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HOLYOKE – Holyoke Community College will hold its annual spring open house on April 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Kittredge Center for Business and Workforce Development's PeoplesBank Conference Room.
Participants can learn about the college's nearly 100 degree and certificate programs, as well as the school's comprehensive support services, student clubs and activities, financial aid and more.
Applications for admission will be accepted on the spot, and there will also be individual break-out sessions for financial aid and adult learners.
Prospective students will be able to sit with financial aid experts and begin the process of filing a financial aid application for the 2014-2015 academic year. Students interested in applying for financial aid should bring their 2013 tax returns to begin the process.
The open house will feature a segment called "Conversations by Division," beginning at 6 p.m. Guests will be assigned to a separate meet-and-greet based on their intended major, led by division deans. Each divisional conversation will be followed by a short question and answer session and then a student panel discussion.
Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the Office of Admissions at (413) 552-2321 or email email@example.com.


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Hi. I am using avid studio for editing video and mounting different songs over album of pictures. Converting media files is easy task in it but I am facing studio crashes problems. When I add more music album and try to use them, avid studio stops working and shows crashing problem. Other features are working well. Please tell me how to solve this problem.
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There is a XMMP server for large (mostly) Russian social network vkontakte.ru.
Beejive was not able to connect to the server with Push. It's saying that username. Or. Password. Invalid.
I guess the server expects to see login sent without the @domain.com part.
I.e. my login there is
How can I login to the server? (Note I am not able to connect to it with IM+, Pidgin and Adium clients so this almost certainly Beejive issue).
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Hi Experts,
There is a serious problem with my InDesign CS5. Unfortunately I am unable to create a new document on it. But whenever I open old document with InDesign CS5 it works well. Please help me to solve this problem.
The screenshot of the error is attached below.
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"OC's new library is 40,000 square feet of learning"
"More than three years after the roof of the Olympic College Library and Media Center collapsed under the weight of a snow and ice storm, a new building has risen from the ashes to offer students more services than ever before.After losing more than $1.5 million worth of books, equipment and periodicals in the Dec. 29, 1996 storm, most of the missing materials have been replaced, and many others have been purchased.Officially opened March 8, the reconstruction project cost $7.9 million, more than half of which was raised by donations through the OC Foundation, the college's fund-raising organization.The new building spans 40,199 square feet divided among three stories, which include not only the library and media center, but a bibliographic instruction classroom and the Student Advising Center.The library itself features a music collection of more than 200 compact discs, a research computer lab with 28 workstations and a periodical collection of 6,639 reels of microfilm - a replacement of lost materials worth $500,000.The bibliographic instruction classroom will provide students with the opportunity to learn about many computerized research methods including, but not limited to, the Internet. The room will include a computer for every student in the class, allowing them more hands-on experience, said Ruth Ross, dean of library and media services at the college.This way, they won't just be squinting at a far-away screen at the front of the room, she said.The second wave of construction - for the Media Services portion of the building - is scheduled to be completed by mid-July, Ross said.So we're really only halfway through the process, she said. It's definitely a work in progress.The Media Center will feature video classrooms for networked education, a filming studio and other multimedia services.The lower floor of the building includes a lounge area, as well as smaller rooms designed for tutoring and study sessions. With temporary, unmatched furniture scattered throughout the building until the permanent items arrive, Ross said the rooms are currently in high demand.Right now, anything with a table is very popular, she said.The top floor of the building features numerous small corners that are ideal for students to use as an escape from noisier parts of the building.They asked for nooks and crannies, Ross said, and we're going to give it to them.In addition to the large windows, which provide views of the Olympic Mountains and Mt. Rainier, the top floor also offers extra seating for students and data ports for computers.We're going to have one of the most fantastic computerized research instruction areas around, Ross said.After the roof collapsed, Ross said many of the books were exposed to the weather for seven days before being transferred to the gymnasium for temporary storage.Amazingly, we saved a lot of them, she said. This is a very special project to us.The college is scheduled to hold a public grand-opening dedication of the building at 1 p.m. June 2. The guest presenter at the event will be Neville Keery, head of the Libraries and European Documentation Centres for the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium."
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Nov. 18 BARC pet of the week
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The Baldwin County Humane Society, BARC!, is a no-kill adoption agency founded in 1979. We currently have a loveable lug of a big boy named "Eddie" available for adoption. This guy was rescued from the shelter and is just a big baby who wants to sit in your lap and hug! He is well-trained and responds happily to people so we think he was probably lost and not abandoned. Eddie is always looking for his family to return for him and searches every car in the parking lot when he is out for walks. He really needs someone to mend his broken heart. Eddie would do best as the only dog in the family. For more information about Eddie, call 251-454-1928. For information regarding donating or volunteering, call 251-928-4585 or visit www.BaldwinHumane.org (Photo submitted by Nancy Martin)


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The Woodstown and Millville High School wrestling teams both set school single-season records for wins this season.
The Thunderbolts qualified for the Group IV playoffs for the first time in 15 years, while the Wolverines won a playoff match for the first time in their history.
Both teams achieved their historic seasons by accomplishing a task many programs find incredibly difficult these days — assembling a solid core of upperweights. Since the addition of a fifth weight from 170 up last year, even powerhouse teams like Paulsboro and Clearview have holes at the top of the lineup.
But the Thunderbolts and Wolverines both developed a strong core of upperweights who will be on display this Saturday, chasing individual titles at the District 31 Tournament at Delsea Regional High School.
"Coach (Scott Stay) always told (the upperweights) we needed to get bonus points to win a match and most of the time we pulled it off," said Millville senior 182-pounder Javier Colon-Rivera. "We do a lot of live wrestling, they put us together and we work hard. Our (team) goals were set, and now our goals are to place in districts. I'm going to push myself really hard to do that."
Woodstown's Cylas Dorety (220, 28-4) and Todd Batten (285, 24-5) are seeded second at their respective weights and Connor Champion (195, 25-8) is seeded third, all favored to advance to Region 8, and Jake Gomeringer (182) was 17-3 before suffering a season-ending injury.
"We all got better in the offseason and the coaches pushed us," said Dorety, who was eliminated the first night of regions last year. "We did what we had to do to get better. We have (former region champion and state placewinner) Zach Garren as assistant coach, he was a really technical big guy, (Head coach Adam) Hyland knows the moves and stays on us. The upper weights, not to sound cocky, but I think we set the tone this year."
Millville, likewise, could push most of their upper weights through to regions by placing in the top three. Ed Shockley (195, 26-2) is a top seed, while Obie Kali (220, 25-4) and Fred DeMary (285, 15-9) are seeded third. Colon-Rivera is seeded fourth at 182 but is 20-8.
While Shockley has the best chance to win out of all the upperweights, Dorety and Batten might be the most intriguing.
Dorety has state placewinner Bryan Dobzanski of Delsea in his bracket, but his 4-2 loss to St. Joe's Roy Lucas — third in the state a year ago — shows he can stay with anybody. And while Batten is closer to a 95-pounder to a heavyweight size-wise, he has consistently wrestled opponents 70 pounds heavier and come out on top.
"Me versus Dobzanski should be a highlight match," said Dorety. "In South Jersey, 220 is a really strong weight class. It's not an easy road. I've got to do what I have to do to get to Atlantic City and be on that podium.
"Todd was our unsung hero this year. He weighed less than me and wrestled heavyweight. It showed how much he worked in the offseason."
Hyland said the Wolverines even have some good young upper weights waiting in the wings and noted the oddity of this group is none are football players,
"Cy and Todd grew up wrestling and got big, and we got Connor out in high school and he grew a little," said Hyland. "It turned out to be really big for us because the upper weights got a bunch of bonus points all year. I think Todd started the year wanting to wrestle 95, but he started to realize bumping to heavyweight suited his style and he got a lot of pins for us."
Stay noted outside of Shockley none of the upper weights had much experience before high school, but he feels that most of the Thunderbolt coaches being in the 200-pound range and above — and therefore able to go live with the big guys — has accelerated their development.
