MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WTVA) — It’s a crime that you rarely see an arrest for because it’s not always easy to distinguish one person’s trash from another.

Now a closer investigation in Monroe County is what led to the arrests of four people for dumping garbage.

Down Central Grove Road in Nettleton you can find wheat fields as far as the eye can see. Recently, however, on a different note you may also see piles of garbage.

“Carpet padding, there’s carpet, old fans, chest of drawers that come out of a house,” said Monroe County Sheriff’s Department investigator Sgt. Rodney Starling.

Starling forgot to mention a couch, empty paint cans and well, any other small things you may chunk in your trash.

While an array of items were found at each dumping site ultimately it was personal mail which led authorities to the suspects.

“Found addresses to a residence and went to that residence,” he added.

When sheriff deputies made it to a house on Prospect Road they learned that the house had been foreclosed on. However, they caught a break when someone cleaning it out provided

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‘Shut Up You B****’ painted in big bold letters adorns the wall next to the girl’s hostel at Symbiosis Institute of Design, Viman Nagar. One cannot miss the irony of placement of these words in the middle of the bricked structure. Either someone is trying to make a statement or project a fragmented state of mind. From corners of city campuses emerge bizarre images and expressions that reflect and defy conformist culture.

Away from the madding traffic of Tilak Road, the campus of Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya seems like an island of peace. The walls, doors, ceilings, almirahs inside the chambers all form a dreary ambience. There are no students here, but they have left behind a mark. A chest of drawers with several coloured images akin to grafitti stands out here. In its backdrop is a huge, white, spray painted work. A half-completed sculpture of Goddess Durga stands in the corridor. For most of these students, it’s a sign of artistic freedom.  “When we begin work, this whole place becomes our laboratory,” says Seema Ramchandran, an alumnus of Abhinav Kala

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She woke up early as she usually did and was at her workplace in Gaborone North, where she works as a domestic worker. It was a little after 10 am, just as she was taking the laundry out of the washing machine, that the day changed into one she fears she can never recover from.  Around that time, she received a phone call from Mmamashia; officers from Kgatleng Land Board had arrived at the settlement with ‘yellow monsters’ and were razing her two-roomed house down to the ground.

“I almost died,” she tells The Monitor in an interview. In hindsight, she realises that it was probably better that she wasn’t there when her house, the first to be demolished in the operation, went down. ”Nkabo ke bolaile motho. I wouldn’t have stood by and allowed anybody to raze my house down, a house that I worked so hard for,” she says. She relates that on that Friday, her employers hurriedly drove her down to Mmamashia where she found the remnants of the house that she, her partner and her five children

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A former fraud squad detective today pleaded guilty to stealing more than $9000 from a black Prada purse that had been sitting on a chest of drawers during a raid on a suspect’s home.

Trevor Adair, 42, of Port Melbourne, admitted stealing the money from the bedroom of a Glen Waverley house.

The maximum penalty for the theft charge is two years’ jail.

The Melbourne Magistrates Court was told Adair, who had been a police officer for 22 years, entered the house in Nith Court with other fraud squad officers to execute a search warrant about 8am on January 17 this year.

He stole $9120 in $100 and $50 notes from the purse belonging to Julie Lim.

Lim told police her money had been stolen after Adair left the house and placed the cash in his backpack in the police car he had arrived in.

The police ethical standards department was contacted and the money was found in Adair’s backpack.

Defence lawyer John Kelly said Adair had had a blemish-free career with the police department before stealing the money.

Adair had been attached to the fraud squad for

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Marwan Tamari is the managing director of the Life Food Trading Company, a Jordan-based food import and export firm. Mr Tamari, who recently invested in a start-up tech business in the UAE, says it is his philanthropic work that gives him the most satisfaction

Describe your financial journey so far.

My family’s approach to business and money has strongly influenced my financial journey. My family has been in business and trading for many generations and my grandfather, father and uncles travelled across the Middle East, Africa and Asia carrying out their business. I grew up in a home filled with talks of business dealings, of meeting interesting businessmen and hearing exotic stories of faraway lands. I learnt from an early age about the importance of respect, of being humble, of keeping your word and sticking to an agreement, even if a more profitable opportunity presented itself after the agreement had been made. From as far back as I can remember, money was always available – there was a chest of drawers that contained 100 Lebanese pound [Dh0.24 at today's rate] coins and

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By MEENAL MISTRY

©John Vaughan, SF A Certain Style

1970s decorator John Dickinson’s San Francisco home with his iconic paw-footed table.

