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For the game's younger target audience there is a fun, easy going action-RPG and light-hearted storyline waiting to be discovered in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and one that lasts at least a good six to eight hours with plenty of optional side quests, mini-games and unlockable content.
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The New Balance Men's 1210 Shoe is what I'd wear the next time I'm kicking some behind at the race track. Inspired by the legendary Leadville 100 race and built for the ultra-runner, the New Balance Leadville 1210 uses N2 cushioning, a REVlite midsole and a rugged Vibram outsole to keep runners comfortable while they test their limits. Almost completely void of excess materials, seams, and bulk, the 1210 was designed from the inside-out to prevent skin irritations. With your feet in these shoes, they'll surely be happy trails. Go do some race winning in these super fast kicks.
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wchar is just a wide (generally 2byte) character. It hasn't really got a lot to do with Unicode and was probably added to C++ before Unicode existed.
Unicode is just an encoding (or a family or encodings: utf-8, utf-16 and utf-32), so it's an algorithm that requires parsing and interpreting bytes.
UTF-8, for example, can be done with regular chars. Some unicode characters require up to 4 bytes, most are 1 or 2.
Obviously ASCII allowed us to use a fixed-width system, 1 character == 1 char == 1 byte. Not so with Unicode although that is pretty much what you get with UTF-32. Unicode is a variable-width encoding, different characters require different numbers of bytes.
char is fine for UTF-8.
But of course, with Unicode, 1 char (or wchar) does not equal 1 character (code point) necessarily.
As for string lengths, as Demos Sema said, you have to run the decoding algorithm which means parsing the bytes, so really a sequential scan through the string. Similarly, you cannot just random-access a character at a specific index. Of course, if you can make some assumptions about the text (e.g. I'm using UTF-8 but I know there won't be any multi-byte code points - Which is practically equivalent to saying you know your string is ASCII-only) then you can just count number of char elements and you can randomly index into the string.
There are no functions in the C++ Standard Library that are Unicode aware. Any strlen type functions, for example, will just be counting the number of chars in the array, which is going to yield too large a number if that string is a Unicode string.
The width of wchar_t is implementation defined, so it isn't really useful for unicode unless you know something about the implementation. Generally it'll be 2 bytes, which is probably good-enough and so can be used for UTF-16.
C++11 introduced char16_t and char32_t. These clearly have a well-defined fixed-size. So if you're using UTF-16 and C++11 you would be better off using char16_t instead of wchar_t.
Overall I would leave all of that alone; if you're serious about using Unicode in C++ then instead take a look at the defacto ICU library. Then there's also boost::locale.


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DALLAS, TX -- (Marketwired) -- 01/09/14 -- Dr. Pedro Loredo, a surgeon at Renova Hand and Foot Centers, was recognized by North Texas news station KTXD 47 for his generosity toward a Dallas citizen disabled by debilitating hand pain. Esther Gonzales suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition that made it difficult for her to perform at work, but despite her inability to pay for her surgery, Dr. Loredo insisted on treating Gonzales completely free of charge.
A cashier at a local supermarket, Esther Gonzales began experiencing severe pain and discomfort in her hands and fingers. "I live every day with pain," Gonzales explained prior to surgery. "I can't work; I can't do anything because my hand is so bad." Even though others urged Gonzales to see a hand specialist, she was concerned that her lack of health insurance would prevent her from receiving the treatment she needed. Nevertheless, Gonzales began to research treatment options and discovered the website for the Dallas branch of Renova Hand and Foot Centers.
Gonzales was soon diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, a common hand condition that causes persistent pain and tingling in the hand and wrist. The condition causes more missed work days than any other injury -- up to 30 days per year per affected person -- and can cause permanent nerve damage if left untreated. In the case of Gonzales, her pain was aggravated by the movements she was required to perform at her job.
Dr. Loredo was eager to help Gonzales and offered to treat her at no charge. "We want to give back to the community so we give one monthly surgery to charity for someone that's very deserving, that needs it," Dr. Loredo told The Texas Daily. Dr. Loredo went on to say that giving back to the community was part of his Texas upbringing and is now integral to his work as a doctor. "I'm very lucky that I can do this for another person," he said.
To treat Gonzales' carpal tunnel syndrome, Dr. Loredo performed a new micro-invasive surgery called AccuCision. The AccuCision procedure was developed by doctors at Renova Hand and Foot Centers, who remain the exclusive providers of this advanced hand surgery. "The incisions we use are as small as a grain of rice," Dr. Loredo explained. "We use a clear cannula so that we can see the whole anatomy of the hand." The advanced ClearView 360 technology of AccuCision allows doctors to perform carpal tunnel release safely and effectively without the use of a large incision while protecting surrounding tissues and nerves. Since no stitches are required, recovery time is brief, lasting about one week. According to Dr. Loredo, his patients have seen "huge results" from the procedure.
