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OTTAWA — Despite significant and sustained investments since the turn of the century, Canada is still being challenged with new demands for "world-class" public infrastructure to sustain its economic growth.
The Harper government has announced a renewed long-term infrastructure plan over 10 years worth about $50 billion, but must now sort out details and agreements with provinces and cities for the money to flow into a variety of projects including roads, bridges, water systems and public transit.
As Parliament resumes this fall, the cities are looking for some signs of progress to respond to a range of housing and infrastructure needs.
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Cities say they are facing increasing demands and waiting lists for affordable housing infrastructure, and have also been calling for investments to make public infrastructure more resistant to climate change and extreme weather events such as recent flooding last summer in southern Alberta.
A lingering infrastructure deficit, and estimates by cities that they need more than $123 billion to bring existing systems up to acceptable levels — on top of an estimated $100 billion needed to meet growing demands — will be at the heart of the programs and agreements needed to address the challenges.
"While there is no consensus on the infrastructure deficit amount, all studies point to significant demands for investment in rehabilitation and maintenance," say internal federal records, prepared for the infrastructure minister following the 2011 election and released through access-to-information legislation. "At the same time there is a need to plan for new world-class infrastructure to support changing economic and environmental conditions. While it is clear that there is a need for funding, as governments enter a period of fiscal restraint, balancing these needs will be particularly challenging."
What is the federal government's plan?
Infrastructure Minister Denis Lebel and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty were able to deliver a new infrastructure plan in the 2013 budget, pledging $47 billion in new funding over the next decade, including $22 billion in a special gas-tax revenue-sharing fund that would provide predictable long-term funding for cities to invest in infrastructure.
Lebel's office said the government wanted the new gas-tax fund to offer more flexibility for cities on a range of different projects than the previous program, which was limited to environmentally sustainable infrastructure.
Lebel's spokeswoman, Michele-Jamali Paquette, said the government also hoped to negotiate and sign agreements with the provinces and territories on infrastructure funding by next year to ensure a "seamless transition to the new funding" as part of what she described as the largest long-term federal commitment to infrastructure in Canada's history.
Is this part of an economic plan?
Infrastructure Canada has estimated that the average Canadian household is spending about $10,000 per year on transportation, more than it spends on food. Transport Canada also estimated in a 2006 report that traffic congestion in large Canadian cities was costing the economy $2.3 billion to $3.7 billion per year in 2002 dollars.
"I think the challenge is to put together something that will bring all the governments on the same page so that the provinces and the federal government and the municipalities are working in the same direction in a consistent long-term funding and planning framework," said Michael Roschlau, president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Association, which represents public transportation agencies across the country.
Lebel's office estimated that the federal government has invested more than $7 billion in public transportation programs across the country since 2006 through a suite of programs, including the gas-tax fund.
How old is our public infrastructure?
Lebel's briefing notes from 2011 said that Canada's infrastructure was slowly being renewed, with the average age of public infrastructure dropping to 15.7 years in 2009, down from a peak of 17.2 years in 2000. However, the average age still remains above the average of 14.1 years reached in the mid-1960s.
Have cities made any specific demands related to the throne speech?
Claude Dauphin, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, said cities were looking for the federal government to set an agenda in its throne speech that puts the bread-and-butter needs of Canadians front and centre.
"Nothing is putting more pressure on household budgets than the high costs of housing and transportation, and Canadians need to know their federal government is doing what it can to fight traffic gridlock, fix aging roads, and make our country's housing system work better for consumers," said Dauphin, who is also the mayor of the Montreal borough of Lachine.
The cities are also hoping to see some new commitments from the federal government on rail safety, in light of recent tragedies such as the Lac-Megantic runaway train disaster, to allow them to get more information about dangerous goods running through their neighbourhoods.
A recent report by the federation on the state of cities and communities calls on all levels of government to work together on issues such as climate change adaptation that relate to all of their collective responsibilities and jurisdictions in dealing with "severe" impacts that are representing a "growing burden" to taxpayers.
