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Berkshire Hathaway's Holds; GMCR's Bottom Line: Best of Kass
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners is known for his accurate stock market calls and keen insights into the economy, which he shares with RealMoney Pro readers in his daily trading diary.
Among his posts this past week were entries about Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A - Get Report) (BRK.B - Get Report) and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR - Get Report).
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Warren Buffett's Tax-Efficient Enterprise
Originally published on Thursday, May 9 at 11:33 a.m. EDT. There are many issues to raise regarding Berkshire's structure, strategy and valuation -- taking profits on stocks, however, is not one of them. Here is a follow-up link to Paul Price's view that Warren Buffett should have sold Berkshire Hathaway's Coca-Cola (KO - Get Report) and Washington Post (WPO) shares. After I wrote my response, I thought perhaps that I was too hard on Paul, but the message remains the same.
Warren runs a tax-efficient enterprise -- his buys in Coca-Cola and Washington Post are testimony. It is my view that there are many other different issues to raise regarding Berkshire's structure, strategy and valuation. At the time of original publication, Kass was short BRK.B.
Memo to Paul 'The' Price 'Is Right'
Originally published on Thursday, May 9 at 10:40 a.m. EDT. Washington Post and Coca-Cola are forever positions for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. Your observations that Warren Buffett should have sold his Washington Post and Coca-Cola positions because of the drop in the share prices ignores a number of critical issues, including that these are "forever" positions for Berkshire Hathaway and that these are sizable, illiquid core investments for Warren.
In 2001, Coca-Cola faced significant leadership issues as well as a lot of controversy regarding the product itself (rumors of contamination, etc.). He was prepared and did look beyond those circumstances. I am not sure that I understand your point, as the shares have gone on to hit an all-time high. In the case of Washington Post, this is a forever position -- he is not interested in where the shares trade over a 10-year period, or, for that matter, over a 20-year period. My suggestion is to read Alice Schroeder's excellent book, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, to learn more about his investing philosophy and why Coca-Cola and Washington Post are not for sale at any price.
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Phillies 7, Mets 3: Three Up, Three Down
Remember this game? That's pretty much what happened at Citizens Bank Park tonight.
Three Up:
1. C John Buck: Buck now has five home runs in eight games this season. Mets catchers combined for five home runs in 162 games last season. They'll take the offensive boost.
2. CF Jordany Valdespin: Leading off, Valdespin rapped out three hits and saved starting pitcher Jeremy Hefner from further damage with his shoestring catch in the third. But it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for Valdespin, who also struck out with the bases loaded and was caught stealing for the first time this season.
3. OF Lucas Duda: Both of Duda's two home runs were rockets, as was his first-inning double. If this is the beginning of a breakout from Duda, the Mets will certainly take it.
Three Down:
1. RHP Jeremy Hefner: The first six batters to face Hefner all reached base. Five of them scored. It's hard to recover from that.
2. 3B David Wright: Wright is 0-for-8 over his last two games, striking out twice Wednesday (including in the first inning, when his whiff left Valdespin out to dry on the base paths). The Mets did well earlier this season without significant production from Wright, but now they need him to produce.
3. 1B Ike Davis: At what point does this become a significant concern? Another 0-for-4 has Davis batting .129 with one home run. Considering what happened last year, it has to be a worry.
Three Up, Three Down Season Standings:
C John Buck
2B Daniel Murphy
LHP Jon Niese, RHP Matt Harvey
OF Mike Baxter, OF Marlon Byrd, OF Jordany Valdespin
RHP Jeurys Familia, SS Ruben Tejada, LHP Aaron Laffey
LHP Josh Edgin, RHP Greg Burke, 3B David Wright
OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis, 1B Ike Davis
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Marlins 7, Mets 5: Three Up, Three Down
That one got away from them quickly. Here are three reasons why, and three reasons why not:
Three Up:
1. RHP Jeremy Hefner: Once again, the Mets received a strong outing from their starting pitcher, leaning on Hefner for six innings of one-run ball. This loss was hardly Hef's fault.
2. 2B Daniel Murphy: His three-run homer in the seventh proved that yes, as a matter of fact, the Mets did still have an offensive pulse. Murphy later grounded out with the tying runs on base, but we can't hold that against him because he put the Mets in that position in the first place. Murphy saved another run with a nice defensive play in the ninth.
3. OF Jordany Valdespin: He was picked off first base once, nearly doubled off the bag twice, and took a horrific route to Giancarlo Stanton's two-base hit in the ninth. But Valdespin did rap out two hits, steal a bag, reach base four times and draw an eight-pitch walk to set up Murphy's homer. This is the least we can do for Valdespin, who was also plunked by the baseball twice (ouch).
Three Down:
1. SS Ruben Tejada: Tejada's fielding error in the seventh inning opened the floodgates for the Marlins, who scored five runs in the inning. It was Tejada's third error in four games. Somewhere, John Dewan shed a tear.
2. RHP Greg Burke: Of course, Tejada's error would have been a footnote had Burke recovered to limit the damage. He didn't, walking the next batter and allowing four runs (one earned) in 0.1 innings.
1B Ike Davis: Here we go again? Davis grounded into a double play (again), struck out (again) and finished 0-for-4 (again). He was robbed of a hit in the fifth inning, but stats are stats: he's now 1-for-16 on the season.
Three Up, Three Down Season Standings:
OF Collin Cowgill, LHP Jon Niese, RHP Matt Harvey, RHP Dillon Gee, C John Buck, INF Justin Turner, RHP Jeremy Hefner, 2B Daniel Murphy
OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis, RHP LaTroy Hawkins, RHP Jeurys Familia, 3B David Wright, SS Ruben Tejada, 1B Ike Davis
RHP Greg Burke
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Mets set Opening Day rotation
It's official: here's who's pitching for the Mets next week:
April 1 vs. Padres: LHP Jon Niese
April 2: Off Day
April 3 vs. Padres: RHP Matt Harvey
April 4 vs. Padres: RHP Dillon Gee
April 5. vs. Marlins: RHP Jeremy Hefner
April 6. vs. Marlins: LHP Jon Niese
April 7 vs. Marlins: RHP Shaun Marcum
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Projecting the Opening Day roster, 3/5
Some tweaks from last week. I'm going out on a limb and projecting Johan Santana to open the regular season on the disabled list, even though that may not be the case. If it is, that would presumably bump Jeremy Hefner out of Triple-A and into the rotation. The result:
C : John Buck
1B: Ike Davis
2B: Daniel Murphy
SS: Ruben Tejada
3B: David Wright
OF: Lucas Duda
OF: Kirk Nieuwenhuis
OF: Marlon Byrd
Bench: Collin Cowgill
Bench: Mike Baxter
Bench: Justin Turner
Bench: Brandon Hicks
Bench: Anthony Recker
SP: Shaun Marcum
SP: Jon Niese
SP: Matt Harvey
SP: Dillon Gee
SP – Jeremy Hefner
RP: Bobby Parnell (CL)
RP: Brandon Lyon
RP: Scott Atchison
RP: LaTroy Hawkins
RP: Josh Edgin
RP: Greg Burke
RP: Robert Carson
DL: Frank Francisco, Johan Santana
In the running: C Landon Powell, 1B Josh Satin, INF Zach Lutz, INF Brian Bixler, INF/OF Jordany Valdespin, OF Andrew Brown, OF Matt den Dekker, RHP Jenrry Mejia, RHP Jeurys Familia, RHP Collin McHugh, RHP Elvin Ramirez, RHP Carlos Torres, LHP Aaron Laffey, LHP Pedro Feliciano, LHP Darin Gorski.
(You may notice that I have yet to take Grapefruit League stats into account in this projection. I just don't think the sample size is big enough to warrant inclusion at this point, though I may start skewing toward statistical favorites next week.)
