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Halloween Art
Lucifer, by Franz von Stuck (Germany), 1890.
Join Lorette C. Luzajic through a haunted house of terrifying artworks- and what wine to serve to Satan.
Wine and Art for Halloween at Good Food Revolution
Portrait of Alicia Galant, by Sandhya Krishnakumar
Portrait of Alicia Galant, by Frida Kahlo (Mexico)
Portrait of Alicia Galant
Alicia Galant,
And two bright stars in the dark night,
Categorised in Wikiart as Naïve Art or Primitivism,
And yet, what an extraordinary expression
On the beautiful face -
A pair of eyes that seem to look deep
Into the abyss of nothingness.
Contrasting with the sense of futility and resignation,
A suggestion of an inner calm,
A hint of a light within
That illumines the darkness without.
Did Frida transpose her own soul
Onto her friend's face,
As she lay in bed convulsed with pain
And struggled to hold her brush?
Twenty years of age,
Every bone in her body broken,
Yet her spirit chose to find expression
On a blank canvas,
Not in vituperation against the tyrannies of fate.
Pain transformed into art,
Could there be a more sublime testimony
To the resilience of the human spirit?
Sandhya Krishnakumar lives with her husband in Amsterdam. An English Literature graduate and a teacher of French for many years, she currently spends her time reading, writing, learning languages and marvelling at the unexpected ways in which beauty and inspiration fill her days. Three of her poems are forthcoming in the Peacock Journal. More at:
https://myeastandwest.wordpress.com/blog/
Notes on the Painting, Gas, by Edward Hopper, by Mark Trechock
Gas, by Edward Hopper (USA), 1940.
Notes on the Painting, Gas, by Edward Hopper
Dawn or dusk, the incandescent
light seeps across the cement
in pools with edges.
A red winged horse
flies like a flag above
the scene but cannot move,
except to rattle in the wind
like a Model T.
The attendant has lost his hair.
He is dressed up for the task
of keeping the pumps ready
and the cans of oil displayed.
Horses do not have wings,
he may be thinking.
He may be thinking
of morning in a stable
at a farm down the road,
somewhere beyond the trees
that hover in the distance,
and of his mental inventory
of the equipment of riding
and hauling—harness, bit,
stirrups, saddle, whip.
He may be pondering the way
his hands seem unsuited
to the new forms
of mastery, and how
his world of service
may disappear, just as the hair
has already disappeared
from his head.
No one is on the road for now,
but all the tools of loneliness
and mental fatigue
are laid in place.
Mark Trechock
Mark Trechock has been writing and submitting poems since 1974. He has lived in Dickinson, North Dakota since 1993, and retired in 2012 from the grassroots community organizing project, Dakota Resource Council. After a 20-year hiatus in writing for publication, Trechock resumed submitting his work last year. Since then, he has placed more than 30 poems in a variety of magazines, including Canary, Limestone, Wilderness House Literary Review, Badlands Literary Journal, El Portal, and Off the Coast. Three of his poems appeared in the book Fracture, a multi-author book on the impact of hydraulic fracturing in the oil and gas industry.
Ivan Albright, to Whom I Keep Returning, by Devon Balwit
That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do (The Door), by Ivan Albright (USA), 1931-1941
Ivan Albright, to Whom I Keep Returning
Ivan Albright, 1897- 1983, was primarily a painter, but he also kept detailed journals of his work and wrote poetry as well. His work appalled many and fascinated many more. He wasn't interested in conveying familiar forms or notions of beauty. A lengthy essay on Albright by Courtney Graham Donnell begins with a poem of the artist (after which the essay takes its title) in which Albright reports: "A painter am I / Of all things / An artist who sees / the door and chair / And sees on the smooth things a flaw there / and sees on the round things a hollow there / And colors are not just colors to him…" Later in the same essay, Donnell quotes Albright revealing: "If I stir, [objects] stir. If I stand arrested, they become motionless." These two fragments from the artist begin to unlock why I find Albright's work so compelling.
I first saw Albright's work live at the Chicago Art Museum when I was a teenager. I remember being unwilling to move from his painting That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door). The painting enthralled me on multiple levels. First, the title intrigued me. I wasn't used to artists who did more than hint at what their work was about or even distract from it through their titles. Albright's titles tell part of the story of the work. (Of course, not wholly—he is an artist, and understands that the viewer/reader must also be allowed space to feel about the work. There must be enough loose threads that someone outside the work can pick up and tie to their own experiences.) His works bear names such as: Wherefore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension; And Man Created God in His Own Image (Room 203); Poor Room—There is No Time, No End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever and Forever without End (The Window); Heavy the Oar to Him Who Is Tired, Heavy the Coat, Heavy the Sea. As an incipient poet, I was fascinated that a painting title could read as a compact story or poem.
Next, the dates given for the painting, 1931-41, struck me. The artist took a decade to complete a single canvas. More than inspiration, that suggested obsession. This was an artist who was compelled to visit and revisit his work, to tell different parts of the same story, to approach it from all angles. Indeed, Albright has noted that he wanted to convey the way light "fragmented" his subjects as it hit them from all sides. For many of his pieces, Albright built three-dimensional mock-ups in his studio so he could circle around them, enabling him to add details to his paintings for years longer than any human subject would be willing to sit.
This leads to the most compelling aspect of Albright's work for me as a young person. His depictions were both arresting and horrifying—almost grotesque in their strangeness. Teens are learning that much about adult life contains just that mix of fascinating and frightful. They are acutely alert to ways in which surfaces misrepresent. They are still heavily undergoing socialization, that great falsehood in which they are told to act politely and strive for certain socially-permissible goals, while underneath, they know that what drives humans are baser, uglier, more selfish instincts. They are new to their sexualized bodies, which fascinate but also horrify. They are self-conscious about their hair, their skin, their symmetry (or lack thereof). Ivan Albright's canvases showed that surface is an illusion, clean beauty is an illusion. He understood the multiplicity within us. He wasn't afraid to look at ugliness and make it beautiful without hiding it or glossing it over. In fact, imperfection was the source of his inspiration. I was hooked.
Albright tells writer Katherine Kuh, "For some time now I haven't painted pictures, per se. I make statements, ask questions, search for principles. The paint and brushes are but mere extensions of myself or scalpels if you wish." This claim resonates with me, now a poet in my own right, all grown up. My poems are extensions of myself—statements, questions, and investigations of principles. They are about the process as much as the product. Ivan Albright's work inspires Ekphrastic poetry because it asks for multiple visits, begs multiple interpretations. Even reporting what the painter is doing is an elusive project.
For example, when he paints wealthy art collector Mary Block (Portrait of Mary Block), is he celebrating her or gently mocking her? He conveys her strength of character, her wealth, and her command, at the same time that he makes her look menacing and ghoulish. Similarly, in his self-portraits, (specifically those from 1934-5), he places himself among desirable things in elegant clothes, yet manages to make himself look dissipated, like someone coming apart at the seams. The body of young female model in Three Love Birds has a youthful face while at the same time welling and bursting with the kind of bubbling accretions we associate with middle and old-age. All of this dissonance begs for a poetic response.
Too, I appreciate Albright's desire to separate himself from movements and labels. He was unafraid to be other, a "voice" of one for an audience of one. Susan Weininger's essay, "Ivan Albright in Context," quotes him thus: "To join some general movement in art …is to join a buffalo stampede. I say, let the artist be the hunter rather than the buffalo." As someone who dropped out of an MFA program because of distaste for how Academia seemed to demand a particular voice and produce an aesthetic in almost cookie-cutter fashion, I embrace this independence of spirit. Similarly, in this internet age with its plethora of literary journals, it's not clear if anyone at all is reading our poetry except for the editors who selected it and the poets who wrote it. One has to write primarily for oneself, interrogating existence out of a private and obsessive motivation.
Finally, Albright models how I want to die. Four days before his own death, he created his final self-portrait (Self-Portrait 1983), a shaky line-drawing of his eyes, later made into an etching by John Paulus Semple. The body has all but gone, the life forced out of it, but the artist as witness, the vision of Albright's singular intelligence, remain to the very end. That is what I hope for, to comment on my experiences until the biochemical mystery that makes me who I am ceases.
Thus, I offer Ivan Albright as a source of inspiration to all who read this. One can visit and revisit his works endlessly without exhausting their narratives. Each canvas contains a world and its stories, whether depicting the animate or the inanimate. Nothing is as it seems. Paraphrasing Albright, every time we stir ourselves to examine them, the canvases come to life. One suspects that even after we turn our backs, they go on living and speaking—if only to themselves.
Devon Balwit
(All quotations and images referenced from Ivan Albright: Magic Realist, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997)
Devon Balwit is a poet and educator from Portland, Oregon, who learned to love art from her artist parents. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, among them: 3 elements, 13 Myna Birds, Anti-Heroin Chic, Dream Fever Magazine, Dying Dahlia Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Free State Review, MAW, Rat's Ass Review, Rattle, Red Paint Hill Publishing, Referential, Serving House Journal, The Cape Rock, The Literary Nest, The Yellow Chair, Timberline Review, vox poetica, and Vanilla Sex Magazine. She welcomes contact from her readers.
Portrait of Mary Block, by Ivan Albright (USA), 1955-1957.
Poor Room-There is No Time, No End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever and Forever Without End, by Ivan Albright (USA), 1942-1963.
And Man Created God in His Own Image, by Ivan Albright (USA), 1930-1931.
Entering the Promised Land Without Moses, by Alarie Tennille
Moses Sees the Promised Land Before His Death, by Lesser Ury (b. Prussia), 1928.
Entering the Promised Land without Moses
I was just a child when we left Egypt. Felt
the ground tremor – chariots charging
after us. Run! Run! I couldn't keep up.
Uncle Joshua yanked me onto his back.
We heard the hooves, the terrible whoosh!
Water rose high in the air! A road cleared
through the sea! Just as we scaled the bank,
the sea crashed. I shook for three days.
After that, I was frightened of Moses.
What else could he do? But that changed
when he came down from the mountain
with the tablets. Only then did he yell at us.
The elders were afraid, but not me. Something
was different – his hair and beard gone white,
