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What's a Name Worth?
Go to Amazon.com today and you can buy an official Nike "US Soccer" jersey on sale for $78.99. For a mere $35.00, the clothing manufacturer Xara sells a "USA Soccer" jersey that is not licensed by US Soccer but is instead, in their own words, "A Unique Soccer Experience Representing a Country." Apparently that "US Soccer" trademark is worth about $45.00 per shirt to Nike and the US Soccer.
Total sales of officially licensed merchandise totaled $12.6 billion in 2010 in just MLB, NFL, and college sports alone, so apparel sales are clearly big business in spectator sports. It is in this backdrop that the peculiar case of the Washington Redskins vs. the Federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board is of interest to economists.
Over the past two or three decades, under pressure from Native American tribes and other petitioners, dozens of colleges and high schools have changed their mascots from representations of Native Americans. While Miami University (Ohio) and Southern Nazarene University both dropped the name "Redskins" in the late 1990s, the NFL's Redskins have resisted the calls to change their mascot. This may be changing.
The Federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, which adjudicates questions regarding trademarks, recently heard a case requesting that the board classify the word "Redskin" as a derogatory slur. If the board deems the term offensive, the team would no longer be subject to trademark protection essentially meaning that anyone could sell merchandise in the team's colors and with the words "Washington Redskins". Trademark protection is the barrier to entry that allows teams to charge monopoly prices for apparel (like we saw in the US Soccer example), and the loss of that trademark is likely to drive the premium that the team can charge for officially licensed apparel from the 100% or more mark-up that we typically observe in the market towards the perfectly competitive price – good for consumers, but bad for the Redskins.
While the team's owner, Dan Synder, say he will "NEVER" (the caps at his insistence) change the Redskins' name, we will see how long that lasts if the team can only sell "Redskins" jerseys for $45 when they could sell "Washington Red Storm" jerseys for $100.
Tebow's Freeze Out
Why is Tim Tebow out in the cold? Why are general managers and coaches willing to roll the dice with a QB who has never played an NFL down or a struggling QB versus one who holds a winning record and notched a stylish, memorable playoff victory over the vaunted Pittsburgh defense?
Part of Tebow's fate falls to timing. In past posts, I've referenced economist Zvi Griliches iconic article "Hybrid Corn: An Exploration in the Economics of Technological Change". He demonstrated the acreage planted with hybrid seed took over across states, slowly, at first few adopters, then gaining steam, and finally won over even the die-hards resulting in an "S-shaped" curve depicting the growth in its use. This picture describes the diffusion of most any "technological change" whether a new corn seed, a new tractor implement, black players on Major League teams, or the use of "run-option" quarterbacks in the NFL. In the early stages of use, it's difficult to distinguish between crazy ideas and brilliant ideas. Almost any new idea will draw vocal detractors, sometimes among people of respect and insight. Numerous NFL insiders, including those as insightful as Bill Belichick and Steve Mariucci, have denigrated the idea of the "option" and QBs suited for it as an integral part of NFL offensive strategy. Even a year or two ago, and in spite of Tebow's success in Denver, the critique appeared weighty — enough so that the Broncos sought out another QB (albeit, a Hall of Famer) and traded Tebow. With the Colin Kaepernick's trip to the Super Bowl with the 49ers along with others such as Robert Griffin III, it's looking less crazy and more brilliant, less temporary fad and more permanent strategy.
I don't mean to imply that the run-option QBs will ever come to dominate completely. One key difference between sports and agriculture is that one particular technology doesn't necessarily swamp all others. NFL rules favor passing. Successful teams for many years have employed skilled passers with ever-increasingly complex passing schemes. The trouble is that not everyone can draft Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. The ground in Iowa and the ground in Kentucky may both be receptive to hybrid corn seed, but the same passing scheme that works in New England or Denver isn't going to work nearly as well in some other place because a key input, the QB, does not have the skills of Brady or Manning. Insightful coaches like Jim Harbaugh and Mike Shanahan decided better to adjust the system to the talent rather than hope that a struggling young QB like Blaine Gabbert (Jacksonville) evolves into a Brady or Manning.
Alright, so Tebow came on the scene just a bit too early, why aren't teams like Jacksonville scrambling for him now? His less than consistent passing skills hurt him. He can thread the needle on one throw and look silly on the next. Ironically, the GM who turned him out in Denver, John Elway, displayed those same traits for the first half of his career. Nonetheless, Tebow's passing isn't as polished as Kaepernick or Griffin. On the flip side, he has shown that he can win games, even against good defenses. A major part of the success of Kaepernick and Griffin is what they do to defensive strategy. At the end of last season, Griffin played a very mediocre passing game against the Cowboys, but because of his running threat (even with a bad knee), his running threat opened the way for his running back, Alfred Morris to have a great night with the Redskins scoring 28 points. The interaction effects between running and passing abilities of QBs with the other offensive players influences both yards gained per passing play along with yards gained by other runners. Tebow's enormous celebrity almost certainly works against him now. Any GM and coach who bring him on board invite a national media spotlight far beyond what a newly drafted QB will bring. Don't be fooled — coaches and GMs, in spite of voicing indifference about media and fan attention, care about scrutiny. The care a lot — ok, maybe Bill Belichick doesn't, but that's why he is willing to make decisions other coaches will not on matters such as not punting on fourth down. The "Christian" element of Tebow's celebrity also surfaces as a possible obstacle to him. While I don't doubt that some coaches, players, and, particularly, media figures roll their eyes at him, there are many NFL players who openly, if with less attention, display their faith. My guess is that his unlucky timing, inconsistent passing, and undesired media attention resolve the conundrum much better.
