The Super Bowl Loser 49ers Still Win in, Say, Chad

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Donated T-shirts hailing the New England Patriots as "Super Bowl Champions, 19-0'' in Nicaragua in 2008" src="http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2013-02-01/0201-super-bowl-clothes-630x420.jpg" /><br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.383333206176758px;">Donated T-shirts hailing the New England Patriots as "Super Bowl Champions, 19-0'' in Nicaragua in 2008</span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">By </span><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/authors/52440-scott-bixby" rel="author" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 102, 0); color: #555555; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Scott Bixby</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> on February 04, 2013 From: </span>http://www.businessweek.com<br /><br /><div class="" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing highlights the thrill of victory like tugging on a T-shirt proclaiming your status as Super Bowl champion—or the agony of defeat, if you’re the losing team now holding pre-printed championship merchandise. While the San Francisco 49ers wound up on the wrong end of Sunday’s game, losing to the Baltimore Ravens, the winner will be World Vision, a nonprofit relief organization that will receive more than 100,000 articles of clothing from the National Football League to donate to underdeveloped countries.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NFL rules state that all gear proclaiming the losing squad as Super Bowl victors, including T-shirts, sweatshirts, and ball caps, cannot be sold. For the first 30 Super Bowls, it had to be destroyed after the final whistle. In the 1990s, however, the NFL was approached by World Vision, an evangelical organization with a presence in more than 100 countries, which wanted to take the apparel to places where the outcome of an American football game was less important than keeping warm. So for the past 17 years, the loser’s championship gear has been shipped off to areas World Vision deems to be in greatest need. After Super Bowl XLIV in 2010, children in earthquake-ravaged Haiti donned shirts celebrating the defeated Indianapolis Colts; in 2007, items celebrating the (not) champion Chicago Bears went to Romania and Chad.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The NFL pre-prints about 300 shirts and hats for both Super Bowl contenders to wear in the on-field celebrations immediately following the game. At the same time, sports retailers around the country will be unpacking gear emblazoned with the winning team’s name, logo, mascot, and hometown, while shipping back apparel emblazoned with the sigil of the loser. Back at World Vision’s international distribution center in Pittsburgh, it’s sorted by size, gender, and destination. Sweatshirts go to cold places like Mongolia, T-shirts to warmer areas in sub-Saharan Africa.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">World Vision has struck similar donation deals with Major League Baseball, the NBA, and the NHL, but the postseason NFL is the biggest generator of shirts by far. The league also gets a hefty tax deduction for the donated items, the number of which—depending on the size of the hometowns of the Super Bowl teams—can reach the hundreds of thousands.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And if you’re a fan of the winning squad, forget about adding insult to injury. The NFL has a legal agreement stating that the shirts must never appear for sale online or be sold anywhere in the United States. For this bit of schadenfreude, you’ll have to fly to Zambia.</div></div>

Super Bowl The Super Bowl Loser 49ers Still Win in, Say, Chad

Donated T-shirts hailing the New England Patriots as "Super Bowl Champions, 19-0'' in Nicaragua in 2008 By  Scott Bixby  on Feb...

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Alabama hostage: 5-year-old boy "happy to be home," says family member

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From:http://www.cbsnews.com<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PO6lttqP3UA?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="loc" style="border-right-color: rgb(196, 196, 196); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 0px 0px; float: left; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 900; height: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.07em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 2px 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">MIDLAND CITY, ALA.</span>For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the 5-year-old boy being held hostage in an underground bunker by a menacing, unpredictable neighbor: "Is he free yet?"</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After FBI agents determined that talks with an increasingly agitated Jimmy Lee Dykes were breaking down, they stormed the closet-sized hideout Monday afternoon and freed the kindergartner. The 65-year-old armed captor was killed by law enforcement agents, authorities said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"They did have a camera inside and they were able to observe his movements," says CBS This Morning senior correspondent John Miller. "As they watched him handling the weapon, he was getting more and more irrational."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sheriff Wally Olson said late Monday that Dykes was armed when officers entered the bunker to rescue the child. He said the boy was threatened, but declined to elaborate.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"That's why we went inside - to save the child," he said. " ... It's a relief for us to be able to reunited a mother with her child."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interviewed Tuesday, the boy's great uncle, Berlin Enfinger, told ABC's Good Morning America that the child was relieved to be home after his rescue a day earlier. An FBI Hostage Rescue team launched the rescue attempt after concerns mounted that Dykes was growing more unstable and presented a growing threat to the boy's safety, a U.S. official told CBS News.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He's happy to be home, and he looks good," Enfinger said.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS affiliate <a href="http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2013/feb/04/5-year-old-hostage-doing-well-ar-5522702/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WKRG</a> in Mobile, Ala., reports the boy was reunited with his family just in time: On Wednesday, he celebrates his sixth birthday.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><ul class="arrows gray" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-image: url(http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/cbs/generic/genericSprite.png); background-position: -15px -911px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57567597/alabama-hostage-taker-jimmy-lee-dykes-died-at-cops-hands/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alabama hostage taker Jimmy Lee Dykes died at cops' hands</a></li><li style="background-image: url(http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/cbs/generic/genericSprite.png); background-position: -15px -911px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57567560-504083/alabama-standoff-update-boy-5-safe-kidnapper-dead-in-raid-on-ala-bunker-fbi-says/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FBI: Boy, 5, safe, kidnapper dead, in raid on Ala. bunker</a></li></ul><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost a week after Dykes was accused of <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57567305/town-mourns-for-slain-bus-driver-amid-ala-standoff/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fatally shooting a school bus driver</a> on Jan. 29 and grabbing the child from among a busload of students, authorities were undertaking an extensive investigation of the standoff site — some 100 acres in Midland City where Dykes had built his bunker.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An official in Midland City, citing information from law enforcement, said police had shot Dykes. The official requested anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the investigation into the case that had captured national attention.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But federal authorities were tight-lipped about specifics of how they ended the standoff.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A law enforcement source did not disclose Dykes' motives but said he had issues he had wanted to air and one of them was of an anti-government nature, according to CBS senior investigative producer Pat Milton. The source did not elaborate.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Neighbors said they heard a bang and gunshots, but the FBI wouldn't confirm that. Authorities also kept under wraps exactly how they were able to monitor Dykes and the boy in such a confined space.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We have a big crime scene behind us to process," said Special Agent Steve Richardson of the FBI's office in Mobile. "I can't talk about sources, techniques or methods that we used. But I can tell you the success story is (the boy) is safe."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><a data-assetid="50140354" data-assettypeid="14" data-nodeid="201" data-overlay="1" data-overlayenabled="true" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50140354n" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><br /><div class="storyEmbed" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 4px 20px 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px; zoom: 1;"><br /><br /><br /><figure class="video" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px -32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 40px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><a data-assetid="50140354" data-assettypeid="14" data-nodeid="201" data-overlay="1" data-overlayenabled="true" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50140354n" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="image220" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/02/04/en_0204_miller_220x157.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 140px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;" /></a></figure><br /><div class="meta" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px; z-index: 11;"><a data-assetid="50140354" data-assettypeid="14" data-nodeid="201" data-overlay="1" data-overlayenabled="true" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50140354n" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Play <span style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">VIDEO</span></a></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; color: #202022; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.07em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;"><a data-assetid="50140354" data-assettypeid="14" data-nodeid="201" data-overlay="1" data-overlayenabled="true" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50140354n" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flash bangs used to end Ala. hostage situation</a></h3></div><a data-assetid="50140354" data-assettypeid="14" data-nodeid="201" data-overlay="1" data-overlayenabled="true" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50140354n" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;"></span><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daryle Hendry, who lives about a quarter-mile from the bunker, said he heard a boom Monday afternoon, followed by what sounded like a gunshot. Dykes had been seen with a gun, and officers concluded the boy was in imminent danger, Richardson told reporters.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was not immediately clear how authorities determined the man had a gun.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The boy was reunited with his mother and taken to a hospital to be checked out. Officials have said he has Asperger's syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Richardson said he saw the child at the hospital and he was laughing, joking, eating and "doing the things you'd expect a normal 5- or 6-year-old to do."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The rescue capped a hostage drama that disrupted the lives of many in a tranquil town of 2,400 people set amid peanut farms and cotton fields some 100 miles southeast of the state capital of Montgomery.</div><br /></div>

