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62nd Annual Meguiar's Detroit Autorama - Autorama Extreme 1953Written by Chuck Vranas on May 13, 2014 Contributors: Chuck Vranas Reliving the Past
One of the most fascinating facets of the 62nd Detroit Autorama is that once you were finished exploring the brightly lit confines of the main floor, there was still a notable surprise waiting to be found. Taking an escalator ride down to the basement, you were brought face to face with the past where Autorama Extreme 1953 resides. A true show within a show, it transported visitors back to a simpler time where hot rods and customs were displayed in an organic environment devoid of any bright lights and glamour. Instead subdued lighting and weathered concrete floors set the tone, making you feel like you had just entered a local armory show in the early '50s. With 100,000 square feet of floor space, it featured over 200 traditional hot rods and customs laid out in classic row-style with barely any obstructions.
With this unique vibe, you could feel the excitement as you walked the floor. You could talk with car owners and builders as you passed numerous chopped coupes, mixing it up with post-war styled roadsters, classic customs, tail-draggers, and motorcycles. While nitro-fueled music filled the air, plenty of club displays caught your eye, as well as countless vendors offering everything from vintage memorabilia to swap meet speed parts for your latest build. Once again this year there was a wicked grouping of artists showcasing their latest offerings, including Keith Weesner, Unkl Ian, Larry Gardinier, Ed Tillrock, Jones Design, and Stinson, to name but a few. There was also an old-time pin-up contest, a chance to see what new offerings a number of builders were featuring, and even get a haircut in a vintage barber's chair. But if that wasn't enough Gene Winfield had his Chop Shop set up where he lowered the lid on a Starliner in three short days. To cap off the experience, Saturday evening's awards presentation featured custom handcrafted awards being presented by some of the hot rod world's most respected members. Steeped in culture and tradition, the basement show is truly a must-see experience.
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Brothers Custom Automotive owner Bill Jagenow wowed the crowds over the weekend with his elegant jet black and coral '56 Lincoln Premier.Glowing in gold vibe, Shannon McMahan's '52 Ford hauler featured a slammed stance, Caddy caps, quad '59 Cad taillights, and era-perfect scallops.Classic mild customs will always look timeless especially with a mild shave, era-perfect wheels, and polished suede body.STREET RODDER Editorial Director Brian Brennan presented his Editor's Award to Dave DeBaar for his traditional '30 Ford coupe. The car sat on Deuce 'rails and featured a perfect chop, 289ci Ford V-8 topped with four deuces, split 'bones and black steelies.STREET RODDER Editorial Director Brian Brennan presented his Editor's Award to Dave DeBaar for his traditional '30 Ford coupe. The car sat on Deuce 'rails and featured a perfect chop, 289ci Ford V-8 topped with four deuces, split 'bones and black steelies.Bill Meekins (left) went home with a few awards by the time the show was over, including Most Photogenic, which was presented by Eric Geisert. You can see an image and details on the car in our Top 100 coverage.Doused in lime-gold, Ryan and Bob Rose's '29 Ford sedan was chopped hard, filled with Hemi power breathing through dual-quads and ready for action.Brad Newton's '50 Chevy tail-dragger was covered in deep blue decadence accented by neat touches like a side shave, lake pipes, and Lancer caps.


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The exhibit can be seen through May 19 at Hofstra University Museum's David Filderman Gallery.
The works of Faith Ringgold at Molloy College
The acclaimed African-American artist Faith Ringgold – perhaps best known for her painted story quilts – is the subject of an in-depth study at Molloy College's Kaiser Art Gallery, in celebration of Black History Month.
The exhibit, which opens Feb. 7 and runs through Feb. 28, will focus on "Tar Beach" and "The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles." It will feature Ringgold's prints and accompanying materials relating to her life and career as an artist, author and activist.
The gallery will screen her documentary, "Faith Ringgold: The Last Story Quilt," on Feb. 19, at 4 p.m. Admission is free. The gallery is located in Molloy College's Public Square.
Nassau County Museum of Art
One Museum Drive (just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A), Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or visit
Hofstra University Museum's David Filderman Gallery
9th floor, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus, Hempstead. (516) 463-5672 or www.hostra.edu/museum.
Molloy College's Frank andGertrude Kaiser Art Gallery
Public Square, 2nd Floor, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre.
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The New Ute Theatre Society has been thrilled to receive a generous donation of more than $4,000 from the Rifle Union High School classes of 1956, 1957 and 1958. Class members toured the building while in town for their combined reunion this summer and were so pleased with the plans that they wanted to be part of it. After discussing ideas, they decided to make it their "class project."
Marilyn Hall, Charlene Collett, Roberta Shaeffer, Marlea Antes, Tom McKee, Lorraine and Gordon Place, and Sue Dorr took on the challenge of coordinating a multi-state fundraising membership drive.
This kind of response shows the understanding of people who lived in Rifle through their formative and high school years of the need for a center that provides activities and opportunities for people of all ages. The Ute Theater played a significant part in their adolescent years, and they are eager for the community to have the additional activities the New Ute Event Center will make available.
The building was originally built in 1947, when they were still in elementary school. Most of them no longer live in Rifle. It says a lot about their community spirit and what the old theater meant to them that they would make this commitment.
This kind of broad based support illustrates the potential for the event center to galvanize community interest and offer enrichment activities on many levels. This support also helps other people and entities realize just how viable the New Ute Event Center will be. In fact, some of the children of members of the classes of '56, '57 and '58 who graduated from Rifle High School are thinking of making fundraising for the New Ute Events Center an alumni challenge.
The New Ute Theatre Society would like to recognize this outstanding support for the planned project from the members of the Rifle Union High School classes of '56, '57 and '58 who contributed to the extraordinary effort of this multi-class project.
Elizabeth Stuver is a board member of the New Ute Theatre Society. For information about the events center project, call (970) 414-0834 or go online to utetheater.com. Mailing address is P.O. Box 907, Rifle, CO 81650.


