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The Replacements Are Coming!
15/02/10 at 10.11pm / by deepster19 / 0 Comment
After reforming back in 2013, The Replacements have finally announced a U.S. tour entitled "Back By Unpopular Demand."
The Mats will play a string of 13-dates, starting in Seattle on April 9, and finishing up in Philly on May 9. Some of the notable stops include – an April 16 show at the Hollywood Palladium, and a May 5 show at Stage AE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Tickets for the Hollywood show went on sale today, use the presale code BEATBOX. Tickets are $69, of course they are. Tickets for the Pittsburgh show are on sale to the general public on February 20, mark your Day-Timer.
The Hollywood show takes place on what is traditional known as Coachella Arrival Day, the Thursday prior to the Coachella Festival weekend. My trip up to the Hollywood Palladium for The Mats, and then off to Indio, California, aka The Promised Land, should make for a long but very memorable day. The group played the 2014 Coachella Festival almost exactly a year ago to the day.
Up to this point, the Westerberg and Stinson led band has mostly played festival shows over the last two years. The band has left open the possibility of a new album down the road. We shall see!
The Replacements tour dates:
April 9: Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
April 10: Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
April 13: The Masonic, San Francisco, CA
April 16: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
April 19: The Fillmore, Denver, CO
April 29: The Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL
May 2: Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
May 3: The Fillmore, Detroit, MI
May 5: Stage, AE, Pittsburgh, PA
May 6: LC Pavilion, Columbus, OH
May 8: Echostage, Washington, D.C.
May 9: Festival Pier, Philadelphia, PA
May 28: Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain
May 30: Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 2: Roundhouse, London, UK
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Corb Lund concerned about government's coal policy
Taber-born musician Corb Lund has started to speak out around changes made by the provincial government around where coal development could go forward.
On June 1, the provincial government officially rescinded a 1976 coal development policy brought in by the Peter Lougheed-led government — which explained how and where coal development could go ahead in the province. It also didn't allow for open-pit mines over a large area and banned any mining at all in the most sensitive spots.
"Some folks that listen to my music — some ranching families in the foothills here in Alberta and the eastern slopes of the Rockies and some people out of province — have brought it to my attention there has been some pretty big changes to our coal policy in Alberta," said Lund in a video posted to Facebook Jan.12. "Having to do with open-pit mining, also known as mountain top removal coal mining in something called category two land, which is crown land that is quite protected, until now, and it's quite pristine. They say it's about the size of Jamaica, it's about 1.5 million hectares."
Lund was also critical about how the changes were announced by the provincial government without consultation from Albertans.
"I don't think that's right. From what I understand, there was not a whole lot of consultation with the public, ranchers, farmers, First Nations people or municipalities, or anything. I don't think that is how you should govern, but the deal is since the Lougheed government in the 1970s put this in place, and the idea was, they put years of study into it and years of consultation, and it was widely, deeply investigated and they came to the conclusion this area was so pristine and so sensitive, if it was ever surface mined, it couldn't be restored, and I agree with them. We've all seen the foothills, it's beautiful country."
The changes were announced in a media release May 15 titled 'Updated coal rules keep protection, strengthen certainty.' The release stated changes would modernize 'almost 45-year-old rules for coal development' and would 'provide additional flexibility and certainty for industry, while maintaining stringent protection for sensitive lands."
"As we strengthen our focus on economic recovery and revitalization, we will continue to make common-sense decisions to create certainty and flexibility for industry, while ensuring sensitive lands are protected for Albertans to continue to enjoy. Rescinding the outdated coal policy in favour of modern oversight will help attract new investment for an important industry and protect jobs for Albertans," said Sonya Savage, minister of energy in the media release.
A big concern for Lund comes down to the issue of potential water contamination in the nearby rivers.
"There's a lot of bad things about it, but the biggest one probably is water. Because contained in this huge area are the headwaters of the Oldman River, you've got the North Saskatchewan, the Red Deer River, and that's drinking water folks, for the good part of the province. Both rural and urban, First Nations, it's a big deal," he said. "They're going to be sucking out a bunch of freshwater out of the river. More importantly, is something called selenium contamination of groundwater."
Lund also pointed to Elk Valley, B.C., which has been dealing with large amounts of selenium contamination for several years.
He also touched on the fact he has heard most of the land already sold has been bought by international companies. According to CBC, the provincial government has sold leases on about 1.4 million hectares of land since the policy was rescinded.
"It's now open for coal leases, and in fact, a bunch of them, to my understanding, have been sold. And not only sold, but sold almost entirely to foreign companies. It's moving real quick folks. It's pretty scary."
Since becoming aware of the changes, he stated he had been in contact with several types of people including MLAs, MPs, ranchers, farmers, First Nations and others.
"I know there is always different values to balance, but I gave it my best shot. I took all of the information for weeks and studied it. I got to tell you, I'm kind of pissed off about this. I don't like the content of the changes, and I certainly don't like the way it was done," he continued. "I'm not an anti-resource guy. I have friends and immediate family that work in the oil patch. I write songs about oil riggers and I drive a pickup, all that stuff. But we should not have open-pit coal mines anywhere near our rivers and we should not have it anywhere near that area, period."
He was also skeptical of the notion the changes to the policy were purely to enhance the economic landscape in Alberta.
"They're going to tell you it's for the economy right? That's always it. The economy and jobs, and jobs and the economy, and of course, that's important. I'm a musician in nine or 10 months into COVID, I know about unemployment, it sucks. I have empathy and sympathy for that, but this is not the way to solve it. This is juvenile, short-term thinking. Why would you take any risks at all with our water?" he asked.
"What's the one sector that keeps us going when our resources are in a slump? It's agriculture. This is for sure going to mess up a bunch of grazing land for the cattle guys. The Oldman River system supplies irrigation water for a huge chunk of southern Alberta farmers. We're talking potatoes, corn, canola, wheat and sugar beets — Taber corn, right? We do not want selenium in the Oldman River. We do not want any chance of selenium in the Oldman River."
Lund also urged anyone concerned about the change in the policy to reach out to their local representatives.
"Call your MLA, call your MP. Go meet with them and say 'why are we doing this? What are the advantages to Alberta?'"
Along with Lund, Alberta-born country musician Paul Brandt has also lent his voice to create change.
"I don't know Corb Lund extremely well, but I've always been a fan from afar," reads an Instagram post on Brandt's account. "Now, I'm a lifer. @corblund is right — This is a big deal and a bad deal. As an Albertan who enjoys fly-fishing in our clear waters and spending time in the outdoors, I hope our government listens, consults and re-considers. We can't put short-sighted economic benefit ahead of long-term consequences that could devastate our people and land for generations to come. Please see the link in bio to see Corb talk about open-pit coal mining in our Rocky Mountains, and how you can #SaveOurMountains."
For more information visit http://www.savethemountains.ca.
On Monday, Minister Savage posted a statement on the coal leases issues that had arisen.
"We have listened carefully to the concerns raised in recent days, and thank those who spoke up with passion. As a result, we will pause future coal lease sales in former Category 2 lands. The coal leases from the December 2020 auction will be cancelled."
"I want to be absolutely clear — under the current terms, just as it was under the 1976 coal policy, coal leases do not allow for exploration, development or production without a comprehensive regulatory review. A lease holder has no more right to set foot on lease property than any other Albertan. The same rules apply now, as before. This pause will provide our government with the opportunity to ensure the interests of Albertans, as owners of mineral resources, are protected. Coal development remains an important part of the Western Canadian economy, especially in rural communities, but we are committed to demonstrating that it will only be developed responsibly under Alberta's modern regulatory standards and processes."
"This decision has no impact on existing coal projects currently under regulatory review."


