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Perspectives essay: Urban faultlines and the dissonant city
In Buildings, Education and Society on 13.01.2014
Contributed by Martin Hall
A perspectives essay from Martin Hall, Vice Chancellor of the University of Salford Manchester, on urban faultines and the 'perpetual dissonance' of the city.
There are different ways of looking at the city. As an archaeologist, I privilege the materiality of the urban environment, the palimpsests through which the traces of earlier structures and ways of living are evident and the contradictions – faultlines – that give all contemporary cities their creativity, vibrancy, uncertainty and senses of danger.
This view of the city is one of perpetual dissonance, captured in Tim Edensor's foregrounding of ruins: "as disordered and messy sites, ruins provide a contrast to the increasingly smooth, highly regulated spaces of the city. Occurring in the back roads and interstices of the urban fabric, ruins deride ideals which champion the virtues of seamlessness" (Edensor 2005: 53). Faultlines in the city show the tension between hygiene - ranging from waste management to narrative heritage - and transgression, whether the insistence is on different readings of heritage, rebellion, or riot.
This context of urban faultlines is well expressed in Friedrich Engels' first impressions of Manchester in December 1842 when he arrived, aged 22, as an understudy at the Salford mill owned by his father. "The town itself", he wrote, "is peculiarly built, so that a person may live in it for years, and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people's quarter or even with workers, that is, so long as he confines himself to his business or to pleasure walks". Engels attributed this to the combination of "unconscious tacit agreement" and "outspoken conscious determination" to keep separate the parts of the city intended for middle class use, from the areas reserved for working class housing.
The nadir is the river, "a narrow, coal-black, foul-smelling stream, full of debris and refuse", "a long string of the most disgusting, blackish-green, slime pools ... from the depths of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable even on the bridge forty or fifty feet above the surface of the stream."
This faultline is clear in Engels' account of his walk from the Cathedral and Long Millgate – older houses "whose former inhabitants have removed with their descendants into better built districts" – and down into the courts and lanes: "irregular cramming together of dwellings in ways which defy all rational plan"; where "even the shops and beer houses hardly take the trouble to exhibit a trifling degree of cleanliness"; "filth and disgusting grime"; "a privy without a door, so dirty that the inhabitants can pass into and out of the court only by passing through foul pools of stagnant urine and excrement". The nadir is the river, "a narrow, coal-black, foul-smelling stream, full of debris and refuse", "a long string of the most disgusting, blackish-green, slime pools ... from the depths of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable even on the bridge forty or fifty feet above the surface of the stream" (Engels 1892: 45, 48-53).
Today's Manchester no longer has "slime pools" or "miasmatic gas". But retracing Engels' walk from the "Old Church" to the banks of the River Irk is to follow a contemporary faultline that displays the disorder and mess of the ruin – the fissures in the formal facades. Near the Cathedral – Engels' "Old Church" and the heart of the commercial city today - the artifice of heritage is impeccable in the neat facades of Cateaton Street, the imposing commercial architecture of the Triangle and the playful reconstruction of the Printworks as a complex of cinemas, bars, restaurants and clubs. Long Millgate, ten minutes towards the river, is evidently outside fashionable Manchester; a functional mix of office buildings and bill boards behind Victoria Station. Further still along Engels' route, in Dantzic Street, is a ubiquitous urban wasteland of car lots and brownfield sites. And Warford Street, which abuts the river, is an unwanted corner of waste bins, rubbish and urban debris. There may no longer be "foul pools of stagnant urine and excrement". But Warford Street today is a long way from the formal narrative of the ordered, restored and continually progressive city.
Figure 1 Engels' walk re-traced
Interpretation inexorably trends towards closure through particularity and narrative, transforming open and transgressive political spaces into conventionalized settlements. This tendency is evident in responses to a more recent - and dramatic - faultine to open up across Manchester – the riots that broke out across this and other cities in August 2011. Starting in London and spreading to Salford and Manchester two days later, some 20,000 people from a cross-section of communities and backgrounds took to the streets, attacking police, burning cars and buildings and looting shops (Guardian 2011). In Zizek's (2011) phrase, this was "abstract negativity", "zero-degree protest, a violent action demanding nothing".
Here is one account by an unemployed man, aged 22: "we had total control of the precinct. There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything. It was ours for a day. Salford was more like a party atmosphere. Everyone was stood around, drinking… smoking weed, having a laugh. ... . I became involved in the riots in Salford because it was a chance to tell the police, tell the government, and tell everyone else for that matter that we get fucking hacked off around here and we won't stand for it" (Guardian 2011: 20).
Figure 2: From the August 2011 riots to the August 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony
The attempts to close off the faultline of the August 2011 riots have been straightforward. Within a matter of days, their cause was attributed to "criminality, pure and simple" and to the "troubled families" that are also seen as a more general burden on the welfare system. A full and formal enquiry was discounted and, instead, a Riots and Community Victims Panel reported within a few months recommending measures such as improved socialization within the school system (Riots and Community Victims Panel 2012). One year later, a re-unified Britain was represented in the spectacle of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, claiming back the heritage of the industrial city as the cauldron of technology and creativity.
Keeping open an alternative space of enquiry that can hope to make sense of what happened in August 2011 is more difficult. This can be seen in the work of the Guardian and London School of Economics' project, "Reading the Riots". In this conceptualization of the city, it is more a place of perpetual faultlines and fissures along and within which political spaces exist that may be opportunities for mediation.
The narrative heritage of the city, then, is impelled by, and defined through, the constant presence of its opposite: ruined and decomposing buildings and infrastructure; dirt, "matter out of place" in Mary Douglas's classic formulation (Douglas 2002); and debris. This is the dimension of the British post-industrial city that has been explored by Edensor, who sees "ruined space" as "ripe with transgressive and transcendent possibilities", "opportunities for challenging and deconstructing the imprint of power on the city" (Edensor 2005: 4). "Ruins", Edensor writes, are "excess matter, containing superfluous energy and meaning, which are disorderly intrusions, often in more central areas of the city" that "always come back to haunt the planners' vision of what the city should be" (Edensor 2005: 62).
An emphasis on urban faultlines reveals dissent, disorder, challenge and periodic violence: 1819, when cavalry charged 60,000 demonstrators demanding political representation, killing fifteen and injuring hundreds; Chartist meetings on Kersal Moor in 1838; the child labour endemic to Manchester's economic boom through the nineteenth century; the protest in Bexley Square, Salford, in 1931; violently repressed, organized crime and its consequences; the destruction of community life that has followed from the modernist urban planning projects of the mid-twentieth century; and the August 2011 riots, still in the process of explanation. These more complex and contradictory histories are invariably absent from the cheerful, hygienic narratives of technological progress and linear historical antecedents.
Faultines, though, also engender urban creativity. For example, the Irwell Valley, now overwhelming green urban parkland, is a vast reserve of industrial archaeology; bleach works and dye-works, with the foundations of the industrial plant still evident through the undergrowth. Post-industrial landscapes such as these are full of creative possibilities. An extreme example, currently in the news, is Detroit, the largest city ever to go bankrupt. Here, Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project is now in its 27th year. This open-air "art environment" uses everyday objects "to create a two block area full of color, symbolism, and intrigue", "a demonstration of the power of creativity to transform lives" (http://heidelberg.org/).
"Creativity may be the key to the city's revival. Cheap industrial and residential spaces and a plentiful supply of raw materials make Detroit a potential alternative to art market centres such as New York and Los Angeles … In May, London-based charity Artangel unveiled its first international project – a mobile home with a secret basement designed for 'rites of an antisocial nature' by the late Detroit artist Mike Kelley. Kelley looked to subconscious aspects of American life and consumerism – discarded furry animals, girls' bedrooms, comics, bikers and baser forms of pop culture – and turned them into installations, sculpture and film. 'He's a natural icon for the city, with his own anti-authoritarian vocabulary,' said Marsha Miro, board president of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. 'Mike was this anti-conventional, hybrid artist-musician, and Detroit is unfettered by the conventional politics of the art world. We need someone of his stature to be a figurehead' "(Observer 2013).
In Manchester, the value of using fractured, post-industrial spaces as an integral part of new creativity is clear in the ways in which the Manchester International Festival stages performances in new kinds of venues.
In Manchester, the value of using fractured, post-industrial spaces as an integral part of new creativity is clear in the ways in which the Manchester International Festival stages performances in new kinds of venues. One of these is the Campfield Market buildings, vast cast iron and glass sheds erected in the 1870s, at the intersection of the Castlefield canals and the Liverpool Road station – Britain's first railway station. This year, Campfield hosted "The Machine", Matt Charman's new play built around the 1997 chess contest between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue. This intriguing reflection on the relationship between technological progress, genius and intuition gained in subtle and intriguing ways from its warehouse setting at the kernel of the industrial revolution.
This same juxtaposition is what makes Islington Mill special as well. This former mill was converted into fifty artists' studios, a gallery and a club by Bill Campell some ten years ago and is now well known for the string of talented artists, performers and creative start-ups that have been associated with the project, "the creative hub of a minor cultural renaissance", in the words of the Guardian (http://www.islingtonmill.com/).
An archaeological view of the city, then, is in essence a material view; a consciousness that places are made from the accumulation of living layers of buildings and infrastructure which crack and decompose alongside new constructions and futuristic dreams.
Over the next few years there will be significant and intriguing opportunities to release some of the latent creativity of these kinds of post-industrial landscapes as part of campus development. For example, one building, soon to be decommissioned, was a one-time factory where Kruschen Salts, Rennies Indigestion pills, Radox shower gels and Trugel hair cream were once made. First the home of Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering and then of Media and Performing Arts, the building's post-industrial status is framed by the remnant industrial gantry across the street and the brownfield carpark, once the site Sir James Farmer Norton Ltd, Engineers. Students and staff who work there seem perpetually ambivalent, struggling with the palaeolithic environment but stimulated by the building's spaces and ambience. Looking ahead, faultine sites such as these can build on the precedent of Islington Mill and Campfield Market Hall, turning a century of industrial and creative energy to new uses.
An archaeological view of the city, then, is in essence a material view; a consciousness that places are made from the accumulation of living layers of buildings and infrastructure which crack and decompose alongside new constructions and futuristic dreams. Contradictions – faultlines – engender both conflict and creativity. Recognizing that these tendencies can often not be reconciled is a key to understanding what living in cities is all about.
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Guardian (2011). Reading the Riots. Investigating England's Summer of Disorder. London, Guardian.
Observer (2013).Detroit will rise again': glimmers of defiance after city's bankruptcy. 21 July 2013. Riots Communities and Victims Panel (2012). After the Riots.The Final Report of the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel. London, Riots, Communities and Victims Panel.
Zizek, S. (2011). "Shoplifters of the world unite." London Review of Books.
Main image of riot police in Piccadilly Gardens, August 9 2011, by Phil Long via Flickr under a Creative Commons licence.
Detail of burning car in Manchester by Richard Hopkins via Flickr under a Creative Commons licence.
Image of opening ceremony of the London 2012 olympics by Shimelle Laine under a Creative Commons licence.
Contributor Profile
Martin Hall
Vice Chancellor of the University of Salford
Articles by Martin Hall
Martin Hall is Vice Chancellor of the University of Salford, Manchester. He is also Professor Emeritus, University of Cape Town, where he is affiliated with the Graduate School of Business. Previously Professor of Historical Archaeology, he was inaugural Dean of Higher Education Development and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UCT (from 1999 to 2008). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, a Life Fellow of the University of Cape Town and past-President of the World Archaeological Congress.