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|Release Date: May 01, 1984
|Running Time: 92 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
|Genre: Drama
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Video: Fans React To Redskins Win Over The Ravens
LANDOVER, Md. (WUSA) -- What a dramatic and bittersweet way to win four straight games for the Washington Redskins.
A rookie QB threw for a dramatic TD for the Redskins at the end of the fourth quarter, but it was not Robert Griffin III.
Kirk Cousins threw the touchdown and ran for the game-tying 2-point conversion to tie the game at 28-28, forcing the overtime.
Robert Griffin III left the game with a hyperextended knee in the fourth quarter after a gruesome looking tackle.
CBS Sports is reporting that Griffin III will have an MRI on his right knee on Monday.
Cousins then worked his magic with the TD and 2-pointer to tie the game.
The Ravens got the ball first in overtime, but they were forced to punt by an inspired Redskins defense. A 64-yard punt return put the Redskins in FG position and the kicker, Kal Forbath, did not disappoint. He kicked a 34-yard FG to secure the win.
Now, after the great win, the Redskins have to answer the question about how serious RG3's injury really is. After he was hit, he came back out and tried to play. Griffin III ended up trying to crawl off the field.
The game started off on a wicked pace.
The Washington Redskins drove right down the field with a smash-mouth 10-play 80-yard drive, capped off with a TD to Josh Morgan to take an early 7-0 lead over the Baltimore Ravens in their first drive.
The Ravens answered back with a big chunk runs and a quick strike TD pass to Anquan Boldin, to tie the game 7-7.
The Redskins took a 14-7 lead with an 8-play 83-yard drive, finished with a 1-yard-run by Alfred Morris.
Boldin caught his second TD pass of the game, with his second catch of the game on a deep strike from Joe Flacco.
Dennis Pitta added another TD to Flacco's day, and the Ravens took the lead 21-14.
The Redskins add a field goal and trail 21-17, and then later added another FG to bring it to within one point, 21-20.
Ray Rice then ran for a TD and extended the lead to 28-20.
The Redskins then rallied with 11 straight points and won the game.
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Toronto Raptors
Celtics receive: Kyle Lowry and Linas Kleiza
Raptors receive: Jared Sullinger, Avery Bradley, Jeff Green and Boston's 2013 first-round pick
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This is the non-blow-it-up move for Boston to stay relevant this season. Everyone wants to know: Are the Raptors going to choose to keep longtime point guard Jose Calderon or the younger, more volatile Kyle Lowry? Whispers around the league suggest that the Toronto front office is divided on the issue and the Celtics could swoop in and take advantage of that possible dissension.
Lowry remains one of the most efficient point guards in the league (21.3 PER), but his uneven effort on the defensive end has reduced him to a 20-minute role off the bench for defensive-minded coach Dwane Casey. The Celtics could take on Linas Kleiza's contract that pays him $4.6 million this season and possibly next season, though the Celtics would probably hope he turns down his 2013-14 player option to go back overseas.
In order to give up Lowry and his tidy contract, the Raptors would likely need to receive young assets in return. Such a deal would likely require involving Avery Bradley, Jared Sullinger and a future first-rounder. But that would also necessitate the Raptors absorbing Green's undesirable four-year deal to make the money work. Would Toronto decision-maker Bryan Colangelo do that? We didn't think he'd give five years and $53 million to a then-30-year-old Hedo Turkoglu, either.
Los Angeles Lakers
Celtics receive: Dwight Howard, Metta World Peace and Chris Duhon
Lakers receive: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jason Collins
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The blockbuster of all blockbuster deals. The Celtics would never send Pierce and Garnett to their once-hated rival, right? Stranger things have happened in this league. (Remember when Cleveland agreed to sign-and-trade LeBron James, or the time Phoenix gift-wrapped Steve Nash to the Lakers?) Obviously, the Celtics make this move to mold their next championship core around a healthy Rondo and Dwight Howard, but such a package is risky considering that Howard could walk at the end of this season.
But that's a risk the Celtics can take with a player like Howard, especially because they could offer a five-year deal to Howard in free agency when all other competitors could offer only four, thanks to the new CBA. For a guy recovering from back surgery, five years of security could be worth more than the extra money itself.
The Lakers would presumably only do this deal under three conditions: (1) The season goes back into the tank again; (2) Howard makes it clear that he's not signing long-term to be Kobe Bryant's sidekick; (3) Pau Gasol's trade stock continues to plummet. The Lakers would start five future Hall of Famers, but at the cost of kissing good-bye any hope of signing LeBron James in the summer of 2014 sweepstakes, if the reigning MVP is available.
Memphis Grizzlies
Celtics receive: Rudy Gay and Tony Wroten
Grizzlies receive: Paul Pierce and Chris Wilcox
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This trade makes sense from the perspective that the Celtics would exchange Pierce for a younger, higher-upside talent in Gay. Additionally, rookie Tony Wroten could take over the point guard duties as a poor man's Tyreke Evans (remember, the Celtics don't have a pure point guard right now) and serve as Rondo's backup long-term.
On the Memphis side of things, the small-market club wouldn't have to look at Gay's swollen contract that pays him $17.8 million next season and $19 million after that if he enacts his player option in 2014-15. There's a chance that Pierce could sour upon arrival in Memphis, but those odds might be mitigated by the presence of former teammate and fellow "grit-and-grind" aficionado Tony Allen as well as the fact the Grizzlies have a better shot at a title than the Rondo-less Celtics.
But there are serious obstacles here. For one, the Celtics may not be enthused with Gay's good-but-not-great production and unpredictable future at that price tag. And yes, waiving Pierce in the offseason could shed $31 million off Memphis' books compared to keeping Gay, but Memphis would still have to find a small forward in addition to bringing back Allen, who is a free agent this summer. But Pierce is a superior floor-spacer and much more dependable defender than Gay. Could that put the Grizzlies over the top in the West?
Utah Jazz
Celtics receive: Derrick Favors, Marvin Williams, Jamaal Tinsley and Raja Bell
Jazz receive: Paul Pierce, Avery Bradley, Chris Wilcox and Boston's 2013 first-rounder
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Utah possesses a boatload of bigs and the Celtics could use one. Believe it or not, Garnett won't be around forever and this deal would give the Celtics their next big man to solidify their long-term foundation next to Rondo. It would also give the Celtics a pass-first (pass-only?) point guard in Jamaal Tinsley, which is kind of a big deal considering the C's don't have a pure point guard on the roster without Rondo.
Favors remains one of the most promising young bigs in the game, averaging 15-and-10 every 36 minutes along with high-impact defense. But he's struggling to find 20 minutes a night with three other productive players in the Jazz frontcourt. By sending Pierce to Utah, this would be a cold move by the Boston front office, but the Celtics should have an eye on the future given Rondo's injury and this could save them about $1.5 million if they want to eventually get under the tax.
The only way the Jazz think about this deal is if they are big on Bradley's potential ahead of Gordon Hayward and they believe that Enes Kanter has a brighter future than Favors. Though Pierce would be reunited with former teammate Al Jefferson in this scenario, it may not offset the lifestyle change of moving from Boston to Salt Lake. But would a healthy Mo Williams, Randy Foye, Pierce, Paul Millsap and Jefferson make some noise in the West? Maybe, but it's hard to justify Utah going all-in this season without a backcourt player to build around; Bradley is probably not that guy.
Minnesota Timberwolves
Celtics receive: Kevin Love, Andrei Kirilenko, Brandon Roy, Luke Ridnour and Greg Stiemsma
Timberwolves receive: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry and Jared Sullinger
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The only thing that might top a Lakers deal? If KG goes back to Minnesota to finish out his career right where it started. Again, Garnett holds a no-trade clause and could nix this deal on the spot. But the only place that might be more sentimental than Boston for Garnett's swan song is Minnesota, the team that selected him fifth overall in the 1995 draft.
For Boston, you do this deal under the buy-low, sell-high rule in Business 101. It's hard to imagine a worse season for Kevin Love, who is shooting a paltry 21.7 percent from downtown this season and currently sitting on the sidelines with a re-fractured shooting hand. But he's one of the best handful of young players in the league (currently No. 8 on Insider's top 25 under 25 rankings and an unprecedented rebounder/sharpshooter talent). If healthy, a Rondo-Love connection is easily one of the most tantalizing tandems in the East. And Ridnour and Kirilenko give them help right away.
Now, would Minnesota do the deal? Depends on how much it wants to win now. Since 2008, no team has won fewer games than the Timberwolves (121). Believe it or not, this would be the eighth straight losing season in Minnesota if it keeps up. It's not hard to imagine why GM David Kahn may be ready to exchange Love, who has had an icy relationship with the front office, for a package that could give them star power on both ends of the floor. It's a long shot, but mixed emotions aside, this monster deal makes some sense.
Atlanta Hawks
Celtics receive: Josh Smith, Lou Williams, Devin Harris, Zaza Pachulia, Ivan Johnson
Hawks receive: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry and Jared Sullinger
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If Danny Ainge is looking at a blow-it-up scenario, it's easy to see why Atlanta GM Danny Ferry would be willing to talk. The Hawks are an obvious trade partner because of the ongoing disruptive behavior of their star-and-free-agent-to-be Josh Smith, but also because of their high-performing veterans on one-year deals, something the Celtics could covet. It's hard to find a highly productive player with more upside and more in need of a change of scenery than Smith.
To be clear, Smith is no spring chicken at age 27 and that's not the best time to hand out a max deal. But look around and you'll find that there's just not another player of Smith's caliber on the market. Elsewhere, the 26-year-old Williams would be a perfect platoon mate in the backcourt next to Bradley for the long-term and the Harris-Pachulia combo could fill out the Celtics' playoff-ready rotation for the rest of the season. Worst-case scenario is that Smith doesn't pan out and the Celtics shed gobs of money when Smith, Pachulia, Harris and Johnson's deals expire at the end of the season, which would fully engage them into rebuild mode for the 2013-14 season.
The upshot from Atlanta's perspective is it can flip its expiring contracts into a borderline contender in the East, but the Hawks would first need Garnett to waive his no-trade clause. Working in Atlanta's favor in such a scenario is that Garnett grew up two hours outside of Atlanta in Greenville, S.C. Not working in Atlanta's favor is that Garnett famously called out Atlanta co-owner Michael Gearon Jr. in the playoffs last season. Still, can't count out an Atlanta-Boston hookup, even though it seems Ferry's No. 1 priority is to maintain flexibility for a potential Dwight Howard chase.


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Three days of panel discussions and speeches on energy policy are set in Richmond.
The third annual Governor's Conference on Energy opens Tuesday in Richmond with a panel of experts discussing the balance between energy, the environment and the economy. It wraps up Thursday with a speech by the conference host, Gov. Bob McDonnell.
In between, there will be presentations by officials from the Southern States Energy Board, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research, and others.


