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  def matched_arguments(self, step_name):
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June 17, 2017 – One man journey with the spirit, and learning what spirit has taught me as a man so that I can go out and teach and inform people that there is more than life, there is spirit in everything we do.
Well another day on this blog, and that means another post of what the heck is going on in my life lately. Well today I went into the clinic to learn about the treatment options that are going to happen to me starting this weekend and next week. The first thing you learn in that your going to get sicker for before better, and you think to yourself for a minute that you come here to get better not sicker. But then again, that is what happens with medicine. And that is a very hard thing to understand when you never been through something like this. I mean who would of thought that again that you have to get sicker before better. But anyways, then your learn on top of it that maybe that your not going to get better for awhile after this as well. Everyone body does something different that the next persons. But sitting there I was listening and on the other hand I was watching the child playing in the hallway out side my room, and I was wondering what was running through this child head as it was playing with a red ball. I mean that child was born into this world as innocent as you possibly could be.
But as I was watching the child, I said a prayer that this child will never go through what I am going through at this time. I didn't even know this child and I wish and prayed for a blessing for this young kid. But the point of all of that was to run from my issues at hand. I look at that child and I seen life running through it's veins, and I look at my life and I might see the lights going off soon if this doesn't work in the end. But no matter what you keep telling yourself that no matter what is how are you going to keep this light shinning in the question. But time will tell that is all I can say about this.


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The 2008 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team was an American football team that represented Northern Arizona University (NAU) as a member of the Big Sky Conference (Big Sky) during the 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season. In their eleventh year under head coach Jerome Souers, the Lumberjacks compiled a 6–5 record (4–4 against conference opponents), outscored opponents by a total of 316 to 273, and finished fifth out of nine teams in the Big Sky.

On September 6, the team set a school record with 752 yards of total offense against New Mexico Highlands.

The team played its home games at the J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome, commonly known as the Walkup Skydome, in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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With a forecast for heavy rain and gusts of Force 6 to 7 the number of entrants was understandably reduced for this event but a few brave or mad souls did turn up and ten boats decided to race in Bristol Docks. In deference to the conditions the first race did not go all the way to the top of the harbour, as originally intended, but only went up to the SS Great Britain and the Matthew, the replica of John Cabot's ship.
The wind was about Force 4, gusting 5 for the first race. Peter Vinton got the best start in his Fairey Finn , pursued by John Rawson and Tony Billet in their Albacore. Ben Palmer and Benedict Whybrow were going well in the Scorpion and so were Roger Devereux and Chris Mulholland in Hornet 191, even though they were unable to use the sliding seat much in the gusty conditions. John and Tony briefly overtook Peter by the SS Great Britain and then capsized in a gust so Peter led around the mark and then for the next run and second lap. Ben and Benedict were second and Nigel Osborne and Sue third in their Albacore, sailing with a Firefly main.
The second race was sailed over a shorter course for six laps in persistent rain and a breeze which was mainly about Force 4 but occasionally dropped to 2 and gusted to 5. Roger's Hornet led up the first beat then as the wind dropped off a bit John and Lyn Gardiner started to make up a lot of ground upwind in Merlin 36. Later in the race Ben and Benedict overtook in their Scorpion before Peter got back in front and finished first, but lost out to Ben's Scorpion and John's Merlin on Handicap.
For a day which could have been a write off it was very successful, with some very old dinghies being raced hard in difficult conditions, no breakages and only two capsizes.


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The Mystical Musical Secrets of Robert Johnson
Posted by Dan Watts on April 27, 2011 at 8:06am in Clubhouse Forum
Robert Johnson's 100 birthday is coming up on May 8th.
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/robert-johnson-0426-...
Ted Drozdowski
If timelessness is the mark of true musical greatness, then Robert Johnson deserves to be canonized on the same level as Bach and Beethoven. His popularity has continued to grow since his death in 1938, as evidenced by the continuous stream of Johnson reissues and tribute albums, and the festivals and symposia organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth this May 8.
Over the decades, the Mississippi guitar innovator's music has been covered and coveted by a huge range of artists: Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Big Head Todd, Rory Block, Led Zeppelin, Juliana Hatfield, Peter Green and the Rolling Stones among them. And the latest and best reissue package of Johnson's own 41 recorded versions of 29 songs — all he left behind besides a few suits and his Gibson L-1 acoustic guitar — has just been released by Sony's Legacy label. Robert Johnson: The Centennial Collection includes those tracks, superbly mastered, plus two perspective-granting discs of his contemporaries ranging from Sleepy John Estes to the Light Crust Doughboys. It also includes the DVD biography of Johnson and his work; Can't You Hear The Wind Howl?
There's still much speculation about how Johnson became the Delta's undisputed master of guitar. All that's known is he left the region as a fumble fingered youth and came back so cutting that he literally frightened Muddy Waters when Waters encountered him performing on a street corner. All the junk about selling his soul to the Devil aside, it stands to reason that Johnson achieved his status through a mix of innate talent, instruction and practice. And that's still what it takes to play like Robert Johnson. That and some soul.
Assuming you've got the ability and the feeling, here are a few tips you might consider when approaching the technical aspects. First, if you don't fingerpick, learn. That is the only way to play Mississippi Delta or hill country blues in an unimpaired manner and with the proper tone, which is a combination of meat and dynamics.
Another is to work with open tunings. Johnson may have used as many as 17. Eyewitnesses weren't so adept at sussing out how he tweaked his strings, and the details in his recordings will always be the victims of the primitive technology and the scratchy, distorted quality of the shellac discs it yielded for the market.
But listening to the sides Johnson cut in San Antonio and Dallas in 1936 and 1937, it is clear he was playing in keys apart from those to which he was often open tuned, violating common Delta blues practice. To approach his sound, it's good to start with an even-toned and well-balanced acoustic guitar, like the Gibson L-1 that he was famously photographed with. That guitar sold at auction in 2006 for a cool $6-million, which makes the Robert Johnson L-1 hand built today by Gibson's acoustic luthiers in Bozeman, Montana, a relative bargain.
The lightening turnarounds and zipping slide heard on Johnson's recordings are all a matter of practice, but the tunings he used, which will get you in the right territory, are a literal matter of record. One favorite was dropped D, created simply by dropping the lowest string in standard tuning from E to D. You can hear Johnson use this tuning on the dark-hearted classic "Malted Milk," which also shows the influence of New Orleans's Lonnie Johnson on the young Mississippian. Lonnie Johnson also employed dropped D with some frequency, and Robert Johnson's vocal performance on the song is imitative of Lonnie Johnson' crying style.
Johnson also played in open G, which influenced Keith Richards to make that his go-to tuning. The tuning is also called "Spanish" by older bluesmen, and runs D-G-D-G-B-D. You can hear the Stones use it on their cover of Johnson's "Love In Vain" and listen to Johnson get his G thang on with "Walkin' Blues."
Two more common tunings Johnson used — common to the Delta and Mississippi hills, at least — are open E and open D. Elmore James become open E's most famous exponent, and dug into that tuning on his career establishing cover of Johnson's "Dust My Broom." Derek Trucks is the modern era's most notable open E player. Open D is a dirtier beast. Low chords sustain like Satan moaning with a bellyache. Open E is E-B-E-G#-B-E and open D is D-A-D-F#-A-D and should not be confused with D-A-D-G-A-D-, which is a little more uptown.
If you want to get spooky, try open E minor: B-E-B-E-G#-D. And to get spookier still, play Johnson's "Hellhound On My Trail" in that tuning, as he did.
If you're looking for pretty, go no further than open A: E-A-E-A-C#-E. This high string tension takes some getting used to, but the reward is angelic chiming tones, like those Johnson achieved in "Come On In My Kitchen" and "Terraplane Blues."
Blues fiends will debate the merits of Johnson verses his somewhat older Delta inspirations like Charley Patton and Son House. But the fact is that despite Johnson's technical superiority, all three are distinct stylists who established their authority early on in the history of recorded blues. And while they all serve as the foundation that Delta blues as it is appreciated and understood today was built upon, Patton and House were fundamental influences on Johnson as well — the roots of the roots.
Permalink Reply by Ted Crocker on April 28, 2011 at 8:53pm
Awesome read! Thanks Dan. I especially like the tunings.
Permalink Reply by Eric Wallace a.k.a. Godzilla on April 30, 2011 at 3:51am
I like Open C on my Chickenhead resonator. C-G-C-E-G-C
Sounds really cool:)
Permalink Reply by LJ on April 30, 2011 at 9:17am
Thanks Dan,
I was running into road blocks tryin to learn a lil RJ. I guess I can get back to work now. I appreciate the post.
Permalink Reply by Mark Ayers on May 1, 2011 at 3:00pm
Great post, thanks.


