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That constellation of information known as Big Data can be a sight to behold.
Adam Frank of NPR's 13.7 blog explains Big Data as "the ability to understand (and control) a seemingly chaotic world on levels never before imagined."
Big Data is like gathering digital dust, says New Yorker tech blogger Gary Marcus. "It's a very valuable tool," he says, "but it's rarely the whole solution by itself."
This new information era is brought to you by a few different factors, says Chris Barnatt, who teaches computing at Nottingham University in London and runs ExplainingComputers.com.
"We've got more powerful processors. The cost of memory gets less. The cost of storage gets less. And also, a lot more data is being created," he tells NPR's Jacki Lyden on weekends on All Things Considered. "Everything from social media sites, to buying things online with e-commerce, to simulations going on in companies' medical facilities. Everyone is creating more and more information."
Marcus says "Big Data" versus just "data" is really a matter of magnitude. But he says that's important because quantity can actually make a difference in the story the data tells.
Here's the catch: While Big Data can uncover correlations between data points, it doesn't reveal causation. Sometimes, that doesn't really matter, but other times, it might — in ways we're not always aware of.
For instance, the city of Boston developed a smartphone app called Street Bump to track potholes. "It passively collects GPS data and accelerometer data so it can report when you drive over potholes," Kate Crawford, a researcher for Microsoft Research and visiting professor at MIT, tells Lyden.
The thing is, not everyone bouncing around on bad roads has a smartphone — or the app, for that matter — to help gather the data.
"And indeed, this maps very closely around how rich a particular neighborhood is and what the ages of the people who live in that neighborhood [are]," Crawford says.
She says the ethics get tricky with that sort of skewed data. The city is trying to address the discrepancy by working with academics. But Boston isn't the only city taking on such projects. The Wall Street Journal reports on an initiative in New Jersey to manage traffic.
To summarize the tension around Big Data, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr quotes Albert Einstein: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
Lohr, who writes about Big Data and privacy, tells Lyden he's more concerned about what the data gets wrong than how much is revealed about us.
"The real danger for most of us is discrimination by statistical inference," he says.
Remember when you searched for "deep fryer" online for your cooking class? Well that action could now be associated with unhealthy behavior, and the nuance gets lost.
It's not just online tracking consumers should be wary of, Lohr says. Credit cards, for example, store a lot of information that you might not think of. His advice:
"Put the health club membership on the credit card, but your visits to the liquor store should be in cash because those things will follow you in ways you don't know now."
You're listening to WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.
Coming up in the next hour, we check in with The Atlantic's James Fallows and remember the prima ballerina from the plains of Oklahoma, Maria Tallchief. And also, the latest copyright concerns from writer and Authors Guild president Scott Turow.
But first, let's start today with a scene from "Batman," "The Dark Knight." In this scene, Batman stands in front of a row of blinking video monitors looking for the Joker.
LYDEN: Funny how a film about technology that seemed so impossible just a few years ago seems ever more present. But in a world of big data, what you can track seems infinite. That's our cover story today: big data, the aggregation of our digital data trail, who collects it, how they use it and where we're going with it.
Gary Marcus writes for the New Yorker's tech blog. He says culminating big data is like gathering digital dust.
GARY MARCUS: Big data - one way to think about it is it's a very valuable tool, but it's rarely the whole solution by itself.
LYDEN: Marcus tells us about Watson. That was the supercomputer IBM designed to compete on "Jeopardy!" on TV a couple of years ago. Alex Trebek even introduced Watson.
MARCUS: Part of the way it did so well is they had a massive database, namely Wikipedia, built into it. And they were able to trawl that and also other aspects of the Web in order to make good guesses.
LYDEN: Watson appeared to understand Trebek as he asked the questions. He competed against the two top "Jeopardy!" champions, and Watson won. But big data doesn't function like a human brain.
MARCUS: There are also other things like classic artificial intelligence techniques like temporal reasoning, trying to figure out, well, was this person alive before this other person? Big data might get confused if you just used it by itself. It might say, well, these two things are very correlated, but it doesn't say, well, which one happened before which other one?
LYDEN: We've always had access to digital information, of course, ever since it was invented. But to understand how much there is now and how fast things are changing, we turn to Chris Barnatt. He teaches computing at Nottingham University in England and runs a site called ExplainingComputers.com.
CHRIS BARNATT: We've got more powerful processors. The cost of memory gets less. The cost of storage gets less. And also, a lot more data is being created. Everything from social media sites, to people doing - buying things online with e-commerce, to simulations going on in companies' medical facilities. Everyone is creating more and more information.
LYDEN: And we're processing this data differently, using it almost narratively to make patterns and predictions.
BARNATT: Hospitals get lots and lots of information from their patients, and they don't just capture information on them in terms of who they are and their details. But they, for example, might put a camera inside someone during an operating - an operation and look at that data and probably just throw it away because they wouldn't see any value in that data after the operation.
In a big data world, you'd say, well, if you can capture all the information from all the cameras put into every patient in the world in a year, you could look at all that data with a piece of artificial intelligence and start to predict things about the actual health of the population.
LYDEN: And the faster this goes, the more clients want it. Svetlana Sicular is a director at Gartner, a data research firm. She helps their business clients figure out what they can do with all that wealth of information.
SVETLANA SICULAR: Data is becoming pervasive. It's getting new qualities. For example, we - maps are the data, or text or voice or video or geolocation of where you are - we can know everything about it.
LYDEN: Big data's not just what happens when marketing companies target their audience. You know, like those ads that pop up on a search engine. You search for one pair of shoes, you get shoe ads for weeks. It's also diagnostic. Like Chris Barnatt in England, Svetlana Sicular sees big data making advances in medicine.
SICULAR: Medical records are being digitized by analyzing massive amounts of text records over those doctor's notes, which were sitting somewhere in folders on the shelves. We can find out something which is really astonishing. We can find from doctor's notes that it's enough to look for some particular vein on the neck and you will be able to predict that there's the best indicator of a disease.
LYDEN: Then there are the dig data skeptics. Big data doesn't think. It evaluates, aggregates and predicts. But reasoning, you could say there's a breakdown between cause and effect.
Kate Crawford, a researcher for Microsoft and a visiting professor at MIT, gives an example from Boston. The city wanted data to fix its potholes, so it developed a smartphone app called Street Bump.
KATE CRAWFORD: It passively collects GPS data and accelerometer data so that it can report when you drive over potholes.
LYDEN: Cool, right? Instead of having to actively seek out the potholes, the city could use people's phones to figure out when the car suddenly thumped over a rough spot. Except for one thing: The app only captured data in more affluent neighborhoods.
CRAWFORD: And, indeed, this maps very closely around how rich a particular neighborhood is and what the ages of the people who live in that neighborhood.
LYDEN: Skewed data that collates only from better-off people might be missing a lot more than potholes. The ethics get tricky quickly. Boston's still working to fix both the app and the potholes. But Crawford warns that this kind of situation might happen more often as we look to big data for policy solutions.
Steve Lohr has been writing about big data and privacy at The New York Times where he's a reporter. Remember our "Dark Knight" example from Gotham? Or we could just as easily have turned to Orwell because technology is allowing us to track movements around the Web and the real world. Lohr isn't sure that all that Big Brother information needs to be tracked or should be. He quotes Einstein.
