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At the outset of this review it must be noted that in Dr. Carson's own words he does not desire this book to be "primary a contribution to the current disputes, as important as those debates may be. It is meant to foster clear thinking among Christians who want to know what we mean when we join believers across the centuries in confession, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in his only Son Jesus, our Lord" (12).
In the past century Christian preaching and writing have focused more attention on Jesus's deity and Jesus's lordship than on Jesus's Sonship. Dr. Carson notes that in recent times, "When Christians have written and spoken about Jesus as the Son of God, they have tended to focus on one of three topics" (13). First, Carson notes that many of these types of works are forged within the discipline of systematic theology discuss the Sonship of Jesus especially the title Son of God within their broader treatment of Trinitarian theology (14). Secondly, a handful of works are specialist volumes focusing on the categories of systematic theology. For example these types of titles may focus on Psalm 2 or the social and political contexts of the Roman world. Third, in the past few years spirited discussions have occurred regarding Son or Son of God language applied to Jesus.
Chapter one is where Dr. Carson unpacks the following words from the Apostles Creed, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in his only Son Jesus, our Lord." As he does this, Carson examines what the Bible teaches about Jesus being the Son of God in the first two chapters in order to engage the current discussion about how the expression "Son of God" should be translated especially in Bible translations designed for the Muslim world" (16).
Chapter three, the final chapter of Carson's boo is where he seeks to organize his reflections around two questions, "What bearing does this study of Jesus as the Son of god have on the way Christians should think about Jesus, and What bearing does this study of Jesus as the Son of God have on current debates regarding the translation of the Title, especially in Muslim contexts?
Under the first question Carson makes six points: First, not all uses of Son of God are the same; second, biblical trajectories are important if we are to understand how Son of God commonly works; third, the relationship between exegesis of the biblical Son of God passages and the categories of systematic theology is not a simple one, fourth, the eternal generation of the Son is especially convoluted territory, fifth, understanding Jesus as the Son of God ought to have a bearing on our evangelism, and finally under this heading, understanding Jesus as the Son of God ought to have a bearing in our worship.
Under the last question in the last chapter of this book, Carson seeks to engage the current missiological discussion regarding C5 communities. Often collectively C5 is referred to as IM (Insider Movements). Carson notes that, "Those who support IM feel they are tearing down unnecessary barriers to the conversion of Muslims those who reject IM feel that the movement is essentially syncretistic and thus a threat to the gospel itself, engendering many spurious conversions. Inevitably, there are numerous mediating positions" (88).
While this discussion is important, this reviewer agrees with Dr. Carson when he notes that, "the spread of the gospel in the early church saw the dissemination of Scripture along with the provision of missionaries and pastors. One wonders if at least some of the tensions over Bible translation springs from commitment on the part of some to provide adequate translation without simultaneously providing missionaries and pastors" (109). Carson continues, "To be frank, it would be good to see less energy devoted to taking us away from the theological richness of the multifaceted biblical affirmations of Jesus's Sonship, and much more energy expended on understanding and then learning how to teach all the Bible does and does not say about Jesus the Son of God. Then those who are genuinely converted will stand with Christians across centuries and cultures, and quietly and reverently affirm, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in his only Son Jesus, our Lord" (109).
The reason the above by Dr. Carson is so important is because while the Church should be engaged in doctrinal and theological discussion, the Church also needs to combine zeal for the Word of God with mission for God. When the Church loses sight of this dual tension we disobey the Commission of Jesus to make disciples for His glory. Dr. Carson is right that we need to spend more energy on "all the Bible does and does not say about Jesus the Son of God", as well as training leaders in the Gospel. As we seek to raise up leaders for the Gospel, the Church is to follow the pattern Paul gave Timothy in 2nd Timothy 1:13 to instruct Christian leaders of all stripes and types to, "Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus."
As an artist has his sketch so Timothy also had his model to go by. This sketch, model, or pattern consisted of the words which he had heard from Paul. Let him hold on to these, ever using them as his example, never departing from them. This is important, for Paul's teaching consisted of sound words. And it is exactly the necessity of remaining sound and of transmitting sound doctrine that is stressed throughout 2nd Timothy and all the Pastorals (1 Tim. 1:10; 6:3; 2 Tim. 4:3; Titus 1:9, 13; 2:1, 2, 8). As the Church combines passion for God and His Word with courageously engaging a lost and dying world with the gospel it will not only fulfill the mission of God but also the Great Commission to make disciples for the glory of God.
In this reviewer's opinion, Dr. Carson's book Jesus The Son of God A Christological Title Often Overlooked, Sometimes Misunderstood, and Currently Disputed is an important contribution not only to the debates surrounds Bible translation, but also as it relates to the questions raised by this conversation on how Christians should engage Muslims with the Gospel. Whether you're aware of this issue or not, this reviewer recommends you read this book to know Jesus and the Bible better and to walk through this issue with one of the preeminent Bible scholars and theologians of our day.
Apologetics 315 Book Reviewer Dave Jenkins is the Director of Servants of Grace Ministries. He enjoys biblical, systematic and historical theology and apologetics. More of his writing can be found at http://servantsofgrace.org.


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He has heard the voice that commanded it. An unspeakable act must be committed in a holy place.
A father must sacrifice his son.
This brief description could be a summary of Joseph Ramirez and his recent attempt to sacrifice his 8-year-old son in San Diego. It could also describe the situation of the prophet Abraham to carry out God's commandment to sacrifice his son, Isaac. Then again, there is one instance in the New Testament when a father's plan to sacrifice his child actually succeeds.
As news first reached me of Joseph Ramirez's tragic attempt to kill his son, I was instantly reminded of Abraham and Isaac. There is very little difference between the two instances other than the outcome in which Isaac was ultimately spared. No one in the time of Abraham heard God's commandment to him. It was made in private (Genesis 22:2). If you or I were alive at the time, we would lack any reason to believe Abraham to be anything other than insane. Similarly with Ramirez: according to him, his grandmother spoke to him and commanded the sacrifice of his son. He told horrified witnesses, "We're going to see Jesus. We're going to see Jesus." In both stories, the child lives and must endure a lifetime of questions and guilt as well as the notion that they were betrayed by someone to whom they should always feel trust and comfort: their father.
I previously mentioned the only biblical instance in which a father actually succeeds in sacrificing his son. Jesus of Nazareth was the only child between God and Mary (John 3:16) -- as Isaac was to Abraham and Sarah. It is believed that he was sent to earth with the sole purpose of being the "Lamb of God" (John 1:29) to atone for all human sin. But the comparison between Isaac, Jesu, and the young Master Ramirez is complicated because, according to Christians, Jesus is not only the son of God, but God himself (John 1:10). The father is killing the son and part of himself at the same time. Objectively speaking, this sacrifice illustrates a simultaneous murder-suicide, similar to what Mr. Ramirez attempted with his own son. Like Abraham's experience, there is no instance in which a witness hears the voice of God speaking to Jesus. It was always in private or through the Holy Spirit. Again, objectively looking at this scenario, no person can attest to the instructions actually received or imagined by the three fathers. Can we accurately determine who is a prophet and who is a madman? By what criteria can we make such a determination at the time of their actions? Imagine how different the world would be if Isaac were actually murdered! Scratch Judaism, Christianity and Islam out of world history.
Through all of this discussion we must focus on the most important element which is the well-being of the child. Jesus fulfilled his mission and died (Mark 15:37), so we shall not be concerned with any lingering effects on his psyche. Furthermore, although intentionally killed by his father, he was an adult at the time of his death and accounts of his childhood are mostly absent from the New Testament. Ramirez, however, has thankfully survived his father's attack (thanks to witnesses Jaymisha Pires and Corey Granberry), as did Isaac. Both Ramirez and Isaac must endure the constant knowledge that they were nearly slain by their own father. Parents are intended to be an infinite source of love, compassion and trust for their children. It is probably impossible for a child to truly trust a father that was intending to kill them, knowing a holy trump card looms with the Bill Cosby phrase, "I brought you in this world; I'll take you out."
As the world watches a man attempt to sacrifice his son in response to quiet voice in his head, it should give us pause for other such moments in history carried out by men we now deem holy. I'm not in any way implying Ramirez should have been allowed to continue! But wonder why fathers of the past are now glorified for their actions. Noah began building an ark before a cloud appeared in the sky. To know he was right required the greatest natural disaster in all biblical lore. Were a man to begin building a giant boat today, we may label him "eccentric" or "one of the guys who founded Google." Deciphering the insanity from the divine is, without question, a matter of historical judgment.


