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Here are a list of 40 freewares that I dug up from all around the web, tested and reviewed. All that are listed here are pretty useful if you ask me. Each of the listed are free to download and use. If you see something you like, just download it and try it out yourself.
- Apple Boot Camp
- AppleJack
- Burn
- Butler
- Chicken of the VNC
- Carbon Copy Cloner
- ClamXav
- Cyberduck FTP
- Desktop Manager
- FinderPop
- iGetter
- ImageWell
- iWebMore
- iWillQuit
- Linotype FontExplorer X
- MainMenu
- Max
- MenuMeters
- Namely
- OnyX
- Perian
- PTHPasteboard
- Service Scrubber
- SharePoints
- Sizzling Keys
- Skim
- SlimBatteryMonitor
- SMARTReporter
- smcFanControl
- Springy (StuffIt replacement)
- SuperDuper!
- TextWrangler2
- TinkerTool
- Transmission
- Unarchiver
- Vienna
- VLC Media Player
- WhatRoute
- Yahoo Messenger
Boot Camp is a new technology that lets you install and run Windows on your Mac. If you have an Intel-based Mac computer and would like to try Boot Camp, you can download the public beta today.
AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use.
Burn is an application to burn most common disks: data disks, audio disks (mp3, audio cd), video disks (VCD, SVCD, DVD-Video, DivX), images and disk copy.
Designed to make it easier for users to perform different potentially recurring tasks. Customize and assign triggers to a task. Butler is very flexible and feature rich in terms of triggers and tasks. Start using it and discover the features one day at a time.
A fast, lightweight Virtual Network Computer (VNC) client for Mac OSX that allows you to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it's right next to you.
Easy-to-use backup/cloning utility. Other features include synchronization, scheduled tasks, creating disk images on the fly, and creating NetBoot and Apple Software Restore-prepared image sets from fully customized installations of Mac OS X.
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.
Cyberduck is a graphical open source FTP and SFTP client for Mac OS X licensed under the GPL. It supports FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS), using AUTH TLS as well as uploading and downloading by drag and drop and is able to synchronize files and directories. In addition, it is also able to open some files in external text editors. Cyberduck includes a bookmark manager and supports the Mac OS X Keychain and Bonjour networking.
Virtual desktop manager for the Mac OS X. You can have any number of named virtual 'screens' (up to available memory) to arrange your programs on.
A classic Mac utility, now a prefpane for OS X. FinderPop is a Universal Preference pane that extends OS X's contextual menus using a FinderPop Items folder much as the Apple Menu Items folder used to do for the Apple menu.
iGetter is Safari's download manager replacement. Doesn't take up too much resources and is easy to use. It greatly improves your download speed by using segmented downloading. You can also schedule downloads for low traffic periods, auto resume broken downloads, shut down on completion, etc.
ImageWell is the easy way to edit, rotate, crop, and resize your image and upload it to your iDisk (.mac account), FTP server, or WebDAV server. No need to launch multiple applications to add text, labels, thought clouds, talking balloons, drop shadows, watermarks, and shapes.
This lets you easily and quickly add features to sites created in iWeb that would be difficult to add without this utility. This is the dig for the iWeb developer. Embed HTML in your iWeb pages and finally have those flash animations, applets and google ads on the website.
This is sure to save your laptops hard drive. If you have a network in your house, schedule it to download files at night so as to not slow down others using the network or to keep your VOIP working without delay. Apple's scheduler will not shut down/sleep while there is an internet radio stream, but iWillQuit does. iWillQuit works just as it said it does, shuts down, sleeps, etc.
Font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are now more fun than ever. FontExplorer X gives computer users all the font functions they could need, and lets them decide how deeply they wish to dive into various font themes.
MainMenu will run all the various tools and scripts and system maintenance routines to keep your Mac running smoothly right from your menu bar. It will rebuild your Spotlight library for faster searching, repair permissions, clean caches to improve application performance, etc.
Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files. Look nowhere else to meet your needs in handling a wide range of codecs and other audio tools. Sbooth, the developer, is the leader of a community that cares deeply about high-quality audio on the Mac, and he has forums that are a key site for knowledge about Mac audio.
MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X.
A very good application launcher that is really easy to use, doesn't need much resources, and doesn't get in the way when you don't need it, which is nice. Namely is actually faster than Spotlight in application launching and you can choose your favourite aqualicious color too so it matches the Spotlight menu or your desktop very nicely.
It allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and of some of Apple's own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview various logs and CrashReporter-reports, to check the Preferences files and more.
With Perian, the Swiss Army Knife for QuickTime, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use all the other common media types like DivX, XviD, mpeg4, AC3 audio, etc.
PTHPasteboard is one of those applications which expands the functionality of copy and paste. It does this by allowing you to copy many things without having to paste them straight away; making good use of multiple 'pasteboards' which store everything you copy. Using this application means you never have to worry about losing anything you've copied ever again!
Wouldn't the services menu be much more useful if it weren't overcrowded by services you never even thought of using? With Service Scrubber, you can restructure the services menu, change service keyboard shortcuts or disable services. It also lets you deactivate, activate, reorder, rename and redefine the keyboard shortcuts for all the entries in the services menu. It does this in a way that is pretty much foolproof so you can always revert.
SharePoints is an application or a preference pane that makes it easy to add and delete share points like in the old Finder. In Mac OS X, by default, you are limited to sharing only what is in your public folder in your home directory. This program makes it easy to share any folder. In addition SharePoints also brings back users and groups management to Mac OS X as well as easy configuration of AppleFileServer (AFS) and Samba (SMB) Server properties.
Sizzling keys allows you to control iTunes with keyboard shortcuts from any application. Pause, adjust the volume or skip a track without leaving the current application. Far more efficient than using iTunes itself. As well, one is generally using a lot more keyboard shortcuts when on the go anyhow.
Incredible great software for PDF reading. The new version is almost perfect certainly in the field of full screen reading and presentation. Easier to use as a viewer than Adobe Reader. The ability to attach notes is an added bonus.
This application is excellent! It cuts the menubar space by half and is easily customizable. For example, you can easily change the color of the icon outline from black to blue. It is suggested to move the application from the desktop into the Applications folder before installing.
SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some ATA hard disk failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T.-status of your hard disk. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disks that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems.
Keep your MacBook about 15 °C cooler than when it isn't running. When the CPU is taxed, Apple's controls take over and the fan speed increases according to Apple guidelines, but when it is running normally, you can set the fan at a faster speed to keep your system cool. A great little program that is very unobtrusive, easy to turn on and off at will.
Springy archiving and compressing application let you do all your work with archives and compressed files using a graphical interface similar to Finder. Features include browsing files in archives in all three view types (as icons, as list, as columns), extracting all or particular files or folders from archives, modifying archives (add, delete, replace, rename files or folders in archives), full drag & drop support, working with encrypted and password protected files, support for HFS/HFS+ metadata and resource forks, compressing and decompressing files and many more. Dragan Milic, the developer, is pretty responsive. Just leave your issues and you will get addressed in a short time.
Exactly duplicate your hard drive. The clone is even bootable. The interface explains clearly what's going to happen so that you can be sure that you are doing what you want to do. Runs both on Intel and Power PC Macs! Taking into account its clear interface, excellent functionality, and informative documentation, I consider SuperDuper! to be a must-have utility for Mac OS X.
