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HAMPTON, Ga.
All times Eastern
6:18 p.m.
Going to green-white-checkered overtime. Running order under this final caution is Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch, Jeff Gordon, Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick.
Gordon gets a great restart, but Busch blocks and then goes around Edwards for the lead.
With Busch leading, Gordon and Edwards go side by side and fall back entering the final lap of overtime.
Gordon breaks away and gives chase to Busch, but doesn't have enough left.
Busch wins.
6:13 p.m.
Nah, this one won't be that close. Kurt Busch is nearly 0.7 of a second ahead of Brian Vickers with six laps to go.
But now there's a bit of question whether Busch will make it on fuel. Probably wishful thinking on the radio from Vickers' crew.
Now, a caution with 321 laps down, four to go.
Kurt Busch is pitting, and Jeff Gordon and Brian Vickers are coming with him. Astounding. Just about everybody here thought Busch would stay out -- maybe to become a sitting duck to those who pitted.
Carl Edwards is out of the pits first, because crew chief Bob Osborne called a two-tire stop.
Running order for the sprint to the finish is Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch, Jeff Gordon, Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick. Brian Vickers has dropped back to sixth.
6:04 p.m.
With 15 laps to go, Brian Vickers has cut Kurt Busch's lead down to two-thirds of a second.
Could there be one of those close Atlanta finishes after all? Vickers is shaving the margin at about one-tenth a lap. Now with 12 laps to go, Busch's lead is less than half a second.
Jeff Gordon is fading in third, more than 3.6 seconds back.
5:56 p.m.
How weird can this race get? The first 14 are on the lead lap, there are no cars one lap down, positions 15 through 18 are two laps down, 19 through 27 are three laps down, and the rest are four laps down or worse.
Leader Kurt Busch is beginning to drive away from second-place Brian Vickers with 296 laps down, working on a two-second lead. Jeff Gordon is third, followed by Carl Edwards and Clint Bowyer.
5:41 p.m.
Proof positive of the old line that cautions breed cautions: On the restart, rookie Scott Speed gets caught up in the craziness and smacks the wall to bring out the 10th caution of the day.
The top five don't pit under this one, probably because their tires are still fresh and their fuel cells are still full.
Getting ready for the next restart, Kurt Busch still leads, followed by Brian Vickers, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards. Next five are Kasey Kahne, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., href="http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/driver?seriesId=2&driverId=150">Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick.
Harvick is the only one of the group who pitted to top off his gas under this caution. That could matter later on, when the fuel gets close toward the end.
Restart with 274 down, 51 to go.
5:29 p.m.
The sorely needed debris caution comes out with 259 down, 66 to go.
Brian Vickers has had the fastest car on the track the last few laps, moving up to fourth.
Pitting under caution, Jimmie Johnson is caught speeding on pit road and forced to drop back to the rear of the longer line.
After pit stops, with 62 laps to go, the running order is Kurt Busch, Brian Vickers, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards.
Restart with 264 down, 61 to go.
Tony Stewart is now on the lead lap, in 12th.
5:19 p.m.
With 250 laps down, 75 to go, Kurt Busch has caught Jeff Gordon and is right on his bumper.
Gordon is trying to block, but Busch blasts back in front on Lap 251.
Carl Edwards moves past Jimmie Johnson into third on Lap 252 but is still more than eight seconds behind the leader and more than seven seconds behind Gordon.
And now, with 70 laps to go, everybody's tires falling off, Busch running in clean air and pulling away, where is a NASCAR debris caution when we need it?
5:13 p.m.
Restart with 221 laps down, 105 to go.
Jeff Gordon leads, followed by Jimmie Johnson, but here comes Kurt Busch again, even in a scraped-up car.
On Lap 234, Busch takes second place away from Johnson and is beginning to reel in Gordon for the lead. He's cutting at the rate of four-tenths of a second a lap by 236, with Gordon's lead down to 3.6.
After 243 laps, Busch isn't closing as fast, but Gordon's lead is down to a little less than two seconds. Busch's tires now have apparently fallen off as badly as Gordon's.
4:57 p.m.
Restart with 209 down.
Kevin Harvick, starting on the inside one lap down, is pestering leader Jeff Gordon big-time, trying to unlap. That's causing Gordon to use up his tires.
That's why I'm an advocate of dropping the archaic notion of lapped cars on the inside on restarts. Harvick hasn't gotten his lap back and has caused Gordon to heat up tires, so Harvick might as well have waited for the next lucky dog in the first place.
Gordon is now out in clean air, though, and trying to accumulate a full one-second lead over Kurt Busch.
Gordon has just built a nice lead when Hendrick teammate Mark Martin spins to bring out a caution on the 216th lap. A right-rear tire appears to have blown on Martin's car.
That's all we need: tire failures to go with everything else here today.
The leaders pit under caution. That's pretty easy, considering only 11 cars are on the lead lap. Plenty of room between stalls. The lapped cars now pit, and that's a much more crowded scenario.
Here's the running order out of the pits: Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch. For a change, Busch will have to fight a lot of turbulent air.
4:47 p.m.
Jeff Gordon takes the lead on Lap 203, and just blows by Kurt Busch, who scrapes the wall again.
Busch's teammate, Sam Hornish Jr., smacks the wall on Lap 204 to bring out a caution.
Tony Stewart is the biggest beneficiary, having passed Kurt Busch to climb back to only one lap down, but being short on fuel. Now Stewart gets to fill up with fuel and return to the track just one lap down, and contend with only four other cars for lucky dog on the next caution to get back onto the lead lap.
Gordon says his car is still loose, but whose isn't today? Most drivers are as sideways as dirt trackers coming off the corners.
Gordon wins a three-abreast race off pit road, with Kurt Busch out second and Mark Martin out third.
There are now 12 cars on the lead lap, with Matt Kenseth the latest lucky dog. Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Ryan Newman are currently ahead of Stewart for the next lucky dog.
Running order for the restart: Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Mark Martin, Clint Bowyer.
4:37 p.m.
Leave it to Dale Earnhardt Jr. to loosen things up with one of his classic radio complaints to crew chief Tony Eury Jr.
While they were pitting, Earnhardt said to the crew via radio, "If my wheel comes off and I hit the wall real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer."
Restart with 191 laps down. Kurt Busch still leading. His crew now reports that the car had been getting looser and looser, so he may have scraped the wall on his own, without any liquid on the track. The only damage to his car though, was a scrape on the right-side paint.
With 195 laps down, 130 to go, Busch is still cruising comfortably, nearly two seconds ahead of second-place Jeff Gordon.
4:31 p.m.
In what may be the most dramatic announcement of the day, NASCAR has just named the crewman who ran out into the tri-oval grass to cause the third caution, totally screw up the field and get himself suspended for the day.
Jimmy Watts, gas man on Marcos Ambrose's No. 47 car, was the guy.
And now Ambrose's team may have more impact on the race! Leader Kurt Busch slides up and scrapes the wall, possibly due to oil dripping from Ambrose's car, and brings out a caution on Lap 185.
But, typical of this race, Busch's lead was so big that he could scrape the wall, pit for tires and minor repairs, and still come out in the lead.
Top 10 under caution with 187 laps down, 138 to go: Kurt Busch, Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Mark Martin, Jimmie Johnson, Brian Vickers, Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Dale Earnhardt Jr.