STEVE LOHR: Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. And that's the tension here.
LYDEN: Not everything that can be counted counts. But the risk, it seems to me, is that there is a massive invasion of privacy risk. And this is something you've written a lot about.
LOHR: Look, my concern, for instance, in tracking all your online behavior and aggregating it and making assumptions about you is not that these algorithms are so clever and they know everything. It's that they're so stupid. The real danger for most of us is discrimination by statistical inference.
LYDEN: Because it attributes a causality that might not be there.
LOHR: Exactly. And, you know, if you're a simple person, maybe the algorithms sort of work. But if you have a complex set of motivations, you know, you search for deep fat fryers, right? And it may be because you're in a cooking school and that was an assignment. Or you're going to buy this for a friend, right? It correlates to unhealthy behavior.
It's not just online. I think the place people really give up their privacy and don't realize it is putting everything on a credit card. That's the gold standard. It's got everything on you, and it's all being correlated and put together by these data brokers who track online behavior as well as, you know, your credit card transactions. And so, you know, what happens is your world will be shaped by what your transactions are.
And so, you know, put the health club membership on the credit card, but your visits to liquor stores should be in cash, because those things will follow you in ways you don't know now.
LYDEN: You write that The World Economic Forum issued a report last month that recommended ways in which privacy concerns could be addressed. And they drew from an example of a 1970 Fair Credit Reporting law. Tell us more about that.
LOHR: Yeah. This was the earlier round of privacy concerns related to computers. And this goes back to when the world started moving to mainframe computers. And so large corporations and government agencies had increasingly put personal information about your transactions. To some degree, they started putting IRS tax returns on computers. And that was a real wave of concern.
And the Fair Credit Reporting Act was a limitation on what you could collect and how you could use it. It could be used, you know, somewhat for hiring and for loan evaluation. But other than that, you couldn't, you know, you couldn't use it card punch. And the people who are in the privacy community these days kind of look back at that as a small beer by comparison to now.
LYDEN: To what's available now.
LOHR: But people were much more sensitive to it back then. You know, these days, you kind of give up a little bit more and a little bit more. And there's disadvantages to using all these things. Federal Trade Commission is, you know, is investigating and has taken some actions, particularly in children and privacy, but also looking at these sort of data brokers in between. So those are the ones that facilitate the black box.
And the real concern is that the, you know, again, the - how the data is used so that the things that you see in the world and the opportunities you're given will be determined by an algorithmic black box that you don't have any control over and may be wrong about you. And the way regulation is now looking at in the investigation of the Federal Trade Commission is doing is, you know, pushing for greater transparency. So - and this World Economic Forum report that talks about, there should be an audit trail to your data in a way that there isn't now.
LYDEN: So if I'm an individual and I am leaving a data dust trail that is just so extensive, it's difficult to know where you would begin to try to rein some of that in in a practical way. How do you protect yourself? Is there any - are there any kind of steps you'd take to limit what is known about your transactions?
LOHR: You know, I'm a participant. I don't really have a good answer, Jacki. Be careful of your online behavior. I mean, it has consequences. It's the opposite of that old New Yorker cartoon where, you know, on the Internet, nobody knows your dog.
LYDEN: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
LOHR: They know you. They know you.
LYDEN: Steve Lohr. He writes about technology for The New York Times.
If we're all just ashes to ashes and dust to dust, big data can keep track at a molecular level. Whether that's a comfort to you or a concern, knowledge is generally power. The question is, for whom? Last spring, the U.S. government invested over $200 million in big data. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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JAMIE OLIVER'S culinary rescue for time-poor cooks is poised to be the number one book this Christmas.
The Briqtish chef's latest recipe collection, Jamie's 15-Minute Meals, is outselling its closest rival, Diary of Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel, two to one and has crowded out E L James's Fifty Shades of Grey, the tale of a billionaire's predilection for bondage.
The QBD chain, with stores in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, expects to have sold out its 22,000 copies of Oliver's Jamie's 15-Minute Meals by Christmas Eve, more than twice the number it sold last year of Oliver's 30-minute meals.
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On the children's front, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel is ''walking out the door'' said Paul Macdonald, of The Children's Bookstore in Beecroft, as the Jeff Kinney series continues to find new readers and hang on to the old. Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series is popular as is Andy Griffiths' The 26-Storey Treehouse.
''Many parents and grandparents say they would rather give a child a book than an electronic game,'' Mr Macdonald said.
There is a lot of love for the late Australian author Bryce Courtenay. His Jack of Diamonds is leading Dymocks' fiction category, pipping Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter, and J.K. Rowling's first adult novel, The Casual Vacancy.
In the month since the release of Jack of Diamonds , Dymocks has sold three times as many copies of the book as it sold Courtenay's previous novel, Fortune Cookie.
Fifty Shades has slipped to number 16 according to Bookscan, in the week ending December 1, suggesting the tale of Christian and Anastasia is not perceived as an ideal Christmas gift.
The previous week it was number 13 and the week before it was number nine.
''Its sales are definitely declining,'' said Ms Higgins. But, she said, its influence remained. ''What we're finding now is that romance has been repackaged to become more modern and cool, and it's reaching a far wider audience.''
The Essential Leunig: Cartoons From A Winding Path, Ian Rankin's Standing in Another Man's Grave, Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver and Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winner, are all jostling for buyer favour among Australia's largest independent bookstores.
Film ties have given old releases such as The Hobbit, Life of Pi and the 1999 coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower new life.
Hugh Howey's science fiction omnibus Wool, to which director and producer Ridley Scott has bought the film rights, is appealing to readers who devoured The Hunger Games series.


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The Milford Diner is a 60-year-old institution in the city, but its future remains uncertain following the murder of owner Michael Gklotsos in September.
The Milford Diner is a 60-year-old institution in the city, but its future remains uncertain following the murder of owner Michael Gklotsos in September.
Gklotos' daughter, Irene, confirmed last week that her family is attempting to sell the diner on North Walnut Street, which has been closed since Oct. 7.
She said her family has not hired a real estate broker to help them unload the business that her father purchased in mid-2011.
"We're doing it ourselves," she said, adding that the family has no plans to sell their other restaurant, the Hollywood Diner in Dover.
Irene Gklotos declined to comment further, except to say that the decision to close the businesses was a direct result of her father's death.
Micheal Gklotsos, 59, was strangled inside his Dover home Sept. 17 in what police have described as a home invasion robbery.
Two Pennsylvania residents –a 20-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman – were arrested on first-degree murder, robbery and other charges Sept. 19. A 16-year-old girl from Pennsylvania also is charged with robbery and other crimes in connection with the incident.
Minh Tran, whose family owns the land on which the diner sits, as well as the Shanghai Restaurant next door, said Wednesday that the Gklotsos' have been in negotiations with a potential buyer, although no sale agreement has been reached.
Tran said his family is not seeking to sell the property, as some reports have indicated. But he did say they would be willing to renegotiate the lease agreement that Gklotsos signed when he purchased the business.
"We want to help the family sell the diner," he said.
Slaughter Beach resident Frank Draper said that lease agreement is what led he and his former business partners in Milford Diner Inc., to sell the restaurant to Gklotsos.
