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Event: Daytona 500
Trevor Bayne, Donnie Wingo and the Wood Brothers, Eddie and Len, participated in a champion's breakfast Monday morning to celebrate their victory in Sunday's Daytona 500. Following is a transcript of the press conference portion of that event.
EDDIE WOOD, Co-Owner - No. 21 Motorcraft Ford Fusion
HOW DID YOU CELEBRATE LAST NIGHT? "Responded to text messages. We got back to our room about 11 o'clock. We left the race track and went to Steak & Shake. We eat breakfast at Steak & Shake everytime we come down. That's where we live. I'll tell you a short story, back in the day in the seventies, we would eat breakfast, go get lunch and when we'd leave the race track we'd go back to Steak & Shake. How many hamburgers did we eat in a row?
LEN WOOD, Co-Owner - No. 21 Motorcraft Ford Fusion "Something like 38 hamburgers in a row.
EDDIE WOOD -- "That's a true story, but I didn't go to bed. I was responding to text messages until 4:30. I'm not very good at typing. I'm not very good at running my phone, so you can imagine, I'd send a text back and mess it up and have to send it again, so that was my night."
LEN WOOD - "I stayed up until about 2:00 responding to text messages the same way. It's just unbelievable how yesterday turned out for us. I think that's seven decades of winning races in NASCAR now."
DONNIE WINGO, Crew Chief - No. 21 Motorcraft Ford Fusion - "We went to dinner over at BJ's. I kind of did the same thing, went back and responded to text messages, but the biggest thing is just sitting there and thinking about all the years of being down here trying to be part of win here and to finally be a part of it with all these guys just means a lot to me."
TREVOR BAYNE, Driver - No. 21 Motorcraft Ford Fusion - WHAT DID YOU DO? "I went to dinner with these guys, first, and that was really neat. And then I did go to the basketball court for a game of horse and I lost. We were just shooting around and then we rode our skateboards for a minute and tried not to break any legs for today, and then I went to bed shortly after because I knew today would be a long one. Normally, I would have stayed up all night and hung out, but about 1 o'clock I figured it was bed time."
EDDIE WOOD -- DID ANY OF THOSE TEXTS INCLUDE MESSAGES FROM SPONSORS? "My text messages were just from friends, people I hadn't heard from in years. I didn't know I knew that many people. We had a couple of e-mails asking about prices and things, but you kind of get that a lot anyway and then nothing ever really turns up, so we've got to figure out how to find some more money to maybe finish off the season."
YOU WOULD LIKE TO RUN THE FULL SEASON? "Oh yeah. This limited schedule, it's good and it enables us to continue racing, but you need to be at all of them and that's our goal, to get back full-time. Let ricochet rabbit here get a shot at the rookie deal."
LEN WOOD - "Actually, we're gonna add Martinsville. That's the sixth race because we were gonna run the first five - 17 total - so that carries us on through Texas now and if something turns up, we're ready to go."
EDDIE WOOD - ANY CONSIDERATION OF MAKING THE CHANGE FROM NATIONWIDE TO CUP FROM TREVOR'S STANDPOINT? "I don't know the rules. It's kind of been all winter long about the rookie program and how it was gonna be laid out, and I don't really know if you can switch. We'll ask that question, but I don't really know how that works. It's a good problem to have."
TREVOR BAYNE - WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO THAT IF YOU COULD? "I don't know. I'd love to run for a championship in either series, so whatever they say I'm good with it. I think we'll have a really good shot in the Nationwide and obviously we've got a good shot here, so whatever they say I'm fine with it either way. If we can't run for it this year, then hopefully next year we can go for it. We made a commitment at the beginning of the year. We knew this was a possibility. I don't think we knew it was as strong of a possibility, but we knew it was and we made that decision. And we still have to get sponsorship, too. That's a big part. If we get full-time sponsorship, then I'll really be kicking myself in the butt, but, for now, I think we're probably just sticking with what we planned."
LEN WOOD - DOES THE PRICE GO UP FOR SPONSORSHIP NOW AND ARE YOU STAFFED FOR A FULL SEASON? "No, the price didn't go up. We're still the same guys that missed this race in 2008. We've tried to turn it around and hopefully we gained a little credibility yesterday. As far as being staffed, we've got a good group of guys. We buy cars from Jack Roush and use their Roush engineering and that's been a big plus for us. With Doug Yates, I talked to him last night and I said, 'Hey, I need an engine for Martinsville,' and he said, 'No problem.' We can add races and we can run right on with no problem."
TREVOR BAYNE - WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS WHEN YOU WOKE UP THIS MORNING? "I'm not a big enough sponge to soak all this up because there is so much that this means to everybody. It's kind of cool because it keeps hitting me over and over again. It's like you get to win a bunch of times. I looked up when we got out of the motorhome this morning and saw the pole still had our number at the top of it and it's insane. And I look around at these guys and I think about being back at the shop every now and then when I can be there and see them working on these cars and the hours that they were putting into it, and working on Saturdays, and then the hours that we didn't plan on working on it after we crashed in the duel and they got it back together. I look at all their faces and I'm like, 'Wow. We won this Daytona 500.' It's really incredible. To have Jack Roush come over to the car and rub my head and say 'good job' while I was driving to Victory Lane. And to see Richard Petty come in with these guys and Leonard and Glen and their whole families to be in Victory Lane, and Donnie. I think his wife wasn't able to be here, she went back yesterday, but it really was incredible. I don't know how I'm the one that got to be this lucky to be in this situation to be here with all these guys, but I'm really fortunate."