The work paid off for both teams this year with school records for wins. Now, while the competition should be fierce, the Thunderbolt and Wolverine big men have a chance to be wrestling next weekend in regions — and for a few, maybe beyond.
"At this point, the goal is just to move on," said Stay. "To place in the top three and move on to the next week, because you get in a tournament, anything can happen. If you don't move on, you can't find out."
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Dec 12th - Illustration shows the components that make up the Wii U multi chip module.
Pachter: Microsoft and Sony are destroying Nintendo
Dec 12th - Pachter also praises Reggie Fils-Aime and says that Satoru Iwata is "oblivious".
New LEGO City Undercover screenshots
Dec 11th - Nintendo has released a pack of brand new LEGO City Undercover Wii U screenshots.
Wii Homebrew channel works on the Wii U, sort of
Dec 11th - The Homebrew channel can be installed on the Wii U, but do so at your own risk.
Pachter predicts the Wii U will get $50 price drop in 2013
Dec 11th - In order to compete with next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo will slash the Wii U price by $50.
Wii U consumes half the power of Xbox 360 and PS3
Dec 11th - The Wii U is a very power efficient games console, consuming only half of the power compared to other systems on the market.
Make your Wii U look like a NES
Dec 10th - Now you can retro-fit your Wii U with an NES skin.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Wii U footage
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Dec 10th - The Wii U has a strong launch in Japan, where Nintendo moved 307,000 units.
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Hapless investors were lambs to the slaughter at Anglo
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People are really starting to miss the point when it comes to analysing the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank and the criminal events that took place there in the summer of 2008.
A new narrative is emerging on foot of the fact that two former Anglo Irish Bank executives did not get jail sentences for committing a serious crime. Judge Martin Nolan's stinging criticism of the role of the failure of regulation in those events paints a picture of haplessness and incompetence in which former Anglo executives Pat Whelan and Willie McAteer were led into illegality.
We were told during the trial that the bank had no problem with lending the Maple 10 the money, neither did the regulator, the market, the lawyers. Everything about it seemed fine until the bank collapsed.
I remember back in July 2008 reading the stock exchange statement that Sean Quinn's family was buying a chunk of shares in the bank. Very quickly rumours began to circulate that the Quinns had borrowed the money from Anglo to buy these shares and that Anglo had lent several hundred million to a group of bank customers to buy another large stake.
One of my journalist colleagues told me he had just heard that the Maple transaction had been financed by Anglo itself. Immediately, we both asked each other, "Is that legal?"
We had watched the Anglo share price collapse from over €17 right down to about €4. We were aware of rumours that the bank was in trouble. There were rumours that Sean Quinn was in trouble. Nothing could be proven at that stage.
Anglo's share price shot up on the back of the announcement of the Maple 10 deal that was not only rotten but illegal and criminal. It was a case of job done.
There has been a tendency to portray this transaction as if it were a victimless crime.
After all, this transaction did not bring down the bank – the bad loans to defaulters did that. Plus, the bank would have collapsed with or without this deal anyway.
But this was not a victimless crime. There was an open market in Anglo Irish Bank shares for six months after this transaction took place. Hapless investors bought and sold shares in what was essentially a rigged market in the stock. They were like lambs to the slaughter who were ignorant of the bank's overexposure to property lending, but utterly misled about the market value of the stock and the financing of the ownership of 20pc of the bank.
We now know that senior figures in the financial regulator's office, including Patrick Neary and Con Horan, were aware this transaction would see the bank lend money to the Maple 10 to finance the share price. It is irrelevant whether they thought the loans might be just bridging finance or short term. It was a crime.
Non-executive directors on the board of Anglo, when informed of the share purchase, don't seem to have asked the question of where these 10 guys were going to get the €450m to buy these shares, at a time when investors were abandoning the bank's stock.
Surely, if you pay a serious senior business person €60,000 per year to attend a few board meetings as a director, you expect them to ask a very obvious, relevant and intelligent question.
The problem is this deal stank of a fraud on the market from its inception. Anybody in possession of even half the facts should have smelled the deception and asked the relevant questions to get the remaining facts.
By doing nothing, the financial regulator effectively allowed a fraud on the market to go on for six months.
The Anglo trial was about Section 60 of the Companies Act 1963 which forbids a company to use its own money to purchase its own shares, except in specific circumstances.
Why is this a crime? In some circumstances it could be used as a method for someone to use company funds to enrich themselves by purchasing shares in that very company. For example, they could attain ownership of the company by using not their money, but the company's. Where you have a stock exchange listed company with an open and international market in its shares, the company could use its own funds to boost its own stock market value, thereby fundamentally misleading the market about the real value of the stock. This is a deception and a fraud.
But the deception continued after the Maple 10 deal. We now know from the Anglo Tapes that later that summer, Anglo's David Drumm was telling the financial regulator that the bank needed emergency liquidity of at least €4bn.
"We need the moolah, you have it," was how Drumm described it in technical terms on the tapes.
While this was going on, there was still an open market in Anglo shares. The regulator was hearing that Anglo needed an emergency cash injection of €4bn or it could go under, and it still allowed hapless punters to roll up and buy shares in the bank on a daily basis.
This is a lot more serious than a "sorry affair" as described by Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan during the week.
We have an arm of the state allowing a deception to occur for months. How many people in financial regulation and the Central Bank were in possession of that information? Surely, the Maple 10 and Quinn loans would have been included in the quarterly returns on large client exposures provided by the bank to the regulator. It should have been obvious.
How many arms of the State were in possession of that information? Presumably it goes into the Department of Finance and government. How high up did it go?
These are all questions that must now rest with our rather lame banking inquiry. It will be too little too late.
Financial regulation has improved since the crash. Some lessons have been learned. The challenge will be keeping up the momentum and avoiding complacency.
Last week Honohan said the Central Bank would not allow another housing bubble to develop. This is progress. I remember requesting an interview with the financial regulator in early 2007 for an RTE programme I was making about a possible property crash.
They declined to participate on the grounds that it was not their role to comment on property prices!
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Board of education members have got to be a bit jittery about the upcoming school budget elections. A number of factors outside their control could disrupt their meticulous strategy for getting voters to accept higher property taxes to fund more education spending.
In a state where residents are obsessed with property taxes, the education industry in past years, nevertheless, consistently managed to get voters to go along with more school spending, even though they knew their wallets would be cleaned out.
In the past 30 years, the budget approval rate has never dipped below 51 percent, and 67 percent is more the norm. This year, indications are that school boards, uncertain of what voters will do, have been more circumspect in drafting budgets. Gov. Jon Corzine's new school funding formula, which has been approved by the Legislature, contains an additional $533 million this year, which helped most districts stay within the required 4 percent lid on increased spending.
But education leaders realize that a number of factors, some intangible, can affect the upcoming elections.
For starters, the voting takes place on April 15. That date alone is enough to cause taxpayers to be a bit more reflective than usual about how much they pay in taxes and whether the money is well spent. Besides, the school budget is the only one on which voters have a say. Their pent-up dissatisfaction with state and local government spending may find expression through "no" votes on school budgets.
But there are more ominous signs. The economy is sliding, the home mortgage crisis is growing and the unemployment rate is climbing. All this is sure to cause some to be skittish about okaying spending increases.
Statistics show that generally when the economy is doing well, voters are much more inclined to approve higher budgets. The data also show that often when voter participation increases, budget approval rates decrease.
So the task for the education lobby is to identify supporters, get them to the polls and hope the rest of the voters stay home, as they usually do.
There are other indications that school boards are leery of the public, which last fall rejected what was considered a slam dunk -- a $400 million bond issue for stem cell research.
This year just 28 districts are asking voters to approve spending above the legal 4 percent cap. That's a significant drop. For the past eight years, on average 70 school boards asked voter permission to exceed the cap. A new law requires that such questions gain a 60 percent approval rate -- a standard that could be particularly tough to meet in such uncertain times.