Guitarist Vince Lewis and vocalist Barbara Martin, longtime friends and musicians, join forces for an intimate trio recording of staid standards and compelling originals on Fresh Air. Joined by bassist Paul Langosch, who lends a solid and unobtrusive foundation, Lewis and Martin deliver a program that is as well-crafted as it is spontaneous and crisply presented..
Lewis is an accomplished and precise guitarist, using all five right-hand fingers, eschewing a plectrum. This method of playing frees the guitarist to employ bass and rhythm lines with playing a melody on the higher strings. Lewis uses his considerable skills to provide a seamless and complex carpet of sound over which Martin's sturdy high alto may slide and glide. On Wes Montgomery's "West Coast Blues," Martin trades the funk and grease for a more refined approach to swing as hard on the concert stage as the corner bar. The originals, "Fresh Air" and "Start of a Beautiful Song" exist homogeneously with the standards, complementing them with their "newness."
Martin shines brightly on "But Beautiful" and "The Nearness of You," demonstrating her peerless ballads chops. Lewis takes a solo shakes with a lovely "Like Someone in Love" playing with an understated lyricism. Where Joe Pass would have crammed every note he could have possibly played between the chords identifying the piece, Lewis chooses carefully, never sacrificing melody for technique. The Great American Songbook and the music it inspires remain a sturdy and durable corpus for creativity. That is what Vince Lewis and Barbara Martin prove with Fresh Air.
After several years of performing together on occasion, guitarist VINCE LEWIS and singer/guitarist BARBARA MARTIN have finally made it into a recording studio, and the result is the delightful Fresh Air (Vinbara Music – 107). They mix some original material with classics from the Great American Songbook, and add in as an opener Wes Montgomery's "West Coast Blues." Lewis has come onto my radar during the last few years, and his nimble guitar artistry continues to impress. Martin is a singer who effectively combines her natural feel for lyric interpretation with passionate vocalizing, resulting is convincing readings of each selection. She also happens to be an interesting lyricist, whether setting words to her own melodies or those of Lewis. This is a very personal recording that has the effect of making the listener feel that the musicians have directed their efforts directly to him or her.
accompaniment for her strong and emotional vocals.
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music that is written, sung and played so well by its author.
Staunton, VA based vocalist, guitarist and composer Barbara Martin covers a lot of musical ground well. She has been an active Jazz and Blues Educator and performer for over 20 years. Martin has appeared in concert at venues ranging from small recital halls and schools to The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
All of the selections with the exception of the title cut "Eyes on the Horizon" are Martin originals. That selection was co-written with Joel Evans. The opening track is a very pretty Bossa Nova "Since You've Been Here. " Robert Redd plays a fine piano solo that fits perfectly with the relaxed mood of the tune. "Too Late to Die Young" is a swinging blues with a bridge section that opens with Martin's vocal over top of a solid walking bass line from Wolf.
"Eyes On The Horizon" has a solid chordal structure flowing under the haunting melody line.
Martin has a solid sense of how to creatively phrase vocally, and provides an always interesting approach to the melody on each song. "Same Old World" is a light Samba that is the perfect vehicle for Robert Redd's piano solo and Chuck Redd's Latin percussion skills.
Other selections include "Taking A Chance," "The Fire Burning In Me," "One For Me," "Blue Storm" and "Painting a Picture." There is also a solid Jazz Waltz titled "I'm OK" included in the set which features Chuck Redd on vibes and Walter on guitar. Each tune is exceptionally well crafted and performed beautifully by Martin and this excellent group of players.
It is always a pleasure to introduce new artists to listeners who may not otherwise find them to sample. Barbara Martin is an accomplished and versatile musician who definitely deserves a listen. This is a highly recommended musical experience for fans of both instrumental and vocal Mainstream Jazz.
It's been fascinating to watch Barbara Martin's artistic growth over the last seventeen years. The Staunton-based singer's first album, A Matter of Time, revealed an intelligent songwriter whose voice was infused with a touch of the blues, juicing up the folksinger idiom with a refreshingly eclectic mix of styles and arrangements. Her second release, Between Black and White in 1996, borrowed its style from Mary Chapin Carpenter's successful country-folk approach.
But A Different View, released in 1999, signaled a tilt in a more jazz-inflected direction, one that enabled Martin to find a satisfying niche of her own over the next decade, occasionally mixing standards with her own ever-more-mature compositions. With her eighth CD, Eyes on the Horizon, she moves a notch higher in the pantheon of jazz vocalists. Her voice has become lilting and uplifting, giving off an aura of happiness, similar in register and tone to that of Ella Fitzgerald. It's a joy to hear.
The ten-song setlist is all originals, filled with a lyrical sophistication and playfulness that continues to unfold with each listening. The band includes some of the best players from the DC/Annapolis/Baltimore jazz scene, including veteran Charlie Byrd sideman Chuck Redd on drums and vibes, and his brother Robert on piano. Martin's regular bassist Steve Wolf anchors the core trio but longtime collaborator Mac Walter, whose magnificent acoustic guitarwork is always a marvel to hear, appears in only a few places. This time out, Martin has chosen a more traditional piano trio motif with occasional horn accents.
"Since You've Been Here" kicks things off with a blissfully light-hearted celebration of the myriad ways that life changes when you let another person into your life. "Too Late to Die Young" takes a bluesy ride over Wolf's walking bassline: "I want to be James Dean with insolent lips," the singer intones, "but it's too late to die young." John Jensen's boogie-woogie trombone solo accentuates Robert Redd's muscular piano comping.
The title track is pure cocktail lounge—you can almost smell the cigar smoke wafting up from the back. The mood shifts to a playfully swinging samba on "Same Old World," followed by "Taking a Chance," a tune that starts off like a Vince Guaraldi theme for Charlie Brown before bouncing along on a smoothly melodic carpet of swing.
Martin gets slow and sultry on "The Fire Burning in Me." Chuck Redd then picks up his mallets for some sweet vibraphonics on "I'm OK," setting up Walter's first appearance. The lyrics here define the tone of this record: "When life doesn't follow my wish-it-would-be's…I'm OK." "One for Me" is a jaunty stroll through loneliness tempered with an optimistically hopeful tinge.
The last two cuts on the album accentuate Walter's gorgeous guitar playing, reminding a longtime listener of previous Barbara Martin outings. In fact, "Blue Storm" originally appeared on Different View, and the arrangements are similar though this version feels gentler, reflecting the subtle shift that Martin's vocal delivery has undergone in the intervening years.
The disc closes with its most beautiful song, "Painting a Picture," a voice and guitar duet the two cowrote, built on James Taylor-esque chording and a wistfully yearning from-the-road lyric. It's the perfect denouement to a pleasurable outing from one of Virginia's finest.
"Listen to 'The Story of Love,' one of a half dozen originals mixed in amidst blues and jazz standards on Barbara Martin & Mac Walter's new CD, Touch the Sky, and you will be instantly hooked. It's a song at once familiar, yet fresh, intelligent and engrossing. Barbara Martin has released four other CDs since 1993. Touch the Sky is her most stripped down outing to date, and it's her finest, thanks in no small part to the guitar wizardry of her musical partner Mac Walter. He is quite simply an amazing picker.
Martin is a familiar face having come down from her home in Staunton many times in recent years for concerts, workshops, and programs on the history of jazz and blues in local schools. In a review of her first album, A Matter of Time, I wrote that she 'is a very attractive singer, rootsy and bluesy one minute, sweet and tender the next.' That description still applies.
Mac Walter is a master of the acoustic guitar, a role model to would-be players in his virtuosity on the instrument. Citing influences ranging from West Montgomery to Django Reinhardt to Frank Zappa, he is one of those rare musicians who can do it all while still retaining his own distinctive voice.