"We were in the process of negotiating a new lease with the Trans when Gklotsos came along and made an offer to purchase the diner, while also making an offer to pay them a ridiculous rent increase, like twice what we were paying," he said. "Before that, we didn't really have any interest in selling, but he made a good offer, even though the sale ended up not being a very pleasant experience."
Draper, who purchased the diner with three other partners in the late 1970s, said he was saddened to see his former business fall on hard times.
"We purchased it when the original owner filed for bankruptcy and we built it up into a Milford landmark," he said. "When we gave it up, we had a lot of locals who were eating three meals a day there. It was hard to see it lose all that trade."
Given the cost of the lease and the decline in business, Draper said he was surprised the Milford Diner was able to remain open as long as it did.
"It lost all of its quality and everything we worked so hard to build," he said. "When people in Milford go out to eat, they're interested in the quality of the food, not flashing lights and Teddy bear machines. By the end, I don't think they were doing enough business to operate a phone booth."
Draper said he's heard several rumors about the diner being sold, but dispelled reports that he's among the potential buyers.
"I've heard at least two or three names of people who supposedly have bought it," he said. "Everyone keeps telling me that I should look into buying it again, but at this point, I'm too old for that foolishness."


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Attention all moms. Below, you will find information and appropriate graphics on why you should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever take a shower while the kids are awake. Ever. If you choose to disregard this message and hop in the shower while the kids are up and running around, you could be faced with the following scenario. This is no laughing matter. This could happen to you.
"Hey kids, thanks for being so good while I was in the sho....what the???? Is that GLUE? Why, why, WHY???"
"And on the floor too?"
"And down the hallway.... Oh, for the love of... The bathroom too???" Before I could snap pictures of the bathroom, however, I had to respond to the call, "Mooooom! Brooklyn's putting her hands in the glue!"
Oh yeah, that's nice. That's just yeah, real nice. Wonderful. I'm pretty sure clean hair and shaved legs are not worth this.
Oh, but the fun doesn't end there. Oh no. While I cleaned up the gluextravaganza, Clay swiped some Valentine's Day candy and headed to the bathroom where he proceeded to pour out the blue-green crystals everywhere. But knowing I'd probably lose it if I saw another mess, he took it upon himself to
Ugh, that tile is filthy. I think I need a new bathroom floor. You never realize just how disgusting something looks until you see a picture of it.
And this, my friends, is reason 104 why you should never, ever take a shower while the kids are awake. Heed my advice.


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Your day will begin with a sumptuous breakfast after which you can head to practice the game for some time, with experienced instructors who will guide you along every step explaining the various nuances of the game. The natural lakes and the rocky outcropping, the tees built into granite shelves, ball flights across rocky slabs and exquisite bent grass greens weaving through rusty boulders make the site unique, you can explore the site and take a few more swings before heading for lunch.
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- The 2013 SL65 is based on the newly redesigned SL-Class
- The convertible offers 621 horsepower and a staggering 738 lb-ft of torque
- Mercedes says the SL65 will go on sale in November
Among the many stars of Mercedes' display at this year's New York Auto Show was a powerful new version of the automaker's flagship SL-Class roadster. According to Mercedes, the 2013 SL65 AMG goes on sale in November and features the same monstrous twin-turbo V12 as today's model.
On the outside, the 2013 SL65 AMG offers many of the same stylistic enhancements as its predecessor. Based on the recently redesigned sixth-generation SL-Class, the new SL65 features a larger front air intake, a host of chrome accents peppered throughout the exterior and the model's unique front bumper side fins, which were a characteristic design feature of the original SL65.
Inside, the SL65 also boasts several changes over the more common SL550 and SL63 AMG models. Among the enhancements are highly-bolstered sport seats with unique "V12 diamond stitching," two-tone upholstery on the seats and door panels, a designer headliner and several exclusive colors for interior surfaces and trim.
Of course, the SL65 AMG also justifies its monstrous price - expected to be around $200,000 - with an equally monstrous engine. Under the convertible's long hood is an enormous twin-turbocharged V12 that produces 621 horsepower and an almost unbelievable 738 lb-ft of torque. According to Mercedes, the engine puts power to the ground through the automaker's quick-shifting seven-speed AMG Speedshift transmission, which helps the convertible reach 60 miles per hour from a standing stop in just 3.9 seconds on its way to a top speed of 186 miles per hour.
"The combination of exclusive V12 dynamics and cultivated roadster pleasure was already unique in the previous model," says Ola Källenius, chief executive of Mercedes-AMG. "We are certain that with the new SL65 AMG, we have developed a stunning high-performance automobile beyond compare for a small but loyal fan base."
Mercedes originally introduced the V12-powered SL65 AMG for the 2005 model year. Updated along with the rest of the SL-Class range for 2009, the SL65 was briefly cancelled last year to make way for the all-new SL-Class. Given tightening fuel economy and emissions regulations, many industry observers wondered if the automaker would choose to return the powerful convertible to its lineup when the SL-Class was redesigned for 2012.
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We had a nice Easter yesterday. Actually, let me back up a minute. I volunteered to bring a cheesecake and a coconut cake to my parents' house yesterday for Easter, so I spent a lot of time baking on Saturday. My mil came over Saturday morning to drop off some cinnamon rolls. It's a tradition. She brings us rolls every Easter and Christmas. Anyway, I rolled my lazy butt out of bed at 11:00 (thank you for letting me sleep in, Joe!), walked out of my room and saw my mil. Now, in all fairness, I'd been up until after 3:00 am, so the whole 'sleeping until 11:00' really wasn't all that bad.
Hello there, dear mil. Good morning. Yes, I know it's 11:00. What can I say, your son married a total derelict.
Anyway, my kids couldn't eat the rolls that she brought because they had Splenda and colored sprinkles on them. Clay was so upset that he couldn't have any and it broke my heart, so stupidhead that I am, I told him I'd make some cinnamon rolls that he could eat. So, I'm just getting up at 11:00, I have to run to the store and get about a thousand eggs, come home, boil them, and make assorted baked goods. Good plan, Dawn.
After running errands and getting all the groceries I needed (well, all the groceries I needed minus all the ones I forgot and had to send Joe for...) I came home and boiled the eggs. I only boiled 48 this year; enough for each kid to dye 8. (impressive math skills, no?) I mixed up the cheesecake and popped it in the oven. Now, if you've never made a cheesecake, it's important to let it cool gradually to help prevent big cracks in the surface of the cake. When the cheesecake was almost done baking, I asked Austin to turn the oven off for me. I generally let the cake sit in the oven that's beginning to cool down for about 10 minutes. Then I open the oven a crack and let it sit there for another 10 minutes before removing it so there isn't a drastic change in temperature. Anyway, I asked Austin to turn the oven off for me and he obliged. A few minutes later, I got up to crack the door open and realized that Austin hadn't turned the oven off, but instead had turned the dial the wrong way, so I quickly turned the dial to "off". About 10 minutes later, Joe walked by the oven, peeked in, and told me that my cake was burnt.
"Whaaat?" It can't be burnt! I turned the oven off 10 minutes ago!"
