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Cummins Inc. is recalling 400 laid-off workers as it resumes production at a Columbus, Ind., factory, but nearly 300 people lost their jobs when an auto parts company idled a plant in nearby Shelbyville.
Cummins is preparing to resume production of the Dodge Ram engine at its Columbus MidRange Engine Plant with one shift beginning July 13, according to the Associated Press. The company shut down the plant and laid off 720 employees in May after Chrysler stopped vehicle production during its bankruptcy proceedings.
Cummins spokesman Mark Land said the plant would produce engines for the 2009 model Ram through mid-August, but that it would be idled again until Chrysler starts building the truck's 2010 model. He said workers were expected to be called back again in October.
Land said Cummins has "solid commitments" from Chrysler for the 2010 Dodge Ram.
"We were confident," Land said of continuing business with Chrysler. "But it's nice to see that it's really happening."
Developments were less encouraging at the Meridian Automotive Systems factory in Shelbyville, where the company told city officials Thursday (July 2) that it was closing the plant for an indefinite period.
The announcement came less than a month after Meridian announced it planned to lay off 198 workers from the plant in stages over the summer.
The Allen Park, Mich.-based company said then that the layoffs were necessary because it had lost a major customer, which it did not identify. Meridian has made various parts for several automotive companies, including General Motors.
Shelbyville Mayor Scott Furgeson said the new announcement superseded Meridian's previous schedule of job cuts.
"I don't know Meridian's position as a company, so I don't know their long-term plan with this facility," Ferguson said. "So hopefully they will continue to keep the plant in their long-term plans and will someday reopen it."
Auto industry layoffs across the state helped push Indiana's unemployment rate to 10.6% in May – double from the 5.3% of May 2008 and the state's highest jobless rate since 1983.

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You may have heard of Getaround, the car sharing service that won first place at a recent TechCrunch Disrupt event.
You may have even used it - car sharing companies are hot these days, with people trying to save money on gas, and help the planet.
Now, Getaround is throwing a contest that just might get you a front row seat to see James Bond in action.
Sort of.
If you go to the company's website, you'll find a driving game (think of it as their version of the Google Doodle).
If you have one of the 50 fastest times in the game, you get entered in a drawing. If your name is drawn, you win an Aston Martin for a day (I doubt this is part of the typial Getaround package...), along with a tailored suit, and dinner and hotel stay.
The leader board is filling up quickly.
And, I must say, the Aston Martin looks pretty choice.
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Signs of an Economic Slowdown Are Testing the Conviction of Those Looking to Ride Recent Market Rallies
Friday's disappointing U.S. jobs report is the latest crack in a shaky global recovery—and a test of will for investors looking to climb aboard a rally that has pushed stock benchmarks to new highs.
For weeks, investors have been growing confident about global economic prospects and looking for a pullback as a chance to pile into the stock rally. But with just 88,000 new jobs added to the U.S. economy in March, investors on Friday instead faced a new debate over whether the global recovery can power through a season that has...


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Feinstein, Cruz trade gun barbs
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a hugely controversial ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips, but the measure faces nearly certain defeat on the Senate floor.
The proposal, authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), bans 157 different models of assault weapons, as well as magazines containing more than 10 bullets.
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The vote was 10 to 8, with all Democrats supporting it and all Republicans opposed.
( PHOTOS: Guns banned once, maybe again)
The Senate now faces a floor fight in coming weeks over Democrats' push to dramatically alter U.S. gun laws for the first time in two decades. While the Feinstein assault weapons ban is unlikely to overcome GOP opposition and get a vote — as well as concerns from red state Democrats up for reelection in 2014 — Democrats and the White House will continue their drive to enact universal background checks on all gun sales.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, acknowledged that the assault weapons ban will have a hard time overcoming opposition.
"It's pretty clear the other side is locked in opposition [to assault weapons ban.] — [I] don't see us getting 60 votes," Whitehouse said, referring to the necessary bar to pass the Senate.
( Also on POLITICO: Sparks fly at Senate Budget hearing)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and other top Democrats, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont, will now try to craft one package out of the Feinstein proposal and other gun-related bills. The Judiciary Committee has previously approved a gun-trafficking bill that expands federal sanctions for "straw purchasers" of guns, as well as a universal background checks proposal. The panel also approved an additional $40 million for school safety programs.
Reid told POLITICO he spoke with Feinstein and said "he tried to understand" why she included a limitation of high-capacity magazines in her proposal, saying he believed they should be "two separate things." But Reid would not say if he believed the Feinstein bill should move as part of the base guns bill on the floor, saying he needed to talk in more detail with Leahy.


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Department of Revenue News Release
February 04, 2013Hartville License Office to Temporarily Close
JEFFERSON CITY - The Hartville License Office will close after regular business hours on Wednesday, Feb. 13, and remain closed until at least Monday, March 4, 2013.
Regular operating hours for the Hartville License Office are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The office phone number is (417) 741-6288.
The office (located at 398 S. Main St., Suite B, in Hartville) is temporarily closing due to an employee illness.
There are several other area license offices where City of Hartville and Wright County citizens can go to conduct transactions. The offices, their addresses, phone numbers and operating hours are:
Ava - 304 NW 12th Ave., (417) 683-2700, Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Last five business days of the month, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Lebanon - 219 N. Adams Ave., Suite F, (417) 532-5075, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Last Friday of the month, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Last Saturday of the month, 8 a.m. to noon. Closed Presidents Day, Feb. 18.
Marshfield - 101 E. Jefferson St., (417) 468-5100, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; First and last Saturday of the month, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Last five days of the month, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Mountain Grove - 807 N. Main St., Suite 5, (417) 926-3333, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; First and last Saturday of the month, 8 a.m. to noon. Closed Presidents Day, Feb. 18.
A list of all license offices is available at http://dor.mo.gov/offloc/.
Many Wright County citizens also have the option of renewing their license plates online at www.plates.mo.gov. If a citizen's license plate renewal form mailed to them by the Missouri Department of Revenue contains a Personal Identification Number, then he or she can renew their license plates online.
Citizens with questions about driver license transactions may call the Department at (573) 751-4600, and questions about license plate renewal or other motor vehicle-related transactions can be answered by calling (573) 526-3669. Many questions can also be answered by going to the Department's website at www.dor.mo.gov.
The Missouri Department of Revenue is now on Twitter! To follow the Department on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/MoRevenue.


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This actually wasn't a planned photoshoot. Me and T'ri were just going to the store, when we stumbled upon this gorgeous swan. Lucky coincidence, huh? Anyways.. I'm wearing a leather jacket from NewYorker, sheer dress from Lindex, ruffled scarf from seppelä, studded bag from House, boots from SHU and a selfmade bow. You can also find this on lookbook HERE. Be sure to tell me what you think and do enjoy!


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The odds against a Mississippi lottery are still long, but they may be improving.
The Mississippi House passed two amendments last year that would have allowed for a state lottery. It could be poised to take similar action this year. The question is whether or not Gov. Phil Bryant, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn would support such a plan.
Daily Journal Capitol Bureau chief Bobby Harrison (9:51) joins Derek and Brad on today's episode to provide insight and context on the debate and what might happen next.
