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Econo 101: Mike Watt's School of Punk Rock
Mike Watt is the Econ professor you wish you had: friendly, articulate, and wildly entertaining. But sit for a spell in his classroom—an abandoned Navy latrine in San Pedro, California, that Watt converted into his practice pad—and you're bound to learn lessons beyond most scholars' comprehension.
Don't let his working-class duds and down-home mannerisms fool you: Watt is a learned dude. As likely to reference medieval artists and authors as he is to drop F-bombs and scatological metaphors in his colorful Pedro vernacular, Watt is himself a study in contrasts.
If there's prerequisite for a class with Watt, it's learning a few phrases of Wattspeak. First of all, "econo" has nothing to do with supply-and-demand. Rather, it evokes the ethos pioneered by his band the Minutemen in the early days of American punk rock. Traveling by van, staying with friends, and writing bite-size songs that are as direct and forceful as a kick to the gut are a few examples of what it means to "jam econo."
It was the Minutemen that put Watt on the punk-rock radar, along with guitarist, fellow frontman, and musical foil D. Boon and funky, frenetic drummer George Hurley. The band's muscular sound, direct delivery, and ideological focus coalesced for 1984's Double Nickels on the Dime, which was followed by albums that showcased the trio's unlimited potential. Sadly, the voyage ended in 1985 when D. Boon died in an auto accident—a topic Watt has taken on in his operas Contemplating the Engine Room and The Secondman's Middle Stand.
After a short break, Watt and Hurley soldiered on, forming fIREHOSE, which challenged punk purism by signing with a major label, Columbia. Watt also began to juggle a number of side projects. In 1985 he formed Dos—a two-bass duo with his then-wife Kira Roessler (Black Flag)—and he began playing in Jane's Addiction/Porno For Pyros drummer Stephen Perkins's jazz/funk fusion outfit, Banyan, which also featured avant-garde guitar guru Nels Cline. Although fIREHOSE dissolved in 1994, Watt continues to gig and record with both Dos and Banyan, as well as with his organ trio, the Secondmen, and his guitar trio, the Missingmen.
At the moment, Watt is focusing his efforts on still another project—as a full-fledged member of garage-rock originators Iggy & the Stooges. In fact, we might have Watt to thank for the Stooges reunion, celebrated this month with the band's first studio release in over 30 years, The Weirdness. In 2000, while recovering from an illness that nearly took his life, Watt began rebuilding his chops by forming two Stooges tribute bands: one on the East coast with Dinosaur Jr. guitarist J Mascis and drummer Murph, and one in the West with his Porno For Pyros bandmates, Stephen Perkins and guitarist Peter DiStephano. After Watt hooked up with Stooges Scott and Ron Asheton (drums and guitar), the band's buzz reached the ears of frontman Iggy Pop. Thirty years after its implosion, the Stooges reformed in 2000, with Watt filling in for original bassist David Alexander, who died in 1975.
"Iggy's the cat who made it all happen," Watt says humbly. "But who knows if I got the ball rolling? We had a meeting after a gig in Buenos Aires where Iggy pointed at me and told everyone, 'You know, I think this guy brought an energy that got this whole thing going.' I couldn't believe it. I was 16 when I was listening to the Stooges, and here I am now. I think I should be paying them. What a school! My ears are like gigantic sponges, trying to soak up everything they can. This is heavy."
A Navy brat from a harbor town, Watt has long looked to the sea for inspiration, absorbing its flux and flow. "Kayaking isn't getting away from music," he points out. "I write songs out there paddlin' the 'yak. They come from a different place than when you have a bass sitting in your lap, what I call 'neck math.' When I'm out there, stuff's hitting my eyes, nose, and ears, and I've got rhythms in my body. Music's coming from a whole different place."
Since his days with the Minutemen, Watt's continued to investigate currents in his own playing, an endeavor that's given him considerable creative range. Watt can produce a whirling, churning undertow as cold and powerful as an arctic surge. In calmer times, Watt's soundwaves wash over you, bathing you in a buoyant brine.
Fortunately, Watt's hydrodynamic explorations have not gone unnoticed. Last year, McNally Smith College of Music in Minneapolis even established a bass scholarship in his name. "Incredible," says the 49-year-old punk rocker. "I went there to spiel last year," he recalls, employing Wattspeak for "give a presentation" or "interview." "I started playing, but thought, Am I really going to teach them more licks? So I just put the bass down and started talking bass philosophy. I really feel the need to pass this stuff on. But I want to hand down possibilities, not answers."
Add session dates with Kelly Clarkson to Watt's busy schedule, and it's amazing he has time to share anything with anyone. But bust out those thinking caps, fellow students—class is in session.
How did you get ready to step in on the new Stooges record?
Oh man, it was a pants-shitter. Making this album, I had this recurring nightmare of a gravestone that just read, fucked up the stooges record. To get ready, the first thing was the music. They did demo sessions in Miami; then Iggy flowed me the tunes. I got the forms worked out, and then I flew to Miami and spent three days with Iggy, going over every part. He had a little amp, and I had the 'puter, a Mac PowerBook with GarageBand. I put their tracks up and played along. He'd go, "Maybe you should try this," and he'd sing me a bass line. He came up with all the bass lines. He let me keep just one of my own, but that was no problem for me. I just surrender.
What were some specific things he wanted?
He wanted me to use a pick. A lot of guys ask me about pick vs. fingers. It's almost like a test of manliness. It's good to play with a pick, because there are things you can do with it you can't do with your fingers. A lot of singers and guitarists like the definition bassists get using a pick. The one thing that's lame about picks is that you lose 'em! So I try to get that definition using my fingers. Instead of the two fingers galloping, I use them together. I call it "the flipper." Sometimes Iggy couldn't tell the difference between that and a pick.
Where do you position your right hand when you play?
All over. Where you hit that string is as important as how hard you hit it; it's one of our strongest dynamic controls. Sometimes you don't want to be defined. You want to be blurry, almost like a dude playing arco.
What's one of the biggest challenges playing with the Stooges?
Man, there are parts of me that want to charge out there. Especially with the older songs—these are songs that have been in my head for 30 years! When you've got those good songs in your head and you're into it, you just want to let it carry you like it's a wave. But I've actually got responsibilities.
Have you ever gotten carried away?
I've done it accidentally. Iggy called me out onstage for it in Lisbon: "No jazz!" And I was just pivoting on an octave, like a disco kind of thing. After the gig, he was like, "Man, was I hearing it wrong, or was I dancing on top of a bass solo? You know, Cab Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker for playing 'Chinese jazz . . . .'" He was just kidding around, but I have big respect for that.
I'm part of an ensemble here that's being conducted. Iggy runs the stage. It's weird, because he's got this total-abandon, chaos thing—he's off. At the same time, he's hearing every note. He's got incredible focus. You cannot imagine the way he ran our practices and recording sessions. He kept it right on the money. It was beautiful.
What have you learned working with Iggy?
There's something you get from working with a frontman who doesn't work a machine [play an instrument]. They have a whole different perspective. They're not all focused on operating their machine, like the rest of us.
Society puts a lot of value on being the boss, but you can't learn everything being the boss. If you ask cats to follow your direction, you should get some lessons in following direction. Life is about taking turns. If you're a boss, you can tell people what to do, but is that really getting the best out of them? There's an art to inspiring. You have to figure out ways of telling them without making them feel all beat down. Iggy's got a real talent for wording things so you have confidence. He's actually enabling you to find confidence in yourself by showing you the logic in his ideas.
How did you psych yourself up for recording with the band?
I was always thinking about Dave Alexander and the way his stuff fit. Fun House [Elektra, 1970] is amazing. It sounds like it could have been recorded last week. A lot of other records from that time sound dated, but the Stooges did it right. But I think it's also the rest of us—we latched onto that sound, and we kept it contemporary.
It can be hard for me to fit in; I have this tradition from the Minutemen that's nothing like Dave Alexander. It's partially because I didn't hear Dave first—I heard Jack Bruce, John Entwistle, and James Jamerson. I wanted to be like them, even though I couldn't even imagine what they were doing. It was just this thing that was rolling over the guitar player! Like "Crossroads" on Cream's Wheels of Fire; Clapton's kind of there, but then Bruce just rolls him over. It's such a victory!
I was listening to records that Stu Cook [Clearance Clearwater Revival] was on, and Steve Currie with T. Rex, but I couldn't hear their parts. Dave Alexander was the first guy I could hear and actually play like. I hear Dave key in the Stooges' music. And now it's my turn to fill the hole from him being gone. I told them, "Man, I'm clay." But I didn't want to copy Dave Alexander, because this is the Stooges now. They don't want to make a nostalgia record.
On your blogs, you were very open about your insecurities tracking the album.
I did that to help me get confidence up, because I was shittin' a pecan log. The recriminations on myself are never-ending. That way, you're thinking out loud, confronting yourself, and trying to be honest. Hopefully you'll shame yourself into doing better.
You also publish a detailed tour journal on your website.
I do tour blogs to get people curious about getting out to other towns and meeting people. When you put words out there, you're sharing with people. I try to make it about the human experience. I really dig touring; it's sort of like my pop's life as a sailor. That's what I'm trying to celebrate. Touring gets you excited about life—you get to visit different lands, different folks. Bass is a means for that.
How would people describe your musical personality?
Maybe a little over the top—I don't know. I'd only know this from hearing other bass players. No matter what instrument you're playing, to serve the tune is a noble fucking deal. And music is generous enough that it gives back to that kind of player. But man, I sometimes do go all "Raging Bull" on people. D. Boon and Nels Cline throw it at you hard, so I throw it right back.
The Stooges played with Sonic Youth in England, and after the gig, [bassist] Kim Gordon said, "Man, I like the restraint, Mike." That was a big compliment. It's the last thing I'd ever expect about Watt!
How did you get the call to play with Kelly Clarkson?
I know her producer, David Kahne, from the old days. I didn't really know her or her music—I guess she's a pop singer who won some game show [Fox's American Idol]. I got to meet her and talk to her a little. I will say this: She can fucking sing! The young man she wrote the songs with, Jimmy Messer, is a skater who knew my music—he was the best! He was so enthusiastic about the whole deal. David, too, was very patient with me.
I haven't done a lot of session work—it's scary! The song's all done, you go in there, you've never heard it before, and you've got to come up with parts under a big magnifying glass. Some of the tracks already had bass on there. It's bad karma to replace somebody else, but some were MIDI, so that's okay [laughs]. It tripped me out when Dave A/B'd them; my bass was way fatter! It's hard for me to get perspective on my own music, because I'm so self-critical, but I couldn't believe the difference.
What kinds of ideas did you bring to the sessions?
One song reminded me of Madonna, so I put in a little dance lick. They let me try all sorts of stuff, even fuzz bass. I was really into it, because it was so creative. When you think of pop music, you don't normally think "creative." For those guys to open up the music like that was pretty righteous.
On this one song, David said, "Okay, she's going to get kissed here—the music's all working up to that." It was almost like theater, interpreting a script. So I did this ascending double-stop thing, ending on the 3rd, and making the chord really ass-fat.
When Kelly was leaving, she turned to the producer and said, "I think the 'old punk guy' idea is a good one." We both laughed. But I was kind of alien to her, and it was all alien to me. Usually you'll hear about "synergy" and that kind of shit in a marketing meeting. But this is not that—this is a human experience.
Whenever you play, it's not a wasted thing. You're investing in that gig that might be around the corner. Who knows how those experiences add up? The stuff [Sonic Youth guitarist] Thurston Moore has taught me about music, the playing with D. Boon—it all comes together to help me. And if you get enough in you, maybe some comes off on the cats you're playing with. Here, with Kelly, I'm in a 'mersh [commercial] situation, but all this avant-garde, weird, bizarre stuff comes into the moment, because I've suddenly got to create. I've got to help this song out, or I'm failing as a bass dude.
Composition of your part is the whole dealio, maybe even more important than your sound or technique. You don't want to bogart—you want to aid and abet. Most people look at the tile—bass players are the grout putting it all together. We set them cats up. Ideally, we can do that like Jamerson; if bass goes away, the whole song falls apart. "My Girl," is a righteous, econo part—that is the grail! The danger in human behavior is, the more you do something, the more you like to do it. First the training wheels come off, then you're riding with no hands, then on a unicycle. But really, it's where you take the bike that's important.
When I see bands, the first thing I do is look at the bass player. I think, Chances are nine out of ten that this guy didn't write this song. Look at the bass part he thought of. What would you think of, Watt? And what physics does to us bass players is tricky—the more notes you play, the littler you sound, because our wavelengths are so long. So we've got to find the right notes—the big daddies!
What are some ways to find the right part?
This is what our musical lives are all about. It's that mission. I don't know if there are formulas, because each song has its own personality. Sometimes you want melodic. But isn't it funny that nobody can deny a good bass line? It's almost like panning for gold. "I found it!" Well, how do you find it? You sift through everything with a goddamn pan! You run through all your shticks—pentatonic riffs, bass drum patterns, 5ths, octaves—your whole vocabulary.
I look for indicators. Drummers do it big-time, practically saying, "Here comes a new part." Here's an on-ramp, here's an off-ramp. You learn to read the song as a journey, with hills and valleys beyond just the groove. It feels good when you're hopping on a groove, but does it go anywhere? It is a killer thing—groove is righteous, but there's also something about drama and theater.
There's something, too, about spirit. When I hear Jamerson on [Marvin Gaye's] "What's Going On," it's telling you a lot. It's almost asking what's going on. Somehow Jamerson gets that feeling, improvising through the chords, but never spinning it out. It's one of the greatest bass lines ever. Somebody told me he was playing it on his back, all boracho [drunk]! We all owe Jamerson. He was one of the first guys to realize what bass was all about, and not treat it as a toy.
What's been key in developing your individual style?
Playing with D. Boon. He went for a new thing, bringing the whole idea of putting politics and personality into your band. He was like, "You know what? I'm going to play real treble-y, and I want the bass way up there, and the drums filling every space we can, because we're going to make this egalitarian. We're going to make this a three-way fucking tie." He wouldn't play power chords. He'd say, "This isn't going to give you enough room." What a generous guitar player.
Inspiration from the new opera you're working on comes from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. How did it start out?
I went to the Museo del Prado in Madrid when I was with the Stooges in Spain, and I actually saw the paintings with those little creatures. We don't know a lot about the cat, but the paintings were probably visualizations of proverbs. I don't know 500-year-old Flemish Dutch shit, so I made up my own proverbs—39 of them.
It's as if I took a mirror and broke it into 39 pieces. I thought, Why not just take a glimpse of the inside of my head right at this moment? The idea came from working on the Minutemen film We Jam Econo [see sidebar]. I was like, "Whoa, I like these little songs—there ain't a lot of filler here!" So I wanted to do little songs.
This new opera is different from my other two in that it's not narrative—it's simultaneous. Because of Stooges commitments, I haven't been able to work with the Missingmen on this piece yet. And it looks like this year is going to have a lot of Stooges stuff.
What else have you been writing?
I've written an album for Nels Cline and Bob Lee, the last band I had for the Engine Room opera. And I wrote another opera for the Secondmen, my organ, bass, and drum trio. These are entire records for the guys. I like the idea of writing for particular dudes. It's the ultimate thing you can do for a friend. I'm writing for my guys, giving them everything I can. Also, it's a chance for me to grow. I put a big demand on myself.
What about Dos?
In Dos, there's no hiding. There's no drums to mask you. And we're competing for the same narrow band of sound, so composition becomes very important—we've got to ping-pong on each other. Yuka Honda, Sean Lennon's musical director, is mixing our new record right now.
What other projects are you working on right now?
I'm doing this trippy project, playing with shamisen, this crazy Japanese banjo. A lady named Kaori is sending the tapes to me from England. Shamisen music doesn't normally have bass. The way they hold time—or don't hold time—is really rubato. That's basically how I played when I was a kid [laughs]. But here I am, this punk thug trying to learn from it. I started learning about the music, but she said, "No, don't—I want you to bring your deal." There is a danger in doing something for a long time—you get in ruts. So she's very generous to do it with me.
I've done projects like this before where you're not even playing with the person live. It takes discipline. You're dealing purely with the music. It's without that human dynamic, except through their creative work. Usually I'm with my guys right here at the prac pad.
Playing in an ensemble with people is a heavy challenge; that's why most bands tend to have a single dictator. Here, you don't have to deal with that clutter. In a way, though, I think it's a necessary clutter. When I bring my songs to my guys, I look to see how they play 'em, and I change to fit. Maybe a great composer has a vision in his head, and he has to hear it, but you're talking to Watt. I'll tell you—my songs ain't that fucking sophisto [sophisticated]! In fact, these guys are going to breathe the life into the songs.
Maybe this comes from my punk background, but I would rather take a dude with spirit than a dude with chops. Prac it [practice] enough and they'll get it. A lot of the chops dudes are princesses that are impossible to be with as people. It's great playing with cats that you know as dudes. There's something, too, in the process of showing them. What I'm looking for in music people is how they spell their name with their machine.
You also play with Banyan.
I don't play with Banyan all the time—but man, if Nels is there, I try to be there. I love that cat. He's taught me so much. I've had to do Banyan with other guitar players, and it's hard for me if they bring some guy in there who's going to comp on chords. He's going to get steamrolled! Not on purpose, of course.
Last year we played the Monterey Jazz Festival—playing "Fun House" in front of a bunch of guys in sweaters! [Laughs.] Scofield played right before us—he was very cool. Some of these cats, the chops don't mean anything. They're just humans who want to talk music. Which is great, because everybody's got something to teach you.
I try to keep myself in situations that will teach me shit. The more challenging, the better. It keeps me young, curious, and humbled. Life isn't supposed to be figured out. It's supposed to have twists and turns and things you can't predict.
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Watt's main bass with the Minutemen was a Fender Telecaster Bass, but now he gigs almost exclusively with his '65 Gibson EB-3, a 30w"-scale instrument that has seen a number of modifications. "I added a Lane Poor pickup where a Fender P pickup would be—that stock neck pickup is too woofy," he says. "I also added a blend knob, because I like having a single volume control. With the preamp, I tend to boost the midrange a bit, depending on the room.
"I brought a bunch of basses to the Kelly Clarkson session, but they liked the Thunderbird II the most. There's something about mahogany—it sounds so round. I had to move the bridge, because it was totally out of tune from the 7th fret up." Watt strings his basses with D'Addario EXL165 roundwounds, .045–.105. He usually plugs into Eden heads and cabinets, typically a WP100 Navigator preamp, a WT1550 power amp, and two D410XLT 4x10 cabinets. "They have good punch and definition. The Navigator preamp has a really good compressor. I'm such a thug, I've got to use a little compression." Watt's rack also includes a Furman PL-Plus power conditioner and a Korg DTR-2000 chromatic tuner. For Stooges dates, he normally plays through rented Ampeg SVTs.
Though Watt used a few stompboxes on The Secondman's Middle Stand, he's wary of effect pedals. "I feel the debt the bass owes the band, and pedals fuck with that low end. Envelope filters can be trippy, though, because you play those things; they're actually musical devices."
More on Watt's bass collection—as well as his thoughts on strings, engineers, and soundmen—is at www.hootpage.com.