Following surgery, Gonzales quickly began to experience the results of her treatment. "It's like a miracle," Gonzales remarked. "I don't know who picked me [to receive] this wonderful gift...I can't believe it." Dr. Loredo and rest of the staff at Renova look forward to helping more patients like Gonzales in the future.
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CHENNAI: A rickety, old blue pushcart symbolises their trade. Many of their customers don't even know their names. They are just called 'isthirikaaran.' But, behind the anonymity lies something which could be called a small-scale family run industry.
Mobile ironing units dot the landscape of almost every street in the city. Some of them even function as laundry agents. Each ironing unit is a family run enterprise and the older among the children are sometimes involved in collection and delivery of clothes from individual households. A family earns between Rs.500 and Rs.700 for a day's work and they spend around Rs.100 on charcoal every day.
Many people who are engaged in this trade are migrants from Andhra Pradesh. "My hometown is near Tirupati. I came here because there are no opportunities there and farming has pretty much died," says 62-year-old Ramdas.
There is also an unwritten code that a new ironing unit cannot come up in a place where another person is already carrying out the trade.
Family tradition is the primary reason for the continued existence of 'isthiri vandi's' (pushcarts). "I started doing this work when I was 10. I got into this trade because our family has been doing this for generations. I don't know anything else now," says Gunasekar.
Apart from pressing clothes, there are other pressing issues to deal with for these men and women.
The charcoal filled box-iron weighs close to eight kg and the close proximity to burning embers of coal for long periods causes health problems.
The pushcart might symbolise their work but the aluminium roofing increases the temperature by a couple of degrees.
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However, there are not many options available for them. None of them know of any other means of livelihood.
"Sometimes I think of home," says Gunasekar. "But I have never thought of a day when I won't be able to do what I have always done. Only God must show me the way when the day comes when I'll get old and weak," he said.
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Cool, it was superklye's thread that informed me of the led projection in the first place. I want to get the 67" but its a little big for my room so the 61" is probable what I will get HOPEFULLY soon I have to work on the wife a little harder.
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Wired magazine has a great new piece on prefab in their latest issue. The article covers some of our favorite leaders in the prefab movement, including Michelle Kaufmann for her Glidehouse, Jennifer Siegel of Office of Mobile Design for her Take Home, Dwell's prefab collection from Resolution 4 Architects, and Lovetann's new modular home.
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January 2, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Having long time interest in pre-fab/modern design – we were excited to see the new show at the walker art center on prefab … unfortunately we were a little let down with the depth of the show and the initial lecture which was poorly planned. That sad in the course of things we think we came up with a better word for this type of architectural design: "ModMod" or Modular Modern – as most of this stuff isn't truely "prefab".


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The Undercover Soundtrack – Jessica Bell
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on October 29, 2014
'Five characters, five musical identities'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is contemporary fiction author, poet, editor and singer-songwriter Jessica Bell @MsBessieBell
Soundtrack by Judy Garland, Magic Dirt, Hole, Lene Lovich, I Killed the Prom Queen, Metallica
White Lady is written from the perspective of five different characters, each in first person, so, in addition to my usual character-defining tactics, I decided to give three of them specific music tastes. These music tastes also really helped to mould the personalities of these characters, and made it easier for me to write in their different voices.
The musical soundtrack fan: Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland
Sonia Shâd, an Australian/Turkish high school mathematics teacher and wife of Melbourne's leading drug lord, is addicted to slicing people's throats and admiring the blood cascade down her victims' chests.
Now the clichéd thing to do would have been to make her a fan of heavy metal. I didn't want to go the typical route. Instead, I thought it would be a little more creepy having a song associated with innocence and finding true bliss linked to Sonia finding her true bliss—the pleasure of a kill.
I've also used the rainbow as a metaphor for Sonia's passion for numbers:
It is seven a.m. and everyone's mailboxes are decorated with dew. When I was a child, I liked to think the dew meant fairies had been out to play during the night. Especially when the sun shone through dispersive prisms of condensation, creating a field of colour across my front lawn. It was the rainbow that first got me interested in mathematics and physics, and its ever-elusive pot of gold. It didn't take long for me to rationalize that the pot of gold was simply the bait to enrich my knowledge.
As an extra quirk, Sonia's doorbell plays this song when it's pressed.
