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The covered call provides extra income to a buy-and-hold strategy. In exchange for this income, there is a risk of lost opportunity. If the stock's price rises well above the fixed strike price of the call, you have your 100 shares of stock called away below current market value. For some investors, this is an unacceptable risk; for others, it is gladly accepted given the potential extra returns from writing covered calls.
A Few Options Basics
The popularity of options trading has grown in recent years. Many investors and traders have realized that options can be used not only to speculate, but also as a means for managing a long-term stock portfolio, taking profits without needing to sell stock and reducing the threat of losses. Among the dozens of possible strategies, covered call writing is especially popular for its potential to generate extra income for a portfolio.
Options are intangible contracts that provide rights to their owners. A call option provides the right to buy shares. (The second type of option, the put, gives you the right to sell.) The stock involved in every call trade is the underlying security. Call options have two other specifications: the expiration date (the date on which an option expires and becomes worthless) and the strike price (the price per share at which 100 shares of an option can be bought or sold when exercised). None of these terms can be changed.
A buyer, or owner, of an option has the right to exercise the contract. In the case of a call, this means that the right involves "calling away," or purchasing, 100 shares of the stock at the strike price. For example, if you own a 70 call and the underlying stock moves to $85 per share, that call gives you the right to buy 100 shares at $70, or $15 per share below current market value.
Call buyers take considerable risk. About 75% of all calls expire worthless, so buying is a speculative strategy. Some traders use options to time entry and exit points to take advantage of short-term price changes, but as expiration nears, the option loses value.
This happens because part of the option's premium (the current value of the option), its time value, falls, ending up at zero on expiration day. The rate of decline accelerates as expiration approaches, making buying options a difficult way to profit consistently. (The time to expiration impacts value because the longer the period to expiration, the greater the probability that the stock will reach and move beyond the exercise price. As the expiration date nears, time value decreases because there are fewer days during which the contract can be exercised before it expires.) Time value is a big problem for call buyers.
Selling options is a more profitable approach, for two reasons. First, when you sell an option, you receive the premium instead of paying it. Second, the decline in time value is an advantage to you as a seller. As time value declines, a short call can be closed, creating a profit. This profit is the difference between the original sale price (the option's premium) and the lower closing purchase price. (When you write, meaning sell, an option contract, you are short the contract. The term "short call" refers to the fact that you want the call contract to decrease in value, to $0, after you have sold it.)
Selling Call Options
You can write a call that is "covered," meaning you own the underlying shares, or "uncovered," where you do not already hold the shares.
The Risky Uncovered Call
Selling an uncovered, or "naked," call is one of the riskiest option strategies because a stock's price can rise as high as the market moves it. One huge problem with selling calls when you do not own 100 shares of the underlying security is the high risk involved.
For example, if you sell an uncovered 70 call (strike price is $70 per share) and you get a premium of 4 ($400), as long as the stock price remains at or below $70, all of the premium is going to be profit. But what if the stock's value rises to $95 before the option expiration date? In that case, you would have a net loss of $2,100 because you would need to buy the stock at the prevailing price of $95 in order to deliver it at the previously contracted price of $70. Table 1 shows the math.
Table 1. Example of an Uncovered Call Resulting in a Large Loss
The Covered Call Alternative
The risk of selling an uncovered call is unacceptable for most traders, even though 75% of all calls expire worthless. If the stock price rises, the market risk is simply too great.
Just as the uncovered call is a high-risk strategy, the covered call is on the other side of the risk spectrum, relatively speaking. It is one of the most conservative options strategies.
The primary argument against the covered call is that if the stock price rises above the strike price, profits on the stock are limited to the price specified in the contract. In other words, no matter how high the stock trades, you can only sell the stock at the price specified in the contract, which is the "strike price."
Examples of Covered Calls
The first rule for covered call writing: Pick the company as a first step, based on your investment standards and risk tolerance. This is a huge subject area beyond the scope of covered calls; but it is invariably a mistake to use covered call writing as a primary method for picking stocks.
Assume that you have two stocks you are considering for your portfolio. In both cases, you are happy to hold these stocks for the long term but, given the right premium levels for covered calls, you are also happy to risk having shares called away.
Two stocks are used in the following examples: DUD and POP. A position of 100 shares in DUD purchased at $120 per share and a position of 100 shares in POP purchased at $58 per share is assumed. Based on the stock and option values at the close of June 30, 2017, DUD closed at $123.48 and yielded a dividend of 2.1%. POP closed at $60.07 and yielded a dividend of 2.9%.
The DUD calls available as of the June 30 close are based on a limited range of strikes between 125 and 135 expiring in the three closest expiration months. The POP calls are based on strikes between 60 and 65 expiring in the three closest expiration months. These months are always the two closest months and the next following month in a stock's expiration cycle. DUD's cycle is JAJO (January, April, July, October), while POP's cycle is FMAN (February, May, August, November). Calls for both stocks are summarized in Table 2.
Table 2. Option Values for DUD and POP as of June 30, 2017
To annualize, calculate the yield by dividing the option premium by the current stock price. Then, divide the yield by the holding period (in months) and multiply by 12 (months). This creates the yield earned if the position were kept open exactly one full year. Note that because the date of these options is June 30, the time to the July expiration is 23 days, which makes the holding period about 75% of one month. Table 3 shows the math for calculating the annualized yield based on comparisons between the option premium and current value of the stock for each of the options. The next step is to pick the "best" strike. All of these are above the purchase price for each of the stocks. However, the premium levels are quite different. The longer the time to expiration, the higher the dollar value of the call for the contract closest to the stock's current price—but the lower the annualized yield.
Table 3. Calculating Annual Yield on Options
In the example above, the yields on POP are vastly higher than the yields on DUD. This means POP is a more volatile stock, and thus includes higher market risks than DUD. So the decision to use one company or the other for writing covered calls is a matter of matching the market risk of the stock to the risk tolerance of the individual investor. Annualized returns should not be used as a yardstick to judge the value of all covered call writing. For example, a POP July 60 call shows annualized yield of 61.8%, which is quite impressive. However, this does not mean that writing a series of similar calls is going to produce that rate of return over the coming year. Movement in the stock, changes in markets and the timing between entry date and expiration make actual returns less certain. However, annualized yield in options analysis is valuable for making accurate comparisons between companies.
A second comparison can be made on dividend yield. Based on the June 30 prices, DUD yielded 2.1% whereas POP yielded 2.9%. This difference in dividend should also affect the decision to use one stock over the other. The rationale is that the higher yield will produce more relative income.
Assuming you would have picked POP as a purchase choice, the next step is to compare available options. Table 3 shows that shorter-term options yield better returns than longer-term options. The POP 60 July call offers comparatively more upside. It yields over 60% annualized while generating immediate income of $232 (the premium payment). Exposure time is about 23 days. If the stock price closes below $60 per share, this call would expire worthless. If exercised, the call writer keeps the $232 plus dividends, plus a capital gain of $200 ($60.00 – $58.00).
These examples use calls that are above the purchase price of the stock. Writing covered calls on a stock whose price has declined below your original purchase price is not recommended. The profit from selling calls with strikes above the price you originally paid for the stock will not be large enough to offset your loss in the stock itself. In this situation, you need to wait out the market until the value of the stock rises above your original cost basis.
Evaluations and Comparisons
Comparing premium income on an annualized basis as well as dividend yield creates valid comparisons in picking a covered call. Here are some additional things to consider when deciding whether or not covered call writing is an appropriate strategy for you:
- What are the transaction costs for trading? Calls are quite cheap when compared to stocks; and the trading costs involved are quite low. A round-trip (buy and sell) for a call should be less than $20 if you use an online discount broker.
- How about tax consequences? Income from a covered call is always treated as a short-term capital gain or rolled into the capital gain on exercised stock. A more serious tax consequence is the possibility of losing the benefit of long-term gains treatment. If you sell a call that is lower than one increment from latest closing price in most cases (meaning the strike is well below the stock's current market value), you could be required to treat the gain as a short-term profit. IRS Publication 550 discusses tax issues involving options.
- Does it make more sense to just sell the stock? Not every investor holding 100 shares of stock should write covered calls. In some cases, you are better off selling shares and taking profits. If the criteria for holding a company's stock have changed, it makes sense to sell right away and replace it with shares of a company that do meet your criteria. It may also make sense to take profits when you have a substantial net loss in another transaction, so that losses and profits are offset in the same tax year. And it makes sense to sell when a sector is cyclically moving out of favor or when another company in the same sector has greater growth potential. Covered calls should be written only on shares of companies you would prefer to keep in your portfolio.
