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- 1 medium size picture frame with glass
- 2 decorative drawer pulls
- matte material
- scrapbook items
- drill and assorted drill bits
- small bolt cutters, metal saw, or cut-off disc
- measuring tape
- hammer
- epoxy or industrial strength adhesive (optional)
- Remove glass and backing from picture frame, and measure thickness of frame where you want handles.
- Trim mounting studs on back of pulls to be a little less than frame thickness.
- Using the trimmed studs on the back of drawer pull, mark where to drill holes in the side of frame. Use a tape measure to center.
- Carefully drill holes in frame the same diameter or slightly larger than the mounting studs. (Tip: use tape around drill bit to ensure you don't drill all the way through.)
- Using a hammer, gently tap the studs into the holes, alternating from one to the other until the pull is seated flush against the frame. (You should have a snug fit, but if not you can use epoxy or industrial strength adhesive in the holes, and let fully cure before using.)
- Reassemble frame with backing, glass, and your collage.
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Tuesday - Ran 7.1 miles @ 8:07/mile pace. Paved roads, very hilly.
Today - Ran 14.0 miles @ 7:41/mile pace. Paved paths, very flat.
I did this run after work and before I traveled down to Jersey for Thanksgiving. I took it easy and treated it as a true recovery run, which was smart and I think my body was grateful, especially given the hills on this route. Afterwards, I changed and made the long drive.
I woke up this morning, not immediately aware of where I was. After getting my bearings and slurping down a pot of coffee and a light breakfast, I drove over to the park that I used to run and walk the dogs at when I lived down here several years ago. The plan was to run between 8-10 miles, but the temptation to cover every path in the park was too great and it bumped my mileage up to 14 even. Very flat terrain, but still far from boring. This park is one of the few nice places in Jersey.
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|Frying the Fastnachts
Fastnachts. Deep fried dough. What could be better? I loved seeing that Day #7 of the challenge was on a favorite recipe, because it just so happens that I'm making this lovely recipe today anyway!
I grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania and went to college in Southeastern Pennsylvania so if you said "Fastnacht" to most people they knew that you were referring to a doughnut. Being a German major in college and Catholic the terms Fastnacht and Fasching (Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras) were common terms as well.
Essentially as Ash Wednesday grew near it would be time to eat all those fatty foods before fasting (clearing out the pantry of all the goodies, so to speak). Fasching more commonly (at least today) refers to the day before Ash Wednesday and these doughnuts are a last hurrah of sorts.
My mom would make these every year when I was little. I remember coming home from school and seeing my mom surrounded by fastnachts.....mmmmm Yummy!!! The funny thing is we aren't even German...at all. My mom's 100% Irish. My dad 100% Lithuanian. Apparently my mom's best friend in school was German and she'd get lots of cool recipes from her and would turn them into family traditions. I would irritate my parents to no end because, as a child, I had a difficult time saying Fastnacht [fasst-nahkt]. I would say "fasst-snot". It was not intentional..at least at first :)
|Benjamin helping roll the Fastnachts
When I had kids this was one of those things that I just had to make each year. Now I didn't when we lived in Hawaii. My oldest was really too small to appreciate them, but when he was 2 years old and were living in California, it was game-on, and oh did my kids learn to love these doughnuts! They are an all day affair though, so I actually make them on Monday for them to beready for eating on Fasching (that's not saying that we don't enjoy them Monday night as well...it's still Carnival after all!).
|Fastnachts on the last rise with the slits cut in the middle
2 c milk, scalded
2 tbsp warm water (110-115 degrees (F))
1 pkg active dry yeast
3/4 c sugar
1/4 c margarine, melted
1/2 tsp salt
7 c flour
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Canola oil
Powdered sugar (or granulated, if you prefer)
Scald milk and set aside to cool.
Dissolve yeast in the water then add 1/2 c flour to the yeast and mix. Add this to the scalded milk (ensuring the milk is not between 110-115 degrees (F) as well). Stir. Transfer to a very large bowl. Add 1 tsp of the sugar and 3 c flour. Mix, cover with plastic wrap (spray plastic wrap with butter spray) or a towel and allow to rise overnight in a warm place.
Punch down. Add the eggs, margarine (again, make sure it's not hotter than 115 degrees(F)), nutmeg, salt, and remaining sugar. Add as much of the remaining flour as you can stir with a spoon. Allow to rise until light (about 2 hours).
Punch down. Roll on a floured surface to about 1/4-inch thickness. Cut into squares. Cut a slit in the center with a pair of kitchen scissors. Let rise (about 45 minutes).
Heat oil to 375 degrees (F). Fry in batches until golden, turning once. Remove to paper towel-lined baking sheets. While warm sprinkle with powdered or granulated sugar (we always did powdered).
Store in an air-tight container.
HINT: To proof the dough (make it rise faster) - Preheat the oven to 200 degrees (F). When preheated leave on (and empty) for 4 - 5 minutes. Turn the oven OFF and place the towel covered bowl in the oven (it's probably going to be on the lowest rack since you need a good-sized bowl for this and you don't want it touching the upper heating-element). I only use the proofing for the first rise (about 3 - 4 hours), but you could probably do it for the second rise as well.
Day old Fastnachts are no longer the lovely chewy goodness they were on that initial day, but fear not, just pop them in the microwave for a couple seconds or warm them up in the oven to bring them back to their first-day glory. They take a lot of work to make, but I guarantee that once you've eaten them you'll be craving them!


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As reported here this week, the first round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations has been underway in Washington, D.C. with European Union and American officials, along with a select group of business, banking, environmental, and union "stakeholders." President Obama has placed this planned political and economic merger of the EU and the United States on a fast track, with the intention of building support for it over the coming months so that it can be rammed through Congress next year.
Despite constant claims of commitment to "transparency," "openness" and "democracy," the TTIP talks have been conducted under a cloak of secrecy, with the negotiations closed to the press and the negotiated texts and documents unavailable to the public. This is standard operating procedure in the EU (see here, here, and here) which the United States would mirror more and more, should the TTIP merger succeed.
On Thursday, July 11, the fourth day of the TTIP talks in Washington, a top EU official made some interesting admissions during a speech in Europe. Addressing Lithuanian legislators in Vilnius, the nation's capital, European Commission Vice-President for Inter-institutional Affairs and Administration Maros Sefcovic (shown above) explained the role of national parliaments under the new regime instituted by the so-called economic reforms known as the "Six-Pack" (2011) and the "Two-Pack" (2012). According to Sefcovic, due to the economic crisis, these reforms required an increased "pooling of sovereignty" by the member states of the eurozone. This means, among other things, that their national budgets will be scrutinized and approved or disapproved by the troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is the job of national parliaments, Sefcovic said, in essence, to rubberstamp the decisions of the troika, thereby providing a façade of democratic legitimacy. And, ah yes, the parliaments are also supposed to organize "Europe days" confabs to discuss and debate the wonderful work and vision of the European Commission. Sefcovic told the parliament members that even more changes are headed their way:
The Euro currency is stable again. But the crisis has not gone away completely, of course, and we have to continue to follow these new rules if we want to ensure that it does not return.
And there are still more changes to be expected en route. For example, we will soon be entering a new phase of relations between national governments, national parliaments and the European Commission, when the first national budget proposals are scrutinised at the European level, as agreed as part of the 'two-pack'.
This is a new procedure, and one born out of necessity — one of the key causes of the crisis was irresponsible budgeting in some Member States that had a knock-on effect in other countries. European level scrutiny of national budgets is designed to stop this from happening again.
