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ARLINGTON, Texas — Eli Manning stood on the New York Giants' sideline in disbelief when it looked as if the Dallas Cowboys had scored a go-ahead touchdown with 10 seconds left. What was encouraging is what he didn't see: a replay on the giant videoboard that hangs above the field at Cowboys Stadium, where the Giants still have never lost following a wild 29-24 victory Sunday.
PHOTOS: Giants beat Cowboys in Dallas
Officials reviewed and overturned Dez Bryant's apparent 37-yard touchdown catch, ruling his hand hit out of bounds, and the Cowboys couldn't get into the end zone after the overturned reception. "I couldn't quite believe they were able to hit a touchdown in that situation. I kind of kept looking for the replay," Manning said. "You know the game was not going to be over until that clock hit zero." This was the 20th time in Manning's career that the Giants rallied in the fourth quarter to win. And this comeback came after New York blew an early 23-0 lead. "It speaks about our resiliency. We know how to win these games," receiver Victor Cruz said. "We've been in a bunch of them." After their sixth win in seven games since a season-opening home loss to Dallas, the Giants (6-2) hurriedly cleared out of Cowboys Stadium trying to get home as quickly as possible with Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the East Coast. The Giants are 4-0 in Arlington since Jerry Jones' football palace opened in 2009 with a New York victory. "I'm very disappointed right now," Jones said. "I thought after all that, our defense played well enough, our offense kept going and I thought we were going to get a chance to pull one out." Coupled with Sunday losses by Philadelphia (3-4) and Washington (3-5), the Giants strengthened their hold on the NFC East lead halfway through their schedule. New York led 23-0 just 2 minutes into the second quarter when defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul returned an interception 28 yards for a touchdown. That was the third of four interceptions thrown by Tony Romo, and Dallas (3-4) finished with six turnovers. But the Giants didn't score again until Lawrence Tynes made a 43-yard field goal with 10:20 left for a 26-24 lead. He kicked a 37-yarder with 31/2 minutes remaining in the fourth for his fifth of the game. Stevie Brown set up Tynes' last field goal with a fumble recovery and also had two interceptions. "We have good leadership, good people," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "They're fighters in that locker room. … Sometimes it comes out differently than it was designed." Dallas got to the Giants 19 on one of its last drives. On fourth-and-1 with 1:03 left, Romo scrambled and was picked off by Brown. After New York failed to get a first down on three running plays and Dallas used all three of its timeouts, the Cowboys got the ball back with 44 seconds left at the 30. They got to the Giants 37 before Bryant's catch between two defenders in the back of the end zone was overturned. "We scratched and scraped," Giants defensive lineman Chris Canty said. "At the end, we still had to have a little luck to pull that one out." Manning completed 15 of 29 passes for 192 yards with an interception. Romo threw for a career-high 437 yards while completing 36 of 62 passes. Jason Witten broke his own Cowboys team record with 18 catches, which resulted in 167 yards. Miles Austin had nine catches for 133 yards and Bryant had five catches for 110 yards. The Giants led 13-0 in the first quarter after Romo's first two interceptions. Brown, who has five interceptions in six games, stepped in front of Bryant and had a 37-yard return to set up Tynes' 37-yard kick that made it 6-0. Three plays later, Corey Webster's 37-yard interception return led to Andre Brown's 1-yard TD. Michael Coe recovered at the Dallas 15 when Bryant fumbled after fielding a punt over his head, setting up a 26-yard field goal. Three plays later, Pierre-Paul broke off a block and jumped to grab the ball. He punctuated his first-ever pick and touchdown by dunking the ball over the crossbar. Things were so bad then that Jones was booed when he came on the videoboard during a public service announcement about breast cancer awareness. On another unrelated video during that same timeout, coach Jason Garrett got the same treatment when his image appeared on the screen. "I've been to boo school so to speak," Jones said. "Seriously. I'm sure the fans had the same feeling I did. I was frustrated, mad and knew that we had dug ourselves a hole that was going to take super effort to get out of." Dallas scored the last 10 points of the half, then added two more touchdowns in the third quarter to go ahead. Romo faked a handoff and rolled right for a 1-yard score on fourth down, ending the play with an emphatic spike. After the Giants went three-and-out, the Cowboys drove to the 1 again. Romo faked another handoff and started rolling right, when he then shuffled the ball ahead to John Phillips for a 1-yard pass that put Dallas up 24-23. None of that mattered after the closing sequence. "Just tough when you think you've won the game," Romo said. "It switches as that moment. You put a lot into it, obviously. We put a week's worth (of emotion) in that one game. NOTES: The only Cowboys with more passing yards in a game are Don Meredith (460 in November 1963) and Troy Aikman (455 in November 1998). … The only other time Dallas had three 100-yard receivers was Nov. 10, 1963, at San Francisco. … Tynes is now the second-leading scorer in Giants history. His 17 points Sunday pushed his career total to 535 (113 field goals, 196 extra points). He passed Brad Daluiso's 526 points. The career leader is Pete Gogolak's 646.


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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson coach Brad Brownell had one thought when he watched young Al-Amir Dawes take the inbounds pass with only a few seconds left.
"Go," Brownell said. "Get to the basket."
Dawes followed instructions perfectly on a three-quarter court-length drive that finished with a left-handed flip with a second to go as Clemson toppled another highly ranked team, rallying past No. 6 Florida State 70-69 on Saturday.
Dawes, a freshman, put the ball behind his back to start the run, then stutter-stepped to get free in the lane before driving around Florida State's Trent Forrest for the game-winning bucket.
"I knew how much time I had left and I was just ready to make a play," said Dawes, who finished with 18 points.
Clemson seemingly made almost all the plays it had to down the stretch after falling behind 42-32 on Forrest's 3-pointer to start the second half.
The Tigers (15-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast Conference) used a 17-5 run over the next eight minutes to get back in it.
When Florida State (24-5, 14-4) built back a 56-51 lead, Khavon Moore had two baskets and Clyde Trapp a foul shot to tie things once more.
After M.J. Walker's basket with 2:29 left put the Seminoles up 63-60, John Newman III hit a jumper and Tevin Mack nailed a 3-pointer to send Clemson in front.
And when Forrest hit a short jumper with 8.4 seconds left for Florida State's last lead, Dawes' dash gave the Tigers another highlight moment in a puzzling season that includes victories over then-No. 3 Duke and No. 5 Louisville.
It's the first time Clemson has beaten three Top Seven AP-ranked opponents in the same season since 1979-80. Oh, and don't forget the Tigers' first-ever win at North Carolina last month, ending their 0-for-59 lifetime in Chapel Hill.
And just like after beating Duke and Louisville, fans flooded the court in celebration.
