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With thousands of books published each year and much attention paid to the works of bestselling and well-known authors, it is inevitable that some titles worthy of praise and discussion may not get the attention we think they deserve. Thus throughout the year, we will continue this feature that we started in 2009, to spotlight books that immediately struck a chord with us and made us say "just read this." We will alert our readers about these titles as soon as they're released so you can discover them for yourselves and recommend them to your family and friends.
Below are all of our selections thus far. For future "Bets On" titles that we will announce shortly after their release dates, please visit this page.
Mickey is a police officer who patrols the streets of Philadelphia, always on the watch for her sister, Kacey, who has an opioid habit and has been missing for a while. She is used to using Narcan to bring someone on a drug trip that went wrong back to life; it is all too familiar on her beat. She has seen Kacey almost die more than once. And she also has seen her on the street waiting to turn tricks for johns who cruise the neighborhood. Mickey's past haunts her, but her love for her son drives her to stay safe and sane no matter what surrounds her. But then she starts to realize that things she believes in may not be true, and this well-plotted tale whips readers back and forth in many directions.
The Deserter by Nelson DeMille
THE DESERTER is the first book from the father/son team of Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, and what a superb collaboration this proved to be. It's set in Venezuela, and since I know very little about that part of the world beyond the headlines in the news, I feel like I got a real education about a place where there has been so much strife in the last decade.
Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay
ELEVATOR PITCH by Linwood Barclay lives up to its promo copy as "an edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the beach --- a heart-pounding tale in which a series of disasters paralyzes New York City with fear."
The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan
Gilly Macmillan's latest book, THE NANNY, is set on an estate called Lake Hall. Jo, along with her young daughter, has reluctantly moved back there from California following the sudden death of her husband. Her mother, Virginia, is called Lady Holt, and she stands fast on principles. Their world is rocked as Jo's nanny, Hannah, who had disappeared from their home 30 years ago, resurfaces, as does a skull on a beach near the house. Why is the nanny back? Whose skull is it? From these questions, Gilly delivers answers in a really well-plotted, character-driven thriller told from multiple points of view.
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
THIS TENDER LAND --- like ORDINARY GRACE, William Kent Krueger's bestselling 2013 novel --- is another brilliant stand-alone, a departure from his Cork O'Connor series. It is atmospheric like WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, and sparks thoughts of BEFORE WE WERE YOURS and ORPHAN TRAIN. While the bayou is the setting for CRAWDADS, here we have an orphan and his friends meandering down the mighty rivers of the Midwest to escape the Lincoln School in Minnesota where they were mistreated.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
I read THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO by Christy Lefteri back in May. I have not looked at bees or honey the same way since. I also have given a lot of thought to people who have no options, especially those trapped by circumstances not of their own doing.
The story revolves around Nuri, a beekeeper from Aleppo, Syria, and his wife, Afra, an artist. As the book opens, Nuri and his cousin, Mustafa, are cultivating a number of hives in the Syrian countryside. War quickly upends their safe world as their hives are burned, and they are forced to flee. Mustafa heads out one way, while Nuri heads first through Turkey and then into Greece, where they join fellow Syrians looking for a safe haven. The goal: to get to the UK, which is the dream of so many refugees. Mustafa already has made his way there; he has started a new apiary and awaits Nuri's arrival. But there are so many challenges that lie between him and this destination.
THE WHISPER MAN by Alex North is a completely addicting thriller with threads of Stephen King chills rippling throughout.
Following the death of his wife, Tom Kennedy is struggling with life with his young son. He decides to leave painful memories behind and move to a new house in a new town, called Featherbank. Two decades ago, a serial killer kidnapped and murdered five children in Featherbank. And now another child has gone missing. Pete Willis, the detective who first worked on the case, is called back up to re-interview the original killer, as the police grapple with tragedy revisiting their town. This book twists and turns, and you will want to be alert on every page, which is not hard to be. The prose is tight, and the action is brisk.
The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
In THE DEARLY BELOVED, Cara Wall has written a beautiful, heartfelt novel about two young ministers who become co-ministers at a Presbyterian church in New York City in the early '60s, their wives --- and their lives. As the book opens, each of the couples are just meeting while they are in college. You feel their innocence, their fresh view of the world, and their unbridled excitement about the lives that are laid out before them. Each brings a very different perspective to their marriages --- and to the way they will serve the faith.
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
In THE GOLDEN HOUR, Beatriz Williams once again delves into historical fiction with two well-drawn storylines. One opens in 1900, and the other takes place in 1941.
In 1900, Elfriede von Kleist is in a mental institution in Switzerland recovering from severe postpartum depression. There she meets a fellow patient and falls for him. But her life is complicated; she is summoned home as her husband becomes ill, and there she discovers how he has betrayed her.
The second setting is Nassau in the Bahamas in 1941. The location alone is reason enough to read this book. Then layer in the idea that the recently appointed governor of Nassau is the Duke of Windsor, and he is living there with his wife, Wallis Simpson, and the draw to read it gets ratcheted up a notch.
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
I thoroughly enjoyed THE TURN OF THE KEY by Ruth Ware. When it opens, we know that a young woman is in jail, being held for having caused the death of a child. The story is told in her words as she seeks justice in her case. There is no reason for her to have committed this act, and, in fact, there is every reason for her not to have. And throughout these pages, Ruth will unfold a very solid case as to just what really happened.
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Books On Screen
January's Books on Screen roundup includes the feature films Just Mercy, The Informer, The Turning and The Rhythm Section; the series premieres of "Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector" on NBC and "The Outsider" on HBO, along with the first season of "The Stranger" on Netflix, the season five premiere of "The Magicians" on Syfy, and the season one finale of "Truth Be Told" on Apple TV+; and the DVD releases of Britt-Marie Was Here, Motherless Brooklyn, Joker and The Addams Family.
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
The Daughter's Tale by Armando Lucas Correa
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Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Wicked Redhead: A Wicked City Novel by Beatriz Williams
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Guest Post: Andrea White on Her Writing Journey
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By Andrea White
As a young girl, I read constantly. I don't understand why, but I loved intertwining someone else's world with my life. I enjoy learning from characters in books, whether they provide negative lessons or positive ones. Sometimes, I think this trait is a strength and sometimes a weakness. But I can get as absorbed in a character's life as I am in my own.
That's how I wrote my first YA novel, Surviving Antarctica.
I read a book by Apsley Cherry Garrard, called The Worst Journey in the World about the Robert F. Scott expedition. As you may recall, Scott lost the race to be the first person to reach the South Pole– he and his men died in their tent on their way home.
I became obsessed with the expedition because of the men's bravery. While waiting for my kids in carpool lines, I read everything that I could about that era of exploration. I never intended to write about Scott–the story was too sad. But when I sat down to a blank sheet of paper, Scott's was the story that I told.
At first, I wrote novels for adults. Three such completed novels are gathering dust underneath my bed, as the saying goes. In between, I wrote for young readers. I have a better than average imagination. When I recognized this strength, I knew I had found my niche.
My favorite moment as a writer is when kids talk to me about one of my characters as if she were actually alive. I want to create characters that children remember like so many characters that I have read have stayed with me.
As to my new book, I met Stephen Roxburgh at a whole novel workshop in Pennsylvania. The novel I submitted featured a young girl, Shama Katooee, who receives a scholarship to attend a time travelers' academy and is enlisted to carry out a secret mission.
Based on the comments received, I left the workshop with my fictional world intact but the plot in shambles. After finishing a difficult rewrite, I wrote Stephen and asked him if he would consider reading the book. He requested 50 pages.
After reviewing it, he told me that he couldn't accept me as a student, because the work wasn't polished enough. However, he promised to reconsider if I could show him that I could revise.
Thankfully, he later agreed to read the rest of the book along with book two of the series. Stephen's editorial diagnosis: the first hundred pages of book one had energy and the last half of book two did. He suggested combining the two books.
In March, Namelos, Stephen's publishing house, is releasing my book, now called Windows on the World, Book I in The UpCity Chronicles. It's great working with a small press. Stephen makes the editorial decisions in short order. I feel very fortunate that he has stuck with me through the revisions.
It is an honor and a privilege to write for young people. I love researching, writing and talking to kids. In the past six years, I have visited over seventy-five schools.
Kids keep you humble. Whenever I go to a school with a new book, I am anxious. Will the kids like it? I am hoping that kids love my new character, Shama Katooee, as much I do. Whatever the result, I am so grateful that she is finally being born.
Andrea White was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but has spent most of her life in Houston, Texas. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from The University of Texas. After graduating from The University of Texas School of Law, Andrea joined the Houston law firm of Locke, Liddell & Sapp, where she became one of its first female partners
Since retiring from the practice of law, Andrea has published three books of historical fiction.
Written for middle school students, Surviving Antarctica tells the story of the Robert Scott expedition to the South Pole; Window Boy weaves the extraordinary life of Winston Churchill into a 1950s setting; and Radiant Girl focuses on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In 2006, Surviving Antarctica was selected for the Bluebonnet list, and the Texas State Reading Association awarded Andrea the Golden Spur award for the best book by a Texas author.
Her second novel, Window Boy, was translated into Chinese with a forward written by NBA star, Yao Ming. All proceeds from the Chinese version of Window Boy will be donated to the Yao Ming Foundation to aid underprivileged children.
Most recently, she published a journal describing the six years her husband served as mayor of Houston, entitled P.S. Passionate Supporter, Political Spouse. Married for twenty-five years, Andrea and her husband, Bill, are blessed with three kids.
The bird in the illustration below is Shama's sidekick in Andrea's new book.
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3 thoughts on "Guest Post: Andrea White on Her Writing Journey"
I'm glad to hear Ms. White has a new book coming out. I interviewed her at my blog a couple of years ago, and I've read all of her children's fiction. She's a good writer.
Hi Andrea–
I remember your story from that weekend! What great news! I can't wait to read it!
TraceyLPacelli says:
Andrea, you mean our characters are not real? It appears I too suffer from the same affliction. Fortunately this type of schizophrenia is quite benign and even helpful for us as writers–or so I like to think so.
If you're taking names, I'd like very much to sign up for that time academy. Sounds like fun!!!
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Puzzles take a realistic form at Columbia's Epoch Escapes. After a visit to an escape room in Branson, Dustin Copple decided to open the first live-action puzzle escape room in Columbia. (Epoch Escapes opened in 2016.) Copple left his previous career as a manager at a frozen custard franchise to create an exciting, interactive puzzle in Columbia.
Copple is particularly proud of Epoch Escapes' Team Building Package for larger groups. Included in the package is a consultation with a leadership and performance coach both before and after the game, allowing escapees to gain insight on team-building techniques to take with them.
Very few people are lucky enough to find an opportunity to live out their childhood dreams. Adelle McAlister, however, proves it's possible.
Owning a bakery has always been a dream for Adele, who last year purchased Smallcakes, a gourmet cupcake shop, with her husband, Matt, when she was working there as manager. Smallcakes cupcakes are baked fresh daily, and the store's treat offerings don't stop there — they also have cookie sandwiches.
Smallcakes also offers catering for your big days — weddings, birthdays, Christmas parties, etc. Or, you know, it can just be a sweet treat on your small days.
Benjamin Darbyshire, new owner of Line-X of Mid Missouri, always wanted to own his own business in Columbia. He just didn't know it would be with Line-X.
Darbyshire's first interaction with Line-X, a car accessory dealer mostly known for their protective truck bed coatings, was when worked for a General Motors dealership after college; the dealership used Line-X as a vendor. Benjamin saw the value in the products and felt he could use his dealership background and connections to grow this company in Mid-Missouri, so he franchised a Line-X store.
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(9000) Hal es un asteroide perteneciente al cinturón de asteroides descubierto el 3 de mayo de 1981 por Edward L. G. Bowell desde la Estación Anderson Mesa, en Flagstaff, Estados Unidos.

