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1st Gear: Automotive News reports this morning on the state of Ferrari's model lineup, saying they plan to replace two of its five core models, the 430 Spider and the 599 GTB Fiorano, in the next two years, while adding a sportier variant to its best-selling model, the 458 Italia. Along with that sportier variant, expected to be called the 458 Scuderia, that will hit the streets in 2013, would also be a 458 Spider which should be shown at the Frankfurt show in September. But first, in 2012 Ferrari is expected to replace the 599 GTB Fiorano with a redesigned model still known by its code-name, F152. The new car will remain a two-seat coupe with rear drive and a direct-injection V-12 longitudinal engine mounted in the front. The model will debut in March at the Geneva auto show, with European sales to begin in the summer and U.S. shipments by year end. But likely the most awaited new prancing stallion will be the successor to the Enzo limited-edition supercar is set to go on sale in 2012. The all-carbon fiber model will be powered with a new, normally aspirated V-12 and will herald weight-reduction and fuel-saving technologies that Ferrari plans to adapt to its entire range by the end of decade.
2nd Gear: Bloomberg reports that Nissan, Japan's second-largest automaker, aims to increase domestic sales to about 600,000 cars in a drive to hold 15% of the nation's vehicle market by 2013 as it recovers from this year's earthquake. Executive Vice President Hiroto Saikawa disclosed the target as part of a six-year plan yesterday in Yokohama. In the long term, Nissan seeks to boost market share to about 20%, Takao Katagiri, also executive vice president, said at the same roundtable. In 2010, Nissan's domestic market share was 13%. Japan's automakers are recovering after the record quake and tsunami in March disrupted output and triggered power and parts shortages. Nissan expects to resume full production worldwide by October, targeting a 10% increase to 4.6 million global vehicle sales this fiscal year. Nissan will introduce 51 models over the next six years as it aims to capture 10% of global luxury-car sales. The models will meet demand for eco-friendly and compact cars, with half targeted at the Japanese market, Saikawa said.
3rd Gear: Volkswagen AG, Europe's biggest automaker, has "no plans" to end its tie-up with Suzuki Motor Corp. even as both sides express frustration at the slow progress they've made with the partnership. A report by German newsletter Platow Brief on Aug. 5 that VW and Suzuki will terminate the alliance they started in January of 2010 "is nonsense," VW spokesman Michael Brendel said today by phone. Suzuki spokesman Hideki Taguchi couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
4th Gear: Automotive News thinks that higher transaction prices and a surge in pickup production propelled General Motors to heady second-quarter profits. But those tailwinds probably will weaken during the rest of the year. Last week, GM said it made $2.5 billion in the April-through-June period, its sixth straight quarterly profit since emerging from bankruptcy. Stronger pricing contributed about $1 billion to GM's bottom line from the year-earlier quarter, with North America accounting for $800 million of that as GM dialed back incentives. GM has raised base vehicle prices twice this year to offset rising commodity costs. A 1% increase on 2012 models will bring the overall price rise to 1.9%. GM executives say the rise in average transaction prices shows that buyers are warming to its vehicles. For example, GM says the average price for a Buick LaCrosse in the second quarter was $7,000 more than the sedan sold for two years ago.
5th Gear: A new V6 engine will be chief amongst a vast array of changes to the Exige in 2012, as Lotus aims to bridge the gap between its current range and its five-strong line-up of new sports cars due from 2013. No Exiges have been produced for the European market since December 2010 when its 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine fell foul of emissions regulations. Autocar reports that Lotus boss Dany Bahar is planning to fully back and improve the current range of Lotuses before the new models – starting with the 2013 Esprit – are phased in. An early V6-equipped Exige test mule was scooped last summer when Lotus first experimented fitting the Toyota-sourced 3.5-liter V6 from the Evora within the Exige's mid-engined, rear-drive layout. That mule had a significantly wider track as Lotus tried to accommodate the engine in the Exige and the latest, further developed mule pictured here has a significantly lengthened wheelbase.
6th Gear: Ford Performance Vehicles has, as expected, announced a limited production run of the menacing all-black GT concept it unveiled at last month's Melbourne motor show. The Blue Oval performance brand today confirmed it will produce 125 examples of the limited-edition GT Black, priced $3000 higher than the standard GT at $74,290 plus on-road costs. Like FPV's inaugural concept car, the GT Black will wear black Silhouette exterior paint, a unique matt-black stripe package, black foglight bezels, black upper and lower grilles, gloss-black 19-inch alloy wheels, four black exhaust outlets, a black front bumper with black 'eye patches' and a black rear bumper with black diffuser. Do want.