"I think we've had several wins through the season, wins where we fought back," Newman said. "I'm thankful for the experiences like that because in life, if you're resilient, anything's possible."
Florida State's desperation heave after Dawes' basket last-chance heave was way off the mark
Trapp had a chance to extend Clemson's 68-67 lead, but missed a pair of foul shots. Teammate Aamir Simms got the rebound and threw the ball into the open court as he approached the sideline, leading to what looked like a Florida State breakaway for Forrest.
But a referee's whistle stopped play. After a lengthy review and discussion, Florida State was awarded possession to set up Forrest's go-ahead basket.
Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton chuckled when asked about the whistle. He made it clear the delay and confusion didn't cost the Seminoles.
"What hurt us again was having the courage to let them go the length of the floor for the winning basket," he said.
Clemson also sent the ACC title race back into a three-way chase.
Florida State had hoped to take another step toward its first ACC regular-season crown. Instead, the Seminoles joined No. 7 Duke and No. 11 Louisville with four league losses with just over a week left.
Devin Vessell had 14 points to lead the Seminoles, who saw their four-game win streak snapped.
Florida State: The Seminoles, like Duke and Louisville, lost a chance to take control of the ACC against the scrappy Tigers. Shots that fell early for Florida State did not down the stretch in losing for just the second time in nine games this month.
Clemson: What to make of the Tigers? They've beaten the three ACC leaders, yet have losses to Virginia Tech, Miami and Wake Forest. Clemson has been a developmental program and is clearly playing better in January and February than it did in November and December.
Florida State's Hamilton said his team was not overlooking the Tigers after his team's impressive showing over Louisville a few days earlier. "We haven't earned the right to overlook anyone," he said.
Clemson forced six charges against Florida State, tied for fourth most in a game in program history. Brad Brownell said since the Tigers don't have tall players to protect the rim — their only regular over 6-foot-8 is 7-foot backup Trey Jemison — they must lock in on other ways to slow down opponents. "I'm not sure I've ever been in a game" where there have been that many, Florida State's Hamilton said.
Florida State plays its final regular-season road game at Notre Dame on Wednesday night.
Clemson plays for the final time on the road, going to Virginia Tech on Wednesday night.
More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/MarchMadness and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25


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Lighten Up Secrets Revealed!
When it comes to making food delicious and light, our Test Kitchens professionals have learned all the tricks. Here, they share some of their tried-and-true techniques for making dishes more nutritious without sacrificing an ounce flavor.
1. Study the recipe. Closely examine the original to see where changes can be made. "You can't just wing it, no matter how familiar you are with the recipe," says Test Kitchens Professional Kathryn Conrad. "Look at each ingredient to see where you can take away, add, or substitute."
2. Reference lightened versions of similar recipes before starting. Check out past issues of Cooking Light, cookbooks, or visit CookingLight.com.
3. Limit sodium. Try the recipe with half the recommended sodium.
4. Reduce portion sizes. When plating, start with a smaller amount and see if that satisfies you.
5. Give yourself some slack. "We try different versions of the same recipe three or four times," says Test Kitchens Professional Jan Moon. "Recipes are a science; you may need a few attempts to get it just right."
Read on for tips on toppings and baking...
6. Choose a flavorful cheese. "Use a variety with more flavor, such as Parmigiano-Reggiano," says Assistant Food Editor Kathy Kitchens Downie, R.D. "The stronger the flavor, the less you have to use."
7. Sprinkle cheese, chocolate, or nuts on top rather than mixing into batters. As toppings, they deliver concentrated flavor.
8. Reduce sugar-crumb toppings. Half the amount is often enough.
9. Substitute panko, extra crisp Japanese breadcrumbs, for ordinary bread or cracker crumbs. Doing so can reduce the crust's fat, calories, and sodium by half.
10. Think beyond fat-free. Sometimes no-fat foods don't satisfy. "To account for this, we often use a blend of reduced-fat and fat-free varieties," says Vanessa Johnson, Test Kitchens director.
11. Use egg substitute in recipes that call for more than one egg. A quarter cup equals one egg, cutting 5 grams of fat and 213 milligrams of cholesterol from your recipe.
12. Increase low-calorie ingredients. For example, add extra vegetables to casseroles and fruits to breads, muffins, or snack cakes. This will increase the yield of your recipe without adding fat.
13. Finely chop nuts, bacon, olives, and other high-fat or high-sodium ingredients. They will distribute more evenly, allowing you to use less without sacrificing taste.
Read on for tips on meats, veggies, and soups...
14. Opt for leaner meats, such as center-cut or loin meats and skinless, white-meat poultry. "For example, a slice of center-cut bacon has slightly less sodium and fat than regular cured bacon," Downie says. In some cases, pork can be a leaner option than chicken.
15. Add zing with citrus. A squeeze of fresh lemon juice can help brighten the flavors of veggies and meats without added sodium.
16. Use nonstick pans and cooking spray in place of oil or butter.
17. When you need oil, use canola, which has nearly half the saturated fat and more healthful, unsaturated fat than other oils.
18. Opt for low-sodium broths and no-salt-added tomatoes; always rinse canned beans in a strainer under cold water, which cuts sodium by up to 40 percent.
19. Puree vegetables to add body. For example, mash some of the beans in a chili or the potatoes in a chowder.
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Bricking my iPhone — I guess Apple was telling the truth. — I decided to try the 1.1.1 iPhone update on my unlocked and hacked phone. The process went along just fine until the iPhone restarted. Then I got a message on the screen that I had an incorrect SIM.
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Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: User says firmware upgrade DID INDEED brick his unlocked iPhone
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Steve Jobs Girds for the Long iPhone War — This afternoon, Apple did release the update. And the gadget blogs confirm that it does indeed wreak havoc on modified iPhones. Some phones have indeed been "bricked." In others, unofficial applications have been disabled.
Discussion: CNET News.com, Gizmodo and ExperienceCurve
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com: Apple patches 10 iPhone flaws
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
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Justin Mann / TechSpot News: iPhone update cripples many hacked phones
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: Apple: iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 Is Out, Now Testing
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: iPhone Update Renders Unlocked Devices Useless
Michael Calore / Compiler: Apple's Latest Firmware Update Breaks Hacked IPhones
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Apple updates iPhone. Legal, unhacked phones become bricks? — According to Saul Hansell at the NY Times, Apple intends to break phones that have been unlocked. — But Francine Hardaway and Patrick Scoble both updated this afternoon, and bad things happened.
Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Technovia
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Apple's IPhone Warranty Threats Legally Sound, Lawyers Say — Earlier this week, Apple warned users of SIM-unlocked iPhones that the company's imminent firmware update will likely cause "irreparable damage to the phone's software," thus excluding the phones from Apple's limited warranty.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Apple has a PR nightmare brewing...