DONNIE WINGO - HOW DO YOU GO FORWARD NOW AND PUT FORTH A GOOD EFFORT WITH NO LETDOWN? "I think the expectations are high, but I think we kind of try to set our standards high. We expect to go run good. I feel like we've got just as good a cars as anybody running. We're getting the cars from Roush now and, as you see last year toward the end of the year how strong those cars were. Carl won several races and starting out the year this year, those are the same cars we'll have in our stall. Sure, our expectations are high and coming off a win like this, the momentum can carry you so far, but you still have to perform. The pit crew has to perform. The guys putting the cars together have to perform and we've still got to do our jobs. And the little driver here has got to perform."
EDDIE WOOD - WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME GLEN AND LEONARD WERE IN VICTORY LANE? AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO GET THEM THERE ONE MORE TIME? "That's one of the most special parts of it. To do what our dad and Leonard accomplished in the sixties, seventies and eighties, we kind of felt like we dropped the ball. To get back going and have them back in victory lane, and Richard Petty bringing dad in. My mom wouldn't come in. She was in the hauler and she wouldn't come. She was a little stubborn on that, but that's OK, she's here this morning. But it feels good to get the family name back going, and the number."
LEN WOOD - WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THEY WERE IN VICTORY LANE? "It was Bristol. He would have been there at Bristol and so would Leonard."
TREVOR BAYNE - HOW HARD WAS IT MOVING TO CHARLOTTE AT 15 YEARS OF AGE? "We knew we had to move dad's race team to Charlotte if we wanted to be competitive. We were in Knoxville, Tennessee in kind of a warehouse shop and we had a lot of guys that just loved to be around racing. A lot of them were volunteers and some of them were there this weekend to celebrate with us, but we just knew we needed to get to Charlotte. I knew that since the time I was 12 years old, so when I turned 15 and I was racing Hooters Pro Cup, I signed with Dale Earnhardt, Inc., so I knew I'd have a little bit of an income or something there to be able to move and kind of live on my own, so I moved down there. I didn't have my driver's license yet. I still had my permit when I first moved, so my crew chief would actually come pick me up and take me to the shop and then drop me off at night, so that was pretty neat. And then dad would come down a lot, so for my family to be supportive of that. It took a lot for my brother and sister and mom to let dad be able to come down a couple days a week and spend time with me and help me get through that transition. That move was very crucial. I think it was the best thing that I did for my career, at that point, to get down and be in the shop and get to know the guys and show them that I wanted to be here - I wasn't gonna be a driver that just showed up on the weekends. I love being around it, so that's kind of the way I grew up working on my stuff and now it's a little different. I don't get to be at the shop as much as I want to, but they got to see me welding on a coach that I broke after jumping off the top of the stairs on to it, so they know I can work on stuff a little bit. It's been an incredible journey and it's happened so fast. It really is crazy how fast that all happened. I love to go back to Knoxville as much as I can. I go back every couple of weeks."
DONNIE WINGO -- IS THIS A SPECIAL CAR FOR YOU GUYS? "No. There was a lot of hard work and a lot of effort put into it, not only from the Roush side but from our side also. We did a lot of the small tweaks on it to try to make it better, but I just think the car was fast from the time we unloaded it. Actually, it was pretty good at the test. We went back and made a few little changes to it before we came back and it was really fast, qualified third, but I think the biggest thing is we wanted to try to race that car after we wrecked in the 150 no matter what, so the decision was made. I think everybody was all-in of doing whatever it took to fix it and put it back in the condition it was before and everybody did a tremendous job."
EDDIE WOOD - WHEN YOU WON THE '76 DAYTONA 500 WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THAT CAR? THIS ONE IS GOING IN THE MUSEUM. "That car was put back together and went to Talladega and won that race. It may have won Atlanta first, I'm not sure. But that car in '76 won the 500 here, it won the 600 and it won the Southern 500 - that one car - and I think it had the same engine block in it. I remember dad buying, and it was awful money at the time. Wasn't it $5000?
LEN INTERJECTS. "It was $2000 or $2500."
EDDIE CONTINUED - "It just tore him up to spend that kind of money on an engine block, but it won three races or more than that probably, but times kind of change."
TREVOR BAYNE - HOW DID YOU HOOK UP WITH YOUR PARENTS AFTER THE RACE? "They went up to watch the race. It's kind of hard to see from the infield and dad is a very competitive person. He used to hang out on the pit box and stuff, but now he decided he better go up in the stands and just watch and then only the fans get to see his emotions. I'm sure he had half the grandstands cheering for us by the end of the race, so that was really cool. I don't know how they got down there so fast. They must have hurdled the fence in their excitement. They were digging, that's for sure, because as soon as I got out of the car in victory lane they were there. It was so cool to have them here. I wish my brother and sister could have been here. They were in Knoxville, but I think some of the local news actually went and caught up with them at our house, so that was kind of funny - my seven year old little brother. I think one of his friends got so excited that he ran out in the yard and started spraying Coke everywhere. You know little kids, they're crazy - a lot like me. But it's so cool to have everybody here, some of my friends, and then all of these new guys I've been surrounded by in less than half a year."
WHAT IS YOUR SCHEDULE THIS WEEK? "I think we go to Bristol, Connecticut and then we go to San Francisco and Los Angeles and back to Phoenix. That's kind of the schedule."
LEN WOOD - CAN THIS BECOME A LONG-TERM ARRANGEMENT WITH TREVOR? WHAT IS HIS DEAL? "We've got Trevor signed up for this year and beyond that it would be up to Jack. He's his driver, but for this year, he's ours."