Designación y nombre
Hal fue designado al principio como . Más adelante, en 1999, se nombró por HAL 9000, la computadora de a bordo de la novela 2001: Una odisea espacial del escritor británico Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008).

Características orbitales
Hal orbita a una distancia media del Sol de 2,23 ua, pudiendo alejarse hasta 2,697 ua y acercarse hasta 1,763 ua. Tiene una inclinación orbital de 6,259 grados y una excentricidad de 0,2094. Emplea en completar una órbita alrededor del Sol 1216 días. El movimiento de Hal sobre el fondo estelar es de 0,296 grados por día.

Características físicas
La magnitud absoluta de Hal es 14 y el periodo de rotación de 908 horas.

Véase también
 Lista de asteroides del (8901) al (9000)
 Cuerpo menor del sistema solar

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Asteroides del cinturón principal
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos por Edward Bowell
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos desde la Estación Anderson Mesa
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos en 1981
Wikiproyecto:Asteroides/Artículos de asteroides

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SHUDDER ACQUIRES "LEAP OF FAITH: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN ON THE EXORCIST," THE DEFINITIVE, FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF A HORROR MASTERPIECE	New Film From Acclaimed Documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe to Premiere November 19 Exclusively on Shudder
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New York, NY (Thursday, October 8th) -  Shudder, AMC Networks' premiere streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced the acquisition of LEAP OF FAITH: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN ON THE EXORCIST from award-winning documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe, which will be released exclusively on the streaming platform on November 19th, 2020 in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The film, which had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival and was an official selection of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, will also stream this weekend as part of the Nightstream Film Festival.
A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on THE EXORCIST, LEAP OF FAITH explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin's mind's eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and filmography. The documentary marks the sixth feature doc from Philippe and continues his thoughtful analysis of iconic genre films, previously with 78/52: HITCHCOCK'S SHOWER SCENE (2017), MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN (2019), and DOC OF THE DEAD (2014).
LEAP OF FAITH: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN ON THE EXORCIST was produced by Kerry Deignan Roy and Executive Produced by Karyn Kusama, Matt Manfredi, Phil Hay, Joey Porcelli, Randy Pharo. The deal was negotiated by ICM Partners on behalf of the filmmakers and Shudder's Emily Gotto.
"We are absolutely thrilled to be working with the exceptional team at Shudder to bring LEAP OF FAITH to an audience of such savvy, passionate fans of genre cinema. Without a doubt — this is a perfect home and partnership for our film," said Alexandre O. Philippe.
"LEAP OF FAITH continues our commitment to bringing the best programming about horror, thriller and the supernatural to our members," said Craig Engler, Shudder General Manager. "Alexander has created an unparalleled look at one of the greatest horror films of all time, giving viewers direct access to William Friedkin in this can't-miss documentary,"
Shudder continues to be at the forefront of curating many of the most exciting and critically-lauded independent and international genre films, including Rob Savage's HOST, Jayro Bustamante's LA LLORONA, Richard Stanley's COLOR OUT OF SPACE, Josh Ruben's SCARE ME, Coralie Fargeat's REVENGE, Issa Lopez's TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID and Shinichiro Ueda's ONE CUT OF THE DEAD. The service has also garnered attention for its original programming including the breakout hit series CREEPSHOW under showrunner Greg Nicotero, Jay Cheel's CURSED FILMS and the acclaimed documentary HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR.
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Dream OnKatha Pollitt
by Allison Pearson.
Vintage, 256 pp., £6.99, May 2003, 0 09 942838 5Show More
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother
by Rachel Cusk.
Fourth Estate, 224 pp., £6.99, July 2002, 1 84115 487 3Show More
The Truth about Babies: From A-Z
by Ian Sansom.
Granta, 352 pp., £6.99, June 2003, 1 86207 575 1Show More
What Are Children For?
by Laurie Taylor and Matthew Taylor.
Short Books, 141 pp., £6.99, January 2003, 1 904095 25 9Show More
The Commercialisation of Intimate Life
by Arlie Russell Hochschild.
California, 313 pp., £32.95, May 2003, 0 520 21487 0Show More
Rightly (conservative version) or wrongly (liberal version), the workplace is structured to suit men, preferably men with stay-at-home wives. The qualities rewarded there – self-reliance, ambition, single-minded devotion to work – make women unfit for marriage and vice versa. By the time they are ready to settle down, their male contemporaries are married or looking for younger, softer women; if it's not too late for a husband, it's likely to be too late for a baby; if they manage to produce one, they'll confront the fundamental incompatibility – practical, psychological, emotional – of motherhood and career. With some variations, this narrative of forced choices and biological deadlines, in which feminism is either irrelevant or itself the problem, forms the theme of many recent highly publicised advice books. Sometimes the young unmarried woman is told she is having too much fun and will pay later; sometimes she is told she is miserable, and no wonder – while men postpone commitment, her eggs are already scrambling. The young mother may be advised to give up work till her children are older or she may be urged to fight for government policies and workplace changes that would enable her more easily to combine both roles. But basically the books all give the same depressing advice: compromise, settle, tone yourself down, and do it sooner rather than later.
To the puzzlement of pundits and despite masses of publicity, these books tend to languish on the shelves. The commercial flop of Sylvia Ann Hewlett's Baby Hunger (published in the US as Creating a Life) was noted on the front page of the New York Times. But why the surprise? Only women buy this kind of book about women, and women know perfectly well that it's hard to find love, that offices are unfriendly to mothers, that 40 is not the ideal age to try to get pregnant. They also know that early marriage and childbearing won't work either. The whole structure of modern middle-class professional life is against it: long years of education and training that cannot easily be started as a 35-year-old woman with a family, the need for two incomes to maintain status, the increasingly voluntary nature of marriage and childbearing itself. The best context in which to write about these conflicts is not the political tract or sociological potboiler but mass-market fiction, where feminist and retro impulses can be resolved, or blurred, through a judicious combination of truth-telling (it's a man's world, and the man is a swine) and fantasy.
Although both books began life as newspaper columns, it would be unfair to call Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It a working-mother version of Bridget Jones's Diary. Pearson is a more literary writer than Helen Fielding (and almost as funny). On the other hand, both novels, while seemingly on the side of their plucky post-feminist heroines, revel in their pratfalls and humiliations. And both send conservative, ultimately dispiriting messages about women's lives. Fielding's point, after all, is that however much they gallivant about and mock the Smug Marrieds, single women secretly want nothing so much as a sober, stable, prosperous husband. Bridget marries the very man her parents would have chosen for her – a human rights lawyer who, in real life, would probably never marry someone as dissolute and ignorant as Bridget (that's the fantasy element). Pearson's message is that combining a high-powered career and motherhood is impossible, even for women as energetic and hyperorganised – to say nothing of attractive, smart and rich – as her heroine, the financial analyst Kate Reddy.