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Afghanistan: winning, or just going home?
Marine brass close out year amid steep drawdown, rise in attacks
The commandant and several other Marine Corps generals spent Christmas in southwestern Afghanistan, where a Camp Pendleton force is closing out a year in command of international troops in one of the country's most violent provinces.
As the administration weighs how many American forces to send home next year among the 66,000 remaining in Afghanistan, a Pentagon report to Congress this month underscored the risks of the steep drawdown of troops from Helmand province.
Marine Corps leaders and Afghan officials, however, are citing progress in the region, a center for the illegal poppy trade where insurgents have been routed from most towns and Afghan troops are patrolling largely on their own.
Gen. James Amos and his wife Bonnie, Sgt. Maj. Michael Barrett, Lt. Gen. Richard Tryon, and Lt. Gen. William Faulkner spent four days visiting Marines and sailors deployed in Helmand, at forward operating bases and combat outposts including Payne, Geronimo, Hanson, Jackson, Kajaki and Musa Qala.
They also visited a fighter jet squadron from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar deployed in the Persian Gulf, among other stops.
On Christmas Day, Marine Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Central Command, and Marine Gen. John Allen, the top commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, also visited Helmand.
Amos stopped in Marjah, where Marines were involved in fierce combat for much of 2010, and told troops deployed there how proud he was of progress in Helmand province.
"I have been in and out of here for four years," Amos said, according to Master Sgt. Brenda Varnadore, a Marine journalist. "It's changing for the better. This battalion has spent a lot of blood in the Marjah area. ... (But) we are going to leave this place under victory."
Afghan officials in the region are also emphasizing the bright spots as insurgents hit security posts recently taken over by Afghan troops hard.
After Christmas, the Helmand governor's office announced an intensification of their fight against the poppy trade funding the insurgency. In Lashkar Gah, police captured 64 pounds of heroin and 1,058 pounds of dry poppy, according to Governor Alhaj Mohammad Naem.
Just five pounds of heroin can fetch a street value of more than $1 million.
Also announced was the graduation of 105 Afghan police trainees and the defection of six insurgents who reportedly made peace with provincial officials, bringing the total to more than 80.
Helmand Province has been by far the deadliest province for international forces since the war began in 2001. At least 910 NATO troops have been fatally wounded there, most of them American Marines, according to icasualties.org. In 2010 during the peak of the surge of U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan and a doubling of the Marine force in Helmand, 210 were killed in one year.
In neighboring Kandahar province, another stronghold of the insurgency and the birthplace of the Taliban, 507 troops have been killed during the war. No other province in Afghanistan has had 200 or more fatalities.
Maj. Gen. Charles Gurganus and his staff from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Pendleton are scheduled to transfer command in March to East Coast Marines. About 6,000 U.S. troops remain in Helmand, down from a high of more than 20,000 last year.
Much of the surge of 33,000 U.S. troops sent to Afghanistan two years ago were Marines sent to Helmand province. As the surge ended, southwestern Afghanistan also had the steepest drawdown among the NATO regional commands.
From April through September, 9,000 U.S. troops were pulled out of the region, compared with 4,500 from Kandahar and 3,000 from the eastern mountains bordering Pakistan, according to the latest report to Congress on "Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan."


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Campaign 2012 | For decades Ron Paul has held up the lonely libertarian standard in Congress and the GOP primaries. Now, as his non-interventionist foreign policy ideas gain traction, Paul is entering the presidential fray for a third time
WASHINGTON-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke almost suppressed a grin at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in mid-July when a lawmaker noted Rep. Ron Paul's plan to retire after he finishes this term-but the smile spread to both ends of the chairman's face. The Texas Republican congressman, who is retiring to focus on his presidential run, would like to abolish Bernanke's agency and return the United States to the gold standard. "Someone had told me that announcement would put a smile on Chairman Bernanke's face," Paul said, laughing giddily. Then he assailed Bernanke about the rising cost of living and the Federal Reserve's injections of cash into the economy-and the chairman's smiling face changed to a furrowed brow.
The gold standard may sound antiquated, but Paul strikes a nerve when he talks about the weak dollar: He said if Bernanke "talked to the average housewife," she would tell the chairman that prices are rising rapidly, even if the Federal Reserve isn't worried over inflation. Hanging on a wall in Paul's congressional office are framed German marks from the autumn of 1923, when hyperinflation raged across Germany. A 10 million mark note in September 1923 bought a loaf of bread, and by October, Germans needed the 500 million mark note framed below for the same loaf of bread. Surrounding the frame with the old German marks are pictures of Paul's five children, 18 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
The "average housewife" may be more inclined toward libertarian ideas than in the past. Paul is considered the father of the Tea Party movement, which upended the midterm elections in 2010. Now central elements of Paul's noninterventionist foreign policy are resonating too. Polls in recent years find American "isolationist sentiment" is at a 40-year high. "I do think there is some growth in interest in libertarian ideas-not the word libertarian-but those ideas," said David Boaz, the executive vice president of the libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute. "If you polled 100 people in Peoria, 10 will have heard of the word, and of those, five people would be libertarian."
The New York Times statistician Nate Silver reported in June that "libertarian sentiments" have risen steadily since 2009 and are at their highest point since polling began in 1993. Still, Paul is an outlier in most GOP presidential polls (though he regularly wins straw polls at places like the Republican Leadership Conference and CPAC). After breaking fundraising records in 2008, Paul's fundraising numbers have been good again: In the last quarter, he raised $4.5 million, better than the same quarter in 2007, when he raised $2.4 million. His fundraising is second in the Republican field to frontrunner Mitt Romney, who raised $18.25 million. President Barack Obama raised $86 million.
At the New Hampshire GOP presidential debate in June, Paul received cheers when the moderator asked him about bringing troops out of Afghanistan: "I'd bring them home as quickly as possible. And I would get them out of Iraq as well. And I wouldn't start a war in Libya. I'd quit bombing Yemen. And I'd quit bombing Pakistan. I'd start taking care of people here at home because we could save hundreds of billions of dollars." Military personnel contributed more to Paul in 2008 than to any other Republican candidate, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Paul supports international commerce and trade but opposes all wars, unless they are what he considers defensive. He would cut all U.S. governmental aid to Pakistan, to Israel, and to the nations in Africa where the United States has made big investments in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He argues that Christians in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, are worse off due to U.S. intervention there: "Christians have lived there since the time of Christ. They survived. And yet the one consequence of this war is that Christians have had to become refugees and actually leave Iraq."
Paul's views are formed from home-he "rarely travels overseas," said his congressional spokeswoman. He never goes on congressional delegations abroad-those cost taxpayers money. His son Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said as a family they stayed close to home when he was growing up because his father was always traveling back and forth to Washington. "Being at home sort of was a vacation," the senator said.
Paul arrived in his congressional office one late morning chipper, even though the 75-year-old had already been up since dawn. "Sometimes I feel like, Why am I doing all of this?" he said, coming into his office and grabbing a water bottle. "I don't need to be this busy. But then if I had nothing to do, I wouldn't be very happy either. I'd go about two days and then wonder, what am I doing next?" A track star in high school, Paul walks several miles daily and bikes whenever he can, so his eyes are bright. Paul has been in Congress over the course of the last 35 years (taking a break from 1985 to 1997), and this is his third presidential run after running in 1988 as a Libertarian and in 2008 as a Republican.
The Pauls are a family of politicians and physicians: Ron Paul and three of his children, including Rand, are physicians and two grandchildren attend medical school now. The senior Paul grew up a Lutheran, but his wife Carol is Episcopalian, and they baptized their five children in that church. He became a Baptist later in life, but his office declined to comment on whether he is a member of a particular church. On his desk sits a picture of his family, with Philippians 1:3 over it: "I thank my God every time I remember you."
His son Rand (short for Randal, not named for Ayn Rand) said they were raised to believe that "the individual and family can conquer most problems." The congressman elaborated. "The parable of the lost sheep-the 99, and the one-the one was the interest of the story," Paul said. "I think that [the Bible] really supports-it at least doesn't contradict my political beliefs at all. If you're responsible for your own salvation and I can't give it to you-nobody can give it to you, they can't legislate it-why shouldn't the rest of your responsibilities be yours?"
In the next second, though, Paul was talking about the power of the group: "Our country was really built-whether it was the schools or our hospitals-most of them were started by the churches." On his bookshelf in his office, he has several Bibles and How Now Shall We Live? by Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey, along with Merck's Manual of Medical Information, books on Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises, a book on just war theory called Neo-Conned!, and Marijuana, the Forbidden Medication.
Marijuana should be legal, according to Paul, along with heroin, prostitution, and unpasteurized milk: Paul always seems to push further than typical voters will accept. Paul has said the United States reaped 9/11 because of the country's involvement in the Middle East. He did not join the rest of Washington in hailing the assassination of Osama bin Laden: Although in 2001 he voted for assassination as a tactic for responding to 9/11, he didn't think this was the time to stir up resentment in Pakistan with a covert raid: "The Pakistani people now are furious with us for just marching in and embarrassing them." Paul says U.S. forces should have captured bin Laden instead of killing him. "I think maybe talking to him wouldn't have hurt anything," he said. "We talked to KSM [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks], we could have talked to [bin Laden] and gotten some information from him."
That was the last straw for one Ron Paul supporter from the 2008 campaign. Thomas Prettyman, a former Marine now living in Chattanooga, Tenn., said, "I've never agreed with all of Ron Paul's views (abolishing the Federal Reserve, zero intervention abroad), but I've always thought he was the best candidate regardless, because you knew what you were getting." Paul's opposition to the covert raid in Pakistan lost him Prettyman's support: "This guy would've told King David not to take the consecrated bread."
Paul's associations could alienate voters too. In 2008 Paul endorsed his friend, Chuck Baldwin, a pastor who ran as the Constitution Party's candidate, for president after Paul lost the Republican primary. Baldwin suggested in a column, "Praise for Lee and Jackson," which discusses the "War of Northern Aggression," that because of the ever-expanding federal government, "secession may, once again, be in order." He has also questioned whether the federal government was involved in 9/11. "I don't know what happened. I wasn't there," Baldwin told me. "But I do know that there are scores and scores of victims' families that are convinced they have not been told the complete truth as to what happened. There is enough circumstantial evidence, if you please, to warrant a thorough independent investigation."
I asked Paul about endorsing a candidate like Baldwin, who is calling for an investigation into 9/11. He laughed congenially: "Oh, just because someone has a different opinion than mine? I talk to a lot of people who have a disagreement or opinion on something. No, Chuck Baldwin I like very much, but we have some disagreements on the issues. He's very good on monetary policy and the entitlement system." During a 2008 presidential debate in South Carolina, the moderator asked Paul whether he would repudiate the 9/11 truthers: "I can't tell people what to do but I've abandoned those viewpoints and I don't believe that, so that's the only thing that's important," he said. At other times Paul has been more wiggly: When a woman approached him after a Las Vegas speech in 2009 and asked why he wouldn't "come out about the truth about 9/11," Paul responded that he had "too much to do" to get involved in the controversy.
Lew Rockwell, a friend of Paul's who heads the Ludwig von Mises Institute, which Paul helped start, is another associate with a pessimistic outlook on American government. Rockwell was Paul's chief of staff in the late 1970s and early 1980s and wrote the introduction to Paul's book on foreign policy. In a July blog post on his website, lewrockwell.com, Rockwell described government as the "greatest killing, torturing, and looting machine on earth." The U.S. Constitution, he wrote, grew the government into "the monstrosity we have today." Cato vice president Boaz, who has known Paul personally for 30 years, said, "I've never heard him say anything questioning whether the federal government was behind 9/11, but I do think he is too indiscriminate in his associations . . . he should have been more careful over the years."
Paul responded later: "David's a friend of mine," but added that he is "probably a more liberal libertarian." Paul isn't friends with the Republican power players in Washington. He's friends with other outsiders, people like Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who shares his anti-war views, and whose far-left views put him on the fringes of the Democratic Party. Paul's base is also diverse-potheads, homeschoolers, anti-war activists, and some evangelicals. An obstetrician-gynecologist who has delivered thousands of babies over the course of his career, he has a pro-life following too.
"Ever since evangelicals have re-entered the political fray back in the 1970s, we've had a difficult time with accepting its terms as the 'art of the possible,' or the inherent compromises and settling for the-good-over-against-the-best nature of things," said Jay Green, professor of history at Covenant College. "Paul is attractive to various libertarians and evangelicals because he is pure and seemingly unsullied by the dirty compromises that politics asks us to make."
When I asked Paul why he wouldn't make a compromise, even if it was pragmatic, he said, "No reason you have to. We don't think about doing that on our religious values." He acknowledges: "Ultimately the only thing that counts is what the people endorse, what they think the role of government ought to be."