Common Options Terms
- Call: An option granting its owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy 100 shares of a specified stock, by or before a specific date, and at a specific fixed price.
- Covered call: A strategy of selling one call per 100 shares owned of the underlying security. If exercised, the market risk is eliminated because shares are available to be called away. Covered call writers receive the premium and earn dividends as long as they own the stock.
- Exercise: Using an option to trade in the underlying security. This entitles the call owner to buy (or, "call away") 100 shares of stock.
- Expiration cycle: The months in which options are going to expire. There are three annual cycles: JAJO (January, April, July, October); FMAN (February, May, August, November); and MJSD (March, June, September, December).
- Expiration date: The date on which an option expires and becomes worthless.
- Premium: The current value of an option; the amount a buyer has to pay to acquire an option, or the amount a seller receives.
- Strike price: The price per share at which 100 shares of stock can be bought or sold when an option is exercised.
- Time value: The portion of an option premium based on time to expiration; as expiration approaches, time value declines at an accelerated pace.
- Uncovered call: An option contract sold by an investor who does not own 100 shares of the underlying security.
- Underlying security: The stock or other security the option contract is written on, which cannot be exchanged or replaced.
Four Outcomes
A covered call is going to end up in one of four ways:
- The call option expires worthless. This means that the premium you received is 100% profit. As soon as a call you wrote (aka "a short call") expires, you can immediately write another call and generate even more short-term income.
- You close the position at a profit or to limit a loss. You are free to close a call option you wrote (aka "a short call") any time before expiration. If the call's premium drops substantially, it might make sense to execute a closing purchase transaction by buying a call with the same strike price and expiration as the one you wrote, take the profit and then write later-expiring calls. If the stock price has risen, you can also close a short call to limit losses. This is a logical choice when the loss on the short call is lower than the appreciation in the underlying stock.
- The short call is exercised. This can happen at any time, but is most common on the last trading day of the expiration month. In the case of exercise, your 100 shares are called away and your net profits include capital gains, the option premium and dividends.
- The short call is rolled forward. You can avoid or delay exercising with a forward roll, a transaction in which you close one call and replace it with another that expires later. A word of caution: The forward roll can unintentionally turn a qualified covered call into an unqualified covered call. A qualified covered call does not change the tax status of the underlying stock, whereas an unqualified covered call can. If you are close to reaching long-term capital gains status on your shares of stock, but your roll creates a new position with a strike more than an increment below current market value, the period counting toward favorable long-term treatment stops. In other words, if the stock is called, you could end up paying taxes on short-term gains regardless of how long you have held the stock. Consult a tax professional about how a covered call strategy will impact your tax situation.
Here are five guidelines for writing covered calls:
- Select the stock as a first step. Never buy stock only to write covered calls; apply a sensible standard for picking companies whose stock you want to own.
- Be willing to accept exercise. When you sell a covered call, you are granting the right to someone else to call away your stock. You need to be happy selling 100 shares at the strike price.
- Pick a strike higher than the price you paid for the stock. If a covered call is exercised, it should yield a capital gain and not a capital loss. For example, if you buy shares at $69, look at calls with strikes of 70 or above. Avoid writing covered calls with strikes below your cost. Your broker will have a table showing contracts for various months.
- Include dividends in the comparison. When comparing the income from covered calls, remember that dividends represent part of the overall return. So for two or more stocks you might buy, if the fundamentals are approximately equal, opt for the higher-yielding company.
- Make sure you can accept lost opportunity risk. Exercise means you lose the potential for higher capital gains in the stock. So, you must be willing to lose the occasional big profit in a stock in exchange for the income from covered call writing.
Evaluate covered call writing like any other option strategy: Be aware of the risks. For covered calls, you live with the lost opportunity risk or the sacrifice of potential profits you could earn by just owning stock when the price rises dramatically. The covered call fixes your sales price at the strike in exchange for the call premium you receive.
Other important risks are knowledge risk (the risk of entering transactions when you do not fully understand what is involved); capital risk (the need to keep money tied up in the long stock to cover the short option); and the potential risk of having stock called away that you want to keep.
With these risks in mind, if you want to write covered calls, you need to make sure you are willing to accept the premium in exchange for the potential of losing a large capital gain. You also need to make sure you understand the transaction. Finally, you need to know in advance that having stock called away at the strike is an acceptable outcome.
This is an edited version of the article that appeared in the August 2010 issue of the AAII Journal.


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Thursday, July 26, 2007
ESPN Surrounded By SPEED Channel At Indy
Over the last six years or so, there has been a TV dynamic at work in NASCAR that was quite unique. NASCAR's NEXTEL Cup Series was carried by Fox Sports, TNT, and NBC Sports. Most of the "support programming" like practice, happy hour, and qualifying was carried on SPEED Channel.
Viewers got quite comfortable with seeing TNT announcers like Bill Weber and Wally Dallenbach doing the early on-track sessions live on SPEED. The same was done for the NBC package. Lots of early parts were on SPEED. With Fox Sports, SPEED is actually a sister company also owned by Fox, so the announcers simply bounced back and forth between the two networks. Often over the years, many practice and qualifying crews were a combination of announcers from SPEED and the network broadcasting the NEXTEL Cup race.
In addition, SPEED literally surrounded the NEXTEL Cup events with a strong line-up of on-site programming including NASCAR Live, Trackside, RaceDay, and Victory Lane. While the NEXTEL Cup racing was on a non-SPEED network, fans knew to turn to SPEED for everything else.
On Friday of this week, all that changes. Enter ESPN, ABC Sports, and Disney. There will be no "sharing" of announcers for the rest of the season. You will not see Jerry Punch doing play-by-play on SPEED. You will not see Andy Petree offering analysis on SPEED. Add to that list Rusty Wallace, Brad Daugherty, Brent Musburger, and Suzy Kolber. The lines have been drawn.
This is an awkward situation for ESPN. There is no other venue where the network does not control almost everything on-site. There is no Fox Sports pre-game show before ESPN's Monday Night Football from the stadium grounds. There is no USA Network post-game show right after the last pitch of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. There is no two hour live preview show from the X Games venue on MTV or SpikeTV.
At Indy, ESPN will be up against a network that has worked hard to gain credibility in NASCAR by doing it the old fashioned way. They worked for it. Along the way there has been success with Trackside, RaceDay, and Victory Lane. There have also been failures like the memorable NASCAR Nation. But, SPEED hung-in there, produces a solid Craftsman Truck package, and even features NASCAR prominently on shows like the SPEED Report and WindTunnel.
When ESPN looks around at Indy, they will not see the College Gameday set with Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, and Kirk Herbstreit. They will see the SPEED Stage with Steve Byrnes, Jeff Hammond and Larry McReynolds. When ESPN looks again they will see John Roberts, Jimmy Spencer and Kenny Wallace staring back at them. That crew will be doing a two hour pre-race show at an "ESPN track" before an "ESPN exclusive race."
SPEED viewers are used to Wendy Venturini roaming the garage area for two hours during the RaceDay program that is telecast live just before the NEXTEL Cup race. During the 2007 TNT package, RaceDay actually overlapped with TNT's own ninety minute pre-race show. ESPN would not, and will not, ever permit that sort of thing to happen with SPEED. Just how far they will permit Wendy and RaceDay to roam in Indy remains to be seen.
ESPN has its own fleet of TV trucks, and its own army of technicians. But, at NASCAR NEXTEL Cup races, the TV compound is controlled by NASCAR's own official television and media production company called NASCAR Images. ESPN will have to nestle-in beside DirecTV's Hot Pass package, InDemand's Pay-Per-View in-car package, and the NASCAR.com RaceView package. For NASCAR Images, ESPN is just another client in this racing season. That's right, just another TV client in the NASCAR package.
All these issues have been given lip service by NASCAR, ESPN, and SPEED. Everything is going to be just fine they all say. Well, talking has been the only way to deal with these potential problems because until Friday they have not been real. There have been no conflicts, no problems, and no egos colliding into a screaming television mess. Rival fraternities have not been forced to live in the same frat house...until now.
As you go through the many live hours of NASCAR TV this weekend from Indy, try to appreciate the new dynamic in play. ESPN's previous coverage of the Busch Series has absolutely nothing to do with this. The network had been the "bottom feeder" to the NEXTEL Cup broadcaster. Now, with the click of another day in time, they are instantly the big fish in the NASCAR pond all the way through Homestead in November.
