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Although there's no password to get in, Brazenhead Books is the speakeasy of bookstores. The shop, hidden in an undisclosed apartment on New York's Upper East Side, is stacked floor to ceiling with volumes by some of the book world's best known—Arthur Miller and Anton Chekhov, Dorothy Parker and Jack London, Pierre Louys and Anthony Trollope (as well as a bottle or two of Woodford Reserve). But, because the shop is in a residence, it's not legal and is, therefore, on the down low.
In the 1970s, proprietor Michael Seidenberg ran a law-abiding used bookstore, but when rent quadrupled, writes The Paris Review, the already-struggling shop closed. Seidenberg says, "When people say 'Did Barnes and Noble put you out?'" he replies, "No, no—real estate put me out." The substantial inventory moved to his nearby apartment and Brazenhead Books soon opened its doors—to anyone who could find it.
When asked how clandestine the bookstore really is, Seidenberg quips, "Here's the funny thing . . . my name is known, and my name is in the phone book, and anyone can call me, but of course in this age of super intelligence, no one has a phone book. I always thought that was pretty shocking—that I was hiding in plain sight."
Don't miss this charming three-minute mini-documentary on Etsy, in which filmmaker Andrew David Watson takes us into the secret sphere of Brazenhead. If you're a devotee of a good book and a good pipe, you may never want to leave:
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Issue No.05 - September/October (2004 vol.6)
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Wilfried N. Gansterer , University of Vienna
Yihua Bai , University of Tennessee
Robert M. Day , University of Tennessee
Robert C. Ward , University of Tennessee
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2004.25
Our framework, Computing Approximate Eigensystems (CApE), efficiently approximates symmetric linear eigenvalue problems occurring in the self-consistent field method used during electronic structure computations. CApE has several algorithmic tools that both detect matrix structure in application problems and compute solutions to prescribed accuracy.
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women Chapter 1 Summary
READ THE BOOK: Chapter 1
Playing Pilgrims
- The four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, are sitting around the fire at home on Christmas eve. They're complaining about the fact that this year, the family is too poor for them to get presents.
- Beth reminds the girls that they may not have presents, but they have each other and their parents. The other girls object that they don't have their father right now – he's away fighting. Since this novel is from 1868, we realize that Mr. March must be a soldier in the Civil War (on the Union side).
- Meg reminds the girls why their mother asked them to give up presents this year – it's going to be a tough winter for everybody, and in wartime people need to make sacrifices at home to support the troops.
- Jo suggests that each of the girls should spend her dollar (apparently this is their allowance) on something for herself. She wants a copy of a new romance novel called Undine and Sintram. Amy wants a box of drawing pencils.
- Meg and Jo talk about how hard they work to earn money for the family. Meg is the governess and tutor for some obnoxious rich children, and Jo is the companion of a fussy old lady.
- Beth reminds her sisters that she also works hard doing housework. Amy complains about going to school and being teased by the other girls.
- Amy confuses the words "label" and "libel" and Jo teases her about her vocabulary.
- Meg wishes that the family was still rich and reminisces about he fortune that her father lost when they were children. Beth reminds her that, even without money, they are happier than the rich people they know.
- Amy and Jo bicker; Amy complains about Jo's crass mannerisms and Jo complains that Amy is stuck-up. Meg intervenes and says they're both at fault, but especially reprimands Jo for being too boyish.
- Jo wishes that she were a boy so that she could go and fight in the war with her father; she hates the idea of growing up and being ladylike, and it frustrates her that she has to stay home knitting during the war. Beth soothes Jo.
- Meg lectures Amy about being too conceited.
- Beth asks Meg for some constructive criticism, but Meg has nothing critical to say about Beth.
- The narrator breaks in and describes the scene and the appearance of the girls. All four of them are knitting together in the twilight in a room that is comfortable, but plain and shabby. It's decorated with books and flowers.
- Meg, the oldest, is sixteen and very pretty, with soft white hands. Jo is fifteen, long-limbed and clumsy, but with beautiful long, thick, brown hair. Beth is thirteen, very shy, and calm. Amy, the youngest, is a pretty blonde girl with good manners.
- The clock strikes six. The girls start preparing for their mother to arrive home; Beth gets her slippers, Meg lights the lamp, and so on.
- As the girls think about their mother, whom they call Marmee, they decide to spend their money on gifts for her instead of for themselves. Meg decides to get her a pair of gloves, Jo a good pair of shoes, Beth some handkerchiefs, and Amy a bottle of cologne. They plan to go shopping early the next day.
- Jo reminds the girls that they are putting on an amateur play tomorrow night as part of their Christmas celebration. She makes Amy practice a scene in which she has to faint, criticizing Amy for being too stiff and unnatural.
- Amy doesn't make much progress learning to faint more naturally. Meg and Jo run through their lines. We learn that Jo herself wrote the play, which is called The Witch's Curse and seems to be extremely melodramatic.
- The girls' mother arrives home, greeting them all and asking each of them about their days. She settles herself in the easy chair and the girls arrange things around her for supper.