On Lap 188 Kasey Kahne gets the lucky dog, and we now have -- are you ready? -- 11 cars on the lead lap! Oh, be still, my drumming heart!
4:21 p.m.
Restart with 162 laps down. Jeff Gordon jumps almost immediately into second place behind Kurt Busch, with Jimmie Johnson immediately behind Gordon.
Carl Edwards is fourth, followed by Clint Bowyer, Mark Martin, Brian Vickers, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr. and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
The next five cars are one lap down, positions 16-22 are two laps down, positions 23-34 are three laps down.
At least at Le Mans you can have crepes with Grand Marnier poured over them, and a glass of white wine, when things get to dragging this badly on the racetrack.
But Gordon might make a race of it yet; he's the biggest threat to Busch lately, "only" half a second back with 172 down.
Now Gordon is actually challenging for the lead. They're side by side on the 173rd lap. Busch holds him off to lead Lap 173, but Gordon won't back off.
Busch holds by a nose at the end of 174, and now Gordon is slipping backwards by about 10 car lengths.
With 177 down, Gordon's tires appear to be used up, and Busch's lead is back to more than half a second.
Everybody back to your naps.
3:53 p.m.
Leader Kurt Busch has rebuilt his lead to 1.7 seconds over Carl Edwards with 119 laps down. Previously they were playing an accordion game, with Edwards closing in the corners and Busch pulling back ahead on the straights.
Jimmie Johnson hangs on in third, followed by Clint Bowyer and the suddenly mysterious Jeff Gordon. Although Gordon reportedly is having clutch problems, they must be affecting him only as he pits. He has crept up to fifth place but is a hefty nine seconds behind the leader.
With 125 laps completed, there's little hope of anything better than follow-the-leader today. Kurt Busch's lead is now more than three seconds over Carl Edwards, six over Jimmie Johnson, seven over Clint Bowyer and 10 over Jeff Gordon.
Everybody's tires are falling off quickly, with the exception of Kurt's – or might it be the paint? You know, the environmentally friendly, "waterborne" paint his team is using, rather than oil-based paint?
Might it be lighter?
No, that's absurd. But when you see a race this boring, your mind starts to wander. Maybe I'll get a rumor started. Maybe I'll pass around word that NASCAR is going to inspect Kurt Busch's paint after the race is over.
Nah, on second thought, there are members of this media corps who come up with absurd enough stories on their own, without getting any encouragement.
I'm just glad I have to live blog. Otherwise, it would be almost impossible to fight off sleep.
There are now 15 cars two laps down. Seven are one lap down.
Yessirree, I've definitely seen more excitement before the sun sets at Le Mans.
3:37 p.m.
Kurt Busch takes the lead from Carl Edwards just before the caution comes out, so he gets to stay up front.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. gets the lucky dog and makes it 10 drivers legitimately on the lead lap, and actually bunched up for the restart. Jeff Gordon slips back into 10th behind Earnhardt.
Now we'll see whether they can get a real race going, or get all strung out again.
Top 10 under the fourth caution: Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Mark Martin, Brian Vickers, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon.
NASCAR has announced that the crew member who caused the caution by running after the rolling tire has been suspended from the remainder of today's race.
NASCAR also announced Brian Vickers was caught speeding on the pit road and will start at the back of the longest line.
Restart with 106 laps down. Now, for a change, the leaders at least have clean air in front of them. Kurt Busch jumps out to a .777-second lead over Carl Edwards with 109 down.
3:28 p.m.
With 100 laps down, 225 to go, nine cars are on the lead lap, but three of those are still hanging on near the tail end of the lead lap.
The top six, true leaders: Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch, Clint Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin.
The next three, all more than 21 seconds behind: Mark Martin, Brian Vickers, Jeff Gordon.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., 10th, has dropped to a full lap down.
3:21 p.m.
With 82 laps down, Carl Edwards takes the lead from Jimmie Johnson, and Clint Bowyer moves past Johnson into second. Johnson's car appears extremely loose.
With 84 down, Kurt Busch has moved past Johnson into third.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has moved up another notch from 11th to 10th but is still on the tail end of the lead lap, a whopping 32 seconds behind the leader.
3:16 p.m.
After pit stops during the third caution, Jimmie Johnson now leads after 71 laps. Also on the lead lap are Clint Bowyer, Martin Truex Jr. , Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch and Denny Hamlin.
But a whole bunch of drivers on the tail end of the lead lap will restart in front of the leaders.
On a track this slippery, with tires wearing this fast, at speeds this high, it'll be a borderline miracle if they can restart cleanly without causing another caution immediately.
Restart with 73 laps down. Leader Jimmie Johnson is tiptoeing through the middle of the pack. This is a classic example of why many want NASCAR to change the rule about cars starting ahead of the leader.
TV is reporting Jeff Gordon has a clutch problem. He's currently running ninth, at the tail end of the lead lap, 29 seconds behind the leader.
2:56 p.m.
I've seen the first hour at Le Mans closer than this. Kurt Busch's lead after 58 laps is more than 10 seconds over second-place Denny Hamlin.
Carl Edwards is third, but it's hard to say he has "moved up." It's more that Mark Martin backed down to fourth. Edwards is 13 seconds behind Busch, Martin is nearly 15 seconds behind and Jeff Gordon is more than 15 seconds behind the leader.
Big news for Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans! Bulletin! He's moved up from 12th to 11th, just 22.5 seconds behind.
Everybody's loose. Everybody. Most are sideways through the corners, and these corners take up more of the circumference of the racetrack than at most tracks. So it's a sideways race all around.
Third caution is a lulu! On Lap 67, a crewman for Marcos Ambrose runs out into the tri-oval grass to retrieve a rolling tire. It's an "unapproved area," so NASCAR throws the caution.
Now everything's a mess. Only six cars are on the lead lap: Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Martin Truex Jr., Carl Edwards and Kasey Kahne.
Edwards was on the pit road when the caution came out, but crew chief Bob Osborne waved him on through, and Edwards now pits under yellow on Lap 68.
2:56 p.m.
Top 10 after 50 laps: Kurt Busch, Denny Hamlin, Mark Martin, Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon, Brian Vickers, Kasey Kahne, Jimmie Johnson, Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer.
Edwards and Gordon, fourth and fifth, are actually gaining a couple of tenths of a second on the leader on some laps but losing it back on others.
2:46 p.m.
Now the field is really getting strung out on the hot, abrasive track. With 35 laps down, Kurt Busch's lead is now more than four seconds over Denny Hamlin, more than seven seconds over Mark Martin and nearly 12 seconds over Greg Biffle.
The good news for Carl Edwards fans is that he has moved up to fifth. The bad news is that he's nearly 13 seconds behind the leader.
2:40 p.m.
Restart with 15 laps down. Ryan Newman leads after taking only two tires in the pits. Mark Martin and Kurt Busch took four each and should run Newman down momentarily.
Indeed, Kurt Busch leads Lap 17 in a breeze.
Denny Hamlin moves into second on the 19th lap, but by Lap 24, Busch has extended his lead to nearly a full second.
Top 10 after 25 laps: Kurt Busch, Denny Hamlin, Mark Martin, Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman, Jimmie Johnson, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Brian Vickers.