For veteran fans, the most interesting moment may be when SPEED begins to tape its Victory Lane show. This program begins taping when the winning car crosses the finish line in the NEXTEL Cup race. SPEED announcers watch over their shoulders as the winner comes into Victory Lane, gets out, and does the mandatory live TV interview. Then, almost immediately, the winner goes to SPEED for a Victory Lane interview with John Roberts and his co-hosts.
Imagine ESPN on-the-air live with the winning driver interview while SPEED tapes a TV show right behind them. Can you see ESPN allowing their "exclusive" winner interview to be shown later in Victory Lane as "background?"
Best of all, with ESPN SportsCenter, NASCAR Now, and the ESPN News Network waiting for interviews, can you really see ESPN giving up the winner of "their" Brickyard 400....to Jimmy Spencer and Kenny Wallace?
Stay tuned fans, this is going to get interesting...and probably by Sunday afternoon.
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26 comments:
- Sophia said...
Ok...call me stupid but I am NOT FOLLOWING what this column is 'trying' to say.
I thought SPEED channel was still going to have all the normal shows...practice and qualifying the second half of the season, John.
Are you telling us that is GONE!?!
And, are you trying to tell us if ESPN interviews the race winners, SPEED will not?
I am not sure what you are trying to stir up here or insinuate.
How can "one CHANNEL OWN EVERYTHING". I think ESPN in general STINKS. And while I enjoyed a few of their documentaries this week, they are even WORSE THAN FOX with their INTRUSIVE OVERBEARING GRAPHICS that take up a good 1/6 of the shows they are making (example, countdown of BIGGEST NASCAR RIVALS..the 'numbered part' went on forever with dizzying, noisy, motion sickness INDUCING GRAPHICS when by the end of the hour, hell, they coulda given up a couple more minutes of SHOW rather than nonsense.
All I know is it is a major BUZZKILL to think "SPEED IS LOSING ACCESS TO ALL DRIVERS" now that &^%$#^@ ESPN has taken over.
I thought ALL SPEED coverage would continue after ESPN took over and NOW you are writing like ESPN WILL HAVE TOTAL CONTROL.
Somebody PLEASE UNCONFUSE me.
But I am starting to get depressed when I read this site.
- July 26, 2007 at 11:35 PM
- No more ESPN said...
I think it is time to tackle the issue of how ESPN is taking over Jayski's site. I know that you don't want to, in fear of Jayski will stop putting a link to your articles on his Articles page. But enough is enough!! Jayski said when he sold his soul to ESPN not much would change. Huh??
Take a look at his sight. You would swear that it's only goal is to promote ESPN. From articles posted by ESPN where they never used to be, a ESPN video player in the middle of the news page, links to ESPN.com all over the place, news about draft track technology (oh joy!!!), news about ESPN debuting dish tech center (who cares??), news of ESPN's 66 hours of coverage, news of ESPN's ultimate Nascar week, news of ESPN's 17 multimedia platforms, pushing the Busch race on ESPN in a promo, pushing the Allstate 400 on ESPN in a promo, enough!!
Whoever let these guys get their foot back in he door should be shown to the exit at Nascar headquarters.
- July 26, 2007 at 11:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
Just a few things:
1. The NASCAR IN CAR cable ppv package was gone last year, replaced by Hot Pass.
2. I don't see this whole ESPN/SPEED line-in-the-sand thing working out. Anyone have an estimate as to how long before RaceDay and Victory Lane are shot outside the track, or not aired during the ESPN portion of the season.
3. My Dish Network program guide has RaceDay on from Noon to 2, meaning it would overlap with NASCAR Countdown, which begins at 1.
Last, but not least, what I see of RaceDay is good, but I feel two hours is too long for a pre-race show. I will watch NASCAR Countdown because it is shorter, and will have none of the Riki Rachtman crap.
- July 27, 2007 at 12:11 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
All the weekly NASCAR shows on SPEED will remain, and they are even adding two about "The Chase."
As you can see from the TV schedule, ESPN is doing happy hour and qualifying from Indy. ESPN owns the rights to all of the on-track activity of the NEXTEL Cup Series for the rest of the season.
This article is about the changes that will begin at Indy when two networks, ESPN and SPEED, are the only game in town. The "chummy" relationship that has existed between the old NASCAR partners is gone. ESPN does not play that tune, especially with a direct competitor and Fox-owned network like SPEED.
I am not trying to stir-up anything, just pointing out to non-TV industry folks that when a change like this takes place, many things change.
SPEED is about to make some changes of its own to deal with the new ESPN role in the sport, and those will be unveiled during the weekend. Thanks again for leaving your comment.
- July 27, 2007 at 6:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
ESPN, which has already done plenty to make itself unwelcome to NASCAR fans, sounds like it is ready to do even more. Nothing like a company that works hard to alienate its customers, and ESPN seems to be one of the best.
What can this network possibly think it gains by buying all the rights to on-track activity, then NOT showing that activity? We'll miss practice because of that attitude.
I had a sinking feeling that decisions like this were going to be the norm when ESPN was announced last year, and, sadly, I was right.
Like I said, gotta love a company that delights in screwing its customers.
- July 27, 2007 at 7:42 AM
- Anonymous said...
Just another example of how lost the stick and ball network ESPN truly is in broadcasting racing events. At one time they were decent but since they lost out to Fox in the early stages of the last contract they turned their back on the sport putting it close to pro bowling or curling. Now you have the worst on air package one could listen to, just plainly unwatchable. It does become amusing to watch Rusty Wallace and the basketball guy waddle around the sports issues once again proving opinions are like noses everyone has one.
- July 27, 2007 at 8:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
"There are only three real sports in the world, Bull Fighting, Mountain Climbing and Auto Racing, the rest are just Games...
Earnest Hemmingway
- July 27, 2007 at 9:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
ESPN won't care if the winner gets interviewd by other networks, once the ESPN coverage is concluded. But they won't give him up to SPEED while they are on the air! In ESPN's defense (and it pains me to defend them at all) FOX totally screwed ESPN in the early years of the FOX NASCAR deal-ESPN couldn't even have a reporte inside the track!! One does hope the FOX arrogance that emanates from David Hill gets a slap roght back from ESPN
- July 27, 2007 at 9:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
"Draft Track"=2007's version of Fox's glowing hockey puck.
Race fans don't need this crap. Just show the race.
- July 27, 2007 at 9:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
It will be interesting to see if ESPN can step up to the plate, so to speak. So far this season, their coverage of anything NASCAR related has been shoddy at best. I always liked how they would either not show the pre-race show at all or barely start coverage in time for 'gentlemen start your engines'. There's nothing like NOT getting to hear the invocation and national anthem and then not seeing the flyover. They did this more than one time during their coverage of the Busch races this year. As you may have guessed, it is one of my pet peeves about ESPN. NASCAR fans are fiercely patriotic and ESPN's failure to include this part of the pre-race activities in their coverage is like a slap in the face.
Another area which should prove interesting is the ESPN staff which will do reporting from the infield and surrounding areas at the track. I've not been impressed with any of them, either.
Where's Krista Voda when you need her?
- July 27, 2007 at 9:47 AM
- Rich said...
But ESPN has Brent Mustardburger, that font of Nascar wisdom. How can the coverage be bad with him there to 'splain things....
- July 27, 2007 at 9:53 AM
- Anonymous said...
It looks like ESPN already dropped the ball at Indy. No practice coverage Friday on ESPN or ESPN2, instead ESPN2 is airing World Series of Poker re-airs and an NCAA Year in Review Show. Meanwhile it looks like ESPN won't let Speed pick up the practice sessions because Speed is just airing 90 minute "NASCAR Live" programs while the practices are going on.
On Saturday ESPN2 is showing qualifying and the 2nd of two Cup practice sessions, but during the first practice session will be airing another re-air of "ESPN Ultimate NASCAR". What sense does that make? Thankfully Speed is doing the best they can under these conditions and will air another live NASCAR Live program during the first practice session on Saturday.
ESPN is still using the 2000 model of airing qualifying and "happy hour" and ignoring everything else, and their stance that Speed can't air any of the practices ESPN passes on does nothing but hurt the fans.
Shame on ESPN.
- July 27, 2007 at 11:24 AM
- Sophia said...
Thanks for answering my question. I did not understand that ESPN had "bought the rights" for ALL ON TRACK ACTIVITY? That so totally STINKS.
So, why are folks going to pay to keep SPEED if all the qualifying and practice and driver interviews are going to get canceled. I loathe most the ESPN talking heads.
I feel like NASCAR fans have been ROBBED.
stricklinfan82 said...
It looks like ESPN already dropped the ball at Indy. No practice coverage Friday on ESPN or ESPN2, instead ESPN2 is airing World Series of Poker re-airs and an NCAA Year in Review Show. Meanwhile it looks like ESPN won't let Speed pick up the practice sessions because Speed is just airing 90 minute "NASCAR Live" programs while the practices are going on.