- As they begin their meal, Mrs. March tells the girls that she received a letter from their father recently and that she'll read it to them after dinner.
- Meg praises her father for joining the army as a chaplain, even though he wouldn't have been drafted and isn't very strong physically.
- After dinner, the girls gather around their mother in the easy chair and she reads the letter to them. At the end of the letter, he wishes the girls his love, asking his "little women" to work hard to do their duty and conquer their faults.
- The girls cry a little and resolve to be better people and uphold their father's high principles. Amy says she'll try to be less selfish; Meg says she will try to be less vain and work harder; Jo resolves to do her duty at home instead of wishing she was a man and a soldier. Beth just cries.
- Mrs. March reminds the girls that when they were little they made a game out of The Pilgrim's Progress, an allegory written by seventeenth-century preacher John Bunyan. In the story, a man named Christian goes on a pilgrimage through many hardships until he reaches the Celestial City.
- The girls reminisce about their Pilgrim's Progress game. They used to tie bundles on their backs to symbolize their burdens and sins, and they turned the house into an adventure landscape. The Celestial City was on the roof, where they had brought flowers and pretty things.
- In the course of the conversation, we learn that Amy is twelve.
- Mrs. March suggests that the girls play Pilgrim's Progress again, only in a more grown-up way. Their burdens are their character flaws, their road is the life ahead of them that they need to live, and the Celestial City is, well, Heaven. Basically, they're reversing the allegory – going back to the part about living a good Christian life in order to gain salvation, instead of focusing on the fantasy story about fighting monsters and going on an adventure.
- Everyone has already described their "burdens" except Beth; she says that hers is "dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people" (1.88).
- Jo suggests that the girls have already gone through one adventure this evening: their mother pulled them out of their melancholy, just the way that the Help pulls Christian out of the Slough of Despond (just like a Swamp of Despair) in Pilgrim's Progress.
- Jo recalls that, in Pilgrim's Progress, the main character has a scroll of directions. Mrs. March says that, if the girls look under their pillows on Christmas morning, they will find "guidebooks" for their "adventure." (You can probably guess what book a Christian might consider a "guidebook for life." If you can't guess, you'll find out in Chapter 2.)
- The girls discuss their plan while their servant, Hannah, clears the table. After dinner, the girls work on sewing some sheets for their Aunt March.
- The sisters sew until 9:00. Before they go to bed, they gather around the piano, and Beth accompanies them while they sing. This is an old family custom, since they have lovely voices and their mother is a "born singer" (1.94).
READ THE BOOK: Chapter 1


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Revolution-Era Joiner's Shop Found in MAcomments (4) November 30th, 2012 in blogs
While working on a project at a private school for children in Duxbury, MA, restoration carpenter Michael Burrey stumbled onto a joiner's shop -- previously overlooked, in a small building being used for storage -- dating back to the late 18th century. It's probably the oldest extant American woodworking shop. The owner has been identified as Luther Sampson, a skilled local woodworker whose work can still be found in period houses around town.
Amazingly, the shop still contains a treadle lathe, racks for chisels and awls, shelves for planes and handsaws, and the original benches. The tools are long gone, of course, but what's so remarkable is what it suggests about the way period joiners worked.
J. Ritchie Garrison, a history professor at the University of Delaware who specializes in American material culture, visited the shop recently as part of a survey team that includes architectural historian Jeff Klee of Colonial Williamsburg and joiner Peter Follansbee of Plimouth Plantation, among others. On Tuesday, I spoke to Garrison about the significance of the find.
"It's extraordinarily rare," he said. I never thought I'd see anything like it -- It's the closest thing to the Dominy shop." The Dominy shop (the contents of which now reside at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware), contains around a thousand tools from a family of early American carpenters, cabinet makers, wheelwrights, turners, and toolmakers. Their tools survived, but the shop didn't -- which is why the Duxbury shop is so important.
(Here's a clip from The Woodwright's Shop, wherein Roy and his moustache visit the Dominy exhibit at Winterthur.)
According to Garrison, the Sampson shop contains the earliest example he's seen of a central assembly table. It also contains a fireplace, which is an indication of the quality of Sampson's craftsmanship. Since traditional joinery doesn't require heat, Garrison explained, the presence of the fireplace (located far from the planing bench, where shavings might be ignited by a wayward spark) suggests that Sampson was using hide glues and finishes. And that suggests that he was doing high-end cabinetry and joinery, in addition to the interior woodwork he was doing for area homes. The shop continued to be used by craftsmen after Sampson; there's evidence that it was used by chairmakers in the 1800s.
In one of the photos above, you can see a date -- "1789" --- painted in black on one of the joists. Whether that's the date the shop was built or not is unknown, but the evidence suggests it is at least that old. A dendrochronologist on the survey team took a core sample from one of the benches, and preliminary findings suggest that it was built with second-growth timber, Garrison says. If so, it provides some insight into both the age of the shop and how much timber had been used in the area since it was colonized in the early 1600s.