text: Sunday Mar 11 2012 comments 20th Annual Cool Mountain Bike Race By: Photos by Michael Kirby/Auburn Journal -A +A Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalThe 20th annual Cool Mountain Bike Race started Sunday morning on the Olmstead Loop in Cool. Over four hundred riders tackled one, two, or three 10 mile laps depending on their skill level. Pictured is the start of the pro divisions. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalSport division rider Rachel Degnetich. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalNovice rider Michael Pearson dressed in formal attire for this years Cool Mountain Race Sunday. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalAuburn's Brian Holbrook took to the trail Sunday riding for Auburn Bike Works. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalPro rider Kyle Harder comes through a swollen creek near the finish of his first lap Sunday. Harder rode three laps in his division, 30 miles. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalMatt Northcutt charges through a creek Sunday on the Olmstead Loop Trail in the Cool Mountain Bike Race. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalRobert and Brenda Fletcher took on the Cool Mountain Bike Race in the tandem bicycle division. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalAuburn's Dan Luper races through the creek near the end of the first 10 mile lap. Luper was riding in the novice division. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalTristan Norberg crosses the creek followed by Todd Daniel Sunday. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalTodd Daniel takes a header into the creek Sunday on his way to the finish line. Michael Kirby/Auburn JournalSport division rider Robert Almarez was the first rider to take on the creek near the finish line Sunday at the Cool Mountain Bike Race in Cool.


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Here's the buck by brother in law took on the first afternoon.
Here are a few pics from our annual Wyoming trip.
Here's the buck I got, he wasn't very wide but had great forks and was real tall.
Here's the buck by brother in law took on the first afternoon.
great job on some beautiful bucks!
Nice deer! Congrats on a successful hunt.
Hunt hard, and trust your instincts
Nice bucks..What part of wyoming?
You guys did good! congrats
Congrats! Makes me wonder what I am doing wrong.
Arise... Kill, Eat! - Acts 10:13
Nice sage country bucks!
I have to ask.. limited quota or general tags?
Arise... Kill, Eat! - Acts 10:13
Those are two very nice bucks!! Congratulations to the both of you.


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|Vote with CSU Extension: Participate in Earth Hour Saturday, March 28
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Join a global effort to reduce your carbon footprint on Saturday, March 28 for one hour starting at 8:30 p.m. What you need to do is so simple: turn your lights off from 8:30-9:30 p.m. to cast your vote for a call to action on climate change and to honor Earth.
Earth Hour began in Sydney, Australia in 2007 with 2.2 million homes and businesses switching off their lights for one hour. In 2008, the movement grew to include 50 million people, along with global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome's Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square.
Australia alone reduced their carbon foot print by 10.2 percent. Their target was to achieve a five percent reduction. In doing this they learned if their commercial sector turned off lights when the buildings were not in use and combined this action with other cost-effective technology, they could reduce lighting emissions by 70 to 80 percent.
By joining this effort and turning off all nonessential lights for one hour, people have begun to see how one small local action can affect the entire planet. It's up to individuals to decide to take further action on a daily basis.
Normally, the public does not associate Extension with participating in our clean energy economy. We are better known for 4-H youth development, agriculture and horticulture as well as family, consumer science educational programs. As a trusted information source on these topics as well as biomass, carbon sequestration, geothermal, solar and wind energy, CSU Extension is leading the way to help reduce carbon footprints.
Working with communities around Colorado on clean energy, CSU Extension has now included in its menu of educational opportunities through the Clean Energy Strategic Initiative Team (CESIT). Seven subcommittees will research and learn relevant information about clean energy industries or opportunities within Extension. The purpose of these groups is to educate both Extension agents and community members at large.
Topic areas for the seven subcommittees include: solar, wind, biomass and biofuels, geothermal and hydropower, homes and community, 4-H and schools, grants and funding.
Help us to help you make a bigger impact in 2009. 538 cities and towns in 75 countries have signed up to turn their lights off. Why not Colorado?
This is yet another way you can make a positive impact doing one small change. Earth Hour has a target of one billion votes for 2009. This is one time when all the small changes we do make a big difference toward a better quality of life on Earth.
To read more on Earth Hour, or to sign-up online, go to www.earthhour.org.


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|Lady Dragons fall to Wray
|Written by Brenda Johnson Brandt
In make-up action rescheduled from Sept. 14, the HHS softball girls traveled to Wray Tuesday, Oct. 1, where they endured two losses, 5-6 and 13-20.
"In the first game, the girls played very tough, and it was difficult to see them come out on the losing side," said coach Ashley Clayton.
"They played the best defensive game of the whole season," added Clayton. She noted they've been emphasizing the need to put what they practice into play during the game and they did this at Wray.
In the second game, the Dragons did a better job adjusting to the pitcher and getting timely hits, said Clayton.
Holyoke 5, Wray 6
Holyoke held an early lead in Game 1 at Wray but lost by one in the seventh inning.
The Dragons put one run on the board in each of the first and third innings to hold a 2-0 lead until the fifth.
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Dell 310-8817 Rail Kit for PowerEdge 1850 / 750 / SC1425 Kit - 1U for 4-Post Versa Rail Rack - Brand New
To help reduce the amount of time required to properly install Dell components into either of the Dell rack cabinets, Dell has created the Dell Rack Mounting Kits. They include the unique-to-Dell VersaRails mounting brackets which are designed to make physical set-up of the hardware faster than ever before. This product is designed for the Dell PowerEdge 2600 Server and PowerVault 775N. This kit is designed for installation into round or square hole (Will require adapters), 4-post cabinet style racks meeting certain specifications.
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Designed for installation into round or square hole, 4-post cabinet style racks
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SnowEx ® Broadcast Spreader
Get a professional-duty broadcast spreader at an entry level price. It
spreads bagged rock salt and pelletized material up to 20 ft. wide. Plus, this walk-behind broadcast spreader includes a heavy-duty transmission and large pneumatic tires for easily pushing over snow, slush and ice. Has a 100-lb. capacity and weighs 25 lbs. empty. USA made.
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text: 45 has very little public land other than the National Forest over on the west side that is not known as antelope country. I would strongly suggest that you immediately contact the G&F Office in Cheyenne and get a list of ranchers that allow hunting with a trespass fee and start making calls. You may not find anyone that can let you on the first week, as you really should have paid attention to the G&F website disclosure and gotten access locked up before you applied for a license in a limited access unit like that. If you don't do as suggested, you are setting yourself up for a big disappointment when you can't find a place to hunt. That happened to me on my first trip out to Wyoming in 92. I've been going out most years since then after learning to be prepared and know exactly where you're going before you head out. Good luck!