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Jennifer Hudson may never fully fathom the horrific murders of her mother, brother and nephew at the hands of her estranged brother-in-law, but the Oscar winner reveals that she is now slowly moving toward a place of emotional closure.
During an interview Sunday night with Oprah Winfrey, the 30-year-old said that she forgives William Balfour for the 2008 shooting deaths of her mother, Darnell Donerson, brother Jason Hudson, and 7-year-old nephew, Julian King.
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"For the most part, it's not his fault," Hudson explained while appearing on "Oprah's Next Chapter."
"It's what he was taught, how he was brought up."
She also added that Balfour "never had a chance" because of his tough upbringing.
"Had you had the love my mother gave us, or the background that, you know, some have, then you would've stood a chance," she said.
William Balfour found guilty of triple murder
In May, a jury found Balfour, the then-estranged husband of Hudson's sister Julia, guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors argued that Balfour acted in a fit of vengeful rage, first shooting Donerson and Jason in their home and then kidnapping Julian, who was found dead in Jason's stolen SUV three days later.
In July, Balfour was given three consecutive life sentences as well as 120 years for other charges, including home invasion, residential burglary, aggravated kidnapping and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Hudson admitted to Oprah that she hasn't had the courage to visit her family's grave site since the funeral service, but plans to return now that Balfour has been sentenced to life in prison.
"Now I want to go because I feel like, OK, we've accomplished this, we've done this, we got justice for you," she said. "I can't come back here empty-handed. So I came back with justice being served. So now I feel like I deserve to be able to see them."

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It seems like every few years, someone comes out with a new doomsday prophecy. The latest apocalyptic craze places Earth's final day on Dec. 21, 2012 -- the end of the Great Cycle in the Mayan calendar. But whether the supposed agent of doom is aliens, asteroids, floods or earthquakes, the outcome is always the same -- the Earth manages to endure. Such predictions are nothing new. In the first century A.D., early Christians believed Jesus would return to Earth, bringing an end to life as they knew it, as described in Mark 13:24-26: "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory."
Since then, there has been no shortage of apocalyptic forecasts. But why? Why do people continue to predict the end of the world, and why do others insist on believing them? Perhaps some zealots feel the need to justify their preconceived worldviews through revelations about the latest celestial event or natural disaster. And maybe those who trust such doomsayers are simply hopeful for an escape from a world that seems cruel or chaotic. Whatever the case, you're sure to enjoy our list of 10 doomsday prophecies.
The Seekers, Dec. 24, 1955
In December 1954, a headline in the Chicago Tribune read, "Doctor Warns of Disasters in World Tuesday -- Worst to Come in 1955 He Declares." The doctor, Charles Laughead, was a follower of Dorothy Martin, a 54-year-old housewife from Oak Park, Ill. Martin believed that aliens from the planet Clarion had beamed down messages informing her that a massive flood would soon destroy the planet. Her wild prophecies attracted a small group of followers known as the "Seekers," many of whom had quit their jobs and sold their belongings in anticipation of the end. They gathered at Martin's home on Christmas Eve, 1955, singing Christmas carols while they waited to be saved by the aliens in their flying saucers. As the night wore on, Martin's followers became increasingly impatient. Finally, at 4:45 a.m. on Christmas Day, Martin announced that God had been so impressed by their actions that he would no longer destroy the Earth.
This story has a side note that is almost as interesting as the prophecy itself. A small group of psychologists and students organized by University of Minnesota social psychologist Leon Festinger infiltrated the Seekers in an effort to study and better understand apocalyptic cults. Festinger revealed his findings in the 1956 book, "When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World." This work was an early exploration of the psychologist's now-famous theory of "cognitive dissonance," a term that refers to the human tendency to rationalize when one's thoughts and actions are in disagreement.
Mayan Calendar, 2012
The 2009 movie, "2012," is a 158-minute showcase of apocalyptic eye candy, with enough death and destruction to bring up the question, "What's so bad about 2012?" It depends on who you ask. The fear is based on the way some people interpret the Mayan Long Count calendar, which is divided into Great Cycles lasting approximately 5,125 years. One of these cycles ends on Dec. 21, 2012, giving some doomsdayers the ammunition they need to declare the impending apocalypse. They also have numerous theories about how exactly the world will end. Some claim that a mysterious planet known as Nibiru, Planet X or Eris, or a large meteor, will collide with Earth. Another popular theory is that the Earth's magnetic poles will reverse, causing the planet's rotation to reverse as well.
