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Attorney General Eric Holder wants Eric Snowden to come home

3:23 PM Tukiyooo 0

<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Come home sir you can trust the U.S.A.</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyYY4hdMmTK-vwzS17xJvzXlafcfslgDaVFuZ7F8FqIuP3ca2TvnyLxfeMXN3Lknjp6aT9lIXx2BK2elcO3aZzQ5aqV53Pt-zs_T9EdGxheN04NM1YGYm8j-wM4gW1xKC2zi48SNkwNzw/s1600/SnowdenHolderPIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyYY4hdMmTK-vwzS17xJvzXlafcfslgDaVFuZ7F8FqIuP3ca2TvnyLxfeMXN3Lknjp6aT9lIXx2BK2elcO3aZzQ5aqV53Pt-zs_T9EdGxheN04NM1YGYm8j-wM4gW1xKC2zi48SNkwNzw/s1600/SnowdenHolderPIC.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Are we the people really safe in the U.S.A.?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><i>Dear Mr. Snowden:</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>You can trust U.S. because you have your rights according the U.S. Constitution and Bill Of Rights.  We in the Obama Administration took an OATH OF OFFFICE to uphold those rights and preserve, protect, and defend them from all enemies both foreign and domestic.  Why would we seek to kill you?  We honor the unalienable rights of we the people.  Come home now and trust us.  </i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Sincerely,</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Attorney General Eric Holder</i></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We're from the government; you can trust us</span> </b></div><br /><b>If Snowden comes home the only right he'll be given is THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT.  After they give you THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT then you are REQUIRED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS or you would be charged with OBSTRUCTING.  Sound familiar?  Does anyone really know your rights?<i> </i></b><br /><br />\<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/A2QjuBPDodk?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe>

Attorney General Eric Holder wants Eric Snowden to come home

Come home sir you can trust the U.S.A. Are we the people really safe in the U.S.A.? Dear Mr. Snowden: You can trust U.S. because you have yo...

GOLD rises and disconnects from SILVER intraday

3:05 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>An unusual TECHNICAL ANALYSIS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">GOLD prices today rallied after an overnight low of $1,231.57 hitting a high of the day at $1265.48 and holding steadily higher while SILVER which overnight hit a low of $19.65 broke out above $20.00 to $20.31 but is now back below $20.00 and weakening.  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What does this mean for GOLD?  Some say the metal may be on its way for a move above $1,300 based on a STRENGTHENING EURO DOLLAR and also a STRONGER JAPANESE YEN as analysts are gauging signs of economic recovery from Europe to Asia while the U.S.A. remains in question due to runaway debt and concerns rising against the U.S. DOLLAR's world reserve currency status.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">NOTICE THE CHARTS below as GOLD holds strong.  This will be monitored very closely as additional concerns are rising on PHYSICAL GOLD being in short supply in U.S. RESERVES:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>NOTICE the STRONG EURO here today.  CHARTS BELOW are CURRENT and so are subject to change when REFRESHED:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=6E&cot=099741&p=m5" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>JAPANESE YEN also RISING intraday:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=6J&cot=097741&p=m5" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOLD rises and holds stronger relative to SILVER:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=GC&cot=088691&p=m5" width="640" />  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=SI&cot=084691&p=m5" width="640" /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" height="10" src="http://www.finviz.com/gfx/nic2x2.gif" width="10" /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The US DOLLAR is dropping on concerns of countries moving away from it as a world reserve currency:</b></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=DX&cot=098662&p=m5" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VKPZSG7yaJE?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

GOLD rises and disconnects from SILVER intraday

An unusual TECHNICAL ANALYSIS GOLD prices today rallied after an overnight low of $1,231.57 hitting a high of the day at $1265.48 and holdin...

Electrical Burn Causes Man's Star-Shaped Cataract (BLOG)

