Top court rules on home demolition rights
The latest judicial interpretation by the country's top court, effective from Tuesday, supplements the existing regulation on urban home demolition, which was revised last year.
The interpretation specifies seven circumstances under which courts should reject government requests for forced relocation, including where the proposed compensation "violates the principle of fairness", where land acquisition has "severely violated the procedures provided by law", and where the basic living essentials of property owners are not ensured.
After requests have been approved by court, the interpretation said demolitions should "normally be carried out by administrative bodies", to distinguish judicial approval from law enforcement, according to a statement released by the court on Monday.
"Whether governments or courts are responsible for implementing forced demolition is exactly the issue being left out in current stipulations, and needs an urgent answer," said Wang Xixin, a law professor at Peking University.
The State Council's regulation on urban demolition and compensation, revised in January 2011, forbids local governments from executing their administrative right to demolish houses without residents' consent, unless approved by a court.
However, the ruling fails to specify which party is responsible for carrying out demolition after judicial approval.
Wang said that the latest interpretation "adds another layer of protection" for owners and residents of homes earmarked for demolition, as it put the decision fashion jewelleryin the court's hands.
"If you let government play the role of both decision-maker and executive body at the same time, misjudgment andfashion jewelry wholesale demolitions that turn violent can hardly be avoided," he said.
The interpretation also requires courts to give a ruling within 30 days of receiving a government's request to demolish property, and to notify the government within five days wholesale crystal jewelryonce the decision is made.
Rapid urbanization and rising demand for land has given way to more disputes, and who is responsible for carrying out fashion earringsdemolition can be a thorny issue, said Ying Songnian, a law professor at China University of Political Science and Law.
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China Expects 11% Industrial Output Growth in 2012
China Expects 11% Industrial Output Growth in 2012
China's industrial output is expected to grow 11 percent for 2012, easingwholesale jewelry from china from an estimated 13.9 percent in 2011, China's
industry minister said on Monday.
The forecast by Miao Wei, the Minister of Industry and Information Technology, will also serve as the official target for China's industrial output, China's state radiojewelry wholesaler reported on its website.
Miao was quoted by the radio as saying that China's industrial development in 2012 "would not be optimistic" partly due to an uncertain global economy.
China's industrial sector has lost steam in recent months with annual industrial output growth falling to 12.4 percent in November from 13.2 percent in October and down from the year's high point of 15.1 percent in June.
The annualwholesale fashion jewellery rise of China's industrial output, which covers enterprises with a minimum annual revenue of 20 million yuan ($3.16 million), is closely correlated with GDP growth in the world's second biggest economy.
An 11 percent annual expansion in industrial output is regarded by Beijing as appropriate to achieve an annual 8 percent GDP growth rate. Miao's ministry had an 11 percent target of industrial output growth for both 2010 and 2011.
China's latest five-year plan targets an average annual GDP growth rate of 7 percent over the five-year period, with industrial output targeted at 10 percent.
Huang Libin, a senior official with the industry ministry, said at an onlinewholesale jewelry briefing last month that China's factory output growth may hit 12-13 percent in 2012.
Consolidation
Miao said China would try to cut energy consumption for every yuan [CNY= 6.3185 -0.0004 (-0.01%) ]of industrial output by 5 percent in 2012, and cut water consumption by 7 percent.
According to China's state radio, Miao's ministry has decided to launch a number of new initiatives designed to safeguard the healthy development of China's economy.
The focus will be put on consolidation of key industries.
"We will launch implementation plans for mergers and acquisitions in sectors like steel, automobiles and cement," Miao was quoted as saying.
In addition, the ministry would try hard to boost the growth of strategic emerging industries and small industrial firms.
China's industrial output is expected to grow 11 percent for 2012, easingwholesale jewelry from china from an estimated 13.9 percent in 2011, China's
industry minister said on Monday.
The forecast by Miao Wei, the Minister of Industry and Information Technology, will also serve as the official target for China's industrial output, China's state radiojewelry wholesaler reported on its website.
Miao was quoted by the radio as saying that China's industrial development in 2012 "would not be optimistic" partly due to an uncertain global economy.
China's industrial sector has lost steam in recent months with annual industrial output growth falling to 12.4 percent in November from 13.2 percent in October and down from the year's high point of 15.1 percent in June.