2:32 p.m.
Reed Sorenson tells TV reporters in the garage that "it went straight into the wall," and that "the speeds are so high here" that even a scrape "really hurts the car." So he doesn't know whether he'll be able to return to the race.
On the second caution with 11 laps complete, Bobby Labonte spins in Turn 3 and says almost immediately to his crew on the radio, "It's soooooo loose!"
There could be much more of this slipping and sliding to come, with the sun beating down on a surface that's so abrasive that the tires fall off quickly. Ambient temperature is listed at only 70 degrees, but out in the sun, it feels much hotter.
Almost all cars pit with 12 laps down to change tires. That's less than 20 miles on these tires.
2:26 p.m.
One lap, then one caution. Reed Sorenson's car no sooner settles onto its bump stops entering Turn 1 than it starts to skid like a sliding brick and skates up into the outside wall, bringing out the first caution on the second lap.
Caution lasts through Lap 5. At the restart on Lap 6, Kurt Busch jumps pole sitter Mark Martin for the lead.
2:10 p.m.
With just minutes before the green flag, I've walked the length of the grandstands from the pit-row side and eyeballed virtually every section, even the smaller, separate stands over in Turn 3.
I estimate that right by the start-finish line, the expensive sections are maybe half full. Back to either side of the flag stand, the expensive seats get more and more empty, with some sections only about 10 percent full.
The end back toward Turn 4 appears more than half full, but the end toward Turn 1 might be 30 percent full, tops.
By my estimate, with all stands taken into account, the average is one-third full. So, sadly, my original estimate of 40,000 this morning holds, at least for the grandstands.
Hard to tell about the infield, but infields always are terribly deceiving. The late track superintendent Alf Knight once told me, "If you can get more than 5,000 people in this infield, I want to see how you do it."
And quite a few more buildings are in the infield now than there were a few decades ago.
Interestingly enough, the Turn 3 stands are most densely populated of all, maybe half full. When AMS was reconfigured in 1997, the old backstretch became the frontstretch, and the massive new grandstands were built there.
And, oops! The only trouble with the new stands is that they all face into the afternoon sun, with a sunset that's virtually blinding. Spectators don't like that.
The Turn 3 stands are already in the shade, facing away from the sun. That's why they're relatively well populated.
When, in '97, I pointed out to AMS president Clark that the new stands were built backward, facing into the sun instead of away from it, he quipped that with the weather they always seem to have here, the days would be cloudy anyway, so it wouldn't matter.
And then they get beautiful days like today. See what I mean when I say this place is star-crossed?
I'll bet you one thing, though: Enormous Lake Lanier, 60 miles to the north, is packed with sailors, motorboaters, water-skiers and jet skiers, to the point that it looks like a traffic jam on water.
That's Atlanta on a day like today.
12:55 p.m.
Just talked again with AMS president Ed Clark, who provided some interesting economic insight into the makeup of today's crowd -- whatever size it may be.
Clark expects that the most expensive seats, up high and near the start-finish line, will be the least populated.
Meanwhile, "the ends will be full," Clark said -- that is, the cheaper seats near the ends of the grandstands and down low.
It's just another sign of the economic times, Clark said. When people buy anything, they buy cheaper items. It's sort of like how Wal-Mart sales are good while Saks Fifth Avenue sales are hurting.
12:40 p.m.
Martin Truex Jr. is feeling much better this morning after passing a kidney stone last night, according to his spokesperson.
Truex began experiencing sporadic pain during final Cup practice Saturday and was taken by ambulance to Spalding Regional Medical Center in Griffin, Ga., Saturday afternoon.
Truex was given fluids, examined and released about 5 p.m. He passed the stone at about 10 p.m. Saturday.
12:35 p.m.
Riddle of the day: How can the "Blue Deuce" No. 2 of Kurt Busch and the darker-blue No. 77 of Sam Hornish Jr. be green in today's race?
They're green in the sense of the buzz word for environmentally friendly.
Penske Racing and PPG announced this morning that the Penske cars will be "going green" with a new type of waterborne paint, believed to reduce by up to 80 percent the emissions of traditional oil-based paint.
The Busch and Hornish cars will carry the greener blues today, and the entire fleet of Penske cars is scheduled to be using the new paint by the end of this season.
12:30 p.m.
Today's Kobalt Tools 500 is the 100th Cup race run at Atlanta Motor Speedway. I think I've covered something close to 65 of them, and no matter how you dress it up, this is still a star-crossed place.
On a springlike day in metro Atlanta, there'll have to be quite a walk-up crowd to prevent the usual embarrassing, huge gaps in the grandstands here.
Speedway president Ed Clark is optimistic: "It's a beautiful spring weekend in Georgia," he said. "Just about perfect weather for coming out to a race."
I drove from my hotel at the Atlanta airport to the speedway in 29 minutes this morning, a personal record for someone who's been coming here since 1974. Granted, that was at 8 a.m. for a 1:30 p.m. start, but traffic is usually jammed getting into AMS, even on light-crowd race days.
On heavy-crowd days, it can take as long as two to three hours just to negotiate the 14 miles of U.S. 19-41 after you turn off Interstate 75 south of Atlanta. There's a relatively new Georgia Route 20 that takes you into the track, but I doubt that has helped enough to account for the light traffic today.
So you have to wonder just how many will show up. I'm guessing maybe 40,000 in a facility with a seating capacity of 124,000.
I hope to write later that I was badly wrong.
The biggest trouble is that Atlanta is a uniquely difficult ticket sale.
The spotty grandstands here always look bad for NASCAR. People think if you can't sell tickets in Atlanta, the biggest city in NASCAR's cradle Southeast, something systemic must be wrong with NASCAR.
But this is not remotely an indicator.
Atlanta is a very jaded, blasé city whose residents have a lot more to do than to go to a NASCAR race at a track that, on the extreme southern end of the metro area, is a difficult drive from just about anywhere in town or in the affluent northern suburbs.
NASCAR fans in this area often opt to spend their ticket dollars at Talladega, which is 120 miles away but a straight shot in and out on Interstate 20.
When this was called Atlanta International Raceway and I worked at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, I used to refer to Talladega as West Atlanta International Raceway.
Bruton Smith, chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc., which owns AMS, has vowed he'll fill up this place for the Labor Day weekend race in September.
I'll believe it when I see it.
But none of this is to say there aren't some wonderful memories around this place, which opened in 1960. Here from day one was the indomitable track superintendent, Alf Knight, a former railroad-switching-yard engineer who'd turned promoter of short tracks in the area.
Once, promoting a dirt-track race in Macon, Ga., Knight had to deal with a big argument among Lee Petty, Buck Baker and others over who deserved what share of the purse. Disgusted, Knight turned the strongbox upside down, dumped the cash on the floor of his office and said, "All right, you sonsabitches just fight over it."
There ensued quite a scramble as the NASCAR pioneers wrestled for dollars, Knight recalled.
In the early '60s, at the crescendo of the civil rights movement, Knight got word that an African-American family he knew and had invited to the race, was surrounded and being threatened by a group of white toughs in the infield.
Knight took off marching into the infield. Along the way, he tore a huge pine root out of the ground with his bare hands to use as a club.
