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The Things We Do for Baseball…on Vacation! + Giants Take the NLCS
Two baseball nuts. One week's vacation. 4th week of October. Two glorious getaway destinations. Zero televisions. Whoa. What's wrong with this picture? How 'd that happen? Yes, I know. The 4th week of October is certainly an odd time for baseball fans to go on a week's vacation, unless said vacation happens to involve following one's team to various playoff destinations, I suppose. Yet, this is where we find ourselves. My husband's industry requires everyone to take one week-long vacation each year and our's was supposed to fall in midsummer, a decidedly less playoff-y time, followed by a long-ish weekend, this weekend, at the Paso Robles Harvest Festival we so adore. But work and family commitments prompted some pretty massive schedule adjusting and, so, here we are. I am not complaining at all – our vacation has been lovely so far! – just explaining how two baseball nuts wound up spending this of all weeks in two places – my inlaws' Cambria house and their Yosemite cabin – with absolutely no televisions.
With the Angels sadly resting for the month of October, Seth and I figured, eh, missing a week of the playoffs isn't that big a deal. We'll be so busy, we won't even notice we're missing it, so let's not bother trying to make plans to watch the games…and this would have been absolutely true if some of the games were on during the day. Night time, however, is a different story. Not a lot of biking, hiking and photo taking going on after the sun goes down. And so we found ourselves catching the NLCS Game 5 in a steakhouse bar in Oakhurst outside of Yosemite. Catching game 6 at the Chili's in Paso Robles. And enjoying the fine hospitality of the Moonstone Bar and Grill for Game 7, where the food was infinitely better than Chili's and the bartender did an admirable job of pacifying the Monday Night Football fans with two to three minutes check ins, so the rest of us could enjoy the game that really mattered. Bravo, good Sir, bravo! And all I can say about the game is holy outrageous comebacks, Batman! Congratulations to the NLCS Champion Giants who return from the brink of extension to win the series even better than the Cardinals.
Of course, even when Seth and I have been happily engrossed in purely vacation activities, baseball has a wonderful tendency to find us. Quick commiserations with transplanted Angels fans in the tasting room at Barrel 27 winery. Shooting the breeze with a transplanted Red Sox fan in the tasting room at Clavo Cellars – No worries, no trash talk involved. We all wisely stuck to the safe topics of shared annoyance with newer fans who weren't around for the losing years and mutual dislike of a certain team in pinstripes. And then there was Chicago Ribs Night at Midnight Cellars.
Midnight Cellars was one of the first wineries Seth and I tasted at on our honeymoon back in 1999 and it was the first winery whose wine club we joined, ensuring many, many years of great wine and outstanding parties. Midnight is truly a family owned and operated winery. Every year for Harvest Festival, the family brings their native Chicago to California, with racks and racks of Carson's ribs finished on Midnight's BBQs complete with all of the fixings, live blues and more wine than any mere group of people could possibly consume – though we did put forth a valiant effort and at a minimum put a serious dent in the ribs supply. The end result is delicious, spirited, fun and, while I can't speak to authenticity as I have yet to travel that far north, I can say that a surprising number of couples from the Chicago area, not all of them friends of the family, are drawn to California for this ribs night before they begin their wine country adventure.
Seth and I were seated at a table with two such couples, four friends enjoying a quick adults' vacation away from the kids. One gent was asking Siri for the latest football scores on his cell phone. I mentioned I seldom follow football, but love baseball and he then asked how the Giants did last night because 'I just can't stand the thought of the Cardinals making it to the World Series again…' Ah hah, Cubs fans! And they were pleased that we recognized them as such and knew about the Cubs/Cardinals rivalry. As usual, baseball proved to be an excellent icebreaker among fans and we had a lot of fun talking about all sorts of things peppered in between the wine, the ribs, the music, the ribs, the library wine, more ribs, the tequila shots (with the winemaker!!) and more ribs. And I have a feeling the foursome greeted Monday's win with a little more wine to celebrate.
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When we reviewed Google and Asus' Nexus 7 tablet last summer, we called it a "fantastic $200 tablet." That assessment still holds true today, but in the year since it was introduced, the 7-to-8-inch tablet space has gotten much more crowded. New Kindle Fires, the iPad mini, and Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0 are just a few of the high-profile devices that have risen to challenge the Nexus 7 in the last 12 months.
Google's tablet is still a good value for the dollar, but we're coming up on this year's Google I/O conference, and the rumor mill suggests that the company will take the wraps off of a follow-up at its opening-day keynote. After a year of living with the first Nexus tablet, this is what we think should be introduced in its follow-up to avoid the dreaded sophomore slump.
The same low price
One of the things that made the Nexus 7 (and Nexus hardware in general) so easy to recommend was its $200 starting price, and it's still one of the most compelling reasons to give the Nexus 7 a try. The iPad mini has a better tablet app ecosystem, but it starts at a higher $329, and the Kindle Fires start at $159 (for the low-res version) and $199 (for the HD version) but have much more limited software.
We wouldn't be averse to a small price bump on the Nexus 7, especially if it meant that some of our other wishes could come true, but if Google and its partner can stick to something in the $200 to $249 price range, it will become that much easier to forgive shortcomings.
A need for speed
The most obvious improvement that we want from a new Nexus 7 is speed. Phone and tablet chips are still seeing sizable performance increases from year to year, and both the Cortex A9-based CPU and the custom GPU in Nvidia's Tegra 3 are starting to feel a bit long in the tooth. It's a serious step down from the faster chips that come in both the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10, at any rate.
Current rumors suggest that the new tablet will use one of Qualcomm's chips, and though we don't know the specific SoC, Qualcomm has many suitably speedy parts in its portfolio. Whatever's on the inside, it seems like a sure bet that the new Nexus 7 will leave the old one in the dust.
An improved screen
The current Nexus 7's screen is actually still pretty good—at 1280×800 and 216 ppi, it's sharper than the iPad mini (which has both a larger screen and a lower resolution) and the Note 8.0 (which has the same resolution in a larger screen). However, it still doesn't approach the 300+ ppi of the full-sized iPads or the Nexus 10, to say nothing of the 400+ ppi in this most recent crop of 1080p Android phones.
Are a 1080p screen and $200 price point compatible? Given how common the resolution is becoming in the latest crop of high-end Android phones, it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to hope the answer is yes. If Google could work with its partner to reduce the size of the tablet's bezels to increase the size of the screen without increasing the tablet's overall size, that would be even better.
Ars Associate Writer Casey Johnston would also like to see the shape of the screen change a bit. "I'd like a boxier aspect ratio, something closer to 4:3," she said. "I just don't like 16:10 when the screen is so small."
More noticeable notifications
There are a few simple features that are standard in the Nexus 4, Nexus 10, and many other phones and tablets that didn't make it into the Nexus 7, possibly to reduce the price of the tablet—a notification light and a vibration motor. Both of these features give your phone or tablet a way to get your attention that doesn't require you to actually grab the device and check the notification center (the vibrator motor also enables haptic feedback that vibrates the tablet slightly as you type, a feature I personally enjoy on other devices).