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Offensive Weapons
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many incidents of recorded violent crime a crossbow was used as an offensive weapon in each year since 1997. [131238]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not available centrally. Offences involving crossbows cannot be identified in the recorded crime statistics.
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times the power to authorise stop and search for offensive weapons within a specified area for the period of 24 hours under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order
Act 1994 has been enacted by a senior police officer in each year since the Act came into force. [131246]
Mr. McNulty: Available information on stops and searches under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 from 1995 to 2004-05 of persons or vehicles can be found in table PB of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin 'Arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) and the Operation of Certain Police Powers under PACE, 2004-05 England and Wales', given in the following table. It is also available on the web at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb2105.pdf.
Information for 2005-06 will be available later in 2007.
Table PB: Searches of persons or vehicles under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and resultant arrests
Stops and searches in anticipation of violence in England and Wales
Total searches Number of persons found to be carrying offensive weapons or dangerous instruments Arrests for offensive weapons Arrests for other reasons
1995 (from 10 April)
1998-99(1)
(1 )Figures amended since publication of the 1998-99 Bulletin.
Prisons: Overcrowding
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to extend early release provisions in order to alleviate prison overcrowding. [129656]
John Reid: I have no plans to do so. The National Offender Management Service is dealing with pressures on the prison estate by building more capacity. We will always ensure that there will be prison places for those serious, sexual and seriously persistent offenders who ought to be in prison.
Prisons: Visits
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visits were received by (a) male and (b) female prisoners in each of the last five years. [130531]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 29 March 2007]: Statistics on the number of visits to prisoners are not centrally collated and there is currently no national system for recording such data. Prisoners have a statutory entitlement to social visits and are also able to earn additional visits under the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme.
Serious Organised Crime Agency: Manpower
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many serious crime agency officers are embedded in (a) other law enforcement agencies and (b) private organisations within the financial sector (i) within the UK and (ii) overseas. [131683]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is in the following table.
UK Overseas
Other law enforcement agencies
Private organisations
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 27 March 2007, Official Report, column 1460-1W, on young offenders, what steps his Department is taking to improve the accuracy of statistics recorded for breaches of (a) supervision orders with conditions, (b) curfew orders, (c) community punishment and rehabilitation orders, (d) community punishment
orders, (e) detention and training orders, (f) reparation orders, (g) action plan orders, (h) attendance centre orders, (i) supervision orders without conditions and (j) drug treatment and testing orders; and if he will make a statement. [131736]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 16 April 2007]: Although about 5 per cent. of breach data are reported to the Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) by the Crown Court, the rest covering magistrates courts are reported by either magistrates courts or police forces. Responsibility for processing, validating and disseminating the data rests with OCJR.
A link between the new case management system for magistrates courts, being developed by the Department for Constitutional Affairs and OCJR, is replacing the current reporting systems employed by magistrates courts and the police.
It is expected to provide the necessary improvement in the data supplied and will begin replacing data under those systems later this year.
House of Commons Commission
Norman Baker: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what the total cost of heating the buildings on the House of Commons estate was in each of the last three years; and what targets are in place for future years. [120548]
Nick Harvey: It is not possible to determine the total cost of heating the buildings on the House of Commons estate. All the buildings are heated by natural gas boilers which are not metered separately; the gas meters record total consumption for providing hot water services as well as heating. The approximate total gas consumption and cost for each of the last three years has been:
Consumption MWh Cost (£ million)
The increase in cost for 2005-06 is mainly due to significant increases in the unit price of gas in that year. Gas consumption reduced in 2004-05 and then increased in 2005-06; due to fluctuations in heating energy consumption caused by variations in outside temperatures measured in degree days. The following table shows the degree days for the Thames Valley region which includes London. From these figures a higher consumption would have been expected in 2005-06. That it was not so is due to the installation of more efficient Palace boilers in 2004.
Degree days
A target
"to reduce energy consumption measured in terms of kWh of fuel and electricity used per square metre of building floor area by 15 per cent. by 2010-11, relative to 1999-2000"
is contained in the Energy and Water Saving Policy adopted by both Houses.
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what organisations applied for funding under the community relations core funding scheme 2007-10; and which organisations were (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful with their application. [131680]
Maria Eagle: The Department of Education received 59 applications. Twenty-six organisations were successful and are listed at A. Thirty-three organisations were unsuccessful and are listed at B.
Point A lists the organisations that were successful in securing funding.
Community Relations in Schools
Panarts
Bytes Project
Children's Project NI
Verbal Arts Centre (NI) Ltd.
Corrymeela
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
School of Education (University of Ulster)
NI Children's Enterprise
NIPPA—Early Years Organisation
NUS/USI (National Union of Students—Union of Students Ireland)
NI Council for Integrated Education
Public Achievement
Spirit of Enniskillen Trust
Creggan Education and Research Services
Belfast YMCA
Kilcranny House
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
NI Children's Holidays Scheme
Forthspring Inter-Community Group
Harmony Community Trust (Successful after Appeal)
Point B lists the applications that were unsuccessful.
Forward Learning
Lurgan YMCA
Dun Uladh Ltd.
Christian Education Movement
Tides Training
Armagh City and District Council
Youth Action (NI)
YMCA Ireland
Speedwell Trust
Belfast Activity Centre
Horizon Project (Ireland) Ltd.
Churches Peace Education Programme
Challenge for Youth
Northwest Centre for Learning and Development
Playing for Peace
STEER Mental Health Organisation
All Set Cross Cultural Project
REACH Across