When we first meet Kate she is in her kitchen at 1.37 a.m., 'distressing' store-bought mince pies with a rolling-pin to make them look homemade for a school fête. Kate may seem to have it all: work she loves, a gentle architect husband, a big house (with cleaner), adorable five-year-old Emily and toddler Ben (with nanny), and – it's that kind of book – a closetful of high-fashion clothes. Secretly, though, she's miserable, ruled by guilt, exhaustion, perfectionism and fear. She's afraid of the Muffia: the stay-at-home mothers of gentrified Hackney, who when not engaged in competitive baking are plotting their preschoolers' acceptance into the right private school. She's afraid of her nanny, a feckless Sloane Ranger, and her maid, whose many comically presented ailments prevent her from doing much cleaning. She's even afraid of her daughter, whom maternal deprivation has turned whiny and clingy. She's not afraid of her husband – although she does spend a lot of time brushing her teeth to avoid bedtime sex, which would mean spending precious morning minutes in the shower – but that's only because she takes him for granted and rarely talks to him except to issue commands and reminders. At home, she feels like an interloper and a drill sergeant. In the office, a high-powered City firm populated by obnoxious, sexist men where there are only a few women and she is the only mother, she's forced to act as if her children do not exist. The incompatibility of her femaleness and her career is neatly illustrated when she discovers during a crucial meeting that all the men are staring at her: hastily dressing in the dark after an exhausting night up with the baby, she had grabbed without thinking a sexy red bra, now clearly visible under her businesslike white blouse.
Trapped between the Muffia and the sexists at the office, Kate splurges on shoes, flirts dangerously with a client, and works, works, works – until finally her husband leaves and she has to, as they say, rethink her priorities. The fantasy element here is that she and her women friends in the City are able to avenge themselves on the most woman-hating man in the office. Kate then quits, not in defeat but as a gesture of female moral superiority: 'becoming a man is the waste of a woman' – and because this is popular fiction, she finds a way to have it all.
It's hard to imagine a mother with a demanding career who won't find something to identify with in Kate's situation: the worry that the children love the nanny more than you, the slow-boil about sexism on the job, the exasperation with the overgrown adolescent husband who dresses the baby in its sister's doll's clothes, the jerry-built schedules, the death of sex. As the book goes on, Kate's feminist fury modulates into resignation: 'Do I believe in equality between the sexes? I'm not sure . . . they could give you good jobs and maternity leave, but until they programmed a man to notice you were out of toilet paper the project was doomed. Women carry the puzzle of family life in their heads, they just do.' However, fantasy soon kicks in: 'They treat us as though they're doing us a great favour by letting us work after we've had a child,' says her boss's wife, a brilliant woman who gave up her career to stay at home with her sons. 'And the price we pay for that favour is not making a fuss, not letting on how life can never be the same for us again. But always remember it's us who are doing them the favour. We're perpetuating the human race, and there's nothing more important than that.' Compared with childbirth, Kate decides, 'everything else is just noise and men.' And men can't help themselves: if her husband forgets the errands, 'it's not laziness, it's biology.' The 'Masters of the Universe' are 'hopeless, helplessly boyish'. Even a truly vile and racist humiliator of women is 'more sad than bad'. Wendy, meet Peter.
One reason we can accept Kate's disillusion with her work is the poignancy of her daughter's need for her. ('This is my mummy. Isn't she lovely and tall?' Emily says proudly when Kate comes with her to school.) Another is that her job is carefully presented as pointless and arid: her brutally exhausting business trips are not really necessary, and what's the point of it all except to make money for people who already have lots of it? Pearson's critique of the consumerist treadmill is very funny, but it's a bit of a set-up. What if Kate worked those long unpredictable hours as a doctor, like thousands of working mothers, or as a human rights lawyer like Bridget Jones's suitor? Or even a journalist and novelist like Pearson herself? The paradox of books by mothers disparaging the fast-track life is that almost by definition the authors aren't following their own advice.
A Life's Work, the novelist Rachel Cusk's account of her first year as a mother, offers a brisk corrective to Pearson's maternal romanticism: 'Looking after children is a low-status occupation. It is isolating, frequently boring, relentlessly demanding and exhausting. It erodes your self-esteem and your membership of the adult world.' Think you can procreate and carry on with your liberated woman's life? Dream on! 'Childbirth and motherhood are the anvil upon which sexual inequality was forged, and the women in our society whose responsibilities, expectations and experiences are like those of men are right to approach it with trepidation.' Motherhood alienates you from yourself in ways that can be quite disturbing: think of the willowy, romantic Natasha, who becomes a mundane, overweight housewife and whose soul, in Tolstoy's words, 'was not visible at all'.
Cusk captures the intensities, ambivalences and sheer labour of taking care of babies, bringing something new to the enormous literature on child-rearing: the voice of a highly educated, independent, gifted woman who lets nothing slip by. Cusk is without cant, uncowed by expert authority and resistant to attempts to make her feel guilty, infantilised, stupid: 'No Korean cheerleading team was ever ruled with so iron a rod as pregnant women in the English-speaking world,' she says of guides for expectant mothers. '"When you raise your fork to your lips," reads one book on this subject, "look at it and think: Is this the best bite I can give my baby? If the answer is no, put your fork down."' She's scathing on breastfeeding, health visitors, clinics, sleeplessness and the unhelpfulness of childless friends. Very little goes right: the baby screams for hours at a stretch; the sitters she hires, all immigrants, are exploitative and bizarre; her attempts to socialise with other mothers resemble a scene from The Stepford Wives as rewritten by Sylvia Plath. '"Julia bakes marvellous cakes," the woman next to her informed me after a pause. "Really?" I said, with frantic delight. "I've always thought I'd love to be a baker. Do you make any money out of it?" The two women looked at each other like schoolgirls, with horrified eyes.' Cusk mourns the loss of adult freedom, but on the rare occasions she goes out for an evening, she spends the whole time calling home to make sure the baby is all right. Her feelings for her colicky infant daughter have some of the qualities of a desperate love affair, in which passion is entangled with a sense of entrapment and loss of self – with the difference that babies do eventually sleep through the night and grow more charming rather than, like many lovers, less so.
Cusk doesn't have much to say about the low-key pleasure and satisfaction that is also part of having a baby, and yet it must have been there. After all, she had a second baby only 15 months after the first one. She's interested in what she sees as taboo truths: what motherhood is really like as opposed to what women are told to feel about it. Given a more playful and paternal spin, that same gap between cliché and reality is the subject of Ian Sansom's book, an alphabetically organised grab-bag of tiny chapters made up of autobiographical reflections, epigrams, anecdotes and irresistible quotations. Chekhov shows up in 'Fathers': 'Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham only noticed that his father was a drunkard, and completely lost sight of the fact that he was a genius, that he had built an ark and saved the world.' Ted Hughes, as quoted by Emma Tennant, weighs in on 'Nappies': '"I can't change nappies," Ted said. It was clear that this wasn't a failure of skills which he regretted; he was saying he can't and won't; and yet I've not asked him to do this, nor – if he had taken the trouble to find out – do I have a child young enough to need them.' And who is the subject of the following bit of gossip? 'I meet someone who happens to be the cousin of a famous writer. The famous writer has several young children. Children loom large in his work. How does the famous writer cope, I ask the cousin. Oh, says the cousin, he doesn't do anything round the house. He doesn't have anything to do with the children.'
