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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY AUGUST 22, 2008
quote of the day
"If you want to make lots of money, go be a snow-boarder, golfer or tennis player'cause skateboarding is not the place for it."
—Andy MacDonald, skateboarder
fact of the day
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
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1. Basketball player to ap pear in court after shooting BB gun
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2. Fans get sneak peek of football practice
3. A football paradise
4. Associate professor helps trauma victims through hivonotism
5. Swing low, fly high: Bipolar disorder affects college students
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Mourners for fallen Marine Pfc. Daniel McGuire and U.S. Army Pfc. Paul Conlon, both of Mashpee, Mass., comfort one another while holding candles during a vigil near the Mashpee Town Hall Mall. The Pentagon says McGuire was killed Aug. 14 while on a security patrol in fallujah, Iraq. Mcguire died Aug. 15 in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb up his vehicle.
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POLITICS Obama decides on VP, will announce in text
Obama is planning to announce his choice in a text message to supporters sometime before Saturday afternoon, when he's scheduled to appear with his pick in Illinois.
EMPORIA, Va. — Barack Obama says he's decided on a running mate, but he won't say who. "I've made the selection, that's all you're gonna get," Obama told reporters while campaigning in Virginia Thursday. Obama didn't say whether he's informed his pick yet.
Asked by an Associated Press reporter when the text would be sent, Obama just grinned and said, "Wouldn't you like to know?"
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ODD NEWS County sheriff sees prison from a new perspective
WAUKEGAN, III. — The Lake County sheriff is behind bars — voluntarily.
Curran said he's also trying to draw attention to the fact that jails are overpopulated with the mentally ill, the uneducated and repeat offenders. Rehabilitation needs to be a focus, he said.
Sheriff Mark Curran said his goal is to talk to inmates so he can see the jail from their perspective. That way he can try to solve potential problems, such as safety issues, and better understand the inmate experience, he said.
"I want some introspection but let's be realistic. I'm never going to be able to completely create that scenario" Curran told The Associated Press by telephone from jail.
Unlike the other inmates, Curran gets to leave on a date he chooses. Aug. 27.
Real inmates bunk together in a cell, but Curran will sleep in his own cell for safety reasons. He was locked up Wednesday.
So far Curran said he has met several inmates, not all of whom appeared to realize he was sheriff. For those who do recognize him, he said he'll have to work to gain their trust.
"There might be some skepticism amongst them," he said. "You break down the walls as much as you possibly can."
The smooth stemmed from a contest between employees at Davis County and the Davis Hospital and Medical Center. The rules: Members of the team that lost the most weight got
That's how Davis County Commissioner Alan Hansen found himself kissing a 3-year-old sand-colored horse named Reno.
Commissioner kisses horse after losing bet
So on Tuesday, Hansen met Reno on the front steps of the county courthouse and puckered up for what became a quick peck.
FARMINGTON, Utah — Lose a bet, kiss a horse.
He told the mare: "This is more for you than me."
But not before he slathered on some lip balm and popped a breath mint.
to watch their boss kiss a farm animal. This year, the county employees won — county staffers lost 397.6 pounds, just slightly trimmer than the hospital workers.
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Hansen missed out when his fellow commissioners locked lips with a cow over the weekend.
But, she said, she just doesn't get excited anymore about the annual ritual.
FLINT, Mich. — There are loyal customers, and then there's Joseph Macko.
"He does, but I don't," she said.
"He looks forward every year to buying a new car," said Gordon Taylor, who has been Macko's salesman for 22 years. "He wants that same vehicle."
New set of wheels per year for one Chevy fan
Macko, a retired General Motors Corp. worker, used to buy a new car every year, but he's been leasing the last few years. Last week, he drove home this year's fresh set of wheels — a black 2009 Cadillac DTS — from the Al Serra Auto Plaza in Grand Blanc.
The 84-year-old Flint man has bought or leased a new Cadillac every year since 1955, the year Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif., and Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus.
Marcella Macko says her husband isn't the spendthrift he might seem — he saves up all year to pay for a new car.
"You only live one time. Money is to spend," he told The Flint Journal. "I spend it once I get it."
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POLITICS Obama slams McCain over real estate gaffe
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WASHINGTON — John McCain may have created his own housing crisis.
Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn't know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, Democratic rival Barack Obama launched a national TV ad and a series of campaign stops aimed at portraying McCain as wealthy and out of touch.
With the economy ranking as the top issue in the race, Obama sought to turn McCain's gaffe into one of those symbolic moments
Think John Kerry sailboarding or the first President Bush wowed by a grocery store checkout scanner, Michael Dukakis riding in a tank or Gerald Ford eating a tamale with the husk still on.
"I think — I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico when asked Wednesday how many houses he owns. "It's condominiums where — I'll have them get to you."
that stick in voters' minds
Later, the McCain campaign told Politico that McCain and his wife, Cindy, have at least four in three states — Arizona, California and Virginia. Newsweek recently estimated the two owned at least seven properties.
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on the record
On Aug. 21, the Lawrence Police Department reported that:
-On Aug.19, a KU student reported a stolen credit card.
- On Aug. 19, a KU student reported $250 in criminal damage to a pickup truck.
-On Aug. 19, a KU student reported three instances of the unlawful financial use of an overseas credit card, totaling $1.045 in loss.
-On Aug. 20, a KU student was the victim of disorderly conduct.
-On Aug. 19, a KU student filed a complaint of criminal trespass.
NATION Restrictions on wireless microphones proposed
Consumer groups alleged in a complaint last month that users of the ubiquitous microphones, including Broadway actors, mega-church pastors and karaoke DJs, are unwittingly violating FCC rules that require licenses for the devices
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a ban on certain types of wireless microphones and has begun an investigation into how the industry markets its products.
The Public Interest Spectrum Coalition accused manufacturers of deceptive advertising in how they market and sell the microphones, which largely operate in the same radio spectrum as broadcast television stations.
The agency, in a notice released Thursday, said its enforcement bureau had opened an investigation. The FCC also is proposing that the sale and manufacture of some of the devices be banned.
"These actions would ensure that low power auxiliary operations do not cause harmful interference to new public safety and commercial wireless services in the band," the agency said Thursday.
Most owners of the microphones are unaware that FCC rules require them to obtain a license.
The FCC rarely enforces the licensing requirements on the microphones because there have been so few complaints. The microphones are programmed to avoid television channels.
Wireless microphones that operate in the same frequency bands as broadcast TV stations are intended for use in the production of TV or cable programming or the motion picture industry, according to FCC rules — not karoke.
Channels 52 through 69 in the UHF television band, currently used by broadcasters, will be vacated as they convert to digital broadcasting. The government sold that section of airwaves for $19 billion in the FCC's most successful auction in history. Other parts of that spectrum will be used by paramedics, police and firefighters.
The concern is that microphones that operate in that range may cause interference for the new licensees. It's not known how many wireless microphones operate there, but Harold Feld, a lawyer for the consumer groups, says the total is likely more than 1 million, based on a trade journal estimate.
But the looming transition to digital broadcasting, which takes place Feb.17, has forced the FCC to act.
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CORRECTIONS
In the Aug. 21 story 'Team USA tested against Australia,' the Kansan misidentified two players in a photo as Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bogut. They were Dwayne Wade of the United States and Patrick Mills of Australia. The Kansan regrets the error.
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