3:00 PM Anonymous 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9dy8fIQ4zYjItmQ4Yjy_iUYEUgFjDf2KrFuSf9UkxfxKG3GdmEBkRMeR2akCb-M8OIWcxemcW_ZojX4wOcy9zCHow3NCQuJf4XoyUsVs9uzaT7BKBeQjp3M9OnTuGX4uTGdb7bREExk/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9dy8fIQ4zYjItmQ4Yjy_iUYEUgFjDf2KrFuSf9UkxfxKG3GdmEBkRMeR2akCb-M8OIWcxemcW_ZojX4wOcy9zCHow3NCQuJf4XoyUsVs9uzaT7BKBeQjp3M9OnTuGX4uTGdb7bREExk/s1600/download.jpg" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8701" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A 42-year old electrician in California developed star-shaped cataracts in his eyes after a serious work-related accident caused electricity to run through his body, according to a new report of the case.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.307693481445313px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8031" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The man's left shoulder came into contact with 14,000 volts of electricity, and an electric current passed through his entire body, including the optic nerve — the nerve that connects the back of the eye to the brain.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8719" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The optic nerve is similar to any wire that conducts electricity," said Dr. Bobby Korn, an associate professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego, who treated the patient. "In this case, the extreme current and voltage that passed through this important natural wire caused damage to the optic nerve itself," Korn said. [<a data-rapid_p="8" href="http://www.livescience.com/36881-amazing-medical-images-xrays.html" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8893" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">7 Amazing Images in Medicine</a>]</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8877" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Four weeks after the accident, Korn evaluated the patient, who was experiencing <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.livescience.com/25526-vision-impairment-diabetes.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">vision problems</a>. An examination showed the man had "striking <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.livescience.com/34708-cataract-symptoms-diagnosis-treatments.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">cataracts</a> in both of his eyes," that were star-shaped, Korn said. A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The reason cataracts sometimes take on a star shape is not fully understood, Korn said. In animal studies, damage to the eye's lens from electricity first appears as small bubbles called vacuoles on the outside of the lens. These bubbles then coalesce to form a star-shaped cataract, Korn said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8909" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Four months after the accident, the man had surgery to remove the cataracts and implant a new lens, and his vision improved slightly after the operation, Korn said. But the damage to his optic nerve still limited the man's sight, Korn said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8867" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Korn  explained that the eye is like a camera: if the lens is damaged, it can be replaced with a new one, but if the "film" — in this case, the optic nerve and retina — is damaged, "then you'll never get a good picture," Korn said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8955" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Now, 10 years later, the man still has poor vision in both of his eyes, Korn said. But he is able to commute on public transportation and take classes at a community college using assistance, Korn said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8945" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The man's case is reported in the Jan. 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8918" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><em>Follow Rachael Rettner</em> <a data-rapid_p="11" href="https://twitter.com/RachaelRettner" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8935" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><em id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8934">@RachaelRettner</em></a>. <em>Follow LiveScience </em><a data-rapid_p="12" href="https://twitter.com/LiveScience" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="https://twitter/livescience"><em>@livescience</em></a><em>,</em> <em><a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/livescience" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.facebook.com/#!/livescience">Facebook</a> & </em><a data-rapid_p="14" href="https://plus.google.com/101164570444913213957/posts" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="https://plus.google.com/101164570444913213957/posts"><em>Google+</em></a><em>. 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Electrical Burn Causes Man's Star-Shaped Cataract (BLOG)

A 42-year old electrician in California developed star-shaped cataracts in his eyes after a serious work-related accident caused electricity...

Justin Bieber Wearing a Red Jumpsuit in Jail? (BLOG, VIDEO)

2:43 PM Anonymous 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ST0phzlB7uqtXzQgD14nBcMEPGRW_taPimOteaJOiak1M-r89wVGmmJdKeEDSHENCXli13p3a_WqvwcMAhYeEJHAY2VCEtG06tt2lyEigRkaWgXvvAy3UfMbfj93UDrYpS47MChgUlA/s1600/7e330df9-427e-4751-9b16-124eee23bd78_1024_Justin-Bieber_MugShot_012314.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ST0phzlB7uqtXzQgD14nBcMEPGRW_taPimOteaJOiak1M-r89wVGmmJdKeEDSHENCXli13p3a_WqvwcMAhYeEJHAY2VCEtG06tt2lyEigRkaWgXvvAy3UfMbfj93UDrYpS47MChgUlA/s1600/7e330df9-427e-4751-9b16-124eee23bd78_1024_Justin-Bieber_MugShot_012314.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">By now we've seen dozens of celebrity mug shots. Seriously … when you hear the name </span><a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-person" data-rapid_p="11" href="http://celebrity.yahoo.com/celebs/lindsay-lohan/36" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; text-decoration: none;">Lindsay Lohan</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">, doesn't one of the handful of images of her in an orange jumpsuit pop into your head?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">So why, then, was Justin Bieber was decked out in red at his court appearance on Thursday afternoon at Miami-Dade Circuit Court?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">Different jails have different colors to classify inmates, but in Bieber's case, it's pretty simple.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Janelle Hall, community affairs unit manager at Miami-Dade County jail, confirms to Yahoo that Justin's red jumpsuit signifies that he is a "high-profile inmate."<br /><br />Sometimes that can mean the inmate will be held in isolation. Given Bieber's status and notoriety, it's likely that was the case for the "Bad Day" singer.<br /><br />There has been no shortage of public shaming today for Justin. Not only did the <a data-rapid_p="12" href="https://twitter.com/MiamiBeachPD" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Miami Beach PD</a> tweet out up-to-date information on the social media site (even blasting out the pop star's mug shot for the world to see), but there was a live video stream of his bond hearing.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><span class="yui-media yui-editorial-embed"></span></div><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-center" id="ymh-player-swf" style="background-color: white; clear: none; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; left: 0px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;"><iframe class="embed-module" data-embed-type="embedIframes" data-yom-embed-source="{media_id_1:c460ae78-d08c-3776-9ec6-1452bc3d647b}" frameborder="0" height="360" id="yom-video-c460ae78-d08c-3776-9ec6-1452bc3d647b" src="http://celebrity.yahoo.com/video/extra-justin-bieber-bond-court-182200954.html?format=embed&player_autoplay=false" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640"></iframe></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">Bieber, 19, </span><a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/justin-bieber-busted-for-dui--drag-racing-in-lamborghini-125550058.html" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">was pulled over</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> in a rented Lamborghini early Thursday morning for drag racing. When police performed a field sobriety test, Justin failed and was arrested for DUI. He was also charged with resisting arrest without violence and driving with an expired driver's license.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Justin was released from jail around 11:30 a.m. PST. If Bieber was fazed by the whole ordeal, it didn't show. The singer climbed up on an awaiting SUV and waved to a crowd of fans gathered outside.<span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1390516143325"></span></div><div class="yom-fig-frame" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1466" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 730.078125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1465" style="clear: none; float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1464" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.7leUfVF1zGEa..Te8xnwQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTtzbT0xO3c9NjMw/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/omg/2014-01-23/089e1ed2-0e56-46c3-b96e-a3672fdd0072_2048_JustinBieber_JailRelease2_012314.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important;" title="Justin Bieber is released from jail, climbs car to greet fans (Splash News)" width="630" /><div class="legend" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1494" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">Justin Bieber is released from jail, climbs car to greet fans (Splash News)</div></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1488" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">So far, no sign of model Chantel Jeffries, who was <a data-rapid_p="14" href="http://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/bieber-mystery-woman-who-was-with-justin-when-he-was-arrested-182559864.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">believed to be the passenger</a> in Justin's car when he was arrested.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1482" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">We're sure Selena Gomez isn't missing riding shotgun with the Biebs.</div></div>

