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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008
quote of the day
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
— Pablo Picasso
fact of the day
Pablo Picasso's full name was "Pablitio Diego Jose Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso Lopez".
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Where the wild things play
Three-month-old tiger cub Zoya, rejected by her mother, plays with German Shepherd puppy Frida of the same age, in a special enclosure at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, on Aug. 13.The dog owned by a zoo employee, was introduced to the tiger so that she could have a companion for the next few months.
ODD NEWS Puppy scares three bears, guards family from attack
A 15-pound cocker spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scared off a mother bear and her two cubs Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners' back yard.
His bark was worse than his bite, but Pawlee's tactic worked just fine. The three bears got the hint and took off.
"We had just let him out for the morning and he ran into the yard and started barking his head off," owner Fran Osiason said.
His barking drove the two cubs up a tree, and they eventually climbed down and hopped over a fence with their mother and retreated into the woods.
Osiason said her 9-year-old son, Jacob, went outside to see what the commotion was about and came running back in to report there were bears in the yard
Osiason said she, her son, husband Andrew and 6-year-old daughter Eden have had Pawlee since he was about 8 weeks old. She marveled at his fearlessness.
"He's a little fur ball," she said.
She was worried that the mother would come after Pawlee to protect her cubs, but the pugnacious pup, just 8 months old, had other plans.
Northern New Jersey seems to breed feisty pets: In 2006, a tabby cat named Jack chased a bear up a tree in his West Milford yard.
Bears are not uncommon in Wyckoff, but Osiason said her family has lived there for about 10 years and had not seen any until Sunday.
With Pawlee on guard, they might not see another one anytime soon.
Italian priest organizes "Miss Sister 2008" contest
ROME — An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.
The "Miss Sister 2008" contest will start in September on a blog run by the Rev. Antonio Rungi and will give nuns from around the world a chance to showcase their work and their image.
"Nuns are a bit excluded. They are a bit marginalized in ecclesiastical tical life," Rungji told The Associated Press after Italian media carried reports of the idea. "This will be an occasion to make their contribution more visible."
Each nun will fill out a profile including information about her life and vocation, as well as a photograph. Each will choose whether to pose with the traditional veil or with her head uncovered.
Rungi, a theologian and schoolteacher from the Naples area, said that visitors to his site will have a month to "vote for the nun they consider a model."
"We are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits," Rungi said by telephone from his town of Mondragone. "But being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and we mustn't hide it."
Rungi said the idea was first suggested to him by nuns with whom he regularly prays and works. He hopes there will be dozens of submissions once the Web site is started.
"It's an initiative that be-littles the role of nuns who have dedicated themselves to God," the group's president, Alberto Giannino, told Italy's ANSA news agency on Sunday.
Train runs out of fuel causes two-hour delay
The contest drew criticism from the Association of Catholic Teachers.
SAN DIEGO — A quick train trip down the coast turned into a long haul for more than 80 Amtrak passengers when their train from Los Angeles to San Diego ran out of fuel Sunday night.
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Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole said the train sat for about two hours on the northern edge of San Diego before another engine came along to push it the last several miles to the San Diego train station.
A train running out of fuel is "an unusual occurrence" and Amtrak officials will be looking into how it happened, Cole said.
The train, which had left Los Angeles at 8:30 p.m., didn't get there until 1:15 a.m. Monday, two hours late.
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Valerie Rock poses with her cat Yoda. Tad and Valerie rock said they've been tended with television offers and media inquiries since their son posted a photo of their smoke-colored cat on a Web site, which turned the four-eared feline into an Internet celebrity.
It wasn't quite love at first sight, but the Rocks felt sorry for the cat and offered to adopt the kitten from the bar's owner, who kept the animal caged atop the bar for his customers' amusement.
Ted and Valerie Rock said they've been inundated with television offers and media inquiries since their son posted a photo of their smoke-colored cat on a Web site. That turned the four-eared feline from a suburban animal oddity into an instant Internet celebrity.
ance and calling him names such as "Devil Cat" and "Beelzebub."
