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Super Bowl vs. Churches -- NFL Loses
This week's lead story brought a fair amount of mail from the Premium subscribers, many of whom were surprised by my take on the story. Here it is:
Weekly Weird News
On the one hand, we have churches trying to compete with a cultural phenomenon, and on the other hand we have the corporate embodiment of large bands of burly ruffians -- the National Football League.
It's easy to make corporate thuggery look stupid, and indeed I think the story did just that, because the NFL was, indeed, stupid in how it handled the perceived problem. It's harder to point out the flaws in the "good guys" -- but that's what I endeavored to do in the story. But let's start with a couple of letters on the subject:
Being pretty much of an agnostic I'm certainly not a pulpit pounder for religion. I generally try to look at the practical and reasonable side of things when considering an issue regardless of the topic. After reading your stuff for so long, and enjoying it, I was surprised at your tagline for this article. I thought you would have come out on the other side. If the NFL is so worried about Nielsen Ratings why exempt bars? The number of churches that would be showing the Super Bowl certainly pales in comparison to the number of bars that would do it. I guess they have the right to do what they did but at least they should come up with something better than Nielsen Ratings as a reason. Can you possibly imagine that next year they would not show the Super Bowl because the ratings went down due to people going to church to watch it? --Ralph, New York
Ralph, in addition to "keep them guessing," churches are known for their hard and fast rules -- and dire consequences -- unless the rules inconvenience them. I presume you know the word for that? Sure the NFL is ridiculous. And I painted them that way clearly. No one gets off clean here -- except the churches which follow their own dictates.
The news reports I saw on several churches were that they *did* conform to the NFL copyright. There were two tactics: 1. take of the name "super bowl", 2. measure the screen exactly to 55 inches. I think the NFL ...umm... dropped the ball on this one. If they truly own the copyright, they can license it for $1 to any church that wants to do this. They could have asked any church to send a check, dated on or before the super bowl, to the NFL, on their honor. I mean, if you cannot trust a church, who can you trust? I think the NFL ended up with a black eye on this one, so I suspect you might have been a bit harsh. --Bandit, New Mexico
We differ on my harshness, but agree the NFL got a black eye over this. It's hardly unexpected that for-profit corporations will do their best to maximize their profits. Ideally, they balance their interests with their images, and indeed the NFL took a broadside sack by a cheerleader on this one.
Last, Eric in Pennsylvania: "I have to wonder, did you struggle deciding which way to go on this story? I think your position was fine, but there do seem to be elements of irrational behavior on both sides, and I imagine some folks will come down on you for not criticizing the NFL's 'bars OK, church no way' position."
No, there was no struggle whatever. The hypocrisy of "doing what's right" unless it thwarts the churches' plans was just too obvious to overlook. How can a church expect its members to do the right thing if they don't provide examples of that themselves?
But let's not let the NFL off too easy. The theft of "intellectual property" -- like a copyrighted article (or telecast!) is, in a very real sense, theft. "But it doesn't cost the NFL any money!" is the usual retort. Even if that was true (and it isn't), that doesn't matter! Theft is theft, and it's not up to the thief to decide who's hurt by it. I am hurt significantly by people who steal my stories, publishing them on their blogs or elsewhere. I've gone after some of them, and won thousands of dollars in compensation from it. And I have several other infringers in my target sights. The law is on my side, as well as the NFL's.
But I think the NFL way overstated things. It's "illegal" to have more than one TV in any one venue? Does that mean you can't have your bedroom TV on if your wife is watching it in the kitchen? It's "illegal" to watch the game on a TV that's greater than 55 inches across? Does that mean you better return that 60-incher to Circuit City before the Copyright Cops crash through your den door? I'll bet copyright law is silent on both issues. Beside the law, there's the image problem the NFL brought upon itself with its ridiculous policy of exempting bars, but not churches. Some Christian news sources announced that, just before the Super Bowl, the NFL issued a "sweeping" exemption for churches as long as they didn't charge admission, but I still haven't been able to find anything official to confirm that -- the "news" section of NFL.com is silent on the subject.
"I spent time trying to research the NFL site and the Super Bowl site to find what the copyright laws were," said the Rev. Tom Rives of the Carrollwood Baptist Church in Tampa, Fla. "They do not have them posted anywhere. I had a lawyer in my church to go through all the things that he could find, because I do not want to stand in my pulpit and say, 'Come do something tonight that's against the law.' I won't do that." THAT is the sort of position I expected churches to take, and why I chastised other pastors for doing the opposite. Rives relied on the news of "It's OK if no admission fee is charged" and went on with his party, a 20-year tradition at his church. But it's still unclear whether he was legally in the right. (Source)
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Posted by Justin from Sacramento on February 9, 2007:
Maybe churches cannot charge, but I'm betting donations were way, WAY up!
Oh wait... I'm not a betting man. I was in church (no game shown there). And I don't watch TV. Too much inane programming.
And darn it, I wish I could have been "patting a powered-up Nielson box" while saying it.
Churches could have just put a large piece of paper over one vertical and one horizontal edge, bringing the measurement to 55". I'd have started with the lower edge, and maybe the right side. That would have kept the score and the station and NFL logo covered.
BTW, is that a vertical measurement or horizontal? Does it specifically say 55" DIAGONALLY measured?
And would advertisers be upset that some part of their costly advertisement was covered with such obstructions in order to comply with the law?
You can see I spend my day thinking outside my non-NFL approved, larger than 55" box...er, cubicle.
Thanks for the laugh Randy!
Posted by mike, windsor CO on February 9, 2007:
Well, I agree that the NFL owns the broadcast and has the right to tell churches they can't show the Super Bowl, but... since the Super Bowl is paid for by advertisers whose products will sell better if more people will see the ads, wouldn't you think that the NFL would encourage as much viewing as possible? Maybe let anybody who doesn't "TIVO" the ads show the broadcast to anyone, as long as they don't charge for it. Wow, a win-win!
Posted by Scott - Villa Rica, GA on February 9, 2007:
The Las Vegas casinos and sports books were issued the same order by the NFL a few years ago. BIG blow to the books.... but they shut down their Super Bowl parties.
Scott - formerly from Las Vegas now living in Villa Rica, GA
Posted by Carl from Provo, UT on February 9, 2007:
I was really surprised to find that the 55" diagonal measurement is in fact included in the US copyright law. Here is a link to the section in question.
Still, I think the NFL just looked stupid -- but you're right on in pointing out that the churches looked bad as well.
Color me surprised! I checked the link and indeed it's true: there is a 55" rule. Yet more proof that copyright law is way behind the times. Thanks for the link. -rc
Posted by Mark in Phoenix on February 9, 2007:
Copyright law covers copying and distribution. When a station broadcasts a program, the onus is on them to obtain the proper licenses. You can watch those programs on any number and size of televisions that you want.
However, if you want to show such programs to other people (for example, in a church or bar), YOU must have appropriate licenses to do so. The NFL has granted a blanket license to anyone to do so as long as they have only one TV that is 55" or smaller. So if you are having all the neighbours over to watch the game, you had better tell your wife to turn the bedroom set off, or to another channel.
Posted by Bob -- Richland, WA on February 10, 2007:
The Statement that bars are exempted from the NFL prohibitions on showing the Super Bowl is somewhat misleading. Any commercial establishment that signs on for satellite TV must pay a premium subscription fee based on the "person capacity" of the facility. If a bar has capacity for 1,000 customers, they pay double the cost for a bar that has capacity for 500 customers. Every commercial establishment pays considerably more than "home" service and the "person capacity" for the subscription is the equivalent of a Nielson rating.
Posted by Gress, Jacksonville, Florida on February 10, 2007:
Very interesting comments, especially the link to the US Code. Upon reading the code, it seems to me that Sections 3 and 4 exempt all churches from infringement of the copyright holder's rights. Especially Section 3 which allows exception when the performance is "in the course of services at a place of worship or other religious assembly". As I understood it, the broadcast was to be construed as a "religious assembly" although it would be a stretch to call it a "service".
In Section 4, the NFL would have to serve each and every church with a document requiring them to not broadcast the event and serve it at least 7 days before the event. All churches not so served would be exempt. The 55" rule does NOT apply in either of these situations.