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The Pandemic's Hardest-Hit Subject: Math: How 1 School Is Surpassing The Odds
Many times outside of the school day, such as during summer school or after-school tutoring, schools across the country have tried to add instruction to make up for lost learning. Student involvement is essential for these initiatives to succeed.
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Meriden kept on wagering on the actual school day.
The fact that the kids appear interested and even have fun is beneficial.
In the world of education, it can take a lot to make even a small difference.
Late 2019 saw the start of the changes in Meriden.
After assisting in the turnaround of one district school that was in danger of being taken over by the state due to subpar performance, Mr Crispino, a former principal, was appointed to oversee all elementary schools. After the school received a prestigious national award, Mr Crispino was requested to teach the lessons to the entire district.
The pandemic then broke out.
By the fall of 2020, Meriden had already resumed operations, which was a decision that undoubtedly served as a safeguard against more significant academic losses. Nevertheless, a lot of families chose to remain at home, including those at Franklin, where some students stayed away for several months.
Schools across the nation have tried to add instruction to make up for lost learning, though frequently outside of the school day, during after-school tutoring or summer school. The success of these initiatives depends on student participation.
In order to devote more time to math, district officials diverted a half-hour that was intended for students who needed extra assistance in a variety of subjects from teachers or worksheets.
Math is now taught at Franklin in a consistent manner: a brief lesson is followed by group work. While some students work in their own groups for the next 15 or 20 minutes, the teacher meets with the others. Tutors, some of whom were paid for with federal pandemic relief funds, are used by students who need extra assistance.
Students turn around when a buzzer or chime sounds.
Working with students in small groups is "really important," according to Julie Sarama, an expert on early math education at the University of Denver, but many teachers past kindergarten don't want to do it. She claimed that tradition plays a role in some of the resistance. "You merely instruct as you were instructed."
Changes at Franklin depended on its 350 students adhering to a strict schedule. Along with Mr Crispino, the school's principal Joanne Conte observed classrooms. Since that five minutes equated to lost instructional time, even a five-minute delay in getting back from recess could be noticed.
That's 25 minutes a week, according to Mr Crispino.
Feedback was frequently left to Ms Conte, who saw herself as the tortoise, "slow and steady," to Mr Crispino's energetic hare. She left questions or compliments in the mailboxes of teachers in the form of handwritten notes.
Another change asked teachers to cover the same material per grade at the same rate. The strategy ensured uniformity but also reduced teachers' control over their classrooms.
For Halloween, Christine Joy's fifth-grade students eagerly anticipated her arrival with pumpkins for them to weigh, measure, and experiment with. She must plan ahead and reserve "flex" minutes under the new structure because she is unable to simply teach the lesson when she feels like it.
Some teachers initially viewed the new system as being overly regimented, adding extra work, and taking the fun out of teaching, according to Krista Vermeil, a teacher at Franklin and a vice president in the teachers' union in Meriden, which worked on the changes.
Any kind of change feels very personal because we put our whole selves into what we do, she said.
She continued, "I think the buy-in is there now," though.
Recently, eager fourth graders raised their hands to share their methods for mentally resolving the equation (15 + 16 = 31). Students spread out on a beanbag chair or carpet while teachers met in small groups.
Marcus Crespo-Ellison and Brielle Betancourt, a 9-year-old girl with long, dark hair and a soft voice, worked together. They realised that practising together had benefits. You could support one another, Brielle said. You can pick up knowledge from various people.
Marcus, who is 9 years old, surprised everyone by claiming that math was his favourite subject. He admitted, "I kind of like math. I'm very proficient in math.
According to experts, peer work can be especially helpful in math, which is brought to life through the mystique of problem-solving. Students can exchange problem-solving techniques with one another during lessons rather than getting frustrated or, more problematically, bored.
According to research, adding more class time and tutors to the school day can also be beneficial, but these strategies must be used well.
Tequilla Brownie, the chief executive of TNTP, a nonprofit that works with school districts and has urged schools to focus less on reviewing previous material for struggling students and more on starting with grade-level content and filling in gaps, declared that "more time wasted is just more time wasted."
In order for students to reason and apply math in the real world, math experts emphasised that lessons must place a strong emphasis on conceptual understanding rather than merely regurgitating correct answers.
Fifth graders at Franklin may be required to plan a Thanksgiving meal on a budget for their families, weighing options and making decisions.
The fifth-grade teacher, Ms Montano, instructed the students, "Let's say the turkey is 89 cents a pound; they have to figure out how many pounds they need." You want to make mashed potatoes. Will you be purchasing fresh or boxed potatoes?
The development at Franklin in some ways also highlights the challenging work that needs to be done.
In English language arts, the school is still catching up. That subject, which historically had better student outcomes and already had small-group instruction and 90-minute classes for the majority of grades, underwent fewer changes.
The disparities that characterise American education still exist, even in math. For instance, at Franklin, Hispanic students lag behind white students while lower-income students lag behind their higher-income peers.
Although they have not caught up as quickly, other Meriden schools that also changed the way they taught are making progress.
It's challenging to figure out the causes. Schools vary in size and poverty levels. Then there is school culture, a mystical quality that is challenging to measure but is evident in fist bumps and hugs in the hallways as well as yoga poses and breathing exercises done before classes.
Meriden's superintendent, Mark Benigni, has recently been daydreaming about what might be conceivable if schools had more time in the day.
Some educational leaders have argued that school districts should lengthen the school year or day to make up for pandemic losses. This strategy would require not only political will on the part of educators and parents but also financial resources and staff, which are priceless in the field of education.
Six hours and 180 days are insufficient, according to Mr Benigni. It has never been sufficient.
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It was about 12 years ago and I was in Atlanta at my aunt's house on my way to Savannah to meet someone who I met online which turned out to be an episode from Tales from The Crypt. But before I left, a friend of mine told me to download The Secret from Limewire(Napster's younger brother) and to watch it.
She didn't tell me anything about it, just to watch it. About an hour later it had finished downloading around 2:00 am. I hit play and for the next hour or so, I was frozen as if I just saw a fleet of UFO's descend from the sky. Everything they were elucidating The Law of Attraction, visualization, having a positive attitude was just what I needed to hear, it came at just the right moment in my life. I felt like The Secret was produced just for me.
At that time in my life, I was a negative nancy, I made the Grinch seem like Mary Poppins. I always talked about, complained about, and thought about everything I disliked, everything I loathed. But after watching The Secret I consciously stopped all of that. It took me quite a while to stop being negative holistically, as my subconscious mind continued to radiate negative thoughts and emotions when triggered by certain people or places.
But the way The Secret presented "The Law of Attraction" was not beneficial for me, because sitting around passively visualizing while munching on Trader Joe's Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips didn't quite lead me to my Shangri-La.
I found more advanced books on the Law of Attraction that helped me incredibly, such as "The Master Key System" by Charles Haanel, which discussed and explains other universal principles one needs to know to create ones desired reality. You can buy "The Master Key System" clicking here.
Then last week friend of mine discovered "The Meta Secret", I thought, "the meta Secret? What's that?". I started to google it and it turns out it was a sequel produced in 2010 by Dr. Mel Gill. So how did I miss this, when I first watched The Secret I was googling for any related information for years on the internet.
Not to be a conspiracy bum, but most people have seen the second production of The Secret, which excluded Esther Hicks who in my view was the most important personage in the movie. I have seen the first production that included Esther Hicks, and it's vastly different from the second production. In my perception, the second production seems to be putting subliminal negative messages in your mind, while also denying you the valuable information Esther Hicks divulged in the first production.
But after watching The Meta Secret, I wouldn't be surprised if the powers that be did everything possible to keep people from watching this, because freeing the minds of people is not in their best interest.
Anyway, The Meta Secret is not just another movie re-interpreting " The Law of Attraction", it's much more than that. It introduces you to the 7 Hermetic Laws which was the philosophy which flowered the Rennaisance which in turn created western civilization.
Historically, some of the Renaissance pioneers were burnt alive on stakes by the Catholic Church for heresy because they were students of hermeticism.
You'll see some of the same faces like Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale, and Jack Canfield, as well as some new interesting faces.
I really enjoyed this movie, it explained many concepts I had previously discovered on my own as well as some new concepts. I loved how they oppose the "sitting at home and passively visualizing" conundrum, hoping that all your dreams will materialize on your lap. They go into depth in how to use your mind, feelings, action, the law of attraction as well as the other 6 hermetic principles to use the power of your mind and the universe to manifest your dreams.
You can watch The Meta Secret for free on youtube, there are 3 really bad copies, this one here seems to be of the best quality. You can also watch it here Tubitv.com, this one has the best quality.
I would love to hear peoples stories of applying the 7 hermetic principles in the comment section.


I have been forwarded a copy of the email the Society for Biblical Literature sent to its members about moving the Review of Biblical Literature into its members-only space.1 I will comment on that email here, trying to point out why I see this as a significant and retrograde move.
But first some background. I have been an SBL member since the early 80s, I retained membership for a few years after I retired from Carey thanks to the generosity of SBL who allowed me to pay as a Student Member. I recently allowed that membership to lapse, though if the new means-tested membership fees had been announced at that time I would probably have renewed. I have attended a number of International (since 1986) and annual meetings of the Society (since the mid-90s), usually giving papers. I stopped attending after retiring from Carey because of the cost of airfares. (I never used the official expensive hotels). I greatly value the Society for its role as the largest and often the most innovative scholarly society in the discipline of biblical studies.
I doubt those students I mentioned, or indeed many of the majority world scholars will follow this perhaps wise hope. I wonder if SBL is measuring the flood of new memberships? A question on the application form would be informative!
Yet my core objection is not that the move will probably fail to achieve its stated objective, but rather what such a move says about the Society which makes it. What shall it profit a scholarly society if it gain the whole Google, but lose its soul?4 If "scholarly information exchange" continues to be privatised with ownership increasingly divided between big international publishing companies5 and scholarly societies then those societies that get in on that act will have lost their raison d'être and may as well shut up shop. If learning is privatised they become mere secret societies for rich-world bible scholars (with a few charity cases on the margins).


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Sunrise Avenue — финская рок-группа, состоящая из пяти человек. Их стиль варьируется от более динамичного рока (напр. «Forever Yours») до более мелодичных баллад (напр. «Heal Me»). Самым известным их синглом стала композиция «Fairytale Gone Bad», которая достигла первых строчек хит-парадов в нескольких странах и, как следствие, стала одной из самых узнаваемых песен группы.