TextWrangler 2.0's text-handling operations are swift and precise. The 'Text' menu holds an array of time-saving commands. This version of TextWrangler is a boon to coders and system administrators. It gives you direct integration with the Unix scripting environments of Perl, Python, and shell scripts. This version has improved syntax coloring for a plethora of structured languages and file formats. The program also now sports a powerful AppleScript dictionary.
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.
A lightweight yet powerful BitTorrent client whose simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.
The Unarchiver is a replacement for BOMArchiveHelper.app, the small application that handles archives by default in OS X. However, unlike the default archive helper, this program has a very impressive list of supported formats that it can work with. These formats range from very common ones, to some of the most obscure.
UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar/titlebar look & feel to every single window on your system (metal or aqua, and already unified windows as well).
Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
WhatRoute is designed to find the names of all the routers an IP packet passes through on its way from your Macintosh to a destination host. It also measures the round-trip time from your Mac to the router, thus enabling you to determine slow links or hops in the Internet. WhatRoute can also find dead links, such as routers that don't respond.
The ONLY Mac messenger at the time of writing that can consistently do video chats with people who aren't using Macs. iChat and AIM seems to be very fickle with cams. Plus, since YIM and MSN now interact happily, it's easy to cam for anyone on your MSN or YIM lists.


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Graham Coxon Albums
- The Spinning Top (2009)
- Happiness In Magazines (2004)
- The Kiss Of Morning (2002)
- Crow Sit On Blood Tree (2001)
- The Golden D (2000)
- The Sky Is Too High (1998)
Graham Coxon Lyrics
Graham Coxon's Photo
Graham Coxon Biography
He's the guitarist of one of London's most delightful Brit-pop bands, and Graham Coxon is the quiet one. As the chief guitarist of Blur, his sheer and jointed guitar riffs made him a distinctive piece in leading the four-piece into alternative creative outlets, not to be overshadowed by the popular hysteria painted by the press. Noticeably, Blur went from cockney rebels to experimental intellects throughout their growing roster of material during the mid- to late '90s. Still Graham Coxon wanted to steer into another musical invention. Expectations and personal wishes led him to throw his energy into a solo career. It was a side project of sorts, a loophole for Coxon to streamline his own ideas his own way.br /br /Blur enjoyed mainstream success in America with "Song 2" from their 1997 self-titled release. Coxon's musical influences start to appear during this time, elements of American indie rock (Pavement, Pixies, Sonic Youth) shower through the band's work. It was shortly thereafter that Coxon founded his own label, Transcopic and released The Sky Is Too High in 1998 (the album was released on Caroline stateside). His straight-ahead lo-fi sound and post-punk yearnings were finally captured on a glowing debut, a favorite among the college charts, but still a stifling move for die-hard Blur fans. No one was sure what to make of Coxon's solo motivation. Unfortunately, a year later, it was brushed aside by the release of Blur's sixth album, 13. Coxon remained the quiet one, despite his deepest efforts to allow his most artistic side more apparent. But keeping up with the speed of things, Coxon put all-things Blur aside to release his second LP, The Golden D, in mid-2000. Two years later, Coxon shocked Blur fans around the world by annoucing his departure from the band. Recording for Think Tank had just gotten underway in Marrakesh, Morocco, however Coxon had already grown distant, personally and creatively, from the rest of the band. In turn, Coxon fell back on his solo career and focused on fatherhood. His fourth album, Kiss Of Morning, appeared in October. Two years following, Coxon hooked up with producer Stephen Street for his biggest solo achievement yet. Happiness in Magazines was released in May 2004. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide

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LOS ANGELES - As Jennifer Lawrence wanders into a Beverly Hills hotel suite, she's intercepted by an assistant who - as a preliminary test - asks her what she's wearing.
The 21-year-old politely recites her list: navy-blue jacket by Theory, powder-blue blouse by Tory Burch.
"And other than that, I have no idea," says Lawrence, smiling as she takes her seat for her first promotional interview of the day.
Not bad for a native of Louisville, Kentucky, who is doing her best to keep perspective while, all around her, fans of The Hunger Games are losing theirs.
Lawrence, who shot to fame with her best-actress nomination in 2011 for Winter's Bone, is about to enter The Hunger Games' star stratosphere.
Opening to a great deal of anticipation on March 23, the Gary Ross-directed film stars Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, the teen heroine of Suzanne Collins' incredibly popular young-adult sci-fi novel.
In that post-apocalyptic world, Lawrence's Katniss volunteers to replace her younger sister in a fight-to-the-death competition broadcast live on TV.
Josh Hutcherson co-stars as Peeta Mellark, a baker in love with Katniss, and selected to battle in the games against Katniss and other teens. Liam Hemsworth plays Katniss's friend, Gale Hawthorne, who fails to persuade her to run away with him before the death match.
The cast also includes Donald Sutherland (President Snow), Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket), Stanley Tucci (Caesar Flickerman), Wes Bentley (Seneca Crane), Lenny Kravitz (Cinna) and Woody Harrelson (Haymitch Abernathy).
All have praise for Lawrence, although Hemsworth and Hutcherson are especially impressed.
"She's just a very honest, present actor, and it's very easy to work opposite her," says Hemsworth. "You listen to her, and look at her, and she's always doing the right thing."
Hutcherson agrees: "It's weird how easy it sounds, to make people believe what you're thinking or what you're saying is real, but it's not easy. Jennifer is so effortless at it, she makes it easier for you to attempt to be near her level."
Certainly, Lawrence as Katniss is the driving force in The Hunger Games, and she will be again in the movies based on Collins' other books in the series, Catching Fire and Mockingjay.
The actress has come a long way since making her showbiz debut in a promo for MTV. Guest spots on Monk, Cold Case and Medium followed. So did film roles in The Poker House and The Burning Plain, which earned Lawrence a best-young-performer award at the 2008 Venice Film Festival.
Her role in 2010's Winter's Bone as the determined Ozarks teen led to acclaim and the Oscar nomination. Her part as Mystique in last year's X-Men: First Class elevated her status among teens.
But that will pale in comparison to the adoration she'll get for her Katniss character, which will define her career, whether she wants it to or not.
The easygoing actress discussed that likelihood, and other things Hunger Games, during a chat with Postmedia News.
Q: Are you satisfied the movie contains the novel's pointed social and political views?
A: Yes, I am. It was really important to us that we weren't doing a popcorn version of the story.
Q: Is it like an anti-blockbuster?
A: It really was shot like an independent movie. Gary (Ross) gave it lots of time to develop, and gave us moments to work on our characters, (which is) sometimes considered a waste of time in these kinds of films.
Q: Is your portrayal of Katniss different from the character in the novel?
A: That should be left to somebody else's opinion. My portrayal was my interpretation of my understanding of her.
Q: Are you like Katniss?
A: It's risky to pick roles like that. I never play characters who are like me, because I'm a boring person, and I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.
Q: Do you relate to her?
A: I like that she wants to save her family, and becomes this symbol for revolt, freedom and hope, and she goes for it.
Q: How do you want young female audiences to connect with Katniss?
A: I want them to understand she's loyal. She fights for what's right. And she's not quiet when something's wrong.
Q: You and Josh Hutcherson, who plays your love interest, Peeta, seemed to have real chemistry.
A: (Smiles) The problem is our off-screen chemistry is more like brother and sister; like an annoying brother and sister.
Q: Did you attempt most of your Hunger Games stunts?
A: I did as many stunts as I could. The studio wasn't too big on having its lead actress doing insane stunts at the beginning of a franchise. So I had a wonderful stunt girl to fall out of trees for me, and roll down mountains.
Q: But you had to get in shape, right?