Scientists have already dismissed these theories as laughable. They contend that if a celestial body were on a crash course with Earth, they would have already noticed it. And while astronomers recognize that the magnetic poles do reverse every 400,000 years or so, they insist that this event does not affect the Earth's rotation and will not harm life on Earth. Perhaps the most interesting part of this whole apocalyptic fad is that the Mayans themselves don't expect that the world will end in 2012, rather, they expect it to be a time of great celebration and luck when the planet completes the current Great Cycle.
Harold Camping, May 21, 2011
The Bible is pretty clear about doomsday prophecies: "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father," reads Mark 13:32. But that hasn't stopped some believers from trying to make predictions anyway. One such man is Harold Camping, a retired engineer who believes that the Bible is a numerical code book that can be deciphered to reveal clues about the end times. Camping, the founder of the independent ministry Family Radio International first predicted that the world would end in September 1994. But when the apocalypse failed to materialize, he attributed the error to incomplete research.
Camping recently gained additional attention for his latest doomsday prediction: May 21, 2011. In an interview with New York Magazine on May 11, 2011, the 89-year-old was brimming with confidence, saying, "God has given sooo much information in the Bible about this, and so many proofs, and so many signs, that we know it is absolutely going to happen without any question at all." Camping was so certain that his ministry spent millions of dollars plastering the Judgement Day message on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 recreational vehicles as a warning to the general public. When May 21 came and went without interruption, Camping did what any good doomsayer would -- he blamed the mistake on a mathematical error and moved the date back to October 21.
William Miller, 1843-1844
William Miller and the Millerites may sound like a good name for a 1960s pop act, but in the 1840s, they were a fairly successful doomsday cult. That is, if you measure success by the number of followers, not the eventual occurrence of the predicted apocalypse.
Miller was a product of the Second Great Awakening, a period of intense religious revival from which several modern denominations were born, including the Mormons and the Seventh Day Adventists. A farmer-turned-preacher, Miller crested this wave of spiritual fervor with his prediction that Jesus would return to Earth in March 1843. He derived his prophecy from a complex system of mathematical calculations and promoted it by giving sermons and passing out pamphlets during the 1830s and early 1840s. Scholars estimate that of the some 1 million people who heard his message, about 100,000 actually chose to follow him. As March 1843 neared, many of these believers sold all of their possessions, donned white robes, and climbed to the tops of mountains and hills to await their rapture into heaven. When nothing happened, Miller moved the date to October 1844, which also proved to be a bust, leading some to label the non-event "The Great Disappointment." Most of the preacher's followers then abandoned him, and some went on to form the Adventist Church.
Halley's Comet, May 1910
A unique astronomical event is a surefire way to inspire a doomsday prophecy. Enter Halley's Comet, a ball of icy dust that is visible from Earth every 76 years. When this celestial body was scheduled to make a pass in 1910, the claims of impassioned astronomers at Chicago's Yerkes Observatory inspired fear in a surprising number of people. They insisted that the comet's tail was made of poisonous cyanogen gas, and when Earth passed through it on May 18, the toxic fumes would cause widespread death. Some opportunists tried to profit from the hysteria, selling "comet pills," masks and bottled oxygen intended to help people survive the noxious Armageddon.
As the deadly date approached, some concerned citizens stuffed towels under their doors and covered their keyholes with paper to protect themselves from the gas cloud. Others refused to go to work, choosing instead to stay at home with their families or seek refuge in their churches. Conversely, those not taken by the apocalyptic predictions watched the night pass without incident at rooftop "comet parties" held across the United States.
Large Hadron Collider, 2009-2012
To anyone without a particle physics degree, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may seem like a scary piece of advanced machinery. The massive particle accelerator's circular tunnel, located just outside of Geneva, Switzerland, measures 17 miles (28 kilometers) in total circumference. It can send hydrogen protons crashing in to one another nearly of the speed of light, allowing scientists to discover new elements and particles that may shed light on the creation of the universe. That is, if everything goes as planned.
Some theorists suggest that the massive energies created during such collisions could potentially form black holes capable of engulfing the entire planet. These fears came to a head in March 2008 when Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court to stop the LHC from beginning operation until scientists produced a safety report and environmental assessment. While most scholars acknowledge the possibility of black holes, they dismiss the danger, insisting that any such anomaly would only last a matter of seconds -- hardly long enough to swallow the earth. Despite the controversy, researchers fired up the LHC in 2009 and have accomplished some remarkable feats, including the creation of a soupy mass of matter thought to resemble the conditions of the universe just after the Big Bang. By the end of 2010, no black holes had been detected in the LHC but according to doomsayers, that doesn't mean we're in the clear. Something could always happen before scientists conclude the project in 2012.