The results of the inital survey will take months. "it's still a puzzle," Garrison said. In the meantime, Garrison and others are working to raise the necessary funds for the shop's preservation through public and private channels.
For more neat details, check out this article by Robert Knox in the Boston Globe.
Joiner Peter Follansbee has more photos on his blog, Joiner's Notes. If early American woodworking is your bag, Joiner's Notes is definitely worth checking out.
Architectural historian Jeff Klee has more photos, with much higher resolution, on his flickr page.
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Posted: 10:21 am on February 16th
There are several English 18th century paintings of the interior of cabinet shops so this is a welcomed edition. I say "cabinet" shop and not "joiner's" shop because cabinet makers and joiners are distinguished by one using glue, the cabinet maker, and the other, the joiner, not. So perhaps in the normal "American" tradition the craftsman in this shop was multi-flavored...god bless. As to this artifact being a "revolutionary era" shop...one trusts not only a political revolution, but also a stepping stone into the industrial revolution looming large in the market place.
Now comes the demanding task of cleaning the place of detritus while at the same time not destroying its significance as as artifact...keeping in mind its restoration is about it, and not about the aesthetics of the restorers.
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Romney on 'Same Page' With Ryan Budget Plan
MIAMI–Mitt Romney further intertwined himself with Paul Ryan's controversial budget plan Monday when he declined to cite any differences between his vision for government spending and Mr. Ryan's.
"I'm sure there are places that my budget is different than his, but we're on the same page," Mr. Romney told reporters on an airport tarmac here Monday evening.
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Pressed further to cite a couple areas where their plans would diverge, Mr. Romney said differences may exist, but he passed on naming any. "There may be, we'll take a look at the differences," Mr. Romney said.
Mr. Romney's budget plan still lacks crucial detail about how he would cut tax rates but ensure the change is revenue neutral or where he would find the appropriate cuts to meet his plans to sharply cut spending and balance the budget in eight years. His defense spending plans, which could add another $2 trillion to the budget over the next decade, further complicate his math.
The Romney campaign sees little upside in offering additional details on tax deductions they would eliminate or specific programs they would cut, which are sure to be volatile issues in a tight race. But by shying away from comparisons, Mr. Romney opens himself up to a de-facto adoption of the Ryan plan, at least on the stump.
Mr. Ryan's plan, by comparison, offers more detail on how much revenue his plan would generate. While the budget committee chairman is still vague about some of the cuts he would make, his plan also sets a target spending level for discretionary programs.
But Mr. Ryan's plan also includes reductions in Medicare spending — the same types of reductions that Mr. Romney spent the day hammering the president for.
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A credit card is causing a big controversy with Lauderdale County's board of supervisors.
"Would you answer this Mr. County Administrator, are there any charges on that credit card that are personal charges, not county related?" asked District 5 supervisor Ray Boswell.
District 4 supervisor Joe Norwood's immediate response to the question was, ''I can tell you that. No!'
That's the exchange which ultimately led to a motion by Boswell to discontinue personal county credit cards for supervisors. Boswell accused Norwood of misusing his county-issued card.
"Have you got a credit where gas was purchased by the District 4 supervisor in north Alabama?" asked Boswell.
"Not in north Alabama but in Alabama,' said Lauderdale County administrator Mike Sumrall.
"I was on program at the World Conference of Mayors. If any of you all want to see that, I bought a tank of gas in Short, Ala., in my Crown Victoria and here are my records," said Norwood.
Norwood said he always repays the county for expenses that are not covered.
According to Sumrall there are currently more than $300 worth of charges on Norwood's credit card that are not covered by the county. Norwood said at least a portion of that was spent on a hotel room during an event for supervisors in north Mississippi. He says prior to this meeting, he was not aware that the county would not cover that cost. Norwood went on to call Boswell's concerns 'bogus.'
"The reason I use the credit card is because it's public record and it's no secret what I'm spending the money on. Unlike other members of this board, they travel in state or wherever they travel and they get per diem so it bypasses the minutes, so you don't know they're spending money," said Norwood.
"Y'all printed up every supervisor a credit card and I never accepted a card," said Boswell.
"No, because you get Mr. Sumrall to do all your per diems and they're not showing. Don't fool the people up in here, "said Norwood.
Until this meeting, Norwood was the only supervisor to still have a personalized county credit card. Previously, the other supervisors turned in their cards. After much discussion the board voted three to one to stop issuing personalized county credit cards for supervisors.


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KABUL: Afghan election candidate Ashraf Ghani vowed yesterday to overturn first-round results and seize the presidency as he launched his comeback campaign ahead of a run-off vote next month.
Ghani, a former World Bank economist, faces an uphill task to win the head-to-head vote after finishing second -- 13 percentage points behind opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah -- in the eight-man election held on April 5.
The two candidates will compete in the run-off on June 14 to determine who leads Afghanistan into a new era without the assistance of Nato combat troops to help fight the Taliban insurgency.