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C has no parallel. It is simple and quick to learn, with unlimited practical applications. Despite being created nearly 50 years ago, the language is still one of the most commonly used programming languages today. It is used on various platforms, from embedded microcontrollers to supercomputers. Nearly all languages after C borrow heavily from it, including C++, C#, D, Go, Rust, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, and even Unix's C shell.
C is commonly referred to as the mother language as it is generally considered to be one of the most prominent programming languages. Since its development in 1972, it has gone on to become the most widely used programming languages of all time. Most of the compilers, JVMs, and kernals in use today are written in C.
Additionally, most of the other programming languages that developed after C have borrowed heavily from it, including but not limited to C++, D, Go, Rust, Java, JavaScript, Limbo, LPC, C#, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Swift, Verilog and Unix's C shell. C is responsible for introducing the core concepts like array, functions, file handling, etc. that are used in these languages.
C is called a mid-level programming language because it merges the concepts and features of both low level programming languages and of high level programming languages.
Like low level programming languages, C's language code can be converted into assembly code. Additionally, C also supports pointer arithmetic, while is a property of low level programming languages.
However, while low level programming languages are typically machine-dependent, i.e. they are specific to a particular machine, C is not. C is in fact machine-independent, which means that it not specific to a single machine, which is a property of high level programming languages. It is also easy to understand and easy to use, like other high level languages.
The C language was developed between 1969 and 1973 at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie. It was originally developed to help write the Unix operating system, as the previously available programming languages could not take advantage of some of Unix's features. So, Ritchie wrote up a new language.
C is one of the oldest programming languages to be still in use. Since, its development, it has constantly been in use. The reason for this popularity of C is firstly the fact that it has been around practically forever. Hence, it is tried and tested. Being one of the first language, it also has widespread adoptability.
Another reason for the flexibility of C is that it is also quite flexible for use in memory management. Programmers have the choice of how, when, and where to allocate and deallocate memory. In C programming, memory can be allocated statically, automatically, or dynamically.
Also, as C was designed to be implemented on the Unix operating system, most of the Unix kernel has been written in C. Also, as most operating systems today have been developed on the basis of Unix, this means that C can be implemented on those as well.
C is also a good choice for system-level programming. However, it is not perfect. C also has low-level accessibility, including native support for inline Assembler for even greater optimization. No other language extant, other than C++, offers the full spectrum from high-level abstraction to low-level control.
Programming languages often follow either a top down approach or a bottom up approach. Both of the types of approach are involved in software development, and not in program execution. Some of the differences between these types of approaches are:
However, in today's day and age, most modern software use a combination of a top down approach and bottom up approach so as it include the best of both worlds, and to negate the limitations of each.
C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language that supports structured programming. The development of C is tied in with the development of Unix. In fact, it was originally used to re-implement the Unix operating system. It has since gone on to become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time.
Unix was originally implemented in assembly language on a PDP-7. Eventually, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson decided to port the operating system to a PDP-11. They considered doing this using the B language, which was a simplified version of BCPL. However, due to the limitations of B, such as its inability to take advantage of some of the PDP-11's features, notably byte addressability, led them to develop a new programming language. The name C was chosen, as it came after B.
C, like Unix, had been originally written in assembly language.
C language was originally developed when Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson decided to port the Unix operating system to a PDP-11, from the original PDP-7. They considered doing this using the B language, which was a simplified version of BCPL.
However, due to the limitations of B, they had to develop a new programming language, which they chose to name C, as C comes after B. They developed C at Bell Labs between 1969 and 1973. Its first launch is credited to be in 1972.
A programming language is a type of language that is used to communicate with a computer. It is used by programmers to write instructions that can be understood by the computer. The computer can then follow these instructions to do what the programmer requires the computer to do.
A programming language can be uses to create programs that implement specific algorithms. These programs and algorithms can then be used by a computer.
Some examples of a programming language include BASIC, C, C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, Ada, and Pascal.
C is one of the most popular programming language in the world. It is generally considered to be one of the original programming language as most of the other programming languages can be traced back to it.
These are the key features or characteristics of C language:
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"Though my soul may set in darkness it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." – Sarah Williams
Young children are often fearful of the night and adults report that their deepest fears present themselves in early morning hours. You may have personally experienced waking up in the middle of the night and having a thought that seems horrific and hopeless. When you wake up again a few hours later in the daylight, that same thought usually transforms into not that big of a deal. Our minds work with different material at the night than they do in the day.
Winter nights seem the darkest of all. For several days now, I have been waking up at 4am for a special round of seated meditation. I wanted to try this practice during Winter this year as often as I can as I have some deep work which must be done. Without getting too detailed, I will just say my present work is about silencing old fears and subconscious story lines that are not useful to me anymore. Sounds like the material of nightmares, doesn't it? It turns out this season is particularly supportive for this work. I do realize 4am seems early. The night is quiet and dark but it has also been a welcoming time. I sit on the edge of my bed wrapped in a blanket, light a small candle, and face towards the night sky just beyond my window.
So far, I have discovered when the world is asleep that I become acutely aware of my presence. I hear the fullness of each breath cycle. I also hear the sweet breathing of my cat sleeping nearby and appreciate his life. I notice the flicker of stars and trace the articulation of the tree branches beyond the perch of my 6th floor apartment. I can similarly watch my thoughts with precision and curiosity.
I have always lived with an early-to-bed-early-to-rise mentality but the Winter night has presented me with new possibilities in my meditation practice that daytime could not. Where the night meditation path will ultimately take me in doing my "work", I do not yet know. But I know that a silent night is an integral part of this new journey.
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|30 Paintings in 30 Days, January 2016
Here are all 30 paintings from this month! I love seeing them together like this. Now to clean up my studio and move on to projects that are waiting to get done. Thank you for following me this month.
|30 Paintings in 30 Days, January 2016
|XO, 6x8 oil
|Spending Time Together, 8x8 oil
|Toast and Coffee?, 10x8 oil
|Soft Boiled, 8x8 oil
|A Study for Jam Jars and Daisies, 6x8 oil
|Wild Blueberry, 6x8 oil
|Preparing Dinner, 10x5 oil
|Golden Beets, 8x16 oil
|Hot & Spicy, 10x5 oil
|A Few Jalapeños, 6x6 oil
|Just Because, 8x16 oil
|Milk and Cookies, 5x10 oil
|Happy Day, 8x10 oil
|Refreshing, 16x16 oil
|Party of Pears, 12x6 oil
|A Lone Pear, 6x6 oil
Sometimes the stars just do not align properly! I made an attempt to paint a pear last night. It took me about four hours and I was struggling with it the whole time. I know I wasn't focused, but it was a simple little pear. I looked at it this morning and decided I should try it again with a different pear. I painted it within two hours without a hitch. So I took a photo and uploaded it to post here. After typing the title my keyboard stopped working. Luckily I'm able to use another device to post it. Then I looked at the date and yes, it's the 13th day, 13th painting, hmmm.
|A Few for Me, 8x10 oil
|Dessert is Coming, 8x10 oil
|A Good Start, 8x8 oil
|Fast Food, 12x6 oil
|Trois Petits Macarons, 6x8 oil
|Les Petits Macarons, 6x8 oil
|Simple Things, 12x6 oil
|Dressed for Success, 6x8 oil
|The Sweetness Within, 12x6 oil
|Bowl of Sunshine, 10x8 oil
|The Hidden Treasure, 9x7 oil
|A Pomegranate, 9x7 oil


