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Record Mega Millions numbers: 2-4-23-38-46, MB 23

A customer smiles after receiving a free Mega Millions Lottery ticket from the Hoosier Lottery's Mega Millions mascot at a store in Zionsville, Ind., Friday, March 30, 2012. The Mega Millions Lottery jackpot has reached a record $540 million.(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

A customer smiles after receiving a free Mega Millions Lottery ticket from the Hoosier Lottery's Mega Millions mascot at a store in Zionsville, Ind., Friday, March 30, 2012. The Mega Millions Lottery jackpot has reached a record $540 million.(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Mega Millions Lottery tickets that were given away to the first 540 people are displayed by the Hoosier Lottery's Mega Millions mascot at a store in Zionsville, Ind., Friday, March 30, 2012. The Mega Millions Lottery jackpot has reached a record $540 million.(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Thousands of people wait in line to buy tickets for the Mega Millions Lottery jackpot at the Primm Valley Casino Resorts Lotto store in California near Primm, Nev. Thursday, March 29, 2012. The Mega Millions Lottery jackpot has reached a record $540 million. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher) LAS VEGAS SUN OUT; MAGS OUT

A Mega Millions lottery contestant buys his ticket for Friday's $500-million game at a corner newsstand in New York, Thursday, March 29, 2012. Forget setting up a charity or establishing a trust, the winner of the $500 million Mega Millions jackpot could save teachers' jobs or help pay for Medicaid-funded doctor appointments in their home state just by paying taxes. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

CHICAGO (AP) ? Across the country, Americans plunked down an estimated $1.5 billion on the longest of long shots: an infinitesimally small chance to win what could end up being the single biggest lottery payout the world has ever seen.

The numbers drawn Friday night in Atlanta were 2-4-23-38-46, Mega Ball 23. Lottery officials expected to release details about possible winners a couple of hours after the 11 p.m. Eastern drawing.

Forget about how the $640 million Mega Millions jackpot could change the life of the winner. It's a collective wager that could fund a presidential campaign several times over, make a dent in struggling state budgets or take away the gas worries and grocery bills for thousands of middle-class citizens.

And it's a cheap investment for the chance of a big reward, no matter how long the odds ? 1 in 176 million.

"Twenty to thirty dollars won't hurt," said Elvira Bakken of Las Vegas. "I think it just gives us a chance of maybe winning our dream."

So what exactly would happen if the country spent that $1.5 billion on something other than a distant dream?

For starters, it could cure the everyday worries of hundreds of thousands of American families hit by the Great Recession. It costs an average of $6,129 to feed the typical family for a year ? meaning the cash spent on tickets could fill up the plates of 238,000 households.

As gas prices climb faster than stations can change the numbers on the signs, the money spent on tickets could fill the tanks of 685,000 households annually.

Or it could play politics. So far in this campaign, Republicans and President Barack Obama have spent $348.5 million. The amount spent on Mega Millions tickets could cover that tab four times over.

Could the money dig governments out of debt? That's a problem that even staggering ticket sales can't solve. It could trim this year's expected $1.3 trillion federal deficit by just over a tenth of 1 percent. In Illinois, the money would disappear just as fast into that state's $8 billion deficit.

On a personal level, that much money staggers. Giving $1.46 billion to a broker could purchase 2.4 million shares of Apple stock. (It would also be enough to buy about 2.4 million iPads at the starting price of $499. That's almost as many as the 3 million new iPads that Apple has already sold.)

Or consider the whimsical: A family of up to 12 could live for more than a century at Musha Cay, magician David Copperfield's $37,000-a-night private island resort in the Exuma Cays of the Caribbean.

For a more celestial vacation, the nearly $1.5 billion wagered could purchase about 7,300 tourist tickets for a ride into space aboard Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. And it would pay for 26 rides for U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

It would even buy a stake in pop culture. Want to influence the next winner of American Idol? If it costs a quarter to text in a vote to Ryan Seacrest, and it takes 122 million votes to win as it did last season, the money could control the outcome of the next 47 seasons.

For the states that participate, the money spent on lotto tickets is hardly a waste. It doesn't all end up as the winner's personal fortune ? much of it is used by states to fund education and other social service programs, which is why advocates promote the lottery.

Though the specifics vary among the 42 participating states and the District of Columbia, only about half of ticket sales go into the actual jackpot. Another 35 percent goes to support government services and programs, while the rest funds lottery operating costs.

On Friday, the lottery estimated that total ticket sales for this jackpot, which has been building up since Jan. 28, will be about $1.46 billion, said Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery Commission.

You're about 20,000 times more likely to die in a car crash than win the lottery, but that doesn't matter to most people.

"Part of it is hope. ... The average person basically has no chance of making it really big, and buying a lottery ticket is a way of raising the ceiling on what could possibly happen to you, however unlikely it may be," said George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied how rich and poor consumers make a choice to buy lottery tickets.

The odds are much better that someone will begin their weekend a winner. Aaron Abrams, a mathematician at Emory University, said he calculated that there was only a 6 percent chance that no one would hold the winning numbers.

"Every time the jackpot gets higher, more and more people buy tickets, which makes it more and more likely that someone will win," Abrams said. "So the chance that it rolls over this many times in a row is very small. It's quite a rare event."

The estimated jackpot dwarfs the previous $390 million record, which was split in 2007 by two winners who bought tickets in Georgia and New Jersey.

The rarity of Friday's jackpot was fueling the fervor. Lines formed at grocery stores, gas stations, liquor stops and other venues across the country.

In Arizona, a caf? worker reported selling $2,600 worth of tickets to one buyer. In Indiana, hundreds lined up for a giveaway of free tickets. Hundreds from Utah and Las Vegas streamed in to neighboring California or Arizona to buy tickets because their states don't participate.

Accountant Ray Lousteau, who bought 55 Mega Millions tickets Friday in New Orleans, knows buying that many tickets doesn't mathematically increase his odds, and that his $55 could have gone elsewhere. He spent it anyway.

"Mathematically, it doesn't make a difference, and intellectually we know that. But for some reason buying more tickets makes you feel more lucky," Lousteau said. "Even people who know better are apt to feel that way."