TREVOR BAYNE - "I'd be happy right here forever. These guys are awesome. It's just so incredible to be surrounded by them, so, either way it goes I'll be happy, but I love these guys. I can't wait to keep racing with them. One thing I haven't really talked about, though, is keeping our expectations realistic here. We won this race and that sets the bar high, but if we would have finished 15th, we would have been happy. We've got remember that for the rest of the season. If we don't go to Phoenix and win, and finish top 15, we still have to remember to be excited about that because we're still learning. There are gonna be a lot of times when we do struggle because I'm new at this. A lot of new pieces have come together, so I think we've got to keep that realistic and just race right now. Whatever happens in a year, then we'll come to that, but these guys - like I said - if I stay with them forever, I'll be happy."
WHAT ARE YOU BUDDIES SAYING ABOUT THIS? "We were standing around the motorhome last night and one of the motorhome drivers come up and we were all standing there staring at each other like, 'What is this?' The guy was like, 'You all look numb. What's wrong? Why aren't you all going crazy?' We didn't know what to say and that's the first time I've ever seen my friends without something to say, but they're a great group of kids and I just love being around them from home. It keeps me kind of grounded having them there and they couldn't be more excited. Some of the texts I was getting, and Jeff Gordon coming to victory lane, and just even being around these guys - they're still blown away to be around the Wood Brothers and Donnie and the whole group, and to be in the pits at a NASCAR race. If they just got to come in the pits, they'd be excited, much less to get to go to victory lane and take pictures and be a part of it, so it's really, really cool."
WHAT WERE YOUR EXPECTATIONS AS YOU STARTED THE RACE AND WHEN DID YOU THINK YOU HAD A SHOT AT WINNING? "I never said it. I knew that our car was fast enough to do it, but a lot of times I get so excited, just like the Nationwide race on Saturday. I knew our could win and I was so pumped about it. I was like, 'We're gonna win. We're gonna win.' And then we didn't. So this time I went about it differently. I said, 'We're gonna finish. We're gonna finish.' And I just made sure I was always the pusher. Joey Logano and I talked on his radio for a second and I was like, 'I'll be good to push you.' He goes, 'Well, I'll push you.' And I was like, 'I'll push you,' because we both knew that the pusher had the advantage of staying out of trouble. You can be responsible. You didn't have to worry about somebody turning you. Even if it was an accident, there were a lot of those times when the pack would check up, so I'd had a lot of experience through that this weekend of just watching in front of the guys, knowing when they were braking so I could back off of them. I think that was really the first race I went into ever in my career just thinking survival mode. A lot of times I say I'm thinking that, but, really, as a 19 or 20 year old I'm thinking, 'I've got to win this thing,' so maybe this is a good, new approach. We'll just worry about getting to the finish and then when we've got a good enough car, we can get to victory lane."
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF TO FANS? "A 20-year-old kid. Everybody is like, 'How much is this gonna change everything?' And I hope none because I don't want to be changed by any of this. I think these guys will keep me down to Earth if I start rising up. I'm sure they'll pop my bubble and I expect them to, I'd do the same for them. I'm a normal kid that's been really, really blessed and fortunate. I like anything that's a challenge. That's one thing that I've always been pushed to do. If I find something new that I'm not good at, I'll stay out in the yard and figure it. While everybody else is inside watching TV or whatever, I'm gonna be out there the extra two hours figuring it out. I started teaching myself guitar this year. My faith is obviously a big part of this and that's really the reason I'm here, and I think that's the reason why all of this worked out. I'm just a normal kid."
ANY THOUGHTS OF WANTING TO RUN THE 24 HOURS? "Michael McDowell is one of my best friends and we've been talking about this a lot, actually. I would love to hop in one of those cars. Anything with wheels on it I'll drive it. I've actually been talking about maybe running an off-road truck or something when I got out to California - that Lucas Oil Series or something. I haven't got it approved yet from these guys or Jack. That's the first they know of it, but I think it would be pretty cool to jump something with four wheels and I think it's cook to turn right every now and then. The road courses have always been pretty good to us. Last year in Nationwide we got a couple top 10s and I'd love to drive them. I think those prototypes look really cool and I've got a few buddies that do it. Marcos Ambrose, one of our other teammates, is awesome at road racing and has helped me out. Allmendinger, there are a lot of those guys that do that crossover and I'd like to be one of them sometime."
CAN YOU TAKE US THROUGH THE GREEN-WHITE-CHECKER? "I'm sure Donnie was coaching me, he just didn't have the mike keyed up. He was probably yelling at me, but I was in a panic, I really was. That was the first time the whole race I really felt panicked a little bit. I was like, 'Guys, do I let Tony Stewart get in front of me and just push him? Do I back up? What's gonna happen?' It seemed everytime I'd build a scenario that was gonna happen on the restart in my head it didn't work out that way at all, so I'm coming to the green and I'm still on the mike saying, 'What should I do?' I'm about to go into third gear already and I'm still asking. I was like, 'Well, I guess we better go with whatever happens here,' so the 47 got an awesome restart. He was right up on me, so I just drug the brake a little bit. I lost him for a second, so I kept dragging him and we hooked up. Then everybody else got disconnected somehow - Tony Stewart and his partner. Carl Edwards unhooked somebody else and then they were coming to us and I was like, 'We're next. We're the next ones to be unhooked.' Carl actually called me last night. He's like, 'What could I have done to win this thing?' He's asking me and talking to me and he's like, 'I don't think there was anything different I could have done.' In my opinion, I didn't know we were gonna win. I've told everybody, I thought it was cool just to say we led on the last lap of the 500 because I felt that was gonna be our joy story there because I didn't think there was any way that front pack would be able to maintain. All the races this weekend the second group has always caught up and passed them, but Bobby Labonte - it was the perfect pick. Carl chose the inside and as soon as he got beside Bobby I made the switch so he couldn't go high and it was perfect. I can't say that I was driving that thing because I don't know if it would have worked out that way, but I definitely had some guidance there. It's really crazy."