Posted by Chris, Cary, Illinois on February 10, 2007:
The Chicago Park District had planned to broadcast the game on the Soldier Field Jumbotron for the diehards that wanted to watch the game at the stadium. They were planning on charging a nominal fee which would be donated to charity. Their request to the NFL was turned down citing the fact that the broadcast would not count in the ratings.
Posted by Paul on February 10, 2007:
I understand all sections of the copyright law in question. It was specifically written for MLB & NFL. Intellectual property can mean anything the NFL says it means.
I wonder what will happen, if People of faith don't watch the NFL games next year. Will people then say, Mr. Goodell killed the Golden Goose. Nice first act, Mr. Goodell, what's next?
Posted by John, South Carolina on February 10, 2007:
If only our Baptist brethren would serve wine rather than grape juice, they might have gotten in under the 'bar' exclusion... ;-)
Posted by Scott, Reno, Nevada on February 10, 2007:
I was going to start with an admission that I was ignorant of the copyright law mentioned in the article. Thanks to Carl's link, that is no longer true.
My comment is: If the (federal) law states the conditions under which the display is not an infringement, then how can the NFL grant exemptions? Are they a "higher court"? I suppose they could refuse to prosecute, but that doesn't mean they exempt anybody from the law.
Oh, and in response to Gress's comment, Paragraphs 3 and 4 don't apply to a sporting event, because it is not a literary or musical work.
The NFL can grant exemptions because it's the owner of the copyright. It's their property, and they can do what they want with it -- including granting exceptions to the law, since the law is there to protect the owners. Remember the word: copyright -- it's literally the right to copy. You can sell or give away that right, but only if you own it. -rc
Posted by Eric in Upstate New York on February 10, 2007:
Personally, I feel that churches are businesses the same as bars – though Churches have been granted tax exempt status (for archaic reasons), but they are businesses.
Loosen up NFL; the christians will still be watching your games. You won't be losing any fans, although I imagine betting could drop off a bit. Now, for the bookies out there, that might become a problem because the churches will be taking in what should have been their bucks!
Posted by Pastor Ron, Texas on February 10, 2007:
Actually, I was against the whole concept of showing it in Church anyway. The Church was not set up to entertain and when you get off mission you get into trouble. That is why Church isn't as meaningful to people as it once was because we branched off into way too many venues instead of majoring on the subject we were called to be teach and distribute.
The NFL may have been wrong in some ways but it is their product and they can allow it to be used or not used any way they desire. The renegade Churches were wrong. I felt a bit differently at first, thinking it was just an uneven attack on Churches but since have decided that it was a lose-lose situation that the Churches should have never gotten into at all. If football is more important than God then let folks stay home as the purpose of the Church is diminished by this type of activity. Have a Church fellowship, supper or whatever on any day you want but if the people will only come to your Church for an off-topic function then you do a disservice to God by marketing His "house" as a place of entertainment rather then worship. I think you handled the subject fairly and I appreciate that.
Posted by jpatrick, bartlesville, ok on February 10, 2007:
First off I agree with Pastor Ron, what are churches thinking by broadcasting football games, and on Sunday no less?
I can understand the NFL's position regarding churches vs bars. Most church community halls are much larger than most bars and are more easily set up for an audience. Particularly the "mega churches" that have a congregation in the tens of thousands. Those places would surely skewer the Nielsons.
And as far as giving bars an exemption, the largest Super Bowl advertiser is Anheuser-Busch.
However, whoever at the NFL decided to go after churches should be looking for another job. The NFL lost a helluva lot more than they gained.
The game gets far too much free publicity and promotion as it is, so they've got nothing to whine about.
And I'm tired of the game getting jammed down out throats every year, like it's actually important.
It's a brutal, venal, meaningless exercise, just the sort of thing that the imagination poor media love.
Posted by Scott, in Killeen, Texas on February 10, 2007:
Given that the game is "free" to watch on TV (paid for by the advertising which appears during the game, or paid for by premium channel fees), I think it's *slightly* unrealistic to expect people in general (especially considering the apparent general attitude towards copying music and movies) to automatically know that it can't be watched in groups -- even if it's the law. People are not born knowing the fine points of the law; they need to be told.
When you rent a movie, it typically has a message at the beginning which tells you that you can't copy it and can't use it for commercial purposes (or words to similar effect). As you mentioned, Randy, every copyright owner can grant whatever free or for-pay rights and permissions they want, over and above any allowed by copyright law.
Considering what Rev. Tom Rives said, there's little excuse, in today's Internet world, not to have the legal/copyright page on the NFL site (or any other publisher) list what is and is not acceptable use of the "free" TV broadcast (such as by quoting §110, although I would list some examples for the benefit of non-lawyers), and, if appropriate, a "Buy now" link by which someone can make it acceptable immediately, upon providing the circumstances and the maximum number of expected viewers, and, of course, a credit card number; I'm sure the NFL has a price, even if it's $1000 a head.
Randy: The 55" limit appears to be only for radio and TV broadcasts, but indeed appears to apply to residences with 2000 gross sq ft or more space.
Justin: I've never seen a TV/monitor display measured other than diagonally. This takes into account both the horizontal and vertical size, no matter the proportions.
Mark: My reading indicates that a screen must be no more than 55", among other restrictions, in order to show for free in a food/drink establishment of 3750 gross sq ft or larger. This is granted by the law, not by the NFL.
Bob: I saw no mention of "satellite" in the article.
Gress: The church exemption says that it applies to NON-dramatic works. I would guess that "dramatic" is legalese for "entertainment", in which case football doesn't meet this requirement (unless football is your religion, which I don't think a court would accept). Nor would I refer to a social event as a "service". Also, (4) doesn't seem to apply (in addition to the non-dramatic restriction), since this is a transmission to the public.
I may be incorrect; the legalese is hard to wade through. :(
Eric: I tend to agree about certain churches and some other alleged non-profits being businesses; if employees of so-called non-profits were restricted to no more than middle-class income and even indirect political lobbying forbidden ("call your Senator!"), I bet you'd see a lot fewer of them claiming non-profit status.
Posted by ron on February 10, 2007:
the comedian emo phillips once told a story about how he prayed and prayed for a bicycle but one never came. then one day he went out and stole a bicycle, then prayed for forgiveness. seems like some of the churches may have done just about the same thing.
Posted by Rev. C., Florida on February 10, 2007:
Bravo! I am a minister, and cringe when I see errant hypocrisy on the part of ANY church. I have argued loud and long with church board members about the theft of intellectual property being THEFT. Unfortunately, some people believe that since churches are exempt from paying taxes, they are exempt from many other laws as well.
Playing movies for kids outside of your own home, having Super Bowl parties, and printing copyrighted material without permission or the proper licensing is all THEFT. Whether or not you get caught is not the point. Doing what is right IS the point.
Posted by Ray, Colorado on February 11, 2007:
For years I've turned Karl Marx's famous quotation and asserted that professional sport is the new opiate of the people. You must admit that the NFL certainly has all the trappings of organized religion: the fancy colored robes, the altars, the priesthood with its lesser priests and high priests, the temples and the altars, the rituals and ceremonies, and even the vestal virgins (well, maybe not virginal virgins).
It's funny to see the new "opiate of the people" getting upset that perhaps the old "opiate of the people" is infringing on their (Astro) turf.
Posted by Bob, Texas on February 12, 2007:
After reviewing the current copyright law that states that media broadcasts must be limited to 55" and only at one location, I guess it is time to sue every HDTV manufacturer of sets 56" and above and every cable and satellite service that offers multiple hookups per residence.
And now, anyone with a fancy home theater system may now be subject to copyright violations.
This looks like something for the True Stella awards (or soon to be.)
Posted by Richard from Columbia, MO on February 12, 2007:
Regardless of whether you agree with Falls Creek church on whether they should have been showing it or not, I gotta say that I respect them for their stance: if it's not allowed, they'll respect the copyright. Everyone has been torching the NFL (no one likes a Goliath), and the other churches who were going to disregard the copyright (no one likes a hypocrite); still, Falls Creek should get some recognition for keeping their own stance honorable: They wanted to do something for their folks, something that their church family could enjoy together, along with some visitors. OK.
They took the high road. Props to them.
