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Nebraska man arrested for 226th time Tue Aug 15, 4:08 PM ET
LINCOLN, Neb. - Kevin Holder's rap sheet is 43 pages long, dating back to 1980, and he just got another entry — his 226th arrest. Police say they caught him Sunday morning after a brief chase and found burglar tools in his possession.
"He's very well-known to Lincoln police officers," Police Chief Tom Casady said.
Holder's convictions include criminal mischief, marijuana possession, violation of protection order, assault, resisting arrest, assault on an officer, possession of cocaine. Many were misdemeanors, but he also has been sentenced to at least three prison terms for felonies, including a four-year stretch starting in 1996.
"Your average Nebraskan thinks after a prisoner has committed a certain number of crimes (he) will be put away for a long period of time. That doesn't happen," Casady said.
Lancaster County Attorney Gary Lacey said Holder was charged Tuesday with felony possession of burglar tools and prosecutors will urge a judge to treat Holder as a habitual criminal. With another felony conviction, that could result in a sentence of up to 60 years. Holder remained behind bars Tuesday afternoon.
Holder's list of arrests doesn't come close to setting a record for Lincoln-Lancaster County. He's No. 40, police spokeswoman Katherine Finnell said Tuesday.
A number of people have more than 500 arrests in the city of 226,000 people. The record was held by Edward Rooks, who died in 2004, with 652 arrests.
Lost in space, on Earth: NASA loses moon landing tapes Tue Aug 15, 4:34 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA no longer knows the whereabouts of the original tapes of man's first landing on the moon nearly 40 years ago, an official of the US space agency said.
"NASA is searching for the original tapes of the Apollo 11 spacewalk on July 21, 1969," said Ed Campion, a spokesman for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a Washington suburb.
The tapes record the famous declaration of Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, as he set foot on its surface: "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."
The original tapes could be somewhere at the Goddard center or in the archives network of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Campion said.
The search for the tapes began about a year and a half ago when the Goddard Space Flight Center's authorities realized they no longer knew where they were after retired employees asked to consult them.
Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon, was the commander of the first US lunar mission aboard the Apollo 11 capsule, with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
His landing on the moon's surface on July 21, 1969, was watched by millions of television viewers worldwide.
The original tapes of the Apollo 11 mission were recorded at three tracking stations: Goldstone in California and Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station and Parkes Observatory in Australia.
They were then sent to the Goddard Space Flight Center, which transferred them to the National Archives in late 1969. Later, NASA asked to recover the tapes and that is where the trace disappeared.
"A search is being planned, aimed at finding what happened to the Goddard-recalled Apollo 11 mission data tapes," Campion said.
The search effort involves sifting through 30-year old records and contacting retired Goddard personnel, he added.
The task is challenging. Richard Nafzger, a Goddard engineer, said there were 2,612 boxes of tapes that NASA believes are related to the space missions, including the Apollo 11 mission. The boxes were returned to the space agency between 1970 and 1975.
With about five tapes in each box, "you are talking 10 (10,000) to 13,000 tapes in the boxes," Nafzger said in a teleconference.
The data tapes included one track for video images and other tracks of information like the astronauts' heartbeat, voice and biomedical tracking data, he said.
"We are tracking paperwork to see if it's in a storage facility outside of Goddard, possibly at Goddard," the engineer said.
I agree excel. Since it was for his private use and not used for gambling it looks like the state would leave him alone.
This is interesting:
......people sometimes mistakenly think the 16,000 lottery machines at the state's tribal casinos are slot machines. The lottery machines do not have the "random number generators" found on slots. They issue "predetermined tickets" different from cash jackpots issued by slots, she said.
So the people playing the slot machines are really buying a lottery ticket.
Sharon's condition deteriorates further 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
JERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon's condition has deteriorated, according to the hospital where the ailing former Israeli prime minister is being treated. Anat Dolev, spokeswoman for the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, wouldn't say whether Sharon's life was in danger.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060814/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_sharon;_ylt=AsHs9KaCavvc0DNvdY6FJ61I2ocA;_...
