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"If you don't like how things are, change it. You're not a tree."
— John Rohn, American author
fact of the day
It can take as little as four but as many as 15 years to grow a Christmas tree of average retail sale height (six to seven feet). The average growing time is seven years.
www.christmastree.org
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
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Tree sitters raise their arms towards supporters while sitting at a redwood tree on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, Calif., on Sept. 9. The last remaining protesters living in trees on the UC Berkeley campus descended from their perch Tuesday, ending a 21-month occupation of a campus grave aimed at stopping construction of a sports center.
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ODD NEWS UCLA mathematicians find infinite possibilities
LOS ANGELES —Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.
The group found the 46th known Mersenne prime last month on a network of 75 computers running Windows XP. The number was verified by a different computer system running a different algorithm.
"We're delighted" said UCLA's Edson Smith, the leader of the effort. "Now we're looking for the next one, despite the odds."
It's the eighth Mersenne prime discovered at UCLA.
Primes are numbers like three, seven and 11 that are divisible by only two whole positive numbers: themselves and one.
Hospital error tells a man he's expecting
PORTLAND, Ore. — A patient treated for agonizing abdominal pain received this surprising news in the hospital's paperwork: "Based on your visit today, we know you are pregnant."
Surprising indeed for 71-year-old John Grady Pippen.
The staff at Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach gave the retired mechanic and logger the ridiculously happy news this month, along with some pain pills.
Hospital administrator William McMillan says an errant keystroke caused the hospital's computer to spit out the wrong discharge instructions for the grandfather.
Would-be robber stumped by question
CENTEREACH, N.Y. — Police say a bank teller in Long Island, New York, had a simple question for a would-be robber: Are you serious?
The skeptical teller's question was apparently enough to spook the female suspect, who fled the Roslyn Savings Bank in Centereach late Thursday afternoon without a dime.
Police say she walked into the bank located inside a supermarket and handed the teller a note demanding cash and threatening to open fire if the teller didn't comply.
You smelt it, you dealt it: fart prompts charges
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia man accused of gas and fanning it toward a police officer no longer faces a battery charge.
The Kanawha County prosecutor's office requested that the charge be dropped against 34-year-old Jose Cruz.
According to a criminal complaint, Cruz passed gas and made a fanning motion toward patrolman T.E. Parsons after being taken to the police station for a breathalyzer test.
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The public event "All Majors Senior Day — Registration Required" will begin at 8:15 a.m. in the Kansas Union.
The student group event "Jewish New Year Celebrations Sponsored by Chabad at KU — Services and Buffet Lunch" will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
The UGRA Meeting will begin! at 1 p.m. in Nunenaker Center.
The workshop "Dreamweaver: Quick Fixes" will begin at 3 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The workshop "Employment Workshops for International Students" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
The public event "Neutral Ground: All U.S. Combat Forces Should be Withdrawn from Iraq by May 2010" is at 7 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
The seminar "NOT Over the Hill at 50: Sexuality & Relationships in the Lives of Older Adults" will begin at 7 p.m. in Continuing Education.
NATIONAL Hurricane Kyle misses Maine, heads to Canada
MACHIAS, Maine — Fishermen moved boats to shelter from a rare burst of tropical weather along Maine's rugged eastern coast Sunday as a weakening Hurricane Kyle spun past on its way to Canada, threatening a glancing blow equivalent to a classic nor'easter.
A hurricane watch for Maine was discontinued Sunday, but a tropical storm warning remained in effect from Stonington, at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, to Eastport on the Canadian border, the National Hurricane Center said. The Canadian Hurricane Centre issued a hurricane warning for parts of southwestern Nova Scotia.
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Wednesday is the deadline to change your KU Online ID password. This change is required twice a year. You'll need to do it for access to online services such as Enroll and Pay, and Blackboard.
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