I agree, and indeed did recognize them: "No one gets off clean here -- except the churches which follow their own dictates." Perhaps that was too subtle, and you're right to emphasize it more. -rc
Posted by Karl on February 12, 2007:
I'm the chairman of the board at a nonprofit literary organization (Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society). We have a number of groups which meet on weekends to show videotapes and DVDs. The problem is, when you buy a videotape or a DVD of a movie from just about any source, you only have the right to show it in your own home, for personal viewing, or in the company of friends and family.
In particular, you can't, say, put up a wide-screen TV in the garage and open up the show to the neighborhood, even if you don't charge admission. That's copyright infringement, and an "egregious violation" where you know it's a violation and do it anyway, can result in up to $150,000 in fines.
The MPAA and other industry groups have become rather protective of their copyrights of late, and are looking for test cases. We certainly don't have the resources to withstand being made an example of.
At our meeting of the Board of Directors yesterday, one of the items we voted on was the purchase of an umbrella license to cover the showing of videos. At $230 per year, we figure it's better than putting the assets of the club at risk.
This license probably doesn't cover sporting events, but we really don't expect that to be a major concern.
Posted by Mike, Illinois on February 12, 2007:
When I read what one of your commenters wrote, "[I]f you cannot trust a church, who can you trust?", I couldn't stop laughing! With years and years of corruption in our churches stretching throughout recorded history, and scandal after scandal popping up in today's churches (covered up child abuse, theft, sex scandals), it's pretty clear that churches are no more worthy of blind trust than any other bureaucracy (or any individual, for that matter).
Blind trust of any organization or person is just asking for trouble. President Reagan's farewell address contains a pertinent statement: "It's still trust but verify. It's still play, but cut the cards. It's still watch closely. And don't be afraid to see what you see."
That last part seems to be the most important part to me.
Thanks for an always through-provoking read.
Posted by Ray in Luxembourg on February 12, 2007:
The relevant section of copyright law is section 110, paragraphs 5A and 5B. (see http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#110)
This is a section which lists limitations to exclusive rights, i.e. when copying is not copyright infringement.
I'm not an expert, but I interpreted 5A as covering private homeowners inviting friends over for general viewing of any broadcast. There is no 55" restriction for private homeowners, but a restriction on charging admission.
5B covers what "establishments" can do, giving one set of conditions for restaurants and bars, and another set of conditions for other establishments (e.g. churches). Churches which measure less than 2000 gross square feet (excluding parking), can broadcast the Super Bowl with (it seems) no restriction on TV size. Larger churches are restricted to screens up to 55", measured diagaonally, with up to 6 speakers (4 in the same room) without infringing the NFL's copyrights.
This is not NFL rules or policies but copyright law, and its limitations on exclusive rights.
Churches can still take the high moral ground here, but only small churches, or large churches with a 55" TV.
(Maybe. 5B (v) indicates the transmission or retransmission must be licensed by the copyright owner. I don't know what that means. I don't know if that means the church must obtain a license from the copyright owner anyway - that wouldn't seem to make much sense, i.e. then it wouldn't be a limitation of exclusivity).
Posted by Johnnie, Alabama on February 12, 2007:
Up to now, I enjoyed your emailings. But your ridiculous and unfounded attack on churches was totally uncalled for and unrelated to the subject, and clearly conveyed your anti-church attitude, of which I had seen hints before. Wherever you got your information, it wasn't from any real Christian church I've ever encountered. Perhaps you've been attending some mosques instead? Or maybe one of those live-in cults in which the leader-dictator thinks he's God, Jr.? I'm cancelling.
Johnnie was a reader for three years, and indeed unsubscribed after this rant. Just as well: I really only want readers who have the ability to think. -rc
Posted by Sandy, Illinois on February 12, 2007:
Very insightful! Sounds like a no one wins situation. There is, however, another tiny bit of information on this you might enjoy. Fellowship of Christian Athletes puts out a halftime show for church youth groups who want to invite kids in for the Super Bowl. The film is timed to fit the space allotted for the on air show. It features NFL players and coaches giving their beliefs and testimonies. The main speaker tells the kids what it takes to become a Christian. Last year's main man was Tony Dungy. And I'm pretty sure, Kurt Warner and some of the Rams did one several years back. I'm not sure who did the newest one. It is my understanding that if football, baseball,... players & coaches appear in uniform for these or any appearances, they have to have the OK of the league or at least their team. My source for that piece of info is an old St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, Rex Hudler. He appeared at our church for Baptist Men's Day. We always take up an appreciation offering for guest speakers. When the check was given to him, he signed it over to our youth director saying it was all part of his contract and the Cardinals let their players speak of their personal convictions in uniform, but would not let him accept even the modest gratuity we offered. He also said he liked to come to churches where it was offered and give the money to the youth director to help kids.
Posted by Mike from Dallas on February 12, 2007:
Sounds suspiciously like the overbearing examples in 1996 when ASCAP took the Campfire Girls to court over singing songs around the campfire. Songs like "This Land Is Your Land" etc. Bascially ASCAP and BMI believe they own the copyrights to every piece of music ever created in America. Including YOUR original compositions.
And it's not just the recording industry, but the government itself which showed them the way, when the IRS decided to clamp down on the vast, underground economy of kids selling lemonade out of their yards for 10¢ a glass and not paying taxes on the proceeds at daddy's 28% or 33% tax rate.
I mean, everybody's definition of 'theft' is different, especially when BMI can sue you for publicly performing your own songs without a license bought from them. Yeah, if the church was selling tickets, then it's theft. If they were just having a big gathering, what's so different than gathering in the same preacher's living room with his 102" plasma screen?
Posted by Jim, Fairview Heights, IL on February 12, 2007:
When I first started reading this article I knew that blindly pointing out the NFL's bullish approach would be too easy and that you'd have a more in depth take. Like you, I was put off by the arrogant manner with which some pastors rationalized going ahead and holding Super Bowl parties in spite of being told not to. I'm not sure if the copyright really does say no one outside the home is allowed to use a TV larger than 55", but that battle should be fought on the right battlefield...either the courtroom or by negotiating an arrangement with the NFL. After all, they are businessmen and women, and if approached the right way (like offering payment for use of intellectual property) they may be willing to lower their own high tone.
Posted by Ray in Luxembourg on February 13, 2007:
Thanks for the story. It first I didn't see the church as the bad guy, but your coverage forced me to think further.
I've taken a recent interest in the area of copyright these days, but more in the area of software, and more specifically in the free software movement, the anti-piracy efforts of proprietary companies (and how frequently companies routinely trample others' rights in an effort to protect their own), and the recent developments in the recording industry and movie industry to combat un-authorized sharing of music and movies.
I see a lot of mis-information, which is why I responded. Here's a few things I see differently than you expressed, and why I think it's important:
1) I would agree with "copyright infringement is, in essence, theft", because the statement is qualified, and the meaning is more that there exist similarities between these two, otherwise different, things. There is an element that some copyright owners, like you, are losing money when infringement occurs. But to categorically conclude "infringement is theft" doesn't follow logically, and is just incorrect, legally speaking. (And when we talk about breaking the law, we are speaking legally). Calling infringement theft assigns attributes to infringement which are not correct. For example, is infringement a crime? I believe it's covered by civil law (although I think the DMCA makes certain actions a criminal offense). As a master of words, you should know that different words have different meanings for a reason.
2) The standard retort, "but it doesn't cost the NFL any money", doesn't matter when deciding if infringement occurs, but does matter when considering if an award of damages is an appropriate remedy for infringement. Kind of like, "no harm, no foul".
3) I understood the primary purpose of copyright law was, not to protect copyright owners, but to serve public interests. Copyright law wasn't written to protect business interests, but to provide a framework to serve the people. Granting temporary exclusive rights to creators of works is just a means to the bigger purpose of enriching the public with high quality works. Plagairism is against the law, not so much because it harms copyright owners, but because it harms the public. When deciding if taping broadcasts on the VCR violated copyright law, serving the public interest was an important consideration.