Sansom, by his own account a champion nappy-changer, enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in the grosser side of infant care: colostrum, digestion, dribble, meconium, piss, sick, shit, snot and vomit each get a chapter. So do anxiety, boredom, chaos, depression, disappointment, headaches, loneliness, noise, regrets, resentment, tiredness, work and worry. His forays into whimsy are mildly irritating – 'buttons become gendered' is a mysterious remark – and, as with childcare itself, there are pedestrian moments: 'the scrapbook is half empty. Or half-full, you say.' What he captures beautifully, though, is the sheer over-the-topness, the too-muchness of life with a new baby: 'I hate babies'; 'Your piss smells so good I think about bottling it'; 'We're obsessed.'
If Laurie Taylor and Matthew Taylor, father and son, had read Rachel Cusk and Ian Sansom, they might not be so vexed by the question they pose in their title. A pop-sociological essay with autobiographical digressions, What Are Children For? is an odd book in a number of ways, the most obvious of which is the psychodrama of the authors: Laurie pretty much abandoned little Matthew and Matthew's mother back in the footloose 1960s, and Matthew, who is understandably still angry about this, never misses a chance to point out what a responsible, put-upon parent he is, even if, as he admits, he does leave the heavy lifting to his wife. It is not immediately clear why these men would be the ones to explain the value of children. They start by acknowledging that children often conflict with things modern people, especially women, have a right to want, but by the end they are hectoring people into reproducing as a way of resisting the meaningless wasteland of hedonism, workaholism, consumption, accumulation, self-centredness. Childraising as a form of resistance to consumer capitalism? Talk about swimming upstream: I'd like to meet the couple who buy less stuff after they have a child. In any case, this seems a cold and abstract motive for such a big and intimate decision – Kate Reddy might say it's the sort of reason a man would come up with. The Taylors have little to say about the intense bonds between parents and children – it's almost as if they were wondering why fewer people keep pigeons nowadays or what pet ferrets are for. Perhaps the way to understand what children are for is to ask why so many people still want them.
None of these writers seems to believe that caring for an infant could be made less exhausting, less harried, less solitary. But surely it could be quite different. After all, men (and now women) who join the military get a plethora of benefits from a grateful nation: in the United States, for example, they get scholarships, free medical care for life, extra points on civil-service exams and much more. If governments are worried about low birthrates, as many are, they could do a lot better than lecture uppity women one day and offer paltry child bonuses the next. Free tuition for life would be more like it, along with free childcare, mandatory paternity leave (men in Britain have recently been granted two weeks' paternity leave) and a Real Men Change Nappies campaign. The trouble is – and here Allison Pearson is right – modern life is largely organised round the split between home and work, and women cannot stitch up that division by themselves. If it remains in place, working mothers will always be holding down two full-time jobs, only one of which is paid, and both of which are based on outmoded notions of gender roles: the always available male employee and the subordinate stay-at-home wife.
The women's movement of the 1970s hoped to change all this. The ideal was a more integrated and egalitarian life for both sexes, not that women should exhaust themselves trying to be superwomen while men sat back and watched. The sociologist Arlie Hochschild has been one of the shrewdest analysts of the semi-transformation of sex roles. In The Second Shift, her illuminating study of two-job couples and the division of domestic labour, she called this a 'stalled revolution'. In her new collection of essays, she uses stronger language: feminism has been 'abducted' by commercial forces that drain meaning from intimate life, and push both sexes to shape themselves in accordance with the imperatives of male-dominant capitalism. Analysing recent romantic-advice books for women, she finds that despite surface disagreements, they tend to favour 'assimilating to male rules of love': more detachment, compartmentalisation, psychological armour. 'Women are encouraged to be cooler while men are not urged to be warmer.'
If one extends that insight from romance to family life and careers, it's Kate Reddy's dilemma in a nutshell. Hochschild's concluding essay examines the nuts and bolts of academic success (tenure, publications, renown in one's field) to produce an incisive analysis of the obstacles women face in climbing the professional ladder. For one thing, they are competing with men who have wives, while often being wives themselves. The family (but mostly the wife/ mother) is the 'unacknowledged service agency' for the university – as, one might add, for the economy as a whole.
Hochschild claims that
certain aspects of the women's movement have entered the mainstream of American life through a process Herbert Marcuse described as 'resistance through incorporation'. American culture incorporated what of feminism fitted with capitalism and individualism, but it resisted the rest. It incorporated the idea of equal pay for equal work and diversity but dispensed with any challenge to the priorities of the system women wanted in on.
On the one hand, this is over-optimistic: women are a long way from equal pay, and individualism hardly reigns supreme if a woman can't look her age after thirty and if both spouses feel uncomfortable, as Hochschild shows many do, when the wife earns more than the husband. As the growing movement against abortion shows, self-determination for women is still controversial. On the other hand, Hochschild's view seems too bleak: Ian Sansom isn't the only man who's plunged into domesticity and childcare, is he?
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In answer to Katha Pollitt's rhetorical question (LRB, 11 September): no, Ian Sansom isn't the only man who's plunged into domesticity and childcare. And writings which depict the impossibility of women 'having it all' serve only to insult such men and to legitimise the stance of others who perceive men to be de facto 'like this' and women inexorably 'like that'. But perhaps literature depicting people who successfully combine career and family makes dull reading. If equality is to be achieved, it is, after all, people who have to change, not just men. Many of my female contemporaries have arrangements with their husbands/partners which I find quite astonishing: both have demanding full-time jobs, but she cooks and cleans, does the shopping and manages the household. If either of them has the career break or abandons work outside the home altogether when children arrive, it will be her. Women, for whatever reason, are complicit in the role they play, and many women don't want to change, don't want to challenge the stereotypes that define their aspirations. Maintaining these stereotypes, however, is as much the work of literature that examines the difficulty of combining work and home as it is of the magazines that show how to make your man the perfect soufflé, because it carries the implicit assumption that it is women who have to combine both, not men. There is a long way to go in redefining male and female roles, in accepting that people can be more different from members of their own sex than from members of the opposite one. Children's school textbooks may have been excised of sexism, but notes come home from primary school inviting Mum to bake cakes and Dad to help out with a spot of DIY. Until women relinquish their tenacious hold on domesticity and childcare and 'give' men the responsibility for maintaining the stocks of loo roll, why should men bother?
Felicity Harper
Clevedon, Somerset
Vol. 25 No. 20 · 23 October 2003
The assumptions behind the books reviewed by Katha Pollitt and the follow-up letter (Letters, 25 September) really get my goat. The one I object to most is that (menials apart, and a scattering of doctors, vets and dons) women didn't 'work' until about 1975 or 1980. Working-class women in the textile districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire always took it for granted that they would work, marry and have children to bring up. The same is true of women who worked in light engineering in Birmingham and the Black Country. My father died when I was four, and my mother went back to teaching and brought me up in the 1920s and 1930s. We had a housekeeper; working-class women got help from grandparents. But there were no luxuries of either money or time for my mother or me. What some of the well-heeled women of today are complaining about is that they don't have time for the luxurious lifestyle that they think their positions in the City or the media entitle them to. As for the drivel about men not doing the shopping, if wives ring-fence all domestic activity, they only have themselves to blame.
Ken Kirk


