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This image provided by the Tunica Mississippi Sheriff’s department shows James Willie, who authorities arrested early Friday, May 18.
By msnbc.com staff and news services
JACKSON, Miss. — Authorities in Mississippi said early Friday they have arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings that happened late at night along desolate stretches.
James D. Willie, 28, of Sardis, Miss., was being held on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault and rape and would be formally charged with two counts of capital murder, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain told The Associated Press.
Willie was being held at the Tunica County jail in north Mississippi.
“Hundreds of man hours have been devoted to tracking down and arresting this individual,” Gov. Phil Bryant said in a statement.
Willie had not been posing as a police officer in the shootings as authorities previously thought, Strain said.
Willie was arrested Tuesday morning when authorities responded to a disturbance at an apartment. Tunica police found Willie with a woman who claimed he had raped her, a news release said. When Willie was arrested, authorities found a 9mm Ruger in his possession. Testing later found that it was the same gun used in the two highway shootings, authorities said.
Thomas Schlender, 74, of Raymond, Neb., was found dead in his car on Interstate 55 in Panola County on May 8 around 1:30 a.m. Lori Anne Carswell, 48, of Hernando, Miss. was found dead near her car on Mississippi Highway 713 in nearby Tunica County about 2:15 a.m. on May 11.
Mississippi police discuss two random shootings which they believe are linked together, possibly to someone impersonating a police officer.
Mississippi law enforcement agencies had warned motorists someone may be posing as an officer because the shooting victims had no obvious reason to be stopped on the interstate where they were found.
“Our citizens have been terrorized by these murders and we worked tirelessly to resolve them,”?Public Safety Commissioner Albert Santa Cruz said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A man admires an art work entitled ‘Forever Bicycles’ by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei at the Taipei Fine Art Museum on October 28, 2011. ‘Ai Weiwei Absent’ will open at the municipal Taipei Fine Arts Museum in the island’s capital on October 29 for three months, featuring his installation pieces, photography, sculptures and videos. AFP PHOTO / Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Don’t try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won’t find her there.
You won’t find Thomas Chin, either. Or Kariann Goldschmitt. Or Jake Edelstein.
More than 900 million people worldwide check their Facebook accounts at least once a month, but millions more are Facebook holdouts.
They say they don’t want Facebook. They insist they don’t need Facebook. They say they’re living life just fine without the long-forgotten acquaintances that the world’s largest social network sometimes resurrects.
They are the resisters.
“I’m absolutely in touch with everyone in my life that I want to be in touch with,” Arwood says. “I don’t need to share triviality with someone that I might have known for six months 12 years ago.”
Even without people like Arwood, Facebook is one of the biggest business success stories in history. The site had 1 million users by the end of 2004, the year Mark Zuckerberg started it in his Harvard dorm room. Two years later, it had 12 million. Facebook had 500 million by summer 2010 and 901 million as of March 31, according to the company.
That staggering rise in popularity is one reason why Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering is one of the most hotly anticipated in years. The company’s shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Friday under the ticker symbol “FB”. Facebook is likely to have an estimated market valuation of some $100 billion, making it worth more than Kraft Foods, Ford or Disney.
Facebook still has plenty of room to grow, particularly in developing countries where people are only starting to get Internet access. As it is, about 80 percent of its users are outside U.S. and Canada.
But if Facebook is to live up to its pre-IPO hype and reward the investors who are clamoring for its stock this week, it needs to convince some of the resisters to join. Two out of every five American adults have not joined Facebook, according to a recent Associated Press-CNBC poll. Among those who are not on Facebook, a third cited a lack of interest or need.
If all those people continue to shun Facebook, the social network could become akin to a postal system that only delivers mail to houses on one side of the street. The system isn’t as useful, and people aren’t apt to spend as much time with it. That means fewer opportunities for Facebook to sell ads.
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, says that new communications channels ? from the telephone to radio, TV and personal computers ? often breed a cadre of holdouts in their early days.
“It’s disorienting because people have different relationships with others depending on the media they use,” Rainie says. “But we’ve been through this before. As each new communications media comes to prominence, there is a period of adoption.”
Len Kleinrock, 77, says Facebook is fine for his grandchildren, but it’s not for him.
“I do not want more distractions,” he says. “As it is, I am deluged with email. My friends and colleagues have ready access to me and I don’t really want another service that I would feel obliged to check into on a frequent basis.”
Kleinrock says his resistance is generational, but discomfort with technology isn’t a factor.
After all, Kleinrock is arguably the world’s first Internet user. The University of California, Los Angeles professor was part of the team that invented the Internet. His lab was where researchers gathered in 1969 to send test data between two bulky computers ?the beginnings of the Arpanet network, which morphed into the Internet we know today.