In Chicago, Peter Muiznieks bought a ticket at a liquor store. He knows his chance of winning is a long shot, and that the money the country is spending on tickets could go elsewhere. He still couldn't help himself, and laughed as the apparent contradiction of his opinion and his actions.

"Lottery and games of chance are a stupidity tax and the more we all buy into this, the less rational we are as a society," he said.

____

Wiseman reported from Washington. Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Robert Ray, Anna Johnson, Chris Wills and David Scott in Chicago; Margery Beck in Omaha, Neb.; Will Weissert in Austin, Texas; Stacey Plaisance in New Orleans; Oskar Garcia in Las Vegas; and Jack Gillum in Washington, D.C.

Associated Press

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The next generation of prostate cancer biomarkers askmenhealth ...

Since the introduction of serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening 25 years ago, prostate cancer diagnosis and management have been guided by this biomarker.

Yet, PSA has proven controversial as a screening assay owing to several inherent limitations. The next wave of prostate cancer biomarkers has emerged, introducing new assays in serum and urine that may supplement or, in time, replace PSA because of their higher cancer specificity.? Such efforts have produced several notable success stories that involve rapidly moving biomarkers from the bench to the clinic.

However, biomarker research has centered on disease diagnostics, rather than prognosis and prediction, which would address disease management. The development of biomarkers to stratify risk of prostate cancer aggressiveness at the time of screening remains the greatest unmet clinical need in prostate cancer. We review the current state of prostate cancer biomarker research, including the PSA revolution, its impact on early cancer detection, the recent advances in biomarker discovery, and the future efforts that promise to improve clinical management of this disease.

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Students to receieve free business advice - The Hartford Informer

On April 11, students have a chance to not only get career tips, but pick up a free suit at ButtonUp for Success.

From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Millard Auditorium, Save-A-Suit, a non-profit organization created to aid students in dressing for success, will be coming to campus.
?The whole day is free for students,? Sue Landolina, Assistant Director of Career Services, said.

The day will include suit fittings, a tie booth, accessories, mock interviews by companies such as United Health Group and CIGNA, resume reviews, business cards, headshots for LinkedIn and also prizes.

?This is the first time Save-A-Suit will be at the University,? Landolina said. ?He has also done events at UConn, Westchester Community College and University of Bridgeport.?

Career Services? goal for the event is 300 suits. All of the suits are either new or gently used and have been dry cleaned.

?This is a great opportunity to network and everyone needs a suit,? Landolina said.

Students are encouraged to come dressed however they would like. Landolina encourages students to RSVP to the event by registering for it on CareerBridge. That link can be found off of the Career Service?s website.

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Knicks rout Magic, climb back above .500

New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony (7) shoots over Orlando Magic's Quentin Richardson (5) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony (7) shoots over Orlando Magic's Quentin Richardson (5) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

New York Knicks' Steve Novak (16) reacts after making a 3-pointer at the end of the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony (7) shoots over Orlando Magic's Hedo Turkoglu, of Turkey, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

New York Knicks' Iman Shumpert (21) drives past Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard (12) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony (7) reacts after scoring during the second half on an NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Carmelo Anthony knocked down three long jumpers, finding a rhythm that's been missing most of the season.

Then the Knicks really got rolling ? on their biggest run in 8 1/2 years.

Anthony and the Knicks climbed above .500 for the first time since mid-January in overwhelming fashion, scoring 21 straight points in the third quarter and routing the Orlando Magic 108-86 on Wednesday night.

Anthony and Iman Shumpert each scored 25 points for the Knicks (26-25), who won for the eighth time in nine games despite playing without the injured Amare Stoudemire and Jeremy Lin. New York outscored Orlando 65-30 in the middle two quarters and has a winning record for the first time since it was 6-5 before a loss to Oklahoma City on Jan. 14.

"I said this at the top, as a coach I'm always interested in when you're short-handed who's going to step up and make plays? And we're getting it from everybody and that to me is a sign of a good, quality team that wants to win," interim coach Mike Woodson said.

The Knicks moved 2 1/2 games ahead of Milwaukee for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and pulled within 2 1/2 of Philadelphia and Boston for first place in the Atlantic Division. New York could get Stoudemire back before the end of the season, announcing Wednesday that he could be back in two to four weeks after non-surgical treatment for a bulging disk in his back.

Anthony knows he must step up until then without Stoudemire and Lin (sore left knee), and he had his second straight strong performance since they were hurt. Anthony scored 28 points Monday, and would have easily surpassed that had he not been limited to 26 minutes.

Playing despite a strained right groin, Anthony shot 9 of 15, his jumper that has been off all season falling in a third-quarter flurry that blew open the game.

Anthony said it's been a rocky season, which includes his own struggles with injuries and his shot, the resignation of coach Mike D'Antoni, and now the injuries to the Knicks' second- and third-leading scorers. But they sure seemed as if they had it all figured out in the third quarter, when they had their longest consecutive run of points since a franchise-record 24 in a row against Indiana on Nov. 15, 2003.

"Right now, with the coaching change, we've been playing extremely well," Anthony said. "Guys seem to be responding pretty well. We've been really locked in on our mission right now."

Jameer Nelson scored 17 points, and JJ Redick had 15 for the Magic, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Ryan Anderson, who made seven 3-pointers and scored a career-high 30 points in the Magic's 102-93 victory here Jan. 16, took just four shots and scored three points.

"They're playing small and we got crushed on the boards. That to me is the one that tells me that the effort wasn't there. When you give up 16 offensive rebounds to a team that's playing small, that that's an effort problem," Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said.

The Knicks built a big lead by outscoring Orlando 32-12 in the second quarter, then made it a blowout in the third.

After scoring mostly down low in the first half, Anthony came out and knocked down two 3-pointers and a long jumper to make it a 20-point game. Dwight Howard made a layup before a short jumper by Baron Davis ignited the 21-0 burst, the Knicks' longest of the season.

Orlando went scoreless for more than 6 minutes, and it was 88-49 after Shumpert's jumper with 2:58 remaining in the third period.