Also on today's episode, M. Scott Morris (17:19) discusses his recent feature story on Aberdeen's Stevens Auction Company. Dwight Stevens turned a love for antiques into his own business and holds four auctions a year in Aberdeen –including one last Saturday. He prides himself on being selective with his wares and said the internet allows him to compete nationally.
Meanwhile, chief photographer Thomas Wells (25:38) discusses his photo essay on Russell Stafford's T-shirt screen printing business.
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Which video games deserve to be honoured for their art? Heavy Rain or Final Fantasy? Grim Fandango or Fallout? In the Smithsonian's upcoming "The Art of Video Games" exhibition, gamers decide which titles make the cut.
"The Art of Video Games" is an ambitious exhibition launching at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, in March of 2012. It's goal is to explore 40 years of the evolution of video games as an art form, and for many it could be the final nail in the coffin of the tired 'are video games art?' debate.
But how do you narrow down the tens of thousands of games that have come out over the past 40 years into one manageable exhibit? Simple. You let the gamers decide. [Kotaku]


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If you are planning on driving through Missouri City, Texas, be cautious.
The Houston suburb has implemented a "crash tax" that requires drivers to pay a fee for their wrecks, according to KHOU 11 News in Texas.
The fee is meant to cover the cost of first responders who handle auto accidents. The charge can cost drivers a couple thousand dollars.
Missouri City's Fire Department will begin charging for traffic accident service on March 1.
All drivers involved with the incident will be charged, even if they didn't phone for help.
The amount of the charge depends on how severe the accident is, ranging from $500 to $2,000, according to KHOU 11 News. The fees target drivers responsible for accidents, but not everyone feels the fee will be effective.
Fire Chief Russell Sander told KHOU the new fee will help cover the city's budget deficit. When asked to address concern over the charge, he said bills will be sent to insurance and shouldn't concern drivers.
A third party company handles the billing for the new fee and estimates say that the city will gain an extra $50,000 a year with the new measure, according to KHOU.


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Clippers sign draft pick C.J. Wilcox
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Clippers have signed draft pick C.J. Wilcox to a rookie contract.
The 28th overall pick out of Washington, Wilcox averaged 18.3 points as a senior with the Huskies. He led the Pac-12 in 3-pointers per game at 2.8.
Wilcox finished his college career with a school-record 301 3-pointers.
The deal for Wilcox was announced on Saturday.


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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara swimming and diving team finished second at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships, which concluded on Saturday night at East Los Angeles College.
During the four-day affair, UCSB won 10 event titles, set five new meet records and broke six school records.
UCSB captured its first win of the day in the 200 breaststroke. Katie Records beat out teammate Sophia Yamauchi for first place with a time of 2:13.41. Yamauchi finished second in 2:13.74 and Paige Bradley touched sixth in 2:16.99.
The Gauchos saw the same placement in the 200 butterfly. Andrea Ward took first in 1:59.16, which marked a new school and meet record. Emma Hunt touched second in 2:00.20 and Anne Peanasky rounded out the Gaucho finalists with a sixth-place finish in 2:03.55 (2:03.14 in prelims). Monica Garcia scored some points during the consolation heat, taking 12th in 2:04.28 (2:03.29 in prelims).
Behind the strong Gaucho finishes in those two events, UCSB momentarily jumped back into first place with 649 points, 11 ahead of second-place BYU.
That lead was short lived, however, as the Cougars' 62 diving points were added to the total giving them 700 points heading into the last event.
In the final relay, UC Davis' 400 free relay team edged out UCSB. The Gaucho team of Ward, Hunt, Peanasky and Yamauchi took second in 3:23.01, which is an NCAA 'B' cut.
UCSB finished the meet with 699 points while first-place BYU finished with 732.
In the evening's first event, Heren Alanis had the Gauchos' top finish in the 1650 freestyle. The freshman placed fourth in a time of 16:50.48. Micaela Velasquez touched in 17:09.43, which was good for eighth, and Katie Reeves also scored for UCSB, taking 16th in 17:28.96.
Allie Knight took third in the next event, the 200 backstroke. The sophomore broke her own school record in the event during the morning's preliminaries, touching in 1:57.67. She finished in 1:58.73 during the finals. Taylor Munk took 11th place in 2:04.04 (2:03.55 in prelims).
Kendall Neely represented the Gauchos in the 100 free finals and placed eighth in 52.26 seconds (51.45 in prelims). Sasza Lohrey qualified for the consolation finals and placed 15th overall in 52.64 seconds (51.82 in prelims).
At the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, the Gaucho divers concluded their meet with the platform competition. Caila Baltas had her best finish of the meet, taking seventh with 142.80 points (167.50 in prelims). Noelle Provenzano took 13th with 105.90 points.


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Positive leadership is crucial to our success.
At A-Plant, our people are absolutely crucial to our success, so good leadership is extremely important in our business. Operating nationally, we have a huge network of colleagues delivering our daily operations. Our people can deliver fantastic customer service which we refer to as 'Delivering Service Excellence'. We want to make sure that every customer who deals with us has a great customer experience; every single time, without fail.
Ours is a multi-location business with several different divisions so positive leadership and direction are important at every level. We have a strong background of growing talent from within and, being highly operational, have a diversity of individuals, teams and departments. All our colleagues play a key role in delivering our success - from Apprentices and Drivers to Workshop staff and colleagues in our Warrington Support Office.
To be a true leader at A-Plant, the following attributes will be important…
- You'll need to be good with people, a real team player and someone who will live, breathe and be a true advocate of our company and what we stand for
- You'll need good commercial insight. We deal with a multitude of different market sectors, so there is a lot to get your teeth into!
- You'll need to be prepared to be accountable for yourself and your team
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by Sharla Lovelace
Genre: Contemporary romance, paranormal
Format: paperback, 320pages, and ebook
Publisher: Berkley Trade (April 3, 2012)
BLURB: In the small river town of Bethany, Dani Shane never fit in. Being different pushed her to the fringes of society, and even leaving town for two decades didn't stop the talk. Now, with her sixteen year-old daughter Riley in tow, Dani is back in Bethany looking for a fresh start. Too bad her plans for staying under the radar are about to be thrown out the window.
Mischievous and sexy, Dani's old friend Alex still has the power to rock her world, but there's a big obstacle standing in their way—Alex has been dead for forty years. With a ghost popping up at inopportune moments and sparking conversations with her teenage daughter, Dani scrambles to find solid ground and get a grip—both on her sanity and her heart.
Guest Post by Sharla Lovelace
Hello and so glad to be here! I'm enjoying all these stops and love meeting new readers, so this has been a whirlwind.
I'm talking a little bit about what brought about the ghostly storyline in THE REASON IS YOU. I've touched on this before, but basically I can't seem to help myself when it comes to adding a touch of mystical or supernatural to my stories. It may not start out that way, but it always manages to seep into the cracks. Something a little weird or off kilter.
I started this story with just the worn out single mom returning to her hometown with her teenage daughter. I knew the dynamics of that, I knew what the problems might be, but it fell flat for me. It needed the weird.
Enter Alex.
Alex was a ghost that came to me ready to go, full of cockiness and snark and yet loving and loyal to the end.
