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LAWRENCE FORECAST Shawn Milrad, KU Atmospheric Science
Tuesday
Hi: 97
Partly cloudy and just plain hot.
Lo: 74
South wind 15-20 mph.
MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011
Wednesday
HI: 85
Partly cloudy with a 30 percent
LO: 71
chance of showers.
get your shades, man!
HI: 90
L0: 73
might want to grab an umbrella
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday
Partly sunny and slightly cooler,
30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms.
not too shabby
Friday
HI: 90
Sunny and relatively pleasant.
LO: 69
definitely a day for shorts
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PATILLAS,PUERTO RICO
Tropical Storm rene barreled toward Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday, packing heavy rains and winds that closed airports and flooded low-lying areas in the Leeward Islands. Strong winds and battering rain were expected late Sunday over Puerto Rico, including its outlying islands of Wieses and Culebra. U.S. forecasters had earlier expected the storm's center to pass just south of Puerto Rico's southern coast, but now said it could pass over the island of nearly 4 million inhabitants. "The storm is wobbling a little bit. It is moving more to the west-northwest than we anticipated earlier," said Cristina Forbes, an oceanographer at the center
CARACAS. VENEZUELA
Supporters of President Hugo Chavez shaved their heads in solidarity with their leader's struggle against cancer on Sunday as hundreds prayed and sang at a televised event. Barbers shaved off the hair of several men and at least one woman while the crowd swayed to a religious song. Chavez, bald from chemotherapy, smiled, clapped with the music and waved to the crowd. Those attending included a group of six from the Dominican Republic who shaved their heads outside the Venezuelan Embassy in their country on Friday. Chavez greeted the Dominicans with hugs and stood arm-in-arm with them.
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
MOSCOW
Reclusive North Korea's autocratic leader Kim Jong II crossed into Russia Saturday on his armored train to discuss with President Dmitry Medvedev the possible renewal of nuclear disarmament talks and the construction of a pipeline that will stream Russian natural gas to both Koreas, the Kremlin and media said. Kim's visit to the Cold War ally is a further sign of Pyongyang's increasing efforts to reach out for economic assistance and diplomatic support. North Korea's official media did not specify when a meeting with Medvedev would take place, but said that Kim's visit was at the invitation of the Russian president.
More than 185 people have been killed in South Sudan in a recent cattle raid and an unrelated militia attack, officials said Sunday. The incidents underscore the challenges and insecurity faced by South Sudan, which became the world's newest country when it declared independence in July. South Sudan army spokesman Col. Philip Aguer said fighters loyal to rebel leader George Athor crossed the border from north Sudan and attacked a town in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Aguer said the violence which started Friday left 60 people dead, including seven soldiers and 53 militia members. He said the soldiers managed to repel the attackers.
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Branches from "The Bedazzler" are carried off by a backhoe loader Friday morning. The piece was on display for 27 months before having to be taken down.
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"THE BEDAZZLER"
"THE BEDAZZLER"
go to www.kansan.com to see exclusive photos of the deconstruction of the "The Bedazzler."
CAMPUS
Wooden sculpture 'The Bedazzler' chopped down
A work crew with chainsaws cut down the wooden sculpture and the elm tree supporting it in front of Spooner Hall on Friday morning. The tree had already died of a fungal disease called verticillum wilt.
"The Bedazzler," which was temporary by design, stood at the corner of 14th Street and Jayhawk Blvd. since May 2009. Most of Dougherty's similar works last less than two years before they inevitably decompose.
The Spencer Museum of Art commissioned the sculpture as part of the exhibit "Trees and Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature and Culture."
IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
"Temporary does not mean forgettable," museum director Saralyn Reece Hardy said. "It's appropriate that they're not there forever. The way our environment and economy are right now; it says something about fragility, the transient and ephemeral."
Artist Patrick Dougherty spent three weeks crafting "The Bedazzler," but it only took a few hours for landscapes to tear it apart.
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Bob Abbott, landscaping supervisor for Facilities Operations, supervised workers Friday morning as they fed some parts of the tree and sculpture into a wood chipper, while another worker used a backhoe to load branches into a dump truck.
Dougherty created "The Bedazzler" with the help of more than a dozen volunteers and sculpture students, as well as employees from the KU Facilities Operations department. They used around 6,000 pounds of silver maple and rough-leaf dogwood saplings gathered from sustainable populations west of Lawrence.
Abbott said the landscapers would plant grass in the space where "The Bedazzler" had been.
She said the sculpture had been a gathering point for picnics, birthday parties and wedding ceremonies.
"It was 'art' if that's what you want to call it," he said. "To me, it was just a pile of sticks."
— Edited by Alexandra Esposito
MORE ABOUT 'THE BEDAZZLER'
The Museum commissioned "The Bedazzler" with support from The Commons, a KU partnership among the Biodiversity Institute, the Hall Center for the Humanities and the Spencer Museum of Art.
The Commons explores the relationships between nature and culture across the sciences, humanities and the arts.
For more information on The Commons please email thecommons@ku.edu.
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