Howard had 12 points on seven shots for the Magic, who had won 14 of the previous 17 meetings. They equaled their highest point total of the season Monday by scoring 117 in Toronto, but couldn't get anything going against a Knicks team that is allowing only 86 points per game since Woodson replaced D'Antoni on March 14.

"When we want to play, we're a great team. We just have to bring that effort every night," Howard said. "It should be frustrating for everybody. We just have to step up and play the right way. When we don't, we have games like this."

The Knicks used a 12-0 run to take a 52-38 lead on Shumpert's layup with 1:20 remaining in the first half. The Knicks took a 57-41 lead into the break on Steve Novak's 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Novak scored 16 points, and fellow reserve JR Smith had 12.

Notes: Magic F Glen Davis was fined $35,000 by the NBA on Wednesday for making an obscene gesture during the second quarter Monday at Toronto. ... The Knicks' previous best this season was 17 straight points against Dallas on Feb. 19. ... Wednesday was the 17th anniversary of Michael Jordan's famed "Double Nickel" game at Madison Square Garden, when he scored 55 points in his first game back at the arena following his first retirement in a 113-111 Chicago victory.

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iPhoto (for iPad)

There's no shortage of photo-editing apps for iOS, many of them well-suited to the larger (and now retinal) screen of the iPad. A good example is Snapseed ($4.99, 4.5 stars), which Apple awarded Best iPad App of 2011 in its iTunes App Store Rewind 2011, and Photoshop Touch, from the world's preeminent image software house, Adobe. But when Apple itself puts out a competing photo-editing app, and especially one named for its beloved Mac staple, watch out. iPhoto is a marvel of interface design, and it offers some stunning editing and enhancing tools. It also introduces appealing new ways to share your photos.

At a very affordable $4.99 in the iTunes App Store, iPhoto for iPad (it's actually a "universal" iOS app, meaning it also runs on iPhones) equals Snapseed in price, while Photoshop Touch runs twice that, at $9.99. The latter is something of a different animal, an image-editing powerhouse able to accomplish some of the magic found in desktop Photoshop, like content-aware fill. Snapseed can't match iPhoto for beauty of interface or organizational tools, but it can do more in the way of subtle image editing and embellishing.

iPhoto's remarkable user interface features multitouch gestures for photo correction, brushes for applying effects onto specific areas of a photo. The app also adds the notion of "Journals" for creating attractive photo collections that can be shared on iCloud. Some nifty organization tools include the ability to identify similar photos with a double-tap, as well as to flag, favorite, or remove images. As with any good photo editor, iPhoto for iPad offers a simple button that takes you right back to your original image view.

Getting Started with iPhoto for iPad
The first thing you need to know is that you have to update your iPad's firmware to iOS 5.1 if you haven't already done so. You'll want to do that anyway, since, among other goodies, the 5.1 update lets you delete Photo Stream photos and use speech input in the keyboard. It also brings a new Camera app, fixes sound in TV shows and movies played on the iPad, and fixes some battery-draining bugs.

Interface
The home screen in iPhoto for iPad shows four tabs along the top: Albums, Photos, Events, and Journals. Tapping into any of these except for Journals, takes you to an individual photo page, and a grid icon displays thumbnails of all the photos in the album along the left (you can switch between one, two, or three columns for this, or move it to the right). As with Snapseed, a question mark button is always present, to show you overlays that explain what all the controls on the screen do, or bring up help. Next to this, an undo arrow lets you backtrack at any time, but the redo option is fairly well hidden: it appears under the Undo icon if you hold it down after an undo. A helpful button at top right lets you quickly view the original image after any amount of edits. A nearby "i" info icon shows camera, size, and date for the present photo (but unfortunately, not the file name).

Once you're in a photo page, you can tap the Edit button at top-right for a slew of options. Along the bottom left, icons access crop and straighten, exposure, color, brushes, and effects. In the middle are your Auto-Enhance (which worked fairly well for me except on difficult exposures), Rotate 90 degrees, Flag, Favorite, and an X for Hide. I would have preferred to see more than one auto option, however, with different options separated out for brightness, color, and so on.

Adjusting brightness and contrast is handled in a way that's innovative for the touch interface. A bar along the bottom represents the image from its darkest to lightest tones, and you can either tap on the picture and swipe up or down to increase or decrease brightness, and right or left to do the same for contrast. The Apple-award-winning Snapseed for iPad uses a similar swiping approach, but both have the drawback of not letting you zoom while in this adjustment mode. Alternatively, you can slide points on the bar at the bottom that correspond to the darkest and brightest points, or to points along the bar that indicate contrast. So moving the leftmost end of the bar can make a photo darker than its darkest value, and the same goes for brightness on the right. It's sort of a histogram without the graph.

The artist's palette icon offers the five adjusters shown along the bottom?saturation, blue skies, greenery, skin tones, and white balance. Just swipe up or down to increase or decrease each adjustment. Occasionally, it would mistake some non-human object for having skin color, but if you place your finger on sky blue, the option changes to darken or brighten the intensity of the sky?a nice trick. You can choose standard white balance settings like sun, clouds, or flash, but you can also set a custom white balance based on a person's skin in the photo or a neutral tone in the photo. One problem I had with this tool, though, was that I couldn't pick up my finger and swipe again to increase or decrease the effect, as I could in Snapseed's similar tools.

Cropping and straightening is also cleverly implemented. You can pinch and zoom within a set crop frame, or resize the frame with or without preserving aspect ratio. But neatest of all is the ability to level by holding the iPad at an angle after tapping on the compass-like control below the photo. This takes advantage of the device's accelerometer. You can also just twist two fingers on the photo (the way most people will probably do it).

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DIGITS LLC Promotes Kyle Cavalieri to Management Committee

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Buffalo, N.Y. ? March 23, 2012. ?DIGITS LLC, an internationally recognized firm specializing in computer forensics and digital investigations, appoints Kyle Cavalieri to the Management Committee.? Kyle is the Manager of Computer Forensics and Investigations.