Neither accessory is essential to the operation of the tablet (and it may be that you turn off your notification lights and vibrations anyway), but in a follow-up, we'd like for Google and its lucky partner to work this stuff in, if only to bring some more consistency to the Nexus lineup.
A rear-facing camera
The current Nexus 7 only has a (low-quality) front-facing camera, and it includes no rear-facing camera at all. I'm often the first person to decry those who use their tablets to take photos, but that doesn't mean that one wouldn't occasionally be convenient.
"I know it feels more than a little conspicuous to be waving a tablet around to take pictures of something," said Johnston, "but sometimes your cat is doing something cute in your lap and you can't reach your phone."
Speakers you'd actually want to hear
It's just about physically impossible to integrate good speakers into anything as small as a phone or tablet, but even so, it wouldn't be hard to one-up the Nexus 7's single, quiet, rear-facing speaker. The iPad mini includes a pair of speakers, and while the quality isn't great, I can say from personal experience that it's perfectly suitable for filling a small room with some background music. We like to hold the Nexus 7. We like to look at the Nexus 7. If we could like listening to it, so much the better.
Mobile broadband and more storage at launch
When Google launched the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 in November, the company also spruced up the Nexus 7: the $199 8GB model was tossed out in favor of a $199 16GB model, a higher-capacity 32GB model was added for $249, and $299 would get you a 32GB model with 3G connectivity.
That was all well and good, but these are all options we'd like to see introduced at launch, when the early adopters (the most vocal advocates for any ecosystem) can benefit from them. The 8GB of flash in the original entry-level Nexus 7 also had another adverse effect beyond its small size—the small amount of NAND also had a major impact on the tablet's performance, as we outlined in our report about the updated Nexus 7.
That's what we'd like to see in the next Nexus, but is there anything we missed? Let us know what you think, and if we can get enough input we'll publish a follow-up article with your opinions next week before Google I/O gets going.


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OTTAWA — Canada is steadily becoming a nation awash with immigrants whose own cultural traits — from religion to language — are being felt on streets in cities both big and small.
The change to the national fabric was confirmed in data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada based on a National Household Survey it conducted in 2011.
Among the G8 countries, Canada had the highest proportion of foreign-born population (20.6 per cent), followed by Germany (13 per cent) and the United States (12.9 per cent).
In total, 1.2 million immigrants came to Canada between 2006 and 2011.
Most are settling in the nation's big cities — Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver — but other cities such as Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina and Ottawa are also seeing their cultural milieu changed by a rising tide of immigration.
During the recent five-year period, the largest share of immigrants to Canada (56.9 per cent) came from Asia and the Middle East — compared to how just 8.5 per cent of immigrants to Canada before 1970 came from that region.
All the while, Canada is experiencing mixed changes on religion. Nearly one-quarter of Canadians (23.9 per cent) had no religious affiliation last year, up from 15 per cent a decade earlier.
That's not to say that religion is dead in Canada. About 22.1 million Canadians (67.3 per cent of the population) are Christians. Roman Catholics are the largest of that group, with 12.7 million Canadians (38.7 per cent) saying they are Catholics.
However, because of immigration patterns, other religions are slowly taking root. Last year, 2.4 million Canadians (7.2 per cent) were either Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist — up from 4.9 per cent a decade earlier.
The signs are everywhere: More mosques are being built in neighbourhoods filled with immigrants from Asia.
The colour of our skin is no longer so white, as more visible minorities occupy a place in our society — 19.1 per cent, compared to 16.2 per cent in 2006.
And as our First Nations people continue to struggle for more prosperity, the data reveal a large proportion of Canada's aboriginals are young people (28 per cent are under the age of 15) — and that many of them are losing their native language and living in lone-parent families or foster care.
The voluntary survey of more than three million people replaces the mandatory long-form census. It has drawn controversy because some say the voluntary nature of the survey leaves gaps in the data from groups that tend not to respond to voluntary surveys, including aboriginals, new immigrants and low-income families. Experts believe the data should provide a fairly accurate broad scale picture of Canada, but that the smaller the group surveyed, the less reliable the information.
Doug Norris, a former senior census official at Statistics Canada who is now chief demographer at Environics Analytics, said in an interview Canada is on track to become a more ethnically diverse country.
He said the shift could impact culture and consumer spending patterns — as children from immigrant families embrace sports such as soccer instead of Canada's beloved hockey, and as grocery stores restock their shelves with new foods sought by immigrants.
It could even raise key questions about societal tolerance for religious faiths at a time of global tension.
"It's the age-old question that people raise about living together," said Norris.
"You see some people come together and embrace diversity — particularly young people, as opposed to an older generation who didn't grow up seeing these cultures. It's still foreign to them.
"So we are going to change. People have different reactions to the change. Some adapt better than others."
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It covers only a small patch of the planet but with more than 7,000 islands, the Caribbean is a potpourri of languages, cultures and activities. Some islands are mountainous, such as St. Lucia and St. Martin, while others, such as the Bahamas, are flat stretches of sand and scrub grass. You can hear locals speaking English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese-based Creole, or a whole host of regional dialects. And the culture on each island reflects their histories: African-influenced fabrics and music carried over from early slaves to English architecture and government, and French and Dutch food.
A visitor's pursuits can be just as diverse. You can choose to go bonefishing on the salt flats in the Bahamas or trim the sails in Barbados. Vacationing in the Caribbean or on the subtropical island of Bermuda to the north can be as soothing and unhurried as simply lying on a fantastic white sand beach or as exciting as diving with sharks and playing the odds in a world-class casino.
With so much to see and do, here's a short list of what not to miss on several of the key islands of the region.
Little England, as Barbados was once known, retains its British character although it has been an independent state since 1966. Cricket is the main sport, many businessmen still wear jackets and ties and swimsuits are only considered appropriate attire at the beach.
But that doesn't mean residents don't know how to kick back and relax on this island, the most developed in the Caribbean. At only 34 kilometres long by 23 km wide, it's fairly easy to navigate and there's plenty to see: its so-called Seven Wonders include Harrison's Cave with its stalactites; the restored Morgan Lewis Sugar mill; a 17th century Jewish synagogue; a huge baobab tree; the world's rarest collection of 17th century English cannons; two Jacobean mansions; and the place where the world's first grapefruit was produced.
Being so well developed, the island sports many large hotels, lovely boutique inns and great restaurants. But be sure to go off the beaten path to experience the local side of life. The people here are among the friendliest in the Caribbean.
St. Lucia
Like many spots in the Caribbean, this picture-postcard island has changed ownership many times. The French and British fought over the territory and elements of both are evident in its place names, food and culture. One of the most famous aspects of St. Lucia bears a French name; the Pitons, or peaks that tower over this mountainous and jungle-covered country. This is a destination for ecotourists keen to enjoy mountain biking, zip-lining, hiking and a 7,689-hectare rainforest.