The annualwholesale fashion jewellery rise of China's industrial output, which covers enterprises with a minimum annual revenue of 20 million yuan ($3.16 million), is closely correlated with GDP growth in the world's second biggest economy.
An 11 percent annual expansion in industrial output is regarded by Beijing as appropriate to achieve an annual 8 percent GDP growth rate. Miao's ministry had an 11 percent target of industrial output growth for both 2010 and 2011.
China's latest five-year plan targets an average annual GDP growth rate of 7 percent over the five-year period, with industrial output targeted at 10 percent.
Huang Libin, a senior official with the industry ministry, said at an onlinewholesale jewelry briefing last month that China's factory output growth may hit 12-13 percent in 2012.
Consolidation
Miao said China would try to cut energy consumption for every yuan [CNY= 6.3185 -0.0004 (-0.01%) ]of industrial output by 5 percent in 2012, and cut water consumption by 7 percent.
According to China's state radio, Miao's ministry has decided to launch a number of new initiatives designed to safeguard the healthy development of China's economy.
The focus will be put on consolidation of key industries.
"We will launch implementation plans for mergers and acquisitions in sectors like steel, automobiles and cement," Miao was quoted as saying.
In addition, the ministry would try hard to boost the growth of strategic emerging industries and small industrial firms.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
China to push forward ties with Russia
China to push forward ties with Russia
Li made the remarks to participants in the ninth plenary meeting of wholesale jewelry suppliesthe China-Russia Friendship Committee for Peace and Development (CRFCPD), scheduled for Tuesday in Beijing.
This year is the 10th anniversarydiscount fashion jewelry of the signing of the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation. Li hailed the sound momentum of bilateral ties under the guidance of the treaty, calling on joint efforts from both countries to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and strategic coordination, to benefit the two peoples and contribute to world peace, development and stability.
During President Hu Jintao's successful visit to Russia in June this year, the two heads of state set goals for the development of bilateral relations in the next decade, and ushered China-Russia ties into a new stage of development, Li said.
The CRFCPD, founded in 1997, has served as a major channel for people-to-people exchanges between China and Russia, said Li, adding it made a unique contribution to the growth of the two countries' relations.
He called on the committee to consolidate thefashion jewelry shop social foundation and public opinion base for China-Russia friendship, and initiate a new phase for bilateral people-to-people exchanges.
Li suggested the committee further boost the China-Russia all-round strategic cooperative partnership and give priority to enhancing bilateral ties no matter how the domestic and global situations change.
He also proposed creating more platforms for friendly exchanges and dialogues among people of various circles of society, drawing young people to the cause of boosting bilateral friendship, and promoting China-Russia exchanges and cooperation in various areas.
The Chinese Chairman of the committee, Hua Jianmin, and the Russian Chairman, Leonid Drachevsky, together with some 50 Chinese specialists and officials in several fields, attended the meeting.
The CRFCPD was established in 1997 under the proposal of the two countries' presidents, with the aim of deepening understandingcheap jewellery and friendship, and promoting neighborly cooperation between China and Russia.
Li made the remarks to participants in the ninth plenary meeting of wholesale jewelry suppliesthe China-Russia Friendship Committee for Peace and Development (CRFCPD), scheduled for Tuesday in Beijing.
This year is the 10th anniversarydiscount fashion jewelry of the signing of the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation. Li hailed the sound momentum of bilateral ties under the guidance of the treaty, calling on joint efforts from both countries to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and strategic coordination, to benefit the two peoples and contribute to world peace, development and stability.
During President Hu Jintao's successful visit to Russia in June this year, the two heads of state set goals for the development of bilateral relations in the next decade, and ushered China-Russia ties into a new stage of development, Li said.
The CRFCPD, founded in 1997, has served as a major channel for people-to-people exchanges between China and Russia, said Li, adding it made a unique contribution to the growth of the two countries' relations.
He called on the committee to consolidate thefashion jewelry shop social foundation and public opinion base for China-Russia friendship, and initiate a new phase for bilateral people-to-people exchanges.
Li suggested the committee further boost the China-Russia all-round strategic cooperative partnership and give priority to enhancing bilateral ties no matter how the domestic and global situations change.
He also proposed creating more platforms for friendly exchanges and dialogues among people of various circles of society, drawing young people to the cause of boosting bilateral friendship, and promoting China-Russia exchanges and cooperation in various areas.