This is an excellent example of just how far we have come, how far we have been willing to find new ways to do what needs to be done. Pooling sovereignty in this way would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and yet now it is likely to be the model for future development of the economic and monetary union.
That last sentence, especially, deserves a repeat: "Pooling sovereignty in this way would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and yet now it is likely to be the model."
What Sefcovic and the EU officials in Brussels and Strasbourg refer to as "pooling sovereignty" is, of course, a very radical process that has been fundamentally transforming the relationship between the EU and its member states. The principal-agent relationship has been reversed, with the EU now assuming the principal position, and the member nations becoming the agents, although many critics say the master-servant description is now more apropos. National sovereignty has been, in effect, defined out of existence in the EU. That is precisely what is also in store for Americans, if we accept the TTIP.
"Since the onset of the euro crisis, we have witnessed a massive transfer of powers to the EU level," notes the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), in a policy brief entitled, "What Is Political Union?"
It acknowledges that the European Central Bank's recent intervention in national pension reform and labor markets "revealed the extent to which the ECB was acting as a shadow government."
After surveying the new powers conferred by the Six-Pack and the Two-Pack agreements, the ECFR brief notes: "The shift does not stop there." It then outlines a number of additional new power transfers in the works, and then observes: "There is still more to come: the EU is currently discussing plans for economic, fiscal, and banking union…."
"The fear now," according to the ECFR brief, "is that European leaders might end up sitting at the top of an economic federation without the political structures that would democratically legitimise it."
"The fear now"? Fear by whom? The ECFR is speaking for the EU's ruling class, of course. The European Union's political structures — they say — are still not big enough and powerful enough to handle all of the "crises" besetting the EU. National and local governments are getting in the way of the EU ruling class's grand plans. This "structural flaw" will be remedied by constant accretions of power. But, as the ECFR brief outlines, there are differences of opinion among the EU ruling elites concerning the various federalist models and the timetables for achieving complete centralization of political and economic power. Regardless of the model and timetable chosen, the point is that the EU's ruling elite view this evolution as an ongoing "process," an irreversible process that will ineluctably lead to the formerly independent nation states becoming total and abject vassals of a superstate in Brussels.
Maros Sefcovic was careful to put a smiley face on this new vassalage, calling the EU's new national servitors "partners in this process" — as he explained to them their new role in the unfolding drama scripted by the shadow government in Brussels:
We will all need to play our part in explaining to the citizens of Europe just what these proposals will mean and how parliaments at national and European levels will play a full part in the process. This will of course be even more necessary as we move deeper into economic and monetary union — as for example with our proposals for a full banking union….
As I said, we are all partners in this process, and can all contribute much to the debate; the more regularly and effectively we can do that, the better it will be for us all!
Audacity, deception and guile
"Twenty years ago, when the process began, there was no question of losing sovereignty. That was a lie, or at any rate, a dishonest obfuscation." So wrote British columnist/commentator Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, in London's Sunday Telegraph, on August 4, 1991.
Worsthorne, an erstwhile supporter of the Common Market (as the EU was previously known), made the comment above a few months before the official adoption of the 1992 Single European Act (SEA). He recognized by then that the process of economic and monetary union to be set in motion by the SEA was a trap that would lead inexorably to political union, and a deathblow to national sovereignty and independence.
Especially since the launch of the euro currency, on January 1, 1999, many of the EU's top architects and leaders have repeatedly confirmed in word what is already obvious by their deeds: that the "European Project" is a continuous process that will, if carried to their intended conclusion, eradicate all remaining vestiges of national sovereignty and render all EU inhabitants subject to the untrammeled powers of rulers in Brussels.
With the launch of the euro currency, Wim Duisenburg, president of the European Central Bank, matter-of-factly told The Daily Telegraph, on January 1, 1999: "From now on, monetary policy, usually an essential part of national sovereignty, will be decided by a truly European institution."
In the same Daily Telegraph article, French Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn approvingly declared: "The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. It's a tool to help us master globalisation and help us resist irrational shifts in the market."
Gerhard Schröder, who was then chancellor of Germany, proclaimed in January 1999:
The time for individual nations having its own tax, employment and social policies if definitely over. We must finally bury the erroneous ideas of nations having sovereignty over foreign and defence policies. National sovereignty will soon prove itself to be a product of the imagination.
(Schröder, by the way, has turned his German and EU politicking into a profitable second career, as chairman of the board of Nord Stream AG, the giant Russian-EU gas pipeline project he had championed while chancellor — along with Vladimir Putin. Putin's energy behemoth, Gazprom, owns 51 percent of Nord Stream and Gazprom Chairman Alexei Miller — along with fellow Putin oligarchs Alexander Medvedev and Vlada Russakova — sits on the board. Nord Stream's managing director is Matthias Warnig, for decades a member of the Stasi, the former Communist East Germany's secret police. Warnig and Putin worked together, while Putin was a KGB agent in Germany. With help from Putin's Kremlin, Warnig jumped from Stasi agent to chairman of the board of the Russian branch of Dresdner Bank, one of Germany's largest banks.)
Shröder's vision of an all-powerful EU central government is shared by his successor, Angela Merkel, who told reporters in 2012:
My vision is one of political union…. We need to become incrementally closer and closer, in all policy areas… Over a long process, we will transfer more powers to the [European] Commission, which will then handle what falls within the European remit like a government of Europe.
Collapsing trust and confidence
The citizens of the EU countries have only recently begun to grasp the grim reality of what this vision would mean. But it has finally struck them hard. A recent study by the European Council on Foreign Relations entitled "The Continent-wide Rise of Euroscepticism" laments the fact that in virtually every EU country trust in the EU has plummeted dramatically. The ECFR study reports:
It was once seen as a British disease. But Euroscepticism has now spread across the continent like a virus. As data from Eurobarometer shows, trust in the European project has fallen even faster than growth rates. Since the beginning of the euro crisis, trust in the European Union has fallen from +10 to -22 percent in France, from +20 to -29 percent in Germany, from +30 to -22 percent in Italy, from +42 to -52 percent in Spain, from +50 to +6 percent in Poland, and from -13 to -49 percent in the United Kingdom.
"What is so striking," admit the ECFR authors, "is that everyone in the EU has been losing faith in the project: both creditors and debtors, and eurozone countries, would-be members, and 'opt-outs'. Back in 2007, people thought that the UK, which scored -13 percent in trust, was the Eurosceptic outlier. Now, remarkably, the four largest eurozone countries have even lower levels of trust in the EU institutions than Britain did back in 2007."
Why should we join the disaster?
With dissatisfaction within the EU being so widespread, and with the EU architects so brazenly transforming what they originally promoted as a common market into a full-fledged central government, Americans might be wise to take a long, hard look at what is now being offered in the form of the much-hyped Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. As we reported previously (Transatlantic Danger: U.S.-EU Merger Talks Underway in D.C.), the key impetus for the TTIP in this country is being provided by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and its many banking, business, and think tank adjuncts. And we documented many years ago (United States of Europe) that the American CFR played a central role, following World War II, in launching the movement for an European Common Market and a European Union.
In September 2000 the mainstream media discovered that the post-war movement for a united Europe had been funded by the American CIA. What these MSM articles failed to mention was that all of the top CIA individuals mentioned in the newly released documents — William Donovan, Walter Bedell Smith, Allen Dulles, Paul Hoffman — were also key leaders in the CFR and were carrying out the CFR's designs.
