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Officer James Vible reported he was on patrol around 9:15 a.m. when he got a call to be on the lookout for a black Subaru suspected of being involved in a shoplifting from the Lakewood Liquor store. Dispatch described the car as having two mismatched Massachusetts plates. Vible said he pulled the car over on Post Road near Elm Street. He said he immediately smelled alcohol and soon suspected the driver was intoxicated. He said the driver fumbled with his wallet for a few minutes before he said, "Look, just arrest me, you got me." He said the driver refused to answer any questions about the liquor store and failed a field sobriety test. He said he then heard that the liquor store was not pressing charges because the suspect left $60 on the counter for the bottles he took on an earlier occasion that was caught on video but he was still arrested for suspicion of drunk driving. Vible said Eric M. Cole, 45, of 84 Nagog Hill Rd. in Acton, Mass., refused a breath test at headquarters and was charged with DUI, refusal, driving an unregistered car, no insurance and misuse of license plates. He was issued a summons and later released to a sober adult.
A West Warwick man told Officer Brian Murray he went to the Dunkin' Donuts at 699 Bald Hill Road around 1:15 p.m. on Sept. 15. He said he got there with his 21-speed Mongoose mountain bike and left it leaning against the wall while he went inside to buy a few items. He said a man on the way out of the store was pushing an older blue mountain bike. He said he came out and found that his bike was gone and the older bike was left on the side of the store. He told Murray he believed the other biker, described as about 35 years old, about 6 feet tall with light brown skin, had switched bikes on him. Murray said he took the older bike back to headquarters and was told he could view video of the incident when the manager arrived.
A worker at the Hilton Garden Inn told police he was making a check of the parking lot when he saw a man going through his own vehicle. He said the side doors and trunk of the car were open and the man was rummaging through it when he interrupted him and the suspect bolted down Kilvert Street toward Metro Center Boulevard. Officer Charles Austin reported that an officer checked the area but did not find the suspect. The employee told Austin nothing was missing from his car.
A Pennsylvania man told police he had dinner at the Eleven Forty Nine Restaurant on Division Street around 7:20 p.m. on Sept. 10 and when he returned to his car, he found both back windows smashed and a couple of brief cases were missing. He told police each brief case contained a laptop computer, various chargers for iPhones, cell phones, cables, phone jacks and speakers, along with a number of miscellaneous files and papers that were worth around $2,950. Police said the car was parked in back of the restaurant, toward a dumpster, in a dark, unlit area near the woods. The case was forwarded to detectives.
An employee of the Canon Solutions of America office on Metro Center Boulevard reported that she came to work on Sept. 20 and noticed that a HP 6000 Pro computer was missing from her desk. She said she last saw the computer on Sept. 18. Police were advised there is video surveillance of the building available from the property managers.
A Warwick man who lives on Hackman Place came into headquarters on Sept. 20 to report that a backpack containing his Mac Pro Book laptop, worth $1,700, and a Canon 5D mark III camera worth $3,700 went missing from his car. He told police he last saw the backpack on Sept. 12 and noticed it was missing on Sept. 13. He said he was unsure at the time whether he simply misplaced it or whether it was stolen but now believes it was stolen and was told by his insurance adjuster to be sure it was missing and not misplaced before notifying the police. The case was forwarded to detectives.
Another Warwick man came into headquarters around 12:35 a.m. and told police his wallet went missing from his car while he was at Workout World on West Shore Road on Sept. 18 and he called Bank of America to report it as soon as he discovered the wallet was gone. He said he learned his cards had already been used to buy $64.11 worth of gas in Warwick, $24 worth of food at McDonald's and $76 at Dunkin' Donuts. He said the debit card was successfully used at the Wal-Mart in Coventry to spend $1,000, even after it had been declined twice before it was approved. Detectives are checking surveillance at the various sites for possible suspects.
Officer David Thompson went to Inskip Auto on Sept. 18 for a report of a 2013 328i, being used as a loaner for service customers, that had gone missing. He said company records indicated it had been returned on Sept. 14 and prepped to serve as a loaner again. But an inventory on Sept. 17 could not locate the car or the keys. Thompson said the Lo-jack system was then activated on the car and it was reported stolen.
Officer John Zaborski reported finding a car with front-end damage and a missing rim and tire near 3900 Post Rd. around 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 9. He said the driver was still in the car and the motor was running. He said she explained that she was driving down Post Road when the wheel fell off and almost hit another car but she was able to pull over. He said he asked her to shut the car off and remove the keys. He said she smelled of alcohol and looked and sounded drunk. He said she refused to get out of the car for a sobriety test and asked him to leave so she could go home. He said another officer arrived on the scene and she put the keys back in the ignition and started the engine again but the keys were removed before she could put the car in gear. He said he got her out of the car and told her she was arrested for suspected drunk driving and she said, "Well, you can cross this off my bucket list." He said he asked her what she meant and she said, "Getting arrested for DUI, stupid." Linda Auclair, 60, of 138 Pleasant St. in Warwick refused to take a breath test at headquarters and was charged with DUI and refusal and then transported to Kent Hospital for detox.
Officer Aaron Kay reported he was on patrol around 3:10 a.m. when he clocked a car doing 50 miles per hour on Post Road as it crossed from lane to lane before he stopped it on Tennyson Road. He said he asked the man for his license and registration and he extended his hand, as if to shake hands, before he got confused and pulled it back inside. He said the driver could not locate the paperwork on the car and said it belonged to his girlfriend's parents but Kay learned it was registered in the driver's name. He said Matthew M. Viera, 20, of 1095 Main St. in West Warwick, failed a field sobriety test and refused a breath test at headquarters. He was charged with DUI, refusal, laned roadway violations, speeding and operating a motor vehicle without insurance.
Officer Christopher Lo reported he was on patrol around 9 p.m. on Sept. 13 when he was dispatched to the Stop & Shop at Meadowbrook for a possible drunk driver heading north on Warwick Avenue. Lo said he spotted the car near Church Avenue and followed it onto Church, where it veered from one side of the street to the other and almost struck another car before he pulled it over near Killey Avenue. He said the driver appeared to be intoxicated and smelled of alcohol. He said he was setting up the walk and turn test when the driver became combative and started using profanities and said, "Just [expletive] lock me up!" He said the driver refused to take a preliminary breath test with the portable analyzer and was taken to headquarters where he refused to take a formal breath test. John Mitchell, 70, of 16 Sunrise Dr. in Cranston was charged with DUI, refusal and laned roadway violations and then later released to a sober adult.


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Salina • Utah was a territory when cowboy Miles "Moen" Burns opened a harness shop in the high desert hamlet of Loa nearly 140 years ago.
Son Viv moved the shop 50 miles north to Salina, named for its salt deposits, and by 1912 business was so brisk that he purchased a foot-powered harness stitcher to keep up with the work.
Anyone who has ever driven U.S. 89 knows Burns Saddlery, guarded by a mounted horse above the door, and now sitting across the street from the original Salina store. The area is so isolated that the 110 miles between Salina and Green River makes up one the longest distances in the U.S. Interstate Highway System with no motorist services.
Despite long travel times, the Burns family-owned emporium, 135 miles south of Salt Lake City, is a central Utah institution. Here, equestrians buy saddles, tack and Western wear. The store stocks 5,000 pairs of cowboy boots about 2,600 more than there are Salina residents.
The saddlery, with its imprint in three centuries, has adapted to changing ways.
Working ranchers and farmers still frequent Burns Saddlery, but they've been joined by weekend riders, circuit cowboys and show-horse enthusiasts. A second saddlery shop opened last November in Lehi just south of the Roller Mills to attract equestrians along the populous Wasatch Front and beyond.
"Burns isn't cheap," said reining competitor Cori Timm, from Spring Creek, Nev., who recently stopped by the Lehi store to pick up a wide-brimmed, black cowboy hat. "But here, you only have to buy something once."