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Q: Bootstrap's js elements are not working even though they were imported I'm to user the collapse feature provided by Bootstrap. Therefore I've installed jQuery and popper.js:
"styles": [
    "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css",
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    "src/styles.scss"
    ],
"scripts": [
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Bootstrap itself is working, but its js elements not, for instance I can't use the collapse features which relies on data-toggle.
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"@angular/cdk": "^6.2.0",
"@angular/common": "~7.2.0",
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Does anybody see the issue or has experienced something similar?

A: Bootstrap depends on more then just CSS - it also has JavaScript elements. But the problem is, angular doesn't know about that part of JavaScript - and since it's creating the bootstrap widgets on it's own time, Bootstrap JS, even if you include it, will not see it in proper time.
That's why you have to use a dedicated bootstrap library, like ngx-bootstrap or ng-bootstrap and not bootstrap directly.
So remove jQuery, remove bootstrap, and include one of the Bootstrap libraries for Angular.

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Black and white movies aren't a thing of the past, in fact there are movies that have been release recently that look even better in black and white. Take Mad Max: Fury Road for example, opinions aside on the acting there's no denying that the movie is visually stunning but it also looks equally as amazing in black and white as proven by this trailer.
Inspired by the importance of colour in movies the Twitter account @cinemapalettes has been busy compiling a palette of more than 200 different colours that can be paired with famous movie scenes and the use of colour really is quite fascinating. Colour allows directors and story tellers to add another level of depth to their movies that otherwise wouldn't exist and also lets them use colour theory to sway an audiences emotions or reaction on a scene or specific character. Complexities aside however, there's no denying that these movie colour palettes are beautiful.


Stranahan's Distillery is back with its third annual Cask Thief event on June 23. Guests will have the opportunity to sip samples from some of Stranahan's most rare concoctions and purchase rare bottles of Cask Thief: Stolen Sips (six barrel-finished Stranahan's whiskeys).
This festival is a can't miss event for anyone looking to try exclusive and rare whiskeys by master distiller Rob Dietrich. All six of the Cask Thief Stolen Sips bottles have been pulled from Stranahan's rack house and will be shared for the first time at the festival. Cask Thief was born from Dietrich's passion for sharing craft whiskey with the Denver community, and since 2004, Stranahan's has done just that.
Stranahan's, founded in 2004 by Jess Graber, produces single malt whiskey from Colorado's first legal distillery. And as one of the first distilleries to specialize in American single malt, they've continued to produce craft bottles for whiskey lovers near and far. Tickets include six unique whiskey samples, food, Sweet Action Ice Cream and Eldorado Springs water. In addition to these offerings, the event will feature live music and a special demonstration from Independent Stave Company.
This year's Cask Thief Festival will take place Saturday, June 23 at 200 South Kalamath Street, Denver. The event begins at 5 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m., tickets are available here.
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UPMC Center for Engagement and Inclusion presents
Hearts On Hold
created and performed by theatriQ Youth Ensemble
KST's Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Avenue
Program Viewing Guide
Each year, Dreams of Hope launches an original production created and performed by its theatriQ Youth Ensemble. The Ensemble's latest play, Hearts On Hold, shows us how responding to gentrification can bring communities together, and is also a story of connection and belonging between two unlikely characters. Two former childhood rivals must dig up the history of their town in order to save it. As the community begins to form stronger bonds and solidarity, these two follow along in the footsteps of their predecessors, to surprising results. Hearts On Hold shines a light on the love, sorrow, and day-to-day lives of queer young people today as well as the past.
Promotional graphics designed by Sarica Feng, 2018.
Video Credits: Louis Cappa and Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 2018.
theatriQ is supported by The UPMC Center for Engagement and Inclusion, a residency at the Alloy Studios through the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, The Heinz Endowments, Allegheny Regional Asset District, The Cooper-Siegel Family Foundation, Dollar Bank, The Fine Foundation, The Gouge Family Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The John J. McDonnell and Margaret T. O'Brien Foundation, MUKTI Fund, off the WALL Charitable Foundation, Opportunity Fund, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Brooks Foundation of PNC Charitable Trusts, and Black Radish Kitchen.


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White House Wins!
It's official, white house won the overall house competition. It came down to a close tie between blue and white house. The winner would be based off of which house got more points in the award competition. Amrita from white won most outstanding new girl and gave the win to white. Right after the announcement white house packed their bags and went to town to spend two days and one night at the Best Western.
I used to be the white house squad leader and so I was happy that they won and proud of my former squad member and current squad leader Siri Sham Sunder and his female counterpart Eva for leading their house to victory.
The winning trip consisted of eating delicious food, staying up late, bowling, drinking yogurt lassi out of a giant trophy, and basically just having fun away from the school.
Congratulations white house and the other three houses who put there all into each competition this year.
I'll be posting pictures of the sward competition soon!