Astronomers meet to define 'planet' By NADIA RYBAROVA, Associated Press Writer
33 minutes ago
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Nearly 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries gathered in Prague Monday to come up with a universal definition of what qualifies as a planet and possibly decide whether Pluto should keep its planet status.
For decades, the solar system has consisted of nine planets, even as scientists debated whether Pluto really belonged. Then the recent discovery of an object larger and farther away than Pluto threatened to throw this slice of the cosmos into chaos.
Among the possibilities at the 12-day meeting of the International Astronomical Union in the Czech Republic capital: Subtract Pluto or christen one more planet, and possibly dozens more.
But the decision won't be an easy one. Scientists attending the conference are split over whether Pluto should be excluded from the list of planets, Pavel Suchan of the meeting's local organization committee said.
"So far it looks like a stalemate," Suchan said. "One half wants Pluto to remain a planet, the other half says Pluto is not worth being called a planet."
Participants hope to set scientific criteria for what qualifies as a planet. Should planets be grouped by location, size or another marker? If planets are defined by their size, should they be bigger than Pluto or another arbitrary size? The latter could expand the solar system to 23, 39 or even 53 planets.
The debate intensified last summer when astronomer Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology announced the discovery of a celestial object larger than Pluto. Like Pluto, it is a member of the Kuiper Belt, a mysterious disc-shaped zone beyond Neptune containing thousands of comets and planetary objects. Brown nicknamed his find "Xena."
The Hubble Space Telescope measured the bright, rocky object at about 1,490 miles in diameter, roughly 70 miles longer than Pluto. At 9 billion miles from the sun, it is the farthest known object in the solar system.
The discovery stoked the planet debate that had been simmering since Pluto was spotted in 1930.
For years, Pluto's inclusion in the solar system has been controversial. Astronomers thought it was the same size as Earth, but later found it was smaller than Earth's moon. Pluto is also odd in other ways: With its elongated orbit and funky orbital plane, it acts more like other Kuiper Belt objects than traditional planets.
Some argue that if Pluto kept its crown, Xena should be the 10th planet by default — it is, after all, bigger. Purists maintain that there are only eight traditional planets, and insist Pluto and Xena are poseurs.
Still others suggest a compromise that would divide planets into categories based on composition, similar to the way stars and galaxies are classified. Jupiter could be labeled a "gas giant planet," while Pluto and Xena could be "ice dwarf planets."
A decision on whether Pluto should be excluded or if "Xena" should be included on the list of planets will not be known before the end of the conference, Suchan said.
"We of course need the definition of a planet first."
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 12, 2006
President's Radio Address
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, America received a stark reminder that terrorists are still plotting attacks to kill our people. Beginning on Wednesday night, authorities in Great Britain arrested more than 20 individuals who we believe were plotting to detonate liquid explosives aboard flights from the United Kingdom to the United States. If these terrorists had succeeded, they could have caused death on a massive scale. The plot appears to have been carefully planned and well-advanced. They planned to bring the components of their explosives on board in their carry-on luggage, disguised as bottled drinks and electronic devices.
We believe that this week's arrests have significantly disrupted the threat. Yet we cannot be sure that the threat has been eliminated. So as a precaution, on Thursday, the federal government took several steps to increase security at our airports and aboard our planes.
First, the Department of Homeland Security has raised our Nation's threat warning to Code Red -- the highest level -- for flights from Great Britain to America, in coordination with British authorities. Second, we've raised the threat warning for all domestic and international flights landing in the United States to Code Orange -- the second highest level. We also have sent additional federal air marshals to Great Britain to provide extra protection aboard flights from the United Kingdom to the United States.
