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Q: How much "data" you can put into a string? As programmers, we work with strings a lot.  Most of the time, I use them without thinking about them too much.  Lately though, I have been using strings to return copious amounts of information from a function with no problem.  My latest example is a binary tree with 10's of 1000's of entries.  I have a recursive function that simply keeps adding to the string with a newline character at the end.  This function gave no trouble.
So is there any kind of "limit" on how many characters you can put in a string or are you only limited by the amount of memory available?

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The real limit on the size a string object can reach is returned by member max_size.

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So yeah, it's implementation-specific.

A: No, the only limit is available contiguous memory. There are no artificial limits imposed on string length; the length of a string is kept in a size_t variable, the maximum value of which is the largest addressable byte in the system (be it 8 or 16 or 32 or 64 bit or whatever).

A: It's very big but not unlimited though. You can use string::max_size to return the maximum number of characters that the string object can hold. Note that the returned value may vary from system to system.


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What the Cloud Leaders Can Learn From Each Other
August 28, 2011 Appirio
Glenn Weinstein
After moving hundreds of companies onto public cloud computing solutions, we at Appirio are in a great position to observe the best of the leading cloud vendors – what makes them great, and what inspires such intense customer loyalty.
Appirio sees these vendors on many levels. Of course, we are partners with cloud leaders, and fellow evangelists in the marketplace of ideas. But as Appirio's CIO, I also see them as providers of technology to run our own IT. We run our business on Salsforce, Workday, Google Apps, and Amazon Web Services, among others, and we believe our internal technology is as good as any company's, at a lower cost, with a faster pace of innovation.
Here's what I see as the "best of the best" – the things that make me glad to be in this business and excited to help our customers transform the way they look at technology.
1. From Salesforce.com – instant provisioning
The official definition of cloud computing from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) lists, as its very first "essential characteristic" of cloud computing, the notion of on-demand self-service:
"A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service's provider."
Disappointingly, many cloud vendors still require us to navigate our way past pushy sales reps and wait on a support department to activate a tenant, even if it's just for development or trial purposes. By contrast, Salesforce has set the enviable standard by permitting any curious user, anywhere, to instantly provision a fully functional "Developer Edition" org, with no expiration date and no onerous limitations. These developer orgs have been the secret to Force.com's wide acceptance among developers, and a key to the rapid innovation we see on Force.com development projects.
Salesforce makes it just as easy for existing customers to quickly create replicas of their production orgs as "sandboxes," for testing or development work. By doing so, they achieve the full promise of on-demand computing, achieving something that would be nearly unimaginable using on-premise software. (Imagine trying to provision a "developer copy" of SAP in five minutes or less? How about 5 weeks? 5 months?)
2. From Workday – laser focus on enterprise
Dave Duffield and Anil Bhusri started Workday with a pretty unique objective for a startup – to serve the world's largest enterprises, as a replacement for the on-premise Peoplesoft systems that Duffield is so closely associated with.
I'm not sure how many other startup founders could have pulled off such a daunting feat. The typical pattern seems to be to start small, aim at the consumer or perhaps the small and medium business (SMB), and build over time. But human capital management (HCM) and financials are fundamentally different at the enterprise level, and they set about building a next-generation Peoplesoft for the cloud computing era. I recall one of their early publicly available design documents, which proudly touted their multi-tenant architecture and object-oriented database as core strengths.
Workday has gone on to capture the hearts and minds of many CIOs not with fancy sales tactics, but with a compelling product, a commitment to true public cloud computing, and a deeply rooted belief in the model's superiority to legacy on-premise software. No founding team could have more credibility than the team that brought Peoplesoft to the market a generation ago.
Our own employees see the real Workday difference every day – simply by the fact that they actually use the system! Workday has transformed HRIS from an "expert system" with arcane user interfaces suitable only for HR clerks, to a modern, flexible web-based application designed from the outset to be useful to every employee and manager in a company.
3. From Google Apps – no more limits
I had a most unforgettable sales call a few years back, when visiting with a CIO and his direct reports to talk about how Google Apps could replace their Microsoft Exchange messaging infrastructure. The CIO had suggested I load my slides (yes, in PowerPoint form…) onto his laptop since it was already connected to the projector. As I displayed a slide explaining that each user – not each company, but each individual user – gets a 25GB mailbox in Gmail, the CIO's computer suddenly displayed a pop-up message from, of all systems, Outlook. And the pop-up said something to the effect of, "You can no longer receive mail since your mailbox is full."
I could not have timed or orchestrated a better demonstration. I think his mailbox capacity was around 100MB or so. The groans around the room told me this pop-up was not uncommon. And I know that even today, many companies' internal Exchange servers limit mailboxes to some ridiculously small capacity, even as storage costs have plummeted and cloud vendors routinely provide massive online storage for pennies. This perfectly illustrates the inability of on-premise technology – the hardware dependencies, the long refresh cycles, the painful upgrades – to keep up with public cloud technology.
Google grants its apps users all sorts of storage capacity for documents, videos, sites pages, chat logs, and other corporate data. Massive storage isn't an expensive add-on – it's an inherent part of the service, along with super-fast search (would you expect anything less from Google?). And it seems like every week or two Google rolls out some new service for Google Apps users to take advantage of. Planning for the next Exchange upgrade cycle now seems like an unconscionable act of disregard for your own employees' productivity.
4. From Amazon Web Services – staggering innovation
For pace of innovation, no vendor can top Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is the modern-day Thomas Edison, cranking out inventions quicker than most people can even imagine them. Just review their What's New page for the past month or so:
Aug. 3 – AWS Direct Connect, for creating a direct network connection from its physical server farms to your data center, bypassing the public internet for increased bandwidth and decreased network costs.
Aug. 3 – Virtual Private Cloud (a 2010 innovation) moves from beta to general availability, allowing creation of a virtual network that operates inside your corporate network.
Aug. 8 – AWS Cloud Formation template composition, for reusable building blocks of cloud stacks.
Aug. 15 – AWS Tooklit for Eclipse 2.0, which incorporates AWS Explorer, multiple AWS account suport, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk debugging into a single tool.
Aug. 16 – AWS GovCloud, a special AWS region with additional security certificatins, designed for use by U.S. government agencies.
Aug. 18 – Spot instances for Elastic MapReduce.
Aug. 22 – ElastiCache, a cloud-based in-memory caching service, protocol-compliant with Memcached.
And that's just one month!