Apple has a PR nightmare brewing...
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iPhoneSimFree-unlocked iPhones require AT&T SIM to reactivate
iPhoneSimFree-unlocked iPhones require AT&T SIM to reactivate
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
iPhone Firmware Update May or May Not Brick the Hell Out of Your iPhone
iPhone Firmware Update May or May Not Brick the Hell Out of Your iPhone
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News: Apple Adds iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store to iPhones Today
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Apple: iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 Out and Tested: Breaks 3rd-party Apps …
Apple: iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 Out and Tested: Breaks 3rd-party Apps …
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Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Apple iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 locks unlocked iPhones
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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
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Apple releases iPhone update 1.1.1
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Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge: What's Changed: iPhone 1.0.2 versus 1.1.1 [updated]
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day: Apple patches 10 iPhone security holes
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: New iPhone 1.1.1 Features, Which May or May Not Be Old News to iPod Touch Owners
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Apple releases iPhone firmware 1.1.1
Apple releases iPhone firmware 1.1.1
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iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 Out and Tested: Breaks 3rd-party Apps …
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Google Buys Mobile Apps' Zingku & Its Ripple9 Site
Google Buys Mobile Apps' Zingku & Its Ripple9 Site
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Disney Mobile, R.I.P.: 2006 - 2007
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|All ready to go!
Here's what I did without you today:
- I cried.
- I called my mother.
- I cried a little more.
- I cooked enchiladas for myself for breakfast.
- I prepped tonight's dinner and put it in the crock pot.
- I used the bathroom all by myself!
- I answered a couple of emails, and then
- I came to pick you up right on time. (OK, I might've even been just a tad early.)
Here's what (I gather) you did without me today:
|Your very first school lunch.
(You love your new lunch tin!)
- You met some new kids (though you're insisting that the only person there who is your friend is the teacher, Lori).
- You enjoyed playing dress-up, and insisted on wearing a fancy necklace and a pair of sunglasses for most of the morning.
- You played outside in the sandbox and got some sand on your mittens.
- You got too cold after a while because
your mother didn't dress you warmly enoughit was cold and rainy outside today (and you have approximately 0% body fat).
- You ate raisin pancakes and a banana for snack, then
- you hardly ate any of the lunch I packed for you.
- You used the bathroom all by yourself! (OK, you might've had a little help from Lori getting up on the big toilet.)
- You said, "Oh hey—it's Momma!" when you saw that I was there to pick you up.
|About to leave home (you were not nearly
this alert when I picked you up).
This day has been a long time coming... and it arrived in the blink of an eye. For the past few months, I could hardly wait for us to find a good fit in a preschool for you (you and I have both been ready for this for a while, in some ways). At the same time, this moment sneaked up on me and caught me off-guard, and I found myself missing you this morning more than I ever could've known I would.
I love you deep and wide, as far as you can see and beyond. I love you with my whole body, my whole self. I love you so much it hurts. I love you so much that I grin through my tears and I cry while I laugh; I simply can't hold it all in.
Happy Wednesday to you, Daniel. Happy first day of preschool.


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Hey guys!
Over the summer, I interned for Step Up Women's Network, and a few of the teens involved with the nonprofit asked me some great questions about college. I'm sure you Seventeen-ers are wondering a lot of the same things, so I thought I'd give you some answers in my next vlog—check it out!
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Death Records
St. Johns County Health Dpt Death Records 1890-1920
This information provided by the St. Augustine Genealogical Society for genealogical research purposes only.
Death records from the St. Johns County Health Department, St. Augustine, Florida for 1890-1891, 1992-1910, 1913-1914, and 1916-1920. This information was transcribed by a member of the St. Augustine Genealogical Society and posted to the Rootsweb site for the Society. The name of the person who transcribed the information, the date of transcription, and the location of the original source material is unknown.
The St. Johns County Public Health Unit has death certificates beginning in 1913. If a certificate exists prior to 1913, it may be available at the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Jacksonville, although some early certificates were destroyed by fire in the early 1900's.
Those marked with ** are from the listing of "Colored Deaths" in St. Johns County Public Health Unit.
Arvens, Katherine
Birth Date: Not Available
Age at Death: Not Available
Death Date: 10 July** 1919
Burial Place: Not Available
Name of Spouse @Parents: Not Available
Notes: Not Available
Source of Record: St. Johns County Health Dpt Death Records 1890-1920


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An EcoBoost engine is revolutionary way to add power and increase gas mileage at the same time, without having to endure the rigorous and expensive process of replacing your Focus ST engine entirely. The rare combination of horsepower and fuel economy, provides your Ford Focus ST engine with an added edge that will help set your stylish car apart from the pack!
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Cars and music go together like coffee and cigarettes, peanut butter and jelly and water and white t-shirts. But how many musicians used cars as promotion? Here's 80 album covers indicating it's a whole lot.
Like bacon with just about everything, music and cars are the perfect combination. As a kid we can remember riding our bike down the street to the local record store to pick up a copy of the Sammy Hagar, VOA cassette. We had a Sony tape cassette player hanging from the handlebars and blasted the volume on the ride back to the neighborhood, singing along to "I Can't Drive 55." We were cool like that. We didn't know much about them, but we loved cars, and loved listening to music about driving. Commander Cody's, "Hot Rod Lincoln" was one of our early favorites and when we got our first taste of road rage from The Offspring's, "Bad Habit" – it was all over.
Songs written about cars or driving are always fun, but we wondered how many albums actually featured cars on their covers. There were definitely some interesting autoerotic album art over the years like Neil Young, Trans and The Cars, Heartbeat City, but we wanted to find more. We took a look at iTunes, pulled some photos from our friends at VWVortex and pulled a list of some of the greatest autoerotic inspired album art for you to sift through. Enjoy!
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I grew up on the Olympic Peninsula. When I was small, we lived in a double wide mobile home. There was a period when we were regularly having earthquakes that we could feel (and occasionally see). I remember crying each time one hit – and my mother explaining how we can keep safe during them. After one notable one (I'd guess around a 5.0), my mother asked me why I was so afraid of earthquakes. "Because," I replied, "I know if the house breaks all of the spiders from the attic are going to fall on me." It was at that point that we realized that I was really afraid of spiders, and not earthquakes. At that point, I actually became very interested in earthquakes, tectonics, geology, etc. We live in an area rich for study of all those fields. Following area seismology became something of a hobby of mine – and still is to this day.