Alabama hostage Alabama hostage: 5-year-old boy "happy to be home," says family member

From:http://www.cbsnews.com MIDLAND CITY, ALA. For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the ...

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Fall Out Boy reunites after four years to tour and release their fifth studio album

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">By </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Zayda%20Rivera" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" rel="author" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><span itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zayda Rivera</span> </a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - OCTOBER 15: (L-R) Musicians Andy Hurley, Joe Trohman, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy arrive at the "Los Premios MTV 2009" Latin America Awards held at Gibson Amphitheatre on October 15, 2009 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1255093.1360010165!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/falloutboy5f-2-web.jpg" /></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">(L-R) Musicians Andy Hurley, Joe Trohman, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy arrive at the "Los Premios MTV 2009" Latin America Awards held at Gibson Amphitheatre on October 15, 2009, in Universal City, California, before the bands four-year hiatus.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There doesn’t seem to be any actual fallout from Fall Out Boy’s four years off.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As promised, band members <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Pete+Wentz" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Pete Wentz">Pete Wentz</a>, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley are back from their “indefinite hiatus,” announcing Monday that they’ll head out on a reunion tour and release their fifth studio album “Save Rock and Roll” on May 7.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“When we were kids the only thing that got us through most days was music,” FOB said in a statement. “It’s why we started Fall Out Boy in the first place.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kicking off the tour in their hometown Chicago on Monday night the band will continue making stops in the states with shows planned in New York on Tuesday and Los Angeles on Thursday before heading to Europe, <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1701294/fall-out-boy-reunion-tour.jhtml" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">MTV News reported</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The long awaited reunion eases the panic fans felt when the band announced their break in 2009.</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><img alt="FALLOUTBOY5F_1_WEB" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1255094!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/falloutboy5f-1-web.jpg" /></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span><br /><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After a four-year break, Fall Out Boy reunites for a tour and the release of their fifth studio album, 'Save Rock and Roll.'</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s weird because, if you look it up in the dictionary, ‘hiatus’ is a synonym for ‘a break,’” Wentz said in a 2009 MTV interview to clarify rumors that Fall Out Boy was done for good. “We’re on a break that doesn’t have a definite ending. There’s no ending date. I’m making a new term for it: we’re decompressing right now.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The musicians took advantage of their time off: Stump released an R&B-influenced solo album, “Soul Punk,” in 2011, while Wentz performed several shows with Black Cards, the electropop side project he formed.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, Trohman and Hurley joined a hardcore supergroup, The Damned Things, that also included Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano and Every Time I Die’s Josh Newton and Keith Buckley.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fall Out Boy is reuniting in time to release a new album for the 10th anniversary of their 2003 debut, “Take This To Your Grave.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This isn’t a reunion because we never broke up,” the band said in Monday’s statement. “We needed to plug back in and make some music that matters to us. The future of Fall Out Boy starts now.”</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></span></div>

Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy reunites after four years to tour and release their fifth studio album

By  Zayda Rivera   / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (L-R) Musicians Andy Hurley, Joe Trohman, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy arr...