A: I'm always doing something, because I like food and don't like dieting.
Q: What with your Winter's Bone Oscar nod, and now The Hunger Games, have the last few years been a blur?
A: In some ways, it feels like I started out yesterday.
Q: Are you taking all your success in stride?
A: I hope so. When you get a job promotion, you don't go, "That was too fast." Nobody wants to stay in the mail room. But I am grateful for it.
Q: You won the Katniss role over such high-profile actresses as Abigail Breslin and Emma Roberts. Is that an ego boost?
A: There's no sense feeling competitive. I am not a better actor than any of the girls who auditioned. It just happened for me.
Q: Are you prepared for The Hunger Games spotlight?
A: I think I'm as ready as I can be, which is not that ready. I'm kind of clueless about it all.
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Before J's first trip to the dentist, we did a quick unit on teeth. We talked about why to brush/floss, how to, especially bad foods, etc. Here's an activiity we did that turned out pretty fun and useful.
You'll Need: At least one teeth photo (laminated), toothbrush, water, various foods (the stickyer the better!)
We started a new tooth brushing song during this activity. I got tired of our normal brushing song (This is the way we brush our teeth… like the mulberry song) and decided we needed a change. J thinks our new brushing song is fun. I sing to the tune of "I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Outta My Hair"… and just change the words to… I'm gonna brush that cheese right off of my teeth, I'm gonna brush those blueberries right off those back teeth… filling in whatever he just ate and wherever I'm brushing in his mouth. He likes to remind me all the different foods I have to brush off. A year later and he still loves to sing this song!
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How are Australian and American football different? Down Under, the ball is larger, the field is round, and the players don't wear helmets. Any similarities? Well, on both continents, footballers have no problem showing their wang on live TV.
Tim Orchard, who plays in Tasmania's State League, has reportedly been suspended after whipping out his bits in front of a live TV audience. Orchard found himself in the background of a locker room interview with his teammate, when he figured, "Maybe the folks at home would like to see my wiener?" and the rest is history. Of course, unlike Minnesota's Visanthe Shiancoe—who simply suffered a towel malfunction before a post-game shower—Orchard was fully clothed. So he was willing to go that extra mile to make sure that the world got a glimpse of his junk. Hopefully, he will bring that determination to his upcoming "professional counseling."
The images are all censored so no word on whether Australian Rules players also eschew padding down there.
Aussie Rules Football Player Tim Orchard Flashes His Penis Live On Air [Sports Rubbish]
Footballer suspended for flashing on TV [ABC News]
Club to act on football flash [Tasmania News]


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The legacy of Margaret Thatcherby Sean Gabb
Because I'm busy on something else, this will be an abbreviated argument, and will be short on facts. But I feel obliged to give some explanation for my claim, made elsewhere, that Mrs. Margaret Thatcher did great harm to British industry and to the industrial working classes. The lefties claim she pulled the plug out of the British economy in the early 1980s, and deliberately put millions of workers on the scrapheap. The Thatcherites claim that all she did was to allow the liquidation of previous malinvestments, and that the industrial concerns that failed were unviable. Both are wrong, but I suspect the lefties – if for other reasons than they normally give – may be less wrong than the Thatcherites. Let us imagine an initial state of affairs in which interest rates are allowed to act as prices to equalise savings and investment, and let us imagine that the government runs only a small budget deficit. In this case, most savings are channeled into private investment. Let us now imagine that the government runs a larger deficit. It can finance this by selling bonds to the public. In this case, other things being equal, interest rates must rise, because there is now greater demand for loanable funds. But the government does not wish interest rates to rise, and so it finances its deficit by selling bonds to the banks. These, following their fractional reserve rules, increase the money supply by a multiple of the money received, and spend this on a larger number of new government bonds. The result is monetary inflation. Interest rates may rise less than would otherwise be the case, or will remain unchanged or will fall. Prices may increase. Certainly, there will be a distortion of economic activity. Whatever the case, the government decides after some time to stop the inflation. It must do this by stopping its sale of bonds to the banks. This means it must either cut or eliminate its deficit, or watch interest rates rise as it competes for a lower volume of loanable funds. If its deficit is very large, it may need to watch interest rates rise very high. I grant I have made assumptions about an initial state for the British economy that had not been true for a long time. But my abstract case is given only to clarify the choices faced by Mrs. Thatcher in 1979. What her government did was to choose the second of the above options. It choked off the inflation in advance of reducing its deficit. It continued to borrow on a large scale, not caring if high interest rates depressed private investment. These high interest rates also caused the pound to appreciate beyond any reasonable consideration of purchase power parities. Most Austrian analysis of currently manipulations is given to tracing the effects of artificially low interest rates. These cause larger investments than would otherwise take place. These investments are often unviable, and are exposed as such when the manipulations cease. But artificially high interest rates cause the failure of enterprises that would otherwise be viable. Instead of lengthening, they shorten the chain of production. There is no reason to weep over the fate of operations like British Leyland and the other nationalised industries. But many other industrial enterprises that would normally have been viable were destroyed by a combination of high interest rates and a high pound. Industrial output did eventually recover, and even exceeded its earlier peaks. However, these were unnecessarily capital-intensive enterprises. Many enterprises that employed unskilled and semi-skilled labour were priced out of existence. There is no doubt that ending the inflation of the 1970s would have led to a recession in the early 1980s. Somebody was going to suffer. But, if Mrs. Thatcher had balanced the budget by radical cuts in state spending, the pain could have been mostly felt by state employees. She could have shut down several parts of the government in full. She could also have brought in a Public Employment Payroll Tax to cap all salaries at – say – £10,000. She could have been still more radical, and cut state spending to the point where taxes could be cut. There would have been no reason for interest rates to rise as high as they did, or for the pound to rise as high as it did. Instead, she pushed nearly all the burden of adjustment onto the private sector, and the result was industrial mass-unemployment. Industry seems to have been the weakest part of the private sector, but not unviably so in the absence of monetary distortions. Mrs. Thatcher is praised for bringing inflation under control and for forcing the private sector of the economy to become more competitive. What she did, in fact, was the equivalent of strapping hundred pound weights to everyone. In this case, many people would fall down dead, and the survivors would be left with unnecessarily enlarged muscles. There was no necessary reason why textiles and light engineering should virtually disappear from the country. This was not the result of undistorted market forces. It was the result instead of a bias towards the state sector at the expense of those who were actually productive – oh, the state sector and those City institutions that did well out of handling government debt and from the general credit and currency manipulations. Her fault is compounded when we consider that political correctness was born and wholly sustained for many years within the state sector. Her legacy was the privileging of a class that, when mature, set about the transformation of the country into a soft totalitarian police state. I could say more. I could, for example, look at her transformation of the unions from autonomous working class institutions into a mass of sinecures for the Enemy Class. Outside of the state sector and the privileged corporate sector, I do not believe these were as mindless or as destructive as is claimed. They generally abused their privileges – privileges that she never removed, but only regulated – when management was useless. But I have said all that I feel is necessary for the moment. Dr. Sean Gabb is a writer, broadcaster, lecturer, and general publicist for the libertarian movement in England. He is the Director of the Libertarian Alliance. Dr. Gabb can be reached at email@example.com.
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This powerful treatment fluid contains an advanced peptide to help smooth fine lines and target the signs of aging around the delicate eye area.Learn More
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Highbush Cranberry produces attractive white flowers in late June and bears edible fruit that matures to a bright red colour in the late summer.
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Description Greenhouse-grown container seedlings, sorted to ensure good size and form.