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Our kids are 3 and 6 years old. I scheduled their dentist appointments back to back on next Monday. I was kind enough to let exwh know today when the dentist appointments were going to be.
His response?..... He asked if I could move their appointments to the following Friday because it would more convenient for him
I replied that its hard to get back to back appointments and that I had to make some arrangements that revolve around the appointment. He came back with if I had asked the dentist if they had openings on Friday and that he could take the kids himself if I can't get off work for the appointments.
Ugh! I feel I might have to get nasty to get him to back off. But if I do he will make my life difficult for a long time just because he can.
a little background: exwh and i live 60 miles apart from each other. I was a SAHM and now he gets to keep the martial home while the kids and I live with my parents.
Last year he tried to change the kids' primary doctor from the one in my city to the one in his city because it would be closer to him since he would probably have one of the kids near the time of a well visit. The pediatrician refused to change the primary doctor because they had already transferred the shot records. I think they knew he was doing it behind my back. Our DS has a potentially dangerous fire ant allergy. We have epi-pens and everything. He just doesn't get the importance!
Of course exwh is only thinking about himself. Then when he came to DD's well visit we took that time to schedule DS appointment too. He agreed to the time and date but once he got home he didn't feel it was "in the best interest of the kids" for them to be in the car so much (traveling to and from dr and then me picking them up for end of visitation). He then demanded that ALL doctor appointments needed to be scheduled during the time I have custody of the kids.
So now I have been scheduling during my custody time. He insists on coming to all the appointments but now I need to make them to more convenient for him.
My ipad does a lot of crazy typos.
End of discussion. Let him rant, yell, scream, whatever. Ignore. If he wants, let him take you to court. Gee Judge, she schedules appointments at times I say are convenient, but then when I decide they are not, she won't change them, just because she wants to have both kids appointments at the same time. I ordered her to make all their appointments on her time, then got mad that the times don't work for me. Make her do what I want!!!!
Yeah, I had to tell mine a few times, not necessarily because of appointments, that hey, this is what you wanted. This is what happens when you walk out on your family. Everything isn't about YOU.
WH says marriage is over: May 15, 2009.
EA#2 July 20, 2009. Legally sep: Aug 16, 2009. DIVORCED!!!! Signed Nov 23, final Dec 24, 2010, adultery listed.
I take it one day at a time; I know I will not change him and just stand my ground on it.
Every time he asks me to cancel an appointment or the kids miss something important because of his 'schedule' I document it. I am hoping that moving forward I will get full custody with him having visitation and that my records of his disruption of the kids life will work against him in court.
In the future, you are welcome to let me know in advance what days and times are best for you. However, I will accept what time they have open that will work best for the kids. I will always inform you when their appointments are.
This is kind of difficult. I really only talk to him via email due to his controlling behavior and wanting to get everything in writing. Since the drive is over an hour his convenience wouldn't be mine. I like the kids to have the first appointments of the day so they don't miss school or disrupt their day. He doesn't get up very early...never has.
Do you share legal custody? I would let all of your doctor's know that he should not be allowed to change anything.
We have joint legal custody but in any evasive procedures.. Medical, educational, etc i get to make the decision after "consulting with him".
I feel like telling the doctors that unless the appointment is made or canceled by me personally to not allow it. I don't want to scare off the medical profession but I don't want his narcissism to ruin things for me and the kids.
What should I say about moving this appointment?
I already replied once with:
I'm sorry but I really can't change the appointment. Since school is starting soon a lot of people are trying to squeeze in appointments, like myself. I made it on a day that DS and DD would both be available and able to be seen back to back. I have also had to make several other arrangements that revolve around the appointment time.
He then replied if I had even asked the doctor if there were opening on Friday and if so he would take them himself.
The issue is that when their schedule is disturbed too much it makes it hard for them to not get super wound up. He is already coming down Friday afternoon for DS's school orientation. So what he wants is to take them to the dentist, spend the day with them, and then be at the orientation.
Just to say he has been difficult about everything with me. Every time I have been nice to him he has turned around and screwed me over.
I don't want to change the kids' appointments I made the appointments when I wanted. I was being generous by telling him before the fact that the kids were going to the dentist.
He refuses to take the kids to their appts when they are in his custody but when I take them during my time he in turns wants to spend extra time with them. I don't have a problem with this but he doesn't tell me he is coming... I have to find out from my 6 year old and then he asks for extra time in FRONT of the kids which makes me the bad guy if I say no.
During facetime he has even promised the kids I would give them treats if they eat what he tells them to but they are in MY house.
His response?..... He asked if I could move their appointments to the following Friday because it would more convenient for him
It is hard to get out of that secretary role. It is a pain but you need to establish some precedent or you will be changing stuff all the time to suit him.
I understand - my Ex seems to think his life is more important than mine too.
I replied that its hard to get back to back appointments and that I had to make some arrangements that revolve around the appointment. He came back with if I had asked the dentist if they had openings on Friday and that he could take the kids himself if I can't get off work for the appointments.
I understand - my Ex seems to think his life is more important than mine too.
I replied that its hard to get back to back appointments and that I had to make some arrangements that revolve around the appointment. He came back with if I had asked the dentist if they had openings on Friday and that he could take the kids himself if I can't get off work for the appointments.
When he asked if you could move the appt, you should just say "no". By trying to explain why, it gave him the impression you would cater to his requests.
You said your agreement says you get to make the decisions after you consult with him? Welp - you did.
My kids have dentist appointments next week. I never even considered telling Ex nor would I want to share the waiting room with him.
In the future when he cause a fuss simply reply "I am sorry but I cannot move the appointment." Do not give any further explanation and do not respond to any of his replies because he is just trying to bait you.
He's told you to schedule them on your time, so just keep doing what you are doing. The other stuff? I personally would tell him straight up that he cannot tell them that you will give them treats to do what he says. I would also tell him that he needs to ask you for extra time when the kids are not in earshot, or the answer from now on will be no, you have plans. Shoot, drive to walmart before you go home. You had plans. You need to set up more boundaries with this ass. He won't stop without them.


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Herald correspondent Monique Brand spent the afternoon with Bobbi Clingerman at Black Meg 43 in Harker Heights. This is the fourth in a series of articles on "A Day in the Life" of various Harker Heights occupations.
On a cloudy and humid Saturday afternoon, I was greeted at the double doors of Black Meg 43 by the manager of the day, Tray McIntire. He introduced me to the employee I would be shadowing, Bobbi Clingerman, a 20-year-old Heights resident who has worked at the restaurant for almost three months.
The crew had been there for a few hours before I arrived, exchanging information with other cashiers from the previous shift and making the usual preparations for the evening.
As I walked into the cashier area, I almost slipped on the floor, leading Clingerman to tell me the reason employees wear special shoes for work.
The floors can get slippery from the cooking oil, she said, which flies through air and lands on the floor as it fries food.
Plus, the last crew shift had just cleaned the floor. Clingerman handed me a Black Meg hat that all the employees wear with their company T-shirts.
On a typical Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m., the restaurant is in a "slow-down" mode, McIntire said. So there was time to re-stock, show me the point-of-service register and tell me how to use the system. It almost brought me back to my high school years as a cashier at Papa John's in Los Angeles. But as reality kicked in, so did the customers.
With the turn of a hamburger patty, the restaurant suddenly went from completely empty to a packed house. Staff members kicked into high gear as they worked to serve customers.
"You have to always pay attention to details with everyone's orders," Clingerman said. "Messing up anything can cause a dent in the POS register and of course your dependability."
Clingerman was in waitress mode, clearing out items on the order screen that shows what needs to be served to whom. Other employees helped as well by working the registers and putting orders together.
New and old customers lined up at our register. Clingerman pointed out one particular customer — Shamari Miller — who has been a regular since the Harker Heights location opened in February.
"They greet me with kindness and good service," Miller said. "And Bobbi knows exactly what I want every time. ... Gotta' love it."
Another regular, Terri Norris, also raved about the restaurant. Norris' family drives from Killeen to the Heights location when they can, Norris said.
"I love it. I am so thankful that it is affordable."
As my shift came to an end and I headed home for the night with sore feet and an aching back, I felt a renewed sense of appreciation for people who work in the restaurant industry.
I was happy to be on the eating side of it and not the serving side.