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Lynsi Torres, the 30-Year-Old Owner of In-N-Out

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="byline" itemscope="" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Person" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by <span class="vcard author" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/rpaulas" rel="author" style="border: 0px; color: #085990; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rick Paulas</a>, from: </span>http://www.kcet.org</div><div class="entry-date" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">on <abbr class="published" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="2013-02-04T14:33:58-08:00">February 4, 2013 2:33 PM</abbr></div><div class="entry-date" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><abbr class="published" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="2013-02-04T14:33:58-08:00"><img src="http://www.kcet.org/socal/food/image/assets/innoutsign1-600.jpg" /></abbr></div><div class="entry-date" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><abbr class="published" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="2013-02-04T14:33:58-08:00"><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="mt-image-none entry-image-container" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 5px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="caption" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">In-N-Out | Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/apfriedman/" style="border: 0px; color: #085990; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">apfriedman</a>/Flickr/<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" style="border: 0px; color: #085990; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creative Commons License</a></div></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People have always loved two things: A good mystery, and celebrity gossip. So it only makes sense that when a famous person keeps to his or her own self and refuses to partake in the normal media enticements, an aura of allure and intrigue forms around them. More than their actual accomplishments, it's what makes authors like Thomas Pynchon and J.D. Salinger, or eccentrics like Bobby Fischer or Howard Hughes, as well known as they are: They're famous because they've tried to avoid fame.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The world of fast food has its own reclusive personality, and she is Lynsi Torres, the 30-year-old owner of beloved burger giant In-N-Out.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sure, most owners and CEOs try to maintain a low profile behind their heavy iron gates and PR reps, but they'll pop their heads up every now and then to make a statement or throw a financial magazine an interview bone. But Torres is different. She's media-shy to the point where she will refuse any interview request. Which is what makes <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-04/youngest-american-woman-billionaire-found-with-in-n-out.html" style="border: 0px; color: #085990; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this new profile over at Bloomberg, naming her America's youngest female billionaire, so fascinating</a>. There's so little information about her, that almost <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">any</em> info is news.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Among the most interesting tidbits from the profile:</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- The intriguing ways that the In-N-Out ownership has been passed through the generations. Her grandparents Harry and Esther founded the chain back in 1948. After Harry's death in '76, ownership passed to Rich, who took over the company until his death in a '93 plane crash. Torres's father, Harry Guy, then took over, until <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">his</em> death in '99 from a prescription overdose. This led Esther to return from the shadows and take control until her death in 2006. Torres then took over the company as the sole remaining heir.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Well, she sort of took over then. A family trust didn't really give her "control" control until this year, when she turned 30. Currently she has half-ownership, but will get full custody once she turns 35.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- As rich folks tend to do, she owns a $17.4 million dollar, 16,600 square-foot mansion in Bradbury, California. The house has 7 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, a pool and a tennis court.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Oh yeah, she also races cars. As in, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">she's a race car driver</em>. Torres competes in National Hot Rod Association's Super Gas and Top Sportsman 7 categories which, frankly, I have no idea what that means. But the article goes on to say that she alternates between racing a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda and a 1984 Chevy Camaro. Which all, well, makes her kind of a badass.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Her last name, Torres, is from marriage. (Her husband, Val Torres, Jr., also races cars.)</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Also, her marriage to Torres is her third. She's only 30 years old, it should be once again pointed out.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- She funds a non-profit Christian-based organization Healing Hearts & Nations which,<a href="http://www.healingheartsandnations.org/vision.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #085990; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">according to their website</a>, "offers deep spiritual, mental, emotional and physical support to those living in misery, defeat, and hopelessness" in Africa and India.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Maybe somewhat related, former In-N-Out vice president Richard Boyd sued Torres (then going by the last name of Martinez) because he felt he was fired for not being a "man of God" and refusing to participate in prayer meetings at Torres's home. An out-of-court settlement was reached.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Which is all to say, well, it certainly makes sense that Torres fronts a company known for their "secret menu."</div></abbr></div></div>

In-N-Out Lynsi Torres, the 30-Year-Old Owner of In-N-Out

by  Rick Paulas , from:  http://www.kcet.org on  February 4, 2013 2:33 PM In-N-Out | Photo:  apfriedman /Flickr/ Creative Commons License Pe...

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IRS stands by ID’s for tax preparers amid challenge to its authority