The Chinese Chairman of the committee, Hua Jianmin, and the Russian Chairman, Leonid Drachevsky, together with some 50 Chinese specialists and officials in several fields, attended the meeting.
The CRFCPD was established in 1997 under the proposal of the two countries' presidents, with the aim of deepening understandingcheap jewellery and friendship, and promoting neighborly cooperation between China and Russia.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Activists seek transaction tax
Activists seek transaction tax
ACTIVISTS are pressuring global leaders meeting for the Group of 20 summit to impose higher taxes on financial transactions in order to raise millions of dollars to fight poverty and deprivation around the world.
Groups including Oxfam, the World Wildlife Foundation and others organized events yesterday around the chic resort town of Cannes on France's Cote d'Azur to draw attention to the so-called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions.
Multibillionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates joined the call,,Cheap moncler vests, traveling to Cannes to urge G20 leaders to consider the tax and other innovative ways to help poor nations.
British actor Bill Nighy led an Oxfam news conference promoting the so-called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions. "I am here specifically to promote on behalf of Oxfam the Robin Hood tax," Nighy said. "A tiny tax, fifty pence, in English terms, on every 1,000 pounds (US$1,596) generated on the kind of casino-style sterile, nonproductive banking that takes place in cyberspace."
New recession or no, rich countries need to keep helping poorer nations,,Cheap authentic nfl jerseys, and countries that have pulled themselves out of poverty should do more to help, too, Gates said.
Gates came to the summit to urge G20 leaders to keep their eyes trained on the longer term.
He championed taxes on financial activity as a way to get the private sector to contribute to helping the poor - a tax that activists hail as long overdue and some European countries are championing.
He acknowledged,Lions jerseys authentic however, that countries are unlikely to agree on a blanket worldwide tax.
"The world doesn't have one government, so you're just not going to have complete alignment on how tax structures work in all the different countries. I hope some countries look at the tax ideas in the report and consider those," he said.
"The key point is that money makes a huge difference. The way aid is being spent nowadays - focused on innovation, on measurement -means that the impact per dollar of aid is much higher than in the past," he said.
He presented an ambitious and unusual report to the G20 leaders at the request of summit host Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.Christian Louboutin shoes
ACTIVISTS are pressuring global leaders meeting for the Group of 20 summit to impose higher taxes on financial transactions in order to raise millions of dollars to fight poverty and deprivation around the world.
Groups including Oxfam, the World Wildlife Foundation and others organized events yesterday around the chic resort town of Cannes on France's Cote d'Azur to draw attention to the so-called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions.
Multibillionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates joined the call,,Cheap moncler vests, traveling to Cannes to urge G20 leaders to consider the tax and other innovative ways to help poor nations.
British actor Bill Nighy led an Oxfam news conference promoting the so-called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions. "I am here specifically to promote on behalf of Oxfam the Robin Hood tax," Nighy said. "A tiny tax, fifty pence, in English terms, on every 1,000 pounds (US$1,596) generated on the kind of casino-style sterile, nonproductive banking that takes place in cyberspace."
New recession or no, rich countries need to keep helping poorer nations,,Cheap authentic nfl jerseys, and countries that have pulled themselves out of poverty should do more to help, too, Gates said.
Gates came to the summit to urge G20 leaders to keep their eyes trained on the longer term.
He championed taxes on financial activity as a way to get the private sector to contribute to helping the poor - a tax that activists hail as long overdue and some European countries are championing.
He acknowledged,Lions jerseys authentic however, that countries are unlikely to agree on a blanket worldwide tax.
"The world doesn't have one government, so you're just not going to have complete alignment on how tax structures work in all the different countries. I hope some countries look at the tax ideas in the report and consider those," he said.
"The key point is that money makes a huge difference. The way aid is being spent nowadays - focused on innovation, on measurement -means that the impact per dollar of aid is much higher than in the past," he said.
He presented an ambitious and unusual report to the G20 leaders at the request of summit host Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.Christian Louboutin shoes
Surgery separates conjoined 2-year-olds
Surgery separates conjoined 2-year-olds
TWIN 2-year-old girls who were joined at the chest and abdomen were separated on Tuesday during a lengthy, complex procedure at Stanford University's children's hospital in California.
