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Lenexa was considered the spinach capital of the world in the 1930s. They still celebrate with an early fall Spinach Festival.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012
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Sunny and warm, southwest wind at 15 mph
Wednesday
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LO: 52
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east winds at
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Friday
HI: 63
LO: 40
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Cool, 20 percent chance of showers. North wind at 12 mph
Thursday
HI: 64
LO: 40
Keep watching the sky.
Put on that sweater and cap.
Tuesday, October 2
CALENDAR
WHAT: Tunes at Night
WHERE: Hashinger Hall
WHEN: 9 to 10 p.m.
ABOUT: Head to Hash for free dance lessons and food.
WHAT: KU School of Music Wind Ensemble
WHERE: Lied Center
WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Support students while broadening your musical horizons.
Wednesday, October 3
WHAT: Environmental Film Festival
WHERE: Spencer Museum of Art
WHEN: 5 p.m.
ABOUT: Watch "The Island President," a film about how the Maldives could become uninhabitable.
**WHAT:** Campaign 2012: Debate Watch
**WHERE:** Dole Institute of Politics
**WHEN:** 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Participate in a focus group about how undecided voters feel about the first presidential debate.
WHAT: Ingrid Michaelson
ABOUT: The indie singer-songwriter provides the perfect fall soundtrack.
Thursday, October 4
WHAT: A Conversation with Eula Biss
WHERE: Kansas Union Ballroom
WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m.
ABOUT: The author of the University's first common book comes to campus.
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**WHAT:** Tea at Three
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, Level 4 lobby
**WHEN:** 3 to 4 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Celebrate the end of the week with tea and cookies.
Friday, October 5
WHAT: Tunes @ Noon
WHERE: Kansas Union
WHEN: 12 to 1 p.m.
ABOUT: Check out a local band or performer as your first weekend act of fun.
WHAT: William Elliot Whitmore
**WHAT:** William Elliot Whitmore
**WHERE:** The Granada
**WHEN:** 7:30 p.m.
**ABOUT:** The blues rocker returns to Lawrence accompanied by Samantha Crain.
Presidential candidates prepare for first debate
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NEW YORK — The presidential candidates on Tuesday laid out their visions of America's role in the world while making subtle political jabs at one another in dueling foreign policy speeches shaped by violent protests in the Middle East and their closely fought campaign at home.
Obama told the United Nations that the violence in Libya "were attacks on America" and called on world leaders to help confront
Republican nominee Mitt Romney smiled and joked with political foe Bill Clinton before delivering a speech that insinuated that President Barack Obama has not done enough to stop chaos overseas.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A couple miles away in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama indirectly referenced Romney's statement, revealed last week in a secretly recorded video at a private fundraiser, that he doesn't have much faith in peace prospects between Israelis and Palestinians.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives at his campaign headquarters in Boston, to prepare for the presidential debates. If Republican Mitt Romney doesn't perform well at the presidential debate on Wednesday, it's not for lack of trying. On one out of every four days this September, the Republican presidential nominee held preparation sessions for the first of his three debates with Democratic President Barack Obama.
Obama didn't mention the video but told the assembled world leaders: "Among Israelis and Palestinians, the future must not belong to those who turn their backs on the prospect of peace."
In his remarks, Romney called the death a terrorist attack, language that Obama himself has not used but that his chief spokesman and secretary of state have.
Like Obama, Romney avoided direct criticism he's made during recent campaign appearances to reflect the setting at the gathering of political, humanitarian and business leaders at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.
The GOP White House nominee said U.S. aid needs to be more effective in elevating people and bringing about lasting change in developing nations plagued by instability and violence, including the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
the root causes of rage across the Muslim world.
"We somehow feel that we are at the mercy of events, rather than shaping events," Romney said.
Romney said he would negotiate trade agreements and offer "prosperity pacts" in the Middle East and other developing nations to encourage open markets in exchange for U.S. aid.
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"The aim of a much larger share of our aid must be the promotion of work and the fostering of free enterprise," Romney said. Romney said work is the key to lifting people out of poverty abroad by providing self-esteem and a grounding in reality.
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SKYDIVING
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Man to attempt free-fall jump
And, yes, he could break his neck while jumping from a mind-boggling altitude of 23 miles.
- A 48-year-old transient man was arrested Tuesday at 2:19 p.m. on the 200 block of West 10th on suspension of disorderly conduct and possessing marijuana or THC. Bond was set at $200. He was released.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — His blood could boil. His lungs could overinflate. The vessels in his brain could burst. His eyes could hemorrhage.
The 43-year-old former military parachutist from Austria is hoping to reach 690 mph, or Mach 1, after leaping from his balloon-hoisted capsule over the desert near Roswell.
But the risk of a gruesome death has never stopped "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner in all his years of skydiving and skyscraper leaping, and it's not about to now.
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"So many unknowns," Baumgartner says, "but we have solutions to survive."
Next Monday over New Mexico, he will attempt the highest, fastest free fall in history and try to become the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.
Felix Baumgartner prepares to jump during the first manned test flight for Red Bull Stallons over Roswell, N.M.
He will have only a pressurized suit and helmet for protection as he tries to go supersonic 65 years after Chuck Yeaer, flying an experimental rocket plane, became the first human to go faster than the speed of sound.
Doctors, engineers and others on Baumgartner's Red
Bull-sponsored team have spent as much as five years studying the risks and believe they have done everything possible to bring him back alive. He has tested out his suit and capsule in two dress rehearsals, jumping from 15 miles in March and 18 miles in July.
Baumgartner will be more than three times higher than the cruising altitude of jetliners when he hops, bunny-style, out of the capsule and into a near-vacuum where there is barely any oxygen and less than 1 percent of the air pressure on Earth.
- A 23-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Tuesday at 11:54 a.m. on the 100 block of north Michigan Street on suspicion of domestic battery. Bond was not set.
- A 27-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. on the 3200 block of west 24th Street on suspicion of driving while suspended and theft of property of services less than or equal to $25,000. Bond was set at $2,750. He was released.
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