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BOTTOM LINE: UAB takes on the Florida International Panthers after Jordan Walker scored 21 points in UAB's 88-86 loss to the Florida Atlantic Owls.
The Panthers are 7-2 in home games. Florida International has a 4-5 record in games decided by at least 10 points.
The Blazers are 3-1 in C-USA play. UAB is 0-1 in one-possession games.
The Panthers and Blazers match up Saturday for the first time in conference play this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Denver Jones is scoring 18.4 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Panthers. Javaunte Hawkins is averaging 1.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games for Florida International.
Walker is scoring 24.8 points per game with 2.4 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Blazers. Eric Gaines is averaging 11.7 points and 3.3 rebounds while shooting 43.2% over the past 10 games for UAB.
LAST 10 GAMES: Panthers: 5-5, averaging 68.5 points, 28.7 rebounds, 11.6 assists, 8.7 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.3 points per game.
Blazers: 8-2, averaging 84.3 points, 38.0 rebounds, 15.8 assists, 7.7 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.5 points.
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Google Announces its Latest Range of Nexus – Nexus 6, Nexus 9 & Nexus TV
Source from Google Official Blog
First, the new Nexus 6 developed with Motorola. This device has a contoured aluminum frame, a 6-inch Quad HD display and a 13 megapixel camera. The large screen is complemented by dual front-facing stereo speakers that deliver high-fidelity sound, making it as great for movies and gaming as it is for doing work. It also comes with a Turbo Charger, so you can get up to six hours of use with only 15 minutes of charge.
Next, a new tablet built in partnership with HTC. Nexus 9, with brushed metal sides and 8.9-inch screen, is small enough to easily carry around in one hand, yet big enough to work on. And since more and more people want to have the same simple experience they have on their tablets when they have to do real work, the keyboard folio that magnetically attaches to the Nexus 9, folds into two different angles and rests securely on your lap like a laptop.
Finally, the first Android TV: Nexus Player, a collaboration with Asus, is a streaming media player for movies, music and videos. It's also a first-of-its-kind Android gaming device. With Nexus Player you can play Android games on your HDTV with a gamepad, then keep playing on your phone while you're on the road. Nexus Player is Google Cast Ready so you can cast your favorite entertainment from almost any Chromebook or Android or iOS phone or tablet to your TV.
Nexus 9 and Nexus Player will be available for pre-order on October 17. Nexus 9 will be in stores starting November 3. Nexus 6 will be available for pre-order in late October and in stores in November—with options for an unlocked version through Play store, or a monthly contract or installment plan through carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, and Verizon.
Specific carrier rollout timing will vary. Check out google.com/nexus for more details on availability.
Android 5.0 Lollipop, which comes on Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player, will also be available on Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10 and Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks.
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The Australian Conservation Foundation must wait to learn if its latest challenge against the controversial Adani coalmine in Queensland's Galilee Basin has been successful.
The ACF appeared before the Federal Court in Brisbane on Friday to appeal a decision last year that gave the huge Carmichael project the green light.
But the full bench reserved its judgment after it heard submissions from the environmental group, federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg and Adani.
ACF barrister Saul Holt QC argued the original judge had erred when he found in favour of Mr Frydenberg and the Indian mining giant in August.
Mr Holt claimed the environment minister had not applied or misconstrued the law when he claimed if the mine didn't go ahead, the same amount of coal could still be produced somewhere else in the world.
Mr Holt said the argument failed to address the impact the Adani mine would have on global warming and in particular, warmer water temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef.
"What someone else might do if this action doesn't go ahead is irrelevant," he said.
"The harm is still done by the emission of the carbon by Adani's coal."
However Richard Lancaster SC, representing Mr Frydenberg, said the original judge was correct when he agreed his client could only be "speculative" when it came to the impact Adani's possible emissions would have on global warming.
Mr Lancaster said the projection that 4.64 billion tonnes of coal, or one-183rd of total worldwide emissions, could be produced by the Queensland mine was the "worst case scenario".
Mr Lancaster said neither the original judge nor the environment minister had erred in their interpretation of the relevant acts.
The full bench of the Federal Court will hand down its decision at a later date.