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Subject: Re: [DNA] Irish/ Scots clans, Dalriada, R1b etc
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:14:30 EDT
While on the subject of the Picts, there are a few interesting references in
Adomnan's "Life of St. Columba," written sometime prior to 704 AD. in Latin.
"Adamnan, abbot of Iona, reposed, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, on
the nineth day before the Kalends of October."
Annals of Tigernach, 704
He seems to make a distinction between the Cruithin of Ireland and the Picts
of Scotland. When referring to Irishmen reckoned among the Cruithin, he
calls them Cruithin in some form (de rege Cruithniorum). But when referring to
Picts in Scotland he uses the term Pict (In regione Pictorum).
In translation, one example might be:
"These kings were known as Ainmore, son of Setna, and the two sons of Mac
Erca, Domnall and Forcus. And the saint, in like manner, prophesied of the king
of the Cruithne, who was called Echoid Laib, and how, after being defeated,
he escaped riding in his chariot."
This is a reference to the Ui Neill of Ireland who defeated the Cruithin
or Cruithne in battle.
"AGAIN, while the blessed man was stopping for some days in the province of
the Picts, he heard that there was a fountain famous amongst this heathen
people, which foolish men, having their senses blinded by the devil, worshipped
as a god. For those who drank of this fountain, or purposely washed their
hands or feet in it, were allowed by God to be struck by demoniacal art, and went
home either leprous or purblind, or at least suffering from weakness or
other kinds of infirmity."
But he may have been casual about his usage for in another section he
refers to a Pict in Ireland (In Leinster).
"At another time a book of hymns for the office of every day in the week,
and in the handwriting of St. Columba, having slips, with the leathern satchel
which contained it, from the shoulder of a boy who fell from a bridge, was
immersed in a certain river in the province of the Lagenians (Leinster). This
very book lay in the water from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord till the
end of the Paschal season, and was afterwards found on the bank of the river
by some women who were walking there: it was brought by them in the same
satchel, which was not only soaked, but even rotten, to a certain priest named
Iogenan, a Pict by race, to whom it formerly belonged."
This refers to a Pict who found a book lost by St. Columba in Leinster (in
O Rahilly states that the Irish scribes when writing in Irish referred to
both the Irish Cruithne and the Scottish Picts as Cruithne; but when writing
in Latin, made a distinction between the two in calling the Scots Picts.
There are also a number of references in Adomnan to the "province of the
Picts" which in one paragraph is placed across the "dorsal mountains of
Concerning the Plague.
WHAT we are about to relate concerning the plague, which in our own time
twice visited the greater part of the world, deserves, I think, to be reckoned
among not the least of the miracles of St. Columba. For, not to mention the
other and greater countries of Europe, including Italy, the Roman States, and
the Cisalpine provinces of Gaul, with the States of Spain also, which lie
beyond the Pyrenees, these islands of the sea, Scotia (Ireland) and Britain, have
twice been ravaged by a dreadful pestilence throughout their whole extent,
except among the two tribes, the Picts and Scots of Britain, who are separated
from each other by the Dorsal mountains of Britain."
This seems to say that the plague spared the Scots and Picts of Britain
but not the Irish in Ireland or the rest of Britain (thanks to St. Columba, of
But more to the point what does the dorsal mountain of Britain imply for
the location of the territory of the Picts in Adomnan's time? Is he referring
to the lowlands of Scotland? Perhaps the areas around Aberdeenshire south
to the Scottish borders and across to Galloway? He says the two sides are
separated from each other (700 AD.).
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|Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design
Word from the conference organizers is that many more papers were submitted to this conference than could possibly be accepted. "A very large number of excellent papers was submitted," they write, "of which we were only able to accept a fraction."
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
St Anne's College, Oxford
July 10th – 13th 2008
Invited (plenary) speakers include Michael Ruse, Richard Swinburne, Ron Numbers, John Hedley Brooke, Stephen Snobelen, and Holmes Rolston III (their bios are here). The line-up of contributed papers is remarkable for its depth and diversity. More papers will be added to this list as the acceptances come in.
Y'all better book your place at the conference, like, now.
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To boost the measure's chance of passage, lawmakers have rewritten it to explicitly prohibit preferential treatment of homosexuals, such as hiring to meet quotas or designing affirmative action standards to make up for past discrimination.
Opponents of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act have successfully fought it in three previous Congresses on the grounds that it would extend special protections to homosexuals.
"(The act) will achieve equal rights not special rights for gays and lesbians," said Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt., who plans to pass the bill out of his Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and then try to force consideration by the full Senate.
In 1996, the Senate defeated a similar bill by one vote.
Vice President Al Gore, campaigning in Los Angeles at a gay and lesbian center, voiced support for the legislation.
"It does not confer any special rights, but it does outlaw the kind of discrimination that has become all too common in our society," he said.
The bill was introduced by Jeffords and Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., and in the House by Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Christopher Shays, R-Conn.
Shays and other supporters argue that the bill would pass the House if conservative Republican leaders allow it to come up for debate because it is backed by a majority of Americans.
The measure would extend basic civil rights protections in the area of employment to cover sexual orientation. Such protections already are afforded to people on the basis of race, religion, gender, national origin, age and disability.
Eleven states California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Nevada already prohibit job discrimination against gays.
The bill would prohibit employers of 15 or more, employment agencies and labor unions from using an individual's sexual orientation as the basis for employment decisions, such as hiring, firing, promotion or compensation.
Opponents aren't buying the argument that the bill won't confer special rights.
Robert H. Knight of the conservative Family Research Council said sexual orientation shouldn't be a category that receives federal protection from job discrimination because it involves behavior. Other specially protected categories, such as race, gender and disability, do not.
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text: So there is a new band that I have occasionally filled in for. The music is very hip and marketable, the singer is pretty solid and has some aesthetic appeal. Problem: they are pretty heavily invested in a member that sticks out drastically. This is not a band of early 20s players with teenage pop potential, but still the demographic for the music is probably centered around a reasonably hip, mid twenties - early thirties audience... The guy is a good player and has been around the block in the industry, but it almost surprises me that he hasn't taken himself out of the equation. It seems that he should know that he doesn't belong in a gig like this and that it may be more for his own ego than what is best for the band. He's a good player but there are a lot of younger, "hipper" players that would add to the live performance instead of leaving the audience wondering why that guy is doing on stage. Some of his ideas are lacking quite a bit in stylistic and time period relevance. It is an unfortunate reality when a band has serious goals that the entire package matters and when the success of the project is on the line (everyone's investment), I think it has to be considered. It would even be better if they were just marketing the singer (with a band), but they want to market it as a full band. I kinda doubt they could pull off a novelty play on the guy's appearance and anything else is probably going to make for a failed camouflage attempt. Thoughts?


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O'Brien says right-to-work veto override vote can wait until fallBy TOM FAHEY
State House Bureau Chief
June 22. 2011 3:28PM
O'Brien told reporters Wednesday that after holding override votes on three bills today, the only other veto he will consider trying to overturn would be a veto of the budget.
O'Brien said he will wait until the summer passes before taking up any other bills that Lynch vetoes.
'We'll put them all in one day and get them all done, probably sometime right after the summer. Right-to-work will be one of them,' O'Brien said.
The decision is an indication that despite a month of working the GOP delegation, O'Brien has not been able to muster the two-thirds majority he needs to override Lynch's veto.
The right-to-work bill, HB 474, bars collective bargaining contracts that require some workers to pay partial union dues if they are not union members. The payments, called agency fees, are meant to defraya share of the costs of negotiating and defending contracts that cover working conditions for all who are eligible to join the union.
New Hampshire would be the 23rd state in the country and the first in the Northeast to pass right-to-work.


