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Amnesty International
News about Amnesty International, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Jul. 13, 2016
Amnesty International asks Bangladeshi government to clarify whereabouts of Hasnat Karim, British citizen who survived hostage crisis inside Dhaka restaurant on July 1 and has been missing since being detained by police for questioning. MORE
Jun. 1, 2016
Amnesty International reports average of 1,000 Afghans are forced from their homes daily by country's 15-year-old conflict, more than double number of people forced to leave in 2013; report also shows resources dedicated to managing crisis have reached lowest point since 2009. MORE
Apr. 7, 2016
Amnesty International releases annual report on capital punishment revealing 1,634 people were executed across globe in 2015, increase of 50 percent compared to 2014. MORE
Jan. 30, 2016
Amnesty International reports satellite imagery appears to support accounts of graves holding at least 50 victims of December political violence in Burundi capital of Bujumbura; report adds to growing evidence that atrocities committed in country were organized and covered up by country's security forces. MORE
Jan. 26, 2016
Amnesty International report asserts Iran is likely global leader in executing juveniles, despite recent laws aimed at reversing trend; report comes amid Iran's bid for broader participation in global affairs after signing of landmark nuclear accord. MORE
Jan. 10, 2016
Editorial uses occasion of barbaric execution of 47 men in Saudi Arabia, which drew worldwide condemnation, to point out that United States is one of five countries that most often use capital punishment, according to Amnesty International; suggests death penalty is merely form of vengeance, and contends it is up to American people to abolish morally unacceptable practice. MORE
Jan. 5, 2016
Capital punishment dwindles internationally, though handful of countries still practicing it are executing more people; Amnesty International reports 28 percent increase in death sentences from 2013 to 2014; Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite cleric reflects surge in executions for nonlethal offenses. MORE
Dec. 24, 2015
Amnesty International reports Russian airstrikes in Syria have killed 200 civilians over two months; Russians deny charges, which also include allegations of use of cluster munitions, practice outlawed by many countries. MORE
Nov. 13, 2015
Amnesty International reports Chinese authorities routinely abuse human rights attorneys and criminal suspects. MORE
Oct. 15, 2015
Amnesty International investigates failed September coup of Burkina Faso government by Presidential Security Regiment, elite unit of ousted Pres Blaise Compaore; says their review of videos, medical records and interviews shows regiment shot, whipped or beat as many as 271 civilians and killed 14 unarmed noncombatants, including two children. MORE
Sep. 22, 2015
Amnesty International reports Abdul Basit, paraplegic death-row inmate in Pakistan, was not granted stay of execution by Supreme Court and is scheduled to be hanged; only remaining way to halt execution is pardon from Pres Mamnoon Hussain. MORE
Aug. 29, 2015
Op-Ed article by Rachel Moran criticizes Amnesty International call to decriminalize prostitution worldwide as misguided; recounts her own experience of being forced into sex trade; notes that many sex workers are not choosing line of work of their own volition; suggests alternative so-called Nordic model in which paying for sex is illegal but selling sex is not. MORE
Aug. 19, 2015
Amnesty International report on Yemen conflict accuses both Saudi-led coalition and both pro- and anti-Houthi fighters of war crimes and disregard for civilian safety; asks United Nations to form independent investigative panel. MORE
Aug. 2, 2015
Lawmakers in France, England and Ireland are considering measures that would impose penalties on male clients of prostitutes in effort to crack down on trade, while rights group Amnesty International has proposed decriminalizing prostitution worldwide; differing proposals have reignited debate over how to treat one of world's oldest professions. MORE
Jul. 30, 2015
Amnesty International reports strong evidence that Israel committed war crimes, possibly including crimes against humanity, during failed August 2014 campaign to rescue Second Lt Hadar Goldin from hands of Hamas militants in southern Gaza; Goldin's capture, occurring in first hour of cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants, sparked 50-day war. MORE
Jun. 4, 2015
Amnesty International issues report, based on years of research, accusing Nigerian military of using torture, mass shootings and starvation during its campaign against Boko Haram terrorist group; report contends that documented abuses constitute war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, and names a number of senior officers it claims are responsible. MORE
May. 23, 2015
Amnesty International report warns that both sides in conflict in eastern Ukraine are carrying out war crimes on daily basis. MORE
Apr. 23, 2015
Amnesty International and Global Witness issue joint report that shows 80 percent of 100 public companies surveyed failed to meet Securities and Exchange Commission so-called conflict minerals disclosure rule; rule was implemented as part of 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul and was meant to determine whether products contain minerals from conflict areas in Africa. MORE
Mar. 26, 2015
Amnesty International report accuses Palestinian groups, including military wing of Hamas, of war crimes and flagrant disregard of civilian lives during summer 2014 war in Gaza. MORE
Jan. 16, 2015
Analysis of satellite images by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reveals that Boko Harum militants have destroyed thousands of buildings in northern Nigeria by employing scorched-earth tactics against civilians. MORE
Dec. 7, 2014
Israeli military orders eight additional criminal investigations into conduct of its forces during its war with Hamas in Gaza; investigations come after withering accusations of war crimes by Amnesty International, and ahead of inquiry by United Nations Human Rights Council. MORE
Nov. 5, 2014
Amnesty International publishes report accusing Israel of war crimes in its 50-day war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip; says military showed 'callous indifference' to civilians in airstrikes on homes that felled entire families. MORE
Oct. 25, 2014
Amnesty International report finds police in Ferguson, Mo, violated rights of protesters there following killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown; human rights group says Ferguson Police Department should review its standards, practices and training to ensure that they conform to international standards for human rights. MORE
Oct. 9, 2014
Amnesty International urges Thailand to investigate allegations that police tortured two suspects who reportedly confessed to killing two British tourists on a southern island. MORE
Sep. 24, 2014
Report by Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation finds that more than 130 Chinese companies are exporting law enforcement equipment that can be used for torture; study finds that exports are fueling human rights abuses in Africa and Asia. MORE
Sep. 11, 2014
Amnesty International cites at least one report of torture and hundreds of civilian detentions by military in wake of coup that overthrew democratically elected government of Thailand in May 2014. MORE
Mar. 27, 2014
Amnesty International says in its annual report on death-penalty trends that despite long-term decline in number of countries practicing capital punishment, publicly disclosed executions jumped nearly 15 percent in 2013 compared with a year earlier, largely because of 'virtual killing sprees' carried out by the authorities in Iran and Iraq; data excludes capital punishment in China, which regards information about number of executions as a state secret. MORE
Feb. 7, 2014
Jon Pareles reviews Bringing Human Rights Home benefit concert for Amnesty International at Barclays Center; concert featured Imagine Dragons and other bands as well as appearance by members of punk-activist band Pussy Riot, who spent 21 months in Russian penal colonies for crime of hooliganism. MORE
Oct. 24, 2013
Editorial holds reports issued by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have marshaled impressive evidence challenging United States government's assertion that collateral damage to innocent civilians by drone strikes is rare; maintains reports underscore the need for greater transparency and accountability from the government about use of drones. MORE
Oct. 22, 2013
Amnesty International investigation finds that Central Intelligence Agency drone campaign in Pakistan has at times killed civilians indiscriminately; findings defy claims by Obama administration that strikes have been increasingly accurate and free of mistakes; residents in interviews speak of terror and strain within a society caught between militants and the drones. MORE
Mar. 26, 2013
Russian authorities raid local headquarters of human rights group Amnesty International, latest in continuing series of office searches intended to put pressure on nongovernmental groups. MORE
Mar. 14, 2013
Amnesty International issues report detailing what it calls war crimes committed by both sides in Syria's ongoing civil war; cites wholesale destruction of neighborhoods with banned weapons by government forces, as well as escalation of abuses by opposition. MORE
Mar. 7, 2013
Vietnamese government opens dialogue with Amnesty International, allowing human rights group to meet with crucial dissidents and government officials for first time since end of Vietnam War; move comes as country prepares to draft constitution that seeks to address civil liberties and religious tolerance. MORE
Mar. 10, 2012
Amnesty International calls for Saudi Arabia to immediately release six Saudis held for nearly a year in connection with mass protest that never took place; protest was called by activists to demand political reforms in the kingdom. MORE
Jan. 15, 2012
Amnesty International is releasing Chimes of Freedom, a four-CD benefit album with covers of Bob Dylan songs; project, which embraces a time when music and social activism became bonded, grew larger than planned due to interest from artists who wanted to participate. MORE
Nov. 11, 2011
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch call on the Arab League to support a move by the United Nations Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court and to impose an arms embargo. MORE
Oct. 26, 2011
Amnesty International releases report accusing the Dominican Republic's national police force of killing and torturing with impunity, contributing to an increase in crime and violence rather than helping to curb it. MORE
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Ukraine's Security Services and Rebels Are Said to Be Equals in Torture
A report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International cites abuses by both sides in the war, including waterboarding and the use of electric shocks.