And hot. :)
He was just what my main character needed—a reason to be nervous about going home. A reason to be nervous that her daughter would question things. A reason to worry again about other people catching her talking to a ghost. A past history of talking to spirits and hiding it was an exciting storyline to me. It gave her flaws and depth and interest. And it allowed me to play around in a medium I'd never been in before. I got to create some of my own rules and boundaries, and that was soooo much fun.
Playing Dani, the main character, between two men living and dead, was also a blast and sometimes crazy to write. Obviously that kind of love triangle—and physical aspects of it—have limitations, so I had to get creative. Hopefully you'll enjoy where I went with that…lol.
In using ghosts, I got to bring in some other fun characters as well, which you'll see. I hope you enjoy the book, and thanks again for letting me come chat with you! Feel free to ask me any questions!
An excerpt from The Reason Is You:
Preface: Dani and her teenage daughter, Riley have arrived back in Dani's hometown, and one of the first things Dani has to deal with is catching her daughter talking to her old best friend Alex in the front yard. Alex is a ghost…
My head said to walk forward, but my feet went numb. Then he looked my direction, and suddenly I was head-to-toe buzz with blood rushing in my ears. I took a deep breath and attempted normal as I made it down the steps without tripping.
Riley saw Alex. Riley wasn't supposed to see people like Alex.
She had her usual folded-arms-with-one-hip-jutted stance, looking annoyed as hell, while Bojangles circled the yard in a frenzy with his nose to the ground. Alex slowly took off his glasses and locked his blue eyes in on mine with that arrogant little smile of his. I felt heat radiate from every pore.
"Dani," he said, low and smooth, and all the breath left me. "My God, look at you."
I opened my mouth to say the same thing, that after twenty-plus years he still looked exactly the same, hot enough to melt my shoes. But then the mommy gene stood up and waved and I remembered Riley was there.
He laughed, a deep throaty sound, as he pointed at Riley.
"I knew it had to be."
A nervous noise squawked from my mouth. Nothing profound like I always imagined it would be.
"The eyes were the first clue," he said with a wink.
Riley frowned, her expression a mix of disgust and wariness.
"God, you know this perv? He was here on the car watching me and won't tell me who the hell he is."
He smirked. "The sweet, gentle nature was the clincher."
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Now, she lives in Southeast Texas by the Neches River with her family, an old lady dog, and 19 cockatiels. If you wonder how she writes with all that noise--the birds actually have their own house outside. THE REASON IS YOU is her debut novel.
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This is a randomized, double-blinded dietary intervention in hemodialysis patients to
determine the clinical and metabolic effects of soy isoflavones on disease activity,
including improvement of blood markers of acute-phase response, and decreased blood levels
of markers of metabolic bone disease.
Up to 40 percent of end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients suffer from a chronic
inflammatory process which is not currently amenable to specific treatment and is associated
with high morbidity and mortality. High circulating levels and production of
pro-inflammatory cytokines are an essential part of this ongoing acute-phase response and
they are believed to exacerbate many of the clinical manifestations of ESRD, including renal
osteodystrophy. Like in all other inflammatory processes that have undergone more extensive
investigation, the nuclear factor, Nuclear Factor Kappa-B (NFKB) promises to be a critical
cellular intermediate of this acute-phase response and to be both mediator and target of
inflammatory cytokine effects. In the current search for agents that may be able to negate
the ongoing acute-phase response of ESRD, the soy isoflavones genistein and daidzein have
emerged as potentially useful. These isoflavones are present in many soyfoods, are available
as over-the-counter nutritional supplements and have received growing attention due to their
biological properties and potential as therapeutic agents. Inhibitory effects of the
isoflavones on tyrosine kinase and NFKB activity, on inflammatory cytokine production and on
oxidative stress have been demonstrated by this group and by many other investigators and
they may be highly relevant to the renal failure population. Additionally, we have found
recently that intake of soy food by ESRD patients results in very high blood levels of
isoflavones and it is well tolerated.
It is our working hypothesis that in chronic renal failure a variety of endogenous and
exogenous factors trigger acute-phase response with activation of NFKB and production of
pro-inflammatory cytokines, and that intervention with soy isoflavones inhibits NFKB
activation and cytokines production, thus blocking the ongoing acute-phase response and
affecting positively clinically relevant parameters of disease activity in ESRD.
The specific objective of this proposal is to conduct a randomized, double-blinded dietary
intervention trial in hemodialysis patients to determine whether:
1. Dietary intake of the soy isoflavones by ESRD patients with clinical signs of ongoing
acute-phase response decreases the production of the proinflammatory cytokines
TNF-alpha, IL-1 and IL-6 in peripheral blood, thus changing the balance between these
cytokines and their antagonists sTNF RI, sTNF RII, and IL-1ra.
2. Suppression of inflammatory cytokine production by soy isoflavones is associated with
improvement of clinically relevant parameters of disease activity, including
improvement of blood markers of acute-phase response, and decreased blood levels of
markers of metabolic bone disease.
3. Intake of soy isoflavones suppresses NF-KB activity in peripheral blood monocytic cells
of ESRD patients, in a manner consistent with change of cytokine levels and of clinical
parameters of disease.
Inclusion criteria:
- Initiation of chronic hemodialysis therapy more than 6 months prior to enrollment in
the study.
- Routine dialysis with highly biocompatible dialysis membranes, including polysulfone,
polycarbonate, polyamide, or polymethylmethacrylate membranes.
- Historical compliance with three times weekly routine hemodialysis therapy.
- Ability and willingness to adhere to the intake of soy protein isolate drinks during
dialysis therapy.
Exclusion criteria:
- Use of calcitriol within the last six weeks
- Acute illness known to cause acute-phase response, including clinically detectable
infections, trauma, surgery, burns, and tissue infarction, within the last 6 weeks.
- Chronic conditions known to cause acute-phase response, including
immunologically-mediated and crystal-induced illnesses, cancer, and psychiatric
- Hematocrit below 30%
- Aluminum intoxication
- Smoking
- Gastrointestinal disturbances that can interfere with isoflavone absorption,
including acute gastrointestinal illness and/or intestinal microflora depletion
following use of antibiotics within the last three months, chronic malabsorption
syndrome, chronic liver disease.
- Other significant medical illnesses including decompensated heart failure, unstable
coronary artery disease, advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
decompensated thyroid disease, alcoholism, substance abuse.
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Stench... you really need to grab a GPS. The Garmin that I have was only $50 shipped off of eBay and works great. You just can't trust the telemetry and it doesn't help that you cannot program the XL2 into the telemetry settings either. My speeds are typically 377mph for runs above 120mph. The 110mph pass last week registered 268mph via telemetry. The highest I saw on my STOCK 6s xo1 was 123mph via telemetry (105mph actual via gps).
The next body I paint I'm going to leave the rear window clear so that monitoring the top speeds can be done without removing the body. I have also started taping my sides down which has seemed to help at high speeds. I'm hoping to do some runs over the weekend. With my luck there will probably be a hurricane this weekend.
E Revo brushless, XO-1, Nitro 4 tec 3.3, HPI RS4
Made more changes. 122 sustained for 3+ seconds. Gps or not, this thing is WAY faster than stock. No comparison.