I jumped up to look and sure enough, it was getting burnt. Austin had turned the oven off just fine and apparently, culinary artist and brilliant scholar that I am, I had turned it on to broil. So much for that. I quickly washed the pan and mixed up a second cheesecake. As that was baking, I made some cinnamon roll dough and set it aside to rise. A couple hours later, I was mixing up my coconut cake. Now, I've never made a coconut cake before. In fact, I'd just pulled the recipe off my computer and had never made a cake quite like this before. Naturally, I felt the need to try it out, not for just my family, but for everyone on Easter Sunday. What better time to experiment with a new recipe?
This recipe was so complicated, it was ridiculous. I mean, I had to grate fresh coconuts for this recipe! Actually, I gave Savannah the job of grating the coconut. Unfortunately, she also grated 4 fingers and 2 nails into the mix. It doesn't matter though because no one ended up eating that cake. It turned out flat, dense, dry, and well, about as appetizing as a rock. It tasted like air and had the consistency of 4 month old corn bread. I tossed the cakes and decided I'd have to make new ones after church on Sunday because I still had cinnamon rolls to make, eggs to dye with the kids, eggs to hide and I wanted to get to bed at least 15 minutes before the kids got up to see if the Easter bunny had come.
At least my caramel pecan cinnamon rolls turned out good...
This is about the time that Brooklyn threw up all over herself and the couch. Yeah, I know you only wish you lived such an exciting life. Try not to be too jealous. I cleaned up that mess. Just kidding. I just threw that in there to make sure you were paying attention. Joe, my hero, cleaned up the mess, of course. Actually, for the first time ever, Joe helped the Easter bunny hide eggs too. I think he had more fun doing it than I ever have.
Easter morning, the kids found their eggs and to answer your questions, no, I most definitely don't hide real eggs. I hide 15 plastic eggs for each kid: blue ones for Austin, purple for Savannah, green for Jax, etc. They each have their own color to look for so everyone gets to find the same number of eggs with the same goodies inside. Joe stayed home with Brooklyn, who was running a little fever, and I took the other kids to church. If anyone tells you that I forgot about Clay until I got out to the parking lot and had to go back for him, they're lying.
After church, I made a new coconut cake, using a different recipe and then we all (including a fever-free Brooklyn) went out to my parents' house for dinner where I ate entirely too much. Although, other than yesterday, I've been doing really well sticking to weight watchers and doing an exercise tape every night. In fact, thanks to this exercise tape, I have pain in muscles I never knew I had. My eyelashes hurt these days. Ugh. Whose idea was this 3 week challenge anyway?!


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Everytime I hear "Ben Nye" I am so tempted to sing "Bill Nye the Science Guy" does anyone remember that show from PBS? LOL. I love how it's also spelled the Canadian/French way, Colour, Grande...makes me miss writing "favourite" or "centre" when I lived in Canada haha.
I remember Ben Nye being known for theater makeup (for the sake of this entry, let's say "theatre"); as well as for face painting at carnivals. The entire Ben Nye line has grown quite a bit and I am glad they are offering so much more products that now cater to us regular gals, giving us the most vibrant colors imaginable at a much better price than let's say MAC.
I had one of their color wheels back in the day and I lost it when I moved, after seeing Lurve's take on it as well as Pursebuzz's, it made me want this even more.
Product: 5 out of 5
Packaging: 2 out of 5
Quality: 4 out of 5
Overall: 4 out of 5
Price: $45-60, Bubbasikes.com, available at theater/cinema makeup places, includes all 12 colors and a brush.
Colors include: (First Row) Ice, Aztec Gold, Silver, Azalea, Cosmic Blue, Sun Yellow
(Second Row) Iced Gold, Tangerine, Chartreuse, Jade, Amethyst, and Cosmic Violet
It's a 12 color palette which is a great dupe for the C-Shock collection (in case you missed out on that), and it's available at MANY Stage/Cinema/Theatre stores, as well as online such as Bubbasikes.com, a clown store oddly enough since it's that pigmented (and it's where I ended up buying mine because shipping was cheaper all in all than the other sites I looked at). Just Google, "Ben Nye Lumiere Grande Colour Palette" and you will have tons of listings to look at so you should have no problem finding it. It also comes with a brush.
The price is anywhere from $45-50.
Expensive? Not really. If you think about it, one MAC eyeshadow costs $14, and even if you get the PRO Pan eyeshadow refills, it's $10.50, and if you had a PRO discount on that, it would be around $6 and some change. BUT, $6 times 12 eyeshadows is already $72, and that's NOT including tax. And I even used the cheapest price you can get MAC eyeshadow refills for!
$14 times 12 eyeshadows at MAC is a whopping $168! So really, this 12 color palette is a frikkin' GOOD DEAL! Also, it's SO MUCH MORE vibrant than MAC in my opinion. And trust me, I've been using MAC for about 2 years, and I don't think it's all that it's been cracked up to be, they have good stuff, but the fun in makeup is exploring other things right??? I would classify the Ben Nye on the same level as Makeup Forever but A LOT cheaper. Makeup Forever has such vibrant colors as well, and they too cater to the industry of photographers, models, and makeup artists, which is why it's easy to see why the colors are just so rich; because you need bright, pigmented makeup for it to show on camera or in Ben Nye's case, on stage.
When I used to model, makeup artists would layer on the makeup and really take the "Smokey Eye" to a whole new level! LOL, but I remember when I worked with Katie, she explained that it's because the camera doesn't pick up any colors when you wear normal, everyday makeup, moreso if flash is involved, there is NO COLOR. So instead of packing on the makeup, the answer was to create a makeup line that takes little effort and little product and just ensuring it's loaded with pigmentation! And Ben Nye definitely did that.
PROS: Very vibrant and pigmented, I love the colors and the variety of colors they have available. A lot cheaper than most brands.
CONS: I hated the packaging! I received mine when I was in San Fran so I was excited to get it and when I opened it, "Aztec Gold" was cracked and a portion of it was shattered, even with alcohol to mend it, it just wasn't the same. :( But nonetheless it still "works". I hate the cheap plastic lids on each eyeshadow, they are hard to take off each one without having them overlap each other and you have to remove it really slowly to avoid damaging the eyeshadow, it's a pain in the ass to do each time, especially when you are working with more than one color in the palette. If anything, I recommend getting the single eyeshadow because of it's own plastic casing although the palette is cheaper....
Overall? I LOVE IT. It's a great brand for anyone who wants more pigmentation for it to show up like those with darker skintones, as well as those who just want more vibrant colors. Ben Nye has other great products as well so check them out!
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Remember as a kid when you made your first batch of chocolate chip cookies from scratch? How hard you worked and how amazing they tasted? Then remember when you found out you could make them into bar form? How cool and fancy that sounded to make them into bar form? Oh I sure do. Then I finally figured out the bar form is a lot easier; just throw it in a pan, no scooping or forming. Then came the add in's, the chopped up candy bars, nuts, etc...and you still thought how cool is that? Thinking I'm going to add in something that nobody else has ever added in before? Then you found out everyone was actually adding in peanut butter cups all the time, and you were so bummed.
Lately I've been craving coconut; I do almost every winter.