"There are some rumours that people will not go to polls in their masses -- let's prove them wrong and go in our millions," Ghani told a large gathering of supporters in Kabul.
"We will be victorious in the second round... Are you ready for victory?"
Ghani, who appears to relish his underdog role, pledged to not sign any power-sharing deal before polling day.
He flopped in the 2009 election, when Abdullah came second to President Hamid Karzai, but has campaigned energetically this year, holding well-attended rallies across the country.
Abdullah, seen as the election front-runner, also opened his run-off campaign yesterday after complaining bitterly about fraud that he believes denied him the 50-percent vote needed to secure first-round victory.
"We want a better election, we want an election in which the people feel that their clean vote will decide the result," the former foreign minister told reporters at a hotel in the Afghan capital.
Election campaigning started in early February, and the run-off final result is due on July 22.
Countries that have fought the Taliban since 2001 and donated billions of dollars in aid see a smooth handover of power as a key benchmark of the costly and often troubled efforts to develop Afghanistan.
The first-round election was relatively peaceful, but the run-off could prove a major test for Afghan police and army who have taken over security responsibilities from US-led Nato troops.


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A friend and me had a set of walkie-talkies. We had to call the other on the phone to turn it on so we could use them.
My walkie-talkies went about half a block, back in the sixties….Seemed like magic…I bet CB radios are used less now too..Copy that, good Buddy? Rubber Ducky, down to the side..
..I lived without cell phones for 40 of my 60 years….And I still can't remember what we did without them… Did we really spend all that time in phone booths? How did we find people in a crowd? Even with a cell phone it took 3 calls to find my friend Barbara at a concert..And it turns out we were only a hundred ft from each other..
When I don't have my phone, I can't call anybody, because I don't carry a list of phone numbers in my wallet any more…Which I should probably rethink….. 'case I have to break old school….
I hope you realize how pathetic that sounds…
back in the day, before cell phones, my husband and I worked an hour and a half from home and I was not familiar with the highway at first so we would use walkie talkies to communicate as I followed him to my work. They worked pretty good.
When they introduced pagers to Iceland, the language academy that decides on the words allowed to enter the language created a compound word translating as "timethief". The comments here make me wonder if a good term for cell phone would be "mindthief".
If you have no cell phone, arrange to meet someone in a crowd at 30 minute intervals – if you don't know when they'll arrive. Try an agreed rendezvous point at 6PM, then 6:30, then again at 7:00 or even 7:30. Eventually you'll find them.
I don't have a cell phone. I don't need a cell phone. What do you think of that?
I think they fake some of the conversations.
A little over a year ago we were facing budget crunch and decided that one of the cell phones had to go
Easy decision which one, my wife has far more need for a phone than I do
Since then I've had maybe half a dozen situations where I might have wished I had one on me and none of them emergencies
I do keep the old phone charged and carry it with me, it has all my numbers and if there is an emergency even an inactive phone will call 911
I think that's fine! I have one that I keep in my purse, but only for emergencies-I've used it maybe three times in the past five or 6 years. I don't even know what the number for it is. I don't need or want anyone to be able to contact me 24/7!
jeanie5448: You couldn't carpool?
I bought a prepaid for emergencies, and never need it. YET
I, too, had to call a friend of mine at a concert so we could find each other. Unfortunately, since he is Canadian and was here in the States to attend the concert (his parents are personal friends with the members of Deep Purple), he was hit with international roaming charges and I was hit with an international call on my cell phone, even though we were separated by perhaps a hundred feet.
OR, ask them when they expect to be there, then get there at the appointed time and meet them. Most people know if it will be 6 or 7:30. Done this all my life and I always found everyone.
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According to the 2011 Paleo Community Survey (by Naturally Engineered), in which 6,104 people participated in, the paleo diet was most popular among 21-30 years (37%) with 31-40 year olds in a close second at 33%. The majority of the respondents had no children and had at least a bachelor (43%) to graduate or professional degree (29%). It also showed that in the number of people who learned about the paleo diet increased significantly from 2009 to 2010 (obviously showing a growing trend).
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An arrest has been made in the double murder case in Abbeville. Officials say 24-year-old Mike Guidry and his brother 25 year old Gary Guidry were found dead by a roommate Tuesday morning. No other details about the suspect or exactly what happened are being released at this time. It's being reported the brothers had just moved into the home they shared with four other people.
It has been a long time coming, over 15 years, but today the doors officially open to the new Jena Choctaw Pines Casino. The casino on highway 167 in Grant Parish will be the third Native American-Owned casino in the state and will offer more than 700 gaming devices, a poker room, buffet and sports bar.
Members of the Pineville city council were told last night, that it may be time to consider the sale of alcohol within the city limits. City auditor Mark McKay gave the city a clean audit report, but he noted that the numbers clearly indicate Pineville is moving into the red more each year with its budget. McKay's report covered the year ending June 30, 2012. He found no compliance or internal control problems in the audit. What he did find, however, was losses. According to McKay, the city's sanitation fund has lost over $100,000 a year for the past 5 years. The airport lost $95,000. McKay said the city's sales tax base is stagnate and until the city has alcohol sales there will be no national restaurant chains, other than fast food companies. McKay went on to tell the council, he was not sure the city is ever going to be able to grow the downtown or the riverfront without alcohol sales."