“I’m having a ‘been-there, done-that’ feeling,” Kleinrock says. “There’s not a need on my part for reaching out and finding new social groups to interact with. I have trouble keeping up with those I’m involved with now.”
Thomas Chin, 35, who works at an advertising and media planning company in New York, says he may be missing out on what friends-of-friends-of-friends are doing, but he doesn’t need Facebook to connect with family and closer acquaintances.
“If we’re going to go out to do stuff, we organize it (outside) of Facebook,” he says.
Some people don’t join the social network because they don’t have a computer or Internet access, are concerned about privacy, or generally dislike Facebook. Those without a college education are less likely to be on Facebook, as are those with lower incomes. Women who choose to skip Facebook are more likely than men to cite privacy issues, while seniors are more likely than those 50-64 years old to cite computer issues, according the AP-CNBC poll.
About three-quarters of seniors are not on Facebook. By contrast, more than half of those under 35 use it every day.
The poll of 1,004 adults nationwide was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications May 3-7 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
Steve Jones, a professor who studies online culture and communications at the University of Illinois at Chicago, says many resisters consider Facebook to be too much of a chore.
“We’ve added social networking to our lives. We haven’t added any hours to our days,” Jones says. “The decision to be online on Facebook is simultaneously a decision not to be doing something else.”
Jones says many people on Facebook try to overcome that by multitasking, but they end up splitting their attention and engaging with others online only superficially.
Arwood, 47, a restaurant manager in Chicago, says she was surprised when colleagues on an English-teaching program in rural Spain in 2010 opted to spend their breaks checking Facebook.
“I spent my time on break trying to learn more about the Spanish culture, really taking advantage of it,” she says. “I went on walks with some of the students and asked them questions.”
Kariann Goldschmitt, 32, a music professor at New College of Florida in Sarasota, Fla., was on Facebook not long after its founding in 2004, but she quit in 2010. In part, it was because of growing concerns about her privacy and Facebook’s ongoing encouragement of people to share more about themselves with the company, with marketers and with the world.
She says she’s been much more productive since leaving.
“I was a typical user, on it once or twice a day,” she says. “After a certain point, I sort of resented how it felt like an obligation rather than fun.”
Besides Facebook resisters and quitters, there are those who take a break. In some cases, people quit temporarily as they apply for new jobs, so that potential employers won’t stumble on photos of their wild nights out drinking. Although Facebook doesn’t make it easy to find, it offers an option for suspending accounts (Look for a link under the “Security” tab in “Account Settings.”)
Goldschmitt says it takes effort to stay in touch with friends and relatives without Facebook. For instance, she has to make mental notes of when her friends are expecting babies, knowing that they have become so used to Facebook “that they don’t engage with us anymore.”
“I’m like, ‘Hmmm, when is nine months?’ I have to remember to contact them since they won’t remember to tell me when the baby’s born.”
Neil Robinson, 54, a government lawyer in Washington, says that when his nephew’s son was born, pictures went up on Facebook almost immediately. As a Facebook holdout, he had to wait for someone to email photos.
After years of resisting, Robinson plans to join next month, mostly because he doesn’t want to lose touch with younger relatives who choose Facebook as their primary means of communication.
But for every Robinson, there is an Edelstein, who has no desire for Facebook and prefers email and postcards.
“I prefer to keep my communications personal and targeted,” says Jake Edelstein, 41, a pharmaceutical consultant in New York. “You’re getting a message that’s written for you. Clearly someone took the time to sit down to do it.”
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Associated Press Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius in Washington contributed this report.
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Trainer D. Wayne Lukas reacts after hearing his No. 10 post position draw for his colt Optimizer for the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The Preakness Stakes is scheduled to be run on Saturday. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas reacts after hearing his No. 10 post position draw for his colt Optimizer for the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The Preakness Stakes is scheduled to be run on Saturday. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
John Sica leads Preakness Stakes hopeful Optimizer with exercise rider Joel Cano back to the barn following a morning gallop at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Preakness Stakes hopeful Optimizer shakes off water during a morning bath at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Preakness Stakes hopeful Optimizer reacts as he gets a bath outside the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., Wednesday, May 16, 2012, following a morning gallop. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
BALTIMORE (AP) ? Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas was nestled on a corner bench in front of the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course, thinking back to a time when he was nothing more than a young man trying to make a living in the horse racing game.
“I remember sitting right there on that bench 32 years ago,” he said, pointing to his left. “I had one horse sitting in that first stall and we won it with Codex right here. And I remember saying to my son, I said, ‘What’s the big deal about this? (Heck), we’ll win a bunch of these.’ I didn’t realize it was going to take eight more years to get the next one.”