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The following was originally posted in 2014 by Sophie Mitchell. We're reposting it as it's still relevant today, and gives a good overview of what to expect if you're hosting a session for the first time...
Hosting a session at UXCB17
This post is by one of our organisers; Luke Hay...
I know first-hand that some people are reluctant to present at bar camp. Back in 2012 UX camp custodian Patrick Sansom had to ask me several times to sign up for a presenter ticket before I finally found the courage to agree to run a session. I think there are three common reasons why people are reluctant to present at events like this:
Make 2017 the year you present at a conference
As a friendly and welcoming 'unconference' UX Camp Brighton is an ideal place to give your first presentation. We have always encouraged first-time speakers. This year we thought we'd go a step further and introduce a free mentoring program to give first-time speakers the support and skills to confidently present their design thoughts.
1st batch of #uxcb17 tickets available soon
Happy New Year UXers! We hope you had a good break and that you're looking forward to UX Camp Brighton 2017, to be held on Saturday 25 March.
We're pleased to announce that our first batch of Session Host tickets will go on sale on Monday January 23rd at 1pm GMT and cost only £10!
Ten Reasons to Attend UX Camp Brighton '17
With around 45 talks from a range of UX professionals you get really diverse mix of sessions. Attendees have a choice of five different sessions in each time slot so there's always something that's relevant to you. Sessions can be talks/presentations, workshops or discussions and we guarantee that you'll leave UX Camp Brighton a lot smarter than when you went in.