The female rock goddess fan: Dirty Jeans by Magic Dirt; Skinny Little Bitch by Hole; Bird Song by Lene Lovich
Mia Weston is an insecure overweight high school student, who turns to drugs to lose weight, and experiments with her sexuality to manipulate her drug dealer. She falls for Sonia's son, Mick, and gets caught up in his family's criminal activities. She enjoys every minute of it, because it makes her feel beautiful. She experiences a tug of war with her conscience — good girl (who is insecure about her looks, and wants to be a good daughter for her single father) versus bad girl (a beauty queen in Mick's eyes, and bold and confident when engaging in illegal activities).
Mia is also an aspiring songwriter and turns to these female rock goddesses for inspiration.
I don't, however, just use these songs to represent Mia's personality. I make sure the songs appear in the story when the lyrics actually mean something to the scene.
For example, she turns Dirty Jeans up full blast when she realizes she might be falling for Mick. The first line of the song is about being attracted to an ordinary boy. Mick is far from an ordinary boy. Mia listening to this song is almost trying to convince herself that there is nothing to worry about, that Mick may be different than most, but deep down he is normal and she will be safe with him. At the same time, it also gives her a false
sense of self-esteem when she imagines the lyrics, about being beautiful, are being sung to her directly.
On the opposite end of the scale, when Mia is feeling guilty about her actions, she listens to Skinny Little Bitch, glorifying that fact that she is acting like one herself. Of course, she's still romanticising about being skinny. It's easier for her to be a 'skinny bitch' than an overweight one.
The Metal Head: Never Never Land by I Killed the Prom Queen; Creeping Death by Metallica
On the surface, Mick Shâd (Sonia's son) is an absolute thug. He's foul mouthed, exhibits violent and crude behaviour, and shows no respect to anyone whatsoever. Yet, deep down, he is a gentle sweetheart with a poetic soul, which readers witness through his scenes with Mia.
All his life he has been exposed to the illegal activities of his parents. The biggest thing that haunts him to this day is the blood stain on the back porch, along with the memory of Sonia tucking him in one night without having properly washed the streaks of blood off her skin.
Mick listens to hardcore music to escape his hardcore reality. It's a way for him to shut the world out when he needs to be alone. Readers also get the hint that he prays to Allah on his seccade (a Muslim Prayer mat in Turkish), when he's alone in his room too. He clearly has a conscience.
The songs I've mentioned above are not actually cited in the novel. Only the bands. This is because Mick isn't the type of guy to describe what he's listening to. He just turns his stereo on full blast — full stop. We also experience the loud music coming from his bedroom through Sonia's perspective, in which she recognises the bands, but can only make out the sound of roar roar roar.
Despite readers never knowing what songs Mick listens to, these are the songs I had in mind when writing the scenes these bands are mentioned in. If you look up the lyrics to these songs, you will glean a lot of meaning from them and how they relate to the story. Though I would have loved to explain all these details in the book, they just didn't fit. So I had to resolve myself to the fact that they would remain hidden (a true Undercover Soundtrack!")
If you ever decide to use music for writing inspiration, have a think about how you can create symbolic branches to your music of choice in your story. Not only does it provide a fabulously diverse platter of character food, but it's also nutrition for your plot. I don't think I have ever written a book which didn't incorporate music in one form or another. And now I don't think I could ever write without it.
Is your story lacking the nutrients it needs? Perhaps some music will help!
Jessica Bell, a thirty-something Australian-native contemporary fiction author, poet and singer/songwriter/guitarist, is the Publishing Editor of Vine Leaves Literary Journal and the director of the Homeric Writers' Retreat & Workshop on the Greek island of Ithaca. She makes a living as a writer/editor for English Language Teaching Publishers worldwide, such as Pearson Education, HarperCollins, MacMillan Education, Education First and Cengage Learning. Connect with Jessica online at her website, retreat & workshop, blog, the Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Facebook and Twitter
GIVEAWAY To celebrate the release of White Lady, Jessica is giving away an e-copy (mobi, ePub, or PDF) to a random commenter of this post.
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Five characters, five musical identities – Jessica Bell
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on October 28, 2014
My guest this week is an old hand at The Undercover Soundtrack. She made her first appearance here in 2012 with a soundtrack she had composed, sung and recorded herself – which earned my undying envy (in a good way). She's a singer-songwriter as well as a poet and novelist, so music is a natural way for her to understand her characters. In her latest novel, she writes from the perspective of five people, and used music to help her create their different voices and mentalities. Join me here on Wednesday to meet Jessica Bell (once again) and the Undercover Soundtrack to White Lady.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Ian Sutherland
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on September 10, 2014
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is cyberthriller author Ian Sutherland @iansuth
Soundtrack by John Barry, Vangelis, Ennio Morricone, Elgar, Moby, Leftfield, Underworld, The Smiths
I write to music; never to silence. For me, music is essential. It rapidly gets me in the zone and allows the creative juices to flow freely. Right now I'm listening to the movie soundtrack of 500 Days of Summer. I love it when the two tracks by The Smiths come on.