Shoko Asahara, 1997-2000
Why wait for the apocalypse if you can make it happen yourself? This was the mindset of the Japanese doomsday prophet Shoko Asahara. Born Chizuo Matsumoto in 1955, Asahara was completely blind in one eye and partially sightless in the other. His rise as a cult leader began after he was arrested in 1982 for selling fake cures from his traditional Chinese apothecary business. The would-be prophet was reportedly crushed by the incident, which left him embarrassed and bankrupt.
In 1984, Asahara opened a yoga studio, boasting that he had achieved satori, a Japanese term for enlightenment, and claiming that he could levitate. He established the Aum Shinrikyo religion in 1987, a name derived from a sacred Hindu symbol and a Japanese word that translates as "supreme truth." He soon gained more than 10,000 followers in Japan and 30,000 to 40,000 in Russia, and even produced several candidates to run in the 1990 Japanese legislative elections [source: Onishi]. As Asahara's success increased, his behavior became increasingly peculiar. He began encouraging his followers to drink his bathwater and blood, and claimed that he could save them from the apocalypse, which he believed would occur after a poison gas attack sometime between 1997 and 2000. Perhaps in an effort to speed along this process, Aum members boarded five trains on March 20, 1995, releasing toxic sarin into three subway lines. The attack killed 12 people and injured another 5,500 [source: Onishi]. Asahara was soon arrested by Japanese authorities and sentenced to death in February 2004.
Heaven's Gate, 1997
Marshall Applewhite, with his piercing, wide-eyed stare, looks like a man who was destined to lead a doomsday sect. He was the leader of Heaven's Gate, a cult founded in Texas during the early 1970s. The group soon moved to the American southwest where Applewhite began to preach about a spaceship that would spare true believers from the apocalypse and take them to the heavenly "Level Above Human." After two decades proselytizing in the desert, Heaven's Gate moved to California where they started a Web consulting business called "Higher Source" to fund their activities. There they lived in a sprawling Spanish-style house and reportedly watched episodes of "X-Files" and "Star Trek" religiously.
Heaven's Gate took a grim turn in 1997, the year that the comet Hale-Bopp shined brightly in the night sky. It all started on Nov. 14, 1996, when Applewhite and his followers were listening to Art Bell's "Coast to Coast," a radio show dedicated to UFO topics. During the program, an amateur astronomer called in and claimed to have photographed a mysterious object hiding in Hale-Bopp's tail. This was all the evidence that Applewhite needed to confirm his spaceship prophecy from the 1970s. He and his group soon began preparations to board the UFO through the execution of a mass suicide. When police entered the California compound on March 26, 1997, they found 39 bodies dressed in black tunics with a cloth draped over their heads. They had killed themselves with a cocktail of vodka and barbiturates, or by smothering themselves with plastic bags.
The year 2000 sparked a number of doomsday scares, but none was more prominent than the supposed Y2K computer glitch. The problem was this: When computer codes were first written, dates were abbreviated to two digits in order to save memory; for example, "1998" would simply be written as "98." This system worked just fine until 2000, when the date code "00" threatened to cause inaccurate calculations. A 1998 feature story from Microsoft offers an excellent example to illustrate the perceived problem:
Some people believed that this glitch would cause apocalyptic consequences. According to these gloomy predictions, at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, airplanes would drop from the sky, elevators would plummet from the tops of skyscrapers, and the world economy would come to a screeching halt. In response to these fears, the U.S. government and American corporations spent a total of $108.8 billion on Y2K computer fixes [source: Karl]. In the end, nothing fell from the sky, but the world's computers did manage to disrupt some credit card terminals in Britain and send out some bills supposedly due in 1900. To the relief of billions, civilization survived almost completely unscathed.
The Sun Becomes a Red Giant, 7.6 billion years from now
Not all apocalyptic predictions are steeped in religious fervor or science fiction; some are based solidly upon respected science. Most scholars agree that 7.6 billion years from now, the sun will enter its red giant phase when it has converted all of its hydrogen into helium. This will cause the sun to expand to a size 20 percent greater than that of Earth's orbit and shine 3,000 times brighter [source: Appell]. Once this stage is complete, the sun will then collapse into a white dwarf.
Whether this process will actually destroy the planet is a topic of debate in the scientific community. If Earth were to stay in its current orbit, it would undoubtedly be engulfed and vaporized by the expanding sun. However, as the sun swells it will also lose mass, meaning that Earth will drift further away from it and perhaps escape total destruction. Either way, this process would destroy life as we know it, that is, if there were any life left to destroy.
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Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo promised Twitter users that they will be able to download a full archive of their tweets by the end of the year.
Those planning on a book of witty tweets will likely rejoice, but this isn't the first time Costolo has made a promise, according to TechCrunch. At the Ford School of Public Policy ad School of Information at the University of Michigan, Costolo repeated the promise he made in September.
