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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008
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"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees."
Faith Baldwin
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Most leaves fall from trees because the ends of the branch are sealed off near the leaf stem to protect the tree through the long winter months.
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KU Yoga Club
BY GEORGE HART
Gob Mogle, Omaha, Neb., freshman, and Aaron Bales, Kansas City, Kan., freshman,
practice breathing exercises at a Yoga Club meeting Thursday.
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It's Thursday evening. You've just finished dinner, and the storm hits. The vortex of homework, jobs and relationships becomes overwhelming. So many things need to be done, but there is rarely enough time.
College students handle their stress with varying levels of efficiency. One method that scarcely comes to mind is one of Eastern origin: yoga. But a club of 20 University students, lead by president and founder Brandon Hidaka, find that this meditative practice is the perfect remedy for anxiety and an effective way to stay in shape.
The KU Yoga Club, which was founded in the Spring 2007, meets from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. every Thursday at the Courtside Room in the Burge Union. Consisting of about 70 percent women, the class is more gender balanced than the typical yoga class found in Lawrence.
With soft music humming in the background, sessions begin casually, as the members grab a mat and stake out their territory.
"Even if you don't have a mat, we have an extra supply of them for
people to use," Hidaka said.
The meeting begins with a brief warm-up. The standard warm-up includes light movement and breathing exercises. After the warm-up, more experienced members may modify certain positions to increase the intensity of their workout. Focus on breath is an initial barrier, but it is the key to true meditation.
Hidaka said he enjoyed the "constantly changing rhythms of his breath" and the sound of his voice during chants.
From here, either Hidaka or a guest leader will lead the group through a series of postures. Most of the members break a sweat during the heart of the workout. Duration of holding a stretch correlates directly with the intensity of a session. Many members notice an improvement in their flexibility after only a few meetings.
"Lack of flexibility is no excuse to avoid yoga." Hidaka said. "It's really easy to increase your flexibility by devoting as little as 10 minutes a day."
At the end of a workout, members lie on their backs, eyes closed, in the corpse position. For two to five minutes they relax and reflect. Group members mingle before heading back to their respective
homes.
Yoga's appeals are wide-ranging. For some, it is their one physical activity of the week. Others find the opportunity to unify body and mind enthralling.
"The experience can be theistic or secular, it depends on the person." Hidaka said.
you feel better about yourself, and you feel at peace with the earth." Most of the members practice yoga only once a week, but some meditate with the rising sun each morning. The club consists of members of all experience levels.
But the abstract goal of connecting body and soul provides ample rewards. Along with this, Hidaka said that, "concentration improves,
"Keep an open mind and don't be self conscious, yoga is about self-improvement," Hidaka said.
Edited by Ramsey Cox
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Frank Cioffa, President of the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation; Tim Young of East Hampton, Ma.; and Tom Torti, President of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce (LCRCC), participate in the First Annual Giant Pumpkin Regatta, sponsored by LCRCC, on Lake Champlain off the shore of Waterfront Park in Burlington, Vt., on Sunday.
ODD NEWS Fake realtor rents home that's not for rent
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Nassau County police arrested Gregory Garvin on Wednesday for posing as a real estate agent and renting out the house in the hamlet of Roosevelt. Garvin was charged with grand larceny and fraud.
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Police say Garvin also collected a $1,000 security deposit from the couple.
The family was living in the house about two weeks when the real owner showed up.
Police say the house had been vacant and the real owner had planned to sell it.
Lump sum a gamble for $42M lottery winner
LANSING, Mich. — A winner of a $42 million Mega Millions jackpot in Michigan will receive the money in installments rather than getting a smaller, one-time cash payment.
The winner of the Oct. 3 jackpot indicated a preference for taking the annuity. State lottery spokeswoman Andi Brancato says she can't remember a Mega Millions winner in Michigan ever doing that.
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Drunk man finds his way home to wrong home
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Unlike Goldilocks, a man who stumbled into the wrong suburban Washington, D.C., home after drinking too much found the bed there just right.
Bob and Joanne Breiner returned home from a night out to find a man with a white beard nestled in their bed, sound asleep. Once police showed up and the drunken stranger realized what had happened, he apologized profusely and complimented the couple on their comfortable bed.
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry" Joanne Breiner recalled him saying.
The man accidentally went to the Breiners' house after apparently getting off at a bus stop eight miles from his own home, police said. He entered through the unlocked front door.
Joanne Breiner said she first realized something was amiss the night of Sept. 27 after noticing crumpled aluminum foil and crumbs on the kitchen counter, along with a missing crab cake.
Minutes later, she recalled Thursday, her husband walked upstairs to the master bedroom, flipped on the light and noticed the intruder.
The man didn't stir, and Joanne Breiner says her husband wasn't even sure whether he was alive.
Quickly — and quietly — Bob alerted Joanne and the couple's 16-year-old son. They fled into the rainy darkness, not pausing to grab their car keys or other belongings.
Joanne Breiner said, she found the incident bizarre. "At first we thought, 'That's so strange, so weird, we couldn't even imagine,'" she said.
Police arrived, made their way to the master bedroom and woke the man by shaking him. Breiner said he asked the officers what they were doing in his house.
The family decided not to press charges.
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