There's a pragmatic purpose to my use of music. As most people appreciate, writing is one of the most solitary professions there is. And one of the reasons I procrastinated so long in my life before finally publishing my debut novel was my desire to balance time for my family and friends (oh, and work). And even more so when my daughters left home for university, leaving my wife and me with the proverbial empty nest. The only way I could write was to relocate myself to the living room (and be in the same vicinity as my otherwise lonely wife) and wear headphones to drown out the noise of the TV!
My debut novel is a thriller called Invasion of Privacy. When I first started it three years ago, I mostly played orchestral movie soundtracks while writing. There were two reasons. The first was practical: at the time I believed hearing songs with lyrics would be distracting (I've since overcome that). And the second was because soundtracks follow the tempo of the movies they represent, and pairing different soundtracks to the types of scenes I was writing helped.
For quieter more reflective scenes, my favourite choice is John Barry's Dances With Wolves, the slow pace of the rather long movie suiting perfectly. For higher tempo, more action orientated scenes, I often selected 1492: Conquest of Paradise by Vangelis. Especially the title piece, which features a chamber choir singing rousting Latin hymns with massive crescendos.
These soundtracks directly influenced my characterisation in the novel and were referenced explicitly. The main protagonist is a computer hacker who, whenever he starts a hacking session, chooses a movie soundtrack to accompany him:
'Brody selected his favourite movie soundtrack playlist, set it for random with the volume high and pressed play. The opening bars to John Barry's Dances With Wolves boomed from floor-standing Bose speakers either side of the huge wall-mounted television. Then, like a concert pianist about to perform a solo, he rested his fingers on the keyboard in front of him.'
A hacking session later in the book is, of course, accompanied by 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Ennio Morricone's The Mission also makes an appearance in the novel. It had to, given the number of times the novel's author listened to it during the book's writing.
Musical surprise
Unbeknown to me, my editor Bryony Sutherland (no relation!) had studied music at the Royal Academy of Music. She picked up on the large number of musical references in the novel, starting with the opening scene where Anna Parker, the soon-to-be-first-victim, reflects on her journey towards becoming a cellist:
'A childhood spent observing her school friends through the living room window playing forty-forty, kerbie and later, kiss-chase, while she practised her scales over and over, her bow movements across the strings becoming autonomic as muscle memory took over, the melodies becoming more complex and harmonious.'
Bryony appreciated the background and characterisation this short description provided, but also commented on how accurate the musical description was. In the scene, Anna auditions for a role in the orchestra of the Royal Opera House. She plays Elgar's Concerto in E-Minor, a perfect choice for a solo cellist performance:
'She took two more deep breaths, drew back the bow and launched into the concerto, her favourite piece. The music, as Elgar had planned, came slowly and hauntingly at first. Within a few bars she was lost to the stately rhythm of her part.'
As the novel headed towards its dramatic conclusion, the pace naturally picked up in the writing style. To help me maintain a faster pace during writing, I began to play the soundtrack to the movie The Beach on repeat. High tempo electro beats by the likes of Leftfield, Moby and Underworld were perfect to maintain concentration and a high pace. I also noticed that I set the volume in my earphones much higher as well, drowning out everything except me and the words on my laptop screen.
And I'm finishing writing this very post on a cheerful high. 500 Days of Summer has now looped a few times, but I write these last words to the quirky and breezy song, Mushaboom. Always guaranteed to leave anyone in a good mood! Give it a listen if you've not heard it before.
Ian Sutherland is a British crime thriller author. Leveraging his career in the IT industry, Ian's Deep Web Thriller Series shines light on the threats we face from cybercrime as it becomes all too prevalent in our day-to-day lives. Invasion of Privacy is his debut. Ian lives near London with his wife and two daughters. Find him on his website, Twitter as @iansuth and on Facebook.
