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MONDAY,OCTOBER 15,2007
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King George, a rare King Cheetah, devours his birthday cake during a celebration Sunday at the Miami Metrozoo. Children attending the birthday celebration were treated to chocolate or vanilla cupcakes and King George's cake consisted of chunk meat, dry kitten chow, lean turkey, bacon candles and mashed potato frosting. King George is one of only five King Cheetahs in the U.S.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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Longest kiss - 29 hours by contestants in the "Breath Savers Longest Kiss Challenge" in New York on March 24, 1998.
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Recruiters from Schlumberger will be available all day in 103 Lindley Hall.
The Kansas Public Radio Membership Drive will be held all day in the Broadcasting Hall.
James Scanian will present the lecture "Dostoevsky and the Puzzle of the Underground Man" at 3:30 p.m. in the Conference Hall in Hall Center.
Grant H. Lundberg will present the Linguistics Colloquy "Dialect Usage in Slovenia" at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Blake Hall.
Raghunath V. Chaudhari, Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, will present the lecture "Future of Catalysis and Reactor Engineering in Emerging Technologies" at 5:30 p.m. in Anderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The Study Abroad Fair will start at 6:30 p.m. in Nunemaker Center.
The foreign film "Daratt" (Dry Season) will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2 in the 4th floor Hawk Shop Convenience Store in the Kansas Union.
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ODD NEWS Men wrangle 11-foot shark during fishing tournament
DESTIN, Fla. — Six friends went to a fishing tournament looking to catch some grouper. They caught an 844-pound shark instead.
The fight by Adlee Bruner and friends to pull the 11-foot mako shark onto the boat from the Gulf of Mexico took more than an hour. But when they made it back to land, it was a record for the decades-old Destin Fishing Rodeo.
"It was tense," Bruner, 47, said about the fight to land the shark, which has a mouthful of huge, fearsome teeth. "I've fished for 40 years. I've never see one that big."
Bruner and his fishing buddies were on a 52-foot charter boat with Capt. Robert Hill. The fishermen first noticed the big mako because it kept eating grouper and scamp they had hooked.
"It was like 'Jaws.'" Hill said.
Hill hooked a two-foot amberine on as bait and tossed it out. The shark eventually hit it. After the long fight, the shark was gaffed and eventually gave up after its tail was roped. But even then, the men could not get the big shark in the boat. They tied it to the stern with three ropes and made the four-hour trip back to land. The shark was hoisted at the rodeo before a big crowd. It tipped the scale at 844.4 pounds.
After it was gutted, the mako still weighed 638 pounds, breaking the tournament's previous shark division record by 338 pounds.
Air company pays reward for cycle mistaken for trash
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The "Copper Chopper" is back home after being mistaken for trash.
The motorcycle, made by workers at a Cabot heating-and-air company, was reported stolen from the Bikes, Blues & BBQ festival in Fayetteville this week.
Employees built the motorcycle with copper tubing, tubing insulation, a refrigerator drum, a blower motor, refrigerant gauges, nut drivers, two squirrel cage blower housings and sheet metal.
The motorcycle was picked up by someone who was told everything left behind was trash. Moore Heat and Air paid a $200 reward for the motorcycle, which won the creative contest at the motorcycle festival.
"I am just glad that someone took it because it was cool and not just for the copper," employee Sherry Mash said. "With so much copper theft going on these days, we were afraid that it had been scrapped for the copper and we would never see it again."
The nonfunctioning motorcycle serves as a mascot for the company.
"it's basically junk to anybody but us," Dave Moore said.
Pagers allow jurors to shop while waiting for selection
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — Like diners waiting for a seat in a popular restaurant, jurors in one busy Michigan court soon could be free to stroll and shop until a pager summons them for duty.
Macomb County Clerk Carmella Sabaugh said the pagers would relieve the 23,000 potential jurors called each year to the courthouse in downtown Mount Clemens of the dull hours waiting to be picked for a trial.
"It's something we've been wanting to do for a long time. But it never really did take form until now," she told The Macomb Daily.
One business leader said the pagers could be a boon for store and restaurant owners in the area about 20 miles northeast of Detroit.
"We love it," said Arthur Mullen, executive director of the Mount Clemens Downtown Development Authority. "They will get to know our beautiful downtown, our shops and restaurants. They'll get a flavor of it and be interested in coming back."
Sabaugh has made other changes aimed at making jury duty easier, led by a one-day, one-trial system that shortens service for many jurors.
A partnership with the SMART suburban bus system provides free ride to the courthouse. The jury room has free wireless Internet service, and the Mount Clemens Public Library offers free books and other reading materials.
If judges and the Board of Commissioners approve the pagers, Sabaugh said she could have the program in place by spring.
Woman gets $500 reward for returning missing cash
WERNERSVILLE, Pa. — A woman who found $20,000 in cash at a convenience store last month is getting a $500 reward from the armored car company that lost it.
Joi Lyn Honer found the stack of $20 bills by a cash machine in Brigantine, N.J., over Labor Day weekend and turned the money over to police.
"I'm grateful," she told The Press of Atlantic City on Wednesday. "I didn't do it for the reward, but I think I have $500 that I didn't have three days ago, and that's really helpful to me."
News of the reward arrived in the form of a letter from Loomis, the armored car company. Honer said
she has no regrets.
"If didn't know all this was going to happen, I would still do the exact same thing," she said.
Last week, a sanitation worker in St. Petersburg, Fla., found a plastic bag on the road that contained $65,000 after first mistaking the bag for a turtle.
That money had apparently fallen from a Loomis armored car a half-hour earlier.
A message left with a Loomis spokesman was not immediately returned Saturday.
Hungry burglar escapes with Hot Pocket, ravioli
APPLETON, Wis. — This thief apparently had quite the appetite.
Appleton police received a call Wednesday of a burglary — not of valuables but of food.
The burglar apparently entered the unlocked apartment and left with a pizza, six eggs, a can of beef ravioli, a can of peaches and one chicken-and-broccoli Hot Pocket, authorities said.
The crime apparently occurred between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., the police report said.
Police had no immediate suspects.
Woman reports attack on Halloween display
LLOYD, N.Y. — A woman says a neighbor attacked her inflatable Halloween lawn display of three ghosts and a giant pumpkin, then apparently smashed his head through her window in a fit of rage.
State Police said officers found a drunken John Odee, 43, inside Dawn Garcia's house in the
Hudson Valley town of Lloyd on Thursday night, arrested him after a brief struggle and charged him with burglary.
Garcia told the Middletown Times Herald-Record she heard hollering and swearing and looked outside to see Odee struggling with the giant pumpkin. "He was enraged. I could see that," she said.
When she yelled at him to go away, Odee charged the house. She fled through the back door with three of her children and heard window glass breaking. She called 911 from another neighbor's house.
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Wednesday, there's a free showing of the movie "Sneakers" at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union. It's a feature program of KU's CyberSecurity Awareness Month. It will include a Q&A session from Information Technology staff before the film and a prize drawing after the film. Check www.BeSeKUre.ku.edu for details.
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