Related articles
- Canadians spend more on transport than food; "worrisome" transport trends hampering economy (o.canada.com)
- Bureaucrats secretly pressed Harper government to replace deteriorating Montreal bridge (o.canada.com)
- Cities encouraged by talks with Harper government on dangerous goods (canada.com)
- Federal government's finances healthy, but provinces' wallets face squeeze, PBO warns (o.canada.com)


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In a time when psychologists are rediscovering Darwin, and much of our social behavioral is being reduced to ancient, hard-wired patterns, Michael Kimmel's history of manhood in America comes as a much needed reminder that our behavior as men and women is anything but stable and fixed. Kimmel's authoritative, entertaining, and wide-ranging history of men in America demonstrates that manhood has meant very different things in different eras. Drawing on advice books, magazines, political pamphlets, and popular novels and films, he makes two surprising claims: First, manhood is homosocial - that is, men need to prove themselves to each other, not to women. Second, definitions of manliness have evolved in response to women's movements. When women act, men react. Originally, manliness was an internal virtue and a democratic ideal - British men were viewed as fops, and American men had to be independent, honest, and responsible. By the 1890s, however, manhood changed to masculinity, something that had to be constantly proven through the new explosion of sports, fraternities, and fashion. Finally, in 1936, Lewis Terman, the creator of the IQ test, developed an "M-F" test to analyze adolescents' masculinity and femininity. Until well into the 1960s, the test penalized boys who preferred to draw flowers instead of forests, or who knew that a teacup was used for drinking tea. But just as Terman's categories and questions seem outdated to us, so will our own standards seem temporary to our successors.
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PyOpenCL is an open-source package (MIT license) that enables developers to easily access the OpenCL API from Python. The latest stable version of PyOpenCL provides features that make it one of the handiest OpenCL wrappers for Python because you can easily start working with OpenCL kernels without leaving your favorite Python environment. In this first article of a two-part series on PyOpenCL, I explain how you can easily build and deploy an OpenCL kernel, that is, a function that executes on the GPU device.
More Than an OpenCL Wrapper
PyOpenCL enables you to access the entire OpenCL 1.2 API from Python. Thus, you are able to retrieve all the information that the OpenCL API offers for platforms, contexts, devices, programs, kernels, and command queues. One of the main goals of PyOpenCL is to make sure that you can access in Python the same features that a C++ OpenCL host program can. However, PyOpenCL is not just an OpenCL wrapper for Python: It also provides enhancements and shortcuts for the most common tasks. With PyOpenCL, you usually need only a few lines of Python code to perform tasks that require dozens of C++ lines.
PyOpenCL reduces the number of OpenCL calls needed to retrieve all the information usually required to build and deploy a kernel for OpenCL execution on the GPU device. It provides automatic object cleanup tied to the lifetime of objects, so you don't need to worry about writing cleanup code. And PyOpenCL automatically translates all OpenCL errors to Python exceptions.
You can use PyOpenCL to create programs and build kernels as you would with a C++ OpenCL host program, or you can take advantage of the many OpenCL kernel builders that simplify the creation of kernels that need to perform common parallel algorithms. PyOpenCL provides kernel builders for the following parallel algorithms:
- Element-wise expression evaluation builder (map)
- Sum and counts builder (reduce)
- Prefix sums builder (scan)
- Custom scan kernel builder
- Radix sort
Gathering Information About Platforms, Contexts, and Devices
You probably have some basic knowledge of how OpenCL works and the it organizes the underlying drivers and hardware, such as platforms, contexts, and devices. If not, I suggest Matthew Scarpino's A Gentle Introduction to OpenCL, which is a good introductory tutorial; you will then be able to understand the examples I provide in this series. Scarpino's analogy of OpenCL processing and a game of cards makes it easy to understand the way OpenCL works.
One of the problems I found in the good documentation provided by PyOpenCL is that it assumes you have just one OpenCL platform available in your development workstation. Sometimes, you have more than one platform. For example, in my laptop I have two OpenCL platforms:
- AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing: The drivers for my ATI GPU, which include support for OpenCL.
- Intel OpenCL: The Intel OpenCL runtime which provides a CPU-only OpenCL runtime for my Intel Core i7 CPU.