Beyond tradition • Equestrian events, from rodeos to horse shows, are big business for participants and for the firms that supply the saddles and tack.
Last year, prize money totaled more than $6 million during the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, organized by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Tickets for the 10-day event have sold out for the past 25 years, with the economic impact to Las Vegas (excluding gambling receipts) topping $60 million annually. The association also organizes 12 rodeos in Utah, from Logan to St. George, including the Days of '47 rodeo in Salt Lake City.
Burns has expanded beyond its traditional saddleries, opening exclusive Cowboy Shops in Park City and Carmel-by-the Sea in California, where resort shoppers can buy an artisan-created piece of the Old West. The company remains close to its roots, attracting employees familiar with horses and equestrian events. But high-end shoppers sometimes miss the message.
Park City tourists frequently compliment sales manager Jake Quanberg on his "costume" that looks so similar to the ones they've seen in countless Western movies. Quanberg gives a friendly nod in return, not mentioning that he grew up on a cattle ranch in Lost Creek, so small that it's not found on most maps (it's just off Sage Flat Road, down the road from Salina).
"You either hate the life or you can't get it out of your system," said Quanberg, who remembers as a boy shopping at the Burns store in Salina, where he returns each year to help with the fall roundup.
Said Park City shop manager Jeena Woolstenhume: "Most of the people who come into the store have never been on a horse, but they love the West and want to wear what we wear."
Spirit of the West • The resort stores are radically different from the saddlery shops in Salina and Lehi. But the concept seems to be working, with revenue over five years growing 135 percent, divided equally between its saddlery and resort stores, said company officials.
Resort-store items must have a "wow" factor, such as a butterfly buckle, hand tooled from woolly mammoth tusk and encrusted with fiery opal, emerald turquoise, sapphires, rubies and yellow diamonds.
And only the more affluent could afford the highest-end boots, handmade from exotic leathers, including giraffes, hippo, saltwater crocodile and elephant (inspected and cleared as legal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Customs), as well as ostrich, alligator, python and stingray. Prices start at $400, up to several thousands of dollars.
"Most of these boots will never see a stirrup but they could," said Woolstenhume, who grew up on a Utah County quarter-horse ranch, Cross Quarter Circle.
By contrast, boots at the Salina and Lehi saddleries are made from leathers popular among Western riders, such as bison and cow hides. The boots also are sturdy enough for truck drivers hauling coal from the Sufco mine in Sevier County, and popular enough to be the first pair of shoes for many country toddlers.
"The spirit of the West is seeking a better life," said CEO Danna Burns Shaw. "I love to show our culture; it's a way of keeping it intact."
The 53-year-old Shaw grew up in Salina, living upstairs from the saddle shop, and often visited tanners with her late father, "so I know what it takes to make fine, high-quality leather."
Shaw, a fifth-generation owner, has guided the company from its saddle and tack origins toward designer Western wear. She also designs boots with the Burns private label or under commission with the nationally known Texas-based Lucchese Boot Co.
Twenty years ago, she and husband Scott Shaw expanded beyond their hometown, hauling saddles and tack from California to Texas and selling them at cutting-horse competitions, reining events and rodeos. On the road, they met dozens of artisans who made Western wearable art, one-of-a-kind accessories and museum-quality jewelry, which led to opening the company's first resort store in 2008.
"We were developing our own branded products and we knew many amazing artists, but we needed a great environment to display what we had," she said. "We decided that Park City was the winning combination. It's one thing to design and another to create. But you also need a place and a great salesperson to show it."
Encouraged by sales receipts, the Shaws opened a second Burns Cowboy Shop in 2010 at Carmel-by-the-Sea.
The shops stock creations from about 100 artisans, as well as products manufactured in the Burns plants in Salina, where chaps, belts, hats and saddles are made.
Along for the ride • Two-time World Champion team roper Matt Sherwood got his first Burns saddle three years ago before the company began sponsoring him. Sherwood, who competes in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association circuit, has since gotten two more Burns saddles.
"They start with a great tree [saddle skeleton]," said Sherwood from his Pima, Ariz., home. "And they have great quality leather. I've had some problems in the past, but with them, I don't have to worry about the quality of my saddle."
Burns saddles cost from $3,000 to $8,000, depending on the level of detail in the artwork. Saddles have more than 50 pieces, which are put together over a 40-hour to 150-hour period. Artisan-made saddles can take much more time to construct, and cost tens of thousands of dollars more, but most are considered decorative, although they could be used on a horse.
All are Western saddles, designed for riders spending long hours on a mount and traveling over rugged terrain. Saddles also have variations to accommodate specific tasks, such as cutting, barrel racing or endurance competitions. Most saddles are custom made and all are hand tooled.
"We want our customers to be involved in the whole process," said head saddle maker Matt Wanner. "It's got to fit the horse and it's got to fit the rider."
With care, saddles can last a lifetime or longer.
Aurora rancher Rick Nelson said taking his grandfather's 100-year-old saddle into Burns to be refurbished was akin to entrusting a prized antique car to a mechanic. The saddle is heavy, patched, and the maker's stamp has long worn away, but it's so durable that Nelson has used it since he was 13 years old.
"My buddies ask when I'm going to get a new saddle," said Nelson, who has appeared on the "Survivor" reality television show. "But this one's comfortable the old ones were made for guys to sit in them for 12 to 16 hours in a day. I use this one all the time."
Hats off • Burns also makes custom hats, which can cost from $299 to $899, depending on the amount of beaver fur used in the blend.
Production manager Zane Osborn said the size of the hat's brim and creases in the crown vary, depending on the horse event and the region. For instance, domed crowns and wider brims are often preferred by rough-stock riders, while ropers are partial to rolled brims. Some Nevada customers like flat brims, while Californians like distressed hats that look weather beaten and old.
The shop also refurbishes them, such as the battered hats sent in by the brothers Jake, Cody and Jesse Wright, saddle bronc riders from Milford. Jake Wright said he has two Burns hats. Whenever he gets thrown and his hat gets smashed, "I send it in. I usually have one with me and the other in the shop at any one time."
In December, Wright captured his first world title in the National Finals Rodeo. Despite being bucked off three times, he finished the season with earnings of $226,886.
Burns Saddlery has a following on the circuit, selling saddles and tack, and depends on word of mouth for much of its business there, said company president Braydan Shaw. "When you've been around for more than a century," he added, "people know who you are."
Along with the circuit and its four stores, Burns' goods are sold at the Saddlery Cowboy Bar & Steakhouse in Torrey, near the west entrance to Capitol Reef National Park. The agreement with Burns in redrock country could be called a sentimental choice. The bar is only 15 miles south of Loa, site of the first Burns shop.
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Burns Cowboy & Saddlery Shops
Founded • 1876
Saddle, chaps, hat plant • Salina
Cowboy resort shops • Park City, 363 Main St.; and Carmel, Calif.
Saddlery shops • Salina, 79 W. Main St.; and Lehi, 310 N. 850 East
Workforce • 40 employees, 100 independent artisans
Retail • Boots, hats, Western wear, jewelry, saddles
Cowboy hats
Spanish influence was so great that some 19th-century catalogs called them "sombreros." Here's a sampling of styles:
Stetson • A rolled brim with high crown dating to manufacturer John Stetson,1865
Montana Peak • Pinched crown with smaller brim to combat wind, 1920s
Texas • Wide brim with tall crown to keep heads cool, 1910-1920
Ten Gallon • Made for movie stars Jack Hoxie, Tim McCoy and Tom Mix, 1925-1930
Roper • A flat but slightly dipped brim, worn by World Champion roper Bob Crosby, 1925
Rodeo • Wide brim with low crown popularized by movie horse trainers, 1955-1960
Cattleman • Owners preferred the smaller brim than those of working cowboys, 1965-1975
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In modern times, cancer has emerged as a leading cause of death, particularly in developed countries. Whereas vaccines and cures have eliminated many of the diseases that, in the past, were common causes of death, there is no such cure for cancer. Additionally, the quality of modern medical care, combined with new therapies, enables people to live longer lives than ever before. While innovative developments can make certain cancer treatments more chronic, cancer is often the result of cumulative damage to cells that's built up over time. Longer lifespans provide more time for damage to accumulate, which might be a factor in the incidence of cancer.