And for those of you who (like me) love real coconut to nosh on. Try these little gems. Inside are real pieces of coconut, not processed. Dipped in dark chocolate. Really good. I found them at my local natural health food store. I think Whole Foods carries them too.
toasted coconut-cream cheese bars
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2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
¼ cup (or more if desired) shredded coconut (not toasted)
½ ts sea salt
1 large egg
1 ts pure vanilla extract
cream cheese filling
8 ounces cream cheese, room temp
1 large egg yolk
½ cup toasted coconut
Pinch of salt
Cook notes: This bakes up very fast, so please check it at the 30 minute mark. These are very crispy bars. I've said that you need half the dough for the bottom and the other half for the top (crumb topping) but you may need a little more dough for the bottom than just half. It might be a nice addition to add some toasted pecans or walnuts to the cream cheese mixture.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease up a 8 or 9-inch square baking pan with butter. If you feel safer using parchment paper, then go ahead and butter up your pan then line with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl mix the cream cheese, egg yolk, toasted coconut and salt until well combined; set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, and salt.
With a pastry cutter, fork or your hands, cut up butter and mix in with the flour mixture until you have large coarse-like crumbs. No need to over work.
In a small bowl, beat the egg and vanilla extract. Add this into the flour mixture and mix until it all just comes together.
Divide dough in half. Take one half and place in pan. Wet your fingers to smooth out the dough and make sure to get all the corners.
Take the cream cheese mixture and place over the dough. Keep the cream cheese mixture at least ½ inch away from the edges; this way nothing will seep out as it bakes.
Take the other half of the dough and crumble on the top, do not pat down. Just crumble as you would a crumb cake. Take the untoasted coconut and sprinkle over top (optional but wonderful).
Bake until topping is deep golden brown; which should be about 30 - 45 minutes.
Let cool completely in pan. Run a sharp knife around edges to help loosen it up. Then using a spatula to help you lift it out, place on cutting board and finish slicing.
Should make about 10-12 small bars.


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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Are NASCAR Fans Going To Watch The Indy 500?
It has been a while since the Indy 500 was anything more than an exercise in survival for the sanctioning body. Try as he might, Tony George could not use the Indy race to springboard his all-oval series to the next level. Sometimes, the IRL even struggled to fill the field of 33.
Let's talk some TV here. Americans know Danica Patrick from her interviews and extensive media exposure. They know Helio Castroneves because of his Dancing With The Stars efforts. What they do not know is the rest of the Indy 500 field. Names like Rahal and Wheldon and Dixon might be of interest to race fans but entertainment TV viewers could care less. Bring on the summer dancing shows.
This year, however, there is one very big group in North America that is going to have an above average interest in the Indy 500. That group is NASCAR fans. Despite the fact that the open-wheel drivers who came over to NASCAR have been a tad less than impressive, it raised an issue. What did they do to get here?
Now, in May of 2008 there has been a series of events taking place that has landed a golden opportunity in the laps of the ESPN executives who are producing the Indy 500 for ABC Sports. First of all, the two open-wheel series are unified which will introduce a full field of actual racers.
Secondly, as noted above, Danica Patrick appeared in Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Then, she appeared on NASCAR Now on ESPN2 as a guest. The question on everyone's lips was the same. When will Danica come to NASCAR? The topper was Patrick finally winning a race in the IRL Series. So, where Patrick is concerned, NASCAR fans want to see what all the fuss is about. Some are going to simply want to see the SI bikini girl driving a race car.
The biggest ingredient in NASCAR TV viewers possibly tuning-into the Indy 500 is easy to guess. It is those three little letters that have turned the NASCAR world upside-down in the Sprint Cup Series this season. For almost four months, NASCAR fans have been watching the COT race.
Instead of manufacturers, instead of brands, instead of putting something on purpose-built NASCAR machines to make them different and special, NASCAR and the IRL are now both racing cars no American will ever drive.
Suddenly, the gap between watching "your passenger car" race around the NASCAR track and racing those "open-wheel things" at Indy has narrowed. No one in NASCAR is now even pretending to be racing your car on Sunday.
The task of keeping the casual IRL viewer glued to the telecast is going to go to Marty Reid. A veteran with a long TV history of off-road, drag racing and even stock cars Reid should be primed for this unique challenge. He has a window of opportunity to get non-IRL fans interested and try to keep them until the end of the race.
As the ABC telecast takes to the air at Noon Eastern Time on Sunday, Reid will have a very interesting pair alongside in the announce booth. Scott Goodyear and Eddie Cheever, the "oil and water" TV announcers of the IRL, will be calling the action. The on-air dynamic of these two is fascinating, as Cheever tends to totally disregard almost everything Goodyear says.
As the IRL TV veteran on the telecast, Goodyear often seems stunned by Cheever's wholesale dismissal of points that Goodyear has just made on-the-air. The time on ESPN and ABC so far in the month of May points to the fact that it may be the announcers who provide more action that the current drivers in the series.
The pit road at the Indy 500 is an intense place to be. TV veterans Jack Arute, Vince Welch and Jamie Little will reprise their roles for the ABC telecast. IRL fans have been writing in to The Daly Planet and asking about the newest pit reporter Brienne Pedigo. Rather than deal with that issue here, perhaps this link to her website will lend readers a clue about why she is working on the IRL races.
No Indy 500 telecast would be complete without Brent Musburger and his podium. Once again, Musburger will be the "show host" for the entire event. His absolute unfamiliarity with NASCAR made him a laughing stock back in 2007 when he hosted the ABC events. Musburger is a great TV veteran with an amazing history. To simply put him behind a podium or in an infield setting and expect him to talk NASCAR was unfair. TV viewers will see if this exact same IRL setting proves to be as off-balance for Musburger and as frustrating for the fans.
While veteran racing fans may remember the glory days of the Indy 500 and the exciting telecasts on ABC, the vast majority of the "target demographic" of the IRL simply does not. It will be up to Reid and company to convince curious NASCAR fans and casual viewers that the resurgence of the IRL is in full swing.
As with every race on TV, the actual action on the track is going to play a major role in the retention of viewers on a sunny Memorial Day weekend. Spinning a realistic storyline throughout the telecast and reinforcing the positions of the high-profile drivers is going to have to stay a theme for the entire broadcast.
After a lot of email and discussion, The Daly Planet will host a live TV forum starting at 11AM Eastern Time on Sunday. That is when the pre-show activity begins on ESPN2. Then, the telecast switches to ABC at Noon. We will continue our live discussion of the ABC coverage through the entire race and experience it together.
Following the conclusion of the event, there will be a "wrap-up" column for your final comments about the day and the performance of the telecast team. No doubt there will be some interesting TV moments to relate.
Please feel free to post your Indy 500 pre-race TV-related comments on this post as NASCAR fans go through a very busy Saturday of on-track activity from two locations. This is a one time IRL special on The Daly Planet, and not the beginning of an expansion into open-wheel TV coverage.
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40 comments:
- SophiaZ123 said...
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- May 24, 2008 at 12:52 AM
- SophiaZ123 said...
So disappointed in the photo you chose for the top of the page....*sigh* ;-)
I don't remember you mentioning the SIDE - By- Side commercials which is a big PLUS for IRL.
A couple of us are not fans of Cheever and Goodyear in the booth....can't we all get along...some of us still remember ESPN NASCAR crew last year that had us cringing as opposed to watching the race....we have a weak radio station this weekend for Indy race and will try to find it online for laptop if things get argumentative in the booth.
I guess the only thing worse than a Danica photo is what in the world is going on with Dan W with the long hair and those super white teeth!! Yikes.