A Haughton lawmaker has pre-filed a bill that would require court clerks to report information about mentally ill citizens to state police and the FBI -- so they are not able to purchase a gun. Representative Henry Burns says state and local officials would have 30 days to report when a Louisiana resident has been deemed mentally ill.
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A new report just released by the federal government show Louisiana has the second-lowest public high school graduation rate in the nation for special education students. The 29% rate in Louisiana is only lower than Mississippi and Nevada, which both have a rate of 23%. South Dakota is tops in the nation at 84 percent. The national average is 58 percent.
Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's officials say a Dallas man is under arrest for filing a fake complaint with authorities in November alleging he was robbed of several thousand dollar's worth of valuable coins and currency. During the course of the investigation deputies discovered that the alleged victim, 64-year-old Burton Paul Dupuy, had staged the home invasion which, was actually at his parents' house, where he knew there was about $350,000 worth in a safe. Apparently Dupuy admitted to authorities he has a gambling problem.
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The practice of posing with babies goes back to at least Andrew Jackson, as Mother Jones reported in January. In 1833, the seventh president was approached by a poor woman with a child and is reported to have said, "Ah! There is a fine specimen of American childhood." Jackson then instructed John Eaton, secretary of War, to kiss the babe (Eaton, respecting the chain of command, "pretended to do so with a wry face"). Other presidents, such as Grover Cleveland, largely refused to hold or kiss babies.
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** FILE ** This undated photo released by the U.S. Marines, shows Sgt. Rafael Peralta, 25. Peralta was being considered for a posthumous Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military award. Peralta was shot during a house-to-house search in Fallujah. Lying wounded on the floor of a home, he grabbed a grenade that had been lobbed in by an insurgent. The blast killed him. "If he wouldn't have scooped up the grenade, the other three of us in the room that day would have been killed," said former Cpl. Robert Reynolds, who was in Peralta's squad. Reynolds said Peralta sacrificed himself because "he wanted to make sure we all went home." A committee reviewing the nomination could not agree on the award, citing questions over whether friendly fire from a comrade might have contributed to her son's death, Rosa Peralta, told the North County Times for its Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 edition. (AP Photo/U.S. Marines)
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has announced he will not reopen the Medal of Honor nomination for U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Rafael Peralta. The Marine died in Iraq in 2004, but the effort to award him the nation's highest military honor is drawing conflicting accounts.
In 2004, Peralta's squad was clearing a house during the battle of Fallujah. When insurgents opened fire, the 25-year-old was standing next to Sgt. Nick Jones, who spoke with CBS News in 2010.
"They were just spraying and praying. Trying to hit anything that came through the door. Just happened to be us standing there," Jones said.
Peralta went down. It turns out he was hit by friendly fire and knocked to the ground. Then an insurgent tossed a grenade into the room.
"Before it even came to a stop, I saw his arm out and he grabbed it and scooped it underneath his body," Jones said.
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The 2015 season saw Florida State reach the College Cup for the fifth consecutive season, setting two NCAA Tournament records in the process. Building off of the success in 2014, the Seminoles own NCAA marks of 10 consecutive shutouts and a consecutive scoreless streak of 931:47 during postseason play. Overall, the Noles finished with an 18-3-4 record and a No. 3 ranking by the NSCAA. Freshman Megan Connolly led the Noles with 28 points on nine goals and 10 assists and was named the ACC Freshman and Midfielder of the Year. Connolly became the first FSU freshman to be named a First Team All-American by the NSCAA and she was also a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy.
In 2014, the Seminoles earned their first national championship in an impressive season that saw Florida State control its opponents all season long. FSU posted 19 shutouts over 26 games, allowing only nine goals on the season. Florida State closed out the season with seven shutouts and became just the second team in history to win a national championship without allowing a goal in all six games of the NCAA Tournament (North Carolina, 2003).
The 2013 season marked the 13th straight year Krikorian led a team to the NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament and the 9th time he guided a Division I squad into the quarterfinals. He took Hartford to the NCAA Tournament from 1997-2000 including trips to the quarterfinals and two appearances in the round of 16. He has guided FSU to a berth in the quarterfinals in all 10 seasons, good for the longest active streak in the nation. Krikorian has a lifetime winning percentage of .771 (45-13-1) in the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, while he has captured two Division II National Championships with Franklin Pierce. Krikorian's national championship in 2014 makes him the second head coach to win a title at two different NCAA divisions and the only one to do it at two different schools.
Since Krikorian's arrival in 2005, Florida State has produced 26 All-ACC first team selections, 25 NSCAA All-Americans, 14 Soccer America Freshman All-Americans, 13 players that have earned NSCAA Scholar All-America honors or Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-America accolades, 13 MAC Hermann Trophy Semifinalists and five Honda Award finalists.