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Death Stranding, to this day, remains a genre-defying experience. To say you've never played anything like it would be an understatement. In a future that sees the world broken and disconnected, Sam Porter Bridges sets out to reconnect society while traversing challenging, often dangerous, terrain.
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Marco Pantani (Cesena, 13 januari 1970 – Rimini, 14 februari 2004) was een Italiaans wielrenner. Zijn grootste successen boekte Pantani in 1998, toen hij zowel de Ronde van Frankrijk als de Ronde van Italië won.

Biografie

Wielerloopbaan

Marco Pantani begon in 1992 met professioneel wielrennen, eerst bij de ploeg Carrera, later bij Mercatone Uno. Als wielrenner was Pantani een echte klimmer, die de beslissing tijdens beklimmingen probeerde te forceren. Door zijn korte lichaamslengte, kale schedel en grote oren had hij de bijnaam Il Elefantino (Het Olifantje). Hij werd ook soms Il Pirata (de piraat) genoemd. Zijn carrière kenmerkte zich door grootse overwinningen en veel tegenslag.

In zijn debuutjaar 1992 won hij met overmacht de Baby Giro. In 1994 volgde de doorbraak in het profpeloton. Pantani won overtuigend twee zware Dolomieten-ritten in de Giro en werd tweede in het eindklassement. In de Tour van datzelfde jaar kon Pantani geen rit winnen, maar zorgde wel voor spektakel in de bergen. In Parijs eindigde Pantani als derde.

In 1995 kon Pantani zijn tweede plaats in de Giro niet verdedigen. Door een aanrijding tijdens een training moest hij aan de kant blijven. De Tour kon Pantani wel rijden. In de voorbereiding op de Tour toonde Pantani al goede benen door een bergrit in de Ronde van Zwitserland te winnen. De Tour verliep voor Pantani succesvol met twee spectaculaire overwinningen in de bergen, een rit naar Alpe d'Huez, die hij in een recordtijd beklom (36'50"), en de rit naar Guzet Neige. In het klassement kon hij niet meespelen en werd uiteindelijk dertiende. Op het WK in Colombia eindigde Pantani in een spannende wedstrijd als derde.

Later dit jaar kwam hij hard ten val in de wedstrijd Milaan-Turijn. Na een lange revalidatie begon Pantani in 1997 weer met wielrennen, en in dat jaar won hij twee etappes in de Ronde van Frankrijk.

In 1998 won hij met overmacht zowel de Ronde van Frankrijk als de Ronde van Italië met in beide rondes twee etappezeges. Voor de Tour was het de eerste Italiaanse overwinning in meer dan dertig jaar.

Na zijn grote successen in 1998 ging het snel bergafwaarts met zijn carrière. In 1999 raakte hij betrokken bij een dopingschandaal. Twee dagen voor het einde van de Ronde van Italië werd Pantani, die op dat moment het klassement aanvoerde en onbedreigd op zijn tweede opeenvolgende overwinning leek af te stevenen, uit de koers genomen vanwege een te hoge hematocrietwaarde. Pantani werd de jaren hierop meerdere malen met doping in verband gebracht. In 2002 kreeg Pantani van de UCI een schorsing van zes maanden nadat in 2001 een spuit met insuline op zijn hotelkamer was gevonden. In deze jaren moest Pantani meerdere malen voor depressiviteit en drugsverslaving behandeld worden.