As the second-largest cause of death in developed countries and the third-largest worldwide, cancer has spawned the development of an entire industry dedicated to its treatment. Pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and biotech companies, among many others, contribute to the overall treatment of cancer. Every year, universities, governments, and foundations spend billions of dollars on cancer research. Due to the vast amounts of time and money required to develop new treatment options ranging from tumor vaccines to selective nanoparticle based targeting of cancer cells, chemotherapy drugs and other cancer-related treatments are often quite costly. With longer life durations enabled by chemotherapies and other treatments, medical costs have risen drmatically. Fees for cancer therapy are often reimbursed by either insurance companies or government health plans, however, allowing companies to maintain their pricing power. In addition, the grave nature of the disease minimizes the "Vioxx effect", or the risk that a cancer drug's adverse side effects will severely impact its manufacturer. Patients are often willing to accept a certain degree of risk if a drug's benefits are large enough.
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The Courtship of Donte Grantham
If you think that Bob Huggins doesn't carry a lot of weight (easy, the man once owned a gold suit), all you have to do is look into the courtship of Martinsburg's Donte' Grantham to understand the reputation Huggs carries in the coaching community.
He's kind of like a hoops version of E.F. Hutton, only a step further. When Huggs talks, people listen. When Huggs walks, people follow.
Especially coaches.
When he showed up at Martinsburg Dec. 22 on a rather unseasonably mild evening three days before Christmas, there was a buzz. It was like Santa arrived early to take in the Morgantown-Martinsburg game in the Martinsburg Holiday Tournament. Seems Huggs jetted into Martinsburg only a couple hours after WVU beat Radford.
He'd heard the buzz about this Grantham kid, and he wanted to see for himself. It was also a way to keep up with Nathan Adrian, the slender 6-foot-9 Morgantown shooter who has already committed to WVU.
Martinsburg won the game 55-39.
After the game, Huggins spent a lot of time with Martinsburg coach Dave Rogers. Never did talk players, but Rogers told a couple funny jokes and Huggs was resplendent in that long black leather jacket.
Anyway …
As Huggs watched from the press box at the fieldhouse, people pointed.
The man casts a long shadow.
How long? Apparently to places as far away as Minnesota and Piscataway, N.J.
Understand and realize that Grantham is going get where Grantham goes because Grantham puts in the work.
He was, as Hedgesville's Kelly Church said, one of the best players in the state last year, and he has improved this year.
What he gets, he will have earned.
Still, after Huggs showed up, the recruiting of Grantham blew up.
That's not just coincidence. Big-time coaches pick up on the scent of other coaches because recruiting is a dog-eat-dog kind of business.
Now old suitors, and new ones, have intensified their look at the 6-foot-7 senior who is averaging 19.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and nearly two blocks per game. He plays outside on the perimeter as well as he does inside. See, much like Kevin Pittsnogle before him, Grantham was a point guard before a growth spurt hit. It shows. He can lead a break as well as start one with a massive blocked shot.
The calls about Grantham came quickly and have not stopped since right after the Christmas break.
It's likely to grow even more when Martinsburg plays in the Dunk for Diabetes Tournament in Canton, Ohio today (200 coaches from Division I to NAIA Division II will be at the tournament).
The Grantham list right now, at least when Martinsburg boarded the bus for Ohio, in addition to WVU: Marshall, James Madison, Radford, Georgetown, Minnesota, George Washington, Rutgers. Even Villanova.
Actually, the Villanova situation is interesting in its own right:
Remember Martinsburg beating SaintJames, Md., 85-56 a couple weeks back right up the interstate? Villanova is interested in a 6-foot-9, 270-pound junior, Obi Enechionyia. Saint James coach Paul Easton, who has some contacts himself, was so impressed with Grantham, he told Villanova it needed to look at Grantham.
After the game, in which Grantham matched Enechionyia with 23 points and also had six boards, four steals, fours 3s, three blocks, three dunks, two assists (and probably would have added a partridge in a pear tree if it were at all possible, because he is that good), Easton told me, Buddha (as Grantham is known in these parts) was definitely a "high-caliber Division I player."
Also in attendance that night was WVU assistant Ron Everhart.
With the Mountaineers' season spiraling downward, I asked the question on Twitter the other day: Would it hurt to have some in-state talent on this team?
Remember the days in the mid-1980s to 2000s when the roster was a Who's Who of the state's best?
Herbie Brooks (Mullens), Stevie Berger (Valley-Fayette), Tracy Shelton and Pervires P.G. Greene (Oak Hill) and Martinsburg's very own Marsalis Basey, Jeremy Bodkin (Franklin) Martinsburg's own (again) Pittsnogle, who became a household name around the country and Ted Talkington (a walk-on from Magnolia who earned playing time).
I think Huggins feels the same. He, above all, understands being a state native.
The evidence is in:
Adrian is in the fold. Grantham could be next, and 6-foot-10 sophomore phenom Levi Cook of Liberty-Raleigh (if you haven't heard of him, you will in due time) has already committed.
That would be like the mother lode of state talent.
That is a good thing for Mountaineer fans everywhere.
So what about Grantham? He has stepped out of Huggs' recruiting shadow of Dec. 22 and is making a name for himself. You get the feeling he'd like to go to WVU, but he will look at the offers.
There is always the potential to prep a year at a school like Fork Union, coached by Fayetteville native Fletcher Arritt.
Rogers' association with Arritt goes back to 1994, when he placed Richie Sutherland (who played on the 1994 team that knocked off Super Bowl-bound Randy Moss and NBA veteran Jason Williams in the state tournament semifinals).
Seems it worked out well for Sutherland, who initially signed with Division I Xavier out of FUMA.
Problem with Cincinnati, the hunting there just wasn't suitable to Sutherland's tastes.
Still, he did get an education, going to a school in Kentucky before finishing at Shepherd.
A prep school would be a way for Grantham to grow, because, as many coaches have said, he will need to bulk up some to play at the next level.
It's a fact Grantham knows all to well. Bet on him doing just that.
I get more messages from my hoops-crazy friends out of the area wanting to know if Grantham is the real deal.
Well, in a word: Yes.
This much is obvious The courtship for his talents has only just begun.


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NEW YORK (AP) — There is wonder in numbers, and the curators of a new museum in New York City hope to prove it.
The National Museum of Mathematics opened to the public Saturday in Manhattan.
The museum is aimed at kids aged 8 to 13, and curators have given the place a playground feel.
The 40 exhibits include a "wall of fire" made up of laser lights that teaches kids about geometry and a square-wheeled tricycle that still manages to produce a smooth ride thanks to a wavy track.
Founder Glen Whitney says the idea is to show people the "fun, beautiful" things done with mathematics.
The museum occupies the first two floors of an office tower across from Madison Square Park at 11 E. 26th St.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fool's errand or heroic stand?
The bipartisan compromise on Wednesday to avoid a financial default and end a 16-day partial government shutdown cast a spotlight on Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, who had precipitated the crises with their demand that President Barack Obama gut his 3-year-old health care law.
Other Republicans who repeatedly had warned the two about their quixotic move took little pleasure in saying "I-told-you-so." After they failed to block the biggest expansion of the health care law, the shutdown and near default left the GOP reeling.
"He's the one who got us into this. He had no strategy. And it caused us to waste 16 days and get ourselves killed in the polls," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said of Cruz. "All for a guy who was fraudulent from the start."