HAS THIS SUNK IN? "The first realization of it I got was when I was talking to these guys and they were talking about how this is a very memorable 500. They said it was as cool as Pearson's win or something like that and that's when it kind of sinks in because I don't put myself on that kind of stage with those guys. I don't think of myself as doing the same thing that David Pearson did or A.J. Foyt or Tiny Lund or all the other guys that won for them. When they made that comment that this was one of their coolest 500 wins, that's when I was like, 'Wow, this is real.' This is something that a lot of people have strived for their whole career. This is one of the biggest races in motorsports and we were the ones in victory lane. Like I said earlier, it keeps hitting me over and over and over again. I'm sure for these guys, too. You look down for a second and look at your phone or to grab a bite to eat and you look up and see all these guys sitting here again. You're like, 'Whoa, we're in here because we won this 500.' I can't describe it."
DID YOU LIVE ALONE AT 15? HOW DID THAT WORK? "Mom would always tell me to make my room and I just knew that if I waited until I went out of town to go racing, she would finish it up for me. She always took care of me at the house, so all of a sudden I just had a lot of responsibility and I did live by myself. I've never had a roommate. I'm gone all the time, so I didn't think that would work out. I had to start doing laundry. That went well for about the first three weeks. I was excited doing my own stuff, and then after that it just piled up and I'd invite people over to do it for me. It's probably not good for my diet, but I've had to eat out every day since I turned 15 and moved out. I'm not a cook yet. I about caught my place on fire one time, so I decided that was a bad idea, too. That was a big responsibility to take on, but I think that was kind of why I never had my crazy party stage or whatever you want to call it that most teenagers go through was because I had to kind of grow up fast. My whole life, starting out racing at five years old, I've been surrounded by older people - dad and all the guys that worked on our race team. Those were guys I looked up to and I've been just surrounded by great people. I've been growing up fast since I was five years old and not just when I moved out when I was 15. I missed a lot of birthday parties, but now we get to have a Daytona 500 party, so I think it was all worth it."
WERE YOU EVER LONELY? "No, I have friends there. That was the good thing. There were families there that I raced with and their parents would come and pick me up. I have plenty of friend there, so that was always good. I actually probably had more then than I do now because I'm gone all the time now. It's so weird because everybody in Charlotte that is my age ends up moving away to college, so I kind of gave up on that. I'm like, 'OK, I met this person, but they're gonna move away to college next year.' But there are a lot of good groups there. Michael McDowell, he's been incredible for me. I stay at his house probably half the days that I'm in town there with his little boy, Trace, and wife Jamie. I have made a lot of new, good friends there and just some really good people that have helped me out."
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW YOUR POPULARITY INCREASES AFTER THIS? "Well, my Twitter that I've been working on for over a year now was at 6,000 fans before this week started and now it's at 21,000 over night. I told everybody, 'Man, all I had to do was win the 500? I could have done that a long time ago if I would have known that's how I had to get followers. (laughing) It's crazy to see their support coming on. I didn't get to see the reaction when we crossed the line, but everybody in the media center said people went crazy and the fans went crazy and it was what the sport needed, but, like I said, I'm just so lucky to be the guy that got to be behind this fast race car because it really did make me look good. The thing was so fast. I could push anybody up through there. I could go wherever I wanted and it would just stay up front, so it made me look good and, hopefully, we got some fans off of it."
HOW DOES YOUR FAITH PLAY INTO ALL OF THIS? "That's what this platform is all about. I had a meeting earlier this week and we were talking about what is the goal of Trevor Bayne as a brand, as a person, as everything and what I told them, and I said this once earlier today, it started out to be the best race car driver, but that's changed over time. It's not to be the best race car driver, to be the most marketable or to be the best at anything, it's just to take the platform that we've been given and grow that, which might require us to be the best race car driver, it might require us to be the most marketable or the best speaker, whatever that is required, but it's just whatever it's gonna take to build that platform. It seems to be going pretty good so far, so we'll try to stay on that path."
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It's raining late at night and a girl runs out of the woods on a deserted street. She is injured and bleeding and a young man driving a car strikes her. When the driver gets out, the girl runs before he can help. Behind him, a figure appears in front of his headlights and the young man asks who is there.
Danette, Kallie's mother, wakes up and finds Joe missing. Kallie must have called during the night and she says she is worried now. Joe returns having been gone for much of the night. Danette is worried about Kallie but Joe says she called so at least she must be okay.
Holder shows photos of Joe to Mama Dips, the owner of the motel, saying that his last known address was listed at the motel. They must know each other, Holder asserts. Linden suddenly clues in, it's her son, she says. Mama Dips finally tells them to leave her boy alone. But Linden tells her that she is hurting his boy and to stop protecting him. Mama Dips says Joe would never hurt anyone of those girls. An officer brings in some new information. Holder shows Linden.
Linden and Holder burst into Danette's trailer with a search warrant. They know Joe Mills was there – Mama Dips made two phone calls to that location from the police station. Linden tells Danette that Joe Mills made those videos, including the one featuring Kallie. Danette does not know where Joe would have gone, but is at work. Linden is very upset at Danette but Holder stops her from stepping outside her role as a detective. Linden offers to drive now that she's riled up. Just then, Skinner calls with news of a possible sighting of Joe Mills.