There is one main road that circles the island, hugging the coastline most of the way. Most of the development is also along the coast and there are four distinct areas: Cap Estate in the northern tip where most of the private luxury villas are found; the beaches and hotels between there and the capital city of Castries; the tiny hidden jewel of Marigot Bay; and the southern tip where the airport is located.
In addition to taking in the gorgeous beaches, visit a plantation to see how bananas, coconuts, coffee and cocoa beans are grown and harvested. Also take a trip to the island's simmering volcano, where you can watch mud pits bubble and boil from the intense heat below.
Another can't miss on this island is the pirate ship day trip down the west coast. The Brig Unicorn is the same ship used in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie and the family version includes face painting, pirate gear and full-fledged water fights. Kids of all ages will have a blast.
Nassau (Bahamas)
Where St. Lucia has mountains, the Bahamas are flat. You can literally see for miles along many of its white or pink sand beaches.
Nassau is the capital of the country, which includes 29 islands, 661 cays and 2,387 islets. But most vacationers focus on Nassau, where you can choose to go low-key at a few family hotels and condos close to the airport, hit Cable Beach with its abundance of highrise hotels and bars, go old-school at the Hilton or the venerable downtown Graycliff, or really make a splash at one of the posh resorts on Paradise Island.
Paradise is not so much an island as a private enclave across the bridge from the port and downtown. The world-famous Atlantis resort is here; its amazing water park offers river rides, watersides through shark tanks and myriad play zones.
With so much competition for tourism dollars these days, Nassau is going all out on a refurbishment of its downtown. Historic buildings are getting a facelift and the waterfront is being redesigned into a bustling promenade with restaurants, nightclubs and shopping, including a new building to house up to 600 craft vendors.
Nassau was already special but it will definitely be worth another visit to witness its renewal.
St. Martin/ Sint Maarten
Half French, half Dutch, the main industry of this island is tourism, so it knows how to treat its visitors. Bargains are everywhere as the island is duty-free and tax-free, so shop to your heart's content.
The northern French half comprises 33 square kilometres compared to the 26-square-kilometre Dutch territory. A quaint story says the boundary was decided during a drunken foot race between a wine-guzzling Frenchman and a gin-soaked Dutchman. The two countries have managed to coexist peacefully for 350 years.
The northern portion is quintessentially French — bistros, brasseries and sidewalk cafes with pastries and baguettes are everywhere. It is both relaxed and sophisticated and features secluded resorts, fine dining and yachts in the harbour.
The Dutch side is lively with casinos, shopping and historical sites and is home to both the bustling duty-free port of Philipsburg and the main resort area of Maho Bay.
The border between the two is basically non-existent and you can cross as you like. And unlike Bermuda, where you can't drive, this is one island where it's almost a necessity. The landscape is mountainous with towns and villages spread along the coast. You could spend your days at a resort, but then you'd be missing the chance to explore such quiet bays and beaches as Orient Bay, Mullet Bay and Dawn Beach. Don't miss Seaside Nature Park on the Dutch side, where you can horseback ride down to the ocean and live out a dream of riding a beautiful animal through the tranquil water.
One of the most affluent islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, Bermuda is famous for its offshore finance sector, as well as some fancy shorts and a mysterious triangle that allegedly sucks in ships and airplanes. It draws many of its tourists from the eastern shores of New England, North Carolina and Florida.
Bermuda is not one of the Caribbean islands but it has much in common with its southern neighbours. It's a great sun and sand destination with gorgeous pink beaches and spectacular diving. There are shipwrecks scattered around the 180 islands and its reefs offer unlimited visibility.
If you're a water enthusiast, take in the Royal Naval Dockyard (which includes the Maritime Museum, Dolphin Quest, Snorkel Park and the Glass Blowing & Rum Cake Factory), the Crystal Caves, the Lili Bermuda Perfumery (make your own scent) and the Goslings Rum Ltd. Factory. This summer, intact bottles of wine and cologne from the 1850s were discovered in the shipwreck of the American Civil War blockade runner, the Mary Celestia.
The prestigious Newport-Bermuda Yacht Race has been running for more than 100 years and remains a major draw.
The only drawback for some tourists is that they are not allowed to rent or drive cars on Bermuda. Despite being just 34 square kilometres in size, the island has one of the highest vehicle densities in the world (more than 48,000 vehicles) and the government is trying to keep it from burgeoning further. You can rent scooters, however, and there are frequent buses and ferries.
Did you know?
• In 1536, the Portuguese became the first Europeans to land in Barbados but they decided against settling there. They determined they might return at a later date, however, so they released wild hogs on the island to ensure a plentiful food supply.
• St. Lucia is home to two Nobel laureates: economist Arthur Lewis and writer Derek Walcott.
• The only language spoken in Bermuda other than English is Portuguese.
• There was controversy in 2009 when Bermuda agreed during secret negotiations with the U.S. to accept four men of Chinese origin detained at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. didn't want to send them back to China fearing human rights abuses and no one else would take them. Britain was angry it wasn't consulted on the matter.
• The euro is the main currency in St. Martin, although the U.S. dollar is widely accepted.
• The Bahamas is the third richest country in the Americas in terms of gross domestic product per capita, behind the U.S. and Canada.
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Best Of The Summer: 6 Books The Critics Adore
What is your favorite kind of summer read? Have you been waiting to dig into a riveting 1,000-page biography over the vacation? Or is it time for guilty pleasures, romance novels, mysteries, science fiction?
NPR's Lynn Neary caught up with some book critics to find what they are reading this summer.
LYNN NEARY, BYLINE: Freelance critic Marcela Valdes doesn't really care what kind of book she's reading, as long as she can get lost in it on a summer's day.
MARCELA VALDES: I like a book that erases the rest of the world. It doesn't matter actually if you are at the beach or you're in an armchair in your house, but that the whole rest of the world kind of falls away.
NEARY: This year, the book that had that effect on Valdes was "And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini. Valdes says it's a complex novel, but at its heart it's the story of a father who sells one of his children to save the rest of his family. Hosseini's genius, says Valdes, is that he uses multiple viewpoints to explore the effects of this decision.
VALDES: There are nine chapters and each one is told from the perspective of a different character. So the effect is a little bit like seeing that great movie "Rashomon." You think you know what happened. And you think you know who got hurt and how and why. And then, with each chapter, you have to begin revising your understanding of the events.
NEARY: Another book that absorbed Valdes is "The Sound of Things Falling" by Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The main character, Antonio Yammara, grew up in Bogota in the 1980s at the height of the drug war. As an adult, he is injured when a friend is killed in a drive-by shooting. It shatters his life and sweeps him up into the mystery of his friend's death.
VALDES: Vasquez talks about how Bogotanos of that era kind of got inured to that violence, got toughened to it. But when Yammara catches that bullet, even though that period of in Columbian history is over, that toughness just falls away and it reveals this terrorized soul.
NEARY: Washington Post critic Ron Charles recommends a book about people who are living through a reign of terror - "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" by Anthony Marra. It begins in a small Chechen village that is caught up in the fighting between Russian troops and Chechen rebels. A young girl's father has just been taken away by the government. She's rescued by her father's friend, the village doctor.