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Poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel in Literature
Poet Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
She is the first American woman to do so since Toni Morrison in 1993 and the first American since Bob Dylan in 2016, as the Guardian noted.
The Swedish Academy praised Glück for her "unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal," reports NPR.
Among the 77-year-old's previous honors: a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a post as US poet laureate.
She has published twelve collections of poetry as well as several essay volumes; notable among them are the Pulitzer-winning The Wild Iris (a poem from which the Nobel committee singled out as resonant) and NBA-winning Faithful and Virtuous Night.
And for those curious, the odds on Glück's Nobel victory were 25/1.
So far, she seems to fit the predictions that after a tumultuous 2019, the Swedish Academy would make a less controversial choice.
That year's selection of author Peter Handke drew considerable criticism after his past denial of the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian conflict and his support of convicted war criminal Slobodan Milošević became more widely covered.
Two members of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize, acknowledged that the writer had "definitely made provocative, inappropriate and unclear statements on political issues" but that his work did no such thing.
Louise Glück in her own words
Interview with American Poet
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By Joe McCarthy
After Poland draws a hard line for refugees, young volunteers step up
Looking to the past to find generosity.
Children earn a living by transporting goods inside the Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan.
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In a lot of societies, citizens expect their governments to handle difficult situations. Whether it's a storm that ruins homes, a contagious disease on the loose, or an economy in tatters, governments are usually expected to step up and find a solution.
The same goes for the current refugee crisis in Europe.
Many governments see the refugees as a burden and are doing what they can to stop them from settling. This often sets or reflects the tone of a population.
For instance, in Poland, the leading political party has refused to follow the refugee settling quota established by the European Union. 120,000 extra refugees are supposed to be spread evenly throughout the 28-country bloc. Except this isn't happening.
Countries like Germany are taking in as many refugees as possible, while those like Poland are blocking incoming refugees and spreading fear about the risks posed by those fleeing war such as disease, terrorism and the impossibility of assimilating a different culture (as an American, I can tell you cultures can assimilate and/or live side by side just fine).
In Poland though, 60 percent of the population agrees with the way the government is handling the situation.
But for many young Poles this is unacceptable, especially for a country that knows what it's like to be a refugee. After all, Poland suffered through invasion in World War II and the reign of the Soviet Union.
#Dobrowolki - Pomoc dla uchodźców. Pierwszy cel 20.000PLN osiągnięty! Dzięki! #uchodźcyhttps://t.co/6E55qsBo2epic.twitter.com/ZTYP1uMM9h
— Łukasz Piekarski (@roypen_) November 1, 2015
So dozens of young Poles are going outside the official response to deal with the crisis in their own ways.
An emerging group has 30 core members and a fleet of 8 cars. They set up a Facebook page called Dobrowolki (meaning volunteers or goodwillers) to attract donations and new members.
They're gathering coats, hats, gloves, pants, boots and other supplies from local communities who share their human solidarity and are driving hundreds or even thousands of miles to distribute supplies.
As winter approaches, refugees stranded in cramped, dirty camps are desperate for supplies and help.
Some are mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters. Many are separated from the ones they love. Others are totally alone, their families destroyed by war.
This displacement and suffering has happened throughout history.
The Dobrowolki know this. They know parts of their country still feel the long echoes of war.
So they're taking leave from work, they're putting their lives on hold, spending their own money and maybe even putting themselves at risk--to them, these sacrifices are trivial.
"As a Pole, I want to feel that I have done something for these people, to ease their plight," Jacek Kastelaniec told AFP.
The world needs more Dobrowolki. It needs more people who recognize their own power to help, their own power to shape the ever-unfolding course of events.
There are more refugees now than there were during World War II. The number is approximately 60 million.
That means more than 7 billion people are not refugees.
And at least a few billion of them have the power to help.
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Q: Ajax call works on localhost but on live site returns 'Call to a member function prepare() on null' in the error log My Ajax call I have is to post to the db and manipulate the page without causing it to refresh. The following is a working example on my local version however on the live site it throws a POST 500 error, and after checking the error logs it displays a 'Uncaught Error: Call to a member function prepare() on null' message.
ajax.php
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HomeMarie of Mecklenburg-SchwerinMarie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – "A Grand Duchess to her fingertips"
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Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was born on 14 May 1854 as the daughter of Grand Duke Frederick Francis II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz. She was just seven years old when her mother died, and her father would go on to marry twice more. His second marriage to Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine lasted less than a year as Anna died of puerperal fever after giving birth to a daughter. His third wife was Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and by her, she became the half-sister of Henry, Prince Consort of the Netherlands.
Marie was baptised on 24 June 1854 in the Golden Hall at Ludwigslust Castle, where she had been born. She spent her childhood at Schwerin Castle and was known as "Miechen" in the family. She was close to her brother Johann Albrecht. At the age of four, Marie was taken in the care of a governess named Clara von Schroeter. Her formal lessons started at the age of six, and she was taught to read, write and count. She learned to sing and play the piano in addition to learning English, French, geography and history. Marie was also close to her paternal grandmother Alexandrine (born of Prussia) whom she would visit three times a week.
Marie would meet her future husband, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, at military manoeuvres in Berlin. By then, she had already broken her engagement to George, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Vladimir wrote to her younger brother, "I liked Duchess Marie very much from the first sight."1 They soon set their sights on marrying and everything seemed to go according to plan until the matter of religion came up. It wasn't until 2 May 1874 that they unofficially became engaged as it was finally agreed that she would not have to convert to Russian Orthodoxy.
Marie arrived in St. Petersburg on 27 August 1874 with her father, stepmother and her two brothers. The wedding itself took place on 28 August in the court church of the Winter Palace. Her brothers held a crown over her head during the service. She wore a "white silvery dress, embroidered with flowers, and a diamond tiara on her head."2 After the wedding, she became known as Maria Pavlovna. The newlyweds moved into the Vladimir Palace on the Neva River, and they also owned a villa in Tsarskoe Selo. Four of their five children would be born in Tsarskoe Selo: Alexander (1875-1877), Kirill (1876-1938), Andrei (1879-1956) and Elena (1882-1957). Only Boris (1877 – 1943) was born in the Vladimir Palace. The death of little Alexander hit Marie hard. The future Alexander III wrote, "In the last few days he contracted pneumonia, and he finally died of heart paralysis. We went to Vladimir and Miechen straight away and found them together with Maman, and the little darling was lying on his mother's lap as if he was asleep. It is impossible to describe the pain at the sight of my poor brother and his wife."3 After the birth of their youngest child Elena, Marie became quite ill and was apparently advised not to have any more children.
Marie soon established herself as a great hostess. She would often organise balls and masquerades in the Vladimir Palace. Their court was second only to that of the Emperor. "The Grand Duchess's Court shone with ladies-in-waiting, who were all equally beautiful, intelligent and cheerful. Marie Pavlovna demanded that all the staff would also look elegant and smart. She would only become closer with those guests who knew how to keep up the conversation and not let it get dull."4
Marie also became involved with charities such as the Imperial Women's Patriotic Society (IWPS). She and her husband were also honorary members of several charities.
In 1894, Vladimir's brother Alexander III died and was succeeded by their nephew, now Nicholas II. He married Alix of Hesse (Alexandra Feodorovna) shortly after his accession and she and Marie could not have been any more different. While Alexandra was never quite popular, and Marie was the centre of attention wherever she went. The relationship between Nicholas and the rest of the family visibly deteriorated over time. This came to a head when Marie's eldest son Kirill married the divorcee Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who was also his first cousin. Nicholas was against the match and refused to sanction it. He resigned all his commissions, and he was banished from Russia. From then on, Vladimir and Marie also began to spend much of their time abroad.
On 17 February 1909, Marie's husband died of cerebral oedema at the Vladimir Palace. It was only then that Kirill was pardoned and allowed to return to Russia. Marie gave the governor of St Petersburg 5,000 roubles to give out as alms in her husband's memory. Their shared grief brought Marie and her sister-in-law Maria Feodorovna closer together.
During the First World War, Marie became involved in helping the army, and she went on to assist in military hospitals and infirmaries. She funded a hospital train which was designed to help evacuate the wounded. As time went on, the situation in Russia deteriorated, and Marie believed that the monarchy was at risk. The murder of Rasputin only deepened the rift that now existed in the Imperial Family. On 15 March 1917, Nicholas abdicated the throne. He nominated his brother Michael to succeed him, but he declined, and the Romanov dynasty came to an end. Next in line to the defunct throne was Marie's son Kirill.
Marie was put under house arrest in December 1917 while she was in Kislovodsk. On 31 December 1919, Marie became one of the last Romanovs to escape from Russia. She was met by her niece Olga who wrote, "I was amazed that she arrived in the city on her own train, accompanied by the retinue and remained a Grand Duchess to her fingertips. There was never a particularly loving relationship between aunt Miechen and our family, but I felt proud for her. Despite the danger and hardships, she firmly adhered to the traditions of the past era of splendour and glory."5
At Cannes, she was finally able to rest after a long journey. She then went to Switzerland, where her daughter Elena was, and they finally saw each other again for the first time in five years. By then, Marie was already suffering from kidney problems and various other ailments. She would spend the last months of her life in Contrexéville in France. She took the waters there, but they could do nothing for her anymore. She died on 6 September 1920 at the Hotel La Souveraine. She was buried in an Orthodox chapel she had built in Contrexéville – she had finally converted to Russian Orthodoxy later in life.
In 1924, her son assumed the empty title of Emperor, and his descendants still claim the Russian throne today.
Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna by Galina Korneva and Tatiana Cheboksarova p.13
Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna by Galina Korneva and Tatiana Cheboksarova p.101
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Meg Silvern says:
Did Marie's father and his second wife have a son or daughter? It says it's a daughter. Later, there's reference to Marie having two brothers who arrived in Russia with her. What all siblings did she have?
Moniek says:
She had five full brothers (three survived to adulthood), one half-sister (who died at the age of 16) from her father's second marriage and three half-brothers and a half-sister from his third marriage.
Cletus+Murphy says:
I would love to know more about Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and see more pictures of her. She has always intrigued me. I am so glad that she was written about in this issue. Will there be more about her in a future issue(s)?