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New Guidelines From the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Identify Welchol® (colesevelam HCI) for Lowering Both A1C and LDL-Cholesterol in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Jun 06, 2013, 08:00 ET from Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent guidance from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) highlight for the first time a cardiovascular risk factor management algorithm that identifies treatments of dyslipidemia in patients with type 2 diabetes.1 In these new guidelines, Welchol® (colesevelam HCI) is the only therapy recognized that provides patients with a dual-benefit: it helps to lower both A1C and LDL cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol or LDL-C) levels in adult patients with type 2 diabetes and primary hyperlipidemia.1 This new AACE Comprehensive Diabetes Management Algorithm 2013 was published online and in the March/April 2013 issue of Endocrine Practice.1
Specifically, the new guidelines identify Welchol as part of both a dual and triple combination therapy regimen along with metformin or other first-line agents in adult patients with type 2 diabetes and A1C levels greater than or equal to 7.5 percent.1 In treating dyslipidemia in patients with type 2 diabetes, the guidelines also identify Welchol as part of a statin-intensive regimen if patients are not at a desirable LDL cholesterol level.1
"This new guidance issued by AACE recognizes the importance of reducing cardiovascular risk factors such as LDL cholesterol in addition to tight glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes," said Oliseyenum M. Nwose, MBBS, MRCPath, Executive Medical Director, Medical Affairs, Therapeutic Areas Head, Hypertension and Metabolism at Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. "Welchol is an effective treatment option that physicians should consider prescribing to help adult patients with type 2 diabetes and primary hyperlipidemia reach both A1C and LDL cholesterol goals."
The effect of Welchol on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has not been determined.
It is estimated that 25.8 million people in the United States (about 8.3 percent of the population) have diabetes.2 Approximately 90 to 95 percent of these people have type 2 diabetes,2 and about 58 percent of all adults with diabetes also have high cholesterol.3
About Welchol
Welchol (colesevelam HCI) along with diet and exercise lowers LDL or "bad" cholesterol. It can be taken alone or with other cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins. Welchol along with diet and exercise also lowers blood sugar levels in adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus when added to other anti-diabetic medications (metformin, sulfonylureas, or insulin). Welchol was approved by the FDA to lower bad cholesterol in the year 2000 and to lower blood sugar levels in the year 2008. Welchol is available in two formulations – Welchol Tablets and Welchol for Oral Suspension. Welchol for Oral Suspension is sugar-free and can be mixed with water, diet soft drinks or fruit juice. It is important for phenylketonurics to know that Welchol for Oral Suspension contains 27 mg phenylalanine per 3.75 gram dose. In addition, Welchol has a pediatric indication, specifically approved to reduce LDL cholesterol levels in boys and postmenarchal girls, 10 to 17 years of age, with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
Welchol should not be used to treat type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis, and it has not been studied with all anti-diabetic medications. Welchol is not for everyone, especially those with a history of intestinal blockage, those with blood triglyceride levels of greater than 500 mg/dL, or a history of pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) due to high triglyceride levels. Welchol has not been studied in children younger than 10 years of age or in premenarchal girls.
In clinical studies of adult patients with type 2 diabetes, Welchol lowered A1C and LDL-C. The most common adverse events seen in these studies with Welchol were constipation, nasal pharyngitis, and dyspepsia. In clinical studies of patients with elevated LDL-C, Welchol lowered LDL-C when used alone or when added to other cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins (lovastatin, simvastatin, and atorvastatin). In these studies the most common adverse events with Welchol were constipation, dyspepsia, and nausea. Welchol has not been shown to prevent heart disease or heart attacks.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT WELCHOL (colesevelam HCl)
Welchol is indicated as an adjunct to diet and exercise to:
- reduce elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in patients with primary hyperlipidemia (Fredrickson Type IIa) as monotherapy or in combination with an hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG CoA) reductase inhibitor (statin)
- reduce LDL-C levels in boys and postmenarchal girls, 10 to 17 years of age, with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, as monotherapy or in combination with a statin after failing an adequate trial of diet therapy
- improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Important Limitations of Use
- Welchol should not be used for the treatment of type 1 diabetes or for the treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis
- Welchol has not been studied in type 2 diabetes as monotherapy or in combination with a dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitor and has not been extensively studied in combination with thiazolidinediones
- Welchol has not been studied in Fredrickson Type I, III, IV, and V dyslipidemias
- Welchol has not been studied in children younger than 10 years of age or in premenarchal girls
Welchol is contraindicated in individuals with a history of bowel obstruction, those with serum triglyceride (TG) concentrations of >500 mg/dL, or with a history of hypertriglyceridemia-induced pancreatitis.
Warnings and Precautions
The effect of Welchol on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has not been determined.
Welchol can increase serum TG concentrations particularly when used in combination with sulfonylureas or insulin. Caution should be exercised when treating patients with TG levels >300 mg/dL.
Welchol may decrease the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. Patients on vitamin supplements should take their vitamins at least 4 hours prior to Welchol. Caution should be exercised when treating patients with a susceptibility to vitamin K or fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies.
Caution should also be exercised when treating patients with gastroparesis, gastrointestinal motility disorders, a history of major gastrointestinal tract surgery, and when treating patients with dysphagia and swallowing disorders.
Welchol interacts with some drugs. Drugs with a known interaction with colesevelam (cyclosporine, glimepiride, glipizide, glyburide, levothyroxine, olmesartan medoxomil, oral contraceptives [ethinyl estradiol, norethindrone], and metformin extended release [ER]) should be administered at least 4 hours prior to Welchol. Drugs that have not been tested for interaction with colesevelam, especially those with a narrow therapeutic index, should also be administered at least 4 hours prior to Welchol. Alternatively, the physician should monitor drug levels of the co-administered drug.
To avoid esophageal distress, Welchol for Oral Suspension should not be taken in its dry form.
Due to tablet size, Welchol for Oral Suspension is recommended for, but not limited to, use in the pediatric population as well as in any patient who has difficulty swallowing tablets.
Phenylketonurics: Welchol for Oral Suspension contains 27 mg phenylalanine per 3.75 gram dose.
Adverse Reactions
In clinical trials, the adverse reactions observed in greater than or equal to 2% of patients, and more commonly with Welchol than placebo, regardless of investigator assessment of causality seen in:
- Adults with Primary Hyperlipidemia were: constipation (11.0% vs 7.0%), dyspepsia (8.3% vs 3.5%), nausea (4.2% vs 3.9%), accidental injury (3.7% vs 2.7%), asthenia (3.6% vs 1.9%), pharyngitis (3.2% vs 1.9%), flu syndrome (3.2% vs 3.1%), rhinitis (3.2% vs 3.1%), and myalgia (2.1% vs 0.4%)
- Pediatric patients with heFH primary hyperlipidemia were: nasopharyngitis (6.2% vs 4.6%), headache (3.9 vs 3.1%), fatigue (3.9% vs 1.5%), creatine phosphokinase increase (2.3% vs 0.0%), rhinitis (2.3% vs 0.0%), and vomiting (2.3% vs 1.5%)
- Adult patients with Type 2 Diabetes were: constipation (8.7% vs 2.0%), nasopharyngitis (4.1% vs 3.6%), dyspepsia (3.9% vs 1.4%), hypoglycemia (3.0% vs 2.3%), nausea (3.0% vs 1.4%), and hypertension (2.8% vs 1.6%)
Post-marketing experience: Due to the voluntary nature of these reports it is not possible to reliably estimate frequency or establish a causal relationship:
- Increased seizure activity or decreased phenytoin levels have been reported in patients receiving phenytoin concomitantly with Welchol
- Reduced International Normalized Ratio (INR) has been reported in patients receiving warfarin concomitantly with Welchol
- Elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) has been reported in patients receiving thyroid hormone replacement therapy
- Dysphagia has been reported with both tablet and oral suspension formulations
Welchol is Pregnancy Category B.
Please see full Prescribing Information for Welchol.
About Daiichi Sankyo
The Daiichi Sankyo Group is dedicated to the creation and supply of innovative pharmaceutical products to address the diversified, unmet medical needs of patients in both mature and emerging markets. While maintaining its portfolio of marketed pharmaceuticals for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and bacterial infections, the Group is engaged in the development of treatments for thrombotic disorders and focused on the discovery of novel oncology and cardiovascular-metabolic therapies. Furthermore, the Daiichi Sankyo Group has created a "Hybrid Business Model," which will respond to market and customer diversity and optimize growth opportunities across the value chain. For more information, please visit www.daiichisankyo.com.
Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, is a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group. For more information on Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., please visit www.dsi.com.
[1]AACE Comprehensive Diabetes Management Algorithm, Endocr Pract. 2013;19(No.2)
[2] Center for Disease Control. National Diabetes Fact Sheet 2011.
[3] Center for Disease Control, Diabetes Program – Data & Trends, Risk Factor for Complications. Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older with Diagnosed Diabetes Who Have High Cholesterol, United States, 1995-2009.
SOURCE Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.


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Party Recap
We had a small get together of family to celebrate Ninjago style. We used Asian decorations and I made the cake to look like one of his favorite Ninja's, Kai. The kids played a simple game of "Find your Ninja Name" and my husband made origami shuricans that they had fun throwing around. We also made "fushi" : rice treats made to look like sushi - yum! My father-in-law made a delicious asian menu. I sent the kids home with cute little chinese take-out boxes filled with kiwi flavored jelly beans (edemame).
Party Highlights
Ninjago cake, "Fushi", fortune cookies
Party Favors
Chinese Take-out boxes with "Edemame" (green jelly beans)
Activities / Games
Ninja name game and shurican toss
What People Ate
Fried Rice, Lo Mein, Vietnamese Spring Rolls, Asian green beans


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As the Bows come out of spawn and head back into their more mundane and routine lives as the waters dirty, I find them very willing and able and somewhat antsy to hit the moving fly or lure. I love this aggression, and I love this aggression with rainbows.
Fishing the Bugger you will see a ton of fish. I love the visual effects of the Bugger, I always try and see my Bugger as the productivity will jump tremendously if you use your eyes instead of your feel. As I have noticed browns are great bugger fodder but a lot of the times the browns seem to be playing around with the fly...They pop at it, swipe at it...maybe even grab the tail...A lot of the time the strike seems to be out of aggression not hunger.
Rainbows on the other hand seem to hit it for nothing other than pure dining pleasure. They "eat" in other words. Spring bows and most bows I get on the bugger seem like they want it when they decide they will actually hit it. "let him eat it".
This spring has been no different. I love a water that is on the rise, slightly stained and before the runoff starts. Its a Big Bow Boone! This is a great time of the year as we wait for high waters to engulf our streams and rivers.
Then on to still waters for a month or so...I hope to have the same success on the still waters as I have had on the moving waters this spring.
I love watching nature come out of her winter hiding.