but his face – more than young. He glowed
like an oil lamp –a beacon I knew
I'd follow. I didn't know it would take
forty years. My faith scorched and dried.
Now it doesn't seem fair. Here we are
without him.
Alarie Tennille
This poem was written as part of the 20 Poem Challenge.
Alarie Tennille was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, and graduated from the University of Virginia in the first class admitting women. She became fascinated by fine art at an early age, even though she had to go to the World Book Encyclopedia to find it. Today she visits museums everywhere she travels and spends time at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, where her husband is a volunteer guide. Alarie's poetry book, Running Counterclockwise, contains many ekphrastic poems. Please visit her at alariepoet.com.
The Glass Painter, by Andy Barnett
Mysterious stained glass at a church at Madingley Hall at the University of Cambridge. Artist disputed/unknown. Tudor period.
The Glass Painter
It was the Friday after Carnival Day, 1521, when I first met with Albrecht Durer, the most honoured guest of our guild. It was also the day they found the woman's body in the wharf.
My master, and Dean of St. Luke's, Dirick Jacobsz Vellert, had travelled to Dilbeek on business. He was not due to return to Antwerp until the week after the Festival of Judiz. I was at my bench, poring over sketches for a rondel pane of St Alena when I felt a hand gently shake my shoulder. I should have sensed whose hand it was by the depth of silence that had befallen the other glass painters and apprentices. I'd no idea that Durer had been standing behind me, studying my work.
"Come with me," Durer said.
I wiped the charcoal from my fingers and flung on my cape.
Durer did not speak again until we were outside a print works, where he stopped to poke at the pavement with his stick. Around the gutter, where the apprentices tipped their buckets of ink-wash, ice crystals of many frozen hues built and grew as if vitrified.
"Sir, is this what you wanted to show me?" I asked.
"No."
He peered in though my eyes and it was as if my innermost thoughts and secrets were rendered clear and comprehensible to him," You're skilled but your work is mimicry. How did you manage to conceal yourself in the guild for so long?"
"Sir?"
"How do you hide your breasts?"
Despite the fierce cold my face burned and I shook. It was as if God Himself had called me out.
"Well?"
I stared at the frozen ground between his boots.
"Straps…"
When he led me down the wharf steps and across the ice I prayed a chasm might rent and the merciful waters engulf me. But his intention was not to expose me.
A crowd of skaters and gawkers gathered in a semi-circle around the side of a merchant's fluyt. We pushed our way to the front.
A market trader, with a brace of four chickens tied to her belt, knelt and wept.
An old man, with a once-wise face, clothed in ragged finery, stared with a terrifying vacancy.
The fool from the inn clasped his marotte; a heartbeat's echo, he tapped it softly against his chest, and for once he uttered not a word.
The dead woman was frozen into the underside of the ice, her face in profile, a bloated arm hooked around the ship's anchor rope, her skin mottled and pale as white glass and grisaille. A frond of golden hair flowed from under her white bonnet and swayed in the current.
Some murmured she'd been the mindless old man's wife.
Durer took hold of my arm and spoke in whisper, "I have a merchant from Cambridge, England, his client demands fidelity to the eye and alchemy of imagination. You will work in my studio, at night, under my instruction until your master returns. Are you willing to take the risk to know yourself, girl?"
Andrew Barnett
author's note: "No one can agree who the artist was, although some speculate it could have originated from the studios of Dirick Vellert; he was the Master of the Guild of St Luke, Antwerp. If it had been painted in 1521, that was the year Durer visited and stayed in Antwerp, often as guest of Vellert. I found it fascinating to speculate, given Durer's exposure to some of the more radical arguments of humanism in that year, if the artist who painted this image could have been a woman. There's no historical evidence to suggest this might be the case but the idea of a 16th century female artist at the centre of the Lowlands Renaissance was too compelling not to explore as a fictional narrative."
Andy Barnett is a student at the University of Cambridge in the Uk. Andy comes from a former mining village on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border, which during the Ice Age, was the most northerly point our ancestors settled in Europe. He prefers manual jobs and working outdoors. He hasn't set foot in an office for the last thirty years. He likes visiting Cambridge University because it is quiet and the buildings are surrounded by fields and trees. Next year, hopefully, he is going to step up to the MSt in Creative Writing and he would eventually like to study for a PhD.
So far, Andy's writing has been published in the Prague Revue and Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry. His visual interpretation of the work of the Romantic Poets was sold in greeting card format through the Tate Gallery in London. In-between his university coursework and writing flash fiction and short stories, he's working on a gritty northern novel which is set in a former mining village on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border.
Dischord of Analogy, by Boris Glikman
Discord of Analogy, by Michael Cheval (b. Russia). Contemporary. Click image for artist site.
Dischord of Analogy
One fine, sunny day, they realized it was futile to go on pretending things would work out between them. Separation became an urgent necessity, yet neither he nor she had anywhere else to stay.
After considering a number of options, it was decided she would move to living on the ceiling.
Half the furniture, including the double bed and the piano (her most treasured possession), were moved up there as well. A light globe was inserted into the floor to provide illumination for the ceiling dweller.
After an inevitable period of awkwardness and inconvenience, things returned to normal. He led his life and she hers.
Although it would not have been very difficult for them to communicate, they each carried on as if the other didn't exist, just so they could maintain the illusion of privacy. This way, they could deny the fact that they were hanging above each other's heads and observing and judging one another's every action.
The piano became the sole link between him and her. Its sound, refusing to respect the artificial boundaries, permeated the silence and spread equally to every point of the room…connecting, in spite of themselves, their senses and their souls. Thus, by a slender aural thread, their love did hang on. Separation eventually turned to reconciliation and an even stronger love prevailed.
The piano became their conjugal bed.
Boris Glikman
Boris Glikman is a writer, poet and philosopher from Melbourne, Australia. The biggest influences on his writing are dreams, Kafka and Borges. His stories, poems and non-fiction articles have been published in various online and print publications, as well as being featured on national radio and other radio programs.
Archie Proudfoot
Howl, by Archie Proudfoot (UK). Contemporary.
Archie Proudfoot to Ekphrastic: "I like to think of my work as isolating language from the network of signs it represents and explore the emotional response that comes from that."
Visit him at www.archieproudfoot.com.
Gloomy Day, by Olivia J. Kiers
The Gloomy Day, by Pieter Brueghel (Netherlands), 1565.
Rejoice in the grey-gleaming gloom. Skies roll low enough for you to play master of your dirty-cloud domain—or is it smoke spilling from cautious chimneys? If all goes well, you will muster up a crass joke and get away with it, legs straddled wide as you laugh or spit. Until then, gather willow twigs to wattle a yard into a kingdom, a place to scatter broken crockery, a place for roosters to strut and for children to play at jousting.
Thatch yourself a house, stoke the fire, stuff straw into your boots.
February is short-tempered, and out of spite it could snip your fingers with frostbite or a careless blade. Think how unlikely it would be for this chill wind to blow in glad tidings.
Better cast a leery eye upon the world, then gesture it to hell. Your paper crown makes you king for a day, and messengers are for other courts. Gut full of waffles and ale, you take a golden piss against the tavern wall, but the sky, more continent, waits for the dark before sending snow falling.
Sleep in your village realm. Sleep dreaming of thatch, wattle, mullions, dark church glass, broken shutters, empty doorways, mud daub and shut gates.
Olivia J. Kiers
Olivia J. Kiers is an editorial assistant with Art New England magazine, and lives near Boston, MA. She holds a master's in the history of art and architecture from Boston University, and an undergraduate degree in French and fine arts from the University of Virginia. Her poetry and photography have been published in several reviews and zines, most recently Gyroscope Review, Bewildering Stories, and Sunset Liminal. To view examples of her artwork, please visit okayart.wordpress.com.
Something Like Living, by Joe Boyle
Composition, by Alberto Burri (Italy), 1953.
Something Like Living
If an oil painted portrait is a second hand reflection
a burlap sack is: the flatness of defeat
grafted textile imprisonment
startling sacchi
They must have said
pointing at the bloody rips in the cloth
the sulfurous dust graining the corner
"Here is blood washing up on the shores of Tripoli
Mussolini's funeral shroud
the skin of a dead monster!"
But it is much more deliberate
necessary even
when One fingers the running stitches and crazy veins
One feels the tired vital signs
of a free man
We all make art from what we know
the pieces of our selves
given by fathers jailers lovers and passersby
they are the things we know
crowding out the light of our day
shouting us down
they threaten to topple us over
bury us
And you knew bandages
rough wool suits and laundry sacks
the necessary pieces of your self
to use anything more
that's vanity
The scars of prison
the shredded linen
and the aggressor
the inhumanity of men
I don't know this
I am still fully on the other side of the wheel
the slow upward ride of accumulation
and satisfaction
You shake your head
if the victims ran the show
there'd be no one left to share the dark
tenuous stitches of our dizzy dreams
crooked smiles and cracked faces in the thread
you wouldn't have saved these scraps
from the bin
Everyone finds out
what they are put together from
that they are not colourfast
some are only late to the show
In the worn out places
dirt clots in our scored surfaces
I can almost smell the sweet decay of earth there
almost see the gangly little flowers crawling through the cracks
in our crumbled wall in early springtime
These remnants flicker and fade
when I turn to look: patchwork quilts
and walls alike mean nothing in themselves
they exist obedient to their purpose
to settle for a quiet life longer than ours
stand against time
measure our ever changing now
To keep some things out
and some things in
and let very few things pass between
only a warm breath
a single strand from a pale silkworm
or the weedy green shoots of time
Joe Boyle
Joe Boyle earned his M.A. in creative writing at University College Dublin in 2013, where he edited the annual class anthology, Fault Lines. His thesis was a collection of poems called "The Innocents." He currently lives in Kent, Ohio, where he studies, reads and, at times, works. He can be found pushing pencils at an Akron block. He graduated from Kent State University in 2012, where he studied history, English and writing. Joe has been published online and in print in Bare Hands, We Are The Catalyst, Luna Negra, and the book for the 2012 Jawbone poetry festival in Kent, Ohio.