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Report hits Geithner over AIG bailout – Eamon Javers – POLITICO.com
Posted By MB Snow On November 16, 2009 @ 11:43 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled
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The government's watchdog over the bank bailout program is criticizing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's handling of one of the most sensitive moments of last year's financial meltdown, questioning decisions he made while heading up the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
The new report criticizes the New York Fed's decision in the fall of 2008 to bail out insurance giant AIG by covering its clients' losses, sending tens of billions in taxpayer dollars to overseas banks.
"The decision to acquire a controlling interest in one of the world's most complex and most troubled corporations was done with almost no independent consideration of the terms of the transaction or the impact that those terms might have on the future of AIG," reads the report, which is signed by special inspector general Neil Barofsky.
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Anger spreads faster than joy on China's social network
When it comes to the Internet, are people more prone to jump on an angry bandwagon than a joyful one?
New data indicates this may be the case. A study (pdf) by researchers at China's Beihang University shows that people on China's Twitter-like microblogging site Sina Weibo are more likely to throw in their two cents or pass along posts that are angry in nature, while posts that are joyful, sad, or disgusted tend to stagnate.
"Connected by online social ties, different users influence each other emotionally," the study reads. "We find the correlation of … Read more


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The modern seismic code has some buildings that were built before the code was written. Therefore these buildings can be re-imagined and shored up to be safer.
Our knowledge of seismic waves and their potential around large populations has grown by leaps and bounds since the modern cities first popping up. Now we can make them better places to live.


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No Love LyricsArtist: Joan ArmatradingAlbum: Walk Under Ladders And I didn't mind 'Cos we liked each other And it also helped to pass the time Well everybody dreams of one And now I want you And not just for fun But if you've got no love to give Baby don't give it here I wanted you to be my lover I would be your friend And I'd wear the purple shirt 'Cos it makes you laugh And I would too Well if there's anything I can do I wanna do it And if I had no love to give I wouldn't give it to you Your best friend's friend told someone I was the hurting kind And they've planted that seed And it's growing there in your mind Well if you're looking for a permanent mate Just accept me as your fate 'Cos if I had no love to give I wouldn't give it to you
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Fractured: A Special Report on Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis medication is supposed to prevent bone breaks. But if it's taken too long, the opposite can happen. Here's why younger women are overtreated, why older women are neglected, and what you need to know to stay healthy
By Susan Ince
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Fractured Femurs
Jeanne Mathews's orthopedic surgeon had no doubt that her unusual fracture had resulted from using osteo drugs. Bisphosphonates work by reducing the activity of cells called osteoclasts, which normally break down bone. But suppressing the bone's normal cycle of breakdown and buildup may not be healthy in the long run. The tiny areas that are damaged in daily life may never get repaired, and accumulated minerals can make the bone abnormal and more prone to breaking. "There's good evidence that with the drugs, your bones become stronger for five years, but we're really worried that after 10 years, they will get more brittle," says Dr. Ott.
It's been understandably tough to establish direct cause and effect in a group of patients already considered more likely to suffer a bone break. But last October, after patients passionately argued for a strong warning and the American Society for Bone Mineral Research weighed in with its data, the FDA acknowledged the connection and issued a warning to physicians and patients about the possible risk. As is standard, the agency left prescribing decisions up to doctors.
And then in May, Swedish researchers reported the clearest link yet between the drugs and thigh fractures: In a review of data on 1.52 million women, 78% of those who'd had unusual thigh fractures like Mathews's (admittedly rare) were taking bisphosphonates. Only 10% of the women with ordinary thigh breaks were on the drugs. Those taking bisphosphonates the longest had the highest risk.
Women on these drugs need to be vigilant about stress fractures, advises the National Osteoporosis Foundation. "If you're taking bisphosphonates and develop pain in your muscles or bones, you need to be checked for stress fractures," says Robert R. Recker, M.D., president of the foundation. "That means a nuclear bone scan stress fractures won't show up on a regular X-ray." And if you have one? "You should switch from bisphosphonates to a medication that stimulates bone formation Forteo and seriously limit physical activity till you heal."
Infected Jaws
In a University of Southern California dental program where the tough cases are treated, Parish Sedghizadeh, D.D.S., frequently sees women whose jawbone tissue has died and who have suffered nasty infections after tooth extractions or other invasive procedures, such as bone surgery. Most cases occur in patients who have certain types of cancer and, as a part of treatment, take a higher dose of bisphosphonates intravenously. But in a 2009 review of cases, Sedghizadeh found that nine of 208 oral bisphosphonate users on the patient rolls had developed such osteonecrosis, or death of jaw tissue.
While these numbers may be somewhat high because the dental school program serves such serious cases, new research confirms the link: An April study of more than half a million HMO members revealed that while osteonecrosis is quite rare, it is nonetheless 9.2 times more likely to occur in someone taking oral bisphosphonates. Why a bone medication might increase tissue death and infection risk is still unclear. Salvatore L. Ruggiero, M.D., D.M.D., the New York oral surgeon who first alerted his profession to the problem, suspects these drugs may have a bigger impact on the jawbone because that part of the skeleton has a high rate of bone turnover, and they therefore may interfere with the normal healing process.
If you're about to start on a bisphosphonate, check in with your dentist to see if you need any major work. Or, if you're already on the medication, ask your doctor if taking a "drug holiday" makes sense. But don't skip needed work if you have an abscessed tooth, for example, you could risk a life-threatening infection. Better to tell the dentist about your drugs so she or he can take extra precautions.
Over the years, there have been multiple lawsuits filed against drug companies by patients who have suffered jaw problems and other complications they believe stem from their use of bisphosphonates. So far, in suits against Merck, the drugmaker has prevailed in several cases, but had a judgment against it in another, which Merck is now in the process of appealing. The vast majority of cases are still pending trial. When asked for comment, the companies selling these medications pointed to their success in helping prevent fractures and their commitment to patient safety.
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Update. Fresh to strong S winds and it's small with the ESE swell in the 1-2ft range on the more open beaches and smaller on the points at around 1ft. The Tweed Coast, D'bah and TOS are the pick with some tiny ones on the points later when the tide drops. It's a lay day for day 3 of the Quiksilver and Roxy Pros.
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ASHLAND, Ore., — Neither the City of Ashland nor the Oregon Shakespeare Festival wanted the leaky fountain which used to stand in front of the Black Swan Theatre. The marble fountain was constructed which was created about 25 years ago. The city asked for bids but no one seemed interested. In the last hour … Continue reading »
Communities Evaluate Summer Water Usage
MEDFORD, Ore. — After a summer plagued by drought, the Medford Water Commission is taking a first look at summer water usage for this year. The agency says the city used noticeably less water than average, after highlighting drought conditions in notices and newsletters. The commission says it expected the community to use more than … Continue reading »
Drought Sparks Water Sale Scam
ASHLAND, Ore. — The City of Ashland is warning residents of a water sale scam going around. According to the city's press release, a company is trying to sell bottled water to local households claiming Ashland's water is unsuitable for drinking. The city advises that this is not true. The city said, "Ashland's water quality … Continue reading »
People Claim Spots Early for Parade
ASHLAND, Ore. — The Fourth of July parade in Ashland is still a day away, but residents and visitors are already gearing up for the celebration. People have already reserved their spots by either laying down blankets, setting up chairs, taping off, or any combination of the three. People were out on the parade … Continue reading »
Ashland Restaurants Conserve Water
ASHLAND, Ore. — Southern Oregon remains in a severe drought as a forecasted hot, dry summer approaches. The city of Ashland is urging people to conserve water, and restaurants are already starting to put restrictions in place. Caldera brewery said it started making guests request water two months ago. Since then it has seen about … Continue reading »
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ASHLAND, Ore. — The City of Ashland is warning residents and business owners of a phone scam. The City of Ashland says a number of Ashland businesses and households have received phone calls from people claiming to be calling from the City of Ashland or a collection agency on behalf of the City. The caller … Continue reading »


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Quick Tip: Use Mixer View in Kore
by Peter Kirn
This may be really obvious, but I know when I first started using Kore I missed it. By default, Kore displays audio and MIDI parameters in tabs below each channel. That makes plenty of sense for editing, and provides critical audio routing, MIDI routing, and basic MIDI filtering that you can't get elsewhere. But once you're done editing, it's actually a kind of confusing way to look at levels, and you can only see one channel at a time.