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Zone: 2aHeight: 4 m (13 ft)Spread: 2.7 m (9 ft)Moisture: normalLight: partial shade, full sunFall colour: redBerries: edible red berriesFlowers: white clustersBark: gray and rough with a scaly textureGrowth rate: mediumLife span: mediumMaintenance: lowSuckering: nonePollution tolerance: highIn row spacing: 0.6 m (2.0 ft)Between row spacing: 5 m (16 ft)
Other names: american cranberrybush, american cranberrybush viburnum, high bush cranberry, kalyna
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Colorado Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Leland Swenson announced in a recent press release that USDA has selected 36 energy facilities in 14 states to accept biomass deliveries supported by Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP).
Of the 36 facilities, Eagle Valley Clean Energy, LLC was selected in Colorado. Biomass owners who supply this facility may qualify for BCAP delivery assistance starting July 28.
Of the total $25 million per year authorized for BCAP, up to 50 percent ($12.5 million) is available each year to assist biomass owners with the cost of delivery of agricultural or forest residues for energy generation. Some BCAP payments will target the removal of dead or diseased trees from National Forests and Bureau of Land Management public lands for renewable energy, which reduces the risk of forest fire.
"This program generates clean energy from biomass, reduces the threat of fires by removing dead or diseased trees from public forest lands, and invests in rural businesses and new energy markets," said Swenson.
Farmers, ranchers or foresters who harvest and deliver forest or agricultural residues to a BCAP-qualified energy facility may be eligible for financial assistance for deliveries. The USDA Farm Service Agency, which administers BCAP, will begin accepting applications from biomass owners from July 28 through Aug. 25. Deliveries of residues for approved contracts may be made through Sept. 26.
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Almond and Orange Florentines with Lavender sugar
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2 egg whites
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1. Preheat the oven the 150°C and line an oven tray with baking paper and brush it lightly with oil.
2. Put the egg whites, icing sugar, flaked almonds and orange zest in a bowl and combine gently.
3. With damp hands pick up portions of the mix (about a heaped tablespoon) and place them on the tray in little mounds. Make sure they are spaced well apart as they do spread during cooking.
4. Dip a fork in water and gently flatten each florentine very thinly…as thinly as you can muster without leaving gaps between the almonds. Aim for a finished diameter of 8cm.
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Make a timeline of the history of environmental science in America. Identify the contribution made by the Boy Scouts of America to environmental science. Include dates, names of people or organizations, and important events.
Define the following terms and describe the relationships among them: population, community, ecosystem, biosphere, symbiosis, niche, habitat, conservation, threatened species, endangered species, extinction, pollution prevention, brownfield, ozone, watershed, airshed, nonpoint source, hybrid vehicle, fuel cell.
Do ONE activity in EACH of the following categories (using the activities in this {the merit badge} pamphlet as the basis for planning and carrying out your projects):
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- Conduct an experiment to find out how living things respond to changes in their environments. Discuss your observations with your counselor.
- Conduct an experiment illustrating the greenhouse effect. Keep a journal of your data and observations. Discuss your conclusions with your counselor.
- Discuss what is an ecosystem. Tell how it is maintained in nature and how it survives.
- Air Pollution
- Perform an experiment to test for particulates that contribute to air pollution. Discuss your findings with your counselor.
- Record the trips taken, mileage, and fuel consumption of a family car for seven days, and calculate how many miles per gallon the car gets. Determine whether any trips could have been combined ("chained") rather than taken out and back. Using the idea of trip chaining, determine how many miles and gallons of gas could have been saved in those seven days.
- (2) Conduct a study to test the effects
of acid rain on plants. Discuss your findings with your counselor.
Explain what is acid rain. In your explanation, tell how it affects plants and the environment and the steps society can take to help reduce its effects.
- Water Pollution
- Conduct an experiment to show how living things react to thermal pollution. Discuss your observations with your counselor.
- Conduct an experiment to identify the methods that could be used to mediate (reduce) the effects of an oil spill on waterfowl. Discuss your results with your counselor.
- Describe the impact of a waterborne pollutant on an aquatic community. Write a 100-word report on how that pollutant affected aquatic life, what the effect was, and whether the effect is linked to biomagnification.
- Land Pollution
- Conduct an experiment to illustrate soil erosion by water. Take photographs or make a drawing of the soil before and after your experiment, and make a poster showing your results. Present your poster to your patrol or troop counselor.
- Perform an experiment to determine the effect of an oil spill on land. Share your journal and discuss Discuss your conclusions with your counselor.
- Photograph an area affected by erosion. Share your photographs with your counselor and discuss why the area has eroded and what might be done to help alleviate the erosion.
- Endangered Species
- Do research on one endangered species found in your state. Find out what its natural habitat is, why it is endangered, what is being done to preserve it, and how many individual organisms are left in the wild. Prepare a 100-word report about the organism, including a drawing. Present your report to your patrol or troop.
- Do research on one species that was endangered or threatened but which has now recovered. Find out how the organism recovered, and what its new status is. Write a 100-word report on the species and discuss it with your counselor.
- With your parent's and counselor's approval, work with a natural resource professional to identify two projects that have been approved to improve the habitat for a threatened or endangered species in your area. Visit the site of one of these projects and report on what you saw.
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- Look around your home and determine 10 ways your family can help reduce pollution. Practice at least two of these methods for seven days and discuss with your counselor what you have learned.
- Determine 10 ways to conserve resources or use resources more efficiently in your home, at school, or at camp. Practice at least two of these methods for seven days and discuss with your counselor what you have learned.
- (1) Perform an experiment on packaging materials to find out which ones are biodegradable. Discuss your conclusions with your counselor.
- Find out if your local community has a recycling program in effect. If it does, find out what items are recycled, and who pays for recycling. If your community does not have a recycling program, write questions for and conduct a survey on recycling. Include questions about attitudes toward recycling, what should be recycled, and your community's willingness to support a recycling program. Discuss your findings with your counselor.
- Ecology
- Build an ecosystem in a bottle. Include soil,
plants, fungi, and small animals found in your local environment. Maintain
the ecosystem for at least seven days after completing construction
of the ecosystem. Observe it daily, and keep a record of your observations.
Discuss your observations with your counselor.
(5) Choose an outdoor area to study. In your study area, do ONE of the following:
Choose two outdoor study areas that are very different from one another (e.g., hilltop vs. bottom of a hill; field vs. forest; swamp vs. dry land). For BOTH study areas, do ONE of the following:
- Mark off three study plots a plot of 4 square yards each in each study area, and count the number of species found there. Then estimate Estimate how much space is occupied by each plant species found in the plots and the type and number of nonplant species you find. Write a report that adequately discusses the biodiversity and population density of your study area these study areas. Discuss your report with your counselor.
- Make four visits to the study area Make at least three visits to each of the two study areas (for a total of six visits), staying for at least 20 minutes each time, to observe the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem. Space each visit far enough apart that there are readily apparent differences in the observations. Keep a journal of your observations, including a discussion of differences noted during the four visits. Write a report on your observations and discuss it that includes the differences you observe. Then, write a short report that adequately addresses your observations, including how the differences of the study areas might relate to the differences noted, and discuss this with your counselor.
- Using the construction project provided or a plan you create on your own, identify the items that would need to be included in an environmental impact statement for the project planned.
- Propose a hypothetical construction project in
your community and prepare a limited environmental impact statement
for the project. Study the area to see what the impact of the project
might be upon the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem.
Find out about three career opportunities in environmental science. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you.