This plot is further evidence that the terrorists we face are sophisticated, and constantly changing their tactics. On September the 11th, 2001, they used box cutters to hijack airplanes and kill thousands of innocent people. This time, we believe they planned to use liquid explosives to blow up planes in mid-air. In response, we've adjusted our security precautions by temporarily banning most liquids as carry-on items on planes. I know many of you will be traveling during this busy summer vacation season, and I ask for your patience, cooperation, and vigilance in the coming days. The inconveniences you will face are for your protection, and they will give us time to adjust our screening procedures to meet the current threat.
I'm grateful for the outstanding work of intelligence and law enforcement officers in the United Kingdom and in our country. This week's arrests were the culmination of hard work, cooperation, and information-sharing across different agencies and different governments. We're dealing with a new enemy that uses new means of attack and new methods to communicate. This week's events demonstrate the vital importance of ensuring that our intelligence and law enforcement personnel have all the tools they need to track down the terrorists, and prevent attacks on our country.
Because of the measures we've taken to protect the American people, our Nation is safer than it was prior to September the 11th. Still, we must never make the mistake of thinking the danger of terrorism has passed. This week's experience reminds us of a hard fact: The terrorists have to succeed only once to achieve their goal of mass murder, while we have to succeed every time to stop them. Unfortunately, some have suggested recently that the terrorist threat is being used for partisan political advantage. We can have legitimate disagreements about the best way to fight the terrorists, yet there should be no disagreement about the dangers we face.
America is fighting a tough war against an enemy whose ruthlessness is clear for all to see. The terrorists attempt to bring down airplanes full of innocent men, women, and children. They kill civilians and American servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they deliberately hide behind civilians in Lebanon. They are seeking to spread their totalitarian ideology. They're seeking to take over countries like Afghanistan and Iraq so they can establish safe havens from which to attack free nations. These killers need to know that America, Great Britain, and our allies are determined to defend ourselves and advance the cause of liberty. With patience, courage, and untiring resolve, we will defend our freedom, and we will win the war on terror.
Thank you for listening.
END
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Evernham boots driver Jeremy Mayfield By JOHN KEKIS, AP Sports Writer
22 minutes ago
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. - Jeremy Mayfield, the driver of the No. 19 Dodge for Evernham Motorsports, has been terminated, owner Ray Evernham said. "It was purely performance," Evernham said Friday. "The car and the team is not where it should be to represent sponsors. We're out of the top 35 in points now. We just haven't delivered as a group."
Mayfield was told Monday, a day before Bill Elliott was listed to replace Mayfield for Sunday's AMD at The Glen. That fueled speculation that Mayfield was on the way out.
"It's one of those things where, as hard as you try to turn things around, if they're not working you have to make a change to get it to work," Evernham said. "Certainly, it has not been for a lack of effort."
Evernham said Elliott, who stopped racing a full schedule after 2003, would drive the car when his schedule permits. Elliott, soon to be 51, already is slated to drive five more races this season.
"I need a 25-year-old Bill Elliott — somebody that wants to drive," Evernham said.
Being in the top 35 in points is crucial because it guarantees a spot each week in the 43-car field, and Mayfield had been increasingly frustrated about his performance this year. He finished in the top 10 and qualified for the Chase for the Nextel Cup championship the last two seasons but had fallen to 36th in the standings this year. He said last weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway he doubted he would be back next year.
"When performance is not up to par, there's always frustration on both sides," Evernham said. "The decision was primarily made based on the performance of the car and not being able to get it any better. In fact, it was getting worse."
Evernham said he'd soon announce plans for next season. It's been widely speculated that Elliott Sadler will replace Mayfield. Erin Crocker, who has been driving in the Craftsman truck and Busch series, is not a candidate because of her lack of experience.
"Just having Bill Elliott back in the car is pleasant again," Evernham said. "What I need to do is just find a little fountain of youth, and everything will be fixed."