Click the icon with the three vertical bars at the top of each matrix (including sounds embedded inside other sounds), and you can toggle a Mixer View that shows a more conventional fader strip. You can also enable or disable Aux Outputs and (handy for watching input levels) Audio Input. For me, this has become my default view, switching into Channel Strip view only for editing.
This is also worth mentioning in the context of today's tutorial on Control Pages, because it's a whole lot easier to create Performance-level Control Pages for multiple channels when you can see them (and assign them) all on one screen.
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Michelle's insurance company agreed to pay, her boss gave her time off, and her husband was relieved. She eagerly settled into the program at Sea Winds, a complex of former apartment buildings on NE 88th Terrace just east of Biscayne Boulevard. Then Michelle discovered a few minor surprises: There was no fitness center, the pool was actually an algae-clogged hazard, and her insurance company was billed $1000 per day instead of $400. Still she believed none of that was as important as her recovery, and she impressed both counselors and peers with her determination. "I was like the alcoholic-patient poster child because I worked so hard," she boasted. "This is very important to me; staying sober is everything."
Just 35 days into her expected six-month stay at Sea Winds, though, Michelle abruptly left the facility. There are wildly conflicting explanations for her departure, some of them coming from her. In an interview a few days after leaving, Michelle accused Sea Winds owner Mohamed Ibrahim of mercilessly booting her into the street because she spoke out against some practices and conditions that had already prompted the resignations of Sea Winds' medical director and clinical director. "I had nowhere to go," she recalled. "I'm in Miami, I don't know anybody, I don't know where to go. I was flipping out, crying, sobbing, scared to death." Former employees and Sea Winds executives helped Michelle find lodging and psychological support and urged her to complain to state licensing authorities. She has since returned to Orlando.
But in a letter faxed to Sea Winds on February 13, Michelle claimed all those stories about her being thrown out were "not true" and were spread by disaffected former associates "out to get" Ibrahim, the facility's owner, who has no clinical or addiction treatment experience. (She also denied speaking to any reporter.)
As contradictory as Michelle's accounts may be, her ordeal has been just one among a growing number of bizarre developments at Sea Winds. Beginning this past December, three other clients, also out-of-towners, were summarily discharged by Ibrahim, against the clinical director's judgment; numerous key staffers were fired or resigned; a lawsuit was filed seeking Sea Winds' immediate closure; complaints poured in to city, county, and state authorities; and the ugly truth about the center emerged: Since its opening in June 2000, Sea Winds had been operating illegally, endangering the lives of its approximately 35 clients and flouting nearly every applicable zoning, permitting, and licensing requirement. So far the center continues to operate, having moved some offices to comply with zoning codes, while lawyers fight off attempts to close it.
It took less than seven months for conditions at Sea Winds to degenerate into a confusing mess, but anyone familiar with the background of Mohamed Ibrahim can't be surprised. A convicted felon and charming con man, Ibrahim's past is one long string of busted business deals, multiple bankruptcies and foreclosures, stiffed contractors, and bank fraud. Yet he remains remarkably unhindered by legal considerations and is constantly acquiring properties and embarking on new business ventures. Among his current enterprises are laundromats, convenience stores, a Montessori school, and rental properties. Ibrahim's foray into the potentially very profitable arena of addiction treatment is relatively recent, just within the past few years. Already, though, federal authorities are demanding that he reimburse Medicare more than six million dollars in overbillings during the operation of three mental-health centers he owns (or owned -- all have been shut down). Sea Winds, not surprisingly, accepts no Medicare patients, only those who have private insurance or pay cash.
"This guy needs to be stopped," warns one former patient who didn't want his name used because he fears for his safety. "He's a psycho, and he's putting the lives of vulnerable people in danger." That sentiment is echoed, often in stronger language, by a host of participants in and observers of Ibrahim's exploits.
The idea for Sea Winds began about a year ago, when three South Florida businessmen looking to open an addiction-rehabilitation center in Miami found out about Ibrahim's NE 88th Terrace apartment buildings. Although in need of extensive renovation, the five partially vacant structures appeared perfect for a residential facility. According to David Shurgin, Jonathan Huttner, and Agop Rustemoglu, Ibrahim promised to effect the necessary remodeling and obtain the pertinent licenses and permits. The four men formed a partnership in May 2000. Shurgin was to be Sea Winds' chief financial officer, Huttner the chief operating officer, Rustemoglu the marketing specialist. All have administrative experience in addiction treatment. Ibrahim was general manager of the limited liability company. His partners insist they had no idea then of the many problems with the property, some virtually unresolvable and complicated by the fact that the facility is located in two separate governmental jurisdictions, part in Miami Shores and part in unincorporated Miami-Dade County. One building in the county had been condemned in 1998 and was in foreclosure. Neither of these matters has been resolved yet.


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PFT – On Tuesday, Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News got into a Twitter-style pissing match, as chronicled by the folks at CrossingBroad.com. On Wednesday, the dispute took on a new dimension, with Bowen and McLane getting into a physical altercation at the team's facility. Howard Eskin of NBC 10 and WIP reports via Twitter that Bowen "connect[ed] 2 the head" of McLane, and that the two had to be separated. The pair had to be separated. We've had minor scuffles with each guy in the past (actually, all three — even though Howard is now a friend of PFT), but we can't imagine verbal/written spats ever taking on a physical component. Whoever made the first move needs to be fired.
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@LesBowen: Oh, and BTW, nobody has any idea on Tuesday whether Michael Vick is starting this week. It was Obvious Monday Andy thinks/hopes he will.
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@LesBowen: @MoorestownCup I will handle my business in person, not thru yapping on Twitter. But thanks for your concern.
And he handled that shit, RIGHT. Punched Jeff right in his stupid Twitter-beefing face for talking sideways. I love it. Old man strength once again shows it's true power. The hastag #TeamLes is running through all of the Philly media today, as bloggers rally around Les' victory over "yapping on Twitter." Real recognize real. Cue the music!


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DOVER — Al Oliveira met Gabbi Dodier when she was just 12 years old. Oliveira was working with a youth hockey program when he was approached by a diminutive but enthusiastic girl wanting to play.
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The final stop on Tuesday's portion of the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Lowe's Motor Speedway was at Joe Gibbs Racing in Huntersville, N.C., where the media met with team officials and NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano.
During dinner, JGR President J.D. Gibbs announced that Farm Bureau Insurance will serve as primary sponsor for six NASCAR Sprint Cup races this year. The six races will be split between the No. 11 with Denny Hamlin, the No. 20 with Joey Logano and the No. 02 with a driver to be announced at a later date.
Following opening comments by team owner Joe Gibbs and his son J.D., members of the team shared their thoughts on the new season in an open-interview session.
Joe Gibbs, team owner (ON THE FIRST RACE WITHOUT TONY STEWART): "Obviously, it's something that is kind of a process the way it happened and everything and we kind of went all the way through that. I'm excited. I've been pretty much focused on our guys. If you stop and think about it we're pretty young, so this is going to be a different kind of trip for us. I haven't had a chance to think as much about Tony as I'm focused now on all of our guys. We've had a huge effort here, we've got five different initiatives that we've embarked on to try and help ourselves. We don't want to wind up where we did last year at the end of the year. I think our guys have worked extremely hard. We've all been on board with it and we'll see how it pans out for us."