I have to say Stricklin fan, I noticed the same thing. Yes sirree, ESPN has to keep the important POKER rubbish on.
I would rather see every bit of on track ACTION at the Brickyard.
Only been watching NASCAR 4 years and am suddenly very depressed.
Gone are Steve Byrnes and the knowledgeable guys.
It would seem John you were implying how ARROGANT a monster ESPN has become and I not being savvy to broadcast dealings missed that. Thanks again for explaining it to me and for providing this blog.
But not to be dramatic, why do I just feel like somebody died with the change in the NASCAR coverage?
- July 27, 2007 at 11:39 AM
- Anonymous said...
ESPN might very well be the death of NASCAR. They have turned into hype machines through the years. What's interesting is that I saw Bob Jenkins on ESPN2 yesterday broadcasting an Indy Pro Series event, yet they don't want him doing Nextel Cup. Give me a break, and put Dr. Jerry Punch(who says "alright" 50 times during the broadcast)on pit road, where he's much more comfortable.
- July 27, 2007 at 12:12 PM
- Anonymous said...
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- July 27, 2007 at 1:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
First of all, I saw Anonymous' comment about the invocation, and all I can is that it's in very bad taste.:-<
Now to the actual reason I wrote. It is in reply to stricklin82 noting that ESPN2 is showing only qualifying and final practice from the Brickyard in part because it chose to air poker in place of the first practice (which by the way will be rained out, so no effect on the coverage). That poker show is a rebroadcast from last Tuesday. In other words, there is no absolute need to re-air the poker show when live coverage from one of NASCAR's biggest races, in the weekend of its return to ESPN, is available. Makes no sense to me.:(
- July 27, 2007 at 2:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
From the article: "During the 2007 TNT package, RaceDay actually overlapped with TNT's own ninety minute pre-race show. ESPN would not, and will not, ever permit that sort of thing to happen with SPEED."
Then why is RaceDay currently schedule to be shown from 12 - 2 on Sunday, while ESPN's own pre-race show is 1 - 2?
- July 27, 2007 at 2:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
To John:
We keep SPEED channel to watch the best racing.....Craftsman Truck Series.
- July 27, 2007 at 4:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
Correction, my response should've been directed to SophiaZ123. Sorry
- July 27, 2007 at 5:02 PM
- Sophia said...
ok...by the time I scrolled back up here, I forgot to whom I was addressing! Lol..but to whomever said they keep SPEED for the truck racing....of course I love the trucks as well and would never give up speed..probably for that reason.
Though I hope they do not lose ALL their power to give us behind the scenes tidbits.
But I have enjoyed the truck races since we got speed a couple years ago.
- July 27, 2007 at 6:20 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I just wanted to take a moment to apologize for the tasteless comment that was on this site for several hours today. It should have been removed promptly, and we are working to assure that situation will not happen again.
About the comments so far:
This column was my way of pointing out exactly the situation that occurred today with Cup practice.
It was also my way of indicating that the TV listings suggest that SPEED will be on the air live from the track when ESPN is also on the air live. We will see what actually shakes out over the weekend.
Finally, I have a good professional relationship with Jayski, and he continues to be a friend of this site by providing a link on a regular basis. The Daly Planet is preparing an article on Internet TV/Videos and the effect of this technology on the NASCAR TV partners. It will appear next week. Thanks again for your comments and support.
- July 27, 2007 at 7:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
It will be interesting to see how ESPN deals with the new schedule for tomorrow.... Wonder if we will get to see any practice at all???? (and, not to mention, how they deal with any Cup/Busch overlaps in scheduling...)
- July 27, 2007 at 7:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
I made the mistake of watching NASCAR Now to see what ESPN's revised schedule would be for Saturday and as they signed off at 6:59 they still showed the schedule remaining unchanged, with qualifying at 10 AM, etc. What a joke. In the first 2 minutes of Trackside at 6:00 on Speed they announced qualifying was pushed back to 4:00 with practice in the morning and that it would become an impound race. ESPN gave us no useful information in 60 minutes, imagine that.
My guess would be that qualifying at 4:00 shouldn't be a problem for ESPN2, because they could just pre-empt Busch Series qualifying from ORP (or at least you would HOPE so). As for practice, my best guess would be they'll come on the air at 10 AM as advertised and probably show the last hour of the practice session. It would be nice to see them come on the air at 8:30 and show the whole practice but this is ESPN so we'll probably get fishing and hunting shows until 10. Heck, they might even come on the air at 10 with cars practicing in the background, spend 60 seconds telling us qualifying will be seen at 4:00 and then leave the air to show another re-air of "ESPN Ultimate NASCAR."
- July 27, 2007 at 8:29 PM
- Sophia said...
I HARDLY think ESPN would show reruns of Ultimate NASCAR in lieu of practice/or qualifying.
More likely reruns of POKER! Meow, Hiss. Sorry...couldn't resist. :-)
and now the truck race is majorly delayed by rain...hope they get it in.
- July 27, 2007 at 8:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
I was so excited back when I first heard that ESPN was going to be doing NASCAR again. They used to be so good! Then they messed up their Busch programming so badly and their NASCAR Now show is just plain AWFUL. The hosts sound like people who might have once heard someone else talking about NASCAR racing. Why can't they get some folks who actually KNOW something about it?! Their broadcasts make me wince. That 'basketball guy' is the only one who is even halfway watchable. (is that a word, even?)
I never thought I'd live to see the day that I would miss DW's stupid Boogity crap!
- July 28, 2007 at 1:08 AM
- Unknown said...
I personally am not a fan of ESPN at all. I have a great amount of respect for Dr. Jerry Punch, but I think he is the best as the lead pit reporter. Poor Allen Bestwick, what a waste of a great play by play guy.
Erik Kusilias was awesome on NASCAR Now, asked if Kahne and Sadler had a chance at the chase? Come on now.... I just shook my head in disbelief.
He then called Robby Gordon "Bobby Gordon", didn't corrected himself either. ESPN is HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They need to get over their sour grapes with Speed, they got enough fans against them, wait a second... They don't care.
Thanks for the continued articles and good work though, Mr. Daly! I appreciate this site, and your work here!
- July 28, 2007 at 2:20 AM

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An additional fan can be added on top of this heatpipe for extra cooling as well. This does make things cramped, especially around the processor.
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Theo's Choice
A couple of days ago we finished off a series of 10 albums that have been inspirational to the sound and style of our own band. But all those reviews were rather focused on my own opinions and influences. And there are some long term members of the band who obviously have their own influences which they brought to the table too. In this article, Theo Travis is going to take a look at an album he feels has been a part of what he's done for this band. And it's "John Barleycorn Must Die" and it's by TRAFFIC,
I have been listening to Traffic's 'John Barleycorn Must Die' since I was about 15 years old. I first found it in the record library in Central Birmingham (where I grew up) which I used to visit about 3 times a week after school, borrowing and taping everything that inspired me which was a lot of records! It was an Aladdin's Cave of amazing music that in big way shaped my musical horizons. This album resonated with me deeply and I have loved it ever since.
The album was recorded and released in 1970 and it was originally going to be a Steve Winwood solo album, but when he brought in his friends Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood, it turned into a Traffic reunion and a relaunch of the band. John Barleycorn Must Die starts with the only sole Steve Winwood composition an instrumental called 'Glad'. The track begins with a classic piano and organ riff and the whole piece grooves away for just under 7 minutes. It is wonderful song and I have been playing it live with my Double Talk band recently. I was hooked on the breezy jazzy vibe of the album, the many sax (and electric sax), flute and organ solos, the great feel of the band, the fabulous songs and Steve Winwood's incredible voice – so soulful and mature beyond his years. Chris Wood was the sax and flute player in Traffic and his playing and musical approach has been very influential to me. The fact that Traffic were also from Birmingham made them seem all the more real and close to home. In fact a friend's parents had known Steve Winwood, his brother Muff and their parents too. I would not say Chris Wood is one of the great sax and flute players in rock, but I have probably listened as much to his playing as I have to Sonny Rollins or Charlie Parker. His flute playing adds so much to the songs and shows just how woodwind can enhance the songs and fit perfectly in progressive music generally. I always found just his sound so engaging – he had a beautiful flute tone and the instruments were recorded very well and they were also pretty loud in the mix, like a voice or a lead guitar. On this album, there are almost no guitar solos and barely any electric guitar at all – just some acoustic guitar on a couple of tracks. That is another similarity to some of the Tangent's albums, where the keyboards are very much the frontline lead instrument. Of course the Tangent has changed line up many times and Roine and Luke in particular have of course contributed some wonderful guitar playing to the Tangent sound while they have been in the band. But Andy's keyboards are a constant in the Tangent sound and very much the lead sound.
