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Flames rise as a firefighter from the Kentucky Division of Forestry stands near his truck while a Concord brush truck responds along Ogden Landing Road in western McCracken County on Wednesday.

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Albert Jones, a Korean War veteran, views the bronze sculpture that will be part of Paducah’s Korean War Memorial during an unveiling at Chief Paduke American Legion Post 31 in Paducah on Wednesday.

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CUPERTINO, Calif. — Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ev-er-sleeker gadgets that trans-

formed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died. He was 56.

Apple announced his death without giving a specifi c cause.

“We are deeply saddened

to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” the com-pany said in a brief statement.

“Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our

lives. The world is immeasur-ably better because of Steve”

Jobs had battled cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after tak-ing a leave of absence for unspecifi ed health problems.

He took another leave of ab-sence in January — his third since his health problems be-gan — and offi cially resigned in August.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs diesBY JORDAN ROBERTSON

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Greg Ross lauds the success of his school in last year’s core con-tent testing. The McNabb Ele-mentary School principal said the environment of high expectations and teacher preparation has made the difference at the elementary school over the past few years.

McNabb’s scores for math and reading on core content testing hover just above 75 and 79 per-cent, respectively. That’s higher than both of the other elemen-

McNabb tops city’s test scores

BY REBECCA FELDHAUSrfeldhaus@paducahsun.com

In a bold and noteworthy move Wednesday, Brookport Mayor Judy Askew fi red newly hired police Chief Nheema Rodriguez-Cornelius by way of a letter.

Rodriguez-Cornelius said Askew gave her the letter, dated Oct. 4, late Wednesday morning as she was coming in to work. It notifi ed her she was dismissed from the department immediately and included a list of reasons.

Brookport police chief dismissed

BY MALLORY PANUSKAmpanuska@paducahsun.com

Leroy Branham has trouble getting around the house, so when a neighbor called him to alert him that the fi eld behind his home was burning, he start-ed to consider of an exit strategy.

“It got to the point where I started to worry about how I was going to get out of the house and

to the car,” Branham said. “The fi re just kept getting closer and closer. It was raging.”

The blaze in an area near Og-den Landing Road came within 100 feet of Branham’s house, but fi refi ghters from West McCracken Fire Department saved his home and two dogs on the property.

“I watched them fi ght it and pour water on it through my

back window,” Branham said. “I was just hoping they could stop it before it got to my house”

The fi re, which began at about 2:40 p.m., burned anywhere from eight to 10 acres of farm land and fi elds. Flames were are tall as 20 feet high, but it took engines from West McCracken, Concord and Kevil fi re departments just over an hour to extinguish.

“If the wind would have been more of a factor today, we would have been battling this fi re at the river’s edge,” said fi re Assistant Chief Larry Adams with the West McCracken Fire Department. “Fires spread so easy this time of year, and even a trash fi re can turn into a huge issue.”

West McCracken fire destroys acres

BY CORIANNE EGANcegan@paducahsun.com

For an artist, it always is a com-forting feeling to hear the masses heap praises on a new work.

Such was the case for Lower Town sculptor Linda Ogden on Wednesday when it came to the bronze depiction of the Korean War she unveiled at Chief Paduke American Legion Post 31. And with each word of approval from the

ones honored — the veterans of the Korean War themselves — Ogden knew her 200 hours worth of effort on the project were well worth it.

“I’m just excited that they’re excited about it. That makes me very proud,” said Ogden, the daughter of a World War II vet-eran and sister to a pair of Viet-nam War veterans, whose work will anchor the city’s Korean War Memorial in Dolly McNutt Plaza.

That memorial is expected to be ready sometime in December.

“With this, I wanted to show an appreciation for everyone in-volved with war,” she said, “the ones that leave their homes to serve in battle, but also the ones left at home who suffer without their loved ones.

“I wanted to make sure they’re

Veterans approve of sculptor’s Korean workBY JOHN WRIGHT

jwright@paducahsun.com

“I wanted to make sure they’re not forgotten.”

Linda OgdenLower Town sculptor

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Senior Medicare Patrol, director LaShea Sutton, 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, Paducah, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; 442-8993.

Purchase Area Chapter of Ken-tucky Retirees, 10:30 a.m., lun-cheon/business meeting, Pizza Inn, 1001 Joe Clifton Dr. Information: 898-7289 or 527-9531.

Paducah Toastmasters, noon , Farm Bureau Building, 1600 Broad-way. Clay Campbell, 703-2700, or Ricky Greenwell, 442-7179.

Downtown Kiwanis Club, lunch, noon , Elks Club, 310 N. Fourth St. 441-0825.

Wine tasting to benefit St. Nicho-las Family Clinic, 5 p.m., Pasta House Co., 451 Jordan Drive. Guest Bartender: Jeane Stroup and Melissa Gross from Jack Morris Auto Glass.

Disabled American Veterans, Miles Meredith Chapter 7 of Paducah, 6 p.m. , 1133 Murray Ave. Meal at 5:30.

Jefferson Street Area Association and Midtown Area Neighborhood Watch joint meeting, 6 p.m., meet-ing room at Pork Peddler Restaurant, 701 N. 8th St., Paducah.

Kiwanis Club of South Paducah, dinner meeting, 7 p.m. , 1640 S. Sixth St. Cathy Brown, 488-3363.

Lone Oak Woman’s Club, 7 p.m., Lone Oak Lion’s Club Building.

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Ken-Tenn Homecoming/Com-munity Forum Fish Fry, 11:30 a.m., Ken-Tenn Community Center, 804 Rosenwald Drive, South Fulton, Tenn.

Steak night, 5-8 p.m., River City Eagles Aerie 3686, 1919 Cairo Road.

Fish fry, 5:30-8 p.m. , Paducah Elks Lodge 217, 310 N. Fourth St. $10.

Dance, 7-10 p.m. , American Le-gion Post 26 Hall, Mayfield. Band: Just Breakin’ Even. $5.

Dance, 7-10 p.m. , Grand Rivers Community Center, 155 W. Cum-berland. Stanley Walker Band. $5. 362-8272.

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The discovery of unexpected chemicals delayed the investiga-tion into the cause of a fi re at Ellis Popcorn Company in Murray on Tuesday.