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'Hacking to music' – Ian Sutherland
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on September 9, 2014
On The Undercover Soundtrack, we're used to writers using music to summon the muse. My guest this week goes one better. One of his main characters is a computer hacker, who limbers up by listening to Vangelis's music for the film 1492: Conquest of Paradise. In real life, the author has a lifetime's experience in the IT industry and seems adept at opening files in people's pasts – Dave and I used to play 1492 incessantly as background for our own writings. My guest did it again when his editor revealed she had trained as a musician, like another of his characters. He is Ian Sutherland and he'll be here on Wednesday with his Undercover Soundtrack – when he's finished hacking the pasts of his production crew and blog hosts.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Yasmin Selena Butt
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on June 18, 2014
'Music is fuel to take me where the characters go'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is Yasmin Selena Butt @YasminSelena
Soundtrack by Jeff Buckley, Death in Vegas, PiL, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Pixies, Nine-Inch Nails, Skunk Anansie, Garbage, Portishead, The Cure, Interpol, Cocteau Twins, Editors
If I hadn't have become a novelist with a 36G chest, I would have been a rock star. I'm serious. You try learning electric guitar when you can't see the strings, it's dead tricky. Music is huge for me, HUGE. When I was 15, I made a decision not to live abroad because you couldn't buy Smash Hits in Pakistan. Music back then was the only thing keeping me alive. It fuelled me. I couldn't risk losing it.
It was a huge, creative fuel when penning my debut, Gunshot Glitter. The title might be familiar to you if you're a fan of the singer, Jeff Buckley. If you're not, it was a bonus track released on his posthumous album Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk. I loved the song, and, if I'm honest loved the title more. The song itself is lo-fi, distorted, wobbly but utterly impassioned.
Crime drama morality tale
In my novel, Gunshot Glitter is the name of an infamous London burlesque club. How would I describe the story? It's the genre-bending story of an incinerated boy who never quite goes away; a morality tale, broadly a crime drama. I was thrilled it was shortlisted as a self-published read by The Guardian last year, along with the tome of my kind blog host Roz Morris. (Thanks! – Ed)
This year, I hope to give it the launch it deserves. It hasn't had that yet for good reasons. Last year, I almost died of anaphylactic shock at a club on the launch of the print edition. It was a surreal way to discover you now possess a lethal shellfish and nut allergy. This year I hope to do the novel justice.
While writing it, I used mainly alternative music as a fuel to take me to the places where the characters go, especially Celine, the protagonist. And some of the songs I played also feature in the novel. When I listened to them, I got so immersed in the music, the songs become little stories within themselves, almost like an operetta with tragedy and pathos in spades running riot in my head. I made two CD compilations 'Black Glitter' and 'Angry Glitter,' depending on where I needed to go creatively, each featuring 18 songs. Black Glitter was achingly emotional, gut wrenching and tender.
Angry glitter
Bands featured on Angry Glitter included Death in Vegas, PiL, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Pixies, Nine Inch Nails, Skunk Anansie. Garbage's Vow from their debut album is amazingly powerful. I played this song literally on repeat when writing some of Celine's pivotal scenes when she made some of the darkest decisions of her young life. Portishead's incredibly sexy Strangers ended up featuring in a bittersweet memory for Cornelia:
She had been obsessed with Strangers with its melody full of dark, sexy suggestion. It turned her on. She even choreographed an examination piece to it. Cornelia put it on and, when it kicked in with its sleazy, dark electronic riff, she winced. Now she hated it. It reminded her of all she'd lost. It's just music, she said fiercely through gritted teeth, 'just music!' Music could never punish her like her own guilt could.
The Cure is a band that bonds lovers Anis and Celine. I played Disintegration heavily when writing their more intense scenes. And Interpol's Narc rears its head in the aftermath of their sex, like a shadow in the background on the wall. Other songs such as Blind, Dumb Deaf by The Cocteau Twins, was just powerful, no intelligible words as Liz Fraser doesn't use them, but you can't help but feel a strong sense of foreboding when you hear it, and, when I was getting inside protagonist's Cornelia Friend's twisted head this track made me think of her. It made me think of someone splintering on the inside, as did Editor's Munich.
There is a darkness, intensity, danger, sorrow, passion and fury that dominates the music that literally leaches out onto the pages. When you have great music, fuelling your fingertips, you're almost obliged to create an impressive result to justify the privilege of what you're listening to.
When you read the behemoth or listen to the soundtrack, I'll let your ears and eyes decide if the fifteen year old girl who grew up to write that novel, made the right call to coming home to grow up in London. I hope you believe that she did.