This merely confirmed what the late Hilaire du Berrier, a longtime contributing editor to The New American (and its predecessors American Opinion and The Review of the News) had been documenting for decades in his authoritative HduB Reports, which he published from Monte Carlo, Monaco.
"The CFR," wrote du Berrier in January 1973, "saw the Common Market from the first as a regional government to which more and more nations would be added until the world government which the UN had failed to bring about would be realized. At a favorable point in the Common Market's development, America would be brought in. But the American public had to be softened first and leaders groomed for the change-over."
Nearly 20 years later, in 1991, German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, an avid advocate of the EU superstate, validated du Berrier's point, in an address in Lisbon, Portugal, entitled "The Future of Europe," in which he declared:
The road points not backward to the nation-state of the past.... Basically, it is a matter of constructing a world order of peace in which the United Nations must at last play the central role assigned it in its Charter.
The CFR and ECFR are doing their best now to, as Hilaire du Berrier foresaw, "soften" the American public, so that the United States may be brought into "The Project."
Photo: Maros Sefcovic
Related articles:
Transatlantic Danger: U.S.-EU Merger Talks Underway in D.C.
Obama, Cameron, Barroso Push EU-US Merger at G8 Ireland Summit
CFR Applauds European Union's "Real Subversion of Sovereignty"


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BABSON PARK, Mass. – MIT picked up a point in doubles play, but could not come up with any victories in singles action as the Engineers fell to Wellesley College, 5-1, in the championship match of New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Tennis Tournament at Babson's Farwell Courts on Sunday afternoon. The loss closes out the fall portion of the team's schedule and dropped MIT's overall record to 7-3 for the season.
All three of the doubles matches were closely contested, with all three of the losing teams winning at least six games. The No. 1 ended up tied at 8-8 and went into a tiebreaker where the Wellesley duo of Marie Watanabe and SoJung Lee narrowly escaped MIT's team of sophomores Lauren Quisenberry (Corpus Christie, Texas) and Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) with a 9-7 win in the tie break to take the match.
Both No. 2 and No. 3 doubles would wind up with 8-6 scores, with the Engineers combo of senior Anastasia Vishnevetsky (Orange, Conn.) and freshman Michelle Dutt (Gurnee, Ill.) getting what proved to be the only MIT point of the day taking the No. 2 match.
Needing three singles wins to clinch the match and the NEWMAC title, Wellesley (10-1) got them in the first three singles matches to be decided. The Blue got straight sets wins at Nos. 2, 4 and 6, with the closest of the three a 6-2, 6-3 decision at No. 2 by Erica Choo over Dutt. MIT were in strong positions to pick up victories in the remaining matches, but with Wellesley having enough points to win the match the final three singles contests went unfinished. Vishnevetsky won her first set at No. 3, as did freshman Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) at No. 5. In the No. 1 match Quisenberry had come back from a first set, 6-2, loss to even things up with Watanabe.


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Membership of Pony Club provides children and young adults with the opportunity to build and develop character, responsibility and consideration for others through their involvement with a living animal, which is an excellent medium for developing these attributes. Riding is also one of the few sports where male and female can participate on an equal basis.
Pony Club place in order of importance:
The Pony Club aim is not to produce individual riders of exceptional ability, rather to help ALL members improve their riding skills and to enjoy the experience.
Much care is needed when selecting a horse/pony for a Pony Club member, as it needs to be reasonably well mannered and obedient, and able to be ridden safely with other horses and ponies. Pony Clubs are an excellent starting point for further enquiries regarding the selection of suitable ponies.
Parents need to be certain that they and their children are fully aware of all the responsibilities and commitments of owning and caring for a horse before they consider purchasing one. If in doubt about the commitment and level of responsibility a child will take on when owning a pony, it may be better to hold off from the final purchase. It may be more realistic to hire or lease a pony in the early days, so as to gauge how committed the child will be.
The By-laws state (Section 19.3, 2013 ed)
1.1.If the DC, assistant appointed in accordance with rule 6.10.e, or zone representative, considers:
i.An injured, sick or undernourished mount is unfit to participate in an activity, the mount must not be ridden and he may require the responsible carer to remove it from the club grounds
ii.A mount unsafe or unsuitable, it must not be ridden.


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Charles Bauman was born in Ehrenstetten, Baden, Germany in 1835, and came to Sandusky when he was eighteen years old. Mr. Bauman was engaged in the wall paper and decorating business in Sandusky for forty-nine years. During the Civil War, Charles Bauman enlisted in Company F of the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Music was important to Charles Bauman. He was a member of the old Great Western Band, and was leader of the Germania Reed band. For a time he was also associated with Ackley's Band. On August 17, 1902, the Sandusky Register reported that Ackley's Band serenaded Mr. Charles Bauman on the occasion of his sixty-seventh birthday. The band arrived at the Bauman residence on South Decatur Street shortly after midnight. After the band played several selections, they were invited in for refreshments. When Mr. Bauman and his wife celebrated their golden anniversary on December 7, 1906, Charles was quite ill. Although he was sick, his wish was gratified.
Charles Bauman died on December 16, 1906. He left behind his wife, five sons, and six daughters. Charles Bauman was buried at Oakland Cemetery. In the photograph above, Charles Bauman is wearing a uniform. He had been a member of the I.O.O.F. as well as the G.A.R., but the uniform does look similar to the Knights of the Maccabees uniforms of the 1890's. If you know the exact type uniform pictured in the portrait of Charles Bauman, please leave a message in the comment area of this blog post.
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This is a wonderful photograph. My gr gr grandfather, Ralph S. Tebbutt was in the decorating business as well.He and Mr. Bauman were business partners for a time, owning "Bauman & Tebbutt" a paint, wallpaper and decorator shop on Columbus Ave. It is really nice to see what he looked like. I don't know what the uniform is. Grandpa was a member of the Pythian knights, but I don't know if that is the uniform.
Great article!
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Rare Māori portraits on display for the first time
Rare Māori portraits on display for the first time
For the first time since their creation 160 years ago, 22 fragile watercolour portraits of Māori will be displayed as a set in the newly-revamped National Library's Turnbull Gallery in Wellington.
Mystery surrounds artist Isaac Coates' Head and Shoulders: Portraits of Māori (1808-1878), but fragments of information about their creation suggest a fascinating series of encounters between the artist and his subjects, according to Alexander Turnbull Library Māori Curator Paul Diamond.
"The people painted by Coates were living through a time of fundamental transformation, as the Māori and European worlds bumped up against each other. You can see this in the portrait of Pikiwati, who has a partially tattooed face, drawn in exquisite detail, but is also wearing European dress: a blue jacket and neck scarf."
Handwritten notes below the portraits record the turmoil and rapid change characterising these peoples' lives. Some of these comments refer to the 'Wairau Affray' on 17 June 1843, a confrontation sparked by a land dispute in which 22 Pākehā and at least four Māori died.
"It may seem incongruous that these fine portraits should emerge from a time of tense relationships between Māori and Pākehā. A closer look at what happened to Coates after he left New Zealand gives some clues," suggests Paul Diamond.
In 1845 Coates abandoned Nelson for Adelaide, where he chaired the New Zealand Club, which was made up of colonists who saw themselves as involuntary exiles from this country, saddened by the 'ignorance and cupidity of an ill-directed' New Zealand Company and the government's 'infernal administration'.
"Are these portraits a poignant record of a colonist's dream turned sour?" Paul Diamond asks. "Head and shoulders: Portraits of Māori gives visitors a very special chance to come face-to-face with these beautiful, compelling likenesses of the people of mana who fascinated Isaac Coates over 160 years ago.