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New Generation of Canadian Literature
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I'm a Registered Nurse Not a Whore
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The darkly humorous stories in I'm A Registered Nurse Not A Whore take dead aim at how easily our desire to be good is perverted or undermined by a desperate need for love and recognition. Despite a world of fading optimism and advancing catastrophe, plans are formulated, deals drawn, bargains struck, and hope prevails. Beautifully flawed, well-meaning yet easily sidelined, the characters in these eight stories catapult off the rails of ordinary life before raising themselves up — if only fo …
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Terrible to say, but there's a glamour in decay. All the sugars rising to the surface. Even the making of wine is a kind of controlled decomposition.
The last days have an atmosphere in which everything stands out, back-lit, finite. Photographers call it magic hour. As if death, closer now, closer every day, radiates a kind of pre-storm light.
And then that pre-storm light lasts for a spell after death--for the living. Basic things take on new definition, demand attention, but resist naming.
Nikolski
by Nicolas Dickner
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Intricately plotted and shimmering with originality, Nikolski charts the curious and unexpected courses of personal migration, and shows how they just might eventually lead us to home.
In the spring of 1989, three young people, born thousands of miles apart, each cut thems …
Magnetic Anomaly
My name is unimportant.
It all started in September 1989, at about seven in the morning.
I'm still asleep, curled up in my sleeping bag on the living-room floor. There are cardboard boxes, rolled-up rugs, half-disassembled pieces of furniture, and tool boxes heaped around me. The walls are bare, except for the pale spots left by the pictures that had hung there for too many years.
The window lets in the monotonous, rhythmic sound of the waves rolling over the stones.
Every beach has a particular acoustic signature, which depends on the force and length of the waves, the makeup of the ground, the form of the landscape, the prevailing winds and the humidity in the air. It's impossible to confuse the subdued murmur of Mallorca with the resonant roll of Greenland's prehistoric pebbles, or the coral melody of the beaches of Belize, or the hollow growl of the Irish coast.
The surf I hear this morning is easy enough to identify. The deep, somewhat raw rumbling, the crystalline ringing of the volcanic stones, the slightly asymmetrical breaking of the waves, the water rich in nutriments – there's no mistaking the shores of the Aleutian Islands.
I mutter something and open my left eye a crack. Where can that unlikely sound be coming from? The nearest ocean is over a thousand kilometres away. And besides, I've never set foot on a beach.
I crawl out of the sleeping bag and stumble over to the window. Clutching at the curtains, I watch the garbage truck pull up with a pneumatic squeal in front of our bungalow. Since when do diesel engines imitate breaking waves?
Dubious poetry of the suburbs.
The two trash collectors hop down from their vehicle and stand there, dumbstruck, contemplating the mountain of bags piled on the asphalt. The first one, looking dismayed, pretends to count them. I start to worry; have I infringed some city bylaw that limits the number of bags per house? The second garbageman, much more pragmatic, sets about filling the truck. He obviously couldn't care less about the number of bags, their contents or the story behind them.
There are exactly thirty bags.
I bought them at the corner grocery store - a shopping experience I'm not about to forget.
Standing in the cleaning-products aisle, I wondered how many garbage bags would be needed to hold the countless memories my mother had accumulated since 1966. What volume could actually contain thirty years of living? I was loath to do the indecent arithmetic. Whatever my estimation might be, I was fearful of underestimating my mother's existence.
I went for a brand that seemed sufficiently strong. Each package contained ten revolutionary ultraplastic refuse bags with a sixty-litre capacity.
I took three packages, for a total of 1,800 litres.
The thirty bags turned out to be adequate - though I did on occasion enlist my foot to press the point home - and now the garbagemen are busy tossing them into the gaping mouth of the truck. Every so often, a heavy steel jaw crushes the trash with a pachyderm-like groan. Nothing at all like the poetic susurrations of the waves.
Actually, the whole story - since it needs to be told - began with the Nikolski compass.
The old compass resurfaced in August, two weeks after the funeral.
My mother's endless agony had worn me out. Right from the initial diagnosis, my life had turned into a relay race. My days and nights were spent shuttling from the house, to work, to the hospital. I stopped sleeping, ate less and less, lost nearly five kilos. It was as if I were the one struggling with the tumours. Yet the truth was never in doubt. My mother died after seven months, leaving me to bear the entire world on my shoulders.
I was drained, my thinking out of focus - but there was no question of throwing in the towel. Once the paperwork was taken care of, I launched into the last big cleanup.
I looked like a survivalist, holed up in the basement of the bungalow with my thirty garbage bags, an ample supply of ham sandwiches, cans and cans of concentrated frozen orange juice and the FM radio with the volume turned down low. I gave myself a week to obliterate five decades of existence, five closetfuls of odds and ends crumbling under their own weight.
Now, this sort of cleanup may seem grim and vindictive to some. But understand: I found myself suddenly alone in the world, with neither friends nor family, but still with an urgent need to go on living. Some things just had to be jettisoned.
I went at the closets with the cool detachment of an archaeologist, separating the memorabilia into more or less logical categories:
• a cigarillo box filled with seashells
• four bundles of press clippings about the U.S. radar stations in Alaska
• an old Instamatic 104 camera
• over three hundred pictures taken with the aforementioned Instamatic 104
• numerous paperback novels, abundantly annotated
• a handful of costume jewellery
• a pair of Janis Joplin-style pink sunglasses
I entered a troubling time warp, and the deeper I plunged into the closets, the less I recognized my mother. The dusty objects belonging to a life in the distant past bore witness to a woman I'd never known before. Their mass, their texture, their odour seeped into my mind and took root among my own memories, like parasites. My mother was thus reduced to a pile of disconnected artifacts smelling of mothballs.
I was annoyed by the way events were unfolding. What had started out as a simple matter of sweeping up was gradually turning into a laborious initiation. I looked forward to the time when I would finally reach the bottom of the closets, but their contents seemed inexhaustible.
It was at this point that I came upon a large packet of diaries - fifteen softcover notebooks filled with telegraphic prose. My hopes were rekindled. Maybe these diaries would allow me to put together the pieces of the puzzle?
I arranged the notebooks chronologically. The first one began on June 12, 1966.
My mother headed off to Vancouver when she was nineteen, feeling that a proper break with one's family should be gauged in kilometres, and that her own falling-out deserved to be measured in continents. She ran away one June 25, at dawn, in the company of a hippie named Dauphin. The two confederates shared the cost of gas, shifts at the wheel, and long drags on thin joints rolled as tight as toothpicks. When not driving, my mother wrote in her notebook. Her script, very neat and orderly at the outset, quickly started to furl and unfurl, tracing the eddies and whorls of THC.
At the beginning of the second notebook, she had woken up alone on Water Street, barely able to stutter a few halting phrases in English. Notepad in hand, she went about communicating through ideograms, by turns sketching and gesturing. In a park, she made the acquaintance of a group of arts students who were busy crafting delicate origami manta rays out of psychedelic paper. They invited her to share their overcrowded apartment, their cushion-filled living room and a bed already occupied by two other girls. Every night at about two a.m., the three of them squeezed in under the sheets and smoked hand-rolled cigarettes while they discussed Buddhism.
My mother swore she would never return to the East Coast.
Whereas her first weeks in Vancouver were recounted with a wealth of detail, the rest of her journey grew more and more elliptical as the demands of nomadic life evidently supplanted those of narration. She never stayed anywhere more than four months, but would all of a sudden take off to Victoria, then Prince Rupert, San Francisco, Seattle, Juneau and a thousand other places she did not always bother to identify clearly. She scraped by thanks to various paltry expedients: hawking poems by Richard Brautigan to passersby, selling postcards to tourists, juggling, cleaning motel rooms, shoplifting in supermarkets.
Her escapade went on like this for five years. Then, in June 1970, we showed up at the Vancouver central station with two huge duffel bags just about bursting at the seams. My mother bought a train ticket to Montreal, and we crossed the continent in reverse, she curled up in her seat, me nestled in the depths of her uterus, an imperceptible comma in an as yet unwritten novel.
When she got back home, she briefly made up with my grandparents - a strategic truce aimed at securing the endorsement she needed from them to buy a house. In short order, she purchased a bungalow in Saint-Isidore Junction, a stone's throw from Châteauguay, in what was to become the southern periphery of Montreal, but which at the time still retained something of the countryside, with its ancestral houses, its fallow land and its impressive population of porcupines.
Now saddled with a mortgage, she had to take work in Châteauguay - at a travel agency. Paradoxically, this job put an end to her youthful roving, and to her diaries too.
The last diary ended on an undated page, circa 1971. I closed it, deep in thought. Of all the omissions that punctuated my mother's prose, the most important was Jonas Doucet.
Nothing was left of that transient sire but a stack of postcards scribbled with indecipherable handwriting, the final one dating back to 1975. I had often tried to crack the secret of those cards, but there was no way to make sense of their hieroglyphics. Even the postmarks were more revealing, as they limned out a path that began in southern Alaska, went up to the Yukon, then back down again toward Anchorage, and ended in the Aleutians - more precisely, on the American military base where my father had found employment.
Under the pile of postcards was a small, crumpled box and a letter from the U.S. Air Force.
I learned nothing new from the letter. The box, on the other hand, illuminated a forgotten pit in my memory. Now totally flat, it had once contained a compass that Jonas had sent me for my birthday. That compass came back to me in astounding detail. How could I have forgotten it? It was the only tangible proof of my father's existence, and had been the pole star of my childhood, the glorious instrument with which I'd crossed a thousand imaginary oceans! Which mountain of debris was it buried under now?
I combed the bungalow from top to bottom in a reckless frenzy, emptying drawers and cupboards, searching behind the sideboards and under the rugs, crawling into the darkest recesses.
It was three in the morning before I tracked it down, stuck between an aquarium-sized deep-sea diver and an apple-green garbage truck, at the bottom of a cardboard box perched on two rafters in the attic.
The years had not improved the appearance of the poor compass, a five-dollar gizmo most likely found near the cash register of an Anchorage hardware dealer. Luckily, its lengthy proximity to metallic toys had not demagnetized its needle, which persisted in pointing (what seemed to be) north.
Strictly speaking, it was a miniature mariner's compass, composed of a transparent plastic sphere filled with a clear liquid in which there floated a second, magnetized and graded sphere. The inclusion of one sphere inside another, as in a tiny matryoshka, guaranteed a gyroscopic stability that could withstand the worst storms: no matter how strong the waves might be, the compass would lose neither its bearings nor the horizon.
I fell asleep in the attic with my head sunk in a cumulus of candy-pink insulation, the compass resting on my forehead.
Superficially, that old compass seems perfectly unremarkable, just like any other compass. But on closer examination one realizes that it doesn't point exactly north.
Some individuals claim to be aware at all times of precisely where north is located. However, like most people, I need a marker. When I'm sitting behind the bookstore counter, for example, I know magnetic north is located 4,238 kilometres away, in a beeline that runs through the Mickey Spillane shelf and goes to Ellef Ringnes Island, a pebble lost in the immense Queen Elizabeth archipelago.
But, instead of pointing toward the Mickey Spillane shelf, my compass lines up 1.5 metres to the left, right in the middle of the exit door.
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Next week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak before a joint session of Congress at the invitation of the Republican Party. There are many reasons why this speech is unprecedented, but the biggest reason may be that this speech occurs smack in the middle of the Israeli elections which will be held on March 17. Simply put, Prime Minister Netanyahu will not be speaking before Congress as the representative of Israel but rather, through his speech to Congress, will be presenting the position of the Likud Party to the voters of Israel. The tone deafness of the Republicans in scheduling this speech for this moment in time, however, reflects a more general failure of American politicians to recognize the impact that elections have on the foreign policy of other countries (and the possible adjustments that we will have to make in reaction to those elections).
With only three weeks to go until the elections in Israel, it is hard at this time to determine whether or not Prime Minister Netanyahu will still be Prime Minister in four weeks or if the position of Israel on the U.S.'s position in negotiations with Iran will change. In Israel, rather than electing members by districts, Israel elects members by proportional representation. This situation tends to lead to multiple parties with no party being close to a majority and the formation of a government depending upon negotiations between the parties to form a government.
Based on current projections, Likud and associated parties that take a "hardline" position on negotiations with Palestinians and Iran is likely to fall slightly from 43 seats to 40 seats. On the other hand, Labor and other parties that take a more moderate position on these issues is likely to rise from 21 seats to 30 seats. That will leave the balance of power with three groups: 1) Arab parties (representing the approximately 10% of the Israeli population that is not Jewish) — likely to hold 10-15 seats; 2) Religious Parties (representing ultra-Orthodox Jews who seek preferred treatment for the ultra-Orthodox as well as to make Israel law comport to their interpretation of rabbinic law) — likely to hold 15-20 seats; and 3) secular parties (parties that seek to focus on economic issues first and to reduce the preferential treatment currently given to the ultra-Orthodox) — also likely to hold 15-20 seats.
The split among the minor parties reflects the difficulty anybody will have in forming a government. The Arab parties will not formally join a government (but might support a Labor government on "no confidence" votes. The secular and religious parties are unlikely to agree to a joint coalition. Even among the religious party, there are ethnic differences between Ashkenazi (Central European) Jews and Sephardic (Middle Eastern) Jews. While the religious parties will sometimes join together to support a government, it takes a lot of effort to keep them on the same page (particularly as they are all interested in the same cabinet ministries).
Of course, Israel is not the only significant ally having elections this year. In May, the United Kingdom will have elections. The last election resulted in a hung parliament and a coalition government between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Since the last election, both of these parties have lost some of their popularity. Also since the last election, the Scottish Nationalist Party (seeking Scottish independence or, at least, greater Scottish autonomy) and the United Kingdom Independence Party (a semi-isolationist party seeking to leave the European Union) have gained substantial popularity. While it is unclear whether UKIP will win any seats (given that it finished in third or four place in most of the seats in the last election), by taking votes away from the Conservative Party, UKIP is making it likely that the Labour Party will win the elections. (Although Labour's loss of seats in Scotland to the SNP may force a coalition government of some type). Even the current Conservative government has been reluctant to commit the UK to any great involvement in the Middle East. If Labour wins, it is very likely that any proposal from the U.S. for military intervention against ISIS or Iran would be met with a deaf ear by London.
Additionally, Turkey will hold elections in June. Current projections suggest that the present government (a moderate Islamic Party) could win re-election. Like Israel, Turkey uses a system based on proportional representation with the kick that, if a party fails to meet the required threshold for votes, their seats are transferred to the party that finishes first. According to the latest polls, the government is expected to get 40% of the vote and the next three parties are expected to get 55% of the vote. However, the fourth largest party is currently polling just under the 10% required to win seats. If they can pick up the extra votes, there could be a hung parliament. If not the government would get those seats and probably keep the majority. Most of the differences between the major parties center on domestic issues and will not impact relations between the U.S. and Turkey. All of the major parties share similar concerns about wanting stability on their border while not seeming to be part of colonial-type Western actions against Islam. Most of them are also greatly concerned about the exact scope of Kurdish autonomy in Iraq (given the restless Kurdish population in eastern Turkey).
Lastly, in the fall, Canada will hold elections. In the last elections, back in 2011, the Liberal Party had a very bad election, falling to third place behind the mildly socialist New Democratic Party. The collapse by the Liberal Party resulted in the governing conservatives winning a substantial number of seats by narrow margins in three-way contests giving the Conservatives a slim majority. For the 2015 election, there will be 30 more seats in the Canadian Parliament. Since then, the NDP have fallen back somewhat and the Liberals appear to have regained parity with the Conservatives. A return to a hung parliament with a minority government seems likely. A loss of control by the Conservatives, however, would likely result in a less intense support for a new Keystone pipeline by the new government.
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The corruption trial former prime minister Najib Razak is underway. He has plead 'not guilty' to stealing millions of dollars from a state investment fund. Prosecutors said he laundered the money through banks in the US to finance Hollywood films, buy hotels and artwork.
Ten years to the day since he was sworn in as prime minister, Najib Razak has arrived to face trial on seven corruption-related charges.
It had seemed inevitable from the moment he lost power last May.
The charges relate to $10 million prosecutors said was diverted from a subsidiary of the 1MDB state investment fund to Najib's personal bank account. He faces nearly three-dozen other charges involving more than $2 billion in total.
The prosecution plans to introduce thousands of pages of documents, and call some 60 witnesses.
Following last May's election, police raided properties linked to Najib, seizing around a quarter billion dollars' worth of cash, jewelry and designer handbags.
But as the trial has approached, Najib has been working hard to rehabilitate his image, especially via social media.
The Attorney General is leading the prosecution. He told the court that as prime minister, minister of finance and chairman of 1MDB's board of advisers, Najib had wielded maximum control over the nation's purse and nearly absolute power.
Najib is currently free after posting bail around $1.5 million for the various charges he faces.