Dickie Walls, Murray fi re mar-shal, said on Tuesday morning he expected to begin the inves-tigation as early as Wednesday morning. However, crews found a bug pesticide inside the build-ing, which delayed investigators until late Wednesday afternoon after private environmental con-tractors removed the chemicals, Murray Fire Chief Eric Pologruto said.

Pologruto expected investiga-tors to resume work on Thurs-day morning. The building con-tinued to smoke on Wednesday, Pologruto said, with several hot spots still burning.

The second story of the build-ing collapsed Tuesday. Pologruto said the collapse was basically in-consequential, since the building was already a total loss.

No one was injured during the blaze, but a Calloway County fi re-fi ghter was hospitalized in Mur-ray for heat exhaustion late Tues-day afternoon. Pologruto said the

fi refi ghter was released from the hospital that evening.

The fi re was reported to dis-patchers about 5 a.m. Tuesday. Because smoke and fl ames were heaviest in the front of the build-

ing, Pologruto suspects that’s where the burn began. Walls contacted Bill Compton, investi-gator for the state fi re marshal’s offi ce in Frankfort, for assistance with the investigation on Tues-

day. However, Compton said on Wednesday afternoon that the state fi re marshal’s offi ce deter-mined that the Murray Fire De-partment could handle the inves-tigation without state assistance.

Cause of Ellis fire unknownBY DANIELLE RAYdray@paducahsun.com

JOHN WRIGHT | The  Sun

Murray firefighters pour water on a fire that destroyed a building belonging to Ellis Popcorn Com-pany on Tuesday.

Local Briefs

METROPOLIS, Ill. — With the fi rst succulent brisket coming off the barbecue pits around 11 a.m. Friday, the 11th annual Su-per City Blues and Ques in Me-tropolis couples a community fall festival atmosphere with a bluesy soundtrack for an experi-ence that’s sure to satiate all your senses.

Stationed along Ferry Street in downtown Metropolis on Friday and Saturday, vendors and free, live music are sure to drive in the masses from across the region. Priscilla Abell, Metropolis Parks and Recreation director, said un-like larger barbecue competitions and festivals, Blues and Ques is

designed with the local area at its heart.

“Even though teams come from all over the country to compete, we gear this festival toward our local residents,” Abell said. “It’s an op-portunity for our residents to get involved.”

In amateur competition on Fri-day evening, cooks from all walks of life can get in on the action in the “Backyard Anything But Barbecue Competition” where categories include entrees, sides, sauces and sweets. Contestants can enter their dish at the Elks Lodge by 6 p.m.

Also on Friday, children can en-joy infl atable games from 1-7 p.m., music from the Bluesberry Jam Band at 5 p.m. and Lew Jetton and 61 South at 7 p.m.

In the main barbecue competi-tion on Saturday, sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Soci-ety, contestants will each submit a barbecued chicken, pork ribs, pulled pork and beef brisket dish for judging at the Elks Lodge. Also on Saturday, the Kiwanis craft and fl ea market will be in Washington Park from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday’s musical acts will in-clude the Tommy Akers Band, 1 p.m.; Beat Daddies, 3 p.m.; Crest-view Kings, 5 p.m.; and Metropolis Midlife Crisis at 7 p.m. As always, vendors will also be frying up sug-ary favorites like fried Oreos and red velvet cake.

“It’s just a good time to get out and see your neighbors, and to en-joy some great food,” Abell said.

Time for a little hammin’ and jammin’BY WILL PINKSTON

wpinkston@paducahsun.com

ECHO DUPLICATE BRIDGE1723 Kentucky Ave.

554-9853ECHO NOTES: Club Championships

tonight, Tuesday and Thursday af-ternoon. Extra master points will be awarded winners.

Monday Night Open Pairs1.-2. (tie) Blondell Behrendt and Ora

Brooks, Barbara Day and Barbara Brit-ton.

3. Brenda Gagnon and Paul Quayle.4. Jo Echols and Jim Kallaher.

Tuesday Afternoon Open PairsN.S.

1. Barbara Day and Phil Fultz.2. Blondell Behrendt and Ora Brooks.3. Sandy Linn and Doug Snow.

E.W.1. Julia Rambo and Jane Baker.2. Sharon Henneke and Bob Echols.3. Dennis Rose and Ron Brockman.

Thursday Afternoon Open PairsN.S.

1. Bernie Behrendt and Paul Quayle.2. Peggy Paxton and Jo Echols.3. Blondell Behrendt and Jim Kallaher.

E.W.1. Sandra Lemon and Ron Brockman.2. Sharon Henneke and Phil Fultz.3. Bill Lentz and Jane Baker.

METROPOLISWednesday Afternoon Stratifi ed Pairs

Flight A1. Marcia Darnell and Florence Dick.2. Judy Shepherd and Julia Rambo.3. Fran Russell and Martha Kallaher.4. Dalton Darnell and Ron Brockman.

Flight B1. Cathy Hammersley and Margie Ev-

ans.Saturday Afternoon Stratifi ed Pairs

N.S.Flight A

1. Julia Rambo and Judy Shepherd.2. Peggy Paxton and Norma Cloyd.3. Joel and Jo Krin Pendergraft.

Flight B1. Pam Fee and Barbara Britton.

PADUCAH DUPLICATEThere will be no game at the Paducah

Duplicate Bridge Club this week.1. Sandy Linn and David Whitlock.2. Ron Brotherson and Ray Lytle.3. Joel Pendergraft and Doug Edwards.

E.W.Flight A

1. Tommy Taylor and Jane Baker.2. Jim and Marilyn Storch.3. Ron Brockman and Richard Paxton.

Flight B1. Jim and Marilyn Storch.2. Margie Evans and Cathy Ham-

mersely.HICKMAN DUPLICATE

1. Betty Amberg and Jo Grissom.2. Nancy Richards and Dianna Ner-

ren.3.-4. (a tie) Margie Evans and Carol

Howell, Doris Lattus and Betty Fields.

MAYFIELD DUPLICATESept. 26

1.-2. (tie) Sandra and Larry Lemon, Marcia Darnell and Douglas Edwards.

3. Ron Brockman and Dalton Darnell.Wednesday

1. Margi Dyer.2.-3. (tie) Peggy Brady and Beverly

Carlisle.4. Steve Van Cise.