RON CHARLES: So he takes her and he hides her somewhere. The book only takes five days but it constantly falls back into the past and tells us how we got there and explores the lives of the people in this village. It's a very different kind of book, although it does circle through many different stories. It's beautifully written. It is absolutely heartbreaking.
NEARY: A different kind of historical novel, Charles says, is "The Son" by Philipp Meyer. This is a sweeping story that traces the history of Texas through the saga of one family. Charles says this is also a novel that a reader can get lost in.
CHARLES: It's perfect for that. It's almost 600 pages. It is sprawling. In three parts, it tells the history of Texas and, by implication, the history of the United States. It starts back before the Civil War and moves all the way up past the Iraq War into 2012. It's a remarkable book and this is a big, exciting novel.
NEARY: Now, if all this is too heavy for you, Laura Miller has another option, "NOS4A2" by Joe Hill. That odd title is a story in itself.
LAURA MILLER: It's a license plate number of an evil car.
NEARY: Put those letters and numbers together, say them out loud and you'll hear a very significant name.
MILLER: Nosferatu.
NEARY: So you see where this is going. Miller says it's an epic supernatural horror story that is a tribute to Stephen King. That's because Joe Hill is King's son.
MILLER: As I understand it, he doesn't usually do a Stephen King novel. But he decided to do it this time, since he has established enough of a reputation on his own. And it's just uncanny, even a little spooky, that he can do it as well as his dad can.
NEARY: And Miller makes a case for another candidate for a good summer read, the memoir. She recommends "She Left Me the Gun" by Emma Brockes. It's the story of Brockes' search for the truth about the traumatic events of her own mother's childhood. Miller says Brockes' mother emerges as a true hero in the story.
MILLER: She's just this amazing, funny, tough talking, practical, incredibly loving mother who just made a safe place for her daughter in the world, despite the incredible danger and damage of her own childhood.
NEARY: So go ahead, pick up a book and get lost.
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Dimiter Todorov paid for law school with a Visa card.
A foreign national at the time, he didn't qualify for subsidized student loans, and after he'd cobbled together as many grants and scholarships as he could find, he was still about $7,000 short on his first-year of law school tuition.
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"If you're smart, there's no reason not to put every grocery trip on your credit card," Garuccio said.
If you pay it off every month, you never pay interest but you reap all the rewards.
CreditCardGuide.com lists the Discover More card and the CitiCash Returns cards among its highest-rated rewards programs, in part because the cards offer between 5 and 20 percent cash back when users shop at selected retailers.
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"You can't get a credit card and think, 'How can I one-up the neighbors?'" said Middendorf. "Become the CFO of your family finances, and if you can do that you can use credit cards to your advantage."
In fact, Middendorf said when she uses a credit card to book a flight online, she immediately writes a check to the credit card company so that her check register won't show extra cash. That keeps her from overspending.
Experian, the credit reporting company, has a top 10 list for top-notch credit scores. They include putting credit to work for you by taking advantage of programs, but also having a strict plan to repay the debt.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
ESPN Hopes Third Time Is The Charm
The big shift is on at ESPN where NASCAR is concerned. The final seventeen races of the Sprint Cup Series are coming back to the ESPN family of networks. There is a lot of hope in Bristol that the third time is the charm.
In all big companies there are things that work well and things that do not work well. ESPN has been leading the way in the reporting of NASCAR news on TV through the daily NASCAR Now series. The once laughable program is now firmly entrenched as "must see TV" for hardcore fans.
On the flip side, ESPN has been struggling to figure out how to get through to NASCAR fans on the Nationwide Series telecasts. The network has been drawn to the Sprint Cup stars who cross-over to the Nationwide Series for the last two years. It seems that the stories of the other drivers simply do not matter.
Once ESPN begins actually covering the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide telecasts get batted around like ping pong balls by ESPN's significant college football commitments. This year, the company has added even more games to the schedule. It should make for another interesting year of the Saturday races trying to get on TV.
Last year, the ESPN Sprint Cup season began with the Indy tire debacle and continued through a lackluster Chase for the Championship. This year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has already put himself out of contention and Kyle Busch seems to be trying hard to do the same. The Roush cars are in the cellar and Richard Childress suddenly seems to be having big trouble down the stretch.
Instead of cutting back, ESPN has decided to jump into the deep-end and surround Indy with all kinds of TV coverage. Give them credit, in these tough economic times the network could simply have slashed the budgets and presented a trimmed-down Indy event to start the season. Instead, Allen Bestwick will kick off four days of NASCAR TV on Thursday.
NASCAR Now is relocating to the Infield Pit Studio for the 5PM Thursday show, which will be expanded to one hour. Bestwick will host and will no doubt offer an extended preview of the Indy tripleheader weekend. Marty Smith and Nicole Manske will both be on-site to add to this program.
This show sets-up a unique NASCAR original documentary that ESPN has never done before. Feel Your Heart Race is the title of this one-time special by veteran documentary filmmaker Doug Pray. Click here for a link to the trailer on You Tube. The program airs at 6PM and might be worth recording for a second look.
The Thursday nightcap is on ESPN Classic at 6:30PM following the documentary. The 2007 Brickyard 400 is replayed in a two hour timeslot. This is the last of the four replays during the week on ESPN Classic. Everyone agrees there is no need to replay last year's event.
Friday and Saturday the Sprint Cup Series on-track action is split between ESPN and SPEED. The complete schedule is on the right side of The Daly Planet main page. One ESPN team is at the speedway, while the other is across town at O'Reilly Raceway Park (ORP) where the trucks race Friday night and the Nationwide Series on Saturday.
Marty Reid will be joined by Rusty Wallace and Randy LaJoie for the Nationwide telecasts from ORP. These three have good chemistry and Reid and LaJoie love to tease Wallace about the tough luck of his Nationwide team. This weekend should be no exception.
As usual, the actual Sprint Cup Series telecast on ESPN Sunday will be surrounded by support programming before and after the race. Don't forget, this is the time of the year where ESPN offers a Sunday night one-hour review program that is fantastic. It runs through the end of the season.
TDP begged the network to expand it to the entire Sprint Cup Series schedule, but apparently the fact that Fox and TNT carry those telecasts played a little bit of a role. This show was a big hit last year and promises to compete with SPEED's Victory Lane once again.
There are 76 High Definition cameras ready for the Sprint Cup Series on Sunday. This year, the Bat-Cam will also debut. A hybrid of the Cable-Cam, this one will zoom down the frontstretch and over pit road at up to 80 mph. It should offer some great shots for the races off pit road and the double-file restarts.
Once again this season, ESPN is rolling out twelve voices to handle the live race. Bestwick will handle the Infield Pit Studio with Wallace, Brad Daugherty and Ray Evernham. Right next door will be Tim Brewer in his Tech Garage. On pit road will be Jamie Little, Shannon Spake, Dave Burns and Vince Welch.
