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1. The rush hour commences at 5:55 a.m. Central Time. 2. Click through our Carnival Calendar to make sure you know what two weeks of Carnival at Raleigh will be like. 3. The city of Raleigh's Spirit of America was designed to follow one of the winds of Thanksgiving—often known as the 'Lone Star Wave.' 4. The city's name comes from Creole founder John Chivington, who brought the society to a town in eastern North Carolina. 5. The five-minute dedication ceremony for the Spirit of America consists of a prayer and more than 80 ministrations from marchers. 6. In 1867, the city's famed blacksmith William Thessler built the handsome White House. 7. In 1889, Amelia Earhart said white supremacy was "the greatest enemy of progress and civilization in the world." 8. At one point during her Airy Carnival, people were guided to women who were working in the neighborhood. Courtesy of Flickr, Nathan A. Courtney 9. Before the noon Saturday carnival, Nature Collec...

Dropping out of college as a freshmen, Edwin launched Plutostarz.com, an 18-year-old Internet company dedicated to helping making the world a better place. Following his crushing defeat at the hands of Long Beach State, he registered himself with the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, and hired a spokesman and a public relations man. He went to different colleges to study marketing and advertising, which, he says, together did him "damage." For example, he says, he was put on academic probation for writing three comics in three weeks that referred to an association of penguins trying to box his water-skier pal from destroying his school's textbook collection. After graduating from Long Beach State with a degree in graphic design, Edwin started working for growing teen and comedy-comedy Web company Continuum Brands, later spun off into an incubator known as Remote Charm, before returning to Collectumparts full-time. Over the years he helped raise raises $3 m...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to hear a major St. Louis case involving officers' searches of a car and seizures from an arrestee's body as they used a racial-profiling technique within a city court. The justices did not announce whether they will review the case of Kody Roach, a white man who was pulled over by four St. Louis officers in 2001 after his light-colored car was pulled over at a stop sign. But the Justice Department alleged the officers searched Roach without a warrant, seized his car, placed it in detention for several days and seized his car keys despite there not being any signs of a vehicle burglary and after Roach was never charged with a crime. "I don't know how black and white you can be, whether you're a good kid and innocent or I'm the devil," Roach said during the cause hearing. "Whatever it is, it didn't happen for me to be innocent." The hearing was powerful testimony of frustration among St. L...

Toronto-based auto printer Delphi Group will lay off 110 people in Quebec in a massive shakeup that will see the company essentially disband its software-based Crawford Bombe machine, 80 people across Canada, and 50 in Asia. In Canada and the U.S., Delphi employs about 8,000 people and provides its own printers for three auto companies, Audi, GM, Ford, and Chrysler. Here's what we know about the layoffs: What are they laying off? On Monday, Delphi said its mostly overseas workforce would be spending the summer learning about the closing. What tools do they lose? Delphi's machines include Caribou, Hawker and Crown printers. Among the software-driven machines Delphi provides are 3D Kinko, 3D Design Shop and Yardbird. Even better, its printing technology embraced by 3M, Maclin and Delta. The slogan 'Digital Printing for Delphi' was around for decades. The company, whose offices are in Oakville and Brampton, changed it to CT1000 at the height of the...