4) The term "intellectual property" is a blanket term which attempts to collect otherwise very different things. The terms copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secrets all have well-defined meanings in the law. The term "intellectual property" does not. There is very little you can say about "intellectual property", beyond statements like "they are all products of the mind", or "they are all covered by the law" because copyrights are not patents, and patents are not trademarks, and trademarks are not trade secrets. They have very little in common with each other. They have different purposes, cover dis-joint concepts, and are covered by different laws. To combine all of these different things with the blanket term "intellectual property" is to ignore that there are differences. To ignore these differences often, in public, is to further confuse an already ignorant (about "IP") public. When proprietary companies use the term "IP", in a confusing way to the public, which they do frequently and willfully, this tends to serve the company, at the expense of the general public.
Posted by John, Anderson SC on February 13, 2007:
One thing that nobody has commented on, and this is where the NFL is coming from, is the Nielsen ratings. These ratings are how the advertisers cost for commercials is calculated. Fewer people watching translates to less money for the advertisements. If a church were to show the local over-the-air network station broadcast of the Superbowl to, say, 500 people, most of whom would have watched it over a cable or satellite connection then that is (most of) 500 people who wouldn't have been counted in the ratings. Multiply that by the number of churches that could have had superbowl parties and that could cut a percentage point or two out of the Nielsen ratings and that could cause the NFL to lose a significant amount of money.
I'm not coming out in favor of either party on this one; I just wanted to point out the money trail, which everyone else seems to have ignored.
Posted by Vera, San Jose CA on February 13, 2007:
Re: Nielsen Ratings (John from Anderson SC)
The thing you fail to mention (or realize) is that the Nielsen Ratings do not count every individual who watches a particular program. Rather, households are selected based on geographic and demographic data and are actually just a sample population. If a church or other organization got 500 people to attend a viewing event such as the super bowl, it's statistically quite likely that *none* of them would be from Nielsen households. I don't know what the actual number of Nielsen households is, but if they were to monitor the viewing habits of the entire population (currently an estimated 111.4 million television households in the USA) the data would be overwhelming. Statistical sampling cuts both ways: your sample has to be large enough to be representative of the population, but small enough to actually work with.
Posted by Andrew in Colorado on February 13, 2007:
The argument about the Neilsen rating, while valid, misses one major point: Neilsen ratings do not track every single home that watches something; they only track a "representative sample". The only way the churches could appreciably affect the rating is if a large percentage of those who attended were also Neilsen families, with their tracking equipment. If that equipment is silent, that household (and the number of households they represent) would then not be counted. The ratings system is largely antiquated, but most people would consider it an invasion of privacy if networks were able to track who is watching what station at any given time.
Posted by Stephen, Palatine, IL on February 17, 2007:
From the linked copyright law:
Looks like you'd better return that 60" Television AND the 6.0 Surround Sound System!
Rev C in Florida says:
Respectfully reverend, "legal" is not always synonymous with "moral" or "right". Do you remember a few years back when people were going around with video camera hidden in shopping bags (or shoes) and filming "upskirt" shots and selling them on the Internet (that is, the camera was pointed up the skirts of unknowing women)? There was a news program where they briefly interviewed on of the men doing this. It went swomething like this:
Q: Don't you think its _wrong_ to do this?
Q: So you don't think it's wrong?
He was correct. It wasn't illegal at the time, because nobody had ever thought to make a law about it. Flipping the example above, there are a great many things that are illegal that are NOT immoral. The DCMA alone I believe wrongly tramples all over the rights of consumers.
Ray in Luxembourg says:
Excellent point. You beat me to it. Of course, it serves the public by protecting the profit motive to create works that are then protected. The NFL wouldn't exist if there were no profit in it.
John in SC says:
That to me is a flaw in their system, not a moral _or_ legal argument. Ultimately, however, it's also the crux of the moral argument. Since TV is broadcast for free, and the shows make their profits from advertisers, showing it in a really big room makes no difference to profit, (that is, people still see the ads) EXCEPT that the method used for measuring viewership is flawed, and they need to protect the **measurement** of viewership so they can continue to charge advertisers a lot of money for a lot of viewers.
Maybe copyright law should be changed so that anyone who is going to do a large public showing has to simply "register" the showing. Thus their rights to have the parties is there, but the NFL still has its advertising numbers.
Personally I think that if you broadcast something, you don't have the right to dictate how people watch it, but the above seems like a reasonable compromise regarding a reasonable (profit motivated) objection.
Posted by Russell - Idaho on February 19, 2007:
The argument by the NFL seems ridiculous on two fronts. First, how does a ratings system legitimize restrictions on use of publicly broadcast television? Secondly, if the NFL is concerned with ratings, how are they measuring and restricting all the friends of Nielson households who are there watching on game day, and all the Nielson households who choose to visit their friends on game day?
Perhaps the hypocrites aren't as easy to identify in this scenario.
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Bars serve beer, churches don't. Budweiser is the largest NFL advertiser. Enough said.
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Treasury facing legal action over dumping stock
Global wine giant Treasury Wine Estates is facing legal action from Australian shareholders after it was forced to write off six million bottles of wine in July due to oversupply.
According to AFP, law firm Maurice Blackburn and class action funder IMF Australia are preparing a shareholder lawsuit against Treasury Wine Estates, which owns Penfolds and Wolf Blass among other wine brands.
This July, the company announced an AU$160m loss in the US market and the destruction of AU$35m worth of "old and aged commercial stock" in America due to oversupply issues.
As a result, in August the company reported a 53% profit slump in its full-year results, with profits down from AU$89.9m in 2012 to AU$42.3m, leading in part to the stepping down of Treasury's CEO, David Dearie in September.
AFP reports that the class-action lawsuit, which has yet to be formally filed, will allege that TWE failed to adequately inform shareholders of the overstocking of its US distributors and the potential financial impact of its actions, which led shareholders to lose millions of dollars.
"By not disclosing the possibility of a material write-down when we allege it should have, the company caused shareholders to suffer financial loss," IMF investment manager, Simon Dluzniak, told AFP.
According to Maurice Blackburn principal Ben Slade, Treasury "knew or should have known" that large financial losses were inevitable as early as August 2012 – a year before it disclosed the write-downs, but chose to "project earnings growth when it must have been able to work out that massive write-downs were on the horizon," Slade said.
In a statement to the Australian stock exchange, Treasury said: "TWE strongly denies any allegations of wrongdoing and will defend any class action proceedings vigorously."

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A large brush fire has burned about a half a square mile in central New Jersey, yet some residents are being allowed back into their homes after earlier evacuations.
Police in Berkeley Township say the fire, about 45 miles south of New York City near the central New Jersey coastline, is 30 percent contained. They say it has burned 307 acres by Thursday afternoon. Residents on some streets in Berkeley who had been evacuated are being told they can return to their homes.
Other residents are being told to expect smoke conditions into the night as the wind shifts.
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Doing some cleaning and this stuff has got to go! It is a complete RPD parts kit with pristine original barrel(no holes). Also included are some but not all of the parts listed below, you will get every part in the pictures:
2 extra lowers,
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asking $1150 shipped or will do partial trade for .308 or 45 ammo.
i may entertain other trades but cash is king. First unconditional "I'll take it" gets it.Follow up with a PM please. Trades and counter offers will be concidered. Thanks for looking-NG
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I will take it!...PM on the way.
I would rather have it, and not need it, Then need it, and not have it!
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If you might be parting any of it out let me know, I am looking for a spare lower complete and a carrier
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Way to go gunner! Mine is on the way back from the shop.
Troy , yes I am if I get it...I am going to try to send it to JM to be built and sell off the rest to help fund the build....You got first dibs.....I will stop by and see you at the show.......Rory , Glad to hear that you decided to stop busting cinder blocks with it and had it fixed :p ...Sound like I might get a chance to shoot more then 2rds at a time with it....See you at the show , will be at Indy too.
I would rather have it, and not need it, Then need it, and not have it!
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EY recognized as one of the 25 World's Best Multinational Workplaces by Great Place to Work®
- EY Ranked 12th, the only 'Big Four' employer on list
London, 16 November 2012 – EY announced today that it has been recognized as one of the World's Best Multinational Workplaces by Great Place to Work® Institute. Now in its second year, the ranking is the world's largest annual study of workplace excellence and identifies the top 25 best multinationals in terms of workplace culture.
Mike Cullen, Global Managing Partner - People, EY, says: "It's a great honour to be recognized as one of the best global employers by Great Place to Work. We must celebrate this success, which comes as a result of our ability to attract the best people and build them into high performance teams throughout the world. Looking ahead, we will continue to innovate further to address generational, business and technological changes.