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Water vapor plumes raise question about life on dwarf planet Ceres (BLOG)

2:00 PM Anonymous 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTBfV2c-2JYjJ2GrcgeqrTu23pghHtch8n0UjVfSZSC3LxmE9Vns0rQpLVQ8Xx_Z05yBeI2kHwoNVO9qzH9Slixnfuu6ciMgADYrvBuWZdgttLGRG3ptHH0nhI9ny3ezP4HU2iFgzCTDI/s1600/2014-01-23T005709Z_1_CBREA0M02NG00_RTROPTP_2_SPACE-CERES.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTBfV2c-2JYjJ2GrcgeqrTu23pghHtch8n0UjVfSZSC3LxmE9Vns0rQpLVQ8Xx_Z05yBeI2kHwoNVO9qzH9Slixnfuu6ciMgADYrvBuWZdgttLGRG3ptHH0nhI9ny3ezP4HU2iFgzCTDI/s1600/2014-01-23T005709Z_1_CBREA0M02NG00_RTROPTP_2_SPACE-CERES.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5543" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By Will Dunham</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.307693481445313px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5548" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The dwarf planet Ceres, one of the most intriguing objects in the solar system, is gushing water vapor from its unusual ice-covered surface, scientists said on Wednesday in a finding that raises the question of whether it might be hospitable to life.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5556" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Using the European Space Agency's Herschel infrared space telescope, researchers spotted plumes of water vapor periodically spewing from Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt residing between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5566" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The discovery comes just over a year before the scheduled arrival of NASA's Dawn spacecraft for a closer look at Ceres, a round body measuring about 590 miles in diameter - less than a third of the size of the moon.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"This is the first time water vapor has been unequivocally detected on Ceres or any other object in the asteroid belt and provides proof that Ceres has an icy surface and an atmosphere," Michael Küppers of the European Space Agency in Spain, who led the research published in the journal Nature, said in a statement.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The question is what is causing these plumes of water vapor from two locations on Ceres. One idea, according to scientists, is that the sun sometimes warms parts of the icy surface enough that water vapor emerges.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="8" data-uuid="f53ab642-9b31-3219-8dca-ede91f4d4ffb" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/dwarf-planet-ceres-seen-main-asteroid-belt-between-photo-010050986.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Dwarf planet Ceres is seen in the main asteroid belt,&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 217px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="Dwarf planet Ceres is seen in the main asteroid belt,&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="217" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/CfxtMZWCbYJVBPv_0KuOMw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIxNztxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-01-23T010050Z_1_CBREA0M02TF00_RTROPTP_2_SPACE-CERES.JPG" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Dwarf planet Ceres is seen in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as ill …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Another possibility, they say, is that there is liquid water under the frozen surface of Ceres and that vapor is shooting out of geysers or icy volcanoes. Dramatic geysers have been spotted on Enceladus, one of the innermost moons of the giant ringed planet Saturn.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Scientists think Ceres holds rock in its interior and is wrapped in a mantle of ice that, if melted, would amount to more fresh water than is contained on Earth.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Ceres was discovered in 1801, more than a century before the discovery in 1930 of the more famous - and more distant - dwarf planet Pluto. It is one of the few places in the solar system aside from Earth where water has been located.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A big question about the discovery of the water vapor on Ceres is what it means regarding the possibility of life.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"One of the things that's intriguing here is the possibility of there being liquid water as opposed to ice," Marc Rayman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, said in a telephone interview.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Certainly all life that we know depends on water. And so this is part of the larger question of where can life exist."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He said it is too early to declare that Ceres a good candidate for possible microbial life.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I think that's a stretch," Rayman said. "Rather, I would say this indicates Ceres might be a good place to look to understand more about the places life could form - and perhaps places that life has formed.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There's a lot more than just water that's required for life. And whether Ceres has those other ingredients - which include, for example, a source of energy and all of the nutrients that life requires, the rest of the chemistry - it's too early to say."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5585" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rayman said scientists plan to use instruments aboard Dawn to map the surface of Ceres, measure its surface elevations, catalogue its minerals and study its interior structure. Dawn is due to arrive at Ceres in March or April 2015.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5570" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Editing by Eric Walsh)</div></div>