Back at the prison, Alton is still talking. He rehearses a speech he plans to give to his family and victims. Another prisoner says to ask for forgiveness, but Seward doesn't plan on doing so in his case.
Skinner is interviewing the young man who saw something at night when he hit the girl. The girl apparently had red hair and fled from the man. Skinner sends Holder and Linden out on foot, with a full team arriving soon. Linden decides to backtrack back into the forest and finds a red biohazard bag hanging in the tree. But it's empty. Holder and Linden drive-by the adjacent city area where the girl could have run to when she got out of the woods. At 3:00 AM though, it's not likely that anyone saw her. Holder also mentions that he talked to Jack, Linden's son and says that he sounded happy.
Becker announces that Seward's execution will occur in two weeks and asks for six volunteers to assist. While most of the other guards sign up, Henderson leaves without looking at the pages.
Linden and Holder head around towards the Beacon Home and find a couple of kids huddled around something. It's a severed finger in the alleyway. The girl who was running away might have tried to go to the Beacon Home for help. Inside the Beacon Home, Pastor Mike does not have any news. None of the kids would sneak someone into the shelter. They would not risk their spot in the Beacon Home. Pastor Mike says to check the city's three remaining 24-hour clinics. Outside, Bullet asks what the news is and whether they have found Kallie. When Holder says he's going to check the clinics, Bullet says Kallie would never go there. She offers to take them somewhere and directs Linden and Holder to the place.
At the overpass bridge, Kallie sometimes sleeps here when she can't find a bed. She notices that some punks are there and Bullet says Kallie would never go there if those punks were there. Holder goes undercover with a hoodie from the trunk and tries to get some information out of them. Back in the car, Bullet says Holder's nickname is now "Bugs". One of the punks says that he heard crying last night, all night, from down by the river. Holder investigates and sees some large concrete sewer pipes across the river. Holder reports back to the car and they all head over across the river. Linden and Holder find bloodstains in one of the pipes, and not just a little. Bullet is worried that her friend may now be dead. Holder says there's nothing much else they can do and Bullet punches him in the stomach and then runs off. Holder offers to get food, but Linden declines. They'll regroup in the morning.
Meanwhile, Danette drives the streets of The Jungle looking for Kallie. She calls her cellphone but doesn't get an answer. A police cruiser whizzes by her and Danette decides to follow. She notices that girls are getting picked up.
A prisoner beside Seward named Dale asks him about Seward's wife. Seward says he liked her wild but she did not end up being mother material. Dale asks if he loved her, if she disappointed him. Seward tries to deflect. Becker notifies Seward that he has a visitor. It's someone named Tess Clarke, Adrian's foster mother. She tells Seward that she'd like to adopt Adrian and says it would be better for Adrian if he knew that Seward approved of the adoption. Seward says he'll be dead in two weeks, so she'll get custody of Adrian anyway. Tess admits, Adrian wants to see his father, saying that the son forgives him. Seward snickers and calls for the guard to take him away.
Back at the station, Linden sees Skinner's wife and daughter as she brings him up to speed. Linden then misses the ferry so she decides to crash at Holder's apartment. Caroline is also there and she introduces herself. They invite her in though, even though it's Valentine's Day. Holder has been so caught up with work that he forgot about this event so he says he actually celebrates it on the 15th. Holder gets a call from the station, saying that Bullet has something. Holder asks for permission to go and they head out to talk to Bullet. Bullet says a friend saw a man carry a girl into an alleyway near a veterinarian clinic. Linden and Holder decide to investigate. Inside, they find a lot of animals and it starts to get loud. They open another inner door and find a young doctor there. The doctor immediately says that he didn't do it. Inside the room, a girl is recovering from wounds. He doesn't know who dropped her off but he tried to treat her wounds. The girl wakes up and screams. She has various cuts and bruises all over her body but she is alive. It's not Kallie.
Outside, Holder talks to Bullet and lets her know that it's not her friend. Bullet starts to accept that fact that Kallie may be dead.
Seward is awakened. The guards bring Alton back to his cell after the meeting with the family of the victims. Seward notices that he is silence for once. Alton is noticeably upset because he says his meeting involved his brother and sister. He killed his parents. He says his siblings have forgiven him.
Danette meets up with Joe Mills, oblivious to the fact that this guy is creepy. Joe Mills heads to shower and Danette decides to call Kallie again. She's surprised when the sound of Kallie's cellphone ring fills the room. Danette finds the cellphone inside Joe's bag. She turns around and sees Joe stepping back into the room.

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IMAGINE filing past a coffin to the strains of Nutbush City Limits and not breaking into the dance.
Alfred James Funerals managing director Graham James said the Tina Turner song was up with the most unusual his staff had experienced at a service.
The Angels frontman Doc Neeson's funeral last Wednesday included at least two of the band's hits but Mr James says rockers are not the only ones departing from the hymnal.
"The music selections at funerals are eclectic," he said.
"Every funeral is different and unique to that family and we would never judge their choices."
Those songs he would never judge include He Taught Me To Yodel, Right Said Fred, Thriller, May the Bird of Paradise Fly up your Nose and a range of football club songs.
Mr James, whose family has been in the funeral business since 1922, said the choice of music widened as more services were held away from churches.
"In the late '70s, early '80s, funeral directors introduced recorded music, which dramatically increased the selection," he said.
The most popular song at more recent Alfred James funerals has been Time to Say Goodbye, with Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman.
Amazing Grace, sung by Susan Boyle, is the first hymn on the list, coming in at number four.