"As a 167,000-strong employer, it's important that our people feel empowered – whatever their geographical location or level of seniority. Our focus will be on enabling a work environment that delivers the right tools and flexibility to suit various lifestyles and career aspirations. As a people-centric business, this will be the key to help drive competitive edge and deliver future success."
Nancy Altobello, Americas Vice Chair – People, EY, accepted the award on behalf of the global organization at the gala awards ceremony in San Francisco yesterday evening. She added, "The exceptional EY experience we provide for our people includes the opportunity to work in a truly global and inclusive environment that reaches across geographic borders, cultures, service lines, generations and professional experiences. Our people can work alongside colleagues and clients from different countries or cultures, take advantage of a range of global mobility initiatives and international assignments, or participate in learning and development programs to establish a global mindset.
This award is an important acknowledgement of our work to remain the most globalized, integrated professional services organization in mindset and actions, yet it pushes us to aim even higher as we learn from the successes of our fellow honorees."
Since launching the first best workplaces lists in the United States and Brazil in 1997, Great Place to Work® now recognizes leading workplaces in some 45 countries. The World's Best Multinational Workplace list is based on a pool of data from some 2,000 companies that were listed on Great Place to Work® country best companies lists. Every year, Great Place to Work® analyzes data from surveys taken by more than 2.5 million employees and workplace culture analytics taken from 5,671 companies, that represent more than 11 million employees.
"The companies listed on the second-annual World's Best Multinational Workplaces List are creating workplaces dedicated to fostering trust, pride and camaraderie amongst their employees," said Susan Lucas-Conwell, Global CEO of Great Place to Work®. "Their inclusion on this prestigious list demonstrates their commitment to continually improving the lives of their employees and setting innovative new standards for workplaces of the future."
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Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today—how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of art but also political life—and our attempts to know both art and politics. Inescapable and frequently troubling, forms shape every aspect of our experience. Yet, forms don't impose their order in any simple way. Multiple shapes, patterns, and arrangements, overlapping and colliding, generate complex and unpredictable social landscapes that challenge and unsettle conventional analytic models in literary and cultural studies.
Borrowing the concept of "affordances" from design theory, this book investigates the specific ways that four major forms—wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks—have structured culture, politics, and scholarly knowledge across periods, and it proposes exciting new ways of linking formalism to historicism and literature to politics. Levine rereads both formalist and antiformalist theorists, including Cleanth Brooks, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Mary Poovey, and Judith Butler, and she offers engaging accounts of a wide range of objects, from medieval convents and modern theme parks to Sophocles's Antigone and the television series The Wire.
The result is a radically new way of thinking about form for the next generation and essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities who must wrestle with the problem of form and context.
Caroline Levine is David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University. She is the author of The Serious Pleasures of Suspense and Provoking Democracy.
"Challenging and original."--Michael Wood, London Review of Books
"This impressive, innovative book connects art and politics by way of forms."--Andrew Sturgeon, Flavorwire, from "10 Must-Read Academic Books of 2015"
"Levine proposes a fresh way to think of formalism in literary studies. . . . To illustrate her methodology, Levine turns her sights in many directions, from 19th-century classics by writers such as Dickens to contemporary television (The Wire). Throughout, Levine's prose is lucid and engaging."--Choice
"Forms is a genuinely interdisciplinary book, and Levine exhibits considerable ambition and intellectual dexterity in her integration of different disciplinary perspectives."--Gregory Tate, Review of English Studies
"This is a big, brilliant, necessary book. As demonstrated in its climactic discussion of The Wire, it takes the defense of formalism way beyond the insistence that the continuity of forms across time is as historical as their differences are. With a confidence backed by superb erudition, a lively eye for structures of injustice, and a refreshingly practical commitment to questions of how lives might be rearranged to make them more endurable, Caroline Levine is uniquely qualified to issue this trumpet blast of a manifesto."--Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
"This is a truly extraordinary book, a book of a generation. If this were only a work of theory, it would already be one of the best scholarly books I've read. But it is also, more importantly, a model of method. Caroline Levine doesn't only prompt us to think; she shows us what to do. She has drawn the map that will lead us out of the dead end facing literary studies today--the dead end of wanting to talk about the literary in relation to the social but not knowing how."--Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard University
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Henry sent-off in NY comeback
Thierry Henry scored his eighth goal of the season, but was later sent off as the New York Red Bulls came from two goals down to draw 3-3 at the Portland Timbers.
Henry scored in the 73rd minute to get the MLS Eastern Conference leaders back in the game at 3-2, but was dismissed in the 90th minute for an off the ball incident as Dwayne De Rosario converted a last-minute penalty to earn NY Red Bulls a point.
Austin Da Luz had put New York ahead in the fifth minute, but the game turned on its head early in the second half.
Jack Jewsbury levelled in the 48th minute and half-time substitute Kevin Goldthwaite scored a second for Portland two minutes later.
Stephen Keel's own goal in the 68th minute put the Timbers 3-1 up, but they were unable to resist the Red Bulls' fightback.
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Information on spelt has now moved to
When I first came accross Spelt as a possible 'alternative' to wheat, I was just a little confused. On the one hand, I was coming accross information suggesting that people who where intolerant to wheat could eat spelt western union india banga instead; sometimes spelt bread would be advertised as 'wheat free' and yet spelt is also referred to as a wheat. So what is spelt? And is it a wheat?
Spelt is a relative of wheat with origins in Southeast Asia and was brought to the Middle East over 9,000 years ago, and then spread to Europe. Spelt as a beneficial type of wheat is not a new concept and was referred to by the 12th Century healer St Hildegard of Bergen, who praised spelt as the best grain tolerated by the body.
It has previously been used in America to feed horses and livestock as a nutritious amoxil cheap alternative to oats but is now seeing a rise in popularity accross the West as an alternative to 'traditional' wheat. Whilst this could be the result of the pleasant nutty flavour, it is more likely because people with allergies amoxil online and intolerance to wheat do not seem to react to spelt.
Spelt does contain gluten, however, those with gluten intolerances may be able to better tolerate spelt gluten. The grain berry grows an exceptionally thick husk that protects it from pollutants and insects and the grain can be stored with its husk intact which means it stays fresher. This is all good news because it reduces the need for pesticides and other chemicals.
Even better, spelt is rich in nutrients and in general is higher in protein, fat and fibre than most other varieties of wheat. It is a highly water soluble fibre which means it dissolves easily and is readily absorbed by the human body. This feature also affects how you cook with spelt and most importantly, bread.
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Kim Kardashian: Beverly Hills Business Beauty
Stepping out for an afternoon meeting, Kim Kardashian headed into a Beverly Hills business office on Tuesday afternoon (February 5).
The 32-year-old mom-to-be rocked a gorgeous navy pantsuit that carefully hid her quickly growing baby bump.
Before her outing, Miss Kardashian took to Twitter and shared, "Up early, so sleepy, but time to work!"
In related news, Kim K recently dished on her role in Tyler Perry's "Temptation," and said, "My character is pretty light throughout the film, so it's fun. It was interesting to work with people that I've liked for so long, and just to work with Tyler Perry was amazing and such a good experience."
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Throughout history, insects have inspired many artists. With their numerous habitats, behaviors, and forms, insects are logical candidates for artistic expression. In Insectology, Heather Boaz, Rebecca Clark, Jennifer Coster, Craig Dennis, Susan Eder, Marian April Glebes, Talia Greene, Mike Libby, Renée Rendine, and Lola Robinsky study the insect world and translate their observations into visual expressions of human behavior, experience, and existence. Whether incorporating insects directly by using body parts, entire dead specimens, or live participants, or indirectly by translating investigations into drawings and photographs, each artist's work piques our curiosity and challenges our perceptions.


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Posted by Boris Evelson on October 26, 2010
I don't know when, but at some point in the not too distant future, the world of enterprise software and applications will become simpler. We will only have four to six vendors and platforms to choose from, as compared to the hundreds of options we have today. I know many of you will argue with me on this point, but if you consider the speed at which IBM, SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft are acquiring software companies, that's just inevitable. While this future state may not happen for another 10 years, when it does, IBM will most likely be best positioned (with Oracle a close runner-up) to provide that one-stop shopping for everything from hardware to desktop applications to consulting services (the only big missing piece is ERP, and therefore I am convinced IBM will sooner or later acquire an ERP vendor).