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Freedom in the World 2011
The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy
Global freedom suffered its fifth consecutive year of decline in 2010, according to Freedom in the World 2011, Freedom House's annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties around the world. This represents the longest continuous period of decline in the nearly 40-year history of the survey. The year featured drops in the number of Free countries and the number of electoral democracies, as well as an overall deterioration for freedom in the Middle East and North Africa region.
A total of 25 countries showed significant declines in 2010, more than double the 11 countries exhibiting noteworthy gains. The number of countries designated as Free fell from 89 to 87, and the number of electoral democracies dropped to 115, far below the 2005 figure of 123. In addition, authoritarian regimes like those in China, Egypt, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela continued to step up repressive measures with little significant resistance from the democratic world.
"This should be a wake-up call for all of the world's democracies," said David J. Kramer, executive director of Freedom House. "Our adversaries are not just engaging in widespread repression, they are doing so with unprecedented aggressiveness and self-confidence, and the democratic community is not rising to the challenge."
Four countries received status declines, including Ukraine and Mexico, which both fell from Free to Partly Free. Mexico's downgrade was a result of the government's inability to stem the tide of violence by drug-trafficking groups, while Ukraine suffered from deteriorating levels of press freedom, instances of election fraud, and growing politicization of the judiciary. Djibouti and Ethiopia were downgraded from Partly Free to Not Free. Other countries showing declines included Bahrain, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, France, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela.
The Middle East and North Africa remained the region with the lowest level of freedom in 2010, continuing its multiyear decline from an already-low democratic baseline.
The world's most powerful authoritarian regimes acted with increased brazenness in 2010. China pressured foreign governments to boycott the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony honoring jailed democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo, and Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez pushed through legislation that allowed him to rule by decree and further restricted nongovernmental organizations and the media. Russia's leadership showed blatant disregard for judicial independence in its handling of, among other cases, the sentencing of regime critic and former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky after a trial that was widely considered fraudulent. And both Egypt and Belarus conducted sham elections with little hint of transparency. In the case of Belarus, the election was followed by massive violence by security forces against peaceful demonstrators.
"It is often observed that a government that mistreats its people also fears its people," said Arch Puddington, director of research at Freedom House. "But authoritarian regimes will have a much freer hand to silence their domestic critics if there is no resistance from the outside world. Indeed, if the world's democracies fail to unite and speak out in defense of their own values, despots will continue to gain momentum."
Immigration policies were a topic of concern this year in many countries, including those in Western Europe and the United States. France saw a decline in its civil liberties score due to its treatment of Roma from Eastern Europe as well as its problems in coping with immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
There were a few bright spots in the survey, including status improvements from Not Free to Partly Free for Kyrgyzstan and Guinea after both countries held comparatively free and fair elections, and ratings improvements for Kenya, Moldova, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Tanzania.
Free: The number of countries designated by Freedom in the World as Free in 2010 stands at 87, two fewer than the previous year, and representing 45 percent of the world's 194 countries and 43 percent of the world's population.
Partly Free: The number of Partly Free countries increased to 60, or 31 percent of all countries assessed by the survey, comprising 22 percent of the world's total population.
Not Free: The number of countries deemed to be Not Free remained at 47, or 24 percent of the total number of countries. Nearly 2.5 billion people live in societies where fundamental political rights and civil liberties are not respected. China accounts for more than half of this number.
Electoral Democracies: The number of electoral democracies dropped from 116 to 115, the lowest number since 1995. Three countries—the Philippines, Tanzania, and Tonga—achieved electoral democracy status after conducting elections that were regarded as improvements over earlier polls. Declines in Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, and Sri Lanka triggered their removal from the list of electoral democracies.
Worst of the Worst: Of the 47 countries ranked Not Free, nine countries and one territory received the survey's lowest possible rating for both political rights and civil liberties: Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Tibet, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Sub-Saharan Africa: Major declines were recorded in Ethiopia and Djibouti, both of which dropped from Partly Free to Not Free. In addition, declines were noted in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Rwanda, Swaziland, and Zambia. Improvements were noted in Kenya, Nigeria, Somaliland, and Tanzania, as well as in Guinea, which received an improvement in status from Not Free to Partly Free.
Asia-Pacific: Successful elections resulted in improvements for the Philippines and Tonga. Declines were documented in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Fiji, Indian Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
Central and Eastern Europe/Former Soviet Union: The 2010 election in Kyrgyzstan, which followed the collapse of the government earlier in the year, was considered relatively free and fair and resulted in a status improvement from Not Free to Partly Free. Gains were also noted in Georgia and Moldova. Ukraine dropped from Free to Partly Free, and Nagorno-Karabakh fell from Partly Free to Not Free. Other declines were seen in Hungary and Latvia.
Middle East and North Africa: The Middle East and North Africa, which has long been the region with the lowest levels of democracy in the world, continued its steady decline in 2010. In addition to a reduction in Egypt resulting from the country's sham elections, declines were seen in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iran. There were no status or ratings improvements in the region.
Americas: The inability of the Mexican government to protect ordinary citizens, elected officials, or journalists from organized crime caused Mexico's status to fall from Free to Partly Free. Other countries that saw declines included Venezuela, where President Chávez pushed through damaging legislation just before the formation of a new parliament with significantly more opposition seats. Improvements were noted in Colombia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Western Europe and North America: Western Europe and the United States continued to struggle with a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment. France received a score reduction for its treatment of ethnic minorities, including the mass deportation of Roma.
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The holidays can be an especially difficult time of year for those who are grieving. When everyone around you seems happy and full of holiday cheer, you may want to just skip the holidays all together. The sights, sounds and smells of the holiday season can be overwhelming and the period of time leading up to the holidays can actually be worse than the day itself.
Before Thanksgiving Day, think about what might be tough and plan ahead, for example the "empty chair," should you keep it in place or remove it from the table all together? Should the oldest child or another family member sit there now? Should you set a place in honor of your loved one? There's no right or wrong answer, do what's best for you and your family.
Be realistic… Don't over schedule, you know yourself better than anyone. Set realistic goals and always have more than one plan. By having multiple plans – plan A, B and C – you can quickly move to the next plan if the previous one isn't working or becomes too difficult.
It's important to remember that you don't have to do things the way you've always done them. It may be a good time to start some new traditions, this doesn't mean you're going to lose the old traditions; you can always go back to them or incorporate them again when you're ready. Just because you've always put on a huge feast doesn't mean you have to this year, have everyone bring a dish, have another family member host Thanksgiving dinner, or go out to a restaurant this year.
Address the "elephant in the room," by acknowledging your loved one and including him or her in your gathering by lighting a candle, making a toast in his or her honor, or sharing favorite memories and funny stories about them. It may be difficult to start these conversations but it will benefit everyone around you and help each of you heal a little bit at a time.
A wonderful new tradition is to cover the table with a plain table cloth, provide permanent markers for family members and guests to write what they're "thankful" for on the table cloth, a favorite memory or message to your loved one, and children can have fun by drawing pictures. Bring the tablecloth out at each holiday until it's full and then start a new one!
Remember to give "thanks" for what you had and what you still have… memories, love and feelings in our hearts can never be taken from us unless we let them. This year give thanks that the grief you feel is based on the enormous love you've shared!


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What makes hot sauce hot?