The current fad, whereby vendors with a stake in the status quo market for on-premise server technology create enough FUD to conflate "private cloud" with "public cloud" and make the choice seem like a minor distinction, is revealed as a false promise by considering the impossibility of on-premise vendors keeping up with AWS's pace of innovation. And remember, Amazon isn't only releasing these new services, they are making them immediately available to all existing AWS customers – no need to wait for upgrade cycles, budget season, or steering committees.
5. From Salesforce, Workday, Google, and Amazon – delivering on the promise of the public cloud
At Appirio, we've partnered with the true public cloud leaders across CRM, HCM and financials, messaging and collaboration, platform-as-a-service, and infrastructure-as-a-service. We believe these are the essential building blocks for fundamentally transforming IT from a data center-centric model to an on-demand cloud model. The academic and economic arguments alone for this shift are enough to make for a compelling business case. But what makes it an open-and-shut case is the demonstrated market success of the leading vendors – salesforce.com, Workday, Google, and Amazon. Each has shown that the enterprise is ready for public cloud computing, that it works at global scale, that productivity gains are real, that once you head down this road, there's no turning back. Once your employees, your business analysts, your developers, and your IT administrators get a taste for the public cloud, they won't let you turn back.
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Graeme Simsion at Avid Reader, QLD
Wednesday 21 September 2016 6:00pm
Avid Reader Bookshop, 193 Boundary St, West End QLDright
Join Graeme Simsion for a salon of emerging writers in celebration of the Brisbane launch of The Best of Adam Sharp, a novel about love, music and coming to terms with the past, from the author of the international bestseller The Rosie Project.
On the cusp of fifty, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, earns a good income as an IT contractor and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It's the lifestyle he wanted, but something's missing.
Out of no where, an old flame gets in touch. What does she want? Does Adam dare to live dangerously? How far will he go for a second chance?
Graeme Simsion was born in Auckland and is a Melbourne-based writer of novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and two non-fiction books.
The Rosie Project began life as a screenplay, winning the Australian Writers Guild/Inscription Award for Best Romantic Comedy before being adapted into a novel. It went on to win the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript and has since been sold around the world to over forty countries.
Sony Pictures have optioned the film rights with Graeme contracted to write the script. The Rosie Project won the 2014 ABIA for Best General Fiction Book, and was ultimately awarded Australian Book of the Year for 2014. The sequel, The Rosie Effect, was released in 2014 to great acclaim and also became a bestseller.
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Spell it right.
Thank You: The Juan and Only Juan Luis Guirado
In April 2012, I published my feature on Juan Luis "Juani" Guirado. Albeit in his 30s, he was one of the newest additions to the Philippine national football team (Azkals) worthy of recognition and admiration. It was a great way to introduce him to the public as someone on the road to becoming a Philippine football legend, and four years and 38 caps later, he has inevitably become one in his own right.
June 15, 2016 April 13, 2018 by Miji Gonzales
Ben Bowra: My Window to the World
I want to share the top three things I learned from Ben Bowra. I've written tributes in the past, and here I am again, back with another one. My best one yet!
August 12, 2015 May 1, 2016 by Miji Gonzales
One-on-One with Rob Gier: The Forgotten Interview
Let's travel back in time to 2013 and relive a "bygone" era through this forgotten interview with Rob Gier. I hope it's not too late.
March 16, 2015 May 1, 2016 by Miji Gonzales
Unraveling Chris Greatwich
While taking a stroll down memory lane, Chris walked me through his life. Of course, the banter was inevitable, but from his narration, I gained a renewed appreciation for Chris and his achievements.
November 12, 2014 May 1, 2016 by Miji Gonzales
Dreams are for real!
When the Clear Dream Match 3 was announced, I knew that at least one Manchester United player would come to the Philippines, but I didn't know it would be Paul Scholes. So when David Milan asked me to interview Paul Scholes and Andy Cole, I almost passed out. Dreams are for real!
June 23, 2014 May 1, 2016 by Miji Gonzales
Life at Kaya So Far
It's been almost two months at Kaya, and in these past few months, I've been constantly peppered by the same questions: "How's life at Kaya?" "How's Kaya treating you?" "How's Kaya?" These questions, said in various tones, from concerned to curious, have become their staple greeting, and "Good" has become my autoreply.
Farewell, Paalam, Adieu, Adios, Sayonara!
Most football fans and supporters will most probably associate me with Global, but in the interest of full disclosure, the Global FC (and Azkals) part of my football chapter has just officially ended. I am now moving on to a new page with a new club.
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Home | News Tuesday 26 July 2011
South Sudan avails new foreign policy, to open 54 embassies
July 25, 2011 (JUBA) — The South Sudan on Monday availed new foreign policy including opening a total of 54 new diplomatic missions around the world.
Barnaba Marial Benjami (ST)
Barnaba Marial Benjamin, a caretaker Minister of Information and official South Sudanese government's spokesperson on Monday told journalist at a press briefing that the newly born state has prepared a new foreign policy strategy following review of existing agreements, including agreement on sharing of Nile river benefits.
"The country has planned new trade agreements with different countries and will open embassies and consulates around the world with new diplomatic service staff," Barnaba said.
The minister said the newly independent country plans to increase the number of diplomatic missions to 54 in the future. Around 34 diplomatic missions will be opened in a first phase in addition to the 13 diplomatic missions already established.
In line with the 2005 peace agreement implementation the South Sudan government opened Liaison Offices in some neighboring countries and Western countries to manage its interests and regional cooperation.
The minister said that tourists who want to visit South Sudan could apply to the missions. "But, visitors from those countries, where we have no diplomatic missions for the time being, will be granted visa on arrival", he said.
He further added that the country has already become a member of the United Nations and remaining looking forward to join number of international institutions including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
"We also have plans to become a member of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Eastern Africa and will also sign bilateral and mutual agreements with various countries", he stressed.
The minister said the Republic of South Sudan is working to open an embassy in the United Arab Emirates to boost economic and trade relations between the two countries. He said there are daily cargo flight between the UAE and Juba. The Republic of South Sudan has good ties with Egypt and many South Sudanese students are in Egypt for study and training purposes.
Many states around the world recognized the republic of South Sudan which is proclaimed its independence on 9 July after January's referendum on self determination where South Sudanese voted overwhelmingly in favor of secession. Sudan was the first to recognize the new state on 8 July 2011.
He said the South would continue to work with the North as an independent and sovereign state as both the countries have common economic and security interests. He further said that the parties are currently scheduled to resume negotiation on some of the outstanding issues, such as border demarcation, the issue of Abyei, and oil revenues.
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Karrierjét 2000-ben kezdte a Viaje de ida y vueltában.