When Knight reached the trouble spot, he didn't say a word -- he just began swinging that pine root left and right, knocking bad guys every which way until the hooligans dispersed.
Also in the '60s, when Knight and his maintenance crews had to repair tornado damage to the grandstands on deadline so that a race could go off as schedule, he worked his men almost 24 hours a day for nearly a week.
"Aw, just give a man a drink o' liquor and let him lie down and doze for 10 minutes, he can work another day for you," Knight once told me.
An unknown peanut farmer and his wife would come from south Georgia to work in the ticket booths in exchange for admission to the race. Their names were Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
Knight befriended them long before Jimmy was elected governor of Georgia. Even after Carter was elected president, Knight would sit in his kitchen and joke that "me and Jimmy have drunk a bunch of liquor in this kitchen."
"Alf has a lot of friends," his wife, Madelyn, used to say with a sigh. "From bootleggers to the president of the United States."
When Knight died in 1984, a dozen Georgia Highway Patrol cars led his funeral procession with their blue lights flashing, for a man who was well known to relatively few people.
By my count, more Georgia patrol cars led Knight's procession than the number of Alabama state police cars that had led Bear Bryant's funeral procession from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham the previous year. And Bryant's actual funeral procession, in terms of civilian cars, was probably 10 times as long as Knight's.
Somebody wisecracked this morning in the media center that, troubled as this place has been throughout the years, it must have been built for the sole purpose of the 1992 Hooters 500.
That race was notorious for the confluence of historic paths in a single day. It was Richard Petty's last Cup race and Jeff Gordon's first.
Petty crashed and caught fire but walked away. Gordon, barely noticed, just crashed out.
Davey Allison came in leading the points but was wrecked out early by Ernie Irvan, and Alan Kulwicki went on to nip Bill Elliott for the championship.
I was here for that race. As profound as it always has seemed in retrospect, it didn't seem that dramatic as it unfolded that day. The primary thought at the time was, there sure are lots of story lines to cover today.
My favorite memory here -- although it was no fun at the time -- was a race in 1978 in which Richard Petty was flagged the winner. But Donnie Allison drove into victory lane claiming that he was the winner and that NASCAR scorers -- who kept track with their eyes, pencil and paper back then -- had missed a lap of his.
There was confusion until darkness fell, and Allison finally was summoned to the press box for the winner's interview. Then NASCAR scoring officials changed their minds, and Petty was summoned for another winner's interview.
While Petty was answering a question, somebody whispered something in his ear. He threw up his hand and said, "Well, they tell me we lost the race," and then he left.
Allison already had left the track believing he'd been robbed of the win and didn't find out until the next morning.
Who straightened out the whole matter? Why, a 15-year-old kid named Brian France, who'd been assigned by his parents to work in the scoring stand that day, to learn something about that part of the family business.
Brian noticed that the woman who was supposed to be scoring Allison was a Petty fan whose eyes kept drifting to her beloved No. 43. While she was cheering for Petty to make a pass in Turn 2, Allison was coming past the start-finish line in the pits, and the scorer missed Allison's lap. That's where the discrepancy was discovered.


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Prospects of white WNC Christmas dismal
Published: Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 12:00 a.m.
A wet, rainy Christmas may greet wide-eyed children this morning. To see a white Christmas will take a drive into the more northern counties of Western North Carolina.
"It's too hot for a white Christmas," said Paul Speranza, local weather forecaster.
"We might see a flurry or two in the afternoon."
Rain was predicted to enter the area after midnight Christmas Eve and rain showers were likely to continue through Christmas morning.
Lows Saturday night and early Sunday morning were forecast in the 30s, with highs today into the 40s, Speranza said.
Avery, Yancey, Mitchell and Madison counties and the towns of Cherokee, Waynesville and Sylva might experience some light snow accumulation as temperatures drop tonight, according to the National Weather Service.
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For starters, for as much as I love, love, love baseball, I have long been incapable of caring about spring training games. The news from camp, yes, but actually sitting and watching a game is just nothing I have ever taken a shine to. Maybe that would be different if someone invited me out to Arizona or something, but that doesn't happen in my universe. I've thought hard about why I don't care for spring training games, and I've decided that it's simply an internal calendar thing. April is when baseball starts in my mind, and there's not a lot I can do about it. These last few years with March opening days have truly put that predisposition to the test, and I'm not ashamed to admit that even though the games counted, it didn't really feel like baseball season before April rolled around.
I like April better than March, too. And like Craig, I take very little pleasure in watching spring training games on television. But I do like the WBC and it's because the games do count. I was up until 4 this morning watching Japan beat China. No, March 5 doesn't seem like baseball season. Yes, it's a bit disorienting to watch a game being played 5,000 miles away on synthetic carpet under a roof. But it's baseball and the players really want to win and some of them I've never seen before. Sign me up.
More Shyster:
The final reason -- and this one I'm somewhat less ashamed of, though I'm not sure if I should be -- is that I find that pitting nation-state against nation-state in any competition is a passe exercise. I'm not in favor of one world government or anything, but I do have a mild Utopian streak in me, and I thus find the competition of countries to be a rather quaint and ultimately meaningless construct that I hope is one day supplanted by a little more oneness, ya know? Oh, I'll grant the World Cup and the modern Olympics their current constructs because nations were more important when they started and I'll grant them their setup for the sake of history, but we really aren't in that world anymore. Or at least we should strive not to be. All of us have more things in common with some people in other countries than we do with some people in our own. With specific reference to sports, we all know that no country has a monopoly on top talent. Why then pit countries against one another? What, exactly, does it prove? The height of internationalism, in my mind at least, is when people from all over the world play together rather than divide up into categories determined by accident of birth. For the time being, that means all of the best baseball players playing in the Major Leagues. Or all of the best soccer players playing in the EPL or in Germany or Italy or whatever league is supposed to the best. At some point -- like, when we master teleportation -- I'll want to see truly global leagues.
Sometimes it's a little scary, how much alike Craig and I think. Some years ago, there was talk about changing the format of the All-Star Game to U.S.A. versus World or something, to which I was irrationally, almost violently opposed. One of the things I like about Major League Baseball is how it throws all these players from so many different countries together, to fight for a common goal; there certainly isn't a more international team sport played in this country.
Flag-waving does have its place, I suppose. I'm just not comfortable when it turns into a me-versus-you thing. Which partly explains why the Olympics leaves me cold. But to this point, at least, I haven't gotten the same vibe from the WBC. Maybe because when the big games are played in the U.S., most of the fans are Americans who don't really care so much who wins. I can tell you this, though: If we ever reach a point at which the U.S. fans turn the tournament into a point of national pride, I'll be right on board with ShysterBall.
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Every week, I will spotlight strange but ultimately endearing comic stories (basically, we're talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of all the installments of this feature.
Today we take a look at Journey Into Mystery #93, scripted by Robert Bernstein, plotted by Stan Lee, drawn by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. In this story, Thor nukes China!
In Journey Into Mystery #93, Thor has a brief encounter with the Communist Army of China when they try to prevent an American medical mission (which included Don Blake) in India. As a quick aside, Don Blake has a bad limp – he needs a cane to get around and yet he travels the world on humanitarian missions, risking his life all the time. Dude's a hero, right? Just keep that in mind for later in the story.