The team was reeling after last Sunday's race in Indianapolis. Mayfield crashed out early, and Kasey Kahne, who drives Evernham's No. 9 Dodge, was involved in a last-lap accident that cost him a top-10 finish. He wound up 36th and dropped four spots in the standings to 11th — out of Chase eligibility.
With only five races left before the cutoff for the Chase, Evernham wants to get Kahne back in the top 10.
Japan man makes 37,760 calls to "kind" operators Thu Aug 10, 7:33 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man was arrested this week after making 37,760 silent calls to directory enquiries because he wanted to listen to the "kind" voices of female telephone operators.
The 44-year-old has admitted to allegations of obstructing the operations of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. by making up to 905 calls a day from his mobile phone, the daily Mainichi Shimbun said on its Web site.
"When I made a complaint call once, the operator dealt with it very kindly, so I wanted to hear these women's voices," the paper quoted him as telling police in Hiroshima, western Japan.
Police believe the calls, made between March and July this year, caused psychological distress to more than 100 telephone operators, the Mainichi said.
4 neighbors arrested in cigarette fight Thu Aug 10, 4:57 PM ET
DECATUR, Ala. - A cigarette butt casually tossed to the ground sparked a daylong argument between four neighbors that escalated into a fight that sent at least three of them to the hospital and got them all arrested.
"It's sad that people were injured over a cigarette butt," Lt. Chris Mathews, spokesman for the Decatur Police Department, said Thursday.
Police said a guest visiting Bobby Joe Ray, 42, tossed a cigarette butt toward the edge of Ray's yard on Aug. 4. The butt landed near a fence belonging to Ray's neighbor, Michael Alan Bradford, 24. Bradford got angry and started shouting about it.
Several residents of the neighborhood said Ray and Bradford argued about the butt all day, Mathews said, and eventually Ray's sister, Shirley Lynn Ray White, 32, who lives across the street, tangled with Bradford's wife, Heather Mills Bradford, 27, and the men soon joined in.
At least three went to the hospital for treatment of injuries, and all four were arrested Tuesday and were released on bond the same day.
Shirley Lynn Ray White is charged with third-degree assault. Bobby Joe Ray and Heather Mills Bradford are charged with harassment. Michael Alan Bradford is charged with harassment and third-degree assault.
Fla. man, 86, pays $1 ticket from 1946 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
PALM HARBOR, Fla. - William Fogarty doesn't understand the fuss. He just forgot to pay a parking ticket. When he finally realized it, the 86-year-old retiree made good and mailed in a money order, to pay a $1 ticket he got 60 years ago.
Fogarty got the ticket in Norfolk, Va., in May 1946. Soon after, he bought a $1 money order to pay the fine but forgot to send it in. About a month ago, as he was looking through a box of collectibles from his Navy days, Fogarty discovered a wallet with the money order inside.
So he wrote a letter to the Norfolk Police Department and included the money order.
"At my age, when I go out of here, I don't want to owe anyone a dime," he told the St. Petersburg Times.
Fogarty's money order will not be cashed, Norfolk police Officer Chris Amos said. Instead, it will be framed and displayed in the department's museum.
"It's one of those restoring your faith in mankind things," Amos said.
GM to show off fuel cell-powered car 2 hours, 55 minutes ago
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - General Motors Corp. has achieved a milestone in its quest to bring a hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle to market, announcing that it now has a drivable version of its Sequel concept car.
The Sequel, which looks like a shrunken minivan and has a range of 300 miles, will be shown to reporters next month in California, GM Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said Thursday during a speech at the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City.
But production and sale of the Sequel is a long way off. Wagoner wouldn't give a time estimate for when the public could buy one.
"That's rocket science when you get in that car," he said. "This is the most sophisticated product, technologically advanced product, I think we've ever made in the history of GM."
Nearly all automakers are testing hydrogen-powered vehicles, with some in use by government workers. The testing has received support from a 5-year, $1.2 billion hydrogen initiative first announced by President Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address.