Het drama van de uitsluiting in de Giro van 1999 was het einde van de sportman Marco Pantani. In de jaren die volgden heeft Pantani nooit meer fysieke moeilijkheden gehad maar door mentale problemen was hij niet meer in staat om, net als zijn concurrenten en zoals hij dit vroeger kon, voor zijn vak te leven. In 2000 was er nog een serieuze opleving in de Ronde van Frankrijk. Pantani won daarin twee ritten. De rit naar de Mont Ventoux was een indrukwekkende overwinning op Armstrong, die na de rit beweerde dat hij de rit had weggegeven. Pantani sprak dit de dag erop tegen. Hij zon op wraak en zijn tweede overwinning naar Courchevel was een bijna ouderwetse Pantani-overwinning. Ondanks de successen in deze Tour kwam zijn broze mentale gestel naar boven. Na een mislukte aanval in de laatste bergrit stapte Pantani uit de Tour. Deze actie werd hem niet in dank afgenomen door de Tourdirectie en zijn ploeg werd de daaropvolgende jaren dan ook niet uitgenodigd. Deze afwijzingen door de Tourdirectie demotiveerden Pantani. Hij voelde zich aangevallen en raakte verder in de put.

In 2003 kwam Pantani nog eenmaal sterk in actie tijdens de Ronde van Italië, waarin hij 14e werd. Dit werd zijn laatste grote uitslag. Ondanks dit resultaat, dat zeker gezien de voorgaande jaren goed was, raakte hij in een depressie en verdween uit de ogen van het publiek. Later in 2003 maakte Pantani bekend te stoppen met wielrennen. Vervolgens vereenzaamde hij en verergerden zijn depressies.

Overlijden

Enkele dagen voor zijn dood nam hij intrek in een hotel in Rimini. Daar werd hij op 14 februari 2004 's avonds dood aangetroffen, nadat hij niet was komen opdagen bij het diner. Verschillende media speculeerden over zelfdoding middels verdovende middelen. Na autopsie bleek een hartstilstand de doodsoorzaak.

Latere persberichten gaven, volgens het persagentschap Ansa, een overdosis cocaïne als doodsoorzaak. Dit liet arts Giuseppe Fortuni weten aan de procureur die de zaak behandelde.

Op 2 augustus 2014 meldde de krant Gazzetta dello Sport dat het onderzoek naar de dood van Pantani heropend werd. Nieuwe aanwijzingen zouden het parket van Rimini hebben aangezet alsnog een nieuw onderzoek in te stellen.

In 2015 kwamen de onderzoeksresultaten van toxicoloog Franco Tagliaro naar buiten. De Italiaanse professor deed in opdracht van justitie opnieuw onderzoek naar de doodsoorzaak van de oud-wielrenner en kwam tot de conclusie dat hij is gestorven aan een cocktail van cocaïne en antidepressiva.

Op 14 maart 2016 werd in een nieuw onderzoek beweerd dat Pantani de Giro van 1999 niet mocht winnen, omdat de camorra te veel gokgeld zou verliezen. Hierop werden zijn bloedstalen vervalst volgens het onderzoek.

Trivia
Bij het overlijden van Valentino Fois in maart 2008 werden diverse parallellen getrokken met de levensloop van Pantani. Ook Fois stierf op 34-jarige leeftijd, Pantani en Fois reden samen bij Mercatone Uno en beiden raakten aan lager wal na een dopingschorsing.

Belangrijkste overwinningen

1992
 Eindklassement Baby Giro

1994
 14e etappe Ronde van Italië
 15e etappe Ronde van Italië
 Jongerenklassement Ronde van Frankrijk

1995
 9e etappe Ronde van Zwitserland
 10e etappe Ronde van Frankrijk
 14e etappe Ronde van Frankrijk
 Jongerenklassement Ronde van Frankrijk

1997
 13e etappe Ronde van Frankrijk
 15e etappe Ronde van Frankrijk

1998
 14e etappe Ronde van Italië
 19e etappe Ronde van Italië
 Bergklassement Ronde van Italië
  Eindklassement Ronde van Italië
 4e etappe deel A Ronde van Murcia
 11e etappe Ronde van Frankrijk
 15e etappe Ronde van Frankrijk
  Eindklassement Ronde van Frankrijk
 Boucles de l'Aulne

1999
 8e etappe Ronde van Italië
 15e etappe Ronde van Italië
 19e etappe Ronde van Italië
 20e etappe Ronde van Italië
 4e etappe Ronde van Murcia
 Eindklassement Ronde van Murcia
 2e etappe Catalaanse Week

2000
 12e etappe Ronde van Frankrijk
 15e etappe Ronde van Frankrijk

Resultaten in voornaamste wedstrijden
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Literatuur
Matt Rendell, De dood van Marco Pantani. Een biografie, 2006.

Externe links

  Officiële website

Italiaans wielrenner
Italiaans olympisch deelnemer
Winnaar van de Ronde van Frankrijk


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It appears that the yarn type listed, worsted weight, is incorrect. Based on the gauge, this must be worked using a chunkier yarn and not a worsted weight. I took this pattern and some chunky red yarn that I had in my stash to my local yarn store and they told me that the gauge directions made no sense with a worsted weight. I ended up buying a chunky white yarn to use with my red one, but the hat turned out too big for my 17 month old nephew's head. I will redo it using US 9 DP needles and a less chunkier white yarn.
Hi there. I'm so sorry about that!! In all honesty, I made up this pattern when I was a fairly new knitter and did not understand a lot of ins and outs of knitting patterns. I have more experience now and need to make two more hats, so I'm going to try to make it clearer.
The gauge of the yarn I originally used is Aran. 4 sts=1″ on US 9.
Again, I apologize for the time you lost making the hat too big.


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Q: Firebase Auth not saving current user In my app I'm trying to perform a simple login/signup operation.
I have a StreamBuilder that returns a Login Screen if there is no user, and a home screen if a user is logged in:
StreamBuilder(
          stream: FirebaseAuth.instance.onAuthStateChanged,
          builder: (BuildContext context, AsyncSnapshot snapshot) {
            Widget widget;
            switch (snapshot.data) {
              case (null):
                widget = SignIn();
                break;
              default:
                widget = Home();
            }

            return AnimatedSwitcher(
          child: widget,
          duration: Duration(seconds: 1),
          transitionBuilder: (Widget child, Animation<double> animation) {
            return ScaleTransition(child: child, scale: animation);
          },
        );
          }),

The code works perfectly as shown below:

But when a user is already signed in, and I close and reopen the app, the login page shows briefly before it redirects to the home page.
The same happens when I click on hot restart:

In the image above, I was already signed in, then I clicked hot reload and the login screen showed briefly before I was redirected to the home screen.
The same happens when the internet is turned off, and there is no animated switcher.
How can I fix this problem?