During my freshman year in high school (2000-2001), our pep band got to travel with our boys basketball team to the state tournament at the Tacoma Dome. After the tournament was over, we went over to the Safeway area on 6th Ave in Tacoma to get some food before making the long drive back to the north Olympic Peninsula. My friend Ryan (a girl) and I had gotten Jo-Jo's from the deli, while Michelle and Larissa got cookies and funfetti frosting. We regrouped at the drink aisle. As we stood there, debating what type of Sobe to get, the ground began to shake. Because we were on an aisle full of glass bottles, the sound was similar to that of the terrible neighbor that takes their glass recycling out at 1 am on a Tuesday.
Now, Ryan was not, is not, and never will be the brightest person out there. Immediately upon feeling the shaking ground she throws her hands up in an exasperated fashion and yells, "WILL SOMEBODY STOP SHAKING THE STORE!" At this point, Michelle starts screaming and pulls Larissa to the ground as they ducked and covered. At this point, I chime in to quell the teenage girl freakout and say, "Guys. We're having an earthquake. Chill." No sooner had the words escaped my lips than a Safeway employee comes bolting up from the back of the store screaming, "GET OUT OF THE STORE!! GET OUT OF THE STORE!!"
Michelle and Larissa ran out with the employee. Ryan and I looked at each other, not wanting to shoplift, put our items on the floor and casually walked out. In the parking lot we tried to jump the undulating asphalt – but the wavelength was too great. I remember looking behind me and seeing the school buses bounce off the ground – seeing a good deal of space between the ground and the tires. I remember wondering when it was going to stop – enjoying the sensation – being awestruck by the power.
The next earthquake I felt after that was while I was living in Port-au-Prince, Haiti – it was not the utterly devastating one in 2010 – but a smaller 5.? that struck around 2005. I remember the sound of a ravine side collapsing taking a number of shanty homes and people with it.
Earthquakes still fascinate me – but I am absolutely not in denial of their sheer power. I currently live very close to the Denny regrade, a few blocks above I-5. I question the solidity of the ground beneath me. I keep my three days' supply of water and first aid stuff easily accessible – but I wonder what good it will do me if my building collapses. While on one hand, I'd say I'm not exactly afraid of "the big one" – I should say in most arenas of life, I do not live in fear of it. However, I do have this twinge of fear that it's going to strike when I'm not wearing any pants. Again – much like the spiders – I think this says much more about my fear of being exposed than my fear of earthquakes.
That is the end of my story – but I will tack on two abridged stories that I've heard in "Remember the Nisqually quake?" conversations.
My friend Steve installs AVL systems. He was performing regular upkeep on the Key Arena jumbotron that day – and he recounted to me that this multi-ton jumbotron (that despite being hung on a pulley/chain system DOES NOT MOVE) was swaying about a foot in any direction.
I've also heard from a woman who was working in the upper portion of the Columbia Tower that, "We hardly felt it at all – but the building let out a deep groan."
That's all I have to say about that.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- After a natural disaster, short-term emotional stress and behavioral reactions are both common and normal, U.S. experts say.
Melissa Brymer, director of Terrorism and Disaster Programs at the UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, and Richard Heaps, a clinical psychologist and professor at Brigham Young University, said mourning loss is healthy and appropriate, CNN reports.
They suggest strategies for stress management following natural disasters include:
-- People experiencing strong emotional reactions might withdraw and pull inside themselves and this hampers managing and dealing with the stress of traumatic incidents. Do not withdraw from important relationships.
-- Keep in touch with people you are worried about, so you know what is happening instead of continuing to worry.
-- Don't rely too much on national TV or radio, find out what's happening in your own area.
-- Strive for a return to normalcy.
-- Think about what you're eating. Do your best to sleep enough.
-- Storytelling -- orally, in writing, or whatever other form it may take -- can be healing.
-- There is no one way of coping so honor different ways that people express themselves about the event.
-- Curb watching repeated TV images of the disaster.
-- Calm yourself during anxious moments via deep breathing, meditation, music, singing or praying.


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Burnley were denied the chance to move six points clear at the top of the Championship as Wolves equalised in stoppage time to draw 1-1.
Sam Vokes' second-half strike looked to have set the Clarets on their way to victory, but Danny Batth met Nathan Byrne's cross to net that vital leveller after 92 minutes.
Brighton moved back into second place as they were victorious at MK Dons.
Substitute Tomer Hemed scored a spot-kick soon after break, to send the Seagulls' 7,000 travelling fans into raptures. The Israeli soon doubled his tally before Antony Kay pulled one back for MK. Kyle McFadzean saw red for an alleged elbow on Hemed and Carl Baker missed a stoppage-time penalty, as Karl Robinson's side drop into the bottom three.
Bolton look certain for the drop as they began life without Neil Lennon with an emphatic 6-0 defeat at Bristol City.
Lee Johnson's Robins took a comfortable lead in at the break, thanks to Aaron Wilbraham and Lee Tomlin. Stoke City loanee Peter Odemwingie added a third on his first start for the club, then the foodgates opened as Scott Wagstaff, Jonathan Kodjia and Joe Bryan completed the scoring. The result leaves the Trotters 13 points from safety.
Neil Warnock's bid to steer Rotherham away from the Championship drop was once again boosted as the Millers were 1-0 winners on the road at Ipswich.
Leon Best's first-half strike moves them out of the bottom three and they are now unbeaten in five league matches.
Huddersfield came from behind to convincingly win the West Yorkshire derby at Leeds 4-1.
Nahki Wells missed a penalty for the Terriers before Stuart Dallas gave the home side the lead. Mark Hudson put Town back on level terms before Harry Bunn, Karim Matmour and Wells scored for David Wagner's men, as the Whites missed the chance to win four in a row.
Charlton failed to extend their unbeaten run to four matches as they were hammered 3-0 at Sheffield Wednesday.
All three goals came in the second half, thanks to game-changing substitutions from Carlos Carvalhal. Tom Lees, Fernando Forestieri were on the score sheet before El-Hadji Ba put into his own net.
Ten-man Blackburn snatched a late victory at Brentford. Grant Hanley was sent off before Shane Duffy scored four minutes from time.
Birmingham came from behind to draw 1-1 with Fulham, while Preston vs QPR and Reading vs Cardiff also ended in the same scoreline.
Results in full
Birmingham 1-1 Fulham
Brentford 0-1 Blackburn
Bristol City 6-0 Bolton
Burnley 1-1 Wolves
Ipswich 0-1 Rotherham
Leeds 1-4 Huddersfield
MK Dons 1-2 Brighton
Preston 1-1 QPR
Reading 1-1 Cardiff
Sheff Wed 3-0 Charlton
Earlier on Saturday, Derby beat Nottingham Forest in the East Midlands derby, where Harry Redknapp played a key part – taking the Rams' half-time team talk. Click here for the report.
