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“No candidate should agree to be a part of a debate broadcast by an organization that purports to exercise this type of control over the video of the debate. No candidate, that is, that understands this century.”
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“All of the group’s albums are grand, sweeping and interesting, but “Fear of a Blank Planet” is as close to perfect as Porcupine Tree is likely to get.”
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“The network aired just three NFL games a week in high-def last season, but CBS spokeswoman Leslie Anne Wade told TVPredictions.com that it will show “up to six games” this fall.”
Now that the 2007 NFL schedule is out and the doubleheader networks for each week are known, I figured I’d look at the schedule and attempt to determine what Sunday afternoon games will be shown by the Harrisburg area’s local CBS and FOX affiliates. I think it’s kind of pointless to predict all the 4pm games during the “flexible” portion of the schedule (weeks 11-17, starting Sunday, November 18th), so I’ll only attempt to predict the currently-scheduled 4pm games that involve regional teams.
For these predictions I’m assuming that we’re designated a secondary market for the following teams, in the following order: Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, and Pittsburgh Steelers. I’m also taking into account that traditionally our CBS affiliate (and presumably our FOX affiliate) will show a Steelers game in favor of a conflicting Ravens home game. (Reference.) There are surprisingly few Ravens/Steelers conflicts this season. Combine that with the fact that both local teams’ divisions are playing the AFC East, and you’ve got one happy Buffalo Bills fan here.
Here are my predictions (confirmed games in italics):
Week 1, Sunday, Sep. 9:
CBS: Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Philadelphia at Green Bay, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Chicago at San Diego, 4:15pm (HD)
Week 2, Sunday, Sep. 16:
CBS: Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 1:00pm (HD)
CBS: NY Jets at Baltimore, 4:15pm (HD)
FOX: Green Bay at NY Giants, 1:00pm (HD)
Week 3, Sunday, Sep. 23:
CBS: Miami at NY Jets, 1:00pm (HD, or Buffalo at New England, 1:00pm, HD) Cincinnati at Seattle, 4:15pm (HD)
FOX: Detroit at Philadelphia, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: NY Giants at Washington, 4:15pm (HD)
Week 4, Sunday, Sep. 30:
CBS: Baltimore at Cleveland, 1:00pm
CBS: Pittsburgh at Arizona, 4:15pm (HD) (or Denver at Indianapolis, 4:15pm)
FOX: St. Louis at Dallas, 1:00pm (HD)
Week 5, Sunday, Oct. 7:
CBS: Cleveland at New England, 1:00pm (or NY Jets at NY Giants, 1:00pm (HD))
CBS: Baltimore at San Francisco, 4:15pm (HD)
FOX: Seattle at Pittsburgh, 1:00pm (HD)
Week 6, Sunday, Oct. 14:
CBS: Miami at Cleveland, 1:00pm (or Cincinnati at Kansas City, 1:00pm (HD))
CBS: New England at Dallas, 4:15pm (HD)
FOX: Philadelphia at NY Jets, 1:00pm (HD)
Week 7, Sunday, Oct. 21:
CBS: Baltimore at Buffalo, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Arizona at Washington, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Chicago at Philadelphia, 4:15pm (HD)
Week 8, Sunday, Oct. 28:
CBS: Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Philadelphia at Minnesota, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Washington at New England, 4:15pm (HD)
Week 9, Sunday, Nov. 4:
CBS: Cincinnati at Buffalo, 1:00pm
CBS: New England at Indianapolis, 4:15pm (HD)
FOX: Washington at NY Jets, 1:00pm
Week 10, Sunday, Nov. 11:
CBS: Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Philadelphia at Washington, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Dallas at NY Giants, 4:15pm (HD)
(Flexible scheduling begins now; predictions will be less accurate. (Ed. 10/25: I’ll try to guess these anyways… 
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Week 11, Sunday, Nov. 18:
CBS: Pittsburgh at NY Jets, 1:00pm Pittsburgh at NY Jets, 4:05pm (HD) (time change) (eclipses Cleveland at Baltimore, 1:00pm and Miami at Philadelphia, 1:00pm)
FOX: Washington at Dallas, 1:00pm NY Giants at Detroit, 1:00 pm (HD) (Miami at Philadelphia, 1:00pm won’t be covered by FOX)
FOX Doubleheader FOX: Washington at Dallas, 4:15pm (HD) (time change)
Week 12, Sunday, Nov. 25:
CBS: Tennessee at Cincinnati, 1:00pm (or Houston at Cleveland, 1:00pm (HD)) (Ed: Makes sense - Cleveland’s doing much better than Cincinnati right now.)