2002-ben szerepet kapott az Impulsosban.

2006-ban a Películas para no dormir: La culpa című filmben Marta szerepét játszotta.

2012-ben szerepet kapott a Matalobos című sorozatban.

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Yalda Night (Shab-e Chelleh) means "Night of Birth" is Persian winter event which is commemorated on or around December 20 or 21 each year.
Nowruz, the celebration of Iranian New Year, starts on March 20 and is considered the most important holiday in Iran.
The Festival of Fire: An Iranian ancient festival celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year, before Nowruz Contents, back at least 1700 BCE. Jumping over the fire, Spoon-banging, Fireworks and more.
Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar. For the majority of Shi'a Muslims, Ashura marks the climax of the Remembrance of Muharram, and commemorates the death of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad at the Battle of Karbala on 10 Muharram in the year 61 AH.


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Black Ship Festival
March 25, 2017 davisg022 1 Comment
The Black Ships was the name given to Western vessels arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries.
In 1543 Portuguese initiated the first contacts, establishing a trade route linking Goa to Nagasaki. The large carracks engaged in this trade had the hull painted black with pitch, and the term came to represent all western vessels. In 1639, after suppressing a rebellion blamed on the Christian influence, the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate retreated into an isolationist policy. During this "locked state", contact with Japan by Westerners was restricted to Dejima island at Nagasaki.
In 1844, William II of the Netherlands urged Japan to open, but was rejected. On July 8, 1853, the U.S. Navy steamed four warships into the bay at Edo and threatened to attack if Japan did not begin trade with the West. Their arrival marked the reopening of the country to political dialogue after more than two hundred years of self-imposed isolation. Trade with Western nations would not come until the Treaty of Amity and Commerce more than five years later.
In particular, Black Ships refers to Mississippi, Plymouth, Saratoga, and Susquehanna of the Perry Expedition for the opening of Japan, 1852-1854, that arrived on July 14, 1853 at Uraga Harbor in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry. Black refers to the black color of the older sailing vessels, and the black smoke from the coal-fired steam engines of the American ships. In this sense, the kurofune became a symbol of the ending of isolation.
Commodore Perry's superior military force was the principal factor in negotiating a treaty allowing American trade with Japan, thus effectively ending the isolation period of more than 200 years in which trading with Japan had been permitted to the Dutch and Chinese exclusively.
The sight of the four ships entering Edo Bay (Tokyo Bay), roaring black smoke into the air and capable of moving under their own power, deeply frightened the Japanese.Perry ignored the requests arriving from the shore that he should move to Nagasaki—the official port for trade with the outside—and threatened in turn to take his ships directly to Edo, and burn the city to the ground if he was not allowed to land. It was eventually agreed upon that he should land nearby at Kurihama, whereupon he delivered his letter and left.
The following year, at the Convention of Kanagawa, Perry returned with a fleet of eight of the fearsome Black Ships, to demonstrate the power of the United States navy, and to lend weight to his announcement that he would not leave again, until he had a treaty. In the interim following his previous visit, the Tokugawa shogunate had learned about the staggering destruction of the Chinese fleet by a handful of British warships in 1841 during the First Opium War, and about China's subsequent loss of Hong Kong to British sovereignty. The shogunate realized that—if they wished for their country to avoid a similar fate—they would need to make peace with the west.
After a roughly a month of negotiations, the Shogun's officials presented Perry with the Treaty of Peace and Amity. Perry refused certain conditions of the treaty but agreed to defer their resolution to a later time, and finally establishing formal diplomatic relations between Japan and the United States. The eight ships departed, leaving behind a consul at Shimoda to negotiate a more permanent agreement. The Harris Treaty was signed with the United States on July 29, 1858, and within five years of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Amity, Japan had moved to sign treaties with other western countries.
The most famous festival of Shimoda celebrates in honor of the arrival on the Blackship and Commodore Perry landing in Japan to the world. The three-day festival commemorates the arrival of US Commodore Mathew Perry 152 years ago. It was US Commodore Mathew Perry and a squadron of nine so-called black ships that forced the opening of Shimoda port in 1854. His statue stands in Shimoda City where he disembarked his black ship. There's also a street named after him. The Black Ships Festival celebrates the signing of the treaty, which brought the two countries together as trading partners. Lively parades and events commemorate the arrival of Commodore Perry.
A shipmate's story of one Black Ship festival.
By: Brion Boyles
SO, not really a "sea" story, but a river story…The Japanese port-city of Shimoda hosts an annual "Black Ship Festival", in honor of Admiral Perry's 1854 visit to Japan and the US Navy sends a ship there every year as an emissary of good will.
My visit there was while aboard the USS WHITE PLAINS (AFS-4). On our Black Ship visit, the town invited a crew of us to come to the river thru town, where it was reported the townsfolk had prepared a raft for the WHITE PLAINS to participate in the Black Ship river race. I don't remember who I went with, but four of us got down to the river and were floored by the wonderful range of very ornate and creative rafts already in the river…There was a replica of Perry's ship, a space shuttle, a VW, several neat "junks" …just a great show. Then they took us to our "vessel"…a "plank" deck of about a half-dozen bamboo poles secured on top of 3 inner tubes, with a couple of bamboo "flag poles' drooping to port and starboard. Well, we weren't going to let our meager vessel dim our enthusiasm….although the fact that all the other crews were covered head-to-toe in wetsuits and hypothermia gear and we were in cut-off dungarees and t-shirts. THAT gave us some pause. Nonetheless, we climbed into the frigid, scrotum-shrivelling water, and when the starter gun fired, we paddled for all our worth—-bamboo deck a rattlin', flagpoles flailing madly like samurai swords cutting the air…and while everyone else's magnificent rafts puttered about or started to come apart under the strain, we managed to keep our cluster of sticks and tubes moving rapidly downriver and finished 3rd out of a field of about 50.
Well, 1st place prize was a couple bottles of sake and Suntory whiskey, 2nd place was a case of Budweiser and 3rd was a case of frozen fish. We accepted our frozen fish with grace, but the 2nd place team could sense our disappointment and bewilderment…What the FUCK were we sailors going to do with a giant box of frozen fish?–and they swapped us the case of beer…which we sat down with them on the rivershore and drank. Captain Kerr had given us a handful of WHITE PLAINS Zippo's to give out…I got too drunk and forgot to give out my last two…We ended the night in a big pile of snoring sailors on the tatami mats of some local's living room. I gave him one of the remaining waterlogged Zippo's as we left the next morning. By the proud look on his face, I could have spent the next night with his daughter… SHIMODA BLACK SHIP FESTIVAL, 1983.
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Uraga was where Will Adams built the JN'S a western style sailing vessel.
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The Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco Tlatelolco (officially Conjunto Urbano Presidente López Mateos) is the largest apartment complex in Mexico, and second largest in North America, after New York's Co-op City. The complex is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. It was built in the 1960s by architect Mario Pani. Originally, the complex had 102 apartment buildings, with its own schools, hospitals, stores and more, to make it a city within a city. It was also created to be a kind of human habitat and includes artwork such as murals and green spaces such as the Santiago Tlatelolco Garden. Today, the complex is smaller than it was and in a state of deterioration, mostly due to the effects and after effects of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. This quake caused the immediate collapse of the Nuevo León building with others being demolished in the months afterwards. Further earthquakes in 1993 caused the condemnation of more buildings. In addition to the lost buildings, many residents eventually undersold or abandoned their apartments, as repairs were either never made or made poorly.

Today the complex consists of 90 apartment buildings, divided into three sections bordered by Avenida de los Insurgentes, Eje 1 Poniente Guerrero, Eje Central and Paseo de la Reforma. Originally, the complex was designed to house people from different economic social strata, but today almost all residents are of middle to middle-low income. Crime is a major problem, as is the structural integrity of some of the remaining buildings.

Construction

The complex was ordered built by the administration of President Adolfo López Mateos, between 1960 and 1965, with financing and condominium administration provided by the Banco Nacional Hipotecario, Urbano y de Obras Publicas, S.A. The area has been an urban center since the pre-Hispanic period, when it began as an independent city state on an island in Lake Texcoco. By the time Spaniards arrived, the island had been incorporated into the Aztec Empire centered in the nearby island city of Tenochtitlan. Tlatelolco was famous for its large market, which continued to exist after the Spanish conquest. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the area was a train yard for the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México. The modern apartment complex was built over the then-abandoned train yard.  It surrounds the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, a place that symbolizes the synthesis of Mexico's pre-Hispanic  and colonial pasts with the modern day. This plaza contains the archeological site of Tlatelolco with its ceremonial center, the parish church of Santiago Tlatelolco and the modern buildings that surround them, including a building associated with the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. The project involved a total of 130 buildings over an area of , with schools, hospitals, markets, businesses, church and police stations. Its signature building was the Torre Insignia or Torre Banobras. This was built in the form of a triangle or lance point (to resist earthquakes) 127 meters high with 24 floors.  It was originally surrounded by gardens and had a large reflective pool. This tower contains the Carrillon Clasico, one of the world's few glockenspiels and the only one in Mexico City. It consists of 47 metallic bells, considered to be the optimal number for four octaves. They were cast in Belgium and weigh 26 tons.  The main bells are dedicated to Hidalgo, Morelos, Cuauhtémoc, Madero and López Mateos . A sixth bell is dedicated to relations between Mexico and Belgium.