Kyle has been an integral component and project manager for numerous complex and high profile investigations involving computer and network intrusions, theft of intellectual property, financial fraud, whistle-blower allegations, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations.? Kyle has provided expert reports for cases pending before state, federal, and international tribunals.? Kyle also has expert testimony experience within the state of New York.? On several occasions, he has provided forensic expertise to federal law enforcement officials.

?We are honored to promote Kyle to the Management Committee at DIGITS LLC,? said DIGITS LLC President/CEO Michael McCartney.? ?Kyle has been a valuable partner in executing on key strategic business opportunities.? His extensive experience in forensic investigations and corporate consulting and governance aligns him well with Management?s vision and goals at DIGITS LLC.?

Kyle is credentialed as a Certified Computer Examiner (CCE) through the International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners.? He is also an EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE) through Guidance Software.? Kyle is a current member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), and International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners (ISFCE).

Kyle has attended numerous training sessions including, SANS Advanced Computer Forensics and Incident Response, Guidance Software?s Forensic Investigation classes, and the deployment, collection, preservation, analysis, and production sections of EnCase Enterprise and e-Discovery.? Kyle holds a Bachelors of Science in Economic Crime Investigation with a concentration in Computer Security from Hilbert College, in Hamburg, New York.? He has worked in the Information Technology field for over six years and is always interested in learning about new technology and how it can better assist him to provide solutions to clients.

About DIGITS LLC ? With offices in Buffalo and in West Seneca, NY, our core business is designed to help our clients take full advantage of today?s information technologies while guarding against the ever-changing threats posed by those very technologies. DIGITS was founded in 2006 to fill the need in the legal and corporate communities for highly skilled computer forensic and data recovery services, corporate computer investigations, litigation support services, network security advisory services, and general computer consulting services.? DIGITS LLC officers have over 115 years of combined law enforcement experience in Computer Forensics and advanced technology investigations.? When there is everything to lose.? Innovators of Forensic Solutions.? We dig deep into the data to get to the truth.

For more information, please visit the firm?s website at http://www.digitsllc.com.

Contact ? James Domres, COO, 716-989-1252

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Senegal's Sall defeats former mentor to win presidency

Macky Sall's political career appeared to have peaked under Abdoulaye Wade, where after serving as prime minister he fell from favour. On Sunday however, he replaced his former mentor as president.

Results were barely out on Sunday when a few hours after polls closed, Wade phoned his former protege to congratulate him on his win, as exit polls showed his overwhelming lead.

Whereas Wade had spent 25 years as an opposition leader before finally winning the presidency, Sall won the country's top political prize at his first attempt.

There was a time when Sall, 50, was widely tipped to get there under Wade's patronage: many observers thought he was being groomed to succeed the veteran leader.

But after a spectacular rise during which he occupied several ministerial portfolios before becoming prime minister, he fell from grace, quit the party and struck out on his own.

In the February 26 first round of the presidential election, a crowded field of opposition candidates led to fears in some quarters that Wade would be able to win outright victory because of the divided competition.

Sall did enough to ensure both that Wade would not win outright -- as the president had predicted he would -- and that it would be he who faced him in the second-round run-off.

Although Wade led in the first round, the combined weight of the opposition vote favoured Sall -- provided, of course, he could win their support.

Between the two rounds Sall won the backing of his former rivals, for more than anything, the opposition wanted the 85-year-old president out of office.

Sall was born to a modest family in the western city of Fatick, to a civil servant father and a mother who sold groundnuts.

He graduated from Dakar's Cheikh Anta Diop University with a degree in geology, before heading to France to further his education in the field.

His father was a dedicated member of the Socialist Party which had been in power since independence, but Sall says he quickly became disgusted with its misrule, joining the opposition in 1983.

Sall was at Wade's side when he finally unseated the socialists in the 2000 elections. A year later, the new president appointed him mining minister.

In 2003 he became minister of territorial administration and government spokesman before taking up the office of prime minister a year later.

Sall led his mentor's election campaign in 2007, but lost his spot as prime minister in the cabinet shortly afterward, though he went on to be elected speaker of the National Assembly.

It was here that he would make what he says on his website was perceived as a "heavy political mistake": he failed to inform Wade that parliament was summoning his son Karim for questioning.

Karim Wade, the head of a national agency carrying out massive infrastructure projects ahead of a summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, faced allegations of improper financing.

Sall paid dearly for his mistake.

Lawmakers promptly drew up a law reducing the mandate of the national assembly speaker from five years to one, prompting him to resign.

He went on to create his liberal Republican Alliance, under which he was elected mayor of Fatick in 2009 -- a year the opposition claimed several large towns in legislative polls as dissatisfaction with Wade grew.

A tall, plump man, Sall is nicknamed "Niangal" in the local Wolof language, referring to his closed, austere expression, while he comes across as naive.

But his entourage says appearances are deceiving.

"He is not as docile as he seems," said El Hadji Wack Ly, a lawmaker with Wade's ruling Senegalese Democratic Party.

"He is a firm man who keeps his word."

In an interview with AFP this week Sall said that if elected, "several emergencies" loomed.

These include a "dramatic public finance situation" as well as a food crisis in the north where some 800,000 Senegalese are going hungry due to a drought gripping the Sahel.

Sall wants to half the size of the government -- a cut of some 20 ministers -- reduce Senegal's diplomatic representation abroad and use the savings to lower the prices of basic goods.

After years of complaints over the mismanagement of public finances, observers have said Wade fears he or members of his family could face prosecution if they ever lose power.

"Senegal is a democracy after all, with rules and laws," said Sall, when asked about future implications for Wade should he lose.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senegals-sall-defeats-former-mentor-win-presidency-231840161.html

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About MYOB ? Mind Your Own Business Accounting Software ...

If you are looking for accounting software for small to medium sized businesses, you have several options to choose from.

MYOB has a large market share in the Australian, New Zealand and United Kingdom markets and now has successfully moved into the U.S.A market also. MYOB has several products available to cater for the size and requirements of your business. Part of the product family includes:

o Business Basics

o Accounting

o Accounting Plus with Payroll

o Premier

o Payroll

o Account Edge (for Mac users only)

to name a few.

MYOB Business Basics software has been designed for businesses that want to record and print sales invoices, keep a card file of the people they sell to and purchase from, and do regular bank reconciliations from their bank statements.