Maintaining a Credible Threat
Great article today at Slate from Matt Yglesias about the Sacramento Kings proposed move to Seattle. It appears as if the NBA will try to force the current Kings' ownership to take a lower bid from a Sacramento group that includes a new publicly financed stadium than a higher bid from a Seattle group that proposes to build a largely privately financed arena. As noted by Yglesias, "The Seattle bid, in other words, would have set a good precedent for the future of American public policy. And the owners didn't want that." I'm not sure Yglesias is exactly right here. There are plenty of examples in the NBA of largely privately financed arenas including those in Chicago, New York City, Boston, Toronto, Philly, and Salt Lake City.
His point about using Seattle as a blackmail threat, however, is spot on. He states, "The owners want to be able to make this move over and over again. 'Give us a new publicly financed stadium or we'll move to Seattle' is a threat that works as well in Portland or Milwaukee or Minneapolis or Salt Lake City or Memphis or New Orleans or Phoenix as it does in Sacramento." Seattle is a much more credible threat for franchise relocation than Sacramento, so unless the Seattle bid is a whole lot better than the one in Sacramento, having an open city in Seattle is worth a whole lot more to the league than having an open city in Sacramento.
One can see the most obvious example of this in the NFL. While it may seem odd that the NFL doesn't have a team in Los Angeles, the nation's second largest media market, in fact, Los Angeles is a credible relocation threat for just about every team in the country. The open market in LA just got the normally quite parsimonious citizens of Minnesota to cough up about $500 million for a new Vikings stadium. The Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints almost certainly have LA to thanks for their new or upgraded stadiums as well. All in all, LA is probably worth more to the NFL without a team than with a team.
"42″ and the Intangible Impact of Sports
Baseball is life, or so the saying goes. The release of "42" brings back to light a story that, among its many angles and nuances, turns that saying around — life is baseball. Sports not only mirrors life but also acts as a vehicle to influence and change it. Measured solely by revenues, sports rates a relatively minor player as industries go. Summed together, professional football, baseball, basketball, hockey and auto racing generate only about $30 billion per year. Even with the major football and basketball revenue producers among college teams lumped in, the total is well under $50 billion. That's nowhere near the $100 billion-plus figures for the heavyweights among individual companies, much less entire industries. Yet, for enormous sales figures and cult-like following surrounding a company like Apple, its ongoing buzz does not come close to sports. Steve Job and Bill Gates have enjoyed about as much celebrity as any corporate figures, but the events involving Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey, and the Brooklyn Dodgers took place over 75 years ago and continue to inspire. Babe Ruth's exploits in Major League Baseball will soon be 100 years old, but his name is still widely known. After 100 years, I would expect very little public awareness of names like Jobs or Gates, unless it happens through the naming of some institution.
A reply might be, the Jackie Robinson episode lives on because it centers on an important period of American history — breaking down racial barriers. Yes, but among all the individual stories that paralleled that of Robinson, it's his that emerged into and has survived in the common public consciousness. This kind of influence, however, goes beyond Robinson and race. Sports is one of the few areas where revenues so radically understate the social impact and awareness of the business. The very existence of substantial merchandising revenues for sports teams is a tell-tale indicator of this non-monetary interest. ExxonMobil may generate $400 billion in revenue but hardly anyone walks around wearing caps, jackets, and shirts displaying their attachment as fans do for the Yankees, the Cowboys, the Crimson Tide, or Dale Jr. In this respect, sports fits with movies, vacations, special romantic moments, and a few other activities where individuals relive, retell, and rehash memorable events over and over, making the initial "consumption value" very durable. The involvement of thousands of other people in the initial enjoyment offers a relatively unique opportunity for social networking that long preceded the advent of the internet.
It's an interesting exercise to try to add up the non-revenue value of sports to fans. The amount of time alone, whether at reliving the game in the break room or at home, reading newspapers, blogs, or other sources is not trivial. Further, the time spent on fantasy sports ultimately derives its value from the sports themselves. With even modest estimates the number of people involved in these activities along with the time spent and at average wage rates, it's easy to double the revenue value. Such estimates vastly understate the impact of sports as "42" once again demonstrates.
Another college coach engages in reprehensible activities and the supervising athletic directors and university presidents do nothing until external investigations and public awareness force their hand. While not involving incidents nearly as disturbing, the bumbling of the Rutgers situation echoes of many of the same issues as the Penn State scandal. Some writers have pondered how Rutgers' Athletic Director and President could have fallen down the same hole with the PSU scandal so fresh.
The head scratching takes a very narrow view. The problem is, fundamentally, not one of university officials who are unaware or without ethical standards (although one wonders at times). Its endemic – flowing out of the very fabric of college sports and the incentives supplied by its organizational architecture. (See the McCormick-Tollison TSE post on Subversion of the Academy for similar views).
I'm not an academic who dislikes sports, who has a gripe because a coach makes more than I do, or who thinks the football program drains funds from my department. The fundamental point is that big time college athletics, football and men's basketball, are professional entertainment operations clumsily bundled with academic institutions and shrouded in archaic language and restrictions of amateurism. College athletics started as truly amateur enterprises not very different from intramural athletics on campuses today. By the 1950s, fan interest had already turned them into something very different. Sixty years later, with billion dollar basketball tournament TV contracts and major football programs hauling in $50-$100 million revenues each year, and 100,000 seat stadiums filled to capacity, the difference between these activities and their professional sports counterparts is one of semantics and organizational structure – not basic economics.