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- Gorgeous high-resolution screen
- Fast A4 processor with lots of RAM
- Easy-to-use FaceTime videoconferencing
- 5-megapixel camera takes great stills and good HD video
- Longer battery life than previous iPhones
- Support for iOS 4 features, including multitasking
- Hand placement can disrupt cellular signals
- Glass front and back could prove overly fragile
- Not able to play back HD video to external display
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The iPhone 4 is a major upgrade from its predecessor, the iPhone 3GS, in everything from the camera quality to data speeds.
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Apple iPhone 4 FaceTime video calling is a reality see family and friends while you talk to them. No other phone makes staying in touch so much fun. With a 960x640 resolution in a 3.5-inch screen,text and graphics look crisp and sharp. Use multiple apps at the same time without sacrificing performance or battery life.


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Valencia, Spain (Sports Network) - Towering American John Isner was a
second-round upset victim Wednesday at the Valencia Open.
Rising Belgian David Goffin toppled the fifth-seeded 6-foot-9 Isner 7-6 (7-2),
4-6, 6-4. Isner lost despite uncorking 21 aces in the 2-hour, 12-minute
The first round concluded on Day 4 when Luxembourg's Gilles Muller upset
eighth-seeded Canadian slugger Milos Raonic 7-5, 7-6 (7-1) and reigning
champion Marcel Granollers of Spain handled Czech qualifier Jan Hajek 7-5, 6-4
on the hardcourts at the City of the Arts and Sciences.
Granollers, who beat Argentine Juan Monaco in last year's Valencia finale and
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September 23, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
More evidence of the intrinsic beauty of maths, this time shown in a lovely slideshow from the BBC, narrated by mathematician Lasse Rempe from the University of Liverpool.
Rempe works in the area of dynamical systems: systems that change over time and can be found everywhere from the stockmarket to the weather. In the slideshow, he explains how dynamical systems can be generated from very simple polynomials yet produce extremely complex behaviour, and how these systems can be graphically represented by such beautiful images.
As John Barrow told us in our first image-enhanced Plus podcast Cosmic Imagery, mathematical images such as these have actually been responsible for changing science and how we see the world around us . So sit back with your coffee and enjoy the shows!
You can read more about dynamical systems and mathematics and art on Plus.
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September 18, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
...and yesterday was brought to you by the number 54, thanks to the Mathematical Association of America's NumberADay blog. Every working day they post a number and a biography of its interesting properties.
Today's number 11,185,272 is the number of decimal digits in the 46th known Mersenne prime, discovered on Sept. 6, 2008 (you can read more in Prime record broken? on Plus).
54 might seems less significant, but in fact thanks to the MAA Plus now knows that it is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of 3 squares in 3 ways, the number of colored squares on a Rubik's cube, and is a nonadecagonal (19-gonal) number!
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September 16, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
It's lunchtime, and I'm waiting in the cafe queue to buy a sandwich along with everyone else. What a lot of sandwiches... Imagine if everyone piled their sandwiches one on top of another... I wonder how high the mighty tower of sandwiches might be? Let's see... 60 million people in the UK, say 1 in 8 is having a sandwich right now, each sandwich might be about 3cm thick including filing, so that's... over 200km high!
You might say I'm thinking too much about sandwiches, but I'm actually exercising my number sense. Which, along with allowing me to make quick guesses about how big things are or how many there might be, also might be helping me get better at calculus and algebra. Researchers Michèle Mazzocco, Lisa Feigenson and Justin Halberda, from John Hopkins University, have shown that being good at formal mathematics is linked to having a good innate number sense. See, I'm not waiting in the sandwich queue, I'm studying!
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September 11, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
As sporting glories continue in Beijing with the Paralympics taking up where the Olympics left off, many of us have marvelled at the architecture almost as much as at the sporting achievements. One of the Olympic venues, the National Aquatic Centre or Water Cube, seems to be sliced from a giant foam of bubbles, and it turns out mathematics is responsible for this amazing structure.
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September 10, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
You can come out now, it's safe...
Well it's official, the first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has safely made its way around the 27km tunnel at around 1030 this morning, local time. It was a historic moment, the culmination of over 20 years' work building the biggest experiment the world has seen, and one that many hope will give us a glimpse into the beginnings of the universe and give experimental evidence to long-held theories fundamental to physics.
"It's a fantastic moment," said LHC project leader Lyn Evans, "we can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the universe."
Starting up a major new particle accelarator takes much more than just flipping a switch. Thousands of individual elements have to work in harmony and timings have to be synchronized to under a billionth of a second. The second beam was fired at around 2pm local time, and is now making its way around in the opposite direction. Over the next few weeks, as the people at the LHC learn how to drive their new toy, they will steer the two beams, finer than a human hair, into a head-on collision. It will be these collisions that will allow the research programme to begin properly.
Once colliding beams have been established, there will be a period of measurement and calibration for the LHC's four major experiments, and new results could start to appear in about a year's time. Experiments at the LHC will allow physicists to complete a journey that started with Newton's description of gravity. Gravity acts on mass, but so far science is unable to explain the mechanism that generates mass. Experiments at the LHC will provide the answer. LHC experiments will also try to probe the mysterious dark matter of the universe – visible matter seems to account for just 4% of what must exist, while about a quarter is believed to be dark matter. They will investigate the reason for nature's preference for matter over antimatter, and they will probe matter as it existed at the very beginning of time.
"The LHC is a discovery machine," said CERN Director General Robert Aymar, "its research programme has the potential to change our view of the Universe profoundly, continuing a tradition of human curiosity that's as old as mankind itself."
You can read more about the LHC and the science it is exploring on Plus
PS. Oh and for the science-scaredy-cats, you can come out from under the bed for now, no black holes have been created as of yet!
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September 8, 2008
Monday, September 08, 2008
How long will you live? How should you write down numbers? Who's your ideal partner? How good is our voting system? And what is a differential equation? These are difficult and momentous questions. This issue of Plus has some answers, along with a tour of digital art and the usual range of podcasts, news and reviews.
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We are releasing two new podcast episodes in conjunction with the stories in this issue. See the podcast page, or go directly to
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(MILITARY TIMES) -- The B-52 is celebrating a big birthday this year - 60 - but unlike humans who feel the aches and pains of aging, the aircraft remains a premiere bombing machine that is expected to continue giving bad guys a real bad day through the 2040s, thanks to yet another upgrade.
"It's a purely awesome machine," said Senior Master Sgt. Daniel Dutton, B-52 command fleet manager for Global Strike Command. "It's hard to put into words how well this aircraft was built and how well it's been maintained over the last 50 or 60 years by our guys - out here on the flight line or deployed, it doesn't matter."
The bomber can carry nukes or provide close-air support by obliterating anyone shooting at U.S. troops, as it has in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
"When people ask, 'What kind of armament, what kind of weapons can this thing carry?' we basically say, 'Well, pretty much the U.S. arsenal' - granted the air-to-air role isn't quite there yet," said Col. Russell Hart, chief of the bomber operations division at Global Strike Command.
Going forward, the B-52 will get an upgrade to its bomb bay allowing it to carry 40 percent more precision-guided bombs and new radar that can go more than 1,000 hours before it needs to be repaired, versus the current radar, which needs to be worked on after 30 to 50 hours, Global Strike Command officials said.
The B-52's upgrades will also allow smart bombs to receive new targets while the bomber is in flight - a critical capability given the U.S. military's focus on the Pacific region, which requires planes to travel long distances, said Jim Noetzel of Global Strike Command's bomber requirements division.
In fiscal 2012, the mission-capable rate for the B-52H was 78.3 percent even though the bomber's average age is 50.8 years - blowing the doors off the B-1B's 56.8 percent mission-capable and the B-2A's 51.3 percent mission-capable rate.
Officials credit well-trained B-52 maintainers for the bomber's longevity and its high mission-capable rate.
"There's 1,000 people every day that are monitoring fleet health from the airmen on the line to folks here at the program office to the engineers at Tinker [Air Force Base, Okla.] and the program office," said Lt. Col. Mark Riselli, branch chief of the weapons system team at Global Strike Command.
Since it first entered service in April 1952, the B-52 has been updated numerous times, replacing much of the original technology that is now obsolete, such as vacuum tubes, Riselli said.
"We've had ... years to learn the aircraft and get it right, and the key is to refurbish it at depot every four years," he said.


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What's Brett Favre's record on polypropylene?
As you know, it is redundant to say that the Green Bay Packers will be playing this weekend on the "frozen tundra" of Lambeau Field ("tundra" means permanently frozen earth).
In fact, it's not even natural tundra. Or at least not 100 percent natural.
The playing surface at Lambeau Field is a "DD GrassMaster" hybrid of natural grass and indestructible blades of synthetic fiber. The manufacturer, Desso DLW Sports Systems, says it is about 97 percent natural grass and 3 percent polypropylene.


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ATHENS, Ga. -- Athens-Clarke County police say nearly a dozen homes near the University of Georgia were burglarized during winter break.
Police responded to a rash of burglaries that were reported after Dec. 14 - after many students left campus for winter break.
Police say burglars pried open windows, back doors and basement doors and stole electronics, jewelry, purses and cash, among other items.
Authorities say in one case, a burglar removed a birth certificate from a box and left it atop a bed. Police are unsure if the suspect took a photo of the document for identity theft purposes.