The operation that gave Philippines-born sisters Angelina and Angelica Sabuco their independence took more than nine hours and a team of more than 40 people.
By mid-afternoon, the girls had moved to their own operating rooms at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital for the second phase of surgery - reconstructing the area where they were connected. Two hours later, they were moved to the intensive care unit, each with a scar stretching from her chest to her belly.
"This is a dream come true," their mother, Ginady Sabuco, said through tears after the surgery was complete. "Words cannot express how the family feels."
Dr Gary Hartman, the lead surgeon,,hair weave, said the procedure went smoothly. "The long-term prognosis is that we should have a happy, healthy set of girls. We don't see any barrier to a full recovery."
Angelina and Angelica moved to the United States from the Philippines with their mother last year. They live in San Jose with their parents and 10-year-old brother.discount fashion jewelry
They had been doing well considering the obstacles. The girls learned to walk despite their face-to-face orientation and could recite colors and numbers.,Jogos Quentes Gold, But Hartman said staying connected would have posed long-term health risks, including increased damage to their skeletal and muscular structure.
The surgery required separating livers,,Cheap moncler vests, diaphragms, breastbones, and chest and abdominal wall muscles.
The children were being kept sedated.
TWIN 2-year-old girls who were joined at the chest and abdomen were separated on Tuesday during a lengthy, complex procedure at Stanford University's children's hospital in California.
The operation that gave Philippines-born sisters Angelina and Angelica Sabuco their independence took more than nine hours and a team of more than 40 people.
By mid-afternoon, the girls had moved to their own operating rooms at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital for the second phase of surgery - reconstructing the area where they were connected. Two hours later, they were moved to the intensive care unit, each with a scar stretching from her chest to her belly.
"This is a dream come true," their mother, Ginady Sabuco, said through tears after the surgery was complete. "Words cannot express how the family feels."
Dr Gary Hartman, the lead surgeon,,hair weave, said the procedure went smoothly. "The long-term prognosis is that we should have a happy, healthy set of girls. We don't see any barrier to a full recovery."
Angelina and Angelica moved to the United States from the Philippines with their mother last year. They live in San Jose with their parents and 10-year-old brother.discount fashion jewelry
They had been doing well considering the obstacles. The girls learned to walk despite their face-to-face orientation and could recite colors and numbers.,Jogos Quentes Gold, But Hartman said staying connected would have posed long-term health risks, including increased damage to their skeletal and muscular structure.
The surgery required separating livers,,Cheap moncler vests, diaphragms, breastbones, and chest and abdominal wall muscles.
The children were being kept sedated.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Tim Tebow to start again in Week 9
Tim Tebow to start again in Week 9
Tim Tebow wasn't sacked Monday.
One day after giving his embattled young quarterback a less-than-ringing endorsement following a humiliating 45-10 loss at home to the Lions, Broncos coach John Fox said he's sticking with Tebow.,Vikings Jerseys buy offers,
"For this week, yes," Fox said.
Tim Tebow wasn't sacked Monday.
One day after giving his embattled young quarterback a less-than-ringing endorsement following a humiliating 45-10 loss at home to the Lions, Broncos coach John Fox said he's sticking with Tebow.,Probowl jerseys wholesale,
"For this week, yes," Fox said.
The Broncos had eight possessions of three plays or fewer Sunday, turned it over once on downs and three times on takeaways, two of which were returned for touchdowns. Tebow was sacked seven times and his only TD toss came after the Lions had built a 42-point lead while razzing him with imitations of his prayerful pose that's become an online sensation.
"We knew he was a scrambling quarterback," Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch said. "We knew he was going to try to get out of the pocket and try to keep plays alive and we did a good job just executing. He's a young player. He's got a lot to learn as a player. Take nothing from him, he's a winner, he finds a way to win. He just needs to clean up some things in his pass game, but that takes time."
The Broncos tried to adapt to Tebow's unconventional skill set, spreading out the offense and speeding up the tempo, even sprinkling in some option-read plays, but nothing seemed to work very well.
The Lions crowded the line of scrimmage and used Tulloch as a spy to keep the second-year scrambler from running. They blitzed him on more than 50 percent of his dropbacks, pushing the pocket and containing the edge with a disciplined pass rush.