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><ul class="news-info" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #231f20; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 3px 0px 12px;"><li style="border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By Charles S. Clark</li><div> From: http://www.govexec.com</div><div><img src="http://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/upload/2013/02/04/020413taxesGE/medium.jpg" /></div><div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">The Internal Revenue Service will continue requiring tax preparers to obtain a tax identification number, the agency announced Monday, days after the most recent ruling in a case challenging its authority to regulate preparers.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">Monday’s action permits IRS to continue, as tax filing season revs up, to use some 700,000 preparer identification numbers it is already using to monitor performance.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">Under recently departed Commissioner Doug Shulman, the tax agency—urged on by large tax service providers such as H&R Block and Intuit—launched an effort to improve the competence of return preparation services by requiring each to file online for a preparer identification number to allow their work to be tracked as well as enroll in continuing education courses leading to examinations for certification. The goal is to reduce fraud and identify theft.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">Three individual tax preparers objected to the new regulation. They filed a lawsuit brought by the Arlington, Va.-based libertarian Institute for Justice, which argued that the IRS as an administrative agency lacked authority to regulate the profession.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">On Jan. 18, 2013, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg agreed, calling the regulatory scheme “a power grab” and saying IRS shouldn’t pursue the program without a statute from Congress. The agency was enjoined from enforcing its regulatory requirements on return preparers.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">“This is a great outcome for tax preparers nationwide,” said Dan Alban, lead attorney for the three independent tax preparers who had challenged the suit. “It allows them to continue preparing tax returns this tax season without having to get permission from the IRS. This is the best of both worlds—preparers who value the certification can still obtain it, but no tax preparer is forced to get a government permission slip to earn a living.”</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">On Jan. 23, the Justice Department, on behalf of the IRS, filed a request to the judge to suspend the injunction pending an appeal. In response, the district court modified its order, clarifying that the broad order does not apply to IRS’s requirement that preparers obtain identification numbers. The U.S. district judge on Friday softened the Jan. 18 ruling striking down the agency’s broader effort to require preparers to pass exams and be certified.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">“The IRS continues to have confidence in the scope of its authority to administer this program and is working with the Department of Justice to address all options, including a planned appeal,” the agency said in a statement said. IRS also stressed that the ruling does not affect the regulatory practice requirements for certified public Accountants, attorneys, enrolled agents, enrolled retirement plan agents or enrolled actuaries.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">In rejecting Justice’s argument, the judge acknowledged that "shutting down the program would be costly and complex, and such steps would be rendered unnecessary if the court's decision is reversed" on appeal.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">According to Justice’s brief, the IRS return preparer program is “far-reaching, impacting between 600,000 and 700,000 preparers who are responsible for a substantial number of the more than 80 million returns filed each year.” In more than two years of implementation, IRS has established more than 250 testing centers in 50 states.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">“Over 700,000 return preparers have registered with the service, nearly 100,000 return preparers have registered to take the test, and the service has received over $100 million in registration and competency testing user fees,” it said. “To date, the service has spent over $50 million to get the program up and running. Immediately discontinuing the program would result in a substantial disruption to tax administration. Thousands of return preparers who have already submitted their user fees would demand refunds, and the United States would likely face numerous lawsuits – including class action lawsuits.”</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">A “cop on the beat” monitoring competent tax return preparers has long been a goal of the National Association of Enrolled Agents, according to Robert Kerr, the group’s senior director for government relations. Requiring minimal competency rather than merely “the ability to hang out a shingle and fire up the individual tax software you bought at Sam’s Club” is good for three reasons, Kerr said. “It’s pro-taxpayer, it’s good for the profession and it’s good for tax administration,” he said.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">“My people are troubled by increasingly sophisticated taxpayers who go return preparer shopping, looking to save some money even if the return isn’t prepared accurately or even signed,” he said. The IRS is “trying to uphold standards in a world that acknowledges no standards.”</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">Jeffrey Trinca, a longtime Senate tax counsel now a vice president of Van Scoyoc Associates, said the court ruling does raise questions “coming right in the middle of tax season when the IRS is already confronting problems because of the lateness of Congress” in making tax code changes. But the issue of ID numbers “shouldn’t cause confusion,” he said, “because if you don’t have a number by Feb. 4, you shouldn’t be doing tax returns at all.”</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">Trinca views the court’s ruling as unusual, “a district court deciding that the way the IRS administers the tax system on its face can be thrown out in a summary judgment without a trial.” He sees it as likely to be overturned on appeal.</div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 0px;">The $250 or $350 it might cost a preparer to take a course and earn certification is not much of a burden compared with going to law school and passing the bar, Trinca added, noting that the system has already helped IRS track down “bad eggs.” “These unlicensed third-party preparers are a disaster for the system,” Trinca said. “There’s a gigantic amount of fraud.</div></div></ul></div>

IRS tax IRS stands by ID’s for tax preparers amid challenge to its authority

By Charles S. Clark  From: http://www.govexec.com The Internal Revenue Service will continue requiring tax preparers to obtain a tax identif...

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Reconstruction reveals face of England's long lost King Richard III

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From: http://www.foxnews.com<br /><div class="published updated dtstamp" style="background-image: none; display: inline; float: left; padding: 0px 7px 0px 0px; zoom: 1;"><div style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><img alt="Richard III Reconstruction.jpg" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/0/371/Richard%20III%20Reconstruction.jpg" /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;">Feb. 5, 2013: A facial reconstruction of Richard III is unveiled to the media at the Society of Antiquaries, London. On Monday, scientists announced they had rescued the remains of Richard III from anonymity and the monarch's fans hope a revival of his reputation will soon follow.</span><span class="source" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;"> (AP Photo/PA, Gareth Fuller)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><br /><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateline">LEICESTER, England –  </span>On Monday, scientists announced they had rescued the remains of King Richard III -- and now they've put a face to the legend.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">Richard III was king of England, but for centuries he lay without shroud or coffin in an unknown grave, and his name became a byword for villainy. A newly released facial reconstruction reveals what the long lost king would have looked like, with a pageboy haircut, dark hair and prominent eyebrows, and a warm cast to his skin hinting at the good life a king would have enjoyed.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="aside-block" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none;">'It's an interesting face, younger and fuller than we have been used to seeing ... with the hint of a smile.'</blockquote><div style="padding: 0px;">- Phil Stone, chairman of the Richard III Society.</div></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">"It's an interesting face, younger and fuller than we have been used to seeing, less careworn, and with the hint of a smile," said Phil Stone, chairman of the Richard III Society. "He's a man who lived. Indeed, when I looked him in the eye, 'Good King Richard' seemed alive and about to speak. At last, it seems, we have the true image of Richard III - is this the face that launched a thousand myths?'</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">The reconstruction project was led by Caroline Wilkinson, professor of craniofacial identification at the University of Dundee. It was commissioned and funded by the Richard III Society.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">"It was a great privilege for us all in the Dundee team to work on this important investigation," Wilkinson said in a statement. "His facial structure was produced using a scientific approach, based on anatomical assessment and interpretation, and a 3D replication process known as stereolithography. The final head was painted and textured with glass eyes and a wig, using the portraits as reference, to create a realistic and regal appearance."</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">A team of archaeologists, geneticists, genealogists and other scientists from the University of Leicester announced Monday tests that proved what they scarcely dared to hope -- a scarred and broken skeleton unearthed under a drab municipal parking lot was that of the 15th-century king, the last English monarch to die in battle.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">Lead archaeologist Richard Butler said that a battery of tests proved "beyond reasonable doubt" that the remains were the king's.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">Lin Foxhall, head of the university's school of archaeology, said the discovery "could end up rewriting a little bit of history in a big way."</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">Few monarchs have seen their reputations decline as much after death as Richard III. He ruled England between 1483 and 1485, during the decades-long battle over the throne known as the Wars of the Roses, which pitted two wings of the ruling Plantagenet dynasty -- York and Lancaster -- against one another.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">His brief reign saw liberal reforms, including the introduction of the right to bail and the lifting of restrictions on books and printing presses.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">But his rule was challenged, and he was defeated and killed by the army of Henry Tudor, who took the throne as King Henry VII and ended the Plantagenet line. Britain's current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, is distantly related to Richard, but is not a descendant.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">After his death, historians writing under the victorious Tudors comprehensively trashed Richard's reputation, accusing him of myriad crimes -- most famously, the murder of his two nephews, the "Princes in the Tower."</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">William Shakespeare indelibly depicted Richard as a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies on his way to the throne before dying in battle, shouting "My kingdom for a horse."</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">That view was repeated by many historians, and Richard remains a villain in the popular imagination. But others say Richard's reputation was unjustly smeared by his Tudor successors.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">Philippa Langley of the <a href="http://www.richardiii.net/" rel="external ext-linked" style="color: #183a52; cursor: pointer; outline: none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Richard III Society</a><img src="http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 4px 0px 0px 4px;" /> -- which seeks to restore the late king's reputation and backed the search for his grave-- said that for centuries Richard's story has been told by others, many of them hostile.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">She hopes a new surge of interest, along with evidence from the skeleton about how the king lived and died -- and how he was mistreated after death -- will help restore his reputation.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">"A wind of change is blowing, one that will seek out the truth about the real Richard III," she said.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">The location of Richard's body was unknown for centuries. He died in August 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field in the English Midlands, and records say he was buried by the Franciscan monks of Grey Friars at their church in Leicester, 100 miles north of London.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">The church was closed and dismantled after King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1538, and its location eventually was forgotten by most local residents.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">There were tales that the king's bones had been dug up and thrown in a nearby river in the 16th century.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">Then last year<a href="http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/greyfriars" rel="external ext-linked" style="color: #183a52; cursor: pointer; outline: none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> a team led by University of Leicester archaeologist</a><img src="http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 4px 0px 0px 4px;" /> Richard Buckley identified a possible location of the grave through map regression analysis, starting with a current map of the general area of the former church and analyzing earlier maps to discover what had changed and not changed. Ground-penetrating radar was used to find the best places to start digging.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">The team began excavating in a parking lot last August. Within a week they had located thick walls and the remains of tiled floors. Soon after, they found human remains -- the skeleton of an adult male who appeared to have died in battle.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; padding: 0px;">He had been buried unceremoniously, with no coffin or shroud -- plausible for a despised and defeated enemy.</div><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><img src="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2013/0204/0204-richard-iii-skull.jpg/14941281-1-eng-US/0204-richard-iii-skull.jpg_full_600.jpg" /></div></div>