While on Friday, Middlesbrough returned to winning ways under Aitor Karanka, beating automatic promotion rivals Hull City 1-0. Click here for more


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Project Details
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- Soft House
- Project Types
- Multifamily
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Year Completed
- 2014
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- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
By Katie Gerfen from ARCHITECT July 2014
It is rare that a theoretical research project gets a shot in the arm years later, but for Boston-based Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA), that is the story of the Soft House. The prototype—a single-family residence where hard surfaces were replaced with soft ones that not only harvested, but distributed solar energy and ambient light—won one of the first R+D Awards in 2007. Though that project never got built, the ideas remained. So when KVA was invited to take part in a competition for the Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Hamburg to design a multifamily residence that redefines sustainable living, the Soft House was reborn.
KVA—working with Buro Happold Engineering, Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering, and a local wood builder—designed a series of four attached row houses along a canal in the city's Wilhelmsburg quarter. Each unit is 2,411 square feet on three stories and incorporates three separate entrances so the bottom floor can be used as a stand-alone workspace or rental property.
The team wanted to use a wood structure because of the material's carbon-sequestering attributes, but instead of a conventional frame the team turned to brettstapel, a German technique. "It is a very smart way of joining wood," says Sheila Kennedy, AIA, a principal at KVA. Stacks of fir planks were connected by hardwood dowels that expand with humidity, creating a solid frame. The building was then clad in layers of mineral wool insulation, a water barrier, and a larch wood rainscreen. Photovoltaic ribbons form a canopy on the south side of the structure, moving and flexing with the sun to capture the most energy possible. The brettstapel timber structure is exposed on the interior floors, walls, and ceilings. "People who visited the house during the exhibition period commented on the smell of the wood," Kennedy says, calling the result "incredibly peaceful."
The living areas can be subdivided with a translucent curtain that runs along a curving track installed in the ceiling. The track is electrified by DC power, which offered a 15 percent energy savings overall because the power from the photovoltaic cells didn't have to be converted to AC. The curtain offers shade, but also ambient light, given off by LEDs sewn into the fabric. While the structure was designed to Passiv Haus standards as a part of the brief, it is also a very active house, Kennedy says, noting that the energy-harvesting systems integrated into the structure allow for large windows that are atypical in passive homes.
One unit is currently occupied, and two others are under contract. But Kennedy hopes that the complex will continue to push the envelope over time: "We realized that if we could use a simple architecture, then it would be the infrastructure that could be moveable, upgradable, and replaceable." The IBA will monitor the structure's performance and will share the data with the architects. And as for the ideas that spurred the project in the first place, the team is continuing their research, and is taking the lessons learned from the German model and applying them to a multifamily structure closer to home, in Boston.
Project Credits:
Project Soft House
Client Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Hamburg (City of Hamburg)
Design Firm Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Boston
Design Team Sheila Kennedy, AIA, and Frano Violich, FAIA (principals); Veit Kugel (senior associate); Kyle Altman, Jeremy Burke, Stephen Clipp, Iman Fayyad, Patricia Gruits, Katherine Heinrich, Heather Micka-Smith, Chris Popa, Shevy Rockcastle, Phillip Seaton, Alex Shelly, Nyima Smith, Sean Tang, Diana Tomova, Sasa Zivkovic
Project Developer IBA Hamburg (IBA); Patrizia Projektentwicklung (Soft House)
Site Supervision Architects 360grad+ architekten
Landscape Architects G2 Landschaft
Structural Engineer Knippers Helbig
Climate Planning Steinbeis Forschungsinstitut für Solare und Zukunftsfähige Thermische Energiesysteme
HVAC and Mechanical Engineer BuroHappold
Soft House Manufacturing Consortium Global Solar Energy; Svensson Global; Philips Color Kinetics headquarters; Philips Research Eindhoven; Automatic Devices Co.; L-Tronics; Holzbau Merkle; Textil Bau


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Birds of a Feather
Flocking together may help these birds boost their odds of survival in a perilous world.
A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant preschooler—absurdly long legs, knobby ankles (that look like knees), a snaky neck, and an outsize beak—and colored with the brightest crayon in the box. But the sum of its physical oddities enables the Caribbean flamingo to thrive in salt pans, mudflats, tidal lagoons, and mangrove swamps. With its hooked bill it scrapes up clumps of mud to make a nest. Stiff bristles inside its bill filter water containing small crustaceans, mollusks, insects and their larvae, as well as aquatic vegetation.
And the glorious feathers? They seem to exist purely for our delight, but in fact they are not pink at first. Chicks hatch with white feathers that turn gray—and later take their pink color from aqueous bacteria and beta-carotene obtained from their food.
Although flamingos have become a visual cliché immortalized in cheap plastic lawn ornaments, they remain strangely mysterious. "As recognizable as they are, we don't know much about them," says Chris Brown, curator of birds at the Dallas Zoo and Children's Aquarium, who studies the flamingos on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Scientists are uncertain about even simple behaviors, like the propensity to stand on one leg. (Some postulate that it has to do with the way the birds rest.) And because flamingos live in such remote areas and pick up and move as feeding grounds flood or dry out, researchers have a hard time counting and tracking them—or learning how they may be affected by drought, hurricanes, and fluctuating water levels due to climate change or coastal development.
What we do know is that flamingos in large flocks in the wild are gregarious and fiercely loyal. They perform group mating dances. Parents dote on chicks, gathering them into crèches for protection while both males and females fly off to search for food. And when danger looms, thousands move as one—a ballet that may increase the odds of survival in a perilous world.


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starts to draw to a close and I pack up my suitcases from a whirlwind Italian adventure, I'm left contemplating what I've learned the past few months. In the back of my head, I really envisioned meeting a perfect European prince or something equally as ridiculous, but I'm actually excited to get back to the States and just hang out with my friends—no boy in sight.
I think that there is always a certain expectation that girls our age either, one, have a boyfriend or, two, want a boyfriend. Maybe for the first time, that's simply not true for me. It's kind of weird. I've always been romantically linked to someone and when I broke up with my ex way back in January, I really wanted to be independent. I don't think that I completely succeeded at first, because I was always texting one guy or another, or I had a crush on someone in one of my classes. I was never completely on my own.
This summer, I traveled through Europe all by myself. Sometimes, I was with friends and sometimes I was with family, but the bulk of the time, I was just doing my own thing. One of the most memorable excursions involved six trains, two delays, and 13 total hours of travel from France to Italy. Once I was safe and sound, I complained a lot about this adventure. There was no air conditioning, my suitcase was way too heavy and it caused me lots of bruises, and I always had to drag everything to the restroom because I was scared of pickpockets. Not exactly the most glamorous day of my life…but in retrospect, I'm pretty proud of myself. I really learned how to be self-reliant and not depend on anyone. It's hard to not have anyone to fall back on when you're upset or you need help with something, but I stopped looking for an end of summer fling.