With the sizable revenues at stake, dollars will try to work back into the hands of players whether by illicit cash payments or through "legal" in-kind inducements. But that's not my point here. It also means that university officials whose positions and salaries correspond to governing academic institutions will also be tasked with overseeing operations that only nominally fall within the scope of their other duties. It's not the dog chasing its tail as some think about college academics and athletics, it's a wholly different dog (or elephant) trying to fit into the same doghouse.
Why is it that the top coaches for the best programs make salaries several times above their "supervisors"? It's not an outrage or evidence of athletics out of control. Instead, it vividly illustrates that something is amiss. It grows out of the imbalance of stuffing a distinct professional entertainment operation underneath the organizational umbrella of another, unrelated entity. It's a bit like cramming a Hollywood movie production within the organizational confines of a local car dealership and placing the general manager of the car dealership in charge of the film's producer, director, and actors. How well would that work?
The Penn State and Rutgers cases are just the most egregious examples of the silliness that transpires when someone who is economically subordinate is put in the position as supervisor. Bob Knight had a long history of (largely ignored) incidents at Indiana before his dismissal, again only after a video goes public. In IU's case and those like it, the running joke is that the AD calls up the coach and asks, "what punishment do you want?" More recently, the Sports Illustrated story on now-fired Ben Howland, Not the UCLA Way, offers up similar themes. Stories of these kinds, whether true or apocryphal, dot the landscape of college sports. So, the next time a story breaks about a coach out of control whose behavior is smoothed over by university officials, or when a player has received payments, loans, or better grades, there is no riddle – the system is built that way.
NCAA Seeding — A Rejoinder to Brian Goff
In his latest post Brian Goff notes that top seeds in this year's tournament had some trouble putting away their lower ranked opponents and that seed wasn't a strong predictor of final win margin. While I must agree that I certainly didn't have FGCU making it to the Sweet Sixteen or Wichita State in the Final Four, at least historically, the people at the NCAA who put together the brackets have done a remarkably good job seeding the teams. Obviously, there is always uncertainty of outcome in any sporting event – that's quite a bit of the allure of spectator sports – but higher seeds tend to do better than lower ones and beat lower seeds by higher margins. Here's the data since the men's tournament went to a fully seeded 64-team tournament (minus the last couple of years I haven't gotten around to updating yet.)
Men's Tournament, 1985-2011
Win Margin
Win %
The margin of victory uniformly falls with the seed and win percentage is fairly uniform as well with the exception of the 5 and 6 seed where there isn't an observable difference. There is a slight anomaly in the 8 vs. 9 game with 9s winning more often, but call that one a coin flip. Overall, I would give a great deal of credit to the bracket makers for their overall success.
That being said, it is possible that these results are being driven by good seeding in earlier decades, and an examination of whether seeding accuracy or competitive balance has changed over time would be of interest.
NCAA Seeding — A Lot of Noise
The 2013 NCAA tournament has afforded another experiment on whether the seeding process incorporates much more noise than signal. For those following the tournament, it should come as no surprise that this year offers more confirmation of the suspect seeding process.
I collected scores and seed differences for all 48 games from the first two rounds. Using a common statistical technique (regression analysis), I examined the relationship between seed differences and score differences. Seed differences explain a paltry 6 percent of score differences. When the 1-16 and 2-15 are dropped, this percentage falls to only 3 percent. Even as a predictor of win-loss rather than score, seed differences fare poorly. For many of the games, plucking scores from a lottery hopper would come close to providing as much information on outcomes.
Is seeding really intended to predict score differential? Obviously, not directly. However, seeding reflects a gauge of team's in-season performance quality – wins and losses adjusted for quality of competition. If this gauge has much meaning to it, better seeds indicating higher quality teams, differences between them should show up in scores. Instead, games with large seed differences wind up close or in upsets and games with narrow seed differences result in some blowouts.
It's not just the NCAA Selection Committee that struggled with finding meaningful differences between teams. Vegas point spreads, direct estimates of score differences, predicted only about 17 percent of score differences. That's a stunningly low number given that these spreads incorporate information such as injuries and best guesses about team specific matchups.
The 1 and 2 seeds are still very likely to win their opening round games, but even these games have become much more contested. Based on this year's tourney, I might amend original suggestion to select seeds 1-4 with everyone else randomly selected to just selecting the 1 seeds and randomizing from there. Yes, that would lead to some seemingly strong teams facing other strong teams in the first round, and weak versus weak, but, that's already happening. The setup just puts a different face on it.
What Are the Falcons Worth to Atlanta?
"WHEREAS, due to the continuing economic benefits to be derived from the New Stadium Project by the citizens of the City of Atlanta and the State of Georgia…" Thus begins the latest diversion of revenue from a city's coffers to a professional sports franchise.
Various reports indicate that the negotiations between Atlanta and the NFL's Falcons over a new stadium are nearing a conclusion. A story in Friday's Atlanta Journal and Constitution presents a number of basic facts. The estimated construction cost is an eye-popping one billion dollars. The public will contribute two hundred million dollars up front through a bond issue, with the Falcons responsible for the rest. The deal appears to fit the contemporary norm for stadium building and funding. As in Dallas and New York, a building costing a billion bucks will doubtless be a super spruced-up sports palace. But along with the higher price tag, the public's share of the costs is below the norm for the mid to late 20th century. Raymond Keating's 1999 survey of stadium costs ("Sports Pork") estimated the public share of construction costs at about 75%, roughly three times the public share in the present case.