'Freedom Rider' is second on the album and my favourite track too. Listening back to it now I can see how the woodwind adds so much to the song. It starts with a fat tenor sax riff before Steve Winwwod's vocals come in soulfully and soaring, then there is a big flute solo with trills, fluttering and energetic runs of notes giving a very airy feel to the track. After the flute solo is a cool wah-wah tenor sax solo as well, before the vocals return.
At the time of the album Traffic was just a three piece – Steve Winwood on vocals and organ, Chris Wood on sax and flute and Jim Capaldi on drums and vocals. Dave Mason had already left and it was before the band expanded to the bigger subsequent line up. I think they did tour as a three piece but soon brought in others to fill out the band live. Like the Tangent, an evolving and changing line-up was a constant, though the same lead vocals/keyboards and sax/flute were always there.
The track John Barleycorn is a traditional folk ballad but done in their own style. Instrumentally, it is largely a duet between the acoustic guitar and the flute and I love that. Though more folk rock in a darker acoustic Led Zeppelin/John Martyn vein than a Fairport or 'Hey Nonny Nonny' vibe it is still a Summer of Love/ 'Getting it together in the country' sort of sound. I really like the way the flute weaves in and out of the vocals and the guitar and this is something I actually tried to emulate on my 'Earth to Ether' album with singer and guitarist Richard Sinclair (of Caravan and Hatfield and the North)
The Tangent has always had a Canterbury Music influence on its sound and I think this comes both from Andy's writing and the bright and breezy flute flurries and interludes in the songs. Whilst Traffic were never a Canterbury Band, the woodwind in that band worked as perfectly as in any of those bands. I am certainly influenced by the flute of Chris Wood and Traffic as much as the flute in Gong, Soft Machine (and I know their music very well!) and other Canterbury bands and for me 'John Barleycorn Must Die' is the quintessential Traffic album. If you don't know it – do check it out!


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Mercedes-Benz isn't the only German automaker involved in the art scene, as BMW plans to exhibit a series of retro photos featuring the 6 Series Gran Coupe at Paris Photo LA, an international photography show held at Paramount Pictures Studios. The photos were captured in the lens of German photographer Uwe Düttmann, and take inspiration from burlesque and film noir.
The series is composed of 15 different photos, featuring two models striking classic burlesque poses with the car. Dressed in '40s fashion, the models pose inside and outside the Gran Coupe for a clash of old-versus-new contrast. Four of the photos will be showcased at Paris Photo LA, which celebrates 10 years of its partnership with BMW.
Also making an appearance at the exhibition is the BMW M1 Art Car painted by Andy Warhol in 1979. The car will be displayed along with some rare behind-the-scenes footage of the pop artist painting the classic racing livery. The show runs from Friday, April 26 through Sunday, April 28.
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Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and political dissident. Although he collaborated on the construction of Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics, his criticism of the government later led to his arrest without charges and imprisonment for several months. I believe there are two main takeaways from the following article he wrote for The Guardian. First, he knows what it is like to live in an authoritarian regime with very little freedom or civil liberties. Thus it would be wise to take his warning to heart. Second, he illustrates a key point I have been trying to make for years. All citizens of the world must refuse to allow their respective governments to drag us into a war started by various oligarchs located in distinct geographic locations.
99.9% of the population must come together and understand that oligarchs within the U.S. and oligarchs within China are united against us all. We must never forget this. These guys don't fight wars. Rather, they rape, steal and pillage and then send you to do their dirty work. Don't fall for it. From The Guardian:
I lived in the United States for 12 years. This abuse of state power goes totally against my understanding of what it means to be a civilised society, and it will be shocking for me if American citizens allow this to continue. The US has a great tradition of individualism and privacy and has long been a centre for free thinking and creativity as a result.
In our experience in China, basically there is no privacy at all – that is why China is far behind the world in important respects: even though it has become so rich, it trails behind in terms of passion, imagination and creativity.
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.
In the Soviet Union before, in China today, and even in the US, officials always think what they do is necessary, and firmly believe they do what is best for the state and the people. But the lesson that people should learn from history is the need to limit state power.
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Civilization is built on that trust and everyone must fight to defend it, and to protect our vulnerable aspects – our inner feelings, our families. We must not hand over our rights to other people. No state power should be given that kind of trust. Not China. Not the US.
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I've always thought golf was a pretty good projective test. Different folks see golf in different ways, from "How can you waste your time hitting that stupid little ball around a pasture?" to "Golf is the new yoga of the supermind." I'll say no more about the golf haters and disparagers in our midst. They deserve only our pity and are beyond our help. With my deepest respect and sympathy, I say to them, "Go with God, but go away." But for us golfers, golf is many things.
For some of us, golf is an addictive spectator sport. We'll watch a tape delayed broadcast of players we've never heard of battling it out for second place in the Upper Volta Invitational while we wonder how many balls John Daly can hit in the water and still collect his appearance money. And how about that bunker shot that What's His Name holed to nail down second place? And do you have any idea what kind of trees those were lining the 18th fairway? They don't have those at my local muni, that's for sure. (I confess I'm guilty of this. When I want to veg out I'll watch any golf, anytime, anywhere. Give me a crossword puzzle and a boring golf tournament and I'm happy as a clam.)
Golf is a great soap opera for some folks. Did you hear what Stevie said about Tiger, and what Adam said about Stevie saying what he said? And what's Tiger going to say about what Adam didn't say about what Stevie said? Inquiring minds want to know. Discussions like this can go on forever on some golf sites, and often degenerate into wonderfully creative suggestions about what other commenters might consider doing with their anatomies to improve their analytic and playing abilities. If I moderated one of those sites I'm afraid my list of banned commenters would be longer than my list of active commenters. The banned list would likely include myself.
Of course, we don't just watch golf and talk about golf, we play golf. For some of us golf is a skills challenge, a never-ending quest to get better. We work at it whenever we can, bang those range balls, take those lessons, buy that belly putter. A round below our expectations sends us into fits of despair, rage, or existential ennui. We vow to work harder. Or quit. That works, too.
For others, golf is just a way to relax and have fun with friends. We say we don't care how we play, it's only a game, we're not trying to make the tour anyway. I expect that's a healthy way to be, but I can't personally vouch for it. I know one (count 'em, one) person that I actually believe when he says this. If he thought playing well mattered he wouldn't be the happy-go-lucky guy he is. I try to avoid him—his happiness might be contagious.
I'm sure there are more ways we look at golf, and each way will say something a little bit different about the personality of that golfer.
In the interest of science, I'm selflessly offering myself as a consultant and diagnostician to dedicated golfers. I'll be happy to study your golf game in it's natural habitat and spend time in exhaustive interviews with you as we visit the 19th hole after our rounds. I'll charge nothing for my professional time. You'll pay only my travel, my greens fees for our evaluation rounds, and you'll cover the food and drink during our interviews.
I guarantee my satisfaction. Your satisfaction, not so much. But the experience? Priceless, I say. Priceless.
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Let's Play: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
It's time for a new performance comparison... It's time for (perhaps) the most addictive soccer game in history... Ladies and Gentlemen.. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011!!!!
A hard choice!
Alright, let's talk 'bout which program you're gonna use for this game.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 on GameTree Linux:
Don't even try that. The game doesn't work on GameTree Linux!
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 on Crossover Games (10.1.1 version):
Well, the game works. But music and commentary do not work (even with a workaround that works on Wine), so the only thing you're gonna hear while you're playing is the sound of the ball and the audience. If you don't like annoying commentary or crappy music, you could appreciate it. But i don't think you will appreciate the fact that the game goes too fast during some phases of the match or during the videos. As you will see, and i don't know how to explain it, the frame rate goes to the stars in some occasions, and the highest number of frames is an astonishing 715!!! The game, anyway, is playable, but it is almost perfect on Wine! It needs also a noDVD crack and two other runtime packages in order to be ran. So:
- Needs a noDVD crack.
- Needs "Microsoft Directx Runtime - Modern" and "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable".
- Needs a little tweak (explained below) to make GFX sound work.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 on PlayOnLinux (1.3.26 wine version):
What can i say? The game works almost perfect! Sound works well (GFX, music and commentary) if "Windows 7" is set under Wine Configuration (rarely the sound stops during a match, but very, very rarely) and performances are GREAT even at full details. USB controllers also works. Of course it needs a noDVD crack and two runtime packages. So:
- Needs a noDVD crack.