- Develop a project that would help solve an environmental problem, reduce an environmental impact, or affect environmental awareness in your community. Include plans for a specific project that could be done by your patrol or troop.
- Discuss three possible careers in the field of environmental science. Identify the education that you would need to pursue ONE of these careers.
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Blake Shelton Stirs Up Controversy With Turtle-Killing Tweet
It seems as though Blake Shelton has ignited another Twitter war! The country music funny man is under fire once again – this time making an off-color joke about purposely killing a turtle.
Ever the jokester, the 'Over' singer took to his official account on Friday to ask his 1.7 million followers a not-so-serious question. "Does anyone know if the Eastern Box turtle is protected in Oklahoma? If so I didn't just swerve to the shoulder of the road to smash one…" Shelton tweeted.
As is the cast with many of his heavily facetious messages, the singer was soon met with both praise — in the form of 630 retweets — and backlash. NPR blogger Barbara J. King, for one, was not impressed by the underlying message Shelton was sending.
"That turtle's life meant something – was your tweet a bad jke? Why would you be so cruel to a living being?" King asked in response, acknowledging the lack of humor to some in Shelton's comment.
After a series of back-and-forth comments, the superstar came clean, admitting that he was actually in North Dakota on tour and that running over a turtle in his home state of Oklahoma was physically impossible. In true Shelton fashion, he replied with what many would call another ill-mannered comment.
"Do they even have turtles in North Dakota?!!! God almighty!!! What's wrong with people?! Get a life!! Get a job!! Get laid!! For once!!!" he said.
Though the singer made it clear that no turtles were harmed in the making of his tweet, he did issue somewhat of an apology for what was intended to be a joke. "Ok.. Now that "Turtle-Gate" is over I want to apologize for my ignorant joke.. I never ran over a turtle. It wasn't even possible," he said, owning up to his wrongdoing.
Shelton is currently on the road promoting his latest album, 'Red River Blue,' which features the singer's current Top 10 chart-climber, 'Over.' He is also gearing up for season three of 'The Voice', which starts this fall. He is not currently running over helpless animals in his spare time.


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In 2002, Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel in economic science. What made this unusual is that Kahneman is a psychologist. Specifically, he is one-half of a pair of psychologists who, beginning in the early 1970s, set out to dismantle an entity long dear to economic theorists: that arch-rational decision maker known as Homo economicus. The other half of the dismantling duo, Amos Tversky, died in 1996 at the age of 59. Had Tversky lived, he would certainly have shared the Nobel with Kahneman, his longtime collaborator and dear friend.
Human irrationality is Kahneman's great theme. There are essentially three phases to his career. In the first, he and Tversky did a series of ingenious experiments that revealed twenty or so "cognitive biases" — unconscious errors of reasoning that distort our judgment of the world. Typical of these is the "anchoring effect": our tendency to be influenced by irrelevant numbers that we happen to be exposed to. (In one experiment, for instance, experienced German judges were inclined to give a shoplifter a longer sentence if they had just rolled a pair of dice loaded to give a high number.) In the second phase, Kahneman and Tversky showed that people making decisions under uncertain conditions do not behave in the way that economic models have traditionally assumed; they do not "maximize utility." The two then developed an alternative account of decision making, one more faithful to human psychology, which they called "prospect theory." (It was for this achievement that Kahneman was awarded the Nobel.) In the third phase of his career, mainly after the death of Tversky, Kahneman has delved into "hedonic psychology": the science of happiness, its nature and its causes. His findings in this area have proved disquieting — and not just because one of the key experiments involved a deliberately prolonged colonoscopy.
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" spans all three of these phases. It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently entertaining and frequently touching, especially when Kahneman is recounting his collaboration with Tversky. ("The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.") So impressive is its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky's work "will be remembered hundreds of years from now," and that it is "a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves." They are, Brooks said, "like the Lewis and Clark of the mind."
Now, this worries me a bit. A leitmotif of this book is overconfidence. All of us, and especially experts, are prone to an exaggerated sense of how well we understand the world — so Kahneman reminds us. Surely, he himself is alert to the perils of overconfidence. Despite all the cognitive biases, fallacies and illusions that he and Tversky (along with other researchers) purport to have discovered in the last few decades, he fights shy of the bold claim that humans are fundamentally irrational.
Or does he? "Most of us are healthy most of the time, and most of our judgments and actions are appropriate most of the time," Kahneman writes in his introduction. Yet, just a few pages later, he observes that the work he did with Tversky "challenged" the idea, orthodox among social scientists in the 1970s, that "people are generally rational." The two psychologists discovered "systematic errors in the thinking of normal people": errors arising not from the corrupting effects of emotion, but built into our evolved cognitive machinery. Although Kahneman draws only modest policy implications (e.g., contracts should be stated in clearer language), others — perhaps overconfidently? — go much further. Brooks, for example, has argued that Kahneman and Tversky's work illustrates "the limits of social policy"; in particular, the folly of government action to fight joblessness and turn the economy around.
Such sweeping conclusions, even if they are not endorsed by the author, make me frown. And frowning — as one learns on Page 152 of this book — activates the skeptic within us: what Kahneman calls "System 2." Just putting on a frown, experiments show, works to reduce overconfidence; it causes us to be more analytical, more vigilant in our thinking; to question stories that we would otherwise unreflectively accept as true because they are facile and coherent. And that is why I frowningly gave this extraordinarily interesting book the most skeptical reading I could.
System 2, in Kahneman's scheme, is our slow, deliberate, analytical and consciously effortful mode of reasoning about the world. System 1, by contrast, is our fast, automatic, intuitive and largely unconscious mode. It is System 1 that detects hostility in a voice and effortlessly completes the phrase "bread and. . . . " It is System 2 that swings into action when we have to fill out a tax form or park a car in a narrow space. (As Kahneman and others have found, there is an easy way to tell how engaged a person's System 2 is during a task: just look into his or her eyes and note how dilated the pupils are.)
More generally, System 1 uses association and metaphor to produce a quick and dirty draft of reality, which System 2 draws on to arrive at explicit beliefs and reasoned choices. System 1 proposes, System 2 disposes. So System 2 would seem to be the boss, right? In principle, yes. But System 2, in addition to being more deliberate and rational, is also lazy. And it tires easily. (The vogue term for this is "ego depletion.") Too often, instead of slowing things down and analyzing them, System 2 is content to accept the easy but unreliable story about the world that System 1 feeds to it. "Although System 2 believes itself to be where the action is," Kahneman writes, "the automatic System 1 is the hero of this book." System 2 is especially quiescent, it seems, when your mood is a happy one.
At this point, the skeptical reader might wonder how seriously to take all this talk of System 1 and System 2. Are they actually a pair of little agents in our head, each with its distinctive personality? Not really, says Kahneman. Rather, they are "useful fictions" — useful because they help explain the quirks of the human mind.
To see how, consider what Kahneman calls the "best-known and most controversial" of the experiments he and Tversky did together: "the Linda problem." Participants in the experiment were told about an imaginary young woman named Linda, who is single, outspoken and very bright, and who, as a student, was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice. The participants were then asked which was more probable: (1) Linda is a bank teller. Or (2) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. The overwhelming response was that (2) was more probable; in other words, that given the background information furnished, "feminist bank teller" was more likely than "bank teller." This is, of course, a blatant violation of the laws of probability. (Every feminist bank teller is a bank teller; adding a detail can only lower the probability.) Yet even among students in Stanford's Graduate School of Business, who had extensive training in probability, 85 percent flunked the Linda problem. One student, informed that she had committed an elementary logical blunder, responded, "I thought you just asked for my opinion."