So anyways, after Thor kicks the Red Army's butt, they regroup and try to figure out a way to stop him as, after all, it is only a matter of time before the Commies attack America…
So the scientist becomes the Radio-Active Man and heads to New York where he takes on Thor. Thor counters with his "out of nowhere" electricity powers…
But then the Radio-Active Man uses radioactive…hypnosis?!?
Don Blake goes diving for the hammer, which is somehow still a hammer and not turned back into a cane…
Then, of course, Thor nukes China…
I love that that is just the end of the story. Thor just nukes China. Hilarious. Captain America, meanwhile, cried about this event for five issues of Tales of Suspense. Oh wait, never mind, he didn't care.
As a kicker, check out the ending…
How do you give Don Blake shit, Jane?!? The dude is a total badass!!!!
Not only does the hammer not turn into a walking stick, it also doesn't return when he throws it?
I just read that issue a few days ago!
Being that my comic love started in the late 80s/ early 90s, I never really appreciated the silver age stuff. So now I'm trying to read through some of the series I really liked when I first got into comics. It's neat seeing how all this stuff originated.
Captain America kills Nazis with his bare hands…Thor vaporizes the Chinese masses…just par for the course in the Marvel Universe.
Actually, I'm confident Thor set off the Radioactive Man in a remote, uninhabited part of China. Just like Cap didn't kill anyone in cold blood. If there's no hard evidence in the comics, it didn't happen.
Silver Age superheroes had an unfortunate tendency to get hypnotized at the drop of a hat.
There's still the matter of fallout, Rob. Even if no one died in the blast, the cancer rates in the surrounding regions are going to skyrocket.
Also: MOLECULES! Everything is electrons and molecules. Need to find something? Follow it's electron trail.
Don Blake's scientific genius subconsciously controlled Thor's creation of the tornado, so that Radio-Active Man landed in a place where no one would be hurt, including Radio-Active Man himself!
Hey, it worked for Hulk under Byrne.
Wow, Thor could have at least flown the Radioactive Man over the ocean or something instead of dropping him off in a populated area. It's a good thing those Chinese military guys assumed the explosion was Radioactive Man and not a preemptive strike from the US or Thor would have started WWIII, and been responsible for the annihilation of humanity.
Silver age women always gave the heroes a hard time.
This almost seems like a Silver Age Superman story. Maybe because "Robert Bernstein" was the alias used by Jerry Siegel during his stint scripting for Marvel.
Just think of the dinosaur fossils that the explosion must have vaporized!
"That's YOUR problem."
No, Thor, you just made it everybody's problem.
Thor counters with his "out of nowhere" electricity powers…
I dunno…sure, Thor hadn't demonstrated a previous ability to hurl lightning bolts, but it's not the weirdest power for the god of thunder to have, especially early on when they're still defining his power set.
He didn't even nuke the 'Red masters' but some poor mountain villagers. My god, Thor, that's cold!
"Captain America, meanwhile, cried about this event for five issues of Tales of Suspense. Oh wait, never mind, he didn't care."
Keep milking that Gruenwald debate, Brian!
always found it interesting that thor even after being warned by the radioactive man that if he sends him back in the tornado he will explode still does it plus his hammer does not return to being dons cane.
How is "*poof*" the sound of an H-Bomb?!?!
I love the guy doing play by play. After watching a guy who is admitedly throwing radiation into the area fight a guy with lightning comming [out of his ass apparently]out through his hands . it is only after the radioactive man uses his radiation to uhhh hypnotise[really?] Thor that he decides the area is unsafe[really?]. it only goes to show you that silver age comics were still being written for kids. I got into comics after the silver age silliness gave way to bronze age slightly less silly silliness. I can imagine that in those days a grown man with a comic collection would be laughed out of the room. only after the breakthroughs of Dark knight and the Watchmen and of course the X-men did comics become more adult fare. i have to admit that not everything to come out of the silver age was this goofy. But even the stuff that is lauded today is still kids fare[silver age classics i mean]
My favorite odd dialog is that the "tornado is heading for yonder mountains!"
Really, Stan? "yonder mountains?" English speakers weren't saying "yonder" in '60s, I doubt the Chinese were. But I guess when you get into fake Shakespearean it's hard to stop.
And while the first guy is surprised the tornado is heading for the mountains, The Great One just thinks the tornado looks odd. He's not at all surprised it's heading for yonder mountains.
Wow. Brian could easily do a "Five Goofiest Moments" just based on the panels in this entry. In fact, I will, in order of appearance:
5. "We can make free men tremble by destroying their hero-protector…" Seriously, staunch believers in Communism referring to others as 'free men'? His next line should have been "That's why I love Communism, the absolute lack of freedom! Hail Mao!"
4. "Stymied, eh?" The Chinese-born scientist is so familiar with the English language that he casually tosses off slang-terms like 'stymied'?
3. Radio-Active. That's adorable.
2. The aforementioned battle-narrating spectator. I'd like to think that he stood there the entire fight and did that. "Now Thor's punching him! Now the Radio-Active Man is punching Thor! Now they're taking a short break because they're tired! Now more punches!"
1. Even three exclamation points do not make up for how incredibly unconcerned those two Chinese guys are about an atomic explosion within viewing distance of them. "Oh, dude, there's an atomic explosion over there." "Oh yeah, I guess Radio-Active Man failed. Lame."
It's a very loud "Poof," Stickmaster.
Captain America, meanwhile, cried about this event for five issues of Tales of Suspense.
I think I have those issues… they were pretty good issues IIRC.
(Wow, you are determined to prove your point, huh Brian?)
@ Adam Farrar: My favorite odd dialog is that the "tornado is heading for yonder mountains!"
Really, Stan? "yonder mountains?"
The script is from Robert Bernstein.
My favorite bit is "Yes master, I do not know who I am." Goofy.
Thor doesn't seem to be doing the Shakespearean dialogue yet — was that not until Stan scripted him, or until Avengers, maybe?
Jane gives shit to Don Blake because she obviously hates the handicapped, which makes her choice of career an odd one. She had some legal stuff to take care of one time, walked into Matt Murdock's office, then walked right back out. Cold!
Captain America crying about it needs to be in every post. The final Line it is Drawn test should be to have the try-out people do their best to depict Cap crying over the death of villains. He should team up with the Native American from the old PSA (Cody Iron Eyes, I believe). He should have a cry-off with Superman. There should be a cover theme game where the answer is "3 comics where Cap ISN'T crying about killing bad guys". There should be Name the Artist that drew Cap crying.
OK, that's enough.
That seemed to be a common comics view of nukes at the time – controllable, and usable in combat. There's some fascinating late '50s war comics to this effect, but sticking to this period in Marvel, FF 4 has the FF setting off a nuke in New York City (the moderately famous "strap a nuke to Ben's back and have him walk into a monster's stomach" scene), while when the Human Torch first appears in FF 1, the army fires a nuclear missile at him pretty much right over Central City.
When Thor turned back into Blake after being away from the hammer too long, the hammer didn't turn into a cane! It happens even in Thor's origin story, check it out.
(Yes, I know that the hammer turns into a cane as many times as it doesn't in stories where that is a plot point, like Beta Ray Bill's first appearance. But on those early stories the hammer only turned into a cane when Thor did it on purpose!)