Neil deMause presents a detailed breakdown of other elements in Atlanta's "New Stadium Project Financing Proposal," along with a valuable link to the 200 page proposal itself. To the construction costs, add $24 million in land costs and $30 million in construction sales tax rebates. This pushes the subsidized share of full construction costs to about 25%. That's not the end of public support however. In addition, the Falcons will receive revenues from the city's 7% Hotel Motel Tax. This tax, which would sunset under current law in 2020, is extended another 30 years to 2050. (The extension of this distortionary tax is perhaps the most inefficient aspect of the agreement). deMause reports that the Falcons's share of this tax currently runs about $17 million. These funds are designated for operation and maintenance of the stadium — costs that in the absence of public involvement would be charged to the Falcons (or the Atlanta Falcons Stadium Company, a separate legal entity).
There are a number of offsets in the various flows of costs and revenue, but deMause's back of the envelope estimate is that the total public subsidy in this deal is on the order of $554 million. The costs are spread out through bond issuance, and flows from the Hotel Motel Tax which accrue in the year they are incurred.
This is a significant subsidy, one that the Falcons' ownership will take happily to the bank. But it's standard operating procedure in the monopolized world of North American professional sport. Monopoly control over the number of franchises creates potential competition from a host city without a team, and through that an exit threat for which citizens in towns with current teams must compensate. As an economist, with my normative hat I decry the system which generates this diversion of funds between now and 2050 to a sports entity, rather than projects which would truly help develop Atlanta's economy.
But given the rules of the game, the price tag doesn't strike me as one that the citizens of Atlanta will get all worked up about. The subsidy amounts to about $20 million per year — a significant but not massive fraction of ticket revenues. With about 5 million people living in the Atlanta MSA, the per capita cost is about $4 per year. I suspect that if the question were asked, "Falcons for $4″ versus "no Falcons", the people would fork over the $4. I'm not a fan of this process at all, but must say "well played, Arthur Blank."
The poaching of past Big East schools by the ACC and Big East and similar events in other conferences has engendered accusations of greed, disloyalty, and nastier things. Jilted institutions and league officials have sounded a lot like spurned lovers. While soap operas have appeared as little more of than a mad scramble for cash, a degree of order has emerged. In fact, the latest headlines pointing toward Xavier and Butler joining the "Catholic 7" Big East basketball schools demonstrate a sorting out apples with apples and oranges with oranges – call it the "eHarmony" model of relationship matching where "underlying compatibility" matters.
Money, of course, has driven decisions. That's not exactly a bombshell, and it didn't start in the last decade as the initial formation of the Big East in 1979 bears witness. The landmark 1984 Supreme Court decision striking down NCAA restrictions on televising football started a snowball moving that has gained speed and size over time. Prior to that decision and for a while after, the formation of conferences like the Big East, Metro, and Sun Belt reflected basketball-centered schools coalescing and seeking market shares. Ultimately, the unleashed football genie began to dictate alignments and re-alignments. The 1991 Notre Dame contract with NBC marked a watershed. It nudged other broadcasters into more lucrative contracts with conferences, enhancing major conferences as key bargaining units and making them more attractive to major independents like Penn State, while encouraging existing conference members to explore new relationships.
The affinities in the new relationships reflected underlying similarities in the size of the fan base (or potential base), sport of emphasis, academic standards, and geographic settings. Arkansas and South Carolina went to the SEC. The SWC married the Big 8. These seemed like big shifts at the time, but the matching process was just getting rolling in the 1990s. Many potentially advantageous relationships went undeveloped. Texas A&M, for instance, while in many ways fitting much better with the SEC than the Big 12 did not make the move until 2012.
Assorted political obstacles and school-specific interests, such as longstanding rivalries and local interests, restrained movements as with Texas A&M. In other cases, these obstacles persist and won't likely vanish anytime soon. A fortunate few institutions benefit from "grandfathering." For example, if the SEC were starting from scratch today, Vanderbilt would be looking for an association with other private schools, and it's very doubtful that two Mississippi schools would be invited. Northwestern would not be in the Big Ten. In other cases, the mix of football and basketball influences decisions. The basketball-rich tradition of North Carolina has kept it linked to other ACC schools when it could likely have jumped to a more prosperous league. Turf protection keeps some schools out of conferences where they would seemingly fit well. Some of the current matches reflect conferences picking from the leftovers to fill out their roster such as the Big 12 picking up West Virginia. Why the Big 12 hasn't gone for BYU (or the other way around) or Florida State is hard to understand.
Yes, outcomes in big revenue college sports will always be convoluted. After all, the structure couples essentially professional sports entertainment enterprises with not-for-profit academic institutions wrapped in the antiquated vocabulary of amateur sports. Nonetheless, business relationships are most stable when the objectives, revenues, and cost structures are more in line with each other.
The 7 Big East, urban campus, private, basketball-centered schools gravitating toward each other and a couple of other similar schools and away from football-centered, large state universities makes sense. It makes a lot more sense than these schools adding another dissimilar institution from across the country like Boise State.
NBA Centers Facing Extinction
Russell, Chamberlain, Jabbar, Lanier, Walton, Gilmore, Malone, Olajuwan, Ewing, O'Neal. Over decades, these and other "centers" dominated the NBA. The "association" conducted its annual All-Star game on Sunday. For the first time, the league did not list "Center" as a separate position for fan voting. Yes, some of the players in the game still carry the label, but only one of the starters, Dwight Howard, possesses the physical characteristics or style of play historically attached to the position. In altering its All-Star ballot, the NBA merely officially recognized the trend in the game – centers have been trending toward T-Rex's fate along with "Sky Hook," "Dream Shake," and "up and under."
These trends can be quickly seen through scoring statistics. Whether looking at yearly leaders or career leaders, only Dwight Howard appears in places where the centers of the sixties, seventies, and eighties did, and there are no emerging players of this sort. The data support extends far beyond points. It's also observable in rebounding and shot blocking statistics. Whether "center" or "low post" player is the label, the type of players associated with the positions are vanishing.