During Florida State's run to the national championship game in 2007, three athletes were honored at the national level for their outstanding season. Mami Yamaguchi became the most decorated soccer player to come out of Tallahassee claiming the MAC Hermann Trophy, presented to the top female player in NCAA Division I soccer. After rewriting the Seminole single-season record books and finishing the season as the national leader in points (66), Yamaguchi added NSCAA Player of the Year and ACC Offensive Player of the Year to her list of accolades while becoming FSU's first consensus first team All-American. Amanda DaCosta and Sanna Talonen were named National Freshman of the Year by Soccer Buzz and Soccer America, respectively, the first recipients of such an award in the history of the program.
Four student-athletes received All-America accolades from the NSCAA in 2008 for the first time in school history. Tiffany McCarty became the first Seminole to earn ACC Freshman of the Year honors, while a school record seven student-athletes earned All-ACC recognition including three first team All-ACC honorees which tied a school mark.
In 2011, the Seminoles completed a series of firsts en route to their first ACC Championship in school history. As the sixth-seed in the tournament, Florida State became the lowest seeded team to win the league title as FSU defeated Wake Forest 3-1 in penalty kicks. FSU added to its series of firsts in the quarterfinals by going on the road and handing North Carolina its first-ever loss in the ACC Tournament and then defeating Virginia (semifinals) for the first time in school history.
The Seminoles have flourished both offensively and defensively under Krikorian's guidance. In 2005, Florida State finished with a +43 goal differential, 11 points better than the previous school record, en route to establishing single-season records for goals (65) and points (188). Those records were shattered two years later as the 2007 squad became the highest scoring team in school history. The Seminoles tallied 233 points on 81 goals and 71 assists, good for a +55 goal differential. FSU went on to set school records for points per game (8.63), goals per game (3.00), assists per game (2.63) and shots on goal (202). The offensive production also made ACC history marking the first time that a school other than North Carolina led the league in every major offensive category. In 2009, scoring was once again at a premium as the Seminoles reached the 200-point plateau for just the second time in school history finishing the season with 204 points on 67 goals and 70 assists. Florida State led the ACC in points, goals, goals per game (2.68) and assists per game (2.80) that year, while ranking eighth nationally in scoring offense. To show just how potent the Seminole offense has been under Krikorian, the five highest scoring seasons at Florida State have all come under his watch and eight of the top 10.
Defensively, Krikorian's teams have been just as good registering sub-1.00 goals against average in nine of his first 10 years. Since 2005, the Seminole defense has posted a 0.78 GAA yielding just over 20 goals a season. Goals have certainly been hard to come by for opponents since Krikorian's arrival as the Seminoles have posted a shutout in over half of the total games he has coached - 137 shutouts in 253 games (54.1%). In 2014, FSU set the school record for the fewest goals allowed (9) and the lowest goals against average in a season (0.34), while setting a school record for shutouts with 19. The Seminoles allowed just two goals to ACC opponents in the regular season and recorded two separate streaks of over 500 minutes without surrendering a goal. With 19 shutouts in 2014, FSU extended the school's streak of reaching double-digit shutouts to 10 consecutive years. In the postseason, Florida State has posted 31 shutouts since 2005 including a school-record six shutouts in 2014.
His first year on the job was nothing short of magnificent leading the Seminoles to their first 20-win season and second College Cup in 2005. In his second year at the helm, the Seminoles continued their dominance reaching the College Cup for the third time in the program's 12th year. The 2008 season was no different as he directed the Seminoles to an 8-1-1 record in the ACC, their highest winning percentage (.850) in league play in school history. In 2012, the Seminoles tied the school record for victories (20) while winning their first outright regular season ACC title with an 8-2-0 record. A year later Krikorian led the Seminoles to a school record 23 victories, including 10 wins in a 13-game ACC schedule, and to just two losses all season, the fewest recorded in school history. The 2014 season saw Krikorian decrease that loss category to one, as the Seminoles earned their first national championship and first undefeated season in conference play (9-0-1).
In all 11 seasons at FSU, Krikorian has earned at least three NCAA Tournament wins and reached the tournament quarterfinals, a feat that had only occurred once prior in program history. It should not be surprising when examining Krikorian's past. He won two National Championships following undefeated seasons at Franklin Pierce. He then built Hartford into a national power before coming to FSU. Krikorian has never posted a winning percentage below .700 at any of his collegiate head coaching positions. With that kind of success it is easy to see why he is one of the most successful coaches of all-time. Krikorian currently ranks 18th on the all-time list for winningest coaches across all divisions and has the second winningest percentage among active head coaches in Division I.
After what Krikorian has done at Florida State, it would be hard not to argue that he is one of the best coaches in Division I. In 2012, he led FSU to its best start in school history as the Seminoles won its first 14 matches outscoring the opposition 31-3. The 14-game win streak was five better than the previous win streak set in 2005 and one better than the 13-game unbeaten streak orchestrated by the 2008 squad. The 10 longest win streaks in school history have all come under Krikorian's guidance.