One thing is for sure. On April 15, school leaders in 549 districts will be more anxious than ever to see what the voters have to say.


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I have a lot of concerns about my son's eating habits.
My son is ten months old, and I have been nursing him since birth. Nursing has never been a problem - Evan absolutely loves nursing. I returned to work part-time when he was 3 months old, and he refused to drink from a bottle. We tried for months to get him to drink from a bottle - it never took. I work part-time, so while he is at daycare, he drinks my expressed brest milk from a sippy cup. In a way, I think this is better since we will never have to wean him from a bottle!
Because he wasn't drinking much at first from the cup and he stopped sleeping through the night, my doctor advised me to have the daycare providers feed him baby cereal starting at 4 months and strained veggies and fruits at 6 months. At first, he ate very well, opening his mouth for the food and accepting the spoon with no problem. At around 6 months he started drinking from the cup well, holding it with his own hands.
He started teething at 8 months, and that is when his eating problems started. For the past few months, he has been refusing to eat baby food. He will eat a few bites of finger foods and table food (cheerios, veggie puffs, pieces of cheese sandwiches, cooked veggies, etc.) but not much. He still nurses like a champ and drinks the expressed breastmilk from a cup, but he refuses to open his mouth to allow in a spoon, and he takes only a few bites of finger foods and then starts whining and screaming to be let out of the high chair. I have tried feeding him in places other than the high chair, such as my lap, a regular chair, the bouncy seat. Nothing works.
My concern is that he is not eating enough solid food. He still wakes 3 or 4 times a night to nurse (we cosleep), and I believe this is because he isn't eating enough during the day, but he nurses frequently throughout the day. He has very loose stool, and my friend whose son is 6 months old and who is eating solid food regularly says that her son has more adult-like stools (he, too, is still breastfed).
My son gained only two pounds between his six-month and nine-month checkups - the doctor was slightly concerned but said not to worry yet. But I am worried that maybe nursing is keeping him from eating solid food. And both my husband and my son's daycare provider have been consistently telling me I should wean my son from the breast, but I feel that I should leave that up to him - that he will wean himself when he is ready. At the very least, I was hoping to breast-feed for a full year, preferably at least 18 months - he is now only 10 months old.
I would appreciate any help you can give me. Should I be concerned that he is not eating solid food? Should I nurse less frequently? Should I force feed solid food? Should I stop co-sleeping. I am very concerned that my son is not getting adequate nutrition. He is a very active and happy baby - he just doesn't seem to enjoy eating!
I wish that I could stay home with him full-time, but unfortunately we cannot pay our bills without my salary, and my job has better healthcare. Most of the info I have found on the subject of picky eaters has tips directed to stay-at-home moms.


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Quiz answers for Chapter 6-10.
Phenomena where black officers must deal with the expectation that they will give members of their own race a break, while experiencing racism from colleagues?
Double marginality
What city was the first to hire and award the title of police officer to a woman in 1910?
Los Angeles
Which of the following is false regarding education and the police?
Educated officers have greater disciplinary problems due to job boredom.
The blue curtain is a term used to describe:
The secrecy and insulation from others in society that is a consequence of the police subculture.
Which of the following is not one of the six core beliefs at the heart of the police culture?
All of the above are core beliefs in the police culture
An officer approaches a group of teenagers drinking beer, she checks everyone's Ids and arrests all who are underage. This example best typifies which officer style?
Law enforcer (1)
An officer approaches a group of teenagers standing in a parking lot, drinking beer. She checks for gang symbols and calls into the station to ascertain if any of them have active warrants. This officer typifies which officer style?
Law enforcer (2)
Which officer's style involves acting as problem solvers and is therefore well suited for community policing?
Law enforcer (3)
Which style of policing prefers to ignore or treat informally issues of concern, unless the social or political order if being jeopardized?
Social Agent
Which of the following factors bests fits under the heading of extra legal discretionary factors?
Offender demeanor
The higher the percentage of black officers on the police force the higher the arrest rates for crimes such as assault
True, higher percentage
Factors such as the living and working environment of the officer often affect their discretion
True, affect discretion
A search is considered unreasonable when it exceeds the scope of police authority or is highly invasive of personal privacy.
True, exceeds police authority
In 1914, in Weeks v. United States, the court established the exclusionary rule.
True, Weeks v. United States
The supreme court has created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule with indicates evidence is admissible in court if the police officers acted in good faith by first obtaining court approval for their search, even if the warrant they received was deficient or faulty.
True, good faith exception
Courts of limited jurisdiction are most likely to handle which of the following crimes?
Traffic Violations
When a right is granted in a case by the Supreme Court it is usually referred to as a
Mandate of precedence
Which of the following is not one of the judicial functions of a judge?
Administrative control over probation
Which of the following is NOT one of the duties of a prosecutor?
Represent the government in appeals
Which of the following reasons may cause a case to be dismieed?
Inefficient evidence
Interests of justice
Due process problems
What is the duty of a defense lawyer to his client and the legal system?
To fully represent and competently defend his client
In what 1963 landmark cases did the Supreme Court rule that state courts must provide counsel to indigent defendants in felony prosecutions?
Gideon v. Wainwright
Which of the following statements is false regarding public versus private attorneys?rk
Conviction rates for indigent defendants with public defenders were significantly higher than for defendants with their own attorney.
In Gideon v Wainwright, the court took the first major step ion the issue of right to ounsel.
True, G v. W
Conviction rates for indigent defendants and those with their own lawyers are about the same in federal and state courts
True, same rates
The concept of attorney competence was defined by the Supreme court in the case of Strickland v. Washington
True, attorney competence
It is unlikely that plea bargaining will be eliminated in the future because it:
eases the pressure of congested caseloads
If an individual is permitted a trial, who chooses whether it will be before a judge or a jurt?
The defendant
Which of the following is a reason for which a jury can nullify the facts and evidence of a case?
Bail can be used to punish an accused and can be denied for revoked at the indulgence of the court
False, bail
The state can never order a defendant to take medication when she or he is ruled incompetent to stand trial
False, drug away!
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If she doesn't reach reach the milestone on Wednesday night, she will have a chance to do it when sixth seeded-Roxbury plays host to 11th-seeded Roxbury in the first round of the Morris County Tournament on Feb. 2 at 5:30 p.m.
Malman recorded a season-high seven assists in 57-34 triumph over Parsippany Hills last Friday.
TEAM TO WATCHSixteenth-seeded Pequannock is fresh off a 37-29 triumph over 17th-seeded Morristown-Beard in the preliminary round of the MCT.
Led by junior point guard Kendall Machak, who has scored 10 or more points in the past two games, and freshman forward Taylor Tabakman, Pequannock will look for a key victory over Mountain Lakes in Flanders at 7 p.m. on Wednesday night. When the two teams met on Jan. 3, Mountain Lakes defeated Pequannock, 52-26.
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Wednesday's prep sports action offered teams an opportunity to start sorting things out in tight district races or the chance to build some momentum heading into the postseason. Several teams seized the moment.
In baseball, Brother Martin vaulted into first place in the Catholic League thanks to its 4-3 victory against rival Jesuit (video here), Curtis took care of De La Salle 19-0 in a District 11-3A game (video here), Riverside secured at least a share of the District 10-2A title with a 4-2 win against Newman, St. Paul's upended Mandeville 5-3 to stay in the thick of the District 6-5A race, and Dunham pounded out a 22-8 victory against Redemptorist.
Also, Grace King is tearing through Distrit 8-5A play, and check out the latest rankings and large schools and small schools stat leaders.
In softball, Hahnville defeated rival Destrehan 4-0, Slidell beat Chapelle 5-0, East Ascension upended St. Joseph's 10-3. Other victors included Country Day, Ursuline, and St. Amant. Don't forget to stay with NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune to see the softball playoff brackets, which will be released Thursday.
For more baseball and softball results, check out the NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune's baseball page and softball page.