Codex won in 1980, the first time Lukas ever saddled up a Preakness horse. He next won in 1985 with Tank’s Prospect, and although his memory is perhaps a bit shaky regarding the timing of each victory, the 76-year-old Lukas knows darn well he’s won the Preakness five times.
He hasn’t been in the Preakness winner’s circle since 1999 with Charismatic, and he has a decided long shot in Optimizer on Saturday. But it would be foolish to dismiss his chances.
Because he’s D. Wayne Lukas, and that means something when it comes to big races. He does, after all, hold the Preakness record with 36 starters.
“That experience factor. There is no how-to book,” he said Thursday. “You can’t pull it up in the library or on a chip in a computer that says this is how you do it. It’s all experience. So when you get me or (Bob) Baffert or some of these guys that have been here a little bit, that’s a tremendous edge.”
Baffert, with 8-5 favorite Bodemeister, and Doug O’Neill, trainer of Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another, have attracted much of the attention this week. Optimizer has been installed as a 30-1 long shot, and Lukas didn’t protest the odds too vigorously because he knows it’s going to take a near-perfect race for Optimizer to turned around his 11th-place finish at Churchill Downs.
“He’s got to run better than he has,” Lukas said. “He’s showed some brilliance or I wouldn’t have him here. But he’s got to improve. He has to have a trip. He has to get a chance to run. He’s not a stop-start, nifty-type horse that you can get some adversity in the race and then recover. He just needs a clean run. If he gets a run at them, he’s very sound and he finishes very well.”
He acknowledged that this race is pretty much a setup for the Belmont, which at 1? miles is better suited for Optimizer’s talent.
“Big sweeping turns, smaller field,” Lukas noted. “The Derby was a tough thing for him because there were 20 in it and he had the 2-hole. He had to work all through the traffic. That was not a good scenario. As soon as we drew the 2-hole I thought our chances really diminished greatly. This is a little better scenario, but I think the next one will be his cup of tea. He’ll definitely get a mile-and-a-half where a lot of these (horses) won’t even be around.”
Someone asked Lukas if it’s harder to come to Pimlico with a Derby winner, or whether it’s easier without one because there’s no pressure to keep the Triple Crown bid alive.
“The spotlight is what you make it. That never bothered me,” he said. “I always thought that was part of the territory. You only worry when you’re 30-1 in this thing and nobody is asking for your opinion. Then you’ve got a problem. As long as you’ve got a good horse, you’ve won the Derby, you’ve got that notch on your belt, this one’s easier.”
Unfortunately for Lukas, he’s got that 30-1 horse.
“That doesn’t worry me,” he said. “I’ve already won five of them. I don’t have to wake up every morning and wonder if I can train one of these. I’m really comfortable where I’m at. After being in 30 of these I don’t feel any pressure at all. I’ve been there. I’ve had the highs and the lows in this particular race. I’m very comfortable with what I’ve got, in what I’m doing.”
As a pet owner it is your duty to train your pet to behave appropriately. A dog, no matter what breed, does not instinctively know right from wrong. It is your role as owner to teach your furry friend and make him figure out how to act properly. You can use the tips that have been provided in this article to find out how to provide your pet dog with appropriate German Shepherd training.
Jumping is a typical behavior among dogs. Though jumping may be an indication that your pet dog is excited to see you, it should be resolved in early stages since it can be risky not only to you but to kids or older people who are not stable. To get rid of the behavior, practice walking your furry pet over to a rug and asking him to sit when the doorbell rings. Ask a friend or family member to ring the doorbell. Guide your pet dog by his leash to a rug or spot and have him sit. Praise him and offer a treat. Repeating this exercise can help him to stay calm and appear more well-behaved when guests come over. In addition, it also helps to remind or orient your guests of the best way to interact with your canine friend so as not to motivate jumping behavior.
Walking is a significant part of exercise but it can be very difficult to master especially if there are numerous interruptions along the way. With the right practice and patience, your furry friend will be walking right by your side in no time if you follow these steps: first, do not permit him to leave the door first. When you put his leash on, have him sit first or give you his paw to calm him down. When you are actually walking and he begins to walk before you or pulls the leash, give the leash a quick tug to assert yourself. If he keeps on pulling the leash, stop walking and allow him calm down before you resume walking. If the pulling continues, stop and head to another path to make it clear to him that you are the one who decides when and where to go.
Understand that German Shepherd training is going on 24 hours a day. Do not make the error of thinking that you?re only training your furry pet during your obedience classes and practice sessions. Your canine pet is watching and learning from you during each interaction you have with him, so be sure you are always reinforcing positive behavior.