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I Can Beleib It

1:14 PM Tukiyooo 0

Heh. The little bastard is reaping a buttload of Karma these days.<br /><br />Good.<br /><br />Not only am <i>I </i>sick of hearing of this spoiled little asshole, I'm sure there are plenty of other people that feel the same way.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/showbiz/justin-bieber-arrest/"><b>Justin Bieber arrested on drunken driving, resisting arrest charges</b></a></blockquote><blockquote>(CNN) -- Justin Bieber was charged with drunken driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license after police saw the pop star street racing early Thursday morning, Miami Beach police said.<br /><br />"What the f*** did I do? Why did you stop me?" Bieber asked the police officer who pulled him over just after 4 a.m., according to the arrest report.<br /><br />Bieber, 19, was released from a Miami jail an hour after he made a brief appearance through a video link before a Miami judge, who set a "standard" $2,500 bond Thursday afternoon.<br /><br />He strutted out of the jail dressed in black, with a baggy hoodie covering his head. His pants appeared to be baggy leather. Bieber briefly sat on top of a black Cadillac Escalade, where he waved to screaming fans, before he was chauffeured away.<br /><br />At the bail hearing, the singer, dressed in an orange jail uniform, stood silently with his lips sometimes pursed as attorney Roy Black represented him in the hearing earlier.<br /><br />Black told Judge Joseph Farina that he had been retained by Bieber's manager. He said his partner had been denied access to Bieber in jail before the hearing.<br /><br />Bieber was booked into a Miami jail after failing a sobriety test, Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez told reporters Thursday.<br /><br /><br />Bieber "made some statements that he had consumed some alcohol, and that he had been smoking marijuana and consumed some prescription medication," Martinez said.<br /><br />A Miami Beach officer saw Bieber driving a yellow Lamborghini in a race against a red Ferrari in a residential area of Miami Beach, Martinez said. The cars were speeding at about 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone, he said.</blockquote><br />He's damn lucky they didn't kick his privileged little ass for this next bit;<br /><br /><blockquote>The officer pulled Bieber's car over, but the singer was "was not cooperating with the officer's instructions," Martinez said.<br /><br />"At first, he was a little belligerent, using some choice words questioning why he was being stopped and why the officer was even questioning him," he said.<br /><br />He allegedly ignored a police officer's request to keep his hands on the car while he did "a cursory patdown for weapons," the report said.<br /><br /><b>"I ain't got no f***ing weapons," the arresting officer quoted Bieber as saying. "Why do you have to search me? What the f*** is this about?"</b><br /><br />The arrest report describes Bieber as having a "flushed face, bloodshot eyes, and the odor of alcohol on his breath."<br /><br />Bieber failed a field sobriety test, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Bobby Hernandez told CNN.</blockquote><br />My bold.<br /><br />Anyone else would be sucking air through the gap where his front teeth used to be.<br /><br />This oughtta keep the mouthy little shit occupied for a while.<br /><br />Maybe he can call Lindsey Lohan for some advice.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnoOSvvwehHkDBmLwM52xY9FFYDI5hwfVt2nV24YhQeEXKAAakKfuqDO7ynbMwkDt212DfBDzPOwTBWOUNy8X6gQDn_P9nrSHVMiaYkoEwW24_KzX1CNJjRRxnx78TktXL0sAllccJQCPT/s1600/beiber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnoOSvvwehHkDBmLwM52xY9FFYDI5hwfVt2nV24YhQeEXKAAakKfuqDO7ynbMwkDt212DfBDzPOwTBWOUNy8X6gQDn_P9nrSHVMiaYkoEwW24_KzX1CNJjRRxnx78TktXL0sAllccJQCPT/s640/beiber.jpg" /></a></div>

I Can Beleib It

Heh. The little bastard is reaping a buttload of Karma these days. Good. Not only am I sick of hearing of this spoiled little asshole, I'...