With a heavy dose of gallows humor, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Republicans' poll "numbers have gone down, Obamacare's somehow mysteriously have gone up. And other than that, this has been great."
Cruz, a freshman who engaged in a 21-hour talkathon and egged on House Republicans for the fight, was unapologetic and critical of his GOP Senate colleagues.
"Imagine a different world," Cruz said in a Senate speech. "If all 46 Senate Republicans had stood together and said, we are united against the train wreck that is Obamacare."
In fact, all Senate Republicans oppose the law; what they had challenged was the two senators' tactics.
Lee offered no regrets, vowing to continue the fight to repeal the health care law. "This is not over," he said in a Senate speech.
Their defiance has been wildly cheered by outside conservative groups that have made money on the months-long dispute and the far right flank that hails Cruz and Lee for what they call a principled, courageous stand.
Cruz, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, has seized the headlines and collected nearly $800,000 for his political action committee in the past three months.
"I think Ted Cruz and Mike Lee did exactly the job that those of us who helped them get elected" wanted them to do, said Drew Ryun of the Madison Project, one of the first conservative organizations to back Cruz last year in his long-shot Senate bid.
Among tea party Republicans, Cruz's popularity has climbed, from a 47 percent favorability rating in July to 74 percent, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday. Non-tea party Republicans see him in a less favorable light, with his unfavorable numbers up to 31 percent.
To Senate Republicans, Cruz and Lee are near pariahs, publicly slammed for a tactic that has taken a heavy toll on the GOP's standing and privately criticized for helping outside groups targeting Republican incumbents before next year's congressional elections.
The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll showed three-quarters of Americans disapproving of the way congressional Republicans were handling the budget.
"What did I say three weeks ago, what did I say a month ago, it was a fool's errand," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., waving a copy of the latest poll for reporters clustered in the Senate basement earlier this week. "I knew that it was going to be a disaster and it is a disaster."
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a fierce opponent of the health care law, called the effort to unravel the law a "fantasy."
Compromise has never been part of the vocabulary for Lee, who was elected in 2010, and Cruz, a member of the Senate for some 10 months. The two have been relegated to the sidelines during the Senate negotiations. Neither was part of a bipartisan group that jump-started talks. The two even skipped Tuesday's weekly closed-door Republican luncheon.
Further riling the GOP is the reality that shutdown and the default threat have overshadowed the problem-plagued rollout of the health care markets on Oct. 1 despite Republican efforts to highlight the programs' woes.
In private, Republicans have been dismissive and confrontational with Cruz, according to lawmakers and congressional aides.
At one meeting, Cruz presented his own poll numbers and argued that Republicans weren't suffering despite the overwhelming evidence suggesting they were, prompting eye-rolling from his colleagues.
At a subsequent meeting, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., asked whether Cruz would disavow efforts by the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group founded by former South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint that has been running ads in states with GOP incumbents, challenging them to support the "defund Obamacare" quest.
McConnell, who faces similar ads in his state as he seeks a sixth term next year, joined with Ayotte in questioning Cruz, who was noncommittal.
More recently, the Texas senator insisted that Senate Republicans could force a vote on a House-passed bill to ease the pain of the shutdown for military veterans, seemingly unaware of Senate rules. He didn't give a convincing explanation how that could be done, considering that the Republican Senate minority has no power to set the agenda. Cruz appeared to be resting his hopes on a strategic stumble by Reid, a 26-year Senate veteran.
Yet for all the internal back-biting, Cruz stands as the Teflon tea partyer, winning over conservatives.
At the Values Voter Summit this past weekend, an annual gathering of social conservatives and evangelicals, participants echoed Cruz and Lee's determination not to back down.
Lee brought activists to their feet when he said he was still working with Cruz to strip money from the law.
"We make no apologies. We stand with you," Lee said, drawing loud applause.
In imploring conservatives to remain vigilant, Cruz quoted the 1995 film "The Usual Suspects," and Keyser Soze's assessment that the "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist." Cruz' variation: "the greatest trick the left has ever played is to convince conservatives we cannot win."
Cruz won the organization's straw poll on Saturday with 42 percent, well ahead of former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon.
Dennis Bussey of Richmond, Va., said many conservatives are searching for a new standard-bearer and he was impressed by Cruz's reception.
"We're looking for someone — maybe not a hero but maybe we do need a hero," he said.
Associated Press writers Ken Thomas, Andrew Taylor and Bradley Klapper contributed to this report.


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Londa's Burial Caves, The Popular Tourist Destinations in Toraja
"On the walls of a steep hill, coffins hang from cracks in the rocky face". Lifelike wooden sculptures or effigies complete with clothes, stand in neat rows in cracks hollowed out in the cliff faces, very much like the windows & balconies of a house. These represent the dead who are buried there. Not far from this hanging grave hides a burial cave many hundreds of years old. This site has attracted and amazed many tourists from all over the world. Be sure Londa is on your list of "Places to visit" this coming year! If you've never been to Londa, you'll never know the real Toraja!"
From the customs and beliefs of numbers of tribes around the world, we come to learn how their dead are honoured and buried in very different ways. It is no secret that the people of Toraja, namely the nobility, bury their dead loved ones & relatives in one of the most unique ways in the world! A series of very costly traditional costumes for burial ceremonies (Rambu Solo) and also cave tombs high in walls of the hills and cliffs can be seen here at Londa, Tana Toraja, in the province of South Sulawesi.
Londa's burial caves are one of the more popular tourist destinations in Toraja. Londa's tourist attractions are found in the village of Sandan Uai, in the Sanggalangi District. It is located about 7 km. south of Rantepao City, the tourism and accommodation centre in Toraja. Therefore, Londa is easy to get to by public transport such as bemo (mini van), ojek (motorcycle taxis), or rental car.
To get to the tomb caves of Londa, one must descend a number of stairs but just before you do, you will be approached by a member of the local community offering you lanterns for rent costing about Rp 20,000. You will need a light to find your way into and around the cave. Aside from renting a lantern, you may also bring your own flashlight to light your way, or ask your tour guide to provide one for you. Special Londa Tour guides for the tomb caves do not normally have a fixed rate so you may bargain for a good deal.
From a distance the cliff sides appear lush & green with the forest trees. If you are observant, however, you will notice colourful coffins tucked into crevices of the cliff walls. At the foot of this lush green cliff lies a cave which is used as a tomb.
As you get closer to the cave you may find yourself enveloped in shades of mysticism while at the same time nature welcomes you with its wild greenery and cool mountain fresh air all about.
On the walls of the cliffs around the cave, rows of wooden statues called Tau-taus can be seen in the chiseled stone cliffs.
Tau-tau is a carved wooden effigy, very closely resembling the dead body buried there. Usually jackfruit wood is used for this carving as it tends to yellow with age, to a colour very much like human skin. Some tau-tau are carefully carved with special attention given to details such as wrinkles on the face, or sagging skin on the neck due to aging.
Close to the rows of Tau-tau, wooden coffins are safely and firmly secured to the cliff walls by wooden beams. Apparently these hanging tombs are often thought of as another attraction of Londa, Tana Toraja. These coffins or caskets (erong) are said to indicate the level of honour or nobility of the person buried there. The higher the casket or coffin is located on the cliff walls, the higher the degree or status of the bodies buried there.
The Torajans believe that the dead can take their wealth with them into the afterlife. One reason why they bury the coffins in high places is to protect the buried treasure from thieves. They also believe that the higher the coffin lies the shorter the journey is for the deceased to enter into Nirvana.
Before entering the cave, bones may be seen scattered here and there. These bones fell from a cliff-hanging coffin that broke off at some time because its wooden holds and supports were damaged or rotten with time. The fallen skulls and bones may once again be placed in a new coffin. However, expensive ceremonies have to be performed once again, similar to when the deceased was buried in its first coffin.