- Needs "directx9" and "vcrun2005" packages.
- Needs a little tweak (explained below) to make sound work.
This time, FPS are good and the game is playable in each and every in-game situation.
Talking about performances...
First of all, my hardware (please notice my hardware upgrade!!):
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cpu: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
cpu_ghz: 0.80
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soundcard_driver: ALSA Version 1.0.23
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videocard_type: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCI/SSE2
x_version: X.Org X Server 1.10.1
GUI version: 011024
I'm sad to tell you that the game doesn't work on Chakra. Someone said that is playable on Arch Linux, but i couldn't do it. I'm sorry for that. So now, my graphs will show the difference between Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit version (with no Compiz) and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
That's what i've been saying before... Performances are great on wine, i could say as great as Windows. Unfortunately, Crossover does not work so well, increasing the frames too much.
As you could probably notice also, i wasn't able to run Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 with high settings on Crossover Games, so i tested only PlayOnLinux with high settings and i compared it to Windows 7.
Conclusion: use PlayOnLinux/Wine.
The process takes about 15 minutes.
At the end of the installation, do this:
- Apply a noDVD crack.
- Install "directx9" and "vcrun2005" packages via Winetricks.
- Set "Windows 7" as OS under Wine Configuration to make sound work.
Now you can adjust some options running "settings.exe" and then play the game running "pes2011.exe" (or just use PlayOnLinux shortcuts).
That's all. Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment if you got some problems or if you just wanna ask me a question. I will always answer you!
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tasks are fantastic on wine, i could say as fantastic as Windows. Unfortunately, Crossover does not operate so well, growing the frames as well much.RispondiElimina
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I was installed pes 2012 on my ubuntu precise and Set "Windows 7" as OS under Wine Configuration to make sound work., but sound doesn't work,,RispondiElimina
help me?
I followed your instructions exactly as you described, including Wine version. Using wine version 1.3.26 as suggested didn't recognize my entire RAM and VRAM limiting my resolution settings too. For me no player name layer, radar, scoreboard using newer wine versions. With 1.5 I could get sound working.RispondiEliminaRisposte
Problem solved!! I needed to add a line on the registry.Elimina
Go to HKCU -> Software -> Wine -> Direct3D(if it doesn't exist create) -> VideoMemorySize (create a string value and enter the amount of VRAM in MB)
Then if you have a hybrid graphics system, add optirun to the PES shortcuts commands string. Like this: optirun /usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "PES2011"
Sorry for the delay man, i was sick.Elimina
I'm glad you found a solution, that could be helpful for other users.. Thank you!
I have installed quite a few times now. It used to work perfectly, now I am unable to get it working at all. Just out of interest, do you install vcrun2005 thorough play on Linux as well?RispondiElimina
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Editor's note: As the world gears up for the Rio+20 conference next week, we're bringing you stories of how green economies are already being implemented across the globe. Today we hear from Pratim Roy, the director of India's Keystone Foundation, which is a grantee of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF).
The quantity and diversity of life packed into India's Western Ghats region is truly mind-blowing. Part of one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, the Western Ghats provides habitat for hundreds of species of endangered birds, mammals and plants — many of which are found nowhere else. Stretching across 180,000 square kilometers (almost 70,000 square miles) along the west coast of India, this region is also home to 50 million people.
Many people who dot this landscape come from ancient indigenous communities. Some are rural pastoralists, artisans, honey collectors, potters, hunter-gatherers, fisher folk and agriculturists. Others live in the ever-growing cities that are fragmenting habitats, shrinking freshwater supplies and spurring the large-scale conversion of forest to agricultural lands.
How do all these people live so closely together among the rivers, sanctuaries and national parks that encircle their villages and lie at the back door of their cities? Life in India is slow, fast, dynamic, sedentary, sustainable, low-carbon, poverty-stricken and very rich — all at the same time. The question is: How can we pursue sustainable development in the face of such drastic contrasts?
In fact, local communities do not need to learn about sustainability — they are already living it. They live on small plots of land, use local, natural materials and have been recycling since long before it was fashionable. They rely on the power of gravity to provide their water, and collect, harvest and forage only what they need each season. In essence, they live a "light footprint" life.
India's rural communities come from age-old traditions of harmony with nature; however, continuing this approach to natural resource management in today's world can be a challenge. Due to their low population numbers and limited political power, many of these communities are facing an onslaught of ecological and economic deprivation. To decision-makers like large corporations, they are often invisible — indistinguishable from their landscapes. When unsustainable development forces take a toll on local ecosystems, these are the communities that suffer the most, because their livelihoods, cultural practices and social mores get uprooted.
Rapid economic growth and urbanization without the ethics of sustainability are leading to a dangerous cycle of degradation and fragmentation. With larger population pressures and migration, this damage will only increase without intervention.
Yet I see tremendous opportunity here for innovation informed by indigenous communities and modern technology. Some Western Ghats communities can show us how to co-exist — why can't modern planners and developers learn from these practices?
Since 1995, my organization has focused on conservation, livelihoods and enterprise in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve — helping communities restore and improve on their traditional livelihood practices. Working with tribal people in 89 villages, we have had some successes, such as
Using a bank loan to set up a honey and beeswax enterprise that combines traditions of honey gathering with scientific understanding of bee ecology;
- Diversifying local livelihoods to include agricultural and forest products such as gooseberries;
- Restoring traditional agriculture practices and establishing seed banks;
- Reviving traditional leadership structures in communities where they have been disappearing; and
- Conducting community-based ecological monitoring, which combines modern science with recognition of traditional ancestral boundaries for harvesting and collection. This is giving rise to a new level of knowledge about local ecosystem health.
In addition, CEPF's support of the Keystone Foundation led to the establishment of Nilgiri Natural History Society, an outreach organization that educates urban middle and high school students and citizens on the value of ecosystems and conducts research on issues like human-wildlife conflict, which is becoming a more frequent problem in the region.
CEPF has also supported a project working with Adivasi indigenous communities to conserve sacred groves — small clusters of forest, often sheltering important freshwater sources, which are sacred to nearby villages as areas of worship and ancestral burial places. Through this project, we have been able to identify, protect and generate greater awareness of sacred groves, emphasizing the importance of culture and traditions in tribal societies and the value of conservation to their lives.
I'm proud of the work we have done so far on the local level — but I can't help wondering if these sorts of activities can work on a grander scale.
Fortunately, CEPF exists to make important conversations happen between rural communities, governments, corporations and donors — bringing us closer to a world in which ecology and economy are truly united. It definitely won't be easy, but building these relationships is an important step in the right direction.
Pratim Roy is the founder and director of the Keystone Foundation, an organization that works with indigenous communities on "eco-development" in the Western Ghats. CEPF is a joint initiative of l'Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the government of Japan, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank.


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(I'm just adding the completeness condition to $V$ from this 2 month old question of mine, because I realized it's relevant to whether Bill Johnson's answer to this 4 month old question of mine actually answers the question.)
Let $V$ be a complete Hausdorff locally convex topological vector space over the field $\mathbb{K}$.
Let $B$ be a subset of $V$ such that
$\;$ for all functions $c : B\to \mathbb{K}$, if $\displaystyle\sum_{b\in B} \; c(b)\cdot b = \textbf{0}$, then $c$ is identically zero
and $f : B\times V \to \mathbb{K}$ be a function such that
$\;$ for all vectors $v$ in $V$, $\; \displaystyle\sum_{b\in B} \; f(b,v)\cdot b = v$.
Let $b$ be a member of $B$, and $g : V \to \mathbb{K}$ be given by $g(v) := f(b,v)$. Does it follow that $g$ is continuous?


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Um...medium?James Patterson-esque chapters piss me off because they are all about a page and a half long and completely unnecessary. While I don't like super-long chapters either, if my eyes get tired usually I just try and get to the end of the chapter before putting it down. This is because the end of a chapter is usually the end/start of whatever is happening or is being talked about. It's a good mental break and gives you a place to start fresh when you come back. Otherwise it's like entering into a conversation that's halfway done.
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Chad's Favorite Albums of 2012 [Music Podcast]
As a supplement to this week's "Favorite Music of 2012" podcast, we'll be posting top 10 album lists from all four participants over the course of the day. I guess I'm up first.
