily impressed by the sticky bomb gun.
It can be collapsible into two parts and re-attached to form the gun. I was really impressed with the workmanship at this scale.

We are given 2 belts. One is the articulated utility belt which you can attach the grappling gun at the back. I used this belt for the figure for my display.
The other is the utility belt with magnets which you can attach the sticky bomb gun.

The stand is pretty nice. However it does add height to the figure. Personally I dont like it as it means that this figure has to be displayed at the back as it will block most of the other figures if displayed in front. Well that is my personal perference.

Another point to note, the hook is packaged the other way round. As usual, me being the blur one, I just took it out and forced the stand onto the base. It almost broke the base. Remember to take out the hook and turn it the other way round.

Another area that impressed me was the batsuit. It is a fabric body-glove suit on which interlocking panels of armour are glued on. This makes the suit look super movie accurate.
However, I am not liking the cape. The cape comes with 2 pegs which you need to insert into 2 holes on the shoulder of the figure. The instruction is not really clear on how to do it so I am not sure if I have done it right. I have read some reviews but am still not clear if I have done it correctly.
I guess as long as it looks ok, I can live with it.

The figure without the cape to showcase the great Bat suit.

Now with the cape. I guess it looks ok

Overall, this is an outstanding figure. The least you'd expect from a DX figure.
A nice figure to end off the Dark Knight Trilogy.

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The ugly duckling

Also known as our office.  I posted blogs showing the rest of the trailer from start to finish, but our office was ugly.  It served it's purpose, but it didn't look good doin it.
 I hastily took this picture when I was moving in to show my husband where I'd put things (or was in the process of putting them considering there is still stuff all over, including the handy drill).  This, was clearly our wall of movies.  As you all know by now, my husband is a media hoarder.  It's his job and his obsession and it keeps growing.  Thus the need for ugly bookcase, well, moviecase.
I, on the otherhand, hoard books.  My textbooks and references are mostly hidden in this little guy cabinet.  I hate it, and it will soon be replaced also, but that's not the point of my little post today.  Like I said, our office serves a purpose for us, it holds all of Zac's movies, my books and my adjusting table for my family.  The only problem was, it was full and Zac started stashing movies with my books and we simply needed more storage.  So....after a long week away on family vacation (which I will eventually blog about) we decided to build more shelves.

We kept this guy mostly the same, but added trim and facing on all the shelves to make it look a little more finished.
(and yes, I know, the amount of movies we own is beyond ridiculous)

We then built a matching, but narrower cabinet for the otherside.  After that was just a matter of building and installing 3 shelves in the middle to hold a few extra things, we painted it all, and done!  Now our office looks a whole lot better.

And, I have have room for my table.  Now I just have to figure out what to do with the next degree I earn :)