Capsaicin is the active chemical compound that makes chili peppers "hot". It is the plants natural adaptation for deterring plant eating animals. Capsaicin will irritate any part of the human body that it comes into contact with. Different chili peppers contain varying amounts of capsaicin (see Scoville heat scale). Capsaicin is mostly found inside the core of the pepper pod as well as on the external skin. It is therefore essential that latex or rubber gloves are worn not only when cooking with very hot peppers but also when harvesting and handling them. The chemical compound can produce a waxy
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Capsaicin that gets on your skin will not degenerate significantly from washing with soap and water. I often use rubbing alcohol when I find that my hands are burning because of an accidental transfer of capsaicin. I would not recommend this for everyone, since some people with sensitive skin may have a negative reaction to rubbing alcohol.
If you are one of those people who just can't handle spicy food but wish you had more of a tolerance, try to slowly build a tolerance by consuming peppers with low grade heat, then gradually move up the scale (see Scoville Heat scale).
Believe it or not, genetics, ancestry and cultural histories play a large part in determining whether or not someone may or may not have a tolerance to spicy food. Generally, Central and South Americans as well as people from India and North Africa have a higher tolerance for spicy food than Western and Eastern Europeans.
Lastly, I would like to address the issue of ingesting large quantities of capsaicin. A good rule of thumb is: "Whatever burns on the way in, will burn on the way out". This is because the mucus membranes and soft tissue that line your mouth are very similar to those found in your rectum. I know it is not the most appetizing thing to think about, but it is worth mentioning. I have personally noticed that consuming a bite of a fresh pepper (even a habanero or dare I say a Naga Jolokia (Indian Ghost Pepper >1,000,000 Scoville Units)) produces less discomfort than some processed artificially flavored hot sauce that contains synthetically altered or concentrated capsaicin. Also, take into account that the Scoville heat scale, as groundbreaking and informative as it is, is not an absolute. I have had roasted jalapeno peppers that were hotter than roasted cayenne peppers. I have also consumed cayenne peppers off the vine that were hotter than fresh habanero peppers.


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The funeral of Eugene J. McCarty, 229 S. 2nd St., Lehighton, will be held tomorrow at the Zimmerman Funeral home, Lehighton. Mr. McCarty, a former Lehighton borough councilman, died Monday at his home.
Mr. McCarty was the father of Mrs. James G. Halliday of East Stroudsburg. he was a locomotive engineer for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He retired in 1959 after 48 years with the railroad.
Survivors include his widow, the former Edna Goldsworthy; a brother and a granddaughter."
Mr. McCarty was a veteran of World War I. His daughter's name (here listed as Mrs. James G Halliday) was Laura and his mother, Emma, was a widow and living with the family during the 1940 census.
Sadly, no burial information for Eugene was given and there is no memorial for him on FindAGrave.


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George E. Higgins
posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 3:18 pm
A quick question about r-square in logistic regression output. Is this a McFadden's R-square or interpreted as an ols type r-square? What type of r-square is it? Thank you in advance.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 4:09 pm
We use the underlying continuous latent response variable approach, also discussed in McKelvey & Zavoina (1975) in J of Math'l Soc. You also find this discussed in the Snijders & Bosker multilevel book.
Jinhua Zhao
posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 9:07 am
Does Mplus calculate a McFadden's R-square for nominal dependent variables?
If not, shall I run a model without any predictors and compare the H0 value of the loglikelihoods of the null model and the full model? How do I specify a null model?
Thank you,
Jinhua Zhao
posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 9:11 am
To get a null model, I tried to regress the nominal dependent variable on constant ONE=1;
But mplus does not allow it because it ONE has a variance of zero.
How do I specify the null model then please?
Jinhua Zhao
posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 9:31 am
I tried a null model with MODEL section left empty. And mplus gives a H0 value of the loglikelihood. Is this the correct way?
Then when I introduce the latent variables to the multinomial logit model, the H0 value of the loglikelihood seems to be on a different order of magnitude. For example in my case:
Ho for Null Model: -3502.791
Ho for Model with observed covariates: -2200.72
Ho for Model with latent variable: -21436.896
Then how do I make a meaningful comparison and calculate the R-square?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 10:03 am
I think the null model you refer to is obtained with slopes fixed at zero. so with 2 x variables:
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Jinhua Zhao
posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 3:47 pm
Thank you, Prof. Muthen! This works with your suggestion.
Then after I introduced LV to the MNL model, the H0 value of the loglikelihood becomes an order of magnitude bigger.
Large portion of H0 value is from the LV measurement and SEM model part, so no matter how well we do in the discrete choice model part, the R2 will be always small. For example, in my case:
Before I introduce LV,
H0 for the null model is -2720.4; H0 for the full model is -1510.4; R2 = 0.445
After introducing LV,
H0 for the null model (constant only for the choice model part) is
-27155.679; H0 for the full model is -26718.724.
Now, even the h0 increases quite a bit but R2 is only 0.017.
So this seems not a fair comparison between models, and R2 is
arbitrarily low for models with LV.
Is there a way we can measure the model fit just for the MNL choice model part?
Mohamed Abdel-Raouf
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I am trying to compare two non-nested models with binary outcomes, one criteria mentioned in literature is the explanatory power of the models in prediction (R-square), from the output and below R-square title, i got R-square value for u1 as .98. As i know that R-square in social science hardly exceeds .6, and i perceive R-square of .98 as a very high value...any comments?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 6:21 pm
Yes, that sounds atypical. But also note that R2 for binary outcomes is not that informative given that it refers to a latent response variable - not the observed binary outcome - and no residual variance is estimated.
How about using BIC instead.
Mohamed Abdel-Raouf
posted on Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 6:42 pm
But this value- as appears in my output- is for u1 as observed variable and it has a residual variance calculated !!!
BIC does not appear in my output becoause i use WLSMV...
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 11:58 am
Right, there is a residual variance reported, but it is not an estimated free parameter. Rather, it is a remainder, computed as 1-(the explained variance). This is in line with probit/logit regression where there is no estimated, free residual variance. See our Topic 2 video for further discussion of this.
If you can do the model in ML, you will have access to BIC.
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Redwood Community Radio Board of Directors
Date & Time: 26 February 2013, 4 PM
Place: Healy Senior Center, 456 Briceland Rd, Redway, CA
I. Call to Order: Meeting Ground Rules and Opening Comments from President
II. Roll Call: Suzanne Beers, President, Board-elected; Siena Klein, Vice President, Members' Rep; Julia Minton, Treasurer, Members' Rep; Noel Soucy, Secretary, Programmers' Rep; Nella White, Member's Rep; Jordan Jumpshot, Programmers' Rep; Marcy Stein, Programmers' Rep; ex officio member: Jeanette Todd, Interim Station Manager.
Others Present: Dan Glaser, Jama Chaplin, Maria Velazquez-Soleto, George Monroe, Cynthia Click, BR Graham, Felix Omai.
III. Approval of Minutes: (November, January, and February Special) Julia moved, and Nella Seconded to approve the February Special Minutes. Unanimous. Suz moves to table approval of November and January meetings. Nella seconds. All in favor except Noel abstains.
IV. Approval of Agenda- Siena moves to accept agenda with three amendments: Closed Session after Financial Report, and move Station Manager up to item A. Add Item E. Budget to Unfinished Business. Julia seconds. Unanimous.
V. Open Time: Speakers will be assigned an amount of time not to exceed 5 minutes
BR Graham- BR thanks us for hiring our new Station Manager. She is personally looking forward to great things from all of us, and is delighted for the new leadership. BR and Dian (who couldn't be here) both endorse the idea of a Transition Committee.