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EXCLUSIVE: Tyson Fury sparring partner calls him: 'something special'
Published On Friday, August 10, 2018By British Boxing News
Related Tags: Tyson Fury, Francesco Pianeta, Kem Ljungquist, Fury Vs Pianeta
Sparring partner reveals that Tyson Fury is 'something special'
Former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (26-0) is set to take on Francesco Pianeta (35-4-1) in Fury's second fight since returning from a two-year absence later in August. Pianeta isn't exactly a household name, but Fury is quite familiar with the German-based fighter.
Fury and Pianeta sparred back in 2012, and Fury said back then that he was impressed by what Pianeta could do. Fury said, "I sparred with him in Germany when he was 26-0. He was tough, strong and he is a good opponent, very good. It was before he went on to fight Klitschko and Chagaev for world titles, but I was impressed. People say this is a big step up from Seferi and they can say what they want, but Seferi went the full distance with a current world heavyweight champion, Manuel Charr."
Finding betting sites that give Pianeta much of a chance to beat Fury is a tall order. Most list Fury as a massive favorite around 1/100 to win.
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Fury was criticised after his return fight in which Seferi, a cruiserweight, bowed out after just four rounds in Manchester last June. Seferi was no match for Fury's advantageous combination of height, reach and weight. Rather than focusing on the fight itself, Fury spent most of the bout showboating in the ring at Seferi's expense.
Fury's coach, Ben Davison, has since told him to do away with the antics and focus on fighting. Based on the words of unbeaten Dane Kem Ljungquist (4-0), Fury looks like he has taken his coach's advice.
Ljungquist, 28, has been sparring with Fury ahead of the latter's upcoming fight on August 18. Of Fury, Ljungquist said, "It was a great experience to share the ring with Tyson Fury. He really impressed me. He is very good. He's light on his legs with good movement and really hard to hit. A very awkward fighter. There is no doubt he is something special."
Fury, also known as "The Gypsy King," will put his 26-0 record on the line against Pianeta at Windsor Park in Belfast. Pianeta, who was born in Italy, won the WBC world youth title before winning EBU and WBO European titles. He has fought twice in world championship bouts, but both ended in defeat. Wladimir Klitschko got the better of Pianeta in 2013 and Ruslan Chagaev did the same in 2015.
Ljungquist added, "He is even sparring without a head guard because he's almost never hit, but I think I gave a good account of myself, and I made it back to Denmark in one piece! I think we have a similar style. We are both quite defensive but explosive at the same time. However, there is a lot I can learn from him when it comes to his speed and mobility."
Fury became the first man to defeat Klitschko in a decade with his win over the decorated Russian fighter in 2015. He claimed the WBO, IBO, IBF and WBA World Heavyweight titles all in that same year. After duking it out with Pianeta later this month, Fury is reportedly eyeing future fights against the likes of Anthony Joshua and WBC World Champion Deontay Wilder.
Ljunquist, who debuted in 2017, is a former three-time domestic and two-time Nordic amateur title-holder. He has slowly been moving up into the professional ranks over the last few years with the hopes of putting his name into the ring for future heavyweight titles. His next fight will come against Slovakia native David Vyletel after his original opponent, Gennadi Mentsikainen, was forced to withdraw due to an eye injury.
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There's nothing new about people telling me their gardening stories; however, I've noticed a strange thing happens when I mention the word "houseplant" to people who, moments earlier, were raving about their green thumbs. Like magic, that one word seems to induce a chain reaction of grisly confessions. The interesting thing is that, although there is never any joy attached to these accounts, I don't think I come across bigger smiles than the ones I see on the faces of people who tell me their favorite I-killed-a-houseplant stories. More times than not, these conversations turn into bizarre competitions of who has the best (that is, most horrific) account.
At first glance, it might seem like people are proud of their failures, but I've realized (partly through my own houseplant nightmares) that this enthusiasm has more to do with relief than with masochism. By telling our happily-never-after stories, we get to tend to our enormous guilt and take ownership of our mistakes. It's a sense of responsibility that runs deep and one that I believe stems from the fact that nature didn't create houseplants—we did.
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is at its best when it's cultivated with understanding, respect and good advice. In fact, a relationship is exactly what you'll find at the core of What Grows Here? Indoors. It's our goal to turn information into knowledge, hesitation into confidence and problems into solutions.
Plants are often impulse buys. You see a gorgeous display of seasonal plants at the grocery store, and before you know it, there's a violet or poinsettia sitting in your grocery cart next to the magazine you weren't going to buy and the bag of potato chips you swore off the week before. The best way to ensure the plant outlasts that bag of chips is to think before you buy. Simply taking a little extra time to think about what you want from the plant—and what it needs from you—will greatly increase your chance of bringing home a plant that you can enjoy for years.
Come prepared. Know which directions your rooms face and how much sunlight they get. Light is key to growing all plants, so knowing the intensity of the light that shines through your windows is key to selecting appropriate plants.
Note both the daytime and nighttime temperature of your room.
Consider how much space you have for a plant. Be careful not to select one that will outgrow your space too quickly.
Be honest about how much time and care you have to give a houseplant. If you know you are likely to water irregularly, be sure to select a plant that will be forgiving.
Don't be afraid to ask 'stupid' questions. Chances are you can't come up with anything that hasn't already been asked. Besides, when you take that little bit of time to strike up a conversation, knowledgeable staff will often offer answers to questions you may not have known to ask.
Describe that plant you have in mind. Even if you can't remember its name, you can still describe its form and growing habit.
Select plants according to their light requirements. Different plants need different amounts of light, so read tags and note the suggestions.
Inspect leaves for general health.
Keep an eye out for pests and blotches that could indicate fungal or bacterial problems. In general, leaves should look shiny—not dusty or covered in residue.
• Look for new leaves. Sometimes it's hard to tell a new leaf from an old one, but color is a clue. New leaves are often a lighter and brighter shade of green.
Look for buds on flowering plants. Plants need to be healthy to support bud production, so an abundance of buds indicates that the plant isn't under stress.
Buy seasonal plants early. They are usually very popular, so get yours before they get picked over.
Ask about delivery. Large plants can be hard to get home, so take advantage of services that are available.
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Today people are more interested in pursuing careers in fields which are less traditional and more interacting, therefore you will find tons of people heading towards careers in the human services sector, nursing and psychology industry etc.
The nutritional field of study has also sparked much speculation among people and has become one of the most flourishing career path for people in the 21st century. With millions around the world encountering health related issues, the need for professionals in the nutritional sciences has doubled over the years.
With the effect hundreds of colleges and universities in the US have started offering not only traditional degree options for them but also distance learning opportunities. For all those of you interested in visiting online nutrition schools in the US but have no idea about which are the school which are in demand and get you the best education.
You can take into consideration the following nutrition schools which may help you lead a successful career in the nutritional field of study.
Kaplan University is a privately run institute in Iowa which is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission. This university conducts both online and on-campus learning modes and offers various nutrition degrees. The university has campuses in other states as well and has been listed among the notable online nutrition schools. Kaplan University offers you the following programs in nutrition.
Ashworth College helps you advance towards a career with the convenient and affordable online education it offers. This school offers a diploma program which trains you to help others lead a healthy live. This college follows a fully online format of education and also offers all lectures and material to students online.
Established in 1927 this university today operates as a private coeducational educational body. University of Bridgeport has been a leader in providing innovative opportunities to all and therefore has been one of the premier online nutrition schools in the country. It currently offers the following nutrition program.
University of Massachusetts – Amherst functions as the largest public university in New England. The university has promoted healthy living in many ways and has been over the years consistently ranked among the notable online nutrition schools and today offers the following degree options for people.
All the schools mentioned here are all accredited and may turn out to be the perfect option for you to pursue a degree in nutrition. If you do not find any of these online nutrition schools matching your needs then before searching for another school always make a check if it is regionally accredited.


ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC has been named Sweden's player of the year for the 10th time in a row - and 11th time in total.
The Manchester United striker is a true legend in his home country and after winning the domestic treble with Paris St-Germain and scoring eight goals in his first few months in England, he has won yet another 'Guldbollen' award.
Arsenal icon Freddie Ljungberg, who won in 2006, is the only man to interrupt Ibrahimovic's reign as Sweden's top dog since his first victory in 2005.
The striker was joined by Chelsea Ladies goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl, who won the women's footballer of the year award, at a ceremony in Stockholm.
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Mechanization Takes Command
A Contribution to Anonymous History
Siegfried Giedion
One of the twentieth century's best-known architectural theorists examines the impact of mechanization on daily life
First published in 1948, Mechanization Takes Command is an examination of mechanization and its effects on everyday life. A monumental figure in the field of architectural history, Sigfried Giedion traces the evolution and resulting philosophical implications of such disparate innovations as the slaughterhouse, the Yale lock, the assembly line, tractors, ovens, and "comfort" as defined by advancements in furniture design.
It is a provocative, enlightening, sometimes frightening story.
Thomas Sugrue, New York Times
Film and Media, Architecture and Design, History, Theory and Philosophy
First published in 1948, Mechanization Takes Command is an examination of mechanization and its effects on everyday life. A monumental figure in the field of architectural history, Sigfried Giedion traces the evolution and resulting philosophical implications of such disparate innovations as the slaughterhouse, the Yale lock, the assembly line, tractors, ovens, and "comfort" as defined by advancements in furniture design. A groundbreaking text when originally published, Giedion's pioneering work remains an important contribution to architecture, philosophy, and technology studies.
608 pages, 524 b&w photos, 7 x 10, December 2013
Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968) taught at the Federal Institute of Technology and was Mellon Lecturer at the Washington National Gallery and the Charles Elliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard University. His other works include Space, Time, and Architecture and The Eternal Present.
Many people have wondered what mechanization is doing to man; nobody yet has investigated, documented, and illustrated the question to the extent of this enormous and fascinating book.
Giedion reveled in the splendor of such humble things, the stuff of ordinary life. He studied them lovingly and sought to convey to his readers a sense of their inner beauty, mystery, and wonder.
Technology and Culture
A fascinating and equally surprising work that exposes the roots of the United States' rise as a nation built on technological progress.
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
Superhumanity Design of the Self A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self
A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with A Theory of Meaning The influential work of speculative biology—and a key document in posthumanist studies—now available in a new, accurate English translation
Utopia's Ghost Architecture and Postmodernism, Again Unpacking architecture's important—and continuing—role in postmodern thought
The Interface IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976 How a cast of superstars at IBM altered the face of corporate culture and design in America
Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another
Mixed Metonymies: Mechanization and Culture
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Review of Sigfried Giedion's MECHANIZATION TAKES COMMAND by Roy Christopher.
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Are you ready to live a life that you love? Would you like to lose weight naturally, find the courage to do some thing new? Or how about finding some clarity and space in your life?
Clearing out your clutter is a very simple, but powerful healing tool that you can use to heal and transform your life. So, how does this work?
This idea resonated with my immediately and I became an avid de-clutterer!
Clearing clutter creates new possibilities in your life.
Clearing clutter gives you the ability to see what is serving you in your life and what is not. As you get clarity on what is working in your life, this insight and awareness, makes it easy to make new and empowering decisions. Things such as who you want to spend time with and what you want to do with your time become obvious.
With less stuff cluttering up your life you will have more time to do the things that you want to do. This clarity is a gift. It creates new possibilities in your life that will help you to easily release resistance and procrastination.
Getting started on clearing clutter.
As you begin to clear clutter, you need to make the distinction between different types of clutter. Use this article to help you to differentiate the 3 different types of clutter, so that you can get started today on releasing clutter from your life.
Distinguish between the 3 different types of clutter.
This is the type of clutter that needs to be tidied or cleaned. This might be certain rooms in your house, tables, floors, benches, cupboards, carpets, clothes or the inside of your car. Look at areas like your refrigerator, your kitchen cupboards, your computer, your windows, your front door, your car or your garage.
This type of clutter is the "stuff" that accumulates and mounts up. It can happen anywhere but typically it might be letters on your desk, bills that have mounted up that need attention, piles of stuff behind doors, in corners, up in the attic, in high or low cupboards or in garages. This type of stuff accumulates over time. It might be rubbish that needs to be tidied up, taken to the tip, bills that need to be sorted out or papers that need to be filed.
3. Broken or old clutter.
Finally there is stuff that is broken or stuff that you have simply outgrown. This "stuff" acts as clutter and takes up precious space in your life. Think of old clothes in your wardrobe or broken stuff that needs to be fixed. With this type of clutter make 3 piles: stuff to give away to charity, stuff to sell or stuff to be fixed.
Clearing clutter can heal and transform your life!
If you are ready for a break-through in your life, I highly recommend you set aside some time to begin clearing away the clutter in your life. Once you have cleared your clutter, you will feel amazing; happier, lighter and free!
This is because as you clear up the physical clutter in your life, you are literally healing yourself from the inside. This creates space and possibility for the "new" to enter your life.
Use this weekend to clear away your clutter. Let this enable new opportunities, connections and ideas, so that you can start to change your life and begin to live a life that you love.