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This isn't to say that I didn't speak to a boy all summer. I dated at first, but then once it fizzled, I just didn't see a reason to seek out romance. We have the rest of our lives to meet the right guy, so why so much pressure when we're young? I do miss being in a relationship at times, but living in a different country for the summer made me realize that it's totally okay to just be single and own it.
Isabelle :)
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Are you wearing the wrong sports bra? Probably, based on new research published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
Kelly-Ann Bowles, a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong in New Wales, Australia, set out to size up sports bras and how aspects of design—straps, cushion and variation—can affect a woman's physical performance.
Bowles designed a sports bra strap off. She recruited 14 women to run on a treadmill in sports bras with varying straps: vertical, crossed-back, with and without bra strap cushions and no straps at all. (Can you imagine running in a strapless bra?) Women were either in a small breast (A cup) or large breast (B to C cup) group, and as they ran, Bowles measured for breast displacement, strap pressure, breast pain and comfort.
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The results: Women running in a cushioned, crossed-back bra experienced greater comfort and less pressure, or tightness, on their shoulders. Breast displacement was also significantly less compared with no straps.
While the study suggests crossed- or racer- back sports bra may provide better comfort and support—those pesky strap slips included—different exercises call for different bras, says Erica Giovinazzo, MS, RD, and a Cross-Fit coach at BRICK New York. "From what I've experienced, women feel most comfortable in racer backs since everything is out of the way," says Giovinazzo. "But that strap style might be too tight for someone else."
So which style bra is right for you? Keep these tips in mind the next time you're shopping:
Traditional isn't terrible "If you're lying on your back at anytime, like Pilates or general sit-ups, sports bras with a funky knot or braid in the straps won't be comfortable," says Giovinazzo. "Those are better to save for running or spinning." Instead, go for traditional, vertical straps.
Eye up impact Do you frequent low-intensity yoga classes, or high-intensity Cross-Fit classes? The intensity will make a difference, says Giovinazzo. "In Cross-Fit, you're moving in so many different directions at such a high intensity that you're going to want something that covers all grounds," she says. (What the heck is Cross-Fit? Find out, plus 8 reasons you should give it a try.)
Thicken your strap If racer back straps are too tight on you, look into a bra with thicker straps, especially if you have wide shoulders and/or a larger cup size. It's more comfortable and flattering, says Giovinazzo.
Give it a spin Giovinazzo likes to take her sports bra for a test drive. "I'll try one on and jump around, or bend over, in the fitting room," she says. "It gives me a better idea of the coverage and support it'll offer during my workout," she says.
But above all else, always spring for a sports bra that's comfortable. "You want to be comfortable in your sports bra, and general clothing, so that you don't have to think about it and can focus on the workout," says Giovinazzo. (For more inspiration, check out these sports bras that fit and flatter.)
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Fidelity Investments and BlackRock Inc. on Thursday gave the public a rare look-see at how their strategic ETF alliance has progressed in the last year, and the results show that Fidelity — a latecomer to exchange-traded funds — is starting to play catch-up in the ETF Wars while allowing iShares to remain the industry leader, thanks to the partnership.
Just over a year ago, the two investment giants dramatically expanded an existing program, allowing investors to trade in 65 of BlackRock's iShares exchange-traded products commission-free through Fidelity; over the past year, investors and advisers increased the amount they put into those 65 funds by 86%, according to a company statement.
In addition, the 10 Fidelity passive-sector ETFs run by BlackRock — which were a part of the expanded alliance — brought in more than $500 million in assets over the first five months of the deal.
BlackRock, which has held about 40% of ETF assets through the iShares franchise, has been battling to retain market share from The Vanguard Group, which has been grabbing share mostly by creating low-cost ETF versions of its traditional mutual funds. Thanks to a patent, Vanguard is the only company that can simply create an ETF as a share class of an existing fund.
Fidelity, meanwhile, mostly stayed out of the ETF business, and its deal with BlackRock was seen as a serious step to make an incursion to the market without having to start new issues from scratch.
Thursday's announcement shows that the strategy is working, to a point; the numbers are recent enough that some observers say the sample size is small.
Meanwhile, the latest expansion of the Fidelity-BlackRock alliance, announced Thursday, is a small one: the creation of the BlackRock Diversified Income Portfolio, a managed account product that will invest primarily in ETFs using a "tactical, go-anywhere approach." Managed accounts are owned by the individual shareholder and run by money managers, unlike mutual funds which are run by a pro for the benefit of many investors; the new product will be available to investors and advisers using Fidelity's managed-account service beginning May 1.
While the addition of one additional product would be considered a small one, officials from both sides insisted that the real story was less the growth of the alliance and more how well it has been working.
"The 65 iShares ETFs offered are a very broad swath of our portfolios; you can assemble a professional-grade portfolio using the existing iShares that you can trade commission-free," said Mark Wiedman, global head of iShares at BlackRock. "What we have heard from clients is that they need more information, more education on how to properly use ETFs, but the one thing we have not heard from clients is that they need more iShares here."
Wiedman noted that the new product targets "something that is right in the hottest veins of asset management," because managed solutions is "probably the fastest-growing part of the business, assembling portfolios of ETFs and delivering a simplified outcome."
The update on activity was greeted with mixed reaction by ETF observers. For example, the $500 million five-month flow into the Fidelity sector issues is significant, but with roughly $3 billion flowing into sector ETFs every month, it's a start rather than major inroads on State Street — which controls the SPDR franchise — and Vanguard.
"It's a step, and it's promising, but it's just a start," said Todd Rosenbluth, director of mutual fund and ETF research at S&P Capital IQ. "What's encouraging is that the spreads on the [65 commission-free] ETFs are so thin, because their trading volume is so much lower than the SPDRs.…Fidelity is doing something right in running these or BlackRock is really working to keep the liquidity relatively strong for these still-small ETFs, and that's a very promising sign for the future and for their ability to compete with the big guys if this program continues to attract more in assets."
In meeting the request from customers for education, Fidelity significantly expanded the resources in its online "ETF Research Center."
"Customer demand for ETFs continues to grow, and so does the demand for education in how to properly use and invest in ETFs," said Ram Subramanian, president of Fidelity Brokerage. "The number of customers coming to our ETF Research Center has increased 40 percent from last year, and we see that continuing to increase right along with investments in ETFs."
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Three main factors will influence the smartphone industry in 2013: relationships between platform leaders and hardware manufacturers, market demand and carrier support, and the decisions of a number of major players with regard to key transitions or major trends.
Google will continue to step up its control over the Android ecosystem and its partners; even the majority of tier-one hardware brands are now wary of crossing Google. But many telecom carriers are unenthusiastic about a market divided solely between Android and iOS, and have already decided to support Windows Phone as a third platform.