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What will happen to EU funding and funded projects now the UK is leaving the EU?
Under the Withdrawal Agreement, the UK will continue to participate in programmes funded under the current 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) until their closure.
This means that the projects funded through the ESIF Growth Programme will continue to receive EU funding across the programme's lifetime. In many cases, funding will continue until after 2020 and the end of the transition period. In addition, UK organisations can continue to bid for new grant funding under the current MFF.
As well as continuing to take part in these programmes until they close, the arrangements project deliverers are familiar with will continue as normal throughout, whatever the terms under which the Implementation Period ends. Grant recipients should therefore continue to deliver activities and submit claims to departments in line with Grant Funding Agreements.
Applications for funding under the programmes will also be progressed as usual, either for existing bids or applications for new funding.
Further appraisal and contracting of projects from recent calls will be undertaken.
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How do you apply for funding?
Applications are invited through a series of Calls for specific activities. A Call is an open invitation for applicants to submit proposals against a published specification. The use of Calls enables the ITI Board and the Managing Authority to specify what they wish to fund and how they wish to fund it, but not who will deliver it. Inviting applications via Calls can bring forward a range of ideas and innovative solutions, as well as helping to ensure that the process for selecting grants is open, transparent and consistent.
Calls are issued on the Government website.
Application forms and guidance on their completion are available here.
Support with applications is also available from the Access to the Programme Team: accesstotheprogramme@cornwalldevelopmentcompany.co.uk or 01872 323248.
Who decides which projects in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly receive funding?
The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership's Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) Board, which has representatives from key local organisations and sectors, meets regularly with the three Managing Authorities to discuss the programme and project submissions.
The ITI Board provide their assessments of the projects to the Managing Authorities who then guide the projects through the application process, looking at areas such as due diligence, financial probity, strategic fit etc.
How much money does Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly receive?
The Growth Programme is worth over €600 million and is made up of three funding streams:
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is worth circa €450 million.
European Social Fund (ESF) is worth around €166 million
European Agriculture Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
The EAFRD fund will have a smaller allocation of £9.4 million which will align with the wider Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Growth Programme.
What will the money be spent on?
Focuses on improving employment opportunities, promoting social inclusion and investing in skills by providing help people need to fulfil their potential.
Supports research and innovation, small to medium sized enterprises and creation of a low carbon economy.
Supports rural businesses to grow and expand.
European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
Helps fishermen in the transition to sustainable fishing and supports coastal communities in diversifying their economies by financing projects that create new jobs and improve quality of life along European coasts.
Click here for more information about these funds.
How can I access the funds?
There are a number of different ways to find out if you qualify for European funding depending on your circumstances.
In the first instance, give the ITI Support Team a call on 01872 224770 to find out more or contact the Programme Facilitation Team on 01872 323248 or accesstotheprogramme@cornwalldevelopmentcompany.co.uk.
Why do Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly receive these funds?
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly qualify for additional funding as our economic performance was below 75% of the European Union average when the programme was originally developed. This programme of European funding builds on the previous Objective One and Convergence Programmes
What have the previous European programmes invested in?
Here is a list of the European Regional Development Fund investments : http://www.erdfconvergence.org.uk/investments/
Here are some of the ERDF Convergence successes that the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Growth Programme plans to build on:
And a copy of our Legacy Book
Is there a glossary of commonly used terms?
Yes – follow this link: glossary of commonly used terms.
Is there any funding for fisheries?
Yes, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) helps fishermen in the transition to sustainable fishing and supports coastal communities in diversifying their economies by financing projects that create new jobs and improve quality of life along European coasts.
The UK programme is worth €243 million, of which €92.1 million is allocated to England.
EMFF funding is separate from, but aligned to the ESIF Growth Programme which consists of the European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund and European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
How to apply for EMFF
What are the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF)?
There are five ESIF funds, four of which can be accessed in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly; these are:
the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
the European Social Fund (ESF)
the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
and European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).
Who is responsible for the management of EU funds?
The Managing Authority (MA) for ERDF is the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), whilst the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) manages ESF.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the MA for EAFRD and EMFF.
Who can apply to deliver the funds?
To apply for European funding applicants must be legally constituted bodies and not individuals or sole traders.
Applicant organisations can normally be from the public or private sector, although the exact nature of the applicants will be determined by the requirements of each individual Call.
Potential applicant organisations include, but are not limited to:
local authorities,
statutory and non-statutory public funded organisations/bodies,
higher and further education institutions,
voluntary/community organisations,
private sector companies,
registered charities,
not for profit organisations.
What is an Opt-in?
Opt-in organisations are national public bodies who offer to deliver locally tailored activities. They will draw down ESIF monies and provide the match funding needed from their own national funding programmes.
The national opt-in organisations are as follows:
Big Lottery (ESF)
Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESF)
Department for Work and Pensions (ESF)
Questions and answers for applicants
If you have a question about making an application please see FAQs for Applicants.
Will the ESIF Programme issue any loan and equity funds for businesses?
Loan and equity funds are now available to businesses.
Referred to previously as 'financial instruments' details can be found on the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Investment Fund (CIOSIF) page or go directly to the CIOSIF website.


