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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2008
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens."
Abraham Lincoln
fact of the day
Sir Isaac Newton is not only credited with the laws of gravity but is also credited with inventing the cat flap.
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1. 'Mr.Jayhawk' times five
1. M.I. Jayhawk lives five
2. Championship parade takes over downtown
3. Free HIV testing for students begins today
4. Hawks catch victory against Red Raiders
5. Students go 'Into the Streets,' volunteer for center
Need last minute tax help? Check the Web site of Legal Services for Students. While your appointment calendar is booked for today, their Web site, www.legalservices.ku.edu, gives specific instructions for people who have yet to file.
NEW ORLEANS — Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti looked down at the litter of empty oyster shells in front of him and savored the sweet taste of victory.
In "The party's not over" story in Monday's issue, The Kansan reported that 40,000 people attended the downtown parade. According to the Lawrence Police Department, no official estimate had been made. The Lawrence Journal-World reported the number to be 80,000 based on an unofficial estimate by a LPD officer.
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CORRECTION
FOOD WAR Chicago resident becomes oyster eating champion
FOOD WAR
The Acme World Oyster Eating championship belt hung on Bertoletti's skinny hips. The 22-year-old Chicago resident took the title Saturday by slurping 35 dozen of the big bivalves in eight minutes.
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ODD NEWS
Kentucky goat causes city commission controversy
Kentucky city commission debates allowing woman to keep pet goat
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A central Kentucky planning board won't get Gale Warfield's goat, but the city commission might.
The issue came up in October when Warfield received a violation notice about the goat and duck she keeps as pets on her residential property. Warfield said the letter informed her that Szokie the goat had to go.
Officials in Frankfort are discussing whether goats are livestock or pets.
Then she received a second letter saying he could stay while officials decide what he is.
Last month, the city's planning commission proposed an amendment that would have allowed up to two farm animals to live in the city on land of five acres or more. Under the current regulations, farm animals are only permitted on tracts of five acres or more that are zoned industrial, commercial or agricultural.
A public meeting on the proposed changes was scheduled last week but the meeting was canceled and the amendment withdrawn. The members of the zoning committee said the proposed changes were unnecessary.
"The committee likes the ordinance as is," said City Planning Director Gary Mueller. "To me a goat is a farm animal."
Mueller said the City Commission would have to enact any changes. "The consensus of the committee is to recommend this to the City Commission, instead of amending any ordinance," he said
Warfield said she's distraught because the situation is still unresolved.
"I don't know what to do from one day to the next," she said. "I'm at a loss for words on all this."
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She'll plead her case one last time to the City Commission on April 28. If Warfield is forced to get rid of Szokie, she said, she'll try and find him a good home that will love and care for him.
Officers said a customer then tackled the man, but the robber broke free and bolted out the door.
"He's not a typical farm animal!" Warfield said."I don't want him to be sold to a stockyard for slaughter."
Police said a masked man flashed a knife at the Cigarette Outlet on Friday and forced one employee to the floor, then demanded money from another worker, Ruth Wricht.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A cigarette store cashier has snuffed out a robbery.
Employee throws tobacco defends store from robber
A cashier, Kittie Peacock, said the store had been robbed at least once before.
Instead of cash, Wright threw two cans of chewing tobacco at the robber, and one hit him in the face.
Magic in the air
Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters perform in front of the Cinderella Castle during the ceremony that celebrated the 25th anniversary of Tokyo Disneyland on Tuesday. Located just outside of the Japanese capital, Tokyo Disneyland opened 25 years ago today and, together with sister park park Tokyo DisneySea, which opened in 2011, has become one of major tourist attractions in the country.
'Wayne's World' inspired artwork for sale on eBav
The suburban Chicago landmark is named the Spindle and features cars from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s skewered on a metal spike.
artwork for sale on eBay
But that may be changing. Ethiopians know that coffee — which originated in this impoverished East African nation — can be their ticket to the first world. And the biggest profits are in the most gourmet blends.
Bids open at $50,000,and the auction closes Thursday. The eBay listing says it will cost $100,000 to ship the 50-foot structure.