Thus, it is good practice to prepare your code to run on computers that might have more than one OpenCL platform. If you want to easily check the different OpenCL platforms available in any computer, you can use a simple and useful utility to list them and check their features, GPU Caps Viewer.Download the latest version of GPU Caps Viewer and then read about its features in GPU Caps Viewer v1.8.6 Dives Deep on OpenCL Support. It is wise to learn about the OpenCL features that are available in your development workstation before you start diving deeper into PyOpenCL.
I'll use the
import pyopencl as cl import for all the code snippets in this article. If you want to retrieve all the OpenCL platforms, you can use
platforms = cl.get_platforms().
get_platforms() method returns a list of
pyopencl.Platform instances that include all the information you need about each platform. In my case,
get_platforms returns a list with two instances, and the
pyopencl.Platform instances have the following values for their
name property:
'AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing' and
'Intel(R) OpenCL'.
A common requirement for OpenCL host programming is to obtain different platform information parameters, such as the list of extensions supported by the platform. In C++, retrieving this information requires many lines of code. PyOpenCL makes it easier because each
pyopencl.Platform instance includes all the properties you might need to check. Table 1 shows the
pyopencl.Platform property names that provide the equivalent information to an OpenCL platform parameter name. As you can see, you just need to remove the
CL_PLATFORM_ prefix and use lowercase letters to generate the equivalent property name.
OpenCL Platform Parameter Name
pyopencl.Platform Property Name
A string with the list of extensions supported by the platform.
A string with the platform's name.
A string with two possible values: '
A string with the platform's vendor name.
A string with the maximum version of the OpenCL API supported by the platform.
Table 1. PyOpenCL property names
For example, the following line retrieves a string with the list of extensions supported by the first OpenCL platform found. Because you need at least one OpenCL platform to be able to work with PyOpenCL and OpenCL, the line will work on any OpenCL development workstation:
platform_extensions = platforms[0].extensions
The following lines show examples of the string value of the
extensions property for two different platforms:
'cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices cl_khr_d3d10_sharing' 'cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_icd cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_intel_printf cl_ext_device_fission cl_intel_exec_by_local_thread cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_intel_dx9_media_sharing cl_khr_dx9_media_sharing cl_khr_d3d11_sharing'
You can check whether the platform supports the
cl_khr_icd extension with the following line:
supports_cl_khr_icd = platform_extensions.__contains__('cl_khr_icd')
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An unsigned integer with the size of the device's address space.
A string with the list of extensions supported by the device.
An unsigned long with the size of the device's global memory
An unsigned integer with the maximum size of a workgroup for the device.
A string with the device's name.
A string with the device's vendor name.
Table 2. Typical device properties returned in PyOpenCL
The following line retrieves a string with the list of extensions supported by the first OpenCL GPU device in the selected platform. You need at least one OpenCL GPU device to run the next line in any OpenCL development workstation:
gpu_device_extensions = gpu_devices[0].extensions
The following line shows examples of the string value of the
extensions property for one device:
'cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_khr_d3d10_sharing'
You can check whether the device supports the
cl_khr_gl_sharing extension with the following line:
supports_cl_khr_gl_sharing = gpu_device_extensions.__contains__('cl_khr_gl_sharing')
It is very common to check some extensions related to graphics for a device, such as
cl_khr_d3d10_sharing and
cl_khr_gl_sharing. If you've ever written a OpenCL host application in C++, you will definitely notice how much simpler things are with PyOpenCL.
Building and Deploying a Kernel
To build and deploy a basic OpenCL kernel, you usually need to follow these steps in a typical OpenCL C++ host program:
- Obtain an OpenCL platform.
- Obtain a device id for at least one device (accelerator).
- Create a context for the selected device or devices.
- Create the accelerator program from source code.
- Build the program.
- Create one or more kernels from the program functions.
- Create a command queue for the target device.
- Allocate device memory and move input data from the host to the device memory.
- Associate the arguments to the kernel with kernel object.
- Deploy the kernel for device execution.
- Move the kernel's output data to host memory.
- Release context, program, kernels and memory.