King Richard III Reconstruction reveals face of England's long lost King Richard III

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Making learning click in online environments

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyber_Analytics_graphic_v7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Cyber analytics is the science of ana..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="215" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Cyber_Analytics_graphic_v7.jpg/300px-Cyber_Analytics_graphic_v7.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 300px;">English: Cyber analytics is the science of analysis that derives behavior from a variety of data to answer questions about the past, present, or future. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyber_Analytics_graphic_v7.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> In face to face environments - you have face, voice and body language. In blended environments, you have clicks, discussions, and edits - all of these are important.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In a Face to Face environment, we wouldn't let kids sleep in the back of the class, in online environments, we expect students to not only log time but ENGAGE.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">You have to be adaptable and tweak things as you get the analytics back from what is happening. Just as social media responds to highly engaging content or content w/ no response, so should professors and teachers. If you don't adapt, students languish.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;">This isn't about being on the clock but about how well you click with the time you have. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;">How much time do professors and others spend engaging with analytics about what content resonates and what is being ignored? Do they even care? I think in an age where education is becoming competitive, those that delve into and respond to the analytics will be the institutions of higher ed that remain among us.</span></div><br /> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=39702500-564e-4e9f-89c4-0e88e1cd4265" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

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Have you noticed SchoolNet SA’s new logo?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYNIeA-8N_fwGKIebgoenj3zzDA07KHLJqKK1BV2EmQaCxuX3UCVTZ8EClu4Rj5HZ71x7FHq65Dyht8k_8NkMAautw5STZLITwmymakiz0J7DokQY3EEFymaa5C635CXw_qLY0yVwPne8/s1600-h/clip_image002%25255B4%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="clip_image002" border="0" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi89dfSpucwTRAJfFcHykEsHXLxYnbTkz3_Ti-VJhWTiu2dGAoLyiUxnx_k2BSm_mm7bp_T0F4E58pUbOUZjzvb5aCr1K0T-4P9KZVM_BOQO27A1OAOHuEf2Pnvk_V2_le5z_5grcXtaCo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="clip_image002" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schoolnet is thrilled with its new logo which you will soon see displayed on all our offerings. The design of our new logo conveys a strong message about SchoolNet SA and the future: </span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Progressive</u>: this is shown by the simple, modern design and the appealing font. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Diverse:</u> in terms of what we offer and our target audience, shown by the range of colours </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Focused on “School”</u> because we aim to improve education in South Africa yet also placing an <u>emphasis on “Net”</u> because developing professional communities of teachers is and always has been a key objective and the vision of SchoolNet. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The silhouette of <u>a child using a tablet</u> highlights our belief that “If children do not learn the way we teach then we must teach the way they learn”. Our focus is not on technology – but rather on how it can empower teachers and learners through ICT integration.</span></li></ul></div>