Yasmin Selena Butt was born and lives in London. She has worked in the Maldives as an English language trainer, freelanced in marketing and been published by The Times as a music writer. She has also written over a thousand poems, exhibited her fiction and photography and performed her debut reading at Proud Galleries in Camden. She adopted 'Selena' as her middle name in 2000, after meeting a concierge who told her the story of the naming of his own daughter, Yasmin Selena. She has since repaid the favour by naming a character in Gunshot Glitter after him. Gunshot Glitter is available from Amazon, Kobo and Smashwords and in print from her website. Tweet her as @YasminSelena
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'Music is fuel to take me where the characters go' – Yasmin Selena Butt
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on June 17, 2014
My guest this week swears that if her chest hadn't obscured her view of her guitar, she'd have been a rock star. Some of her early life decisions were dictated by the need to be connected to music, and when she wrote her crime novel set in a London burlesque club, she had two flavours of playlist – angry and dark. Fiction nearly became reality when she had a near-death experience at her book launch – which I was startled to hear because I remember when her cheerful invitations were circulating on Facebook. Thankfully she lived to tell the tale. She is Yasmin Selena Butt and she'll be here on Wednesday with her Undercover Soundtrack.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Joni Rodgers
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on October 23, 2013
'Whistling past the graveyard'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week's post is by NYT bestselling author and ghostwriter Joni Rodgers @JoniRodgers
Soundtrack by Dick Dale & the Del Tones, The Playboys, Rockin' Rebels, The Ventures, The Trashmen, The Tremolo Beer Gut, Propellerheads, Shirley Bassey, Fabulous Playboys, B-52s, Booker T & the MGs, Dave Brubeck, Archie Bell & the Drells, Caroline Savoie, Hanson, Cake, Nancy Sinatra, Duffy, Amy Winehouse,
Kill Smartie Breedlove is the story of a Shep, a dishonored cop, and Smartie, a pulp fiction writer, who is convinced that Shep's employer, divorce attorney Suri Fitch, is behind the murders of several of her clients' inconvenient exes. It is the most fun I've ever had writing a book – ever – and was born out of a pure pleasure reading/listening binge of pulp fiction (hardboiled mysteries of the 1930-60s) and 'pulp music': electric guitar and percussion-driven beats embodied by Dick Dale & the Del Tones' Misirlou – which a lot of people associate with the movie Pulp Fiction. The Playboys' Cheater Stomp actually gave me the original working title.
Reckless energy
As I absorbed a plotting masterclass from Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, the vaguely nerdy vibe of the music took me to a creative place that was fun and full of reckless energy, a semi-cool throw-back to horn-rimmed glasses and pencil pants. The Dick Dale channel on Pandora features The Ventures, Rockin' Rebels and other old-timers along with gritty off-beat wonders like The Trashmen and a Danish band called The Tremolo Beer Gut. These instrumentals are driven machine-gun percussion and gritty electric guitar leads. They're a bit reminiscent of the theme music from The Munsters – which might explain the macabre undertones that rumble and rise throughout the book, which has a lot of 'whistling past the graveyard'.
Rhythm and sense memory
Two songs that anchored me to my original vision with rhythm, lyrics and sense-memory: Propellerheads (featuring Shirley Bassey) History Repeating and The Fabulous Playboys Nervous. Archie Bell and the Drells Tighten Up always reminds me of exactly what I love about Houston, which is very Southern but very urban.
Roam by the B-52s plugged me into the quirky artistic tourism that compels dysfunctional Smartie to observe people and extrapolate their backstories. Dave Brubeck's classic Take Five and Booker T & the MGs' Green Onions perfectly capture the plodding procedural aspect of Shep's work and the patiently canny way he goes about his daily grind.
Both Shep and Smartie are widowed, and a collection of cover versions of Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine kept me mindful of how that terrible loss motivated and defined them. Two of my favorite covers are Caroline Savoie and Hanson. (Seriously! As in 'MmmBop' Hanson. They grew up. Sort of.)
Divorce attorney Suri Fitch's calculating brilliance (and Shep's ill-timed attraction to her) steps out of Cake's Short Skirt Long Jacket, while the transformative sorrow, betrayal and bitterness she sees (and generates) in her business are present in Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang, Duffy's Stepping Stone and Amy Winehouse's Back to Black.
One of my favorite aspects of this novel was the chance to write about the publishing industry with a bit of the ol' gimlet eye. Smartie and her critique-mates, a group of women authors called the Quilters, approach writing life with a wistful pragmatism best expressed by Nancy Sinatra remixing one of her dad's standards, This Town.
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'Whistling past the graveyard' – Joni Rodgers
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on October 21, 2013
My guest this week is another old-timer on The Undercover Soundtrack. She returns with a playful story about a dishonoured cop and a pulp fiction writer who investigate a series of murders. Her soundtrack is sassy, full of fun and energy, but also undershot with an awareness of the tragic and macabre. She is Joni Rodgers and she'll be here on Wednesday with the Undercover Soundtrack to her hardboiled mystery homage, Kill Smartie Breedlove.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – TJ Cooke
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on September 18, 2013
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week's post is by crime novelist TJ Cooke @Timscribe
Soundtrack by The Who, Talking Heads, Captain Beefheart, Jon and Vangelis, Joni Mitchell, Deep Forest, Marta Sebestyen, Squeeze, Louis Armstrong, John Lennon
There is rarely a day when I don't listen to music. Occasionally I listen whilst actually writing, but rarely, as I find it too distracting. However I will often be listening to something just before a stint at the PC or laptop.