FOX: Washington at Tampa Bay, 1:00pm (HD)
CBS Doubleheader CBS: Baltimore at San Diego, 4:15pm (HD)
Week 13, Sunday, Dec. 2:
CBS: Buffalo at Washington, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Seattle at Philadelphia, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Doubleheader FOX: NY Giants at Chicago, 4:15pm (HD)
Week 14, Sunday, Dec. 9:
CBS: Pittsburgh at New England, 1:00pm (flexed to 4:15pm) Oakland at Green Bay, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: NY Giants at Philadelphia, 1:00pm (HD)
CBS: Doubleheader CBS: Kansas City at Denver, 4:15pm Pittsburgh at New England, 4:15pm (HD)
Week 15, Sunday, Dec. 16:
CBS: Baltimore at Miami, 1:00pm (HD) (eclipses Jacksonville at Pittsburgh, 1:00pm)
FOX: Green Bay at St. Louis, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Philadelphia at Dallas, 4:15pm (HD) (unless it moves to Sunday evening)
Week 16, Sunday, Dec. 23:
CBS: Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1:00pm (HD)
FOX: Philadelphia at New Orleans, 1:00pm (HD)
CBS: Baltimore at Seattle, 4:15pm (HD) (unless it moves to Sunday evening)
Week 17, Sunday, Dec. 30:
CBS: Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1:00pm
FOX: Dallas at Washington, 1:00pm (Buffalo at Philadelphia, 1:00pm won’t be covered by FOX, and Pit@Bal will probably trump. Possible reference.)
CBS: Doubleheader CBS: San Diego at Oakland, 4:15pm
(NOT even going to bother trying to fix this one. Both networks had doubleheaders, and games were moved around quite a bit since the schedule was first published.)
CBS: Buffalo at Philadelphia, 1pm (HD)
CBS: Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 4:15pm (HD)
FOX: New Orleans at Chicago, 1pm (HD)
FOX: Dallas at Washington, 4:15pm (HD)
8/20: I’m going to update this entry occasionally to keep track of my accuracy. I’m also going to note which games were available in HD.
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“To keep things interesting, though, he [Neil Peart] promises Rush feels somewhat “liberated” from its catalogue after doing a pure greatest-hits tour three years ago, and will this time be honing in on new material and “old songs that we haven’t played f
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Ohio U needs a network administrator to implement QOS, not an inspecific ban on P2P filesharing applications.
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“Yahoo!, The Huffington Post and Slate announced today plans to host two online-only presidential debates during the 2008 campaign.”
Great to see a new Heroes episode tonight, but did anyone else get the huge Watchmen vibe during Nathan and Linderman’s conversation? Showing influences by giving nods to prior art is cool, but the plot Linderman revealed seemed to me to cross well into “imitation” territory.
I find it interesting that the Heroes wiki doesn’t currently have any references to “watchmen“. Here’s the earliest reference I could easily find in Google to someone that raises the same question. And here’s an article that would have spoiled it for me had I been looking for spoilers before watching this week’s episode.
I think on the whole it’s better than both Test for Echo and Vapor Trails. My first listen had pegged the album as a little flat after having listened to the dynamic “Far Cry” for a while, but I’ve warmed up to just about the whole album now. It’s nice to have a new Rush album that’s loud & proud without being scratchy. Make no mistake, the boys are back!
The new Porcupine Tree album Fear of a Blank Planet is based on a more focused concept than 2005’s Deadwing, but is no less adventurous a musical journey. Steven Wilson continues to wear many hats on this album–guitars, vocals, piano, writing, and engineering–and along with the rest of the band has managed to produce what I think is among the top 10 best-sounding albums of the decade (so far). The songs are still growing on me after about six full listens, but I’m confident that if you like one of PT’s last two albums or are a fan of rock concept albums you’ll find this one interesting.
The album proves that dynamic range isn’t dead; it was saved from the mastering butchery that plagues most mainstream rock releases I’ve heard in the last 10-15 years. As a result, the quieter parts of the album are actually quiet in contrast to the loud parts, which do get loud! A particularly noticable example of this to me is Gavin Harrison’s drumming at the beginning of track 3, “Anesthetize”; it sounds lively and great. The music goes from melodic to metallic and back with ease.
The engineering on this album is the best I’ve heard from PT to date. SW already had a decent track record in this area, especially considering the quality of the two Blackfield albums and the DVD-A versions of In Absentia and Deadwing. His reputation is cemented with this release.