Состав
 Саму Хабер (2 апреля 1976 г., Хельсинки) — вокал, гитара
 Рауль Рууту (28 августа 1975 г., Вантаа) — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал
 Сами Осала (10 марта 1982 г., Сейняйоки) — ударные (с 2005 г.)
 Рику Райамаа (04 ноября 1975 г., Хельсинки) — гитара и бэк-вокал (с 2007 г., с 2008 г. является официальным участником группы)
 Осмо Иконен (18 апреля 1980 г., Корпилахти) — клавишные (сессионный музыкант)

История группы
В шестнадцатилетнем возрасте Хабер (Samu Haber) вместе с финским певцом и автором песен Яном Хохенталем (Jan Hohenthal) образовали группу «Sunrise». Они выступали во множестве различных клубов по всей Финляндии. В 1998 г. Хабер на четыре года уехал в Испанию, и в течение этого периода Sunrise давала выступления на некоторых частных испанских мероприятиях. На разных мероприятиях в составе группы выступали разные ударники и другие музыканты.

На протяжении этого периода Sunrise записала несколько песен, одной из которых была «All Because Of You»; эта песня вошла в дебютный альбом «Sunrise Avenue», On the Way to Wonderland.

В 2002 году Хабер вернулся в Финляндию, и в составе с Хохенталем и басистом Сами Хейнном (Sami Heinänen) Sunrise была преобразована в «Sunrise Avenue». Вскоре, в марте 2002-го Хохенталь покинул группу, чтобы сосредоточиться на сольной карьере. После того, как Sunrise Avenue осталась без ведущего гитариста, Сами Хейнн познакомил Хабера с Янне Кярккяиненом (Janne Kärkkäinen).

Вскоре после этого к группе присоединился басист Рауль Руту (Raul Ruutu), а осенью 2005-го — ударник Сами Осала (Sami Osala). Последний был привлечён в группу Teijo Jämsä из группы Killer Aspect, сыгравшим партии ударных в некоторых из треков дебютного альбома Sunrise Avenue. Перед этим, в 2003 году Хабер ушёл с постоянной работы в отделе сбыта и 102 раза посещал звукозаписывающие студии, продюсеров и агентов в Финляндии, прежде чем им удалось заключить контракт на запись. Продюсер Юкка Баклунд (Jukka Backlund) заинтересовался, когда увидел живое выступление группы, и вместе с ним, ещё до заключения контракта, было принято решение сделать совместную запись. Баклунд и Sunrise Avenue записали первые треки, после чего уже было принято окончательное решение заключить контракт. Один из друзей Хабера, продавец копировальных машин Микко Виртала продал свой дом, чтобы оплатить звукозапись в студии.

Летом 2005 года они подписали соглашение с лейблом Bonnier Amigo Music Group (имеющим значение на финском рынке), а позднее — на международном уровне с EMI.

Выпустив в начале 2006 года свои первые синглы «All Because of You» и «Romeo», в мае Sunrise Avenue выпустила в Финляндии их альбом «On the Way to Wonderland». Третий их сингл, «Fairytale Gone Bad», был выпущен 23 августа и занял пятую строчку в музыкальных чартах Финляндии. Также этот сингл занял седьмую строчку в польском чарте синглов.

В Германии альбом был выпущен в продажу, спустя две недели после «Fairytale Gone Bad» (25 августа 2006 г.). Приблизительно в то же время группа провела свои первые живые выступления в Германии — 23 августа в Кёльнском Клубе Underground и 25 августа на крупнейшем музыкальном фестивале и телешоу в Германии The Dome.

20 октября 2006 г. группа получила Платиновый статус в Финляндии за их дебютный альбом «On the Way to Wonderland». Также альбом получил Золотой статус в Швеции и Германии. Кроме того, группа выиграла в четырёх категориях NRJ Radio Awards (крупнейшая Скандинавская музыкальная церемония награждения): Лучший Финский Новичок, Лучшая Финская Песня (Fairytale Gone Bad), Лучший Финский Альбом (On The Way To Wonderland) и Лучший Скандинавский Артист.

20 января 2007 г. они спели «Fairytale Gone Bad» в St. Jakob Halle в Базеле, Швейцария, во время выхода на ринг Николая Валуева, где он защищал свой титул чемпиона в бою против Джамиля Макклайна.

В апреле 2007 г. хит «Fairytale Gone Bad» получил Золотой статус в Германии, после того, как сингл разошёлся тиражом свыше 150 000 копий (на 17 апреля всего было продано 181 826 копий). Также сингл получил Золотой статус в Швеции, где было продано более 30 000 копий.

«Это то, что делали The Beatles и сделали Bon Jovi и Foo Fighters. Это не однодневная тенденция, это музыка, которая "прокатит" сегодня, завтра и в ближайшие десять лет» — прокомментировал Хабер (об их стиле).

Дебютный альбом Sunrise Avenue — On the Way to Wonderland — об их дороге к мечте, о моменте, когда участники группы закончили альбом.

«Этот альбом является очень личным и правдивым описанием всех этапов путешествия к своей мечте: ты достигаешь высот, минуты славы, а затем приходят времена, когда всё летит к чертям» — описывает Хабер.

«Когда ты выходишь на сцену, это нечто за гранью жизни и смерти. Даже если перед тобой всего один зритель — это прекрасно. Даже если мы играем просто для себя — этого достаточно. А если перед тобой тысяча человек, машущих тебе руками — то это просто нечто! Но для нас живая игра — это то, чего нам самого по себе достаточно, чтобы быть счастливыми» — убедительно утверждает Хабер.

«Конечно, у нас были моменты, когда мы думали, что ничего из этого не выйдет. Но эти мысли исчезали каждый раз, когда мы выходили на сцену и видели улыбающегося парня или девушку. Когда мы видели это, мы снова были абсолютно убеждены, что что-то в нашей музыке всё же есть».

В июне 2013 г. приняли участие в фестивале «Рок за Бобров» и были невероятно удивлены тёплым приветствием.

2 декабря 2019 г. в прямом эфире Саму Хабер объявил о распаде Sunrise Avenue. В 2020 г. группа отправится прощальный тур, включающий в себя 7 концертов в 4 странах (Австрия, Германия, Швейцария и Финляндия), который завершится 15 августа на Олимпийском стадионе в Хельсинки.

Дискография

Альбомы

Синглы

Клипы
 Romeo
 Fairytale Gone Bad
 Forever Yours
 Heal Me
 Diamonds
 Choose to Be Me
 The Whole Story
 The First Cut Is the Deepest (cover)
 Not Again
 Birds & Bees
 Welcome to My Life
 Hollywood Hills
 I Don't Dance
 Somebody Help Me
 Damn Silence
 Lifesaver
 Prisoner In Paradise
 I Help You Hate Me
 Thank You For Everything

DVD
 Live in Wonderland (2007)
 Out of Style - live edition (2012)

Концерты в России

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт Sunrise Avenue
 Блог Саму Хабера на MySpace

Рок-группы Финляндии
Музыкальные коллективы, появившиеся в 2002 году

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*See comment below from Mick. Vinyl Space is now closed, however Micka has opened a new store located at 119a Johnston Street, Collingwood. Enjoy!
I stumbled upon this terrific little store a few weekends ago when I was in search of some vintage pendant lights in Thornbury. Vinyl Space is joint project between Michael Smajdor and Top Hat Antiques, which is located just down the road at 873 High Street. The store is understated and could easily be missed if you're experiencing some kind of hangover/post-brunch food coma, a condition I find myself afflicted with most weekends… Anyway, my point is you need to keep you're eyes peeled. Alongside the vinyl, there are some excellent lamps, canisters and a wonderfully retro record player. For those too lazy to leave the comfort of their couch you can also check out the collection on the Vinyl Space website.
Anyone keen for some high tea and Jazz? Well you are in luck my friends!
The lovely people at the iconic Thornbury Theatre are hosting a 1920's Vintage Jazz High Tea on the 18th of August and we have two tickets to give away. To be in the running to win just like the Vintage Melbourne Facebook page and send your email address to rosie@vintagemelbourne.com. The winner will be drawn on the 12th of August so get in quick to ensure you don't miss out!
A curious phenomenon is taking place in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne, and perhaps elsewhere. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed the increasing number of swap-meets, garage and sidewalk sales lining the pavements and median strip of these vibrant suburbs. It seems that many Melbournians interested in recycling their worldly goods are opting to cut out the middle man (markets, op-shops and secondhand stores) and sell their wares directly to passing traffic. Obviously the success of any such sale will likely be determined by the level of pedestrian (and bicycle) traffic in the area.
Department of History on High Street, Thornbury is a feast for the senses. The music is rocking, the place smells like furniture polish and there are so many wonderful things to see and touch. The only sense that misses out is taste, sadly I feel that licking the beautiful furniture might be frowned upon by the establishment… and probably wouldn't taste very nice anyway. This superb vintage store stocks a wide variety of wares from clothes to light fixtures, with stand out pieces including a massive timber desk with leather top in mint condition, loads of old magazines, fabulous glassware and old-school test tubes in timber holders (these were being used as vases in the store – very snazzy).