Mark, that's why the FF isn't in Central City anymore…
"Your own private tornado"…at least Thor didn't make him travel in an economy class tornado!
Hell, True Lies was 30 years later and they set off a nuke in the Florida Keys. But it's not causing any damage because it wasn't inhabited! Thank you, James Cameron.
My favorite line is Mao screaming that "No, communism is the mightiest force on Earth!" The line about making "free men tremble" is bad, but it's not out of character for anti-American villains (Commies and WW II villains alike were fond of discussing how much they hate democracy and wish to destroy it).
Minor note, I think this story was drawing on current events, as China and India were having a border dispute at the time.
What is the deal with silver age writers and last-panel irony from snide girlfriends? If it's not Jane Foster, it's Iris West or Carol Ferris mockingly comparing her boyfriend to a superhero's latest exploit. Is this just a lame joke or was it some kind of practice among couples in that era? "Oh Stan, look! While you spent another weekend publishing brain-rotting picture-books for juvenile delinquents, this Armstrong fellow flew to the moon and planted an American flag to humiliate the Communists. Imagine that." "Heh-heh, what Joan doesn't know is that secretly I am Neil Armstrong! And I am banging her sister like a cellar door."
Just once I'd like to see a guy turn that around. "Oh Barbara, have you seen the paper? While you were dressed like a bespectacled librarian on our date last night, that foxy redhead in the skin-tight Batman ensemble was out shaking her thing on the rooftops." "Well Dino, we can't all be huge sluts."
Let's assume Thor sent the radio-active man back to the location China did its land-based nuclear tests (Lop Nur, I presume)…. actually it's not implausible, as that's probably where they'd do their radioactive man research.
Re. radioactive hypnosis: it's at least a well-known pulp trope connected to china: Fu Man Chu was reknowned for it, and "chinese brainwashing" was a big red scare thing.
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Tourist attractions to visit near Bonnencontre, France
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Bonnencontre and wondering what to do next!
Most beautiful villages in France (see also beautiful French villages) Chateauneuf-en-Auxois (41km); Chateau-Chalon (52km); Baume-les-Messieurs (57km)
Churches or other religious monuments Hospices de Beaune (Beaune) (24km)
Remarkable gardens Jardin à la Faulx (26km); Château d'Arcelot (34km); Parc et jardin du château de Barbirey sur Ouche (35km); Abbaye de la Bussière (35km); Jardin du château du Talmay (38km); Jardin des jeux du château d'Arlay (47km); Parc de l'Etang (54km)
Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé) (see also historical French towns) Dole (26km); Dijon (28km); Chalon-sur-Saone (40km)
Sites of natural beauty Cirque du Bout du Monde (39km); Source - la Seille (55km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie) Beaune (24km); Quetigny (25km)
Geography and distances
Distance to Bonnencontre
from Dijon (prefecture): 28 km
from Paris: 287 km
from Calais: 492 km
from Nice: 411 km
from Bordeaux: 508 km
from Strasbourg: 256 km
Getting here
Bonnencontre is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors drive from one of the channel ports such as Calais or Dunkirk, a drive of about 6 hours, or fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car. For driving distances to Bonnencontre from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Bonnencontre): Aubigny-en-Plaine, Auvillars-sur-Saone, Bagnot, Brazey-en-Plaine, Broin, Charrey-sur-Saone, Esbarres, Glanon, Labruyere, Lechatelet, Magny-les-Aubigny, Pagny-la-Ville and Pagny-le-Chateau.
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OnStar also offers a telephone service, which should be redundant in the Traverse LTZ, because the car is supposed to come with a Bluetooth connection. However, we weren't able to test Bluetooth in our vehicle because it didn't seem to be installed. There is a voice/phone button on the steering wheel, but it merely muted the stereo.
Similar to the navigation system, the stereo hasn't been given much of an update for the Traverse. Its audio sources are limited to XM Satellite Radio, a six-disc in-dash changer, and an auxiliary input, along with the usual AM and FM radio. When we tested the Chevrolet Cobalt SS, we noticed that its standard GM stereo had been updated with a USB port, and would like to see that feature added for the Traverse. But one cool thing about the Traverse's stereo is the Music Navigator feature. When you insert an MP3 CD, the system will scan the music and then present it onscreen in standard MP3 player style, letting you browse by artist, album, and genre. The only drawback here is that it takes a while to scan a disc, and you have to rescan it if you take it out.
If you want to make use of the rear-seat DVD system, you will need to remove discs from the in-dash player, as it also works as the DVD drive. With a DVD in, you can watch movies on both the dashboard LCD and the ceiling-mounted LCD. Composite video and RCA jacks on the back of the console let the kids plug in a game console or portable DVD player, restoring the use of the in-dash unit for the front seats. The rear-seat DVD package also includes a remote and headphones, so the kiddies can quietly watch in back without disturbing the parental units.
What took us by surprise was the audio system, which sounded really good. There weren't any obvious logos on the speakers, but a little research showed that Bose supplies the system, explaining the superior quality sound. This system uses 10 speakers, with a center fill and subwoofer, creating an immersive surround experience. We were impressed by the crisp bass and general clarity when playing music.
The LTZ trimmed Traverse also comes with a back-up camera that's sporting a feature we haven't seen before; it doesn't have any trajectory guidelines on it, but as you get close to obstacles, the system overlays a caution icon on the screen at the location of the obstacle. This feature is especially useful in dark parking garages where you might not be able to see an object that you are backing towards. It also employs a low-tech solution for blind-spot detection, with little mirrors inset at the edges of the side mirrors that offer a view of cars at your rear quarters.
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Just as the 2009 Chevrolet Traverse's exterior shows a new direction in styling, the engine is a new, modern powerplant. As a crossover, the Traverse uses a V-6 engine, this one with 3.6 liters of displacement. That engine keeps up with the times by incorporating variable-valve timing and direct injection, helping it produce 288 horsepower at 6,300rpm and 270 pound-feet of torque at 3,400rpm. Although the Traverse is large, this engine gets it moving easily, and the power comes through surprisingly smoothly, as direct injection is supposed to produce more engine vibration than port injection.
The six-speed automatic is about what we would expect in a big family vehicle like the Traverse: fairly simple reaching for the high gears, and slow to downshift. It shifted smoothly, but a number of times while we were driving it felt like it was hunting for the right gear. It has a neat trick for taking control of the gear shifting; shift it to the low range and you can move through all six gears sequentially with a rocker switch on the shifter. The only problem with this manual-mode option is that you don't want to put it in low when you are careening down the freeway at 85 mph, because it initially goes to third gear.
Unlike many crossovers we've seen, the Traverse is very long, so in maneuvering it around town we found the need to make wide turns. The power steering is hydraulic, as opposed to newer electric power-steering systems, so it gets a little uneven as the wheel is cranked around. But it does feel precise enough--without much lag--that you won't be drifting around your lane on the freeway. The ride quality is very good, too; it doesn't rough you up, although we wouldn't call it a luxury ride.
Fuel economy is rated at 17 mpg city and 24 mpg highway, but in our driving we only achieved 16 mpg. Although our mileage got better on the freeway, city driving consistently dragged it down to 15 mpg. The Traverse seems best suited to long-range cruising--take an economy car for trips to the grocery store. The Traverse does better for emissions, getting a ULEV II rating from the California Air Resources Board.