(WHAT WENT WRONG AT THE END OF LAST YEAR?):"I think it was part of the process we went through. And because of that there were five different things we felt like we needed to go to work on. We have kind of been working real hard in five different areas and so that was kind of the result of what we thought happened. I'm sure every other race team out there has got their agenda and that's what makes it exciting I think. You're never sure who's going to wind up winning it this year."
(WHAT ARE THE FIVE AREAS?): "I'm not telling you what the five areas are. I'm afraid someone else might be working on it."
(WHERE DID YOU MISS IT IN THE CHASE?): "I think there were five things that we felt like hurt us and some of them were pretty obvious to you all probably. We went to work on five different areas and we felt like it all impacted us down the stretch."
(WHO TAKES THE LEADERSHIP ROLE NOW THAT YOU HAVE THREE YOUNG DRIVERS?): "I think certainly that Denny and Kyle are both guys that now have, even though they are young, have some real good experience winning races. They know what it takes. Some of the things we talked about today with them, you could kind of tell they were talking to Joey and telling him some of the things they learned that first year. I think we've got three guys there that they know that you're not going to win a championship unless all three teams are contributing heavily. I've been impressed with Denny at times trying to help Joey. Kyle, some of the suggestions he has for Joey. So that's where you kind of see it showing up in the teamwork. A lot of it wasn't focused on them. They were saying you need to do this, this, and this, so it was interesting."
J.D. Gibbs, team president (OVERVIEW FOR 2009): "For 2009 we have the three Cup cars. We have the M&M's family along with Interstate [Batteries] coming back next year with Kyle. We have the Home Depot team with Joey Logano. Being new this year, we're excited about that. FedEx is rounding the curb again with Denny. We're looking forward to a great year with Denny as well.
"We have Kyle Busch running the full Nationwide [schedule]. Then we'll have a mixture of Denny, Joey and Brad Coleman coming back this year, so we're excited about that."
(WHAT CHANGED IN THE NO. 18 TEAM FROM THE BEGINNING OF LAST YEAR TOWARDS THE END?): "We went back and looked at it. Carl [Edwards] was pretty hot all year long. Jimmie [Johnson] took a while to warm up, but come mid-year they were all clicking. I think with us, you start that Chase and we had three things go wrong right off the bat. It was our fault in preparation. One motor and two mechanical issues, you're done. You can't have three things go wrong like that. We learned to prepare a little better. The reality of it was, those other guys were good. So it wasn't like [Kyle] was light years ahead of them. They were all pretty close once they got going."
(DO YOU FEEL THE TEAM CAME OUT FROM UNDER KYLE?): "Kyle didn't change anything. He didn't make mistakes. We, as a team, had three issues that were our fault. For us, we just missed it there at the end. It was frustrating. It was nice to finish with three good cars at Homestead."
(HOW DO YOU HELP GUYS LIKE STEVE ADDINGTON WHO MAY GET DOWN ON PERFORMANCE A BIT?): "The issues were: one of them was a motor. One was a mistake by one of our guys who is a phenomenal mechanic. Now if it was a guy who consistently made mistakes, you'd say 'we have to make a change.' It wasn't. It was one of our best guys. You move on.
"Steve's good about keeping the team together. He's a great fit for keeping Kyle encouraged. I thought Kyle did a good job. He could have just folded the tent and said, 'I'm done.' But they kept digging and they wound up having some good races towards the end."
(IS THE NO. 18 TEAM CAPABLE OF ANOTHER RUN LIKE THIS?): "Obviously they're capable of it, but the reality is that was a pretty good year as far as wins. I'll take the wins, but I'm more interested in a championship."
Greg Zippadelli, crew chief No. 20 Home Depot Toyota (WITH ONE OF THE YOUNGEST TEAMS IN THE SERIES, HOW MUCH WILL JOEY HAVE TO DEPEND ON YOU THROUGHOUT THE YEAR?): "The good news is that they're all young. They have different driving styles, between Kyle and Denny. For us, we're not sure where we fit in. We're somewhere in the middle. From that aspect he'll be able to go and speak to two different drivers who do different things. To me, that's the greatest. I'll probably have to spend more time with him on all the stuff we don't want to deal with.
"[Joey] wants to do this. I don't see a lot of the bull stuff. We're all going to have bad days, but his biggest struggle is going to be figuring out why he didn't run good. Is it him not being able to tell us, or is it me not figuring out what he was saying? That's where our bad days are going to come from. Part of that is time. He just doesn't have a lot of time in these cars. We don't have any time working together. We haven't been able to go to race tracks with the right tire at the tracks we're going to run at."
Kyle Busch, No. 18 M&M's/Interstate Batteries Toyota (DID YOU ASK TO RUN ALL THE RACES IN THE NATIONWIDE SERIES?): "I asked for that. I told J.D. that I'd like to do it. He made it happen. Last year, I missed five races and still finished sixth or seventh in the championship. I felt like we could have won if we had kept going with it. We decided to step back a little bit. Nationwide is fun series to run. I'd rather be racing in it than sitting on the couch in the motor home watching it."
(WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE TO BEAT JIMMIE JOHNSON THIS YEAR?): "Wreck him. I don't know. Jimmie and those guys are awfully strong. They already have this car figured out. Every year they tend to have their bad luck in the beginning or the middle of the year and by the end it's all gone. It just seems like in the Chase they haven't had much bad luck. They've been able to always capitalize on the final 10."
(IS A REDHOT SEASON FOR THE NO. 18 TEAM DOABLE AGAIN THIS YEAR?): "I think it's going to be less likely that we repeat that first half with the way the competition has picked up and the way everybody has learned this car. I think it's capable to run strong and to run up front and finish top five every week. To have that, you've got to have some sort of luck on your side. If you have a lot you can win races. There is just a lot of luck in this game.
"For me, I made one mistake in the Chase. That was my speeding on pit road at Lowe's. We still finished fourth that night; I was able to bounce back from it. Anywhere else, mechanical issues took us out."
(HOW DID YOU FEEL DURING ALL THE BAD LUCK TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEASON LAST YEAR?): "You thought, 'why us?' It's things beyond your control. It's both of those. The things you do to try and change that is nothing. You could look at trying to change your luck as much as you want, but that's the way it rolls sometimes. You can't change it. It gets tiring when you have as many mechanical issues as we do."
(HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO VOICE YOUR OPINION ON WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE AT GIBBS?): "I was at the meeting. I came in and voiced my opinion to what we need to work on, what people we need to hire, what areas we need to improve on with our cars. Not necessarily just mechanical issues, but the speed aspect of them. [I] just tried to help out as much as I can. [I] gave some insight to what Hendrick Motorsports was like."
Joey Logano, No. 20 Home Depot Toyota (HOW DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH ZIPPY?): "I think he's a really smart guy and a really good guy. I think he's perfect for me, coming into the series as the young kid and having that coach figure at the same time. That helps me out a lot.
"He's pretty patient. He lets you go do your own deal when we test. That's how it's been working right now. In the few tests we've done, so far so good."
(WHAT DO YOU EXPECT OUT OF YOURSELF THIS YEAR?): "I think rookie of the year is a realistic goal for us going into this season. From there, I don't know what everyone expects out of me. I just want to do the best I can. I'm with a great team, but where I lack is having that seat time. We'll figure it out one way or another."
(WHAT WERE YOUR EMOTIONS THE FIRST TIME YOU RACED A CUP CAR?): "It didn't hit me. I went out there and I didn't get nervous before the race. I just thought of it as another race. I think that's the right way to think of it. If you get yourself all worked up, it's just not worth it. It was a very big deal being the youngest to ever start a Cup race, but I tried not to think about it. I didn't even know I was until the end of the race."