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Howard "Howie" Linstrand
Howard "Howie" Linstrand, 85, of Le Mars, formerly of Maple Lake, Minnesota passed away Saturday, June 2, 2012 at the Good Samaritan Society in Le Mars, Iowa.
His funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Brunsville, Iowa with Pastor Ben Worley officiating. Interment with military honors provided by the Herren-McHale-Wilken American Legion Post of Brunsville will be at Memorial Cemetery in Le Mars. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. until service time at the church. Arrangements are with the Carlsen Funeral Home of Le Mars. Expressions of sympathy can be extended to the family through www.carlsenfuneralhome.com.
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55th Annual Grammy Awards: Fun., Black Keys And Mumford & Sons Among Big Winners
By Mack Rawden 3 years ago
Years ago, voters for the Grammy Awards used to almost always default to the more established act. Consequently, the ceremony acquired a reputation of only honoring artists well after their primes, but in recent years, the pendulum has switched the other way. Now voters are far more open to choosing up and comers, which is why emerging acts such as Frank Ocean, Fun. And Carly Rae Jepsen might actually have a shot at walking away with some hardware this year.
Todays ceremony has already been underway for hours thanks to the incredible number of musical genres the powers that be recognize, but fortunately for viewers, the more popular categories are starting to get handed out. Were watching the ceremony live here at Cinema Blend headquarters; so, well update the winners live as theyre announced.
You can take a look at some of the bigger categories listed below. Winners are bolded and written in red
Record Of The Year:
The Black KeysLonely Boy
Kelly ClarksonStronger (What Doesnt Kill You
Fun. Featuring Janelle MonaeWe Are Young
Gotye Featuring KimbraSomebody That I Used To Know
Frank OceanThinkin Bout You
Taylor SwiftWe Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Album Of The Year:
The Black Keys--El Camino
Fun.--Some Nights
Mumford & Sons--Babel
Frank Ocean--Channel Orange
Jack White--Blunderbuss
Song Of The Year:
The A Team
Call Me Maybe
Stronger (What Doesnt Kill You)
We Are Young
Best New Artist:
Alabama Shakes
Hunter Hayes
The Lumineers
Frank Ocean
Best Pop Solo Performance:
AdeleSet Fire To The Rain
Kelly ClarksonStronger (What Doesnt Kill You)
Carly Rae JepsenCall Me Maybe
Katy PerryWide Awake RihannaWhere Have You Been
Best Pop Duo/ Group Performance
Florence & The MachineShake It Out
Fun. Featuring Janelle MonaeWe Are Young
Gotye Featuring KimbraSomebody That I Used To Know
LMFAOSexy And I Know It
Maroon 5 & Wiz KhalifaPayphone
Best Rock Performance:
Alabama ShakesHold On
The Black KeysLonely Boy
ColdplayCharlie Brown
Mumford & SonsI Will Wait
Bruce SpringsteenWe Take Care Of Our Own
Best Rock Album:
The Black Keys--El Camino
Coldplay--Mylo Xyloto
Muse--The 2nd Law
Bruce Springsteen--Wrecking Ball
Jack White--Blunderbuss
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Goodguys Great Northwest Nats Spokane - In Limbo At Lilac CityWritten by Chris Shelton on February 1, 2012 Goodguys Great Northwest Nats has been on the cusp of greatness for years. What does it take to put it over the edge?
I should get excited when I'm paid to go to car shows but I admit I wasn't exactly gleeful when I heard I was to cover Goodguys Great Northwest Nationals in Spokane. On one hand it was a blessing; I have lots of pals in Spokane and every year I use the show as a good reason to visit them. And to be fair the event is pretty good: it attracts a number of feature-worthy cars. But would it attract enough cars to warrant full-blown coverage, much less a Painless Performance Products/Street Rodder Top 100 selection?
Mine weren't the only reservations. Goodguys established the show 10 years ago and for just about as long Spokane locals have pondered its fate. You see, Spokane is a neat-looking oasis in the middle of pretty much nowhere, a way station rather than a destination. That isn't a critique, mind you; the city owes its existence to its proximity to really remote industrial areas. Case in point, investment by Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Great Northern, and Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific railroads once made Spokane one of the country's most critical junctions. In fact the city's 600,000 residents make it quite a populated place.
Unfortunately, you'd have to cast a net several hundred miles wide to double that figure, which is really necessary to underwrite a good event. Denver, for example, has effectively the identical population as Spokane, however, the metro area has 1.9 million more people. What's more, west Colorado and most of Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, and parts of Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico are within half a day's driving distance of the Denver Metro area.
But unless one lives in the immediate area, attending an event in Spokane is a fair bit of investment. For comparison, the Colorado Nats get about 2,000 cars. Spokane gets a bit more than half of that and somehow I recall that the threat of rain last year or the year prior seemed to discourage even more potential attendees. What's worse, since so many come from so far away they often leave early on Sunday or even Saturday night, if only to get home early enough to rest up for the upcoming week. People simply flee the grounds on Saturday afternoon.
This sort of played on my nerves. It may seem fun at face value but selecting Top 100 cars is a real chore; to do it properly means striking a balance among early, late, high-tech, traditional, big-budget, and low-cost cars. Would I have the luxury of that variety? Anticipating the worst, I actually began scouting cars at the Pacific Northwest Nationals in Puyallup. And if I were to find 10 cars worthy of Top 100 status at Spokane would their owners stick around for the Sunday awards ceremony? For that matter would they stick around on Saturday night if I wanted to shoot their cars?
I wouldn't quite call it surprised but I was certainly relieved by this year's turnout. The event was—at least based on my experience over the past few years—the best I'd seen. And I wasn't alone, either. Attendees often judge events on where they had to park, a big deal if the promoter doesn't pay attention to the grounds. Most people I spoke to were enthusiastic about this year's event and even their parking places. And enthusiasm is sort of a consumer-confidence index; people are happy if they feel they got their money's worth.
But that's not to say there isn't room for improvement. One thing that the Great Northwest Nats lacks is a center. Pleasanton, for example, has a really pretty main street lined with cafes and shops that fill up as the fairground empties. The fairground crowd hardly disperses at night during the Pacific Northwest Nats in Puyallup. Specifically Saturday night, attendees stick around well beyond the official operating hours. Goodguys capitalizes on it by hiring entertainment.
But which comes first, the crowd to entertain or entertainment to draw the crowd? Certainly the framework already exists; a kickoff party happens at a restaurant … in another state. It's only about half an hour away but it doesn't exactly foster a sense of place around the show. Goodguys hosts a TGIF party at the host hotel, which is admittedly pretty good but that's on Friday night and it's clear across town. Unfortunately there's nothing on Saturday. A group that finds a way to capitalize on that captive audience stands to profit greatly. Shops at other venues have figured this sort of thing out. Something more than just a show needs to exist to give people something to look forward to if they're going to stay out of town all weekend.