Eleven seasons ago, Krikorian became just the second coach in ACC history to lead his team to seven consecutive wins in conference play. He tied the mark in 2008 with a string of seven straight wins against league opponents. Both marks fell after the Seminoles won 10 straight ACC games over two seasons from 2011 to 2012, including eight consecutive league wins to open 2012. The Seminole boss also led FSU to a school record 37-game home unbeaten streak (36-0-1) from 2011 to 2014. The home unbeaten streak stands as the ninth longest streak in NCAA history.
Krikorian's impact at FSU was immediate. In his first 30 games, Krikorian posted a .850 winning percentage, 300 percentage points higher than any previous coach in FSU history. With a 2-1 victory over Stetson in 2006, he became the fastest FSU coach to earn 30 wins, reaching it in just 38 matches. He also established a new record when his 2006 squad had just one loss after 15 matches (a feat matched in 2012 and then surpassed in 2013 and 2014). No previous FSU team had ever played more than 10 games without suffering multiple losses. In 2010, Krikorian reached yet another milestone at Florida State, claiming victory number 100 with a dramatic 1-0 overtime victory over Wake Forest in Tallahassee. And in 2012, Krikorian recorded career college win No. 300 with a 1-0 victory at Arkansas to become the 25th coach across all divisions to reach the historic milestone.
Krikorian hasn't just produced wins; he has secured big wins as well. In the first 10 years and 206 games of FSU soccer history, the Seminoles recorded seven wins over top 10 teams. In 278 games under Krikorian, Florida State has recorded 40 top 10 victories including four in 2015. In addition to the win streaks, wins over top teams and trips to the College Cup, Krikorian led FSU to its highest ranking ever in all four college soccer polls including the first No. 1 ranking in school history. After downing No. 1 Portland 2-1 to kick-off the 2006 season, the Seminoles jumped to the top spot in the nation in the Soccer America top 25 poll, a spot they held for four consecutive weeks. Following their national championship in 2014, the Seminoles finished the season ranked No. 1 by the NSCAA. FSU spent a total of four weeks of 2015 as the No. 1 team in the country, including two weeks after defeating No. 1 North Carolina.
In Krikorian's first year at the helm of the Seminole program, FSU established new records for overall wins, winning percentage, fewest losses, most ACC wins, the best ACC winning percentage and longest win streak both in and out of the conference. Krikorian's 2005 squad was the first in school history to reach 20 wins and they matched the highest finish ever by an FSU team in ACC play as they tied for second. He led Florida State to a school-record seven wins over NSCAA top 25 teams and for the first time in program history, FSU spent a month ranked among the nation's top 10 teams in every soccer poll.
Krikorian took a Seminole team that was eliminated in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in 2004 and led them to the College Cup the very next season. He was just the sixth coach in the history of DI women's soccer to lead his team to the national semifinals in his first season at a school. At the time, FSU was one of six schools who had gone to the College Cup under the direction of two different coaches.
For his efforts, Krikorian was honored both regionally and nationally in his first season. He was named the first ACC Coach of the Year in Seminole soccer history, the 2005 Soccer America National Coach of the Year, the 2005 Soccer Buzz National Coach of the Year, Soccer Buzz's Southeast Region Coach of the Year and the NSCAA's South Region Coach of the Year.
On top of his impressive resume in coaching the top talent at the collegiate level, Krikorian has worked with the world's best players during his stops as the head coach of the U.S. U-19 National Team and his three years with the Philadelphia Charge. Florida State's head coach has worked with soccer greats from all over the world including U.S. National Team stars Brandi Chastain, Kristine Lilly, Tiffeny Milbrett, Heather Mitts and Lorie Fair, English National Team player Kelly Smith, French National Marinette Pichon and Brazilian National Team players Sissi and Katia.
Florida State players haven't only been recognized for their success on the field, but in the classroom as well. Over the last 20 years, Florida State has earned regional/district academic awards 52 times. Katrin Schmidt and Kirsten van de Ven were named first team Scholar All-Americans by the NSCAA in 2007 and Becky Edwards followed suit in 2008. In 2009, Edwards was named a third team Academic All-American by CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine. Kassey Kallman became the program's first two-time Academic All-American earning second team honors in 2012 and 2013. Emma Koivisto was named a Third Team Academic All-American in 2015. Additionally, FSU soccer players have been named to the ACC All-Academic Team 57 times including 34 times over the last five years with a school record eight named to the team in 2011. Tori Huster led the pack in 2011 becoming the first Seminole soccer player to earn ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors, while Kallman won the award in 2013 and Dagny Brynjarsdottir in 2014.
A four-time ACC Coach of the Year (2005, 2009, 2012 and 2014), Krikorian has been at the helm of a college team for a total of 22 seasons now and has recorded 18+ wins 14 times during that span. The 2005 season bettered his first year coaching at Franklin Pierce and Hartford for wins, fewest losses and highest winning percentage.