George Monroe- George likes Jeanette's style, and thinks she is going to be great in the position. George is concerned that people who hang out at the station have some dysfunction. George would like to see everyone rise to the situation to help keep the station safe and successful. George thinks Jane is getting a lot of mileage out of our dysfunction. George feels that Jane is financially and legally a liability to the station.
Dan Glaser- Dan is back. He has a cane. He came to talk about the financial fiasco and the signal upgrade. Dan wants to welcome our new fearless leader. Are we serving our community with high tech fiascos and grant dependency? Are we prepared for a disaster or are we the caboose on the next high tech train wreck? The finger shouldn't be pointed at any one particular person. We pissed away (pardon his French) two properties, and we are going to go the way of KZYX if we don't fix things now.
Cynthia Click- Is stoked we hired Jeanette. She is really excited we are moving ahead on the Library. She is stoked on the trainings that are going on. She is bummed about the theft of a big pile of vinyl, and she is going to put the rest of the vinyl under lock and key. Cynthia locks the front door when she is in the studio late night. She would like programmers to lock up at night when they are in the studio to try to stop the thievery.
Felix is really pleased we hired Jeanette and didn't vacillate forever. Felix is also delighted about the Signal Upgrade.
VI. Management Report
Jeanette informed the Board during her lengthy report that everything on the Compliance Calendar is up to date.
VII. Discussion/Questions for Management
VIII. Consent Calendar
A. Appoint Suzanne Beers as Policy Chair- Marcy and Nella moved to appoint Suzanne as Policy Chair. Siena seconds. Unanimous.
IX. Finance Committee Report
X. Closed Session- Personnel matters
XI. Unfinished Business
A. Hiring a Station Manager- Nella moves to accept the recommendation of the Hiring Committee and hire Jeanette Todd as our Station Manager. Noel seconds. Unanimous.
B. Transition Committee- Julia moves to form the Transition Committee, Marcy seconds. The motion is amended that the Transition Committee up to be six months or longer. Unanimous. Jordan moves to appoint Noel, Nella, Jordan and Marcy to the Transition Committee. Siena seconds. Unanimous.
C. Music Server Proposal- Noel moves to approve the purchase of a music server for Redwood Community Radio with a spending limit of $2500. Nella seconds. Unanimous.
D. Plan Recruitment of Board Members- Board mixers, promote with other groups, on-air promos, Membership meeting, Board talk show.
E. Budget- Julia moves to table. Marcy seconds. Unanimous.
XII. New Business
A. HD radios- Link for Best Buy on website- The Board wants to do more research to find out what all of our options are to promote HD radio and our new HD radio signal.
XIII. Reports
A. Programmers' Reps
B. Members' Reps
C. Community Advisory Boards (CAB's)
D. Correspondence Secretaries- Hiring Committee Thankyous
E. Staff meeting report, and appoint next Board member(s) to attend
XIV. Other Committee Reports
A. Hiring Committee
B. Development, including Pledge Drive Subcommittee
C. Mediation
D. Policy
E. Website
XV. Scheduling -- proposed meeting times are:
A. Board of Directors: Fourth Tuesday, 4 pm, Healy Senior Center
B. Executive Committee: Second Tuesday, 11:30 am, Studio B
C. Finance Committee: Third Tuesday, 3 pm, KMUD
D. Website Committee: March 12th, 10:00am, KMUD
E. Development Committee: 1st Monday, 4th March, 3:00 pm, KMUD
F. Policy Committee: 2nd Tuesday, 3:00 pm, KMUD
G. Transition Committee: 11 March, 1:00 pm, KMUD
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Sturgis: A low down, dirty good time
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It was 10 a.m. and already too hot. Dust and the sound of uncorked V-Twins filled the air, and every decibel of spent combustion beat inside my head like a John Bonham drum solo. Surrounded by Harley-Davidsons covered from the grime of 1500 miles, trailers, and the empty Jack Daniels bottles of last night's shenanigans, it finally hit me: this is what Sturgis is all about. Sturgis is a knock-down, drag out, low-down, and dirty good time. It's as trashy, rock-and-roll, and loud as all the stereotypes suggest, but stereotypes don't matter when you're having one helluva good time, and the experience is only heightened when you road trip out here. 4 days, 1500 miles, megatons of gasoline, and GoPro cameras recording every second; this is how you road trip on Harley-Davidsons.
Day One: Seattle as a Starting Block
Touching down in Seattle was the official start of the trip to Sturgis. Our trip began in earnest early the next morning. The fleet of new Harley-Davidsons sat in the morning fog waiting to fire up and wake up every single person that was still sleeping. Every bike was represented, from Sportsters and Softails and everything in between. I chose the Harley-Davidson Forty-Eight for the first day of riding – a 1200cc Sportster slathered in yellow and black like a pissed-off wasp. Clad with chunky tires and a bobbed rear fender, it sat like a bulldog in the early morning sunlight. The goal for the day: cover 815 miles and arrive in Lewiston, ID. All that stood between us was miles of twisting highway and Mt. Rainer National Park.
Quickly, I learned that this was going to be no doddering ride. Riding with some of the best extreme athletes in the world – people who see broken bones as a minor inconvenience – the pace would be swift regardless of the road ahead. And what lay ahead? Only miles of forest, mountain vistas, drop-offs that were comically high, and gravel in construction zones located right near those drop-offs. Every corner was a new, breathtaking view. After awhile, the sensory overload causes you to not be impressed. Oh, another mountain seemingly punching the clouds. Oh, how nice, another raging river crossing through picturesque forest landscape. And as gorgeous as it was, Mt. Rainer Park was soon behind us, the Forty-Eight taking every corner much better than I thought it could, and happily thumping along hundreds of miles.
The first day would end as we crossed into Lewiston, ID. The road in was also picturesque and gorgeous. Slowly rolling hills, the sun setting on our backs, and throttling the Harley's through, it was a day of excellent riding. Not perfect, though, as a glaring flaw of the Forty-eight would shine through: suspension travel. On the rear, you pay for that low and lean look by sacrificing damping and travel in the suspension, and your back takes the lumps for it. It wasn't nearly enough to dampen the spirits of the day though.
Day Two: On to Montana
Another day, another early morning rise, and miles of asphalt ahead of us. This time, though, I chose the Harley-Davidson Night Rod as my ride for the day. You may remember the Night Rod from our previous story when Bullz-Eye rode it at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and its sibling the V-Rod Muscle on a trip in Miami. For those who don't, the Night Rod is Harley-Davidson's cruise missile. It's the most powerful Harley-Davidson available, and our example was, as you can probably guess from the name, black as night. Smooth and powerful, it eats highway and miles effortlessly without any fuss. Another national park, more highway miles, and more of the absolutely most healthy road food in the world, and the day flew right by. 800 miles in, our trip to Sturgis was at the halfway point.
Day Three: Elk, Bears and Tourists
Day Three for me and the motley band of athletes would cover the least amount of miles, but lead us through Yellowstone to do it. The good was the fact that Yellowstone National Park is a mile of untamed wilderness, geysers,and bears. Mostly bears. Miles and miles of bears. It is also full of tourists, so the group's hope to cruise right through was quickly dashed when we were stuck behind lines of tourists looking at "wilderness." Yes, you should stop and smell the roses and take pictures of elk for your Facebook feed, but not every time.
Then, bison decided they didn't want us to pass either. Bison, if you are not aware, do not give two shits about anything. Ambivalent to passing cars, RV's and motorcycles. They will squat anywhere, at anytime, and sit there. At one point, the bison decided that the front of our group was a great place to take a break. Bison are also huge, and aggressive if you pass them, so with this in mind, we waited until they decided to move. Noticing that we were heating up as the bikes idled beneath our legs, the bison moved only slightly to let us pass. How polite of them.