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Korea Center Disaster Relief Fund for Japan
Dear members and friends,
In the wake of the devastating impact of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan last weekend, Asia Society Korea Center has established a disaster relief fund for those that were affected by the disaster.
We wish to invite you to join us in contributing to this relief fund. Any contributions made by both individual and corporate members will be acknowledged in the final transfer of this direct donation to the Embassy of Japan in Seoul.
If you would like to make a contribution to this fund, please wire your donation to the following account number:
Shinhan Bank - 100 026 888933
Once you make your donation, please send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject line: ASKC Disaster Relief Fund for Japan, along with your name, title, affiliation, contact information, and contribution amount so that we can issue you a receipt for your donation.
If you have any questions regarding the Asia Society Korea Center Disaster Relief Fund for Japan, please contact our office at 02-759-7806 or at email@example.com.
Thank you very much.
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Chairman, Lotte Group
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Legal Question in Business Law in Florida
\"Civil Theft\" is a civil case or a criminal case?\nWhat\'s the outcome if convicted?
Asked on 7/31/09, 9:31 am
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Sarah Grosse Sarah Grosse, Esquire
This is a civil case. See FL Statutes Ch. 772 \"Civil Remedies for Criminal Practices.\" An aggrieved party may bring a civil action to recover damages for theft. Nothing precludes the aggrieved party from also reporting the theft to the police, and it is at the discretion of the state\'s attorney whether or not to proceed with criminal charges. So, one can be criminally prosecuted for theft and also sued civilly for damages for the theft. The outcome of either case is fact-specific.
Answered on 7/31/09, 9:45 am
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"Real Housewives" Husband Commits Suicide
Bravo confirms that Russell Armstrong, estranged husband of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member Taylor Armstrong, has died after an apparent suicide attempt. TMZ.com reports that Los Angeles firefighters responded to a call from a house on Mulholland Drive where a roommate discovered Armstrong's body hanging in a bedroom. No suicide note was found.
Taylor Armstrong's rep released a statement to Access Hollywood Tuesday morning, saying, "Taylor Armstrong is devastated by the tragic events that have unfolded. She requests privacy at this time so that she may comfort her young daughter. Her thoughts and prayers are also with Russell's 11- and 13-year-old sons."
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Three years after his daughter was brutally attacked on a Chicago street, people approach Liam McShane in his hometown in Northern Ireland and ask him about the court case. Is there an update?
McShane is never sure what to say. The case hasn't gone to trial. He doesn't understand why it has taken so long. And he has no answers for the people who ask.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. - Jeff Gordon won the first pole of the Car of Tomorrow era, putting his Chevrolet Impala in the top starting spot at Bristol Motor Speedway on Friday.
Gordon ran a lap at 125.453 mph to win his fifth career pole at Bristol. He beat Evernham Motorsports teammates Kasey Kahne and Elliott Sadler, who qualified second and third in Dodge Avengers.
Kahne posted a lap at 125.313 mph, while Sadler came in at 125.183.
"Did I mention how much I love the Car of Tomorrow?" joked Gordon, critical of the car during its developmental stage.
Associated Press
Jeff Gordon claimed the pole position on Friday for Sunday's NASCAR Nextel Cup Food City 500 in Bristol, Tenn.
"I've said the whole time, whether I like the car or not, we are going to do our best to be competitive. I don't care what the car is."
Chevrolet and Dodge are both introducing new models with the COT, a NASCAR-developed car that makes its Nextel Cup debut on Sunday. Ford is sticking with its Fusion model, and Toyota, in its first year at NASCAR's top level, is using the Camry.
The COT spent seven years in development, and NASCAR hopes it will improve safety, reduce team costs and improve the competition. Bristol is the first of the 16 races that will use the COT this season. It's scheduled to be phased in through 2009, but NASCAR hopes teams will ask to use the car full-time next year.
Based on Friday's results, the Toyota teams probably want to use the COT everywhere.
Gordon was driving NASCAR'S Car of the Future,on Friday. At top he is shown driving his regular Cup car last Sunday in Hampton, Ga.
The Japanese automaker has struggled to get its cars into the first four races this season, and hit a low three weeks ago in Las Vegas when only two of seven Camrys made the field.
But five Toyota drivers qualified at Bristol, including A.J. Allmendinger and Jeremy Mayfield, who will make their long-awaited season debuts on Sunday.
Allmendinger, a former Champ Car star, has had a rough transition to NASCAR. His Team Red Bull car struggled in qualifying, and he had his heart broken in Las Vegas when he was bumped out of the race by the final driver attempting to make the field.
But he's in this week and will start 43rd. Brian Vickers, his teammate who scored Toyota's best finish of the season with a 10th at California, qualified 25th.
"That was pretty wild," Allmendinger said. "Qualifying for these races is a hard deal; it's one of the hardest things I've ever done in my career. It's easy to get discouraged but I haven't given up."
Mayfield, who also missed the first four races, qualified 23rd to put both of Bill Davis Racing's entries in the race. Dave Blaney qualified seventh.
"I think we've taken the disappointment of the first four races like men," Mayfield said. "We don't want people to feel sorry for us. Nobody has given up."
The struggles continued for Michael Waltrip Racing, which only put Dale Jarrett in the field. Waltrip failed to qualify for the fourth consecutive week, and rookie David Reutimann also missed the cut.
The lone bright spot for Waltrip is that Jarrett qualified on speed and didn't have to use one of his two remaining provisionals to make the field. Jarrett has used four of his allotted six past champion's provisionals this season.
Sterling Marlin is the only driver not already locked into the field to make all five races. Joe Nemechek, his teammate at Ginn Racing, failed to make the race for the first time this season.
Regan Smith, meanwhile, qualified 12th in the third Ginn entry. That car is normally driven by Mark Martin, the current Nextel Cup points leader, but he ended his streak of 621 consecutive starts this weekend in his attempt to ease away from a full-time schedule.
Tony Stewart, a fierce critic of the COT, qualified fourth. He was followed by Jamie McMurray in a Ford and Nextel Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, winner of the past two Cup races.
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Getting Married on a Visitor Visa
Can you get married on a Visitor or Tourist visa?
Yes. You may enter the U.S. on a visitor visa, marry a U.S. citizen then return home before your visa expires. Where you run into trouble is if you enter on a visitor visa with the intention of marrying and staying in the U.S.
You might have heard about someone who got married in the United States while on a visitor visa, didn't return home, and successfully adjusted their status to permanent resident. Why were these people allowed to stay? Well, it is possible to adjust status from a visitor visa, but people in this scenario were able to prove that they came to the U.S. with honest travel intentions and happened to make a spur-of-the-moment decision to get married.
To successfully adjust status after marrying on a visitor visa, the foreign spouse must show that they had originally intended to return home, and the marriage and desire to stay in the United States was not premeditated. Some couples find it difficult to satisfactorily prove intent but others are successful.
Things you should know before getting married in the U.S. on a tourist visa:
1. Border protection officials are paying attention. When the foreigner arrives at the port-of-entry, they will be asked for the purpose of their travel. You should always be upfront and honest with border protection officials. If you state your intent as, "To see the Grand Canyon," and a search of your luggage reveals a wedding dress, be prepared for the inevitable grilling. If the border official believes that you're not coming to the U.S. for just a visit and you cannot prove your intent to leave before your visa expires, you'll be on the next plane home.
2. It is ok to enter the U.S. on a travel visa and marry a U.S. citizen if the foreigner intends to return to his/her home country. This can be tricky, though. Nothing says that you can't get married while on a travel visa. The problem is when your intent is to STAY in the country. You can get married and go back home before your visa expires, but you'll need hard evidence to prove to the border officials that you intend to return home. Come armed with lease agreements, letters from employers, and above all, a return ticket. The more evidence that you can show that proves your intention to return home, the better your chances will be of getting through the border.
3. Avoid visa fraud. If you have secretly secured a tourist visa to marry your American sweetie to bypass the normal process of obtaining a fiancé or spouse visa in order to enter and remain in the U.S., you should rethink your decision. You could be accused of committing visa fraud. If fraud is found, you could face serious consequences. At the very least, you will have to return to your home country. Even worse, you may incur a ban and be prevented from re-entering the U.S. indefinitely.
4. Securing a US tourist visa is not a simple task. There are a lot of strict conditions and requirements that need to be complied with before the highly coveted B-1/B-2 visa may be issued. A Tourist Visa is "possible", although highly improbable. The U.S. Embassy in Manila denies about 200 or more each day and to think each application for a tourist visa comes with a non-refundable $140 fee. In more than a few occasions, applicants who are confident of being granted a us tourist visa get shocked by its denial due to unexpected turn of events.
5. Although not an official requirement, those having success in achieving a tourist visa have held the test of being able to demonstrate proof of their return to Philippines at/prior to the end of any would be tourist visa, which tends to need lots of Peso in the bank under a long standing high balance bank account, deed/title to house/lot and car, business, spouse/children, etc. any/all of which show ties to Philippines and a commanding reason to return and not disappear.
6. The issuance of a tourist visa is not a sure-fire guarantee that the applicant will be allowed entry in the US since said holders are still subject to the scrutiny of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials who are likewise empowered to deny entry even to valid tourist visa holders.
7. If they suspect that the fiancee is trying to get a tourist visa for the purpose of getting married here it will be seen as an attempt to short-circuit the immigration process, and reason for instant denial.


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Malaysian Police Re-Arrest High-Profile Terror Suspect
By Abhrajit Gangopadhyay and Celine Fernandez
Malaysian police on Monday arrested a high-profile terror suspect for alleged links to a locally based terrorist group.
Yazid Sufaat, a former captain in the Malaysian army who has a degree in biochemistry from California State University-Sacramento, was arrested for allegedly being a member of a little-known terror group called Tanzim Malaysia Al-Qaeda. Mr. Yazid and his employee Muhammad Hilmi Hashim were arrested under the Security Offenses Special Measures Act.