Collective will position itself as a new kind of observatory, inviting the public to view the world around them through the lens of contemporary art.
Further details of Collective's opening weekend will follow.
Funders include City of Edinburgh Council, Creative Scotland, Heritage Lottery Fund, Edinburgh World Heritage, William Grant Foundation, WREN, The Wolfson Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK, Pilgrim Trust, Architectural Heritage Fund, Hope Scott Trust, Idlewild Trust, Craignish Trust and the invaluable support of many trusts, funds and individual donors.
Affinity and Allusion is sponsored by Baillie Gifford.


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Hello Genius bridges the learning gap for parent and child @ CES 2021 - Show Notes
Hello Genius bridges the learning gap for parent and child @ CES 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021 (00:08:41)
The idea of Hello Genius is a genius idea! When a child is in public school, the parents aren't always aware of the true nature of what the child is learning. Hello Genius is an app-based learning system that is designed to build greater connectivity between parents and their young children through a personalized learning experience.
Founded in 2020 by Jack Lee, CEO, and Lee Daley, the chief strategy and marketing officer, the idea for Hello Genius was inspired by the desire to better understand their children and connect with them as they learn. Hello Genius believes that all children learn at a different rate of speed and at different levels. Children are more receptive to learning if it is done with something they are interested in or care about. At that early age, they aren't normally driven by the average curriculum but rather by something they are truly interested in-something that captivates them.
The Hello Genius software platform is driven by the principles of non-linear adaptive learning and natural development during the child's early formative years from ages 3-10. As the child explores, the system will adapt to feed or satisfy the particular interests and potential of each child.
There are two apps available, one for parents and one for children. For children, the system adapts with a tailored learning journey while revealing their interests and preferences to their parents through quantitative and qualitative data.
For the parents, the app provides a set of features to help parents support their child as they learn and grow, also encouraging the feeling of safety and security of their children being online. One feature is a live activity feed and the capability for parents to share topics in real-time and receive content from their children, which may also have messages, voice and video call functions, and push notifications.
The software platform uses AI and machine-learning algorithms to build the child's profile based on valuable data and insight, helping parents to get a deeper understanding of the child's growing interests and talents. The app management feature provides parents with the ability to regulate a safe mode as the child engages on the Hello Genius app. This safe mode allows the child to engage with other third-party applications, selected by the parent, apart from the main app, and thereby reassuring the parent's desire for safety and security.
The cost of this app is less than the price of a cup of coffee, only $0.99 a day. Hello Genius is currently only available in English, but there are plans for expanding to multiple languages in the next 12-18 months. Hello Genius is offering free subscriptions for the remainder of 2021, along with a lifetime membership to the parent community who download the early release of March 1, 2021. The early release platform is available on any iOS or Android device. For more information go to the company's website.
Interview by Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central.
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Q: proof related to expected values I wanna prove following expression.
$$ n\sum_{i=1}^{n} {X_i^2} - (\sum_{i=1}^{n}{X_i})^2 = n\sum_{i=1}^{n}{(X_i-\bar X)^2}$$
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$$ n\sum_{i=1}^{n} {X_i^2} - (\sum_{i=1}^{n}{X_i})^2 = n\sum_{i=1}^{n} {X_i^2} - (n \bar X)^2$$
$$ = n\sum_{i=1}^{n} {X_i^2} -n^2 \bar X^2 = n(\sum_{i=1}^{n} {X_i^2} - n \bar X^2)$$
I'm struggling from here.
Thank you for your help.