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  • Keaton Jennings, what a lad! Scored half his team's runs and carries the bat. Would really wish to see him and Hameed opening for the test team soon. It would be quite a partnership.
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    Somerset 218-4 v Yorkshire 145
    Ryan Sidebottom led Yorkshire's fightback on the second morning of the Specsavers County Championship clash with close rivals, Somerset, at Headingley.
    The left-arm swing bowler took two early wickets in five balls and at lunch Somerset had moved from their overnight 107 for one to 218 for four when they had built up a useful first innings lead of 73.
    Trescothick was 45 and Chris Rogers 58 at the start of the day and Trescothick soon moved to his 50 from 90 balls with nine fours before Sidebottom struck twice in an over.
    He had Rogers caught by Adam Lyth at second slip for 63 from 91 balls with nine fours and bowled James Hildreth with an in swinger that brought no stroke from the surprised batsman.
    Sidebottom broke Jim Allenby's bat in half before he had scored but Trescothick and Jim Allenby denied Yorkshire any further breakthrough until Trescothick played Liam Plunkett into his stumps and was out for 73 from 142 balls with a dozen fours.
    Somerset were 164 for four and now Peter Trego helped Allenby to keep Yorkshire at bay, despite Adil Rashid causing some problems with his leg-spin. Rashid switched to the football end and he was joined in the attack shortly before lunch by Adam Lyth with his off-spin.
  • Nice piece by Paul Edwards on Haseeb Hameed. If picked, he will, by my reckoning, be the first England player since AC Smith to make a Test debut having never played in a List A or Twenty20 match.
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    Sussex 197-8 v Worcestershire
    Chris Jordan and Jofra Archer saved Sussex from a potential follow-on at Hove where, in blissful sunshine, they added 97 in 18 overs for the eighth wicket after Worcestershire had reduced them to 71 for 7 in the Specsavers County Championship Division Two match.
    Jordan was 45 not out from 69 balls in Sussex’s 197 for 8 at lunch on day two, while Archer hit eight fours in a 56-ball 46 before becoming a sixth victim for impressive West Indies fast bowler Miguel Cummins.
    Cummins, who had figures of 6 for 73 at the interval, struck with the second ball of the day to bowl Phil Salt for a duck off an inside edge as Sussex slid to 50 to 5, in reply to Worcestershire’s 306, without adding to their overnight score.
    Joe Leach then had Ben Brown caught at first slip for 26, while Cummins fired a yorker through David Wiese’s defences to uproot two stumps and bowl him for 4.
    But Jordan and Archer, both Barbados-born and close friends, counter-attacked to the delight of a good-sized crowd before Cummins, brought back for a second spell of the morning down the Hove slope, made one bounce at Archer to square him up and have him held at second slip.
    By lunch, Danny Briggs had also resisted well with 18 not out to help Jordan, who had hit eight fours, to take Sussex to within three runs of a first batting bonus point.
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    Middlesex 327 v Lancashire
    Lancashire took the last seven Middlesex wickets for 69 runs to fight back on the second morning at Old Trafford, limiting the Division One leaders to 327 all out and, vitally in a tight title race, just three batting points.
    Middlesex went into the second day in a position of strength on 258-3 but after Dawid Malan completed an 109-ball half-century, they contrived to lose three wickets for 10 runs in 39 balls. Malan became the fourth member of Middlesex’s top four to reach 50 but not kick on, as he tried to play Tom Bailey too late and chopped on, while Stevie Eskinazi was bowled through the gate by Kyle Jarvis shortly afterwards. John Simpson was caught at second slip, throwing his hands at a drive off Bailey.
    James Franklin was the not out batsman, guiding Middlesex to their third batting point with three balls to spare thanks to a four wide of long-on off Kerrigan, but the left-arm spinner dismissed both Ollie Rayner and Toby Roland-Jones. Rayner prodded forward and was caught at slip, while Roland-Jones - who clubbed Kerrigan down the ground for six - was bowled playing back.
    In the final over before the scheduled break, Steven Croft had Tim Murtagh caught brilliantly at short leg by Rob Jones, diving to his left. The extra 15 minutes were taken and Steven Finn was bowled by Kerrigan, who finished with figures of 4-80.
  • Carlson's historic hundred delays Essex promotion party

    CricinfoAlan Gardner: Kiran Carlson became the youngest player to make a first-class hundred for Glamorgan and held up Essex's planned promotion party in the process
  • Energised Middlesex keep title glory in their sights

    CricinfoPaul Edwards: Middlesex have laid the groundwork for a total which will require them to bat only once in this match and move a step closer to the County Championship title
  • It is just sickening to see Borthwick and Stoneman go to Surrey from Durham. Hope ECB take note of this situation and do something about it. As for Surrey, I just wish them relegation next season.
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    Gloucs 74-3 v Northants 326
    Seven wickets fell on the second morning at Wantage Road as Northamptonshire were bowled out for 326 before Gloucestershire took lunch 74 for 3.
    David Payne ran through through Northants lower order in 11 balls, taking the four remaining wickets without conceding a run. Steven Crook fell second ball of the day trying to late cut and getting a thin edge to Phil Mustard, four balls later Rory Kleinveldt drove loosely to extra-cover.
    David Murphy scored Northants only runs of the day with an edge to third man before Payne returned to have Azharullah smartly held at third slip by Hamish Marshall. Ben Sanderson lost his off stump next ball.
    In reply, Gloucestershire lost Chris Dent to a thin edge behind and Gareth Roderick to a better catch from Murphy for Kleinvedt’s second wicket. When George Hankins slapped a pull to square leg and was very well held by a diving Adam Rossington, the game was back on an even keel.
  • Aneesh do you want to stop all players moving counties, or just to Surrey? They were both out of contract, nothing the ECB can 'do about it.'
  • Hasn't Allenby got that new bat yet?!
  • Yorkshire v Somerset - Specsavers County Championship - Division One
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  • Yorkshire v Somerset - Specsavers County Championship - Division One
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  • @David, Surrey have gone cherry picking in recent times. Surely, signing players out of contract isn't a thing to complain, but Durham not having adequate finances being the reason the two are moving to Surrey, is pretty bad.
  • Morning session - Som 111 for 3 - I would happily settle for the same in the afternoon
  • Borthwick and Stoneman are good players, along with Jennings, they form the core of the batting lineup. It would be a blow indeed for Durham. The county does a decent job of producing a lot of good players and they deserve to be in a better financial standing.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Waterfront Activities