In boys golf, Riverside's Deuce Wallace nabbed medalist honors and St. Charles won the team competition at a tri-meet Wednesday.
In track and field news, check out the latest New Orleans area track and field leaderboard.
TODAY: We will have live updates from the following games. Baseball: Franklinton at Lakeshore, 4 p.m.; Ehret at Grace King, 6 p.m.; St. Paul's at Covington, 6:30 p.m.; Fisher at Newman, 7 p.m.; West Feliciana at University Lab, 4 p.m.; Plaquemine at Lutcher, 4 p.m.
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I am an Ultra-Conservative, Alpha-Male, True Authentic Leader, Type "C" Personality, who is very active in my community; whether it is donating time, clothes or money for Project Concern or going to Common Council meetings and voicing my opinions. As a blogger, I intend to provide a different viewpoint "The way I see it!" on various world, national and local issues with a few helpful tips & tidbits sprinkled in.
Vote For John McCain!
Cudahy, as in the past, is much divided. Just take a drive through it and you will notice that on the West side many more McCain signs than Obama. While on the East side more Obama than McCain.
I will not give you reasons not to vote for Obama. If you want those, and there are many, please stop by the other blog on The Right View Wisconsin http://www.rightviewwi.com/
Instead, I will talk up John McCain with the truth.
I love America and all it stands for. Even in tough times, as we are currently in, I cannot think of a better place to be! I love capitalism, freedom of choice, my rights respected and that America is the best place in the world! I am not ashamed to say that, nor do I think America needs to learn a lesson of fairness from other nations who do not place our interests first.
McCain is not the perfect Conservative Republican. Heck he is not a Conservative, but a moderate! That is where Sarah Palin balances the ticket. I want someone that has my best interest at heart. Someone who will fight for me. Not someone who I feel has their own personal agenda before America's.
In tough times, we don't need big government to save us. Big government is what makes the problems in the first place. Truly only those in government want more and bigger government. Government needs to stop spending so much on all projects. Our problems must be solved by its people not the big government.
Some bemoan the Iraq war, but it is needed to keep the war on terror from spilling American civilian blood on American soil. We needed to bring the battle to them not to us. People do not forget 9/11 because those same groups of people still want to ruin our way of lives. They want to bring down the capitalist pigs. Notice that isn't socials pigs, but capitalist pigs. They want nothing more then to make us a third world nation.
Did we make mistakes in the Iraq war? Yes!
Did we spend millions of our dollars unnecessarily? Yes, I have talked how we needed a Marshal Plan.
Did we need to do it? Yes!
Was John McCain not the first one to say we need a surge? Yes, he was for the surge before everyone else was for it.
I understand that history will be made even with John McCain. The first female Vice President, a giant leap for equality of the sexes.
John McCain knows how to reach across the aisle and say, "Yes we can do this together".
John McCain wants to put a freeze on all projects and that scares the big government people that rely on the government getting bigger for job security. Why should they not have to worry about their jobs like the rest of us do?
John McCain has promised to appoint judges who will interpret the law, not make it. Again, that scares some, as they don't see a difference from legislating from the bench and the legislative branch.
John McCain has promised to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. That is a real tax cut. Our taxes are already not fair since it is a progressive tax? Yes, even the rich should get tax cuts. Without the rich, who will own the companies that employ people? See if you want big government, the government will supply the jobs in an ever-increasing venous vicious circle.
John McCain has the experience and the toughness to lead the way and I don't fall for the scare tactic that Palin is just one heartbeat away crap. What if a meteor might crash into the Earth? Should I start to worry about that?
John McCain has the courage, strength, dedication, fortitude and convection to move this country forward without damaging the guiding principles that our forefathers laid out in our pursuit to the American dream. We left behind the monarchies, dictatorships, and government run systems for a self-government that is fair as long as those individuals bring their own determinations and effort. We have rejected Communism and Socialism when it could have been the hip thing to do! The easy path!
There is no short cut to the American Dream. It takes hard work, blood, sweet, tears and individual responsibilities not a government handout or program to propel the people and the nation forward to reach the American Dream. We should not be envious of those that have or wish to punish them either.
John McCain is Pro-Life because he knows the value of life and that life begins at conception.
John McCain has met problems and adversity face on in the past. He has stared possible death and uncertainty in the eyes during the darkest of times and persevered.
John McCain commands and demands respect. He doesn't show or ooze fear and weakness.
John McCain may not look the part of a Hollywood movie actor playing president. But this is not Hollywood, this is for real, this is America in the here and now. We cannot tape or script the actions of those wanting to do harm to us, so our responses cannot be taped or scripted either.
John McCain has promised to fight government spending, to veto any bill with earmarks, and to roll back entitlement programs. Sarah Palin feels that same way. Doesn't that sound like Conservative positions that are used to describe a "Republican?"
John McCain has the guts and the cuts that are necessary to bring about a balanced budget and force congress to make that a permanent requirement.
I don't think we need to change just for change. That is crazy talk. Let all the married people just get divorces just to get divorces for change. Screw working things out and toughing through them. Just throw in the towel for the heck of it! If that was the answer don't you think MPS and many other failing things would just given up and change for change sake.
If you would hire someone solely based on looks or how well they speak from a cue card or teleprompter instead of real qualifications and past experience, unless you are hiring a news anchor or actor, you would be in trouble with the law as that mounts to biased discrimination and not a very good business decision. So why would you elect a president for those reasons?
John McCain has served and honored his country and during that time brings much to the table as a president should.
I love this country and John McCain puts country first. I want this country will all of its flaws and imperfections to continue a capitalism path because socialism is change and it scares me. If it doesn't scare you, you must be in government.
Remember when you are in government you work for the people not the other way around. If you forgot, America is a democratic republic. You need to read the Federalist Papers and think about "What is the key function of the federal government?"
I hope you can remember that the key function(s) of government according to our "Founding Fathers" were two-fold.
1. Protect your private property
2. Secure your individual liberties
I would recommend reading an old, out dated Federal document papers, better known as the Constitution, specifically Article 1 Section 8. It lays out in detail the powers and duties of the Federal Government.
Please vote for John McCain as between the two choices, John McCain respects the Constitution much more than the other one. John McCain is the right choice for the right reasons!
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At the end of vol 6 of the Manga currently being scanlated by Hana-mi was an Anime announcement including this:
I thought people who found the show to be a bit of a chore would find that amusing.
"I have been blogging!" - The Monarch
From the Venture Bros. episode: Victor. Echo. November.
Yeah, that's what I got from it, too. They want to over throw heaven and make Toki God so that he can maintain the balance between demons and humans. I hadn't thought of the whole free will part, but that makes a lot of sense. ^-^
I just took a quick glance over the posts in the thread and is it only me but I did not find this series not confusing at all......I understood it completely with no struggles....was it because I marathoned this series and just finished it ??
I had watched the first 3 episodes a long time ago, so I thought I should re-watch the series from the beginning, which I did. The series was an absolute joy to watch and apparently, the anime covered 24 chapters basically 4 volumes of the manga and the manga is meant to be a tad more complex than the anime.
I will be reading the manga from the first chapter to see the difference and the fact that I really love the characters of this series and I want to see what happens next and so fourth. I read a little spoiler in WIKI, which has got me slightly pumped up about reading the manga, its just a matter of when I should start.
I really really liked this series and I'm going to give this a 9/10.
KuchihaxTokidoki.......I love this couple and wonder whats gonna happen to them in the end, they're both from different worlds.....will there be another Kuchiha in Toki's original world ?? I need to read the manga thats still ongoing to find out but it seems the scanlations have picked up their pace recently with what looks like a chapter released per month. Since, the manga is serialized in a monthly magazine that probably means the chapters are pretty long. There are 49 scanlations available and the RAWs go up to chapter 67 I believe......I wonder if I'll be tempted to read the RAWs once I've read the scanlations.
My Incomplete Anime List =P
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LUNA is mine!!!!!!!!!!!!
TYPE-MOON Slave....TSUKIHIME ROCKSSSS!!!!