July 22, 2016, Friday
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Two Hostages From Bangladesh Standoff Are Still Missing
Amnesty International urged the government to clarify the whereabouts of one of the men, who were questioned after surviving a terrorist attack on a Dhaka restaurant.
July 13, 2016, Wednesday
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2 Groups Call to Oust Saudis from U.N. Human Rights Council
But the suspension of any country from an elected body of the United Nations is extraordinary, and it would be all the more so for a country with powerful friends like the United States.
June 30, 2016, Thursday
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Azerbaijan: Dream Setting for a Race, but One With Baggage
Judged by location alone, Baku would be a fabulous new venue for Formula One. But Azerbaijan's human rights record raises controversy.
June 19, 2016, Sunday
MORE ON AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND: Automobile Racing , Formula One , Baku (Azerbaijan) , Azerbaijan , Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , Amnesty International , International Automobile Federation , Aliyev, Ilham H , Ecclestone, Bernie
Number of Displaced Afghans Has More Than Doubled Since 2013
A report by Amnesty International said that many of the 1.2 million Afghans who have been forced from their homes were living in miserable conditions in camps.
June 1, 2016, Wednesday
MORE ON AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND: Afghanistan , Refugees and Displaced Persons , Amnesty International , Taliban
Why Amnesty International Is Calling for Decriminalizing Sex Work
The human rights group takes a new position on prostitution and explains why arresting men for buying sex harms women.
May 25, 2016, Wednesday
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Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens of Yemeni Army Recruits
A local branch of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blast in the southern city of Aden, one of the deadliest since Yemen's civil war began.
May 24, 2016, Tuesday
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Angelina Jolie Will Be Visiting Professor at London School of Economics
The actress will be a guest lecturer in a master's program that starts taking applicants in the fall at one of Britain's most renowned institutions.
May 24, 2016, Tuesday
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Bangladesh Gay Rights Activist Is Hacked to Death
Julhas Mannan, who had helped organize a march for gay and transgender youths, was the victim of what the police believe to be the latest in a wave of targeted killings.
April 26, 2016, Tuesday
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America's Place in the Executioners' Club
As in the United States, a handful of outliers are responsible for the vast majority of global executions, according to Amnesty International.
April 11, 2016, Monday
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I have a magnet kit, which comes with 144 cylindrical magnets (they are actually rings) and 38 balls. Here is a link for those interested: http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=K7
The balls are not magnets, but the rods to connect them are. I discovered early on the interesting property that the balls tend to "add up" the magnetic poles of the magnets they are attached to. For instance, if a ball has four magnets attached to it, two of them on their south poles and two of them on their north poles, then the magnetic fields tend to "cancel out". If I take one of those magnets and reverse it, however, so that now we have three north poles and one south pole on the ball, all magnets still stick to the ball, but now the ball gains two units of "northness". The ball itself is now able to magnetically attract other balls whereas the neutrally magnetized ball from earlier does not. It's also possible to get a feel for how "magnetized" a ball is by holding a magnet close to it. The magnet will tend to prefer to attach to it with one pole rather than the other if it is "charged". What's interesting as a consequence of all this is that if you have a ball with an odd number of magnets connected to it, it has a net magnetism (of an odd amplitude) and a ball with an even number of magnets is neutral or has a net magnetism of an even amplitude (neutral would be zero which is even). As a ball becomes more and more charged in one particular polarity it becomes more and more difficult to further polarize it in that direction, as it begins to resist the attachment of magnets in that orientation. After putting 5 magnets on a ball in the same orientation it is nearly impossible to put a sixth on the same way.
This is all quite interesting, and these things also behave quite unlike most objects that we are used to interacting with in our day-to-day lives; magnets are just weird, and that's why they're so awesome and fun to play with. After a while, though, it does become pretty intuitive, and I noticed these mechanics I've described leads to quite a cool little problem.
A magnetic structure built out of these elements is clearly easily represented as a graph. A ball is simply a vertex which may be connected with other balls with magnets, which are the edges. There are two ways in which an edge may be oriented, so obviously we've got a directed graph rather than the vanilla variety. This is all fine but I do get a bit caught up on how to represent the adding up of magnetization. I think if I set a convention where an outbound vertex represents a north-south magnet, i.e. the arrow is the south end, and the net magnetism is an integer with positive values representing net north magnetism, then I can evaluate the net magnetism of a vertex with $outdegree - indegree$.
As I went about "solving the puzzle" of the kit which is to use all the magnets and balls to construct a truncated octahedron, I always found myself wanting to arrange the magnets in a way that would minimize the net magnetism at each ball. It was a kind of OCD tendency to try to put the thing into the most "stable" or "natural" condition possible. But I noticed that each time I completed the shape, many of the balls which do have an even number of magnets connected to them did end up with a net magnetism. It seemed like a nontrivial problem to accomplish what I wanted.
Now, some formal math and computer science schooling (and a wasted summer) later I find that I still can't easily get the magnets into an optimal or near-optimal configuration by trial and error or a greedy method (that being simply letting the magnets attach based on their preferred orientation to the ball's current magnetization). So I am trying to model it mathematically because I suspect there may be a feasible algorithm; I'd like to know if the problem is NP-complete or not, but to do that I must first model it correctly.
So this is an optimization problem. I'm not exactly sure how to formally specify it as such but I'll give it a try. The set of instances is the set of digraphs which is the same shape as the graph representing the geometry of the construction. Being able to flip each magnet either way, this gives a maximum of $2^m$ possibilities, although accounting for symmetry it's very likely a much smaller set. Here the wikipedia article confuses me a little, it talks about the set of feasible solutions given an instance, but I can't tell what the difference between an instance and a feasible solution is, as it pertains to this particular problem. I define a function on vertices $M:V\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}$ where $M(v)=outdeg(v)-indeg(v)$. My goal is to minimize the sum of the magnitude of $M$ on all vertices: $min \displaystyle\sum_V|M|$
I have no idea what the next step is to figuring out the hardness of the problem. Do I propose algorithms, and through analysis of them determine a bound on the computation necessary to produce a result?

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BONHAM, Tex. -- It's not too often a small town can call one of their own a national champion. For the past three years, the city of Bonham has had the luxury to do just that. Appalachian State head football coach Jerry Moore has won three straight national championships, but his success can be traced all the way back to his high school days in North Texas. Daniel Gotera had the chance to sit down with the coach.
Coach Jerry Moore will be the first one to tell you what makes a man is where he came from. This week, he came back to where it all began and shared with us why, no matter how much success he has, he'll never forget home.
An old football practice field surrounded by a rusted fence and covered in soggy, uncut grass, was once home of the Bonham Purple Warriors. Countless games were played each with varying importance, but for Jerry Moore, one contest over fifty years ago stands out.
"I remember Coach Nelson telling us, 'Hey the things they're talking about doing this week, we've been doing all year,' and we had a great football game, and this place was packed, and it was just unbelievable for us again. It looked like Ann Arbor to me."
A half century later, that game against commerce high school seems like a walk in the park.
"It's one of those things that I told our players, you know, we'll never do this again. You'll never have an opportunity to play the University Of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in front of 109,000 people. It's one of those rarities in sports and you're going to be a part of it," Moore says.
It was the start of a season to remember for both the mountaineers and Coach Moore, a 34-32 upset of #5 Michigan helped fuel the team to a third consecutive Division 1-AA title, but all the advice and all the philosophies behind what some call one of the greatest achievements in sports, Coach Moore says, came from his days in Bonham, Texas.
"This was my habitat, I mean I didn't do anything else, I played a little bit of baseball in the summers, but my coaches had convinced me that if I was going to play college football and get a scholarship this is where I needed to be."
For the first time in a long time, Coach Moore had the chance to come home this week and tour what's left of the Bonham he grew to love.
"As I got into my junior and senior year, my goal was to be able to kick an extra point and kick it over that fence right there behind the track, and I felt like I could reach that pinnacle when I could do that."
From 1954 to 1957, Jerry Moore spent just about every waking moment on the football field.