This is precisely my key takeaway from IBM's IOD event in Vegas (#iodgc) — a sheer breadth of IBM software and services offering. Front and center of the announcements made at the IOD was the launch of Cognos 10. Here are my key takeaways from this new major release. As always, there's some good news and some not-so-good news (but then our lives and BI jobs will become too boring, right?)
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As I was doing research for our Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010, I couldn't help but remember a dear old friend of mine, who was/is one of the nicest and smartest people, but often a bit naïve and too idealistic. At one point when we were watching the Olympic Games on TV, she shed a tear and asked, "Why can't they all win?" Unlike the Olympic Games, though, it's good news all around for all of the vendors covered in our latest evaluation. Here's it is in a nutshell.
In Forrester's 145-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle, Information Builders, SAS, Microsoft, and MicroStrategy led the pack because of completeness of not just BI, but overall information management functionality. Actuate came out as a Strong Performer on the heels of the Leaders offering equal — or in some cases superior — BI functionality, but it mostly relies on partners for the rest of its information management capabilities. TIBCO Spotfire also came out as a Strong Performer offering top choices for analytics, even surpassing other Strong Performers in the overall information management arena based on its traditional strength in middleware and application integration. Last but not least, QlikTech and Panorama Software moved up from Contenders and into the Strong Performers category based on the continuous improvements in their analytical capabilities.
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U.S. Commander Sees Peaceful End to China-Japan Maritime Dispute
The top U.S. commander in Asia said Japan and China will be able to resolve a territorial dispute peacefully, and called on the region to use arbitration to settle conflicting maritime claims in resource-rich areas.
"In my estimation we are headed toward a peaceful resolution and not toward conflict," Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, told reporters in Bangkok today, referring to the dispute between China and Japan. "And we need to stay on that course."
Japan's purchase last month of the uninhabited East China Sea islands led to violent protests in China and hurt Japanese exporters such as Nissan Motor Co. (7201) Sovereignty gives the holder control over fishing grounds and natural gas fields, and the spat risks further damaging trade ties that have tripled to more than $340 billion in the last decade.
Locklear's comments came on the same day seven Chinese warships passed through international waters about 49 kilometers (30 miles) from a southern Japanese island, according to a Japan Defense Ministry statement. That put the vessels about 200 kilometers from the islands claimed by both countries, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese.
"They haven't been sailing in Japanese territorial waters," Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto told reporters in Tokyo. "We're maintaining caution and surveillance of the area, and are gathering information about the Chinese ships," he said, adding that they were the same vessels that passed through the area in the opposite direction on Oct. 4.
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The presence of Chinese naval vessels in the area is justified and legal, China Central Television reported today, citing the Ministry of National Defense news bureau. "We are watching closely Japan's moves and request a stop of any action that may complicate or expand the issue," the ministry said, according to CCTV.
The two countries agreed last week to talks aimed at reducing tensions over the islands a day after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda warned that Asia's two biggest economies would suffer without negotiations. No date was set for the planned vice-ministerial meeting.
Locklear said he was in "very close contact" with counterparts in Japan, a U.S. treaty ally, as well as Chinese military officials. He declined to speculate on how the U.S. would react if the conflict escalated.
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"In the end, the military response will be dictated by the decisions that are made by two governments at the highest levels," Locklear said.
The islands fall under a treaty which obligates the U.S. to defend Japan if it's attacked, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell told a Congressional committee last month.
Locklear cited a "successful" resolution of a territorial dispute between Myanmar and Bangladesh this year that followed a decision by the United Nations' International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. He also mentioned that China and Vietnam have previously used arbitration methods.
China has refused attempts to let international bodies rule on its territorial claims in the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Disagreements in the waters have increased tensions as nations vie for oil and gas resources.
China, which has sent more patrol boats into waters claimed by Japan since the purchase, maintains that it has owned the islands for centuries. Japan argues it took control of them in 1895, lost authority after World War II and had them returned by the U.S. in 1972.
Locklear said the U.S. would continue to challenge countries that make "excessive" maritime claims. When asked about harassment of U.S. ships in the South China Sea, Locklear said encounters with vessels from other nations have been "professional and courteous."
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:-D I'll be looking them up later this evening. A fellow told about some paste stuff that you can get there too. I got to find the note where I wrote it down. The stuff he was talking about was at midway also.
Thanks Again Bob..
Mr. Baldy
There are two that I know of, one is by RIG products, the other by Birchwood-Casey. Both are found at my gun shop in Memphis, and I think Brownells and Midway carries them. They work good for bores, but will remove blueing. I am told they work well on the exterior surfaces of stainless steel. I have all blue guns and use these in the bore and sometimes in the chambers. Have for several years now. They really pull gunk out of the barrel. Even after cleaning with Hoppe's they get a lot of carbon out that's left behind.
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P.S. These are sold in plactic envelopes much like the silicone cloths. They are usually placed with tese cloths and look very similar in appearence.
:-D I'll be looking them up later this evening. A fellow told about some paste stuff that you can get there too. I got to find the note where I wrote it down. The stuff he was talking about was at midway also.
Thanks Again Bob..
Hey Bob I found one kind of patch at Brownells. It was the Birchwood-Casey. What do you think of JB Paste & Kano Kroil?? I am like you, I am kind of set in my ways but I though what the heck I would try some things a little different. That's how I got to useing Blue Wonder. Which buy the way does a fair job of bluing a gun. I don't know how long it will last but I just did a J-frame S&W for a guy who forgot it was under the front seat of his truck for three years. Turned what was a $50. gun back into about a $150-$200 gun. For now anyway. :-D
Mr. Baldy,
I've never used either of the two products you mentioned.
Several years ago a friend of min tried using JB paste on cast bullets to lap the bore of a new revolver. This was done by using an un-lubed cast bullet and applying the JB paste by hand, actually by finger. These were loaded and fired almost immediately lest the compound contaminate the powder. I think the formula was to fire twelve of these bullets, wipe the bore clean, then fire twelve more until thirty-six bullets had been fired. They may have finished up with some jacketed bullets. Then, after a good cleaning, the bore was said to be mirror bright.
I never tried this myself, but this was reported by my friend, Tommy Russell in the Ruger Collectors Ass'n. publication. Tommy was at that time orchestrating the T.S.A.B. Ruger Bisley, a customized Bisley. Tommy had done some work on slicking up the actions and had sent the guns to Hamilton Bowen for finishing. Grips were by Roy Fishpaw. The result was a very handsome and accurate package.
I never cared for the Bisley but gave Tommy a .45 Super Blackhawk for similar treatment. I did not go with the lapped bore, though.
Bob Wright
I make my own, 1 part synthetic motor oil, 1 part transmission fluid, 1 part Marvel oil, 1 part mineral spirits. I use this to clean and lube. I had the motor oil and tranny fluid on hand purchased the Marvel oil and mineral spirits.
It has worked very well for revolver, pistol, rifle and shotgun so far.
Thanks Bob for the info; on the paste and oil. After reading up on the stuff I am thinking I got some stuff out the garge called semi-crome. I could use that and I got brillo pads under the sink and motor oil too. I'll quit. I am going to stick with Hoppe's #9 & gun oil. They have worked for ever plus I don't mind the little extra work involed to get them clean.
Dwarren: Sounds like you are useing a mix of Ed's Red. Or fairly close to it depending how you mix it. I know a guy who made a gallon about a year ago and he's still using it. He shoots all the time to. I think he said he only had about $10.00 in the whole mix. His guns look as good as anybodys and they work great. Must be something to it. I sure can't say anything bad about it.
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YANGON, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has proposed three main tasks to be implemented with Myanmar under a three-year plan from 2013 to 2015, official media reported Tuesday.
The three-year plan is to be carried out in Kachin, Kayin, Chin, Rakhine and Shan ethnic states, said the New Light of Myanmar.
The three main tasks include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger in Myanmar in 2015, ensuring environmental sustainability, which is one of the Millennium Development Goals, and development of democracy and human rights through good governance.