A: $\Sigma_{i=1}^n(X_i-\bar{X})^2\\ =\Sigma_{i=1}^n(X^2_i-2X_i\bar{X}+\bar{X}^2)\\
= \Sigma_{i=1}^nX^2_i-2n\bar{X}^2+n\bar{X}^2\\=\Sigma_{i=1}^nX^2_i-n\bar{X}^2$
Now just multiply both sides with $n$

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Based on Carrie Fisher's roman a clef, the story concerns a young actress who has recently gone through drug rehabilitation, and is trying to cope with not only the Hollywood scene but her own mother's, a former musical comedy star of the 50s and 60s, more socially acceptable alcoholism.
A very funny, warm movie, its gentle surfaces and lighthearted mood making for a pointed contrast to the grimness of its subject matter. Here's a film about desperation, chemical dependency and neurosis that isn't punishing, gritty or unhinged. Despite the hot mess that is her life, Suzanne remains a largely functional figure, and this portrait of addiction feels a lot more truthful than the unrelentingly dank, terrifying visions with which cinema usually presents us.
Carrie Fisher has filled her autobiographical script with choice one-liners and her trademark sensibility for observing life askance… Postcards is a rare example of a film that wouldn't be [funnier…] with more rapid-fire actors. A more intricate style wouldn't add much—and besides, at zero cost, the DP is already having fun moving Streep around the foregrounds, middle-grounds, and backgrounds of his shots, and she mines different kinds of comic gold depending on where she is: a miracle.
If the satire in [Working Girl and Postcards from the Edge isn't] as sharp as The Graduate or Carnal Knowledge, Nichols' ability to bring surprising performances from his cast remained… Gene Hackman almost steals Postcards as the veteran director who delivers some hard won wisdom to Meryl Streep's drug sodden character. Postcards' film-within-a-film opening was also a sly nod to those in the audience wondering where Nichols the stylist had gone.
It's nice to see Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine together, as daughter and mother; And Meryl shows us that she can sing too.
Balanced drama about dealing with female "expiration date" in Hollywood, in which Streep and MacLaine deliver a couple of spirited stand-offs. Apart from their fiery relationship, a look at B-side of movie industry with some of its peculiar characters. Nothing goes in depth as much as it pretends to, nor is anything particularly original, but the film does maintain a certain level of quality.
I'm watching this on Meryl's birthday <3 her and Shirley MacLaine are absolutely amazing in this movie.
Take your broken heart and make it into art.
Not my favorite in the Nichols oeuvre. The acting was great I just couldn't get past the story. Worth the watch though.
ACADEMY AWARDS / BEST ACTRESSES / WINNERS AND NOMINEES (1927-2019) efter Daniel S.


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Q: In an intrinsic semiconductor, are there the same number of carrier electrons and holes? Or this is just exclusive for silicon? I am working with some polymers that behave like semiconductors when they are plugged into the current.
I am calculating the mobility of these polymers and I need the value of the current density (J) in order to achieve it.
I have found that the current density is the sum of the Jp+Jn.
Therefore, since for an intrinsic semiconductor the number of n and p is the same, then for Jp should I divide the total J by 2 or does this only apply to inorganic semiconductors?

A: In an intrinsic semiconductor the electron and hole concentration are equal. But you almost certainly don't have an intrinsic semiconductor.
Semiconductors are sensitive to impurity concentrations on the order of parts per billion or parts per trillion. It is very difficult, and therefore very expensive, to approach a true intrinsic semiconductor. Polymers that behave like semiconductors sound to me like they are likely going to have unavoidable impurities or dangling bonds that change the carrier concentrations.

then for Jp should I divide the total J by 2 or does this only apply to inorganic semiconductors?

This doesn't apply for any semiconductor. The mobility of the electrons and holes will be different, which you can't figure out as easily as you propose. I believe Hall measurements are a common method for measuring mobility.


Influenced by a special family of artists and his mature musician career to finish (piano- solfa) he composed the soundtracks for some national theatre shows, movies, fashion "pasarelas" and TV spots.
Cristian has a massive worklist with more than 150 productions and compositions for the most prestigious international labels and companies such as Sony/BMG, Intec, MB Elektronics and his very own label Pornographic Recordings.
With this Cristian´s long artistic life, discography and of course, his spectacular sets with 3/4 decks, along with his constants tours around the world from Japan to U.S.A, Europe, UK and more, makes him one of the most prestigious names in the electronic international scene !


