Let me have your predictions: how do you think Round 7 will run out in Montreal? Any shocks, upsets, any great drives like that of Adrian Sutil last weekend or will it be all plain sailing for the big guns? Will Heikki Kovalainen’s bad luck dry up? Will Kimi’s ice melt? Will Felipe stop giggling? Will Hamilton have sobered up from this week’s monumental win? Will Robert Kubica smile? Comments please…Ben, over and out.. 13 North American assembly plants to be down multiple weeks in second andthird quartersLaunch vehicle schedules – Camaro, LaCrosse, Equinox and SRX – to bemaintainedDETROIT, April 23 /PRNewswire/ — General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM)announced today that, due to certain business developments, it is schedulingmultiple down weeks at 13 assembly operations in North America.Under thisplan, approximately 190,000 vehicles will be removed from GM’s North Americanproduction schedule in the second and early third quarter of this year.There are three primary reasons for this scheduled downtime:1. Dealer vehicle inventories are at high levels, given the current depressed market.2. The shutdown will allow GM the opportunity to bring production in line with current market demand.3. automotive industry.In the actions announced today, the plant down weeks are staggered and vary induration, based on current inventory levels and expected demand for theproducts.Corresponding down weeks are also scheduled at GM’s stamping andpowertrain facilities.The scheduling actions do not impact operations thatare in the process of launching new products, including the all-new ChevroletCamaro built at Oshawa, Ontario, Canada and the Buick LaCrosse launching soonat the Fairfax, Kan. assembly plant.At the end of March, approximately 767,000 vehicles were in U.S.

dealer stock,down about 108,000 vehicles (or 12 percent) compared with the same period lastyear, and down 105,000 vehicles from year-end 2008 These new schedulingactions will help reduce U.S. dealer inventory levels to a level ofapproximately 525,000 vehicles by the end of July.For information regarding each individual plant, please click on: Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), one of the world’s largest automakers, wasfounded in 1908, and today manufactures cars and trucks in 34 countries.Withits global headquarters in Detroit, GM employs 243,000 people in every majorregion of the world, and sells and services vehicles in some 140 countries. The superstars of RAW will be celebrating Memorial Day in Denver, Colorado tonight, just six days from Sunday’s “One Night Stand” pay-per-view.As we saw last week, Randy Orton and JBL pulled off the upset against WWE Champion Triple H and John Cena, giving them the right to name the stipulations for their respective singles matches this Sunday.JBL told a knocked-out Cena that their bout will be a First Blood match, while the “Legend Killer” said he wanted a Last Man Standing match to reclaim his title.Who will leave the Mile-High City tonight with the advantage going into Sunday?By defeating Chris Jericho last week, Batista earned a rematch against Shawn Michaels. “The Animal” is still pretty steamed after Michaels faked a knee injury to help get the win at Backlash, but former GM William Regal has announced that their match will be a Stretcher Match, so someone will definitely be getting hurt.Speaking of Regal, the  newly-crowned “King of the Ring” was dethroned last week, as he was defeated by Mr. Kennedy in a “Loser Gets Fired” match.This forced Regal to abdicate his role as GM, and as he pounded on his office door to beg McMahon for his job.  Regal’s face was downcast as former Smackdown GM Theodore Long opened the door.Will Regal have anything up his sleeve tonight?And finally, the feud between Santino Marella and “Rowdy” Roddy Piper is heating up.After Piper threw Marella from the ring (with the assist from Jimmy Kimmel’s Cousin Sal) during Marella’s version of Piper’s Pit, Marella challenged Sal to a match tonight, with Piper accepting on Sal’s behalf.What tricks will these guys have in their bag tonight?You’ll find the answers tonight, on WWE RAW at 9/8c, only on USA!. CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina (Reuters) – U.S.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that the Obama administration’s release of detainee interrogation documents could lead to a backlash against U.S. interests overseas, but that the disclosures were inevitable. Barack Obama  |  CubaGates, a former CIA director, told reporters he was concerned about potential repercussions in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas where U.S. troops and civilian government officials already face the threat of violence from Islamist militants.”I … was quite concerned, as you might expect, with a potential backlash in the Middle East and in the theaters where we’re involved in conflict,” he said when asked for his views on last week’s release of classified memos detailing the Bush-era program used by the CIA to question al Qaeda suspects.Human rights groups say tactics such as waterboarding — a form of simulated drowning — constituted torture and violated U.S and international laws. Conservative critics say President Barack Obama endangered the country by releasing CIA secrets.”There was the realization in the discussions that some of these disclosures could be used by al Qaeda and our adversaries,” Gates said while visiting a military installation where U.S.

Marines are preparing to ship out to Afghanistan.But the U.S defense chief said details about former U.S. interrogation practices could not be kept out of the public eye, noting a new Senate Armed Services Committee report tracing links between detainee treatment at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan.”Pretending that we could hold all of this and keep it all a secret, even if we wanted to, I think was probably unrealistic. So we’ll just have to deal with it,” Gates said.”There is a certain inevitability, I believe, that much of this will eventually come out.