Court appeals at least temporarily delay execution (BLOG)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9mx57bAZEH1qYOvsr7OwqUIVC5ssHBk9_W974aj5vIbeq0J65ybxauj0vOPEBjd7FHiARmft905n1hhCTrt-RffK3DGSstN_n1r1uoUgQjcnFOhF3CvM7wPFccIsdKpFuRytZ2jw5yc/s1600/158cf2dc1c59a703490f6a706700e5b9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9mx57bAZEH1qYOvsr7OwqUIVC5ssHBk9_W974aj5vIbeq0J65ybxauj0vOPEBjd7FHiARmft905n1hhCTrt-RffK3DGSstN_n1r1uoUgQjcnFOhF3CvM7wPFccIsdKpFuRytZ2jw5yc/s1600/158cf2dc1c59a703490f6a706700e5b9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_2617" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The execution of a Mexican national was at least temporarily put on hold Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court considered appeals to keep 46-year-old Edgar Tamayo from the Texas death chamber.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.307693481445313px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_2631" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo's execution had been scheduled for 6 p.m. CST Wednesday for the slaying 20 years ago of a Texas police officer, Guy Gaddis, 24. The state still could execute Tamayo before midnight if the Supreme Court rules in its favor.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_2641" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Texas officials have opposed appeals to stop the scheduled lethal injection, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_2651" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo's attorneys and the Mexican government contend Tamayo's case was tainted because he wasn't advised under an international agreement that he could get legal help from his home nation after his arrest. Legal assistance guaranteed under that treaty could have uncovered evidence to contest the capital murder charge or provide evidence to keep Tamayo off death row, Mexican officials have said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Records show the consulate became involved or aware of the case just as his trial was to begin.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Secretary of State John Kerry previously asked Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to delay Tamayo's punishment, saying it "could impact the way American citizens are treated in other countries." The State Department repeated that stance Wednesday.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="8" data-uuid="6d5d65c7-3712-3975-926f-d0971e64489a" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/jan-19-2014-photo-woman-holds-sign-showing-photo-060756044.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="In this Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a woman holds up a sign&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 206px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="In this Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a woman holds up a sign&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="206" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/NnwWDcp7W3WYONP0ewzkkA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwNjtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/36b0c5caf8d19102490f6a7067005d50.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">In this Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a woman holds up a sign showing a photo of Texas death-row inmate Edgar …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But Abbott's office and the Harris County district attorney opposed postponing what would be the first execution this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state, where 16 people were put to death in 2013.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The high court was considering at least two appeals. One focused on the consular issue. The other was related to whether Tamayo was mentally impaired and ineligible for the death penalty. The execution warrant remains in effect until midnight.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo's lawyers went to the Supreme Court after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said an appeal this week renewing an earlier contention that Tamayo was mentally impaired and ineligible for execution was filed too late.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday rejected Tamayo's request for clemency.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It doesn't matter where you're from," Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said. "If you commit a despicable crime like this in Texas, you are subject to our state laws, including a fair trial by jury and the ultimate penalty."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Gaddis, who had been on the force for two years, was driving Tamayo and another man from a robbery scene when evidence showed the officer was shot three times in the head and neck with a pistol Tamayo had concealed in his pants. The car crashed, and Tamayo fled on foot but was captured a few blocks away, still in handcuffs, carrying the robbery victim's watch and wearing the victim's necklace.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">At least two other inmates in circumstances similar to Tamayo's were executed in Texas in recent years.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Mexican government said in a statement this week it "strongly opposed" the execution and said failure to review Tamayo's case and reconsider his sentence would be "a clear violation by the United States of its international obligations."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo was in the U.S. illegally and had a criminal record in California, where he had served time for robbery and was paroled, according to prison records.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Not one person is claiming the suspect didn't kill Guy Gaddis," Ray Hunt, president of the Houston Police Officers' Union, said. "He had the same rights as you and I would have.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"This has been looked at, heard, examined and it's time for the verdict of the jury to be carried out."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo was among more than four dozen Mexican nationals awaiting execution in the U.S. when the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, ruled in 2004 they hadn't been advised properly of their consular rights. The Supreme Court subsequently said hearings urged by the international court in those inmates' cases could be mandated only if Congress implemented legislation to do so.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_2680" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Unfortunately, this legislation has not been adopted," the Mexican foreign ministry acknowledged.</div></div>

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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The execution of a Mexican national was at least temporarily put on hold Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court consid...

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With all the technology available, satellites that can read newspaper headlines from space,there could possibly be something as large as an ocean liner that no one can find.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ghost-ship-crewed-cannibal-rats-3052924#.UuFtZLSIbIU"><br /><b>GHOST ship crewed only by CANNIBAL rats feared to be heading for Britain</b></a></blockquote><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkF1CuMoQz6n-lA4t6VehyU_3cwltWNASktrd8DCEIYm6j-BdPyXANfzZkL-iUiHg0IfX90sKfSuu5rlAhnNsg5vJ4WFi94zawIKYW6MTwk05Z737SBhy-Yh9g2bCyJrKiYYwPWpSriFJq/s1600/ship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkF1CuMoQz6n-lA4t6VehyU_3cwltWNASktrd8DCEIYm6j-BdPyXANfzZkL-iUiHg0IfX90sKfSuu5rlAhnNsg5vJ4WFi94zawIKYW6MTwk05Z737SBhy-Yh9g2bCyJrKiYYwPWpSriFJq/s640/ship.jpg" /></a></div><br /><blockquote>A ghost ship crewed only by CANNIBAL rats is feared to be heading for Britain.<br /><br />The hulk of cruise ship Lyubov Orlova has been adrift in the North Atlantic for the past year after being cut loose off the coast of Canada.<br /><br />But now coastguards are reportedly worried the recent storms may have driven her thousands of miles towards our own coastline.<br /><br />The 300ft vessel, built 40 years ago in the Soviet Union, has nothing aboard but packs of disease-ridden rodents who are forced to prey on one another to survive.<br /><br />Her current position is unknown despite several high-level searches.<br /><br />Last year satellites picked up an unidentified blip off Scotland large enough to be the ship — but search planes found nothing.<br /><br />As well as the authorities, salvage hunters — after the 4,250-ton vessel's £600,000 value as scrap — are scouring the seas for any trace of her.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />

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Seattle's Sherman surprised by public reaction (BLOG)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIRq2q3S0YeCr8dbq_JotgPEj2vvryz1AzX_In5Al96NbVs1SRNsynmUNGigYZx1fCdLj7W9XjiQL_oROnb-sNmxUCxlI0mwCVGEOegvkv3eOcYJqb0RloXZiWArrkofDFnMP951p5Bg/s1600/201401221516549716333.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIRq2q3S0YeCr8dbq_JotgPEj2vvryz1AzX_In5Al96NbVs1SRNsynmUNGigYZx1fCdLj7W9XjiQL_oROnb-sNmxUCxlI0mwCVGEOegvkv3eOcYJqb0RloXZiWArrkofDFnMP951p5Bg/s1600/201401221516549716333.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2444" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">RENTON, Wash. (AP) -- <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="8" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/24941" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Richard Sherman</a> wondered if he came to the NFL 20 years too late.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2428" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''I studied the old school game more than I studied the new school game, and I play it that way. It rubs a lot of people the wrong way,'' Sherman said Wednesday. ''Giving a true speech after a game, a true passionate speech is old school football. Playing press corner and sitting up there every play is old school football. I guess maybe I just haven't adjusted to the times.''The <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="9" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2435" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Seattle Seahawks</a>' All-Pro cornerback wondered if his swagger might have fit better a few decades earlier when that confidence and an unfiltered tongue was perhaps more accepted.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2460" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman spoke at length for the first time since Sunday's NFC championship game win over San Francisco where his postgame comments to Fox reporter Erin Andrews became the talking point. It was a loud, emotional moment that happened just a few minutes after the Seahawks earned the second Super Bowl berth in franchise history.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman was at the center of the decisive play, deflecting a pass intended for <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="10" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9274" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Michael Crabtree</a> in the end zone and watching teammate Malcolm Smith run over to intercept it to clinch the victory. Sherman's ensuing remarks were directed mostly at Crabtree but his intense, shouting delivery is what took people aback.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman said the reaction that followed over the next two days left him a little stunned as well.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="11" data-uuid="1ca5da06-b5a9-3fb9-8263-e8b6098d3350" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/seattle-39-sherman-surprised-public-photo-002049383--nfl.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 188px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="188" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/A_Gp9r.OXIw_.Vd3_lxyew--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE4ODtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401221638598816460" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman, left, listens as Dave Pearson, team vice president of communi …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''I was surprised by it. Because we're talking about football here and a lot of people took it a little bit further than football.'' Sherman said. ''I guess some people showed how far we have really come in this day and age and it was kind of profound what happened and people's opinions of that nature, because I was on a football field showing passion. Maybe it was misdirected, maybe things may have been immature, maybe things could have been worded better but this is on a football field. I didn't commit any crimes, I wasn't doing anything illegal. I was showing passion after a football game.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman apologized for taking away the spotlight from the performances by some of his teammates. Marshawn Lynch's 109 yards rushing and 40-yard touchdown, Jermaine Kearse's 35-yard touchdown catch on fourth-down and Bobby Wagner's 15 tackles all became secondary to Sherman's words.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">What seemed to bother Sherman the most in the fallout was hearing the word ''thug'' attached to his name.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''The only reason it bothers me is it seems like it's an accepted way of calling someone the N-word nowadays. It's like everybody else said the N-word and they said thug and they're like, 'that's fine,''' Sherman said. ''That's where it kind of takes me aback. It's kind of disappointing because they know. What is the definition of a thug, really?''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman then referenced seeing highlights of the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames playing on Saturday when a fight broke out two seconds into the game.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="12" data-uuid="761208db-2bbc-39ca-8276-e4910e5007e5" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/seattle-39-sherman-surprised-public-photo-002049199--nfl.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 138px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="138" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Y0W7jDziPkFIk6oZVQNPXw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTEzODtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401221636598176458" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, in R …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''They didn't even play hockey. They just threw their sticks aside and started fighting,'' he said. ''I saw that and said, 'Oh, man, I'm the thug? What's going on here. Geez.' I'm really disappointed in being called a thug.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">While there's been criticism for his rant, he's also received support. Perhaps most surprising was a tweet from baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. Not a huge user of social media - Aaron had sent seven tweets before Tuesday - his message to Sherman read, ''hang in there & keep playing as well as you did Sunday. Excellent job - you have my support.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman was peppered with questions for more than 20 minutes Wednesday. Teammate <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="13" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/25785" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Russell Wilson</a> was also asked about the fallout. He said it hasn't been a distraction as the Seahawks begin preparing for Denver.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman also didn't like hearing that some have labeled the team villainous.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''Anytime you label Russell Wilson a villain it has to be a joke,'' he said.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="14" data-uuid="e6a5116e-149b-37b2-a7f1-62008ef0ef27" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/seattle-39-sherman-surprised-public-photo-002049861--nfl.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 191px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="191" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UXulPg2pW0JVf7MTcgYJ7g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE5MTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401221632595326450" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman laughs as he speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 2 …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman said he has not reached out to Crabtree. Sherman attempted to shake Crabtree's hand following the interception only to get shoved in the face. Even after his on-field interview, Sherman continued to deride Crabtree in his postgame media session, calling the receiver ''mediocre'' and later saying their problems dated to an incident during an offseason event in Arizona.