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Nigerian military accused of burning villages, displacing civilians in Boko Haram fight
CP World | Tuesday, February 18, 2020
By Samuel Smith, Deputy Managing Editor | Tuesday, February 18, 2020
A woman attends a community dialogue meeting as she sits in front of a burnt building belonging to Christ Holy Church International in Uzo-Uwani village near Nimbo town in Nigeria's southeastern state of Enugu August 4, 2016. | REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
The Nigerian military has been accused by a leading human rights watchdog of razing villages and displacing hundreds of residents in its quest to defeat extremist groups Boko Haram and the Islamic State. The military, however, has contested those allegations.
In a report based on interviews with impacted villagers in Nigeria's Borno state, Amnesty International stated last Friday that the Nigerian military has burned and forcibly displaced entire villages in response to a rise in extremist attacks in the region.
The United Kingdom-based nongovernmental organization reports that the Nigerian military also arbitrarily detained six men from the displaced villages and held them incommunicado for nearly one month before being released on Jan. 30.
"These brazen acts of razing entire villages, deliberately destroying civilian homes and forcibly displacing their inhabitants with no imperative military grounds should be investigated as possible war crimes," Amnesty International Nigeria Director Osai Ojigho said in a statement.
"They repeat a longstanding pattern of the Nigerian military's brutal tactics against the civilian population. Forces allegedly responsible for such violations must be suspended immediately and brought to justice."
The alleged military action comes as Boko Haram and the Islamic State's West Africa Province have carried out a number of deadly attacks in northeastern Nigeria since December 2019.
During a recent research mission to the Borno state, Amnesty International interviewed 12 women and men who were forced to flee from their homes in three villages near the Maiduguri-Damaturu road on Jan. 3 and Jan. 4.
Residents from the village of Bukarti recounted how "scores" of Nigerian soldiers arrived in the late morning of Jan. 3.
"They said soldiers went house to house and to surrounding farmland, forcing everyone to gather under a tree and by a graveyard between Bukarti and the main road," the report explains. "Soldiers also rounded up people from neighboring Matiri and brought them to the same area."
"At around 3 p.m. on Jan. 3, residents said soldiers demanded that everyone walk from the village to the main road where they were forced to board large trucks. Witnesses claim that as they were loaded into the trucks, some of the soldiers returned to Bukarti. The witnesses said they then saw their village burning."
According to Amnesty International, over 400 women, men, and children were transported from Bukarti and Matiri to an internally displaced person camp near Maiduguri.
The next day, a similar fate struck the neighboring village of Ngariri. Residents were loaded up on trucks and taken to Maiduguri. Later, their properties were razed.
Amnesty International reviewed data from remote satellite sensing that indicated "several large fires burning on and around 3 January in that area."
"Satellite imagery of Bukarti, Ngariri, and Matiri shows almost every structure was razed," the report adds. "The imagery also shows signs of burning in neighboring villages."
Residents who went back to the towns afterward told Amnesty International that everything was burned.
Residents said that since they were not allowed to bring anything with them, most of their possessions were also destroyed in the fires.
"Everything we harvested was destroyed, and some of our animals died," one farmer told Amnesty International. "I had a year [of harvest] stored — it's what I would've sold to buy clothes and other things for my family."
Amnesty International accused the Nigerian military of "ordering the displacement of inhabitants" even though their "security or imperative military reasons did not demand so."
"The subsequent burning of their homes may amount to a war crime as well," the report asserts.
The Nigerian army said at the time that soldiers from brigades 5 and 29 along with Special Intervention Battalion 2 carried out the operations in the area.
The military said it "rescued 461 Boko Haram captives" from several villages after it was alleged that criminals were sporadically shooting and causing an uproar. The military also said it arrested six Boko Haram suspects.
However, witnesses who spoke with Amnesty International refuted that, saying Boko Haram fighters had not been in their village.
"They say they saved us from Boko Haram, but it's a lie," one resident was quoted as saying. "Boko Haram isn't coming to our village."
Acting Director of Defense Information Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu refuted the Amnesty International report.
In a statement, Nwachukwu accused Amnesty International of distorting facts and supporting "the callous acts of terrorism" committed by Boko Haram and the Islamic State's West Africa Province.
Further, Nwachukwu said that Amnesty International is "undermining Nigeria's Military campaign against terrorism" and "disparaging the Armed Forces of Nigeria."
"The Defense Headquarters wishes to state unambiguously that the allegations being touted by AI are nothing but a betrayal of its lack of in-depth knowledge of the goings-on in the [northeast] theatre of operation," Nwachukwu said.
Nwachukwu added that troops who are conducting counterterrorism operations in the northeast "do not employ arson as an operational tactic."
"It is a well-known fact, going by the modus operandi of [Boko Haram], that they have more often than not engaged in the atrocious acts of looting and burning of villages, as well as destroying infrastructures," Nwachukwu said.
"It, therefore, beats one's imagination that AI is attributing these atrocities to [military] troops who are legitimately defending the country guided by extant rules of engagement and operational codes of conduct."
Nwachukwu further argued that Amnesty International "must understand" that Nigeria is at war with terror and that "troops have a constitutional mandate to protect lives and property even if it means conducting an evacuation to save and secure lives of civilians in the conflict."
"Protecting civilians by evacuating them from the line of fire during combat is not a violation of the international law of conflict or a war crime," the director added.
"It is rather a commendable effort by the troops to prevent collateral damage during combat. Our troops should, therefore, be commended for making deliberate efforts to evacuate civilians in order to protect their lives and property."
Despite Nwachukwu's statement, three residents interviewed by Reuters confirmed Amnesty International's findings.
This is not the first time that Nigerian military forces have been accused of criminal acts as Amnesty International and others have long called for the International Criminal Court in Hague to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Nigerian military.
Last year, the NGO International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) claimed in a report that Nigerian military and security forces killed at least 480 mostly Christian ethnic Igbo civilians pushing for self-determination in massacres that occurred between 2015 to 2017 as part of internal security operations designed to halt terrorist activities.
Intersociety defended Amnesty International following Nwachukwu's response.
"We further make bold to say that patterns and trends trailing the Nigerian military's responses over such specialist reports are so despicable and condemnable that they have constantly emboldened the atrocity perpetrators and made them 'unrepentant and repeat-offenders,'" an Intersociety statement shared with The Christian Post reads.
"The despicable and condemnable patterns and trends have also entrenched in the military (Army, Air Force and Navy) and the intelligence services (SSS, DMI, NIA and Force CID) a culture of impunity, incompetence, incapability, inability and unwillingness."
Last December, Nigeria was added to the U.S. State Department's special watch list for countries that engage in or tolerate severe violations of religious freedom in part because of the government's ineffective response to violence in the northeast as well as communal violence in the Middle Belt.
"It is a dangerous situation in too many parts of Nigeria," U.S. Ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback told reporters last December. "The government has either not been willing to or have been ineffective in their response and the violence continues to grow."
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Louise and Jamie Redknapp Make Heartbreaking Decision About Their Marriage
29 December 2017, 10:23 | Updated: 10 October 2018, 16:28
By Rume Ugen
The rocky relationship of the former golden couple has been well documented in recent months and now it's claimed they are moving closer to divorce.
Rumours have been wildly circulating over the past few months with regards to Jamie and Louise Redknapp's marriage.
It seems the Strictly Come Dancing curse may have reared its ugly head yet again, as it's reported Louise is getting ready to sign divorce papers just one year after competing on the show.
According to new reports by The Sun, Louise and Jamie are expected to be granted a decree nisi at the Central Family Court in London that will formally begin the dissolution of their 19-year marriage.
According to court listings, a decree nisi for L E Redknapp v J F Redknapp will be pronounced before a judge on Friday.
A decree absolute ending the marriage can be issued after six weeks, should no objections be formally made.
Read more: Strictly Fans Shocked As Louise Redknapp Swears During Live Performance
The heartbreaking news comes after a rocky few months for the couple after the former Eternal singer admitted back in October that she and the football pundit had been living apart.
Louise, who has two sons 12-year-old Charley and 8-year-old Beau with Jamie, admitted she began feeling like a "stepford wife" during her marriage but insisted she will always love the ex-Liverpool player.
When she discussed her marital woes for the first time two months ago she insisted neither she or Jamie were pushing for a divorce but said she 'needed' to be apart from him while she re-evaluated her life.
Louise, who said the hardest part was moving out while still being in love, said: "He's an amazing man and we've had 20 good years together. I know he's trying to understand that I do need to do this."
Rumours about their relationship began circulating back in September after Louise had been pictured letting her hair down more frequently and enjoying herself on nights out with friends, whilst Jamie appeared to have cropped Louise out of a family photo on his Instagram page.
Palma nights #holiday #family #bestfriends x special times xxxx
A post shared by Louise Redknapp (@louiseredknapp) onJul 15, 2015 at 1:32pm PDT
Louise Redknapp originally posted this image, which was then cropped by Jamie on his profile to contain only himself and his children.
READ MORE: Ruth Let's Eamonn Dress Her And It's NOT A Good Look!
Louise first broke her silence on This Morning when Eamonn Holmes questioned her about all the speculation. Louise was diplomatic in her response, acknowledging that things had been "well documented in the media".
At the time of the interview, she was still wearing her wedding ring and referred to her marriage woes as a "hard time",
She explained: "My priority and his priority are our children, and protecting them and keeping as much private as possible."
Rather than giving an indication of her marriage status, she commented "that's [the children] what we are focusing on."
Even though Louise's marriage may be going through a rough patch, her career is thriving as she has recently announced new music and a tour.
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Sports Cricket 01 Dec 2019 Tim Paine's de ...
Tim Paine's declaration is an intriguing decision
DECCAN CHRONICLE. | AYAZ MEMON
Published Dec 1, 2019, 1:25 am IST
Updated Dec 1, 2019, 10:44 am IST
Only 17 per cent of respondents suggested Paine should declare forthwith.
Tim Paine.
Imagine you are Tim Paine, captain of Australia. Opener David Warner has passed 300 at the Adelaide Oval on the second day of the Test. Brian Lara's record score of 400 beckons. Pakistan's bowling is wilting. There's enough time remaining in the match. What would you do?
I encapsulated these thoughts in a tweet, asking my followers their opinion just after Warner got his triple century: Should Paine declare since Australia already had a mammoth score, or should Warner be allowed to get past Lara? Or give him fixed time to get the record or not?
Only 17 per cent of respondents suggested Paine should declare forthwith. Those in favour of Warner being allowed the opportunity to break Lara's record was an overwhelming 76 per cent, the remaining 7 per cent saying he should be allowed to get this within a time limit.
As it transpired, Paine declared with the score 589-3 and Warner unbeaten 335. Given Warner's strike rate (80.14), he wouldn't have needed much time to breach Lara's record, established more than 15 years ago at St John's ground Antigua against England.
Almost three and a half days still remained in the match when Paine called Warner and Wade back to the dressing room. Pakistan's batting in the series till then had been so dismal that there seemed enough time and more to bowl them out twice.
It is fascinating to try and understand why Paine would have made the decision he did. Imagine the tug-of-war being played out in his mind after Warner had completed his triple century: should he allow a teammate chance for great glory, or put the opponent on the mat as soon as possible?
Remember, Warner was a key batsman who had failed to make 100 runs in the entire Ashes series earlier this year. What a boost it would be for him, what honour for Australian cricket!
So why would Paine declare? The most credible explanation is that this is rooted in Aussie cricket culture where winning is prioritised over all else, and team interest comes way ahead of the individual's.
This hardy attitude, which is believed makes Australia the most successful team in history, has been the subject of discussion and envy in cricket circles over decades: particularly among players from countries where personal milestones are cherished and provide great rewards.
Sometimes this comes with dollops of pathos.
In 1994 Mark Taylor, then captaining Australia, declared when he was 334 playing against Pakistan at Peshawar. Brian Lara had only months earlier broken Sobers's record, and on a featherbed pitch, this was within Taylor's grasp.
Instead, Taylor called off his innings, saying he couldn't imagine getting ahead of Sir Don Bradman 334, which was the highest score by an Australian till then. Similarly, Michael Clarke declared the innings against India at Sydney in 2012 when he was on 329.
Clarke could have aimed for Lara's record of 400 which had been established by then but, like Taylor, chose to remain behind Bradman's 334. This showed the reverence in which Bradman is still held in Australia in the cricketing fraternity.
However, there has been the exception too. In 2003 at Perth, against a hapless Zimbabwe side, opener Mathew Hayden didn't stop at Bradman's milestone, plundering 380 runs and going past Lara's then record of 375. But the captain of the Aussie team then was Steve Waugh.
(For the record, Hayden's record was short-lived, with Lara making 400 a few months later at the same ground, St John's, where he had scored 375 against the same opponent, England, ten years earlier.)
This suggests there is no clear template in making such decisions. It depends on how the captain sees the relative strengths of the two teams, how he has read the conditions and assessed match situations as they unfold. But perhaps the most important consideration in such a complex decision is how the captain understands the sentiments within his own dressing room, and the implications it could carry.
Paine's declaration is debatable. But if his dressing room, and particularly Warner, can appreciate his logic, the debate is mitigated and the decision gets vindication.
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President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at Rhode Island College in Providence, R.I. on Oct. 31, 2014.
President Barack Obama violated the first rule of Halloween Friday: If you bring candy, bring enough for the entire class.
When a member of the audience shouted that she wanted some candy, Obama was forced to dash her hopes. "You want some, is that what you said?" Obama asked as the crowd roared. "Only to kids," he added to laughter.
In practice, the Presidential chocolate candies are a perk for VIPs, young and old, who visit the White House or ride on Air Force One. Sometimes even members of the White House press corps, who pay to travel with the President, are offered a box. The boxes have been known to end up for resale on online auction sites like Ebay.
Obama spoke wistfully of when his daughters were younger, saying Malia and Sasha are now too old to dress up for Halloween.
Aside from the candy, children visiting the White House Friday night will also receive the Michelle Obama-approved dried fruit mix.