FULTON DUPLICATESept. 26

N.S.Flight A

1. Betty Amberg and Freddye Oliver.2. Linda Jennings and Becky Bennett.3. Cathy Hammersley and Phil Fultz.

Flight B1. Linda Jennings and Becky Bennett.2. Cathy Hammersley and Phil Fultz.

E.W.Flight A

1. Bill Petrie and Jane Baker.2. Lois Harbour and Jo Grissom.3. Lucy Glover and Carol Howell.

Flight B1. Lucy Glover and Carol Howell.2. Naomi Fuller and Mercedes Engel.

Duplicate Bridge

Church bazaar scheduledSt. John Church holiday ba-

zaar will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the St. John Knights of Columbus Hall.

Second Sunday promotes afternoon physical activity

MAYFIELD — Several agen-cies in Graves County are working to promote the Second Sunday program to provide families a safe area for physi-cal activity and fun.

The Graves County Exten-sion Service, Graves County Health Department, American Red Cross and YMCA will host the activities at Kess Creek Park in Mayfield on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. The Second Sunday program originated in Bogotá, Columbia, where offi-cials would close more than 70 miles of roads every Sunday for local residents to exercise.

In similar fashion, commu-nities across the U.S. have enacted the program, but Kentucky is unique in that the entire state is encouraged to set aside the second Sunday in October each year to engage in physical activity.

The Second Sunday coali-tion encourages everyone to come out to Kess Creek for an afternoon of fun physical activi-ties, prizes and community fel-lowship. To register or request more information, contact the extension office at 270-247-2334.

The Agenda is a listing of government meetings today.

■ Paducah Renaissance Al-liance Promotions Committee — 8:45 a.m., Downtown Cof-fee Bar, 426 Broadway.

■ Paducah Renaissance Alliance Design Committee — noon, Paducah Renaissance Alliance office, 605 Broadway.

■ Paducah Riverfront De-velopment Authority — called meeting, 1 p.m., Lower Level meeting room, City Hall.

Agenda

KentuckyPick 3-midday: 4-1-8Pick 3-evening: 6-4-3Pick 4-midday: 6-0-5-7Pick 4-evening: 3-8-4-2Cash Ball: 11-18-29-33 CB 12 Cash Ball Kicker: 7-5-1-4-3Powerball: 7-20-43-46-54

PB 17 PP 4

IllinoisPick 3-midday: 2-7-5Pick 3-evening: 1-8-7Pick 4-midday: 2-5-9-9Pick 4-evening: 2-3-4-0Little Lotto: 2-4-12-13-17Lotto: 1-9-21-28-32-36Powerball: 7-20-43-46-54

PB 17 PP 4

Wednesday’s lottery

Jobs started Apple with a high school friend in a Sili-con Valley garage in 1976, was forced out a decade later and returned in 1997 to rescue the company. During his second stint, it grew into the most valuable technology company in the world.

Cultivating Apple’s coun-tercultural sensibility and a minimalist design ethic, Jobs rolled out one sensa-tional product after anoth-er, even in the face of the late-2000s recession and his own failing health.

He helped change com-puters from a geeky hobby-ist’s obsession to a neces-sity of modern life at work and home, and in the pro-cess he upended not just personal technology but the cellphone and music industries. For transforma-tion of American industry, he has few rivals.

Perhaps most infl uential-ly, Jobs in 2001 launched the iPod, which offered “1,000 songs in your pock-et.” Over the next 10 years, its white earphones and thumb-dial control seemed to become more ubiquitous than the wristwatch.

In 2007 came the touch-screen iPhone, joined a year later by Apple’s App Store, where developers could sell iPhone “apps” which made the phone a device not just for making calls but also for managing money, editing photos, playing games and social networking. And in 2010, Jobs introduced the iPad, a tablet-sized, all-touch computer that took off even though market analysts said no one really needed one.

By 2011, Apple had be-come the second-largest company of any kind in the United States by market value. In August, it briefl y surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company.

Under Jobs, the compa-ny cloaked itself in secrecy to build frenzied antici-pation for each of its new

products. Jobs himself had a wizardly sense of what his customers wanted, and where demand didn’t exist, he leveraged a cult-like fol-lowing to create it.

When he spoke at Apple presentations, almost al-ways in faded blue jeans, sneakers and a black mock turtleneck, legions of Apple acolytes listened to every word. He often boasted about Apple successes, then coyly added a coda — “One more thing” — before introducing its latest ambi-

tious idea.In later years, Apple inves-

tors also watched these ap-pearances for clues about his health. Jobs revealed in 2004 that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of pan-creatic cancer — an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor. He underwent surgery and said he had been cured. In 2009, following weight loss he ini-tially attributed to a hormon-al imbalance, he abruptly took a six-month leave. Dur-ing that time, he received a liver transplant that became

public two months after it was performed.

He went on another medical leave in January 2011, this time for an un-specifi ed duration. He nev-er went back and resigned as CEO in August, though he stayed on as chairman. Consistent with his pen-chant for secrecy, he didn’t reference his illness in his resignation letter.

In 2005, following the bout with cancer, Jobs de-livered Stanford Universi-ty’s commencement speech.

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever en-countered to help me make the big choices in life,” he said. “Because almost ev-erything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

Associated Press

This screenshot taken from apple.com shows a tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. ‘The world is immeasur-ably better because of Steve,’ the company said in a brief statement.

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The state of Kentucky is currently under a burn ban from the hours of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The ban, which runs through Dec. 15, stipulates that no fi re can be set within 150 feet of a fi eld or woodland. Adams said that forest

rangers on the scene were planning to cite the per-son who started the fi re.

“Fall drys everything up in this area pretty quick,” Adams said. “It’s so dry out there, and the lack of rain doesn’t help anything. People have to take this ban seriously, and be very careful.”

tary schools in the Paducah Public School District. The math score surpasses both Morgan and Clark elemen-tary schools by almost 10 percentage points.

What impresses Ross most about the results is that most schools like McNabb, with high minor-ity enrollments, are viewed as failing schools. McNabb Elementary School has a free and reduced lunch rate of close to 100 percent, Ross said. Many schools that have high minority rates, as well as high free and reduced lunch rates, are not scoring well on standardized test-ing, he said. McNabb is do-ing just the opposite.

Lisa Gross, spokes-woman for the Kentucky Department of Education, said McNabb Elementary School did well compared to similar schools in the state on the No Child Left Behind goals.

