NASCAR Notes: KHI Will Not Keep On Trucking

Kevin Harvick Inc. is merging its Nationwide car operation with Richard Childress Racing for 2012. In the process, KHI has decided to discontinue the three trucks it owned in the NASCAR Camping Truck Series."The trucks are a lot of fun," Harvick said. "I'd love to drive some races in the truck series as we move forward."But we had some decisions to make from a business standpoint and these are the decisions DeLana (Harvick's wife) and I made. We had no financial issues. We were making it work. But sometimes you just feel like you've got to get something out of it."With the major responsibilities for the Nationwide series also off his plate, Harvick sa

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NASCAR Notes

Kevin Harvick Inc. is merging its Nationwide car operation with Richard Childress Racing for 2012. In the process, KHI has decided to discontinue the three trucks it owned in the NASCAR Camping Truck Series."The trucks are a lot of fun," Harvick said. "I'd love to drive some races in the truck series as we move forward."But we had some decisions to make from a business standpoint and these are the decisions DeLana (Harvick's wife) and I made. We had no financial issues. We were making it work. But sometimes you just feel like you've got to get something out of it."With the major responsibilities for the Nationwide series also off his plate, Harvick sa

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Richmond's 'Honoring Our Heroes' Program Started With Special 9/11 Hero

I wrote the beginning of this column no less than four times, each opening either feeling like a cliché or overused. I simply could not do justice to a story that deserves to be articulated with an eloquence possessed by few, least of all me.So, I will simply put forth a date: Sept. 11, 2001.While as a nation we collectively share many emotions, over the past decade that date has come to mean something unique to every American. This weekend at Richmond International Raceway, the NASCAR community will pay tribute to those whose lives were forever altered through the tragic events ten years ago.More than just decals on a race car, this is the stor

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O Say Can You See Kyle Busch's American Flag NASCAR Race Car?

Many of the NASCAR drivers in Saturday night's Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway will be running a car with a 9/11 tribute paint scheme.After all, it is the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.But while most of those paint schemes will still feature the usual sponsors somewhere on the car, that's not the case for Kyle Busch's No. 18 car.Busch is running an American flag paint scheme on his car, which will be free of most every sponsorship decal except the ones required by NASCAR. The car was the idea of Busch's usual sponsor MMs, which did a similar paint scheme on Ken Schrader

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Google Earth Will Feature Illinois' Campus Through Interactive, Virtual Map

The University will soon be featured on Google Earth, the interactive, virtual map program made from satellite imagery and aerial-view photography.Using building footprints from the Geographic Information System and models constructed with a 3D modeling program called Google Sketchup, the Facilities and Services' Information Resources Department on campus has been developing a model collection for Google Earth.The project was first discussed in 2005. Chad Kupferschmid, chief engineering draftsman for Facilities and Services, has been working with students to upload models and images to Google since early 2011."Students have been pulling building footpr

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'Tasty-crafty,' Diverse Market Opens In LIC

In ancient Athens, the Agora was the city's chief marketplace, agathering spot and the center of civic life. So when Lucy Palacioswas thinking of a name for the outdoor market she was starting inLong Island City, 'agora' seemed perfect, because that is what shehopes the market becomes.After operating for two Saturdays in May, then being pushed backa week because of Hurricane Irene, the Agora LIC outdoor marketreturned to Long Island City on Saturday, Sept. 3.Palacios said she could use one word to describe the market."Diverse," she said. "We have jewelry, food vendors, homemadecrafts, home goods, organic products. Lots of greatcategories."And it's the

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