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/05/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2004648.When_Marion_Copied?auto_login_attempted=true">Goodreads | When Marion Copied:: Learning about Plagiarism by Brook Berg - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Some teachers recommended the book "When Marion Copied" for teaching kids about plaigarism in elementary.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/plaigarism">plaigarism</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/copyright">copyright</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/digital">digital</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/citizenship">citizenship</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://freeplaymusic.com/">Freeplay Music, Broadcast Production Music Library, Mp3 Music, See Terms of Use.</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">A website with music that you can use for classroom work. (not safe for podcasts, though.) This was recommended at Kyle Dunbar's 3rd session for the Flat Classroom virtual book club discussion tonight as we talked about Digital citizenship. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/music">music</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/copyright">copyright</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/free">free</a></p> <ul class="diigo-comments"> </ul> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/04/coursera-forced-call-mooc-amid-complaints-about-course">Coursera forced to call off a MOOC amid complaints about the course | Inside Higher Ed</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Sad to see that the first major fail of a MOOC would happen at my alma mater, Georgia Tech, but I do applaud their transparency and moving forward with it. I hope they do it soon. With 41,000 students in the #foemooc - they had 40,000 students in a google doc which has a limit of 50 simultaneous editors - and with no backup - they weren't ready for the problems that would happen. This was a Coursera course and it just couldn't handle the load. Interestingly this was a Fundamentals of Online Education MOOC which makes it even more ironic. Read this article for more about what happened. "Maybe it was inevitable that one of the new massive open online courses would crash. After all, MOOCs are being launched with considerable speed, not to mention hype. But MOOC advocates might have preferred the collapse of a course other than the one that was suspended this weekend, one week into instruction: "Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application.""</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/mooc">mooc</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/gatech">gatech</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/online_course">online_course</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki_book">wiki_book</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/evernote">evernote</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_news">edu_news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/05/2013

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Jay Can Get Awkward Too

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola y’all! As we found out <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/02/uninvited-guests-are-best.html" target="_blank">yesterday</a>, Matt-Man does awkward pretty well. Strange things to tend to happen to him from time to time but I tell you what kids, he doesn’t have the market cornered. Oh hell no. I’ve been known to wander aimlessly into the awkward a bit from time to time myself. In fact, I encounter awkward situations TWICE in two weeks!<br /><br />I had intended to tell both of these stories on the <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid" target="_blank">IWS Podcast</a>, but didn’t think the barbershop story fit in one show and was too busy sitting back laughing while Shirley and Justin went after each other like the Hatfields and McCoys on Saturday. So, instead I’ll share them both with you guys here.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbx6H1t-Yoc3OdWKMe7L5lEkOR7myp3wxArus6xbNyfeI4GvGNFkPHoXctTzHzB3xgg0vUtgtSG87roFmTJ58rdOuXjQuRGdQ5YB-z81F5dz8SNdYeol2kyY427wukPhkvSb1078bzwg0/s1600/hot+barber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbx6H1t-Yoc3OdWKMe7L5lEkOR7myp3wxArus6xbNyfeI4GvGNFkPHoXctTzHzB3xgg0vUtgtSG87roFmTJ58rdOuXjQuRGdQ5YB-z81F5dz8SNdYeol2kyY427wukPhkvSb1078bzwg0/s400/hot+barber.jpg" width="176" /></a></div>I was at the barber shop last week and Sonja was whacking away on my hair cause sometimes I wait a week or two too long to get it cut and it gets super thick and wavy when a lady came in with her little boy. He looked to be maybe 2? Or 3? I’m not good at guessing ages. Anyway, mommy decided to involve herself in the conversation I was having with Sonja.<br /><br />That’s okay, I mean it’s a public place and it wasn’t anything personal or deep or anything. But, as often times happen the conversation actually became all about Mommy. Again, whatever. I’m just there to get my haircut and get out. I don’t even need to talk. So she starts telling us about being clean for 4 years after her meth addiction. Good for her! And then she tells us about her dad being clean finally. That’s great. And then she tells us about how after 26 years as a Pentecostal preacher and father, her dad ran off to California to get a sex change operation.<br /><br />LOLWUT?<br /><br />She even showed us a picture. How nice! Then Sonja made a very good point. She noted that it’s amazing how someone can spend decades walking side-by-side with the Lord and then just one bad moment JUST LIKE THAT … THE DEVIL GRABS HIM!<br /><br />That’s when it hit me. Your kids don’t have monsters living under their beds or in their closets. Hell, they don’t even have Evil Clowns under there. It’s EL DIABLO! Be sure to let them know.<br /><br />Fast forward a few days and I’m perusing the canned meat aisle at Walmart, trying to decide how many cans of Manwich Chili WITH BEANS! I needed. (Spoiler Alert: 2) when I heard someone coming at me in one of those little scooters. I turned and looked at him and then made sure that my basket was far enough over to give him room to get around and went back to the very serious business of canned meats.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGWbMMz_6Bc6PzmiokXwH9pHAZ3q4wgXPHLk5I-GRl0-amZXZAjKAeXb10YVqaPcxiwtXZLVqSuLT0nvc2HJhjnbHiwIDSVOo4unbxbTVpkhnQ4UffMUnvTSbaLCD2xuJhF-1noKPaR5s/s1600/Beef+Chunks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGWbMMz_6Bc6PzmiokXwH9pHAZ3q4wgXPHLk5I-GRl0-amZXZAjKAeXb10YVqaPcxiwtXZLVqSuLT0nvc2HJhjnbHiwIDSVOo4unbxbTVpkhnQ4UffMUnvTSbaLCD2xuJhF-1noKPaR5s/s200/Beef+Chunks.jpg" width="151" /></a></div>Instead of going around me, the guy stopped and the said ‘I THINK I WENT TO SKOOOOOL WITH YEWWWWWWWWWWWW.”<br /><br />At this point I let out an audible sigh, looked to the sky and said “WHY ME GOD? WHY ME?”<br /><br />I turned around, looked at him again and then awkwardly shrugged my shoulders and said “Sorry, I don’t think I recognize you.” He then said “I went to Redneck High, did you?” “Yeah.” He then told me he was the class of ’85 and I told him I was ’86 and he said “Yeah, I thought so.”<br /><br />I still didn’t recognize him so he told me that he was in the band. I told him that didn’t seem to help. So then he told me all about the guy who was the Band Director back then almost dying in a motorcycle accident and other small talk about school and he rode off into the sunset without ever telling me his name. I still don’t know who he is even though he seemed to know me.<br /><br />This is why I don’t like to go out in public.<br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a><br /><br /></div>

Jay Can Get Awkward Too

Hola y’all! As we found out yesterday , Matt-Man does awkward pretty well. Strange things to tend to happen to him from time to time but I t...