The devolution of the center position reflects a series of indirect effects and outcomes rather than direct managerial choices. The adoption and popularization of the 3-point shot made a big impact. Ostensibly, the shot would open up play in the middle, but over the long run it devalued size and interior skill. Prior to the 3-pointer, closer shots tended to be better shots, and highly skilled big players excelled at making close shots. The 3-point shot slowly changed team offensive strategy as well as the long player development.
Along with the 3-point shot, the ratcheting up of physical play in the middle rendered low post play less effective. By the mid to late 1980s players such as Rick Mahorn and Kevin McHale wrestled for post position. In earlier eras, court position was ceded based on first to a spot. By the 1990s, the low post wrestling morphed into all out body-to-body combat. Centers with fade-away shots such as Olajuwan or Ewing and O'Neal with his brute force could survive but the die was cast. The same forces bubbled up at the collegiate level. I sometimes hear fans and analysts express dismay at the "lack of low post skills," but low post skill is impossible to employ when defensive players are permitted, literally, to shove offensive players. With high school and college post player becoming increasingly less effective, coaches at these levels adjusted their offensive schemes. By the 2000s, few players emerge into the professional ranks with low post skills.
Is the extinction of center play a part of NBA brand management? I can't say for sure because I have not sat in on NBA executive meetings, but I doubt it. Brand management in sports is unique in many respects. Mrs. Smith's apple pies follow the recipe and packaging decisions of management. In the film industry segment of entertainment, movies and their marketing display the choices of producers, directors, and screenwriters with a little bit of discretion of actors thrown in. In contrast, sports entertainment executives exert much less control over their product, at least the on-the-court (or field) aspect. They can influence it through choice of rules regarding eligibility, scoring, and fouls (to some extent), but the final combination on display on NBA courts mixes these choices with the unintended consequences of them along with team methods and with the long run evolution of player skills.
This lack of direct control also makes reversing these trends problematic. In part, the league faces difficult tradeoffs. The league values the 3-point shot and the the athleticism of Michael in his era and and LeBron today. Yet, promoting these aspects of the game may come at the expense of low post play. Reducing physical play offers an opportunity for positive impacts on both perimeter and low post play, but significantly diminishing aggressive defensive tactics is not an easy task – that's a topic from my recent Super Bowl post, and one that deserves its own discussion.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Jamie Neistat is here to help.
The fiancee of Red Sox catcher Ryan Lavarnway has come to understand the importance of preparation. Sunday night — when the Academy Awards takes center stage on most household television sets — will offer the latest opportunity for Neistat to show off just how much she has prioritized being on-point in whatever situation presents itself.
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Truth be told, Lavarnway might have already gone through the aforementioned pastries by the time Seth McFarlane utters his first words, but that's OK. Neistat can make more; that's what she does. Ryan plays baseball. Jamie cooks … and blogs. (And tweets at @CookinginRedSox.)
Neistat is a classically trained baker, having attended culinary school after earning her business degree at Bucknell University. It has not only led her to jobs at bakeries at whatever locale Lavarnway finds himself playing (she can currently be found baking weekday mornings at Lush French Bakery in Fort Myers), but also into the world of blogging. Read the rest of this entry »
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But since they have not been sentenced yet.
But let me just say $1,380.00 and $1,370.00. WOW.. Not exactly the big money loads you see done on those tv crime shows or in the Movies eh?
And.. Now you face several years in prison, fines, fees, probation and will have a hard time finding employment when you do get out and even a place to live.. Nice!
so.. do the math.. When you finanlly get out. You will be lucky to have a job, the job you will have will not help much in paying off fines etc... and you will struggle to live for a while (housing, food etc) when you get out (Not always) but mostly. The good news is your young so there might be a time table that will give you a chance to improve. May I suggest betterpeople.org
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The rioting mob was contained after two hours, the anti-encroachment drive was withdrawn due to heavy resistance.
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I know that many provax like to dismiss the antivax crowd as "conspiracy theorists". Have any of them stopped to wonder why these beliefs are formed or do they simply imagine delusional schizophrenics on the other side of the computer screen? In any case, here's a nice timeline of documented medical experiments, some of which were even publicly apologized for.(seems Clinton had to do a lot of the apologies)
Some key notes are the instances in which the patient or parent was not given full information before procedure or vaccine. Also the disturbing new as of recent that there are states invoking "gunpoint medicine" and forcing people to get vaccines with threats of jail and fines. Karl Marx would be proud.
|Tue, 03-10-2009 - 6:01pm
Do your homework in advance. I was planning on doing one at a time too, but the MMR was not available when we went in. I had discussed it with the doctor and in his office, I gave in and let them give him the MMR. That was around 2003 I believe. The rubella alone was available, but the other two were not. I think this may change and of course different areas and different doctors will have different options. We didn't have a problem breaking up the Diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus but I have since learned that doctors say they "can't" when sometimes they actually could if only they would try - but they don't. :)
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Of course I don't think you ladies are crazy ;-)
.. on the Hep B .. we did decline at birth with no problems at all. We're going to start his regular vaccinations at 2 months, but I am planning to have only one vaccine administered at a time. I don't give my pets more than one vaccine at a time .. I don't plan to do it to my baby, either!! :)
|Tue, 03-03-2009 - 11:09pm
I knew you were one who didn't think we were crazies! I must have gotten ddt confused with deet. I knew there was something like that they took out of mosquito spray.
Welcome back Melissa! Elijah is ADORABLE!!! Congrats again! Hope all is going well for you.
Mind if I ask if you did the Hep B shot?
|Tue, 03-03-2009 - 9:03pm
hallo, nice to see you.