Lions cornerback Chris Houston, who returned an interception 100 yards for a touchdown, revealed Detroit's gameplan was to stack the box and make Tebow try to beat them with his arm.
"We just wanted to make him be a quarterback today," Houston said after the game.,Super Bowl jerseys wholesale, "... He's an athlete, he's no Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or nothing like that. Or Michael Vick or nothing like that. He's got a long ways to go as far as being a quarterback, but he's a hard worker."
Tebow didn't make quick decisions or quick throws, and his long, looping throwing motion led to a strip by defensive end Cliff Avril, who scooped up the fumbled football and scored a touchdown.
Tebow's quarterback rating this season is 75.1, almost identical to the 75.7 rating that cost Orton his starting job during the team's 1-4 start.
If Tebow loses the gig, too, the Broncos might not go back to Orton but could give Brady Quinn his first shot under center since his arrival two years ago from Cleveland in the Peyton Hillis trade.
"You know, really, in this business all things are possible," Fox said. "And Brady's a guy that we acquired before I got here, but he's shown flashes in our practice and (preseason) games, so right now we're in the process of finding out who the quarterback is and we'll leave it at that."
Fox said he trusts Tebow will learn from his mistakes and get better.
"He's competitive by nature, and I think he'll respond just fine,,Dallas Cowboys jerseys wholesale," Fox said.
The task only gets tougher for Tebow. The Broncos play four of their next five games on the road and six of the remaining nine games are against teams that employ the 3-4 defensive scheme that's given him fits as he tries to recognize where the fourth rusher is coming from.
First things first. Tebow said he doesn't feel as though he's on a short leash and is content to let tomorrow take care of itself.
"I feel like each week I'm going to take the game plan and do the best I can with it and keep improving with it and take my weaknesses and try to make them strengths," he said.
Tim Tebow wasn't sacked Monday.
One day after giving his embattled young quarterback a less-than-ringing endorsement following a humiliating 45-10 loss at home to the Lions, Broncos coach John Fox said he's sticking with Tebow.,Vikings Jerseys buy offers,
"For this week, yes," Fox said.
Tim Tebow wasn't sacked Monday.
One day after giving his embattled young quarterback a less-than-ringing endorsement following a humiliating 45-10 loss at home to the Lions, Broncos coach John Fox said he's sticking with Tebow.,Probowl jerseys wholesale,
"For this week, yes," Fox said.
The Broncos had eight possessions of three plays or fewer Sunday, turned it over once on downs and three times on takeaways, two of which were returned for touchdowns. Tebow was sacked seven times and his only TD toss came after the Lions had built a 42-point lead while razzing him with imitations of his prayerful pose that's become an online sensation.
"We knew he was a scrambling quarterback," Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch said. "We knew he was going to try to get out of the pocket and try to keep plays alive and we did a good job just executing. He's a young player. He's got a lot to learn as a player. Take nothing from him, he's a winner, he finds a way to win. He just needs to clean up some things in his pass game, but that takes time."
The Broncos tried to adapt to Tebow's unconventional skill set, spreading out the offense and speeding up the tempo, even sprinkling in some option-read plays, but nothing seemed to work very well.
The Lions crowded the line of scrimmage and used Tulloch as a spy to keep the second-year scrambler from running. They blitzed him on more than 50 percent of his dropbacks, pushing the pocket and containing the edge with a disciplined pass rush.
Lions cornerback Chris Houston, who returned an interception 100 yards for a touchdown, revealed Detroit's gameplan was to stack the box and make Tebow try to beat them with his arm.
"We just wanted to make him be a quarterback today," Houston said after the game.,Super Bowl jerseys wholesale, "... He's an athlete, he's no Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or nothing like that. Or Michael Vick or nothing like that. He's got a long ways to go as far as being a quarterback, but he's a hard worker."
Tebow didn't make quick decisions or quick throws, and his long, looping throwing motion led to a strip by defensive end Cliff Avril, who scooped up the fumbled football and scored a touchdown.
Tebow's quarterback rating this season is 75.1, almost identical to the 75.7 rating that cost Orton his starting job during the team's 1-4 start.
If Tebow loses the gig, too, the Broncos might not go back to Orton but could give Brady Quinn his first shot under center since his arrival two years ago from Cleveland in the Peyton Hillis trade.