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Crafting language for testimony
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When it comes time to testify, the language you use in court can play a major role in how effectively you impact the jury and how successfully you can present yourself as a law enforcement professional who should be listened to and trusted. Consistent or over use of street slang and vernacular lockerrom language can have a detrimental effect on your case.
When preparing for a courtroom appearance, take the time to review the terms and phrases you may need to use and evaluate how professional they'll sound when they're presented in public. For example, if you believed that a suspect was going to "kick the crap out of you" consider how that might be rephrased.
If you were "scared shitless" during a high stress armed encounter, find a way to state that without profanity, but with just as much impact.
Remember to practice using the refined phrasing and terminology you have compiled to the point that if you find yourself being grilled on the stand, you don't default under stress to street-level language that may work against you.


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A New York man accused of using a knife in a series of San Francisco bank robberies remains in custody after being indicted by a federal grand jury of armed bank robbery.
Prosecutors say Jason Dunlap was indicted Tuesday in connection with the robbery of five banks earlier this year.
Dunlap was arrested April 28 after Borel Private Bank was robbed when a man jumped over a counter, put a knife to a teller's throat and demanded money.
According to the indictment, Dunlap held up five banks in San Francisco, four of them with a knife. If convicted, the 32-year-old Dunlap faces up to 20 years for each count. The indictment also alleges that Dunlap transported a stolen vehicle across state lines.
The public defender representing Dunlap did not immediately return a call seeking comment.


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Kimberly Dozier / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook — McLEAN, Va. (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day. — At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" …
Steffen Konrath / Future of Journalism: Inside - CIA's Open Source Center for Twitter and Facebook analysis
Zeke Miller / Business Insider: The CIA's 'Vengeful Librarians' Stalk Twitter — Reading Millions Of Tweets A Day
Tim Mak / The Politico: CIA eyes 5 million tweets a day
Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb: The CIA Open Source Center Tracks the Pulse of the World Through Facebook & Twitter
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Man arrested over alleged police payments named as Sun journalist — Reporter arrested over alleged payments to police officers believed to be paper's district editor, Jamie Pyatt — A Sun journalist has been arrested as part of Scotland Yard's investigation into alleged payments to police officers by newspapers.
Discussion: Poynter, Media Matters for America, Reuters, Press Gazette and Guardian
Mark Hosenball / Reuters: Journalist at Murdoch's Sun arrested - sources
PA Mediapoint / Press Gazette: First Sun reporter arrested in police corruption probe
Josh Halliday / Guardian: Murdoch fails to win Hunt's full backing
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Begins Settlement Program for Phone-Hacking Victims — News Corp. (NWSA)'s U.K. unit started a voluntary settlement program for thousands of potential victims of phone hacking by the company's News of the World tabloid, which was shuttered in July as the scandal expanded.
Discussion: Gawker, Company Town, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, Journalism.co.uk, Business Wire and Guardian
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: News Corp. Starts Online Settlement Program
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: News Corp. Hacked Your Phone? Apply for Money Online!
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp HR chief quits
News Corp HR chief quits
Discussion: Poynter, Company Town, Media Decoder, Media Week and NetNewsCheck Latest
Julie Moos / Poynter: News Corp. HR chief steps down
Amy Chozick / Media Decoder: News Corp. Executive in New York Resigns
Mark Fitzgerald / Poynter:
Booted for plagiarism, California columnist finds his Patch — A California writer who lost his newspaper column after plagiarizing has explained himself on the local Patch site, where he's now a blogger. Why? — Nicole Charky, the Patch editor for the towns of Montrose and La Crescenta …
Discussion: Montrose, CA Patch, Montrose Patch and FishbowlLA
Dan Kimber / Montrose, CA Patch: Patch Blogger Dan Kimber: My Contrition
Nicole Charky / Montrose Patch: Why a Disgraced News-Press Columnist Will Blog on Patch
Matthew Fleischer / FishbowlLA: Glendale News-Press Plagiarist Now Blogging for Patch
Darren Murph / Engadget:
B&N launching Nook Tablet for $249 on November 16th, and we've got the dirty details — Sitting down? Good. Come November 16th, Amazon's Kindle Fire will have company. We've wrapped our paws around a stash of documents confirming the impending launch of the first bona fide tablet in the Nook line …
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Chris Burns / SlashGear: Barnes and Noble NOOK Tablet details leaked
JP Mangalindan / Fortune: Today in Tech: Why the Kindle Fire is good for Apple
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Nook Tablet Is Coming November 16 for $249 [REPORT]
Josh Wolford / WebProNews: - - Nook Tablet Leaked, Release Date November 16th
Tom Loftus / Digits: Tech Today: Groupon Wants the 'Pop'
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: Barnes and Noble To Debut $249 Nook Tablet On November 16?
Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: Barnes & Noble's $249 Nook Tablet to challenge Amazon's Kindle Fire
Brad McCarty / The Next Web: Barnes and Noble launches another tablet, aimed directly at the Kindle Fire
Roberto Baldwin / Gizmodo: New Nook Specs Leak: Faster, Lighter, Dual-Core Media Monster
Steve Kovach / Business Insider: Here Are All The Details On The Next Nook Tablet
Wall Street Journal:
Google Ponders Pay-TV Business — Pilot Project in Kansas City Would Rival Cable, Satellite — Internet giant Google Inc. is considering a plan to offer paid cable-TV services to consumers, a move that could unleash a new wave of competition within the traditional TV business.
Brian Steinberg / AdAge: Google as Cable Guy? The Role May Not Suit
Will Richmond / VideoNuze: Google To Go Over-the-Top and Compete With Pay-TV Operators? Don't Bet On Success.
Nidhi Subbaraman / Fast Company: Hajj To Air On YouTube, Groupon Raises $700 Million IPO, CIA Team Analyzes Twitter For Real-Time Intelligence
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: Google considers offering paid TV on its ambitious fiber network
Graeme McMillan / Techland: Google to Get into the Cable Biz?
Shane McGlaun / SlashGear: Google eyeballs pay TV offering
Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: Google Planning Kansas City Cable TV Utopia?
Richard Lawler / Engadget: Google might offer TV / phone service over its fiber network
Steffen Konrath / Future of Journalism: It starts in Kansas City - Google's high speed Internet to offer paid cable-TV services ...
Alex Klein / New York Magazine: Google Might Enter Cable TV Business
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: Google Is Looking To Roll Out A Pay TV Service
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
CBS turned down an ad-based Apple TV deal — CBS CEO Les Moonves is known to occasionally drop pieces of information that he's not supposed to on his company's earnings calls, and this quarter was no exception. When asked about CBS's appetite for striking deals with new streaming providers …
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: Whoa, really? CBS chief exec reveals ad-supported Apple TV streaming service
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine: CBS Turned Down Apple TV Deal
Kelly Hodgkins / TUAW: CBS reportedly turned down Apple TV deal
Shane McGlaun / SlashGear: Apple TV deal failed because of ad share tips CBS CEO
Bryan M. Wolfe / App Advice: Could CBS Kill The Real Apple TV?
Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: CBS Rejected an Apple TV Streaming Service
Jon Lafayette / Multichannel: Digital Deals Boost Q3 Earnings At CBS
Arnold Kim / MacRumors: CBS Turned Down Apple TV Subscription Service Deal
Erik Gruenwedel / Home Media Magazine: Streaming Again Spurs CBS Q3 Entertainment Profit
Erika Fry / CJR:
Charges dropped against first reporter arrested at Occupy Wall Street — A good sign came out of New York City's criminal court yesterday for journalists who have been swept up in arrests at the Occupy Wall Street protests. — Disorderly conduct charges were dropped against WNET's MetroFocus …
Charles Sizemore / Forbes: Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite: Sarah Palin: Occupy Wall Street Are Just Like 'Fat Cats' Who Want Their Own Bailout
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The Journal Fizzles on Occupy Oakland Protest
The Journal Fizzles on Occupy Oakland Protest
Arthur S. Brisbane / The Public Editor's Journal: Occupy Wall Street: How Should It Be Covered Now?
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer: Did the Occupy Wall Street Journal Advertise in The New York Times?
Clay Waters / Media Research Center: Times Downplays Occupy Oakland Destruction; Will Violence Show Up in Print?
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Washington Post Co. posts $6.2M loss in third quarter — The Washington Post Co. lost $6.2 million, or 82 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2011 as a result of a series of one-time charges, a sharp contraction in its education business and continued deterioration in its newspaper and online publishing division.
Discussion: Poynter, On Media's Blog, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Business Wire and Reuters
Mark Fitzgerald / Poynter: Washington Post third quarter newspaper losses exacerbated by Kaplan declines
Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog: WaPo online advertising revenue continues to drop
Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg: Washington Post Reports Loss on Education, Newspaper Declines
Ben Fox Rubin / Wall Street Journal: Washington Post Swings to Loss
A. Ananthalakshmi / Reuters: Low ad rev and student sign-ups push Washington Post to loss
The Huffington Post:
Ben Smith, Dylan Byers Launch New Media Blog For Politico … Ben Smith Media Blog , Ben Smith Politico , Dylan Byers Politico , Politico , Politico Media Blog , Media News — Politico announced Friday that it is shaking up its media coverage in the run-up to the 2012 election.
Discussion: @benpolitico and @dylanbyers
Ben Smith / @benpolitico: Short version: I'll be covering more of the intersection of media/politics, & by the end of the cycle @dylanbyers and I will be DC pariahs
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
HLN Finally Launches a Website To Call Its Own — HLN's web presence has long been relegated to a subsection of CNN.com. That in and of itself is not a bad thing, as CNN has one of the strongest digital presences of any news organization. But as the focus of coverage by CNN and HLN have diverged …
Discussion: HLNtv.com
Anna Gonzalez / HLNtv.com: What YOU said about Herman Cain on HLN
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Time Warner makes €1bn Endemol bid — US media giant seeks to take over debt-laden production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal — Time Warner has made a €1bn offer for Endemol, the debt-laden Dutch production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal.
Discussion: Media Decoder, Telegraph, Reuters and Bloomberg
Amy Chozick / Media Decoder: Time Warner Said to Bid for Dutch TV Company
Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: Time Warner bids for Big Brother producer Endemol
Isabell Witt / Reuters: Endemol says gets offer from Time Warner