MYOB Accounting software is a step up from Business Basics and has the added features such as recording purchases /creditors with the relevant aging reports, recording inventory as stock or as a purchase to on sell, being able to link to Microsoft Office such as Word or Excel, where you are able to send out letters or notifications to your creditors or work in excel using the spreadsheet option to change figures, add formats, etc. There are 100+ reports available in MYOB Accounting as opposed to Business Basics where there are 70 reports.

Stepping up from MYOB Accounting is MYOB Accounting Plus. This software package includes the added features of Payroll and Time Billing. Payroll obviously is for businesses that have employees and want to be compliant with salary and wages legislation and Time Billing is for businesses that charge for their time. This could include professions such as lawyers, consultants, accountants but can also include service industries such as plumbers, electricians etc. The reports available with this program are 140+.

MYOB Premier is the next step up. This program has all of the above with added features such as the ability to use multiple currencies. This is especially helpful if you have foreign currency accounts and are involved in the export / import market. MYOB converts foreign currency into your local currency for accounting purposes. MYOB Premier also allows you to have multiple users. This allows you to have more than one person at any given time being able to access the common data file and use it simultaneously. Reports availability is 165+.

Payroll can be purchased on its own if you chose to use another form of accounting software but still need to maintain employees on salary and / or wages.

Account Edge for Mac only is the equivalent of MYOB Premier and includes all of the same features except Payroll.

To chose what product best suits your business, you need to list down what features you need and then download the appropriate product from your MYOB site and use the trial period to ensure it suits your needs.? Learn more about?MYOB Versions?here.

Do you want to learn more about MYOB Accounting Software then visit http://www.onlinemyobtraining.com

Sonya McLaughlan is a specialized trainer and coach for MYOB with over 10 years experience and has taught hundreds of MYOB users how to make their MYOB experience easier and more efficient.

Source: http://foryuren.com/about-myob-mind-your-own-business-accounting-software/

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NCAA Tournament: 16 remain, with some 'Sweet' matchups

A selective preview of some of the more intriguing matchups in the so-called 'Sweet 16' - the round of sixteen remaining teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament?-?taking place on Thursday, March 22 and Friday, March 23.

Wisconsin?versus Syracuse: Thursday, 7:15 p.m. Eastern, East Region, Boston.

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Syracuse has been nothing if not resilient throughout this season. Jim Boeheim?s Orangemen have endured both scandals and injuries to achieve thirty wins and defy predictions that they?d be in the Sweet 16 at all. Even without standout Fab Melo, Syracuse has achieved a balanced offensive attack anchored by point guard Scoop Jardine. Jardine, originally from South Philadelphia, came to Syracuse with exceptional talent, but also a work ethic needing considerable improvement. Boeheim has praised Jardine?s leadership and how very hard he?s worked this year to assume his leadership position with the team. He?s a major reason why Syracuse, despite the dour predictions at the beginning of the NCAA tournament, has righted itself after a scare in their opening East regional game against UNC Asheville.

Bo Ryan?s fourth-seeded Wisconsin Badgers have had a less linear path to the tournament. They?re currently ranked 23^rd nationally, with a 7-7 record against the RPI top 50 teams. And last week, they just barely eked past a talented Vanderbilt squad that pushed them the entire forty minutes. But Wisconsin?s a strong outside shooting team that works the post equally hard. Syracuse will likely try and diffuse the Badgers? inside game with their 2-3 zone which has been very effective this year; but against a Wisconsin team that?s patient with the ball and can hit threes, this will be a very close game. The edge should go to No. 1 seed Syracuse.

Indiana?versus Kentucky: Friday, 9:45 p.m. Eastern, South Region, Atlanta.

This matchup features another four versus one seed matchup. The Kentucky Wildcats have everything going for them. They?re healthy, they have arguably one of the best big men to appear in the NCAA in a generation in center Anthony Davis, and are exceedingly well-coached by John Calipari, who?s won 77% of games in his career, and is the only coach in NCAA history to take three one-seeded programs to the NCAA tournament (the others being the University of Massachusetts and Memphis).

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Angry Birds Space billed as an educational tool. Really?

Launched Thursday, Angry Birds Space, the latest installment to the wildly popular Angry Birds video game franchise, is being billed as a tool for educating people about physics. How scientifically accurate is the physics in the game?

With over 700 million downloads,?the first Angry Birds game is a testament to the appeal of simplicity. The much-anticipated sequel, Angry Birds Space, which launched on Thursday, looks just as simple, and as freakishly enjoyable.?

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But there is one big difference between the original and its high-flying sequel: Angry Birds Space is being billed?as a tool for educating people about physics.

The original Angry Birds allows players to slingshot a variety of ornery avians at oblate green pigs. The pigs have absconded with birds' eggs, hence their anger.

Angry Birds Space incorporates an element of interplanetary gravity. The developers collaborated with NASA to "teach people about physics and space exploration through the internationally successful puzzle game," according to NASA's recent press release.

Peter Vesterbacka, the chief marketing officer of Rovio, which made the game, said in the release that the company couldn't "wait to work with [NASA] on creating more compelling educational experiences."

NASA and Rovio aren't the only organizations touting Angry Birds Space as an educational tool. The Examiner, InformationWeek, and other media outlets have described the game in much the same way.

But is that really true? Is there any educational value in Angry Birds Space??

Before we explore this question, though, let's admit that Angry Birds Space is a game, foremost, and a fun one at that. Perhaps there doesn't have to be any more of a justification to play it, and maybe the excuse of educational value is?unnecessary.

And let's give credit where it's due. The claim that the new game appropriates the concept of microgravity ? the kind of low gravity that affects objects in orbit, like at the International Space Station ? is pretty much true. Also, the game illustrates how objects ? in this case, the birds ? launched in a straight line will curve their trajectories in the presence of massive bodies. So far, so good.?

But when you add audible TNT detonations in space, plants subsisting without carbon dioxide on otherwise forlorn moons, an inexplicable presence of wood and concrete, and the stormy purple vortex at the stroyline's beginning, the educational value of the game falls off dramatically.