Hi, for the last several days node-red has been crashing throughout the day. I have not updated any node nor am I showing any nodes need to be updated. below is the log that shows when I start node-red up until it crashes. Based on the information below, my assumption is that the problem node is node-red-contrib-cast, but I'm not sure, since I have never had a problem until now.
15 Oct 05:48:51 - [warn] nodes/core/io/lib/mqtt.js is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Node-RED. Please report this usage to the Node-RED mailing list.
15 Oct 05:48:51 - [warn] nodes/core/io/lib/mqttConnectionPool.js is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Node-RED. Please report this usage to the Node-RED mailing list.
15 Oct 05:48:51 - [warn] [node-red/tail] Not currently supported on Windows.
15 Oct 05:48:52 - [error] [pushbullet-config:xxxxxxxx@gmail.com] No credentials set for pushbullet config.
You might want to edit out your email address contained in your log message that you pasted.
But there are also several other issues in your log. One is the warning about using a mqttconnectionpool as this file will be removed in a future version of node-red. Which nodes (other than the included mqtt ones) are you using that use mqtt?
I've had exactly the same issue with 'Cast' crashing my RPi - I've given up using it and deleted the node.
Darn, missed that just fixed it.
I will submit the issue shortly.
Which nodes (other than the included mqtt ones) are you using that use mqtt?
I only have and use the included ones, I checked to be sure and it is the one in my palette! I just check to see if there was an update but saw none.
I guess I'll go and report that issue as well.
@dynamicdave, this is the first problem I've had with this node, it was working well for the last month and there hasn't been an update since them. May I ask what are you using in its place?
It's an inherited issue from node-red-contrib-chromecast which really needs sorting.
I highlighted this in a previous post, and raised an issue here.
This potentially could be a popular contrib-node, as it engages node-RED with Google Home & Chromecast which is a common forum request.
Thank you @Paul-Reed, just read your other article, unfortunately, I don't know how to program (may be a good time to learn ), for now, I'm moving back to exec node along with LANnouncer, unless someone has an alternative.
I have changed several. Can you please check the newest Version 0.1.0?
Can you please check the newest Version 0.1.0?
Hi @Hypnos, left you feedback at github. Basically it hasn't crashed but the error is now showing up on the debug screen in node-red and it is different than the original one I posted.


A £500,000 fund has been set up to help the far north economy become less reliant on the Dounreay nuclear plant.
The North Highland Regeneration Fund will offer start-up support to new businesses.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is also to publish details of its socio-economic policy.
It will set out how the NDA will work with other organisations to ease the impact on the area once Dounreay is fully decommissioned.
NDA's chief executive, Dr Ian Roxburgh, said it was crucial that it used the time available to prepare for the nuclear site's eventual closure.
He said: "The Dounreay site contributes £200m to the local economy at the moment and will do so for a period.
"We have got 20 years and we need to make a start on encouraging and introducing now sustainable jobs to replace those that will vanish along with the Dounreay nuclear complex."
The UK Atomic Energy Authority, which runs the plant, expects decomissioning work to be completed in 2036.
The 140-acre Dounreay site is being cleaned up at a cost of £2.9bn.


In the markup part, we use two new things, when compared to regular ASP.NET: The ScriptManager control and the UpdatePanel control. The ScriptManager makes sure that the required ASP.NET AJAX files are included and that AJAX support is added, and has to be included on every page where you wish to use AJAX functionality.
After the manager, we have one of the most used controls when working with AJAX, the UpdatePanel. This control allows you to wrap markup which you would like to allow to be partially updated, that is, updated without causing a real postback to the server. More about the UpdatePanel in a coming chapter. Besides those two controls, everything else is standard controls, with no modifications that would indicate alternate behavior.
This will disallow the use of partial rendering on the page, and show you how it would work without AJAX.
In the following chapters we will look into the various AJAX controls and how to use them.