Sometimes I choose a piece which tends to inspire creativity, to help develop a specific character, scene or location. On other occasions it works in reverse. I will actually be working on something and it will remind me of a specific piece of music. Either way music has always helped the creative juices flow.
Here are some examples from my novels Defending Elton and Kiss and Tell.
Lead character Jim Harwood, who narrates, has a passionate but all too brief liaison with the seductive Sarena. Her sudden disappearance from his life is something he finds hard to come to terms with. This powerful song evokes both loss and desire. Not only does it resonate with his feelings, but also with a key location in the story, Beachy Head cliffs. It is synonymous with the film Quadrophenia, being from the album of the same name, but conjures up far more. I remember driving along the clifftop coast road with Love Reign O'er Me by The Who playing loudly… thinking about Sarena's demise, and how Jim had lost his fleeting but passionate love.
I couldn't write this without devoting a song to Elton. In a way he's the star of the show and was based on a character I knew way back when. Elton doesn't fit neatly into any box. He has serious mental health issues which manifest themselves into bizarre 'episodes'. Sometime he will appear quite 'normal, only to morph seconds later into a caricature who spouts random words, song lyrics and general 'nonsense'. Lack of proper funding for the mentally ill means there are way too many Eltons trapped in the criminal justice system. Talking Heads often tackled challenging issues. I often listened to Once in a Lifetime before writing some of Elton's more obscure dialogue.
I'm pretty sure that unorthodox lawyer Jim Harwood would be a Captain Beefheart fan, probably on the quiet. It fits in with his flippant and sometimes chaotic character, which grates against the rigid structures of the law. Jim's own demons mean that he invariably seeks a place to escape from it all, his Clear Spot.
Jon Anderson's unique voice, probably the antithesis of other 'rock' leads, has an earthy connectivity. There's a section in the book where Jim is driving back from the south coast having just done something quite despicable. Traumatised by events, he starts to hallucinate as visions of Sarena's dead body etch themselves onto his car windscreen. I'll Find My Way Home would be playing on his CD, as his path to redemption kicks in.
What a voice Joni Mitchell has, and in The Pirate of Penzance she uses it skilfully to create a truly atmospheric piece of music. I recall listening to this song before penning some of the darker narrative in Defending Elton. It isn't indicative of a specific moment, more of general mood. I always find it haunting.
Kiss and Tell
Marta's Song by Deep Forest and sung by Hungarian singer Marta Sebestyen helped me to picture the character of Bella in Kiss and Tell. She is a Hungarian national who lost both parents in a car crash before coming to Britain with her brother. Her brother then abused her by forcing her to work for his drug smuggling ring. This piece of music is evocative of a lost soul.
Many of my characters' songs follow a particular journey in life. When I was trying to imagine what the character of Jimmy was like when younger,Squeeze's Cool for Cats sprang to mind. Like many of their songs it has sharp urban lyrics. Jimmy was hiding his criminal exploits from Jill. His 'Jack the lad' image was just a front, but it had devastating consequences.
Louis Armstrong has a beautiful and distinctive voice. When we pick up Jill Shadow's story 12 years on, with her ex Jimmy now released from prison, she is unsure how to deal with feelings reawakened. I listened to We Have All The Time In The World, which helped me to empathise with Jill. It conjures up the immense hope that is offered by young love. When we're young we have little understanding of the realities of time or growing old, or of the frailty of our 'first love'.
There are various themes of 'truth' throughout both Kiss and Tell and Defending Elton. It's a theme I struggled with myself when younger. I had been denied truth by my adoptive parents, and could never understand why my adoption was treated as taboo. Some years later I worked in the criminal justice system, where I discovered that truth was often a football kicked about by both sides in an adversarial game. I became wary of accepting 'truth' at face value, and it's no surprise that it features as a theme in my writing… Cue John Lennon and Gimme Some Truth.
TJ Cooke, otherwise known as Tim, was formerly a lawyer before becoming a legal adviser to television dramas in the UK . He went on to write many hours of broadcast drama himself, notching up writing credits for some of UK's most popular series. He is the author of two crime fiction novels Kiss and Tell and Defending Elton, and has an inventive take on the genre. Tim currently lives in Devon, UK. For further details, and to follow his blog, visit his website or follow on Twitter as @timscribe.