The key to this broadcast will be the three men upstairs in the announce booth. Jerry Punch will again handle the play-by-play duties. He will be joined by Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree. Punch will be the traffic director for the eleven other voices on this telecast.
If we agree that tires will not be a problem, Punch may be looking at a very dynamic and exciting race. Double-file restarts at the speedway are going to make for a very different kind of racing than fans have seen in the past. It will also demand that the ESPN Director follow the double-wide action every single time.
This year, it may take multiple laps for the two-wide battles to sort themselves out, even with the bigger Sprint Cup cars. Avoiding the in-car cameras and letting the TV viewers watch the action from a fan's perspective is going to be a struggle.
ESPN has proven to love their TV toys and NASCAR coverage has often been an in-car camera festival. Losing the perspective of the track and the cars being shown by switching to an in-car camera is rough on viewers. TNT was outstanding this season in keeping the wideshots and cutting in-car when it made sense.
One thing to keep in mind is that ESPN also produced the Indy 500 this season and it was fantastic. The entire telecast was crisp and interesting from start to finish. The same management team that coordinated that telecast will be in charge for the NASCAR event.
The table is set and this is the third time for all the pieces to come together. With a good tire, good weather and NASCAR's double-file restart gift, ESPN may be getting off to the best start ever for their portion of the Sprint Cup Series season.
TDP welcomes your comments on what you would like to see from ESPN during this telecast. We open the floor to subjects from topics in the pre-race shows to on-track action and post-race coverage. As NASCAR fans who have been watching this series since February, this is a great time to suggest and then see if ESPN delivers.
To add your comment, just click on the comments button below. This is a family-friendly website, please keep that in mind when posting. Thank you for taking the time to stop by. TDP will offer live blogs for all the Indy weekend races. Please join us.
36 comments:
- Nathan Brice said...
This is Jerry Punch's time to shine as play-by-play man. Andy Petree and Dale Jarrett worked well in the booth together. They gave Vince Welch a chance to pit report, which he probably deserved. Allen needs to be more integrated into the race coverage with Ray and Brad. Shannon Spake and Jamie Little are good pit reporters. Dave Burns is alright. I wonder if they will give Nicole a larger role next year. That will be interesting to see. I am ready for ESPN to take us all the way to Homestead.
- July 22, 2009 at 12:10 AM
- Anonymous said...
I dread Sprint Cup with Jerry Punch.
- July 22, 2009 at 2:39 AM
- Karen said...
Anon @2:39, I wholeheartedly agree.
JD said ....
The table is set and this is the third time for all the pieces to come together. With a good tire, good weather and NASCAR's double-file restart gift, ESPN may be getting off to the best start ever for their portion of the Sprint Cup Series season.
You're awfully optimistic, JD.
- July 22, 2009 at 3:13 AM
- bevo said...
JD- Today on Sirius Speedway Ray Evernham mentioned that at Michigan they will have him, AP, DJ and Rusty calling the race with no play-by-play. Didn't catch if it was the Cup or Nationwide race. He joked that they might have problems going into and out of commercial breaks but the idea is to just have them sitting around talking about the race.
- July 22, 2009 at 3:51 AM
- Karen said...
bevo, can't wait for that.
- July 22, 2009 at 4:04 AM
- Karen said...
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- July 22, 2009 at 4:34 AM
- Karen said...
bevo, I assume one of them will have to take control and go to commercials and I nominate DJ or AP. What's your opinion?
- July 22, 2009 at 4:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
No amount of hype or positive attitude is going to change the fact that Punch will be the same as ever. He is what he is.
- July 22, 2009 at 6:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
high hopes, very low expectations
probably sums up most of our sentiments.
it is amazing how doggedly dismissive ESPN continues to be about replacing Jerry with allen
man oh man
- July 22, 2009 at 6:57 AM
- Vicky D said...
Anon at 6:57 - yes Man oh man! I think they should get Adam Alexander too and change the PXP guy but we've been saying that for how many years now? This week's Brickyard races on ESPNC have been nice to watch. Bob Jenkins did a really great job calling them with real enthusiasm. I also think that ESPN should replace Nicole for NN she's not getting any better, but maybe once she gets married she'll move to Australia or NZ and we won't see her anymore.
- July 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM
- 50 yr. fan said...
76 cameras is enough to forewarn
me. I won't need any refreshments
as my head will already be spinning
from the director's choices.
Just show the racing and forget about the ESPY's!
- July 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- stricklinfan82 said...
Here's a very simple and elementary starting point for how ESPN should handle Indy race weekend:
On Friday and Saturday during ESPN's practice coverage, keep the focus on televising practice and only practice. Put Punch, Petree, and DJ in the booth (not in the Tech Center or in the garage to follow the one "pre-determined team of interest") and give Brewer the day off.
On Saturday during qualifying, show all 47 qualifying runs in their entirety.
It's a simple philosophy. When you're getting paid to do the job of covering a sporting event, you should cover that event. Even the greenest of interns should be able to do that much.
In my opinion it will take no more than 60 seconds from the time ESPN hits the air on Friday at 2:00 to know if there's any hope for a positive change at the network in 2009.
If Punch, Petree, and DJ greet the TV viewers from the broadcast booth that'll be a positive start. However, if 9 months of preparation for their Sprint Cup return culminate in those 3 not being in the booth and practice again becoming nothing but backgroud noise it will be plainly obvious to me there will be no hope that the "third time will be the charm".
- July 22, 2009 at 10:48 AM
- Anonymous said...
Stricklin I could not agree more.
I am hoping against hope ESPN gets it right, since this is the only race I will watch if they get all "bspn overload" with the batcam, bumpercam 12 voices( aka too many voices) & Doc doing his crickets impersonation.
Just show the cars on the track, show the racing, forget the ESPYs, or this viewer will turn it off lap whatever and start writing letters as soon as race ends online & radio.
I refuse to sit thru any more crummy "coverage" - now its up to them to show me they know how to cover racing - not tell me.
- July 22, 2009 at 11:08 AM
- Dot said...
I'm not very hopeful about the coverage on BSPN this weekend. I so want to be wrong but, if the NW races are any indication w/JP, we're doomed.
Then there's those wonderful views of the cars up close and personal. Why even bother with cameras on the track? BSPN could cut costs by just showing the race from inside the cars, the bumpers and the roof cams.
- July 22, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- chase said...
I too am filled with trepidation having to face and hear Andy Petree AGAIN. What is it that ESPN just doesn't get??? Do they not see what most of us do?? The mere tone of his voice makes me tired! I will watch and perhaps a miracle will occur but I'm not counting on it. Thanks JD!!
- July 22, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
Mr Daly,
First of all your blogs are always interesting to read that sometimes I wished that it went on and on.
Well I am looking forward to the kind of coverage Espn will give us not just for Indy but for all the other races as well. Its time Jerry Punch steps up and call the races well.If he fails to set a good tone there will be no doubt that the telecast will be boring to watch.
Good Luck ESPN.