The complex was divided into three sections. Section one was created for family with limited resources. It aligns with the Torre de Baniobras.  Section two was designed for the middle class with Section three, between Eje Central and Paseo de la Reforma, for the wealthy. The complex's main park, twice the size of the Alameda Central, was built in Romantic style. This is known as the Santiago Tlatelolco Garden. Access is through a number of arched entryways, on gray and red stone paths which join in the center.  Off the paths are maintained green areas. The garden was built as an integral part of the complex to provide green space. Murals were commissioned for a number of the buildings. The first and most important is located on the Aguascalientes Building, near the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. It contains four panels, one on each side of the building, dealing with the history of Tlatelolco. This was painted by Nicandro Puente. This same artist also created other works here including Tlatelolco, raíz y expresión de México (1998), Homenaje a la mujer (1999) and 1985: Sismo y resurrección (2000) .

The project was awarded to architect Mario Pani (along with Ricardo de Robina) at a time when Mexico and Mexico City was experiencing rapid economic expansion. Born in 1911, Mario Pani was a Mexican architect who mostly grew up in Europe and obtained his degree in architecture from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1934. After returning to Mexico, he became part of a movement to make Mexico, especially Mexico City, modern, post-Revolution and progressive. Pani's work focused on major residential centers such as large apartment buildings and condominiums. Works like Nonoalco are classified as "supermanzanas" or "super (city) blocks." His work changed the focus of urban housing from horizontal to vertical.  His works are marked by being monumental, simple and recurring features. At their height, they were considered to be symbols of Mexican prosperity. Works prior to this included Hotel Reforma (1936), Hotel Plaza (1946), Conservatorio Nacional de Musica (1946), the Escuela Nacional de Maestros (1947), as well the apartment complexes Multifamiliar Alemán (1950) and Multifamiliar Juárez.  These were complexes for the working class, integrating parks, artwork (especially murals) and other features in order to create a "habitat."

However, the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco would become his best known work. He created the area as a city within a city, to be autonomous with each block having all the services necessary for residents. The idea was to eliminate the need to leave the area, not even to work. Pani integrated the principles of functionalism as it was conceived and practiced at the end of the 1950s.

Decline

Quality of life in the area diminished after the Tlatelolco massacre on 2 October 1968, which occurred on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. The area's only fire station closed during that year and police presence began to diminish, leading to rising crime. The complex suffered damage from two small earthquakes in 1979.

However, deterioration greatly accelerated with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Before 19 September 1985, the complex consisted of 102 apartment buildings, seven medical facilities, twenty two schools, and about 500 small businesses serving the 80,000 residents living there. It was still considered the most important complex of its kind in the country.

The complex is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough, which is considered to be a high risk area for earthquake activity most of it lies on former lakebed, with its soft, waterlogged soils. These soils are crisscrossed with small fault lines of their own. These intensify shockwaves that pass through the area from quakes that occurs on Mexico's Pacific coast. Within the borough, Nonoalco-Tlatelolco is one of eleven colonias or neighborhoods considered to be at highest risk. The complex is in a "dynamic amplification" zone, where the shockwaves of a quake over 7 on the Richter scale become strongly amplified.

During the 90 seconds the ground shook on that day, two of the three sections of the Nuevo León building fell with about 500 dead, more than 200 missing and 27 orphans. Other buildings, such as the Yucatán, threatened to collapse that day, but did not.  All the buildings suffered damage but along with the collapsed Nuevo León building, buildings such as those called Veracruz, Yucatán and Oaxaca suffered severe damage such as severely cracked foundations. Twelve buildings in the complex were so severely damaged that they were demolished in the next six months. 32 of the buildings were in need of major repairs. Twenty seven were demolished completely. Many remained standing but some of these were too dangerous to occupy at all. The severe damage to this and to the Mulifamiliar Juàrez made for a large percentage of the 3,000 housing units lost on that day. Nonoalco-Tlatelolco was declared a disaster area. What remained of the Nuevo León building and the Campeche building were the first to be demolished. This area would become the Nuevo León Plaza. The reconstruction contract the city government signed promised to return residents to their units in two years.  The project lasted until late in the 1990s. Thirty buildings were partially destroyed, removing upper floors. Sixty buildings received minor repairs. Ten were reinforced. The initially budgeted money ran out in six years. Repairs made were shoddy, replacing door, floors and more with inferior materials. Even baths and integrated kitchens which were not damaged were taken out and replaced with inferior ones. Many, who could not afford to wait further, sold their units at bargain prices, often to those politically connected, or just abandoned them altogether, allowing squatters to move in.

Another quake in 1993, caused the demolition of the Atizapán and 20 de Noviembre buildings as well as the two Tecpan towers. The Torre Insignia was abandoned in the same year. Despite repair work being officially declared finished in 1995, buildings were left with large cracks in the wall, loose wiring, half done projects, unhinged door, inoperable elevators and more. This is in spite of the 600 million pesos spent on the effort. In that year, the complex was left with approximately 40,000 inhabitants in 90 buildings and 10,560 apartments.

A number of buildings in the complex were damaged once again by a 6.3 Guerrero-centered quake that passed through Mexico City in 2007.

The complex today

The complex is bounded by Avenida Manuel González, Paseo de la Reforma, Calzada Ricardo Flores Magón and Avenida de los Insurgentes Norte. It occupies approximately 946,000 m2  and remains as the largest vertical apartments complex in Mexico. Currently 55,000 people live there with 40% being senior citizens and retired.

Twenty eight percent of the space is dedicated to green spaces, sidewalks and roadway. Its main road extends from east to west, measuring 2.5 km. There are 22 schools, three health clinics, a hospital, three social clubs, a union office, four movie theaters, a Metro stop, a cultural building of UNAM (which used to be the SRE building) as well as 90 apartment buildings.

Since 1985, a number of preventative measures have been taken in the surviving buildings including inspections and the removal of accessory or decorative features that may be in danger of falling off. However, the deterioration of the area continues. Today, the socioeconomic level of the complex is low or very low income. Many residents blame the government for failing to halt the deterioration. Others also blame residents' failure to identify themselves as part of a community and as owners of or responsible for the complex's common spaces. This is especially true in the parks and other spaces between the buildings.

The two major issues for the complex are crime and the structural risk and maintenance of the area. The complex and surrounding neighborhoods such as Colonia Morelos, Atlampla,  Santa María la Ribera, Colonia Guerrero, Tepito, Colonia Buenavista, and San Simon Tolonahuac and Colonia Peralvillo are all high crime areas, which makes the security a great problem to resolve. The most common infractions are petty robbery, urination in public areas, drugs distribution and public drinking. About three arrests per day are made for these offenses. However, there is not enough police coverage for the complex. The area should have, as a minimum, 30 police assigned to each section, for a total of 90. The  17th Group of Auxiliary Police is assigned to the area,  but there are only six security modules with only six police each. Of the six mini police stations there, three are abandoned or used as storage, and the remaining three do not have telephone lines to allow residents to call directly. It is rare to find police on patrol there at night, and police from outside refuse to enter there. This has allowed eleven known gangs to establish a presence, with members from age 12 to 20. These gangs are dedicated to the sale of drugs, muggings and car theft. An area of 200,000 m2 suffers an average of six serious crimes per day and the theft of fourteen cars per month. Some of the worst activity occurs in the Chihuahua building. Crime against residents is worst in the common areas, with about half having witnessed or been victim of a crime, usually robbery, both in the streets and in their homes and businesses. Homicide is also common.