Denny Hamlin, No. 11 FedEx Toyota (ON COMPETITION IN THE CUP SERIES): "No there's more competition now. There are more teams that have gotten better. The Red Bull team is one that had jumped to where they were in Chase contention throughout the year. David Ragan's team stepped up. Wherever you see one team maybe fade a little bit you see another one step up. There's always going to be 15 guys or so that are going to be in contention to make the Chase and the only difference is that they expanded the field from 10 to 12. To me the less cars that they allow in it, the more prestigious it is. I think it adds a little bit more to it and there's always going to be about 15 cars, I believe, that should be allowed to race for the championship. You need someone left out every now and then because it makes it more prestigious. For the drivers it makes you hungrier to have to know that if you don't step up you are not going to make the Chase."
(WOULD YOU BE OK BEING OUT ONE YEAR TO SPICE THINGS UP?): "I don't want to be out. I want to be one of those top-10 guys in there, or top-12 guys or whatever it is. I'll tell you, you see it year-in and year-out that somebody misses the Chase, I think Carl [Edwards] missed it two years ago, it just fires you up a little bit more. That's what I think it needs. I think this sport needs to make it harder to get into the Chase. The harder it is, the more us drivers can feed off it."
(DO YOU AGREE THAT THIS SEASON WILL BE MORE EXCITING?): "Absolutely. Without a doubt, every year this sport is more competitive than what it was the year before simply because of all the resources everyone is throwing into it."
(YOU'RE THE LEADER ON THIS TEAM THIS YEAR?): "The old man, that's for sure. You just look around and you see, at a team meeting or a test or something like that, 450 employees all basically relying on teenagers and 20 year olds to try to lead this team to a championship. It shows a lot of faith that they have in us. Hopefully this is the Joe Gibbs Racing you are going to see 10 years down the road. All the drivers are going to remain the same and hopefully the crew chiefs will stick around if they can put up with us long enough. I think that once we establish this right here, this group that we have, every year it should get better. Especially my communication with Kyle, Kyle's communication with Joey, all that, it's going to get better and better."
(ON HOW TO GIVE MORE TO THE FANS): "I definitely like the type of thing that we did at Daytona this past week. It was a good thing I thought. You know, reaching out to the fans. Maybe if you have an autograph session at the race track on a race weekend, something small, just 15 minutes, something that you can do for the fans. Our fans already have a lot more access than a lot of other sports but that doesn't mean we should just let that rest. We still should do more, and anything that we can do for them, I feel like it's our job. I mentioned earlier to the TV guys, we talked about buying tickets to every race this year and giving them away to fans that want to go register on our Web site – anything that we can do to try to give back. I think right now, the sport needs it and the fans need it more than anything."
(IS THAT SOMETHING YOU'RE GOING TO DO OR JUST THINKING ABOUT?): "We're brainstorming on it, but I think [giving tickets away is] pretty much something we are going to do. With the economy, and things the way they are, ultimately you want to be positive and there's a lot of race fans that would love to come to these races but don't have the means to do it. We have more means than we know what to do with right now so we need to give back to them."
Media members then returned to the Embassy Suites Hotel and Concord Convention Center where the evening concluded with a hospitality function hosted by NASCAR Media Group.
The third day of the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Lowe's Motor Speedway started at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Concord Convention Center with a breakfast hosted by NASCAR.com.
During the meal, officials from Turner Sports announced they have redesigned the site in preparation for the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season with a number of new features including an enhanced video channel. The new homepage design on the site will debut on Thursday, Jan. 29.
Media members then headed to another portion of the Concord Convention Center for an announcement regarding the newly-formed Trail Motorsport team. Owned by Arthur Shelton and led by team President Armando Fitz, the organization plans to field entries in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and NASCAR Camping World East Series in 2009.
Fitz and Shelton also announced that Jarit Johnson, brother of defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Jimmie Johnson, will drive the No. 58 Chevrolet in the Camping World East Series, and Chase Austin will pilot the No. 32 Chevrolet in the Camping World Truck Series.
Arthur Shelton, team owner (WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING TO ACCOMPLISH?): "I'm hopeful to compete at a high level. I think we will. With Armando, Jarit and Chase, they're competitors. I want to win every race, but I know we won't. That's the competiveness in me. When we unload we're going to be prepared to compete with the idea that we have a good chance of winning. That's my desire. I'm not a racing expert."
Jarit Johnson, No. 58 Chevrolet (ON WHY HE ENJOYS RACING): "Either way I'm going to be racing something. It comes down to my late model. I always made the time for it. My wife and kids enjoy it too. I'll be driving something."
(WHAT DO YOU WANT TO FOCUS ON IN THIS SERIES?): "The main thing is to go out there and produce solid finishes, stay in the top five in points. If you can stay inside the top five you have a better chance toward the championship. I just want to go out there and have success right off the bat."
Chase Austin, No. 32 Chevrolet (ARE YOU READY FOR DAYTONA?): "I'm approved to practice. That's what is going to prove us. We're really edgy about that. We've got a lot of work to do in a short amount of time just to get to Daytona. After this, I think we're going to keep working on stuff and try to get ready."
For Wednesday's third function, the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour headed to Stewart-Haas Racing in Kannapolis, N.C. There team owner and NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Tony Stewart was joined on stage by teammate Ryan Newman, Director of Competition Bobby Hutchens, and crew chiefs Darian Grubb and Tony Gibson. In addition to talking about the team's goals for 2009, team officials announced that Burger King has signed on to sponsor Stewart in the No. 14 Chevrolet in two races for 2009.
Tony Stewart, owner and driver No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet (ON THE COSTS OF FIELDING THE TEAM): "I'll be honest, I haven't even looked at what it's going to cost yet. And the reason for that is because it's Bobby's [Hutchens] area. I trust him with the budget. It's stuff I will learn because I'm obviously curious about it. My focus has been more on the people and making sure that everybody is happy and everybody is working well together – that Ryan is comfortable that the crew chiefs are comfortable, just making sure that our personnel is happy right now."
(WILL THERE COME A POINT WHERE YOU, AS A DRIVER, WILL HAVE TO BE SELFISH AND SAY I WANT MY CAR BETTER AND NOT WORRY ABOUT THE TEAM?): "I think the great thing that I'm comfortable with already is the fact that when I get in the airplane on Thursday or when I drive to the track on Thursday, I'm able to switch gears and take that hat off and put the driver's hat on and not think about the owner's stuff for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That's why we've got Bobby there and that's the good combination of the two of us is allowing him to do what he needs to do. I told both him and Darian [Grubb], 'when Friday comes I work for you guys. You guys don't work for me, I work for you.' I'm really comfortable knowing that when I get in the car I'm strictly in driver mode again."
(SHOULD PEOPLE EXPECT YOU TO BE A CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENDER THIS YEAR?): "I think it's realistic. We wouldn't have taken this opportunity if we didn't think it was realistic to be in the Chase and have a shot at winning races and winning the championship. Now whether that happens or not obviously will wait to be seen. We feel like we have the tools in place to do that. Having Ryan's confidence in that and Bobby's and Tony and Darian – I don't think that all these guys would have come together if we didn't feel like we have the opportunity and the resources to go out and do that."