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Chapter Meetings are held the 3rd Friday (September - June) in Lecture Hall 6 on the 2nd Floor of the R. A. Dixon Building, College of Dentistry, 600 W Street NW on the campus of Howard University. Repast is at 6:30pm and the meeting follows at 7:06pm. All members of Alpha Phi Alpha in good standing are invited to attend.
In keeping with the organization's principles, the Omicron Eta Lambda Charitable Foundation annually awards several scholarships of up to $4,000 to eligible senior high school students enrolled in District of Columbia public schools. The scholarship is named in honor of one of the seven founders of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Nathaniel A. Murray, who was a teacher at Armstrong Vocational High School in the District of Columbia.


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Solo Show – woop woop! It is all me today people, and I am so excited to be sharing some powerful thoughts and experiences with you today.
Alternative – recognizing what is happening physically in my body, seeing what is happening for me, what is the lens I am looking out of?
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Talia Green
From Behind a Kitchen Window: A Review of Memory for Forgetfulness
Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (Literature of the Middle East) by Mahmoud Darwish (Author), Ibrahim Muhawi (Translator), Sinan Antoon (Forward) ISBN-13: 978-0520273047
I was first exposed to Mahmoud Darwish through an Israeli-Palestinian Literature course; his poem "In Jerusalem" was the first that I read. The poem, whose narrative voice perhaps transcends between sleep and wakefulness, chronicles his journey through the epochs of Jerusalem. As he wanders, remembering and not remembering the pathways, the mysticism of Jerusalem seeps into his narration. He expresses his love for Jerusalem, for its holiness, and his love is undying—even if he is displaced from those walls. It was with this eye, already exposed to the hypnotizing writing and familiar themes of Mahmoud Darwish, that I dove into Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982.
It is one of Darwish's most notable works, and for a reason. It was first published in March of 1995, masterfully translated by Ibrahim Muhawi. Its newer edition, published in May of 2013, includes a forward by Sinan Antoon, offering an extensive introduction to Darwish's previous works and the historical context from which he writes. This collection of essays—really, a set of prose poems—reflects on Darwish's experience during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. In a meditative rendering, the collection touches upon the political and historical dimensions of the Palestinian exile, and particularly on "Hiroshima Day" during the Lebanese Civil War: witnessing the barrage of Beirut in August of 1982. Through recurring symbols of death, coffee, wakefulness, and memory, Darwish explores fear during conflict: a sentiment which is, as he recounts, constant, pervasive, and disturbingly routine.
The essays are war-ravaged, recreating the violence of a city under siege from behind Darwish's kitchen window. It is hauntingly mundane, illustrating a 'day-in-the-life' of an individual during wartime; as he yearns for his coffee, his "morning silence," (7), he evaluates whether the walls of his home will protect him from the bombshells. As he listens to the morning birds, awake at daybreak, he wonders "for whom do they sing in the crush of these rockets?" (9). Thoughts of death for Darwish, for a man encumbered by the normalization of war, are thoughts as commonplace as his morning coffee, as the 6am bird songs. It is this normalization - the disturbing interweaving of uncertain death among regular elements of life—that makes this collection so unsettling.
I thank God everyday that I'm unfamiliar with the distresses of war. Moreso, as an Israeli, much of the Palestinian narrative is muffled behind distortions of emotion, of cultural sentiment. On both sides, there is an overwhelming tendency to approach the conflict through biased eyes. When such a conflict involves family and identity, it's easy for personal narratives to overpower those on the opposing side. But that's why reading work like this is so deeply important. Beyond understanding from the standpoint of an Israeli, this work offers all readers insight behind the walls of Darwish's kitchen. It translates experience - a distinct kind of suffering - across all borders, regardless of perspective. The reader is called upon to question the extent of their awareness, and to regard the experiences of those living in one's periphery. I would argue that that's the point of this kind of work, this striking, scarring poetry. The transmission of experience. And though I pray I'll never be burdened by the normalization of war, never be wrought by fears of falling rockets as I brew my morning coffee, I am grateful to consider these burdens through Darwish's haunting readership.
Tagged: Mahmoud Darwish, In Jerusalem, Latest Review, Memory for Forgetfulness, Talia Green, Literature of the Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian Literature, Ibrahim Muhawi, Sinan Antoon
Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile
"Absent, I come to the home of the absent," the leading Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, writes. No other poet captures the Palestinian consciousness and collective memory the way he does. At sixty-one, whether he is giving a reading in Paris or Palestine, he draws crowds of thousands, from government officials to schoolteachers, taxi drivers to students. In his latest collection, Judarieh (Mural), the poet finds himself in between love and death, wondering which of the two will conquer. "After the stranger's night, who am I?"
Tagged: article, interview, Mahmoud Darwish, Nathalie Handal, Palestine's Poet of Exile, Tribes
Review of Mahmoud Darwish
"Absent, I come to the home of the absent," the leading Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, writes. No other poet captures the Palestinian consciousness and collective memory the way he does. At sixty-one, whether he is giving a reading in Paris or Palestine, he draws crowds of thousands, from government officials to schoolteachers, taxi drivers to students.
Tagged: Handal, Mahmoud Darwish, palestinian poet, Poetry, review, Tribes
The Adam Of Two Edens
"A war rages against me, a war rages inside me. Stranger, hang your weapons in our palm tree and let me plant my wheat in Canaan's sacred soil. take wine from my jars ..."
Tagged: Adam of Two Edens, Israel, John Farris, Mahmoud Darwish, Poetry, review, Tribes


Lally Daley has helped create an app for children with autism.
Lally Daley, the youngest daughter of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, has joined the entrepreneur set at 1871, the workspace at Merchandise Mart for startups.
Ms. Daley, an education specialist working toward a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at DePaul University, has helped create Skill Champ, a free iPad app for children with autism.
"I've been working on it about a year with two friends I got to know early in my career," Ms. Daley told me. Her colleagues on the app are Christopher Flint, a teacher and curriculum developer who founded Aaction Autism, a nonprofit that has provided autism training in India, and Katie Hench, who Ms. Daley met while attending undergraduate school at Notre Dame University. The two women also traveled to India for a study-abroad program. The three operate Infiniteach, which created the Skill Champ app.
Skill Champ is based on best-practice autism strategies, Ms. Daley says. It teaches 10 foundational-level skills including letter recognition, color matching and identifying happy and sad faces.
Ms. Daley, 30, is one of Mr. Daley's three surviving children. Her interest in understanding autism began when she took a psychology course at Notre Dame.
Users' responses will help in adapting the app and creating new features, she said. Additional apps created by Infiniteach are available for purchase.
After immersing herself in the subject and talking for months about the app, Ms. Daley said she was happy to show her father the final result.