What has gone wrong here? An easy question (how coherent is the narrative?) is substituted for a more difficult one (how probable is it?). And this, according to Kahneman, is the source of many of the biases that infect our thinking. System 1 jumps to an intuitive conclusion based on a "heuristic" — an easy but imperfect way of answering hard questions — and System 2 lazily endorses this heuristic answer without bothering to scrutinize whether it is logical.
Kahneman describes dozens of such experimentally demonstrated breakdowns in rationality — "base-rate neglect," "availability cascade," "the illusion of validity" and so on. The cumulative effect is to make the reader despair for human reason.
Are we really so hopeless? Think again of the Linda problem. Even the great evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould was troubled by it. As an expert in probability he knew the right answer, yet he wrote that "a little homunculus in my head continues to jump up and down, shouting at me — 'But she can't just be a bank teller; read the description.' " It was Gould's System 1, Kahneman assures us, that kept shouting the wrong answer at him. But perhaps something more subtle is going on. Our everyday conversation takes place against a rich background of unstated expectations — what linguists call "implicatures." Such implicatures can seep into psychological experiments. Given the expectations that facilitate our conversation, it may have been quite reasonable for the participants in the experiment to take "Linda is a bank clerk" to imply that she was not in addition a feminist. If so, their answers weren't really fallacious.
This might seem a minor point. But it applies to several of the biases that Kahneman and Tversky, along with other investigators, purport to have discovered in formal experiments. In more natural settings — when we are detecting cheaters rather than solving logic puzzles; when we are reasoning about things rather than symbols; when we are assessing raw numbers rather than percentages — people are far less likely to make the same errors. So, at least, much subsequent research suggests. Maybe we are not so irrational after all.
Some cognitive biases, of course, are flagrantly exhibited even in the most natural of settings. Take what Kahneman calls the "planning fallacy": our tendency to overestimate benefits and underestimate costs, and hence foolishly to take on risky projects. In 2002, Americans remodeling their kitchens, for example, expected the job to cost $18,658 on average, but they ended up paying $38,769.
The planning fallacy is "only one of the manifestations of a pervasive optimistic bias," Kahneman writes, which "may well be the most significant of the cognitive biases." Now, in one sense, a bias toward optimism is obviously bad, since it generates false beliefs — like the belief that we are in control, and not the playthings of luck. But without this "illusion of control," would we even be able to get out of bed in the morning? Optimists are more psychologically resilient, have stronger immune systems, and live longer on average than their more reality-based counterparts. Moreover, as Kahneman notes, exaggerated optimism serves to protect both individuals and organizations from the paralyzing effects of another bias, "loss aversion": our tendency to fear losses more than we value gains. It was exaggerated optimism that John Maynard Keynes had in mind when he talked of the "animal spirits" that drive capitalism.
Even if we could rid ourselves of the biases and illusions identified in this book — and Kahneman, citing his own lack of progress in overcoming them, doubts that we can — it is by no means clear that this would make our lives go better. And that raises a fundamental question: What is the point of rationality? We are, after all, Darwinian survivors. Our everyday reasoning abilities have evolved to cope efficiently with a complex and dynamic environment. They are thus likely to be adaptive in this environment, even if they can be tripped up in the psychologist's somewhat artificial experiments. Where do the norms of rationality come from, if they are not an idealization of the way humans actually reason in their ordinary lives? As a species, we can no more be pervasively biased in our judgments than we can be pervasively ungrammatical in our use of language — or so critics of research like Kahneman and Tversky's contend.
Kahneman never grapples philosophically with the nature of rationality. He does, however, supply a fascinating account of what might be taken to be its goal: happiness. What does it mean to be happy? When Kahneman first took up this question, in the mid 1990s, most happiness research relied on asking people how satisfied they were with their life on the whole. But such retrospective assessments depend on memory, which is notoriously unreliable. What if, instead, a person's actual experience of pleasure or pain could be sampled from moment to moment, and then summed up over time? Kahneman calls this "experienced" well-being, as opposed to the "remembered" well-being that researchers had relied upon. And he found that these two measures of happiness diverge in surprising ways. What makes the "experiencing self" happy is not the same as what makes the "remembering self" happy. In particular, the remembering self does not care about duration — how long a pleasant or unpleasant experience lasts. Rather, it retrospectively rates an experience by the peak level of pain or pleasure in the course of the experience, and by the way the experience ends.
These two quirks of remembered happiness — "duration neglect" and the "peak-end rule" — were strikingly illustrated in one of Kahneman's more harrowing experiments. Two groups of patients were to undergo painful colonoscopies. The patients in Group A got the normal procedure. So did the patients in Group B, except — without their being told — a few extra minutes of mild discomfort were added after the end of the examination. Which group suffered more? Well, Group B endured all the pain that Group A did, and then some. But since the prolonging of Group B's colonoscopies meant that the procedure ended less painfully, the patients in this group retrospectively minded it less. (In an earlier research paper though not in this book, Kahneman suggested that the extra discomfort Group B was subjected to in the experiment might be ethically justified if it increased their willingness to come back for a follow-up!)
As with colonoscopies, so too with life. It is the remembering self that calls the shots, not the experiencing self. Kahneman cites research showing, for example, that a college student's decision whether or not to repeat a spring-break vacation is determined by the peak-end rule applied to the previous vacation, not by how fun (or miserable) it actually was moment by moment. The remembering self exercises a sort of "tyranny" over the voiceless experiencing self. "Odd as it may seem," Kahneman writes, "I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me."
Kahneman's conclusion, radical as it sounds, may not go far enough. There may be no experiencing self at all. Brain-scanning experiments by Rafael Malach and his colleagues at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, for instance, have shown that when subjects are absorbed in an experience, like watching the "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," the parts of the brain associated with self-consciousness are not merely quiet, they're actually shut down ("inhibited") by the rest of the brain. The self seems simply to disappear. Then who exactly is enjoying the film? And why should such egoless pleasures enter into the decision calculus of the remembering self?
Clearly, much remains to be done in hedonic psychology. But Kahneman's conceptual innovations have laid the foundation for many of the empirical findings he reports in this book: that while French mothers spend less time with their children than American mothers, they enjoy it more; that headaches are hedonically harder on the poor; that women who live alone seem to enjoy the same level of well-being as women who live with a mate; and that a household income of about $75,000 in high-cost areas of the country is sufficient to maximize happiness. Policy makers interested in lowering the misery index of society will find much to ponder here.
By the time I got to the end of "Thinking, Fast and Slow," my skeptical frown had long since given way to a grin of intellectual satisfaction. Appraising the book by the peak-end rule, I overconfidently urge everyone to buy and read it. But for those who are merely interested in Kahneman's takeaway on the Malcolm Gladwell question it is this: If you've had 10,000 hours of training in a predictable, rapid-feedback environment — chess, firefighting, anesthesiology — then blink. In all other cases, think.


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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Nationwide Series Enters The College Football Zone
It's that time of the year again. Time for our annual discussion about the impact of college football on NASCAR's number two series. The Nationwide Series was called an "unpolished jewel" by ESPN president George Bodenheimer back in 2006.
Since that time, ESPN has used the February through August coverage of the Nationwide Series to maintain the network's presence in the sport. Once college football begins, the series takes on an all too familiar position. On September weekends at ESPN, the Nationwide Series becomes the redheaded stepchild.