(HAVE YOU HAD ANY OF THOSE MIDDLE-OF-THE-NIGHT 'OH MY GOD, WHAT DID I GET MYSELF INTO MOMENTS?'): "Absolutely. About every other night there's a moment where I wake up, but I say that with Eldora Speedway still. I say that with my World of Outlaw teams, my USAC teams. But as scary as it probably should be, it hasn't been. I've been really comfortable with everything that we've done so far and I think a lot of that is the fact that I feel like I have good people around me. I have people that I can trust, I have people that everything that they do, they do in our best interest as an organization and they know how I feel about how important family is and how much emphasis I've put on that with this race team. When you have guys around you that understand your philosophy and understand your mindset going into it and adopt that and go out and make it happen, that takes a lot of that fear away I guess. So when you do go to bed at night, you can relax a little bit. Those guys are all comfortable with where we're at getting ready for Daytona. I look out there and go 'there's not enough cars ready yet.' That's what having those guys there saying 'we're alright. Everything's fine. It's coming along. Don't worry; we're going to be fine. That's the stuff that makes it easier each day."
Ryan Newman, No. 39 U.S. Army Chevrolet (ON PLANS IN OTHER FORMS OF RACING): "I had planned to run some modifieds. We'll run a couple dirt late model races, the Prelude and a couple other races outside of that on dirt. Hopefully do some truck racing. We're going to do some Nationwide races for DeLana Harvick and KHI. I'm running a Silver Crown car four or five times next year as well in the USAC Series. I definitely enjoy those types of cars [and] that type of racing. Loudon was a lot of fun last year. That was a lot of fun racing a modified up there! So I look forward to doing that some more."
(HOW MANY OTHER OPPORTUNTITIES DID YOU HAVE TO GO TO ANOTHER TEAM?): "I'd say easily three to four other offers to go to teams. Not all of them made it to paper, but I had more than one of them on paper. I felt very blessed to be in that position. Tony and I grew up very similar, in essence of the USAC racing days and the open wheel racing. I think secondly, we enjoy the outdoors. We enjoy fishing and hunting, and we can both be totally satisfied on our tractors moving dirt from nine in the morning until five at night. We both do it at different times in different states. Those are things we enjoy.
"Going back to our past, we've had our moments on the race track. I feel we've only had those moments because we're hard nosed racers both going for the same piece of real estate. We've resurrected all of that, but in the end we're both hard racers. From now on we may beat up each others door, but we're doing it because we're trying to represent our team and our sponsors."
Members of the media then headed to Hendrick Motorsports in Concord, N.C. At the start of the event's program, racing legend Mario Andretti presented Jimmie Johnson with the SPEED Driver of the Year Award. Johnson has won the award each of the three years it has been presented.
Johnson, who was fighting off a cold, was then joined on stage by teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr., Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon for a question-and-answer session with the media.
Rick Hendrick, team owner (HOW DO YOU BALANCE THESE FOUR GUYS?): "Absolutely, these guys really enjoy each other, and we try to do things to try and promote that. Anybody can get along with Mark Martin. If you can't get along with Mark Martin, you can't get along with anybody. He is such a neat person, and gracious and respectful of all these other guys. He fits like a glove. He came into our trailer in Phoenix and has been sharing stuff with our guys. He is going to make us all better. I'm really excited about that. I don't think we have any problem. There is a tremendous amount of respect among these guys. You're going to have problems and you're going to have run-ins at the track. I'm going to do my best to settle them down and talk about the big picture when we have those sorts of problems. It's all about respect and I see us having a great year. From that standpoint, I have no worries at all."
(WHAT SHOULD NASCAR DO TO HELP THE SPORT FROM DECREASING DURING THIS ECONOMY?) "I think they've done everything they can do to manage costs. They built the box pretty tight. You can't do too much with the cars. They eliminated testing and people are going to go to the other end of the world to test. We've had more time off in January. I think they're very conscious of what is going on in the economy and they're doing everything they can.
"I've been real impressed with our sponsors. We had a sponsor summit here last night. I expected it to be a small turn out, but it was about the same as last year. We're dedicated to try and make it work for them. I've bumped into a lot of fans at Barrett Jackson in Las Vegas and they were all talking about going to Daytona. The tracks are trying to make packages attractive for the fans. Hotels are going to have to have attractive rates. Everything in this economy has been affected. I think NASCAR has done a pretty good job trying to manage costs. There's no piece of the economy that hasn't felt it. We're just going to have to see how it unfolds going through the year."
(IS THERE ANY SILVER LINING IN THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN?) "I think it brings us all back to earth. People don't take the vacations they used to take. You're more conscious of things. When the economy is real good, you spend money, you feel good and you think it's always going to be that way. When you go through one of these recessions you tighten up. There are so many people that haven't been through anything like this, so I think it's going to teach us all a lesson."
(HAS LABOR BEEN THE HARDEST HIT IN THE NASCAR INDUSTRY?) "Nobody wants to work for less, so we're not going through an adjustment of people's salaries. You don't have people that are out there baiting the best people with more money. I think that's what it eliminated. All of a sudden at the end of the year you were worried about keeping your good people. Now they're thankful they have a job. That's the difference you see. You're not seeing all the exorbitant prices."
Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet (THOUGHTS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF WINNING FOUR CHAMPIONSHIPS IN A ROW): "I know it's crazy and in theory I thought about it. It would be great to win four in row, but there's so much racing between now and then. When we started the season last year we struggled. [We] really had to fight through some things to get our car sorted out. Today I'm sitting here, I have great feelings. I know this team is capable of winning races and a fourth championship. We have to get to the track and get to work and see where we fit. I'm extremely optimistic, but the Chase is so far away."
(ON THE ROLEX 24): "The Rolex 24 is coming up. Hopefully I can get all my energy back for that. It's going to be an awesome event. Last year we finished second down there. I'm hopeful we can be on pace and keep that car on the road all night long and have a shot at it at sunrise."
Dale Earnhardt Jr., No. 88 AMP Energy/National Guard Chevrolet (ON HAVING MARK MARTIN AS A TEAMMATE): "The amount of respect that everybody in the series has for him is really the one thing that sticks out about Mark. Everybody likes Mark and everybody thinks a lot of him. To me he is a role model in that aspect. In that respect he is a role model in that guys should try to achieve and gain that kind of respect from their peers like he has. I am glad he is here. He is an awesome race car driver. He's going to be fast and he's going to be hard to beat, but he's going to bring a lot to the table too. Just like being able to work closely with Jeff [Gordon] and Jimmie [Johnson] last year was exciting, it's going to be exciting to work with Mark on a teammate basis. I am looking forward to that."
(WERE YOU READY FOR LAST YEAR TO END?): "Not really. I don't ever like it to end. When the season is coming to an end it's like a double-edged sword. It's just like it is when the season is getting ready to start: part of you wants to keep going and part of you is ready for some time off. At the end of last year you don't want to end the season on a bad note like we did with a part failure. We certainly would have liked to have gotten a top 10. I would have been able to settle with that a lot more easier than I did with how we finished. It's very bittersweet to make the Chase and to have run well the first half of the season and to have such a struggle especially with the Chase there at the end."
(ON WHAT HE'S LEARNED FROM JIMMIE JOHNSON): "Being around Jimmie and watching him do his job and watching the team work, certainly you can learn a lot from them and they are winning championships. They have a great equation going right now. They are good guys to study and try to improve on what you are doing with some of their techniques. I have always tried to minimize mistakes, but that's really hard to remember when you are in the heat of the battle or the heat of the moment going for position."
(ON THE BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT): "Being in the Shootout is important because we get to work on our cars a little bit. That was always the case whether we had testing or not. Even in the test you weren't able to get a good gauge of what your car's doing in race trim with a lot of rubber on the track and a lot of cars out there. You weren't able to find that out in a test. Being in the Shootout is always a big bonus for those guys. They are going to be able to learn something for the [Daytona] 500. I miss the old format: guys winning poles to get into the race seems to be the reason they started the whole deal in the first place, it's just unrecognizable right now."