Yeah, I'm sure there is some disparity between the telemetry and actual speed, but at this point I can't see it being 17 mph. When I first started messing with this car I could hammer it and show wheel spin data logs of 105-6 or so. Only an idiot would actually think I went 106. This is totally different. I have modified virtually every part on this car. I make passes that are probably close to a half mile long, gradually accelerating up past 100 before I give full throttle. There is no way I could manage to spin the tires to 122 mph and hold this thing in the road wide open for 3 seconds. The telemetry will occasionally glitch but it's pretty obvious when it does. I back all my runs up. If I can't repeat the same thing within 1 or 2 percent, I don't count it.
On a related note, I can apply MASSIVE amounts of downforce to the back of the car. Right now, I have so much down force that if it weren't for tire growth, (which is starting to be substantial at these speeds) the rear of the car would actually bottom out. The rear springs compress much more at speed than you would guess. This combined with a bunch of other mods to keep the front planted make for a race car that is suprisingly stable at speed. It's amazing what you can learn with a go pro.
Post some more videos man !!! I still check out your parachute video once in a while. I really want to see what that speed looks like.
Also, I should be done with my "nuclear option" mod soon. Be watching for completely retarded speeds if I can hold this thing in the road.
Can't wait !!! I guess if we see a mushroom cloud in the Norf Cackalacky region we know something went wrong !!! Man you've really go me wondering what you are doing to that stock motor setup ?? Are you doing this with the stock ESC also ?? I've never even hit 100 yet but this has got me real curious. Good Luck !!!
Sweet results guys keep them coming!
Took the car to my LHS. They agreed that there isn't enough metal on the pinion gear for the set screw to bite before the set screw makes contact with the motor shaft. They grinded part of the tip of the set screw off and tried to make it work like that but the set screw would not stay on the motor shaft under any type of driving load even with thread locker.
They also looked at the smaller pinion with a magnifying glass and saw that the hole drilled for the set screw pushed metal into the motor shaft hole which is why the motor shaft wouldn't go through so they cleaned that up. Since the set screw in the small one seems to bite I might end up just driving the car with the small gear and suffer through maximum of 90 mph speeds.
Oh well back to the shelf until I hear from Kershaw since I still can't find any other vendors that sell a gear this size for this car. What a waste of money and time this car has become.
I don't understand exactly what problem you are having but I ran in to a couple issues putting gears on my junk. The set screw was only partly on the shaft. To fix this, I placed the gear in a mill, and drilled a new hole farther back on the gear. I drilled right in to part of the gear itself. This is not a problem. There is still plenty of gear contact and strength left. Then I retapped. Now, place the gear on the shaft so that the set screw hole is exactly perpendicular to the flat spot of the shaft. Take your set screw and carefully grind a smooth flat spot on the end. Set screws are a little iffy out of the box and the contact patch is too small. This causes the shaft and set screw to wear, which releases whatever torque you have applied to the set screw. Grinding a flat increases the contact patch. Install and torque. No thread locker necessary. Works great. Remember, thread locker is always a band aid. I don't use it unless I absolutely have to and it doesn't even work on a lot of stuff anyways.
Bringit - You're making this much more difficult than it has to be. The LHS guys don't seem to know what they're doing either on your set-up. As stench said, drill out a new location for the set-screw. It sounds to me like the threads are becoming worn down and the set screw is backing out once the engine spins. The same thing happened on my set-up after a few times out.
Use a 1/8" drill bit for the new hole. Then tap it with a 4mm x .70mm tap and you're all set. If you've got the delrin pinion you'll find out that sometimes you'll strip out the delrin threaded portion. If so, just make sure to add additional blue loctite and it should work just fine.
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Ok. The Annihilator, "XO-1 of Certain Doom", has successfully received the nuclear option conversion. It's up and running and so far, actually works. Stupid power. Gotta tweek a few more things and sort out a few details, and then maybe I can go to the proving grounds on Sunday.
Made some test passes with the new set up. I'm still missing a couple things I need but I wanted to at least see if what I am doing is a waste of time or not. On the first pass I went 127 and every thing seemed fine. I forgot to pull the loading pin on the parachute so getting stopped was a little hairy. On the next pass I tried to get in the throttle a little sooner and the car kept drifting left. Eventually had to lift because it wouldn't steer. I new something was broke so I packed it up and went back to the shack.
I just pulled it apart and the rear left drive pin closest to the differential is gone allowing that tire to freewheel. I guess it sheered when I pulled the trigger. This might be the next week link.
Also, I had to remove my rear sway bar to run the car this way. Somehow, I'm going to have to re-engineer a different one because the car needs it. And....due to the extra weight, I need to look at the front steering again. I'm over whelming the spring in the servo saver.
If you come up with a part number for just that pin could you let me know. I got sick and tired of paying $12.00 for the driveshaft repair kits. I was breaking them pins left and right. That was the whole reason I turned down the torque limiting. I wasn't losing them pins it was shearing them in half. Every 2 days it seemed I was replacing them.
I'll probably just start making them out of gage pins or hardened dowel rod. If they keep breaking I will look in to oversizing them.
Oddly enough, this is the first one I've broken. I've bent the half shafts many times but this is the first drive pin. Weird.
At least it broke when it did !! Imagine 120mph + breaking !! Wouldn't be good. I bet I've broke 15 of them pins. I had enough of that happening. You ever attract cops ?? The last two nights I had the same cop come through here going around the block a couple of times. Last night he sat at the stop sign for 5 minutes. I don't know if he was trying to give me a speeding ticket or what the heck. So I was just ripping around a little not any high speed passes. Plus it was raining. Finally i acted like I was going in the house so he left. I turned around immediately and gave her heck again. I could see him in the church parking lot behind my house watching me again. Hit 75 mph on a rain soaked road !! It was kinda hairy. I think the cop must be impressed otherwise he would of done something. If I was doing something illegal. LOL
I did some further testing last weekend. I've had issues with the car losing control and/or doing back flips at speeds above 115mph. I removed the gyro to rule that component out as a possible cause. I found out that without the gyro that a loss of traction above 105+mph just results in broken parts. As I mentioned before, the throttle is very sensitive at 80-90% throttle.
I know everybody has wanted a video for quite some time now. I have one. It is a sucky video and I already know that the camera is entirely too close to the starting point of the run. The video below shows 107mph via GPS and you can also see the car spin out of control and flip when I layed into the throttle at roughly 75-80%. On a regular PC (large screen) you can see it flip and land back on its wheels. The run length was a little over 1/8 mile and the car really needs around 1/4 mile for speeds in the 120's. The funny thing about this car is that whenever I do encounter a flip that it usually lands back on it's wheels. The pass after this one resulted in 115mph (about 85-90% throttle) and another spin-out into the curb which resulted in a broken LCA, damaged tire, bent axle, broken shock cap, and broken differential output shaft.
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Looking good, Anthony! I just have to find a spot soon. But, with the colder weather I think traction is gonna be a major issue.
Took the XO-1 back to my LHS today. They drilled a hole in the pinion gear for a 3mm set screw but the screw ended up eating the threads in the aluminum spur gear. Ended up drilling the hole for a 4mm set screw and that might have worked. They put loctite on it so I am going to let it sit until the weather is nicer to see if this is going to work.