This week's race is from the Atlanta Motor Speedway. There is a live college football game scheduled at 3:30PM ET on ESPN2 Saturday. Three hours later, the Nationwide Series pre-race show begins on the same network. Rarely have we seen football games end in a three hour "window" over the past couple of seasons.
The actual race coverage begins at 7PM and is scheduled for three hours. At 10PM, Cincinnati and Fresno State will be ready for kick-off of ESPN's late college football game. Once again, the Nationwide Series is the meat in a college football sandwich.
At 2:30PM on Saturday, Mike Joy and the SPEED TV team will cover Nationwide Series qualifying. There is no TV coverage of practice. SPEED will handle the Nationwide Series programming and news coverage right up until the pre-race show. That's the only way to get it on the air.
Infield Studio host Allen Bestwick is all too familiar with having ESPN2 viewers join the pre-race show in progress. While some may argue that the race is the key, that's not really true this time of year. Nationwide Series sponsors need exposure and telling the stories and updating the news during the pre-race show is key to meeting that goal.
At the end of 2008, some homes that carried the ESPN Classic network switched that channel to ESPNU, the college sports network. On many systems, ESPN Classic is now part of a pay tier or simply unavailable. This network was the emergency valve for Nationwide races when college football was interfering with coverage. No longer.
As the familiar college football scenario begins to emerge, ESPN responds by trying to shift attention to the Sprint Cup Series. The resulting Chase overkill proved to be a mess last season. The Nationwide Series simply slipped away as an afterthought.
There are several more years to run on the current ESPN contract with NASCAR for Nationwide Series coverage. NASCAR content can't move to ESPN3.com due to online rights issues. ESPN has no plan to launch a third general sports channel and moving the final three months of Nationwide Series races to SPEED is not an option.
So, buckle up and get ready for three months of a bumpy ride on ESPN2. Saturdays dedicated wall-to-wall at ESPN for college football will come momentarily to a screeching halt while the Nationwide Series drivers run a race. Then, in the blink of an eye NASCAR is gone and ESPN returns to the network's bread and butter of college football.
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18 comments:
- OSBORNK said...
NASCAR is in a no-win situation when it has to compete with College Football. When the Nationwide series comes on TV, you can almost hear the remotes clicking as viewers switch to a football game. Professional athletes, whether they are football, basketball or drivers, don't have the enthusiasm and excitement of the college kids. The professionals are doing their job and the college kids are playing a game. The difference shows.
In my house, college football wins over racing but racing wins over professional football.
- September 1, 2010 at 9:18 AM
- Mariemont Kiwanis said...
I'm inclined to think sandwiching the race in between two football games would be a good thing .. but as you said, football never ends on time and we all know they'll be in a hurry to get to football as fast as they can.
I think the thing that pisses me off the most is that even if the first game goes over, ESPN will take its time getting into NASCAR, there is never a sense of urgency. To the contrary, if the race ends anywhere near time to go back to football, we'll be lucky to see many of the top-five finishes, let alone a race recap and it ESPN's "hurry-up" offense will be extremely evident.
I understand the law of supply and demand and ratings means more football versus NASCAR, I get that. But I refuse to understand the double standard. ESPN is always in a hurry to end its NASCAR coverage, unlike any other sport - how many times have we waited for Tennis, Soccer, or any other lesser-viewed sport to watch NASCAR programming? You have to think that with this being a holiday weekend and the Sprint Cup race being pretty long Sunday night, most people won't even tune in Saturday night for the race, choosing instead to spend the evening with friends or family enjoying the long weekend.
- September 1, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
The Nationwide series will bumped and bullied around football games again.
It's already difficult enough to attract sponsorship, sponsors will find more value sponsoring the commercials on ESPN than Nationwide teams. At least it gaurantees them excessive tv time on a set channel.
- September 1, 2010 at 10:01 AM
- Anonymous said...
As a huge NASCAR fan, I have to admit, I will be watching football on Saturday, the race will record on the DVR and I will watch it at a later date so I can fast forward thru the boring parts and commercials. I hate to admit this but it is true. I will follow twitter during the race to see what is happening but my eyes will be on football. I don't know how NASCAR can fix this problem...
- September 1, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- GinaV24 said...
Well, I don't watch college football at least not until they get to the bowl games and even then it depends on what teams are playing.
I'm not going to "chase" the Nationwide races from ESPN channel to ESPN channel though either. Plus this weekend its the last long weekend Saturday I've got until Thanksgiving, if the weather is good, I won't waste it sitting inside for sports on TV.
I do think that it is a shame that racing and the fans get such shabby treatment from ESPN because if it is raining, it will be the race that I would be tuning in to see.
- September 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
You can't really set your dvr to record because if football runs over then the race will be on an alternate channel or start late then if race is late, it will move to an alternate channel so it will be a catch as catch can to watch and no true time to record the exact time. I watch some college football and some pro but only catch some races so I guess the final is that it is really no big deal.
- September 1, 2010 at 2:51 PM
- Lisa Hogan said...
I watch some college football (Roll Tide) on whichever network carries the game.
I agree with Gina, I'm not going to chase the coverage. If the race is on ESPN or ESPN2, I will watch.
Since I am also a tennis fan, I can't get away from ESPN much these days! Boy, they are really pushing ESPN3 website. Tennis on ESPN also brings with it the ever lovely Chris Fowler and Hannah Storm :(
- September 1, 2010 at 3:31 PM
- glenc1 said...
I have noticed the same thing as David. They never hurry with football, I think I've seen them go back to the studio and show scores and what not and *then* go to racing. But when it's the race, it's 'do VL interview in 5 seconds and go.' I am one of those who lost ESPNCL in the shuffle, so if things end up there, I won't be watching. Oh well. I watch some college but not a ton. I would choose NASCAR over NCAAF most of the time since I don't root for a particular team.
- September 1, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- PammH said...
I also lost ESPNCL, so I can't watch if they switch things around. But since my guy isn't racing anymore this yr in Cup Lite & the Gibbs cars are still cleaning up there, I don't have much reason to watch anyway. Unless they make it easy for me, I can do something else with my time. Same w/NN. I refuse to chase it thru the time zones any longer. If it comes on at 5. I'll tape it. Otherwise, forget it. And I love Marty Ryan, AB & most of the players. But ENOUGH! Stop disrespecting my sport.
- September 1, 2010 at 7:13 PM
- Jonathan said...
Sweet I always love this time of year.... When on saturdays your all set drinks in hand for the race and your mood turns from Pumped to P'd off cause you dont know where to find the Nascar Nationwide Series! Once again I dont care how popular football is I still feel theres no reason we should have any college or pre season game aired over any points paying race! That would be like an Arca race being shown instead of the packers vs bears! Dosent make sense
- September 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
I do not think espn treats the nationwide series any differently than nascar management does. Sponsors? "Nationwide Series sponsors need exposure and telling the stories and updating the news during the pre-race show is key to meeting that goal." Sorry, but I have not seen this being met throughout the season(s). MC
- September 1, 2010 at 7:54 PM
- Vicky D said...
Yep, NW is treated like a red headed stepchild during college football season. But this happened last year and we chased the races and most of the time didn't see pre-race shows and maybe 5 or 10 second VL interviews and that's it. It would be better on another channel I think.
- September 1, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
I don't care if they play musical channels. I DVR the races. I watch what is recorded and if I miss parts of the race. I don't care. Nothing live anymore. I FF to the start and delete anything after the checkered flag. Usually get through a race in 45 minutes or less as I choose to FF through the single car camera shots.