A: use ConnectionState:
if (snapshot.connectionState == ConnectionState.waiting) {
 return Container();
}

You can replace Container with a SplashScreen/Loading Screen

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Heir Of Fire by Sarah J. Maas | Book Review
Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on September 2nd 2014
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Magic, Love & Romance, Young Adult
Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?The bestselling series that has captured readers all over the world reaches new heights in this sequel to the New York Times best-selling Crown of Midnight. Packed with heart-pounding action, fierce new characters, and swoon-worthy romance, this third book will enthrall readers from start to finish.
I have placed this book on my monthly TBR every month since obtaining�Heir Of Fire by Sarah J. Maas at BEA 2014. It was one of my most anticipated books from BEA and yet, each month I kept pushing it back to the next month in favor of shorter, flavor of the month type books. YOU GUYS! Why why why did I wait so long to read this book? I mean, okay I know that I have the habit of putting off things that I am excited about in favor of obligation reading but still,�Heir Of Fire was FANTASTIC like, all caps FANTASTIC and I am a bit sad that I waited so long to read it. Also if you don't want spoilers for the previous books you should probably stop reading this review right about now.
Sarah J. Maas's�Heir Of Fire�follows the characters we've come to know and love as well as introduces some new characters. This book takes place in the aftermath of Nehemia's death. First, Celaena is kind of a mess. She's just undergone some extreme trauma and has run away to Wendlyn on the errand of her mortal enemy, the king. While there, a fae named Rowan finds her and brings her to this outpost for training so that she can access her fae side and then ask some questions of Maeve while in the fae realm. Meanwhile, Chaol makes friends with General Adeion, who is from Terrasen and is Caelaena's cousin, but he's got one of those black rings, so you know. Then there's Dorian who is essentially in the dark about everything and accessing his powers. In addition, a healer named Sorscha gets some point of view chapters as does an Ironteeth witch named Manon. OH AND THERE ARE DRAGONS.
Celaena undergoes some major character development in this latest installment of the�Throne Of Glass series. When the book opens, she is completely dejected. She's passed out with a bottle of wine and dirty and just does not have it together. Can you really blame her though? Girl has had a rough life. What happens though, is that she's forced to really confront her past and examine some painful memories. It's like she has to hit rock bottom in order to move forward. We get to see her finally come into her birthright, and friends, the journey is awesome. We also see her learn to let go of a certain someone and well, that was hard as a reader, but also something I liked because a lot of YA does not really seem to go in that direction.
I feel like Celaena is one of those girls who might as well open a harem. Seriously, she just keeps adding more and more suitors and such to her life. At this point, I am not entirely sure what is going on with the Chaol ship, given his reaction to her big revelations. I was rooting for them all along, however, my mind might be changed. You see, there's a new character that was added – Rowan. YOU GUYS! Rowan! He has all these tattoos and they have a specific meaning and he's a fae and usually I think the fey are stupid, but Rowan is awesome because he pushes Celaena to her limits. He has a lot more discipline as Celaena, but I thought they balance each other out really well. What I can say is that I am conflicted in regards to ships and this series.
As I mentioned above, new characters are introduced. Of course, I wasn't too sure about them, because you know I am attached to the current characters and want them to get more page time. However, I liked the different points of view. I liked the addition of Sorscha who is more than she seems and who totally has a thing for Dorian. I liked Manon even though I think she's supposed to be a villain, she's brutal and wild and interesting, also a fiercely determined witch. I liked Rowan, A WHOLE LOT as you can see. I think these different perspectives just add to the complexity of the world that Maas has built and of course, now I can't wait for the next addition in the series.
I'll admit, this book did take me over a week to read given that it's nearly 600 pages, however, given my reading slump and how much I've cut back I feel like I read it in record time for me, these days. Also! Also! It has inspired me to write a longer review and you guys, I've been hovering at 300 or so words and this review is more than double that because�Heir Of Fire has inspired me to say all of the things. I absolutely recommend this book and series if you're looking for an engaging world and dynamic characters. Also, magic.
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Alexa S. says
It makes my heart so happy that you loved Heir of Fire! It's such a fantastic read, isn't it? I love the way Sarah develops the characters we know even further, and how she juggles that development with introductions with a bunch of new characters to love. Plus, the story's progression and pacing, and the way the world of this series opens up is excellent!
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Nicole @ The Quiet Concert says
WOW. You did such a good job with this review! I could barely make my thoughts coherent and so I kind of skirted around writing a review. But you did this book justice. Celaena does undergo incredible growth – this book is definitely character driven. I loved the newest additions SO MUCH and I cannot wait for Queen of Shadows to be in my hands. This series is just fantasy <3


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Q: Are colored noises correlated / uncorrelated? Let, $x$ be a random variable (r.v) that is white Gaussian, has a flat power spectrum. $y$ can be any colored noise. I think another term for uncorrelated is i.i.d (identically and independently distributed).
Colored noises such as pink, brown, and red can be generated by filtering from a white Gaussian noise signal such as $x$. Colored noises do not have a flat power spectrum.
Question1: If the power spectrum is not flat, then does that mean the colored noises are correlated?
Reading through some texts I could understand that Brown noise has its random variable positively correlated to its previous random variable. Can this be generalized to other noises such as pink, blue, violet etc? and the other has a non flat spectrum so is colored, consider say brown color ($y$ r.v). Since $x$ is white it is uncorrelated to itself and $y$ is correlated to itself (each random number for the red noise is positively correlated to the one preceding it).
Question2: The plot below is the time series which is the output of the sum of white Gaussian noise and pink noise. I don't know if pink noise is correlated or not. In general, does the addition of an uncorrelated r.v with a correlated r.v give an output that is correlated or uncorrelated? i.e., $z=x+y$ is $z$ correlated/uncorrelated?
Please correct me if any information is wrong.

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Question1: If the power spectrum is not flat, then does that mean the
colored noises are correlated?

One way to construct the power spectral density is to take the Fourier transform of the autocovariance function. This result is called the Wiener–Khinchin theorem. According to the theorem the autocovariance function is
$$
R_{xx}(t) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} =  S(f)e^{2\pi itf} df,
$$
where $S(f)$ is the power spectral density. The expression $e^{2\pi itf}$ describes rotations around a circle at frequency $f$. Integrating the area this rotation traces out turns out to be 0, which implies that the autocovariance function is flat at 0 only if $S(f)$ is flat. In order to compute the autocorrelation function you have to normalise by the variance of the noise, i.e. $R_{xx}(t)/R_{xx}(0)$.
To examine autocorrelation functions for different colours of noise I simulate 1000 timeseries of length 1000 each:

As can be seen, all colours of noise apart from white are autocorrelated for $t=1$. However, the correlation for blue and violet noise is negative and for larger $t$'s violet noise is not correlated. This is because violet noise is constructed by differentiating white noise, which means that every sample is the difference between two Gaussian random numbers. If we call these Gaussian numbers $w_1,w_2,\dots$ and the samples of violet noise $v_1,v_2,\dots$ we can write
$$v_1 = w_1 - w_2, v_2 = w_2 - w_3, v_3 = w_3 - w_4,\dots$$.
Note that the Gaussian random number $w_2$ is part of $v_1$ and $v_2$ with opposite signs (which explains the negative correlation) but not of $v_3$ (which explains that it is not correlated for $t>1$).
To illustrate this further I have also plotted the partial autocorrelation, which is the autocorrelation when controlling for all smaller $t$'s. Here violet noise is partially autocorrelated throughout. The reason is that the estimate of $v_3$ from $v_2$ can be improved by also knowing $v_1$. This is because $v_1$ contains in formation about $w_2$, which can be used to more accurately estimate the $w_3$ part of $v_2$, which in turn is needed to estimate $v_3$. (Note that the partial autocorrelation for violet noise would be flat if $t=1$ were not included.)
Another interesting observation is that the partial autocorrelation for brown noise beyond $t=1$ is flat at 0. This is because brown noise is obtained by integrating white noise, which makes every sample the cumulative sum of all previous Gaussian random numbers. The sample at $t=1$ is not crucial for estimating the current sample (thus the high autocorrelation for $t>1$) but if the sample at $t=1$ is known, then any sample $t>1$ does not add any new information (thus the low partial autocorrelation for $t>1$).
Pink and blue noise can be considered cases between these two extremes.
As a final aside, the autocorrelation for an infinite timeseries of brown noise is flat at 1 because the autocovariance $R_{xx}(t)$ and the variance $R_{xx}(0)$ are approaching infinity at the same rate.