Ave Maria sneaks in at number nine but the funeral standard Old Rugged Cross, has dropped out of sight.
"Our only advice would be that the music should be appropriate to the family and to the religious practices of the funeral," Mr James said.
Unusual choices at funerals, no particular order
1. Why Don't You All get F***ed — Sky Hooks
2. See you later, Alligator — Bill Haley
3. Smoke on the Water — Deep Purple
4. Roar — Katy Perry
5. He Taught me to Yodel — Mary Schneider
6. Right Said Fred — Bernard Cribbins
7. Black Betty — Ram Jam
8. Burn it off — Blues Explosion
9. Nutbush City — Tina Turner
10. May the Bird of Paradise Fly up your Nose — 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
11. Dirt Track Cowboys — Adam Brand
12. Poker Face — Lady Gaga
13. Thriller — Michael Jackson
14. Get the Party Started — Pink
Most played at funerals, in order
1. Time to Say Goodbye — Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman
2. Over the Rainbow — Eva Cassidy
3. Unforgettable — Nat King Cole
4. Amazing Grace — Susan Boyle
5. You'll Never Walk Alone — Gerry & The Pacemakers
6. You Raise Me Up — Westlife
7. Wind Beneath My Wings — Bette Midler
8. My Way — Frank Sinatra
9. Ave Maria — Andrea Bocelli
10. Moonlight Serenade — Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
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Brazilian police stopped three U.S. Olympic swimmers from boarding a flight home yesterday to question them about inconsistencies in their stories about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio. Their passports have been seized and federal police also want to question gold medalist Ryan Lochte, but he had already returned to the United States. Records retrieved by investigators from an x-ray machine the athletes passed through at the village showed that they were carrying all the belongings they had claimed to police had been stolen. But Lochte's lawyer said he told the truth and has nothing to hide.
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Blake Shelton is apologizing for some past tweets that some say are homophobic and racist. In a message posted to social media, he said, "Everyone knows comedy has been a major part of my career and it's always been out there for anyone to see. That said anyone that knows me also knows I have no tolerance of hate of any kind or form. Can my humor at times be inappropriate and immature? Yes. Hateful? Never. That said I deeply apologize to anybody who may have been offended." The tweets in question date back to 2009 and have since been deleted.
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Harry Potter isn't done just yet… J.K. Rowling announced on her Pottermore website yesterday that she will release three new stories involving the characters from her Harry Potter series. The e-books will be available beginning September 6, with each short story exploring a "different Hogwarts-related theme." While Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide will offer a deeper look into the "nooks and crannies" of the wizarding school, Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Political and Pesky Poltergeists will dive into the "darker side of the wizarding world," including horror stories from Azkaban prison. The third book will be titled Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies and focus on the Hogwarts staff.
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Without revealing the age of any local editorial writers (our work may be timeless, but we are not) let's just say it's easy to sympathize with senior citizens in Little Egg Harbor Township who want Township Committee meetings to have an earlier starting time.
The seniors are blaming low turnout at the meetings on the fact that they start at 8 p.m., not a very convenient time for people who may have trouble driving in the dark and who generally are no longer staying up to catch David Letterman each night.
The late-starting and late-ending meetings may be discouraging others from showing up as well, such as those who have to get up early for work, says 73-year-old Art Mooney, who has been pushing the committee to schedule earlier meetings.
Some towns do that now. In nearby Tuckerton, council meetings start at 7 p.m. The Barnegat Township Committee meets at 6:30 p.m. Township Committee in Eagleswood Township meets at 7 p.m., as does Township Council in Stafford Township. Long Beach Township's Board of Commissioners meets at 4 p.m.
Of course, whenever a public body meets, that time will be inconvenient for someone. Back in 2001, City Council in Atlantic City was criticized for holding its meetings at 3 p.m., a time that meant that just about anyone with a job outside City Hall was unable to attend. Since then, council meetings have been moved to 5 p.m.
So what's the magic meeting time? Who knows?
But in Little Egg Harbor Township, which has a number of politically active seniors - and five senior and retirement communities - an earlier hour certainly seems appropriate.
The Township Committee should try meeting at 7 p.m., or even 6 p.m. It might also want to do what other towns have tried, staggering the times of workshop and regular meetings so that one is early and the other is later.
The principle to keep in mind is that bodies doing the public's business should make it as easy as possible for the public to know what's going on and to be involved.
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The Timing of Work and Work-Family Conflicts in Spain: Who Has a Split Work Schedule and Why?
Spain, as other south-Mediterranean countries, is characterized for the predominance of split work schedules. Split work schedules typically consist of 5 hours of work in the morning (typically from 9 am to 2 pm), followed by a 2 hour break and another 3 hours of work in the afternoon/evening (typically from 4 pm to 7 pm). Because of the evening work hours, split work schedules are contributing to work-family conflicts in the midst of significantly higher female labor force participation. Our purpose is to examine who has a split work schedule and why. We focus on full-time working women with full-time working partners, for whom the need to reconcile work and family responsibilities is likely to be more pressing. We first find that women with partners with a split work schedule or without children (less than 20 percent our sample) are more likely to have a split work schedule. Yet, despite the revealed preference for a continuous work schedule of the remaining women in our sample, we fail to find evidence of a compensating wage differential for having a split work schedule. We thus examine why and find that younger and less educated women more likely to be constrained in their job choices are more likely to work in the private sector, where split work schedules are primarily found.
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Decorating a checkers cake is a really simple and fun activity. Further adding to the fun is the fact that candies are used to decorate the cake!
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Seaera Cole is living proof that dreams really do come true.