Based on the drilling done today and how badly the aluminum gear held up, I need a steel gear because the aluminum one gets ripped apart by the set screw. From what we saw today, we are guessing that any type of vibration of the gear on the motor shaft will cause the set screw hole to enlarge because the aluminium is pretty weak compared to the set screw.
Still waiting for Kershaw to respond about a new stronger gear.
BTW: The 4mm set screw bit into the pinion gear way before it made contact with the motor shaft. A significant difference from the way the set screw and pinion gear came from Kershaw.
Also, how hard would it be to drill out a 6 mm hole in the stock XO-1 high speed gear? It only has 34 teeth, but it would work for semi high speed passes.
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Kershaw responded that he has a steel gear, but I am going to just wait and see what happens with the gear my LHS modified.
Took the car out today. Didn't push it much since it was only 42 degrees out and the roads are covered with gravel and anti-skid. Made quite a few 50 mph passes. The pinion gear stayed on for 13 minutes of driving and then it came off again. Going to put loctite on it again and fix the front spoiler that cracked when I ran into a snow bank. I might just wait for the spring to run it again because there is too much power with the 8s setup to run it the way the roads are now. I could definitely tell the difference - I no longer have the luxury of holding 100% throttle briefly like I did with the stock setup. It doesn't just light up the tires it immediately goes into a wild spin if I do. It's definitely going to take a few passes and wrecks to hit 120 mph+ unless I can find a road even better than I was on for my 102 mph pass.
I didn't post about this, but installed it before my last run, but I bought a taller battery mounting solution from badbrad222. It would work perfect without my ESC mount kit, but I will have to modify it some if I want the side post on the ESC side to fit "around" the ESC mount kit. I ended up using all but one of the posts from badbrad222's kit and used the Traxxas tall battery parts for the one that wouldn't fit. With some foam on the batterries my batteries are nice and snug now.
FartOfDoom hooked me up with a metal spoiler and canards. I need to paint and install it after I buy some turnbuckles:
Very nice wing, I could use one of those badly.
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Finally had some time for the car. Installed the new front stock high speed spoiler and canards and reinforced them with gorilla tape. While doing that I decided to mock up a rear wing modification with cardboard. Thanks to TheStenchOfSpeed I now have a stock high speed gear drilled to fit on the 6 mm shaft installed. The true test comes when the weather warms up and I try the car out. I also added a vitamin bottle of pennies just behind the front bulk head lol. They are the only "weights" I have right now! Hopefully the next post will be a 120+ mph video. I'll make sure to setup three cameras to catch the runs.
Can't wait to see some vids!
I had no idea the weather was going to be in the 50s today so I was able to take the car out!!!!!!
Unfortunately the fastest was 97 mph, but that is a HUUUUUUUGE improvement since I have had this 8s setup!!!!
The stock modified gear stayed on the ENTIRE TIME!!!!! So now I need to find some gears as hard as the Traxxas gear in the 36+ range. Even though that speed is way slow I am just impressed the gear stayed on. There was a serious crosswind so I couldn't pin the throttle and go any faster without risking a wreck so I just took it easy, well until it finally wrecked! No flip overs today though!!!! I am so excited about today's runs it's not even funny. My $2,000+ X0-1 is finally coming together slowly.
As far as the damage that I could see, it looks like $50 of parts prior to taking it apart. Gorilla taping the front bumper saved a lot of damage because I scraped against the curb at least four times before the semi-head on curb spin and wreck. I think I will fully gorilla the next one I buy.
The BIGGEST improvement other than the gear is my ghetto cardboard spoiler!!!! I probably should lose my XO-1 man card for the cardboard disgrace to the XO-1, but it kept the car running straight as possible even when all four tires were spinning at speed and the back end tried to kick out. That by far is the best modification I have made to this car. Also, the 97 mph pass was made without my bottle of pennies because it flew out after the first curb hit! LOL! My GPS stayed in the car the entired time.
I will post video clips later if anything worthwhile came out of my three cameras. It was a little after the sun had just set so I don't know if the cameras had enough light.
I came within one foot of the car running into an SUV. Luckily they were watching the car earlier and were alert that the car was moving pretty quickly so they stopped and stayed in place while I dodged them!
Last edited by bringit; 02-18-2013 at 12:32 AM.
Here is the clip of it almost getting run over. I had to drive between the SUV and the curb. You probably have to watch in full screen mode to see it.
For those of you who can't see embedded videos: http://youtu.be/sN5FLM2uOmU
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ive had those occurances , somtimes I was getting into full throttle and didnt even notice till the oncoming car until I had to look in that direction as the xo1 was passing lol
Just wanted to say that I had some back and forth e-mails with Kershaw this week and the bottom line is he stands by what he sells. The weather is bad here and my time is limited, but I hope to have a new video as a result of my conversation with Kershaw within the next month or so.
Here are the ground level passes from the other weekend. My third camera is old school so the passes were not worth posting. For some reason even the HD camera that I used in this video was acting up so it made the car look like it was jumping back and forth for some reason. Oh well, you get to see that is was moving a lot faster than it looked in the video I posted last week.
The second to last pass was the one where it almost hit the SUV.
Hi mate first of all nice xo-1 i bought one afew days ago too... now is my question wich shock set up are you useing?
With the stock power system just keep the stock shock setup with preloading.
My new improved battery mount arrived today and since the weather is going to be in the 50s this weekend I will be able to take the car out again. I am going to secure the aluminum gear to the motor shaft with loctite and hope it holds so I can finally post a video of something faster than 102.
It's D-Day, going to find out how fast this thing can run with a 36T gear in two hours. Here are the pre-run pictures with my ghetto spoiler.
Good thing I took those pictures. I crashed in awesome fashion today. Vids from three angles to come.
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I love to cook. I love it because it fully engages all my senses and allows me to be creative while doing something practical to care for mi familia. I love the diversity of colors, textures, scents, tastes – the memories it conjures and creates.
My only problem is that I often used to stain my shirts. After I ruined much of my wardrobe, my husband asked Suegra to make me an apron.
Here is something nice I have to say about mi Suegra – she is a very talented seamstress, (and she's completely self-taught!) She can make anything imaginable, from the sweetest little dresses for baby girls to silly Halloween costumes for mis niños – and when she's not living with us, I realize what a useful skill it is as I haphazardly repair sofa pillows myself with crooked, child-ish stitches.
My favorite thing she ever made for me is my apron. She takes a lot of pride in her work and she took the time to embroider it in the traditional Salvadoran style. Salvadoran folk art contains colorful images of familiar things – houses, flowers, birds, and animals.
I wanted to take a photo of my apron to show you, so I put the camera on the counter top and set the timer.
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I wanted to do a few original posts about children's books I liked.
This one is about a great author and illustrator whose work I discovered just a few years ago, Jan Pienkowski.
I found out about Pienkowski's stuff when I picked up a copy of his pop-up book ROBOT at a used bookstore a few years ago.
Even my adult friends quickly proclaimed this "the best thing ever."
What I loved about the book was not just the vivid, surreal, cartoony quality of the pop-up images, but how fully-realized the simple story (a robot writes a letter home to his family, and we see their domestic life) was.