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Title: RECURSIVE FORMULAS GENERATING POWER MOMENTS OF KLOOSTERMAN SUMS: SYMPLECTIC CASE
Article ID: MTJPAM-D-19-00001; Volume 1 / Issue 1 / Year 2019, Pages 77-95
Author(s): Dae San Kim a
aDepartment of Mathematics, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Korea
Received: 4 July 2019, Accepted: 16 October 2019, Available online: 28 November 2019.
Corresponding Author: Dae San Kim (Email address: dskim@sogang.ac.kr)
In this paper, we construct two infinite families of binary linear codes associated with double cosets with respect to certain maximal parabolic subgroup of the symplectic group Sp(2n, q). Here q is a power of two. Then we obtain an infinite family of recursive formulas for the power moments of Kloosterman sums and those of 2-dimensional Kloosterman sums in terms of the frequencies of weights in the codes. This is done via Pless power moment identity and by utilizing the explicit expressions of exponential sums over those double cosets related to the evaluations of "Gauss sum" for the symplectic groups Sp(2n, q).
Keywords: Kloosterman sum, symplectic group, double cosets, maximal parabolic subgroup, Pless power moment identity, weight distribution
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RT @EyeAndLightning: This cracking novel is out next month, available to order now, and on ebook already. If you haven't read Beneath the S… 3 minutes ago
Reading with a Theme: Thorny Marriages
A while ago I happened to read a whole series of books about mothers. Since my return from holiday I seem to have been on a roll with books about marriages – I was going to say 'difficult marriages', but at least one of them is about a happy marriage… interrupted by death. Incidentally, it also seems to have been a bit of a catch-up with North American writers, as Anne Carson, Louise Penny and Maxime-Olivier Moutier are all Canadians, while two of the remaining authors are American.
Joan Didion and her family in Malibu in 1976. From back cover of the book.
Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
The portrait of a 40 year marriage of true minds. Didion's husband died of a heart-attack in 2003, and this is the searing memoir of her befuddlement, grief, sense of guilt and sheer madness of the year following her sudden loss. (At the same time, her daughter was in and out of hospital, in and out of a coma, so it was probably the hardest year of the writer's life.) This may not be her most polished work stylistically, but it has a rawness and honesty about it which is very moving.
I'm not sure why this has been branded as pretentious or whining or self-pitying rants of a rich bitch. It shows how grief can drive us all mad, whether privileged or not, whether calm and collected or dramatic and hysterical. The author has also been accused of coldness, because she tries to present things in a detached way. This feels to me more like a deliberate strategy to remain calm, to try and understand, to analyse oneself. The polar vortex of memory that she tries to avoid by not going to places that were familiar to them: how can that be described as cold and unfeeling?
Anne Carson: The Beauty of the Husband
By contrast, Carson's collection of poems all add up to an essay on beauty and truth, our search for perfection but our paradoxical human ability to put up with imperfection for a very long time. All in all, it presents the picture of a toxic marriage, a destructive relationship captured with true poetic flourish. Based on Keat's assertion that beauty is truth, the poet then shows us just why the husband was anything but truthful, no matter how beautiful he was (and remained) in the eyes of the wronged wife.
Louise Penny: The Long Way Home
I'm already a confirmed Louise Penny fan, but this 10th book in the Armand Gamache/ Three Pines series is less crime fiction and more the story of a Quest: for a missing husband, for inspiration, for one's true self, for the Holy Grail almost. I wrote a full review of it for Crime Fiction Lover, but from the perspective of marriage, it is the sad story of the dissolution of a loving long-term partnership when the insidious three-headed serpent of jealousy, envy and inadequacy makes its appearance. Clara and Peter Morrow are both artists, who met in college. Peter has always been the more successful artist with his carefully controlled, intricate paintings, while Clara was the wild and messy experimentalist. But when Clara's star begins to rise, Peter finds it impossible to rejoice for her, as he becomes aware of his own artistic stagnation.
Louise Douglas: Your Beautiful Lies
Set against the backdrop of the miners' strikes in Yorkshire in the 1980s, this is the story of Annie, a woman who is feeling trapped in a very correct but rather dry marriage of convenience, which has provided her with a comfortable lifestyle but has also isolated her from the rest of the community. When her old boyfriend (who had been convicted of manslaughter) is released from prison and shows up on her doorstep, trying to protest his innocence, she is at first reluctant to engage with him. But then she unravels rather spectacularly and becomes very reckless indeed… This book has an old-fashioned feel about it, as if it were set in the 1950s rather than the 1980s, and I struggled to empathise with Annie.
And, just in case you thought that only women can write about marriage, here is the most depressing one of all, written by a man but from a woman's perspective.
Maxime-Olivier Moutier: Scellé plombé
The title roughly translates as 'sealed with lead', which was apparently an old method for food preservation – until the poisonous qualities of lead were discovered. This hints at the poisonous conjugal relationship and what an odd, unsettling story it is. The husband is struck by lightning on a golf course and is buried by his wife and children in secret. Told entirely from the point of view of the wife, but addressed to her husband in a tone designed to humiliate and provoke, we then discover the story of their marriage, the rising ennui, the many daily cruelties and sarcasms, the lack of communication, the secret lives each partner found refuge in. A chilling disregard for the children emerges from this novel: it appears it's not the marriage, but the hearts themselves which have turned to lead.
Finally, I almost hesitate to include Ann Patchett's 'This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage' in this post, not because of the word 'happy' in the title, but because this collection of essays is about so much more than marriage: it is about creativity, travelling, a beloved dog, a burgeoning interest in opera music, family, friendships and, above all, writing. It also talks about the author's first marriage and divorce, which led to many years of avoiding commitment to her second husband. In her characteristic clear-eyed, fluid style, she describes the compassion and understanding that she developed for all women who suffered in their marriages, whether they were able to get away from them or not.
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My mother had divorced my father when I was four. Two years later she remarried. My mother and stepfather spent the next twenty years trying to decide whether or not they should stay together. While growing up I had never faulted her for the divorce, but I hated what I thought was her weakness. My mother didn't want to be wrong a second time. She wanted to believe in a person's ability to change, and so she went back and back, every resolution broken by some long talk they had that made things suddenly clear for a while. I wanted her to make her decision and stick to it. In or out, I ultimately didn't care, just make up your mind. But the mind isn't so easily made up. My mother used to say the more lost you are, the later it got, the more you had invested in not being lost. That's why people who are lost so often keep heading in the same direction. It took my own divorce to really understand… I understood how we long to believe in goodness, especially in the person we promised to love and honor. It isn't just about them, it is how we want to see ourselves…
Posted on August 21, 2014 Author MarinaSofiaCategories ReviewsTags American writers, Ann Patchett, Anne Carson, Canadian authors, Joan Didion, Louise Douglas, Louise Penny, marriage, Maxime-Olivier Moutier, novels, poetry, Scellé plombé, The Long Way Home, The Year of Magical Thinking, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Your Beautiful Lies
22 thoughts on "Reading with a Theme: Thorny Marriages"
I'm tempted by The Year of Magical Thinking, especially the rawness and candour you describe. I have one of Didion's novels on the to-read pile so I'll probably start there, but her memoir sounds fascinating.
I also have 'Blue Nights' lined up – a memoir about her daughter (who eventually died) – but I felt I needed a break from the sadness.
I had completely forgotten that you'd reviewed the Didion, Marina, but it's really interesting to revisit your post now that I've read the book. Like Susan, I had not seen those criticisms of the book, but they strike me as being a bit wide of the mark. I couldn't agree more with your comments on the rawness and candour in Didion's writing. To my mind, her approach is analytical and questioning, but never cold. As you say, it feels like a deliberate strategy to remain calm.
A friend of mine has just given me a copy of Blue Nights, but I'll probably leave it for a few months just to have a bit of breather. It's good to put some space between these types of books.
Moira, Clothes in Books says:
I think most readers are fascinated by the portrayal of marriages – such a good subject, and every one different. I hadn't heard of the Maxime-Olivier Moutier – it sounds fascinating but depressing. Is it available in English do you know?
No, I don't think it is – unless it has been translated in Canada somehow. I found it on the Canadian stand at a book fair in Geneva and it sounded rather intriguing. And nice, simple language, which is always a bonus for me in French.
I'm glad you decided to include the Patchett, Marina. It's an excellent collection. I'd not heard Joan Didion's Year of Magical thinking described so witheringly – I can only assume whoever wrote that had suffered an empathy bypass.
Quite a few comments like that on Goodreads. It's a sad misinterpretation of diversity. As if the fact that you are white and middle class precludes you from any suffering.
David Cranmer says:
I recently lost my nephew Kyle in a house fire and Joan Didion brought some comfort as I read her beautiful book. Magical Thinking is nothing short of brilliant and that final paragraph about no eye on the sparrow and going with the change has been reread countless times. Thanks, Joan!
I'm really sorry to hear about your nephew. I can imagine this book would have brought some comfort.
Marina Sofia – What an interesting theme! And all of the books you've mentioned take a look at that theme from different directions and genres, which is even more interesting. I'm a Louise Penny fan, too, so I was glad to see you include that one. And Peter and Clara Morrow are such interesting characters… Thanks for sharing these.
What was lovely about all of these books was that none of them were described as 'Gone Girl' material. It seems to have become shorthand for describing so-called 'marriage thrillers', but there is so much more variety and subtlety out there.
Rebecca Bradley says:
I love how you have started reading in themes and am interested to see how this develops!
It's more coincidental than strategic, although after I read my second or third book with a similar theme, I start seeking them out deliberately.
TracyK says:
I like the idea of reading on a theme, but I am seldom able to do it. I am not that far along in Louise Penny's series (not unusual for me) but it is good to know this latest one is less focused on mystery. Sometimes those are very good. Guess it depends on the reader and their interests.
Confession time: I've read Louise Penny out of order… on an as-finds basis, as it's not easy to find over here. I haven't read the one immediately preceding this, 'The Beautiful Mystery', which takes place in a monastery rather than in Three Pines.
Victoria C. Slotto says:
I have put off reading Joan Didion's for a long time. I'm in between books now–maybe it's time.
cleopatralovesbooks says:
What an interesting selection of marriages in these books. A fascinating post, especially the quote at the end from Ann Patchett.
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Q: How to simplify handling with nested ifelse() structures in base R? I'm facing nested ifelse() structures:
df1$var <- ifelse(x < a, u, ifelse(x < b, v, ifelse(x < c, w, ...)))