These steps represent a simplified version of the tasks that your host program must perform (each step is a bit more complex in real life). For example, the first step (obtain an OpenCL platform) usually requires checking the properties for the platforms, as I explained in the previous section. In addition, each step requires error checking. Because you can work with PyOpenCL from any Python console, you can execute the different steps with an interactive environment that makes it easy for you to learn both OpenCL and the way PyOpenCL exposes the features in the API.


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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Shannon Spake Leaves "NASCAR Nation" Far Behind
This season has been a tough one for the ESPN gang. Along the way, however, there have been several individuals that have proven over the course of ten months that they are simply without a doubt very hard workers. At the top of that list is Shannon Spake.
Debuting on ESPN as a field reporter for NASCAR Now and NASCAR Countdown, Spake quietly moved into a pit reporter role for many telecasts as the season progressed. Now, with the season concluded, ESPN has just announced that Spake will be given an opportunity to be a college football sideline reporter.
While the network has not identified the Bowl Game or Division Championship events Spake will be working, the message is clear. We like what you did and here is your reward. The bottom line is, she deserved it.
Many NASCAR TV viewers remember Spake from the infamous NASCAR Nation on SPEED where "stock car racing mixed with Hollywood Celebrities." It turned out that "collided" would have been a better word. Created around model turned celebrity turned sportscaster Leeann Tweeden, the program fizzled.
Spake was a reporter for the series, but also hosted another minor show called Backseat Drivers. Without all the glitz and glamour, that show forced Spake to stand-up on her own in the NASCAR world, no easy task for a female. Spake did well, and added some additional reporting from the NASCAR garage before that season was over.
Moving to ESPN was a big step, and in many ways she was thrown into the deep end of the pool with the NASCAR Now series. Fans may remember that this series was hosted by two men who had never been on a TV series before, or knew anything about NASCAR. What a nice thing to walk into as the primary NASCAR field reporter from Mooresville, NC.
There is absolutely no doubt that Shannon Spake and the NASCAR Now Insiders reporting the news kept this show afloat. Even as ESPN decided to defend their ill-chosen hosts, all-stars like Spake and Marty Smith, along with newcomers Terry Blount and Angelique Chengelis created the only content of interest to fans.
Michael Knight, the veteran motorsports writer said "on ESPN's weekday and pre-race programs, Spake has emerged from the wreckage of SPEED's wretched NASCAR Nation as a solid, straightforward reporter." High praise from an informed source.
Back on April 15th, only two months out of the box, The Daly Planet said "Spake has proven to be a consistently good reporter with a laid-back style of presenting information that works well with the NASCAR set."
When NASCAR Now let go of their original co-host Doug Banks, the suggestion was made to let Spake step-up and take a shot at hosting. Memories of her time on SPEED and her Backseat Drivers program with Marty Smith were still fresh. The network chose instead to extend those opportunities to Allen Bestwick and Mike Massaro.
This season has been tough on veterans like Massaro, who has been in the wrong place at the wrong time...a lot. From badgering Junior about missing The Chase, to asking Mark Martin the stupidest question in NASCAR TV history, Massaro is probably glad this season is in the books.
With Allen Bestwick bouncing back and forth between pit road and hosting duties in ESPN's Infield Studio, Spake was inserted to work with Jamie Little and Dave Burns on pit road. Burns is a clown, and his nature is to play the fool. Little has a very aggressive and over-the-top style, which rubbed some NASCAR fans the wrong way.
That left Spake, once again appearing younger than her thirty-one years, to be the focus of attention. Her memorable run-in with Kurt Busch where he not only chastised her on-the-air but off it as well was certainly an interesting moment for both, and probably ultimately served as a lesson learned for each as well.
This season The Daly Planet has typed Shannon Spake's name over two hundred and fifty times. When we reviewed NASCAR Now, there she was. When NASCAR Countdown was in our sights, there she was again. When ESPN2 or ESPN News covered breaking NASCAR news...guess who was on scene?
This has truly been a breakout TV year for Spake, who is a resident of the Lake Norman area near Mooresville, NC. A Florida girl who graduated from Florida Atlantic University, Spake has made the most of her TV opportunities along the way. It will be interesting to see how ESPN uses Spake in her college football debut, and what she can make of this big opportunity far away from the NASCAR stage.