The pollution-free technology holds the potential of zero emissions and a sustainable source of energy produced when hydrogen and oxygen are mixed. Experts say they could begin arriving in showrooms by 2020, or perhaps earlier.
But many obstacles exist including the high cost, relatively short range and a lack of fueling stations.
16:54 EUR/USD: Consolidating Losses; Needs a Refreshing Pause] Boston, August 10. EUR/USD is pausing to consolidate after finding support in the 1.2745 area. Prices have posted an outside day, overcoming the prior high by a tick or two and the prior bottom by almost 20-pips. Prices are quite oversold on an intraday basis and need a period of consolidation before making a run for the solid area of support which stretches from today"s lows down through 1.2720. Offers are seen on rebounds to 1.2780, 1.2800 and 1.2820 near-term, dealers report.
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Israel Takes Hold of Key Lebanon Town, Vows 'Painful' Expansion
Thursday, August 10, 2006
IBL EL-SAQI, Lebanon — Israeli forces took control of the strategic southern hub of Marjayoun on Thursday and warned that its fight against Hezbollah could grow wider and more severe if diplomacy fails.
Israel's defense minister, Amir Peretz, said the military would use "all of the tools" to cripple the Islamic guerrillas if attempts for a cease-fire pact collapse at the United Nations.
Israel's leaders have authorized a major new ground offensive going deeper into Lebanon, but held off to give international negotiators more time. There were clear signals, however, that Israel was already setting its sights on Lebanon's capital and beyond.
In Beirut, Israeli warplanes blanketed downtown with leaflets that threatened a "painful and strong" response to Hezbollah attacks and warned residents to evacuate three southern suburbs. Other warnings dropped from planes said any trucks on a key northern highway to Syria would be considered targets for attack.
Earlier, missiles from Israeli helicopter gunships blasted the top of a historic lighthouse in central Beirut in an apparent attempt to knock out a broadcast antenna for Lebanese state television.
The seizure of the southern town of Marjayoun and nearby areas overnight appeared to be an attempt to consolidate bases in southern Lebanon before any possible push northward. It gives Israel an important foothold for any deeper drives into the country.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207679,00.html
That's a good one Vexari.
Dumb has a new definition... Wed Aug 9, 7:36 AM ET
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested four Frenchmen for jumping in front of cars on a busy road so that they could film them and post the footage on the Internet, the newspaper El Pais said Tuesday.
The four jokers took turns to leap in front of cars, forcing the drivers to swerve or brake sharply and putting themselves and other vehicles in danger, town hall officials in Alicante were quoted as saying on the El Pais Web site.
Their intention was to film the reaction of drivers, on the road between Benidorm to La Nucia, and post them on the Web, the officials said.
Relatively rare in Spain, a youth craze known as "happy slapping" took off in Britain last year, in which groups of teenagers slapped or mugged strangers while filming the victims' reaction on camera phones. The images were then sent to friends or posted on Web sites.
Spanish police and local government officials were unavailable for comment.
Just ordered the book. Thanks for the recommendation.
I can tell you did a lot of work. Looks real good ddf.
That's cool. You do all this yourself?
Hey ddf. Me too. 91 feels like 100 already. It's nice out, just too hot.
Sounds to me like you have a city council or mayor who can't say no to the big shots.
Yes, he will probably be the only person to get one. At Seattle's expense.
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At $1.54 million I don't think they will be selling too many of those beds.
British golfer's double hole in one Tue Aug 8, 2:39 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - A British golfer told how he celebrated after hitting a hole in one -- then was left "bewildered and stunned" when he did it again at the same hole the following day.
Robert Edge, 35, took one shot with a nine iron to complete the 167-yard (153-metre) 12th hole at Bentley Golf Course in Brentwood, east of London, on Saturday. He then repeated the feat on Sunday.
"I was delighted after the hole in one," said the recruitment consultant.