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2496" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman said he doesn't regret the choke sign he directed at San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, a gesture that drew a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2490" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''No man, it's Reggie Miller,'' Sherman said. ''It's Reggie Miller. It's rivalries, right?''</div></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-s6wkxR39YBKpGBSEyzB3Ffl9R-hDuiU8GYScLt1966Isd8jjEZKyDP3-aQWs0AOcJvX1f0-zGNXIg9qb2IuH9WCLzwC-M51H1l515eHwc1YkerAHGc0ar7bouqWj-unkqpeQrPTsZXM/s1600/201401211236454014176.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-s6wkxR39YBKpGBSEyzB3Ffl9R-hDuiU8GYScLt1966Isd8jjEZKyDP3-aQWs0AOcJvX1f0-zGNXIg9qb2IuH9WCLzwC-M51H1l515eHwc1YkerAHGc0ar7bouqWj-unkqpeQrPTsZXM/s1600/201401211236454014176.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390442907828_3898" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">DALLAS (AP) -- Former <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="8" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/dal" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Dallas Cowboys</a> player Josh Brent was convicted of intoxication manslaughter Wednesday for a fiery wreck that killed his teammate and close friend, <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="9" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/26529" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jerry Brown</a>.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390442907828_3912" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Jurors took about nine hours over two days to convict Brent, who was led from the courtroom in handcuffs as family members sitting in the front row of the gallery sobbed.He faces up to 20 years in prison for a December 2012 wreck after a night of partying with fellow Cowboys players. He could also get probation.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390442907828_3932" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Among those sitting with Brent's family was Stacey Jackson, Brown's mother. Jackson did not respond to questions as she left the courtroom Wednesday with Brent's family, but she has said in interviews that she's forgiven Brent and could testify in support of a lighter sentence for him when that phase of the trial begins Thursday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Attorneys from both sides remain under a gag order that prevented them from commenting after the proceedings.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Prosecutors say Brent, a defensive tackle, was drunk when he crashed his Mercedes on a suburban Dallas highway in December 2012, killing Brown, a linebacker on the Cowboys practice squad who had also been Brent's teammate at the University of Illinois. Officers who arrived on scene saw Brent trying to pull Brown's body from the wreckage.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp portrait onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="10" data-uuid="8ca29351-0dff-33b6-a2f3-d2eacf19193c" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/ex-cowboys-player-39-crash-photo-222503977--nfl.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Ex-Cowboy convicted of intoxication manslaughter"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 394px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="Ex-Cowboy convicted of intoxication manslaughter" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="394" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/70k.rvJp32K2hJj2oPpsng--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTM5NDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401211236453614166" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Dallas Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee arrives at court for closing arguments in the intoxication mansla …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Police say Brent's blood alcohol level was tested shortly after the crash at 0.18 percent, more than twice the legal limit for drivers in Texas. Prosecutors last week argued that the burly, 320-pound defensive tackle had as many as 17 drinks the night of the crash.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Brent's attorneys argued the blood tests used by police were faulty and that Brent could not have drank nearly that much. Attorney George Milner said his client was ''guilty of being stupid behind the wheel of a car,'' not drinking beforehand.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Brent retired from the NFL last year, but his ties to the Cowboys were prominent at trial. Two current players, Barry Church and Danny McCray, testified about hanging out with Brent and Brown, first playing video games, then having dinner and going to Privae, a Dallas nightclub.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sean Lee, a Cowboys linebacker, attended part of the trial to show support for Brent, and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said this week that he was closely watching for a verdict.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390442907828_3936" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''Certainly it's tragic. We've all, to some degree, have been a part of this,'' Jones said on Tuesday, according to the Cowboys' website. ''We support Josh. This has been just a terrible experience for the families who lost a loved one and for Josh who loved Jerry as well.''</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp portrait onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="11" data-uuid="bd95563e-bae6-37a2-a5ee-93ae2d990e62" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/ex-cowboys-player-39-crash-photo-222503324--nfl.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Ex-Cowboy convicted of intoxication manslaughter"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 471px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="Ex-Cowboy convicted of intoxication manslaughter" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="471" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/g8HCZd7sDsmu2GdYam3oLA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTQ3MTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401211236453614167" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Former Dallas Cowboys NFL football player Josh Brent arrives at court for closing arguments in his i …</div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390442907828_3951" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Jurors saw video of Brent appearing to hold bottles of Champagne in each hand and credit-card receipts that showed Brent had purchased three bottles. They also saw police dash cam footage of Brent losing his balance during field sobriety tests and occasionally stumbling over his words while talking to officers.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It was, in the words of prosecutors Jason Hermus and Heath Harris, a textbook case of intoxication manslaughter. The prosecutors told jurors in their closing argument that they should send a message about the danger posed by drunken drivers.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Hermus stood in front of Brent, hit the table and shouted: ''They shouldn't be driving, no exceptions, no excuses!''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Prosecutors have indicated they will push for jail time for Brent. His conviction comes just after weeks of fierce debate about a North Texas teen, Ethan Couch, who received probation for intoxication manslaughter after a wreck that left four people dead. Couch's case, and the so-called ''affluenza'' defense his attorneys employed, became the subject of fierce, widespread scrutiny.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins has attended parts of Brent's trial and whispered in prosecutors' ears during the questioning of one witness. Watkins told a sports radio station last year that prosecutors had the responsibility to make sure Brent ''loses his freedom.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Brent, a defensive tackle, had played in all 12 games of the 2012 NFL season before the crash. He retired in July.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Brown was signed to the Cowboys' practice squad in the 2012 season.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">---</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390442907828_4016" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Follow Nomaan Merchant on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nomaanmerchant</div></div>