"You know, really, in this business all things are possible," Fox said. "And Brady's a guy that we acquired before I got here, but he's shown flashes in our practice and (preseason) games, so right now we're in the process of finding out who the quarterback is and we'll leave it at that."
Fox said he trusts Tebow will learn from his mistakes and get better.
"He's competitive by nature, and I think he'll respond just fine,,Dallas Cowboys jerseys wholesale," Fox said.
The task only gets tougher for Tebow. The Broncos play four of their next five games on the road and six of the remaining nine games are against teams that employ the 3-4 defensive scheme that's given him fits as he tries to recognize where the fourth rusher is coming from.
First things first. Tebow said he doesn't feel as though he's on a short leash and is content to let tomorrow take care of itself.
"I feel like each week I'm going to take the game plan and do the best I can with it and keep improving with it and take my weaknesses and try to make them strengths," he said.
Chasers put Talladega in the rearview
Chasers put Talladega in the rearview
We return to your regularly scheduled Sprint Cup Chase programming.
Yes, that interruption in NASCAR's 10-race playoff lineup -- otherwise known as Talladega Superspeedway -- has used up its time slot. It's time to get back to racing as it should be.
It's time for Martinsville Speedway.
Sunday on this half-mile gem in the heart of the Virginia foothills you won't hear Jeff Gordon complaining that Trevor Bayne abandoned him in the final laps or Bayne feeling guilty for helping a fellow Ford driver.
You won't hear anything about tandem racing, team orders, the "big one" or anything that defined this past weekend in Alabama.
We're back to pure racing, where drivers don't depend on each other to race to the front, where there's beatin' and bangin', and all the things that have made the sport popular are in play.
"You have to remember where your roots come from, and Martinsville is a good example of that," Richard Childress Racing driver Kevin Harvick said. "We all grew up on short tracks, and Martinsville keeps that in our sport. All of us drivers like the short-track feel that we grew up racing on, so we're looking forward to it."
How can they not be? Talladega was more about not racing than racing. Points leader Carl Edwards spent most of his day hanging around the back hoping to avoid disaster rather than trying win. So did defending five-time champion Jimmie Johnson and NASCAR's most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
That's not what fans pay to see.
Look at how the competitors described that racing. Earnhardt said he was bored. Edwards called it a "spiritual event." Marcos Ambrose got out of his car and said, "I am alive,,Hakeem Olajuwon Red Jerseys, so that is good."
"The best I can describe it is we were stuck without a date to the prom, so I was just hitting on everyone's mom," Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin said as he described the tandem racing.
Funny, but true.
The term "racing" at Talladega should be used loosely. Whenever you have to rely on another driver to compete, it becomes a bit artificial, even more so than with pack racing, where you depended on a train of cars.
You won't have that at Martinsville. You won't have drivers lucking into wins or good finishes. Look at the track's all-time winners; the best of the best dominate the list.,NBA finals 2010 Jerseys, You have Richard Petty with 15 wins,,MLB Jerseys, Darrell Waltrip with 11, Rusty Wallace and Gordon with seven each, and Johnson, Cale Yarborough, Dale Earnhardt and Fred Lorenzen with six each.
That's a Hall of Fame list, a combined 30 championships.
At Talladega, Sunday's top three finishers and seven of the top 10 aren't even contenders for this year's title.
"It's a great snapshot of NASCAR in the old days, where you're right on top of the action whether you're on pit road or in the grandstands," Johnson said of Martinsville before this race a year ago. "I just personally enjoy the challenge that track brings, and I think it's a cool venue."
Martinsville comes at the perfect time for NASCAR; as team owner Jack Roush said, "one of the things that makes you feel good about Martinsville is to go to Talladega before that."
Sunday's race gives fans frustrated by the non-racing at Talladega a chance to see the type of competition they yearn for.
And there were plenty of frustrated fans. My mailbox is full of frustration, such as these words from Rich Phillip of Delaware: "Is it just me or was the race at Talladega a complete bore? In qualifying the cars couldn't reach 185 mph and the race was another 'couples only deal.' ... I have just about decided that I am not a NASCAR fan anymore. This is a very sad situation I think."
Comments on my blog about Bayne's soap opera echoed the same. Wrote donbejohnson: "I don't like tandem racing and cooked dinner while the race was on. That my friend was a first. I am usually glued to the set for Talladega."
