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1) WHAT A FEW PARACHUTES AND A LOT OF LUCK  CAN DO    

We're still waiting for the Go Pro footage of Saturday's near-disaster over Superior, Wisconsin when two planes full of skydivers collided (

). Some parachutists usually wear the camera and it might provide a clue over how the planes hit each other, tearing the wings off one. All of the parachutists made it out alive and one of the pilots was able to land his safely. Wreckage from the other landed in Superior's fairgrounds.

Someone is going to have to pay dearly for the footage (although the NTSB is going to want to get it for nothing). The instructor who has it is looking for some big money to help him get the business running again, the 

Eleven survivors  reportedly were to appear on NBC's Today Show this morning, but a segment aired, there were no guests. (Update: It appears Good Morning America bought the footage, 

Mike Robinson, one of them, earlier told the 

Several of those involved say they'd go back up in the air when they get the opportunity.

Barry Sinex, one of the instructors aboard, wrote an essay two years ago on 

2) WHEN TO PICK UP AND MOVE ON... ALONE     

 from Mike McLean of Richfield in the Star Tribune yesterday, reacting to last Sunday's excellent article about a Wisconsin man who has, basically, given up watching his kids grow up  and being with his family, to make some pretty good money in North Dakota's Oil Patch.

Is the choice that clear? That simple? There are people who will give up their family to work and people who want someone to take care of them?  Those are questions that strike at the very heart of policy over the economy these days, and it contrasts with yesterday's St. Cloud Times story 

following up on the people who lost their jobs when the Verso plant in Sartell caught fire, and was later deemed not worth keeping in business.

Seventy of eighty-six people employed have found other work, making about 88 percent of what they did before.

Not ideal, perhaps, but those are jobs. How did it happen? The government got involved, according to the Times:

But many of the workers were older, and it's hard to find a job when you're older.

“I see some of the people I worked with on the street now and I just want to go up and give them a hug,” Ginger Johnson said of her former colleagues. “I’m almost positive most people don’t make the same money or have the same vacation and benefits they used to have. The stress has been bad the last couple of years. But some I run into, they’ve found other jobs or they’re going to school or they’re retired. They seem happy. But then I’m an optimist.”

Which brings us back to the question we asked last Monday -- how much family and roots would you give up for a job somewhere else?

Are robotic smart machines behind the jobless recovery?

This picture of the weekend's solar eclipse is getting handed around the Internet...

These Are Some of the Most Amazing Views of Earth You'll Ever See

Brian Solis, who studies and speaks on the impact of social media,  

Winona Senior High School junior Hunter Bailey was running a five kilometer race at the Minnesota State High School League cross country meet and running sixth not far from the finish line -- a pretty good spot to be in for a kid who missed last year's race because of health issues.

That's when he pulled or tore a muscle, the 

He's a lucky kid, though. He had a dad who was there.

Saturday Night Live takes on the controversy over its lack of diversity among its cast.

Is this an accurate reflection of Uptown life?

An apartment complex in Uptown is marketing itself in the same way Las Vegas marketed itself with its "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas campaign."  The apartment complex's suggestive ad campaign says "don't get married until you spend a year" in the building. Get it out of your system and have fun doing so.  Another sign says "'I don't remember her name, but her APARTMENT!'"  And a third says, "Tarts welcome."

Should the U.S. government reconsider clemency for Edward Snowden?

Second hour: Should E-cigarettes be banned?

Third hour: Garrison Keillor discusses his new book of poetry "O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound."

 (12-1 pm): Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, speaking at the National Press Club about national parks, conservation, and generations to come.

 - Neil Tyson deGrasse discusses "Dark Universe," a new show about the stuff our cosmos are made of. Plus: A look back at the National Cancer Act.

-  The Minnesota GOP says health plans sold on MNsure are 20 percent more expensive than what's available on the market today. Not wrong, but misleading by omission of context. MPR's Catharine Richert will have a Poligraph update.

Remember when the first down in football was NOT marked by a yellow line? The technology behind that TV visual revolutionized the way people watch the sport. And the company behind that technology has changed the way we enjoy many other sports. NPR takes a look inside Sportsvision.

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What a few parachutes and a lot of luck can do. When do you leave your family to go find work? The fake eclipse. Reconsidering your connected self. And when dad is there to help.

Falling airplanes, leaving family for work, the fake eclipse and you as digital conductor (5×8 – 11/4/13)

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