So does the Great Northwest Nats have potential? Of course it does. It draws enthusiasts from as far north as Edmonton, Rapid City, and Phoenix if you can believe it. The diversity of the cars those people bring proves that the show does indeed attract quality, too. But without our enthusiasm and most importantly our attendance, potential is all this show will have. It's really up to us to make it happen but a little more incentive would be nice.
So if you're on the fence next year, take a chance, if only for my sake. At the very least I need a good excuse to visit my pals in the Spokane area. And a really cool show to attend is a great bonus that any of us can live with.
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B/Gas survivor? Nope, Dan Ray just built this '57 Vette to look that way. The 327 (now 331) has lots of pop and boasts a Super T-10 and a tach-drive Vertex mag for the Jones tach among other things. He achieved the stance with a C-channel spacer between the frame and crossmember. The Ansens wear Moroso DS-2s and Radir 8.20-15 slicks.For years people told me how easily Chevrolets fit in early Studebakers. Well according to Kim and Chris Kussler's '53, a 360 Chrysler fits just as well. A Mustang II, Newport Engineering wiper conversion, and Corvette-style buckets suggest this is a real driver.Speaking of Studes, lay your eyes on this dry, original-paint, V-8-powered '54 hardtop. The inland northwest's dry climate preserves such jewels. Reportedly this one sold for $3,500 but because we were the ones who didn't get it for that price we hope it's just a lie.Our pal Len Bush always lusted for a '39 convertible sedan so when this one turned up he sacrificed his prized '36 sedan to get it. He found the skirts, filled the hole in the pillar with another spotlight, and pulled a few rear leaves. Our other pal Chris Swenson probably put more miles on it than anyone else over the weekend.As a kid Kalispell's Mark Colby lusted for Dick Hampton's T-bucket. Scott Young built the car in 1967 and typical for pre-catalog times he made or adapted rather than bought parts, such as the hairpins made from steel yokes. It runs a long-ram 413 manifold on an impressive-sounding 440. The car came with several sets of N.O.S. Michelin and Firestone Big Jelony tires.Mary and Joe Wallace's '59 Impala walks a similarly fine line, this one between the custom car and lowrider worlds. The drop-top boasts a Tri-power 348, a pearl orange finish, pearl white trim, air springs, skirts, and a continental kit.The Homebuilt Heaven corral is always a treat when it's stocked with cars like Jerad and Leann Marzano's '50 Tudor. The shoebox underwent a one-year transformation and its presence proves it more than worthy of the trip from Puyallup.Brian and Vicki Osborn should name their channeled Deuce coupe Rip, as in Van Winkle. Its plates indicate its registration expired in 1968. It runs a healthy-looking early Olds and tons of plating, including on the entire '46-48 front suspension. Even the tires—triple red stripes on the rear—survived the slumber. Unfortunately, the green flake paint didn't but we'd preserve it just the same.
Jim and Kris Sooter exercised great restraint when they chopped their Model 40 Fordor. They followed it with a good dose of taste by finishing it in rich dark metallic green with tobacco-colored leather and wood-grained garnishes. The '34 sports a California Kid–style nerf bar, ET III wheels, and a 327.Our skirts blew up every time we laid eyes on Brad Gortsema's '63 Ford Unibody pickup. He and his pop, Rich (who brought an equally cool '68 Chevy with C4 Vette suspension), built it with a 350 of a different stripe: Buick. A Fatman Mustang II crossmember, a GM tilt column, and color-coordinated bedliner makes it useful; lots of detail make it easy on the eyes.Jusdin Lynch, Othello, ID / '34 Dodge pickup Few pickups have been as handsome as the ones Dodge built from 1933-38. Spokane's Whipple Motorsports capitalized on the car-like proportions by chopping the grille shell and relocating the headlights. This one rides on a boxed stock frame with a Mustang II IFS and a Ford 8.8-inch axle. Air springs make the 18- and 20-inch Budniks tuck beautifully. Chris Ledger applied the astonishingly handsome PPG Lion's Mane paint.Russ Freund, Post Falls, ID / '25 Ford roadster It may have been an AMBR contender but Russ Freund originally built his Flathead-powered bucket as a roller from spare parts and sold it to finance another project. He later bought it back and built it entirely at home—he even painted it with affordable Martin-Senour paint! Dave Swenson built the 59A. George Frank trimmed it. To prove it's not a dandy Freund spun donuts for Goodguys' Kirk Jones, blowing off the radiator hoses in the process!Andy Barchek, Bremerton, WA / '36 Ford Tudor sedan It's probably easier to say what Andy Barchek didn't do to his DeLuxe sedan: he chopped and sectioned it, denuding the rear of the touring-car bustle it once had. Its power is unique: a Yamaha-developed 3.0 V-6 from a Ford Taurus SHO against a T-5. As demanding as this car was to build, Barchek did everything except paint and trim.Wayne Darby, Richmond, BC, Canada / '66 Chevy II With all the gasser-inspired cars roaming the earth it's easy to overlook even the good ones. Not this one. The Hilborn stacks on the 427 are quite a spectacle. So are the four sticks for the Lenco—yes, Lenco—transmission. And it's built to run hard, too, with a full frame and rollcage. He moved both axles forward 3 inches for weight transfer.Josh Scott, Spokane, WA / '41 Ford pickup Some of the neatest cars and trucks evolve slowly rather than simply show up all done. That's Josh Scott's '41. It runs a 59A Flathead against a '39 transmission and rides on chromed '42-48 Mercury wheels with Firestones. He built it while running his own vintage shop, raising kids, and building bicycles and a '60 Chevy wagon.Dusty and Dawn Smith, Spokane, WA / '48 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Sport Coupe We dig this car for the way it looks but love it for how it was built: at home and on a budget using available parts, ingenuity, and help from friends. It's all tried-and-true parts: 350/350 combo, Mustang II, and 10-bolt axle. The 20-inch wires were a friend's castoffs. The once-gold spokes were rusty so Dusty meticulously sanded and painted them. The Smiths put on the Spokane Auto/Boat Speed Show.Tina and Mark Colby, Kalispell, MT / '55 Plymouth Belvedere Tina Colby's magenta pearl Mayflower started out as Lloyd Turner's only he sadly died right after he finished it. She honors him by driving it almost daily. And drive it does: it has a Camaro subframe, radial whitewalls, a TH350 trans, and a 350 Chevrolet with special shrouds that take Chrysler Hemi rocker covers.
Bud Wolfe, Graham, WA / '60 Edsel roadster If you've never seen a '60 Edsel you're not alone: Ford made only 2,846. Bud Wolfe's started as 1 of 777 sedans. He lopped the top off, chopped the windshield, leaned it back, and fabricated the slick tonneau and speedster windows. Gone is the Y-block; in its place a dual-quad 429.John and Sheila Emacio, Chattaroy, WA / '56 Chevrolet Nomad Would you believe the guy who originally built this Nomad didn't like it? It has an LS-6 against a T-56 transmission on an Art Morrison chassis. The only thing that rivals the flawless finish is the tasteful interior, a combination of modern matte-finish leather and OEM-style cloth. About the only thing they've done to the car are the Schott wheels and drive it.Ralph and Barbara Carlaw, Kelowna, BC, Canada / '63 Buick Invicta A car needn't be outlandish to be a Top 100. In fact, the Carlaws' Invicta, with its fridge-white paint and blue interior, is quite understated. But it also runs a pumped-up 401 and a 700-R4, late bucket seats, a tilt column with a billet wheel, and Intro wheels. The RideTech elevation control system gives the car the right altitude and attitude for every occasion.