Amazon could move into the smartphone market in 2013, while the two former giants, Nokia and RIM, will have a "make or break" year of transition.
Nokia's smartphone sales have fallen far short of even its own forecasts in 2012, with sustained losses steadily eroding its once plentiful cash reserves. If the company fails to reverse this trend in 2013, there is a good chance that it will be broken up and sold off. If this were to happen, Microsoft could snap up Nokia's already Windows Phone-oriented smartphone division, giving it access to the Finnish firm's global service and carrier relationships, as well as its sales channels - a useful tool for Microsoft as it prepares to launch its own Windows Phone handsets.
If sales of new models featuring the BlackBerry 10 platform set for launch in early 2013 are less than ideal, RIM will also face the prospect of being sold, or perhaps transitioning away from hardware to become a software and service-focused firm. Such a move would potentially leave other players to fight over the business handset sector that RIM has long dominated.
While the European debt crisis seems to be abating, many Western European nations are experiencing a resulting drop in government expenditure and consumer spending, issues that are likely to persist into 2013. Telecom carriers in these regions are tightening their belts and reducing subsidies, which will impact on smartphone sales in general and high-end models in particular. However, smartphone penetration rates will continue to rise rapidly in emerging markets such as China, Russia, India, Indonesia and South America; it is these markets that will contribute the bulk of shipment growth in 2013.
Digitimes Research projects that global smartphone shipments will rise from 655 million in 2012 to 865 million in 2013, with a year-on-year growth rate lower than those in 2010 and 2011. But the proportion of overall handset shipments accounted for by smartphones will rise to 43.9%.
Table: Analysis of key factors in the 2013 smartphone industry
Chart 1: Not being selected as hardware partner by Google is tantamount to punishment
Microsoft and Amazon branded handsets unlikely to have major impact until 2014
Chart 2: Microsoft and Amazon will complicate the competitive picture in 2H13
Chart 3: Smartphones will continue to see strong growth in emerging markets in 2013
Chart 5: Apple smartphone shipments (2011-2013) and revenue growth, 4Q11-3Q12
Former industry leaders Nokia and RIM will struggle to rebound
Chart 8: Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei smartphone shipments, 2011-2013
Samsung and LG will together take more than a third of the market
Chart 10: Emerging markets will see growth above the industry average
Chart 11: Top 10 vendors' annual smartphone shipments, 2012-2013 (m handsets)
Chart 13: Year on year growth rate trends for smartphone shipments by platform, 2010-2013
Share for open platforms within major vendors' 2013 shipments
Chart 15: Samsung remains highly dependent on Android, while HTC will significantly increase the role of WP in 2013
Chart 16: Android will account for more than 95% of smartphone shipments for the big 3 China vendors in 2013
Chart 17: Android smartphone shipment share, by vendor, 2012-2013
Chart 18: WP smartphone shipment share, by vendor, 2012-2013


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The Hallmark Channel brings to mind holidays, happy endings and now, incongruously, a college admissions scam that involves one of the channel's favoured actresses.
Lori Loughlin's surprising arrest this week poses a challenge for the family-friendly brand with heartland roots.
The allegation that Loughlin paid bribes to gain her daughters' college admissions is unconnected to Hallmark, but her career and the channel have become intertwined. She's among its so-called "Christmas queens" who topline a slate of popular holiday movies, and stars in the ongoing "Garage Sale Mysteries" movies and the series "When Calls the Heart."
"It's a feel-good, family values-type channel, and obviously scandal is the opposite of that," said Atlanta-based market strategist Laura Ries. "Will people get past that to love the character on screen and not the real person?"
While Hallmark has taken a wait-and-see attitude on Loughlin, there's more at issue than whether her appeal survives. "When Calls the Heart" tapes in Canada, and a judge ordered Loughlin's passport to be surrendered in December after grudgingly allowing her to cross the border for work until then.
Loughlin has not yet entered a plea in the case, and her attorney declined comment Wednesday after her first appearance in a Los Angeles federal court.
The actress also reprised her role as Aunt Becky for Netflix's "Fuller House" reboot of the popular series that originated in 1987 on ABC. But the sitcom represents a fraction of the streamer's flood of programs, while Loughlin has occupied an increasing amount of Hallmark real estate since she starred in "Meet My Mom" in 2010.
Initially silent when the allegations were announced, Hallmark issued a statement Wednesday, the day Loughlin surrendered to authorities: "We are aware of the situation and are monitoring developments as they arise."
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Mary Frances Winston, the first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from a European university, was born in Forreston, Illinois, one of seven children of Thomas Winston, a country doctor, and his wife Caroline. After being taught at home by her mother, she left Illinois at the age of 15, along with her brother, to enroll at the University of Wisconsin. Winston graduated from Wisconsin in 1889 with a classical degree with honors in mathematics.
After a brief stint as an instructor in mathematics at Downer College in Fox Lake, Wisconsin, from 1889-1891, Winston received a fellowship in mathematics to study at Bryn Mawr College with Charlotte Scott. She stayed at Bryn Mawr for only one year, however, before returning to Illinois to study at the University of Chicago during 1892-1893. During the summer of 1893 Winston attended the International Mathematical Congress at the World's Columbian Exposition in Evanston, Illinois. There she met Felix Klein, the distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Göttingen. Klein suggested that she come to Göttingen to study mathematics. Fortunately, Winston also met Christine Ladd-Franklin at this same exposition. Ladd-Franklin spent much time, and some of her own money, helping women to pursue the graduate study of mathematics. In this case, she offered Mary Winston $500 for study abroad, an offer that allowed Winston to attend Göttingen. Winston later received a European Fellowship from the Association of Collegiate Alumnae to support her studies during her last year at Göttingen.
Winston arrived in Göttingen at the same time as the English mathematician Grace Chisholm (later Young) and Margaret Maltby, a physics major from Ohio. She stayed for three years, working in the area of differential equations. When not involved in her studies, Winston enjoyed taking long hikes in the nearby Harz mountains and the Thuringen Forest, often with Miss Chisholm. She completed her examination for the Ph.D. degree in July, 1896, with a thesis on "Über den Hermiteschen Fall der Laméschen Differentialgleichungen" (On the Hermite case of the Lamé differential equations). Her thesis advisor was Felix Klein. She had published an earlier paper in the Mathematische Annalen (Vol. 46, 1895) about the theory of hypergeometric functions. Winston had to return home to find a job, but the Ph.D. degree would not be granted until the thesis had been turned in. She hoped to have it printed in the United States and took the manuscript with her, but this country had no way of printing the mathematical symbols, so it had to go back to Göttingen. As a result Winston did not officially receive her diploma until 1897 when her dissertation was published in Germany.