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A wallpapering we'll go! That was the focus of this week. As someone who hasn't wallpapered but only once before with a product that is *slightly* different than true wallpaper, I wanted to tackle the wallpaper project for the room as soon as possible. As I mentioned in the post from the second week I knew that I wanted to go with a mural for the room, but floated around to several different options before settling on Anewall's Clouded Mural. I've been pinning wallpaper in general for the last few months (you can see my "stash" here), there are so many good options! Anewall had excellent customer service. Since their papers are from Canada, I wasn't sure that it would arrive in time to support the One Room Challenge, so I sent them an email and they replied promptly with timelines (that would work-yay!) and also sent over some great samples so that I could choose a paint before the full mural arrived.
Since I was doing full length walls in this room, I thought it would be a good idea to have a second set of hands so I had my studio assistant come in from the woodshop for the day and help me out with the papering. It was so great to have another person to help move those wet, drippy sheets of wallpaper and maneuver the paper in place to line up the pattern. Here's the progress after the first couple panels went up.
We had a slight snafu on that second panel that required a bit of quick, slightly panic thinking. I had painted a couple of the dark green samples on that wall....I am not really sure why, because I always planned to put a mural on it, but when we put that second piece up over the paint sample swatch IT SHOWED THROUGH THE PAPER (!!!!!) I'm not sure why I didn't think to prime over it...I was so diligent about priming over the walls in the bathroom wallpapering project....I blame it on having a lot of irons in the fire right now. But at any rate, this was a problem, it looked really bad. Now we had this wet wallpaper that we had started hanging, heck, mostly smoothing it on the wall and it had something bad behind it....yikes!
Luckily, I already had a wet primer roller stored at the ready from some other projects and we quickly (and gently) removed the strip of wallpaper from the wall, wetted it a little more with a sprayer and re-booked it to keep it from drying out. I then rolled out the painted sections with the primer and Caira took the hairdryer to them to quickly dry each coat...as we were doing this, I kept checking in on the paper and giving it light spritzes of water wherever I saw it starting to dry out.
After three coats of primer it looked like we had covered most of the dark green paint and we gently repositioned that second piece back into place. It seemed like it was behaving a little different that it had before, but after some deep, calming breaths, and slowly and gently working it into place, all seemed fine. I'm happy to report after being up on the wall almost a week, the paper seems just as secure as the others! Whew!
We continued hanging the remaining panels, moving across the wall. Below is a quick snapshot of the booking process. After soaking the panels in a tub of water for about 15 seconds, we would unroll the panels and then fold them adhesive sides together to let the paper "relax" for about a minute before hanging it on the wall.
Getting closer! I love how the clouds have a luminosity about them, we could start to see the colors shifting and changing throughout the day....so pretty!
And then one more panel and around the corner of the wall....and done!
Instead of trying to cut the edge on that corner by the door, which would probably seem really awkward, I decided to wrap it around the corner to meet the doorframe. This would also allow for a peek of the paper from the hallway which I thought was a pretty touch and would encourage the eye around the corner since the mural is not on a wall facing the doorway.
The print quality on the paper is a really nice, watercolor feel.
I'm loving how it works with the green walls...
Beyond the wallpaper I didn't accomplish much else this week except for ordering a few more items that we need. But I have a couple ideas brewing for details in the room....this green charcoal portrait that I picked up when I lived in Jacksonville, FL four years ago has yet to find a spot in this house....I think she'd be lovely in here...
I've also had this old bubblegum machine base that I picked up years ago #hoarder and I'm toying around with the idea of making a wood top for it as a side table to the loveseat/pullout bed...I'll likely change the color of the base to something that jives better with the colors in the room. I love the old-fashioned details on this piece and I think it would provide a nice contrast to the more modern lines of the loveseat.
That's it for this weeks progress! We also received word that due to the storms and fires that have plagued so many over the last month and a half and their impact on timelines, scheduling, shipping, etc, the One Room Challenge is being extended a week so that everyone can finish strong! The new reveal date will be Thursday, November 16th.
Thanks again for following along! Your kind words mean so much to me. I'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas on wallpaper or anything else, I so enjoy hearing what everyone else has been up to.
Check out what the other guest participants have been up to here, there are so many great transformations going on, it's a great way to get inspired! And if you missed the previous weeks posts, you can can up here. xo, Nicole