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Black arrests over 2-to-1 to non-blacks
Brad Zinn
bzinn@newsleader.com
For all the gains in some facets of life since the civil rights era, the racial math behind handcuffs remains startling in this part of Virginia, and across the country.
Police still make a massive number of black arrests compared to the size of the black population. This ratio, the racial arrest rate, is twice as high for black people in Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County as it is for non-blacks.
More than double.
The statistics from 2011 and 2012, since they reflect single arrests, could mean that an incredible percentage of the black community was arrested in those years, compared to whites and others. Or it could mean that a small percentage of the black community is piling up a towering number of repeated arrests.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. The reasons aren't crystal clear, leaders said.
More law-breaking? Police unfairness? Social conditions? Or just more frequent patrols in some areas of town?
Jim Williams, Staunton's chief of police, is direct about his theory.
"We follow the evidence wherever it leads," he said.
Fewer arrests for whites, others
In Staunton from 2011 and 2012, based on numbers from USA Today garnered from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, city police had a black arrest rate of 403 arrests per 1,000 residents, compared to an arrest rate of 149 for non-black suspects.
For Augusta County, the rates were 88 arrests per 1,000 black residents and a rate of 36 for non-blacks.
In Waynesboro, there were 274 arrests per 1,000 black residents and 121 per 1,000 for non-blacks.
The data was published as several high-profile incidents in the U.S. prompted a closer look at police practices.
The most explosive event took place in Ferguson, Missouri, a city where black people were arrested at a rate nearly three times higher than that of non-blacks in 2011 and 2012, USA Today said.
More than five months later, the mere mention of Ferguson can still conjure up images of protesters, looters, armored vehicles, tear gas, police clad in riot gear and boarded-up store fronts.
At the center of it all was an unarmed black teenager and the white police officer who killed him.
Although the incident exploded into an international debate, at the heart of it all was the attempted arrest of a black man, a scene that is played out daily in disproportionate numbers across the land, including here.
Local police chiefs respond to numbers
Chief Williams of the Staunton Police Department said although the internal numbers compiled by the city show a slightly lower arrest rate of blacks versus non-blacks when compared to the numbers provided by USA Today, black arrests are more than twice as likely to happen, relative to total population, than non-black arrests.
In 2012, the city made 2,366 arrests. Of those arrests, 1,722 involved non-blacks and 629 involved blacks, even though roughly 12 percent of the city's population is black.
Williams said there's no bias in his department's policing, and said that during his 11-year tenure as chief, he has not received any formal complaints from the public based on race.
Asked about the department's race relations with the city's black population, Williams responded, "I think it's pretty good, but I'm not here to tell you we're always right either."
Williams said the department has made strides to improve race relations within the city. As an example, he noted the police headquarters used to be housed in the former Booker T. Washington High School.
"That wasn't a good fit. I think we were resented for that, and probably rightfully so," he said.
But Williams said arrest statistics comparing rates between black and non-blacks can be skewed. For instance, in a stabbing case last year that involved a 55-year black Staunton man, the suspect was charged 80 times in seven years, mostly all for misdemeanor alcohol-related offenses. Each charge, though, counts as a single black arrest.
Said Williams, "Let's say he was arrested 50 times in one year. That's 50 black people arrested this year, but really it's one person arrested 50 times."
Clarence Durrette, president of the Staunton chapter of the NAACP and a former Waynesboro police officer in the late 1970s, said his group has a solid relationship with Williams, and he believes area police treat people of color much better than they did 40 years ago. Still, there's room for improvement, he said.
"The black man is still going to get more attention than a white man would," Durrette said. "There are still some people uncomfortable with the police in Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County."
In Waynesboro, which has a black population of slightly less than 12 percent, Chief of Police Michael Wilhelm also stressed that his officers have no racial agenda.
"We're arresting the people committing the crimes. That's what we focus on," he said. "We don't target specific people or groups."
Waynesboro's arrest rate per 1,000 people is 274 for blacks and 121 for non-blacks. Though lower than Staunton's, an arrest is still two times more likely to involve a black suspect than non-black.
Like Williams, Wilhelm doesn't recall any complaints lodged against his department based on race, and said his officers and detectives are focused on doing their jobs.
"That's our goal, bringing everything to a logical conclusion," he said.
Experts: Racial bias pervasive
Jack Glaser, associate dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "Suspect Race: Causes and Consequences of Racial Profiling," said racial stereotypes are to blame for the nation's unbalanced arrest rates.
"The evidence is overwhelming that police officers, like the rest of us, have stereotypes in their head," he said.
Glaser said while stereotyping by police is more influential in bigger cities, the fact remains that blacks and also Hispanics are arrested at much higher rates in the U.S. than whites.
"In order for a white person to be stopped, they have to be acting especially more suspicious than a black or Latino," he said. "That's the way it works."
Be it stereotypes portrayed by Hollywood or in the media, Glaser said black suspects are deemed more dangerous in our society.
"It's a long-standing, deeply ingrained stereotype," he said. "White suspects just don't represent as much of a threat."
Glaser said the disproportionate arrest rate of blacks — who constitute nearly 1 million of the 2.3 million U.S. inmate population, according to the NAACP — has consistently been the norm.
Because of a recent spate of unarmed black suspects being killed or shot by police, the issue is getting more traction in the media lately, and Glaser has a theory on why that is.
"It has a lot to do with cell phone cameras and social media," he said. The proliferation of body cameras worn by police, dash-mounted cameras in cruisers and surveillance cameras at businesses have also played a role, Glaser said.
While racial profiling has been discussed for generations, Glaser said, "It's not a problem that's going to be solved in the near term."
Repeated stops
Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C., said racial stereotyping by police, both black and white, is pervasive and labeled it "a cancer." Arnwine believes that reform is needed at the policy level of local governments, and said the over-policing of blacks and the under-policing of whites must be addressed.
"The same people are being stopped over and over again," she said. "We have a very sick law enforcement system in the U.S. It needs major surgery."
Rob Poggenklass, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said the high arrest rate of blacks in Virginia "is a huge problem," and said residents in low-income brackets in general are over represented in the criminal justice system.
Poggenklass said a big part of the discrepancy in the arrest rates of blacks versus non-blacks lies in the so-called "War on Drugs," more specifically, marijuana.
In a 2013 study done by the ACLU, it concluded there were 8 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88 percent of which were for possession, accounting for more than half the drug arrests in the U.S.
The report stated that, on average, a black person is 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white person, even though blacks and whites use marijuana at similar rates.
In over 96 percent of counties with more than 30,000 people, where blacks represent more than 2 percent of the population, blacks are arrested at higher rates than whites for marijuana possession, the report said.
Poggenklass said the war on drugs is a subtle form of racism.
"This is going to go on as long as the war on drugs goes on," he said. "A stupid war on a plant."
Not a good view of police
Marcus Thompson, a 34-year-old black man who lives in Waynesboro and does in-home counseling in Staunton, said he's never personally experienced what he felt was racial profiling from police.
Although he has black friends who have complained of being targeted, Thompson said he's doesn't believe there's a directive from above in the local police departments telling officers to concentrate on minorities.