In sum
The front-wheel-drive 2009 Chevrolet Traverse, with the LTZ trim, goes for a base price of $39,025, and that includes the navigation and Bose audio systems. Our car also came with the $1,295 rear-seat entertainment system and a $75 engine-block heater, making our total--with $735 destination charge--come out to $41,130. The next trim down, the LT, bases for $31,545, but you lose the navigation system and traffic. The Traverse finds a worthy competitor with the Ford Flex, which costs a couple thousand more but has better cabin tech. Other cars to consider with similar capacities are the Dodge Journey and Mazda CX-9.
We give the Traverse a very good score for its cabin tech, which earns points for the traffic system and impressive Bose audio. The drive quality is good, but nothing outstanding. We like that Chevrolet fitted it with a direct-injection engine, but there's not much else noteworthy. The design is also very good, from the nicely done exterior to the easy-to-use on-screen interface.


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Funny you mentioned that. I was at that fight. Reno Nevada in April of 1992. That is when I almost fell 2 rows shaking Al Bernsteins hand. Bramble was there, got his autograph and Mills Lane was the ref. I think. Mancini wore out with stamina in that fight and the right hand just finished him.
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I remember a name Charlie Brown which Haugen fought, but I could be wrong. in the 1980s before he fought Jimmy Paul in late 1986. I think he stopped Brown with a left hook.
He did that all night long in beating Jimmy Paul. Excedllent performance. It should have told everyone that Haugen was a smart fighter who could box, and wasn't the "Alaskan toughman slugger" that he was always described as being.
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1990 BMW 3 Series 325is 2dr Coupe
The car is flawless, you cant have fun in it. The design is superb and I would drive nothing else. Not a fast car but it is very quick and can give most new cars a run for their money. Reliability is great if it has had good owners. Easy to modify and work on. DONT BUY IT IF YOU ARE NOT AN ENTHUSIAST!
Quick, sporty and nimble. very organic, you don't get any features and I don't care.
Keep her nice and you wont have issues. Free flow exhaust, re chip, cold air intake, coil-overs the sky is the limit. Just don't over do it!
Well this is my first car a 1988 BMW 325is 5-speed , but have driven newer BMWs and can say that not much else drives as good as a well sorted e30 does , and nothing that I've driven drives better . I will say that the e30 in stock form is not very fast it will move once you get the engine on cam 2400-5500rpm , but e30s are momentum cars not drag racers , e30s handle very well if you know what your doing , the steering is second to nothing , the brakes are surprisingly good , and the handling is very good, but if you screw up there are NO safety nets , you have ABS that's it e30s love oversteer , you will most likely flip the car around at least once , so buy the best tires you can afford
Handling , handling , handling , engines are very good and if kept up correctly will run for ever
Tilting steering colum , i cant think of anything else
I got a 1987 BMW 325iS as my very first car.It had about 155k miles.I had it for 13 years.While it had a few issues over the years (ECU, radiator fan, brake master cyl, clutch, routine stuff like brakes and timing belt; expected after 200k miles+), it was VERY reliable.The engine was glorious to rev and got good mpg.The ride and handling was great, and was perfect after getting H&R+Bilsteins.Very fun and easy to live with.Sadly, my car's life was ended by an errant elderly man driving a beat up Toyota, who hit it while it was parked.It had 300,000 miles on it, and was still fun to drive every day.I loved my car dearly, and will be getting another BMW. R.I.P, my old E30.
Fun engine with a peaky, strong powerband that comes alive above 3000rpm or so.
Loves to rev, and makes beautiful music.
Manual transmission was smooth as butter.
Quick, precise steering.
Very tossable, with a tendancy towards oversteer (you'll spin it in the wet if you aren't careful).
Solid-feeling everything.
Clutch has a firm feel, and the steering is weighty for precision at speed.
Simplistic and somewhat dated styling but, when clean, they are still beautiful cars.
They aren't always easy to find anymore, but if you find one in good condition, an E30 BMW will steal your heart.
This car has a cult following, and for good reason.
If they started producing the E30 again, I'd tell them to leave it as is.
Maybe little things, like more modern engine management electronics or something, but people still love the E30 exactly because it is a fun, light-weight sports car, unburdened by excessive insulation, wood trim, and modern luxury amenities.
Not that I don't love the newer BMW's, but the E30 still has a unique character that has not been reproduced, by BMW or by anyone else, and it is still a worthwhile car because of that.
I bought the 325is used with 170k for $2.5k and spent another $4k to recondition the BMW. Guess what? It worth every single penny! The 325is has great interior features, reliable German engine, excellent handling on highway and street.
It has to be the large power sunroof. Also, the racing style seat is not too bad either. Although the one I have is an automatic (being lazy and all), I would really recommend a stick shift (5sp). It just adds that much fun to driving.
The model could use some 16 inches deep dish BBS rims instead of the 14 inches they have on all the e30 bmw. I have no complaint for anything else.
This is my second E30. Very reliable
if you keep up on suggested routine
maintenance. Yes, they aren't perfect
but their character will win you over.
Very respectable performance and
impressive craftmenship. These cars
are built to last. You won't be sorry.
BMW has impeccable standards and it
Handling. Design. Quality. Leather
still looks like new after 14 years!
Acoustics(music). Heavy clutch. Non-
hydraulic valves(need regular
adjusting). Needs tilt steering.
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7/12/2013 @ 7:29 AMCHICAGO (AP) - Edwin Jackson earned his third straight win, combining with four relievers on a four-hitter, and Anthony Rizzo drove in all the runs to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 3-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.
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I can't post pics yet because of the slooowww internet access. Just an update on my trip so far. From Whitefish, we cycled the "Going to the Sun" road to the summit of Logan Pass. It was a long 10 mile climb, 6% grade, with fabulous overlooks where we stopped and took pictures. We went for a short hike when we reached the summit. Along the way we came across a herd of bighorn sheep and I got a few good pictures of them. We spent the night at the Lake McDonald Lodge. The next day we cycled 50 miles to St. Mary's Lodge…a really cool place. The next day we crossed the border into Waterton, Alberta Canada. We spent the night at the Prince of Wales Hotel. We dined in the hotel restaurant where the waiters all wear kilts. Got a great picture of our cute waiter posing in his kilt. We left Canada yesterday and cycled to Many Glacier National Park. It was a tough 52 miler with long climbs but well worth the effort. We are spending two nights here at Many Glacier. Tomorrow we leave for East Glacier National Park. I may not be able to post pics until we return to Whitefish on Friday evening. It's been an amazing bicycle trip.
I arrived in Whitefish at about 2pm and walked to the bike shop to unpack my bike and reassemble it. The bike and the box were in perfect shape, and it took me about 10 minutes to get it back together again. I had dinner with two of my cycling buddies, Reg and Diana, and we did some catching up. It was good to see them again. They are renting bikes so will be spending the morning getting fitted for their rental bikes. Since I have my own bike, I can sleep in and maybe go for a little ride around Whitefish in the morning with my bike. Here are some pictures of Whitefish, Montana. Its a very nice little mountain town with quaint shops and restaurants.