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Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken Team Up for Live-Action LITTLE MERMAID
Posted by Amy Ratcliffe on August 16, 2016
The seaweed is greener in everybody's lake today because Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid has Hamilton on its side, so to speak. Alan Menken will team up with Lin-Manuel Miranda to write the music for the upcoming release, and Miranda will produce the film alongside Marc Platt. As of right now, Manuel's also supervising the story. Deadline reports the film will have a mix of existing songs from the 1989 animated film paired with fresh music.
This is yet another step into the world of Disney for Manuel. He worked on Moana, and he'll be starring in the Mary Poppins sequel. I have a hunch involvement in a new take on The Little Mermaid is exciting for Manuel. He's expressed his adoration for the animated classic many times and points to it as the trigger for his career. When he was discussing Moana with Rolling Stone he said, "I'm here because The Little Mermaid fucked my shit up when I was nine, and I have never been the same since. Now I'm working with the original directors of The Little Mermaid on this animated musical, writing songs and chasing stories." And now he's working on The Little Mermaid with Alan Freaking Menken.
So far, the Disney's live-action adaptations have featured different versions of the songs introduced in the animated source material. For example, Maleficent included a creepy take on "Once Upon a Dream" by Lana Del Rey. I'm curious to see what they'll modernize, but given Manuel's affection for the animated soundtrack, I have faith. And for now I'll take this clip of him singing a snippet from "Under the Sea:"
Under The Sea w @auliicravalho! #Linstagram #LittleMermaid
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Which songs from the animated movie do you think they'll bring to the live-action film? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
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So I've got a confession. I'm bitter with Twitter. It's like Facebook on Acid.
I signed up a month ago and have yet to figure it out. Isn't it just a bunch of never-ending status updates? And yes, I know that status updates are best part of Facebook. But I feel like Twitter is cheating-like they've eaten all the yummy white stuff out of my Oreos.
For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, it works something like this: I follow people and they follow me. Get it? And by follow I mean you are able to read my wannabe Facebook status updates.
So I signed up and found a few people to follow through the email finder. I was on my way! Wait, why aren't they following me? Of course! There has to be some form of social rejection or Twitter wouldn't be fun! Why don't you want to follow me? Did I do something wrong? Aren't you dying to read my once-a-week tweet? Oh, you want them multiple times per day? Sorry! I spend all my energy coming up with witty Facebook status updates! Isn't that enough?
And forget about finding someone unless you know their Twitter nickname. Seriously, it's virtually impossible. Twitter, if I knew their damn nickname, I wouldn't need to search for them!
And I should have known Twitter would be trouble when I logged in for the first time and saw that most of the tweets were about how people didn't get Twitter. Then, I made a rookie Twitter mistake when I decided to follow Jimmy Fallon. Why follow Jimmy, you ask? Well, I've been crushing on him since his SNL days and was too scared to friend him on Facebook. Twitter felt less committal, less stalker-ish. Except for that whole following thing. Hmmm, I guess I didn't think that one through.
Anyway, I was saddened to discover that my celeb-crush tweets too much. Jimmy tweets about everything and everyone. Really Jimmy? Do we really need to know every detail about your day? About the berber carpet in your studio? It's a bit much, even for your biggest fan. I know you're excited about Tweeting via Tweetie, but we need some boundaries.
Lisa kind of almost likes Twitter. She even went so far as to install Twitter Tools on our blog so we could Tweet. Funny thing is, we can't figure out how to tweet to the blog! So sorry if you are anxiously waiting to hear Liz and Lisa's sweet tweets each day. Not going to happen until hear back from our web designer. He's a big tweeter. Tweets all the time!
But Lisa would not be stopped on her quest to have a productive relationship with Twitter. That led her to install a Tweet Roll on our site that shows you all of our followers. You know, those 12 people that are waiting to hear our daily wisdom via Tweets. Oh, and she wants me to tell you to click on the Tweetroll link to follow us. Please.
Maybe part of the problem is that Twitter makes me feel old. And irrelevent. It makes me want to say things like, "Those young whippersnappers are all on Twitter!" and "Those Twitter young'uns don't know what's it's like to walk a mile to school in the snow!" I want to say these things even though I've never walked a mile to school or lived anywhere where it actually snows.
Am I becoming like my dear mother, who can't figure out how to turn on her DVD player when the kids want to watch Kung Fu Panda? Is this the first step? I have a blog, for Christs sake! Doesn't that make me tech-savvy?
So screw you Twitter because I am relevant! And soon I will be tweeting like nobody's business! And then I will dominate you Twitter! My Tweets will be heard around the world!
Um, just as soon as someone shows me how to do it.