Thanks for breaking your own rules for this one time event.
I hope Sarah Fisher has a better season...she has not had the great access to cars according to what some IRL writers write....she is not the glam queen of Danica but I would like to see her get some talk time.
I was bummed Mother Nature rained out carb day and hope things are sunny for the big race day!
- May 24, 2008 at 12:54 AM
- Bill H said...
Thanks for the photo JD, now I have a reason to watch the Indy tomorrow (wink). Any chance of procuring one of Erin or Christie next time they race in a truck race?
On a serious side, yes on the serious side, hmm I forgot what I was gonna type. Darn that photo is distracting.
Oh now I remember, on the sreious side, I will watch the Indy, I want to look for mention of Nascar on there since there are 3 / 4 former open wheel drivers now racing full time in the Cup series, and since ESPN /ABC carries the races. Lets see if there is a quid pro quo like there is on the Cup side where they always mention that these drivers were former Open wheel drivers.
On watching the Indy though, I wonder how many people watch it dueto tradition versus actually following the open wheel circuit. It's akin to watching the rose bowl parade, macy's parade ect since you parent did it every year and now you do.
Does anyone know if there is a scanner service for the Indy like there is for the Cup races? would be interesting to listen to the drivers / spotters.
- May 24, 2008 at 6:03 AM
- Tom said...
I am actually looking towards this race as my #1 this weekend. Aside from the hype element of Danica and Helio (who are both good drivers), finally we will see some top talent from ChampCar, although in seriously under-developed cars. None will win, but how some of them (Wilson, Power, Rahal) do with what they have could very well make this interesting.
The Cheever/Goodyear dynamic is interesting, l am kind of looking forward to how that plays out on raceday. While I don't want open warfare, I seem to remember that Bobby Unser telling Sam Posey what an idiot he was made for some great TV.
Tom Inverness. FL
- May 24, 2008 at 6:55 AM
- Ritchie said...
I understand what you are saying, Indy car chassis all look the same and the COT's all look the same, therefore fans of the auto manufacturers will not see a product differentiation between NASCAR and the IRL. Your contention is that the two series are now interchangeable.
I'm not convinced that the COT will lead a significant amount of race fans to the IRL. Sure there will be a few, but NASCAR is now so incredibly personality driven that TV viewership goes up and down based on how Dale Jr. is doing more so than how Chevrolet or Toyota is doing.
This is a NASCAR media site (please note that I emphasized NASCAR) so I won't delve into manufacture differences, however I think the days of manufacturers controlling racing in the US went away in the 1980's. It is ironic that TV viewership began increasing at the same time manufacturer involvement began decreasing.
Mr. Daly, do you believe that is a coincidence or is there a correlation?
- May 24, 2008 at 7:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
The race up there (think it is called the Indy something or another) is a modest "preliminary" for the feature race in Charlotte. For some reason, the ONLY big race at Indy is a 400 not a 500.
- May 24, 2008 at 9:14 AM
- Anonymous said...
The only way I woould watch the indy 500 is if somebody tied me to a chair in front of the tv and held a gun to my head.
- May 24, 2008 at 9:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
I like the picture at the top
- May 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
This is the reality for the cross-over fans, which is the point of the entire story.
They do not see the specifics of racing or the issues associated with the IRL/Champ Car merger.
They only see Danica and Helio. It should be very interesting to see the TV ratings and if Sunday is a key moment for the IRL this season.
- May 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
It is going to be interesting to have all three of the top series featuring purpose-built cars.
NASCAR is committed to the COT in Sprint Cup, and will roll-out a Nationwide Series COT soon.
IRL is going to one chassis and just like NASCAR the only difference in teams is going to be the engine.
Over in the NHRA, they have put the emphasis on Funny Car and Top Fuel and Pro Stock is on the back burner.
Overall, it is a huge season of change in the motorsports landscape. If the IRL can make their "new" series a good show again, NASCAR is going to have to figure out how to respond.
- May 24, 2008 at 10:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
Well, unlike some of the other "posters" on this subject, THIS Nascar fan is going to watch Indy from start to finish.
The fact is that the INDYCAR drivers are gutsy-er and equally or more talented than NASCAR counterparts.
Despite the over riding belief that drivers defect for the money, they also go because NASCAR is safer.
This unification could be big for the sport, and NASCAR had better keep their eye on Speedway, Indiana
- May 24, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- Anonymous said...
I will not watch the Indy 500 until ABC puts Paul Page back into the IRL booth. It was wrong for him to be removed in the first place and only to be replaced by Todd Harris. (Which lasted only a year). And now Marty Reid.
- May 24, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Anonymous said...
This NASCAR fan will not be watching any of the Indy race. Not only because I've no interest in it at all but also because I've got family in town for the weekend so I'll be busy with them.
I have watched a few bits and pieces of open-wheel races over the years and it just never really caught and held my interest the way NASCAR does. Plus I don't think the racing is all that exciting.
- May 24, 2008 at 11:10 AM
- Kyle said...
I'll not bother with the pre race show for the 500. Between the Indy, Race Day on Speed and the Coke 600. That's just too much TV in one day for me.
But will be watching most of the 500, should be interesting this year. The way I see it is there are 3 groups of cars on the track. #1 the top tier last year indy teams, #2 the top tier cart guys that have got tier indy cars worked out. #3 the "space fillers" So watching Andretti Green and Ganassi lapping the space fillers might add some excitement to the race.
sohiaz123 I agree I'd also like to see Sarah Fisher get some camera time, along with some better equipment. What little I have seen of her, she has impressed me as being very nice.
- May 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM
- Geez said...
I've been a NASCAR fan since the 70's, and I will watch Indy as I have for as long as I have for as long as I can remember. I'll watch the Monaco Grand Prix also.
I like it all. :-)
- May 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- Vince in West Mich. said...
Thanks for the article, JD. And thanks for the Danica pic! This is one long time NASCAR fan that has always watched the Indy 500 since the 60's. I even went to an Indy car race at Ontario Calif back in the 1970's. Back in Indy's hey day with the Unsers, Andretti, Ruby, Rutherford, AJ, Parnelli and the rest. I've always watched the 500, if not a few other Indy car races during the year. If you're a racing fan you're a fan of all forms of racing, not just NASCAR.
I guess I don't see the conflict between Goodyear and Cheever like you do. I've watched the qualifying broadcasts and watched some of yesterdays broadcast and didn't see any conflict between Scott and Eddie. I enjoy both of them. Scott is more PC and watches what he says and Eddie usually tells it like it is and damn the consequences. And I like that. Too bad we don't have anybody like Eddie doing the NASCAR broadcasts. Somebody who's not afraid to tell it like it is. It's nice to have two announcers that don't have a hidden agenda. As we do in NASCAR with announcers who own teams or Toyota dealerships.
Anyway, I'm hoping for good weather and a good race.
Ritchie, I've got news for you. NASCAR has ALWAYS been personality driven. Back when Richard Petty was the hottest driver out there all you heard was Richard this and Richard that. Then it was Bobby Allison, and Cale and DW. Then Dale Sr. NASCAR is a sport that has been personality driven since it's inception. It's like a big soap opera.