Structural problems include the relatively fragile state of the remaining buildings and their susceptibility to further damage. The weight of the complex is causing the subsoil to sink. In addition to the problems remaining from inadequate earthquake repairs, many of the buildings are leaning as well. This has prompted monitoring from both the city government and several universities over the 2000s. Because of fears of further damage, residents of the complex have opposed construction projects such as a vehicular overpass on Ricardo Flores Magón street, and more recently, the construction and operation of Line 3 of the city's Metrobus, which is being constructed in 2010.

In addition to the soundness of the structures, there are problems with homeless and squatters, graffiti, flooding due to lack of pumps, the lack of garbage collection leading to rat infestations and the destruction of parks and other common areas.

Principal buildings

Torre Insignia or Torre Banobras
127 meters; 25 floors
Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco-UNAM
100 meters; 24 floors
 5 de Febrero
87 meters; 24 floors
 Chamizal
87 meters; 24 floors
 Coahuila
87 meters; 24 floors
 Cuauhtémoc
87 meters; 24 floors
 Revolución de 1910
87 meters; 24 floors
 Veracruz
87 meters; 24 floors
 Zacatecas
87 meters; 24 floors
 Chihuahua
58 meters; 15 floors

 Ignacio Allende
58 meters; 15 floors
 Ignacio Ramírez
58 meters; 15 floors
 Ignacio Zaragoza
58 meters; 15 floors
 ISSSTE 10
58 meters; 15 floors
 ISSSTE 11
58 meters; 15 floors
 José María Arteaga
58 meters; 15 floors
 Miguel Hidalgo
58 meters; 15 floors
 Presidente Juárez
58 meters; 15 floors
 Tamaulipas
58 meters; 15 floors

Buildings which no longer exist
20 de Noviembre  87 meters     24 floors
Atizapan     87 meters     24 floors
Huizachal     87 meters     24 floors
Oaxaca     87 meters     24 floors
Tecpan (Jalisco)     87 meters     24 floors
Tecpan II (Oaxaca)    87 meters     24 floors
Churubusco     58 meters      15 floors
Guelatao     58 meters     16 floors
Nuevo León         58 meters     15 floors
Ignacio Comonfort     8 floors
Ignacio M. Altamirano     8 floors
Jesús Terán     8 floors
Ponciano Arriaga     8 floors

References

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Apartment buildings
Buildings and structures in Mexico City
Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
Neighborhoods in Mexico City
Residential skyscrapers in Mexico