However, getting all those tweets together is going to be a fairly herculean task for its seemingly overtaxed engineers who can't even give users scheduled tweets. Costolo's deadline may seem a bit unrealistic, but isn't it about time people other than celebrity comedians writing a book get a glimpse at their archive of old tweets?
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"By the end of the year I've already promised this, so the engineers – when I promised it publicly they're already mad at me so they can keep being mad at me," Costolo said at the University of Michigan. "Now, again, once again, I caveat this with the engineers who are actually doing the work don't necessarily agree that they'll be done by the end of the year, but we'll just keep having that argument and we'll see where we end up year-end."


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Disaster Charter brings satellites to bear on Romanian flooding
Teams responding to devastating flooding in Romania received assistance from orbit, with satellite images and maps of affected areas provided in near-real time following activation of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters.
Torrential rainfall across Southeast Europe has led to serious floods across Romania, described as the worst for half a century. Some 31 counties out of 42 have been affected, the worst hit being the counties of Bacau, Vrancea and Galati in Moldavia, where the Siret River burst its banks to flood numerous towns.
Soldiers and firefighters have had to evacuate more than 12 000 people. Preliminary estimates are that 14 751 homes have been flooded, with 3571 houses destroyed completely and 2993 houses damaged. Around 300 500 hectares of farmland and many hundreds of kilometres of roads have been inundated.
Army helicopters have been delivering emergency supplies to otherwise unreachable communities. The death toll is reported to stand at 22 and the country's government estimates overall material losses at 2394 million lei (675 million euro).
The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated on 15 July, following a request by the Romanian government to the European Commission. Member space agencies then prioritised acquisitions over the basin of the Siret River.
Strasbourg-based rapid mapping specialist company SERTIT generated and distributed products on a near-real time basis, working with French space agency CNES, responsible for the management of this Charter activation. Some 43 satellite-derived maps and products have since been delivered via the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) to the Ministry of Environment and Water Management (MEWM). The products were disseminated to daily crisis cell meetings, to relevant government ministries and also featured in the Romanian media.
"We can say we had the chance to get very fast, very good images and maps," stated Iurie Maxim at the Nature Conservation Directorate of MEWM. "We were able to show out minister at 8pm some posters with images from the same day. The next morning the same posters were presented to the Prime Minister and forwarded to the people working on this issue. "We were able to provide the necessary tools to the people involved in the water department and to those involved in the civil protection."
The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters
The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters represents a joint effort by global space agencies to put resources at the service of rescue authorities responding to major natural or man-made disasters. To date the Charter has been activated more than 80 times.
Following the UNISPACE III conference held in Vienna, Austria in July 1999, the Charter was initiated by ESA and CNES with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Other members include the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Argentine Space Agency (CONAE) and the Japan Aerospace Agency (JAXA), with the United Nations as a 'cooperating body'.


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BAKER � A slow start for the Baker School volleyball team didn't spell disaster Thursday night as the Gators hosted District 3-1A rival Freeport. Trailing 15-11 midway through the first set, the Gators turned up the intensity and took the win 3-0 by scores of 25-20, 25-13, 25-14.
BAKER � A slow start for the Baker School volleyball team didn't spell disaster Thursday night as the Gators hosted District 3-1A rival Freeport.
Trailing 15-11 midway through the first set, the Gators turned up the intensity and took the win 3-0 by scores of 25-20, 25-13, 25-14.
The Bulldogs (5-2, 1-1) took advantage of big hitting from Mary Kate Myrick and Amanda Sefo to jump to the quick start, but Baker was able to make the necessary adjustments to offset the Freeport power.
"We came out kind of slow, but we stepped it up when we had to step it up and do the little things we need to do," Gator coach Tommiko Parks said. "Overall it was a pretty good performance.
"We have to get the balls we know we can get and when we get a ball we have to be able to transition and run good offense. That's what we did tonight -- we were able to use those digs and use those balls we could get to and transition to our offense and make good things happen for our team."
Parks admitted that the Gators might have been a little rattled by the power of Myrick, who finished the night with a match-high 11 kills. Four of Myrick's kills came as the Bulldogs built the early lead.
But as 10-time defending district champions the Gators (5-2, 4-0) are use to overcoming a little adversity as they outscored Freeport 14-5 down the stretch to take the first set.
Unforced Bulldog errors helped the Gator cause, but the Baker players had something to do with the rally as well.
An ace by Hartley Moate gave the Gators the lead at 18-17. And it was an Alex Roy ace that finished off the set.
The Gators took a quick 4-0 lead in the second set and never looked back. Ashley Black had three of her team-high six kills to spark Baker's outburst.