whereby the u, v, w, ...s are actually functions.
A dumbed down working example would be
df1 <- data.frame(x = rbinom(100, 5, .5))
df1$y <- ifelse(x == 1, "s", ifelse(x == 2, "t",
                                    ifelse(x == 3, "u", ifelse(x == 4, "v", "w"))))

I presume there could be ideally a base R method (for sake of speed) to simplify such code; eventually a function as
rave.ifelse(x, 1=s, 2=t, ...)

I took a glance at cut(x, 5) but it confused me from this point of view.
Note: Values of x could be either numbers or factors, == could also be any logical operator and the s, t, ... are actually functions.
edit:
Note: The number of ifelse()s is known and large. The solution really should fit to the df1$var <- ifelse(x < a, u, ifelse(x < b, v, ifelse(x < c, w, ...))) situation, when the u, v, w, ...s are functions, e.g. u=sample(0:9, 1), v=runif(1),.... It should not be significantly slower than ifelse().

A: You could use case_when from the dplyr library:
df1$y <- case_when(
    x == 1 ~ "s",
    x == 2 ~ "t",
    x == 3 ~ "u",
    x == 4 ~ "v",
    TRUE ~ "w"
)

Note that the final case above (TRUE) is the blanket else condition which will catch all cases not matching any earlier conditions.

A: Since you insist on base R, here are two possibilities:
Define a mapping data.frame:
# Define mapping
map <- cbind.data.frame(
    x = c(1, 2, 3, 4, NA),
    y = c("s", "t", "u", "v", "w"));

Method 1: match entries from map to df1.
# match entries
df1$y <- map[match(df1$x, map$x), 2];
df1$y[is.na(df1$y2)] <- "w";

Method 2: Loop through all mappings, and replace using direct indexing:
# for loop
df1$y <- factor("w", levels = map$y);
for (i in 1:nrow(map)) df1$y[df1$x == map$x[i]] <- map$y[i];

Output:
tail(df1);
#    x y
#95  4 v
#96  1 s
#97  4 v
#98  2 t
#99  4 v
#100 1 s

Note, the second method will also work for inequalities.

Sample data
set.seed(2017);
df1 <- data.frame(x = rbinom(100, 5, .5))

A: In base R, if there are multiple elements to be replaced, create a key/value dataset and do a merge
keyval <- data.frame(x = c(1, 2, 3, 4), y = c("s", "t", "u", "v"), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
new <- merge(df1, keyval, by = 'x', all.x = TRUE)[['y']]
new[is.na(new)] <- "w"
df1$x <- new

data
set.seed(24)
df1 <- data.frame(x = rbinom(100, 5, .5))

A: I would create an empty vector then fill each condition one by one.
df1$y = rep(NA,nrow(df1))
df1$y[x < a] = u(x[x < a])
df1$y[x > a & x < b] = v(x[x > a & x < b])
df1$y[x > b & x < c] = w(x[x > b & x < c])
...

I have found this to be the clearest way of setting the values, I find it much easier to see at a glance what is happening when you have more conditions than nested ifelse statements.
df1$y = ifelse(x < a, u(x), ifelse(x < b, v(x), ifelse(x < c, w(x), ...)) )

An improvement on this would be to predefine the condition elements, that way each group is only calculated once:
aEls = which(x < a)
bEls = which(x > a & x < b)
cEls = which(x > b & x < c)
...

y = rep(NA,nrow(df1))
y[aEls] = u(x[aEls])
y[bEls] = v(x[bEls])
y[cEls] = w(x[cEls])
...

df$y = y

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All or Nothing: Arizona Cardinals Series Coming to Amazon
by Jessica Pena, June 6, 2016
"As far as goals go, we have one—Super Bowl ring." Today, Amazon announced their new series All or Nothing will premiere in July.
Narrated by Jon Hamm, the docu-series chronicles the Arizona Cardinals throughout the 2015 football season.
All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals premieres on July 1st on Amazon Prime.
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SEATTLE — Jun. 6, 2016 — (NASDAQ: AMZN) — Amazon today announced All or Nothing, an Amazon Original Series produced by NFL Films, will premiere on Prime Video on July 1 in the U.S., and that Jon Hamm (Mad Men) will narrate. The first season of the docu-series follows the Arizona Cardinals' 2015 season, from the draft through the NFC Championship game. All eight one-hour episodes of All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals will be available for Amazon Prime members as part of their membership, and to all Amazon customers from July 1 to August 31, via the Amazon Video app for TVs, connected devices including Fire TV, mobile devices and online at Amazon.com/allornothing. For a list of all Amazon Video compatible devices, visit www.amazon.com/howtostream.
All or Nothing is the first series to take viewers inside the locker room, on the sidelines, and off the field for an unprecedented look inside an NFL franchise's complete season. Season one picks up with the Arizona Cardinals following the season-ending injury to quarterback Carson Palmer in the 2014 season. Head coach Bruce Arians, President Michael Bidwill and general manager Steve Keim, along with Pro Bowlers Palmer, wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, cornerback Patrick Peterson and safety Tyrann Mathieu are ready for the challenge of a season that would result in an NFC West title and a trip to the conference championship game.
"All or Nothing delivers exciting on-the-field NFL action paired with an intimate look inside the lives of players and coaches over the course of an entire season, which is something NFL fans have been clamoring for," said Conrad Riggs, Head of Unscripted, Amazon Studios. "With our Amazon Original Series, we are excited to bring Prime members shows that highlight interesting personalities and their true life stories."
"NFL Films has a long history of producing award-winning sports-based reality series and we expect All or Nothing to build on that legacy," said Jordan Levin, Chief Content Officer, NFL Media. "We're thrilled to make this available to millions of Amazon customers."
Produced by NFL Films, All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals is executive produced by Jordan Levin, Ross Ketover (Hard Knocks, Inside the NFL), and Pat Kelleher (Hard Knocks, 30 for 30 – Four Falls of Buffalo). The showrunner is Keith Cossrow (A Football Life). Directors are Jay Jackson, Steve Trout, and Julia Harmon. Senior producers are Bennett Viseltear, Nick Mascolo, Paul Camarata, and John Weiss. The series is produced by Phil Mickelson.
The series will be Amazon's first to be made available in Spanish (dubbed). Customers can access the Spanish-language version via a link on amazon.com/allornothing beginning July 8."
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One boy is dead after a roof collapsed Sunday night at a York hotel.(Ryan Swanigan)
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Published: Jul. 4, 2022 at 11:44 AM CDT
YORK, Neb. (KSNB) - One boy is dead after a roof collapsed Sunday night at a York hotel.
The York police department said the roof caved in about 9 p.m. The boy's body was found underneath debris in the swimming pool room at the Hampton Inn. He was dead at the scene.
The Hampton Inn is located just north of the York exit on Interstate 80.
Emergency workers were able to safely evacuate all of the other guests in the hotel.
The boy's name has not been released and the state fire marshal is investigating the cause of the collapse.
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Tonight's rehearsal included training with Fight Director Kaitee Tredway. There are moments in Turtles when things get a little violent. For the safety of the actors, a fight director is brought in to show them the proper and realistic way to depict violence on stage.
A simple slap between Bella and El Diablo could get either one of them injured if Jackie connected too hard on Nicole's face, or if Jackie pulled too hard on Elle's arm during an emotional moment. Check your spacing, lock eyes, sell the slap. These are a few of the things Kaitee put in the actors' mind, along with their lines, blocking, and backstories.