Your editorial (April 30), "Melting Snows, Melting Hearts," holds out hope that the water-rich areas of our state are burgeoning with hearts suddenly grown warm and willing to share their wealth with those of us less fortunate. This was cheering, but I remain skeptical.
I have spent 40 years in traveling the West and found a pervasive attitude that Southern Californians are profligate and uncaring, selfish to the point where we have grasped from those whose water supplies were plentiful, and from those who were not so blessed, such as Arizona.
Twenty-five years ago the owner of a large chain of Arizona service stations often remarked to acquaintances that he wanted to put a sign in his restrooms: "Please flush the toilet, Los Angeles needs water." If anything, the feeling in Northern California was even stronger, and as populations have exploded throughout the West there was no reason for a change of heart.
If one has occurred, and I don't like to question the motives of those gentlemen up north, it might well be because elsewhere it was always recognized that as southern water supplies increased the population growth to use it was a sure result. So, since Northern California particularly has begun to see the face of that beautiful area change as the people-tide moves north, if we are given water to help bring or keep the multitudes here, it might be considered a worth-while trade-off.
I also question how well in touch you are when you describe Southern Californians as "smarting over the defeat of the Peripheral Canal in the 1982 election." I don't believe the electorate here knew then, knows now, what the planned canal is to accomplish or where it is to be built. I was up North shortly before that election and found people knowledgeable about it and prepared to defeat it; I saw bumper stickers there urging its defeat, not too complimentary to our needs here. The only time I encountered any activity in the Southland concerning the measure was from a group of environmentalists pressing for "No" votes.
And I think therein lies the crux of the whole matter. Most people, and I mean a large majority of them, in Southern California, are completely insensitive to our water needs. Staying tuned to the media--and I don't except The Times--one easily encounters the resentment to even our normal amount of rainfall. Not that it would go far in easing our problems, but I see it as symptomatic. Just give us another day of sunshine, is the plea, tomorrow we can play golf or tennis, or jog. If we are looked upon elsewhere as the world's greatest hedonistic society, there is a strong case for it.
Where the solutions lie I don't think anybody knows at this time. We are all guilty of a peculiar kind of indulgence in spending something we don't have. If you don't believe that, drive around this semi-desert and revel in its lushness.


On July 5th, the Dow Jones Industrial average soared more than 300 points on light volume. Weekend television commentary immediately seized the opportunity to encourage investors that the worst was likely to be over. This was a sign that investors had regained confidence despite an obvious expansion of the corporate accounting scandal. By Monday, analysts and experts were citing improving economic statistics and the lack of a terrorist attack as the catalyst for a stock market recovery.
For me, this week has been a continuous déjà vu. Since the market began its decline in March 2000, I have repeatedly asserted that the Dow Industrials could easily sink to 7000...and still be overvalued by historical P/E ratio standards. In addition, analysts refuse to incorporate inflated earnings into the P/E formula. For example, a $3.1 billion overstatement needs to be deducted from earnings before deriving the ratio. Hence, virtually every ratio on the street is open to question.
Yet, stock market pundits insist the end has been in sight since the first dip more than two years ago. While all evidence points to a continuing decline, those who earn their livings selling stocks insist on the same rhetoric, "Buy now while prices are cheap." Nothing beats stocks over the long run.
The problem is that "long run" is never defined. As I have pointed out, the long run is headed toward some new demographic hurdles. It should more appropriately be called the "long jump." Within the next five years, Baby Boomers will be withdrawing savings to pay for college and retirement. Since the U.S. savings profile has been heavily skewed toward stocks over the past two decades, we can expect to see a net withdrawal from equities.
It stands to reason that these savings will be used to purchase goods and services that, in turn, can boost the economy and return to stocks as investments. However, this cycle will have a lag. We can see how the economy might continue chugging along while stocks flounder. This obvious causal correlation is absent from television commentary and print media. Admittedly, I have not read every newspaper or magazine and I have not watched every television commentary. Yet, those I have reviewed, conspicuously exclude the potential for a more extended equity meltdown.
Months ago I visited the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to appear as a guest with Ron Insana on CNBC. The primary focus was on gold and related investments. I stated then (as I do now) that gold stocks and funds were a better place to wait out stock market turmoil because there was a high probability investors would regain interest in a hedge against paper asset failures. This was well before the expansion of the accounting scandals. Ron asked for my Dow target and I told him 7000 was highly probable. At that point, the Dow remained above 10000.
In 1987, a 12000 Dow was considered a stretch even by the year 2000. In fact, some believed the Dow could drop below 2000. The unprecedented speculative frenzy that drove the market to incredible highs is over. Investors need to return to reality. Decisions will be based upon actual earnings potentials and dividend results. If we seek a 3% minimum dividend return, the Dow needs to make some serious adjustments. Of course, this is not simply true for the Dow. Everything from the S&P 500 to the Russell 2000 or Wilshire 5000 needs to reflect reasonable returns as well as appreciation potential.
The Dow fell below 9400 support that is now resistance. Today, it penetrated 8900 support to set up a test of September lows. With daily ranges exceeding 200 points, a dip below 8000 is not as far away as we might assume. While I am not looking forward to such a decline, it is important to keep the possibility in perspective.
Unfortunately, the Friday rally was far greater than I anticipated when adjusting our stop. We were taken out with an $1,100.00 profit that would have grown into more than $7,000.00 based upon today's action. Still, it's better to take a profit than a loss. In the meantime, gold retraced approximately 50% from its high above 33000 if you consider the December 28000 low as the breakout. Technically, gold is guilty of presenting a confusing picture because prices turned down from the late May peak and both the 20-day and 40-day averages confirmed the directional change. I was seeking an opportunity to repurchase gold on a dip to 30800/30700 after gold began its swoon. As Murphy's Law would expect, the downward trek was not consistent and anxiety forced me to jump back in before the correction had run its course. Gold provides a clue to analysts' overall psychology. For subscribers who frequent CNBC, CNN, Fox News and similar stations, consider how quickly everyone is looking for the end of gold's forward momentum and the beginning of more robust stock market performance. The two go hand-in-hand. Yet, the gold sector has been performing well despite recent price weakness and the yellow metal remains the last resort if, and when all else fails. All of this generates a repeat performance of encouraging investors back into a dangerous "overbought market." Despite the carnage, individual investors are still holding their stocks. Even with massive volume, the shuffle has been among large institutional entities. Look at the street interviews. Everyone waits for the recovery.
Interestingly, accounting scandals have raised another question about corporate income taxes. If WorldCom overstated income by $3.1 billion, will taxes be adjusted accordingly? Enron allegedly paid no tax because it accrued stock option liabilities as offsets against revenue. How will the IRS treat this? In other words, the ripple effects of bogus accounting have not even been considered...yet.
The flight to quality continues pushing longer-term rates lower. This has been a major Fed objective and remains a weapon against weakening real estate. Although investors have lost trillions in stocks, they have been able to enjoy modest appreciation in real estate values. Unfortunately, this value can only translate into cash if it is sold or borrowed against.
Real estate financing remains brisk, but represents additional exposure should the recession spread to this sector. While home sales are up, commercial properties are suffering from lost leases. Major markets like New York, San Francisco, Dallas, and Houston are watching commercial occupancy rates rise as small to medium size businesses trim rental expenses.
As I write, September T-notes have reached 10910, just 14/32nds shy of my 10924 final objective. Many traders are anxious to sell notes because they view the market as highly overbought. Both the relative strength indicator (RSI) and stochastic indicated a potential turning point more than a week ago as the price slope leveled off. But neither indicator was able to foresee the problems we have in equities. Those who sold the overbought signals need deep pockets for now. On the other hand, my attempt to achieve 10924 may be overly optimistic. In reality, I was looking for a trading range consolidation to establish the short strangle between 109 and 107. It appears the Fed will be forced to maintain the status quo until present interest rates finally influence stocks. This could be a longer wait than originally anticipated, extending beyond this year's Christmas season. According to fed fund spreads, no action is expected until December. Even the last quarter could be skipped if the economy fails to positively respond moving past Labor Day. I perceive a slowdown in consumer spending and even a decline in consumer credit needs. As consumers feel the pinch of a diminished "wealth effect," the need for buying new will morph into a requirement to rehabilitate old. Since the bear market began, we have not see a significant decline in consumer spending. If this year changes the pattern, the bear will be alive and well into 2003.