Thompson does feel, however, that individual police officers are apt to act on personal fears or prejudices when it comes to race.
"Ultimately, they're all individuals who make choices," he said. Be it life experiences, cultural differences or motives in general, Thompson said, "They culminate into some targeted behaviors."
Thompson said he doesn't feel the local black community "has a very good view of the police." A lack of trust and fear on both sides, Thompson said, is mostly blame. In some instances, those obstacles can become deadly.
"If you don't have love for people, whether you're black or white ... you're never going to have a positive outcome," Thompson said.
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The Clarkson women will play Bemidji State for the first time on the same weekend and have the banner raising on Saturday, October 7.
And my wife and I already have our hotel for the weekend. Planning on seeing both the mens and womens games on Fri-Sat afternoon and knight .
I guess we could call that the "Gopher-Killer" series. Bemidji State has given Minnesota a surprising amount of trouble over the past few years, and Clarkson is probably the only team to claim a mental edge over Minnesota.
It appears Brielle Bellerive is transferring to the University of British Columbia. I can understand why, with all the underclassmen taking the top roles last year and moving back home for her, but I am disappointed to see anyone go. I can still remember her ripping off a shot for the only goal against Harvard in 2014–15 to give Clarkson the regular season title.
Sorry to see her go but I can understand her wanting to play in front of her family plus probably her not getting as much ice time as she would have liked last year. Good luck to her. She leaves an NC$$ Champion, not too bad. I wonder if this frees up any scholarship money and if so would they bring in anyone a year earlier? That still leaves 13 forwards and 7 dmen for next year with the 6 frosh coming in (Plus 1 goalie).
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Getting ducks in a row for that weekend. What hotel are you using?
Good luck in getting a room. We are in Messena at the Econo Lodge (UGH). Everything in Potsdam and Canton is full..
Yup, there's nothing closer than Massena. The Hampton Inn doesn't even have any Hilton Rewards member rooms stashed away. I'm going up anyway, even if I have to stay on a friend's couch in Massena or at the old fraternity house.
Now... tickets for the games. That should be interesting.
I have sent an email to the school asking when tickets will be available. Have not heard yet.
Well, if it's anything like last time, the women's banner-raising game will be free admission and you will be able to walk right in. As for the other three games, I can't help you there.
According to the email I received, single game ticket usually go on sale in early Sept.
Fast and Ambrose have made the Canadian centralization roster for the 2018 Olympics. Erica Howe has been named an alternate goaltender. Of note, as the article points out, is that Rattray is not on the list.
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Florida Atlantic University football Head Coach Charlie Partridge. (Mark Randall / Sun Sentinel)
BOCA RATON — There was a picture recently posted on Twitter of Florida Atlantic starting quarterback Jaquez Johnson and a few of his teammates on the Owls football team posing after they had won a summer intramural league basketball championship.
FAU coach Charlie Partridge saw it and used it to send a message to the Owls before Tuesday's start of camp .
"Some people thought I'd be mad," Partridge said. "But you know what? There's a lot worse things they could be doing at 10 o'clock at night than playing intramural basketball and winning a championship. I brought it up at our first team meeting. I flashed the picture up there, and there's a little of that hushed fear across the room. I told them the same thing, that there's worse things you could be doing than winning championships.
"So I said to them, how did that feel? They all said, 'Coach, it felt great.' And I said, how about a ring? There was a little different response to that. Just building the culture, man."
Changing a losing culture is perhaps the biggest challenge Partridge faces in his second season at FAU. The Owls are coming off a 3-9 season in which they were 2-6 in Conference USA. That's not acceptable to Partridge. He wants to win championships, just like Johnson and his teammates did this summer playing intramural hoops.
"Right now in our mind, we'll always play to win the conference and [qualify for] postseason play, period," Partridge said after Wednesday's morning practice, the first time he's met with media since camp opened. "That's why we came here, to win championships and build the right kind of program that this whole county can be proud of."
Partridge was very upbeat about the way the Owls have responded to his challenges and was overall pleased with the first two days of fall practices.
"We've got a long way to go, but I'm excited," the Plantation native said. "There's a great energy right now. I'm excited about the progress the team made in the summer, and you're seeing it out here on the field."
Partridge was especially impressed with the way that several of the veterans on the roster have been bringing in the younger players and having film sessions with them.
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Partridge praised the play of a couple of Palm Beach County products, J'Quan Napier from Palm Beach Gardens and Seminole Ridge graduate Jalen Young, both freshmen.
"Napier made a big catch and Jalen Young had a nice pick for a touchdown. All of them are showing up at times," Partridge said of the new additions to the roster, adding that consistency in practice over the next four weeks will determine their chances of earning playing time. "We're going to make sure that we get these young guys a lot of reps so we can evaluate."
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Q: A graph theoretical/combinatorial problem I'll try to describe a problem that I am currently working on, hoping to get some direction out of anyone possibly interested in the problem.
Let $G_1=([n],E_1), G_2=([n],E_2)$, such that $E_1\bigcup E_2 = {[n]\choose 2}, E_1\bigcap E_2 = \emptyset$. I.e. $E_1$ and $E_2$ form a partition of the complete graph.
Observe the following process, consisting of two sides, god and the devil.
At each step the devil chooses a graph, for example - $G_1$, and constructs a partition of its edges into two subsets, say $A, B$, i.e. $A\bigcup B = E_1$ and $A\bigcap B = \emptyset$.
God, in his turn can choose either $A$ or $B$, say he chose $A$, now $G_1=([n],A)$. And they continue to another iteration.
God's objective is to maximize the set of vertices $V:=\{i\in[n]|d_1(i),d_2(i) > 0\}$. I.e., to maximize the set of vertices with positive degree on both graphs, while the devil's goal is adverserial, he wishes to form partitions that would minimize the size $|V|$.
I can prove that for all graphs $G_1,G_2$ such that all vertices have degree of $n/2(1\pm o(1))$, and for all adversarial strategies of the devil, there exists a strategy for god (a choice of partitions) such that after $k$ steps, $|V|\ge\dfrac{n}{2^k}$.
My goal is to show that there exist graphs $G_1, G_2$ such that for all adversarial strategies, there exist counter strategies that would guaranty $|V|\ge\dfrac{n}{2^{k/2}}$. It can be shown using chernoff that the degree requirement holds for $G_1$ chosen according to $G(n,0.5)$ and $G_2$ being its complement with high probability.
Some thoughts:
I am convinced that with high probability choosing $G_1=G_{n,0.5}$ and $G_2$ to be its complement would be good candidates for the conjecture.
Simply choosing the side with the larger cardinality at each step doesn't work.
I have constructed a simple strategy that dictates god's choice at each step according to the following rule, that I suspect to be optimal strategy but I am short of proving it: Given a partition of $G_1$'s edges into two subsets $A$ and $B$, choose the set that maximizes $\Sigma_{(u,v)\in C}d_2(u) + d_2(v)$ for $C\in \{A,B\}$.
The idea is defining a potential function $\Phi = \Sigma_{(u,v)\in E_1}d_2(u) + d_2(v)$ and taking notice that for a partition of $E_1$ into $A,B$ it holds that: $\Phi = \Sigma_{E_1} = \Sigma_A + \Sigma_B$, therefore there is a choice of either $A$ or $B$ that decreases $\Phi$ by a factor of at most $2$. $\Phi$ is also symmetric as it can be rewritten as $\Sigma_{i\in [n]}d_1(i)d_2(i)$. It can be (easily) shown that choosing according to this strategy guaranties $|V|\ge\dfrac{n}{2^k}$ for all graphs. I suspect that it is an optimal strategy that would also yield the conjectured lower bound for the random graph $G(n,0.5)$ and its complement.
This is the problem, and those are some of my main thoughts. A simpler problem that I also can't solve would be to show that for 2 steps I can guaranty $|V|\ge n/2$.
I hope I was clear, and will remain available to make any clarifications required.
Edit: I am interested in proving that there exists a strategy for the case where $k\le c\log n$ for some $c\in (0,1)$ and in particular would be happy in showing, as stated above, the existence of such strategy in case $k=2$.
Thanks! :)