Happy to know that you don't see us all as totally crazy :)
|Tue, 03-03-2009 - 8:17pm
I'm not sure about DDT in mosquito repellent .. but I know they used DEET, which you could get something like 100% at one point in time .. until they realized it would destroy your liver .. now you can only get something like 30% DEET in your repellent .. either way, toxic and bad for the water supply.
This is my first time back on the board since having Elijah ... and I just wanted to comment back, Robin ..
I admit to imaging delusional schizos who had no real clue the risks being posed to their children by refusing vaccines .. after talking with you ladies, I realize you're actually pretty well-informed and not all of your skepticism over vaccines is unfounded. :) ... though you still haven't converted me, yet! :)


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After we had unpacked much of the heavy pky, we saw that the color/finish on many of the parts had been smudged off. That's the only way I know how to describe it. Like the stain had not been applied properly or allowed to dry....or something. We thot it was dust at first and would wipe off. There was also a visible scratch on the front piece. So of course it had to go back, and I did not take a chance on ordering another one. Once more Overstock came through in customer service. Made the return easy and paid for everything. I LOVE OVERSTOCK.com (just not this particular piece of furniture).
This was the worst product I ever purchased from O. The wood chips, the instructions are poor, took hours to assemble. Everything that could go wrong did. Not a good value, this piece is not worth the cost. O made the return painless which was the only bright side.
First, the box is very heavy! You will definitely need two adults to get the packaging/box open and to put this thing together. It comes in many pieces, but I think we were able to put it together in just over 3 hours without much arguing or sweating. Both side doors were distorted, color-wise, but after a quick chat with customer service, they sent replacement doors right away. The drawer face is scratched fairly badly, but we'll live with it. Also, the front side to the piece that the TV sits on is cracked. I don't think this hurts the structural integrity of the stand, so we're also choosing to live with that instead of having to take the entire thing apart to add a replacement top piece. In addition to being scratched, the drawer itself is odd - there are slider tracks that we had to install on the side walls of the cabinet compartment for the drawer to slide in, but the drawer sides themselves did not come with holes to add slides or rolling tracks to the drawer...so the drawer just sort of sits in a cubbie hole of sorts. It's a fairly stable stand once it is put together, but it is definitely not high quality. Unfortunately, we'll likely end up replacing it in a few years.
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Item arrived damaged, build quality and attention to detail is not what I had expected but giving the price of the item ($$$). Ill use it for a few years and toss it out when I move again.
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Cliff could make Gandhi lose his temper…
Ghandi often lost his temper. Quite frankly most of what is "known" about him in the western world is from a propaganda "autobiography" he wrote. The east does not hold him in the same esteem, particularly after more than a million died in the 1947 Partition.
At least Pam isn't threatening some other part of Cliff's anatomy…
She does have her temper under control. She's doing just what she wants with it.
So, you have any dirt on Mother Teresa?
Hey, you know what? For a change, I agree completely with you.
Gandhi (or, as you Americans insist on renaming him, "Ghandi") was a scheming, manipulative politician whose primary utility to the British was as a safety valve to vent Indian popular resentment. He repeatedly sabotaged movements that could actually have led to Indian independence.
As for Pam: do you intend eating Cliff's lungs after ripping them out, like the Syrian terrorist cannibal?
As for Pam: do you intend eating Cliff's lungs after ripping them out, like the Syrian terrorist cannibal?
Sorry for the double post. Damn cellphone.
@ frumdebang
Plenty of dirt on Ms Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu ("Mother Teresa") online, including the statements of her ex-disciples. Just Google.
@Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist
Okay, how about Albert Schweitzer? Dr. Salk? Lenny Skutnik?* (It's fun destroying reputations, especially this early in the morning.)
*Google it.
Rather late in the afternoon for me, Mr frumdebang. Got things to do.
See what you started, Marg? It was such an innocent observation, but with this gang…
Historian Paul Johnson didn't have much admiration for Gandhi. He wrote that it cost the British government a fortune to keep him in poverty. His book, "Modern Times" gives you some insights into what a bizarre character Gandhi was.
@Bruno Z,
He has already lost his equipment.
As for his brain, he can't lose what he never had.
Could you come with a better name than "Friendly Neighborhood Terrorist"? How about "The Village Idiot"!
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Rösti is a German/Swiss traditional potato dish. The secret to making this is to squeeze out as much of the moisture from grated potatoes as you can. In this version, I add shredded onion and then cook the potatoes until golden brown. Once they are cooked, I added fresh eggs on top which made a hearty breakfast. Rösti are a delicious side dish for any kind of meal, including dinner. Enjoy!

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Potato ricer (easy way to remove excess moisture) or
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Wash potaotes (I don't peel them, unless you are using Russets) and grate
Squeeze out as much moisture as you can (to avoid gummy potatoes).
Add grated onion (if using)
Add olive oil, pepper and go easy on adding salt (you can always add more).
Toss to combine.

Heat a skillet, with about 2-3 tsp olive oil on medium heat until it is rippling and just starting to smoke. Add the pat of unsalted butter (for flavor).

Evenly distribute the potatoes and allow to cook until golden brown. Press down with a large spatula (I use a bacon press to weight it down).

Flip over and continue to cook until golden brown. Total cooking time is approximately 20 minutes.

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There are still local copies available where I live.. Ide much rather buy the physical CDs with how horrible the digital download/install is going.
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So when the physical media version does the exact same thing as the downloaded version (it has to download the same patch) ...
I'd have support figure out what's horked on your machine.
The physical DVDs are going to be just as bad, this is all due to issues with patching the OLD files, which are still on those DVDs.
Their patcher mechanism is the weak link here, never should have needed this much user intervention/help, their poor tech support lines/agents are going to be swamped for weeks.