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SANTA CRUZ (CBS SF) – Amid growing anticipation of the Mavericks Surf Contest, the case of a former Maverick's champion is among those shining a spotlight on an unhealthy element of the local surfing scene: methamphetamine abuse.
For many surfers in Santa Cruz County, including some of the very best surfers in the world, big waves and meth go hand in hand.
"They don't sleep for five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten days. They don't know what's real, they don't know what's not. That's generally when we come into contact with them, as law enforcement goes, they're off in a field somewhere, covered in blood and mud, screaming about something," detailed Wes Hansen, a surfer himself, and an officer in the Santa Cruz Police Department.
"They're big wave surfers," he reasoned. "It's an adrenaline rush but they can't surf everyday, 24 hours a day. I think that was filling a hole for them."
About the Bay – KCBS' Mike Sugerman Reports:
Two weeks ago, one of the very best surfers in the world, Anthony Ruffo, was sentenced in Santa Cruz County Superior Court to a year in jail after pleading no contest to selling meth.
Ruffo's sentencing comes on the heels of another surfing stunner: Three-time Mavericks champion Darryl "Flea" Virostko admitted to his own meth habit and enrolled in a rehab program.
"It took everybody by surprise," said Hansen. "It was just kind of festering there and then all of a sudden something happened and all of a sudden it seemed like it was everywhere," said Hansen.
Hansen took it upon himself – as a surfer and a cop – to get inside the Santa Cruz meth ring believed to involve some very prominent surfers.
"When I worked on the west side of town, I felt like, okay, here's a chance. If I get involved in this, maybe I can actually help out the overall community," he recalled.
He discovered that meth was a bigger problem for the community – it wasn't limited to surfing circles.
"You see guys, west side surfers, with gang stuff painted on their surfboards," said Hansen.
At Ruffo's most recent court hearing, several families addressed the court by letter, claiming younger surfers' lives were ruined by meth use. But, Hansen, hopes the worst of the problem is over.
"It all came crashing down," he described the fallout from Ruffo and Virostko's problems. "So they were able to kind of see the consequences and I think that that is huge."
Ruffo has already begun serving his sentence in jail, and Virostko has started what he calls "Flea-Hab" – overcoming his addiction by working to help others do the same.
The window for this year's Mavericks surf contest – one of the highlights of the surfing world's calendar – is expected to remain open for another 10 days or so.
Related: Gerard Butler Completes Rehab Stint Following Mavericks Mishap
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When Nigel Slater opens the door of his minimalist Georgian terraced house in London, he's munching on a buttery hazelnut biscuit. The white interior of his hip four-storey home is infused with the old-fashioned smell of baking, and his designer kitchen sinks are piled high with delightfully dirty dishes. A platter that last night contained a dish of sticky pork ribs is immersed in cloudy water, while a baking bowl and greasy baking sheets are stacked high nearby. The rest of the Pawson-designed all-white kitchen is absolutely spotless.
The much-admired food writer makes me a coffee (Illy, of course) that trickles thickly from the machine into a delicate white porcelain cup, and then decides to have one himself. "I don't normally, but what the heck," he says, grinning, his outfit of navy and black a dramatic counterpoint to his immediate surroundings. Together we snack on his newly baked biscuits. He's trying out a new recipe, and worries that the centres aren't as soft as he'd hoped. A perfect excuse for trying another.
Delicious as the cookies are, though, I'm too distracted by the view of his garden to pay much attention to them. The French doors are thrown open and I can't resist bounding through them to the overgrown, fecund haven Slater's had me dreaming about through his recent newspaper columns. His garden is also the subject of his latest cookbook, and forms the basis of a new BBC One television series. Here, within six neatly hedged square beds, I see an attractive jumble of various types of tomato, squashes, beans, beetroot, chard, cabbages, carrots, and lots and lots of potatoes -- most of which are Scottish heritage varieties such as Arran Victory, Kestrel ("a piercing violent and white"), Golden Wonder, Pink Fir Apple, Duke of York, British Queen, Pentland Javelin, Epicure, Edzell Blue, Kerr's Pink and Shetland Blue.
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There are fruit trees overhanging each bed and the whole space is enclosed by high hedges, trellises and walls. On a wooden table are terracotta pots of baby kale seedlings in wooden crates. A ball of twine, various hand tools, gardening gloves and sacks of perfect compost all help create an artful illusion of rural bliss -- even though we're just yards away from the busy main road that runs past the front of the house.
And that, of course, is the point. At 51, and after a lifetime of food writing, Slater has become a passionate supporter of the grow-your-own movement, and insists it's possible for anyone to create tasty organic vegetables at home, be it on a doorstep, windowsill or raised bed. It has to be said that his own south-facing urban garden is to die for, though it was not always thus. Originally laid to lawn, it was redesigned as a growing space by the gardening writer Dan Pearson, and advice on soil conditioning was given by none other than former Gardeners' World presenter and current Soil Association president Monty Don. Several sackloads of compost and bucketfuls of horse manure later, Slater's once-heavy clay soil is now, as he puts it, "as rich and sweet as sachertorte". He's also had huge success with his doorstep pots and bags, where this year he has grown thyme, purple sage, runner beans and wild strawberries.
It's a serene and peaceful space, and Slater, who is single, readily agrees that it suits his solitary lifestyle. Slater almost always writes recipes for two people -- unlike, say, Nigella Lawson, who cooks for a family of six. But he does seek solace in other people. He suddenly announces: "I have serious allotment envy. Having gone round so many of them for the television series, I realised they were very visually beautiful and so productive. You'd be in the grottiest part of a city you've ever seen, turn a corner and there would be acres of climbing beans and vegetables. I love that people grow flowers with their vegetables.
"I also love the community aspect of allotments. I used to think they were for old guys in flat caps, and I really got a shock to see there were youngsters, old people and families working together. There is no class or race distinction with allotments -- just every social group getting on and having a good time."
A deep love of plants
Not that Slater would have the time to run an allotment on top of everything else. Tender, his 12th book so far, runs to a staggering 613 pages, with recipes for 29 different vegetables as well as growing advice. Its title is indicative of Slater's characteristically gentle writing style and unfussy, uncomplicated dishes, and the stunning photography is both emotive and inspirational. It has taken three years to put together -- mostly because the artwork records each vegetable in its proper growing season. It speaks volumes of Slater's deep love and affection for the plants whose seeds he chooses and nurtures so carefully.
Slater is already working on the second volume of Tender, to be published next year, which concentrates on growing and cooking with fruit. On his living-room work table a book entitled the English Plum is open at a page which shows a pretty watercolour of Victorian plums. Slater takes his writing and art directing as seriously as he takes his food. He's up at 6am every day to switch on his computer and doesn't stop until teatime, bar shopping trips for food. He creates recipes on his Gaggenau cooker and writes them up on his laptop, which he brings into the kitchen. It's a meticulous and painstaking process. Experiments are usually consumed by him and his photographer Jonathan Lovekin. "My idea of hell is socialising with other foodies," he says. "I can't bear it. The whole foodie network thing drives me mad."
It's a sign of the times that so much effort -- and, no doubt, money -- has been spent on creating a book that is essentially a modern guide to one of the oldest pastimes in the world. After all, knowledge about how to grow veg is something our parents and grandparents would have taken for granted. Now, Slater points out gently, "there are an awful lot of ready meals about".
Tender, and Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers, his BBC television series about growing your own, both tap into the current vogue for gardening and fresh, locally grown produce, but they also serve as a wake-up call for those who would dismiss the issues surrounding modern food production. Even those without a growing space can support the movement by buying at farmers' markets and local shops.
"Let's face it, local councils would sell off their vacant land to developers given half a chance," he says. "There's no money for them in allotments, so they're like gold dust. I do have a sense that it could all be lost so easily. I found that almost every single allotment holder I met for the series was fearful that their plot would be demolished sooner rather than later. Everybody seems very aware of how precious land is."
Slater hopes now to encourage more of us to "put something back" into the land before it's too late. "I love the idea that people who have never cooked might start," he says.
It was after his acutely asthmatic mother died when he was nine years old that the young Slater was given his first piece of garden to tend. "We'd moved to the country so that Dad could be nearer the woman who was to become my stepmother, and I was bored and asked for a garden," he explains. "Then one day I came home from school to see a sign that read 'Nigel's Garden'. Dad had given me a patch next to his that he didn't know what to do with, and though it was hard and dry I did start to grow things like carrots.
"Dad was a big gardener and if I have green fingers at all they've come from him. For me, one of the best smells in the world is when you break off a tomato plant. It reminds me of walking into Dad's greenhouse when he was pruning his tomatoes. That has stayed with me."
The only boy in the cookery class
Ask where he got his love of cooking, though, and he doesn't know. "I grew up thinking Mum wasn't a very good cook because she didn't do all the things other mums did, like baking," he says. "It was only later that I realised it wasn't because she didn't want to or couldn't -- it was because she wasn't very well. I was unaware of how ill she was." Though he documents these details in his searingly poignant award-winning 2004 autobiography Toast, it is really quite moving to hear them at first hand.
"I didn't do well at school but they did let me take domestic science, bless them. I was the first boy to be allowed to cook alongside the girls. It was a big deal for my school to do this. If they hadn't, I don't know what would have happened." Slater got a GCSE in domestic science and after leaving school he started working in kitchens. This allowed him to escape home life. His stepmother was a "fantastic" cook but became very competitive. "I can't think of one person who influenced me," he concludes.
But he readily acknowledges that his gentle manner comes from his mother rather than his domineering father. "Gosh, yes, Mum was very gentle and very elegant and willowy and quietly focused. The worst thing I ever heard her say was 'oh, heck'. She was lovely and very sweet. I do think I'm a lot like her."
Slater's email correspondence from his readers and viewers -- an "astonishing" number of whom are from Scotland -- is lively. "The vast majority of them are lovely and I only have a very few uncomplimentary ones," he says. What's the rudest email he's had? "Someone describing me as smug," comes the hesitant reply. "I don't Twitter, but I do read tweets and there it was. It really upset me because I can't think of anyone less smug. You have to be really confident to be smug, I think, and I'm one of the least confident people there could be."
We're sitting in his sparsely furnished white living room, underneath two portraits of a Dutch couple painted in 1643 and purchased by Slater when they came onto the market after languishing for 300 years in a French abbey. "I discovered after I got them that it was their wedding anniversary, so I opened a bottle of champagne and we had a toast," he says. "Then one day I was gazing at them again and I realised I'd bought portraits of people who reminded me of my mum and dad. She has that gentleness and I could imagine her rolling out pastry."
At home behind the scenes
Unlike the late Keith Floyd, for example, Slater never swears on television. He says he enjoys the productive side of making TV more than seeing himself on the small screen. "I like being in the editing suite, enjoy the camera work and love doing voiceovers. As a practical thing to do it's lovely. But I'm not bothered about actually being on telly."
He isn't about to join the new brigade of shouty celebrity chefs who raise awareness of supermarket chicken rearing or the standard of school dinners. "A lot of food telly has become very campaigning, and I'm not against that. I'm very glad someone's doing it, but I do worry that pure cookery is getting slightly lost," he says. "I wanted to see someone rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty, and I think that's where I slot in. My approach is softer and the feedback I get seems to suggest people like the idea of somebody quite gentle." More Delia Smith than Gordon Ramsey, then? "Yes, I think so. It works because my stuff isn't unusual or wacky. It tends to be classic home cooking with a bit of a twist or my signature on it. I don't do anything people would say is different, but it's familiar. I really, really enjoy doing cabbage recipes. I'm a brassica-phile."
But it's potatoes that really pique Slater's interest. Tender devotes a stonking 55 pages, by far the largest section in the book, to tubers. "I love my spuds; I adore them," he says. "But of all the vegetables, they are the only ones whose sales are dropping. Blame it on low-carb diets and their emphasis on switching away from starch. Many others prefer pasta and rice as accompaniments for meat or fish, so the potato is losing in the popularity stakes. I wanted to big them up a bit."
He says he didn't realise so many potatoes were Scottish varieties. "I was absolutely amazed to find out that all the potatoes we love, when you trace them back, they are Scottish. In Britain we have the perfect microclimate and the perfect soil to grow them in. I can't grow enough of them to save my life."
We love the potato so much, he claims, because of its versatility and ability to fill us up cheaply. Potatoes, he says, can calm and comfort, satisfy and satiate, but in truth they have little nutritional value. The real reason we eat so many is because of their power to soothe and fill. "A move away from a pile of potatoes on the plate will lead towards a new appreciation of an ingredient whose qualities have long been measured only in quantity," he writes in Tender. "We shall learn that this vegetable is so much more interesting than simply a filler, that it is something whose character can vary dramatically according to season and variety. A vegetable to be explored with a new vigour."
And, brushing off the last of the biscuit crumbs, he's off to raid the fridge to find something to eat for his solitary tea. It's likely to be leftover cold spare ribs and a bit of salad. "Not very glamorous, is it?" he says. Well, I beg to differ.
Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers, a six-part series, starts on BBC One on Wednesday at 7.30pm. Tender, a Cook and His Vegetable Patch, Vol. 1 by Nigel Slater, is published by Fourth Estate, priced £30.


