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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY FEBBUARY 23, 2007
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one reason she began working for sunflower Sitters. She heard about the service through Weisman, her roommate.
Cooper said she had tried to baby-sit on her own in Lawrence, but she couldn't find any families to work with.
"I had been looking for other jobs around Lawrence, and that was nothing really available that fit with my schedule or paid something more than minimum wage." Cooper said.
Cooper said she made more money working through Sunflower Sitters than she could baby sitting on her own. She said Windibiziri made the job easier because she told her sitters about each child's interests and matched the children with sitters with similar interests and abilities.
Windbiziri said her service focused on occasional baby-sitting rather than regular or full-time child-care. She charges $35 a year for the referral service, and she takes $10 from parents for every referral she makes. Families pay the hourly wages directly to the sitters.
She said her sitters chose when
"Saving no to me doesn't mean they won't get another job," Windibiziri said.
to work.
Windibiziri said she would like to increase her roster of nine sitters to 25 or 30. Although her current sitters are all college-aged women, Windibiziri said she would also hire older people or men if they were qualified.
"It's the ideal job for a college student." Weisman said.
Sitters must be high school graduates, have experience working with children and be CPR and first-aid certified. Windibiziri said sitter applications and contact information could be found at the services' Web site, www.sunflowersitters.com.
Kansan staff writer Matt Erickson can be contacted at merickson@ kansan.com.
Weisman said she recommended the job to anyone who enjoyed working with children.
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boulevard, hopefully that _won't be too far out of the way?_ she said.
Lane Stallbaumer, Rossville sophomore, parked in one of the few spaces not closed off in the stadium lot but said he only found a spot because he had class at 8 a.m.
Some students parked in the gravel lot west of the stadium on Tuesday until at least one car became stuck in the muddy lot and had to be pulled out by construction workers. Hultine said the lot was especially muddy because recent snow and rain washed away the top layer of gravel. She advised against parking there until it dried up.
Stallbaumer said he saw the girl whose car was stuck in the mud while he was leaving the tuc Tuesday afternoon.
"There was one guy trying to
push her哭 but there was no way he was going to be able to get her out by himself" he said. "Id guess they probably had to tow her eventually."
The storm sewer project precedes several other construction projects that will take place soon in the area. Many of the spots currently blocked off will be lost to the football facility and practice fields. Construction crews plan to pave a lot on the hill between JRP Hall and Memorial Stadium to replace those spots. Modig said the current construction would probably overlap with work on the new lot.
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@kansan. com.
- Edited by Kelly Lanigan
Janitorial firm in messy situation
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — More than 200 illegal immigrants and three officials who were arrested at a nationwide janitorial service face federal fraud and tax charges after an investigation of cleaning crews at a northern Michigan resort, government officials said.
The detainees — mostly Mexican nationals — who were rounded up early Thursday were working as janitors for Rosenbaum Cunningham International Inc., or RCI, a Florida-based cleaning contractor.
RCI co-owners Richard M. Rosenbaum, 60, of Longwood, Fla.; and Edward Scott Cunningham, 43, of West Palm Beach, Fla.; and firm controller Christina A. Flocken, 59; also of Longwood, face criminal
fraud, immigration and tax charges in a 23-count indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
"This is not a case of bad bookkeeping or skirting the rules," said Brian M. Moskowitz, special agent in charge of the Detroit office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "It involved flagrant criminal behavior."
Moskowitz said during a news conference in Grand Rapids that federal agents arrested Resbaenum in Longwood earlier in the day. Cunningham and Flocken were expected to soon turn themselves in to federal authorities in Grand Rapids, where the case will be tried, he said.
Their practice of paying cash wages to their workers deprived the U.S. government of about $18.6 million in employment taxes, according to the indictment.
"In this particular investigation, these defenders took advantage of illegal workers in order to enrich themselves by violating the internal revenue laws that were created specifically to protect the legitimate work force, all at a cost to taxpayers of approximately $18 million, all so that they could live a very lavish lifestyle and live the high life," said Sandra L. Carter, special agent in charge of the Internal Revenue Service office in Detroit.
About 203 illegal immigrants who worked for RCI were arrested and expected to be deported, Moskowitz said. Agents took them into custody at 63 business locations in 17 states and the District of Columbia.
An outgoing telephone message from RCI's headquarters in Palm Beach, Fla., said the company — incorporated in Nevada — had "ceased operations" effective Thursday.
Not only did RCI fail to pay employment taxes on its nationwide operations — its clients included such venues as Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Cafe and ESPN Zone
The joint ICE-IRS investigation began 20 months ago at the Grand Traverse Resort in Acme in Michigan's northwestern Lower Peninsula.
— but its top officials also had its supervisors procure and maintain a work force of illegal immigrants and authorized managers to provide them with fake resident cards, or green cards, according to the indictment.
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different effects.
Krise compared the cell membranes of the aged cells and the cells in the control group to a revolving door. If the door moved rapidly at one store and slowly at another, the same number of people would be able to get in the first store faster than the second store. This represents an older person's cells being more responsive to the same amount of a drug than a younger person's cells.
Most drug therapy is reactive, Krise said. All patients receive the same dose. If side effects occur, then the doctors may change the dose.
"That's a really archaic way of going about this," Krise said. "Right from the get-go, we should be giving the person the correct dosage."
Although this study is a simple model, it could revolutionize drug therapy if proven in animal and
human models, Funk said.
"If that big of a difference is seen in large-scale models, it will have a very big implication in clinical practice?" Funk said.
This research is specific to more than 20 therapeutic drugs that have a narrow therapeutic index, which means there is a fine line between a drug being therapeutic and toxic.
Cathy Thrasher, pharmacist supervisor at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that Extra Strength Tylenol was one of those drugs. If a person exceeded more than 4,000 milligrams, or eight tablets, in a 24-hour period, it could cause serious adverse effects.
Kansan staff writer Danae DeShazer can be contacted at ddshater@kansan.com.
Edited by Kelly Lanigan
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way, " Pierce said.
One Women of KU model, Bryn Maughner, Garden City senior, said her calendar has a quality to uphold.
"We're all celebrating our youth, our beauty, our intelligence, and we're doing something we'll never be able to do again," she said.
Featured in three different calendars, Maughner now assists in the interview process for selecting models. She said after application photos are seen, women are called for interviews to learn more about the candidates' inner beauty.
Maughmer said the anarchists can't be selected for the Women of KU calendar if they don't apply, and therefore the anarchists' complaints are not justified.
"I think it's great what they're doing and I'm sure they're proud of their photos and it's too bad they're not supportive of us," Maughner said.
The money raised from the calendars, which cost $8, help raise funds for community groups and radical organizations including the Solidarity! center. The 2007 calendars cost slightly more than $500 to produce 300 copies, which were printed in Denver by a friend of the Solidarity! center.
The calendars are available at the Solidarity! center, 1109 Massachusetts St.
Kansan staff writer Tyler Harbert can be contacted at tharbert@ kansan.com.
Edited by Will McCullough
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