As for the comparison of the two series going towards spec cars, I understand why they are doing it. Cost. But I don't like it. Takes away all innovation. The COT is one of the things that is chasing away long time fans of NASCAR. Used to be you could relate to what they were racing with what you drove to the race. No more. If you take all the fancy paint jobs and decals off the cars and just have primer with no headlight, taillight and grill decals they all look about the same. Boring.......
- May 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- SophiaZ123 said...
I gotta say, that is a NICE PHOTO of Danica and it is very tasteful.
I have known Helio before DWTS but if he brings a curiosity factor to the race, from the fans of that show, that's good too. I like how he very NICELY called out Tony Stewart a couple years ago when Tony started climbing fences that Helio said "Just remember who started that Tony" he said to the camera when asked about it by a reporter. Helio aka Spiderman started it but yes, Tony goes all the way to the flag stand when possible. But Stewart once said HE started that deal...then I read somebody else did it in another series..but I forget who it was..(This from a brain that FORGOT to watch 10 hrs of racin' stuff on Thursday but I digress)
I just think this whole weekend is a racers dream. Wonderful Monaco, 500 and the 600. But if that COT brings down the race into a parade....I am going to be grumpy.
(gee, sophia, aren't you always???)
The only thing that is scary in open wheel are the wrecks that shatter the cars (which I know they are supposed to do) but it is disconcerting.
And if they crash a little bit in OW, they are done. In NASCAR, you take a ball bat and beat out the fenders, put on some duct tape and back out you go! LOL.
- May 24, 2008 at 11:38 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Conflict on TV does not mean anger or raised voices. Cheever is great because he absolutely does not care what anyone else says about anything...and never has.
Goodyear and whatever play-by-play announcer ABC has thrust upon him (memories of Todd Harris) have been carrying the load as the series stumbled through the past seasons.
Now, this may well be the highest-rated Indy race in many years. All the elements, including the boring NASCAR racing, seem to be meeting over Indy on Sunday.
If they have good weather and a nice, safe race the IRL may find itself with a nice new lease on life. If Danica or Helio wins, they may found that they have won the racing lotto.
- May 24, 2008 at 11:40 AM
- SophiaZ123 said...
In this house we are still adjust to the new IRL announce team...so I hope we get used to them.
We WELL remember the screeching TODD HARRIS whose voice stayed stuck in a high pitched semi-sceam mode. WOW are we glad HE IS GONE.
The guy had a voice for newspaper. :-)
I gotta say from day one I never liked the splitter on the COT and I would love to know if it is the problem or just part of the problem....you read varying opinions.
Of COURSE I am all for SAFETY but gotta be honest, am not a fan of the COT look a like deal...nor it's expense. Rusty Wallace didn't seem keen on it coming to NW either.
I know there is not turning back the clock and it can take a couple of years for a major change to get adjusted to...but holy smokes. Sunday will be a big test imo.
I have recently stumbled onto a couple of neighbors in their 50's talking car racing and am SHOCKED how a couple of them only watch the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard as they loathe the changes in the sport in 2001 when it went "Hollywood." These are guys that used to travel to the races and one guy worked for the Winston company for years...so maybe he is ticked at the whole having to drop the smoking title.
Still he ran into Ray Evernham a few weeks ago at a car show, I think in Indiana, and did not know Ray from the man in the moon. Ray started talking to him and was down to earth and a very nice guy. They spoke for about 15 minutes.
So, when the camera is not looking,, it's good to hear GOOD THINGS about the bigger names in racing.
- May 24, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
Diane said...
We will be watching it all...Monaco, 500, 600. Should be Indy 500, attended every year since 1997. Watched on TV since I was a young girl. I would defy anyone who ever had the opportunity to attend 500 to not become a fan. It is the most amazing event (attended Daytona 500 last 4 years, also amazing, but Indy is Indy). Takes your breath away just walking into the place. TV can't do it justice. As far as the racing, some of the people saying they don't watch obviously never have. There is always great side by side racing in these cars. Yes, my husband and I are disappointed in the look alike cars, but we love all forms of racing. Oh, we have a Lexus, Corvette, Mini Cooper & Silverado truck...so other than the truck...don't see our cars on the track anyway!!!...LOL Let's go racing boys and girls!
- May 24, 2008 at 1:06 PM
- Alex said...
IMS Productions plays a huge role in the IndyCar telecasts. ESPN has their technical people directing the show, but much like NASCAR has its own media company that works the cameras and owns the footage, IMS productions and ESPN has a similar dynamic.
In reference to the booth dynamic, I've been loving the coverage throughout the Month of May. Cheever and Goodyear have colorful discussions instead of both saying the same things. Both have perspectives on strategy, accountability, car control, and aggression. It makes for great television because Cheever can be much more of a realist while Goodyear tends to be the optimist. I seriously wouldn't mind them working together the rest of the year.
- May 24, 2008 at 1:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
"First of all, the two open-wheel series are unified which will introduce a full field of actual racers."
On the one hand, as an IRL (and NASCAR) fan, I'm offended by this statement. There were plenty of actual racers in the IRL. The inclusion of Champ Car drivers Justin Wilson, Graham Rahal, Oriol Servia, and Will Power were the only benefit from adding the series. Guys not terribly famous, even among racing fans. The rest were scrubs. Sebastian Bourdais is a great racer, but he won four Champ Car championships in a row because he was racing against nobody. (Ah, except AJ Allmendinger, who could race him straight up. What might have been. . .)
On the other hand, human chicane, Milka Duno, is still in the field. (She seems like a wonderful person, but she's in over her head.) She's not even the worst. That would be EJ, where's my pit stall dude, Viso. So, we're still waiting for the full field of actual racers to show up.
And as if NASCAR has 43 actual drivers deserving rides.
In spite of my crabbing, thanks for your insightful post and your coverage of Indy.
- May 24, 2008 at 2:08 PM
- Jeff said...
No Indy 500 telecast would be complete without Brent Musburger and his podium.
On the contrary, I wouldn't miss that windbag ever, why do the networks feel the need for a "host" who usually adds nothing to the broadcast, Bm, Chris Meyers, etc, do away with the whole lot of them.
- May 24, 2008 at 2:13 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I was lucky enough to be involved with IMS productions for many years. They certainly have come a long way from the when they started.
Anon 2:08PM,
I understand your point. My emphasis was on the full-field rather than the actual racers. Perhaps, I might have chosen my words a bit more carefully.
If you look up "irony" in the dictionary, a copy of my Musburger comment will no doubt be listed.
- May 24, 2008 at 2:37 PM
- stricklinfan82 said...
I'm not one of the NASCAR fans that will be watching the Indy 500. I used to have some curiosity in the race when John Andretti, Robby Gordon, and Tony Stewart were doing the Indy-Charlotte double. But since the Indy 500 start time was changed to keep the NASCAR drivers out, that also turned away my viewership.
The "curiosity of where Hornish and Franchitti came from", Danica mania, and the CoT might be driving some NASCAR fans to Indycar racing, but not this NASCAR fan.
- May 24, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- Mike said...
There's something magical about listening to the 500 on the radio. So, I'm going to be grilling out and listening to the 500 on the radio from the IMS Radio Network (Bob Jenkins will be one of the turn announcers), until there's about 25 to 50 laps remaining, and then watch the rest on television. And then lead that right into the television coverage of the 600 on Fox.
- May 24, 2008 at 4:17 PM
- Anonymous said...