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According to a new report, Ramona Singer may not return to The Real Housewives of New York City next season.
"The only original New York cast member who has never left from day one is Ramona Singer but now her time is up," a source told Radar Online.
"Ramona will not be invited back to the next season of the show, which is currently not in production for a couple of reasons. One, she is too expensive. She is the only lady that has been on the show from day one, (Countess LuAnn was demoted to 'a friend' before returning as a full-time cast member) and her salary reflects it," the source explained.
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"Ramona is furious that the show is changing. She doesn't understand why her behavior isn't great TV anymore. After over a decade of being rewarded for saying and doing the things she has done, she does not understand what the problem is," the source added.
Insiders add that officially Bravo will say that no decision has been made yet, but in reality they have all already said 'goodbye' to Ramona. The RHONY producers are clearly trying to fix the show's problems given the ratings have drastically dropped this season, reports Radar Online.
The news comes after it was reported last month that a cast shakeup is in the works for RHONY.
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I had a mom ask me to do a Organizer for a craft because her daughter needed one. I have made one before that hangs in my bathroom that holds necklaces, and hanging earnings, but not so great for studs certainly not hair bows. So that started my search an all purpose organizer some don't quite fit that category but thought they were cute. So this first one is the one I'm going to make for a craft class for August, I like it because of the fact you can change and design the inside anyway you want with accessories that are sold at almost type of hardware store. I've got all the stuff to make a sample but just haven't gone out to endure the heat to make the frame for the peg board. But by next week it will be done.
Love this Idea also, I'm going to have to make me one of these also. a Magnet makeup holder. I have drawer to put it in, but find I always leave it on top of the counter.
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There are a couple things you can do if you don't have your paperwork in order yet. First, you can file a form 4868 before April 17th. This form will extend the filing period 6 months, until October 15th, 2006. According to the IRS, taxpayers do not need to sign the extension request or provide an explanation for requesting an extension. It does not extend the payment due date. You are still responsible for paying your taxes by April 17th. So estimate what you owe and send it in along with form 4868. Always read the instructions carefully on these forms first.
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The Danforth Review
21st century literature since 1999 ~ canadian ~ short stories
Fiction #77: Linda Hutsell-Manning
Margaret is sure the place will be packed. A controversial film in its day Jan, the local librarian decided, with North Korea threatening nuclear war and Trump tweeting insanities, dusting off The Day After would be timely. In 1983, 100 million people watched the world end, making it the highest-rated TV film in history. Back then, Margaret was immersed in Beowulf and Whitman, too busy with graduate studies to watch TV, unaware of nuclear build up or the Doomsday clock. With no internet, it was a brief horror that came and faded into obscurity. Now, one click warns impending doom, the clock's hands hovering, the librarian says, at two and a half minutes to midnight.
So why is the turnout less than twenty? Jan says it's about what she expected.
No one speaks when it's over. They file out quickly with only the odd whisper, nervous giggle. Margaret tries to remember why it is she came in the first place - her well-honed guilt over things she can't control - acquaintances reminding her that, because she's a writer and cares about the planet, she should see the film?
Now she's transfixed, impaled with facts and horrors about nuclear war - information she can do nothing about but feels compelled to act upon. Horrific possibilities, Hiroshima revisited. She's always being told she's too emotional, too sensitive. The published author of a number of successful children's books, she writes whimsical stories that keep her demons and traumatic childhood at bay. She has chosen to ignore her past and it's working. Most of the time. When violence directly confronts her, however, rationality peels off, layer by layer down to raw nerve endings. The film has pulled her into an emotional barbed wire tunnel, forcing her to crawl.
A heady autumn afternoon greets her. Maple trees line the street, their brilliant colors splashing the landscape. She knows she must walk the horror off, like a drunk, one step at a time; concentrate on cars, houses, people, concrete objects that will disperse the black and white images of annihilation.
A young woman and a small child approach - a cherubic blonde boy, his short arm held vertical in his mother's swinging hand. She carries library books; he chatters incessantly. His childish anticipation is obvious, infectious.
It isn't until the two of them are in front of her that Margaret sees the bandage - a clean white patch over the child's eye.
Red-leaved maple trees blaze even redder. The woman and child stand blackened and burned, the bandage filthy and ripped. They stared at her in mute horror, whites of their eyes multiplying into stricken eyes from the film.
For an instant she thinks she'll scream, but the Dantean instant is swallowed with their heels clicking on the sidewalk. Margaret clenches her fingernails into her palms until pain reminds her where and who she is: part of the human race, linked to life as a mother, wife, lover, one who has nurtured, comforted, protected. Gender binds her to approximately fifty percent of the human race, fifty percent who should resist what the film warns could be the world's approaching annihilation, the cold clicking of the nuclear clock. Her pain dulls slightly. She breathes deeply and concentrates on the side walk.
Mundane but necessary details of her life filter in as a temporary haven. She's a writer, has readings, deadlines to say nothing of the endless myriad of homemaking responsibilities. She set this morning aside, apart from career and family, only to feel now that the film's prognosis could destroy both, the kaleidoscope patterns of her life shattering into small plastic-coloured pieces at her feet.
In exasperation, she discovers she has walked full circle, past her parked car and around the block back to the library. By this afternoon, her children will be home from high school, full of anecdotes, impending deadlines, hopes, frustrations. As she retraces her steps and turns on the car ignition, the film narrator's voice intrudes.
You will be indeed fortunate if you are with your loved ones.
The sound of the car engine pushes the voice back. Tonight is one of the few times they will all be together, the end of the school and work week.
Turning into her driveway, their solid brick house seems suddenly frail. She ignores the relentless attention of two cats and an aging dog, retreats to her third floor office and types in Doomsday clock. Thirty years ago is not now. She needs to know. Google dutifully co-operates with an interminable list of articles and prophecies about current nuclear buildup and political unrest. She has less than an hour before her family arrives home.
In a recent article in The Washington Post, Dan Zak tells her that "according to International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the detonation of 100 nuclear warheads — there are about 15,000 on the planet right now — could kill 2 billion people."
Peter their eldest, will arrive on his motorcycle, tired and work-worn from a job he plans to endure until he can finance more education. He'll harangue the cost of fuel, his perceived necessities, how they deplete his bank account, threaten his future.
Hillary Clinton has warned that trigger-happy Trump is liable to press the nuclear button. According to Zac "there is no button. It's a briefcase that follows the US president everywhere: onto Air Force One, onto the golf course, onto elevators. Inside is a manual for conducting nuclear war. A how-to in case of. The briefcase is aluminum, 45 pounds and clad in leather."*
Andy in grade twelve, will burst in, rapid firing the day's events, complaining about demands of his part-time job, wanting assurance about taking a year off to work before leaving for university and architecture.
"Carrying the briefcase is a job shared among five military aides, one from each branch of the U.S. armed forces. The manual inside is more like a takeout menu, but instead of picking between numbered Chinese dishes, the president would choose cities or military installations in, say, Russia or China (or both) to attack."
Kathleen, the youngest, unaware of the beauty radiating from her youthful body, the power and perception of her own mind, will alternately ask advice and parade independence. No definite plans, only endless possibilities.
"It's more complicated in real life, but not less scary. To authorize an attack, the president would use a card of verification codes that is, ideally, on his person at all times. The briefcase is referred to as "the football," the card as "the biscuit."
Margaret returns downstairs to peel potatoes, concentrate on oven temperature and table setting. Right on cue, all three children storm into the kitchen, depositing belongings in her work path, full of demanding chatter: vibrant glowing bodies, reflections of herself, her husband, their own uniqueness. Margaret drinks it all in, asks too many questions, hugs each once too often. One by one, they ask her quietly if she's had a bad day. Can they do anything to help?
"At the president's disposal right now are a little over 900 nuclear warheads deployed on various "delivery vehicles" around the planet. Some sit atop missiles buried in the ground in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. Some are carried by submarines that are patrolling the North Atlantic and Western Pacific. Others are ready to be loaded onto aircraft in Missouri, North Dakota, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey."
Margaret has pushed her pain into a tight ball and secured it but, at the touch of a warm hand on her shoulder or the sound of a concerned whisper in her ear, it threatens to escape. She laughs a lot, rough-houses Kathleen, pretends she's fine. Several times their youthful exuberance is almost more than she can bear. Self control may well be sanity's bottom line.
"Some of these warheads can be launched within minutes of the president's order, hit anywhere in the world within a half hour, and deliver 20 times the explosive force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The president can order this without consulting Congress, without being checked by the Supreme Court."