- July 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Am I the only one to notice that there seems to be 6-8 hours of pre race coverage across the networks and ten minutes of coverage immediately after the race ends? Personally, I've grown tired of all the hosts,analysts, and ex drivers. Perhaps all the economic bad news has given me a dose of reality, but I'd bet that we Nascar fans would fall over if we learned how much the "talking Heads" make a year sharing their opinions with us. Half the people in the booth could be eliminated and no one would notice. It's obvious that certain topics and drivers are off-limits while they focus on topics like Danica. In my opinion, if Danica is the solution to Nascar's many problems,then we're all in trouble.
- July 22, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- West Coast Diane said...
12 voices...8 to 9 too many. 76 cameras...I fear 70 will be in-car and bumper cams.
Jerry Punch. Sorry, he just doesn't have the voice or demeanor to be a PxP guy.
Please ESPN, no razzle dazzle.
1) Just show racing. Defined as 2 or more cars racing side by side or trying to make a pass.
2) Show pit stops. Defined as triple splits with full shot of pit road following entire pit stop of selected cars. Then resetting field and replaying any problem stops.
3) Update the field. Defined as the entire field through out the race.
4) Really cover practice and qualifying. Defined as showing the cars on the track. Get rid of the tiny box with all the junk around it. Start the qualifying run with personal info to the side for a few seconds. Put tracker on bottom of screen. Speaking of...
5) I do not want to see the SportsCenter Update ticker...EVER. First, double tickers make JD sick! Second, I do not want to know who won the Tour de France. Some of us follow more than one sport. Some of us use a device called a DVR to allow us to watch multiple sports when there are time or personal conflicts.
Know there are more, but just these would make me very happy.
Thank you.
- July 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
I pray that Espn dosen't give us the tight camara shots, bumper shots, roof cams and give us more wide shots like TNT did.Also, I hope that espn dosen't focus the cameras only on the leader to third place cars.Coverage on mid-pack to the Back of the pack cars would be appreciated.
- July 22, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Sophia said...
Y'all gave great criticisms/comments.
Color me NOT optimistic. To make it worse Tony Stewart is the in car cam driver according to Twitter (wah-MOMMY!) I better wear both Tshirts, his cap and JACKET (if it's not too hot) to root him in the race from my couch but I digress.
Bat cam? No bueno. We go from ground rodent to flying one. Is there a new Batman movie or somethin?
To Diane or somebody;
I ALSO worry 70 of the 76 cams will be In car/bumper/roof cams/Zoom.
Thus 150 cams would not IMPROVE the coverage.
Wide shots and a Mike Wells type director could help everything
And side by side adds.
Hey will this race be on MRN since it's from IMS? Don't they have their own radio station? ouch if no MRN
Now even more Cynical Sophia with no MRN access? (
- July 22, 2009 at 12:36 PM
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- July 22, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- tom in dayton said...
I'm about forty miles north of you. I've seen some of your complaints in previous postings, so here's what I do.
When I switch to radio(MRN or PRN), I'll usually use WGYG-FM (both-Cin) or WONE-AM in Dayton. Both of these stations have internet streaming, so I listen over the internet. For races from IMS, WCKY-AM or WING-AM offer the same internet streaming.
Google these stations and bookmark their websites, set up your internet connections and listen well!
- July 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Thornton, Colorado said...
I'm sorry. You paint cr*p and it's still cr*p. ESPN could show up at my house with a million dollars, and I'd rather go hungry, than accept their "generosity". They had their chance with me three years ago. They blew it. I don't forget, and I don't forgive.
- July 22, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Sophia said...
Tom Thanks
Trouble streaming WCKY with FFox right now and will figure it out by Sunday I hope. I listen to podcasts sometimes after the fact on some stations so don't know what the hiccup is here. THen again my older laptop seems to play things better but it's a mess (Lid held open by C Clamp and duct tape! and takes 3-19 attempts to boot up due to bad motherboard)
Thank you so MUCH for the information. Will work on both.
See another reason why I love this blog. Folks are so HELPFUL!
- July 22, 2009 at 2:27 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Yep, media folks are still talking about the info in our Mayfield posts from last week.
Guess that was another eye opener for many in the "mainstream media" that the real base of NASCAR knowledge is spread out across this country and works at regular jobs every day.
That would be you guys.
- July 22, 2009 at 3:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
"NASCAR Whenever Nothing Else Is Going On"
5:00PM Eastern Time Or whenever we feel like
Rerun latter that day after some other show has used 20 minutes of the time slot & scheduled over night (West coast) there is Poker in the slot????????
Yes that is coverage you can depend on, not being there on your DVR
Even chasing races on race day thru three or four channels to complete the race last year ABC, ESPN, ESPN 2, & ESPN NEWS or Classics
- July 22, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- glenc1 said...
I just have to say, I think it's funny they're showing 2007. Ya mean, they don't think last year's Indy race was a 'Classic?' It was actually a bit like a train wreck, I just couldn't take my eyes off of what disaster was going to happen next. They keep saying that Goodyear could have repaved the track with what they spent on tires & testing. Let's hope it works. I sure don't want to see 'temper tantrum Tony' if it doesn't.
I like your optimism, JD. I don't mind extra camera do-hickeys if they're used sparingly. Some times the angles are kind of cool, so we'll have to check out 'bat cam'. I don't understand how JP could have been pretty good on some of the NW races last year and then fall flat for the Cup; you'd think he could watch his own tapes and see the difference. I do look forward to DJ and AP. But if I get worn out, it's MRN/PRN here we come. BTW, there's a station in TN (WYSH) that live streams NASCAR. It's the only one they didn't block at work during the twins in February.....
Anon 12:10, I totally agree. In February, I can't get enough, but after a couple months, I just don't care unless there's a breaking story. Way too much speculation, and at least half the time it's bullcrap about 'momentum' anyways.
As for the pit reporters...well, I used to think Jamie was okay until she showed such poor judgement with Jack Roush during that NW race (assuming it happened as it appeared to). Yikes. You have to be aware what's happening with the teams and not be asking questions while they're doing their jobs. Hopefully she learned from that.
- July 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM
- darbar said...
I love the comments in today's USA Today where one ESPN producer says "We just have to get more people watching the races. We'll crack this nut".
Just one more example of not getting it. Like the author of the column said, it's not the recession keeping people from watching the races. But then, what is? Well guess what? It's not the recession, nor the lack of sponsors or sagging businesses. It's the racing, STUPID !!! Yes, the coverage of the races is pretty bad with over-hyping of everything, too much silly technology, boring/bored play by play announcers, and all the rest. But wake up, Nascar !!! It's not all the fault of the TV coverage. Nascar, you have put a boring product on the race track, and not even the greatest announcers, past or present, can cure that. You tinker with rules, make a terrible car in the COT, have a points system that's totally stupid and teams of haves and have nots that can't compete with each other. Unless you drive a Hendrick car, you can forget winning a race, or even finishing in the top 10.