BERWYN, III. — A towering sculpture of eight cars made famous in the movie "Wayne's World" is up for sale on eBay.
Berwyn residents are divided on what to do with the structure which is covered with rust and pigeon droppings. It was supposed to be dismantled last year to make way for a pharmacy, but preservation groups formed and protested.
The Spindle — also known as the "Car Kabob" and the "Eight Car Pileup" — draws fans of the 1992 comedy starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey.
So during the past five years, a partnership has grown between private buyers, humanitarian agencies and local government
to nurture homegrown experts in pursuit of ever-more-boutique brews to capture higher prices.
California artist Dustin Shuler built the piece in 1989.
Coffee already is the main source of foreign currency here. So much so, the government prohibits the selling of export-quality coffee domestically.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — in a room that resembles a high school chemistry lab, the keepers of the world's oldest coffee culture are learning a new way to understand the rich aroma of a cup of java.
That last one is particularly hard here in Ethiopia, where most people have never seen, much less smelled, a walnut. And in a gourmet coffee market dominated by Western corporations and Western terms, that's a handicap.
Ethiopia seeks economical benefits from coffee beans
Is that a waft of honey? Of shoe leather? Maybe walnuts?
Until now, those companies had a near monopoly on the expertise to capitalize on Ethiopia's best beans.
The coffee-smelling training is a key step. While Ethiopian farmers and traders can distinguish between exportable and nonexportable beans, they've lacked the training to make more refined — and more lucrative — distinctions.
Success also could be good for the country's partners — buyers of gourmet beans — who need new specialty beans with which to woo the type of Western consumers who buy $1,000 coffee makers.
But the coffee market fluctuates, and past downturns have threatened Ethiopia's livelihood. Specialty beans are less affected by market dips, and hitching its fortunes to those brews could help the nation stabilize its economy.
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on campus
The public event "Teal Ribbon Campaign" will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in room 400 of the Kansas Union.
The workshop "SoftChalk Lesson Builder" will begin at 10 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The CREES Brownbag:
"Internalization Higher Education in Russia" will begin at noon in 318 Bailey.
The Free Runner's Clinic will begin at 1 p.m. at the Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The Faculty Executive Committee meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in Strong Hall.
The film "Born into Brothels" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Osher Institute's Kish & Tell: Three Fascinating Tales of Sports in Kansas will begin at 7 p.m. at Continuing Education Building.
"Law & Order SVU" episode viewing and discussion will begin at 7 p.m. in the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.
MEMORIAL
Official WWII museum
adds theater to project
NEW ORLEANS — The $300-million expansion of the National World War II Museum is under way.
The project, slated for completion by 2015, "will be a fitting monument to the sacrifices of a generation of Americans," said Gordon Mueller, president and CEO of the museum.
The first two buildings in the expansion are scheduled to be open next year.
Plans call for an advanced format theater and a restaurant and entertainment venue dubbed the "Stage Door Canteen" to be constructed across the street from the popular museum. The expansion will eventually include seven buildings on six acres.
The 250-seat theater will present a signature film being developed in cooperation with Tom Hanks. It will feature a 4-D theater that will provide a "multi-sensory experience," Mueller said.
The museum, called the D-Day Museum when it opened June 6, 2000, was designated by Congress as the official World War II Museum for the country in 2004 and subsequently changed its name.
When completed, the museum complex will house a variety of exhibits including a U.S. Freedom Pavilion, Great Campaigns of the War, Land Sea and Air Pavilion to house major artifacts such as ships and planes, and a Liberation Pavilion, which will focus on the Holocaust and the advances in human rights and technology.
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CRIME
Last Call shooter gets
15-year prison sentence
The man who shot two bouncers and a 15-year-old boy outside Last Call, Seventh and New Hampshire streets, on Feb. 10 was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday.
Carlos Jerome Jackson, who plead guilty to three counts of aggravated battery, wanted a plea agreement that would give him 10 years in prison.
Judge Paula Martin requested that Jackson serve an extra five years because of Jackson's criminal history and the severity of the incident.
Jackson will also be required to pay restitution to the victims, but the amount was not set.
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