She locks herself in the bathroom and turning on both taps, sobs into a towel. Later, face splashed pain clean, she calls shakily up the stairs that she's going to pick up Russell at the commuter bus, home after a week in the city. Andy's loud rock station provides a convenient diversion. She knows they sense her inner turbulence and have retreated to their respective rooms.
The resplendent afternoon has dwindled into a dour grey evening. Russell is tired and says little on the way home. His 'how are you' and kiss on the cheek turns her instantly into a plastic mannequin whose tough exterior emanates anger masquerading hidden pain. Why, when she is turmoil, does she want least comfort? As if she needs pain and hoards it, embellishes it. Margaret translates Russell's silence into indifference.
"There have been a number of almost mistakes. In 1961, a B-52 bomber broke up over North Carolina and dropped two warheads to the earth; each had the potential to explode with the force of 200-plus Hiroshimas."
Once home, the children rush down to kidnap Russell's attention. Margaret bangs things in the kitchen, pretending she doesn't mind. She's draining pasta when Kathleen bursts in with 'look what Dad's brought you'. Flowers from a street side vendor hidden in his briefcase. The lurch in her chest makes half the spaghetti slide into the sink.
Kathleen hands her the bouquet and, steering her toward the cupboard for a vase, tells her she'll take over in the kitchen. Margaret knows she's close to losing control. She lectures herself with the 'good home, kind husband, healthy children, successful author' lecture. Once in the dining room with the flowers, she notices a bottle of wine on the table. Russell, outwardly unresponsive, is still wonderfully kind and generous. She hasn't even combed her hair or put on lipstick. She could still but, instead, pours a glass of wine and sits down.
"In 1979, Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was told that hundreds of missiles were on their way from the Soviet Union; a minute before he called the president to coordinate a devastating response, he was told that the military had misinterpreted a training exercise."
In the living room, Russell and the boys carry on their usual frenetic conversation, Peter, on one side, into serious details concerning motorcycles while Andy, on the other, pontificates a Chemistry problem. Russell always seems to enjoy this, the back and forth bantering, a three way verbal fencing match.
Kathleen calls from the kitchen that she needs assistance and, moments later, Margaret's family stream in around her gallantly bearing the feast. They never ask directly but they always seem to sense her fragility. Margaret can't be sure whether it's their astuteness or her transparency. The children have seen the film - Kathleen said she and Andy watched it at school earlier that week. They survived. Why can't she?
"In 1983 and 1995, Moscow came within minutes of retaliating against false alarms — the first prompted by sunlight reflecting off clouds, the second by a NASA research rocket."
She knows she's too quiet at supper but her quiescence lets Russell monopolize the children. She feels their energy wash over him, watches him drawn into spirited discussions and rivalry. It soothes her, a momentary respite.
Afterward, Russell builds a fire in the Franklin stove and turns on the radio. On Friday nights, their ceremony involves sitting a guarded distance from one another, each recounting the week's events, putting out silent antennae to re-establish a relationship polarized by the week's separation.
"In 2007, six warheads were mistakenly flown from North Dakota to Louisiana before anyone realized that nuclear weapons had been in the air over the United States."
Still Margaret says nothing about the film, and Russell, sensing her self-imposed distancing, retreats into the newspaper. She watches him, his strong features, large sensuous mouth - she's adored him since they first met. Adored, and at times, hated him, often at the same time for the same reasons. He still has such a pull on her, even after thirty-three years.
"The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic estimation of global peril, has ticked closer to the midnight of Armageddon since 2010. It was six minutes to midnight then. In 2012, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the clock to five minutes to midnight. In 2013, to three." Since Trump and Kim Jong-un have begun sparring, two and a half.
The fluid-voiced radio announcer says twelve cellists from the Berlin Philharmonic will play the Beatles' Yesterday, a taped concert with the audience clapping passionately as soon as they recognize the piece. She can see them - twelve cellists of international stature, alone on stage, twelve sets of strings in plaintive ritual, the voice of humanity. As the piece ends, audience response is tumultuous.
Margaret stares at the crackling fire licking seductively at the blackening wood. Why are they clapping? Music is nothing but a drug to lull them, art a distraction from death's reality. The artist, and she includes herself, is no more than a propagator of lies, lulling a humanity that could, within minutes, turn into indifferent gasses, mutilation.
The cellos begin again. She drifts into their melancholy. A piece of wood snaps violently, sending a spark through the grate. Margaret jumps up to snuff it out and is impaled by sound and flame.
To be instantly dead. To be vaporized. But no, she would be burned and blinded, left groping through the rubble. Cold, sleet, wet snow. The sound of pain everywhere. Death dancing off to one side, mocking burned flesh, protruding bones.
The cellos play on, tripping across notes until audience applause and the commentator's voice pull her back into the room.
Russell looks up from his reading. "Going to sit down again?" His voice runs down her spine but the pain tells her that loving him right now is weakness.
"Margaret?"
She sinks down against his male presence, momentarily aware that the film's finality may not be inevitable, that this reality is still possible.
He places his hand on her knee and runs it up the inside of her leg, turning her pain to instant lust. She wants to ravage him right there on the couch. Impossible, of course, as the children could appear at any moment. Lust snaps back to pain and a voice reminds her she is not worthy of enjoyment, happiness, that her purgatory has not yet played out.
"Let's go to bed." He's either unaware of the shift or ignores it.
"I should let the dog out."
As they stand, Russell grasps her shoulders firmly, gazes at her. "I love you," he says quietly, then disappears up the stairs. Numbness has set in, her body's reaction to anguish overload. She's tired and it's too heavy.
Margaret stands in the doorway watching the dog sniff his way into the evening's damp grass. An over-ripe moon hangs low on the horizon, the sky star-speckled. From the doorway, she watches his dark form move along the front hedge, faintly hears TV sounds from inside. The children have stayed home this evening - must be a good movie. She whistles for the dog but he's ignoring her, on nightly patrol.
That a two hour film should have such an effect on her is irrational. Is she going mad? Middle aged women do that sort of thing - one of the escape hatches. To escape what: A wonderful husband, three talented vibrant children, continuing book sales, a good middle-class life with more love, more comfort than she ever dreamed of as a child?
No. To escape herself, though at this point, she is not ready to admit it, that invisible line of black pain that shadows wherever she goes, whatever she does. It tags onto things, situations, people, wrenching her into knots, distorting reality. The film is exactly the kind of thing it feeds on.
She turns on the porch light and steps outside, listening to the TV's drone, the dog sniffing somewhere in a distant flowerbed. She imagines Russell's body outlined under the sheets, waiting. You will indeed be fortunate if you are with your loved ones. The pain snaps and she spins into it again. It would be best if it happened now while they are together in the house. They could comfort each other. Ridiculous because nothing is going to happen. She's locked into a mental pattern that insists she must simulate pain in order to fully understand. Understand what and why?
Physical pain for herself she can manage, being acquainted with its power, something to be endured, fought against, ultimately mastered. But this pain would be for everyone - her own beautiful children, almost grown, yet a mere breath from being infants gazing with trusting eyes. She thinks of children clustered around her feet at libraries and schools, so easily enraptured by fantasies she spins for them.
Thousands of faces watching, waiting. Their bones to litter a dead earth gone mad in pursuit of power.
The sound of a piano sonata drifts now into the night air, Kathleen playing the piano. One of life's miracles, watching talent spring from her children, abilities she can only dream of. Notes drift through the darkness to surround her, demanding she acknowledge the life flowing through them - Kathleen's young arms, strong fingers, the dip and scratch of a pen transcribing the original manuscript - all reborn through the yellowed keys of their old upright. Kathleen, woman-child sitting at the piano, nurtured and loved, waiting for life to begin.
Only the blackened ivories of the piano remain, askew against a projecting section of the stone foundation. The pen, the sound, the hand swallowed like the ozone layer, evaporated into a cold, dead earth.
The wind picks up and a sharp gust chills her face, throwing dead leaves in drunken swirls across the light-streaked lawn. Calling the dog again, she moves into shadow, squints to locate his moving form. In the back corner of the yard where autumn-weary flowers lay flattened in their beds, she sees the dog's tail thumping furiously. At the sound of her footsteps, he turns to nose her legs, his body rippling with anticipation. "What is it?" she says, giving his back a pat. "Find a treasure?" He dives forward again and she bends over to see he's discovered a small lifeless form. "It's dead," she says, turning away. "Come on, now, time to go in." The dog noses her again, bends toward the small lifeless shape.
A dead bird on the blackened earth.
She stands impaled like a moth, staring at the thing. She could get a shovel and bury or leave it. What difference will it make? Drawn by the dog's seeming urgency, she bends down to take a closer look and notices a slight opening and closing of its yellow-edged beak. She picks it up, cupping her hand around its faint heartbeat, a fall migration casualty, survival only for the fittest.