“Of the 612 schools that had the same number of goals as McNabb, only four other schools in the state also had large enough popula-tions of African Americans to be held accountable for those

students’ performance,” Gross said in a statement.

Of those four schools, Gross said, only one other than McNabb made all 10 NCLB goals.

Ross said he believes equal expectation across socioeconomic and racial lines is one reason for the strong test results.

“It’s not allowing yourself to pity a child,” Ross said. “Pushing them that much harder so that they don’t look at this in the future as a reason to fail.”

In his research, Ross said he continually sees teacher instruction as the deciding factor in successful schools. He said his faculty is what’s al-lowing the school to succeed.

“We have teachers that look across their desks and have the same expectations that they would have for their own children,” Ross said. “That sets us apart. That’s the deal-breaker.”

Shanea Moran has been with McNabb Elementary School for 18 years. She said

the expectations have been high for students through-out her career, but she’s no-ticed a real difference in the last fi ve to seven years. Mo-ran said the relationships between teachers, students and student families makes an immense difference in how students perceive and trust teachers.

A teacher’s job is not fi nished once they leave McNabb, she said.

“We want our students to leave the elementary school knowing that they are not only going to graduate from high school, they are expected to graduate from high school and continue on in college or at a trade,” Moran said.

“We want them to be strong community leaders. We want them to be suc-cessful individuals.”

not forgotten.”Robert Coleman, one

of three Korean War vet-erans — Joe Walsh and Albert Jones were the others — who attended Wednesday’s unveiling.

“War has two phases,” Coleman said. “One side is glamorous. The other side is blood, complete with crippling and death, and with this, (Ogden) captured everything, and that’s the thing about an artist. Their imagination can bring all of this out. That’s tough to do.”

Gayle Kaler, chair-woman of the city’s mon-ument committee, said Ogden’s work was made possible through the ef-forts of several groups. Both the McCracken County Fiscal Court and Paducah City Commis-sion provided $15,000 each for the $65,000

project. The rest of that was received from mainly military-related organi-zations, such as Post 31.

“It’s just spectacular,” said Hardy Gentry, com-mander of Post 31, who joined World War II vet-eran Leon Dodge in going before the Fiscal Court and City Commission to ask for funding. “Some-thing very interesting about that I think is that neither of us are Korean War veterans. I was in Vietnam, while Leon was in World War II. That tells you how much we care about things like this. This is something for our community.”

The Korean memorial is expected to grace McNutt Plaza along 6th Street across from the McCrack-en County Courthouse and across the fountain from a World War II me-morial already in place along 5th Street.

Associated Press

Steve Jobs (left), chairman of Apple Computers; John Sculley, president and CEO; and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, unveil the Apple IIc computer in San Francisco on April 24, 1984. Jobs died Wednesday at 56.

MCNABB: ‘We have teachers ... that have the sameexpectations ... they would have for their own children’

CONTINUED FROM 1A

JOBS: Jobs helped change computers from geeky hobby to necessity of life

CONTINUED FROM 1A

CONTINUED FROM 1A

KOREA: ‘War has two phases. ... With this, she captured everything’

CONTINUED FROM 1A

BLAZE: ‘It’s so dry out there, and the lack of rain doesn’t help’

LOUISVILLE — A tobacco distributor closely watched by federal agents for a decade has been charged in Kentucky with using phony invoices to avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars’ worth of cigarettes that he sold in several states.

As far back as 2002, prosecutors in Texas sought to secretly listen to cell phone conversations involving 41-year-old Pedro “Peter” Bello of Miami, Fla. He was linked to several large-scale investigations and named in a civil lawsuit brought by the city of New York over untaxed cigarettes, but never charged until now.

Bello was arrested Tuesday on a charge of conspir-acy to commit wire fraud. Authorities say he bought massive amounts of cigarettes in Kentucky but used invoices written by a company he owned in Missouri to avoid paying sales taxes. He then sold the cigarettes around the country while pocketing bigger profi ts by avoiding the Kentucky tax.

The indictment against him says that his Louisville-based company GT Northeast avoided paying $2 mil-lion in taxes on $12 million worth of cigarettes it sold. But details of previous investigations indicate the scope of his operations were much larger.

A woman answering the phone at a number in Miami listed for Bello said he no longer lived at that house. The woman declined to give her name before hanging up. Bello is scheduled for arraignment Oct. 18 at 9:30 a.m. in Louisville.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Ex-plosives in Miami, which took custody of Bello, did not immediately return a call Wednesday morning.

The federal government has cracked down in re-cent years on contraband cigarettes — smokes sold by people and businesses through illegitimate chan-nels to avoid paying taxes. The Department of Justice estimates that federal, state and local governments lose out on $5 billion annually in tax revenue from the cigarette schemes.

Bello’s name has surfaced in several investigations at the heart of the ATF’s crackdown. Federal court records from Kentucky, New York and Texas depict Bello as a man involved in moving millions of cigarettes around the country without paying taxes to various states.

Dealer probe spans several years, states

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An announcement the United States Enrichment Corporation made this week could be good news for Paducah, at least temporarily. It may not be such good news for the country.

USEC warned that it could demobilize its American Centrifuge program in Piketon, Ohio, next month because of difficulty obtaining a $2 billion federal loan guarantee. USEC is sending a letter to 450 workers in Ohio, Maryland and Tennessee, warning of possible layoffs if the Department of Energy doesn’t offer the loan guarantee this month.

The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is the only U.S.-owned uranium enrichment facility in the United States. But the technology is obsolete. USEC is in the process of building a plant in Piketon that uses what it calls “next-generation” centrifuge enrichment technology. The company has been operating an active centrifuge demonstration facility on site since 2007 to prove the viability of the process as it tries to secure financing to build the American Centrifuge Plant.The Paducah plant is slated to shut down once the Ohio plant is operational.

This week’s announcement could delay the Paducah’s plant’s closure. A company statement says: “USEC’s current enrichment operations are expected to generate positive cash flow in 2011. The company is pursuing extension of the economic operations of the enrichment plant in Paducah.”

But it’s a mixed blessing.Washington needs to make

clean, safe, efficient nuclear power a bigger part of the nation’s energy portfolio.

The Obama administration has promised to revive nuclear energy production.

But the Energy Department keeps stalling. This is the same department which, having abandoned the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in

Nevada after spending billions in taxpayer funds to build it, has yet to come up with an alternative plan to dispose of the stockpiles of nuclear waste in Paducah and at more than 100 nuclear reactor sites around the country.

