Tom Waits performs in this classic AUSTIN CITY LIMITS episode from 1979.

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Police cars and other vehicles fill a road near the scene of a mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.

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Bikes on a San Diego street.

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Two photos comparing King Tides and low tide at Shelter Island in San Diego.

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The One Voice Choir is not officially part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the ensemble is invited to perform this weekend at an LDS church-sponsored event intended to reach out to the LGBT community.

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The choir's musical director, Bryan Horn, leads the ensemble in rehearsal.

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The Fish Market Restaurant near Seaport Village

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Police gather at the east entrance of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., on April 20, 1999. School security has improved markedly since the Columbine shooting, experts say, but there still are problems.

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Gov. Bill Haslam speaks to reporters after announcing in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday that that he had decided against creating a state-run health insurance exchange. The Republican governor said he will leave it to the federal government to run the marketplace.

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Covers of three bilingual books for children.

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President Obama has warned Syrian President Bashar Assad, shown here in 2009, against using chemical weapons.

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Connecticut State Police walk near the scene of an elementary school shooting on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.

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The vertically challenged hobbits and dwarves may not find the same delirious fan base in tween girls as Orlando Bloom's leggy androgynous elf did in the first "Lord of the Rings Trilogy."

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Ian McKellan returns as Gandalf in "The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey."

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Filmmaker Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth to create a prequel trilogy to his "Lord of the Rings" films. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" is the first of the new trilogy to be released.

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Military family

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In this photo provided by the Newtown Bee, Connecticut State Police lead children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., following a shooting there Friday.

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent questions drivers traveling north on Interstate 19 in southern Arizona.

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent questions drivers traveling north on Interstate 19 in southern Arizona.

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"The Nature of a Door is to be Opened" will be on view at the City Heights Center through January 4th.

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Seaman Darian Drouin

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A woman, identified only as "Hurricane," lights up in Seattle. Washington state's law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana went into effect on Dec. 6.

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Ankara, Turkey

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A large earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck off the coast of San Diego on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012.

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Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., speaks Tuesday at a news conference calling for no reduction in the Medicare and Medicaid budgets, as part of the year-end budget talks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Waxman said he does not support means testing for Medicare.

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