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|Release Date: February 11, 2000
|Running Time: 120 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
|Box Office: $39,778,599.00
|Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Leonardo DiCaprio
Virginie Ledoyen
Tilda Swinton
Robert Carlyle
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Summary:In an age when all sensation seems to come digitally via the cell phone, video screen, pager and Internet, a young American backpacker named Richard yearns to experience something real. Arriving in Thailand with adventure on his mind, Richard rents a cheap hotel room in Bangkok where he meets an alluring French couple and Daffy, an old traveler ravaged by years of sun and drug abuse. Rambling and paranoid, Daffy tells Richard a tale of a secret island which he claims is a real paradise on Earth. The next day Richard finds a hand-drawn map pinned to his door of the island decribed by Daffy. When he seeks out Daffy, he finds him dead with his wrists slashed. Richard promptly persuades the... Full Summary >>


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Of the words I've discussed on this site, the word Viking may have one of the more perplexing etymologies. It's not a simple case of "origin unknown;" we have pretty good of evidence about where the word comes from, only that evidence doesn't point to where one would expect. The word's origin seems like it should be straightforward—a borrowing from the Old Norse vikingr—but that's not the origin. And to make matters more complex, our modern use of the word is a nineteenth-century revival of a word that had long since passed out of our vocabulary.Read the rest of the article...
Word Crimes
"Weird Al" Yankovic has a new video that's making the rounds. It's Word Crimes, a parody of Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines. It's very clever (despite the "cunning linguist" chestnut; that ancient pun was only mildly amusing upon first hearing and just plain not funny subsequently; no self-respecting comedian should use it), but it's also very wrong. Many of the "errors" that Yankovic descries are not wrong at all.
The things that Yankovic doesn't understand about English:
- Less used to modify count nouns is perfectly acceptable
- I could care less is correct; it's an idiom and doesn't have to be logical (hint: acceptable usage is never determined by logic)
- Innovative abbreviations are okay; what's important is that the message gets across
- Whom is dying; using who in its place is okay in most contexts
- Good can be an adverb too
- Literally has a figurative meaning too
In short, Weird Al is exposing himself as a peever, someone who doesn't understand that:
- Language changes
- There is no single "correct" style that works in all cases; different contexts call for different styles and diction
- Use determines what is "correct," not arbitrary rules or logic
There's a place for artful, well-written English prose, but this kind of peeving has never led to better English, and when it's wrong—as in this case—it tends to lead to stilted, poorly written prose.
Still, it's an amusing and well-constructed parody.
Word Origins Quiz
Medievalists.net has this twenty-question quiz that asks you to guess whether words come from Old English or not. Try it out.
(I got twenty out of twenty. Any less would have been embarrassing.)
The Future of the Crossword Puzzle
The Atlantic has a solid article on the subject. Unlike many articles of its ilk, this one actually sensibly discusses the differences between digital and paper puzzles. (The chief difference as it relates to the future of crosswords is demographics.) And while the lead paragraph discusses the "impending print collapse," it's specifically talking about the collapse of print newspapers (which is a real thing) and not the collapse of print in general (which isn't).*
Personally, I solve the New York Times crossword on my iPad. Unlike the users cited by the article, I think the new version of the app is a godsend. The old version was buggy and never worked properly. I've yet to experience problems, beyond the usual adjustment to a new interface, with the new one. And even the new interface wasn't a major issue. Unlike most user interface redesigns, this one changed only the things that were clumsy, clunky, or didn't make sense. There was no moving controls around or changing what icons look like just for the sake of doing so. I was shocked at the $40 annual price tag though. Last time I re-upped my subscription it was $17. Given that much less expensive crossword apps are available, I'm not sure I'll pay $40 when it comes around again, which should be in a few weeks.
* I'm not saying that the digital technologies won't shake up the market for what content appears in print, just that paper is not going to disappear, i.e., "collapse." After all, we still have radio some 60+ years after the advent of television. Plus the collapse of newspapers really has little to do with the internet. The problem is aging demographics and lifestyles—a trend that was solidly in place before public access to the internet became a thing—and the mountain of debt that media companies assumed through consolidation and mergers and acquisitions. Newspapers remain tremendously profitable cash cows, but all the profits now go into servicing the debt of their parent companies.
voluntary, volunteer
The adjective voluntary has a rather straightforward etymology. It comes from the Latin voluntarius, meaning willing, of one's own choice, via the Old French voluntaire. The Latin noun voluntas means will or desire.Read the rest of the article...
Ur-etyma Count
Linguist Victor Mair has a post over at Language Log on how many root-concepts appear in Proto-Indo-European and other language families. Mair concludes that there are only some 1,200–1,500 root concepts in each of the language families that are used to form other words.
There are a lot of problems with the data, which Mair acknowledges, primarily that the number can vary wildly depending on how one defines what a root-concept is, not to mention that any detailed work on proto-languages is highly speculative. He is conducting a "back of the envelope" estimate, and we must be careful not to put too much faith in the data. Still, it's an interesting result.
The 1,200–1,500 figure is a plausible one. There is an upper limit to the number of roots and words that can exist in a language at any given time—our human brains are limited. And that number of roots seems about right to support the standard vocabulary counts we find in languages.
I'd like to see someone do a similar, albeit more rigorous, study using modern languages.
Tolkien's Beowulf
When I heard the news that J. R. R. Tolkien's translation of Beowulf was to be published, edited by his son Christopher, I was excited. (Counting this one, I own nine different editions of the poem.) Tolkien, most famous for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was also a noted scholar of Old English, so an edition of the famous Anglo-Saxon poem by him carries some rather high expectations. But when I learned that it was a prose translation he completed in 1926, I became somewhat more cautious in my expectations.
Tolkien, J. R. R., Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2014, hardcover, $21.17*
If We Won
This ad for Newcastle Brown Ale plays off the differences between American and British swearing. The analysis is, as you might expect from a beer commercial, anything but deep, but it makes you think about how Americans might talk if the British had won the war for independence. (Actually, probably not all that differently. After all, Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders don't sound British.)
This video is NSFW for mild British swearing.
undermine, mine
To undermine something is to destroy it through some surreptitious means, to subvert it, and undermine is one of those words whose etymology is readily apparent by examining its constituent elements, under + mine, a reference to the military tactic of digging under the walls of a fortification in order to collapse them. But the word is first recorded in its figurative sense in the South English Legendary, a medieval collection of saint's lives. The manuscript in which it appears was copied prior to 1325 and the particular version was written around 1280:
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ȝif þe hosebonde wiste þe tyme [...] Whanne þe þeof wolde come, wake he wolde ffor to him ffounde And nolde him soffry nou3t his hous to vndermyne.
(If the husband knew the time [...] when the thief would come, he would wake to find him. And he would not suffer his house to be undermined.)
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Don't forget that a lot of that profit was from currency translation as the Bank of Japan pushed the value of the yen down dramatically.
Put that $9 billion in annual worldwide profit in perspective. Compare how much we got in the way of jobs and trucks for that profit of a few billion compared to our government spending $800 billion on stimulus in 2009 alone that according to several studies ended up accomplishing almost nothing. The only good part of what they spent, and it was in a different bill, was the money they loaned GM to keep them in business.


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by Joseph Miller, EON Product Manager, Business Wire Austin
Business Wire's distribution and technology products have evolved considerably throughout the years (we're celebrating our 50th anniversary next year!).
With the advent of Internet distribution and other standards along with prolific creation of digital media such as photos and videos, we've been quick to adopt multimedia distribution solutions along with more traditional "text" distribution of our press releases. Today, we distribute hundreds, if not thousands, of releases with attached photos or videos every week.
And while it will likely always be true that journalists do not prefer to be bombarded with attachments, a succinct release with links to relevant multimedia and related resources can be extremely useful in telling your stories. This is especially true as newsrooms continue to evolve and journalists across the world are being asked to do more with less every day.
With that said, let's get on to the data! Thinking of the impact multimedia has on release performance, we recently examined data from our internal NewsTrak reports across all Business Wire releases year to date. One metric we examined was the Top 500 releases based on "release reads", an analog to page views, of each release. Of the top 500, a full 23% of our Top 500 releases include multimedia (photos & videos beyond logos), while only 5% of all releases include multimedia.
From this, we can conclude that including multimedia greatly increases your chances of distributing a "hit release."
Beyond that, we looked at the average number of release reads across all releases. Once we segmented out releases with and without multimedia, we found that the average release with multimedia has received 1.7 times more release reads than those without.
So there you have it. If you want to increase the odds of your press releases outperforming their peers, it's a great idea to add multimedia.


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The Holy Nativity Episcopal School in Panama City grew a bit.
School officials cut the ribbon on a new portable building to accommodate 5th grade classes. The totally renovated building houses 2-classrooms.
While preparing the site for the building, construction crews ran across a time capsule buried by the 1997 – 1998 5th grade class.
Most everyone had forgotten about the capsule buried underground. Everyone was anxious to see what was inside. The former students had filled it with stories and pictures. The particular classes who buried the capsule had recently visited Washington and New York.
Students seemed most amused by the clothing styles of the mid to late 1990s.
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(WUSA) -- Dulles International Airport celebrates its 50th anniversary of service on Saturday. The airport, which was built to be the United State's first facility to handle commercial jetliners, opened on Nov. 17, 1962. President John F. Kennedy stood outside the Airport Traffic Control Tower for the official dedication. say airport authorities.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower picked the location for the airport in 1958 and construction began in September of that year. Architect Eero Saarinen designed the original 600-by-200-foot structure, which featured two parallel runways and one crosswind runway. Room was left for more runways to be added in the future.
Airport authorities say the idea of a "mobile lounge," which takes passengers from the terminal to their plane and reduces walking distance for passengers, was introduced at Dulles Airport.
In the 1980s, more than 10 million passengers were using the airport and a midfield terminal was built to accommodate the growth. Officials say that growth continued to accelerate when Dulles was transferred from the federal government to the new Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. MWAA used $1.5 billion to expand the main terminal, build midfield concourses, add cargo facilities and other features.
By 2000, more than 20 million passengers were served at Dulles. MWAA took on additional projects including adding two new daily parking garages, underground connectors with moving walkways, a fourth runway, new gates in the Main Terminal and Concourse B and a new airport traffic control tower. In 2011, the airport served more than 23 million passengers.
This weekend, hundreds of public officials, aviation industry leaders and airport employees will mark the 50th anniversary of Washington Dulles International Airport. On Friday night, a gala will take place in the Main Terminal to commemorate the airport's evolution.


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The Mount Sopris and South Side Conservation Districts will kick off their 60th year anniversary at Ag Day at the New Castle Community Center on Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 9:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. with a drawing for a free day rental of the no-till drill.
A few of the topics scheduled to be discussed are Reed grass, a new noxious weed, agritourism, hydro and solar power and snow survey technology.
Mike Kishimoto will prepare his famous barbecue, so lunch reservations are required. Call Sharie at the district office by Jan. 18 at 945-5494, ext. 105.
LAKEWOOD - Colorado growers can market their products to consumers through the 29th annual Colorado Farm Fresh directory. Listings are being accepted for the 2013 edition.
Published by the Colorado Department of Agriculture, Farm Fresh promotes Colorado farmers markets, roadside stands, u-picks, Community Supported Agriculture producers, agritourism activities and farms and ranches that sell directly to the public.
More than 100,000 copies of the publication will be distributed in June through libraries, extension offices, bookstores, farmers markets, welcome centers, chambers of commerce and other businesses. Along with the printed directory, the directory will also be available on the Colorado Department of Agriculture's website, www.coloradoagriculture.com.
The fee to be included in the directory is $25 and the deadline is Feb. 15. For more information or to request a listing form, contact Loretta Lopez, email@example.com, (303) 239-4115 or visit www.coloradoagriculture.com.


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Hello. Here's a weird one. My Zimbra 7.1.1_GA_3196 (build 20110527001604) server recently needed a new certificate so I installed a new starfield certificate using the admin GUI and happily it actually worked*!
So everything on Zimbra's side is working fine, the problem is now my Android 2.2 phone does not accept the new starfield root certificate so now I cannot send outgoing mail!! The only options are to view/continue/cancel when going through the settings. View shows the cert issue. Continue just goes on forever with new windows asking the same "view/continue/cancel" and cancel just leaves me where I started.
So really this is something best posted on an Android forum, but I thought I'd check here too in case anyone else has had this issue and found a solution to it.
* previous certificates would not install from the GUI and I always ended up having to install them via cmd line. This time it was nice and simple!


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