Given that history, the Energy Department’s inaction on the American Centrifuge plant should be no surprise. It only reinforces doubts about this administration’s commitment to nuclear energy.

WASHINGTON — Eliza-beth Warren, Harvard law professor and former Obama administration regulator (for consumer protection), is modern liberalism incarnate. As she seeks the Senate seat Democrats held for 57 years before 2010, when Scott Brown impertinently won it, she clarifi es the liberal proj-ect, and the stakes of contem-porary politics.

The project is to dilute the concept of individual-ism, thereby refuting respect for the individual’s zone of sovereignty. The regulatory state, liberalism’s instrument, constantly tries to contract that zone — for the individu-al’s own good, it says. Warren says:

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a fac-tory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fi re forces that the rest of us paid for. ... You built a factory and it turned into something terrifi c or a great idea — God bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying so-cial contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

Warren is (as William F. Buckley described Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith) a pyromaniac in a fi eld of straw men: She refutes propositions no one asserts. Everyone knows that all striv-ing occurs in a social context, so all attainments are condi-tioned by their context. This does not, however, entail a collectivist political agenda.

Such an agenda’s prem-ise is that individualism is a chimera, that any individual’s achievements should be considered entirely derivative from society, so the achieve-ments need not be treated as belonging to the individual. Society is entitled to socialize — i.e., conscript — whatever

portion it considers its share. It may, as an optional act of political grace, allow the indi-vidual the remainder of what is misleadingly called the individual’s possession.

The collectivist agenda is antithetical to America’s premise, which is: Govern-ment — including such public goods as roads, schools and police — is instituted to facilitate individual striving, aka the pursuit of happiness. The fact that collective choices facilitate this striving does not compel the conclusion that the collectivity (Warren’s “the rest of us”) is entitled to take as much as it pleases of the results of the striving.

Warren’s statement is a footnote to modern liberal-ism’s more comprehensive disparagement of individual-ism and the reality of indi-vidual autonomy. A particular liberalism, partly incubated at Harvard, intimates the impos-sibility, for most people, of self-government — of the abil-ity to govern one’s self. This liberalism postulates that, in the modern social context, only a special few people can literally make up their own minds.

In “The Affl uent Society” (1958), modern liberalism’s symptomatic text, Galbraith, a Harvard economist, baldly asserted that corporations’ marketing powers — basi-cally, advertising — are so potent they can manufacture demands for whatever goods and services they want to sup-ply. Corporations can nullify consumer sovereignty and vitiate the law of supply and demand. Galbraith asserted this while Ford’s market-ers were failing to create a demand for Edsels.

Many members of the liberal intelligentsia, that herd of independent minds, agree that other Americans comprise a malleable, hence vulnerable, herd whose “false consciousness” is imposed by corporate America. There-fore the herd needs kindly, paternal supervision by a cohort of protective herders. This means subordination of the bovine many to a regula-tory government staffed by persons drawn from the clever minority not manipulated into false consciousness.

Because such tutelary gov-ernment must presume the public’s incompetence, it owes minimal deference to people’s preferences. These prefer-ences are not really “theirs,” because the preferences derive from false, meaning imposed, consciousness. This convenient theory licenses the enlightened vanguard, the political class, to exercise maximum discretion in wield-ing the powers of the regula-tory state.

Warren’s emphatic asser-tion of the unremarkable — that the individual depends on cooperative behaviors by others — misses this point: It is conservatism, not liberal-ism, that takes society seri-ously. Liberalism preaches confi dent social engineering by the regulatory state. Con-servatism urges government humility in the face of soci-ety’s creative complexity.

Society — hundreds of millions of people making billions of decisions daily — is a marvel of spontaneous order among individuals in volun-tary cooperation. Government facilitates this cooperation with roads, schools, police, etc. — and by getting out of its way. This is a sensible, dynamic, prosperous society’s “underlying social contract.”

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CORRECTION: In a recent column, I suggested that Rep. Barney Frank’s legislation to reform the Federal Open Market Committee was intro-duced in August, when in fact it was introduced in April.

No, it’s not January yet, or even Decem-ber.

But on the evening of Sept. 28, Jews around the world began celebrating the Jewish New Year, a two-day celebration followed 10 days later by the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur.

What I remember most about the high holidays from my childhood, at least in concrete terms, are the clothes and the fast. And the fear.

Clothes fi rst: As in many middle-class Jewish families, the high holidays were the occasion for purchasing your new winter outfi t. Singular. And given that it was New England, a winter outfi t would have to be warm and wool. So year after year, when it turned out that winter did not come by September (and it usually didn’t), the high holidays were, in a word, sweaty. I remem-ber the itchy wool, which for reasons I never quite understood (keeping up with the Golds?) was still considered better than showing up in a shabby shift.

Yom Kippur was tougher still: hot and

hungry (from the sunset-to-sunset fast) and scary, as well. On Yom Kippur, we ask for forgiveness. We have a special service for those we have lost. On Yom Kippur, it is written who shall live and who shall die.

These days, I go to ser-vices in places where there is no clothes competition. These days, not eating for a day is easy. These days, I understand that the Book of Life is not really a book but an idea about taking stock, being grateful, accepting the uncertainty that is life.

I am grateful for these days, rare days for me, when I don’t work at my jobs, when no one expects me at three places at once, when the phone hardly rings. I am grateful to be here, alive, healthy, employed, to have children and family I love more than life. I am grateful, but I am afraid.

When I was a kid, I used to watch my

mother light a candle in memory of her mother and go alone to the special memorial service for those who had lost a loved one. I lived in fear that someday I would go to that service myself, and then someday came so soon, so many years ago, when my father died. So now I light four candles, for my father and

my mother and for my dearest friends Judy and Kath. Now I count my blessings, and I count my losses.

For me, the high holidays are a gift, but they are also a challenge that grows each year. The challenge is to face life’s un-certainties clear-eyed but undefeated; to accept life’s disappointments without suc-cumbing to the sadness; to embrace and be grateful for all that I have without being terrifi ed by its fragility.

I think back to those days in my hot and itchy dress cinched at the waist, my

stomach growling, and I long for what seems like lost innocence. I long for the days when I had no candles to light, no loved ones to remember, when I could almost believe that the Book of Life was real and that, if I prayed hard enough, all the names of those I love would be written in bold ink.