Freeportkept things close for a while in the third set as the teams traded points, but the Bulldogs could never wrestle the lead from the Gators.
A Myrick kill tied the set at 9-9, but six unanswered Baker points pushed the Gator lead to 15-9 as the Bulldogs never got closer than five points the rest of the way.
Hana Wadsworth recorded five kills to join Black's six kills. Lena Daoud had nine assists. Roy had a team best eight digs.
Jordan Linzy and Brittany Brunson had five digs each, while Moate and Daoud had four digs each.
Myrick had 10 aces to go along with her 11 kills for Freeport. Laura Ham had 11 aces for the Bulldogs and Kennedi Bates had 11 digs.
Baker won the junior varsity match 2-0.
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I guess you may remember the sticky green ball that we called slime, which we used to throw at the walls. All the kids loved it and parents hated it, as it was impossible to get it out of the carpet. This toy was released by the company Mattel in 1976. It was sold in a small plastic bucket, which was enough for a whole group of children. Though it was a bit gross, we had a number of games with the slime, but it's hard to remember the rules now.


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Human chorionic gonadotropin hormone test, serum pregnancy test
Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) is a type of hormone. Both men and women have small amounts of HCG in their body at all times. When a woman is pregnant, her body produces much more HCG than usual. In a healthy pregnancy, the amount of HCG in the blood increases substantially throughout the first three months. This blood test measures how much HCG is in your blood.
This test is the gold standard for determining whether you are pregnant. It shows that you are pregnant before an imaging test, such as an ultrasound, can detect a fetus. Ultrasound can show you that you are pregnant when HCG rises to 1,000 IU/L or greater.
You may need this test if you have vaginal bleeding or cramping. This might indicate that you could have an ectopic pregnancy or could lose your unborn baby. Your healthcare provider might also want to know how your pregnancy is progressing over a few days, so he or she may order this test two or more times, several days apart.
Your healthcare provider might also order an ultrasound to screen for certain birth defects. Your blood may also be checked for two other hormones, estradiol and progesterone. Your levels of estradiol, a form of estrogen, can show how well the placenta is working. Progesterone levels also rise during pregnancy and can help your healthcare provider figure out if you are at risk for miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy.
Test results may vary depending on your age, gender, health history, the method used for the test, and other things. Your test results may not mean you have a problem. Ask your healthcare provider what your test results mean for you.
Normal levels of HCG in men and premenopausal women range from 0.02 to 0.8 IU/L. In early pregnancy, HCG levels can double every few days, peaking by about 10 weeks. After that, levels can either hold steady or begin to decline. Normal HCG levels during pregnancy can range from 20,000 to 200,000 IU/L.
Sometimes, measuring change in HCG levels over time can provide useful information. If HCG levels do not change as expected, it may mean the pregnancy could be lost.
The test is done with a blood sample. A needle is used to draw blood from a vein in your arm or hand.
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This test is quite reliable, but false-positives can be caused by:
Certain tumors that make HCG
Medicines containing HCG, such as those used in fertility treatments
Recent loss of pregnancy; it can take 60 days for HCG levels to return to normal
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A nation mourns. Gwyneth Paltrow's appearance at the star-packed Met Gala in NYC on Monday, May 6 was apparently her very last. "I'm never going again," Paltrow, 40, told USA Today of the Costume Institute Ball in NYC, where she wore a ladylike, modest Valentino Haute Couture Corolle gown.
PHOTOS: Every single star at the Met Gala 2013!
The Iron Man 3 star's complaints? "It was so un-fun. It was boiling," she explained. "I did not enjoy it at all."
PHOTOS: Gwyneth's most obnoxious quotes
Paltrow, whose friends Beyonce and Madonna also attended fashion's most glittery night, also explained why she and husband Chris Martin hit the bash separately, and avoided joint photographs together -- telling the site they prefer to keep their 10-year marriage as "private" as possible.
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The Oscar-winning actress was a little more chipper speaking about the bash with Entertainment Weekly, heaping praise on supermodel Miranda Kerr, gushing that Kerr's sexy Michael Kors dress was "really beautiful. It was a little punk-y. She's just so pretty, it's abnormal." The blonde even asked the Victoria's Secret catwalker "'Is it weird to be that pretty?' And she was like, 'No.'"
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Wiring a car from scratch can be a daunting task, especially before the days of companies like Painless Wiring. We can recall wiring one of our first projects years ago in our driveway using individual bundles of wire and a standalone fuse box from an auto parts store; all the while there's got to be a better way—these days, there is. We're definitely not auto electricians by any means, and honestly, most gearheads we know hate wiring. It's tedious, time consuming, and can be one of the most annoying things to diagnose if there's an issue. The folks at Painless, however, have a whole catalog of kits designed to make wiring a car a breeze, so the days of wondering what gauge wire for what accessory and tracing unlabeled wires are over.
