Adelade Proctor's Birthday Anniversary

Adelade Anne Proctor
English Poet
(30 October 1825 - 2 February 1864)
The MP3 below expired on 11-03-2014.
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David Hughes, tenor (1968)
- The Lost Chord (Proctor & Sullivan)

Trying Out Wix.com

I have been doing my HTML coding for for this blog and music pages for many moons. Since Wix.com offers a HTML 5 free web page constructing and hosting, I decided to give it a try tonight.

The Wix HTML 5 GUI is fairly easy to use. I was also able to embed some custom HTML codes for content enhancement. The more complex HTML coding and some common file types (i.e. txt and csv) are currently not supported, however. Strange and unexpected. The system accepts the Microsoft file extensions as that of PDF, MP3 and other media formats as well. More important, the web server access, editor,and page refresh rates are very responsive. I would have liked having a FTP feature to upload my HTML codes and file contents to the web server and be done with it. Given the business objectives of Wix.com, I understand why FTP was not included. I was able to do 70% of my HTML codes fairly quickly by just using the Wix's web building tools provided.

Overall, the Wix web page builder works as advertised. I highly recommend it for users interested in learning and creating web pages for personal and professional goals.

Bizet Has His Day on 25 October

Georges Bizet
French Romantic era composer
(25 October 1838 - 3 June 1875)
Nana Mouskouri, vocal (1989)
- Habanera
(Bizet)

Click here to view this L'Envoi YouTube.

Autumnal Sky - 20 October 2014

Autumn mornings before sunrise the splendor of the heavens can be seen very clearly. Below is a picture I took this morning of the moon and Jupiter together.

iPhone 5s camera
20 October 2014
0553 hours facing east before sunrise
"Eastward was my glance directed,
Watching for the sun's first rays;
In the south—oh, sight of wonder!
Rose the bright orb's sudden blaze.
Thither was my eye attracted;
Vanished bay and mountain height,
Earth and heaven unseen and all things,
All but that enchanted light." - Goethe, "Faust"

Rivaling the Glittering Sunshine with a Glory of Golden Hair

David Hughes
Welsh Ancestry British Tenor
(11 October 1925 - 19 October 1972)
David Hughes, tenor (2003 compilation)
- "Silent Worship" from the Handel's opera "Ptolemy"

Click here to view this L'Envoi YouTube.

Thou Art Welcome, Heaven's Delicious Breath

October

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath,
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief.
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.
Wind of the sunny south! oh still delay
In the gay woods and in the golden air,
Like to a good old age released from care,
Journeying, in long serenity, away.
In such a bright, late quiet, would that
Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks,
And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,
And music of kind voices ever nigh;
And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,
Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass.

On Jazz Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore's Birthday

24 September was jazz singer Rebecca Kilgore's birthday.

Because of the Apple iOS 8.x updates and the unexpected wrinkles with it and the associated developer apps, I have had to do a number of things to get all my iOS devices in working order. I did not get around to do this posting on her birthday.

Anyway, here is the music video post - three days behind. Enjoy.

Rebecca Kilgore
Jazz vocalist
born: 24 September, 1949
Rebecca Kilgore (2005)
- It's so Peaceful in the Country (Wilder)

Click here to view this L'Envoi YouTube.

Stuck in the iOS 8.0.1 Failed to Install Twilight Zone?

All of my pre-iPhone 6 iOS devices (iPhone 5s and 4s) were updated to iOS 8.0.1 without problems. Apple, however, did pull the platform update during my iPad Mini-Retina installation. It left a red herring message saying to the effect the update could not be completed because the Internet was not connected.

If you are experiencing the same problem which I'd encountered with the iPad Mini iOS 8.0.1 install process, don't mess with your internet router and settings. Most important, don't panic and go restoring your iOS 8.0 via iTunes. The prior updated iOS 8.0 is still working on the installed device.

To rid the "stuck" iOS 8.0.1 installation file, do these steps instead.

On your iOS 8.0.1 stuck-during-install devices, do the following:

Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage >select the first app on the top which is the iOS 8.0.1 update file > Delete.

If you have already updated to 8.0.1 on your iPhone 6 which had messed up your cellular calling services and Touch ID, do a search on Google for help. I recommend the affected user go directly to the Apple Knowledge Base for a temporary fix at:

Click here: Loss of Cellular Service or Ability to Use Touch ID
after Updating to iOS 8.01 on iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus.

In Silence Now the Purpling Summer Passes

August
Clark Aston Smith
(1893-1961)

In silence now the purpling summer passes,
The swallows fly;
The failing river scantly glasses,
Where amber twilights wane,
Our dreaming kiss above the flow'rs that die...

Will love at last remain?
Ever I pray to find
(Though all the heav'ns be blind!)
The gold of love and summer in thy hair;
And breathe between thy shadowy breasts again,
In eves of autumn wind,
All flowers that failed upon a windless air.

First Day of Autumn, 2014

23 September 2014

1632 Hours PDT Log
Current Temperature and Condition:
89° F | 32° C
Clear

Astronomy:

23 September 2014              Rise:        Set:
Actual Time            6:52 AM PDT  6:59 PM PDT
Civil Twilight         6:26 AM PDT  7:25 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight      5:56 AM PDT  7:55 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight  5:25 AM PDT  8:26 PM PDT
Moon                   6:21 AM PDT  6:41 PM PDT

Length of Visible Light 12h 58m
Length of Day 12h 06m
Tomorrow will be 2m 25s shorter.

Waning Crescent, 0% of the Moon is Illuminated.