Anyone else see what's on ESPN Classic today?
The 1991 Indianapolis 500 on ABC Sports (from the "good ol' days" for open wheel racing)
- May 24, 2008 at 5:35 PM
- SophiaZ123 said...
Any body read Robin Millers article on Pop quizes for the 500?
some choices for answers were laugh out LOUD funny.
Man they need to get a nightly show on racing ala wind tunnel 5 nights again. Speed just does NOT get it. :(
in another article, I think robin shares my opinion of announcers in the booth but that's a personal deal...After all I DO like MW but he can get a bit screechy in the Truck races sometimes...shades of Todd Harris = : - 0
p.s. Oddly enough turned on the very end of the CLASSIC Indy race ONLY to see the camera focus on Mears family and crew. Shazaam!! I thought the was an annoying FOX Station invention....guess I need to pay more attention. Thanks for mentioning the race even if I just caught the end.
- May 24, 2008 at 5:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
Oh Goodness no!
Now Classic is showing the year with Todd Harris as the lead announcer. Whatever we complain about Dr. Punch or anyone else in the booth, this guy took the prize for the worst - felt like he was getting on the job training.
Moreover, the contributions of the host Brent Musburger were actually NEEDED breaks from the lead announcer.
Also noticing Jack Arute was playing the "crew chief" role with the cutaway car alongside pit road.
- May 24, 2008 at 7:05 PM
- Ritchie said...
Vince in West Mich...
I appreciate the news you had for me with regards to NASCAR always being personality driven. However,"always" is a long time, and NASCAR hasn't always been as it is today.
NASCAR has always had characters, but NASCAR didn't always have mass marketing and national advertising campaigns. So the manufacturers themselves would hire a driver, give them the best equipment they could provide, and then the manufacturers would hold them up as "star representatives" for the company.
So you would have Ford pushing Fred Lorenzen, Chrysler had Petty. Yeah, they were stars, but they were also representatives of the manufacturers. It was sort of like a crude version of how F1 drivers work for a manufacturer. It actually remained like that to varying degrees through the 1980's. People don't like to admit it, but when Dale Earnhardt was sponsored by GM Goodwrench, he was really driving the factory supported Chevy.
Now, the manufacturers have very little to do with the drivers other than paying them for promotions. In fact, Kyle Bush admitted that JGR wasn't even using the Toyota designed motor. JGR was using a motor built entirely in house with their own parts.
- May 24, 2008 at 7:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'll watch the Indy 500 out of curiosity mainly.
I have a question: When will the TV ratings be available? Will you consider doing a column breaking down not just the overall numbers, but maybe some of the inside numbers -- that is, did the Indy 500 start out with a huge audience and gradually lose it? Did the Coke 600 compare to years' past? Which series had better "demographics" in their TV ratings, etc. It could be fascinating - that is, if you can access the data.
- May 24, 2008 at 10:34 PM
- Adam T. Martin said...
I'll watch the Indy 500 telecast (even though I'm more of a NASCAR fan and have watched it since 1991).
Wish Paul Page wasn't moved to NHRA coverage.:(
By the way, nice photo of Danica Patrick.
- May 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM
- Richard in N.C. said...
JD- I am a race fan and used to love watching the Indy 500 - until AJ got old, Little Al could not control himself, and the series split. But, I got real interested again with unification - but somehow Paul Tracy got left out. Now you tell me the 500 will be infected with Mushberger. Another reason to question whether to watch the 500. On the other hand, I've followed Eddis Cheever since he was in F1 and I'll probably watch some just to catch him. I expect Robin Miller's analysis of the race will be better than the race.
P.S. Yes, Gibbs does use the factory Toyota engine. They have to use the manufacturer's engine approved by NASCAR - but, JGR assembles their own engines from parts supplied by Toyota. The other Toyota teams uses engines supplied by Toyota's racing group.
- May 24, 2008 at 11:13 PM
- SophiaZ123 said...
Richard in N.C.
Did you see Robin Miller's column about the Pop quiz this week....I thought part s of it were laugh out loud FUNNY!
Man, WT is on against the race tomorrow night...will have to tape..WT NEEDS TO BE TWO HOURS!!! At least.
- May 24, 2008 at 11:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
Personally, I'd have rather had a photo of Scott Dixon, the pole sitter. I understand why Danica does what she does--you would too for sponsors--but I don't like to see it used beyond its intent--but I guess sex sells races and blogs.
I'm not just a NASCAR fan watching the Indy 500, so I guess this column doesn't apply to me. I hope extra exposure (DWTS, etc) brings fans who might not otherwise have watched, but it's sad in a way.
But I really don't think any NASCAR vehicle in many years was really considered a 'stock car' in anyone's mind, so I don't see how that would bring NASCAR fans to Indy. Or Indy fans to Charlotte. Just different animals.
I just hope for a good race.
Funny how people always seem to talk about Musburger reverently when he's not doing their sport. I could never see how he knew anything about any sport.
"Americans know Danica Patrick from her interviews and extensive media exposure. They know Helio Castroneves because of his Dancing With The Stars efforts."
I think this American thinks that isn't so, at least not in such a blanket statement. Perhaps '*some* Americans would have been more accurate. I am just not fond of absolutes. I get the distinction of 'entertainment viewers' but that point is made in a 'secondary' way. I just expect more from responsible media. Even Eddie didn't want to go there.
- May 24, 2008 at 11:27 PM
- Karen said...
I googled Brienne Pedigo and found some interesting stories about her aside from singing, dancing, ballet.
Her dad owns Panther Racing so she's been around Indy quite a long time.
- May 25, 2008 at 12:07 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 11:27PM,
If you took a moment to read my column, you would know exactly why Danica was pictured.
As for selling my blog, when you notice any ads on this site...you drop me an email.
We are not simply looking for NASCAR fans watching the Indy 500. Again, if you had taken time to read my column you would have understood that our regular community of readers asked to have a special forum.
There are no other racing TV websites out there. We focus on NASCAR, but have a very diverse group of readers who are enthusiastic about other series and racing on TV in general.
This forum is for anyone who would like to talk about the TV broadcast and the personalities involved. As we go, we hope to get some inside information from some of our friends on-site who email and text during the race.
I would invite you to stop by and see for yourself on Sunday.
- May 25, 2008 at 12:11 AM
- haus20 said...
It will be on in my house! I can't say I will be on the edge my seat for every lap - I may even have the recliner back and my eyes closed for many of them, but it will be on none the less.
- May 25, 2008 at 12:55 AM
- Anonymous said...
Musburger! Musburger! Musburger!
That will boost the ratings.
Seriously, I am a NASCAR fan first, but I watch all the Indy car races, and I have actually attended several more IRL races than Cup races.
The crowds are not crushing, the sound of the cars is exciting, and the speeds are insane. Looking forward to a good 500.
I hope the Rahal kid comes along as he gets oval experience.
- May 25, 2008 at 2:01 AM
- Todd said...
JD This is off the beaten path, but I feel it must be addressed. I thought the pre-race activities for the World 600 were somber, and reverent, just like it should be, and then you get some dip that can't carry a tune to sing the national anthem. Why can't they just sing it the way it is supposed to be sung? Thank goodness for the mute button!
- May 26, 2008 at 4:09 AM