It can be quite a shock, going to the dentist and finding out you have a cavity when you haven't been experiencing any pain or discomfort. It almost seems impossible; After all, aren't cavities supposed to hurt?
At Imagine Dental, we know how confusing that kind of news can be. If you're wondering why your tooth doesn't hurt when you get a cavity, we've got the answers to set your mind at ease.
Pain is usually a good indicator that you've got a dental problem. Perhaps you're suffering from tooth sensitivity, or find biting or chewing to be painful. Maybe you find consuming hot or cold food and drinks to be painful. These are pretty reliable red flags that you may have a cavity… but they don't always make their presence felt. Sometimes these red flags don't come up for months, giving your cavity a chance to get worse and worse while you aren't any the wiser.
When tooth decay kicks in, it starts off by wearing away at your enamel. Your enamel is the outer protective layer of your teeth. This is the part of your teeth that you see when you look at your mouth. Decay can eat away at the enamel and you may not feel anything at all. It's only when the decay pierces through the enamel and starts working on your dentin that pain really starts to set in.
Dentin is the inwards part of your tooth. It's much softer than enamel and contains the channels that emerge from the central nerve of the tooth. When the tooth decay's infection hits your dentin, it starts to corrupt your pulp tissue. This is what causes so much of the pain associated with tooth decay. At this point you'll have to get a root canal to clear out the infected pulp tissue and relieve yourself of the pain caused by your cavity.
A lot of people think that you don't have to treat a cavity until it hurts. This is very incorrect. The best time to remove a cavity is when it's in its early stages. By the time you start feeling pain, you'll have to end up getting surgical procedures done to heal yourself. Getting your cavities treated while you aren't caught in the grips of pain is the smart move to make.
For more information on why a tooth doesn't hurt or to schedule an appointment, give Imagine Dental a call at 480-893-7733.


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Morning Six Pack: July 28, 2012
Quick, get out there and get these six college football stories from around the country before the popcorn showers run you out of the yard.
Alabama will open preseason camp one week from yesterday
The Crimson Tide will open its 2012 season 29 days later in the Cowboys Classic on Sept. 1 against Michigan.
Nebraska to wear alternate all red uniforms against Wisconsin
Why do they mess with this? Seriously.
What's in a name? For Wisconsin's tailback Ball, everything
For all of 2011, we thought a tailback named Montee Ball torched the Big Ten. Turns out, his real name is Monteé. His success suddenly makes so much more sense, says Andy Staples.
O'Brien optimistic NCAA could reconsider Penn State penalties
Good luck with that, y'all.
SMU players believe prostitute robbed apartment
According to a police report, the players left a woman in their apartment and returned to find more than $3,000 worth of items missing. LOL LOL LOL
Sports fans love underdogs and right now there is no greater underdog program than Penn State in both image and working conditions.
Taking away $60 million alone would cripple most programs. Taking away 10 scholarships a year for four years at that level of competition is a huge blow. A four-year bowl ban and NCAA clearance for players to leave the program and be eligible immediately at their new schools are damaging.
For sure, Penn State must pay for the crimes related to the Jerry Sandusky atrocities. It can be argued whether the school received due process in the NCAA's unprecedented sanctions, but harsh penalties were required.


When I, Eric M. Urbahn, member of the American Institute of Architects, first arrived in the beautiful Dominican Republic in early 1996, I was immediately struck by the feeling that this large, diverse Caribbean country was really going places. Within months of arrival, first, as a tourist and soon as an investor, I realized that great opportunity was waiting for my newly-formed residential development group. As an architect with, at that time, over 25 years' experience in the US, Africa, and the middle east, I was very excited about the prospect of designing and overseeing the construction of villas in my own project in Cabrera on the north coast of the Dominican Republic and elsewhere on the island.
The group of four investors bought a fabulous oceanfront parcel near the north coast town of Cabrera, and I carefully laid out what I believed would be a successful community of like-minded individuals seeking peace and quiet and the nearness to fantastic beaches. My many years of practice in warmer climates had prepared me for the task, though I undertook an involved study of wind and sun and their effect on materials I hoped to use.
I designed and had built the first house in the project which is called Orchid Bay. It was a one story Tuscan-style villa with bedrooms and living spaces facing the reef-enclosed lagoon and ocean beyond. Other houses followed, many designed by me, and we partners began to realize what a treasure we had discovered. We purchased more oceanfront land next to our growing community. The Robert Trent Jones-designed Playa Grande championship golf course opened nearby. Many fabulous lots stood open, ready for clients and their dream villas. For me, it was like being a painter with a beautiful, but mostly empty, canvas.
When the real estate company Select Caribbean Properties entered the picture, it was as though our fledgling project, known as Orchid Bay, shifted gears. With Sabine Mertes as the principal of the company and her extensive knowledge of marketing, she began matching our lots and villas to customers from all over North America and Europe. She seemed to sense exactly who would love our community, and almost all the clients she introduced were impressed. Many bought lots or existing villas.
Sabine possesses an uncanny ability to match clients with their needs and budget. I have recommended her to many friends over the more than 12 years since she first came on a familiarization visit to our new beachside community.
Meanwhile, in the nearly 20 years that I have practiced here, I have worked with many professionals and craftsmen. From a large pool of human and material resources, I have put together a team that I have great confidence in. Working closely with Sabine Mertes of Select Caribbean Properties, a master list of providers has evolved, many from her own experience here. We will find you your dream property, then design, build, landscape and decorate your custom villa using all that we have found in our island paradise.
Eric M. Urbahn, a member of the American Institute of Architects.
Master of the Ocean is a world-class surfing event which is held every year in Cabarete on the Dominican Republic's beautiful north shore.
Launched 13 years ago, the Master of the Ocean competition, a world-class water-sport event, will be held from February 23rd to February 28th, 2015, in Cabarete on the Dominican Republic's beautiful north shore.
The competition tests participants in four disciplines: surfing, windsurfing, kite-boarding and stand-up paddleboarding (SUP). Competitors, who must demonstrate proficiency in all four categories of the event, are judged on style, athleticism, and overall excellence. Current men's and women's title-holders Zane Schweitzer (Hawaii) and Fiona Wylde (Oregon) will have stiff competition from past champions and aspiring champions alike.
Viewing of the events possible at the three chosen venues: Cabarete Beach, Bozo Beach and Playa Encuentro. Learn more about the Master of the Ocean competition.
Travel Dominican Republic and discover this amazing island.
This is a very good article and a wonderful way to discover the Dominican Republic. Enjoy this wonderful island, the beaches, the food, the people, the great natural resources like waterfalls, like and rivers. Book a different vacation the next time when you are visiting the Dominican Republic. Come to the north coast where you find small Boutique Hotels, wonderful Bed & Breakfast, and Eco Adventure lodges.
The Puerto Plata Historic Center is under reconstruction and is nearly finished.
These are really good news. The plan is to reconstruct the Historic Center of Puerto Plata, north coast of the Dominican Republic which will change the look of the city enormously.
A popular choice amongst newly married couples and families is a week or two at an all-inclusive resort in any of a dozen locations country-wide. These range from economical and comfortable to ultra high-end luxury resorts with a known track record of excellence. Many of these resorts offer a long list of sporting and cultural activities as well as fine dining opportunities.
A couple wishing privacy and not requiring too varied an activities list might consider one of the smaller hotels in places like Cabarete, Sosua, Rio San Juan, El Breton, Cabrera, Las Terrenas or Las Galeras. Here, the guest is happily at peace in a more intimate surrounding while having access to a charming smaller resort community. In Cabarete, one may wander the beach and choose from a wide range of restaurants and night spots and then return to their lodging on foot in the moonlight. Perhaps a glass of champagne will then be enjoyed, seated in a chaise lounge beneath the palms.
For those requiring a more structured experience, the larger all-inclusive hotels in Playa Dorada offer a rich and varied experience to their guests. Most feature numerous restaurants with interesting ethnic cuisine and decor. Activities of every imaginable type are available to guests at the larger all-inclusive resorts, from sailing and windsurfing to horseback rides in the mountains to pig roasts on the beach. Golf, tennis, hiking, white-water rafting, canyoning and zip-lining…all may be enjoyed with just a phone call to the concierge.
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Function composition
In mathematics, function composition is a way of making a new function from two other functions through a chain-like process.
More specifically, given a function f from X to Y and a function g from Y to Z, then the function "g composed with f", written as g ∘ f, is a function from X to Z (notice how it is usually written in the opposite way to how people would expect it to be).
The value of f given the input x is written as f(x). The value of g ∘ f given the input x is written as (g ∘ f)(x), and is defined as g(f(x)).
As an example. let f be a function which doubles a number (multiplies it by 2), and let g be a function which subtracts 1 from a number. These two functions can be written as:
f ( x ) = 2 x {\displaystyle f(x)=2x}
g ( x ) = x − 1 {\displaystyle g(x)=x-1}
Here, g composed with f would be the function which doubles a number, and then subtracts 1 from it. That is:
( g ∘ f ) ( x ) = 2 x − 1 {\displaystyle (g\circ f)(x)=2x-1}
On the other hand, f composed with g would be the function which subtracts 1 from a number, and then doubles it:
( f ∘ g ) ( x ) = 2 ( x − 1 ) {\displaystyle (f\circ g)(x)=2(x-1)}
Composition of functions can also be generalized to binary relations, where it is sometimes represented using the same ∘ {\displaystyle \circ } symbol (as in R ∘ S {\displaystyle R\circ S} ).[1]
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Function composition can be proven to be associative, which means that:[2]
f ∘ ( g ∘ h ) = ( f ∘ g ) ∘ h {\displaystyle f\circ (g\circ h)=(f\circ g)\circ h}
However, function composition is in general not commutative, which means that:[3]
f ∘ g ≠ g ∘ f {\displaystyle f\circ g\neq g\circ f}
This can be also seen in the first example, where (g ∘ f)(2) = 2*2 - 1 = 3 and (f ∘ g)(2) = 2*(2-1) = 2.
Chain rule
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Q: Distribution of $Y(t)=B(t)$ when $\max\limits_{0\le s \le t}B(s)
If $B(t),t\ge0$ is a standard Brownian motion with initial condition $B(0)=0$ and $a>0$, let $Y(t)=B(t)$ when $\max\limits_{0\le s \le t}B(s)<a$ and $Y(t)=a$ otherwise.
  Find the distribution function of $Y(t)$.
Let $M(t)=maxB(s)$.
Here I am confused if the question is asking me to find $F_Y(t)=P\{Y(t)\le y\}$ or $F_Y(t)=P\{Y(t)=B(t)|M(t)<a\}$ or  $F_Y(t)=P\{M(t)<a|Y(t)=B(t)\}$ or something else related to Bayes equation.