The game exhibits more serious problems too, namely, physical impossibilities. Rhett Allain, Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University and Blogger for wired.com, pointed some of these out.

In the game, the slung birds enter the gravitational fields of tiny pocked moons and plummet toward them. According to Newton's Law of Gravitation, the moons must be extremely massive in order for the birds to move as fast as they do. But the moons aren't all that much larger than the birds themselves. This means that they would have to be extremely dense. Allain calculates one moon's density to be about 7 billion kg/m³ , closer to the density of a white dwarf than that of a moon.

Also, if the moons had real gravity, then all objects caught in their fields ? which in the game are portrayed as glowing pellucid disks ? would accelerate towards the surface. It's hard to say if the birds follow this law, since they go through so many other inexplicable motions. But the debris they collide with clearly do not. Allain demonstrated that in the game, rocks actually slow down during their free-fall to the moons' surfaces.

And why are those moons sitting still, exactly? In space, they would not only gravitationally interact with the wayward birds, but also with each other. If intentional, it was clever for the developers of Angry Birds Space to?lock the moons in place. The conundrum of three or more bodies gravitating towards one another still perplexes physicists. They call it the n-body problem. Obviously, n-body gravitation occurs, but we have no way to theoretically explain it. Even the current models that can approximate this motion are astoundingly math-intensive.?

Criticizing an extremely fun and successful video game for its inaccuracy is easy, if not curmudgeonly. But if you're going to look to Angry Birds Space for educational value, you should know that its physics is about as accurate as its ornithology.?

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/KE7MwXuNVck/Angry-Birds-Space-billed-as-an-educational-tool.-Really

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Not Chinese enough in China? Americans' dilemma

Brittany Tom

A shopper at an Adidas outlet in Beijing prepares to buy a souvenir Jeremy Lin T-shirt.

By Adrienne Mong

BEIJING ? Asian-Americans continue to be the fastest growing ethnic population in the U.S., according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released on Wednesday.

The data, which come weeks ahead of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in May, also demonstrates how integral a part of the American fabric Asians have been.?As many as 1.5 million businesses in the U.S. are owned by Asians. More than a quarter million have served in the U.S. military.?And nearly half of the Asian-American electorate voted in the 2008 presidential election.

And yet while generations of Asians have integrated into American society, a small but growing number of the 3.8 million Asian-Americans of Chinese descent are finding themselves in mainland China to study or to work.

Especially since the 2008 global economic crisis, many ethnic Chinese are seeking economic opportunities in China as emigrants. Almost all are also motivated by cultural heritage interests.

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At the same time, Jeremy Lin's popularity has reignited discussions about identity among Chinese-Americans that are unlikely to wane as quickly as Linsanity.

A cupcake shop, a brewery and a barbecue restaurant are just three of a growing number of small businesses started by Americans in China. Rock Center travels to Beijing to see how some are pursuing their entrepreneur dreams in another country.

One writer for the sports website Grantland hit on the issue during the height of Lin hype last month: "These have been a revealing two weeks, not only for the Asian-American community or the Ivy League basketball community or the talent evaluator committee, but also for the watchdogs, handwringers, and pulpit-thumpers. Not since Barack Obama's presidential campaign has there been so much national discussion about the appropriateness of discussing race."

And in China, where many American-born Chinese have gravitated over the past few years, race and nationality intersect in interesting, sometimes confusing, ways.

Brittney Wong feels "even less Chinese" in China than she expected.

"I realized how American I am," said the 23-year old Seattle native, who?recently arrived in Beijing for a year-long intensive Chinese language course. "Which is strange, because I just assumed I would just blend in perfectly here."

Cultural disconnect
But in trying to befriend local Chinese, Wong came to see that "learning about their experiences in high school and their lives, how they lived so far, [are] so different from my experiences.?Even their personalities."

The cultural disconnect is compelling enough to have provided some inspiration for a new feature-length film.

Daniel Hsia is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker who has just wrapped up production for "Shanghai Calling," a movie about American expats in Shanghai.?"The world is turning on its head. Expectations are being reversed all the time," said Hsia.

In the movie, the main protagonist is a Chinese-American executive whose employer sends him to Shanghai.?"I thought it would be more interesting to have the character [be] of Chinese descent but completely ignorant of Chinese culture. It just creates more conflict.?It's more interesting to watch a character who looks like he fits in but doesn't."

Sometimes the cross-culture experience makes people feel even more American.

"In many ways, being in China has caused me to have a strong appreciation for just how American I am," said Jason Chu, a 25-year old Delaware native.?"It has helped me come to terms or embrace the positive aspects of being distinctly Asian-American."

Chu is wrapping up two years in Beijing, where he has been dividing his time between serving as a pastor and writing music.?The child of ethnic Chinese parents from Malaysia and Thailand, he grew up speaking English and began learning Chinese in college in the U.S.?

Novelist Gish Jen discusses the sometimes complicated relationship between native Chinese and Chinese Americans with NBC's Adrienne Mong.

Speaking fluent Chinese, Chu has found, is perhaps the most critical determinant of authenticity.?"There is this sort of disappointment that many Chinese-Americans are familiar with, where if you look Chinese or people know you're Chinese and your Chinese language isn't good, you're less of a person," he said.

Writer Gish Jen, on a recent trip to Beijing, recalled similar reactions when she first visited the mainland in the 1980s.

"In the early days, I used to feel they were quite critical," said the novelist, one of a handful of hyphenated American novelists who led the multicultural wave of fiction in the U.S. in the early 1990s.?"They saw me as a sort of fallen Chinese? You don't even speak Chinese, what's the matter with you."

Asian body with a Western mind
Although Jen believes mainstream Chinese attitudes toward overseas Chinese such as herself have improved, she thinks many still fail to understand what it means to be American.

"I don't think they understand what it means to be in between [China and the U.S.]," she explained.

The Chinese "don't distinguish between nationality and ethnicity," said Chu.?"They don't understand that it's possible to have an Asian body but a Western mind."