"At the end of my sophomore year in high school, I knew I wanted to be a football coach. My head coach, H.B. Nelson, was our Sunday School teacher. He was our mentor. He was the guy we talked to; when I got married I talked to Coach Nelson about it."
After a college career at Baylor, Moore went on to coach at Corsicana High School, the University of North Texas, Texas Tech, and finally, in 1989, Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
No matter how many championships or awards he receives, Moore says nothing would be the same with out those closest to him at home and in Bonham.
"I'm the only guy that's still in athletics. The rest of them are actually doing real things, but it's been a part of my life, and I was fortunate to marry a gal that she's accepted that, and she has much fun as I do," Moore says.
"This just might be the icing on the cake, you know. There's nothing like home, and there's nothing like family and know the fact that people have honored him the way they have today I don't know this may be his all-time high," Jerry's wife says.
Coach Moore says he doesn't know how much longer he will coach, but as long as he stays healthy, he doesn't see his career ending any time soon.
As for the team, Appalachian State opens up the 2008 season against this years national champs, LSU.
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blandly pious and naively optimistic
At the risk of sounding too kumbaya, I felt as if I had finally come home.
作者 Timla 2007年2月19日
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Can you define these popular missing words?
The Kumbaya Law: In any conversation where some of the participants hold an opinion to the left of other participants, someone with the more conservative position will compare said person's opinion to the naivete of "singing around a campfire singing Kumbaya"
"Since you are such a Liberal, what would you have us say to those 'peace-loving Palestinians' after three wars in six years? 'Oh, I know that you want to push us all into the sea, but let's sit around the campfire and sing Kumbaya instead.'"
to relax or chill
Like seriously, she needed to kumbaya or something.
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The NCO Softball team fell last Thursday against Crab Orchard.
Ally Black pitched seven innings and allowed three earned runs, on five hits and two walks. She struck out seven.
Offensive leaders for the team were Lexie Money going one of three, Elizabeth Martin going one of two, Jenna Wurst going one of one with a run, Hannah Pettijohn going one of one with a triple and an RBI and Ashton Healy going one of two.
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I have what appears (to me anyway) to be a strange problem...
I created a simple editor template for a SelectListItem (SelectListItem.cshtml in the ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates folder), for example:

@Html.EditorFor(c => c.Categories)
Where c.Categories is an IEnumerable
This worked fine, but I wanted another template to render the collection with slightly different markup, so I copied and renamed the editor template to, for example, 'CategoryIcons.cshtm' and invoked as follows:

@Html.EditorFor(c => c.Categories, "CategoryIcons")
In short, the only difference is I'm specifying a named editor template.
When I open the page, I now get the following error:
The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Web.Mvc.SelectListItem]', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'System.Web.Mvc.SelectListItem'
The template's model declaration, in both templates id:
@model System.Web.Mvc.SelectListItem
I don't understand why the default template works and the named template doesn't. Any help would be appreciated.


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40% off a single item at Hobby Lobby Stores
Through 12/22
You can do this from your smartphone and just show the cashier the coupon on your screen and get 40% off a single item.
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Just an FYI, I just purchased something from Hobby Lobby was under 10 bucks (broke and that's why I shop for deals) but I purchased the Bath Tin Sign for my new Apt.
Go to Hobby Lobby on your smartphone to pull up their weekly deals. Each DAY you can use their 40% off single non-sale item. If you are fortunate enough to have multiple stores where you live then that is multiple uses per day. 40% off of say an air compressor is a nice wedge of cash to keep IN your wallet. Food for thought.
I love Hobby Lobby and use my smartphone every time I'm there to get 40% off an item (well, except last time, where it turned out everything I was buying was already on sale 50% off, so I was okay with that).
They're ridiculously easy-going when it comes to coupons in my experience.
Also, if you don't like Hobby Lobby for whatever reason, A.C. Moore has basically the same deal (just show your smartphone), but my local one has less selection and higher prices than Hobby Lobby.
Political leanings aside... why is this even a deal? Hobby Lobby has the same 40% off coupon every week in their circular. It's not like this is new or special.
This is the place to discuss the DEAL.
If you want to discuss the company, please start a thread over in Ask the Community. Remember that each one of your posts in this thread goes to the poster if s/he is subscribed. Let's show some consideration to their mailbox and move that discussion.
Yes, I deleted a lot of posts.
THANK YOU!. Hey is this coupon just the Arts and crafts side of the house. I tried to use in on a R/C purchase and it says invalid.
@bigtee959: The coupon states the limitations so if your R/C is not already discounted or a special order then it should work. I would just ask to see a manager and point out that there is no exclusion for the item and ask why the coupon isn't working? Be nice about it.
@dagney74: what would their christian valued political leanings even need to be brought up? Unless your trying to show and force into the face of everyone here your opposing political stance then i understand why you would....


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I need to drill a hole in a shelf that's half an inch deep but I don't want to drill a hole through the shelf. What's the best way of doing that? I have a drill and i was thinking of showing just a half an inch of the drip bit. This way, I can force the drill to drill all the way to the end of the drill bit and not go through the shelf. However, a part of the drill bit's thread is being held by the drill for grip. Would using the drill and the drill bit in this way cause damage?
Yes, the drill chuck will mar the finish of the shelf. There is a slight chance of damage to the chuck. Plus, choking down on the bit, like that, obscures your view of the hole (the drill and chuck block it) -- making precision harder to accomplish.
The correct way to do this is to use a drill stop.
Drill stops are less likely to slip than tape or zip-ties, and are much better for precise and/or repeated drilling.
If marring the finish is an issue, clamp a piece of 1/8th plywood over the site and adjust the drill stop accordingly.
PS: A piece of wood over the hole is usually a good idea anyway, when drilling finished surfaces. It helps reduce both splintering and the scratching that occurs when flakes of drilled wood or metal whip around the bore site.
I usually just wrap a piece of masking tape around the drill bit leaving the correct length exposed. You can either wrap enough layers of tape around so that it is fairly thick, or leave a "flag" of tape sticking out. Either way will let you drill to the proper depth without the risk of marking the surface. The metal jaws of a drill can easily damage the surface if you allow them to come in contact.
you can use a bit of scrap wood that is the length of the expose drill bit minus the depth you want to drill so that when fully drilled through with the chuck touching the scrap it will only leave the desired drill depth exposed
this way you can use the scrap as a guide as you drill and also ensure the hole is square
that or use a drill press if you have one.
There is also that stuff that you always leave in the box when you get a new drill... (if your drill is equipped with a drill stop) then this is when you would use it.
The easiest and cheapest way that I have found is to use a drill stop on your drill. One that works well, and costs very little, is the Century Drill and Tool 73512 Adjustable Drill Stop". The two pieces are both plastic, but extremely strong plastic, that will last years, and because it is plastic, it hardly ever leaves any marks on the wood. It works with 1/4" to 1/2".


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Censuses for family history
Helpsheet for Censuses
Census records
What do the censuses show?
The censuses from 1851 onwards show the address, names of everyone resident, age, profession, birthplace, marital status, relationship to head of household, and name of head of household.
Period covered
We hold the censuses for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, and 1901. There is a hundred year privacy rule. The 1911 Census is online and is now available in Ancestry Library Edition on computers in libraries.
Areas covered
The censuses here for 1841, 1861, 1871 and 1891 are for Birmingham and a few outlying areas only. If you are interested in other parts of the country, the microfiche copy of the 1881 census covers all of England, Wales, and the Channel Islands. The CD-ROM version also covers Scotland.
The 1881 census is arranged by county; at that time central and north Birmingham were in Warwickshire, south Birmingham was in Worcestershire, and part of west Birmingham was in Staffordshire - ask staff if you need advice.
There are microfiche and printed versions of the 1851 census for Birmingham, and many other areas of England, but these do not cover the whole country, and only give partial coverage of individual counties. There is a complete version of the 1851 census for Warwick, Norfolk, and Devon, on microfiche and CD-ROM.
Census indexing
The microfiche and CD-ROM versions of the 1881 census are invaluable because there is a surname index, an arranged-as-enumerated index, and a place and birthplace index.
The 1851 census for Warwick, Norfolk, and Devon has a name index.
For the 1841, 1861, 1871, 1891, and fiche version of the 1901 you need to know in which street the family was living. Ask the staff for help with using the indexes for these. It is sometimes possible to trace the address by using the trade directories, which include some residential addresses as well as business information.