Sure, we can turn wrenches, but when it came to the electrical system of the Hellion, we contacted the professionals at BCR Motorsports in Arcadia, California. Whether it's a multiple nitrous system heads-up car, a stock restoration, or even a simple street machine setup like ours, the Baglieri's have been working on performance applications since 1980 and are vastly experienced when it comes to wiring up a performance vehicle. Also, since the owner is an NHRA Tech inspector, it meant we'd be getting a system that had all the dragstrip-legal items, such as a neutral safety switch and battery cut-off. BCR was a tremendous help in getting our car powered up, and the clean and simple installation will make adding on other systems down the road a snap.
Besides Painless Wiring, who supplied us with their 8-Circuit Race Wiring Harness/Panel Kit, we also teamed up with other companies that made getting the Nova powered up possible. Since this car is designed for an NMCA class, where hot lapping the car is part of the competition, we chose a pair of Optima's Red Top Batteries mounted in the trunk of the Hellion. Our idea was to run our electric fan and water pump in the staging lanes before each run, without the worry of a stalled hot rod. The dual batteries also promotes better weight bias over the rear wheels. Feeding amperage to our system is a Performance Distributor's Mr. Amp alternator. At 150 amps, this piece can adequately keep our system charged and the one wire connection made hooking it up a non-issue. Since the batteries would be mounted in the trunk, we needed a solid way to secure them. Speedway Motors is a great source for affordable-yet-nice hot rod items under their brand, such as their 3-Bolt Deluxe Billet Battery Mount and 18-foot Battery Cable Kit.
Another main part of wiring the Nova was the instrument cluster. We learned of Classic Instruments line of muscle car gauges at the Goodguys show in Ohio and immediately fell in love with their '63-65 Nova Gauge Cluster. Using the factory bezel, this setup is worlds better over the factory setup and the pre-terminated harness made hooking everything up incredibly easy. We'll reveal the features and the detailed installation of the Classic Instruments dash in a future issue. One of the final pieces to the electrical puzzle was the battery cut-off; if the batteries are in the trunk, then NHRA requires a master cut-off switch in the rear of the vehicle, so we contacted Flaming River for their Big Switch with Lever Kit. The long lever gives you multiple mounting options in the trunk and it even comes with a bracket to mount the switch itself.
Our Hardtop Hellion Project has moved right along over the past year, and you'll soon be reading about the dragstrip test results from our aggressive street car. However, in the meantime, look for a few additional articles where we continue to piece together this pump gas brawler.
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Windows EU Ballot Screen Technical Glitch
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We're encouraged by the European Commission's efforts to ensure that users have meaningful browser choice in the Windows PC environment. The 2009 Commitments adopted by Microsoft were a foundational part of the remedy developed by the Commission to resolve Microsoft's competition violations in EC countries. A key part of the remedy was Microsoft's commitment to present the browser ballot screen to Windows users through vehicles like the Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Earlier this year, we learned that Microsoft failed to fully comply with the browser choice ballot screen obligation for nearly 15 months.
Most recently the EC sent a statement of objections to Microsoft for failing to include the browser-choice screen as promised. Our data suggests that the absence of the browser choice screen had the following impact:
- Daily Firefox downloads decreased by 63% to a low of 20,000 just prior to the fix;
- After the fix, Firefox downloads increased 150% to approximately 50,000 per day; and
- Cumulatively 6 to 9 million Firefox browser downloads were lost during this period.
After accounting for the aggregate impact on all the browser vendors, it seems like this technical glitch decreased downloads and diminished the effectiveness of the remedy ordered in the 2009 Commitments.


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Robin Williams' daughter compared her father to a star in the nighttime sky and vowed to "keep looking up" in the wake of his apparent suicide.
Zelda Williams borrowed a line from French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella "The Little Prince" to remember her father in an emotional Twitter tribute Tuesday.
"You alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night…You - only you - will have stars that can laugh," Zelda Williams tweeted.
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She followed up the famous quote with her own heartfelt note: "I love you. I miss you. I'll try to keep looking up. Z," she said in the tweet, which has been retweeted over 30 thousand times since it was posted at midnight.
pic.twitter.com/UEtjQ1f2zS — Zelda Williams (@zeldawilliams) August 12, 2014
Zelda, 25, is Williams' daughter with his second wife Marsha Garces. The two also have a son, Cody Allan Williams, 22. The Oscar-winner has another son, Zachary Pym Williams, 31, with first wife Valerie Veladi.