A: Consider the stopping time $T=\inf\lbrace t\geq 0 | B_t=a \rbrace$. Now find out how this stopping time is related to $\max_{0\leq s\leq t} B_s$ and write $Y_t$ as a stopped process. You are asked to determine the distribution of this stopped process I think.


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Oriskany in Oneida County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
SEE LOCATION SECTION
The Ambush
— 11th stop on the walking tour —
Photographed By Bryan Olson, August 1, 2002
1. The Ambush Marker
The Ambush. . , Parched and exhausted from heat and humidity on their march to Fort Stanwix, some of General Herkimer's men broke ranks and ran to this creek for water. Although Sir John Johnson had told his Indian allies not to attack until all of Herkimer's men had entered the ravine, they could not resist this opportunity., As the militiamen laid down their muskets and placed their heads to the water, the Indians attacked. Tradition states that an hour into the battle, this creek ran red with blood. Thus the battle of Oriskany has also been called 'the battle of bloody creek." . This historical marker was erected by New York State Parks. It is in Oriskany in Oneida County New York
Parched and exhausted from heat and humidity on their march to Fort Stanwix, some of General Herkimer's men broke ranks and ran to this creek for water. Although Sir John Johnson had told his Indian allies not to attack until all of Herkimer's men had entered the ravine, they could not resist this opportunity.
As the militiamen laid down their muskets and placed their heads to the water, the Indians attacked. Tradition states that an hour into the battle, this creek ran red with blood. Thus the battle of Oriskany has also been called 'the battle of bloody creek."
Erected by New York State Parks.
Location. Marker is missing. It was located near 43° 10.525′ N, 75° 22.1′ W. Marker was in Oriskany, New York, in Oneida County. This marker is located inside Oriskany Battlefield Park next to a small foot bridge that crosses the ravine where the initial ambush took place. Touch for map
Photographed By Bryan Olson, January 8, 2002
. Marker was in this post office area: Oriskany NY 13424, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this location. Ambush Started Here (a few steps from this marker); The Military Road (within shouting distance of this marker); The Ambush: August 6, 1777 (within shouting distance of this marker); Aftermath of a Tragedy (within shouting distance of this marker); Near This Spot (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); General Herkimer's Troops (about 300 feet away); To The Unknown Patriotic Soldiers of Tryon County (about 300 feet away); Preserving a Memorial Park (about 300 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Oriskany.
More about this marker. This marker has an image of Bloody Creek on it and it is the 11th stop on a walking tour of the Oriskany Battlefield.
Regarding The Ambush. The Battle of Oriskany is one of the bloodies battles of the American Revolution. To learn more about the battle I recommend the book: Liberty March, The Battle of Oriskany by Allan D. Foot.
Also see . . .
1. Oriskany Battlefield State Historic Site. New York State Parks, Recreation and Historical Preservation website entry (Submitted on February 13, 2009, by Bryan Olson of Syracuse, New York.)
2. The Battle of Oriskany. Wikipedia entry (Submitted on February 13, 2009, by Bryan Olson of Syracuse, New York.)
Additional commentary.
3. The Bloody Creek
1. Removal of weathered historical markers
I stopped by this historic site on my journey to visit with my daughter's family in Connecticut. Upon arriving at in the parking area I noticed that there were some new markers, so I took the full walking tour and noticed several changes to this park site.
First, when I made my original trip here the signs indicated that it was a state park that had fallen victim to state budget cuts. This year however the park seemed to have somehow been incorporated into the national park system and I had the opportunity to speak with a national park ranger. The ranger told me that members of the National Park Service staff from neighboring Fort Stanwix rotate service over at the Oriskany Battlefield Park on a daily basis.
Second, it appeared that the National Park Service had made some improvements to the park, including changing the course of the steep walking trail through the ravine at the ambush site, removing some old and faded markers, and added some new and different markers.
From talking with the park ranger it would appear that this marker was one of the old and faded historical markers that was removed and that there is no intention of replacing this specific historical marker.
— Submitted April 14, 2012, by Dale K. Benington of Toledo, Ohio.
Photographed By Dale K. Benington, June 15, 2010
View looking east, of the historical marker, of the footbridge across Oriskany Creek, and of the military trail heading up the opposite side of the ravine.
Photographed By Scott J. Payne, August 8, 2015
Additional marker.
View looking east, from the bottom-lands of the ravine, of the historical marker and of the footbridge that crosses Oriskany Creek.
Credits. This page was last revised on October 25, 2021. It was originally submitted on February 13, 2009, by Bryan Olson of Syracuse, New York. This page has been viewed 1,121 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on February 13, 2009, by Bryan Olson of Syracuse, New York. 4. submitted on June 20, 2010, by Dale K. Benington of Toledo, Ohio. 5. submitted on February 15, 2016, by Scott J. Payne of Deposit, New York. 6. submitted on June 20, 2010, by Dale K. Benington of Toledo, Ohio. • Kevin W. was the editor who published this page.