This customary funeral ceremony known as Rambu Solo, is an age-old tradition for deceased noblemen of Toraja. In order to carry out this ceremony, surviving relatives of the deceased sacrifice approximately 24 to 100 buffaloes (for the nobility) or approximately 8 buffaloes and 50 pigs (for the middle class). It is not unusual for the surviving relatives to take many months or even years to save up for, or gather enough of all that is needed in order to carry out the rituals for a funeral ceremony as Rambu Solo.
While waiting for this ceremony to take place, the corpse is not considered completely dead yet. Therefore, the dead body is stored in a traditional vernacular house (tongkonan) and treated as a living person, for example, by giving his or her favorite foods, cigarettes, and more. Other objects are also placed beside the coffin as offerings. Before the corpse is stored it is embalmed to avoid stench and odor.
As you explore the cave you will find more skulls and bones scattered here and there. In some places, the coffins may appear to be arranged in a particular manner. These were appropriately arranged according to lineage or family ancestry. Aside from the coffins, you will also notice clothing or cigarettes deliberately placed there by relatives of the deceased. Reportedly, some of these bones in the cave are from tens to hundreds of years old.
The natural tomb caves of Londa may be up to 1000 metres deep. In exploring the contours of the tomb cave filled with stalagmites and stalactites, one needs to be very careful. Some parts of the cave are only a metre high so you will have to walk hunched over.
The dark conditions of this cave contribute further to the mystical aura of the tomb cave. However, a journey through the tomb caves of Londa is most certainly an experience that you will not find anywhere else! Be sure that you do not move or even consider taking with you any of the bones, skulls or other artifacts you see lying within the tomb area, as this is one of the ethics which should be adhered to when entering the ancestral tomb area of the people of Toraja.
One last important point to note when you visit Londa : Be sure to request for permission if you are bringing or carrying etel nut or flowers with you.
If parts of a cliff naturally give way & the coffin originally placed there falls off, the spilled skulls, bones & any other objects may not be moved without customary approval and a series of traditional ceremonies of the Toraja.
A variety of both large & small hotels are available downtown, and may be booked through a Travel Agent. However, staying in the village may be an option for the adventurous at heart.
Here is a list of hotels in Tanah Toraja: 700 meters above sea level, the Toraja Heritage Hotel is modelled in the style of traditional Tongkonan houses. The 160 rooms and suites come with standard amenities, and have balconies facing the rice fields. Facilities include an outdoor pool, overlooking the mountains, mountain bikes available for rent, two restaurants, spa, fitness center, and Jacuzzi. Address: Jl. KeteKesu.
Hotel Marante Toraja provides spacious guest rooms with private terraces overlooking the Torajan landscape. Traditional Tongkonan Cottages offer a choice of two levels, and are tastefully furnished and equipped according to international standards. Room rates range from USD 100 – 300, and are valid for single or double occupancy. Address: Jurusan Palopo, North Toraja.
Toraja Misiliana Hotel has been owned and run by a local Torajan family since 1980, providing a warm family atmosphere, and a "home away from home." The hotel is just 12 kilometers from Pongtiku airport, and is easily accessible by public transport. 101 Spacious rooms combine traditional Torajan culture with Western design, and are all complete with private shower, mini-bar, in house movies and satellite TV. Facilities include room service, laundry service, tennis court, swimming pool, conference and meeting rooms, ballroom with 750 person occupancy, and shopping arcade. Room rates from IDR 700,000 – 2,500,000. Address: Jl. Pontiku No. 27 Rantepao.
The Hotel Sahid is a 3-star hotel offering 8 executive suites and 44 deluxe suites amidst the slopes and pine trees of Toraja. The Sahid bungalows combine modern architecture and traditional Torajan styles, and are complete with the standard amenities. Other included facilities are a restaurant, meeting room, swimming pool, tennis court, volleyball court, and mountain tracking. Address: Jalan Raya Gettengan 1, Mengkendek.
Bemo or minibus is the local transport and the best way to get around. It costs Rp 2,000 for short rides and up to Rp 10,000 for further distances.
Besides that you may also hire a mini bus or jeep with or without a driver, that you may relax and enjoy the trip as you get driven around the countryside and villages.
Walks may also take you past a variety of different grave sites some of which are quite popular. A Guide would be most useful.
To get to Tana Toraja you must first fly to Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi – Provincial Capital and center of activity in Eastern Indonesia. International flights are available from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur on Garuda and Air Asia respectively, and many airlines fly domestically to Makassar from Jakarta, Bali, Manado, Surabaya, and many more.
From Hasanuddin Airport, there are two options for getting to Tana Toraja : One is by small aircraft with a capacity of 24, and the second is by road. If you decide to fly, you will arrive at Pong Tiku Airport in Rantetayo, Tana Toraja, within 55 minutes. The plane flies only twice a week : Tuesdays & Fridays at 10:00a.m.
If you decide to go overland, Tana Toraja is about 8 to 10 hours away. You may rent a car for about Rp 850,000 to Rp 1,200,000 one-way; or ride one of the many buses that commute from Makassar to Rantepao daily, for about Rp 80,000. The bus journey is also about 8 to 10 hours including a stop for a meal. Bus tickets must be purchased in Makassar City. The bus then leaves from the Bus Terminal "Daya" which is just 30-40 mins away by bemo (minibus) from where your tickets were purchased. The Departure Schedule for the bus to Tana Toraja is : 7:00am, 1:00pm (13:00), and 7:00pm (19:00).
Several bus companies operate between Rantepao and Makassar. The number of buses each day depend on the number of passengers travelling. It would be advisable to seek the services of a travel agent experienced in planning and handling a trip to Toraja.
As a visitor, you are expected to dress yourself in traditional clothing and respect the traditional rules and customs of the people of Toraja.
Watch your head when you enter the traditional houses of "Tongkonan" because of their low passage-ways. You may bring gifts such as cigarettes when you enter the Tongkonan.
When travelling by road, take note that not all the roads are paved (with asphalt) so use the right vehicle even when the weather is good, which is during May and October.
Do not miss the chance for some breathtaking photos at Enrekang, Makale in the Toraja Plateau surrounded by stunning cliffs of volcanic rock.
High Funeral season is between July and October.
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With Michael Phelps' script calling for him to exit pool left after these Games, every day brings another last — of a particular race, for example, or a final matchup against a worthy rival. But even after four Olympics, Phelps is finding firsts.
Thursday night, he became the first male swimmer to win the same event in three consecutive Olympics — the 200-meter individual medley. It may be a rather nuanced title, full of qualifications, compared to those he already has after his name, such as the most-decorated Olympian moniker earned Tuesday night. But for the swimmer who has long said he wanted to be the first Michael Phelps, as in singularly himself and not referenced to any other, he embraces it.
"To be the first to three-peat in something is pretty special," the Baltimore swimmer said after winning his second gold medal of these Games, "and something I'm very happy for."
Swimming the medley in 1:54.27 seconds, Phelps beat that worthy rival of his, Ryan Lochte, by .63 of a second, with Laszlo Cseh of Hungary winning bronze.
The 200 IM is one of the races that Phelps had owned, starting in 2003, when he set the first of what would become a total of eight world records in the event. In the past several years, though, Lochte started making inroads: In 2009, he won the event in the world championships in Rome and then again last year in Shanghai, where he set the current world record of 1:54.00.
But on Thursday, the calendar didn't do Lochte any favors. He had to swim two difficult races, coming in third in his speciality, the 200-meter backstroke, earlier in the evening before having to face Phelps in the 200 IM.
That was Lochte's final race of the Games. While it was not an unsuccessful meet by any means, with Lochte winning two golds, two silvers and a bronze, he didn't put the full stamp of ownership on it as he had hoped — and that much of the media had hyped. He emerged farther from Phelps' shadow than ever before, but the Baltimore swimmer still remains a frequent reference point. On his last night at the Games, reporters frequently asked Lochte how it felt to have raced the Phelps for a final time.