TITLES ---> JCD-Ô-SAMAのスパム! ~*JCD - His Majesty of Spam(hood)*~!! nickname given by the Lovely Orofena
Captain(Taichou) of GHFC ~*Ghost Hunt Fan Club*~!!
Proud member of NBP ~*NANA Blogish Posters*~!!
Proud member of KKA~Kawaii Kawaii Asa-sempai~!!
Proud member of MSFGFC ~*Manabi Straight Forward Go Fan Clubber*~!!
Proud member of NGEC ~*Neon Genesis Evangelion Crew*~!! (a "permanent" prisoner of the EVA thread)
Leader of YNSHFC ~*Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge Fan Club*~!!
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During the Dunkirk Board of Education meeting on Thursday, Superintendent Gary Cerne urged residents who have yet to contact the Public Service Commission regarding the future of the NRG Energy plant to do so immediately. "We're down to a week. The 16th is the deadline ... and I think we all need to put forward one more push over the next week or so because this is vital, as we all know. Let's not ease up. Let's go for the finish line and push right over the top," Cerne said. Information on the matter can be found online at www.dps.ny.gov by searching case number 12-E-0577. Comments may be submitted online, by mail or by calling the PSC at 1-800-335-2120.
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Clay, NY -- It's been nearly six weeks since Superstorm Sandy devastated parts of New York state and Dominic Palumbo, of Clay, wants to make sure Central New Yorkers remember the storm victims.
"These are our neighbors and they still need our help," he said.
Palumbo will head to New York City next weekend to assist with the storm cleanup and he wants to bring supplies and volunteers with him. He created a Facebook page called "Upstate 4 Downstate."
Palumbo will be collecting clothing, food, water, cleaning supplies and gifts for the holidays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 15. Palumbo said he is still looking for a drop off location and is asking local businesses for help. He said he would post the location on his Facebook page as soon as one is finalized.
"We're asking churches, businesses and community groups to come together this week to collect donations for our downstate neighbors," he said.
Palumbo is also seeking volunteers, trucks and drivers to make the trip with him. Once the volunteers make it to New York City, the donation items will go to the Hope Church in Queens, an affiliate of the Times Square Church in NYC, for distribution.
To make a donation, volunteer or offer the use of a drop off location, call Palumbo at 720-5338 or search "Upstate 4 Downstate" on Facebook.
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ETFs For The "Muddle Through" Micro-Economy
09 August 2012 at 2:04 pm by Gary Gordon
Governments around the globe are struggling to get their spending in check. Annual deficits in the developed world are, in many cases, devastatingly obscene.
And yet, if an industrialized country (e.g., Germany, Japan, United States, Great Britain, etc.) has enough cache with global borrowers, that nation may presently borrow-n-spend with impunity. Treasuries, gilts, JGBs, German "bunds" — the rich sovereigns have been racking up enormous "credit card" debts at ridiculously low rates. (Of course, that only works for so long… just ask Italy or Spain!)
On the flip side, large multi-national corporations, have also been able to take enormous advantage of cheap borrowing. Consider a late July move by IBM where they raised millions of 10-year money at a paltry 1.88%. That's less than the cost of historical inflation. In fact, it is less than the cost of our so-called deflationary environment where inflation has averaged 2.25% over the past 3 years. In other words, IBM is effectively earning an inflation-adjusted gain — increasing its purchasing power — by paying back its loan over the next decade.
At first glance, one might suggest that governments are doing the same thing. And with the power to print money, the investor doesn't have to worry about a big country going belly up. The problem with that thinking is that we all know a country can indeed lose its access to easy credit as well as find itself unable to pay its current obligations when it dramatically overspends.
On the other hand, the IBMs of the worldwide community have used the easy money/cheap borrowing to strengthen their balance sheets since 2008. The multi-nationals are sitting on piles of cash to continue funding their operations, where profits and revenues themselves are not dependent on a single country's GDP.
Indeed, multinationals are equipped to muddle through a global growth slowdown; that is, the micro-economic environment will expand over time with less trauma than we witnessed in 2008. In contrast, governments running unsustainable deficits are barely able to support their respective macro-economies; if there are going to be dramatic shocks going forward, they'll hit macro-economic GDP/employment more than micro-economic earnings/revenues.
Regardless of where one stands on the macro-economic picture, it's difficult to believe that investors would dump corporate credit out with the bath water. The micro-economic picture is vastly improved since the 2008 banking collapse.
It follows that, in spite of pending uncertainties related to Greece, Spain and "Taxmageddon," I would give strong consideration to these 3 ETFs:
1. Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCLT). Vanguard keeps the expenses very low (0.14%) on this exchange-traded, fixed-income vehicle. VCLT tracks the Barclays 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index, holding roughly 860+ individual bonds with an average maturity of 13 1/2 years. Recent capital appreciation has sent the annualized yield of approximately 4.4% down from 4.7% a few months back. That said, the reliable monthly payout and the potential for additional price appreciation in the "Grexit" fear-filled days of September make VCLT worthy of buying on the dips.
2. WisdomTree Emerging Market Corporate Bond (EMCB). Until recently, investors only had access to sovereign emerging market bonds. Moreover, one of my largest holdings across client portfolios is PowerShares Emerging Market Sovereign Debt (PCY) due to the exceptionally low debt-to-GDP ratios across the developing world. Still, the same demographics, fundamentals and growth rates that we associate with emerging market stock assets should be an even bigger bang for emerging market corporate bond assets. EMCB is expensive (0.60%), yet the dollar-denominated investment sports an attractive 5.0% distribution yield.
3. Market Vectors Preferred Securities excluding Financials (PFXF). I remain an advocate for the highly liquid iShares Preferred Fund (PFF). That said, I recognize the extreme volatility and uncertainty associated with financial institutions since the banking collapse in 2008. With up to 75% of all preferred shares eminating from financial companies, this recent introduction by the Van Eck Market Vectors team is conceptually refreshing; that is, you may still pursue the historically higher yields associated with corporate preferred securities over those corporations' traditional bonds, while simultaneously eliminating the excessive volatility of the financial sector. The net expense ratio (.40%) is reasonable for an asset that should serve up monthly distributions at an annualized yield of 6%-6.25%.
You can listen to the ETF Expert Radio Show "LIVE", via podcast or on your iPod. You can follow me on Twitter @ETFexpert.
Disclosure Statement: ETF Expert is a web log ("blog") that makes the world of ETFs easier to understand. Gary Gordon, MS, CFP is the president of Pacific Park Financial, Inc., a Registered Investment Adviser with the SEC. Gary Gordon, Pacific Park Financial, Inc., and/or its clients may hold positions in the ETFs, mutual funds, and/or any investment asset mentioned above. The commentary does not constitute individualized investment advice. The opinions offered herein are not personalized recommendations to buy, sell or hold securities. At times, issuers of exchange-traded products compensate Pacific Park Financial, Inc. or its subsidiaries for advertising at the ETF Expert web site. ETF Expert content is created independently of any advertising relationships.
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If you are not currently working with a Realtor, I would be happy to offer my expertise in your purchase of a home in Hagerstown. I currently live and work here and am very familiar with the Pangborn Park TH area. Which community are you referring to, the one nearest the tennis courts or the one nearest the pond?
Please call if you are looking for a Buyer's Agent...I was the first in the area and have lots of experience!!!
Nancy S. Allen, Associate Broker, Roger Fairbourn Real Estate, 301-416-7009, Direct, 301-733-4183 main office
You might want to check out our Hagerstown MD Real Estate Guide. In our school section you can find contact information for the districts in the area as well as test score rankings and parent reviews for schools.
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I meant to ask, what brings you to Hagerstown from New Jersey? do you know anyone in the area?
I have some information on my website about Hagerstown and the surrounding communities in Washington County. Feel free to browse.
A phone call to them can tell you where your children will go to school.
Here is a link to a report of the townhouses for sale in Pangborn Park.
