NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCKS MARK 10 YEARS OF RACING AT DAYTONA
NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCKS MARK 10 YEARS OF RACING AT DAYTONA:
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida – The 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season will officially kick off this week as teams head south to Daytona International Speedway. Friday night’s NextEra Energy Resources 250 marks 10 years of racing for the trucks on the high banks of the famed 2.5-mile superspeedway. If the previous nine races are any indicator, the 10th is sure to be quite a show.
“Its hard to believe this is our 10th year at Daytona,” said Rick Crawford, the 2003 winner and driver of the No. 14 International Truck and Engine Ford. “For every racer this is sacred ground and when you win at Daytona, you’ve accomplished a dream that many racers have chased and few have achieved.”
In addition to his 2003 win, Crawford has collected three top-five and six top-10 finishes. “Daytona has been good to our race team,” he added. “The only thing better than being a winner at Daytona is being at two-time winner at Daytona.”
The track, rich with history, is about more than just racing for some. “I love the build-up to Daytona,” said three-time series champion Ron Hornaday, Jr. (No. 33 Longhorn Chevrolet). “I think the anticipation of getting ready all off-season, putting the sponsors in place, building the trucks and rolling into a track with so much history is the best part,” he said. “Being at a place where my dad always wanted me to race, just the feeling is the best part about being at Daytona.”
New Look, Same Tough Trucks
Camping World prepares for its inaugural season as title sponsor for the series. While the new sponsor brings a new look for the trucks, the tough competition the trucks are known for will undoubtedly remain the same.
The NextEra Energy Resources 250 has nine different winners in as many races. The largest margin of victory, in 2001, is .318 seconds. In fact, Daytona’s total margin of victory (seven races) is .944 seconds. Two races have finished under caution.
Johnny Benson (No. 1 K&N Filters Toyota) came out on the short end of the two most recent “photo finishes” at Daytona: second to Jack Sprague in 2007 and third a year ago. Benson obviously would like to become the track’s 10th different winner.
He’d also like to become the series’ first back-to-back champion — a feat he denied Hornaday a season ago.
“As things get rolling, we’re excited to start the season. Its tough to win the championship, its tough to win races (and) tough to win a championship,” said Benson, who’ll suit up for Red Horse Racing in 2009 after three seasons with Bill Davis Racing. “History shows you can’t win back-to-back. It’ll be difficult to win another championship. “
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Read this… Just for laughs…
Job Interview – Honest HR Question-Answers If we were to Honestly reply to all the HR Questions they would go something like this…
1. Why did you apply for this job?
I have applied for many jobs along with this and you called me now.
2. Why do you want to work for this company?
I have to work for some company who ever gives me a job, I don`t have any specific company in mind.
3. Why should I hire you?
You have to hire some one, you may give me a try.
4.What would you do if we hire you?
Well, it depends on my mindset but I will try to work on whatever is allotted to me.
5.What is your biggest strength?
Basically, daring to join any company who pays me well, without thinking of the fate of company.
6.What is your biggest weakness?
Girls
7.What was your worst mistake, and how did you learn from it?
Joining my earlier company and learn that I need to jump to get more money, so I am here today!
8. What accomplishments in your last position are you most proud of?
Had I accomplished any in my last position, why do I need to change my job? I could demand more and stay there.
9.Describe a challenge you faced and how you overcame it?
Biggest challenge is answering the question “why are you looking for a change” and I started blabbering irrelevantly to overcome that.
10.Why did you leave/ are you leaving your last job?
For the same reason why you left your earlier job… more money
11.What do you want from this job?
If no work is given but keep giving good hikes
12.What are your career goals and how do you plan to achieve them?
Make more money and for that keep jumping companies for every 2 yrs
13.Did you hear of our company and what do you know of us?
Yeah, I know that you will ask this, I`ve gone through your website
14.What is the salary expected and how do u justify that?
Well, no one will change job for the same salary, hence, give me 20% extra than what I am getting and that is unpublished industry standard (I know you will bargain on what ever I ask, hence, I have already hiked my current salary by 30%).
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Update on Google and the deep web
I recently took a much needed break. I spent a couple of days with a very dear friend in Colorado. On the drive back to Santa Fe, I called Abe to check in. In our discussion Abe told me that there has been a fair amount of buzz in the blogosophere about Google “surfacing” deep Web content. Last April I first wrote about Google’s efforts to crawl the deep Web. A couple of months later I followed up with Why is Google interested in the deep web. Today there’s more to write about.
Yahoo! Tech News published an article on January 30: Google Researcher Targets Web’s Structured Data (PC World). The article’s first paragraph is ominous, unless you believe that Google is regurgitating old news:
There is new news. Check out Google’s Deep-Web Crawl. Google is indeed stepping up its efforts to mine the deep Web. Google uses the term “surfacing.” What Google is doing more of is submitting queries to HTML forms and adding the results it finds to its index. From Google’s perspective this makes sense. Their model is to build a comprehensive index. Google isn’t interested in building federated search applications. But, they’d love to index all the good content behind search forms and blend those documents in with documents and web pages it finds by crawling. Here is a paragraph from the Google article’s abstract:
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