Auctioneers find military explosives at estate sale
DOWNERS GROVE, III. — The owners of Yoda — a cat with four ears — could use a couple extra hands to answer their telephones.
The Rocks, from the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, have fielded calls from "Good Morning America""Fox News"and"The Tyra Banks Show."The cat's photo has graced the London Guardian and a British tabloid. The Daily Mail said if Batman had a cat, it would be Yoda.
Yoda's extra ears give him a hint of a devilish appearance. The Rocks said they found him in 2006 while watching a Chicago Bears game at a Blue Island bar.
MAYFLOWER, Ark. — Auctioneers preparing for a backyard estate sale Saturday morning made an explosive discovery among the china and other items up for bid — a suitcase full of military-grade explosives.
Some in the bar were passing the then-eight-week old kitten around, making fun of his extra set of ears, mocking his appear-
The rusted, padlocked suitcase sat alongside a porcelain coffee service set, decorative enamel-finished eggs and a vintage gas-powered model of the 1965 Chaparral II race car prototype.
Auctioneers got the suitcase open just before the sale on Saturday and found three blocks of military-grade C-4 plastic explosive, two tubes of a similar plastic explosive, a blasting cap and some dynamite.
Workers quickly called 911. The Conway Fire Department's bomb squad put the aging explosives inside a special container and drove them out to an isolated spot to destroy them, district chief Jon McMahon told the Log Cabin Democrat newspaper.
Faulkner County sheriff's office Maj. Andy Shock said the explosives had deteriorated over time and likely were at least 15 years old. Shock said that age put the C-4 at the outer limits of its shelf life, meaning the explosives were unstable and even more dangerous.
The auction went on as planned.
The items at the estate sale belonged to a U.S. Navy veteran who died recently, Shock said. Deputies continued to investigate the incident, but charges weren't likely as the presumed owner of the explosives is dead, he said.
Typo gives employee $850,000 longevity bonus
Jo Harris was supposed to receive an $850 longevity bonus for working at the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission for seven years. But a misplaced decimal point turned that into a six-figure windfall.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma officials say a typo resulted in a state employee receiving a bonus of $850,000 — but it was only temporary.
Harris said she would let state officials know right away if the extra money entered her account because, "I don't go to jail for anybody."
Harris's original paycheck issued in February was canceled and a new one was issued with the correct bonus. Officials told Harris about the mistake and asked her to watch her personal bank account.
Officials say they caught the error before the $850,000 left state funds.
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on the record
On Aug. 25, the KU Public Safety Office reported that someone removed the rear license tag from an unattended car on the KU campus.
On Aug. 25, the Lawrence Police Department reported that:
On Aug. 21, a KU student reported a stole license plate.
On Aug. 21, a KU student reported the theft of a bicycle valued at $800.
On Aug. 23, a KU student was the victim of battery.
On Aug.22, a KU student was the victim of domestic battery.
On Aug. 23, a KU student reported missing a purse and its contents, valued at $135.
On Aug. 23, a KU student reported $1,100 in criminal damage to a vehicle.
On Aug. 23, a KU student reported the theft of an iPod valued at $300.
On Aug.24, a KU student reported criminal damage to a vehicle.
on campus
The workshop *7 Habits of Highly Effective People* will begin at 8 a.m. in 204 JRP Hall.
The workshop "SoftChalk LessonBuilder" will begin at 10 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The workshop "Introduction to Personal Computing with Windows" will begin at 1 p.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The workshop "RefWorks: Writing and Citing" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
A University Senate Executive Committee Meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Provost Conference Room in Strong Hall.
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corrections
Monday's article "KU on Wheels changes fares and routes" misidentified Derek Meier. He is an Independence, Kan., sophomore.
In the outline of the photo for the Aug, 25 story 'KU soccer team shuts out nationally ranked Purdue', the Kansan misspelled the name Jenny Murtaugh.
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