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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features the <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/02/04/fire-shelter-01/">Fire Shelter: 01</a> in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Simon Hjermind Jensen:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/02/04/fire-shelter-01/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Feb13-04.jpg" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The featured past dose is <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Dec06/25/dose.html">Icehotel</a> in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden by Ake Larsson:<br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Dec06/25/dose.html"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://www.archidose.org/Dec06/25/image01.jpg" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week's book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/02/04/le-corbusier-redrawn-the-houses/"><i>Le Corbusier Redrawn: The Houses</i></a> by Steven Park (L):<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/02/04/le-corbusier-redrawn-the-houses/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/corbusier-redrawn.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a> <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/corbusier.html"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/corbusier.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a><br />(R): The featured past book review is <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/corbusier.html"><i>Le Corbusier: in his own words</i></a> by Antoine Vigne and Betty Bone.<br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">American-Architects <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/pages/50x50">Building of the Week</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/39871_flip_house">Flip House</a> in San Francisco, California, by Fougeron Architecture:<br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/39871_flip_house"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://c214210.r10.cf3.rackcdn.com/files/projects/39871/images/900:w/Fougeron_Wisconsin_1.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a>

Monday, Monday

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28 in 28 #4: Le Corbusier Redrawn

<i>February is Book Month on A Daily Dose of Architecture. The "<a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/28%20in%2028">28 in 28</a>" series features a different book every day of the month.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616890681"><b><i>Le Corbusier Redrawn: the Houses</i></b></a> by Steven Park<br />Princeton Architectural Press, 2012<br />Paperback, 240 pages<br /><br /><img alt="28-28_corbusier.jpg" border="0" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/28-28_corbusier.jpg" title="Book cover" /><br /><br />See <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/02/04/le-corbusier-redrawn-the-houses/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> for my review of <i>Le Corbusier Redrawn</i>.

28 in 28 #4: Le Corbusier Redrawn

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'Fast & Furious 6' trailer debuts during Super Bowl XVLII: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson find extra gear

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">Surprise return of Michelle Rodriguez is most explosive part of clip that shows a tank and a plane crash.</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />From: http://www.nydailynews.com</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt=" From left, Brian O'Conner (PAUL WALKER) and Dom Toretto (VIN DIESEL) reunite for "Fast & Furious 6", the next installment of the global blockbuster franchise built on speed. " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1254444.1359939598!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/article-fastfurious6-0203.jpg" /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">From left, Brian O'Conner (PAUL WALKER) and Dom Toretto (VIN DIESEL) reunite for 'Fast & Furious 6.'</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The "Fast & Furious" franchise just found an extra gear.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Universal debuted the first trailer for "Fast & Furious 6" during Super Bowl XLVII, and judging by the half-minute of footage, Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto and Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner still haven't figured out how to hit the brakes.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This time around, the gang is enlisted to help the U.S. government take on villains with some fast cars of their own - and a tank.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We've graduated to a whole new level," says Dwayne Johnson's federal module, who has seemingly found working with the former car thieves easier than trying to chase them.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They also have graduated to a whole new strata of special effects budget: This time around, the drivers manage to bring down a cargo plane.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Back for another lap is the whole crew, including Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gison, Ludacris and surprise returnee Michelle Rodriguez, whose Letty was seemingly bumped off two films ago.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Do you believe in ghosts?" she asks Toretto.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Fast & Furious 6" peels into theaters on May 24.</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wjy7RWV3JHw?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

Fast and Furious 6 FF6 SPEED 'Fast & Furious 6' trailer debuts during Super Bowl XVLII: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson find extra gear

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‘Iron Man 3′: Super Bowl spot leads pack of Disney’s latest Marvels

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XGc4r2dVfiw?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” director Shane Black’s first entry in the Marvel series looks heavy on the action, the Robert Downey Jr. vehicle <a href="http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2013/02/01/super-bowl-xlvii-ad-spotlight-star-trek-iron-man-lone-ranger/#/1" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #004abf; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">wasn’t the only upcoming blockbuster</a> to get airtime during the big game, with new spots debuting for “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “World War Z” and “Snitch,” among other films.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In all, Disney promoted three of its new releases, with “The Lone Ranger” and “Oz: The Great and Powerful” joining “Iron Man 3″ as part of the promotional onslaught.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With its charging horses, chugging trains, wide-open vistas, silver bullets — Gore Verbinski’s “The Lone Ranger,” set to open July 3, has all the hallmarks of the Old West adventure series, plus a couple of very modern updates: Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the masked Texas ranger.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Depp’s unusual makeup alone is surely worth the price of admission.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div>