Out of space for the install, maybe?
Sounds like incomplete download to me Vegaz.
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Ive opened a ticket and asked for help here. Its nothing to do with patching...
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Ive attempted multiple locations, its running in admin... its not being blocked by my firewall etc etc
So please... I understand I still will need to patch... this isnt my first game launch... but I have been working on getting "TO THE PATCHING POINT" for hours now.
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so far so good! i've been lucky enough to be able to avoid most of my alcohol temptation social events and have kept it out of the house so that temptation is gone. for now. every weekend poses a challenge.
this weekend i got two invitations. one was to a bar and the other a bbq. i was going to do the bbq. but i will be bowing out of that as well. it's tomorrow night and with that and everything going on saturday i just don't have time to go to a bbq. saved once again! now i just have to keep it out of the house...
my big challeng will be saturday night. my bff's cousin is turning 21. all the cousins are taking him out. i grew up with these kids and feel i need to make an appearance. i have a very busy day saturday so i know i'll be exhausted by the time the night rolls around. i'll play the role of dd and not drink. plus i know when i'm that tired and start drinking i just want to go to bed. lol! plus. i still have my allergy issues going on. so plenty of reasons/excuses to keep my sober this weekend.
a few days ago i wrote a blog about some of the causes for my excessive drinking. the past few days i've been thinking about why i drink in the first place. i have a few ideas:
*i'm bored.
*i'm trying to recapture that first time. you know, like a person addicted to crack.
*i'm trying to get back to a better time in my life. this is complicated, i have these memories of being 19 - 23 just having a blast. i want that again. somehow i think alcohol will do that. i know it won't, but it just takes one thought of those times and how things are now and i'll grab a drink.
*everyone else is doing it.
*it makes people feel awkward when they are drinking and not everyone else is. i've give up alcohol for lent and other random things before. everytime i've been in a social situation and others are drinking they constantly ask why i'm not. it makes them uncomfortable. i have to put my own comfort first. i've also learned to never ask anyone why they aren't drinking.
*did i mention i'm bored?
So, i need to find a hobby and i need to take control for social situations. that will be a good start!
an update: thursday night, walk night with the girls that ends in wine drinking, got cancelled. saved by the bell!
weekend camping trip that was going to be a challenge got rained out. saved by the rain!
bad news: i have this cold allergy thing going on. good news: drinking kills my allergies in a way that it's almost impossible to drink any alcohol at all. and i am well aware of the fact that alcohol makes sickness linger and can make you even more sick. saved by the sniffles!
so i'm doing alright in my quest to avoid alcohol.
i was weeding and digging in the yard all weekend. we are preparing to lay sod. that's a lot of work. didn't help my allergy problem, but it was nice to be sweating and using some muscles for once.
not much to share today, just wanted to give you all an update.
one day at a time...
my friends and i gather every week to walk and then drink wine when we are done. it's a fun way for us to chat and catch up, and there are no boys allowed. we finish off the evening with a bottle of wine. so i'm going to be tested tonight when the bottle is uncorked. question is, will i be strong enough to withstand or cave in rather than admitting my problem?
thank you all for the wonderful comments on my previous blog. i have been thinking a lot about your comments, hints, advice and similar stories. i'm really trying to get to the root of my problem and your insight has helped so much! especially knowing i'm not alone!
i've been thinking about a my drinking habits the past couple days. in my dream world i would love to be able to go to dinner and have one drink. have a glass of wine nightly with my dinner. meet some friends at the bar and share a pitcher of beer. go to happy hour and then go home at 7 when it's over and be fine with that. all of the above situations do happen to me, but i don't stop at that one drink, pitcher or drink special. i need more.
i tell myself one drink and that's it. but i always have more. i love feeling buzzed. and once i'm there, i don't want it to go away so i keep going. i don't see the point in drinking if i'm not going to get buzzed. take tonight for instance, the 3 or 4 of us will share a bottle of wine. not biggie, that's not much more than one glass for each person. we're chatting and having a good time then it's time to go home. i'm still feeling the very beginning effects of the wine. so when i get home i pop open a beer or make a rum & coke. then i finally have the good buzz i'm searching for. then i have another to keep it going. before i know it it's thursday night and i'm in no condition to drive (not that i would, i'm just using that as a drunkness-meter).
this same scenario works for going out to dinner, having dinner with a friend, having a drink at a bar or just hanging out at home. it's sad, but at least i can recognize it. now i just have to figure out what to do with the information.
as for my drunken rib injury: i'm starting to feel better! i read that you're not supposed to do any activity that will raise your heartrate and cause your lungs to put pressure on your ribs. if the rain holds out and our walk happens tonight i'll be able to tell just how much aerobic activity is too much. what really sucks is i was planning on starting jillian's 30 day shred for june to get toned for short season. don't see that happening till the ribs are better.
my goal for june was going to be work out everyday. I would still like to do this, but i have come to the realization over the weekend that i need to quit drinking. maybe not forever, but for a good amount of time. i have developed some crazy bad drinking habits lately. it seems like every weekend all i do is drink. when weigh in day is monday this makes for very bad results.
i'm never going to lose weight if i don't quit drinking. aside from the thousands of calories i consume in a night (yes, i'm a binge drinker) from the alcohol i also eat entirely too much. i either eat cause i'm drunk and everything sounds/looks so good or i eat to help cure the hangover feelings.
for instance, saturday night i went out for a friend's birthday. i drank about a half a bottle of rum before hand. i also ate dinner. it was even healthy! i had a couple more drinks at the bar. i was dancing and somehow got hit in the chest and got the wind knocked out of me. so my ribs are bruised. now i have to avoid strenuous activities. needless to say, i felt like crud sunday. i weeded for a couple hours, but mostly i sat around and ate junk food. i went to a bbq that night and didn't drink. mostly cause i said i was going to quit.