On the other New Year’s Eve, we worry about having a date or a party to go to, about who will win the football games, and whether it will rain on the parades. On the other New Year’s Eve, we vow not to drink too much and resolve to lose weight and exercise.

On the Jewish New Year, we pray for our souls.

Happy New Year. Shana tova. You don’t have to be Jewish to understand what it means to pray for your soul, to ask for for-giveness, to embrace life — sadness and all — with courage and character, and most of all, to be grateful. May the Lord bless us and keep us and cause His countenance to shine upon us and grant us peace. Amen.

Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961

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Everyone knows what it is to pray for your soul, embrace life

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STALLINGDepartment of Energy

stifl es nuclear modernization

“The company is pursuing extension of the economic operations of

the enrichment plant in

Paducah.”

USEC

Warren advancing liberalism’s agenda

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paducahsun.com Region/From Page One The Paducah Sun • Thursday, October 6, 2011 • 5A

The letter stated that the chief failed to work the 40 to 50 hours per week she was required, did not pro-vide suffi cient weekly activ-ity reports, refused to work assigned hours, failed and refused to communicate properly with the mayor, repeatedly acted in an in-subordinate manner by re-fusing to recognize that the mayor is the chief executive offi cer of the city, and acted in a manner unprofessional and inappropriate to supe-riors and coworkers.

Askew said Wednes-day that city attorney Rick Abell, who helped her draft the letter, advised her not to comment on its contents or about the dismissal. She said that it was her deci-sion to dismiss Rodriguez-Cornelius and that she was disappointed that she was forced to that action.

“I was the one that picked her. I liked her. I inter-viewed her, but it didn’t work out,” she said.

Rodriguez-Cornelius dis-agrees with all of the allega-tions in the letter. She said Wednesday afternoon that she plans to fi le an appeal to the dismissal and re-quest a hearing before the council as soon as possible.

She is also seeking legal counsel in the matter. She said that she signed a three-year contract to serve as police chief when she was hired in July and the dis-missal violates the contract.

According to Illinois state statute, council members can overturn the decision by a two-thirds majority vote at a public meeting to be held not less than fi ve nor more than 10 days after the dis-missal. With a total of seven council members, counting Askew, fi ve votes are needed to overturn the decision.

The matter is expected to come up at the next regular meeting, set next Tuesday at 7 p.m. Askew said that the council is slated to go into executive session to discuss personnel issues at the meeting upon request of a council member.

Council members Edgar Martin, Lucille Shannon and Larry Call said that they did not fi nd out about the dismissal until after Rodri-guez-Cornelius received the letter Wednesday. Council members Donny Hogue, James Burris and Sammy Jones were unavailable for comment Wednesday.

Martin and Shannon said that they did not think it was right that the council was not consulted before

Askew made the decision. They both said that they will support reinstating Rodri-guez-Cornelius as chief. Ro-driguez-Cornelius said that she believes that she will have the necessary votes to overturn Askew’s decision.

Rodriguez-Cornelius said the dismissal was not a to-tal surprise, as she has been experiencing issues with the department and the city since she started working.

“I kind of suspected it but I didn’t know when, be-cause it’s been such an on-going issue,” she said.

On Aug. 27, Askew reas-signed Rodriguez-Corne-lius from the position of chief to patrol offi cer be-cause she said the chief was unfamiliar with the com-munity, had incomplete training and had been ab-sent from law enforcement for three years. Askew al-lowed her to enter a 90-day training period, after which she would have been eligible to become chief if she satisfi ed all the training requirements. Askew said Wednesday she was trying to help Rodriguez-Corne-lius but that things just did not work out.

Martin and Shannon spoke out Wednesday against Askew’s decision to dismiss Rodriguez-Cornelius.

Martin believes that some people treated Rodriguez-Cornelius unfairly because of her gender and never gave her a chance to do the job she was hired to perform.

“This young lady was not given an opportunity,” he said. “If she does apply for a job somewhere else, I don’t want this blemish on her record.”

He said that the city has more important issues that should be addressed instead.

“This is such a small thing compared to all the other issues we have in Brookport,” he said.

Shannon said she hopes the residents will speak out against the unfairness of this situation.

“I wish the people would come out and see what is going on and get involved,” she said.

Call declined comment on the dismissal until he re-views all of the information on it. He said he knew there were some severe issues with the police chief and the city and he expects it will be heavily discussed during next Tuesday’s meeting.

Askew said police Sgt. Steve Walker, who has been serving as acting police chief since Rodriguez-Cornelius was reassigned, will contin-ue serving in the position.

CONTINUED FROM 1A

CHIEF: Letter stated that the chief failed to work weekly hours required

Wall Street protests spread to Kentucky

LOUISVILLE — The dem-onstrations on Wall Street have spread to Kentucky’s two largest cities as pro-testers speak out against corporate greed and a political system they see favoring the wealthy.

In Louisville, a couple dozen protesters took up the cause midday Wednesday in a grassy space across from the Kentucky Convention Center. The number of protesters surpassed 100 the day before as the Oc-cupy Louisville movement sprung up.

University of Louisville senior Brian Ensminger says he’s protesting the loss of the American dream for young adults like him who face staggering college debt with few job prospects after graduation.

In Lexington, a handful people sat outside Chase

Bank as part of the pro-test. Construction worker Brad Cobb said he heard about the demonstration on TV and felt compelled to join in.

Civil rights leader Shuttlesworth dies

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Rev. Fred L. Shuttles-worth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly ar-rested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and tenac-ity, has died. He was 89.

Relatives and hospital officials said Shuttles-worth died Wednesday at Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham. A former truck driver who studied religion at night, Shuttlesworth became pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1953 and soon emerged as an outspoken leader in the struggle for racial equality.

“My church was a bee-

hive,” Shuttlesworth once said. “I made the move-ment. I made the challenge. Birmingham was the citadel of segregation, and the people wanted to march.”

In his 1963 book “Why We Can’t Wait,” King called Shuttlesworth “one of the nation’s most cou-rageous freedom fighters ... a wiry, energetic and indomitable man.”

Feds end oversight of Oakwood center

FRANKFORT — Ken-tucky officials say the federal government has

ended oversight of Oak-wood, a state-run residen-tial center for adults with mental disabilities.