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- Anonymous said...
JD- I think it says all that needs to be said about the depths to which EXPN has fallen that it has constantly had difficulty finding time for NASCAR, but found a morning time slot on ESPN itself Monday for a live special on the sentencing of Michael Vick.
- December 13, 2007 at 9:20 PM
- Anonymous said...
Good luck to Shannon in her football role. However, I think Dave Burns is a far superior pit road reporter than Shannon will ever be. Shannon is a good news correspondent for ESPN and NASCAR Now and I hope they use her next year.
Incidentally, the photo reminded me that I thought the most talented "broadcast personality" of that NASCAR Nation bunch (yes, I watched the show) was the woman pictured above Shannon, Courtney George. Very solid, no-nonsense reporter but also very vibrant and seemed to be very well-liked by the drivers in the features she did. She reminds me of Wendy V.
Unfortunately, like Jamie Little, Courtney was extremely tall (maybe taller than Jamie, even) and that may have hindered (in an unspoken way) her working in NASCAR alongside the shorter drivers. I googled and she is an anchor on one of the regional cable sports networks, after working as a CNN Headline News Sports anchor. She would have been a nice addition to the NASCAR female reporter group.
- December 13, 2007 at 9:26 PM
- Sophia said...
Gotta be honest...Shannon Spake does nothing for me most of the time..she was ok on NASCAR NOW the very few times I watched it..but her style of GUSHING and gazing at drivers just rubbed me the wrong way. Personally, I found her comments immature and insipid during the Busch awards.
Then again, I do NOT like Jamie Little at all either.
at least on many other sites I see many, MANY voice the same displeasure with Shannon Spake that I have.
Guess we can't all like the same people. I say get more guys down in the pits and leave the real women of NASCAR roles with Krist and Wendy...the NASCAR NATION and ESPN bunch does nothing for me.
I agree ESPN has no clue what quality people are..the comment about Vick? Nuff said.
- December 13, 2007 at 9:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
Shannon Spake is...OK. I wouldn't mind seeing her as a host or substitute host for NASCAR NOW to see how she'd do. But in the pits? Nah. She seems out of place and awkward during the Busch races and didn't seem to improve during the season.
Anonymous 9:26, you've brought back memories. I also (hangs head) liked NASCAR Nation, and had forgotten about Courtney George, who was the serious sports person on NN. And since you mention it, I think her size hurt her. She didn't get to do as many interviews as Shannon, from what I recall. Not only was she tall, she was the daughter of a pro athlete, NFL or NBA - and she looked like an athlete. She wasn't a tiny model size like the others.
But she was cool; seem to recall a couple of the drivers joking around with her on air about her height and she joked right back, maybe that's where she mentioned her dad.
- December 13, 2007 at 10:20 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I think one thing that I was trying to put forward in the column was that she has worked seemingly seven days a week all season.
Certainly, everyone has a style and I understand your comments completely. Dave Burns was a weekend only kinda guy, and we rarely saw Jamie Little on NASCAR Now.
There is no doubt that Shannon Spake has a long way to go in terms of depth of NASCAR knowledge and familiarity with certain racing situations, I was only trying to point out that of all the crew, it seems that she worked her tail off in much the same way as Marty Smith.
Both of them were there all the time, and I admire that type of dedication in "TV land."
- December 13, 2007 at 10:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
Does this mean that Shannon won't be back on nascar broadcasts? Sometimes she asked quirky questions but I remember Jeanne Zaleski (sp?) a few years ago I always thought she did a great job on the Nascar telecasts.
- December 13, 2007 at 10:34 PM
- elena said...
I really wish Shannon lots of good luck in football. She had said in an interview that she liked NASCAR, but she had really always wanted to work in football.
What I admire about Shannon is that she is a hard worker. She has done work in other non-sports area and paid her dues while looking for opportunities for her dream job. Nothing has been handed to her. Every time I saw her, I thought she kept getting better.
- December 14, 2007 at 1:30 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Busch Series Fan,
NASCAR is over, and ESPN and ABC have a lot of college football Bowl Games and several Division Championships to cover shortly.