Using the censuses in Archives and Heritage
The censuses on microfiche, microfilm and CD-Rom are available from the enquiry desk. The censuses are available in several formats:
Microfilm: 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881. Films of the original handwritten records, for Birmingham only.
Microfiche: 1841, 1851, 1881, 1891, 1901
CD-ROM: 1851 (Warwick, Norfolk, Devon), 1881
Printed: 1851, complete or partial transcriptions for some areas
You can book a microfiche or microfilm machine in Archives and Heritage. Other machines are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Available in all Birmingham Libraries
You can now find digitised census returns from 1841 to 1911 on the Ancestry Library Edition web site.
This is the special FREE library version of the Ancestry.com web site which you would have to pay to use on your own computer. It includes England, Wales and Scotland censuses, birth, marriage and death records and UK parish and probate records.
Points to note
*The 1851 and 1881 microfiche and CD-ROM copies of the census are transcriptions, so may include mistakes; you can check the originals on microfilm.
* The 1841 census gives fewer details than later censuses. Ages of people over 15 are rounded down to the nearest 5 years, but not consistently.
Government records such as the censuses are one of the most reliable sources for family history, but they are not foolproof. Some people, especially in 1841 and 1851, objected to being counted, and deliberately travelled on the night of the census so they would not be surveyed. Some people gave wrong information - about their age, for example! Many people were unable to write, and did not know how to spell their names; the enumerator had to guess. Some households were simply missed.
Ancestry Library Edition website is an excellent source of census information for family history. You can use this free on computers in all Birmingham Libraries.
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How can be proved that terms
$$\frac{1}{|r_{i}-r_{j}|} $$
are the ones that avoid the existence of an analytical solution for the many electron atom problem
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How can be proved that terms
$$\frac{1}{|r_{i}-r_{j}|} $$
are the ones that avoid the existence of an analytical solution for the many electron atom problem
marked as duplicate by Brandon Enright, Waffle's Crazy Peanut, Qmechanic♦ Jun 6 '13 at 19:13
This question was marked as an exact duplicate of an existing question.
I guess part of this depends on what you mean by the existence of an analytical solution...
If you mean "can it be written in terms of some convergent series of special functions?" then the answer is that nobody has found a set of special functions that are reasonably well-understood enough to be useful. That is, you could just proclaim a special function which solves the associated differential equation. This is what all special functions are, really. But if you don't know things like the eigenvalues, then this is rather pointless. The reason here is, ultimately, nobody's found a good representation for the solutions. Maybe you could -- if you could exactly solve Helium it would be quite the accomplishment!
If you mean "is there some complete set of commuting operators?" then this boils down to the integrability of the many-body problem. This has been a subject of interest for at least 200 years. This leads to a lot of interactions between the KAM theorem, quantum mechanics from a Lie algebraic perspective, regular versus chaotic dynamics, and a lot of really fascinating stuff. But the answer here might be "No, there is not a complete set of operators that have simultaneous eigenvectors with the Hamiltonian", or rather that there is no set $\{\mathcal{J}_i \}_N$ for $2N$ degrees of freedom such that
$[\mathcal{J}_i, \mathcal{H}] = 0 ~ \forall ~ i$
But there are approximate solutions. If you look in Sakurai for the helium atom, a variational approach works reasonably well at predicting the ground state energies including the inter-electron Coulomb repulsion. In THAT sense, there are analytical solutions. But all this depends on what you mean by "analytical solutions".


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Emily Pilloton Lecture
Studio H founder Emily Pilloton visits Portland to give a CraftPerspectives Lecture about her unique high-school design/build curriculum.
As founder and director of Project H Design, Emily Pilloton exemplifies an emerging generation of designers who believe that design has the power to positively change the world, but that new strategies are required to effect those changes. The exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Craft asks viewers to reflect on how that process can teach the next generation of designers to transform the world for themselves. Artifacts from Studio H, the project in rural Bertie County, North Carolina where Pilloton and partner Matthew Miller teach design thinking to high-school students, will be on display to illustrate how a socially engaged design process can result in significant and positive solutions. Together, Pilloton and Miller engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation.
Holiday Art Sale
Featuring one-of-a-kind artwork, crafts, clothing and more, PNCA's Holiday Art Sale is a great opportunity to find quality handmade gifts by Pacific Northwest College of Art students. The Holiday Art Sale occurs for four days, November 30th to December 3rd. From fine art prints, paintings, and sculpture to hand-crafted adornments, the annual sale transforms the College's Swigert Commons into a showcase of outstanding holiday gifts.
SUBMIT Release Party
Please join the PNCA community in celebrating the latest issue of Submit Magazine, an annual, student-managed publication featuring original visual and literary works from the PNCA community. The Submit Release Party will culminate in a reading from contributors at the Irving Street Kitchen (703 Northwest 13th Avenue) starting at 6:30 pm.
The theme for this semester was Rooms, and some exciting layout and design changes have happened. The magazine is constantly evolving, providing an opportunity for student volunteer teams to stretch their creativity and professionalism through producing a beautiful publication. This event will center around a reading from contributors to the magazine, and refreshments will be provided.
Read more about SUBMIT Magazine…
PNCA Announces Co-Chairs of MA in Critical Theory + Creative Research
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) welcomes Anne Marie Oliver and Barry Sanders as co-chairs of the MA in Critical Theory + Creative Research (CT+CR). Oliver is currently Assistant Professor of Intermedia and Contemporary Theory at PNCA and Research Scholar in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Sanders has been PNCA's Writer-in-Residence since 2009. Between them, Oliver and Sanders bring a combined 60+ years of iconoclastic research, writing, and teaching to the program.
Oregon Arts Commission Awards Faculty and Alumni over $10,000
The Oregon Arts Commission, in conjunction with the Ford Family Foundation, has awarded several PNCA faculty and alumni over $10,000 in competitive Career Opportunity grants. These awards provide support to individual artists who seek to take advantage of important opportunities to advance their careers through the development of artistic, business or professional skills. The grant recipients include Carl Diehl, Sarah Farahat '09, M.K. Guth, Laura Hughes MFA '10, and Jessica Orlowski.
The Oregon Arts Commission was established in 1967 to foster the arts in Oregon and ensure their excellence. Nine Commissioners, appointed by the Governor, determine policies, establish long-range plans, and review applications to grants programs to determine funding levels. Funding for the Commission and its programs is provided by the state of Oregon, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes a great nation deserves great art and with a cultural partner grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust.
Here are descriptions of each recipient's project:
Carl Diehl (Faculty), media artist, $652
To support Diehl's participation in the &Now Conference, a festival which brings together artists in a variety of disciplines to see how the artists can work together and develop new work. Diehl has been invited to present his performance work to the participants in this festival. www.carldiehl.com
Sarah Farahat (Intermedia '09), Portland, media artist $1,500
To support Farahat's living expenses while participating in the Home Workspace Program, an 11‐month independent arts residency program in Beirut, Lebanon. The experience will expose Farahat to a year‐long intensive art dialogue and enable her to devote full time work toward a major exhibition.
M. K. Guth (Faculty), Portland, sculptor/installation artist, $1,500, The Ford Family Foundation, $3,760
To support the material costs associated with an invited public residency at The Cosmopolitan, in Las Vegas, administered by The Art Production Fund in New York. Guth will travel to Las Vegas, with assistants to complete and install a site‐specific work. Additional Ford Family Foundation funds will support the costs of professional documentation of her work, travel and assistant expenses for the project.
Laura Hughes (Visual Studies '10 and Faculty), visual artist, $1,455
To support Hughes' solo exhibition at the University of Oregon White Box Gallery in Portland, providing broader exposure to the arts community. Hughes is preparing an architecturally‐oriented installation, which will highlight her skill incorporating light and space into a dynamic vision. http://www.laurahughesstudio.com/index.html
Jessica Orlowski (CE Instructor), Hillsboro, sculptor, $1,500
To support costs associated with a solo exhibition of Orlowski's ceramic sculpture at the Harry Krug Gallery at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. An artist talk will increase the impact of the opportunity, allowing her to more fully develop contacts outside this region.
Natalia Allen lectures at the Bison Building
The MFA in Applied Craft and Design hosts designer and surf enthusiast Natalia Allen for a lecture for the 2011-2012 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Natalia Allen brings her enthusiasm for surfing to entrepreneurship, combining green and tech to create innovative styles using environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing processes. In 2005, she founded the influential and fast-growing design firm Design Futurist. She received the highly coveted Parsons "Designer of the Year Award," a title she shares with Marc Jacobs and Proenza Schouler. She frequently lectures around the globe sharing her expert ideas on sustainable design.
