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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2008
quote of the day
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
Buddha
Thirty-Seven Percent of the electricity generated world-wide is produced from coal. — https://mnpjp.com
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According to KU math professor Ben Cobb, the probability of randomly picking all 32 winners in the first round of the NCAA tournament is one in 4.3 billion. If you take the No.1 seeds out of the equation, the probability gets much better at 1 in 268 million.
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BRIEFLY Priest's Chihuahua joins him for daily worship
BRIEFLY
NAHA, Japan — At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays.
Mimicking his master, priest Joei Yoshikuni, a 1/12-year-old black-and-white Chihuahua named Conan joins in the daily prayers at Naha's Shuri Kannono道场, sitting up on his hind legs and putting his front paws together before the altar.
It took him only a few days to learn the motions, and now he is the talk of the town.
"Word has spread, and we are getting a lot more tourists," Yoshikuni said Monday.
Yoshikuni said Conan generally goes through his prayer routine at the temple in the capital of Japan's southern Okinawa prefecture (state) without prompting before his morning and evening meals.
"I think he saw me doing it all the time and got the idea to do it, too," Yoshikuni said.
The priest is now trying to teach him how to meditate.
Well. sort of.
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"Basically, I am just trying to get him to sit still while I meditate," he explained. "It's not like we can make him cross his legs."
Man blames speeding on milk and cookies
A 290-pound male elephant calf standing next to its mother, 24-year-old Felix, Thursday, the Maryland Zoo, in Baltimore. Felix delivered the calf in the Elephant Barn on Wednesday after a relatively short labor. The delivery was the first elephant birth in the zoos' 132-year history.
SALISBURY, Conn. — Police say a man's excuse for speeding through a small Connecticut town takes the cake — or, at least, the cookie.
A state trooper who stopped the 1993 BMW last fall says its driver, 28-year-old Justin Vonkummer of Millerton, N.Y., blamed his driving problems on an errant Oreo.
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Vonkummer told the trooper that an Oreo had just slipped from his fingers as he dunked it in a cup of milk, and that he was trying to fish it out when he lost control of his car.
Prosecutors learned in court this week that Vonkummer had been charged with speeding and driving under a suspended license — not driving under the influence, as a clerk had mistakenly noted in the court records.
Vonkummer's attorney declined to comment. The case is pending.
Beetle joins Tennessee police department
MARYVILLE, Tenn. — Blount County's newest police cruiser has been turning heads, but whether it could keep up in a high-speed chase seems unlikely
high-speed those seems unlikely.
Assistant Chief Deputy Archie Garner retrofitted a 1973 Volkswagen Beetle to add to the sherrif's fleet of police interceptors, but with a top-end speed of about 70 mph, he's not writing a lot of speeding tickets.
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The "bug-erceptor" was seized in a DUI case and boasts a new paint job, sheriff's decals and tags, a siren, radio, barred rear side windows, a side-mounted spotlight and police lights.
The car even has the same number, 53, as Herbie the Volkswagen race car in the movie "The Love Bug."
The Blount County Sheriff's Office's "new" 1973 Volkswagen Beetle cruiser is pictured on Saturday, March 22, in Maryville, Tenn. Assistant Chief Deputy Archie Garner put as much as $2,000 of his own money into restoring the car which was seized in a DU case.
Garner said the car will be
used mostly as a public relations tool for the department, making appearances in parades and at school events.
Alaskan finds 21-year-old message in a bottle
SEATTLE — Merle Brandell and his black lab Slapsey were beachcombing along the Bering Sea when he spied a plastic bottle among the Japanese glass floats he often finds along the shore of his tiny Alaskan fishing village.
He walked over and saw an envelope tucked inside. After slicing the bottle open, Brandell found a message from an elementary school student in a suburb of Seattle. The fact that the letter traveled 1,735 miles without any help from the U.S. postal service is unusual, but that's only the beginning of the mystery.
About 21 years passed between the time Emily Hwaung put the message in a soda bottle and Merle Brandell picked it up on the beach.
"This letter is part of our science project to study oceans and learn about people in distant lands," she wrote. "Please send the date and location of the bottle with your address. I will send you my picture and tell you when and where the bottle was placed in the ocean. Your friend, Emily Hwaung."
residents of Nelson Lagoon were intrigued by his find. Beachcombing is a popular activity in remote western Alaska. Among the recent discoveries was a sail boat that washed onto shore last October.
Brandell, 34, a bear hunting guide and manager of a water plant, said many of the 70-plus
"it's kind of a sport. It keeps us occupied. It's one of the pleasures of living here," Brandell said of the village reachable only by plane or boat that is too small to have its own store.
Brandell tried to track down the sender:a fourth grader from the North City School in the Shoreline School District.
No one answered when Brandell called the school in December so he sent the school district a handwritten letter, which eventually ended up on
the desk of district spokesman Craig Degginger.
After some searching, Deginger discovered Emily Hwauung is now a 30-year-old accountant named Emily Shih and lives in Seattle. She was in the fourth grade during the 1986-87 school year at a school building that closed more than a year ago.
Shih said she was flabbergasted by the news and immediately shared it with her Kirkland co-workers.
"I don't remember the project. It was so long ago. Elementary school is kind of foggy." Shih admitted during a recent interview. "I've been getting a kick out of it for a month now."
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on campus
The workshop "Introduction to Supervision (Day 1 of 2)" will begin at 9 a.m. in 204 JRP.
The workshop "American Marketing Association Workshop featuring Google, YouTube and Google Earth" will begin at 1:30 p.m. at Regnier Hall Auitorium.
The baseball team will compete against Chicago State at 3 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark.
The University Senate Executive Meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Strong Hall.
on the record
A 53-year old KU employee reported a theft of four cabinet doors and hardware Tuesday, March 18. The theft occurred on the 1900 block on Massachusetts St. between 1 p.m. on March 14 and 4:30 p.m. on March 18.
A 20-year-old KU student reported the theft of two door jams and a sheetrock wall on Friday March 21. The damage occurred on W. 24th Street between 2:30 a.m. and 2:45 a.m. and was valued at $150.
CRIME Lawrence man receives sentence for hit and run
Joshua Walton, a 25-year-old Lawrence resident, was sentenced to two years in jail and two years of supervised probation on Monday for the hit-and-run death of Ryan Kanost, a 22-year-old KU student, in 2006.
In February Walton was convicted by a jury of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an injury accident.
Douglas County District Court Judge Robert Fairchild sentenced Walton to 12 months in jail for each crime, but Walton will only have to spend 90 days in jail if he meets the requirements of his probation.
CORRECTION
Monday's article "Who's your president?" misstated the position for Austin Kelly, Adam McGonigle and Adam Wood are campaigning. They are running for student body president, not Student Senate president.
Monday's article "Sweet Victory" misstated Villanova's seeding in the NCAA tournament. The Wildcats are a 12-seed.
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