Now I like the new F1 format. I still DVR the race, but I only FF the commercials during practice, qualifying and the race.
I never thought I would spend more time watching an F1 race than a three race nascar weekend. Nascar on TV today is what F1 was three of four years ago.
- September 1, 2010 at 8:37 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'll repeat what I said about a week ago---who at Nascar negotiated a contract that would allow being jerked around like this?
- September 2, 2010 at 9:33 AM
- Anonymous said...
Maybe its time NASCAR considered ending the Nationwide and Truck series by Labor Day....
- September 2, 2010 at 11:48 AM
- Anonymous said...
Why does ESPN, or any TV network owe anything to a car's sponsor? Last I checked, the sponsors pay the car owner, not the TV network doing the broadcast. This is not an infomercial. This is a sporting event.
- September 2, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- Palmetto said...
As JD noted at the end of his piece, college ball -is- ESPN's 'bread and butter'. While I don't like the situation, I can't blame them much for giving priority to programming they think will draw the most viewers, even if I would rather watch the 1994 swamp buggy quarter finals than a college game.
The problem is caused by NASCAR itself. Next time the N'wide TV contract comes up, the sanctioning body should consider other factors besides who can write the biggest check; you know, little things like, "Which network will actually broadcast these races?" Apparently the directors didn't care last time around, and probably still don't since ESPN has to pay either way.
- September 2, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
I knew this was gonna happen when I found out that this tv contract had 31 of 35 Nwide races a year on espn1/2 and 4 of 35 on abc ... Geez, why not show them on ABC Family or Disney Channel?? Oh, waitaminute ... Some of the affiliates can NASCAR Countdown in favor of Disney Channel reruns (that are 4yrs old) ...
Who was the idiot that set the schedule for on-track activities this weekend at AMS ... to where almost everything ('cept the Cup race) is on Saturday?? I've got the track schedule ... They could've EASILY had Nwide practice and Cup pratice & qualifying on Friday with Nwide qualifying & Cup practice / happy hour on Saturday ...
After such a great race on Sunday in Montreal, it's a travesty and quite ludicrous that ALL Nwide activity is jammed into Saturday AND both practices are NOT on tv ...
I presume espn has a profile on Robby Benton (RAB Racing) in the can for "Countdown" ... but it prolly won't be shown as the UConn @ UMich or UCLA @ KanSt games will run over ... And the Cincy @ Fresno St game that's on after the race is gonna be re-aired after "Baseball Tonight" (which follows the live airing of the Cincy game) ...
SPEED could air the Nwide practices as there's nothing on Sat morning that can't be dumped ... I know ... Same crew, very long day/night ...
And they continue to wonder WHY they have unsponsored teams as well as Start & Parkers ... *rolls eyes*
- September 3, 2010 at 6:11 AM


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Mine was Nam 1975 at the local shop. Eventually got a aes gold with baseball stars.
Was like having a wife with the girl friend on the side.
Mine was Nam 1975 at the local shop. Eventually got a aes gold with baseball stars.
Was like having a wife with the girl friend on the side.
When I was real young, I used to play Neo Geo games and not even realize it: Puzzle Bobble, Magical Drop II, 3 Count Bout, World Heroes, Art of Fighting, Cyber Lip, Thrash Rally... all these machines at pizza places and malls and stuff.
The very first Neo Game I ever remember playing and thought "this is special" was Samurai Shodown II.
After that, I did some research and found out all my favorite games happen to be Neo Geo titles... Then, when I started playing KOF 98, I knew I'd one day own a machine.
Thankfully, I later found out about how to build a CMVS and things got a lot easier
Sengoku at the Arcade. It was so impressed by it when it came out !
Metal Slug 2. Yeah, I was influenced by the later games at first.
The first MVS game I ever got was Metal Slug 3, what a classic. It's still one of my favorite Neo games. I then got into AES and I found an appreciation for the older Neo titles. 1990 sure was full of weird titles, it's like SNK and ADK were tossing random ideas around hoping something would stick. Eventually SNK found their game, with 1991's Fatal Fury. The Neo sure quickly became a fighting system after Fatal Fury. It just makes the 1990 lineup all the more unique and strange.
Art of Fighting
Dat scaling effect and facial bruising.
Then, SAM SHO 2.
And Finally,
Shit was The Big Red Crack Machine.
It got more quarters than the CAPCOM Fighters.
And I LOVED it.
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Puzzle Bobble and the first Metal Slug got me started.
While we are sharing stories though...
Back when Nintendo discontinued the Virtual Boy, I remember picking up a copy of Panic Bomber in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. I thought that it was a great game but would have been better in color and multiplayer. When I started looking into getting an arcade machine and found out that Panic Bomber had an MVS release, I knew I had to get this machine.
Fatal Fury, i never seen a game like it until then the graphics and design of the characters just blew me away.
It was at an arcade but actually running on the AES that the guy had in front of the counter, been hooked on
NeoGeo ever sense.
Samurai Shodown wowed me and Bust-A-Move got me hooked. One of the first games I remember reading about in a magazine and coveting was Kabuki Klash, because it never got any non-Neo console ports. I finally have the game on MVS. It's mediocre compared to many of the other fighters on the system, but the nostalgia makes me pop it in every now and then.
Wanted MVS carts:
Alpha Mission 2, Real Bout Fatal Fury, Sengoku 2
SamSho!!!! Then KOF 95'
Hit detection...It's all about hit detection.
For me it was Baseball Stars Professional. My little brother and I would beg our parents to rent the Neo from the local video rental store. Hi-Score Video it was called. We were blown away from the start up screen. REAL! DYNAMIC! BASEBALL STARS PROFESSIONAL! We couldn't beleve it. A video game that talked! It was miles beyond our NES (which I still play too!) We would have frends sleep over and have tournaments all night long. Magician Lord was awesome too.
My first SNK game was Soccer Brawl, I remember it impressed me because it was different than other games I played before. I spent a lot of money on this arcade!
By the way, the first game I saw in a magazine was Magician Lord (before playing Soccer Brawl), I started to save money in order to buy that amazing system.
www.culturaneogeo.com Your Spanish Neo Geo website!
League bowling was the first game I remember playing, but it wasn't until I discovered Fatal Fury (ironically at a bowling alley) that I was hooked. Every time I saw a cab I HAD to play at least one game on it. Good times.
As a fan of shmups I recall playing Aero Fighters in the arcade. At the time I didn't know Bust a Move was also a NG title. To this day those are still great genres. On the other hand I continue to not be much of a fan of fighting games. You have to memorize too much to make them playable.
Fatal Fury. But... via the Megadrive. You didn't have fucking pizza 'parlours' and fast food 'joints' containing delicious arcade cabs, down the corner of every street, here in the uk, in the 90s. We had to make do with Chicago Town bullshit, the occasional Dominos/Pizza Hut and Megadrive and SNES ports of Capcom & SNK arcade titles.
So, yeah... Fatal Fury on MD and Fatal Fury 2 on SNES put SNK & NeoGeo on the map for me, back in the day...
King of the monsters - and from a magazine review alone, not even seeing it run The size of the sprites just blew me away.
The local arcade had a 2 slot with Fatal Fury and King of the Monsters. My brother and I always played together and Fatal Fury was the only fighting game I've seen that let us gang up on the enemy.
World Heroes also has the distinction of being the first arcade game that I've managed to 1cc, right in front of a crowd.
World Heroes
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;"
On paper ( mags ) - Ghost Pilots. The visuals were astounding back then!
On the current system - Alpha Mission 2. It was the first I ever played.
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