yesterday i sat inside cause it wouldn't quit raining. i was doing great avoiding the alcohol and then i just couldn't anymore. so i finished off the bottle of rum and then some. basically, if there is alcohol in the house i have to drink it.
obviously i have a problem. so i'm going to focus on not drinking this month. i'm going to blog about it a lot so that i can keep myself in check.
i have amazing willpower. i just can't control it when it comes to alcohol. i can never stop at one drink. i always go too far. in 2009 i gave up soda for my new year's resolution. and i succeeded with no problem. for 2010 i gave up fast food. haven't had any so far. so why can't i use this strength with alcohol? a few years ago i went 9 weeks without a drink. then 4th of july hit and i broke that streak. i can't seem to go a week anymore. if i can overcome this obstacle i can get that scale moving in the right direction again.
wish me luck!
...being the fat girl
...being uncomfortable in my own skin
...being ashamed of myself
...hating what i look like
...avoiding the mirrors
...being unmotivated to work out
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[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]
Ah, the Dream of the Wilting Flowers. Like many web dreams, premature, premature, premature…and then, maybe soon, pop. A sensation, with lots of dollars involved. Our best current example: Steve Jobs' "invention" of the iPad, which of course was dreamed up in quite similar forms, decades before, in the fancies of Alan Kay and Roger Fidler, among others.
It's all timing, right?
So it's a good time to get a sense of what's happening in local mobile commerce among news companies.
A friend visiting the exhibition hall at the NAA Orlando convention in April told me he'd been besieged by mobile commerce vendors. Then there's the group (mobile commerce) grope, symbolized by the Groupon craze. Get a whopping good deal — but only if you can get enough of the crowd to go along with it as well. Of course, iAds are on the horizon, with Apple offering a sweet-smelling twist on walled-garden marketing pitches. Google's AdMob — the leading mobile ad network — just got the thumbs-up from the FTC and has launched AdWhirl, its open-source (take that, Apple) "mediation layer" to facilitate mobile commerce. You can't stay on top of all the mobile-marketing plays these days, no matter how much you try.
Let's look at newspaper companies and what they're doing with mobile commerce. Talk about timing: When Dan Finnigan ran Knight Ridder Digital a decade ago, one of his favorite mantras was the Dream of the Wilting Flowers. As in: It's 4:30. You're driving down the street. Your phone knows where you are, of course, and coming up, on the right is a florist…with a perishable commodity, flowers that will be worthless within 24 hours. Your "smart" phone, knowing where you are, who you are, your flower-buying habits, and maybe your spending proclivities, sends you the florist's coupon for half-off, if you stop by within the half-hour. Satisfied merchant, satisfied customer, a perfecting of supply and demand.
It's still a great vision, with a new generation chasing it, and getting closer. Talk to newspaper companies, though, and you'll hear the answer is "we're not yet there." Closer, but not quite there.
Bill Ganon sees that wilting-flower dream, but he's drilling down into something more basic: mobile sales training and the establishment of mobile pricing standards and analytics. Then, maybe by the end of the year, he says, the location-aware capabilities of smartphones may start to smell the daisies.
Ganon is the general manager for local market development for Verve Wireless, and Verve is the newspaper industry's biggest mobile play. Spurred first by AP investment and partnership in summer 2008, many newspaper companies have turned to Verve for mobile content and, now, ad solutions. Verve now powers more than 400 mobile news sites for newspaper and broadcast companies including MediaNews, Hearst, Belo, McClatchy, Freedom, and Lee.
Verve is making a new ad push, after seeing its first forays fall flat locally. That push is predicated on scale. Its network — the Blackberry has just been added to the iPhone, with Android and iPad applications on the way, says Ganon — has grown dramatically. Year over year, for April, it has grown to 8.9 million uniques (from 2.9) and 130 million page views (from 51 million).
When Ganon — a veteran of old media sales at Newsweek and Sunset, as well as eight years with Qualcomm — took over local sales eight months ago, he found a ragtag group of local mobile efforts. Now, as Ganon describes his work, we can see the emerging newsonomics of local mobile pricing. As the mobile commerce world explodes, Ganon is focusing on the basics. He says Verve can now count 75 local sites beginning to make consistent sales, up from around 20 when he came on board. The basics of the push:
What's apparent is how early we are in local mobile selling — and how far away it is today from adding appreciably to news site revenues. The deals are small, and even the best-performing sites can count no more than 20 advertisers, with most having far fewer on their sites at any one time.
And the Dream of the Wilting Flowers? Ganon says Verve should be able to add in location-aware selling, maybe by the end of the year, but he believes that it "will be a major breakthrough." So, 2011, maybe. When that breakthrough comes, the big question is who will benefit most: the local newspaper and broadcast companies, or Apple, or Google, or Yahoo, or maybe Verizon or AT&T?
Ask Walter Sanchez, publisher of BQE Media in Brooklyn and Queens and a Verve client, and he'll tell you it's an uphill climb. I met Walter at a recent New York Press Association conference, and his marketing efforts were way ahead of the curve, among publishers. He's busy selling social sites, SEO, SEM, and mobile sites, he's proud of getting such small businesses as Beach Bum Tanning sold on mobile ($500 a year for a landing page and 3,000 short-text messages). But he'll tell you that most local merchants are indeed still mystified by the web, and they're slow adopters: "When those 21-, 22- and 23-year-olds start buying their own businesses, in a few years, then, we'll see real adoption."
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