Lochte, though, spoke warmly about the friend and competitor he's been swimming against for eight years. Lochte had started chipping away at Phelps' dominance, even winning gold on the first night of competition, in the 400-meter individual medley that Phelps failed to even medal in. Both say they've improved as swimmers from having to battle one another off time after time.
Lochte's two medals Thursday give him 11 over his Olympic career, placing him second among all male Olympians and trailing only — who else — Phelps and his 20, according to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
"He is the toughest racer I've ever had to deal with. The rivalry we've created has been tremendous for the sport. Our friendship that we've created is awesome," Lochte said. "I'm going to miss him, racing him. ... It's going to be kind of weird not having him with me anymore."
The two were relaxed after they were done swimming for the day. When they spoke about one another, it had the feel of toasts that they might give, at a wedding or a farewell party. But there are still two more days of competition — for Phelps, that is.
After winning the 200 IM Thursday night, Phelps swam the semifinal of the 100-meter butterfly, finishing first going into Friday's final. Saturday, he will swim his final race of these Games, as well as his competitive career, the 400-meter medley relay.
And then, that's it. "No more competitive swimming," he said, giving a director's "cut" sign with his hands to underline how definitively his answer should be taken. "There will not be any masters [events]."
Still, this week has been bittersweet, with Phelps noting "last" times every day.
"I've been saying before I go into the ready room, 'This is my last 100 fly, or this is my last semi-final of the 200 IM, or this or that," Phelps said. "We're just checking everything off.
"Once it's all over, it's going to hit me emotionally. Watching my mom and sisters up in the stands, I kind of spot them after every race, I know for my mom especially, it's very emotional for her," he said of his mother, Debbie, watching as she has from the start with daughters Hilary and Whitney.
Phelps said he was going to enjoy watching the next wave of swimmers, especially Chad le Clos, the 20-year-old South African swimmer who beat him in Wednesday's 200-meter butterfly. If the old Phelps, an intense, single-minded competitor, might have followed this second-place finish with much plotting on how he would get him the next time, this Phelps seemed to enjoy seeing his younger self in le Clos.
"We were both sitting in the ice tub together," Phelps said of how he and le Clos recovered from their race. "He was like, 'Man, my breaststroke in the IM is so bad.' I can remembering saying the exact same thing."
Le Clos, who grew up idolizing Phelps and watching his races over and over again, enters the 100 butterfly final second to him.
As Phelps watches his sport's potential stars of the future, he remains in the mix with those who represent high and low points of his past.
In his morning heat for the 100 fly, Phelps swam in a lane next to Milorad Cavic, the Serbian swimmer whom he'd beaten by one-hundredth of a second while essentially blinded by a goggle malfunction during the 200-meter butterfly race in the Beijing Games. The excruciating memory remains for both swimmers.
"We've had some pretty close races in our day," Phelps said dryly.
"It is never worth underestimating that man. He is capable of anything," said Cavic, who advances to the final seeded fourth behind American Tyler MGill. "I am just lucky to be here."
Out of the pool, Phelps seemed to remain as busy juggling the stream of well-wishes and congratulations for his new, most-decorated-Olympian status. Thursday night, he said he received a text from Masters golf champion Bubba Watson joking about his less than Olympian golf game.
He also got tweets from former NFL star Warren Sapp, Young Jeezy, Bo Brooks restaurant and Torrey Smith, the Terp turned Raven whom he told he was looking forward to football season beginning. He re-tweeted a flirty message from supermodel Bar Refaeli's, "little memory of me and a guy who made history.. @MichaelPhelps :) congratulations!" who attached a picture of them during a photo shoot for Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue.
And on Thursday, he re-enacted a phone call he received the day before en route to the pool.
"Michael?" a caller asked. "And I said, yes?"
"Please hold for the president of the United States."
"I was like, 'OK!' " Phelps said he responded.
"He just got on, and he was saying how everyone was supporting me and behind me at home, and just how proud everybody is of me," Phelps said. "So that was pretty cool.
"And then he finished by saying," Phelps said, "make sure you tell your mom I said hi."


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From one of our favorite wild game chefs, Scott Leysath, comes this super and easy recipe for Venison Medallions in Mushroom Sauce.
Here's what Leysath has to say about it: "Anyone notice how I poke fun at game recipes that call for a can of cream of mushroom soup? Well here's my upgraded version of the oversalted stuff in a can. The sauce is a velvety blend of fresh mushrooms, wine, cream and vegetables. Once you see just how easy it is to make the real deal, you'll think twice about using the canned goo in the future."
4 servings
Mushroom Sauce
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup chicken broth, cool
1/4 cup dry white wine
1/4 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
dash Tabasco
1/2 cup red and green bell pepper, diced
2 green onions, white and green part, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 cups fresh mushrooms, thinly-sliced
salt and pepper to taste
12 2 to 3 ounce venison medallions cut from the loin or eye of round
salt and pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 sprigs Italian parsley
Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in flour and cook while stirring until butter/flour mixture is smooth and beige in color, about 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in cool chicken broth, a little at a time, until incorporated. Stir in wine and cream until incorporated. Add remaining sauce ingredients and simmer for 10 to 12 minutes, stirring often.
Season medallions with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat, add medallions and sear on both sides until medium-rare. To serve, spoon sauce on to plate, arrange medallions over sauce and garnish with parsley.
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In a previous column, I questioned whether all the easy-to-obtain obsolete scrap like No. 1 heavy melt and plate and structural scrap—the low-hanging fruit—had been picked, processed and sold to steel mills and foundries.
As often happens, a mysterious force called reality stepped in, slapped me in the face and said, "I'm gonna make you look foolish again."
Simply put, ferrous scrap seemed to flood into the market in May, driving down the prices paid by domestic mills. Some mill buyers and brokers like to argue that when spring weather arrives, old iron and steel scrap "comes out of the woodwork" or just materializes in farmers' fields. Perhaps it had been under the ground all winter and now has grown, ripened and is ready to be picked, much like corn or soybeans. Perhaps not.
What is true is that warmer weather stirs smaller dealers and their suppliers, often called peddlers, to get out on the highways and byways looking for scrap. And perhaps some manufacturing companies take a second look at old equipment that has been lying around for a few years and decide it's not worth bringing back on-line.
Scrap prices have been climbing throughout the past winter, so maybe it was time to tear down an old corrugated building too small to serve as a production facility or even a warehouse, while old lathes and milling machines—workhorses in days past—can't produce even half the parts that new computer numerical controlled machines can whip out.
That's one way to see this latest bumper crop of ferrous scrap. There is another.
Much of the scrap that some U.S. mills obtained in May was brought in earlier from scrap exporters in the United Kingdom and western Europe. It arrived at the port of New Orleans and other destinations in time to add some bulk to mills' inventories and strengthened their ability to bargain with some of their local scrap suppliers.
Using that foreign material—higher-quality industrial steel scrap like new steel clips and busheling—along with a cargo or two of Brazilian pig iron helped some melters to shift the mix they put into electric-arc furnaces and use less heavy melt and shredded scrap.
At the same time, some integrated mills brought idled furnaces back on-line in recent months. Normally when that happens, the big mills stock up on scrap like No. 1 bundles, plate and structural scrap and shredded. They bought a bit, but not as much as some had anticipated.
The domestic ferrous market quickly shifted from being a supply-driven market, as it had been since late last year, to a demand-driven market. Mill buyers and their brokers could tell their scrap suppliers, "Well, yes, we bought 50,000 tons last month, but we doubt that we will need even 10,000 tons this month."
When scrap sellers hear the same song from another mill or two, the waves of fear begin knocking over one after another. Within a few days—if not hours—it's panic selling time. The mills won't pay even the same price they paid last month. All right, says the boss, offer them the scrap at $10 a ton less. Still no takers? Try down $20 a ton, or $25.