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My Screen Recorder captures your PC desktop activity into standard AVI video files
My Screen Recorder captures your PC desktop activity into standard AVI video files. This screen capturing tool can capture anything you see on the computer screen, including the entire desktop, windows, menus, cursors, and even video with sound. My Screen Recorder is able to record all these movements allowing you to save them for later playback.
Use My Screen Recorder to communicate effectively by showing and telling through an audio-visual medium. Demo a product, create a presentation with your own audio narration, make a voiceover tutorial, or walk through a Website review.
Record a part of the screen or the entire desktop with My Screen Recorder. You can make small size and high-quality screen recordings and save them as standard AVI files for later playback. My Screen Recorder organizes your recordings into personal folders for easy management.
It is a powerful communication software that simplifies the way you share information through an audio-visual medium. Anyone interested in communicating by showing, telling, and sharing would find My Screen Recorder essential.
For even more features you can try our professional version, My Screen Recorder Pro, that allows you to create Flash and Windows Media screen recordings and distribute them on a CD or DVD as a self-playing executable file. See the comparison chart for a complete feature list.
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- The Skins won yesterday! Yes! It matters not (no playoffs for them). But, yes anyway!!
- In the office today. Meetings, tasks, admin catch-up and organization.
- Dedicating tomorrow to Sunday's message. Want it ready to go before Christmas Eve! As my brother often says, we have a deadline that comes faithfully every 168 hours! So true.
- Looking forward to honoring and announcing some exciting stuff about our finance department at CCF in our service this Sunday. Great things taking shape all over the place at CCF.
- Still not done developing Entry Point. This may be one of those "work til the last minute" things. I just keep wanting to improve it. Planning to launch it mid-January.
OK, lemme run. I think this is one of those days that I would rather blog than do other stuff!
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Dwight Capital is pleased to announce that it has secured a $26 million HUD 223(f) loan for The Williamsburg, an 88-unit market rate apartment building located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY. The non-recourse fixed rate loan had a 35-year term with a flexible step-down prepayment schedule.
Chief Operating Officer, Tyler Griffin, commented on the refinancing, "The value of the asset had increased substantially since construction so it was an opportune time to refinance the property and extract equity. The project qualified for a lower Mortgage Insurance Premium ("MIP") due to its Silver LEED Certification. Additionally, the owners were able to decrease their replacement reserves from over $900/unit to $250/unit."
The green features of the building include construction using recycled and regional materials, renewable wood, low-emitting materials, and energy efficient appliances. Its prime location in South Williamsburg offers residents quick access to New York's bustling art, music, culinary and craft scene. It features amenities such as a laundry room, fitness center, and bike and private storage. The property is in mint condition and required no repairs in the loan underwriting.


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Complete all quests in the game.
There are 80 quests in the game that count for this accolade. These include the Main Quests, Side Quests, Dead Zones (boss zombies), and Rescue Quests.
Continuous Quests cannot be completed, and Team quests are discounted from this condition.
If you are missing quests, they are likely the "Dead Zone" quests (which count as Side Quests, but they are listed under "Dead Zones" here) as well as "Rescue Quests", where you find survivors scattered around the islands requiring rescue.
For the latter, please refer to the Interactive Map (and don't hesitate to mark down something we may have missed).
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The Bakken-Three Forks rig count dropped to 69 rigs running across our coverage area by end of the week on Friday.
In recent Bakken news, North Dakota senator, Heidi Heitkamp, pushes back against the latest federal mandate to reduce methane emissions.
Read more:Heitkamp Reacts to Methane Ruling
The U.S. rig count fell by 16 this week, ending with 848 rigs running by midday Friday. A total of 196 rigs were targeting natural gas (down six from previous week) and 652 were targeting oil in the U.S. (10 less than the previous week). The remainder were drilling service wells (e.g. disposal wells, injection wells, etc.)70 are in ND alone.
Bakken Oil & Gas Rigs
The Bakken oil rigs were at 69 this week with Bloomberg reporting WTI oil prices trading at $45.19/bbl on Friday afternoon, a $1.59 decrease from the previous week. WTI-Brent decreased $.1.69 landing to $48.66. The Bakken has zero natural active gas rig in the area this week with futures increasing slightly to $2.70/mmbtu by midday.
McKenzie County continues to lead development at 22 rigs this week, while Williams (14), Dunn (13) and Mountrail (13) followed behind. View the full list below under the Bakken Drilling by County section.
Activity continues to be dominated by horizontal drilling:
- 66 rigs are drilling horizontal wells
- 0 rigs are drilling directional wells
- 3 rigs are drilling vertical wells
Be sure to visit our Bakken Job Listings to search openings and come back weekly for updates or sign up for alerts - Daily or Weekly Email Alerts
Bakken Drilling by County
Bakken Oil & Gas News
Heitkamp Reacts to Methane Ruling
What is the Rig Count?
The Bakken Shale Rig Count is an index of the total number of oil & gas drilling rigs running across Montana and North Dakota. The rigs referred to in this article are for ALL drilling reported by Baker Hughes and not solely wells targeting the Bakken formation. All land rigs and onshore rig data shown here are based upon industry estimates provided by the Baker Hughes Rig Count.
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The Eurostars Programme is a European Joint Programme dedicated to the R&D performing SMEs, and co-funded by 36 EUREKA countries and the European Communities. Eurostars aims to stimulate these SMEs to lead international collaborative research and innovation projects by easing access to support and funding.
Individual projects are market-oriented R&D projects funded and coordinated through EUREKA. These projects involve a partnership of at least two EUREKA member countries. Partners can consist of SMEs, large companies, research institutions and even universities.
EUREKA 'Clusters' are long term industrial organizations focusing on specific industry sectors. Clusters bring together large companies along with SMEs, research institutes and universities to develop technologies for important sectors such as ICT, energy or water.
Umbrellas are thematic networks within the EUREKA framework which focus on a specific technology area or business sector. The main goal of an umbrella is to facilitate the generation of EUREKA projects in its own target area. Umbrella activities are coordinated and implemented by a working group consisting of EUREKA representatives and industrial experts.
A success story is a EUREKA project resulting in innovative product, a processes or service, that has significantly improved wellbeing and fostered competitiveness of the European innovation economy.
This annual prize rewards EUREKA projects that have made making significant headway in the development of a new innovative product, service or process.
Raising the productivity and competitiveness of European businesses through technology. Boosting national economies on the international market, and strengthening the basis for sustainable prosperity and employment.