But ESPN, and all the rest, is trying to cover the bad racing with too much fancy stuff. You can't fix stupid, nor can you fix bad racing with silly technology. If the networks want more viewers, they need to get Nascar to change what's making the sport boring. If you put on great racing with exciting stories and giving drivers other than Hendrick's a chance to win, your viewership will follow. It's just like in the stick and ball sports, you put a winner on the field, you'll have butts in the seats. But put a stinky product out there, you've got nothing.
- July 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think Jerry Punch is unfairly picked on at this site. After FOX and the Waltrip brothers, anyone sounds like an all star to me.I dread the FOX/SPEED shows about NASCAR.It seems most old school people like myself prefer TNT/ESPN and some newer fans like FOX. I was just reading Gary London of National Speed Sport News, a longtime motor sports writer and like most like him, dreads anything on TV by FOX/ SPEED. He said he was ill from the fact that M. Waltrip was quitting racing and someone may be dumb enough to give him more TV time. I feel the same way. So you Punch haters, quit following the pied piper and realize that he is a very good professional broadcaster.
- July 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
To anonymous 5pm
Jerry Punch's performance has nothing to do with FOX or TNT. It is about his lack of performance as PxP. Whatever the reason, he is not making the grade.
I, too, post "anonymous", but I sign all my posts.
- July 22, 2009 at 5:15 PM
- darbar said...
Dr Punch might be a very professional broadcaster, but he seriously lacks in play by play announcing. His forte is working in the pits and reporting on the goings on there. But he just doesn't have the ability to do PbyP as his style is not conducive to that kind of broadcasting. His monotone and flat affect does not a great play by play man make.
- July 22, 2009 at 5:35 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 5PM,
I notice you left the words "Mike Joy" out of your post. I find that strange, as he is the play by play announcer for Fox. Problems with him too?
We respect Punch but this is his third try at getting the play by play role down and so far...it ain't working.
Just tell us what is going on down on the track and then let the analysts and pit reporters fill in the blanks.
We will see how it goes in a couple of days.
- July 22, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Anonymous said...
Julie Sobieski, is an ESPN programming vice president, not a producer. A VP and a producer speak 2 entirely different languages.
Ms. Sobieski cares about the revenue and viewership the event draws. The producer cares about the content of the individual event.
I wouldn't breathe to much into her comments and hope that the rank and file at ESPN can deliver us a good show thru the chase.
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- July 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- Lost on the Straightaway said...
Amen on there being too much coverage prior to the race and not enough following the race.
I hope ESPN can deliver a good weekend and not keep us zoomed in on one car the whole time.
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The band couldn't find the Ethiopian national anthem when a former bodyguard for Haile Selassie became the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in the signature event of the Olympics
Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila. By Paul Rambali. Serpent's Tail, 315 pp., $20, paperback.
By Janice Harayda
This is a very strange book about the first African to win a gold medal at the Olympics and the man some regard as the greatest marathoner of all time. Born in rural Ethiopia, Abebe Bikila served as a bodyguard for Emperor Haile Selassie before running barefoot to his first gold medal at the Rome games in 1960. Four years later, wearing shoes and socks in Tokyo, Bikila became the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in the marathon:
"Bikila was so euphoric that it mattered not if the band could not find the score for the Ethiopian national anthem … and played the Japanese anthem instead," David Miller writes in Athens to Athens.
Journalist Paul Rambali tells Bikila's story in a book that its publisher bills as a biography but that reads more like a novelization. From the first sentence onward, Rambali uses the literary device of limited omniscient narration: He goes inside Bikila's head and, in alternating chapters, that of his coach, Onni Niskanen, and describes thoughts he appears to have had no way of knowing.
This device might have worked beautifully in a brief children's biography, an art form that allows more leeway for the technique. As it is, too much of Barefoot Runner defies belief for a work labeled "nonfiction."
Bikila died of a brain hemorrhage in his early 40s, which may help to explain why no definitive biography of him has appeared, nearly a half century after he struck gold in Rome. But lesser athletes have had better books written about them. The world will owe a debt to anyone who gives this great Olympian the great biography he deserves.
Best line: Rambali explains why Bikila ran barefoot in Rome, though he provides no source for it. He says that when Bikila, among other runners, went to the Adidas stand in the Olympic village to get shoes, there were no shoes that fit him: "His big toes were too large and his outside toes too small. 'They're almost ingrown,' said the Adidas man. He was curious about Abebe's feet and said he had never seen anything like them: the soles and heels were as hard as corns! He told the major [Onni Niskanen] they had given away 1,500 pairs of shoes and they had hardly any left … They couldn't find a pair of shoes anywhere that Abebe was comfortable with and finally the major had decided that, since there wouldn't be time to properly break in a new pair, Abebe would race barefoot."
Worst line: "The old women shouted questions at him as he passed. He was always running, it was true. If he didn't answer them, it wasn't because he was out breath, for he was never out of breath." This early comment sets the tone for the rest of the book. Has the world ever had a distance runner who was "never out of breath"?
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Furthermore: A recent review in the Guardian says that Tim Judah takes a more journalistic approach to Bikila's life in his Bikila: Ethiopia's Marathon Champion (Reportage Press, 2008), which doesn't appear to have reached the U.S. www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/27/sportandleisure?gusrc=rss&feed=books, and provides a useful comparison of that book and Barefoot Runner.
Janice Harayda is a novelist and award-winning journalist.
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Colorado opened its first pot stores in January, and adults in Washington state will be able to walk into a store and buy marijuana this summer. But this legalization of recreational marijuana is taking place without much information on the possible health effects.
"We should have been doing a lot more research to find out just how useful it is, how it affects the brain, et cetera, et cetera," according to Dr. Herbert Kleber, a Columbia University psychiatrist and drug abuse researcher.
But he says it's been hard to study the effects of Cannabis sativa, the plant that produces marijuana.
A large part of the reason marijuana research has lagged is that it's been very hard to get federal approval for such projects, as well as access to federally sanctioned supplies of the drug.
Kleber hopes that the push to legalize the drug will stimulate long-delayed research. Meanwhile, he thinks it's "a bad idea. I don't think we know what we're getting into."
He's not the only person who would like to see more science on marijuana and health. But not all think the drug poses big health risks, or at least not big enough risks to keep it illegal.
"Most cannabis users are moderate users," says Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies drug policy. "They use a joint a week or less."
Jacquelene Cohen, the 29-year-old director of publicity for a Seattle publisher, is a typical user — indulging once or twice a month, she says. "It's just like a small pleasure," she says, like "pouring a nice bourbon for a friend or passing a pipe with marijuana in it. It's just something nice to do when you're sitting around conversationally."
While Kleiman doesn't see enough health risks from marijuana to override the push toward legalization, he does worry about users who get hooked on the stuff. He says if the price of marijuana falls too much, it could result in more dependence, especially among adolescents and low-income users.
"The main risk of cannabis," he says, "is becoming habituated to cannabis and spending your whole life stoned."
About 11 percent of marijuana users fit the definition of dependence — that is, their habit interferes with their life and they've been unable to cut back. That's lower than the dependence number for heroin and other opioids (23 percent), cocaine (17 percent), cigarettes or alcohol (15 percent) or nicotine (32 percent).