PNCA Faculty and Alumni Selected to Attend Creative Capital Workshop
A collection of PNCA faculty members and alumni were selected to attend a Creative Capital Professional Development workshop this last weekend hosted by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). The participants included Hayley Barker, Wayne Bund MFA '10, Nan Curtis, Michael Lazarus, and Jane Schiffhauer MFA '10. These artists are fine examples of the PNCA community engaging in ongoing professional practice and growth.
PICA, in partnership with the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) and the Oregon Arts Commission (OAC), hosted a three‐day intensive professional development workshop for 24 Oregon artists. The workshop was offered by Creative Capital, a national non‐profit organization that provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists. Through this intensive course, artists from all disciplines learned from Creative Capital consultants and prior artist grantees how to manage the business aspects of a creative career. Thanks to the generous support of RACC, OAC, and the Kresge Foundation, tuition was 85% subsidized.
In 2003, Creative Capital launched the Professional Development Program (PDP) to share with a broad community of artists some of the tools and strategies for improved self‐sufficiency that were initially developed for grantees. Since then, PDP has refined these methodologies and developed new ones, which it has shared with more than 3,700 artists in more than 50 communities around the country. PDP presents lessons on self‐management, strategic planning, fundraising, web strategies, verbal communication, and promotion.
Student exhibitions spread across the city
A wide breadth of PNCA students are exhibiting on campus, and throughout the city of Portland. The following is a selection of exhibitions that showcase the talent and dedication of the PNCA student body.
General Fine Arts major Rachel Ferber '12 presents What Does The Wind Feel Like in the BFA Gallery.
The Global Studies office presents the work of seven PNCA students in International Week.
MFA in Visual Studies candidate Kei Horiuchi MFA '12 presents STATIC in the MFA Central Gallery, with sound by Stefan Ransom and Wilson Vediner.
The MFA in Visual Studies first year candidates present a group show, Happy Hour at Allied Works.
The Intermedia Club at PNCA presents a group show called ENTER MEDIUM in the Higgins Gallery.
Plywerk has teamed up with PNCA and Pushdot Studio to put together a juried art show of 20 art pieces from PNCA.
PNCA's Printmaking Department presents work from PNCA's Print Publishing Program in a show called Printed by PNCA.
Don't miss a special benefit exhibition of work by Justin Kenney '12 in the Wieden+Kennedy Lobby on NW 13th Avenue, either. Proceeds from the sale of his artwork go to St. Mary's Home for Boys and p:ear.
Painting Professor Modou Dieng curated an exhibition of student work at the Painting is Dead Gallery in a show called iPainting. Artist include Mary Brossman, Kevin Champoux, and Devon Maldonado.
PNCA Hosts November Iteration of Portland STOCK
This Sunday marks the November iteration of Portland Stock, a recurring public dinner event and presentation series hosted by PNCA which democratically funds Portland-area artist projects. Diners pay $10 for a homemade meal and the chance to vote for which artist proposal will receive the evening's proceeds. The dinner's profits immediately become an artist grant, awarded according to the vote of the diners. Winning artists present their completed work at the next Stock dinner.
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The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 5)
Reality is often said to be stranger than fiction, but what it rarely gets credit for is being 100 times creepier than any goddamned horror movie out there. Each year we attempt to fix that inequity with a list of real-life unsettling locations that will cause the skeptical part of your brain to shit its pants out of blind, irrational fear. We don't care if you don't believe in hauntings or ghosts -- go hang out in any of these places at night and your imagination will make them haunted.
Of course, if you want to take the complete tour, feel free to trek through parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the series. Otherwise, let's visit ...
#6. The Veterinary School of Your Nightmares
Stefaan Beernaert/Environmental Graffiti
"Hey, guys! Let's go sneak into the abandoned Anderlecht Veterinary Surgical School! It'll be fun!" And why not -- this musty old building in Brussels will probably be a fascinating look into the past. Besides, it's a veterinary school, and you love animals! Hey, what's on that shelf over there?
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Probably some pickled eggs and preserved vegetables.
It seems to be a bunch of jars full of-
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Yes, ever since the school was moved to another location in the nearby city of Liege, the building has been abandoned, and it still contains shelves full of what appear to be grotesque mad scientist specimens preserved in formaldehyde. Specimens of what, you ask? Good question. Urban explorers who have penetrated the building have reported such things as "the head of a calf joined with the leg of a cat," and that was just the one they could identify. One look at the twisted horrors on display behind the dusty glass and you'll be convinced that this was no ordinary veterinary school:
Stefaan Beernaert/Environmental Graffiti
Did that hamster eat its own head?
You're probably assuming that this is some pre-Soviet institution from back in the days when real science was just a series of pale men in dank basements trying their damnedest to bring monsters to life. You'd be wrong. The Anderlecht Veterinary School was abandoned way back in the bygone era of 1990, which means that students were still hosting frat parties in these dorms a full decade after Animal House, a title that has an altogether new meaning here.
Stefaan Beernaert/Environmental Graffiti
Here's a split-level animal house.
And if you needed any other reason to stay the hell out of such a place, the whole building is now basically a sealed poison chamber. The formaldehyde used for the preservation of biological specimens tends to give off fumes. Having been abandoned for over 20 years, the unventilated building has allowed the evaporated chemicals to build up into a dense, horrific stench cloud that can literally burn your skin.
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The 1990 hospital kept 1790 fear vials for fun.
Bottles of chemicals and vials of medicine can be found scattered throughout the darkened rooms, and the school has been ravaged by looting and vandalism. Potential squatters be warned, however, as tentative planning has the school set to be renovated and turned into a greenhouse. Not quite the fitting end for such a unique place, but hey, Belgians need their tomatoes. Just don't be surprised if your salads shriek with the howls of malformed creatures.
#5. The New York Bird Shit Asylum
Taking a single wrong turn in Queens Village in New York can be a life-changing experience; you might end up mugged and stabbed amid the many rat-infested alleyways, or even worse, you might stumble upon Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. Founded in 1912, it was built to serve those whose mental illnesses left them unable to effectively care for themselves. Now its claim to fame is being steeped knee-high in bird shit.
The photographer took this, tossed the camera to a friend, and was consumed.
Generations of New York's pigeons have flocked to the Creedmoor asylum for no reason but to poop all over it, particularly in the abandoned Building 25, and the preserved towers of guano now serve as monuments to the spirit of fuck everything about this place.
It's like an indoor beach, if the sand were roach fuel.
The birds probably have a good reason to hate the old building -- at a time when similar hospitals were being shut down left and right for sanitary violations, Creedmoor made a name for itself with a dysentery outbreak. But this was the '40s, and it avoided being closed down until 20-plus years later, when an inquiry revealed that "Oh, holy shit, guys." Over a 20-month span, the hospital averaged over 10 violent crimes a month, including assaults, over 130 burglaries, fires, a riot, suicides, and a shooting.
Afterward, they cleaned the place up, producing this.
Today, some parts of the hospital are still in use, housing a few hundred patients. All of them are sitting there, knowing that nearby Building 25 is an abandoned hell of bird shit and tormented souls.
"Nurse, I don't think this is the cafeteria. Nurse? Hello?"
#4. Fear Mountain, the Entrance to Japanese Hell
Osorezan (literally "Fear Mountain") is considered one of the three most sacred mountains in all of Japan, although if we're being totally honest here, its name isn't really all that accurate. That's not to say that it's not a hopeless gray landscape filled with sulfuric water mist and deadly pit vipers -- it totally is. Rather, it's not a mountain so much as a caldera volcano that last erupted in 1787.
Now it just waits. And watches.
Some Japanese monks actually refer to Osorezan as the "Gateway to Hell," so we're not exaggerating for comedy purposes when we say that the blasted, ash-coated landscape of Fear Mountain looks exactly like what you'd expect the entrance to actual hell to look like. In fact, the topography of the mountain happens to pretty accurately match the description of hell taught by the Tendai sect of monks. Not that that stopped them from living there.
Scattered statues keep things safe and cheery.
Not only does the mountain look like the kind of wasteland you might have to trudge through to reach Satan's eternal clubhouse (or at best, Mordor), it also hosts its own version of the River Styx. The Sanzu River that runs through the area has heavily toxic waters that have killed almost all life in and around it.
Nothing in nature is supposed to have this color.