It's not unusual to see such behavior. The yards piled up scrap when the price was higher and the flow was strong. The mills are running better and were expected to be strong buyers again. That's true, but not right away. Maybe not even in June.
In the meantime, some yards are sitting on thousands of tons of scrap bought when prices were at their most recent highs and now they see their profit margins sinking and in some instances vanishing altogether. Who wouldn't panic in such a situation?
The problem isn't just one or two scrap sellers panicking. Buyers are not averse to playing one supplier against another, telling dealer Smith that dealer Jones offered 10,000 tons at $5 a ton less. Dealer Smith reacts by offering to sell for $10 a ton less to get the order.
So does that mean the low-hanging fruit is once again ripening on the lowest branches? I don't think so. Some believe there will always be scrap at a price, but that's not necessarily the case.
There is a finite supply of obsolete scrap. No state or county highway department is going to tear down a bridge built five years ago at a cost of several hundred million dollars just to sell a few thousand tons of plate and beams for a fraction of that cost.
And let's not forget that the U.S. has become the largest scrap shopping mall for many of the world's scrap-poor nations. Ferrous scrap exports now average 20 million tonnes a year, not 7 million or 8 million tonnes as was the case 10 years ago. The excess tonnage shipped abroad in recent years was a significant part of that low-hanging fruit.
Obsolete scrap has not become obsolete, so to speak. It still has many fans overseas—in Turkey, China and throughout the Far East. China and Turkey have not been as active as they had been, but they will be back on the U.S. docks not just in another month or two but for the next few decades—until they manage to generate enough indigenous scrap. Then, perhaps, they may start shredding junked vehicles and appliances and tearing down old factories and bridges and even selling it to U.S. mills.
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Reception next week for resort era exhibit
The exhibit in the back stairwell of Town Hall, titled "Jamestown in the Resort Era," will open offi- cially with a reception on Tuesday, Feb. 21, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The Jamestown Historical Society basement vault at the bottom of the stairwell will be open for visitors. The exhibit, designed by Adams Taylor who also designed the land agreement document display on the first floor of Town Hall, features signs from hotels and resort buildings of the era. Period photographs from the JHS collection show the hotels and the waterfront at East Ferry between 1875 and 1930. The display was funded primarily by a gift from Trum and Sallie Richard, and a plaque honoring them will be added to the exhibit. In the vault, JHS docents will display photographs and ask visitors for help in identifying individuals in the pictures. Photographs needing identification include class pictures from the Carr and Clarke school, pictures of Jamestown events such as Fort Getty Day and the Penguin Plunge, and some formal portraits. Refreshments will be served.
Seminar on estate planning next week
A seminar on estate planning will be offered on Wednesday, Feb. 22, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the
Jamestown Philomenian Library. Eric Archer, a Jamestown attorney and specialist in estate planning, will join Zeldy Lyman, development officer at the Rhode Island Foundation, for the discussion. The two will share an inside view of current estate laws and talk about what may be ahead. Wine and cheese will be served. RSVP to Donna Fogarty at 423- 7281.
Teen center schedules winter vacation hours
The Jamestown Teen Center's open hours for February vacation will be 2 to 9 p.m. from Feb. 20 to Feb. 25. Monday and Wednesday are for middle school students, and Tuesday and Thursday the center is open for high school students. Friday and Saturday are for teens in grades seven through 12. For more information, call Debbie Tungett at 423-7261.
Internet marketing to be discussed at 'Ganny
The next meeting in the Jamestown Chamber of Commerce's Breakfast Series will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 22, from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Narragansett Café. The event is titled "Cheap and Simple Marketing on the Internet." The guest speaker will be Todd Hampson, an independent software consultant with 20 years of
development experience. Hampson will present an overview of how to use the new media and social networking for active and passive marketing. Websites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Yelp will be discussed. RSVP to info@jamestownri chamber.com by Sunday, Feb. 19. The breakfast is $15 for chamber members, $20 for non-members.
Applications available for sailing scholarship
The Jamestown Yacht Club is now accepting applications for its Joshua Wadsworth Leonard Memorial Sailing Scholarship, which is eligible for children between the ages of 8 and 14. The award was established by Joshua's parents, who are longtime members of the yacht club. The $200 scholarship will provide sailing lessons for a youngster who would like to enjoy the ocean as much as Joshua did. Forms are available at both the Lawn Avenue and Melrose Avenue schools, or online at JYC.org. Applications must be submitted by March 5 by mail to Jamestown Yacht Club, P.O. Box 562, Jamestown, RI 02835.
Magician will perform at library next week
Magician Mat Franco will perform on Thursday, Feb. 23, from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Jamestown Philomenian Library. Franco will provide a "high-energy show" complete with magic, music, spontaneous humor and audience participation. The program is free and open to school-aged children and their parents. For more information, call Lisa Sheley at 423-7280.
Knitting assistance at library next 6 Sundays
On Sundays from Feb. 19 to March 25, Susan Hoagland will be on hand at the Jamestown Philomenian Library to instruct and assist with any knitting project that someone would like help with. The classes will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. There will be some yarn and needles available. No registration is necessary. The programs are free and open to the public.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia couple faces murder charges in the starvation death of their disabled 3-year-old girl, a case with harrowing echoes in a city where a series of children have suffered similarly slow, agonizing deaths.
Nathalyz (pronounced NAT'-uh-leez) Rivera, one of a set of twins, weighed just 11 pounds when she died Monday. Although she had severe disabilities, she had not seen a doctor in more than a year and was apparently not on the radar of social services.
Carlos Rivera, 30, and his wife Carmen Ramirez, 27, were charged Tuesday with third-degree murder. They have four other children, who were placed in protective custody. Neither parent immediately had a lawyer listed in court records, and attempts to reach relatives proved unsuccessful.
"The fact you can have a child that literally starved to death in the city of Philadelphia is abysmal," said Dr. Rachel P. Berger, chief of the division of child advocacy at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, who is not involved in the case.
"The real question is, as a society, how did we fail this child? Who saw this child, outside of the family or even within the family?"
Police did not disclose Nathalyz's specific health issues, although Ramirez told police that her daughter was born blind and had Down syndrome, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The family last had contact with the Department of Human Services in 2008, before she was born.
They lived in a rented row home on a neatly kept block of mostly retirees. Police said the home was in deplorable condition, infested with insects and rodents that they suspect caused some of the bruising on the girl's body.
Neighbors told reporters this week that they rarely saw the family, although others said they saw the children — but not Nathalyz — playing outside while the mother watched them or Rivera worked on cars. He has prior arrests for assault, endangerment and threatening behavior, although many of the charges were ultimately dropped.
According to police, Rivera found his youngest daughter unresponsive at about midnight Sunday, and called the girl's mother rather than 911. Ramirez came and went from the house, and arrived with a male friend to take Nathalyz to the hospital.
It was nearly 2 a.m. when the girl was pronounced dead, although homicide Capt. James Clark believes she was dead when Rivera found her. Clark called the autopsy photos among the most disturbing he has seen on the job.
More than 1,500 U.S. children die from abuse or neglect each year, most of them under age 4, but the Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that it could not break out the number of starvation deaths.
"We had a bunch of child starvation and abuse deaths over my 19 years. Lots, unfortunately," said former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham, whose office spent years investigating the 2006 death of Danieal Kelly, who weighed 42 pounds when she died at age 14.
"A lot of the parents are totally ill-equipped to take care of one child, let alone multiple children," Abraham said.
Kelly, who had cerebral palsy and used a wheelchair, died despite the family's enrollment in an intensive program for the city's most needy households.
More recently, 2-month-old twin Quasir Alexander weighed just over 4 pounds when he died at a homeless shelter in 2010, where his mother lived with her six children and received an array of social services.