Myanmar Minister of Border Affairs Lieutenant-General Thein Htay and a delegation, led by Ajay Chhibber, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of Regional Bureau of Asia and the Pacific, exchanged views on the plan in Nay Pyi Taw Monday.
An international workshop on rural development will be held in December in preparation for starting the three tasks, the report said, adding that the workshop will involve the World Bank, donor countries, international organizations and UN organizations as well as local community.
UNDP had offered to provide 144 million U.S. dollars' aid to Myanmar to implement the three-year project starting 2013.
Other projects cover environmental conservation, upgrading legislative and executive skill and opening of UNDP branch office in Myanmar.
The offer was proposed at a meeting between Myanmar Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham and Chhibber in Nay Pyi Taw in May.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon visited Myanmar in April for the third occasion in light of Myanmar's political and economic changes.
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A commenter notes that my ideas on stimulus sound a lot like Greg Mankiw's. This shouldn't be odd as Greg and I have very similar view on how the economy works.
We have different views on underlying social morality, but that's the point. From an intellectual perspective whether you think there should be more or less redistribution should have no bearing on whether you think stimulus is effective in closing the output gap and whether or not you think broad based tax cuts are the fastest and most effective way to get there.
One of the things I have noticed on the blogosphere, Facebook and other outlets where I have access to popular opinion is that skepticism goes out the window when it collides with cynicism.
In an only mild exaggeration, if I were to propose that the moon were made out of cheese, I would be met with a deep skepticism by almost everyone. However, if I were to propose to a unified subgroup, that their sociopolitical adversaries had conspired to make them believe the moon was not made out of cheese the skepticism level would drop dramatically.
Still most people would combat it, but far less forcefully and more on the grounds that "every knows that the moon is not made of cheese" rather than on genuine skepticism.
However, no matter how likely you think it is that some one is tricking you into believe the moon is not made cheese, that must be less likely than moon being actually made out of cheese. For someone to hide the truth from you, it must first be the truth.
Let me give a more concrete but unfortunately more charged example. There is a debate over whether or not the Obama Stimulus worked. As I have said before, I favored a different type of stimulus, both at the time and now. This gives me enough cachet to enter into non-heated conversations with strong Obama detractors.
They ask me frequently whether or not I "really believe" the stimulus worked. I say, "I presume so." Then they counter with a line of reasoning more or less like the following:
The economy was bad even with the stimulus. It was worse in fact than the Obama administration said it would be without the stimulus. The Obama administration would like us to believe that it would have been even worse without their stimulus. However, this is just a convenient ruse. One cannot prove a counter-factual. Thus we cannot know whether the economy would have been worse without the stimulus. Thus we should not believe the Obama's administration's claim that stimulus worked.
This is all well and good except that its an argument that the Obama administration has no credibility on stimulus. That fact alone can't lower your estimate of stimulus's effectiveness from what it was before the crisis.
Well presumably the Obama administration, at absolute worst, will say whatever it needs to say to put the stimulus in the best light. If the stimulus worked, they will say it worked. If it did not work then they will still say it worked.
This implies that statements from the Obama administration are orthogonal to the truth. That is, utterly uninfluenced by it.
However, if a statement is orthogonal to the truth then it cannot rationally affect your estimate of the truth. That is, it simply doesn't matter what the Obama administration says. Your best guess at the truth is whatever you thought the truth was before. You might as well simply ignore everything the Obama administration says.
Yet, this is not what the argument above is asking. It is asking that I lower my estimate that stimulus is effective based on the Obama administration's lack of credibility. This is only rational if I think the Obama administration is anti-truth. That is, that they seek to lie even when it is not in their best interest to do so.
Or, said another way I have to believe if the stimulus had worked the Administration would lie to me and tell me that it didn't. I have to believe they would do this because they enjoy lying or are otherwise motivated to spread disinformation for its own sake.
Said, in additional way, I have to believe not that the Obama administration has no credibility, but that they have negative credibility. If I take what they say and simply assume the opposite, I will be right more than not.
Its an easy proof but beyond this post that negative credibility is credibility. And, that someone who always lied no matter what, is just as trustworthy as someone who always tells the truth. You simply have to logically invert the questions.
So, back to the point, this implies that, at worst, the Obama administration has zero credibility. Negative credibility would be better than zero credibility.
However, zero credibility by definition means that you should believe whatever you believed before. It also by the way, means that the fact that the economy was worse than the Obama administration predicted means nothing. After all, they have zero credibility. Under that assumption, everything they say is meaningless.
The moral of that example is that there is no consistent amount of cynicism about the Obama Administration that should lead you to downgrade your estimate that stimulus worked.
Now, if you independent of the Administration, thought that unemployment would top out at 9% in the absence of stimulus, and you independently hold to that prediction then the fact that with stimulus unemployment rose above 9% is evidence that the stimulus failed. However, it's a rare person that I meet, who is making this claim.
The moral of the whole post is that assuming your adversaries have low fidelity to the truth is not the same as assuming that they have high fidelity to lies. Generally speaking the worst I should think of someone is that, something is no more or less likely because they told me it was so. I should not lower my skepticism of their proposition being false, simply because they told me it was true.
There is a strong case for the prompt enactment of further timely, targeted and temporary fiscal stimulus…
Larry Summers, 2008
Remember when stimulus was supposed to be temporary, targeted, and timely? The departure from that notion by those calling for short-term austerity has been recognized and ridiculed. But there are those calling for long-term commitments and programs which are just as far afield from ideal stimulus. To wit, Michael Lind Policy Director at the New America Foundation, calling for permanent increases in the public sector and, yes, a new entitlement program for seniors.
One solution would be direct, permanent expansion of public sector employment in "quality of life" jobs like teaching, child care, public health care, and policing….
…Many democracies in Europe and Asia have had successful experiences with vouchers provided to individuals for in-home services. My colleague at the New America Foundation Lauren Damme and I have proposed a Dignity Voucher program along these lines. Qualified retirees would receive vouchers entitling them to a certain number of hours of in-home help each week.
I'd first like to point out that this is exactly the opposite of what you want in countercyclical stimulus. It's untargeted, untimely, and permanent. At most you could defend targeted, but "make more teachers, police, and health care workers" isn't even a very targeted goal, let alone the vast and disparate array of policies necessary to actually accomplish that. You want to argue that we could get this done quickly? Take another look what he has in mind:
Many of these victims of the Great Recession have limited skills and were employed in low-wage jobs in the luxury sectors like restaurants and retail that catered to the big spenders of the bubble economy. The goal of public policy should be to directly and indirectly provide jobs for many of these workers in service sector jobs that address the needs of mainstream Americans, like health care and education, rather than return them to dead-end menial service jobs where they will work again for the affluent.
Your not going to turn waiters and GAP cashiers into radiologists and teachers overnight. This is going to take a long time.
I understand the need to plan for the long-term health of the economy, but unlike infrastructure spending these suggestions can't be defended by appealing to long-term growth. Instead, this is a straight up plan for a larger, more redistributive government. One of the biggest problems today is that in the long-run we can't afford the level of government, and in the short-run we can't afford to cut back on spending or raise taxes. A slowly rolled out, permanent increase in government payrolls and entitlements doesn't help either, and will probably make both worse. I mean this guys is seriously arguing for another entitlement program for senior citizens. He's actually saying this.
That is the title of today's Wall Street Journal Symposium [Gated]. And the overwhelming answer from preeminent monetary economists? Nothing.
Not that they didn't answer the question. Most of the panelists' answers amount to the Fed remaining passive. Here is John Talyor:
To establish Fed policy going forward, the best place to start is to consider what has worked in the past. During the two decades before the recent financial crisis, the Fed employed a reasonably rule-based strategy for adjusting the money supply and the interest rate. The interest rate rose by predictable amounts when inflation increased, and it fell by predictable amounts during recessions.
Fairly predictable. John Taylor has made this point numerous times, and is a very hard rules-based guy. I'm a rules-based guy as well…but I don't see the inherent virtue in the Taylor rule, however defined. Essentially Taylor seems to want the Fed to stabilize NGDP growth around a Taylor rule at the current (reduced) output level, which puts us permanently behind the previous trend rate of output. As far as I can tell, he doesn't care to make up the slack…which of course means elevated unemployment for an extended period of time.