Question2: The plot below is the time series which is the output of
the sum of white Gaussian noise and pink noise. I don't know if pink
noise is correlated or not. In general, does the addition of an
uncorrelated r.v with a correlated r.v give an output that is
correlated or uncorrelated? i.e., z=x+y is z correlated/uncorrelated?

As you can see from the above plot pink noise is autocorrelated. You can obtain this result yourself from your simulated data by shifting its values by different lags $t$ and computing the correlation for each lag. Generally, if you add a correlated timeseries to an uncorrelated one the resulting timeseries will be correlated but less so.


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Captain Marvel Trailer #2 Explained
Monday saw the new Captain Marvel trailer drop, which included new footage and hints about the plot.
Let's go over some of the scenes that were featured, so be forewarned: SPOILER WARNING.
Notice the trailer immediately starts off with the old lady on the bus scene?
Following the first Captain Marvel trailer there was actually some online chatter about a Marvel superhero punching an old lady in the face (really, people?). If the first trailer didn't make it clear, the old lady is a darn and dirty shapeshifting Skrull! So we see Marvel Studios is telling the clueless "general" fans, that yes, the old lady isn't what she seems as she gets punched in the face to no effect and then growls.
The next scene offers a pretty big revelation as Nick Fury - as does Carol Danvers - thinks she is an alien Kree.
Not a human.
We'll talk more about that in upcoming scenes.
More revelations about how Carol Danvers became a Kree, as it's said: "we've found you."
It seems in this version of her origin story (more on that later, too), the Kree "find" Carol Danvers and augment her somehow to make her half-Kree half-Human. We see this as her blood is green and not red. It's also possible that Carol is kidnapped by the Skrulls, but found by the Kree in space (or somewhere else), as it is mentioned she has no memories. Now does Carol have no memories because the Kree wiped her memory? Or because of the Skrulls (or something else?)?
The trailer then goes on to make it look like it was the Kree who brainwashed her, and then she gets flashbacks to her human days. It's possible what actually could be going on in this scene is that SHIELD is trying to jar her memories. Of course, she could be captured by the Skrulls here as well.
Regarding why Carol comes to Earth, it seems as if the Kree are tracking down the Skrulls. So it seems as if something happens to Carol as a human, the Kree find her minus her memories and make her a Kree warrior and a part of the Starforce military unit, and then they go to Earth in search of the Skrulls, which then sees Carol start to remember being a human.
The question remains: Have the Skrulls been here all along? Is this a Skrull (secret) invasion? Or is this just a small bunch of Skrulls who are hiding out on Earth avoiding the Kree Skrull war? Or did they crashland on Earth and are now in hiding? Obvious question: Are the Skrulls still here?? Worth a mention is that anyone in the movie at any time could be a darn and dirty Skrull.
Maria "Photon" Rambeau is the daughter of Monica Rambeau in the comics, who has taken on the Captain Marvel mantle as well. Cool nod.
Carol mentions something in her past is the key to all of this.
Now is "all this" her realizing she is not a Kree and that she is human? Is it that simple?
More green blood from Carol Danvers as it seems she is slowly learning that she is not really a Kree, but a human.
However is there more to the story than meets the eye? Maybe the "all this" is what happened to her and her memories before the Kree found her?
Could it be possible something else or someone else is involved behind the scenes? Does it tie into Avengers 4?
The trailer then continues making it out that it seems as if that is exactly what is going on, that "all of this" is Carol simply finding her real identity. Marvel isn't usually this predictable or forthcoming with their trailers, so it could be possible they are trying to steer us in the wrong direction.
In this scene, Nick Fury seems to have taken Carol to some sort of SHIELD archive where he shows her she is human and had "a life here."
Talos, the Skrull leader, seems to be stating that to Carol as well, as he tells her, "Wouldn't you like to know what you really are?"
However, the question remains, is Talos talking about Carol really being a human? Or something else??
Jude Law is introduced.
It was thought he was playing Mar-vell, but a leaked Funko figure actually reveals he is playing a different Kree, Yon-Rogg, who feuded with Mar-vell and was responsible for Carol getting her Ms. Marvel powers in the comics.
It seems, IMO, that the movie is ditching the Mar-vell part of the origin and basically combining the Yon-Rogg and Mar-vell characters and storyline into one (meaning no Mar-Vell in the movie). I'm not too happy about it, as it's more of Feige dumbing down Marvel Cosmic for the "mom and pop" general MCU audience (ditto for Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor: Ragnarok).
Now we get footage of Carol in her red and blue suit.
Where did she get it from? Possibly SHIELD gives it to her as the footage continues with mention that she is going to stop the Kree Skrull war herself. This more or less seems as if Carol is "awakened" and realizes she has been manipulated by the Kree (and probably the Skrulls at the same time). She is now sided with SHIELD to rid the Earth of both the alien scum!
Carol says, "I'm not going to fight your war, I'm going to end it." Who is she talking to? Possibly Talos? Or Jude Law? Or maybe even Fury, as possibly SHIELD is involved somehow and has taken the side of the Kree? Perhaps there is some sort of intergalactic treaty and that the Earth is simply not just caught in the middle?
Now we get super cool footage of Carol fully powered up. I think the special effects look pretty awesome. In the comics, Ms. Marvel isn't this OP and definitely not capable of taking on Thanos, which is speculated for Avengers 4. Kevin Feige has already said Captain Marvel is the most powerful MCU hero, which again, is nothing like the comics. Is she more powerful than Doctor Strange? The Hulk? Really, Feige??
Also is this her normal power set in the movie or does something else happen and trigger her "Binary" powers. (Binary is Carol's codename in the comics when she has cosmic powers).
During our live chat on Monday it was brought up that Captain Marvel's power set looks a lot like Richard Rider Nova. I have to agree.
If you are familiar with Nova, the Human Rocket, when he blasts off and flies, his legs are engulfed by energy, and he also shoots energy blasts. The footage shown here looks a lot like Nova.
This actually got me thinking, and it's not a good thought (lol), what if The Avengers 4 is "The Avengers: Annihilation," and instead of using Nova, they are replacing Nova with Captain Marvel?
What if Annihilus invades and instead of Nova, in the MCU, Captain Marvel stops the invasion? Blue Blazes!
The trailer offers a look at Carol Danvers' alien cat in the MCU who has its name changed to Goose for whatever reason. In the comics, Carol names it Chewy after Chewbacca from Star Wars. I suppose Feige and the MCU might have changed it because they don't want it connected to the disaster that Disney has done with Star Wars and The Last Jedi, which makes sense, right (wink!)?! Goose is thought to be a nod to Top Gun as Carol is also an air force pilot.
The trailer ends with one last shot of Captain Marvel -- the human rocket. Doh!
I'll say I thought this trailer was pretty sweet. I'll also add what I have said before, I hope this is not Rey from Disney Star Wars all over again.
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CITY OF CALAPAN – A soldier was wounded in an encounter with suspected members of the New People's Army (NPA) in Mansalay town in Oriental Mindoro province on Monday morning.
Supt. Imelda Tolentino, Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) police information officer, said two platoons from Philippine Army's 2nd Infantry Division based in Mindoro were conducting combat operations when they encountered an undetermined number of rebels in their encampment at the vicinity of Sitio (sub-village) Panahulugan in Barangay (village) Panaytayan at about 6:50 a.m.
She said Corporal Romeric Urbiztondo was wounded in the encounter.


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