Although meant to be listened to as a whole in sequence, I currently favor tracks 2 and 4, “My Ashes” and “Sentimental”, as well as first third of “Anesthetize”, which features the Alex Lifeson solo that I blogged about before. I’m definitely more interested in the music than the lyrics at this point. I miss the “layered lyric” moments such as the ones in “Gravity Eyelids”, “Drown With Me”, and “Mellotron Scratch”, some of my favorite PT tunes. However, that doesn’t detract from this album’s quality.
Fear of a Blank Planet hits store shelves in the US tomorrow. Highly recommended!
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Rush is getting ready to tour their new album, “Snakes & Arrows”, which is in stores next Tuesday.
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This is similar to ideas I’ve had regarding ICYG - an online music locker with streamability. This article doesn’t question the legality of MediaMaster, which I find dubious.
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“La Fonera splits a Wi-Fi connection in two: an encrypted channel for the Fonero and a public one for neighbors or passersby.”
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A nice mashup of formats, and good content.
This morning was the first morning this season where I can recall hearing birds chirping outside. Is spring here?
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Who needs Payola when you’ve got teams of lawyers working together? The RIAA and commerical broadcasters are the Goliaths to internet radio’s David.
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“The gunman wielded two pistols”
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Shoulda played on Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball with the rest of us…
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I give these students an A+.
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Yes, Neil Peart does VO and drum work for the new Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. The one whose guerilla marketing caused the ‘bomb scare’ in Boston. I think I have to see it.
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Via Psychophil. “Although statistics show that rates of child abduction and sexual abuse have marched steadily downward since the early 1990s, fear of these crimes is at an all-time high.”
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Via Jon Udell. A Skype Recorder that seems feature-filled enough to give a test drive.
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“Bledsoe had [a] strong first season in Buffalo [in 2003], setting 10 team passing records, including single-season marks with 4,359 yards and 375 completions.”
I was listening to Porcupine Tree’s new Fear of a Blank Planet for the first time as an album in the car this morning. I realized in my first listen of track 3, ”Anesthetize”, ”hey, that’s Alex Lifeson soloing”. It gave me goose bumps; it was that good.
…Because that night the Bills will be hosting Monday Night Football! They are scheduled to play Dallas to cap Week 5 of the 2007 NFL season, in their only non-1PM-Eastern game (so far).
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Read this in print over the weekend. An interesting experiment.
I just looked out at the National Parks Conservation Association’s slideshow index and found that they’ve published the slideshow about Jamestown that includes the two photos I cited before. Go take a look!
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If you can’t write a message in chalk on a public street or sidewalk, where have our freedoms gone?
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“Though paid services such as Typepad also enjoy a relatively spam-free existance, what WordPress.com does is very rare for a free service.”
IMG_0492, originally uploaded by aharden.
OK, this is turning out to be a really fun combo of effects that can plug into virtually any amp. The SansAmp Bass Driver DI is the ticket, as it provides a very tunable overdrive and a variety of output options. The Limiter and Chorus are definitely marginalized now that the SansAmp is a part of my arsenal.
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“The association [RIAA] is like a gardener who tried to rid his lawn of weeds and wound up killing the trees instead.”
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In the “duh” department….
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Always a fun read.
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A good look at effect pedal order.
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Buffalo plays the Saints in New Orleans five days after the Saints’ appearance in the HOF game on August 10th, and the game is being carried nationally on CBS. They also face the Falcons, Titans, and Lions.
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I use tablature pretty regularly; this is a good thing. However, I question the legality in question since tabs are an interpretation of a performance, not a copy.
I couldn’t let this one go with just a link. Today’s annoucement that EMI’s catalog on the iTunes Music Store will be available in a “premium”, DRM-less, higher-fidelity version is pretty big. iTMS customers that have previously purchased singles shouldn’t balk at the 30-cent tax. The fact that albums will continue to cost the same is a great endorsement of the artistic work’s form. Unencumbered 256kbps AAC definitely has the potential to be a great compromise between DRM’d 128kbps AAC and an open, lossless format, assuming that online digital album pricing vs. the price of a physical CD reflects the efficiencies of each distribution model.
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An account of my last jam session at the Kellys’. Fun!
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The average cost of attending a Sabres game is $46.40, 25 percent below the NHL average.
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“We believe that offering consumers the opportunity to buy higher quality tracks and listen to them on the device or platform of their choice will boost sales of digital music.”
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