In a statement issued Wednesday, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services cited “sub-stantial improvements” at the facility as the reason the U.S. Justice Depart-ment stopped its court ordered oversight.

The cabinet has been involved in operating Oak-wood since 2001. The oversight came as part of a 2006 settlement agree-ment between the Justice Department and the state.

Attorneys seek $10M for mother of decapitated baby

LOUISVILLE— Attorneys for a woman who watched as her premature baby was decapitated during delivery say she still has nightmares and is asking a Louisville jury to award her $10 million in damages.

Micheatria Donelson’s attorneys say nurses ignored her buzzer calls seeking help as the baby was being born in 2006.

Then during the delivery, they say Donelson’s view wasn’t restricted, and that

later the child’s head was sutured onto the body so she could hold the baby throughout the night and next day.

Dr. Joseph Bilotta testi-fied Wednesday that he did the best he could and did what he thought was ap-propriate during the birth.

“In my wildest dreams, I did not expect that at all,” Bilotta testified. “... I handled the situation as best I could.”

Attorney Mark Mathys said Donelson “was in shock and wanted to see the baby,” but shouldn’t have been allowed to.

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WASHINGTON — With the Chris Christie and Sarah Palin teases over, Mitt Rom-ney is telling Republican ac-tivists there’s all the more reason to get excited about his presidential campaign. They will keep him waiting a bit longer, it seems.

A handful of major GOP donors jumped into Rom-ney’s camp this week after Christie, the New Jersey governor, ruled out a can-didacy. Late Wednesday, Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee, also made offi cial that she will not run.

But many party activists still appear restless, casting about for a conservative al-ternative and wondering if Texas Gov. Rick Perry can fi ll the role despite his shaky debate performances.

With caucus and prima-ry voting to start in about three months, Christie’s announcement brought the presidential race into sharp-er focus. Republicans say

the eventual nominee al-most surely will come from the current fi eld. And Presi-dent Barack Obama, whose liberal base is grumpy, is trying to distinguish him-

self more sharply from Re-publicans in Congress and in the presidential contest, sometimes calling them out by name.

Polls show that Romney,

the former Massachusetts governor, attracts about one-fourth of prospective GOP voters, with the rest looking to Perry, Herman Cain, Ron Paul and others.

Romney woos unconvinced in GOPBY CHARLES BABINGTON

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Count on Tuesday seemed deeply divided on how far the government can intrude inside the employment practices of churches and religious groups, a deci-sion being closely watched by religious institutions concerned about their in-dependence and by civil rights groups looking out for their employees.

The issue in the dispute between the Hosanna-Ta-bor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School of Redford, Mich., and for-mer teacher Cheryl Perich is whether a government agency has the right to sue the school on her behalf for fi ring her after she com-plained of discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Perich was promoted from a temporary lay teacher to a “called” teach-er in 2000 at the Redford, Mich., school by a vote of

the church’s congregation and hired as a commissioned minister. She taught secular classes, as well as a religious class four days a week. She also occasionally led chapel service.

She got sick in 2004 but tried to return to work from disability leave despite being diagnosed with narcolepsy. The school said she couldn’t return because they had hired a substitute for that year. They fi red her after she showed up and threatened to sue to get her job back.

Perich complained to the Equal Employment Oppor-tunity Commission, which sued the church for violations under the disabilities act.

A federal judge threw out the lawsuit, saying that Perich fell under the ADA’s ministerial exception, which keeps the government from interfering with church af-fairs. But the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated her lawsuit, saying Perich’s “primary function was teach-ing secular subjects” so the exception didn’t apply.

Court: Can government get involved in church dispute?BY JESSE J. HOLLAND

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WASHINGTON — For-mer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday she will not run for president, leaving little doubt that the eventual Republican nominee will come from the current fi eld of con-tenders.

After months of leav-ing her fans guessing, Palin said in a statement that she and her husband Todd “devote ourselves to God, family and coun-try.” She said her decision maintains that order.

Palin sent the state-ment to supporters. She told conservative radio host Mark Levin that she would not consider a third party candidacy because it would assure President Barack Obama’s reelec-tion.

In a video posted on Youtube, Palin said, “you don’t need an offi ce or a title to make a difference.”

Sen. John McCain plucked Palin from rela-tive obscurity in 2008 by naming her as his run-ning mate. She electrifi ed Republican activists for a while, delivering a well-received speech at the GOP national convention. But Palin later seemed overwhelmed by the na-tional spotlight, faltering at times in televised in-terviews even when asked straightforward ques-tions.

Palin’s announcement Wednesday was much an-ticipated but not greatly surprising. Her populari-ty had plummeted in polls lately, even though she re-mained a darling to many hard-core conservatives. Some Republicans felt she waited and teased too long about a presiden-tial candidacy. Some re-mained perplexed by her decision to quit her job as governor with more than a year left in her single term.

Palin also angered some Americans with a defensive speech shortly after a Dem-ocratic congresswoman was

grave ly wound-ed in an Arizona shooting in Janu-ary that killed six people.

P a l -in’s an-nounce-

m e n t came one

day after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he would not run. Republican insid-ers say the fi eld is set.

It includes former Massa-chusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whom party insiders see as the strongest contenders. Libertarian-leaning Rep. Ron Paul of Texas continues to draw a devoted following and former pizza company executive Herman Cain has gained in recent polls.

Voting in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire prima-ry will start in about three months.

Because Palin’s star had faded, it’s not clear that her decision will have a big im-pact on the Republican race. Some analysts said Palin might have drawn signifi -cant conservative support, especially in Iowa. If so, she might have split that constituency with Perry, Cain, Minnesota Rep. Mi-chele Bachmann and oth-ers, possibly giving Romney a chance to win the caucus with a relatively modest plu-rality.

Others felt Perry benefi ts from Palin’s decision be-cause it helps him portray himself as the best-known conservative alternative to Romney.

Republican adviser Matt Mackowiak said Romney benefi ts from Christie’s de-cision, and Perry benefi ts from Palin’s, so it’s “a wash.”

Palin says will not run for president

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks to supporters during a lunch stop at Seminole Wind restaurant in Tallahassee, Fla., on Wednesday.

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CHICAGO — The nation’s worst hospitals treat twice the proportion of elderly black patients and poor pa-tients than the best hospi-tals, and their patients are more likely to die of heart attacks and pneumonia, new research shows.