Most pop-up books just have a few images extend off the page a little. ROBOT went further — images were double-sided, so if you look behind the copy of the letter the mom-robot is holding on the first page, the entire text of the story is written on it! There are tons and tons of gags hidden in the pages, and that is the kind of thing I love.
Obviously, it's hard to show a pop-up book on the Internet, but I did find this YouTube video of ROBOT:
And here's a few spreads from the book:
The book is sadly out of print, but some Amazon sellers have a newer printing available pretty cheap.
I found out that Pienkowski was even better-known for HAUNTED HOUSE, another pop-up book. This one still shows up in most bookstores, and is great fun to leave lying around at a Halloween party. People smile and gasp at the clever pop-ups, which have humorously grotesque monsters leaping out at you!
Here's some images from inside the book, via Pienkowski's website:
I love the spaghetti monster in the corner.
HAUNTED HOUSE was back in print as of 2005, but seems to be out again — though copies are still on Amazon sellers' stores.
It also inspired a CD-ROM game years ago!
It's not as fun as the pop-up book, but I do like seeing his creations come to "life."
Pienkowski's also well-known for his uniquely-illustrated fairy tales.
His style combines employs silhouettes for human characters, while putting them against lush, colorful backgrounds. Some of these have been classic tales he's adapted himself, while others are done in collaboration with the great children's author Joan Aiken (THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE).
There's a number of different editions of Pienkowski's work out, but I recommend really shopping carefully — some of the printings of the Aiken books use a different illustrator, or have black-and-white illustrations only.
I like the B&W and color ones — it creates a certain anonymous effect for the children in the stories, as though this could be happening to anyone, even you.
Also, I love the candy-colored palate from these earlier collections. It gives the tales a dreamlike quality, vivid and fade all at once.
There is a look back at Pienkowski's illustrations in this Guardian piece from 2008.
Check his work out — as I said earlier, for kids AND adults, it's pretty much the best thing ever!
Let me know if you liked this and would like to see more posts in this vein. I have some other illustrators I want to highlight, along with some oddball books I fondly remember.


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A VPN is generally touted as an ideal tool to remain anonymous online, but this is more easily said than done. This week ProstoVPN revealed a widespread issue that can in many cases expose the true IP-addresses of users, unless proper action is taken.
A few weeks ago we covered a security flaw which allowed attackers to uncover the real IP-addresses of VPN users, if their providers allow forwarding on their network.
The news was picked up widely as it affected millions of users. However, it is just one of the many possible exploits VPN users are facing.
This week another issue was highlighted by ProstoVPN. This "vulnerability" affects both users with a direct connection and those with routers that have UPnP port forwarding enabled.
The issue boils down to a rather basic network routing feature where UDP listening software (e.g. torrent clients) respond to packets that are sent to the user's ISP IP-address, through the VPN interface.
This means that a potential attacker can link a VPN IP-address to a user's ISP IP-address.
The issue affects users on all operating systems and is not always easy to fix on the user end. VPN providers with custom software can address it, but with the standard OpenVPN software users have to take action themselves.
While the scope of the issue is large, as many users and providers have yet to address the issue, it requires quite a bit of effort to carry out an attack. It basically requires the attacker to send UDP packets to the entire Internet.
In addition, there's the possibility of false positives which means that it's harder to pinpoint the exact ISP IP-address. With this in mind, it seems unlikely that monitoring companies will attempt to expose every BitTorrent user with a VPN.
ProstoVPN informs TorrentFreak that they alerted 11 providers, and two confirmed that they have fixed the issue with a software update.
"Information about this 'feature' was sent to 11 VPN providers and only five of them replied: Private Internet Access and Perfect Privacy have released updated software which blocks incoming connections."
Not all providers were equally responsive and one suggested that the issue should be addressed by the users. There is some truth to that, but the same provider does protect its users against similar problems on the user-side, such as DNS, IPv6 and WebRTC leaks.
While there's no need for outright panic, it is a good development that these type of problems are being highlighted. It prompts VPN providers to take action and users to remain vigilant.
That said, it also shows that 100% anonymity is pretty much impossible.
More details on the routing "feature" and its consequences are available in ProstoVPN's article and in the statement published by Perfect Privacy.
Update: TorGuard informs TF that they were one of the notified VPN providers and that they've addressed the issue.
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A woman has died after a collision on the Drighlington bypass.
She was pronounced dead at the scene after a two-car collision on the A650 at 11.18pm last night (Friday)
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I got this for a Honda Fit, to get a little extra space when roadtripping. The box fits a lot more than it looks like it would, and it is shorter than most of them which is good for the small roof size of the Fit. I almost got the 14, which would also have fit the roof, but would have extended further toward the front of the car. Either would work great, but I'm glad I went with the smaller one.
I'd like to know if you noticed any drop in gas/milage efficiency?
Does anyone happen to know what an internal diagonal measurement would be in this? I was hoping it would fit a 159cm snowboard. I know that equals 62.5", which is 4.5 longer than the box is, but thats why I wanted to know diagonally...would a board fit in this.
Thank you in advance!
Good morning from Western Australia !
I need to know the dimensions of the lower ie fixing base of the PRO12 please PLUS the height to the lower part of the lid from the mounting base . I am considering the unit's mounting on my vehicle & would be most appreciative if you could let me know ASAP if you can .
Thank you ,
Sincerely ,
Kerry Cook
Dimensions: L 58.00" x W 11.25" x H 37.00"
pulled this from the Yakima websitehttps://www.yakima.com/rocketbox-pro-12


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How NFL.com analysts are projecting the first-round picks for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2013 NFL Draft:
Matt "Money" Smith
No. 2: Dion Jordan, DE, OregonNew coach Gus Bradley comes from Seattle. Just last year, we all suggested the Seahawks reached with their first-round pick when they selected Bruce Irvin, a one-dimensional, undersized pass rusher. Though he might not have gaudy sack numbers, Dion Jordan is a top-notch athlete. Pop in that tape against Washington from a couple years back and let your mind wander.
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Charles Davis
No. 2: Dion Jordan, DE, OregonRecent speculation had the Jaguars taking QB Geno Smith, but I'm sensing new GM David Caldwell will opt for the athletic Jordan, and count on him to provide consistent edge pressure.
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Daniel Jeremiah
No. 2: Dion Jordan, DE, OregonI'm sure the Jaguars will strongly consider Geno Smith, but I have them addressing their anemic pass rush with this selection. Look for them to target a quarterback at the top of the second round.
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Bucky Brooks
No. 2: Geno Smith, QB, West VirginiaGeneral manager David Caldwell could declare the Blaine Gabbert experiment an epic disaster by selecting Smith as the new face of the franchise.
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Akbar Gbajabiamila
No. 2: Dion Jordan, DE, OregonNew head coach Gus Bradley is a defensive-minded coach who appreciates a pass-rush artist like Jordan. Given Jordan's versatility, the Jaguars could put him in position to make plays in multiple ways.
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Gil Brandt
No. 2: Dion Jordan, DE, OregonRecent shoulder surgery will keep Jordan from doing any more pre-draft workouts, though medical reports are said to be very good. One thing you have to give him a lot of credit for: He did not shy away from working out at the NFL Scouting Combine, even though he had a ready-made excuse in the form of a torn labrum.