Ensuing criminal trials revealed fraud in the Kelly case — social workers and contractors skipped the weekly home visits — and perhaps inexperience in the Alexander case. A social worker saw Quasir 36 hours before he died, but the baby was swaddled in clothing and the social worker found nothing amiss.
Danieal's mother was convicted of third-degree murder, her father of felony neglect. Quasir's mother was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
Nathalyz's death may point to a third phenomenon, in which families remain isolated from people who could help. It may be up to a jury to determine if that was intentional.
"When you have parents that are not invested in their children — sometimes they have mental health disease, sometimes they're so overwhelmed with life, that getting health care is not on their agenda — and you couple that with a child that's got medical problems, that's when you get into these kinds of situations," said Dr. Cindy Christian, a Children's Hospital of Philadelphia pediatrician who serves as medical director of the city's Department of Human Services.
"But there should never be a child who dies of starvation," she said. "We know how to nourish children, even with the most complex health care needs."


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Mayor Don Wesely and the directors of City departments will paint a room at the Malone Community Center, 2032 "U" Street, as a service project to observe Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 20.
"A major theme of the holiday is 'A Day On, Not a Day Off,' and we wanted to put those words into action," said Mayor Wesely. "We know there are many others in Lincoln whose employers observe this important holiday. We want to encourage them to take some time Monday to give back to their community in honor of Dr. King."
Mayor Wesely and department directors plan to begin painting at 10:30 a.m. and expect to be done by early afternoon.
The paint for the project is being provided by Sherwin Williams Company, 235 N. 46th Street, and supplies are being provided by ICI Paints, 1265 South Cotner Boulevard.
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Blind Curve
Martha Crow is a strong loner who is in some ways still hiding behind her sadness of her youth. She was known as Scarecrow and teased about being a �plain Jane' and geeky. Her mother deserted her and her when she was young forcing her to grow up fast. Danny is a tough cop who has the most amazing eyes who has been caring for his mother and sister for most of his life. He has been an undercover cop now for a number of years and also doesn't seem to ...
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringer Warner, Oct 2003, 5.99, 384 pp. ISBN: 0446612294 FBI Agent Finn Carver has been undercover trying to find the whereabouts of a big nuclear device on the market. He crashes a party at the estate of the recently deceased Arthur Beaman., His girlfriend Angelina Mercer throws it showing she is not in mourning. Over Finn's objections, his superiors want to recruit Angelina to help them get close to Victor Borian, the reported owner of wea...
Tell No Lies
Warner, Mar 2004, 5.99, 352 pp. ISBN: 0446613576 In the small Hudson Valley town of Sokanan, with less than two weeks before retirement, Detective Hank Bonner investigates the murder of convenience store employee Luka Kole. The case looks like a simple robbery turned ugly, but Hanks has problems because the thief failed to take a bank sack containing one thousand dollars. When he notices a newspaper clip involving the Renaissance Oil of Russia ...


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Nathan Grant, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
M.A. New York University, 1984
Ph.D. New York University, 1994
Research Interests
African American literature, culture and intellectual history; the Harlem Renaissance; African diasporic literature; cultural studies.
Publications and Media Placements
Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing and Modernity (University of Missouri Press, 2004).
"Owen Dodson: Poet, Fiction Writer, Playwright: A Special Section" (with previously unpublished poems of Dodson's, Nathan Grant, ed.), Callaloo 20:3 (1998), pp. 619-626.
"Extending the Ladder: A Remembrance of Owen Dodson," Callaloo 20:3, (1998), pp. 640-645.
"Sacrifices of Self and Voice in Jean Toomer's 'Kabnis,'" Q/W/E/R/T/Y 7 (October 1997, Université de Pau, France), pp. 137-144.
"Men, Women and Culture: A Conversation with August Wilson," American Drama 5:2 (Spring 1996), pp. 100-122.
"Hughes/Lawrence/Douglass: Power and Resistance in The Ways of White Folks," Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 19:2 (Spring 1995), pp. 43-52.
Book Chapter
"Intimate Knowledge and Transnational Contingencies: Julia Collins's The Curse of Caste and the Legend of the Lindaraja Mirador." New Essays on Julia Collins and The Curse of Caste, Veta P. Tucker, ed. (in progress).
"Teaching Jean Toomer's Cane." Teaching the Harlem Renaissance, Michael Soto, ed., Peter Lang, 2008, pp. 193-199.
"Mirror's Fade to Black: Masculinity, Misogyny and Class Ideation in The Cosby Show and Martin." Progressive Black Masculinities, Athena D. Mutua, ed., Routledge, 2006, pp. 177-189.
"Countee Cullen," in African American Writers, vol. 1, 2nd ed., Valerie A. Smith, gen. ed., Charles Scribner & Sons, 2001, pp. 135-147.
"Notes of a Prodigal Son: James Baldwin and the Apostasy of Soul." Soul: Black Power, Politics and Pleasure, Monique Guillory and Richard C. Green, eds., NYU Press, 1998, pp. 32-44.
"Innocence and Ambiguity in the Films of Charles Burnett." Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video, Valerie A. Smith, gen. ed., Rutgers University Press, 1997, pp. 135-155.
"The Frustrated Project of Soul in the Drama of Ed Bullins." Language, Rhythm, and Sound: Black Popular Cultures toward the Twenty-first Century, Joseph Adjaye and Adrianne Andrews, eds., University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997,
pp. 90-102.
Book Reviews
"Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture between the Wars by Mark Christian Thompson." Modern Fiction Studies (in progress).
"Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life by Tiffany Ruby Patterson." African American Review 40:3 (Winter 2007), 593-595.
"Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men by Haki R. Madhubuti" and "Constructing the Black Masculine by Maurice O. Wallace." The Washington Post Book World, Wednesday, September 4, 2002, p. C11.
"Ed Bullins: A Literary Biography by Samuel A. Hay." African American Review 33:2 (Summer 1999), pp. 369-371.
"The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White by George Hutchinson." Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 22:1 (Winter 1998), pp. 88-94.


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Skip to comments.To infinity and beyond! NASA reveals new spacesuitbut was it designed by a fan of Buzz Lightyear?
Posted on 12/19/2012 10:04:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
NASAs next generation of space suitthe agencys first in 20 yearswill look familiar to fans of computer-generated cartoon classic Toy Story.
Thats because the new white and green Z-1 suit bears more than a passing resemblance to the interstellar hero Buzz Lightyear.
The prototype suit was revealed in a host of pictures uploaded today to photo-sharing website Flickr, and it boasts trim of the same hue as that worn by the space ranger action figure.
A large hemispherical transparent dome covering the wearers head also looks remarkably similar to that worn by Buzzalthough the latest pictures do not make clear if NASAs version comes with preprogrammed catchphrases.
The main advance in NASAs rather more primitive effort is that it will have an entry point at the rear to make it easier to don than previous suits.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Entry point in the rear?
I bet.
Of course they do. In Arabic.
Actually, back-entry suits are fairly common for hostile environments. . . Makes for a single seal, rather than 3 or more seals to insure closure. . .
I wonder what the deal is with the "camel toe".
They look like a cross between painter's overalls, thermal underwear, a miniskirt, and SPACE-BVDs
They'll have to redo the helmet with more space for a beard.
To Mecca and beyond!
So...where's Woody? :-/
Shouldn't he be saying, "YOU ARE A TOY!!!"
In Toy Story 3 he finally realized he was just a toy.........
All Ubama's space suit needs now is one of those gay "pride" ribbons.
And a space program!
when we have astronauts again, they wil look like fags. great.
Muzz Lightyear?
He would need a time b... machine.
To go to back to the 7th century (and beyond).
I don't care how silly spacesuits look, if they work, they verk!
It is intentionally homo and feminine. They're punishing white males again.
I thought the only way the US could get in to space is with buzz light year wings and rocket pack...
This is a spacesuit:
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