Margaret has rescued birds before, more than she cares to remember, but always in the spring or early summer when baskets or boxes can be rigged on clothes lines or window ledges. She can't take it in the house, not with two cats, not this time of year.
She walks toward bushes alongside the house, the dog following close behind. Light from the window spills onto the lawn, the branches black beneath. If she leaves the bird underneath this thick foliage, it will be out of wind and rain to survive or not. As she tips her hand under the bush, the bird, which to this point has remained perfectly still and listless, clamps its overly-long claws around her finger. She pushes gently with her other hand. The grip increases.
"I can't take you inside," she says, pulling her hand back, staring at its small grey body. The bird opens hooded lids, staring back. Something snaps then, like a door opening unexpectedly, its back draft dissolving the afternoon's apocalypse, closing to restore sanity.
The bird opens and closes its beak again, more precisely this time. "All right," Margaret whispers, "you win," and only after she tucks the bird inside her open jacket, will it release its claws from her finger to rest in her hand. For tonight, she'll make a place for it in the basement furnace room. With luck, tomorrow it will be able to fly.
The visceral effects of the film have slipped back into the screen, the Doomsday clock's ticking lost in the night wind. Just before reaching the porch, over Kathleen's piano chords and the TV's drone, Margaret hears a faint chirping that resonates into her fingertips.
Quotes from Dan Zak's article "Nervous About Nukes Again? Here's What You Need to Know About The Button. (There is no button)" 3 August 2016 The Washington Post.
Linda Hutsell-Manning has eleven published children's books as well as short fiction and poetry in Grain, Quarry, lichen, Litwit Review, Prairie Journal Trust & The Danforth Review. Her latest novel is That Summer in Franklin, Second Story Press. In 2017, a play, A Certain Singing Teacher, was premiered; "Finding Moufette", a children's story, published online, Common Deer Press and an excerpt from her memoir re teaching in a one room school in the 1960's, published in Hill Spirits III by Blue Denim Press. She is currently completing this memoir.
Posted by danforth review at 8:40 PM
Brilliant writing and weaving between thought and action. Lovely to read and educational
A powerful and moving story.
Cassie March 19, 2018 at 3:43 PM
Beautifully inspired writing, I found myself completely immersed in the story and unable to put my iPad down until the end.
Prins Hagedorn Newfoundland March 19, 2018 at 10:28 PM
"a faint chirping that resonates...." great ending!
Wally Keeler March 20, 2018 at 11:38 PM
What a wonderful story, a fine blending of hard fact and soft fiction, of the horror and the humanity, of the local and the global. It brought back many memories of the time I witnessed the movie in 1983.
Ronald April 25, 2018 at 11:24 AM
Good writing!
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Cinema Memories
I was in Florida, and the weather sucked, so we went to see a movie. We loved it. We were both blown away by the brilliance of 'Spanglish' (We must've been high or something).
My friend Kev had never been abroad before. We took a trip to Denmark. We spent all our money on day one; by eating steak that was more expensive than our flights. Then I got ill. And Denmark is cold. So we stayed indoors... in the cinema. Kev didn't get to see much of Copenhagen but I got to see a lot of movies.
A girl who had the misfortune of being my girlfriend back in the day was treated by me to a romantic first kiss.. during a Michael Moore documentary. Isn't that what every woman dreams of? Looking back, it was probably the highlight of our relationship.
I saw 'This Is It' in New York with a woman I'd met only days before. We got pretty close, as humans often do, but now we're an ocean apart and Facebook is all we have.
I found a cinema in 'Sicily' which was just like Cinema Paradiso. It was magical, at least until the movie started, because watching 'Bridge To Terabithia' dubbed in Italian sucks.
And years ago it was just me, Abdul and Trev in the cinema. We sat in the front row, in fact, we sat on the floor, leaning back on our chairs, and we stared up at the screen and thought 'Spun' was the craziest film we'd seen in years.
And I walked out of 'Gothika' because it was awful. And 'Love In The Afternoon' was ruined a few months ago because I was stuck sitting next to the heaviest breather of all time. And I saw 'Juno' five times and I saw 'Lost In Translation' seven times.
And Jodie was the prettiest girl of my teenage years and we went to a movie but I didn't share my popcorn and I ate all of her big-bag-of-maltesers and after that she preferred James, which sucked because all he had going for him was everything.
And I remember seeing 'Elizabethtown' and thinking it was the best film ever, which it isn't; and i remember thinking 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang' was the most hilarious thing of all time, which it probably is.
And those are the ones that come to mind now, but there'll be others.
Great memories!
A few of mine are:
Winning tickets to watch Star Wars at the Odeon in Manchester.
Watching Black Swan at the cinema Vittorio in Bellagio(Italy) just last week.
Skipping lectures at university to watch films at The Cornerhouse, Django, Lone Star and Flesh And Bone will always stay in my mind.
But most of all I remember the old single screen suburban cinemas with seats in the balcony and an interval for refreshments.....happy days!
Happy Frog and I 10 April 2011 at 11:38
What a fantastic post. For me so much of my life and most memorable memories have revolved around film. I do not want to hijack your blog comments, but here are a few:
Going to see La Bamba in 1987 6 times with my first boyfriend as that was the only place you could get some privacy back then and never seeing the film. (More of a kid on the back row at that point I guess).
Dragging a girlfriend of mine to see Gone With The Wind at the cinema at Marble Arch in September of 1989 when they showed it as part of the 50 year anniversary celebrations. There was no one else there apart from us and I had to buy her a strawberry yoghurt with extra crushed nuts to placate her. I loved watching it on the big screen myself, but then I would.
Sitting in the Leicester Square Odeon in London in 1993 having just watch Schindler's List during its first week of release. The cinema was packed but no one said a single word. Not as the credits roled or as they filed out. You could have heard a pin drop. The friend I was with and myself didn't speak to each other for around 20 minutes, we were so lost in our thoughts and the power of that film.
Sitting at Reading University film club several weeks after the initial release of The Kings Speech in a completely packed theatre getting completely absorbed in the whole experience along with everyone else.
Robin the clumsy girl 11 April 2011 at 05:51
memories are a great thing, its to bad mine sucks :3
This is a fun idea for a post! I don't have too many but the ones I'll treasure forever is going to the movies on New Year's Eve when I was 15 with my late mother and brother, guess what we saw: a double feature of Tango & Cash and Showdown at Little Tokyo! Yes, she's a cool mom for sure. I'll treasure that forever since that's the last time I went to the movies w/ her as she passed away 2 months later.
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Re: Pressure was too Much!
I appreciate all your insight Walker, but I disagree about the pressure. They gave up 97 points to a team that was averaging 68. That was lack of effort on the defensive end. I am very worried that Bobby is too much of a "friend" to these players and that interferes with him holding them accountable. That was not a big team we played and they murdered us on the boards. They went after the ball and we stood around and watched it.
Bobby Knight had a great quote about coaching. He said the great coaches are those that can get players to play harder than they think they are capable of playing. I love that Bobby builds great relationships with his players, but on defense in particular they do not execute. They may pressure the ball when their guy has it but on ball screens our bigs wonder back to the paint instead of run back.
I admit that I am not at practice, and living in St. Louis I am not at many of the games. So I don't know what Bobby is doing as a coach. I just know that way too often I heard Don McLean mention how he hasn't seen a team play this well offensively all season, when they happened to be playing us. I know I heard him say it about Colorado (twice), Oregon, and Cal.
: I appreciate all your insight Walker, but I disagree about the pressure. They gave up 97 points to a team that was averaging 68. That was lack of effort on the defensive end. I am very worried that Bobby is too much of a "friend" to these players and that interferes with him holding them accountable. That was not a big team we played and they murdered us on the boards. They went after the ball and we stood around and watched it. : Bobby Knight had a great quote about coaching. He said the great coaches are those that can get players to play harder than they think they are capable of playing. I love that Bobby builds great relationships with his players, but on defense in particular they do not execute. They may pressure the ball when their guy has it but on ball screens our bigs wonder back to the paint instead of run back. : I admit that I am not at practice, and living in St. Louis I am not at many of the games. So I don't know what Bobby is doing as a coach. I just know that way too often I heard Don McLean mention how he hasn't seen a team play this well offensively all season, when they happened to be playing us. I know I heard him say it about Colorado (twice), Oregon, and Cal. : : That's what I thought toward the end of the game. Missing shots we should make. Very disappointed. The team I saw in Vegas in November has lost that swagger. They will have to wait to Sunday to see their fate. Joe Lunardi has them the last 4 in. I would take that. It is still in the Big Dance. The pressure will be off that they have made the Dance. Playing in Dayton before few Sun Devil fans, it will be like playing at Kansas. I heard Tim say on the radio that ASU did not think they would be in NIT so they did not bid to host a game. Even though we would be a high seed in NIT for just missing the Dance, they will be sent some where else to play. As bad as the regular season and PAC-12 tourney ended, the future is bright for next season. I will have more to post on stories I read about Valtonen and Dort in National Prep School Invitational. As a side note there is a lot of crap being posted on the football board by some people who would be more at home posting on the recruiting boards. I thought about posting there to correct statements but I have better things to do than spending my time replying to them.