For a price, the monks who inhabit the area will relay your message to the great beyond thanks to the convenient location of Fear Mountain and the magic mushroom they use to put themselves in a trance. To access their inner medium, the itako shamans ingest an indigenous mushroom known as the Devil Skull Mushroom, which seems fitting.
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I know all details about how entity groups work in GAE's storage, but yesterday (at the App Engine meetup in Palo Alto), as a presenter was explaining his use of entity groups, it struck me that I've never really made use of them in my own GAE apps, and I don't recall seeing them used in open-source GAE apps I've used.
So, I suspect I've just been overlooking (not noticing or remembering) such examples because I'm simply not used to them enough to immediately connect "use of entity group" to "kind of application problems being solved" -- and I think I should remedy that by studying such sources with this goal in mind, focusing on what problem the EG use is solving (i.e., why the app works with it, but wouldn't work or wouldn't work well without it).
Can anybody suggest good URLs to such code? (Essays would also be welcome, if they focus on application-level problem solving, but not if, like most I've seen, they just focus on the details of how EGs work!-).


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CE4190 - Disease In The Developing World
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The Effects of Early Physical Development in Girls
Building Blocks
Vibrancy is a state of mental health that denotes acceptance of self and is not dependent on another person's acceptance.
Girls who mature early, developing breasts before the average age of 12½, have more problems than other adolescents. Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, professor of child development at Columbia University, found that girls who mature prematurely experience three times greater risk of depression, eating disorders, and behavioral problems during adolescence. The problems do not only arise from all of the factors we have already discussed but also from the tendency of the young adolescents with mature bodies to hang out with older girls.
The Importance of Being on the Lookout
Dr. Brooks-Gunn says that parents must be vigilant in supervising and monitoring their adolescent daughters in order to avoid future problems. Take a look at the following table to see what lies at the end of the adolescent road for further verification that your attention and presence are acutely needed.
|Emerging Voice and Persona
|Emerging with a Healthy Voice and Persona
|Emerging with an Unhealthy Voice and Persona
|Increased empathy
|Distrust adults
|Good balance between caring for others and caring for self
|Ability to interact successfully
|Co-dependent personality
|Development of core self
|Loss of self in relationships
|Strong but pliable identity
|A victim mentality
|Abundance of family
|Builds lop-sided relationships
|Extended relationality
|Hold onto family feuds
|Greater intuition into self and others
|Substance abuse or eating disorders
|Ability to build authentic relationships
|Lethargic, sullen
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mothers and Daughters © 2001 by Rosanne Rosen. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Board seeks answers about cycling event
The UCI World Road Cycling Championships will take place in the Richmond region three years from this week, but Henrico County officials need more information before formally committing to climb aboard for the ride.
Officials from Richmond 2015 – the nonprofit organization that will host the nine-day international event – asked Henrico's Board of Supervisors during a Sept. 11 work session to contribute a total of $1.4 million to the championships during the next three years. But supervisors and County Manager Virgil Hazelett, while pledging support for the event in general terms, bristled at the request because it lacked the specifics they were expecting.
"It is clear to me that we do not have sufficient information," Hazelett said. "My main concern is the cost. I don't have a comfort level yet in what's going to happen."
Richmond 2015 has established a budget of $21.4 million, its CEO, William Flohr, told the board. The City of Richmond has committed a $2 million contribution, he said, and presentations to officials in Hanover and Chesterfield counties followed the visit to Henrico. The organization arrived at its $1.4 million request of Henrico by following the regional funding format that was used for the Greater Richmond Convention Center, to which Richmond contributed 50 percent, Henrico 35 percent, Chesterfield 13 percent and Hanover 2 percent.
Board 'disappointed' in approach
But it was clear during last week's work session that at least some county officials felt slighted by the organization's decision to approach them now to assist with an event that may have quickly outgrown its original scope – and by the implication among some in the public that the county was not being a regional partner.
During a steady and pointed line of questioning, Brookland District Supervisor and board chairman Dick Glover expressed as much, suggesting that Richmond 2015 officials had dropped the ball by waiting more than 18 months to meet with the full Henrico board.
He implied that if the organization had involved Henrico from the beginning (in late 2010), the county would have felt more like a true partner and less like a bank account.
"I am very disappointed that this is almost two years after [the process began] that the Board of Supervisors of Henrico County has been approached," Glover said. "I feel like you've left us out of the picture, and now you're coming to us with not enough information."
Varina District Supervisor Tyrone Nelson was similarly unimpressed.
"You came to us and gave us nothing today," Nelson told the organization's contingent. "I think it's a healthy promotion for our region, but you're asking us to spend a million and a half dollars that are not in our budget. We each have capital improvement projects [awaiting funding] in our districts, and I've got people in my district ready to shoot me because we don't have a new school yet."
Nelson also suggested that if the county were to donate the requested $1.4 million, it should receive more than just one of the 12 races scheduled for the nine-day event – particularly if Richmond's $2 million donation is enough to earn it nine races. (Hanover and Chesterfield also would receive one race each by contributing to the event, Richmond 2015 organizers said.)
Flohr, who joined Richmond 2015 in April, conceded that the organization might have done some things differently before his arrival, in retrospect.
"It perhaps should have been a regional effort," he said, "and we're trying to make it into a regional effort now."
Economic impact debated
Henrico stands to realize a $42 million economic benefit from the event, Flohr said; some 450,000 spectators are expected to attend the races. Flohr told the board that Henrico would receive an additional $832,000 in hotel and lodging taxes during the nine-day period, but Hazelett questioned his math, saying that the county typically receives about that much during the month of September, when the occupancy rate is about 60 percent.
"We can't double that [amount] in nine days with only 40 percent vacancy available," Hazelett said.
The race proposed for Henrico is the initial time trial for men and women, which might begin in Short Pump and travel east to its conclusion in the city. That race would be televised live on a national network, Flohr said. But though Henrico would receive commercials during the broadcast and the opportunity for other exposure, Flohr could provide no specific details. The organization must purchase TV time from a network and has not yet completed the negotiation process, he said.
Tuckahoe District Supervisor Pat O'Bannon told Flohr that the board would need to see a specific list of the benefits it would receive for a $1.4 million donation before determining how to proceed.
Hazelett expressed serious concerns about the costs associated with heavy police and security needed to protect the 1,000 cyclists – some of whom will represent nations with volatile political climates – as well as spectators and citizens.
Those costs, combined with shutting down more than 60 intersections for the race, could total nearly $500,000, Hazelett said – money that he said should be deducted from any donation Henrico makes.
To date, Richmond 2015 has financial commitments from five corporate partners totaling more than $2 million, but Flohr declined to name those companies. He promised Hazelett and the board that he would have specific details and answers to their questions by the first week of October, however.
The UCI event, which began in 1927 and has been held annually since (except for a seven-year period during World War II), will be held in The Netherlands this year, Italy next year and Spain in 2014. The United States has hosted it only once, in Colorado Springs in 1986.
Local choral group seeks volunteers
Citizen Staff Reports 07/18/2016
Good Vibrations choral group is looking for all voices with some musical experience to sing with the volunteer choir. The season runs from August to November. Genre includes patriotic and inspirational. > Read more.
County plans Fourth of July event
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MATTHEWS, Adam Douglas, age 22, of Empire, OH, passed away Sunday, December 8, 2013, as a result of an automobile accident.
He was born February 8, 1991, in Steubenville, OH.
Adam was a 2010 graduate of the Edison Local High School. He loved fishing, hunting, four- wheeling and snowboarding and was an excellent swimmer.
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He was an employee of the Cimbar Performance Minerals Co. of Wellsville, OH, as a bagger and forklift operator.
Adam was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Gerald Matthews, and paternal stepgrandfather, James Spencer.
He is survived by his parents, Douglas James Matthews and Susan Lynn Elder Matthews, of Empire, OH; sister, Ashley Matthews, of Steubenville, OH; brother, Austin Matthews, of Empire, OH; maternal grandparents, Ernest and Janet Elder, of Toronto, OH; paternal grandmother, Patricia (Homer) Matthews, of Empire, OH; aunts and uncles, Cathy (Al) Arabia of Irondale, OH, Robin (Harry) Crouch of Toronto, OH, Melissa (Lonnie) Robinson of Weirton, WV, and Keith (Anna) Matthews of Empire, OH; cousins, David (Jennifer) Matthews, Kevin Matthews, Caitlyn Householder, Shawn Householder, David Arabia, Sarah Crouch, Lindsey Crouch, Natalie Matthews, Riley Matthews and Jade Matthews and many, many friends.