His U-19 squad cruised through group play with an undefeated record beating South Korea, Russia and European Champion Spain. They were the only team to win all three group matches in the tournament, as the U.S. outscored its opponents 8-1. Krikorian then led the U.S. past Australia in the quarterfinals before falling to eventual World Champion Germany in the tournament semifinals. The team responded by beating Brazil 3-0 to secure the bronze medal.
The team not only left Thailand with the bronze medal but they also were awarded the FIFA Fair Play Trophy. Individually, U.S. midfielder Angie Woznuk received the Silver Ball as the tournament's second Most Outstanding Player and the Bronze Shoe as the tournament's third-leading scorer. Overall, Krikorian's squad outscored the competition 13-4 during the World Championships.
Krikorian's work with the national program continued at the 2011 FIFA World Cup serving as an advanced scout for the United States Women's National Team. He was one of four scouts that provided expert analysis for Team USA and head coach Pia Sundhage. Krikorian scouted eight teams, in eight games covering six different cities in Germany. He was on hand in Berlin for the opening game featuring Germany and Canada and in the stands for the U.S.'s amazing comeback in the quarterfinals against Brazil.
In his first season with Philadelphia, Krikorian posted 11 wins in leading the Charge into the playoffs. The team finished the season ranked third in the regular season standings. The next year the Charge once again won 11 games and finished second in the standings, which was an amazing accomplishment considering Krikorian's top player was lost for the season when Kelly Smith went down with an injury. His squad still finished the regular season 11-4-6.
Krikorian wasted little time in turning Hartford into a national power. After going 4-14 in his first season, Krikorian's Hawks won at least 17 and never lost more than five games, while advancing to the NCAA Tournament in each of his next four seasons.
Hartford immediately improved to 19-2-1 in just the second season under Krikorian including a win over national power Connecticut. Hartford also won just the second NCAA Tournament game in school history that year. In 1998, the success continued as the Hawks posted a 17-5 record while advancing to the 'Sweet 16'. That year Krikorian led Hartford to wins over Texas A&M and Harvard in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.
In 1999, only his third year at the helm of the Hawks program, Krikorian put together the best soccer season in school history. Hartford finished the regular season 15-4-2 and as conference champions for the third straight year. That regular season success was tame compared to the team's magical run through the NCAA Tournament. After opening with a home win over Princeton, Krikorian traveled to Gainesville to take on the defending National Champions. His Hawks dethroned the Gators on the road and then did the same thing a week later to Virginia in a 3-2 triple overtime win. The victory moved the Hawks into the Elite Eight for the first time in school history.
In his final season at Hartford, Krikorian put together his most impressive regular season as his Hawks went 17-2. They defeated both Virginia and Florida again. The win over Florida was a decisive 3-0 victory. Krikorian also led the Hawks to the school's first-ever victory over Dartmouth in the seventh meeting between the programs.
In 1990, his first year in New Hampshire, Krikorian went 10-6-2. The school's 10 victories were just four shy of tying the program's total from its first five years of existence. Two seasons later the Ravens went 20-1-0 with a berth in the NCAA semifinals. After a 16-3-0 season in 1993 and another NCAA semifinal appearance, Krikorian completed his reclamation of Franklin Pierce by going a perfect 19-0-0 and winning the school's first-ever NCAA women's soccer championship. What did Krikorian do for an encore? In 1995 he repeated as National Champions, this time with a record of 20-0-0.
After departing for Hartford following the 1995 season, the Ravens went on to capture three more National Championships. Franklin Pierce and North Carolina are still the only two schools in the history of NCAA soccer to win four consecutive NCAA Championships across all divisions.
Before Krikorian arrived at Franklin Pierce, the school had an all-time record of 21-36-4 in five seasons winning just under 38% of their games. Upon his arrival in 1990, the Ravens have had just two losing seasons in 24 years and have won five National Championships. Krikorian helped build the foundation for the Franklin Pierce dynasty in just six years on the job. And for his efforts was recognized as one of Franklin Pierce's top 10 most influential people during the school's 50th Anniversary celebration in 2012-13.
He added his fourth ACC Coach of the Year award in 2014 after leading the Seminoles to the ACC regular season and tournament titles. The Seminole field general led the Garnet and Gold to its first national championship and a 24-1-1 record. FSU finished the season 9-1-1 against ranked opponents including a 6-1-1 mark versus teams in the top 10. For his efforts, Krikorian was also recognized as the NSCAA Southeast Coach of the Year for the fourth time in his career (2005, 2009, 2012 and 2014).
Krikorian was a standout player at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. from 1981-1983. He was a two-time captain and team MVP. In 1983, he was a New England Indoor Soccer League (NEISL) All-Star and a first team All-New England selection.


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The House Ethics Committee abruptly postponed the high-profile ethics trial of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Friday, after new evidence came to light which may contradict some of the congresswoman's previous claims. The Democratic lawmaker is being charged with helping to steer more than $12 million in federal bailout funds to One United, a bank in which her husband had a substantial financial stake.
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