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Charley Casserly
No. 2: Dion Jordan, DE, OregonHelps solve an annual problem in Jacksonville: a weak pass rush. The Jaguars finished dead last in the NFL with 20 sacks last season.
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Josh Norris
No. 2: Barkevious Mingo, DE, LSUThere are three possible "Leo" selections here, but I'll take Mingo, since I think he will be the apple of Gus Bradley's eye.
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Long Beach GRAND SLAM | 22 - 27 July 2013
Long Beach, Calif., USA, July 23, 2013—While four of the five top-seeded women's team won both of their pool play matches Tuesday, the big surprise was three lower-seeded teams all winning twice as well to lead or tie for the lead in their respective pools during Tuesday's start of the 32-team main draw at the $440,000 FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam double-gender tournament as the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is back in the USA for the first time in a decade. While the men's teams played one of three pool play matches on Tuesday, the unexpected women's double winners were Switzerland's 17th-seeded Isabelle Forrer/Anouk Verge-Depre, USA's 15th-seeded Emily Day/Summer Ross and Slovak Republic's 13th-seeded Natalia Dubovcova/Dominika Nestarcova.
With the third and final women's pool play match and first round of single-elimination for the final 24 teams in the 32-team main draw, the men will play their second of three pool play matches with the final one and their first elimination round on Thursday as the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is back in the USA for the first time in a decade. With the event being held for the first time in Long Beach the purpose-built site is located on the expansive glistening sands of Marina Green Park on East Lakeshore Drive.
Main Draw pool play matches at the FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam, presented by ASICS, are scheduled to start at 8:00 a.m. Wednesday. General admission is free to the event and VIP tickets are on sale through the event website at www.wsobv.com. The last match is scheduled to start on each of the four courts at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
With 12 undefeated women's teams after Tuesday's heated action, all four of Brazil's women's teams, seeded second through fifth, were all unbeaten on Tuesday. The Brazilian women's teams who all have 2-0 records after the first day of pool play in Long Beach are No. 2-seeded Taiana Lima/Talita Antunes, No. 3-seeded, Barbara Seixas/Liliane Maestrini, No. 4-seeded Maria Claira Salgado/Carolina Salgado and No. 5-seeded Agatha Bednarczuk/Maria Antonelli. Overall, Brazil's four men's teams were 3-1 Tuesday giving the South American powerhouse a combined 11-1 pool play record after the first day in Long Beach.
While the USA men's teams compiled a 4-1 record on Tuesday, the USA women's teams recorded a solid combined record of 8-2, giving the USA a combined event record of 12-3 on Tuesday. Day/Ross were 2-0 along with No. 8-seeded Lauren Fendrick/Brittany Hochevar, and No. 12-seeded Jennifer Fopma/Brooke Sweat..
Finishing 1-1 for the United States Tuesday in Long Beach were USA's No.1-seeded April Ross/Jennifer Kessy and No. 27-seeded Annett Davis/Whitney Pavlik.
The three other undefeated women's teams on Tuesday were Germany's No. 7-seeded Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler, and Switzerland's No. 9-seeded Nadine Zumkehr/Joana Heidrich and Czech Republic's No. 10-seeded Kristyna Kolocova/Marketa Slukova.
In the biggest seed-breakthrough of the day, Switzerland's No. 17-seeded Forrer/Verge-Depre upset USA's top-seeded Ross/Kessy, who are playing their final event as a team, in straight sets, 21-19, 21-15 in 34 minutes. Earlier, the young Swiss team defeated Finland's veteran No. 16-seed Erika Nystrom/Emilia Nystrom, 21-19, 21-15 in 35 minutes.
"We played about as good as we can right now and we may have caught them off-guard a little as this was a third try and first victory against them," commented Verge-Depre, just 21, who just last September won the FIVB U-21 World Championship playing with Nina Betschart. "We couldn't close out the first set very easily, but we served really well through the entire match and they made a lot of service errors. It was hot very everyone today and hard to keep focus. We changed a lot of things since we played them before and they are the first top team we have beaten. We're really happy and we have a great opportunity to go 3-0 and win our pool."
The FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam, presented by ASICS, is the showcase part of the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball, a SoCal beach festival that includes 4-person and 6-person recreational events, a youth tournament and nightly music concerts. Also part of the event is the inaugural ASICS World Series Cup featuring two teams in each gender from the USA against two international teams with the finals on Sunday. In addition to the international live FIVB telecasts, the event also includes 23 hours of live or same-day telecasts split between NBC Sports Network, Universal Network and NBC TV Network.
Officially announced on Tuesday, playing in Saturday's women's ASICS World Series Cup will be Ross/Kessy and Kerri Walsh Jennings/Pavlik along with Germany's Holtwick/Semmler and Brazil's Lima/Antunes. For the men, on the sand will be USA's Sean Rosenthal/Phil Dalhausser and Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson along with Latvia's Alexandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins and Brazil's Pedro Salgado/Bruno Schmidt.
The women's semifinals and medal matches of the FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam will be held on Friday with the men's semifinals also on Friday and men's medal matches closing the FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam on Saturday. Play Wednesday through Friday will start at 8 a.m. and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for the men's medal matches.
The gold medal teams in each gender in the FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam will each split $33,000, the silver $22,000, the bronze $16,500 and fourth place $12,900. The women's medal matches will be held on Friday and the men's medal matches on Saturday. The FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam is the 291st FIVB international men's event since the FIVB began play in 1987 and the 253rd FIVB women's tournament since women started international competition in 1992.
The 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is comprised of 10 Grand Slam events and the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships. Not part of the World Tour but still counting towards the FIVB World Rankings, the FIVB yearly calendar also includes seven Open events, five double-gender and two women-only. There is a double-gender FIVB Open event being playing this week as well in Anapa, Russia.
After another week off next week, the 10-Grand Slam 2013 FIVB World Tour will continue in two weeks in Germany at the $440,000 FIVB Berlin Grand Slam. The season finale of the tour will be in Brazil in mid-October at the $440,000 FIVB Sao Paulo Grand Slam.
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USA takes men's gold, Spain silver, Italy bronze at FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam
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Spain, USA win men's semis at FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam
Long Beach, Calif., USA, July 26, 2013—Surprise, surprise, a funny thing happened on the way to the men's medal matches Friday as beach volleyball duo... More...
27.07.2013 03:10:24
Brazil earns women's gold and silver, Germany bronze at FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam
Long Beach, Calif., USA, July 26, 2013—Proving once again their overall superiority in the blossoming sport of beach volleyball, women's tandems from ... More...
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Men's competition into single elims at FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam
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16 women's teams remain at FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam after first elimination round
25.07.2013 05:05:06
14 Men's teams 2-0 in Pool Play at FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam
24.07.2013 23:14:12
Women end Pool Play, start eliminations this afternoon at FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam
23.07.2013 03:32:22
Men's Pool Play at FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam starts with upset
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Main draw field finalized from FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam qualifying
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Kerri Walsh out of debut US tournament
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leukemia (AML), which is a type of blood cancer. APL is a leukemia that can
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election.