Friends and family will gather for visitation 3-5 and 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, December 11 at the Clarke Funeral Home, 302 Main St., Toronto, OH.
A celebration service of Adam's life will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, December 12 at the funeral home with Pastor Susan Clegg officiating. Burial will follow at the Sugar Grove Union Cemetery
To view the obituary, sign the guest register or send condolences to the family go to www.clarkefuneralhome.com.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. � Patti Page, the �Singing Rage� who stumbled across �Tennessee Waltz� and made it one of the best-selling recordings ever, has died. She was 85.
Page died on New Year�s Day in Encinitas, Calif., according to publicist Schatzi Hageman.
Page was the top-selling female singer of the 1950s with more than 100 million records sold. Her most enduring songs remain �Tennessee Waltz,� one of two songs the state of Tennessee has officially adopted, and �(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window.�
�I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing,� she said in a 1999 interview. �And things snowballed.�
She created a distinctive sound for the music industry in 1947 by overdubbing her own voice when she didn�t have enough money to hire backup singers for the single, �Confess.� She went on to score sell 15 gold records and three gold albums with 24 songs in the top 10, including four that reached No. 1.
She was popular in pop music and country and became the first singer to have television programs on all three major networks, including �The Patti Page Show� on ABC.
In 1999, after 51 years of performing, Page won her first Grammy for traditional pop vocal performance for �Live at Carnegie Hall � The 50th Anniversary Concert.� Page was planning to attend a special ceremony on Feb. 9 in Los Angeles where she was to receive a lifetime acheivement award from The Recording Academy.
Page was born Nov. 8, 1927, as Clara Ann Fowler in Claremore, Okla. The family of three boys and eight girls moved a few years later to nearby Tulsa.
She got her stage name working at radio station KTUL, which had a 15-minute program sponsored by Page Milk Co. The regular Patti Page singer left and was replaced by Page, who took the name with her on the road to stardom.
Page was discovered by Jack Rael, a band leader who was making a stop in Tulsa in 1946 when he heard Page sing on the radio. Rael called KTUL asking where the broadcast originated. When told Page was a local singer, he quickly arranged an interview and abandoned his career to be Page�s manager.
A year later she signed a contract with Mercury Records and began appearing in major nightclubs in the Chicago area.
Her first major hit was �With My Eyes Wide Open I�m Dreaming,� but she got noticed a few years earlier in 1947 with �Confess.�
The arrangement of �Confess� required an echo effect from backup singers, but since Rael and Page were footing the bill, they decided Page would do all the voices by overdubbing.
�We would have to pay for all those expenses because Mercury felt that I had not as yet received any national recognition that would merit Mercury paying for it,� Page once said.
�Confess� was enough of a hit that Rael convinced Mercury to let Page try full four-part harmony by overdubbing. The result was �With My Eyes Wide Open I�m Dreaming.� The label read, �Vocals by Patti Page, Patti Page, Patti Page and Patti Page.�
�Tennessee Waltz,� her biggest selling record, was a fluke.
Because Christmas was approaching, Mercury Records wanted Page to record �Boogie Woogie Santa Claus� in 1950.
Page and Rael got hold of �Tennessee Waltz,� convinced that a pop artist could make a smash hit out of it. Mercury agreed to put it on the B-side of the Christmas song.
�Mercury wanted to concentrate on a Christmas song and they didn�t want anything with much merit on the flip side,� Page said. �They didn�t want any disc jockeys to turn the Christmas record over. The title of that great Christmas song was �Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,� and no one ever heard of it.�
�Tennessee Waltz� became the first pop tune that crossed over into a big country hit.
The waltz was on the charts for 30 weeks, 12 of them in the top 10, and eventually sold more than 10 million copies, behind only �White Christmas� by Bing Crosby at the time.
She went on to record such hits as �Doggie in the Window,� �Mockin� Bird Hill,� �Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte,� and �Allegheny Moon.� She teamed with George Jones on �You Never Looked That Good When You Were Mine.�
In films Page co-starred with Burt Lancaster in his Oscar-winning appearance of �Elmer Gantry,� and she appeared in �Dondi� with David Janssen and in �Boy�s Night Out� with James Garner and Kim Novack.
She also starred on stage in the musical comedy �Annie Get Your Gun.�
She received the Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music in 1980 and also was elected to CMA�s board of directors. She also is a member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
In her later career, Page and husband Jerry Filiciotto spent half the year living in Southern California and half in an 1830s farmhouse in New Hampshire. He died in 2009.
Page is survived by her son, Daniel O�Curran, daughter Kathleen Ginn and sister Peggy Layton.


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More babies squeezing organic food from pouches
|Gerber organic baby food pouches are seen on the shelf in the baby food aisle in City Target on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, in downtown Los Angeles. Organic baby food often is packaged in pouches, an industry innovation popular in its own right. Though they can be more expensive, pouches are beloved by parents who can let their kids feed themselves at a young age. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
No more.
Old-school glass jars of applesauce are still around, but these days they share shelf space in the baby food aisle with curious (and often organic) combinations like zucchini, banana and amaranth (it's a grain) packed in brightly colored pouches intended to be squished and slurped by consumers with little — and not so little — hands.
"What we try to do is engage them, stimulate all of their senses," says Paul Lindley, founder of Ella's Kitchen baby food, a pioneer in the use of pouch-style packaging. "Not just their taste sense, not just putting a spoon in their mouth or a pouch into their mouth ... but to try to stimulate all their other senses."
Welcome to the world of premium baby foods, part of a $1.5 billion industry that's no longer just about babies. Babies don't generally care much about food packaging. But toddlers, older children and convenience-driven parents do.
Pouches have allowed baby food makers to broaden the appeal of their products beyond the traditional baby food years. Maureen Putman, chief marketing officer for the Hain Celestial Group, maker of organic brand Earth's Best, says pouches have helped fuel 11 percent growth at Earth's Best even as the U.S. birth rate declines.
"It's allowing us to age up. Where moms may have stopped baby food at 9 to 12 months, the pouches have really helped extend the shelf life of baby food," she says. "We see growth for a long time to come."
Parents like Lindsey Carl, of Clarksville, Tenn., make the case, saying pouches are a less messy way to feed her 22-month-old daughter and 10-month-old son simultaneously. "They don't require a spoon, which makes on-the-go easy," she says. "You don't have to worry about bringing a spoon: `Where do I wash the spoon? Where do I put the spoon?"'
And the premium baby food world is an increasingly crowded one, with other major players including Plum Organics, Sprout, the organic baby food company founded by Food Network star Tyler Florence, and even long established baby food maker Gerber.
"We're excited about pouches and we're the No. 1 in the segment and we want to continue to grow it," said Aileen Stocks, Gerber's head of integrated marketing.
Obviously, the premium trend also is about what's in the pouches. And increasingly it's organic. While organic accounts for only about 4 percent of total U.S. food sales, organic baby food represents a more impressive 21 percent of that category, says Putman.
Gerber, with more than half the market, also is No. 1 in pouch sales, with about a 30 percent share, Stocks said. She said while organic pouches are driving growth in premium products, Gerber's product line runs from infants to preschool and they are focusing on growth and innovation in all the segments.
"Pouches obviously, it's an exciting story because you're seeing a lot of it in the aisles right now," she said. "But it's really just one part of the whole story as far as the child's nutrition."
Putman says the popularity of organics is a sign that parents are concerned about what they're feeding their babies. But there could be other reasons, too. The creative new mixes available — such as Plum's sweet potato, mango and millet, and Sprout's pasta with lentil Bolognese — might speak to Mom and Dad's inner foodie.
Premium baby foods also bridge the gap between the parents who feed out of jars and those who prefer a make-it-from-scratch approach, creating a middle ground both sides of that parenting debate are more comfortable with.
Florence sees Sprout as a way to expose more young eaters to a wider variety of more flavorful foods. His own "Aha!" moment came when a friend's toddler was spitting up old fashioned jar food. Florence steamed and pureed carrots, and the boy licked the bowl clean.
"If you're feeding a child just sort of green gruel out of a jar and they're spitting it up all over their shirt, they're saying, `Listen, I don't like this stuff,"' said Florence.
Organic pouches can run $1.69 for 4 ounces, compared to 99 cents for some jarred food. Still, Meagan Call of Cleveland, Ohio, says she can get them on sale for about $1. Call sees pouches as a healthy alternative to sugar-heavy juice boxes for her 18-month-old son.
