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Napolitano faces questions on US Secret ServiceNapolitano faces questions on US Secret ServiceU.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is facing questions Wednesday from a Senate panel on the Secret Service prostitution scandal that embarrassed the White House and overshadowed the president’s visit to a…

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Ophelia” is a beautiful and haunting story about a woman-turned-prostitute who seeks to reclaim her identity and escape an objectifying lifestyle. A photographer,

Women must shut off part of who they really are in order to perform for and attract men—they must embody the feminine other, the feminine mystique that both Simone de Beauvior and Betty Friedan shouted so much about. This concept is only heightened in the brothel, where a woman’s sole purpose is to please the male customer. 
However, it’s through the power of photography that Ophelia recaptures that identity. By realizing the power of a lens, by looking at herself through the unfaltering eye of the camera, she begins to form her identity in something besides her relationship to men. By learning photography and by purchasing her own camera, she is able to release herself from the bind of lost identity that prostitution has placed on her.

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John McCauley of the Providence, R.I.-born and now Nashville-based rock ‘n’ roll band Deer Tick, is a serial moonlighter. Last year, McCauley dabbled with Middle Brother, teaming up with members of Dawes and Delta Spirit for an album of Replacements-meets-Gram-Parsons country-flavored rock. Now, with Diamond Rugs, he’s joined by, among others, members of Dead Confederate, Six Finger Satellite, the Black Lips and, most interestingly, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, for an album of loose-limbed, ingratiating bar-band rock. The Rugs debuted this winter with the holiday standard-to-be “Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant,” which is included here, and if “Diamond Rugs” isn’t always that inspired and is occasionally lunkheaded (see “Call Girl Blues”), it’s still consistently catchy, often amusing, and the product of more musical intelligence than hard-up titles like “Gimme A Beer,” “Totally Lonely,” and “Hungover and Horny” might suggest.

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David Ames (played by Blair Underwood, who was also a producer) has a Ph.D. and is a college professor. Kari Ames (Sharon Leal) is a real estate agent. David and Kari apparently are successful, since they live in a big house in a gated community. All seems perfect with the happy couple, parents to 6-year-old Mikayla Ames (Zoe Carter), until Mikayla is kidnapped.
In the script by Cory Tynan, the audience is taken on a wild chase of a serial killer simply called MK, short for the Marrero Killer. The Marrero Killer not sure how he got the name is kidnapping little black children and killing them on the sixth day of their abduction. Tynan also lets the audience in on Karis past as an ex-convict who had been arrested for narcotics, prostitution and battery. 

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Porchea Gilbert, 22, Cincinnati, Ohio, was arrested April 13 in the 2600 block of was arrested April 13 in Metairie and booked with prostitution and crimes against nature.

Audrey Berber, 23, of 3948 S. Interstate 10 Service Road, Metairie, was arrested at home and booked with prostitution and crimes against nature.

Sarette Langford, 26, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Erica Berardi, 41, of Fairfield, Calif., were arrested April 17 in the 6500 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie and booked with prostitution and crimes against nature.

Kenneth Bohana, 29, Memphis, Tenn., was arrested April 18 in the 2400 block of Clearview Parkway in Metairie and booked with letting premises for prostitution.

Amanda Ray, 27, Memphis, Tenn., was arrested April 18 in the 2400 block of Clearview Parkway in Metairie and booked with prostitution and crimes against nature.

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Among the defendants Irons allegedly paid Garrison for were two Tampa, Fla. women, Kyna Wimbush and Voncile Dennard, accused of prostitution by massage. Both were being held on $2,500 bond, then let go after Garrison wrote Criminal District Judge Frank Marullo’s name onto a release order, with her name beneath it.
Irons allegedly received an $800 Western Union transfer from Tampa, Fla. A few days later, Garrison deposited $290 into her bank account.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Friel said Thursday the defendants all contacted Irons the same way.
“They get his number while they’re in jail. They contact him, and it progresses from there,” Friel said. “They want to get out of jail. He’s able to accommodate that.”

Their lawyer, Frank Larre, said he didn’t remember the prostitution case but knew Irons from Tulane and Broad. He said Irons may have referred clients to him.

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Ex-Sunland Park mayor-elect, police chief indicted
April 20, 2012 02:23 GMT
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Sunland Park’s former Mayor-elect Daniel Salinas and its former acting police chief Luis F. Monarez have been indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges.
A Dona Ana County grand jury on Thursday indicted Salinas on 18 criminal counts. They include fraud, soliciting and receiving an illegal kickback, violation of ethical principles of public service and prohibited official acts for personal financial interest.
Salinas allegedly conspired with an El Paso businessman to fraudulently bill Sunland Park for thousands of dollars’ worth of entertainment — including strippers and prostitutes — during a border conference last November in Mexico.
The Las Cruces Sun-News (http://bit.ly/JkKgfS) says Salinas also allegedly conspired to charge Sunland Park for a campaign video by hiding that expense in a bill for a video promoting a border crossing project.

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David Ames (played by Blair Underwood, who was also a producer) has a Ph.D. and is a college professor. Kari Ames (Sharon Leal) is a real estate agent. David and Kari apparently are successful, since they live in a big house in a gated community. All seems perfect with the happy couple, parents to 6-year-old Mikayla Ames (Zoe Carter), until Mikayla is kidnapped.
In the script by Cory Tynan, the audience is taken on a wild chase of a serial killer simply called MK, short for the Marrero Killer. The Marrero Killer not sure how he got the name is kidnapping little black children and killing them on the sixth day of their abduction. Tynan also lets the audience in on Karis past as an ex-convict who had been arrested for narcotics, prostitution and battery. 

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A Metairie man is accused of soliciting sex with a 12-year-old girl after an undercover online police sting, according to a Kenner Police Department report. Gary Lynn Workman, 55, 3001 Cleary Ave., apparently advertised on the “casual encounters” section of the New Orleans Craigslist website, the report said.
“Every woman is somebody’s daughter,” his post stated. “Do you have a daughter you could bring to me?”
His arrest was a collaboration between the Kenner Police Department and the FBI. A Kenner detective who saw the Craigslist post contacted an FBI special agent, and the agent began an online correspondence with Workman, the Kenner police report said.
Between March 8 and April 9, Workman showed interest in “meeting a 12-year-old female to engage in sexual intercourse,” the police report said.
On April 9 at about 2 p.m., Workman arrived at a pre-determined location in Kenner and was arrested.

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… Ignatius Rising had other problems, including a complete disinterest in the plot of Confederacy; many of the book’s memorable characters were given glancing mention or no mention at all. Toole’s life growing up in New Orleans was also given short shrift, as was his stint at New York’s Columbia University. The authors were more interested in People magazine-style pop psychology than examining his bizarre family life. (MacLauchlin sums up their approach, accurately, as depicting “Toole as a man suffering from an Oedipal complex, suppressed homosexuality, alcoholism, madness and an appetite for promiscuity.”)
  Nevils and Hardy decided Toole was most certainly gay and enjoyed the company of male prostitutes, buttressing their argument almost completely on the testimony of a man who claimed he’d picked up Toole in 1967 — but he hadn’t known who Toole was until more than a decade later, when he saw the author’s photo on the Confederacy dust jacket.

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