Album That Takes Me Back to High School Days
Japandroids, Celebration Rock
The Japandroids have popped up on a few podcasts this year, mainly because they fucking rock. This album hits a sweet spot for me, taking me back to Bay City days, driving around, drinking and smoking, and yelling, but in a happy, non-rage against the machine way. Almost every song on this album just feels good. "Younger Us" perfectly sums this up in its nostalgic pull—"Remember that night when you were already in bed, said 'fuck it!' got up to drink with me instead"—while acknowledging this happened in days past. My personal favorite song from this album is Continuous Thunder, because I find it kind of romantic in a dirty, silly high school way, with lyrics like, "You took my hand, through the cold pissing rain, dressed to the nines, arm in arm with me tonight." Well, OK, not romantic, but sort of crushed out.
Favorite Instrumental Dance Rock Album
El Ten Eleven, Transitions
On a totally different trip, I absolutely love this El Ten Eleven album for being just like all the other El Ten Eleven albums—catchy, layered, danceable in a spastic hipster sort of way, and tight as shit. I've seen these guys live a couple of times—and by "guys" I mean two people playing drums and a double-necked guitar hooked up to a literal crapton of pedals—and it's an amazing, all encompassing experience. So yeah, although they haven't progressed so to speak, this may be the most complete album of theirs in years, and definitely worth listening to. Especially No One Even Died This Time!
Interlude: As I'm typing this up, I'm realizing there are a couple of themes running throughout my list—performers I saw live, and very layered music. Aside from the Japandroids and maybe Yellow Ostrich, the albums I most liked this year featured music that borders on the overstuffed. Songs you can't quite take in all at once on the first listen, but that reveal their structures best on headphones, late at night, as you pull apart the various instruments and flourishes.
Coolest Rap Album
El-P, Cancer 4 Cure
Granted, this is a rap album, and the rapping El-P does on Request Denied is blisteringly awesome, but the thing I really dig about Cancer 4 Cure is the epic instrumentation that underlies each track. El-P isn't just a rapper—his High Water album (which we talk about on the podcast) is a testament to his versatility as a producer and musician. So, although some tracks on this album fall prey to the trappings of a "traditional" rap album, there's a quality and awareness that pushes it to another level. An instrumental version of this would be brilliant. (There is an instrumental version of I'll Sleep When You're Dead, another masterpiece of his.)
Favorite Album from an Icelandic Band
Múm, Early Birds
Múm is so damn sweet. Although their best album, Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy, has a really dark undercurrent—"Guilty Rocks" and even "Blessed Brambles" have a longing to them that can be almost unsettling—Múm is very much in their element when they're rocking the childish joy sorts of songs that populate Early Birds, a collection of a lot of their previously unreleased tracks. Iceland is totally baller when it comes to producing great music—Sugarcubes to Of Monsters and Men—but I've always had a sweet spot for this particular band and the way they approach the idea of producing post-pop infectious and happy-making music. And this really is a totally Chad sort of album. "Experimental," yet not totally off-putting. And sweetly complex.
Favorite Album from a Band with a Symbol for a Name
∆ (Alt-J), An Awesome Wave
Interlude: I listen to way too much new music. Every week, I create a playlist of new albums that are coming out, listen to them a couple of times, and move the ones I like to a "20XX" playlist. The one for 2012 has 1,313 tracks on it. I feel like as a result of this, I'm much more accepting of all sorts of types of music. I've been using streaming services for 12 years now (first Rhapsody, now Spotify), and as a result of thinking of music as "legally free," I'm not nearly as pissed when an album is sub-par (looking at you, Titus Andronicus), as when I was in college in the pre-Napster era and spent $15 on a CD. Wonder what it would be like if something like this existed for books. Because yes, I am still irked that I pissed away $20+ on J-Franz's Freedom. I FEEL CHEATED BY YOUR SHITTY AESTHETIC, FRANZEN.
Album That Makes Me Bounce and Sway
Fang Island, Major
Holy sweet Jesus does Fang Island write some catchy songs. Their self-titled, sophomore album is one of the most addictive listens of recent years. It's so WAAAHHHH–WEEEE–OOOOHHHH happy and energetic. I don't think it's possible to dislike this album. Unless you're one of those people who likes "Call Me Maybe," in which case your soul has no right to happiness. The difference between Fang Island and Major is that in Major, the catchiness comes from the vocal melodies and phrasings, rather than the guitar riffs. Initially, this made me feel a bit tepid about this album. (I mean, it opens with "Kindergarten," which is almost a piano ballad, although one with a really off-kilter rhythm.) But as time went on, and as I listened to this all summer while riding my bike, I decided that it's sort of perfect in its harmonic addictiveness. Or whatever. Especially Sisterly. (So, when searching the YouTube for that link, I found this Sims 2 soap opera. I had no idea that Sims could bang! What. The. Shit.)
Favorite Electronic Album
Yppah, Eighty One
I was a big fan of Yppah (which is "happy" spelled backwards, which is sort of lame, I admit) when They Know What Ghost Know came out, but this album is by far my favorite. I love these sorts of blissed out, electronic songs that drift and drift. And Anomie Belle's voice is awesome. Reminds me a bit of Bonobo, although less jarring and more coastal. Going back to my first interlude, this is one of those "waves of sounds" albums that appeals to me because it is so layered, with immediate hooks to grab onto backed up by a greater musical depth filled with subtleties and very charming moments. (My prose is getting as purple as the wine I'm drinking as I write this . . . Sorry.) Anyway, check out this song to get a sense of what I mean. (Also: violin love. Another theme of 2012 for me.)
Favorite Comeback Album
Menomena, Moms
I might be lying, but I'm 99% sure that Menomena's I Am the Fun Blame Monster! was the last physical CD that I purchased. I had to order it from CDNow or some such shit, since it wasn't widely distributed. And I bought it based on the fact that they created their own computer program (Deeler) to produce their songs. That album blew me away—the songs and the physical package. (The physical album features one of those flip-books that simulate cartoon motion and totally bring back my childhood.) Anyway, aside from the song "Muscle'n Flo," which I refer to as my "old man song," I haven't loved the albums between I Am the Fun Blame Monster! and Moms. But holy and fuck does Moms rock. It's as sonically unique as their early work, but a bit more mature and polished. Hearkening back to Interlude #1, I saw them live in Toronto, and although the acoustics in that club were about as awful as they could be, it was still super entertaining. I love most songs on this album, but if I have to pick just one, it would be Baton for the lyric "I wish that wrecking fantasies could pass for a career."
Interlude: Before I get to my favorite album of the year—I LOVE YOU, DAN DEACON—I want to revisit that last interlude. I think this over-listening (if that's the term) and "free music" concept has made me more accepting of shit. I have two kids who are 9 and 5 and who make me play Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" on the Spotify over and over again. (That and LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," which is total trash, and, like "Call Me Maybe," makes you dumber every time you hear it.) Initially I was all, "Taylor Swift must be stopped!": but then I found myself humming this in the shower. And coming up with new dance moves to show the kids. Dance moves to this and "Party in the U.S.A." and the Gaga and all the other slutty pop songs that they want to hear ad infinitum, like bad top 40 radio DJs. What has happened to me!?!? I wanted to raise my children on Sonic Youth and the Throwing Muses, but instead I'm starting to look forward to days when they're here with me and they want to throw trashy dance parties. My avant-garde card should be revoked and burned.
Album that Best Represents What Goes on in My Brainspace
Dan Deacon, America
I think we can make this a permanent category for the Three Percent music podcast. Last year, I talked about how Snookered was an audio version of what the inside of my mind is like at all points in time, and his new album, America, is exactly the same. What's awesome about America, aside from its layered brilliance and overarching catchy avant aesthetic, is the way it breaks down into two halves: the first five songs, which include Lots, which may be my song of the year, and "True Thrush" (see below), which may be my video of the year, and which is truly dance catchy and brilliantly energetic; and the last four songs, the so-called "USA Is a Monster" suite, which is also catchy and energetic, but is also really high-minded and ambitious and calls to mind classical music in its chord progressions and bombastic nature. And seeing Dan Deacon live? Fucking WOW. (Sorry Bromance Will, but godDAMN did that show rock.) He is most definitely my favorite musician for this part of my life.