Cole, the captain of the Southern University Dancing Dolls, performed with Beyonce during the halftime show at the Superbowl on Sunday in New Orleans. She is among a group of dancers that will accompany the Grammy Award winning star.
"This is the ultimate dream," Cole tells 9News Neighborhoods. "I've always dreamed of being on stage with her and to actually do it is a dream come true. It's really really really exciting."
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague urged the Syrian opposition to unify to become stronger as he held his first meeting with their representatives in London on Monday.
Hague said after the talks at the Foreign Office he had reiterated that Britain wanted President Bashar al-Assad and his regime to stand down over its bloody crackdown on opposition protesters.
Such a move would be "the best thing for the future of Syria", he said.
"But I've also emphasised the importance to them of achieving a united platform and a unified body among the opposition," Hague said.
"At an extreme moment in their nation's history it is important for opposition groups to be able to put aside their own differences and come to a united view of the way forward."
Hague admitted before the meeting that Britain was not yet in a position to officially recognise the Syrian opposition because, unlike in Libya, they were not a unified force and controlled no territory in the country.
At the talks, he also stressed to the opposition figures "the importance of non-violent protest and the importance of retaining international support in this situation through non-violent protest".
Hague said he had emphasised that "democracy means not only holding elections in the future, but entrenching human rights including the rights of minorities in Syria".
Among the Syrian figures Hague met were Burhan Ghalioum, chairman of the Syrian National Council which groups together many Syrian opposition groups, and Haytham Manaa, European representative for the National Coordination Body.
Britain has designated a former ambassador to Beirut, Frances Guy, to develop contacts with the Syrian opposition.
Hague also welcomed the pressure put on Assad's regime by the Arab League and the European Union over the assault on opposition supporters which the UN believes has left more than 3,500 dead in nine months.


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Rodrigo Gimenez's Argentinean-style barbecue sets the tone for simple summer soirees. Americans have a passion for barbecue that seems unequaled. Summer in Santa Barbara is the wafting lure of oak burning under a fine grill punctuated by the sweet ocean air. Over such a grill stands Rodrigo Gimenez, a man whose passion for asado (barbecue) and his particular style of Argentinean-fusion cooking remind us that the way of the grill and culinary arts—though they thrive here—were not born in America. "Social life started around the fire," says the self-professed cocinero (cook)—not chef—who learned his craft organically through passion, travel, and adventure. "And social life around a fire is still central today."


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Blue Mountain captured its league championship and advanced to the state tournament at Spring-Ford this weekend in Cal Ripken League 8U play. The team, comprised of players from East Penn Township, West Penn Township and the Northern Lehigh School District, will play a pair of games on Saturday July 12 and two more games on Sunday, July 13. Team members include, front row, from left, Tyler Haskins, Eli Grady, Stephen Berry and Trent Richard. Middle row, Michael McGeehan, Brayden Tocci, Seth Adams, Tyler Sigley and Reese Lipsky. Back row, bench coach Jen Berry, assistant manager Dan Berry, manager Rick Grady, coach Josh Lipsky. Other team members are, Nick Frame, Parker Oswald, Tyler Sywenski and Ryan Lusch.


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TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Biochips market to grow at a CAGR of 19.1 percent over the period 2012–2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the growing need for high speed diagnosis. The Global Biochips market has also been witnessing the high cost of deployment. However, the increasing outsourcing activities could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.
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Unanswered: Stored Procedure problem in ActiveX Script
First off, apologies if you've read this on any other forums.. I just can't seem to get an answer to the error I encounter..
I have a Stored Procedure being called from an ActiveX script in a DTS Job that runs daily. First the DTS JOb checks the Date value of a remote file, if it is more recent than a file stored locally, it dowloads the file [a semi-colon delimited text file]. Then, from within a While/Wend loop, I am iterating thru each row in the semi-colon delimited text file, formatting the array values of each line, assigning them to Params, executing the SP and setting the command object to Nothing.
The problem is, that after 3151 rows inserted correctly into the Table, the ActiveX script fails and with the following error reported:
[DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
Is this a "maximum number of connections" issue? Can it be resolved? I can see that the oCmd [and hence the connection] is trashed and then initialised for each of the 5007 records, but this doesn't seem like a inordinate amount of work really?
I have included an abridged version of my code below.. It is all dim'd elsewhere in the ActiveX so implicit coding notwithstanding..
While Not oTxtStream.AtEndOfStream
strLine = Trim(oTxtStream.ReadLine)
i = 0
myArr = Split(strLine, ";")
strParam = fncCharCheck(myArr(i))
Set oCMD = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set oCMD.ActiveConnection = oConn
With oCMD
.CommandType = adCmdStoredProc
.CommandText = "sdnInsert"
.Parameters.Append oCMD.CreateParameter("@Param",adVarChar,adParamInp ut,50,strParam)
End With
Set oCMD = Nothing
What I'm after really is a reason for the connection to error on me.. The 5007 line [and up to 650 chars per line] file is too big to be dealt with by the SP directly, right? So I have to use VB to Loop through each line? Is 5007 successive connections alot? Surely this kinda thing is done elsewhere, I just wonder how..
Any help would be greatly appreciated..
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so you are using DTS on SQL server...
did you try to ask the question on the SQL server forum. If you did and didn't get a response then what makes you think you will get a response on the generic SQL forum?


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Store manager Jenine Bryant scanned the entrance of the Best Buy, sizing up each customer who passed through. A blond woman in a fashionable...