The candidates themselves, campaigning for votes in the Conservative Political Action Conference's straw poll Saturday, competed to present themselves as most opposed to Obama's health care law.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the straw poll Saturday, followed by former Sen. Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who did not attend the annual conference of conservative activists.
On Friday, after three weeks of controversy that pitted the nation's Catholic bishops against the White House, Obama revised his policy. Instead of requiring employers to cover contraception, the policy would now require insurance companies to provide free birth control coverage in separate agreements with workers who want it.
Conservatives scoffed.
"It's an accounting trick — the employer still plays the insurance," said Mike Gonzales of the Heritage Foundation. "Do (White House officials) think people are stupid?"
The controversy, several said, is a natural outgrowth of what they consider the overreach of Obama's health care mandate.
"My problem is the coercion" in the broader overhaul, said Washington real estate agent Bruce Majors.
Many shrugged off Obama's rewrite.
"It's not like they said, 'We were wrong," said Spencer Larson, an investment adviser from Moraga, Calif. "They said, 'We can't afford this politically.'"
"Nothing in health insurance is free," agreed Cherylyn Harley LeBon, a lawyer. "The cost is going to be passed on" to employees of religious organizations and everyone else, she said.
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee, closed the three-day CPAC gathering Saturday with a conservative call to arms full of derision for Obama.
Palin did not endorse a presidential candidate. But she offered little comfort to Romney, who is imploring Republicans to rally around his candidacy so he can start focusing on Obama and November.
"I believe the competition has got to keep going," Palin said to loud applause. "Competition strengthens us," she said. "Competition will lead us to victory in 2012."
Palin decried "the Washington of the permanent class," where she said people arrive with good intentions and stay to enrich themselves and their cronies.
"It's time to drain the Jacuzzi," she said.
The whole debate over government health insurance has cost Obama plenty. His party lost the House majority in 2010 in part because of a backlash over the new law's demands on private industry and individuals.
The resentments erupted anew after the Obama administration on Jan. 20 announced that religious-affiliated employers, except houses of worship, had to cover birth control free of charge as preventive care for women. These hospitals, schools and charities were given until August 2013 to comply.
Under the revision, women will still get guaranteed access to birth control without co-pays or premiums no matter where they work, a provision of Obama's health care law that he insisted must remain. But religious universities and hospitals that see contraception as an unconscionable violation of their faith can refuse to cover it. Insurance companies will then have to step in to do so.
A Fox News poll released Friday showed a large majority, 61 percent, of Americans approve of requiring employer health plans to cover birth control for women. Thirty-four percent disapproved. The nationwide survey was conducted by telephone among 1,110 registered voters Feb. 6-9 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points, the network said.
The furor was part of a recent resurgence of social issues, including gay marriage and the funding of Planned Parenthood, in the political discourse. For Obama, the uproar risked his clout with independents, women and Catholics in battleground states from Pennsylvania to across the Midwest.
Republicans, meanwhile, roiling over a presidential nominating contest that shows no sign of settling, pounced on the issue. From the House and Senate to the presidential campaign trail this week, they cast the contraception controversy as an assault on the freedom of religion. It was a battle cry the divided party could bellow in unison.
At the CPAC convention Friday in Washington, the political candidates made contrasting appeals to conservatives but vowed to repeal all or parts of what they call "Obamacare."
Former Sen. Rick Santorum, who swept three nomination contests earlier in the week, said that with the health care law, Obama "is telling the Catholic Church that they are forced to pay for things that are against their basic tenants and teachings."
"It's not about contraception," said Santorum, a Catholic. "It's about economic liberty."
Romney, a Mormon who in the past supported abortion rights, vowed to reverse "every single Obama regulation that attacks our religious liberty and threatens innocent life."
Romney won the CPAC straw poll with 38 percent of the 3,408 votes cast. Santorum drew 31 percent, and Gingrich was favored by 15 percent. All three candidates addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday.
Romney had encouraged college-age people to attend the convention, and 44 percent of those who voted were students.
Paul had 12 percent. He won the straw poll in the previous two years. Paul did not attend this year's conference to campaign in Maine.
Associated Press writer Charles Babington contributed to this report.
Conservatives shrug at Obama birth control rewrite
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election.


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Like most well-intentioned daydreams, it seemed to never come to fruition. How is it that it always seems like the days are too short, but at the same time can sometimes be way too long? Instead of surrendering to the same ole' outings to target and story time, yesterday Emma and I finally made it "into town." We made plans!
We started with some shopping, then strolling through the park, a visit with a friend, then dinner with more friends and their baby.
Left : Emma and I at the "Make Way for the Ducklings" bronze duckling sculptures in the Boston Public Gardens. As it was just Emma and I spending some mommy and me time, I had an onlooking grandma that was taking photos of her own grandson take this pic of Emma and I with my phone.
The "Make Way for Ducklings" book was published in 1941 and tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the Boston Public Garden lagoon. It won the 1942 Caldecott Metal and is the official children's book of Massachusetts.
The ducklings draw quite a crowd in the garden, to say the least.
The bronze ducklings are in the background as Emma is more fascinated with the grass. I highly recommend introducing your children to grass at an early age... every time we try to take photos outside, she is more into the grass than smiling at the camera.
And her dress. She loved her dress. I love that she loved her dress. And I loved the dress.
And I love her baby eyelashes. Perfect.
Sweet girl.
Adventurous girl!
Back in the grass and happy!
Did I mention she started crawling this week? Let the fun begin...
After the park we met up with her Daddy at a friend's home in Back Bay.
Emma was thrilled with crawling for about 12 hours, and is now only satisfied when she's standing. Especially in her crib... which nearly scared me to death when I went in her room the other morning to find her smiling at me over the rail like a big girl.
After a visit at our friends, we headed to dinner in Beacon Hill to meet some more friends visiting from back home. Emma, meet Lucca.
Fast friends. I planned her parents' wedding 4 years ago. I'll share photos of it someday. It was really something (if I may say so myself!).
Okay, here is just one, because I can't resist!
Ok, one more!
Back to the babies...
Fast asleep, conveniently right when we hurried out of the restaurant and took another stroll through the park.
I asked Mike if he thought Emma was comfortable enough in her stroller. He laughed.
Since the girls had decided to hit the hay, we decided to go for a night cap of our own...


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Core Centric, faced with a growing demand for its personal training classes, has rented an additional space in Vashon Village to hold its individual training sessions and group classes.
Michelle Reed, who owns Core Centric with Sandi Silagi, said the addition, a short walk from their current spot, will almost double their workout space and allow them to more easily hold multiple classes at once.
"It feels great to be expanding," Reed said. "It just shows there are that many more people being conscious and aware of taking care of themselves in all sorts of aspects."
Silagi opened Core Centric in 2010 and was joined by Reed in early 2011. The two, who both teach at the center, have seen their clientele grow significantly. In the past year they have struggled with their limited space, which allowed them to hold two individual sessions at once but not two group lessons or classes. Recently they added an indoor cycling class as well as some popular weekend options and felt even more pressed for space.
"We were pretty much just booked and still having the demand out there," Reed said.
Their new space in Vashon Village, currently being remodeled, will open in mid-February with an open house event. In March, the center will add yoga classes and massage therapy to its offerings. For more information see www.corecentrictraining.com.


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