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Ś Mild-mannered Matt Kenseth is spitting mad at NASCAR.
The driver for Joe Gibbs Racing spoke out Thursday, one day after his team was slapped with some of the harshest penalties in NASCAR history because his race-winning car at Kansas last week failed post-race inspection.
The failure came because one of eight connecting rods in the engine was too light Ś by 2.7 grams, according to Kenseth, who said the rods collectively weighed more than necessary by about 2.5 grams each.
ôI think the penalties are grossly unfair,ö Kenseth said. ôI think itĺs borderline shameful.ö
Kenseth was docked 50 driver points in the standings, two more than he earned for the victory. He said heĺs more upset about the penalties given to car owner Joe Gibbs and his crew chief, Jason Ratcliff.
Gibbs also was docked 50 points and suspended for six weeks during which he will earn no owner points, essentially taking the No. 20 car Kenseth drives out of contention for winning an ownerĺs title.
Ratcliff was suspended for six weeks and fined $200,000.
The team is appealing the penalties.
Kenseth understands that a rule is a rule, but the part found to be too light was installed by Toyota Racing Development, which builds engines for JGR at a shop in Costa Mesa, Calif., Kenseth said.
ôThey show up on a truck or an airplane, get taken out and bolted in the car,ö he said.
TDR president Lee White said Wednesday night the company took full responsibility for the mistake and confirmed that JGR had nothing to do with it. He also said the lighter part gave Kenseth no competitive advantage.
ôThere was no intent. It was a mistake. JGR had no control over it,ö Kenseth said with anger. ôCertainly to crush Joe Gibbs like that and say they canĺt win an ownerĺs championship with the 20 this year ... I just canĺt wrap my arms around that. It just blows me away. And the same for Jason Ratcliff.
ôI donĺt feel bad for myself at all, but for Jason and Joe, I couldnĺt feel any worse. Thereĺs no more reputable, honest, hard-working guys with good reputations moreso than those two. I feel really bad for them.ö
Kenseth said he doesnĺt care that the penalty may affect his reputation as a clean racer. He said anyone with knowledge of the situation knows he and his team had nothing to do with it and gained no advantage. He understands that NASCAR has to police the sport vigilantly, but said ôthe penalty is way over the top forö the infraction.
Heĺs not alone and not the only driver hoping the appeals panel provides some relief.
Defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowskiĺs team for Penske Racing was punished last week after NASCAR said it found unapproved parts in the rear suspension of Keselowskiĺs and Joey Loganoĺs cars at Texas. NASCAR took 25 points away from each driver, fined the crew chiefs $100,000 each and suspended seven Penske employees for six races.
Penske Racingĺs appeal is scheduled for May 1.
Most drivers, Keselowski guessed, sympathize with Kenseth.
ôI certainly feel bad for him because at the end of the day, Matt doesnĺt put together the car and, heck, in this particular situation his team didnĺt even put together the engine, so itĺs a difficult situation at best,ö Keselowski said Thursday at Richmond International Raceway, adding that he also understands that ôfrom NASCARĺs side, they know that if you give an inch, youĺve got to give a mile.ö
In the end, said Keselowski, ôitĺs just a question of whether the penalty fits the crime.ö
Later, Kenseth was on the track Thursday practicing in injured JGR teammate Denny Hamlinĺs Late Model car, which he agreed to drive in Thursday nightĺs Short Track Showdown for Hamlinĺs charity.
He also was hoping to put the controversy of the past few days behind him, hopefully by Friday.
ôMy excitement for tonight is at an all-time low,ö he said. ôIt just is right now.ö
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