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GM's first female CEO makes half of what her predecessor did
When General Motors announced Mary Barra as its new CEO last December, the company was lauded for choosing its first female to lead the company.
However, the automaker is not exactly narrowing the wage gap as Barra is currently making less than half of her male predecessor at GM, according to the company's January 2014 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Currently, Barra is making $4.4 million in total compensation, which includes a base salary of $1.6 million, a short term compensation, or stock awards, of $2.8 million. Barra's pay is less than half – 48% – of what Dan Akerson, GM's outgoing CEO made, with a total of $9.1 million including $1.7 million base pay in 2013 and $7.35 million in short term compensation.
In fact, Barra was paid more when she was GM's senior vice president of global product development, according to SEC filings. In her product development position, Barra was paid $4.94 million in total that included a base salary of $750,000, stock awards of $3.91 million, and $279,200 in other compensation and perks in 2012.
In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama hailed Barra as a success story of a female leader of a workplace.
"Our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams," President Obama said about Barra, who watched alongside first lady Michelle Obama at the State of the Union address. "It's how the daughter of a factory worker is CEO of America's largest automaker."
The president also discussed that while women have come far in the workplace, the gender divide still persists with executive pay. "Women make up about half our workforce, but they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work," Obama said.
A General Motors spokesman told The Huffington Post Tuesday night, that the "discussion of pay inequality between Barra and her predecessor is premature and flawed."
"This represents two of her three compensation components," the company representative wrote. "Specific long-term incentive compensation numbers will be included in the company's April 2014 proxy filing, which likely will dispel any notion of pay inequity. Stockholders at GM's Annual Meeting must approve the long-term portion of her pay.
Dan Akerson, who had prior CEO experience and was chairman of the board of directors, was paid $1.7 million in salary and $7.3 million in Salary Stock awards for a total of about $9 million in 2012, the last publicly available record of his compensation. Akerson's compensation did not include a long-term incentive because, as is now clear, he was not going to be at GM for the long term."
A GM spokesman also told Fox News' Elizabeth MacDonald that Barra's compensation could increase after shareholders vote in June on her long-term compensation. Yahoo Auto argues that since GM's final shareholder quotes will not be released until then, it is unfair to weigh and compare Akerman and Barra's wages.
The long term compensation portion of Barra's pay package will not be announced until GM's filings in April. Barra, a 33-year veteran employee of GM, has never served as the CEO or president of any other company.
While Akerson has served on GM's board since 2009 and previously was a managing director of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, he has never run an automotive company.


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1918 Flat Iron Arts Building designed by Holabird & Roche, at Milwaukee and Damen.
1918 Flat Iron Arts Building designed by Holabird & Roche, at Milwaukee and Damen.
At State and 36th on the South Side is an Art Deco structure that stands as a beautiful icon of Bronzeville and Chicago's Black Metropolis. Now a public library and reading room, it was built by entrepreneur Anthony Overton to house the Chicago Bee.
Sitting on the bank of the Chicago River adjoining Ronan Park is a handsome building that could easily be mistaken for the park's field house. The graceful art deco structure appears quite elegant and inviting, particularly when viewed from the nearby Lawrence Avenue bridge.
Some of the city's most beautiful neighborhood commercial buildings are on Lawrence Avenue in Albany Park. Diverse, charming, and beautiful, these structures nicely represent the community they're a part of.
The corner buildings featured in this walking tour were constructed during Albany Park's meteoric rise in the early 20th century, from 1907 to 1930.


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TITLE: Metamedia American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization
AUTHOR: Alexander Starre
Paperback: ISBN: 978-1609383596, $55
Imprint: Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015
"Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and reading devices growing increasingly popular, the codex is no longer the default format of fiction. Yet as Alexander Starre shows in Metamedia, American literature has rediscovered the book as an artistic medium after the first e-book hype in the late 1990s. By fusing narrative and design, a number of "bibliographic" writers have created reflexive fictions—metamedia—that invite us to read printed formats in new ways. Their work challenges ingrained theories and beliefs about literary communication and its connections to technology and materiality. Metamedia explores the book as a medium that matters and introduces innovative critical concepts to better grasp its narrative significance…
For this millennial generation of writers and publishers, the computer was never a threat to print culture, but a powerful tool to make better books. In careful close readings, Starre puts typefaces, layouts, and cover designs on the map of literary criticism. At the same time, the book steers clear of bibliophile nostalgia and technological euphoria as it follows writers, designers, and publishers in the process of shaping the surprising history of literary bookmaking after digitization."
"Starre's Metamedia is a definitive achievement: lucid, searching, comprehensive, and repeatedly eye-opening."—Garrett Stewart, author, Bookwork:Medium to Object to Concept to Art
"Alexander Starre's Metamedia is a detailed, carefully argued account of an important new development in contemporary literature, an exceptionally generous, patient, and at times revelatory study."—Evan Brier, author, A Novel Marketplace: Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction
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And that's because Captain America's adventures are probably consistently the most politically complex of any Marvel superhero.
I think Marvel has always known that Cap as a character is loaded with political significance, both due to his wartime popularity and the way he stands for America. Unlike a lot of other "patriotic" heroes who had cute names or historical inspirations, his name proclaims that he represents America. Which immediately
And writers for Marvel certainly figured this out relatively early. While Green Lantern was awkwardly trying to prove that he was concerned about the inner-city when not fighting Sinestro (in what reads now as a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? argument for tolerance), writers of Cap grappled with more complex issues.
Steve Englehart's run in the early 70s (collected here and here), though sometimes clumsily and earnestly written, was an incredibly ambitious attempt to grapple with the problems of post-Vietnam/Watergate America. Cap acquired a black sidekick from the inner-city who disagreed with Cap's more conservative views. Cap encountered an insane anti-Communist imitator who embodied the worst of 1950s McCarthyism. And he faced a conspiracy led by the Committee to Re-establish America's Principles (just read the bolded words), a clear attack on Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President, which attacked Cap as a left-wing radical for his moderate views. Englehart's first major storyline culminated in a showdown at the White House where a shadowy figure in the Oval Office committed suicide to avoid paying for his crimes against the American people.
And in the 80s, while DC's British Invasion pushed forward the subject matter and tone of comics, Mark Gruenwald's run on Captain America and Squadron Supreme tried to do the same for Marvel's titles. While Squadron Supreme certainly deserves further examination, Gruenwald's attempts to engage with Reagan's "Morning in America" in Cap are also quite canny.
Gruenwald's most important political storyline was one where a Senate Subcommittee decided that Captain America's political loyalties were way too nuanced and unreliable and that Steve Rogers (Cap's alter-ego) had to be replaced by someone else. The irony that a man who fought Nazis in World War II was insufficiently patriotic for Reagan's America was subtly underplayed.
In the ensuing storyline, the Senate selects a character named the Superpatriot to replace Steve Rogers. He gets the job after all sorts of staged and falsely spun PR antics that show him as more "law and order" than Cap. As the storyline unfolded, John Walker (the new Cap) proved himself to be more brutal and less competent than his predecessor and easily manipulated by his enemies. In the end, it falls to Steve Rogers and his more compassionate/moderate left style to save the world where the jingoistic Reaganite asshole failed.
This barely scratches the surface of the ways Cap's been used to comment on America's view of itself and how we define the ideal American. Some of these stories are clunky, especially compared to the more stripped-down "realist" style most superhero comics prefer these days, but they do make ambitious attempts to grapple with America the ideal versus America the reality.
Englehart uses Cap to grapple with Watergate.
(Thanks, Paul Constant for the image.)


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Ministering to people is one of the main things we're about here at First Baptist Church. We have ministries for all stages of life, from newborns to senior adults. Each ministry is specially tailored to meet the needs of its specific target group. Not all ministries are based on how old you are either. You'll find music, media, men's, women's, and much more.
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Budget boosts needed to solve energy pricing crisis
Friday 2 June, 2017 | By: Joseph Kelly | Tags: State Budget, electricity bills, energy costs, Ergon
Over the past six months, electricity pricing has become a hot topic, dominating much of the Federal Government's rhetoric leading up to the 2017-18 Federal Budget in May. However, despite all the posturing, the Budget was energy "lite". Read more.
Small business will strenuously oppose Energex-Ergon merger
Friday 15 April, 2016 | By: Default Admin | Tags: Ergon, Energex, GOCs, Productivity Commission
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland (CCIQ) will fight against any plan to allow a merged GOC between Energex and Ergon to compete against small business electrical contractors for services to Queensland households. Read more.