iron man 3 ‘Iron Man 3′: Super Bowl spot leads pack of Disney’s latest Marvels

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Super Bowl XLVII: CBS drops the ball in Superdome blackout coverage by failing to press the NFL for answers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">Not once during the 34-minute delay did a representative of the National Football League appear on camera to attempt to explain what caused half the Superdome to lose power. Why should they? No one from CBS put any pressure on them.</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br /><h3 class="byline" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">NEW YORK DAILY NEWS fROM: http://www.nydailynews.com</h3><h5 class="dates" content="2013-02-04T02:59:35" itemprop="datePublished" style="background-image: url(http://assets.nydailynews.com/nydn/img/static/bg/header.png); background-position: 0px -576px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013, 2:59 AM</h5><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt=" The Superdome goes dark for 34 minutes, and nobody from the NFL offers an explanation. " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1254675.1359964345!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/superdome.jpg" /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The Superdome goes dark for 34 minutes, and nobody from the NFL offers an explanation.</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fans inside the Superdome were not the only ones left in the dark when half the building’s power went out in the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII Sunday night.  Viewers were left with unanswered questions as CBS Sports’ sideline reporters, and the rest of the cast, failed to go into a reporting mode.</span></span></div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There was no outrage, no questioning how a thing like this could happen on the NFL’s biggest night of the year.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At a time when they should have been aggressively gathering news, CBS’ crew was satisfied with the crumbs the NFL dropped on them. And they swallowed the scraps gladly. Not once during the 34-minute delay did a representative of the National Football League appear on camera to attempt to explain what caused half the Superdome to lose power. Why should they? No one from CBS put any pressure on them.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead of having anyone with a microphone express a hint of outrage, they accepted what was going down. “As soon as they know (what knocked the power out) someone (from the NFL) is going to come down and we are going to interview them to ascertain what knocked out the power,” said Solomon Wilcots, one of CBS’ sideline reporters.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No, that ain’t the way it works. The idea is to find an NFL suit, stick a microphone in his/her face and ask the following question:  What the hell is going on?</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Think about it. CBS pays billions for the right to air NFL games. Much of that dough is shelled out to secure rights to the Super Bowl. So, on the big night, there is a major screwup and the NFL won’t put  someone on the air — and CBS won’t push the league — to try to explain what’s going on? That’s mind-boggling.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But not quite as wacked as CBS’ laid-back approach to reporting this story, which will go down as one of the more unusual moments in Super Bowl history. All the players were on the field, waiting, stretching. Why not take a camera and microphone on the sidelines for an interview? If they blow you off, fine — at least viewers would have something worth watching.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead of hearing from James Brown, Dan Marino, Bill Cowher and Shannon Sharpe (Boomer Esiason was working the radio) that the 49ers would benefit from the delay, why not ask players from both teams their thoughts on the matter?</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Niners" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1254676!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/niners.jpg" /></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Members of the 49ers can only sit and wait for the lights to turn back on.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><br /><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At one point, CBS had a shot of John Harbaugh screaming at some suit who we assumed worked for the NFL (we take that grand leap because CBS never identified who the gentleman was). Why not stick a microphone in Harbaugh’s face and ask him why he was angry?</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe he would have told you his brother’s team was going to benefit from the delay, which it did. At one point Steve Tasker, the other sideline reporter, said he had signaled for “John Harbaugh to come over,” but the Ravens coach had declined. That is the closest viewers got to a legit interview.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For the record, Jennifer Sabatelle, CBS Sports’ VP/communications, said Tasker and Wilcots  “and our studio team reported on the situation as a breaking news story providing updates and reports while full power was being restored to the dome.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Compared to what? In 1989, when an earthquake (duh, much more serious than a piddly blackout) hit Candlestick Park before Game 3 of the A’s-Giants World Series, Al Michaels and the ABC crew segued into full news mode and covered what was going down thoughtfully and thoroughly. Michaels and Co. showed how sports reporters can handle a news story by just asking the right questions.</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead of doing just that, CBS stayed in a total sports mode, replaying first-half highlights and getting insight from Cowher on what he would be telling his team under the same circumstance. Imagine if someone from CBS asked one of the Harbaugh brothers that very question? With CBS only updating viewers on when the game might resume, it is reasonable to wonder how many of them bailed out during the delay. CBS was fortunate the game tightened down the stretch, making for an exciting finish.</span></div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s doubtful Sharpe’s one-liners, like wondering who paid the Superdome’s electric bill, were holding the audience. Same for his other gem: “I’m not saying the fat lady is singing, but they cut the power off so she could warmup in the darkness.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS’ inability to report the news, dig into all angles of the story, is a direct result of how the NFL controls the media. If normal coverage is limited and restricted, it stands to reason that league suits would try to black out all coverage of a Super Bowl blackout.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The lights going out signaled a major embarrassment for Roger Goodell and Co. On the night of the league’s biggest event, a game that media and fans go gaga over for two weeks, the NFL came off looking like a minor league operation.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the end, the league could have looked even worse.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If CBS had done its job.</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div></div>

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Ram resurrects Paul Harvey's 'So God Made a Farmer,' in Super Bowl ad

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From: http://www.freep.com</div><img alt="Chrysler touts Ram truck with 'Farmer' Super Bowl ..." height="358" src="http://videos.usatoday.net/Brightcove2/640445561001/2013/02/640445561001_2135167109001_Ram-Farmer-914.jpg?pubId=640445561001" width="640" /><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Chrysler touts Ram truck with 'Farmer' Super Bowl ...: Chrysler resurrected Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer,” an ode to the hard work and dedication of farmers in a two-minute commercial that aired during the fourth quarter.</span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><br /></span><br /><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">There were no pretty women, comedians, babies, barking dogs or monkeys in Chrysler’s second <a class="itxtnewhook itxthookactive" href="http://www.freep.com/article/20130203/BUSINESS0103/302030287/Ram-resurrects-Paul-Harvey-s-God-Made-Farmer-Super-Bowl-ad#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; 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bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> commercial for Ram pickups.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">Instead, <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://www.freep.com/article/20130203/BUSINESS0103/302030287/Ram-resurrects-Paul-Harvey-s-God-Made-Farmer-Super-Bowl-ad#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #00528f; cursor: pointer; display: inline; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p" style="border: 0px; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; 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max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> resurrected Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer,” an ode to the hard work and dedication of farmers in a two-minute commercial that aired during the fourth quarter.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">“God said, ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://www.freep.com/article/20130203/BUSINESS0103/302030287/Ram-resurrects-Paul-Harvey-s-God-Made-Farmer-Super-Bowl-ad#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #00528f; cursor: pointer; 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bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> board,’” Harvey says in the stark, somber commercial as Ram aired as photos of tractors, combines, Ram pickups and gritty, hard-working farmers.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">“So God made a farmer.” Harvey, a legendary radio broadcaster, died in 2009.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">Last fall, Ram launched a redesigned Ram 1500 pickup. The truck has been named Motor Trend Truck of the year and also was named North American Truck of the Year at the Detroit auto show.</div></div>

Paul Harvey Ram resurrects Paul Harvey's 'So God Made a Farmer,' in Super Bowl ad

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