(ABOUT SNOWMOBILING IN ASPEN DURING THE OFF SEASON): "It was pretty fun going up the mountain. I had never really gone snowmobiling before, so that was pretty fun. It was a good experience. We got to see some pretty interesting things, some great views and stuff that you really don't appreciate until you get up there and see them. There was just one trail and we were lucky to get down that trail in one piece, it was pretty crazy, it was fun."
Mark Martin, No. 5 Kellogg's/CARQUEST Chevrolet (WHEN DID RACING STOP BECOMING FUN FOR YOU?): "Around 2001, it started to gradually taper off. You have to be happy. I wasn't that. I wasn't as happy as I should have been given all the circumstances. I had a great job, a great career. I loved Jack Roush like a brother. I just needed a break to catch my breath, and figure out what was important to me. I got that for two years and I had the time of my life. It was the best year of my life."
(WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO COME BACK TO CUP FULL TIME?): "I could sit on the couch or I could drive this No. 5 car. There's nothing else in the world I'd rather do than to be behind the wheel of this No. 5 car and doing this. I know that there is nothing else out there that will take the place of racing a great race car and working with a great race team. That time for me is limited and I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do this at this stage. It's just unbelievable for me to get this chance. I know what I want to do. I was a little apprehensive about driving the full schedule, but I darn sure knew I wanted to drive that No. 5 car. This was what it took to make it work and I'm thrilled. This is what I want to be doing."
(DID MATT MARTIN HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DECISION TO COME BACK?) "If Matt would have continued what he was doing and wanted to make a career out of being a NASCAR driver, I don't think I'd be doing this right now. I think I would be consumed with trying to help him do that. There have been twists and turns in my life. Everybody looked at me as a straight and narrow guy -19 years with Jack Roush. Since then there's been a lot of twists and turns. A lot of it I didn't know. It's been a journey that I had to discover about myself and all. Some of it, I couldn't predict. I didn't know that Bobby Ginn was going to step out of it. Then it was great to be involved in DEI. I had a blast there, but after a while opportunity really got to me. The experience that Rick [Hendrick] and I had working together on the Nationwide car really helped that. I can't tell you how extraordinary a person Rick Hendrick is, and how much I want to be near him. He is so much fun. I didn't put any emphasis on having fun back in the day, but it's very important to me now."
Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet (ON COMPETITION AND THE NO. 24 TEAM): "One thing I learned a long time ago, it doesn't matter if you have the best people, the best equipment, everything on paper or from a distance looks like it's just perfect. That doesn't make it automatically happen. Competition is going to be extremely tough. Like you mentioned, we're the bull's eye, the target that they're shooting for and that puts added pressure on us. I think we're capable of living up to that but it's not going to happen without a lot of hard work. Obviously the No. 24 team had a little bit of work to do last year, but I feel really, really good about what we've done over the off season and the things that Steve Letarte and our engineers and the whole team have been working on. It's been nice to have time over the off season to really think and focus about the future for this season, instead of just having to think about rebuilding cars right away to get ready for Daytona test, to get ready for Vegas test and then kind of see what we have with that. They've really been able to pay attention to the details and that's what really matters with the Car of Tomorrow is finding all those little details, that's what separates you from the competition.
"It wasn't that we weren't doing that last year. It's that those things weren't working last year. And you've got to grow with the times, with the competition, and everybody gets smarter and better and makes the cars go faster all the time. Plus, tires change. Even though the cars didn't change that much we were still going to new tracks with it. So it was a huge learning process for us last year and I feel like while we can always learn on what we've accomplished in the past that doesn't mean we can ever go back to that. You've just got to take the philosophy of it and the basics of it, but then use what you know now, today, the technology, the experience and benefit from those things as you go forward.
"I'm more confident in what I'm capable of doing and what our team is capable of doing than I've ever been. Those first couple of years, especially 1995, I didn't go into that season thinking we were going to win a championship. I had no idea we were going to be that strong and have that kind of a year. The performances pretty much set the tone of what we were capable of that year. And I've always kind of done it that way. I know what we have here at Hendrick. I know how special of a place this is. I know how hard our people work and how good everything is. I have confidence in what I can do, but until you go out there and start going through the motions and getting into the races and see what you really have and what you come out of the races with. Until those are positives, I'm always pretty much neutral with what to expect going into the season."
(ON MARK MARTIN): "Mark is one hot commodity, even at 50 years old. He's extremely talented, very committed, and very capable of winning races and a championship. When you look at a guy like that as somebody who is available and that is interested, you are going to go after them very hard. It's going to take a good negotiator and there's nobody better at that than Rick [Hendrick]."
(ON THE ECONOMY): "I think we all have to be very conscious of the economy. It's affected all of us. We've had the new additions of some sponsors, which we're very excited about, but we've also had some that have gone away. For me personally, some endorsements have changed. We're very aware of what's happening in the economy with marketing and with big corporations and I would say that I'm just thinking a lot more about my spending and cutting costs. There's some extravagance of some things that all of us have become accustomed to."


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MEDFORD, Ore. — An organization known for helping people get into affordable homes is now celebrating a new building for themselves!
On Thursday, Habitat for Humanity invited the community to an open house for their new affiliate offices, located on South Pacific Highway.
The property, including the administration building, was purchased last summer; Habitat was previously renting the property.
"We were about 3 or 4 to an office there we were using space that really could be used for restore retail space and it was just a little better to have our own identity," said Denise James, the Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity.
The space will be used for staff and meetings. Volunteers and staff were putting the finishing touches to the front lobby on Thursday.


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Hello Experts,
We are trying to make a decision nto go in for integration of web application with sap .
Do we use the SAP dotnet connector or SAP XI, we already have sap xi in the landscape.
If we were to use sap xi, I understand there will be development from .net team to incorporate wsdl files, the pi team for development of interfaces and theabap team to get the rfc/s idocs/proxies .
If we use dot net connector we would only employ the dot net team.
Can you please suggest and provide some wikis or presentations that would help us to take a decision??
I don't think that there is any specific presentation providing recommendation about this point.
>>If we use dot net connector we would only employ the dot net team
Some customization will be required on ECC end in this case as well.
It is logical to use PI as you already have PI as middleware in your landscape. Any point to point integration will remove need of development in PI. However, we still use PI for various reasons, like easy management, monitoring, loose coupling etc. Your decision is more about to do point to point vs use of middleware.
Prateek Raj Srivastava
There shouldn't be much development implementing a WSDL with .NET. The [WSDL.exe|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7h3ystb6%28v=vs.90%29.aspx] program will generate most of your boilerplate code for calling the web service. In my opinion it's better to use a web service instead of the .NET connector because it can easily be reused should you ever choose to replace/upgrade the website.
If you don't want to use PI, another option would be to use the[ Enterprise Services in ECC|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/47/310fc763fc2037e10000000a114a6b/frameset.htm].
if you have PI in your landscape and using PI as a strategic middleware then go for it,refer below blog
How to integrate .NET Microsoft Applications and SAP ECC using SAP Process Integration
No PI in landscape and then think about SAP Netweaver Gateway.
>Do we use the SAP dotnet connector or SAP XI, we already have sap xi in the landscape.
Go with SAP PI. This is a middleware tool and you create the design for the current and future. I have used SAP dot net connector similar to JCO for the application integration. This is hard to maintain.


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Fatty fish like salmon and Atlantic mackerel are one of the few good food sources of vitamin D. Vitamin D is critical for oral health since it allows your body to absorb and use calcium, a nutrient that protects your teeth and gums from disease. The vitamin D found in salmon makes it easier for your teeth and bones to get the full power of calcium from the foods you're eating.


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In addition to developmental penis disorders, psychological penis disorders exist that equally require treatment. One psychological penis disorder common is the Koro syndrome, also known as Genital Retraction Syndrome and Penis Panic.