Now, these hospitals, mostly in the South, may be at higher risk of fi nan-cial failure, too. That’s because the nation’s new health care law punishes bad care by withholding some money, says the lead author of the study pub-lished Wednesday in the journal Health Affairs.

“These hospitals are go-ing to have a much harder time in the new funding en-vironment,” said Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health, who led the study. “I worry they’re going to get worse over time and possibly even fail. I worry that we’re going to see a bunch of that happen-ing over the next three to fi ve years.”

Under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals that fail to improve will see their Medicare payments shrink

by 1 percent starting Oc-tober 2012. That could jeopardize some hospitals already on the brink of clo-sure, Jha said.

That unintended conse-quence of the health over-haul could increase health disparities for minorities, Jha said.

“We have to make sure we pay attention to what the results of those poli-

cies are and be ready to change direct ions if they’re c a u s i n g harm in the m a r k e t -place,” Jha said.

The study d o e s n ’ t name the 178 hospi-

tals the researchers rated as “worst” because of their low quality of care and high costs. A data use agreement with Medicare prevented the researchers from iden-tifying the hospitals pub-licly.

The study, funded by the Commonwealth Fund, found 122 “best” hospitals with high quality and low costs. Those best hospitals were more likely to be in the Northeast, to be non-profi t and to have cardiac intensive care units com-pared to the worst hospi-tals.

Study: Worst hospitals treat larger share of poor

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BERLIN — In a fi nal quest to bring Holocaust par-ticipants to justice, German authorities have reopened hundreds of dormant inves-tigations of Nazi death camp guards — men who are now so old that time has become “the enemy” for prosecutors hurrying to prepare cases.

The efforts could result in new prosecutions nearly seven decades after World War II.

Special Nazi war-crimes investigators reopened the fi les after the conviction of former U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk, whose case set a new legal prece-dent in Germany. It was the fi rst time prosecutors had been able to convict some-one in a Nazi-era case with-out direct evidence that the suspect participated in a specifi c killing.

Now authorities are

weighing whether the same approach could be used to pursue others, said Kurt Schrimm, the prosecutor who heads the investiga-tion unit.

Given the advanced age of

the suspects, investigators are not waiting until Dem-janjuk’s appeals are decided.

“We don’t want to wait too long, so we’ve already begun our investigations,” Schrimm said.

Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their De-scendants, welcomed the news and urged prosecu-tors to act quickly.

Hundreds of Nazi probes reopenedBY DAVID RISING

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NEW DELHI — India in-troduced a cheap tablet computer Wednesday, say-ing it would deliver modern technology to the country-side to help lift villagers out of poverty.

The computer, called Aakash, or “sky” in Hindi, is the latest in a series of “world’s cheapest” innova-tions in India that include a $2,040 compact Nano car, a $15 water purifi er and $2,000 open-heart sur-gery.

Developer Datawind is selling the tablets to the government for about $45 each, and subsidies will reduce that to $35 for students and teachers. In comparison, the cheap-est Apple iPad tablet costs $499, while the recently announced Kindle Fire will sell for $199.

Datawind says it can make about 100,000 units a month at the moment, not nearly enough to meet India’s hope of getting its 220 million children on-line.

Human Resources De-

velopment Minister Kapil Sibal called the announce-ment a message to all chil-dren of the world.

“This is not just for us.

This is for all of you who are disempowered,” he said. “This is for all those who live on the fringes of society.”

India announces $35 tablet computer for rural poor

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Archivist Melanie Wehr reads in the depot of the Federal Archive in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, southwestern Germany in 2007. Some 70,000 documents about na-tional socialist motivated crimes, collected in nearly 50 years by the Principal Authori-ties for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Ludwigsburg, are stored here.

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An Indian student poses with the supercheap Aakash tablet computer which she received during its launch in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday. The $35 basic touch screen tablet aimed at students can be used for func-tions like word processing, web browsing and video con-ferencing.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republicans in Pennsyl-vania and Nebraska want to change the way their states award Electoral College votes, moves that could hinder President Barack Obama’s re-elec-tion chances.

Lawmakers in the Democratic-leaning bat-tleground of Pennsylva-nia are weighing whether to give the presidential nominees one electoral vote for each congressio-nal district they win, rath-er than giving all its votes to the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote,

like Obama did in 2008. In GOP-tilting Nebraska, lawmakers want to go to a winner-take-all system four years after Obama won the 2nd Congressional District and its single electoral col-lege vote.

It takes 270 Electoral Col-lege votes to win the presi-dency out of 538 up for grabs. Every vote matters in a close election and every sign points to a competitive 2012 race as an incumbent Democratic president who most people still personally like tries to win a second term in tough economic times.

“Any electoral vote is im-portant in these elections,”

said Michael Mezey, a pro-fessor of political science at DePaul University in Chi-cago. “When you start deal-ing with large states, it can make a difference. And also you’re not just dealing with Pennsylvania; other states may follow suit.”

The changes Republi-cans in Pennsylvania and Nebraska are trying to make likely would give the eventual GOP nominee an advantage by shifting the voting power from more lib-eral, predominantly Demo-cratic cities in both states, to more conservative rural and suburban areas that tend to favor Republicans.

Pennsylvania, Nebraska Republicans want electoral vote changes for 2012

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Briefs

Israeli scientist wins Nobel Prize

JERUSALEM and LOS ANGELES — Israeli sci-entist Dan Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemis-try on Wednesday for his discovery of a new form of crystal whose patterns and configura-tion defied previously held laws of nature and altered chemists’ under-standing of solid matter.

The Tel Aviv-born pro-fessor’s 1982 discovery of what would become known as quasicrystals provoked controversy in his field, demonstrating atoms in some crystals were packed in patterns that could not be re-peated, which was once thought impossible.

“His discovery was extremely controver-sial,” the Nobel Commit-

tee for Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted in an-nouncing the prize, which includes a $1.45 million award.

US military can’t make up NATO shortfalls

BRUSSELS — New U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned NATO al-lies Wednesday that they should not rest on any lau-rels from the success of the ongoing military cam-paign in Libya, and that a cash-strapped America cannot always foot the bill when the alliance falls short.

The Libya operation that began in March revealed embarrassing gaps in Eu-ropean military abilities that were mostly filled by the United States, and shortfalls in such basic supplies as ammunition.

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