Many consider Glacier to be the most beautiful of all the national parks. Its million acres of diverse habitats are home to hundreds of species of mammals and birds. Bears, porcupines and golden eagles have been seen on this tour. The park also contains hundreds of structures on the National Register of Historic Sites and Buildings, including some of this tour's overnight lodges. We will be crossing over the continental divide twice and through a stunning landscape of jagged peaks, melting glaciers, rushing waterfalls and brilliant wildflowers.
I shipped my bike via Fedex Ground last Friday to a bicycle shop in Whitefish, Montana where the tour starts. It is already there waiting for me to arrive this Friday, August 7th, get it out of the shipping box and put it back together for my ride.


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Roy H. Melton, 94, of East Flat Rock, passed away on Monday, April 19, 2010, at Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital.
He was a son of the late Charlie and Allie Melton. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of fifty-four years, Pearl Woolsey, and by a son, Howard Melton. In 1991, at the age of 75, he married Airetta Bates, who has also preceded him in death.
He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U. S. Navy. He was also a member of Pinecrest Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include two sons, Ken Melton and his wife, Merle, of Barling, Ariz.; Jerry Melton and his wife, Pennie, of Flat Rock; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and special friends, Jerry and Hazel Walker.
A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. today at Forest Lawn Memorial Park with Rev. Charles B. Evans III officiating. Memorials may be made to Pinecrest Presbyterian Church, 1790 Greenville Highway, Hendersonville, NC 28792 or to the charity of the donor's choice. An online register book is available for family and friends by visiting www.thosshepherd.com.
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Nicole Richie, lunching with mom Brenda and a pal at L.A. eatery The Ivy. But Richie's attention wasn't only on the meal, which included a grilled vegetable salad and prime rib. "Nicole was looking over a script for much of the meeting," says a fellow patron.
American Idol star Ace Young, being treated to a seductive burlesque dance at his 26th birthday party at Hollywood's Level 3 club. It was an AI reunion: The guest list included alums Katharine McPhee, Elliott Yamin and Kimberly Caldwell.
Mark Wahlberg, getting his food to go from Café Mauro at Fred Segal in West Hollywood. Also lunching at the eatery: – former Dawson's Creek star Joshua Jackson.
Michael Vartan, dining with three male pals at West Hollywood's Koi. During the guys' night out, the pals chatted over sushi and sake.
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, buying an orange 2 B Free tracksuit for a lady friend at Dallas boutique Epic Apparel. The next day, the rocker – who was in town with his band – returned to pick up another ensemble in pink.
Owen Wilson, grooving along at Pharrell Williams's concert at Hollywood's Boulevard3 club. Other celebs scoping out the concert: Derek Jeter, Topher Grace and Nicky Hilton, who danced along to the beat while her ex, Kevin Connelly, chatted up Leonardo DiCaprio on the dance floor.
Eva Longoria, partying with several female pals at L.A.'s Hyde Lounge. The group feasted on Kobe beef and sipped white wine. "Eva was having a blast chuckling with her friends," says an onlooker. Also there: David Spade, who bobbed his head to Beck's song "Loser."
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Now that numerous government agencies have launched pilots, studied the use of smart phones and tablets and tested the waters of working outside the office, it seems many are beginning to reap the benefits of mobility.
For the most telling evidence that new policies are working, look no further than the bottom line. While some financial figures are tough to nail down – particularly those associated with indirect savings – federal officials say the use of mobile devices is slashing expenses for infrastructure and hardware.
"Within the [Navy Department], we've looked at the way we have bought, the way devices are used and the requirements," Terry Halvorsen, Navy CIO, said Aug. 22 at an industry event in Washington. "At one point we were spending around $7 million a month on mobility...we're now down to $4.7 million, and we'll get to $4 million. So [that is] big savings in how we're managing devices, buying devices, air time on wireless cards and minutes."
At the Justice Department, the versatility offered by some devices frees employees from their desktop computers – and managers from the associated costs, according to DOJ CIO Luke McCormack.
"Something that's very powerful is to be able to take that same device and dock it, and use that as a desktop in a docking-type environment," McCormack said. "One of our largest commodity spends, and this is true at a lot of agencies, is on the desktops. So anywhere we can reduce that cost and re-use that device, so to speak, is going to be significant."
Across the board, mobility has helped reduce costs by allowing employees to work from home or in the field, cutting down on the office overhead back at headquarters. Productivity also receives a boost, although that can be a little tougher to calculate, Halvorsen pointed out.
"It's harder to quantify that because it crosses multiple budget lines. You're not just talking about, 'what did you do in your direct IT spend?'" Halvorsen said. "IT is an enabler and it's going to save in all other areas...but proving that at the fiscal table, with the accountants, gets really hard. And it should be. That's where we're spending a lot of our time: how do you track that money, how do you put the right measures in?"
It is not necessarily all good news, however. Mobility increases efficiency and streamlines, which is great for coffers, but perhaps less so for some employees, he admitted.
"You really have to think a little differently about how you measure the bottom-line gains of empowering employees to be more mobile, move the data faster, get to things quicker – what are you reducing?" Halvorsen said. "In the end, you'll reduce people, and it's a double-edged sword. That's good if you're looking at the bottom line, because labor is the number-one cost driver."
To measure savings, agencies are taking advantage of a range of tools. McCormack noted that PortfolioStat and benchmarking through the Office of Management and Budget and other agencies has been helpful. Halvorsen said he uses a dashboard that evaluates and reports direct costs in mobility and related policies on a regular basis.
While industry generally is considered to be ahead of government in adopting mobility, both the public and private sectors have plenty of growing to do, with the concept of mobility still in its earliest stages, one executive noted.
"One of the areas where we're looking toward even bigger savings, as the mobility evolution moves forward...[is] literally growing and transforming the way you do business taking advantage of mobility," said Jeffrey Ait, Good Technology public sector director. "The concept of having a device to do what you want, when you want, where you want is a great vision. I don't think it's there fully today, but I do believe the applications are being developed and organizations are embracing mobility to transform the way they use technology."
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You are probably already familiar with Motion Tennis for Apple TV, an app that brings Wii-style gaming to Apple TV. Thanks to Rolocule Games and its award-winning rolomotion technology, your iOS device turns into a tennis racket while the grand slam tournament takes place on your television via Apple TV. You can read our in-depth review of Motion Tennis here.
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AirServer for PC, one of the world's most advanced AirPlay receivers, has been updated to version 2.0 which brings a long-awaited recording feature, allowing you to record whatever is happening on your iPad or iPhone with the push of a button. The new feature is available on all supported Windows platforms including Vista, 7, 8 & 8.1.
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But while we can in no way add XBMC directly to the Apple TV 3, there sure is a way to enjoy XBMC content on the HDTV using a 3rd gen. Apple TV. Here's how.
We've already discussed around ten great dual screen AirPlay games for the Apple TV in our previous posts. In case you missed them, you can read them here:
- 5 best AirPlay-enabled dual screen games for Apple TV
- 5 more great AirPlay-enabled dual screen games for Apple TV
Thanks to our wonderful fans, we've been introduced to a few more of such split-screen games. Though not as spectacular or flawless as the ones in the previous lists, the following are surely worth a look. We've also included a list of unconventional dual screen games further down.