That seemed to be the case when U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke arrived on the mainland last year. Some Chinese media commentators and bloggers voiced expectations that Locke, an ethnic Chinese born in the U.S., would be more sympathetic to Beijing's point of view. When it became clear that he was here to represent America, some of those same voices accused him of betrayal. One critic called him a "fake foreign devil who cannot even speak Chinese."

For Chinese-Americans like Chu, being in China means more about being American and behaving more overtly like an American.?"I dress more differently [than the Chinese here]," he said.?"I over-emphasize my foreignness."

Sense of apartness
Similarly, Toronto native Lili Gao thinks living in China has brought out a sense of apartness that she said she never experienced growing up in Canada.

"I never had any cultural identity issues in Canada. I speak Chinese, but I'm Canadian,"?said Gao, who was born in Shanxi before moving to Canada when she was 6 years old.?"But then, coming back here, I realized I really was not Chinese.?That was an interesting experience to have a clearer idea of identity."

As with many other Westernized Chinese, Gao found the issue of identity to be rooted in communication.? Although she speaks fluent Mandarin, the young marketing executive said that social culture was a large hurdle.?

"I couldn't possibly get used to it?the way people interact [here,]" she said.?"The Chinese have a different way of communicating" that is not simply about language.

Now, having lived in Beijing for five years and working at Chinese companies, Gao finds herself "over-interpreting all the time, even when I'm communicating with foreigners!"

For someone like Jonny Chin, an 18-year-old senior at an international school in Beijing, it's simply that his American identity is much stronger.?Even though he was only?6 years old when his parents, originally from Hong Kong, moved the family to China from San Francisco ? meaning he has spent two-thirds of his life in Beijing.

"I still refer to America as home," he said.?"Like when I say I'm 'going home' for Christmas.?And when people ask, 'Where are you from?' I say I'm from the U.S."

With additional research from Brittany Tom and Isabella Zhong?

Source: http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/23/10644657-not-chinese-enough-in-china-chinese-americans-caught-between-2-worlds

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FIA insists Mercedes rear wing is legal - Autosport.com

By Jonathan Noble

Thursday, March 22nd 2012, 10:10 GMT

Lotus and Red Bull Racing's complaints that the DRS-activated F-duct on the Mercedes rear wing is illegal have been rejected by the FIA, AUTOSPORT has learned.

The two outfits wanted clarification on the matter ahead of this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix, with both teams reckoning the duct that helps stall the Mercedes wings for a straight-line speed boost is a breach of the rules that prevents driver activated aerodynamic devices.

Discussions between the FIA and all the teams involved have taken place throughout Thursday in the Sepang paddock, but the governing body has not changed its stance on the matter.

The FIA informed the outfits that it remains convinced that the concept is legal because it is passive, and there is nothing in the rules that outlaws a device that is activated by movement of the DRS.

FIA race director Charlie Whiting, who is head of the F1 technical department, said in Australia last weekend: "It is completely passive. There are no moving parts in it; it doesn't interact with any suspension. No steering, nothing. Therefore I cannot see a rule that prohibits it."

The news means that Red Bull Racing and Lotus - the two teams most unhappy about the design ? must now choose to either challenge the matter with an official protest in Malaysia this weekend, or go ahead and develop a similar system themselves.

Mercedes-Benz motorsport boss Norbert Haug confirmed that his team's car would be unchanged from how it was in the Australian Grand Prix.

"This car passed scrutineering and got the green light," he said in Malaysia.

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Prayers for Our Pets: Message from Bonnie, Giacomo the Cat's Owner

I just wanted to let you know that I think about your site often and all the good that you've created with prayers for pets..and i continue to pray for the pets..I love reading the good news too-- thank you for all your posts.. They go such a long way for people going through terrible things and for the people praying..it's just wonderful to see the good news posts and to feel like you're doing something to help when you get to say a prayer for someone going through something with their loving pet.

Giacomo the cat is doing great... I'll comment more prayers..To lend more support:) and I will NEVER forget your kindness and the kindness of your followers and fellow prayer warriors.

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USPS launches small businesses product ... - Direct Marketing News

The U.S. Postal Service will launch later this month an integrated media campaign to promote its Web-based service Every Door Direct Mail, a free suite of mailing and shipping services for small businesses available over the Web, said Patricia Licata, senior PR representative at USPS. USPS also re-designed its online shipping tool Click-N-Ship and said a Click-N-Ship for Business product will be available mid-April.

USPS's awareness campaign for Every Door Direct Mail, developed by its AOR Campbell Ewald, will include television ads shown throughout the summer as well as print ads and mail flyers.

?We want to raise awareness among small businesses about the benefits of direct mail and how easy and affordable it is to use,? Licata said.

Launched for rural areas in April of last year and expanded months later to encompass urban areas, Every Door Direct Mail allows small businesses to distribute mailings by neighborhood, ZIP code or city, in lieu of an address list. Leveraging USPS's delivery statistics, small businesses can decide which geographic area to target based on the number of active deliveries per route. The mailing process, from determining where mailings should be distributed to generating facing slips, can be handled online. Customers drop their mailings and packages off at the post office and pay only for the postage they use.?

Paul Vogel, USPS's CMO, said during a March 20 press conference that Every Door Direct Mail had generated $153 million in revenue from its April inception through December. USPS's target is $1 billion by 2016.

The USPS also re-designed and re-launched its Click-N-Ship website, adding a ?Ship Again? feature that allows users to leverage shipping history to quickly recreate labels. Other new features include increased Address Book capacity, from 3000 to 5000 addresses, the ability to save labels as PDF files, and easier access to Priority Mail Flat Rate Shipping.

In mid-April, USPS will launch Click-N-Ship for Business, targeting small- and medium-size businesses that require shipment of 10 to 100 pieces of daily mail. Features unique to Click-N-Ship for business are a downloadable desktop application and enhanced payment capabilities that include international shipments.

Source: http://www.dmnews.com/usps-launches-small-businesses-product-campaign/article/232941/

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Afghan shooting suspect called to duty repeatedly

TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - Robert Bales built a life around a call to arms. A call that emanated from the ashes of the World Trade Center in New York and took him to the mayhem of faraway Iraq and Afghanistan. A call he may have heard one time too many.