Take in the natural beauty of the Sacramento River while enjoying some of Sacramento's great restaurants.

Delta King's Pilot House Restaurant
1000 Front Street / 441-4440Situated on the third deck of the historic Delta King riverboat, the Pilothouse provides spectacular views, with seating indoors or out. Here, you will savor local California farm-fresh cuisine.

Joe's Crab Shack
1210 Front Street / 553-4249If you're looking for a casual, fun Sacramento River dining experience, Joe's Crab Shack will fit the bill. With buckets of crab and dancing servers, you're sure to have a good time at Joe's. Indoor and outdoor seating available.

Rio City Café
1110 Front Street / 442-8226Rio City Café, situated in historic Old Sacramento overlooking the Sacramento River, offers California Cuisine with influences from all over the world and extra emphasis on the southwest. Indoor and outdoor dining available.

Tower Bridge Bistro
100 Capitol Mall / 326-5050Located inside the Embassy Suites Hotel adjacent to Old Sacramento, the Tower Bridge Bistro offers California-Tuscan cuisine in a scenic setting. Both Indoor and patio seating are available.

Riverfront Bike Trails

Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers, Downtown Sacramento provides bicycle access to the riverfront. Cyclists can access the northbound/southbound bike trail along the Sacramento River via O Street or in Old Sacramento on Front Street between L and I streets. The southbound trail will lead you to the Miller Park. The Northbound trail will lead you towards Richards Boulevard, Discovery Park and the 23-mile American River Parkway that stretches from downtown to Folsom.

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On a summer day in Sacramento, one of the best places to be is on the water. From personal watercrafts to guided boat tours and charters, the scenic Sacramento River has what you need for a little fun in the sun.

Miller Park
This city park is located right on the Sacramento River, just south of Downtown. The park includes picnic areas shaded by large oak trees, boat trailer parking, a boat ramp and dock. For more information call 808-5200 or visit the City of Sacramento website here.

In cooperation with the City of West Sacramento across the river, the City of Sacramento is working to expand access to Sacramento's namesake river. Currently on the Sacramento side, visitors can walk along the waterfront from O Street to I Street through Old Sacramento. On the West Sacramento side, visitors can catch some of the best views of the downtown skyline by visiting Waterfront Park between the Tower Bridge and the I Street Bridge.

Information provided by Downtown Sacramento Partnership

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Chris said...

Not forgetting access via the newly-renovated R st. bike / pedestrian bridge across I-5. I'm told it used to be the rail access back in the day, now it's a great way into / out of the R st. corridor.


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Thursday, July 11, 2013

I'd Have to Shut My Eyes, Pinch My Nose and Plug My Ears to Forget You

Nostalgia has been hitting me hard lately, slapping me in the face every once in a while and sending residual tingles to the tips of my fingers and toes. It courses through my blood and pulls on my heart strings, causing me to crinkle my eyes and jut out my lower lip. It's as though nostalgia has become a foe of mine, one that pops up when I least want it to.

It came last weekend when I attempted my first (successful!) batch of homemade strawberry jam. Washing, smashing, and smelling the berries as they boiled pulled me back to my childhood, to when my mother would can hundreds upon hundreds of jars. She'd bring me along with her to the Pickin' Patch down the road in Avon to pick our own berries: strawberries in the early summer months, blueberries in the later. We would try to get there in the early morning to escape the heat and humidity of a Connecticut summer day and would pick berries for hours under a hazy morning sky.