Heavy users aren't hard to find. "I have friends that I've never seen not stoned," Cohen says. "It doesn't seem that it's that harmful. My friends that smoke a lot of marijuana are productive and creative and sociable, and they form strong relationships and they make good life choices."
The National Institute on Drug Abuse says that while marijuana dependence is similar to that for other drugs, "the long-term clinical outcomes may be less severe."
Surveys show that 16 million Americans use marijuana at least once a month, and 2 million of those meet the criteria for dependence. Kleiman says that's not alarmingly high.
"It's not a very high risk," he says, "but it's a high risk if it's you or your child or your parent or your sibling. So people who say, 'Oh, cannabis isn't abusable, cannabis isn't addictive,' it seems to me just aren't looking at the data."
The addiction potential is higher among those who start using marijuana at younger ages. And the higher potency of marijuana these days may increase the risk of dependency, although data are lacking on that point.
Psychological treatment to wean marijuana users from dependency works about 70 percent of the time, according to Kleber, the Columbia University researcher. There's promising research indicating treatment can be improved with medication — in particular a combination of synthetic THC (the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana) plus a long-acting drug for high blood pressure only available in Europe.
When it comes to other adverse health effects, the evidence is unclear.
Marijuana smoke contains many of the same toxic chemicals as cigarette smoke. But even heavy marijuana smokers don't seem to have more lung cancer or emphysema.
"Oddly enough," Kleiman says, "the epidemiology has not come in to support the microbiology. The obvious speculation is that there's something else in cannabis that's actually a tumor-suppressing agent, and people are looking hard at that now."
Many worry that marijuana might increase the risk of schizophrenia. Authorities say there's enough evidence to warn against marijuana use for anybody who's had a psychotic episode or a family history of schizophrenia. Still, as millions of people have used marijuana in recent years, the incidence of schizophrenia has remained static, at around 1 percent of the population.
And then there's driving under the influence.
Kleiman says one study allowed heavy marijuana users to smoke as much as they wanted before testing them on a driving simulator.
Even when the subjects were "as stoned as they want to be," he says, they were about as impaired as people who just meet the drunken-driving threshold.
That's not entirely reassuring. But it suggests that marijuana might not be as dangerous as alcohol when it comes to driving.
But here's an important point: Kleiman says there's some evidence that marijuana users may be driving-impaired for hours after they think their high has worn off.
"That's where a real public health campaign could make a difference," Kleiman says, "saying if you smoke cannabis, do not drive for something like six hours after — we'd have to do the research. That's a lot longer than the subjective high lasts. But it's probably what you need to get people actually safe."
Kleiman adds one more key point: "Cannabis is much more dangerous when it accompanies even a little bit of alcohol." So he thinks the blood-alcohol limit for drivers with any level of cannabis in their blood should be zero.
Of the states considering legalization, most are considering legalizing recreational marijuana (17 states) or decriminalizing possession of small amounts (12 states and the District of Columbia). Twenty states plus Washington, D.C., allow marijuana sale for medical use, although in some places the medical pretext is slim.
This is MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer.
And I'm David Greene. Good morning.
Today in Your Health: legal marijuana. By this summer, adults in Washington State will be able to walk into a store and buy it. Colorado opened its first pot stores in January. Many other states are considering legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana. But there's not a lot of data on possible health effects of the drug. In a moment, we'll hear about marijuana and the teenage brain.
But first, NPR's Richard Knox looks at other health concerns.
RICHARD KNOX, BYLINE: Jacquelene Cohen smokes pot once or twice a month. She calls it a simple pleasure.
JACQUELENE COHEN: It's pouring a nice bourbon for a friend, or it's passing a pipe with marijuana in it. It's just something nice to do when you're sitting around conversationally.
KNOX: Cohen, a 29-year-old publicity director for a Seattle publishing company, is your average marijuana user.
MARK KLEIMAN: Most cannabis users are moderate users. They use a joint a week or less. So the typical pattern of cannabis use in this country is very occasional use.
KNOX: That's Mark Kleiman of UCLA. He's an authority on marijuana who knows the evidence as well as anyone. He doesn't think the drug poses big health risks, not enough to keep it a crime to possess, use or sell it. But he does worry about users who become hooked on marijuana.
KLEIMAN: The main risk of cannabis is becoming habituated to cannabis and spending your whole life stoned.
KNOX: Heavy users are a small minority. But Jacquelene Cohen says they're not hard to find.
COHEN: I have friends that I've never seen not stoned. They are always stoned.
KNOX: She says her friends don't seem the worse for it.
COHEN: My friends that smoke a lot of marijuana are productive and creative and sociable and are able to form good relationships and make good life choices.
KNOX: That's a problem with marijuana: People have widely different, even contradictory perceptions about its harmfulness. But most people might agree it's not good to have a sizable chunk of the population dependent on a mind-altering drug - that is, have a habit they find hard to shake that interferes with their daily life. Something like one in nine cannabis users fits this definition.
KLEIMAN: Not a very high-risk, but it's a high risk if it's you or your child or your parent or your sibling. And so people who say: Oh, cannabis isn't abusable, cannabis isn't addictive, it seems to me, just aren't looking at the data.
KNOX: Kleiman - who's advised Washington State on legalization - worries that more young users will get hooked on cannabis if prices fall and the marijuana industry starts advertising heavily. So does Dr. Herbert Kleber, a drug-abuse researcher at Columbia University. He definitely does not support legalization.
HERBERT KLEBER: I think it's a bad idea. I don't think we really know what we're getting into.
KNOX: Kleber says it's been very hard to study the effects of cannabis.
KLEBER: We should have been doing a lot more research to find out just how useful it is, how it affects the brain, et cetera, et cetera. So we need to have much more research also on how to get off it.
KNOX: That lack of research is the reason why the evidence isn't very clear when it comes to adverse health effects other than dependence. Take lung damage. Marijuana smoke contains many of the same toxic chemicals as cigarette smoke. But even heavy marijuana smokers don't seem to have more lung cancer or emphysema. Many worry that marijuana might increase the risk of schizophrenia.
Here's Mark Kleiman again.
KLEIMAN: I think the evidence is plenty strong that somebody who's had a schizophrenic episode should stay away from cannabis, and that somebody with a family history of schizophrenia should stay away from it.
KNOX: Still, as millions of people have used the drug in recent years, schizophrenia incidence hasn't increased. And then there's driving under the influence. Kleiman says one study allowed heavy marijuana users to smoke as much as they wanted before testing them on a driving simulator.
KLEIMAN: The maximum impairment you get to when you let people get as stoned as they want to be is about the same as the impairment at .08 of alcohol - so just the drunk-driving limit.
KNOX: That's not entirely reassuring. But it suggests marijuana isn't nearly as dangerous as alcohol. But here's an important point: Kleiman says marijuana users are driving-impaired for hours after they think their high has worn off. And that's something they need to know. And, Kleiman says, even a little alcohol combined with marijuana is dangerous while driving.
Richard Knox, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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