Williams' wife of three years Susan Schneider, who was reportedly in their home before his death, released a statement Monday to express her "profound grief" over his death.
"This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings," Schneider said. "I am utterly heartbroken."
Williams himself took to social media two weeks ago to wish Zelda a happy birthday with a black and white father-daughter photo on Instagram. Zelda appears as a child in the photo and Williams used the popular #tbt (throwback Thursday) hashtag in his birthday message to her. "Quarter of a century old today but always my baby girl. Happy Birthday @zeldawilliams Love you!"
Williams reportedly named his daughter after the Nintendo game character Zelda. Father and daughter appeared in a Nintendo commercial together in 2011. In the ad, Zelda asks her dad if he's "mixing her up with the princess," to which he responds "Hard to say, you're both pretty magical."


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Brendan returns with another look at bass lines for guitarists. Building on the previous lesson, Brendan discusses chromatic approaches that combine tones above and below the root.
Taught by Brendan Burns in Rhythm Guitar with Brendan Burns seriesLength: 10:29Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
Focusing on different forms of picking and playing can steal your chops away from your rhythm playing. Brendan Burns offers up a 6 week coarse on rebuilding your rhythm chops that focuses on training necessary muscle groups and getting back into tempo.
Lesson 1
Brendan Burns offers up the first exorcise of a six week program dedicated to rebuilding rhythm technique.Length: 7:54 Difficulty: 1.0 FREE
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In week two of his six week rhythm building program, Brendan goes over an exercise that covers treble and bass strumming.Length: 6:53 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Brendan is back with the 3rd and 4th week exercise to workout your rhythm playing.Length: 11:25 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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In week five of his six week rhythm workout, Brendan provides an exercise that breaks the guitar up into five distinct sections.Length: 6:48 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Brendan Burns offers up the final exercise of his six week rhythm workout.Length: 7:12 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
Lesson 6
Brendan Burns starts off a short lesson set on how to count compound meters. He starts with the 5/8 time signature.Length: 13:07 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Now that you've mastered 5/8 time, Brendan provides a lesson on counting 7/8.Length: 6:42 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Brendan Burns demonstrates how to count 11/8 time.Length: 6:24 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Now that you have counting under your belt, it's time to actually play some compound meters.Length: 9:38 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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In lesson 10 of his rhythm series, Brendan teaches playing examples of the previous time signatures he has covered.Length: 18:01 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Brendan discusses how using bass lines can enhance your playing and allow for more creative expression in a band style situation. He starts you off by discussing bass lines created from major and minor...Length: 15:20 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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In the second bass lines lesson, Brendan discusses arpeggios and bass lines for all types of 7th chords.Length: 29:58 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 13
Brendan Burns returns with a more intermediate look at bass lines for guitarists. In this lesson he discusses chord tone and chromatic approaches from above and below the root.Length: 14:25 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 14
Brendan returns with another look at bass lines for guitarists. Building on the previous lesson, Brendan discusses chromatic approaches that combine tones above and below the root.Length: 10:29 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 15
Brendan returns to his Rhythm Guitar series with another look at bass lines for guitarists. In recent lessons he's covered chromatic approaches from above and below the root as well as a combination of....Length: 9:44 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 16
Brendan takes us back to basics in this series by helping us understand and internalize rhythmic subdivisions.Length: 14:51 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 17
In lesson two of Understanding Subdivisions, Brendan takes a look at 8th note "over the bar line" rhythm patterns.Length: 28:28 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 18
Brendan takes us deeper into understanding subdivisions by looking at 16th note subdivisions coupled with fun 8th and 16th note patterns!Length: 21:19 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 19
Brendan wraps up this series with a look at some crazy sixteenth note, over the bar line rhythm patterns.Length: 13:33 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
About Brendan Burns
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Brendan has been passionate about music since childhood. He began his studies on trumpet, in elementary school, and then moved to guitar as a teenager. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from Berklee College of Music, and has studied with Norm Zocher, Joe Stump, Bret Willmott, Bob Pilkington, Jay Weik, Tim Miller, & Charlie Banacos.
While at Berklee, Brendan was a member of the Music Mentoring Program, teaching private lessons to gifted high school students. He is currently teaches, and is chair of the guitar department at Brookline Music School. Brendan also teaches guitar for Tune Foolery & privately at his home in Cambridge, MA.
Along with educating, Brendan plays out often as a Solo Guitarist, performing standards, pop, and classical repertoire. He has recorded and played with the chamber-fusion band Ra Quintent, and as well as Vessela Stoyanova's Eastern Stories Under Western Skies Project. Brendan also performs as a leader, director and sideman for various Boston art-rock projects, and is former member of MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika.
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