Last summer, decorator Michael Smith called artist Stephen Antonson with an unusual commission: a pair of Queen Anne side tables, entirely coated in unfinished white plaster. “There’s something very clean and American about them, but then you have those great Queen Anne lines,” said Antonson recently, on the phone from his Brooklyn studio. “I was inspired by the work of John Dickinson,” says Smith. “I’ve been really into his work lately. And I’ve always loved the design of New England tea tables.” An unlikely pairing, perhaps, but, says Smith, “plaster has the ability to blend nicely into any design scheme.”

Let’s get it out of the way: Plaster is old. Ancient, even. It goes back to Mesopotamia and wends its way through history

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National Folk Museum exhibition features wooden furniture from Joseon period

Renowned artist Kim Hwan-ki was known for his attachment to Korea’s traditional wooden furniture.

An avid collector of the wooden pieces, he often used them as the subjects of his famous paintings. A 1956 piece features simple wooden shelves filled with white porcelain jars of different shapes.

A special exhibition hosted by the National Folk Museum of Korea introduces the world of Joseon wooden furniture and its distinctive charm that inspired many like Kim.

The show, titled “Korean Furniture: Sensitivity and Lines,” features some 60 pieces of wooden furniture, most of them from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897). All of the pieces ― ranging from a simple desk to a chest of drawers ― are from the collection of the museum.

“We purchased most of the pieces featured in this exhibition after 2004,” said curator Kim Hee-soo.

“The pieces were used by ‘yangban,’ or the literati, during the Joseon period.”

The exhibition is divided into four parts. The first part showcases a recreation of a Joseon household in a traditional hanok, from its “sarangbang,” the

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The Irish Times – Saturday, May 26, 2012On trial: Sandip Mooneea (left) and Avinash Treebhoowoon at the Supreme Court in Port Louis, Mauritius. They are accused of the murder of Michaela McAreavey. Photographs: Paul Faith/ PA Wire

RUADHÁN MAC CORMAIC in Port Louis, Mauritius

The trial of two men for the murder of Michaela McAreavey is proceeding slowly, with occasional heated moments, such as yesterday’s attempt to examine the victim’s private life

THE COLONIAL-ERA COURTS building in the heart of Port Louis is just half-an-hour’s drive from the Lux Hotel, on the island’s north-east coast, but you could scarcely find two more divergent versions of modern Mauritius. Port Louis, the bustling capital, is a crowded, gritty, traffic-choked commercial hub.

Just 30 km away is Grand Gaube, the tiny fishing village adjacent to the Lux Hotel, formerly Legends, where Michaela McAreavey was murdered. Occupying a wide patch of coastal land looking onto a still azure lagoon, the hotel is surrounded by lush, immaculate gardens and the grounds dotted with palm trees.

The lines between these two worlds are more porous

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With winter fast approaching, there’s nothing more luxurious than retreating to a beautiful, relaxing and comfortable bedroom. We ask the experts the key ingredients for creating a dreamy boudoir.

DESIGN:

Interior stylist Simone Gillespie, of Essence Interiors and Artique Homes, says it is important to keep the size of your bed in scale with the room.

“King beds are for big rooms only so don’t squash one in if it’s too big or clutter up with more furniture than is needed,” she says.

Interior designer Lisa Ausden, of Venina Interiors, advises having no more than three statement pieces in a bedroom.

THE BED:

In the market for a new bed? Ms Ausden says padded fabric bedheads are a big trend and are fairly inexpensive to DIY.

“All you need is wadding, an 8mm-thick MDF board, staple gun and fabric – cut velvet is good,” she says.

“You simply cut the board to your desired shape, place the wadding all over the board and stretch the fabric over and fix with a staple gun.

“Add personality with buttons or trimming if you like – the best thing is it

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A carpet cleaner caught on a hidden camera performing an indecent act has become “enemy number one” to his peers who claim he has given the profession a bad name.

The tradesman, who has been charged with burglary and wilfully accessing a computer, was caught in a sting on TV3′s Target.

The programme shows him going through the homeowner’s chest of drawers, laundry baskets and sniffing multiple pairs of a woman’s underwear.

He was also seen performing an indecent act into underwear while watching porn on the client’s computer before returning the underwear to the laundry basket.

The man was shown returning twice more to the computer screen until he was apparently spooked by something and got up.

The man’s employer fired him immediately and said he was “disgusted and shocked at the uncouth antics”.

The tradesman and the company he worked for have not been named.

Kathryn Lee, group business manager for JAE cleaners, said the incident was unfortunate “because it makes people question

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