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I was standing on the edge of a canal. The water wrapped around where i stood. It was night time. It was cold. It was as though i was in kind of... urban cove.... with the water of the canal lapping up onto the shores of Brick buildings and attempting its way up the alleys and side walks. The buildings followed the line of the cove and wrapped around me creating a calm stillness... a brick hug. There was a fog hanging low connecting me with the buildings on the other side of the canal. In a moment or two it became clear that i was seeing downtown Manchester in a way that i had never seen it before. Each building from across the water showed itself to me in way i had not seen it till then. They did this with there lights . They did this by how they held the fog against their surfaces. They did this in the way the wore the night sky and took on indescribable colours in the darkness. I felt an affection and an attraction for the city that i had not felt before this moment. I felt a very familiar, very deep feeling. A new sensation. The love of being home. This time.... Manchester. Over the air Elbow's tune Friend of Ours started playing. The song gave new scope to the urban scene. Garvey's bone dry, salt of the earth sentiment. The orchestral chords sweeping with such heart. I could have sung along there as i slept. I may have. I could have cried there as i slept. I may have.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Elbow. Elbow is a great Manchester band and deeply loved. I think of them as Mancunian Embassadors. Im not alone. Here.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=fNf0b274_dM take a listen... watch this beautiful video. Perhaps you would like to listen to this tune and read again this dream and feel some of what i feel for this place.
for more dreams go to my dream blog at this link http://
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After reading about the ignored violinist, I decided to dedicate some of my time to show my appreciation for those who devote their lives to music. I made this:
It's sad that our system respects money over art. As Thomas Geoghegan of Harper's wrote:
"It's chilling to think that some young woman is putting down her viola and enrolling as a student trader even as I sip my Starbucks and listen to Vivaldi."
Classical Music ROCKS
After reading about the ignored violinist, I decided to dedicate some of my time to show my appreciation for those who devote their lives to music. I made this:
11.05.2009 | Posted by Mr. Christopher
Labels: music
5 comments:
- Nicholas James West said...
On my mission I used to headbang while listening to Beethoven's 9th and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D.
My companions thought I was crazy.
You know what the stradivarius of bass guitars is? The 1970's Fender Jazz basses. There have been none better since.
- November 7, 2009 at 1:45 AM
- C-|-W said...
What's weird is that the best violins were made by Stradivarius, and the best guitars by Stratocaster. Those names seem too similar for this to be a coincidence.
I think they were made by the same guy, who is probably the immortal god of rock.
- November 7, 2009 at 7:04 AM
- k. double-u. said...
Just dropping by to look at your cool picture again.
- November 7, 2009 at 2:04 PM
- David/Dad/Doc said...
There are several different angles to this post that just prove that smart people are more interesting. You're awesome Christopher.
(If your picture catches on, be careful though because you could be getting a call from Apple on copyright infringements because it could be mistaken for an Ipod ad!)
- November 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- Danielle said...
This is true and sad. The first thing people inevitably asked when they found out I was a music major was, "What are you going to do with that?"
- November 10, 2009 at 10:52 PM


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What is BSides Bordeaux
In this exquisite episode of the Exploring Information Security podcast, Allan Liska and Tim Gallo join me to discuss a brand new BSides in Bordeaux.
Both Allan (@uuallan) and Tim (@TimJGallo) are in the Unite States. This makes starting a BSides in France challenging and intriguing. Both organizers love wine and saw an opportunity to put France on the BSides map. BSides Bordeaux (@BsidesBDX) is October 21, 2017, in Bordeaux France. The venue is Mama Shelter (which has a wicked video). Tickets are limited so be sure to grab one soon.
In this episode we discuss:
- What inspired them to start BSides Bordeaux
- The challenges of organizing a BSides on another continent
- What makes the conference unique
- What are some of the things to do in Bordeaux


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On a very warm day, many years ago, our family decided to go along with the plans we made a few days earlier. The weather forecast should have kept us home in the air conditioning or off by a lake somewhere, but we accepted that we would end up sticky and grouchy. We discovered that how we felt at the end of that day had nothing to do with the weather.
We started out early, and by the time we walked outside our shadows were hiding right underneath us. There wasn't a bit of a breeze to cool us along the Northern Trail of the Minnesota Zoo. Dad and I happily took turns pushing the two younger kids in the stroller while Laura led the way. We enjoyed being able to see the animals outside even though the indoor part of the zoo was so much cooler. Some of the animals were hiding, and we guessed they were hiding from the sun. Sometimes we had to follow the crowd as people excitedly pointed to a bear, tiger or lion, gazelle, pronghorn or bison.
When we were about three-quarters of the way around the trail, we were eager to be finished. At first we thought it was cute when we saw some baby Canadian honkers in the middle of our path. We kept walking until we got hissed at by the mother bird. She only kept her distance if we kept ours. Except, we didn't have much of a choice of keeping our distance. We felt like the sun was melting us, and the path was a narrow one. There was no way off veering off it because it was bordered by trees and fences, or an angry bird protecting her nest. We were not in a mood to turn around and go back the way we came.
Dad walked in the direction that we wanted to go while the rest of us stayed back, watched and waited. The mother bird hissed even louder. Her head bounced up and down which made her neck curve in unusual directions. When she bent her head down as if she was going to go in attack mode, Dad came back to join us. Her protective squawks were enough to make a person cry and that's just what four of the five of us did. It looked like Dad was the only brave one and would have to save the rest of us from a very protective mom.
Dad plotted his strategy and decided to carry each kid over to safety. First, he lifted Laura and ran along the path. The mother bird still kept up her loud squawk. The baby birds moved back and stayed behind their mother. Laura waited safely on the path all by herself while Dad went to get Katie. Katie waited with Laura when Dad went to get Matt. I bravely waited by myself holding tightly onto the stroller. I didn't even dare to walk by myself. I waited for Dad to walk the path with me.
We were relieved and happy when we were all back together again. A lot of other people had to do the same thing. No one wanted to turn around. We wondered why the zoo didn't move the geese so that the people didn't have to get so spooked. Maybe the zoo keepers were just afraid of the geese as we were. We were too tired to worry too much about that, but we knew that mother bird was doing exactly the same thing that we were doing: trying to keep our family together and safe! It was good that Dad was with us because he saved the day!
When we got to our car with our tears all dried away, we wished we would have taken the monorail! Little did we know that a squawking mom could lead us to tears.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. ~David Ogden Stiers