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Q: How to keep extending session life when user is active? Let's say there's a site/system with a logged in member area, and users are rarely, but very inconveniently logged out while working with the site/system.
It's doubtfully session expiring, since the user was not idle for very long. And even if they were idle, I added a periodic AJAX request, a so called heartbeat, which updates the sessions' access time, and modified time. I even added a touch($session_file) every time a user clicks something or a heartbeat is called. I tried regenerating session ID as well. Nothing helped.
And unfortunately, so far, I was not able to reproduce the problem locally, because it happens every so often, when there's more requests. Some php.ini parameters:
session.use_cookies = 1
session.use_only_cookies = 1
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor = 1500
session.gc_maxlifetime = 10800

A: Since sessions and authentication is already handled via one super controller in your code, it should be easy to at least rule out session destruction.
Typically only the login page creates a session, so at this point you can (and should) add a known value inside, such as the session id.
The other pages (including your heartbeat) resume an existing session, so at this point you look for the above value; if it's missing, you can do a few more checks:

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*was a session cookie passed? if not, browser / cookie issue.

*does the session cookie correspond with session_id()? if not, session file was lost due to garbage collection.

*does the known value exist in the session? if not, session was truncated or someone is trying to do session adoption attack.

*does the known value correspond to the session cookie? if not, the session was established via different means than cookie; you could check session.use_only_cookies setting.

The above set of checks should point you in the right direction.

A: I presume you are using built in PHP file session storage? There are known race conditions problems with it.
I had similar issues with loosing session id's when there were concurrent requests from same session id. Since file was locked by first request all other concurrent connections were unable to access file and some of them generated new session id. Those situations were also very rare and it took me time to locate the problem. Since then I'm using memcached for session storage and those problems vanished.

A: It is hard for me to answer this without further information however are you sure this only happens when you have more traffic. What can be done:

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*Add the codez

*OS distro and version

*PHP version

Do you have any session checks that rely on the IP. If so it might be that you are actually using a proxy which gives a different IP once every so oftern (like Cloudflare) in which case you can use the HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP to get the actually constant IP.
I have also noticed one more thing:
session.use_only_cookies = 1
session.cookie_lifetime = 0

So the cookie will actually be destroyed when the browser closes. Is it possible the connection is lost because the user closes the tab (which in some browsers does actually clear the cookies)?
As others have suggested I would strongely say you move to a DB session. Using a central session store can help in stopping race conditions, it won't stop them completely but it does make it harder. Also if you really get that many session ids you might wanna look into using something other than the built in PHP session id, however the built in hash is extremely unique and has a very low chance of being duplicate so I don't think that's your problem.
Clarification Edit:
If you are using a different proxy to Cloudflare then you will, of course, need to get the HTTP header thart your proxy sets, using Cloudflare is an example.

A: Here's something I've used. It uses javascript to 'ping' the server on an interval of 10 minutes.
<form method="POST" target="keepalive-target" id="keepalive-form">
    <input type="hidden" name="keepalive-count" id="keepalive-count">
</form>
<iframe style="display:none; width:0px; height:0px;" name="keepalive-target"></iframe>
<script>
    var kaCount=0;
    setInterval(function()
    {
        document.getElementById("keepalive-count").value=kaCount++
        document.getElementById("keepalive-form").submit();
    },600000);
</script>

A: All the provided answers have shown good insight to the question, but I just have to share the  solution to my exact problem. I was finally able to reproduce the problem and fix it.
So the system contained two subsystems, let's say admin and client interfaces. The admin was unexpectedly logged out when they logged in as client in another tab and logged out the client interface while being logged in as admin. It was doing this because everything was written to one session with namespaces. What I did is remove the code that kept destroying the session on logout action, and replaced it with session namespace unsetting and replacing with guest session for that namespace that only has access to the login page.

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Maggie Keith organizes "farm-friendly" festival for a good cause [Local Profiles]
Posted On: 12 Oct 2012 - 9:00am
By Jennifer Bowen
Maggie Keith graduated from Appalachian State University in 2007 with a degree in Business Management and Entrepreneurship before returning home to live and work at Foxhollow Farm, the 1300-acre farm her mother and her mother's siblings had inherited the year prior. Though Maggie's intent was to start the "business side" of the bio-dynamic farm, it didn't take long for her get her hands dirty. Now Maggie is a co-owner with her mother, as well as the Gardener.
"I planned on hiring someone to market and sell the beef that we were raising" she said. "But I loved the farm and working with the land so much that I ended up staying and doing the job myself."
Maggie shares the love each year by planning the annual Foxhollow Farm Fall Festival, which will be held Saturday from 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. at Foxhollow Farm in Crestwood, Kentucky. Though Maggie has been planning for this weekend's event since April, the inaugural festival in 2008 was a little more impromptu.
"Three weeks before the festival I told my mom 'hey, why don't we have a fall festival?' I had just heard the West End Girls and Boys Choir sing at an event and decided I had to have them out to Foxhollow to sing. So, I built a festival around it and half the proceeds went to that choir," she said.
The following year, Maggie was inspired to partner with Maryhurst, a residential treatment facility for children with severe emotional disabilities, after an art show she attended where Maryhurst residents led guided tours of their home while sharing their experiences. Maggie invited the residents to the farm for a tour, and to plant pumpkins in preparation for the fall season.
"I had such a blast watching these girls play in the dirt and scream at the site of any bug or bee. We went on a hayride, and at first the girls were a bit shy but by the end they were laughing about cow pies and telling me they wanted to see more," said Maggie. "That's when I decided I wanted half the proceeds of every festival to go towards a non-profit group and the other half to go towards bringing groups like Maryhurst out to the farm to connect with nature and experience hands-on farm learning."
Foxhollow Farm has continued to partner with Maryhurst at each festival, and the organization gives back by recruiting volunteers to work the event. Maggie's husband, Benton Keith, helps by organizing sponsors. Maggie also credits Foxhollow Farm team member Hannah Neumann, who has been involved with planning.
"The Fall Festival is an 'all-hands-on-deck' day for the Foxhollow Farm Family. I could not do it without my family's support," said Maggie.
Tomorrow's festival will feature farm fresh (and kid-friendly) food by Foxhollow Farm Store, RYE, Wiltshire, Grind food truck, Gilberto Gelato and Cellar Door Chocolates. Hay castles, face painting, old-fashioned carnival games, pumpkins, hayrides, and pony rides will also be on site. The live music lineup, organized by Joan Shelley, includes Jim McGee, The Village Ordinary, Scott Moore, Trappers Keepers old-time string band, Square Dance with caller T-Claw.
"The Fall Festival has gone from a last minute idea with 150 people attending to a fully organized and planned festival with over 80 volunteers, $12,000 in sponsorship, and 5,000 visitors," said Maggie, who would like to thank PNC Bank, Norton Healthcare, and Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP for their sponsorship.
Maggie hopes to raise $20,000 at this year's event, though her main goal is for everyone to have fun.
"I think the fact that the festival has stayed farm-focused with crafty games, delicious food, and a great cause is what keeps people coming."
For more information, visit www.foxhollow.com or call (502) 241-9674.
and Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP
Foxhollow Farm
Foxhollow Farm Store
Gilberto Gelato and Cellar Door Chocolates
Grind food truck
Jim McGee
Joan Selly
Maggie Keith
Maryhurst
Square Dance with caller T-Claw
The Village Ordinary
Trappers Keepers old-time string band
About Jennifer Bowen
A Kentucky-born, coffee-obsessed, music lover with a never ending wishlist of places to visit and things to do.
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