After we had filled enough baskets to satisfy my mother's jam making needs, we'd weigh in at the front counter. I liked the weighing in almost as much as the picking, for I was left to peruse the candy jars. A gangly girl with a sweet heart and doting mother, I always left the Pickin' Patch with quite the bounty of rainbow swirl lollipops and candy cane sticks. My heart aches for those gray mornings spent between rows of lush green plants, those afternoons when the aroma of berries filled the house, for those moments when life was utterly simple.
Photo taken from The Pickin' Patch Online

In passing stalls of fresh peaches at the Pasadena Farmers' Market last Saturday, I was reminded of driving through the Connecticut country as a child with my parents to Roger's Orchards. We would make the trek out to the Southington farm usually at least once every fall to stock up on brown bags of peaches and apples, of which my mother would make (could you guess?) peach jam, peach pies, apple pies, and apple cobblers. While my parents picked out the best bags of fruit, I headed over to the bakery section. I'd slug a gallon of apple cider from the shelf and grab a couple of bags of apple cider donuts, drop them off to my dad to pay, and head outside to my favorite part of Roger's Orchards: the bunny hatch. My father was always kind enough to remember carrots for the bunnies, so I always had a one-up on the other kids sticking their fingers through the wiring, calling for the bunnies to come. I'd remain there, outside of the hatch scratching bunny ears, until my parents collected me to leave.

We would each take a peach from the bag on the way home, using the backs of our hands to wipe the juice from our chins and tossing the pits out the windows onto white-fenced farmland. What I would give to be transported back to Roger's Orchards, to spend a happy day highlighted by sticky peach faces and fluffy bunny tails.  I wouldn't mind a dozen of those apple cider donuts, either.

Photo taken from Roger's Orchards website

A breeze recently pushed the sweet smell of a Linden Tree into my nostrils and instantly brought me back to River Farms, the horse barn of my childhood. I remember smelling that sweet scent for the first time as I trekked up the driveway hill to visit a new horse that was being quarantined at the upper barn. To me, that smell belonged to her; it never crossed my mind that it might be a blooming tree. Though I may be wrong, I remember her being called Luna. She was a big, black mare with a white blaze down her face. She was the sweetest-smelling horse I'd ever known and I loved her instantly.

The upper barn at River Farms always held an air of mystery: it was where new horses moved into, where ponies that were to be birthday surprises for children were hidden, where sick horses were kept to be separated from the herd. To visit the upper barn, you had to be given a task: go turn that colt out, go get that saddle, or go strip and lime the stalls. I loved those assignments and always spent a fair share of extra time exploring the ins and outs of that dark, small barn, meeting all of the horses that I wasn't familiar with. Now, in my more cautious self, I wouldn't dare to perform any act beyond my instruction. I miss that innocent curiosity of a child, when the fruits of exploration paid off more than the possible repercussions. River Farms was the foundation of my childhood happiness; when I was there, it was as though everything in the world was right. I'd love to be able to go back and explore that upper barn, take a few of the cross country jumps, and make a fort out of hay bales. The barn changed ownership years ago and just isn't the same, so I'll forever rely on my memories to bring me back.

Turning Hopi, the Paint pony that I leased, out to graze (circa 1999).

These bouts of nostalgia shouldn't pain me, but they do. They're happy memories, after all. And if you know anything about me, you know that I like getting older. I don't miss being a kid or a teenager one bit. Neither do I miss or long for Connecticut; I have no future plans to return soon and I'm fine with that. Maybe it is the sense of family, the feeling of security, the simplicity of life that I yearn for. And it doesn't take much to awaken those yearnings: the stirring of strawberries, the sight of peaches, and the smell of a Linden Tree are few of the triggers that set me off. Though each wave of nostalgia brings a wave of sadness, I'm happy for the memories. I cherish them. My heart may droop in the remembrance, but only because it is full.

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Resisting Australia's Wars

Conflict has been a large part of much of Australia's history. The colonisation of Australia involved the dispossession, often violent, of Indigenous peoples' land. In the more than 200 years since, Australians have often been involved in overseas wars.

There has always been resistance to these wars. Sometimes the opposition to war has been small; sometimes it has been strong. This section of the Museum details Australian involvement in war and the histories of those who have resisted this involvement.

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