This has nothing to do with her NASCAR schedule. We should know which games she will be doing shortly.
- December 14, 2007 at 5:37 AM
- PammH said...
Busch series fan-really??? Jeanne Z, who didn't seem to know her when to shut up & knew NOTHING about Nascar??? She was HORRID & the drivers hated her-you could tell by their interviews.
And JD, altho I agree w/your thoughts 85% of the time, SS leaves me cold. Yes, she was all over the place at the track & did work hard, but..how can I word this correctly-she was TOO earnest. Like, hey look at me, I'm working with the big dawgs now.
And Courtney George-ugh. Wendy & Krista have set a HIGH bar, which these other women can't even begin to approach! jmho, of course.
- December 14, 2007 at 7:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
I had the opportunity to meet Shannon at the Milwaukee Mile this past summer. She was very nice to my wife and I and left me with the impression she was eager to gather as much information that anyone from her field would offer her, be it statistics or interviewing techniques. She definitly is not a Krista or Wendy, but she is making the effort. By the way I have heard from a reliable source the Krista will once again be the sideline reporter for the Cotton Bowl again on Jan. 1st.
- December 14, 2007 at 8:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
good luck shannon!!! don't do anything that you did while you were pit reporting and you should be good to go.
- December 14, 2007 at 8:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
I have some bad news, John: Your sources are wrong! I have just checked the Awful Announcing site, which lists the names of all the sideline reporters for ESPN's bowl games. Spake is not on the list. However, Vince Welch is: he will be at the Liberty Bowl game on December 27 between South Carolina and UCF.
- December 14, 2007 at 1:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
The tale of Shannon Spake, Jamie Little, et.al. speak volumes as to what's wrong with women in sports broadcasting. Yes, they're beautiful eye-candy, but that a sports reporter does not make. Why do they have to all have the same look, attitude and lack of knowledge?Yes, I know men like to gawk at beautiful women, but I cannot believe that even men would better appreciate someone who might not be as plastic/fake but has a superior knowledge of the sport for which they're reporting. I mean, there are very few male reporters who send my heart aflutter, but that makes no difference to me because they provide what I'm looking for---real knowledge of any sport in which I'm interested. I don't need Brad Pitt as a sideline reporter, just someone who knows and respects the sport. But as with all things, as long as men are doing the hiring, we're going to be forced to deal with their T&A broadcast babes, no matter how incompetent they may be. As a woman, I'm all for equality, but for heaven's sake, don't just stick a "hot" babe on the tube just because she's blonde and has large assets. Find a few who know what they're doing. At least we have Wendy, who's the best out there, and is nice looking, to boot.
- December 14, 2007 at 3:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
Call me shallow.....But Shannon Spake is eye candy, and I dont care how well she reports.
- December 14, 2007 at 3:26 PM
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- December 14, 2007 at 3:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
So are Wendy and Krista the only two females "allowed" to broadcast for NASCAR? Seems so, based on some of the comments.
"We have Wendy and Krista, we don't need any more of you!"
- December 14, 2007 at 4:56 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
If you take a look at my column, it does not say Bowl Games but instead says college football. I have an email into ESPN to see if we can get more info, and my source is a big industry newsletter called tvspy.com that many of us get every day. No secret stuff involved.
That is a debate that has raged for years, and has featured everyone from Phyllis George to Suzy Kolber. As you can see from my column, I admire Spake's hard work, which is a big part of making it in the TV world. If you check her bio, you will also see the other shows and series she worked on before SPEED and ESPN.
btw - sorry to all that the tasteless comment lived on this site for a bit. Takes all kinds to make a world I guess.
- December 14, 2007 at 6:39 PM
- Anonymous said...
The times I saw Shannon Spake on N-NOW I found her well-informed, informative, and hard-working. I'm not sure you can ask for much more. She obviously was not as good as Wendy V., Krista, or Angelique - but, they did not learn their craft by announcing to trees in the forest. Practice makes perfect. On N-Now I thought her knowledge and effort stood out in sharp contrast to Erik K.
- December 14, 2007 at 7:04 PM
- elena said...