The capstone of the day more than made up for the slog through Yellowstone with a pass through Beartooth Hwy. I didn't see any real bears in Yellowstone, but this highway sufficed. A true "bucket list road," it's a highway on top of a mountain crossing between two states with intimidating switchbacks, barely any runoff, and the terrain that constantly taunts the limits of your courage. For this pass, I was back on the Forty-Eight, and completely content even though I was not on the latest sportbike. The Forty-Eight exemplifies fun over fast. And on a road like this, fast will send you toppling over a mountain, while fun will bring a smile to your face. Next stop: Sturgis.
Day Four: Sturgis or Bust
Our last day on the road was a hammer down day. Miles and miles of straight highway to get through, and only one way to get through it: full throttle. Going down the highway like this is a lot like time travel. You're not doing much, but going through space. On a bike meant for touring, the ride is boring, but comfy. But I was not on a touring bike. For this day, I was on a Harley-Davidson 72. Part of the Sportster family like the Forty-Eight, the 72 trades yellow paint for a metallic-flake crimson, and black for Chrome. Additionally, it has mini-ape hanger handlebars, whitewall tires and super skinny front tire. It's a chromed-out, badass bike for cruising around town, but this isn't puttering around town, it's going a "respectable" clip down the highway. But, discomfort aside, we made it to Sturgis.
What a difference a change of scenery makes for the 72. Uncomfortable on the highway, you become a star on the boardwalk. Waltzing in to a sea of black, the flaked, chromed 72 is a middle finger to seriousness. And Sturgis is serious business. As you approach the town, the density of bikes increases until you're swimming in schools of much too loud Harley-Davidsons. We have arrived at the ultimate bike rally. But we wouldn't be staying in Sturgis itself, but rather camping slightly past the city at the Buffalo Chip.
Dusty and full of noise, the Buffalo Chip is like Woodstock; just replace the hippies with Harleys. 15 minutes into the camp ground and I hadn't seen one pair of sleeves and overheard conversations that would make Rush Limbaugh blush. It's a non-stop party sprinkled with all the trappings of a country music concert, fused with a NASCAR race, and then spread over miles and miles of American soil.
Surviving Sturgis
For as much as attendees put on the air of rebellion, there's serious money there. Don't worry – there are plenty of people who you've probably seen on "Cops," but many there are attending with huge trailers, decked out trucks and multiple bikes. And everybody is here to party. Ziplining, guns, beer, and plenty of music (Journey, Boston and Eric Church all played while we were there), it's a Blue Collar Comedy Tour theme park. Embrace it, and you'll have the time of your life and a pounding hangover.
Sturgis is both a hopelessly nostalgic trip down memory lane for the boomers that attend, but also a rollicking good time for a younger generation. It's the tradition of the road trip passed down to a younger generation – the urge to just pack up and ride to the biggest two-wheeled party on earth, but with a modern twist. With Go-Pro cameras, iPhones and a Wi-Fi connection, road trips are much more fun when you can share them with those that don't attend.
So, why should you take a Harley-Davidson? You can take a road trip on any bike, but a Harley-Davidson is the official bike of Sturgis, and an American Original. The heat and vibrations all tax your body, but you arrive feeling like you've accomplished something. Not to mention, Harley-Davidson has a variety of true touring bikes, such as the Road King, that are perfect for long highway trips. But even a Sportster, with its tiny gas tank and minimal suspension travel, is capable of taking across the country. The question isn't "Can the bike handle the trip?" but "Can you?"
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If you missed the official unveiling of the Microtopias art installation on the academic quad of Ithaca College yesterday, don't fret. The wind has died down and the art piece still stands, in all of its glory, on the quad until deconstruction this weekend.
As has been mentioned in pervious posts, the interns have been working for the past few weeks on this art project. A collection of recyclable/reusable materials molded into the word microtopias, the art installation is a visual representation of our consumerist society. Materials range from plastic water bottles, to wooden pallets and shipping crates, to old electronics.
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Hernandez 2 scoreless innings, M's top Dodgers 4-1
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Felix Hernandez gave up two hits and struck out one over two scoreless innings in his first spring training start as the Seattle Mariners beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 Tuesday.
"I'm content, happy," said Hernandez, whose only complaint was a poor changeup.
Hernandez said he spent his offseason lifting weights in Venezuela with the hope of adding power and improving endurance.
"I look pretty good," said Hernandez, who said his legs feel stronger now than they did a year ago. "I'm trying to look good, you know?"
The 2010 AL Cy Young Award winner allowed a double off the left-center field wall by Yasiel Puig on his first pitch of the game and walked Carl Crawford. Hernandez then induced a 6-4-3 double play from Hanley Ramirez and struck out Andre Ethier.
Brian Wilson, whose 333 regular-season appearances have all come in relief, got the start because of Zack Greinke's strained right calf. Wilson struck out one in a hitless inning.
Crawford, slowed by tightness in his right thigh, played left field for only the second time this spring training.
J.P. Howell allowed three runs and four hits in the third. Puig had an error in the inning, fielding Kyle Seager's single to right and throwing wide of third as Brad Miller scored.
"I thought it was good today," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "I thought our energy was good."
Mariners: Hernandez, who threw 17 strikes on 29 pitches, made his first spring start later than most pitchers. That's part of his usual spring regimen. He's expected to be Seattle's opening day starter for a seventh time, a franchise record.
Dodgers: Wilson has a new role and new repertoire, including a knuckleball. He threw one Tuesday on his first pitch, a strike, to Seattle shortstop Brad Miller.
"It's been a long road," said Wilson, who wasn't in any camp last spring while undergoing rehab for a second Tommy John surgery.
The Dodgers signed Wilson as a reliever last July and re-signed him on Dec. 5 to a one-year, $10-million deal.
Mariners: Seager was back at third base after jamming a finger Feb. 28 in a slide at first against the Padres.
Dodgers: There still was no word Tuesday on when Greinke will work his first bullpen session since straining his right calf on Feb. 27 while throwing only four pitches in a spring start against Arizona. Greinke continued to wear a sleeve on the calf. He walked around the clubhouse without a limp.
"On Zack throwing a bullpen, the calf will tell us when to do it," Mattingly said.
Pitching prospect Ross Stripling is scheduled Wednesday to undergo Tommy John surgery in Los Angeles. A muscle tear in his right elbow was found this week.
"He was a kid who was on a roll," Mattingly said.
Pitcher Stephen Fife was among 10 players cut by the Dodgers, who have begun to trim the roster for the season-opening series against Arizona on March 22 and 23 in Sydney, Australia. Fife, who has been troubled by shoulder tendinitis, started 15 games for the Dodgers over the last two seasons.


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The Musée des Arts Contemporains (MAC) in Belgium is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a special science fiction-themed art exhibition called "SF: Art, Science et Fiction." It brings together the work of a number of artists, to explore the links between science fiction and the arts. The artworks include modern art pieces speculating about scientific concepts, such as the nature of time, as well as postmodern takes on "popular myths" like Superman.