NASCAR must fix the problem with the two-car dancing at Talladega and Daytona. Officials tried to by opening the size of the restrictor-plate hole to create higher speeds. They also made an adjustment on the pop-off valve in the cooling system that was supposed to increase the threat of overheating, and thus reduce the length of push time.
Neither worked.
Perhaps Kyle Busch is right. Perhaps the only way to fix the problem is to change the bumpers so they don't match up.
We return to your regularly scheduled Sprint Cup Chase programming.
Yes, that interruption in NASCAR's 10-race playoff lineup -- otherwise known as Talladega Superspeedway -- has used up its time slot. It's time to get back to racing as it should be.
It's time for Martinsville Speedway.
Sunday on this half-mile gem in the heart of the Virginia foothills you won't hear Jeff Gordon complaining that Trevor Bayne abandoned him in the final laps or Bayne feeling guilty for helping a fellow Ford driver.
You won't hear anything about tandem racing, team orders, the "big one" or anything that defined this past weekend in Alabama.
We're back to pure racing, where drivers don't depend on each other to race to the front, where there's beatin' and bangin', and all the things that have made the sport popular are in play.
"You have to remember where your roots come from, and Martinsville is a good example of that," Richard Childress Racing driver Kevin Harvick said. "We all grew up on short tracks, and Martinsville keeps that in our sport. All of us drivers like the short-track feel that we grew up racing on, so we're looking forward to it."
How can they not be? Talladega was more about not racing than racing. Points leader Carl Edwards spent most of his day hanging around the back hoping to avoid disaster rather than trying win. So did defending five-time champion Jimmie Johnson and NASCAR's most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
That's not what fans pay to see.
Look at how the competitors described that racing. Earnhardt said he was bored. Edwards called it a "spiritual event." Marcos Ambrose got out of his car and said, "I am alive,,Hakeem Olajuwon Red Jerseys, so that is good."
"The best I can describe it is we were stuck without a date to the prom, so I was just hitting on everyone's mom," Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin said as he described the tandem racing.
Funny, but true.
The term "racing" at Talladega should be used loosely. Whenever you have to rely on another driver to compete, it becomes a bit artificial, even more so than with pack racing, where you depended on a train of cars.
You won't have that at Martinsville. You won't have drivers lucking into wins or good finishes. Look at the track's all-time winners; the best of the best dominate the list.,NBA finals 2010 Jerseys, You have Richard Petty with 15 wins,,MLB Jerseys, Darrell Waltrip with 11, Rusty Wallace and Gordon with seven each, and Johnson, Cale Yarborough, Dale Earnhardt and Fred Lorenzen with six each.
That's a Hall of Fame list, a combined 30 championships.
At Talladega, Sunday's top three finishers and seven of the top 10 aren't even contenders for this year's title.
"It's a great snapshot of NASCAR in the old days, where you're right on top of the action whether you're on pit road or in the grandstands," Johnson said of Martinsville before this race a year ago. "I just personally enjoy the challenge that track brings, and I think it's a cool venue."
Martinsville comes at the perfect time for NASCAR; as team owner Jack Roush said, "one of the things that makes you feel good about Martinsville is to go to Talladega before that."
Sunday's race gives fans frustrated by the non-racing at Talladega a chance to see the type of competition they yearn for.
And there were plenty of frustrated fans. My mailbox is full of frustration, such as these words from Rich Phillip of Delaware: "Is it just me or was the race at Talladega a complete bore? In qualifying the cars couldn't reach 185 mph and the race was another 'couples only deal.' ... I have just about decided that I am not a NASCAR fan anymore. This is a very sad situation I think."
Comments on my blog about Bayne's soap opera echoed the same. Wrote donbejohnson: "I don't like tandem racing and cooked dinner while the race was on. That my friend was a first. I am usually glued to the set for Talladega."
NASCAR must fix the problem with the two-car dancing at Talladega and Daytona. Officials tried to by opening the size of the restrictor-plate hole to create higher speeds. They also made an adjustment on the pop-off valve in the cooling system that was supposed to increase the threat of overheating, and thus reduce the length of push time.
Neither worked.
Perhaps Kyle Busch is right. Perhaps the only way to fix the problem is to change the bumpers so they don't match up.
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