"But on the 13th it all went to pieces. I finished with 75, three over par.
"On the Sunday I stepped up at the 12th and hit another hole in one. I was bewildered and stunned. I had a big ear-to-ear smile."
Andy Hall, the golf club's managing secretary, said: "To do it one day is fair enough but to come back the next day -- I have never heard of it in golfing circles.
"We have insurance so that players are not stung by a hefty bar bill as it is tradition to buy everyone (in the clubhouse) a drink for a hole in one."
I'm not going to fly on this airline.
Jet lands safely after door falls off 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A jet owned by leading Brazilian airline TAM landed safely on Tuesday after one of its doors fell off and crashed to earth next to a supermarket shortly after departure from Sao Paulo.
No one was hurt in the incident, a TAM spokeswoman said. The Fokker 100 plane with 79 people aboard en route to Rio de Janeiro returned to the airport safely 18 minutes after taking off.
TAM has been replacing its Fokker planes since the Dutch aircraft maker went bankrupt 10 years ago. It still has 22, but expects to gradually eliminate all of them by 2010.
The same type of plane, also operated by TAM, caused one of Brazil's worst air disasters in 1996. It crashed in an urban area shortly after taking off from Sao Paulo, killing about 100 people, including some on the ground.
In 1997, an explosion of undetermined origin killed a passenger who was blown out of a TAM Fokker 100 during flight. In 2001 an engine breakup on a TAM Fokker 100 caused two cabin windows to shatter and one of 82 passengers aboard died as a result of the depressurisation.
Mumbling caller triggers bank bomb scare Tue Aug 8, 4:12 PM ET
BERLIN - A mumbling caller dialed a wrong number and left a panicked German bank employee convinced that a bomb was on its way by express delivery, police said Tuesday.
The man had meant to call a firm in southwestern Germany that repaired pumps, but instead dialed a bank in the eastern city of Chemnitz, police said.
He told the employee who answered the phone that he had sent a pump by DHL and asked for a "diagnosis." However, police said his diction was so poor that the woman believed he was sending a bomb — "Bombe" in German, rather than "Pumpe."
She asked the caller what number he had meant to dial before alerting police — but missed the last figure. Police figured out what had happened by dialing through variations of the number.
Judge declares lawyer drunk in court 18 minutes ago
LAS VEGAS - A judge ordered a blood-alcohol test for a defense lawyer who was slurring his words, then declared a mistrial after declaring him too tipsy to argue a kidnapping case.
"I don't think you can tell a straight story because you are intoxicated," the judge told Joseph Caramango as she declared a mistrial for his client.
Caramango, 41, acknowledged in court that he was drinking the previous night, but maintained he was not drunk. If convicted, his client faces life in prison.
"I don't believe I've committed any ethical violation," Caramango said Tuesday, disputing the accuracy of the breath-alcohol test. "If it proved anything, it proved I was not intoxicated."
Clark County District Judge Michelle Leavitt announced Caramango had a blood-alcohol level of 0.075 percent. Nevada's legal blood-alcohol limit for drivers is 0.08 percent.
In an exchange recorded by courtroom video, Caramango arrived about 90 minutes late for trial and was slurring his words.
The judge asked if anything was wrong, and Caramango said he suffered a head injury in a rear-end car crash while driving to court.
Leavitt said she was suspicious because details of Caramango's account varied.
Caramango also identified a woman who accompanied him to court as his ex-girlfriend, Christine, but when questioned by the judge the woman identified herself as Josephine. She said they just met about 20 minutes earlier at a bar and coffee shop.
Leavitt did not hold Caramango in contempt of court, and it was not immediately clear if he would face discipline by the State Bar.
Designer creates floating bed Mon Aug 7, 8:31 AM ET
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million).