They are 2125 square feet, mostly built in 2005 and 2006. There are some great deals there right now. Two years ago they were selling in the $260's. Now they are in the low 200's, some below $200,000. A few are still owned by the Pangborn development Company, some are bank-owned.
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If you have completed a DIY (do-it-yourself) window replacement, without the help of an experienced contractor we hope you have not skipped an important step! One of the most important things you can do is insulate around the new window opening. This would be the space between the window frame and the stud wall framing.
In the past, this area was somewhat to difficult to properly insulate. Most contractors would "stuff" fiberglass insulation in these spaces in hopes to keep out, or at least slow air movement from the outside in. This insulating practice still occurs, and in fact, if properly done, can be an effective means in insulating around your windows. But, for many, it is difficult to fill the cavity being insulated without leaving some voids. However, there is a better product and one that has gained widespread-use among contractors and DIY'ers alike. Enter the advantages of spray foam insulation!
Spray foam insulation has become popular, not just for windows and doors, but as wall and ceiling insulation also. While there are many types on the market now, we will focus on the product that is available to everyone at almost every hardware and home improvement supply stores. Marketed as "Great Stuff" by Dow Chemical Corp. (http://building.dow.com/na/en/products/sealants/windowdoor.htm), this expandable foam sealant is great in sealing cracks in a wide variety of materials, including windows and doors. Visit the Dow Website at the link above for a description of the full line of spray foam insulations available. There are also similar products available from manufacturer's such as 3M and DAP, however some of these may be latex-based sealants, while Dow's great stuff is a closed-cell, polyurethane product. Consult Dow's website for more information on the benefits of using a closed-cell, polyurethane based spray foam product.
Prior to the introduction of specific types of spray foam for different applications, there was only one type of foam insulation available in a can. I can remember using this product and you had to be careful to not over-fill the cavity. The insulation would expand, in some cases too much, and push window frames out of plumb and out of square. With the introduction of spray foam, specific to window and door installations, the threat of this problem was eliminated. The window and door insulating foam has a special formula that does not expand as rapidly. It also cures "softer". As well, it can be sanded and painted if desired.
There are several advantages of spray foam insluation when compared to chinked or stuffed insulation in relation to insulating window and door frames. The biggest advantage is spray foam will expand to fill "nooks and crannies" in the opening. As mentioned above, it was always hard to tell whether or not you were reaching the back of the cavity with stuffed fiberglass. The opening needed to be firmly packed, which for fiberglass is not a good thing as fiberglass utilizes pockets of air between the fiberglass fibers to provide its insulating value.
Another advantage is spray foam insulation is not affected by water. It can "seal" out water even, just like a caulk. Also, since it is closed-cell, it will not take-on or absorb water. However, it is recommended that the exterior perimeter of windows and doors are caulked as a first line of defense from water intrusion. As well, the interior of your window or door perimeter should be caulked also. If not for aesthetics, it is again one more step you can take to stop air infiltration.
For those who have had old windows (especially those with old sash-weights) upgraded by replacement window sashes or pocket-type windows you want to verify that the old openings and weigh pockets have been insulated. Typically, you can access this pocket by removing the trim around your windows. Carefully pry the casing away with a stiff putty knife, or a special trim removal tool and check to be sure these cavities were filled with insulation. If they are missing insulation, or are insulated with fiberglass, you can insulate with polyurethan foam insulation. The, you can replace the trim, knowing you have properly insulated between the windows and the rough-opening framing. (see photo at right)
In summary, polyurethan spray foam insulation, typically purchased in cans from your local home improvement center, is a superior way to insulate openings around windows and doors. Although stuffed fiberglass insulation is acceptable, spray foam insulation has many advantages which will add to the comfort of your home. For questions, do not hesitate to consult a reputable Indianapolis area remodel contractor, such as Gettum Associates Inc. or feel free to ask your question to the Indianapolis Home Expert by clicking here:


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I think it's safe to say that the 2011 riding season is here to stay after an unprecedented winter.
Most roads that I have ridden so far this year appear to be in pretty good shape all things considered. And, it seems like most of the local public works crews have patched up most of the potholes, at least to the point that you won't ruin anything on your bike.
Make sure you give your bike a good going over and check for such things as cracked and worn tires, wiring damage caused by rodents, gaskets and fluid levels would warrant attention also.
If you need work done on your bike, I can recommend the following businesses: Sibley Custom Cycles on Route 20 in Palmer specializes in American made V-Twin motorcycles and Pete Sibley knows his stuff. You can contact Sibley Cycles at (413) 283-9090;
KGB Performance Cycles in Ludlow features master mechanic Keith Geoffrion. KGB works on everything from Harley-Davidsons to metric bikes and offers full service on all. KGB is located on Perimeter Road, out by the Hampden County Correctional Center, and you can call them at (413) 583-BIKE.
Harley-Davidson dealers in our area include Tibby's Harley-Davidson at 227 Berkshire Ave. in Springfield and Harley-Davidson of Southampton on College Highway in Southampton. Tibby's can be reached at (413)781-0785 or online at www.tibbysharley.com; the Southampton dealer can be reached at (413) 527-1556 or online at www.harleyofsouthampton.com.
Now that the riding season is starting to hit full stride, I would also like to emphasize that you (and tell all your family members who drive) really want to pay attention and look twice for motorcycles.
I honestly believe that the increase in technology (like cell phones, texting and GPS) poses a huge threat to the safety of motorcyclists. Rarely a day goes by when I don't see someone staring at a cell phone and not looking where they are driving. So, please be careful and give yourself enough room to get out of trouble if need be.
The Massachusetts Motorcycle Association has an abundance of the "Look Twice, Save a Life, Motorcycles are Everywhere" signs that you see posted in numerous places. If you would like some please drop me a line and we will make arrangements to get them to you.
Events for this season look like they'll be numerous. If you would like to get your motorcycle-related event out there, please send it to me at least three weeks in advance and I will be more than happy to include it in my column.
I'm sure that you would agree that this year seems a little more special after the abuse that was heaped upon us by old man winter. Personally I don't care if it ever snows again.
I am planning an upcoming column on biker-friendly places to visit, including restaurants, drive-ins, parks and the like), so stay tuned.
Goings On: On April 30, the Massachusetts Motorcycle Association District IV will have a fun run to the Wright Farm Restaurant in Rhode Island. This is something we've done for a few years now and always a good time as well as a good meal. K-Mart Plaza on Route 20 in Palmer is the meeting spot at 10 a.m. with kickstands up at 10:30. The ride is free with just the cost of the all-you-can-eat meal at Wright Farm. After the meal you are free to ride on your own. You can drop me a line if you need more info.
Also on April 30, the Women of the Moose Westfield Chapter 418 will hold a ride and benefit for Alexis Flores. The ride starts from the Westfield Moose Family Center located at 56 Washington St. The ride will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the benefit from 1 to 6 p.m. The cost is $20 which includes the ride, steak dinner and buffet. There will be raffles and a disc jockey for music. All proceeds will go towards the purchase of a van with wheelchair access for 6-year old Alexis. For more info or if you would like to donate an item call Tracy at (413) 314-8786.
And, finally, on May 7 the Iron Horse Road House will hold its fourth annual bike blessing and pig roast. The bike blessing will be at 11:30 a.m. with the pig roast from 12:30 to 3 p.m. This event is being held at the Knights of Columbus on Park Street in West Springfield. The cost is $15, and all are welcome.
Until next time, ride safe and ride smart.
Tim Aloisio, of Monson, has been a recreational motorcycle rider for more than 30 years. He is a member of the National Harley-Davidson Owners Group and the Massachusetts Motorcycle Association. He can be reached at travelintim@ hotmail.com


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Councilor at Large Aaron M. Vega didn't seek reelection after becoming the city's state representative in Boston.
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A 19-year-old New Orleans man was booked with first-degree murder Friday hours after police identified him as the person who opened fire on Bourbon Street early Tuesday, killing one man and injuring seven other people while scattering a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd of costumed Halloween revelers who ran for their lives.