Winston returned to the United States to teach high school in St. Joseph, Missouri. The next year she became the head (and only member) of the mathematics department at Kansas State Agriculture College in Manhattan, Kansas. This followed a political upheaval in Kansas that resulted in the entire faculty at Kansas State being replaced. Winston was the first woman with a doctorate appointed to the Kansas State faculty. She taught there until giving up the position in 1900 to marry Henry Byron Newson, professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas. They had three children between 1901 and 1909. During this time Mary also published a translation of the 1900 lecture by David Hilbert where he set out his famous list of twenty-three major mathematical problems for the 20th century.
Tragically, in 1910, Henry Newson died of a heart attack, leaving his wife with no job and three small children to raise. In 1913, Newson received an offer as an assistant professor of mathematics at Washburn College, a position she accepted despite having to temporarily live apart from her children. She left Washburn in 1921, in part because of one of the first cases of academic freedom investigated by the American Association of University Professors. She had been one of only eight faculty members to support a political science professor who had been dismissed for discussing his political views in the classroom. Newson moved back to Illinois to become professor of mathematics at Eureka College, a position she held until her retirement in 1942. She was the chair of the Division of Science and Mathematics from 1935 to 1939. Although she devoted her professional career to her teaching and her students, and thus did little mathematical research after her Ph.D., she still consulted occasionally with her son, Henry Winston Newson, on the mathematical aspects of his work in nuclear physics.
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Jurors at the coroner's inquest into the fatal shooting of Vancouver man Tony Du have made 29 recommendations for various policing bodies and health officials, following a multi-day review of what happened the evening of Nov. 22, 2014.
Du, who's family said he had a disability, was shot and killed by a Vancouver Police officer after a confrontation at the corner of 41st Avenue and Knight Street.
Witnesses said Du was seen waving a two-by-four, and described him to be in medical distress.
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While coroner's inquests do not result in charges, a thorough review of the actions made by those involved in Du's death has resulted in a number of recommendations or the Vancouver Police Department (VPD), the City of Vancouver and the B.C. Lottery Corporation.
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The jury recommended all policing agencies, including the RCMP have an "early warning system," similar to that of the VPD which incorporates police and health data for those with severe mental illness or substance use, who are known to police.
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In response to the inquest, Du's family and friends will be hosting a vigil at the corner where he was killed from 3 to 5 p.m., to "memorialize Tony as the compassionate and caring person his family and friends knew him to be," the family said in a statement.
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A source writes in: ink on the long-rumored deal selling IAC property Very Short List to Jared Kushner and The New York Observer's dry. VSLers have been fired, and the property's clumsily fallen into the Observer's hands, now. Update: confirmed.
The deal slinging Barry Diller's attempt at reaching for some of that Daily Candy scrilla, Very Short List, was officially finished around Thursday night, we hear. Brief history: Diller, pissed on missing out on some of that email-blast money that he thought would be a shoo-in for solid ad sales with Daily Candy, decided to form a literal, cultured, once-a-day mailer for high-minded consumers to read. Diller, ever fond of his media buddies, got Spy-founder Kurt Andersen to jump on board. And it was highly enjoyable!
But then they didn't make any money off of it, and had to find an easy mark to unload it on. Enter New York Observer boy wonder Jared Kushner, stage left. Cut to: Thursday night. Six full-time VSL employees are given notice to pack their boxes, and get their shit out, as Friday would be their last day. After a messy, messy ordeal. A (now former) IAC employee writes in:
Timeline: We get a bunch of emails Thursday morning. At 10AM, the GM said he might have news (at 6PM, that news would finally be delivered). Someone else said that the deal had already gone through, and that it was finally over. And yet someone else said that we still had assignments for the next week, so it would stretch for another week. And then we heard that the person who was supposed to take over at the NYO had been fired the week before in their bloodbath. So nobody knew anything. Thursday night, the news came through. Our last day was Friday, after SIX WEEKS of being told we were going to be laid off. The worst part: some of us were on the phone with the NYO's people on Friday, trying to teach them how to do our jobs.
Very Short List recently won a Webby Award! :)
But now Observer staffers - who're probably a little overworked since a grip of their most able colleagues were fired - are going to be running Very Short List. :( So who knows what's actually going to happen to the mailer, or what the Observer plans on turning it into.
Most people familiar with the deal are pretty shocked by it, and by how easily Kushner was rolled on this one. The fact that the young mogul thinks he can make money off of VSL where Diller - with all of his resources - didn't is pretty incredible, and rather audacious. Lesser so is the fact that Kushner just fired a stable of some of the most able writers in New York, possibly capable of turning the Observer's web presence into a viable product. Right before acquiring VSL, something - again - actually proven not to make money.
Among other problems IAC had with Very Short List: the only people who have time to look at some bullshit emailer telling them what to read are broke writers like me, who don't have the money to spend on advertisers' products. Besides which, I already know what book I'm buying next week, because I have the time to figure it out. The high-minded, high-income consumers VSL originally set out to target are actually out there earning money, and are too busy to look at an email telling them how to spend it (besides which, they can typically suss that kind of thing out for themselves). So instead VSL had to depend on a niche audience, and at last count, that was only 200,000.
No telling how many people are going to hit that "unsubscribe" link over the next few mornings as VSL does (or doesn't) begin to hit their in boxes, quality control of the thing in check, or otherwise. For that matter, The Observer's daily mailer, too.
Update: Just found out that Sara Vilkomerson, a onetime VSL editor, will be working on the product at the Observer, where she already is. She'll be working on it there on top of her current responsibilities for no additional pay. And an email, sent to 30 or so VSL staffers, stringers, etc. that went out today:
Dear Team VSL:
Needless to say, this has been an intensely bittersweet week. Last Monday we picked up our Webby, which was the sweetest part, and testament to how inspired your work has been. Tomorrow, The New York Observer is taking over majority control and day-to-day management of VSL from IAC. Unfortunately, as part of the transition, they will not be taking any of VSL's existing staff. But as this extraordinary team disperses, we wanted to tell you how incredibly grateful we are for everyone's great work and dedication to this project. We are very proud of it, and aware of just how hard everyone has worked.
We're also pleased that Very Short List will endure — and sincerely hopeful that it can maintain the remarkable standard of excellence established by all of you, so that our 200,000 subscribers will continue being uniquely surprised and enlightened and entertained every weekday.
Thank you. And let's raise a glass together soon — date and place TBD.
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It is a versatile, paint dries quickly without changing the shape and intensity, texture is maintained and required viscosity and at the same time makes it possible to cover almost transparent layers as with watercolor. The most interesting thing in painting is colors: their intensity and their gentleness, serenity and storm to convey mood, as well as light and darkness - in the colors lie all possible expression means of the world.
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