Janjaap Ruijssenaars took inspiration for the bed -- a sleek black platform, which took six years to develop and can double as a dining table or a plinth -- from the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 cult film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"No matter where you live all architecture is dictated by gravity. I wondered whether you could make an object, a building or a piece of furniture where this is not the case -- where another power actually dictates the image," Ruijssenaars said.
Magnets built into the floor and into the bed itself repel each other, pushing the bed up into the air. Thin steel cables tether the bed in place.
"It is not comfortable at the moment," admits Ruijssenaars, adding it needs cushions and bedclothes before use.
Although people with piercings should have no problem sleeping on the bed, Ruijssenaars advises them against entering the magnetic field between the bed and the floor.
They could find their piercing suddenly tugged toward one of the magnets.
Elliott to replace Mayfield at Watkins Glen
By JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer
August 8, 2006
Bill Elliott
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Bill Elliott will replace Jeremy Mayfield in the No. 19 Dodge at Watkins Glen this weekend, furthering speculation that Mayfield is on his way out at Evernham Motorsports.
NASCAR's official entry list Tuesday showed Elliott subbing for Mayfield, and the team later released a statement confirming the switch. It said Mayfield's long-term future with Evernham is undecided -- but his name had been removed from the company letterhead.
``This team has a great deal of potential and we just haven't met the expectations this year,'' car owner Ray Evernham said in a statement. ``We will do whatever we need to get this car in the show for Watkins Glen. It's important to our sponsors and it's important to this team.''
That meant putting Elliott in the car because as a former NASCAR champion, he's assured a spot in the field.
``Having Bill in the driver's seat gives us this guarantee,'' Evernham said. ``I believe in our system, our process and our people, and am committed to getting this program where it needs to be.''
This weekend's entry list also showed road-course ringer Scott Pruett filling in for rookie David Stremme in the No. 40 Dodge. That change wasn't a surprise considering Pruett replaced Stremme earlier this season for NASCAR's first road course race of the season.
The Mayfield swap is a much bigger deal, considering the driver is a NASCAR veteran with 21 road course starts.
But the team fell out of the top 35 in points -- the mark that guarantees a spot in the field -- and Mayfield has been increasingly frustrated about his performance. A participant in the Chase for the championship the last two seasons, he's currently 36th in the standings and said Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway he doubted he would be back with Evernham next season.
Now it looks like he might not even complete this season. Evernham said he has finalized his 2007 lineup and will announce it shortly, and it's been widely speculated that Elliott Sadler will replace the disgruntled Mayfield.
The team is reeling following Sunday's race in Indianapolis. Mayfield crashed out early, and Kasey Kahne was involved in a last-lap accident that cost him a top-10 finish. He wound up 36th and dropped four spots in the standings to 11th -- out of Chase eligibility.
Have fun.
I'm not complaining. But I am disappointed. Expected to make more.
Back up to 1.2855 now.
Yes. It was way up. I was thinking about setting a limit at 1.2910 then it came tumbling down. Glad I raised my stop or I would have taken a loss.
I raised stop to 1.2850.
+15
expected a lot more.
That's what I will do. Tighten the stop and let it get stopped out if eur/usd drops. Will probably take a new position after the decision too.
Looks good to me. I'm still long from yesterday. Down 1 pip as I type. I'll probably tighten the stop and add to it when the decision comes in.
Hope so. I'm going to take a break for a while. Good luck to ya.
1.2825-35 look like bargains. Guess we'll find out.
Trading looks thin today. I think most traders are waiting for the FOMC decision tomorrow.
bought eur/usd @1.2835
stop 1.2790
fewer # of lots than usual
[17:25 EUR/USD: Nearing 1.2835 Support as Stop-Hunt Resumes] Boston, August 7. The hunt for stop-loss orders that was aborted this morning is back on. Prices have dipped to fresh session lows at 1.2838. Bids are seen down to 1.2835 with stops concentrated around 1.2830. 1.2790 is further support, the area where EUR exploded from after Friday"s payrolls. Jamie.Coleman@Thomson.com /rs