Richard Fisher, who is a predictable hawk, lived up to expectations as well:
One might assume that with more than $1 trillion in excess bank reserves and significant amounts of cash held by businesses, the gas tank of those who have the capacity to hire is reasonably full. One might also conclude that the Fed, having cut the cost of interbank overnight lending to near zero and used quantitative easing to coax the entire yield curve downward, has driven the cost of gas to virtually nil for businesses that are creditworthy. And yet businesses still aren't hiring.
This is a mind-bogglingly insane statement. When suffering an immediate deficiency of aggregate demand, supply-side factors are second order. Yes, we should streamline regulatory hurdles…but that has nothing to do with why firms aren't hiring. Fisher must have missed a lot of economics, and apparently doesn't understand that demand for safe assets (which in developed countries equates to cash) drives most recessions (especially during a time where there is a lack of supply of safe [private] assets), and that the Fed decided to pay banks to hoard cash…and so they did. I'm having a hard time figuring out how Fisher landed his current position.
On to the most depressing, Frederic Mishkin:
Purchasing long-term Treasurys might suggest that the Fed is accommodating the fiscal authorities by monetizing the debt—thereby weakening the government's incentives to come to grips with our long-term fiscal problems. In addition, major holdings of long-term securities expose the Fed's balance sheet to potentially large losses if interest rates rise.
Such losses would result in severe criticism of the Fed and a weakening of its independence. Both the weakening of its independence and the perception that the Fed is willing to monetize the debt could lead to increased expectations for inflation sometime in the future. That would make it much harder for the Fed to contain inflation and promote a healthy economy.
Expanding the Fed's balance sheet through large-scale asset purchases can be necessary in extraordinary circumstances, such as during the depths of the recent financial crisis. But in relatively normal times, the costs of using this tool are sufficiently high that it should not be used lightly.
9.5% unemployment, falling CPI and inflation expectations, and exploding national debt due to the political anxiety to "do something" is now 'normal times'? This amounts to saying that the Fed has the tools, but shouldn't use them unless we're in the Great Depression. The Fed's job is to keep us out of financial panics like the Great Depression, not make its job significantly harder by passively waiting until the depths of the abyss, and then acting. I don't agree with that at all.
I don't really know anything about Robert McKinnon, but he is worried about international currency flows, asset bubbles in China, and thinks that the Fed should mediate interbank lending to stabilize the yield curve at "normal interest rates". I'm fairly confident that China can sterilize any dollar inflows that happen upon its shores…so I don't see this as a problem that needs to be addressed by anyone but Chinese policymakers, and I happen to think that the Fed should be much more aggressive than stabilizing yield curves AAAAAND raising interest rates now is, of course, insane punditry. Apparently so does the Vincent Reinhart believes the Fed should be more aggressive as well:
As a consequence, the Fed has to be both aggressive and nimble. The Fed should promise to purchase government and mortgage-related securities between its regularly scheduled meetings as long as activity is forecast to be subpar and inflation is low or headed down. Purchases of, say, $100 billion every six-to-eight weeks would add up to a number worthy of shock and awe for those with a somber economic outlook.
All-in-all a very depressing symposium. They should have interviewed Scott Sumner, Bill Woolsey, David Beckworth, Nick Rowe, and Paul Krugman. Then, perhaps, the world could be saved.
Update: Beckworth seems to have beaten me to the punch, linking to Mark Thoma, who did as well…a


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It took first-rounder D.J. Peterson a couple days to adjust to Double-A, but now he's giving Jackson fans a little glimpse of the laser show he treated Cal League spectators to on a nightly basis.
Seattle's top position prospect smacked a three-run homer -- his 20th overall long ball of the season -- and scored twice to lead the Generals to an 8-5 win over the Huntsville Stars on Sunday. It was Peterson's second homer in as many days after he went yard against the Stars on Saturday.
The 12th overall pick in the 2013 Draft singled and scored in the eighth inning and added a three-run homer to left-center field over the 380-foot fence in the ninth.
Since his callup, Peterson has hit safely in 10 of 11 games, including multi-hit performances in each of his past three. He sports a .283 average with two homers, two doubles and six RBIs at the new level. He had only two extra-base hits and one RBI through his first nine games entering the current road trip, but he turned that around by going 6-for-14 against the Brewers affiliate.
The Arizona native hit .326 with 18 homers and 73 RBIs in 65 games for Class A Advanced High Desert before his promotion two weeks ago. Ranked 70th overall among MLB.com's Top 100 prospects, he also hit 23 doubles, drew 23 walks and stole six bases in as many attempts.
The 6-foot-1 right-handed hitter was originally selected by the Mariners in the 33rd round of the 2010 Draft, but did not sign. He was drafted again last year out of the University of New Mexico by Seattle.
Peterson still leads the California League in RBIs and is tied for second in long balls with Stockton's Renato Nunez behind the Ports' Matt Olson, who has 24.
The 22-year-old third baseman batted .303 with 13 homers and 47 RBIs in 55 games across two levels between Class A Clinton and short-season Everett in his rookie year.
On Sunday, Jackson's Daniel Paolini went 3-for-4 with a homer, a double, three RBIs and a run scored and starter Victor Sanchez (4-4) allowed two runs on four hits and three walks while striking out four batters over seven innings.
Huntsville's Robinzon Diaz and Shea Vucinich plated two runs apiece in the losing effort. Drew Gagnon (5-4) surrendered three runs -- two earned -- on a hit and two walks over two innings.
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Wallow in an ersatz homage to an 1980s youth at this mini-chain of all-day diners dedicated to the most important meal of the day.
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Best breakfast place around- love it!
I love the Breakfast Club, definitely one of my favorite places to go for brunch (after a late night!) The pancakes and bacon are my fave, but there are a variety of delicious options on the menu. A must for anyone in the area!
If you can get in its fantastic good old nosh with delicious pancakes you'll just hope you have space left to eat
Veggie Breakfast very good
I'm not sure why this place generates the queues it does. The food was terrible. I had the All-American, which involved dry, claggy 'pancakes' served with potatoes that tasted like they had been left out in a bain marie too long and three strips of bacon which had been cooked as a single fused chunk. The onions were soggy and flavourless, the sausage completely forgettable. Worst of all, the heavily diluted and oily scrambled eggs still contained sizeable fragments of eggshell. My friends had similar reviews for their respective meals (Huevos Rancheros and the Chorizo Hash Browns). I would say it was like an overpriced greasy spoon, but I have had better breakfasts at greasy spoons and I didn't have to wait to get in. To their credit, the staff were quick and friendly enough, although I suspect that was as much about maintaining turnover as seeing to us. Will not be returning - and certainly don't recommend it for others.
Went to the BC the first time today, having previously seen the long line outside, we now came early to beat the crowd. Staff was pretty quick and attended to us. We ordered pancakes and a classic english breakfast and a fruit salad. GIven our expectations seeing the long lines everyday we were deeply disappointed. The full english was no better than what you find in any poor restaurant and the pancakes came with bacon which seemed to have been fried yesterday and only a few drops of maple syrup which made the dish very dry. So I will agree with the previous owner and go to The Elk in the Woods which is supposes to be very good. I hope that will not be my second disappointment in Camden Passage.
Arrived on a week day and thought great no long usual queue, waited ages to be seated despite the the fact it was pretty much empty. After the wait I took it upon myself to ask the blond lady behind the counter if we could sit outside, the table outside was filthy and stacked with plates so thinking someone had forgotten to clear it I returned back inside to ask the blond lady again if the table could be cleared. I was greeted with a look of annoyance and a snotty tone in her voice. In the end we felt unwelcome and left where we rather enjoyed a warm welcome, fantastic service and great food at the Elk In The Woods. The Breakfast Club has just lost two regular customers.


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I had the privilege to see Doug speak and I was blown out of the water of his system that revolves around efficiency!!! Besides his amazing interpersonal and sales skills, Doug is so obsessed with efficiency that he is able to finish retouching and upload the photos on the night of the wedding so that guests can order the next day. Images that take Doug 15-25 seconds take me tens of minutes to retouch. His Flow Posing system is so good, you can obtain 50+poses in minutes…Doug invented his own keyboard and through a press of a button applies actions in PS…even though the keyboard is fairly expensive ($300+), if you think how much time you save, it pays itself in a few days (depending on how much you pay yourself 🙂
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