I give Shannon a lot of credit for what she does and is doing. She's from southern Florida, and though she wanted a job in sports, she did not sit around waiting for someone to offer her one. I can only imagine what a culture shock it must have been as a young woman not too long out of college to move to NYC for her big break. Besides the culture and weather, the cost of living there must have been very discouraging.
Lots of people don't make it in this industry and I'm glad to see a young person maturing into the job. I'm sure she'll be even better next season.
- December 14, 2007 at 8:18 PM
- Newracefan said...
I enjoyed Shannon on Nascar Now but not so much as a pit reporter. On NN she was always informative and professional, not as much fun as Marty but I always listened to what she had to say. Her pit reporting seemed more rushed and somewhat scattered, this very well could have more to do with the producer/ director than Shannon herself. I would love to see her as the go to person when someone drops out, wrecks, etc.(JD I think you suggested this first) She's good at follow up and we all know that ESPN lacks in the follow up area. Shannon does work really hard and deserves a shot at football. I wish her luck
- December 14, 2007 at 8:33 PM
- Tripp said...
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- December 14, 2007 at 8:55 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I moved your post off the main comment page so you could re-read my column. Spake is not leaving anything, this is just an end-of-season article about her hard work this year.
While the original tvspy.com article mentioned her working on college football over the next couple of weeks, the latest is that she may be actually doing ESPN Radio for some games as a sideline reporter.
We will keep you posted on Spake, and all the other NASCAR TV types during the off-season if anything else comes up.
- December 14, 2007 at 9:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
I truly wish Spike well, though, if she leaves NASCAR coverage, I won't really miss her.
I was so struck by "tripp"'s comments. I think he's nailed it. The core issue is style. FOX/Speed being relaxed versus ESPN's stiffness. (I would add ESPN's arrogance). Perhaps so many of the incidents that frustrate us stem from this basic difference in point of view.
- December 14, 2007 at 9:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
Let me start by saying I enjoy reading your column... But I must point out like at the end of PTI on ESPN, that Shannon Spake has already debut on ESPN College Football. She did a game from the sidelines a few weeks back. I believe it was a Division II game for a test run. Here in Hollywood we call it a screen test or dress rehersal. In racing it may be called the ARCA or ASA Series.
Speaking of announcing when is the exciting truck series going to get a dolt from Lincoln, Nebraska out of there and back to the corn field.
Have a great holiday! Look forward to your coverage in 08.
- December 14, 2007 at 9:31 PM
- MarkyMark said...
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- December 14, 2007 at 10:43 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
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- December 14, 2007 at 10:48 PM
- WickedJ said...
Meh Shannon did better than Jamie Little but has nothing on Krista Voda. i dont like Wendy (cant properly spell her last name) much
could be better could be worse i suppose
all in all...HOW LONG TILL FOX IS BACK???? lol..
JD - will you continue your very insightful rants/blogs into the 2008 season? your very popular..ive seen your name mentioned several times from sites like Yahoo to RaceJournalOnline
- December 15, 2007 at 5:03 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I will be making that decision in the week after Christmas.
- December 15, 2007 at 8:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
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- December 15, 2007 at 11:32 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Thanks again for taking the time to read the rules for posting on the right hand side of the main page prior to adding your comment.
- December 15, 2007 at 11:47 AM
- Anonymous said...
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- December 15, 2007 at 7:46 PM
- Tripp said...
JD... I re-read the article and still think my comments were on topic. There's no doubt she's worked hard and produced informative results and she deserves plaudits and an open door to additional opportunities. It's good to see that talent and hard work pay off in the world of Big-Time TV.
You're the boss so I'll defer to your editorial decision.
- December 15, 2007 at 8:26 PM
- Newracefan said...
JD Here's my vote for you to continue hopefully that will work with the rest of your career/personal life
- December 16, 2007 at 3:20 PM
- Anonymous said...
Shannon Spake was the sideline reporter for ESPN Radio's broadcast of the Champs Sports Bowl last Friday. The booth announcers were Dave Lamont and Jim Donnan. So that should answer JD's question about assignments.
- December 31, 2007 at 2:10 PM
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- July 5, 2008 at 10:00 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
What are you...like 12 yrs old?
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