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Well, we got about 20 minutes into the stream and it died. This is an appropriate image. I'm putting in a jump cut just in case you don't want to see spoilers; I'll do systems stuff before the cut and leave the stuff after the jump for story spoilers.
Update: And the stream's back!
Overall, I'm pretty happy with what I saw, even if the team was light on the details (again). Some companion questions were answered, though most seem to have been left open. Still don't know how many companions we can max out at, who's coming back or not (they won't spoil the story for us ... bravo to BioWare for that), specializations for companions weren't talked about either. Musco said there'd be a thread up that you could post questions in; word of warning, they won't be talking about who's dead or who can be killed or anything like that, so don't bother asking.
Systems and Mechanics:
- Developers will not 'punish' players for their work on companions
- All or nearly all companions will return, though maybe not in the way we are used to? I'm guessing not all of them will be summonable companions. Maybe they'll hang around the ship?
- BIG ONE: Companion gear no longer provides stats; it's basically dress-up
- This means that you no longer have to farm gear for comps! You can just pull 'em out and they're the appropriate power level for your character. No more trolling the GTN looking for upgrades for a companion you haven't touched in 20 levels.
- Companions can do all 3 roles now - CONFIRMED
- This prevents players from being forced into 1 specific 'best companion' for their playstyle (think Bounty Hunter and how much you rely on Mako)
- Treek and HK won't be taken away at all
- Any gear on companions that are missing/killed will be returned to you
- Some chapters may lock you into specific companions during the story
I do like the companion changes A LOT. I always felt hemmed in as far as companions went; as a mainly DPS player, I relied heavily on healers like Mako and Treek. There were companion moments I know I missed out on because of my chosen role. This new direction will definitely help alleviate all that pressure to choose the 'correct companion.' Musco stated that they'll be talking more about crafting, pvp, etc etc 'soon.' It better be real soon, cuz we're closing in on 2 months till launch!
Storyline Spoilers:
- Streamed gameplay starts on Chapter 3; 5 year lapse from events in Chapter 1 & 2
- You are unfrozen from carbonite by Lana Beninko; Chapters 1 & 2 possibly deal with the attack by the Fallen Empire
- Video showed your character making a choice between ordering your companions (aboard your personal starship) to either run from Valkorion's forces or aid Darth Marr's battle fleet in what looked to be a hopeless battle
- Valkorion put you in the deep freezer for some reason; seems like a bad plan, hoss
- Lana is confirmed as a companion in Chapter 3
- Lana was HEALING YOU!
- Attack animations seem to be more fluid?
- There are light/dark decisions right off the bat; choices have immediate impact now
- T7 was confirmed as the Knight's first returning companion ... or at least, he showed up. The Knight seemed surprised to see T7. Did something happen to him in chapters 1 or 2? (update: that video explained it)
- Zakuulian warriors are Force users and wield spears reminiscent of Force pikes
- An HK droid helps you! But doesn't look like -51 ... perhaps a different one?
- Valkorion's daughter, Vaylin, seems to be a major villain in the story


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Project Use It Up | 2016
Okay, let's be real. The theme of my life lately (as reflected in my blog) is to use things up / get rid of things. I had two empties posts this month (HERE & HERE) and I'm just loving using things up and clearing space out in my drawers and cabinets. It feels so dang good. And if it's something you've been debating on, I whole heartedly recommend you to join in and do it. And if you watched the Gilmore Girls revival trailer, you'll have seem Emily Gilmore Marie Kondo-ing the sh*t out of her home - I dig it. In short, cleansing and purging is so good for the soul - trust.
My latest obsession (as it has been for a few months I think) has been those #ProjectUseItUp / #ProjectPan / #ProjectEmpties type posts on Instagram. Some people find cooking videos satisfying, I find empties flat lays the most satisfying. Some of my favorite series are Project Pan posts showing updated progress of panning products (typically one of each makeup item).
1. Target Candle (Peony) | This literally finished burning right after I took these photos - talk about perfect timing. I've since repurposed it into a new jar for all my perfume samples (as seen on my IG HERE). This smells amazing in the jar but I really felt it didn't give off any scent. Perhaps I'm just spoiled by Diptyque candles that truly fill the air with fragrance, but this was slightly disappointing. But for the price, I don't mind burning these for a bit of ambiance/mood setting. I have my eye on some other Target candles because I just think the jars will be cute repurposed around my room. If you have any favorite Target candles, please let me know so I can sniff em next time I'm in store!
2. Bare Minerals Original Foundation | I've mentioned that Bare Minerals was one of the first makeup brands that I used when I started wearing makeup (read all about my "firsts" HERE). This is in the shade medium and unfortunately it's already slightly too dark for me to wear. So I'll try wearing it a few more times but I think it'll just get the boot - mostly because the likelihood of me actually being tan enough to wear this is slim (very sad - I know).
3. Dior Addict Lip Glow Pink | I'm literally SO close to finishing the end, which is such a success for me because I've actually never finished up an entire lip product before. I got really close with some Burt's Bee chapsticks, but always ended up losing them or tossing them cause they looked so grimy. I actually didn't realize how expensive these were, but if you're interested in trying it I'd recommend getting it during the Sephora VIB sale coming up. I've been using this and my Laneige Sleeping Mask (post HERE) as my go-to lipstick duo (read HERE).
4. Urban Decay Eye Primer Potion Original | I'm finally nearing the last 1/3 of the tube and I can't wait to be done - although regardless of how much is left at the end of 2016, I'll be giving this one the toss. Particularly cause I've had this for a while and it probably isn't too good to use around my eyes for much longer. (There's no issue with consistency / smell so that's why I'm still reaching for it!)
5. Caudalie Hand & Nail Cream | Yes, I used up my mini version but that was the one I left in my purse. I originally had this one with me at work but I brought it home to push all the product to the end with my tube wringer (HERE). This one is fab and like I mentioned in my Empties Post yesterday, this really does a great job at moisturizing your skin, particularly the dry skin around your cuticles that gets chapped easily - especially once the weather cools down.
6. NARS Single Eye Shadow in Bali | I actually picked this up a few years back as an eyebrow powder. I actually did like it for that and it's perfect for when I go darker with my hair color in the Fall/Winter. I had a mishap with it where it basically exploded and cracked everywhere. It actually is fine cause I just break up the little bits and use it up that way. But I may try pressing this to see how that works out. If anything I'll just give this a toss as I did get a lot of good use out of it.
7. MAC Studio Careblend Pressed Powder | Look at all that pan (major #panporn right there). I've actually been a bit bad and have veered from it, but I'm going to try and power through and finish this one up. If all goes well with pressing the NARS shadow I may try it with this.
How are you guys and finishing up products? Do you ever challenge yourself with #ProjectPan / #ProjectUseItUp type posts? This has actually become a bit of an addiction, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts! And I just know that it means whenever I decide to move, I'll be taking a hell of a lot less things with me. Double thumbs up for sure.


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Immersive Theater Performance created for the Playground Theater Festival at CMU in fall of 2015.
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Sustainable Wild Harvesting
Marula (Sclerocarya birrea) is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree that is widespread in dry, frost-free parts of Africa. In Swaziland, about 2 million marula trees grow, mostly in the lowveld. Here, it grows naturally in indigenous forest and bushveld, in communal grazing lands, fields and homesteads.
Our harvesting areas are rural communities without industry and with very little commerce, where indigenous livestock roam free and each family has a small field for subsistence farming. Due to the prevailing poverty and the uncertainty of crop yields caused by little and erratic rainfall, virtually no synthetic fertiliser or pesticides are used and many fields have lain fallow for years.
A mature marula tree produces about 500 kg of fruit each year, which drops to the ground while still green around February and March. Animals eat some of the fruit and thus help dispersal of seeds. Much of the fruit is gathered by rural women who strip the pulp to brew a traditional alcoholic drink, called "buganu". The hard-shelled nuts are then sun-dried for a few weeks and eventually cracked by hand to extract the seeds from which marula oil is pressed.
Based on the number of trees, their location and productivity, we calculate that the seeds that go into our marula oil represent 1% of all the seeds produced annually in the lowveld areas of Swaziland, and 10% of the seeds produced in the harvesting areas. This volume leaves plenty of seeds in the natural cycle for the continued natural propagation of marula trees.
However, there are other factors besides use of the seeds that reduce the number of seedlings that manage to grow into a mature tree. To ensure that future generations will have an equally plentiful supply of marula, we have agreements with our suppliers for planting and nurturing further trees e.g. by putting up a barrier to protect the emerging tree from grazing livestock.
We are also in the process of setting up monitoring plots where annual counting and measuring of marula trees in different environments will give us further insights into the factors that hinder or promote growth of new trees.
Fortunately, marula trees are protected from felling by traditional laws which are enforced by local chiefs – and actively monitored by our suppliers who are increasingly vocal defenders of this communally owned resource.
The soundness of our sustainability assessment and strategy is verified as part of the organic certification process. While only a part of our marula oil production is certified as organic, sustainability has to be proven for the entire harvesting volume, including the non-certified oil.