The 38-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant suspected of gunning down 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, had struggled to make financial ends meet and was disappointed at being sent back into a war zone for a fourth time rather than an easier posting in Germany or Hawaii.

Bales was a high school football star from Ohio who enlisted in the Army after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. He married Karilyn Primeau in 2005 and soon they moved into a four-bedroom house near a clear Seattle lake. The couple had two children, but Bales was absent for three tours in Iraq, where he was commended for valor. His wife, a public relations executive, blogged enthusiastically about their life.

Today, his family has the lake house on the market for less than they paid for it and a second home, with a mortgage larger than its market value, has been abandoned for two years, a red notice from the city warning it is uninhabitable.

Bales was denied a longed-for promotion to Sergeant First Class in March 2011. Then his family missed out on the adventure they felt they deserved - a posting in Europe or Hawaii - when Sergeant Bales was sent to a fourth tour abroad, in Afghanistan.

In Iraq, he was celebrated and proud of the heroism of U.S. troops. "We ended up helping the people that three or four hours ago were trying to kill us," he said in a 2009 Army publication describing the rescue of a downed helicopter that turned into a pitched battle, after which victorious U.S. troops gave aid to enemy casualties.

"That's the real difference between being an American as opposed to being a bad guy," he said.

But in Afghanistan something apparently went very wrong. Authorities believe he left a small camp of U.S. soldiers in the middle of the night Sunday, taking his rifle with him and massacring 16 civilians, mostly children, in two villages near Kandahar.

"Please keep (Staff Sergeant) Robert Bales in your prayers. I know his alleged crime is terrible, but he is not a terrible person. He's one of the best guys I've ever served with," Chris Alexander, an Army Captain who served in Iraq with Bales, said on his Facebook page shortly after Bales was identified as the shooting suspect.

MIDWEST TO MIDDLE EAST

Bales grew up in Ohio in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood. A football player, he made the All-Division II team as a lineman in 1990, according the Cincinnati Post.

Bales got a two-year associates degree, the Army says. He moved to Florida, where he and his brother were directors at a company called Spartina Investments Inc, state records show.

His life changed course when Manhattan's twin towers fell and the Pentagon was struck in the September 2001. Bales joined the army about two months later and was based at the Tacoma, Washington-area Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

Though he won multiple decorations during his Iraq tours, including the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the soldier had some brushes with the law back home.

In 2002, he was charged with criminal assault, but the court deferred the charge for six months after Bales completed 20 hours of anger management counseling and stayed out of trouble for six months, the Tacoma News-Tribune reported. The charge was dismissed in February 2003, court records show.

Later that year he shipped out to Iraq for the first time.

The News-Tribune also said Bales was cited for a misdemeanor in 2008 after police reported a man left the scene of a single car rollover. Bales later told police he had fallen asleep behind the wheel, the paper said. He received a deferred 12-month sentence and paid a $250 fine, it reported.

FAMILY TIES

The young soldier met his future wife, Karilyn Primeau, through an online dating service, his lawyer has said, and the Web is dabbed with their history, although access has been restricted to some personal sites.

An Amazon.com wish list for Kari Primeau, assembled in 2003 through the year of their marriage in 2005, has computer design manuals, books on cooking, courtship and pregnancy, and music from Dolly Parton to the synthetic pop of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. The new Mrs. Bales blogged prolifically, including a "Babybales" tale of her pregnancy and childraising seen by Reuters.

"Yesterday as I was driving down the road, after dropping Bob off to leave for Iraq, I thought I felt the baby move for the first time," she wrote in 2006.

Years later, in a blog cited by The New York Times, she described the frustration of Bales being passed over for promotion and her response: a wish list of postings, starting with "Germany (best adventure opportunity!), Italy (2nd best adventure opp)" and "Hawaii (nuff said)."

By this point, Bales had spent more than three years at war in three tours in Iraq, losing part of his foot and suffering a head injury in two separate incidents. His lawyer, Seattle attorney John Henry Browne - who made his name defending serial killer Ted Bundy - said the family had been told he was done with fighting. But last December he was sent to Afghanistan.

"He and his family were told that his tours in the Middle East were over," Browne said. "Literally overnight that changed. So I think it would be fair to say that he and the family were not happy that he was going back."

More than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan has turned multiple deployments into a way of life for many soldiers. Some veterans advocates say the strain is too much, but the Army says it screens troops physically and mentally before sending them back in harm's way.

The sergeant moved out to a small Afghan base with about 20 other troops early this year. Just over a week ago, he watched an explosion blow off one soldier's leg, his lawyer said. Early last Sunday, he gathered his rifle, moved out into the night, and began shooting, killing nine children among 16 dead, authorities believe. Charges are expected in the next few weeks.

Bales' wife and two children are being sheltered by the Army at Lewis-McChord. Bales sits in solitary confinement Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Browne said he did not know whether alcohol was a factor, as has been reported, and told Reuters that post-traumatic stress disorder was likely to be part of the defense. Any suggestion of problems in the marriage was "nonsense," he added.

MONEY WORRIES

The couple's finances, though, gave cause for worry. Their large house near Lake Tapps is up for sale at $51,000 less than they paid for it in 2005, offering it for $229,000, Zillow showed. "Short Sale" announced a realty web site.

A second home in the city of Auburn, about 10 miles to the north of their Lake Tapps home, was purchased by Karilyn Bales, then Karilyn Primeau, in 1999 for $99,500 and was remortgaged for $178,500 in 2006. That is the house that neighbors say has been empty for two years and is posted "Do not occupy."

Edith Bouvette, 52, who knew the couple when they first lived there together, said she was shocked about Robert Bales.

"What I really remember is him in his uniform, his pants tucked inside of his boots," Bouvette said. "He was crisp, clean. Military -- and very polite military. When you talked to him it was 'Yes, Ma'am' - just a really, really nice guy, and it's just a terrible shame.

"I blame part of this on the military. They never should have sent him back for that fourth tour."

(Additional reporting by Laura Myers in Seattle and Sarah Gross in New York; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Jackie Frank)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/soldier-suspected-afghanistan-massacre-meet-lawyers-010636514.html

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