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Abstract: The effect of corporate governance and managers on the value of companies has received great attention in the recent public debate. In the academic research, this increased attention has been associated with an effort to develop finer conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques to assess how governance and financial characteristics influence corporate policies and profitability. While theoretical models represent a successful approach under specific hypotheses, the econometric analysis of corporate governance and managerial characteristics has proven to be extremely challenging. Because governance and managerial characteristics are equilibrium outcomes largely determined by the firm itself, it is methodologically difficult to separate out their determinants from their consequences to infer causal effects. Since its infancy the empirical corporate governance and corporate finance research has faced this problem, which is often responsible for mixed empirical results. In my dissertation, I adopt a common methodological framework developed in the "program evaluation" literature to shed new light on the effects of governance and managerial characteristics on a variety of corporate policies and, ultimately, firm performance. In particular, I estimate a class of difference-in-differences models deriving the empirical identifications from policy changes that generate "quasi-natural experiments". URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8451
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Zynga embarks on roadshow for its IPO promotionBy : CIOL Bureau |November 30, 2011 0
NEW YORK, USA: Zynga Inc embarks on a road show to promote its initial public offering next Monday, two sources familiar with the matter said, the latest dotcom name to try and whet investors' appetites.
The social gaming leader behind "FarmVille" follows in the footsteps of recent tech companies to test public markets, including Groupon Inc and Angie's List. It could be the biggest Internet debut ahead of Facebook's, which a source said is planning to go public in 2012.
Chief executive officer Mark Pincus will lead presentations to investors, along with chief operating officer John Schappert and chief financial officer David Wehner, the two people told Reuters.
Zynga spokeswoman Cynthia Saw declined to comment.
Four-year-old Zynga, which filed for an IPO of up to $1 billion on July 1, is one of the most hotly anticipated IPOs in technology. It rose to prominence on the strength of viral games such as "FarmVille" and CityVille."
The plan is to price its shares on Nasdaq before the New Year under the symbol "ZNGA," one of these people said. Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia said attention will center on the company's valuation, estimated at around $14 billion.
That would price Zynga higher than videogame heavyweight Activision Blizzard's $13.85 billion market capitalization, or Electronic Arts' $7.2 billion.
Bhatia said the company will need to outline a clear growth strategy during its roadshow to justify that rich price tag.
Some analysts have remarked on Zynga's heavy reliance on Facebook as the main platform for its games. Facebook takes a 30 per cent cut of any revenue earned on the world's largest social network.
Others point to a track record of profitability.
"Relative to some of the recent IPOs, I would think Zynga will do better," Bhatia said. "But it will boil down to what the valuation is. The company might be doing well but if the stock price becomes overpriced, that's the bigger issue."
Too rich?
In its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 17, the company said a third party performed an analysis that valued the company at $14.05 billion. Bhatia estimated that marked a tripling in under nine months.
Zynga — named after Pincus' late American Bulldog — dominates social gaming but has to contend with a growing pool of deep-pocketed rivals, including Walt Disney Co.
With more than 260 million monthly active users on Facebook, it has proven adept at herding current players to its free games. Zynga has said its unique paying players for the 12 months ended September 30 stood at approximately 7.7 million.
While its games are free, revenue comes mainly from selling virtual items such as tractors and weapons that people employ in its game worlds.
But Zynga will debut at a time of weakness in the dotcom stock universe, with Groupon and Pandora Media Inc both trading below their IPO prices.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are the lead underwriters of the IPO. Fortune.com reported the news earlier on Tuesday.


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Derek Jeter pulled into the parking lot of the New York Yankees' minor league complex on Thursday, walked out of his gray Mercedes-Benz and waved a hand holding a bottle of mineral water as about 50 fans applauded his mere arrival.
After taking batting practice in an indoor cage and throwing on a field, he started to drive out of the parking lot about 90 minutes later -- the car cleaned and polished, its silver hub caps shining. He stopped and rolled down the driver's side window to sign photographs, baseballs and other memorabilia for the first dozen people or so who had waited in line.
Already the most adored player on the baseball team with the highest profile, the New York Yankees captain figures to be the recipient of an ever-heightened level of adulation during the next 7 1/2 months as he circumnavigates the major leagues in a farewell tour that could be called Pinstriped Parting 2 following Mariano Rivera's emotional exit last year.
Asked whether he felt good about the decision he announced Wednesday, Jeter responded: "I do."
But he didn't want to get into an extended discussion. New York opens its big league spring training camp Friday, and position players report next week, when Jeter is likely to hold a news conference to discuss his decision.
"I'll address it when we get over there the first day of spring. It's easier that way," he said.
Jeter took the Yankees by surprise with his Wednesday morning telephone call to owner Hal Steinbrenner, and his Facebook announcement later in the day jolted fans accustomed for nearly two decades to the constants of his hot hitting and cool demeanor. Speculation began about a suitable replacement: Hanley Ramirez, Asdrubal Cabrera and J.J. Hardy are among the players eligible for free agency after the season.
"I wish he'd have quit in '05," Cleveland manager Terry Francona said, laughing, remembering Jeter's many performances against his Boston Red Sox. "If you're a baseball fan, he is the walking example of what's good in baseball. You respect him so much, and yet you want him to have as little to do with the outcome of the game if you're his opponent -- and that's probably the biggest compliment you can give him. He's going to find a way to beat you whether it's on the bases, on defense or at the plate.
"And again, because I was in that division, I saw it too much," Francona went on. "He ranks right up there with the most respected players. I'm glad he's walking away on his own terms. We'll probably get to see him seven, eight times. I hope he goes 0 for 28 and we give him a nice plaque or something, but I don't see that really happening."
By Wednesday night the Yankees had sent out an email with links to Jeter gear and ticket information. They announced Thursday that general individual ticket sales will start Feb. 24 -- up from March 5 last year.
Stubhub's lowest price for the Yankees' regular-season home finale on Sept. 25 was $307.50 for a single upper-deck seat and its highest was a fanciful $66,432.90 for a pair in the bleachers. Asking amounts for game No. 162 at Boston three days later were similarly inflated.
Mariano Rivera's farewell season turned into a marketing opportunity, Already Steiner Sports is selling Jeter game-used equipment that includes jerseys ($15,000 and up), cleats ($1,049.99 and up), batting gloves ($599.99 and up) and even a sock ($525).
"This was all sudden. We'll sit with Derek and Casey and his people and come up with a plan," Yankees President Randy Levine said, referring to Jeter's agent, Casey Close.
Jeter had no desire to switch positions or change teams. He wanted to be a member of the Yankees and a shortstop, and nothing else.
He was limited to 17 games last season after breaking an ankle in the 2012 playoffs, and he turns 40 in June. He could join Luis Aparicio and Ozzie Smith as the only one-position players with 2,500 or more major league games, according to STATS.
If he is able to regain his place on a regular basis, he would be a superannuated shortstop. Only Honus Wagner (1914, '15), Luke Appling ('47, '49) and Omar Vizquel (2007) have appeared in 100 or more games at the position in the year they turned 40 or later.
"With the captain, it's an experience I'm going to tell all my kids and the people that I know," Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli said, "because I think he's the greatest player I've ever seen in my life."
NOTES: Masahiro Tanaka also was at the complex, wearing a Yankees T-shirt and shorts, and threw a bullpen session of about two dozen pitches. Jeter joked about having to learn more Japanese to communicate with Tanaka. Pitching coach Larry Rothschild said Tanaka threw two- and four-seam fastballs, splitters and sliders. "It was good. He's still trying to catch up I think with the time change and everything. Just trying to ease him into things," he said. "We're going to go slow with it." ... The Yankees will play exhibition games against the Miami Marlins in Panama City on March 15-16 to honor Rivera, the first visit of Major League Baseball to the Central American nation since 1947.
AP Sports Writer Joe Kay in Goodyear, Ariz., contributed to this report.


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