SANTA ROSA, Calif. —
Store manager Jenine Bryant scanned the entrance of the Best Buy, sizing up each customer who passed through. A blond woman in a fashionable white shirt and flower-patterned pants wandered in unsteadily, fumbling inside her purse for a scrap of paper.
She looked at it, looked up at the signs denoting how the store is laid out, then looked down and up again. Bryant recognized her immediately and rushed over.
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The woman was a "Jill," code name for a soccer-mom type who is the main shopper for the family but usually avoids electronics stores. Well-educated and usually confident, she is intimidated by the products at Best Buy and the clerks who spout words like gigabytes and megapixels.
Best Buy is trying to change that by giving her the rock-star treatment at selected stores, sending sales associates with pink umbrellas to escort the Jills to and from their cars on rainy days and hoisting giant posters in the stores that pay homage to the Jills and their children, who are shown playing with the latest high-tech gadgets.
Big chain stores used to be among the most egalitarian of places. They were aimed at the average person, the generic "shopper," without conscious regard to background, race, religion or sex.
Who's who at Best Buy
The electronics store has begun to woo a roster of shopper profiles, each given a name:
Buzz: the young tech enthusiast
Barry: the wealthy professional
Ray: the family man
Jill: the soccer-mom who usually avoids electronics stores
That is changing as computer databases have allowed corporations to gather an unparalleled amount of data about their customers. Many retailers are analyzing the data to figure out which customers are the most profitable — and the least — and to adjust their policies accordingly.
Express clothing stores no longer accept returns from those the company deems to be serial returners. Filene's Basement has gone so far as to ban a few customers from its stores because of excessive returns and complaints.
Such endeavors have proved controversial, because the computer programs that try to determine a customer's true value are still a work in progress, with the potential to alienate as well as attract good spenders.
But Best Buy Chief Executive Bradbury Anderson, inspired by Columbia University Professor Larry Selden's book, "Angel Customers and Demon Customers," is on a mission to reinvent how the company thinks about shoppers.
Best Buy has pared some less desirable shoppers from its mailing lists and tightened up its return policy.
It has also begun to woo a roster of shopper profiles, each given a name: Buzz (the young tech enthusiast), Barry (the wealthy professional), Ray (the family man) and, especially, Jill.
Based on analyses of purchases, local census numbers, surveys of customers and targeted focus groups, Best Buy last fall started converting its 67 California stores to cater to one or more of those segments of its shopping population.
It plans to roll out a similar redesign at its 660 stores nationwide over the next three years.
Three Best Buys in the Washington, D.C., area, for instance, are being transformed into stores for Barrys, featuring leather couches where one might imagine enjoying a drink and a cigar while watching a large-screen TV hooked up to a high-end sound system.
The Santa Rosa Best Buy, Store 120, is Jill's store.
Pink, red and white balloons festoon the entrance. TVs play "The Incredibles." There is an expanded selection of home appliances and displays stocked with Hello Kitty, Barbie and SpongeBob SquarePants electronic equipment.
Nooks for play
Nooks are set up to look like dorms or recreation rooms where Mom and the children can play with high-tech gadgets.
Best Buy has new express-checkout lines for Jill; store managers say anyone can use them, but if you are not escorted by a special service representative, they can be easy to miss.
The music over the loudspeakers has been turned down a notch and is usually a selection of Jill's favorites, such as James Taylor and Mariah Carey.
But who exactly is Jill?
"She's very smart and affluent," Best Buy employee Jenn Metzger said.
"Jill is a decision maker. She is the CEO of the household," said Tony Sagastume, general manager for the Santa Rosa Best Buy.
"Jill's children are the most important thing in her life," Bryant said.
According to Best Buy's data, Jill usually shops only a few times a year at an electronics store but spends a significant amount.
Since October's redesign, Jills have increased their spending at the Santa Rosa store by 30 percent, helping boost this year's revenue to a projected $75 million to $80 million, up from around $50 million a year previously, and pushing its customer loyalty rating to among the top five in the country.
Nationwide, such "customer centricity" stores had an 8.4 percent increase in sales in the quarter ended May 28, compared with the same period a year ago, Best Buy executive John Walden said in June.
About 20 percent of the overhaul has to do with store merchandise, but the other 80 percent is more about the customer experience, said Susan Busch, a Best Buy spokeswoman.
About a dozen of the Santa Rosa store's 210 employees are part of what is known internally as the Jill segment team. To customers, this group is known as personal shopping associates.
Wearing pastels instead of the royal blue shirts worn by other salespeople, they are stationed at an island smack in the center of the store decorated with fake purple flowers and stuffed animals.
At the entrance, Bryant, greeting the blond woman, asked her, "Is there anything special you're looking for today?"
"Oh, yes," said the woman, Ann Facciano, 59, glancing down at the paper in her hand. "Playstation-2-Charlie-and-the-Chocolate-Factory?"
On Jill's team
Bryant introduced Facciano to another Jill team member, Jeremy Herman, 18, who beamed at her, led her to the selection of games, pulled out the appropriate box, then walked her to the express-checkout counter.
"Perfect!" Facciano exclaimed, admitting she usually asks her husband to shop at Best Buy when she needs something.
When Herman explained the store's new focus and handed her a card with his work e-mail address and a phone number for the specially trained Jill associates, Facciano squinted at the balloons and the new children's displays.
"I guess I had better start coming in here more and figuring out what you have," she said.
Meanwhile, another woman, in an almost identical crisp white shirt walked in, looking confused. Another Jill.
Bryant jumped in front of her. "Are you finding everything all right?"
"Uh, no," the woman said. "Uh, I have this Dell computer and. … "
Bryant smiled, nodded, and they were off.