A: The devil can make sure that the number of edges in $G_1$ after $k$ steps is approximately $\frac{n(n-1)}{2^{k+1}}$. This limits the number of vertices with positive degree to $\frac{n(n-1)}{2^{k}}$.
Notice that this is smaller than $\frac{n}{2^{k/2}}$ whenever $n-1<2^{k/2}$. So I don't think such a graph can exist for large enough values of $n$.


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Barbara Sinatra Center Aids in High-Profile Cases
Posted by Cindy Uken | Mar 23, 2018 | Health
RANCHO MIRAGE – Investigations into some of the most hellish and heinous child abuse cases in Riverside County often turn to assistance from the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center.
The internationally recognized leader in counseling physically, sexually and emotionally abused children likely has its thumbprint on the case of the 13 siblings who had allegedly been tied to their beds by their parents as punishment for misbehavior — first with ropes, then with chains and padlocks, officials said. They are known as the Turpin children, who range in age from 2 to 29. All but the youngest were fed very little food on a schedule, leaving them profoundly malnourished.
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The Center also played a critical role in the case involving convicted child molester John David Yoder was sentenced to 24 years in prison for his involvement in the case of a child porn ring that preyed upon the children of Desert Hot Springs.
Yoder was convicted of 10 felony crimes – including child molestation, human trafficking and criminal conspiracy – in February 2016.
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"There was evidence of sexual abuse in the Yoder case," said John E. Thoresen, director and executive officer of the Center. Yoder and a couple gentlemen from Las Vegas were arrested and convicted of child pornography and sexual abuse with young boys. Basically, Yoder was going to skate parks and finding boys, buying them gifts, taking them to Disneyland and stuff and grooming them as perpetrators do. We interviewed a number of those boys and some of those boys came here for counseling."
Due to patient privacy laws, the Center is prohibited from releasing the names of patients who seek help – and therefore the public rarely knows of the Center's role in high-profile cases.
This is only one reason why the Center, founded by Frank and Barbara Sinatra, matters. The work it does matters significantly year round — and especially this month, which has been set aside as Make March Matter. For the second consecutive year, Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has partnered with the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center (BSCC) in conjunction with CHLA's Make March Matter™ fundraising campaign. The goal is to raise at least $250,000 during the month of March in the Coachella Valley in support of services for children and families at CHLA and BSCC.
The Barbara Sinatra Children's Center employs Riverside County's leading full-time forensic interviewer, said Thoresen.
To be called to help with these high-profile cases, which received – and continues to receive – international attention — recognizes the valuable abilities and skills that the Center's forensic interviewer has, Thoresen said. "When a detective, or the district attorney, is investigating, let's just call it suspected abuse, it's important to have somebody that knows how to talk to children to get as much information about the suspected abuse as you can."
Though, in this particular case, much of the physical abuse was painfully obvious, he said.
Thoresen said the forensic professional interviewed one or two of the Turpin children though he could not reveal how old they were.
Forensic Interviews are ordered by law enforcement, the District Attorney's office or Child Protective Services. The Barbara Sinatra Center provides a child-friendly environment and state-of-the-art recording equipment to help collect evidence to assist in the prosecution of suspected child maltreatment including: sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect and witness to violence. More than 400 Forensic Interviews are conducted annually at the Children's Center.
The Turpin children were discreetly released last week from Corona Regional Medical Center and taken by their lawyer and public guardian from the hospital to a rural house in an undisclosed location, according to ABC News.
Thoresen said he does not know where they are but if they are in close proximity to Rancho Mirage, the Center will most surely be involved in helping them recover.
The siblings' parents, David and Louise Turpin, face about 40 charges in their children's abuse, which for years went undiscovered until one of the Turpin teenagers escaped from the Perris, Calif., house in January and alerted police. Her 12 siblings were freed soon after, and the parents were arrested.
The charges against the parents include a dozen counts of torture and another dozen counts of false imprisonment. Louise Turpin has also been charged with felony assault.
They have pleaded not guilty to the charges and continue to be held on $12 million bail each in a jail in Riverside, Calif.
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[TV] The Dresden Files: Season 1
While digging through our hard drives for something to watch, I once again came across our copies of The Dresden Files and figured it was about time to finally try watching the show. And while I've yet to read the books themselves (much to the complaints of many friends online), I figured the series might be a soft way to look into the franchise.
Knowing that this adaptation only lasted a single season was a bit of constraint in my mind for how much effort to invest into this show. The general complaints around the show have ranged from its inability to fully capture the tone of the book or just the quirky way the overall narrative was handled. But the show was never meant to be a faithful adaptation of the book series, as stressed by author Jim Butcher himself. But I don't think it's unreasonable for folks to still expect that from the show despite the warnings ahead of time.
I think the show lacked overall direction in terms of a possible meta-plot or really exploring more about the life of protagonist Harry Dresden himself. It stuck to a case-of-the-week format and did little to actually talk about Dresden's history until maybe the tail end of the series. And even then, that wasn't much. But it certainly had a decent enough humorous tone I suppose.
Synopsis: The Dresden Files is an urban fantasy television series developed for television by hans Beimler and Robert Hewitt Wolfe for the then Sci-Fi Channel. The show was based on the books written by Jim Butcher and ran for a single season.
At the center of the show is Harry Dresden (Paul Blackthorne), who proclaims himself to be a professional wizard. His time is spent either investigating individual cases that come directly to him similar to a private detective, although he also lends assistance to Lt. Connie Murphy (Valerie Cruz) of the Chicago Police for particularly unusual cases. His primary companion of sorts is Bob, a spirit that Harry "owns" by virtue of his control of Bob's skull within which is soul is magically tied to as a punishment for past crimes.
Each episode generally covers a single case including mysterious deaths or even just a boy in need of help. And given Dresden is pretty much the only Wizard who has a yellow pages listing, some quirky characters tend to come his way. But greater knowledge of the sort of occult layer to the world is not openly discussed really and a lot of these secrets are pretty much managed by the High Council that governs the wizarding community as a whole. Other cases involve more supernatural creatures such as vampires, werewolves and even the avatar of Death itself.
I'm not sure how to feel about the casting choice of Paul Blackthorne as Harry Dresden. I can hear him delivering the lines and trying to portray that difficult balance of appearing to be uninterested and yet still having a good heart driving his actions. But a lot of times his efforts at being snarky and sarcastic fall a little flat for one reason or another. Thus the tone of the show feels sort of like the early days of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but not quite as funny.
It's hard to determine what to expect from the show given the general impressions of what a wizard ought to be. Harry Dresden definitely breaks out that mold. but what he is instead doesn't quite come across as strong. He seems more like one who only occasionally dabbles in the world of magic and doesn't necessarily have greater mastery over it. But at the same time, the show tries to stress that one can't just use magic all the time to wish problems away, which I figure might make some people wonder what the point of the show is. After all, you have a wizard as a lead character and more often than not he's just mouthing off here and there.
The show naturally started to get more interesting towards the end, particularly with the episode "What About Bob?" which finally elaborates a bit on the reasons Harry "self-defensed" his uncle to death all those years ago. It felt like one of the better episodes that actually helped round out Harry background a bit more, although this progress was quickly abandoned.
There were also the episodes that featured the vampire Bianca (Joanne Kelly), who is described to be the most beautiful and most dangerous vampire in Chicago. She certainly has the potential of being a far more interesting character given enough time, but of course the show ended before we could see a lot more of her.
On the whole, The Dresden Files was just mediocre more than anything else. It's not exactly unwatchable but it's not super compelling either, and that can become quite the critical mistake for a show's first season. Thus it only gets 3 occasional uses of magic out of a possible 5.
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