Favorite Album from a Band I Saw Play in Buffalo
Yellow Ostrich, Strange Land
I probably should've ended with Dan Deacon, since now that I've written that, I'm not sure another glass of wine will get me nearly as pumped to pimp Yellow Ostrich . . . But I have had a year-long love affair with this band. I learned of them via Kaija Straumanis's dad, who told Kaija Straumanis about them, who mentioned them to me because of their song WHALE (used on an earlier podcast), when we were in our Moby-Dick funmaking "Get to the WHALE!" phase of jokery. Coincidentally, they came out with a new album a month or so later, and played in Buffalo the night I got back from AWP. So the two of us went and saw a really amazing show. And much to my enjoyment, they were totally thrilled about the fact that we used one of their songs on our podcast . . . I really wish they were coming through again (they released a new EP a few weeks back), but the club they played at in Buffalo just closed down because Buffalo is the home of disappointment and sadness. (And Bills fans. Which is redundant, since all Bills fans are filled with disappointment and sadness. WHY DON'T YOU HIRE A COACH WHO ISN'T A BEARS REJECT AND HAS A REAL NAME? As Drew Magary once said, Buffalo is a place for eating too much and marrying someone you don't love.) Anyway, there are lots of 8 out of 10 songs on Strange Land, including Marathon Runner and The Shakedown.
Final Interlude (which is more like a conclusion): Everyone likes different music. It's weird—I've always found more agreement among my friends when we talked about TV shows we like (Archer! The League! LOST!) or movies or authors (Bolano + Beckett + Bernhard + Pynchon + Gaddis + Borges, so on and predictably forth), than I do when we talk about music. There are neurological reasons for this—the rhythms you're attuned to create a positive feedback loop reinforcing the rhythms you're attuned to, drawing you into your own little bubble of audio likes and dislikes—but there are also sociological aspects at play. There's the whole "what do your friends listen to" aspect that defines your high school clique, but beyond that, there's the aesthetic fragmentation brought about by the explosion of available music. Remember Camelot Music? Or Tower Records? Or Sam Goody? How insane does it seem that we—meaning EARLY 30-somethings like myself—used to buy all our tapes from places like this. Places with a few thousand options, which we explored tentatively, basing our ridiculous cassette purchases (cassettes! Available now only on Ebay!) on shit we heard on the radio or MTV (Downtown Julie Brown!) a bunch of times, or that our best-friend's older brother recommend to us, and which we glommed onto with hopes of getting "street cred" with the girls we crushed all over. My youth was a series of Musical Mistakes. But nowadays, me, you, the kids of the nation, have access to basically everything, and radio is so earnestly fucked (suck on some arsenic, Clear Channel) that we are left to explore in much more far ranging ways than ever before. And without a high cost or a challenge. This is changing the musical landscape for the better in myriad ways. More music, more options, more diversity, more idiosyncrasy. So I like Yppah, Nate likes Brendan Benson, Kaija likes Instrumenti (pronounced in a Latvian way 99.99% won't be able to imitate), and Will likes Kowloon Walled City. This might have held true back in 1993, but I'm not sure—I think we all would've had Rumpshaker on our lists. And it's so GOOD that we have such a range of likes. And someday, someone will figure out how to do something like this for books. (Libraries are the place, but lack the right digital convenience and audience draw.) Suddenly it won't be Fifty Shades of Fuck-All and Harry Potter and the Predictable Plot but four individuals with the same background and highly specific aesthetic differences. There are 250,000+ books published by traditional publishers, so why is Zadie Smith on every year end list? Sure, NW is probably fantastic (I don't buy hardcovers, so I haven't read it), but really? Everyone? You all want to agree on this? If the digital music world is the template for what's happening to publishing in our day and age, then let it be so year-end-list wise as well. DIVERSIFY IN 2013.


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(CNN) - The percentage of Americans who say that immigration is the nation's top problem has soared over the past month, according to a new national survey.
A Gallup poll released Wednesday indicates that 17% of the public says that immigration is the most important issue right now, up 12-percentage points from June.
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The survey comes as Americans debate what to do about the influx of unaccompanied and undocumented children from Central America who are crossing from Mexico into the U.S, which has been a top story in the media the past few weeks.
Dissatisfaction with the government (16%), the economy (15%), and jobs (14%) rank just below immigration. No other issue offered cracked double digits in the new poll (health care came in at 8%).
"This is not the first time that immigration has spiked in the public's consciousness. Most recently, Gallup found the issue increasing to 10% in 2010, at a time when a new immigration law in Arizona was making news. And prior to that, it increased twice in 2006, to 15% or higher, amid congressional debate over immigration reform," said a release by Gallup.
Poll: Most give Obama, GOP in Congress, thumbs down on border crisis
The survey indicated a partisan divide on the importance of the issue, with 23% of Republicans, but only 11% of Democrats, saying that immigration is the most pressing issue facing the nation right now.
The survey suggests that crisis along the southern border could be an important factor in this year's midterm elections.
"Each previous spike in mentions of immigration as the nation's top problem was fairly short-lived. But with no solution to the current crisis in sight, and less than four months to go before the midterm elections, it is easy to believe the issue could still be a factor come November," wrote Gallup.
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The Gallup poll was conducted July 7-10, with 1,013 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error was plus or minus four percentage points.
There IS too much hatred. Well said.
Hoping you have a great weekend and a beautiful sunrise. I tried this past weekend, but the cloud cover didn't work in my favor. Anyhow … I'm out for the day.
@ Dominican mama: we're on the same page (as always) 😉
Thank you my friend. You do the same. 😊😊😊


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Jewish Community Leaders AWOL at Holocaust Museum Dedication (Jewish Journal)
When I began working in the Jewish community in 2002, my colleagues at the Israeli Consulate General told me that there were two things that united every Jew in the city: a war involving Israel and the Holocaust. After attending this morning's public dedication of LA's relocated Museum of the Holocaust (the nation's oldest), I'm tempted to scratch that last one off the list. With the exception of Israeli Consul General Jacob Dayan and Jewish Federation head Jay Sanderson, I did not see one other member of the organized Jewish community in attendance. No one from the ADL, the AJC, the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, or any of the many other Jewish organizations that fill the pages of the Jewish community directory. Only one rabbi (Rabbi Larry Scheindlin, headmaster of Sinai Akiba Academy) was there. A choir from Shalhevet, a modern Orthodox high school, sang the opening song, but no student groups from any of the city's other Jewish day schools bothered to show up. Their absence was all too evident when LA Schools Superintendent Ramon Cortines was applauded by the crowd. The city's non-Jewish chief educator apparently found the time to come and honor a Holocaust museum, but Jewish educators couldn't be bothered. The museum is located within walking distance of a huge Orthodox community with hundreds of families, but I guess they all had more important things to do this morning.
I made a few phone calls afterwards to former colleagues in the Jewish community to find out why they hadn't come to the dedication of their city's Holocaust museum. Their uniform responses left me cold. Yes, the Holocaust was very important to them. Yes, they were all for having a Holocaust museum in the city. Yes, they had a great deal of respect for the museum's backers. Yes, Thursday mornings are usually good for them. However, they all cited the same reason for not coming: they had not received a personal invitation. I don't know about you, but I find this laughable. I didn't receive a personal invitation either, but when I saw the ads in Jewish media for the dedication of a Holocaust museum, I made it a point to be there. If the Prime Minister of Israel were coming to speak at a public event in this city, something tells me that Jewish leaders who had not received gilded invitations would somehow manage to be there. We all make time for people and events that are priorities in our lives.
Sadly, this isn't the first time that I have observed this apathy dynamic in the Jewish community. While the community's size (around 600,000) would appear to be a blessing, in reality it is a community of many smaller communities, movements, organizations and synagogues, many of which have little to do with each other. When I attended the memorial for the Chabad rabbi and his wife who were slain in Mumbai, India, my colleague and I joined the head of the Jewish Federation as the only representatives from the organized Jewish community (we were working for the American Jewish Congress at the time) in attendance at the moving ceremony held at the Chabad house in Westwood. Almost everyone else at the public event was Orthodox. On the other hand, almost everyone who gathered at a public memorial to honor gay Jewish teens who were gunned down in Tel Aviv was gay or lesbian. This time there were no Orthodox Jews to be found.
The hierarchical LDS Church doesn't have movements and a plethora of organizations to deal with, so the social dynamic is markedly different. Tomorrow night one of our apostles is coming to rededicate the Visitors Center next to our temple, and hundreds of Mormons from around the region are expected to attend the ceremony with their friends. Very few members will have received personal invitations (many of which are earmarked for interfaith leaders and other prominent non-Mormons), but seeing an apostle is important enough to them that they will fight traffic on a Friday evening to be there when he speaks.
I hope that Jewish leaders will prove me wrong on Sunday night, when the Museum of the Holocaust holds its gala dinner in Beverly Hills. For all I know, they may in fact have skipped today's ceremony because they're planning to buy tickets to the $500/plate dinner instead. Whatever their plans are, the fact that there were as many Mormon leaders in attendance at the dedication of a Holocaust museum as there were rabbis and executive directors from a 600,000-member Jewish community should give everyone pause for reflection. And shame.


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