"They're more like smoothies," Call said. "That's what I see it as. I'm giving him smoothies and smoothies are fairly healthy as long as you don't overdo it."
Not everyone is cooing over pouches, though.
One common criticism is that in some cases a pouch will read something like "spinach and apples," giving an impression of a vegetable-rich meal even if the ingredient label lists more apples than spinach. More pointedly, some critics claim that parents tend to over-rely on pouches.
Dina Rose, a sociologist who writes the "It's Not About Nutrition" blog, said while pouches can be a beneficial "bridge" to fresh fruits and vegetables, they are no substitute.
"It lulls people into thinking that they've done their fruit-and-vegetable job. So they're done," Rose said. "And it gets them out of what they think of as the struggle to get their kids to eat fruits and vegetables."
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"Lost" Balanchine BalletsWhich ones would you like to be "found"
Posted 10 May 2008 - 07:38 AM
Posted 10 May 2008 - 08:55 AM
Posted 10 May 2008 - 05:43 PM
How do the rest of you read this pose?
Actually, Apollo does some pirouettes landing in a turned in lunge on the balls of his feet that look rather like this -- Miller's tutu looks odd with this pose, makes it look like there's something wrong with her left hip.
Posted 10 May 2008 - 06:17 PM
I'd like to add another question to this: what impession about the dancer and/or ballet were they trying to convey when they selected this photo (presumeably rejecting others)? As Paul says, the pose is "rather singular" and might, to some, appear rather strange.
How do the rest of you read this pose?
Posted 11 May 2008 - 02:07 AM
Posted 11 May 2008 - 05:26 AM
i know during the big fonteyn conference in london alastair macaulay was in some touch w/ miller. i don't now if he still is. i'll ask to see if he can get through to her to see if she recalls anything about this photo.
Posted 11 May 2008 - 09:53 AM
Posted 11 May 2008 - 11:39 AM
This was my guess -- or rather guesses. Either it was a transitory moment made into an off-balance pose for the camera's sake, or it was something a photographer, perhaps not well versed in ballet, devised for his subject.
my guess is that Miller's pose catches her somehow amid a traveling mode - that is, this pose would be seen only momentarily in the ballet's choreography, if indeed it's from any of the ballet itself. perhaps she esp. liked this pose or felt esp. comfortable in this 'moment.' or perhaps her photographer wanted some version of a fourth position to have both legs on pointe.
You can see Miller's left hip working to keep her upright.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Two days after NASCAR issued severe penalties to his team for an illegal engine used in last weekend's race at Kansas Speedway, Matt Kenseth won the pole for the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway.
Kenseth, who is in his first season as driver of the No. 20 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, broke a nine-year track qualifying record at Richmond with a lap at 130.334 mph. The previous record at this 0.75-mile racetrack was 129.983 mph, which was set by Brian Vickers in May 2004. Vickers, who continues to substitute for the injured Denny Hamlin in JGR's No. 11 Toyota, qualified on the outside pole with lap at 130.303 mph. His lap time was only 0.005 seconds behind Kenseth.
Not known in the past as a great qualifier, Kenseth earned his 10th pole in his 481th Sprint Cup Series start. He also won the pole one week ago at Kansas, but his pole victory was stripped as part of NASCAR's penalties assessed to his team. Earlier this week, NASCAR discovered that one of the connecting rods in the engine used in Kenseth's Kansas race-winning car did not meet the minimum connecting rod weight.
Kenseth and car owner Joe Gibbs were both penalized with a loss of 50 points. His crew chief, Jason Ratcliff, received a suspension of six points-paying races and the all-star event (non-points), a fine of $200,000 and probation for the remainder of the year. Kenseth said on Thursday the penalties were "grossly unfair."
Jeff Gordon qualified third for Saturday night's 400-lap race at Richmond, while his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, Kasey Kahne, took the fourth spot. Clint Bowyer was fifth, followed by Juan Pablo Montoya and Joey Logano.
Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Mark Martin completed the top-10. Busch has won the last four spring events at Richmond.
The winners of the last three races — Martinsville (Jimmie Johnson), Texas (Busch) and Kansas (Kenseth) — have started on the pole, which is the first time that has happened since 1985. Kenseth has one Sprint Cup victory at Richmond, which came in September 2002.


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Not too long ago Bruce Weber was fired as the men's basketball coach at Illinois because of poor job performance.
It appears one program's trash is another program's treasure as Weber was not out of a job long. He was recently hired in the same position at Kansas State.
That job was open because Frank Martin left to take the position at South Carolina, which was open because former coach Darrin Horn was fired after four seasons.
Doug Wojcik was shown the door at Tulsa, but resurfaced at the College of Charleston.
Wojcik spent seven seasons at Tulsa, where he has the most wins in program history at 140-92. But, the Golden Hurricanes never made the NCAA Tournament under his watch.
Ross Parmley, Tulsa athletic director, called Wojcik's firing "a business decision."
That basically means he needs more butts in the seats and multiple trips to March Madness.
Did Ohio State choke against Kansas?
The Jayhawks played better down the stretch than the Buckeyes.
Jared Sullinger proved why he is not ready for the NBA. He had a hard time getting around Kansas' Jeff Withey. The players in the NBA are bigger and more athletic than Withey.
Sullinger should spend the offseason shooting about 1,000 jumpers a day from 8-to-15 feet. He can hit that shot on occasion. But, as a defender, I would much rather him take that shot than get inside.
One thing was proven, though.
Every member of the Buckeyes needs Aaron Craft's heart.
Just me, but I am guessing approximately two dozen, or more, employees within the Indian Creek school district will lose their jobs at the end of the school year and they will not be replaced.
Administration must lop about $800,000 off the budget for the 2012-13 school year.
That's not good for anybody - especially the kids.
Thanks, voters.
Another pat on the back to the voters in the Edison school district for their thumbs down as sticker shock will be felt for the pay-to-play measure which will be implemented next school year.
Even Satan believes in God.
Expect Tiger Woods to play well at Augusta. Like Bay Hill, where he won for the seventh time recently, he loves the golf course and everything about the Masters.
I still say Phil Mickelson beats Rory McIlroy down the stretch.
Life will never be the same for Justin Cummings or the family of Lee West.
They continually need our prayers.
Zach Collaros has proved what hard work can do for you.
All the times I watched Max Nogay play baseball at Weirton Madonna, I never saw him don the catcher's gear.
He was a shortstop or pitcher - never behind the plate.
He spent his redshirt freshman year at West Virginia University as the bullpen catcher and is now the starting catcher for the Mountaineers.
What happens if he chooses to be stubborn and selfish?
Every high school athlete should watch the story on Chris Herren.
Every high school student should do a research paper on Horatio Spafford and how he came to write "It Is Well With My Soul."
Yes, make-up calls happen.
When pitchers cannot find the strike zone, defenses get bored.
Ryan Leaf continues to prove what a magnificent decision the Indianapolis Colts made that day.
Name the last professional athlete who was under a huge microscope like Tim Tebow and all people want to be is negative.
Practice is hard for a reason. Practice is hard and brutal so games seem easy and fun. It's OK if your child comes home dog tired.
Just a great win for the women's NIT championship by Oklahoma State.
Do you really think the Flyers really care about the cheap shot? The Flyers are 5-0 at Consol Energy Center since it opened in October 2010.
From Frequent Flyers and Frank Seravalli: Peter Laviolette was asked to give his reasoning as to why his Flyers are now 5-0-0 at the Consol Energy Center since it's opening on Oct. 7, 2010.
The Flyers were 13-27-8-3 in regular season games at the old Mellon Arena from 1991-2010.
Laviolette said it comes down to the Flyers' food on the plane ride home from Pittsburgh, where they are greeted with mouth-watering ribs from a restaurant across the West Virginia border.
Laviolette said the tradition started last season, which may or may not have sprung from his roots as a coach in the ECHL with the Wheeling Nailers.
"You know, we buy ribs from Dee Jay's in Weirton after the game, and we have them delivered to our plane," Laviolette said. "Those ribs seem to be doing the trick.
"It went back to last year. Whenever the ribs are ordered, we win. I want to thank Dee Jay's."
Keep it up Mr. Guida!
If you have never listened to Vin Scully call a Dodgers baseball game, you must. He will only broadcast Dodger games in California and Arizona this year.
(Mathison, a Weirton resident, is the sports editor of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com).