Marvin Carter, accompanied by his attorney, surrendered himself to authorities at Central Lockup on Friday about 1 p.m., police said.
Three hours earlier, New Orleans police Superintendent Ronal Serpas had identified Carter as the gunman responsible for the shooting that was the bloodiest in a string of shootings across the city between Monday evening and Tuesday morning that left two men dead, 14 people injured and shocked a city often numb to violence.
Serpas credited a combination of Crimestoppers tips, witness accounts and traditional police work with detectives naming Carter as a suspect. Serpas said the mother of one witness even told her son to report to police what he knew about the incident.
"We are increasingly successful in getting help from the people of New Orleans, who more and more are saying enough is enough," Serpas said, referring to Friday's identification of Carter. Serpas also noted that tips led to the recent arrest of Walter Porter, another high-profile homicide suspect, who is accused of fatally shooting the brother of a witness who testified in the Telly Hankton murder case.
Police allege Carter killed 25-year-old Albert Glover during the shooting Tuesday at 12:30 a.m. at Bourbon and St. Louis streets. While bullets injured seven other people, Serpas said investigators sought Carter only on the murder charge.
Attempts to contact Carter's family and attorney were unsuccessful Friday evening.
Police and Glover's family have said Glover was the gunman's intended target and that the other victims were simply caught in the crossfire. The shooting was sparked by Glover speaking to a woman in the crowd, which prompted an unknown man to glower at him before opening fire, the family said. Several of those who were shot said Thursday that the eruption of gunfire occurred without warning.
Police on Friday said that Glover and Carter knew one another. But friends and relatives gathered at Glover's house Friday evening vigorously disputed that the man they called "Tilly" knew his killer.
Carter "may have known Tilly, but Tilly didn't know him," Glover's girlfriend, Keawanda Bacchus, said.
Some of those gathered at the Glover home grumbled that police are trying to link the two men in order to make the shooting appear less random.
They were angered when New Orleans police initially said they suspected two gunmen were firing at one another, and that one of the gunmen was Glover. A day after making that claim, however, Police Department officials withdrew that statement.
Serpas on Friday again noted that both accused killer and victim had criminal histories.
He said Carter has six felony arrests and six misdemeanor arrests to his name.
A search of Orleans Parish criminal court records shows Carter has, at various times, been booked with illegal carrying of a weapon, carrying contraband on the grounds of a state correctional institution and armed robbery. He is awaiting a trial for the armed robbery charge, court records show.
Glover had previously been arrested on various drug-related charges. In July, he landed in jail again for heroin distribution. He was awaiting trial in that case.
"Being a criminal (in New Orleans) isn't a death sentence, but it puts you a whole lot closer," Serpas said.
As he has done recently, Serpas used the opportunity to indirectly rail against the court, which he has described as a "drive-through" criminal justice system. Authorities have called Carter and Glover "possible career criminals."
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Editor: I disagree with the Guardian's editorial that fishing and tourism should be exempted from the ban under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program. Here are a few facts. Companies that use low wages to compete are subject to takeover, people who earn low wages will earn low wages all their lives, and Two-thirds of new employment on P.E.I. is low wage jobs. The federal government applying new rules to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program will force the fisheries and tourism sectors to become more competitive.
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Bigger garages or own multiple properties, Brian B answer this please!
R* can you please let us have the ability to build our garages as big as we want please, 10 car garage is not big enough and I'm sure everyone who has the game will agree with this! I've heard that you'll be able to call a contractor to build a house and garage as big as you want it to be, is this true?
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thanks brian, I would like the garage size to be at least 30-40 cars, cheers for your response though! when do you think it'll be out the next dlc?
Even if they can't give us multiple garages or larger garages, I'd be happy to pay Pegasus $200 to bring me any additional cars I want to store besides the current limit of 10.
i just think its gunna get way outta hand if we start gettin 30vehicle garages.....
it seems better if 1 GARAGE with 10, and a home with 2-4....
I think I'd be just fine if I could own the garage in my house and another separate garage. 20-car total.
I need more cars though, more people want bigger garages! M
it will be better with 30-40 car garages! they need to add mansions or something!
I agree that 10 car garage is kind of an annoyance. It would at least be nice to be able to own multiple properties with separate garages.
while I agree with having additional garages around the board what would you do with 30 or 40?
This just goes to show that R* listens to the many suggestions offered. I may submit a few mission ideas I have had running through my head.
I think we should b able to own a mansion or condo with a 5-10 car garage and then buy a separate garage to have another 10 cars. 20cars is enough in my opinion. We need hydrolics for my lowriders!
I'm all for a bigger garage too but I think the glitched money has skewed people's perspectives. How are most folks going to afford 30-40 cars once the glitched cash is removed? That said a bigger garage makes collecting cars a pretty cool long term project.
I would get heaps of cars/motorbikes with 30 or 40!
Multiple properties, each with their own 10 car garage or less each is the best way to do this. And the most realistic as well!
I could see collecting more than 20 cars easily.
Especially if you want multiple styles/colors/mods of the same vehicle.
@zach.witcombe97 I would get heaps of cars/motorbikes with 30 or 40!
and do what with them? Look at them, as far as I know you can only take one vehicle out at a time
more BLAINE COUNTY HOMES & GARAGES more important. then allow more than 1 to be purchased.
umm FYI I can race with them mate!
@Wallywhitehurst How are most folks going to afford 30-40 cars once the glitched cash is removed?
I'd have thought the cars that can be stolen would be the bulk of them.
@Wallywhitehurst I'm all for a bigger garage too but I think the glitched money has skewed people's perspectives. How are most folks going to afford 30-40 cars once the glitched cash is removed? That said a bigger garage makes collecting cars a pretty cool long term project.
Legitimate GTA$ are not that hard to come by, if you can take repetition and get past the boredom.
@Aneoid Legitimate GTA$ are not that hard to come by, if you can take repetition and get past the boredom.
Lol I know man, I play this game way too much, but I don't mind grinding and with my crew on,I e it's rarely boring for us. I was just wondering more what the rest of these folks were gonna do :)
@zach.witcombe97 umm FYI I can race with them mate!
That is true, I stand erected
I need one 10 car garage just for all my racing vehicles for each class. Then another 10 car for fun and job vehicles. I could easily put a third 10 car garage to use I'm sure. There are just to many great vehicles in this game. But for all the GTA Racers like myself, we at-least need one extra 10 car garage just for all our racing vehicles.
@DixieKat88 more BLAINE COUNTY HOMES & GARAGES more important. then allow more than 1 to be purchased.
This is what I really want. GTAO would be perfect if we can purchase a generic house and 10-car-garage somewhere in the mountains.
it would be the best having more garage space!
If everybody can have every car then you don't have to cultivate your own style. I think the ten car limit is pretty much the only thing Rockstar did right with this game.
10 cars, pttf that's barely no car space they need to expand the garages and have more apartments or have houses/mansions add them'
@R88SHUN If everybody can have every car then you don't have to cultivate your own style. I think the ten car limit is pretty much the only thing Rockstar did right with this game.
So I guess that means that all the people that love to race in GTAO that wants/needs a Supped up vehicle for each class is left out in the cold. Maybe people want to use those vehicles just for racing and have another herd of vehicles for fun and job vehicles. ;)
Hacked money has nothing to do with this request. I doubt people are wanting 30-40 supercars in their garage. That is just silly. However there are a lot of reasons to want to store more than 10. I'll list my reasons. I'd like to have at least one custom in each class for racing. Then I like to have a small variety of four door vehicles for use when rolling with the crew. We often need high capacity vehicles. I'd also like to have a separate garage up north to store various off-road vehicles. Dirt bike, ATV, pure off-road trucks and what not. I'd also like a small variety of motorcycles for cruising around. I could easily see a need for a secondary garage and/or the capacity store 30-40 vehicles of different types. This need increases if rockstar were to ever allow us to store utility or police vehicles. (I'd probably like to keep a police van for the armor protection it offers, the armourd truck looking police truck would make a nice crew vehicle too as would the reurn of the sherrif's SUV or any vehicle that seats 4 on the inside and 4 more can ride on the outside. 8 people rolling up on someone is really fun...until they sticky you. hehe.)