Although it is not to be taken lightly, some attribute "penis panic," or Genital Retraction Syndrome, to be closely related to the cultural belief of witchcraft and voodoo. This attribution occurs because this disorder is strongly a mental one, resulting in the mind creating a scenario that is not known to be physically possible.
Genital Retraction Syndrome, or penis panic, occurs when a man is overwhelmed by the idea that his penis and testicles will shrink, retract into the body, or just disappear. Generally, this is a cultural syndrome, one that occurs frequently in Asia and Africa, and it can affected an entire village. This disorder generally occurs in areas where education is minimal or restricted, or where drug use is heavily common.
Symptoms of Penis Panic
The symptoms of this psychological penis disorder are fairly simple. The person experiencing Genital Retraction Syndrome has an immense fear that his penis will shrink or disappear and that he will die. What is most notable about this disorder is its ability to spread amongst a society, causing some researchers to use terms such as "mass hysteria" in association with this disorder.
Essentially, penis panic stems from the idea of being emasculated. The status of the penis and its "power" is world-wide, and no male wants to be separated from what makes him a man. Ultimately, for some, the mere thought of this happening is enough to cause hysteria. However, this disorder is different from other psychological penis disorders in that it has been known to be contagious.
Causes of Genital Retraction Syndrome
Most of the time, the causes listed for Genital Retraction Syndrome are food poisoning, drug use, and excessive masturbation. One of the most famous instances of Genital Retraction Syndrome occurred in 1967 in Singapore, when groups of men believed that they had eaten contaminated pork that was causing the condition. No such widespread instances of this disorder have occurred in the United States, according to research.
Another instance of this psychological disorder occurred in 2003, where men from Sudan were supposedly causing penises to disappear by shaking hands with random men. This case went so far as to make it into the media in Sudan, and some journalists were advising people not to visit Sudan because of this phenomenon. In West Africa between 1997 and 2003, six nations declared instances of this epidemic as well. Clearly, this disorder is serious and has even been known to cause violence in areas where it has become an epidemic.
Unfortunately, the only treatment for this psychological penis disorder is to simply tell the person experiencing penis panic that it physically cannot happen. Men who suffer from Genital Retraction Syndrome most assuredly only need counseling.
However, this is not a disorder that should be dismissed. The roots of this disorder may lie very deep, and intense counseling may be needed to convince the person suffering from this disorder that his penis will not disappear.


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Soreness could easily be a good or bad thing. It could be a sign of a good workout, a possible injury, or-unfortunately-an excuse for us to not workout. So is feeling sore a good or bad thing? And should one workout regardless of how sore they are? Soreness isn't necessarily a bad thing, and working out when sore can be a good thing. Here's why!
So Is Feeling Sore A Bad Thing?
Feeling sore isn't a bad thing. Why? Your body simply isn't adjusted to the workout. Over time-which could more or less be a month-your body should get adjusted. However there are times when soreness could be a sign of an injury, so be careful and learn to know your limits.
Should I Workout Even If I'm Sore?
Most times we might think "well I'm feeling sore today, maybe I should take today's workout session off and get back to it tomorrow." So should the person workout? When I get sore, I use the day of the soreness to work on another part of the body. In reality it gives me a chance to dedicate time for another part of the body that's well rested. So if I went for a good run today day, I'll use tomorrow to work on my upper body. So in part, yes. But remember that our bodies need rest, so don't push yourself to a point where that soreness becomes an injury.
Just to Mention It…
Soreness isn't necessarily a sign of being in bad shape; it just means you went above your comfort zone. It's like when a soccer player or a runner finish competing, they might feel a bit sore, not because they're out of shape, but because their muscles are tired.


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Saturday, June 02, 2007
That's A Whole Lot Of Crumpets
Even with the defection of Street Sense, next weeks Belmont Stakes is expecting, as of this moment, a field of five.
Be still my heart.
However, there will be no such shortage in the Belmonts British equivalent, todays mile and a half Epsom Derby. No fewer than 18 rivals will line up to challenge the prohibitive favorite, Authorized.
In an apparent effort not to be outdone by Americas Todd Pletcher and his classics quest, the prolific Aidan OBrien will saddle eight runners in todays race and 36-year-old jockey Frankie Dettori will try to ride his first Epsom Derby winner after 14 failed attempts.
The dominance of Authorized and the presence of the redoubtable Dettori aboard has resulted in the colt becoming one of the shortest-priced favorites in the wagering thus far. In fact, a victory by this team would cost British bookmakers over 30 million pounds.


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A friend is never a co incidence
In your life they are meant to enter your life
To bring you joy and laughter.
So I will treasure the friendship
Between us.
Sometimes my mind asks why I miss you
Why I care for you ; why I remember you
Then my heart answers
Its simply because you are a sweet friend!
A friend gives hope
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When you have nowhere to go
A friend is honest
A friend is true
A friend is precious
And that
My friend is you
This is for my best friend.
The one person I can tell my soul too
Who can relate to me like no other
Who I can laugh with to no extents.
Who I can cry too when times are tough.
Who can help me with the problems of my life.
Never have you turned your back on me
Or told me I wasn't good enough
Or let me down
I don't think you know what that means to me
You have went through so much pain and you still have time for me
And I love you for listening even when inside you are dying
And I look up too you because you are strong.
And caring and beautiful.
Even though you don't think you are.
And I hope you know that I am always here
To listen to you laugh and cry and help
In all the ways that I can
And I will try to be at least half the friend you are to me
I hope you know I would not be the person I am today.without you.
My best friend.
Never say you are alone
When I am still alive
Will always be there for you
No matter what!
Never say you are happy when you
Are sad never say you are fine
When you are not ok . never say
You feel good when you feel bad.
And never say you are alone when
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your smile melt my heart
We are touched by angels
Walks where angels tread
They will guard and guide us
Through the days ahead
In time of sorrow
As is the days of joy
They bring us hope and comfort
Nothing can destroy
In the hours of darkness
When our dreams have flown
They bring us peace and healing
We are not alone
Through times of doubting
Still they understand
We are touched by angels
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This is a post about friendship, a subject that tends to worm its way into your cranium quite a bit when a) it's January and b) you're spending your first of several years abroad, hundreds of miles from the people you like best and also from a TV that carries American college basketball.
Our friends Michelle and Dan, back in New York, are pretty awesomesauce peeps. I knew Michelle vaguely but fondly from the first time I lived in the city, before moving to the Midwest for several years. From the very minute I moved back to Gotham, thanks to forces I'll never quite understand but will forever appreciate, the friendship was just there, fully realized and present. We both met our respective fiances within a year, doubling the number of very cool people we got to hang out with whenever we hung out together.
Of course, Michelle and Dan are big cocktail fans. (Srsly, why else would Sean and I ever hang out with anyone?) They're not quite as fanatical as we are, I'd say, because in their hearts they save some room for beer, and also their whiskey allegiance veers towards the waters of northern Europe (IRL, UK, etc.) rather than the Nation of Kentucky. But a couple summers ago when Sean and I wanted to drive upstate to the Tuthilltown Distillery's Facebook Fan Appreciation Day (yes, that was a real thing — shut up, Sean won a bourbon barrel!), we knew exactly who we wanted to come along with us.


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Does the Daily Express television reviewer only watch one channel? In today's column about last night's TV, Matt Baylis reviews Channel 5 shows but ignores the other broadcasters. A travel programme fronted by one of the channel's main faces, Justin Lee Collins, Turning Japanese was, Baylis says, "inspired" and "enjoyable". Britain's Secret Schindler, a documentary on the channel, was also, well, "inspired". And guess what? Another Channel 5 show is named as one of the Express's "picks of the day" (Ice Road Truckers, at 8pm tonight, since you ask). Who owns Channel 5? Daily Express owner Richard Desmond, of course. Inspired.
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