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Dr. Millon is retired Professor of Harvard Medical School and the University of Miami. He is currently Dean and Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology in Coral Gables, FL. He is author of numerous other Wiley books, including Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the New Millennium, Personality Disorders in Modern Life, 2E, and Wiley's forthcoming 15-book Normality to Abnormality Personality Series.


The director of one of the year's most shocking documentaries talks about his extraordinary subjects, the film-making process, and the age-old question: nature or nurture?
That, however, was not the case when a producer at Raw, the London-based production company where Wardle works, brought to his attention the story of Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman, a set of identical triplets who knew nothing of one another until they were reunited by happenstance at age 19. That alone would make for a compelling documentary, but their story doesn't end there.
Three Identical Strangers begins in 1980, as a 19-year-old Bobby Shafran attends his first day of university only to find unfamiliar classmates greeting him as Eddy. While it's only the first in a series of fortuitous revelations, most of which are better seen than read about here, Wardle is smart to tell the first half of the documentary through narration and recreated scenes, a tactic that allows the viewer to get a sense of how uncanny it must be to move into your dorm room and find you're already an on-campus celebrity. Eventually, Bobby and Eddy meet and are contacted by David, whose adoptive mother noticed a pair of twins in the newspaper who looked exactly like her son, down to their shared pudgy hands.
Those alive in the early 80s might remember what followed, a period of pre-internet virality that took the triplets from the Phil Donahue Show to a cameo alongside Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan. As they made the rounds, audiences lapped up the brothers' likeness: they finished each other's sentences, smoked the same brand of cigarettes, even had the same taste in women. When one brother crossed his legs, the others followed. So, in the ensuing decade, they made good on the frenzy by opening a steakhouse in Soho, New York, called Triplets, which thrived until things between them went sour.
The brothers, as they discovered on account of their own detective skills, were separated by a ritzy New York City adoption agency called Louise Wise Services, which declined to tell their adoptive parents they were a set of three. It's at this juncture that the documentary turns – tonally, structurally, thematically – and embraces a very au courant style of leather-shoe reporting in Wardle's efforts to uncover the bizarre and nefarious reasons for the brothers' 19-year estrangement. But convincing producers he'd get there wasn't easy.
"They kept saying, 'What's the third act? What's the third act?' And I'm like, it's a documentary, you don't always know!" recalls Wardle, who was accustomed to inconclusive, even plotless projects after making a documentary about prisoners serving life-sentences. Too many documentaries, he believes, explore "weighty", ethically fraught issues without a human element to provide connective tissue. But since he had that in the first act, Wardle was confident he'd end up with a finished product whether or not his own sleuthing yielded results.
The question at the center of Three Identical Strangers essentially concerns nature versus nurture, which led Wardle to California, where he interviewed Natasha Josefowitz, the 90-year-old research assistant who contributed to psychoanalyst Peter Neubauer's study of siblings separated at birth.
For Wardle and Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who is featured in the film, the idea that nature is more determinative than nurture is an unsettling one, especially as articulated in Josefowitz's frank, unsparing style.
Or is it? As Three Identical Strangers proceeds, you find yourself seduced by both prospects, the relative liberty afforded by nurture and the ice cold-comfort of nature. Mostly, though, it's the brothers who keep the film grounded in reality, which turned out far different than it looked when they got their first taste of fame on the talkshow circuit.


Hawks get back on track.
After suffering its first loss last week against North Carolina-Wesleyan, Huntingdon came into Saturday's game against Ferrum, trying to regain its focus.
Quarterback Luke Bailey threw five touchdown passes and ran for over 100 yards, and the Hawks' defense slowed down Ferrum's leading rusher Brian Mann just enough for a 48-27 victory at Samford Stadium.
Mann, averaging 163 yards per game, was held to 122 yards by the swarming Hawk defense.
"We were concerned about that going in, we did some good things especially in the first half that limited his run total," Turk said.
Bailey was 15-of-23 passing for 234 yards, and he had 11 carries for 119 yards. He connected with Otis Porter (55 yards) Diggan Andre (41), Nick Hass (18), Vic Jerald (11) and Kris Cannon (1).
"Because we have so many weapons on offense, there has to be a hole somewhere, I just take what the defense gives me," Bailey said.
John Iwaniec scored on a 39-yard run, and he had 76 yards rushing. Jerald added 73 rushing yards and a 1-yard TD run.
The Hawks (4-1, 1-1 USA South) had a 34-13 halftime lead and led 48-19 in the fourth quarter.
They held the Panthers (3-2, 1-1) 11 points short of their season scoring average.
The Hawks (4-1) will host LaGrange next Saturday.


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Motorcyclist dies after colliding with valet driver
According to police, the motorcyclist was going east on Westheimer near Virginia around 11:30pm. A valet for a restaurant in the area was driving a BMW, going the same direction.
Authorities say evidence at the scene suggests the valet tried to make a right turn from the inside lane, cutting off the motorcyclist, who wasn't able to stop in time and slammed into the side of the car.
"It does not appear that speed was a factor. It appears that the driver of the BMW possibly made an error in judgment when he turned from what appears to be the wrong lane," said Sgt. Cedrick Nickerson with the Houston Police Department.
The motorcycle rider was rushed to the hospital, but was pronounced dead when he got there. He's been identified as 26-year-old Andrew Gladney.
Now, nearby residents are calling for changes after the deadly crash. They say they're fed up with valet drivers being reckless.
"There are certain streets that we don't take because of that activity," neighbor Steve Adam said.
Reckless valet driving is an issue, according to neighbors. With a small parking lot, they often circle the block looking for a spot or double park.
One neighbor shared numerous emails he has sent to city departments and his city council member, Ellen Cohen, over the last few months complaining about congestion. He feared the worst could happen.
"I'm shocked but yet I'm not surprised," Adam said.
Adam never thought it would be this bad.
"We have been concerned about the large amount of volume, the traffic, and the manner in which all that's been handled in terms of parking as well as traffic flow," he said.
No one from the restaurant returned our calls seeking comment on Friday.
Cohen's office says it's not familiar with these complaints although it tries address all issues they get.
Right now, the driver of the BMW is facing only a traffic violation, though that could change depending on the outcome of the investigation.
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