Those are a few reasons to store more than the current ten allowed. Those reasons don't even touch on the cars I just simply like for looks. If I had access to store 40 vehicles, I doubt I'd buy a bunch from a website. The majority of the cars I'd hang on to would be ones stolen off the street. I could easily rattle off ten cars you can swipe off the street that are really nice vehicles fully modded.
I would really love it if they allowed us to store more than ten. I'd really like, at the very least, the option to purchase a second 10 car garage only up north so I can store off-road crap there instead of having to keep it in my garage in the city where I never would use those types of vehicles.
The idea of using pegasus for extra vehicles is not a bad idea either. Granted it isn't the best option but I'd take that over nothing.
I don't want 30-40 super cars, I'll have a variety of all types of cars!
10 is enough room for me to have everything I need. Why is it so hard for you?
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Super, sports, bike, muscle, and offroad are the only classes you really ever end up racing. If you like coupes, sedans, or compacts, you have plenty of room for them too. That still leaves you room for job vehicles, especially since your job vehicle should be capable of performing in a race of that class anyway.
10 is enough. More than that and everybody has the same vehicles. Make better decisions with your vehicles and maybe you wont be disappointed with your selection.


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The first oil and natural gas lease sale in the central Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster two years ago attracted more than $1.7 billion in high bids for tracts off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a press conference Wednesday.
The lease sale offered about 39 million acres, or 7,434 tracts total, spanning three to more than 230 miles offshore. Some of the money will make its way back to Louisiana, where it is now constitutionally required to go to coastal protection and restoration projects.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which regulates offshore drilling, received 593 bids submitted by 56 energy companies on 454 federally owned oil and natural gas drilling tracts, the agency said in a statement. The highest bid on a tract was $157.1 million, submitted by Norway-based Statoil, in the Mississippi Canyon, Block 718. Overall, Shell submitted the highest total amount in top bids, $406.6 million, on 24 tracts.
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WASHINGTON - One year after invading United States and British forces consolidated their control over Iraq, the administration of President George W Bush appears to be back at square one, if not in negative territory, over how to ensure that control in the short to medium term.
The problem, however, is that the administration lacks any comprehensive strategy and remains internally divided over precisely what to do.
Neo-conservative hawks centered in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office and their allies outside the administration remain strongly opposed to giving the United Nations a major substantive role in any aspect of the occupation or abandoning plans to ensure that their Iraqi collaborators, notably Iraqi National Congress (INC) leader Ahmed Chalabi, retain power in any transition.
The administration's latest policy revision was confirmed in Baghdad on Friday with the announcement by Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) chief L Paul Bremer that the "de-Ba'athification" policy he carried to Iraq almost 11 months ago had been "poorly implemented" and needed to be reviewed.
The plain meaning of his remarks, despite his continued insistence that the policy "was and is sound", was that thousands of former senior and mid-level members of the Ba'ath Party of former president Saddam Hussein will now be brought back into the government, especially the military and the police, presumably to secure the stability and order that some 160,000 US and British troops and their auxiliaries from the ever-shrinking "coalition of the willing" have been unable to impose.
Bremer's announcement followed by just a few days another by Bush himself that United Nations special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will be given the lead to determine the shape and composition of a new transitional authority that will replace the current Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) from June 30, when "limited sovereignty" will revert to Iraqis, until elections for a new government can be held, hopefully in January 2005.
The hope is that Brahimi's and the UN's imprimatur on the interim government will provide it with the international - and, more important, an Iraqi domestic acceptance and legitimacy that have also eluded the widely discredited IGC.
While both steps have been in the works since last year, the past month's setbacks - especially the unprecedented violence that has taken the lives of more than 100 US troops and more than 1,000 Iraqis in Fallujah, parts of Baghdad and the predominantly Shi'ite south - made them all the more urgent.
Suddenly the administration, which was in the process of drawing down its troops from 150,000 to about 100,000 by the June 30 transition date, was facing what many now call popular uprisings in both the Sunni triangle' and among the majority Shi'ite population, whose acquiescence in the US-led occupation has long been seen as absolutely indispensable to the success of Washington's Iraq agenda.
US efforts to suppress the insurgency in Fallujah were, by all accounts, politically disastrous. With hundreds of Iraqis - including women and children - killed in the fighting, the city quickly became a rallying cry for both Sunnis and Shi'ites, and also for nationalists and Islamists fed up with the CPA's incompetence and the humiliations of occupation.
"I am convinced now [that the CPA] created a situation where Iraqis are in total psychological revolt," Gailan Ramiz, a US-educated political scientist in Baghdad, told the Christian Science Monitor last week.
That US-trained and supervised Iraqi military and security forces by and large failed to back up coalition troops during the fighting has added to the sense that Washington's hopes of transferring security duties to Iraqis and withdrawing most of its forces to discreet bases away from population centers were based on wishful thinking.
US generals in Iraq have admitted that as much as 10 percent of Iraqi security forces worked with or joined the rebels, and that an additional 40 percent simply melted away or refused US orders. Other analysts say those estimates are low.
"The 'Iraqization' security plan must be thoroughly re-examined", noted analysts Jessica Mathews and Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who wrote in the Financial Times that Washington's political and security strategy is now "in tatters".
The problem is that the US reaction - including Bush's delegation of authority to Brahimi and Bremer's recruitment of former Ba'athists - appears driven more by ad hoc emergencies than an overall strategy for both stabilizing the country and implementing a credible exit strategy.
As a result, each policy issue is likely to be the subject of major internal fights between the "realists", based in the State Department, the uniformed military and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the neo-conservative hawks around Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, fights of the kind detailed in reporter Bob Woodward's new insider account,
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"Without a really well-thought-out strategy that has the support of all the major players, the administration is going to have a really hard time getting anywhere," said one State Department source who asked not to be identified. "I see lots of room for sabotage by one faction or another if they don't get what they want."
Indeed, neo-conservative forces, such as the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal and former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle, concerned about reports that Brahimi is unlikely to recommend Chalabi - who has led and championed an aggressive de-Ba'athification campaign - to a position in the interim government, are loudly complaining that the Algerian diplomat is the spearhead of a UN-State Department-CIA plot to take control of the transition. They also worry that greater UN influence could result in a less aggressive military policy toward Iraqi insurgents.
The lack of a comprehensive strategy was underlined in the reaction of Republican Senator John McCain, who emerged from a closed briefing with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice muttering "There is no plan."
Three days of hearings on Iraq policy on Capitol Hill last week, which culminated in testimony by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman, also confirmed to many analysts that the administration is engaged in wishful thinking and ad hoc planning.
Pressed for details, Grossman repeatedly stated that the shape and leadership of the interim government will be determined by Brahimi next month - less than 60 days before the scheduled transition - but that Washington will remain in charge of all security and military forces and oppose any attempts by the new body to pass new laws or amend existing ones during the interim period.
As noted by David Ignatius of the Washington Post, "The big problem with the new Iraqi policy is that it's at war with the old one."
At a time when the administration appears to be embracing a more UN-centered approach, it is also imposing strict limits on the ability and power of any new authority to depart from policies put in place by the CPA and the neo-conservatives' favorites on the IGC.
Democrats also suggested that the proposed "limited sovereignty" framework risked a major backlash by Iraqis, who have been told that real sovereignty would be returned to them as of June 30.
Iraqis are "going to wake up [on July 1] and there's going to be 160,000 [US] troops and a US ambassador pulling the strings," noted Senator Joseph Biden. "How does that take the American face off 'the occupation'?"
That point was echoed by British professor Toby Dodge, an author of two recent books on Iraq, who also warned in testimony this week: "There is so much uncertainty in a very uncertain and disturbed country that June 30 may well add to our problems, not detract from them."
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