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Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on September 17, 2013
My guest this week says he uses music before he sets hands to keyboard, to help conjure the creative mood. Sometimes it works the other way around; he'll be writing and will realise the mind-jukebox is directing a scene to the structure or lyrics of a song. He trained as a lawyer but quickly found a creative outlet as a legal adviser on TV dramas. From there he began writing some of the UK's most popular series and is now a crime novelist. Funnily enough, one of his key songs is Jon & Vangelis's I'll Find My Way Home, which one of my earliest guests used as a touchstone for his MG novel – isn't it amazing how one piece of music can inspire such diverse ideas? He is TJ Cooke and he will be here on Wednesday with his Undercover Soundtrack.
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Kangana Ranaut went to Vaishanodevi temple on Sunday to seek blessings from the goddess for her film Queen that releases this Friday. It was supposed to be a quick in-and-out of Jammu trip. The actress was to land on the top of the slopes by chopper, have darshan, and then head for her flight back to Mumbai. But weather conditions made it impossible for the chopper to fly.
The horses that usually ply devotees up and down the slippery slopes were also not doing their run on that day. So the actress had to trudge up the mountains for two hours with her younger brother in tow.
What made it worse was the biting cold. North India is experiencing a extended winter and freezing temperature. The actress laughed, "I was really made to work for those blessings. But for the last leg of the walk, we got a moto-cart to take us up."


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Looks like a great trip Tom, I can't make it this time but look forward to joining you on the next one.
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Looks like a great trip Tom, I can't make it this time but look forward to joining you on the next one.
Bay Area photographers are spread up and down both sides of the Bay, from Mill Valley (and north to Mendicino). I have lived off and on in S.F., since the late 60's, and the City is a heaven for MF and LF Film Photographers. There is a Photographers group that meets in Golden Gate Park, a group of former Combat Photographers who meet monthly (most of them still shoot for fun), the A. Adams Gallery hosts meeting, and the list goes on... A. Gasser's photographer's supply is alive and well on 2nd St. (south of Mission St.), The Photograpehr's Workshop on Folsom just around the corner from Gasser's. Some of the Pro Labs used to host meeting also.
For the pro's on tight schedules, getting to meetings is hard. I had to retire, before I started thinking about joining a group (internet helps in this respect).
I have been a working photographer in "film" for more than 40 years, and now live in Northern California, north of S.F., closer to the Redwoods and Coast I want to take photos off. I have worked in everything from 16mm to 8x10. I now use M/F 6x9 and 6x6 systems (they are smaller and lighter to carry around.
All you have to do is walk around San Francisco, and you will see photo galleries here and there (South of Market, the "Barbary Coast" area north of the Financial dist. as well as working studios.
In the City, life just goes on, I used to like watching people going about their business and occasionally get it on film.
Just checking in with everybody - I was the OP on this thread, over a year ago. I have mostly completed my move, although my darkroom is still in Maine - and I am not sure when that will be moved and I manage to build a new darkroom out here. I have been living in downtown San Jose for 6 months now, and am making use of a rental darkroom (darkroom at debug). I have put my LF gear away for the time being, and am concentrating on small formats.
All of the comments that flooded in from the original post were great, it really helped me to understand better what the local scene is, and that is something that I am sure will continue to evolve as I settle in.
Hi Mark, Welcome to Silicon Valley.
I've been here just short of eleven years, I still don't know what the scene is! 8-)
I so want to be back there again, but that's going to probably have to be a retirement dream.
Mark, I have a feeling your LF won't stay packed for long. Before or after your next trip to Yosemite or Carmel it will again see the light of day.
TFC, I don't know anyone that has moved back to California to retire. Most move away to Las Vegas, Mexico, or Oregon. The taxes alone will eat your fixed income alive.
grahamp, you live in Richmond? Did I almost bike into you on the Bay Trail?
Iwagoshi - although taxes are high in California, my overall taxes went down when I moved from Maine to CA. Maine taxes are even higher. This includes income taxes, car registrations and property taxes.


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The Extech 42510 Wide Range Mini IR Thermometer is available with standard factory calibration or with NIST Calibration Certification (adds 5 days to product lead time).
Completely satisfied with the desk. More impressive was the buying process, knowledge of the sales and support staff, and attention to detail. It's clear that this company is on a mission to help people. They have found a way to differentiate themselves in a crowded market and stand out as a great company which deserves all the success it achieves. We will be adding a second UpLift 900 in the near future. Thank you!
- Alisha Jones