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2013's Existing Home Sales Exponential Trend Failure

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2013's Existing Home Sales Exponential Trend Failure

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Why FM Radio Is More Repetitive Than Ever. Why FM Radio Is More Repetitive Than Ever. Why FM Radio... (BLOG)

10:00 AM Anonymous 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUbMcQvFlQbXD8pBcIYlPefuGBzyXfxq5UgSdUcYusi00AWUYXtPaYkW93HdFZu1uEPv7C0baEIIQIYAdDA2FZhLJimat9pHjHU-8A3pPOukx9npQUlkazriBWwRDzgo8Fk9TaH2OqkKg/s1600/78caa6aebee116d177515406697d054be29c34dd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUbMcQvFlQbXD8pBcIYlPefuGBzyXfxq5UgSdUcYusi00AWUYXtPaYkW93HdFZu1uEPv7C0baEIIQIYAdDA2FZhLJimat9pHjHU-8A3pPOukx9npQUlkazriBWwRDzgo8Fk9TaH2OqkKg/s1600/78caa6aebee116d177515406697d054be29c34dd.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">You don’t hear so much about FM radio these days. Pandora, Spotify, iTunes, the <a data-rapid_p="53" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:cbdf14cb-1e2f-3ee7-b3f0-7f887237b30b;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="http://www.yahoo.com/tech/beats-music-streaming-service-launches-in-the-u-s-74061641040.html" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">just-launched Beats Music streaming service</a> and countless other post-radio alternatives <a data-rapid_p="54" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:cbdf14cb-1e2f-3ee7-b3f0-7f887237b30b;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="http://www.yahoo.com/tech/beats-music-spotify-rdio-and-more-whats-the-best-73651350300.html" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">get all the attention</a> instead.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">That’s understandable — digital listening is a big deal, obviously — but maybe we shouldn’t just pretend old-school radio has disappeared. After all, regular radio broadcast over the air, often referred to as “terrestrial” radio, remains easily the <a data-rapid_p="55" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:cbdf14cb-1e2f-3ee7-b3f0-7f887237b30b;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/press-room/2013/radio-increases-year-over-year-reach-by-more-than-700-000-according-to-december-2013-radar-report.html" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dominant American listening medium</a>; more than <a data-rapid_p="56" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:cbdf14cb-1e2f-3ee7-b3f0-7f887237b30b;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="http://wargod.arbitron.com/study/grt.asp" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">90 percent</a> of Americans over age 12 listen to the radio <a data-rapid_p="57" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:cbdf14cb-1e2f-3ee7-b3f0-7f887237b30b;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/new-gadgets-beckon-but-americans-still-tune-in-old-school-radio-1200913564/" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">every week</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">In fact, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> published some <a data-rapid_p="58" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:cbdf14cb-1e2f-3ee7-b3f0-7f887237b30b;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303754404579313150485141672" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">interesting data</a> the other day suggesting how terrestrial radio has changed in the burgeoning digital era. Somewhat incredibly, it’s gotten <em>more</em>repetitive.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">I said <em>more </em>repetitive.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">MORE repetitive.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">At first this sounds completely insane. One obvious advantage of most digital-listening systems is their enormous variety: millions of songs, countless strategies for “discovering” new music and so on. But instead of prodding traditional radio to mix things up, this innovation has actually moved the dial in the other direction. <a data-rapid_p="59" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:cbdf14cb-1e2f-3ee7-b3f0-7f887237b30b;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303754404579313150485141672" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">As the <em>Journal </em>notes</a>, the most-played song on the radio in 2013 was Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” with nearly 750,000 spins. Compare that with the most-repeated tune from a decade earlier: “When I’m Gone,” by Three Doors Down, got about 440,000 plays. That works out to a repetition increase of more than 70 percent.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">Let me repeat: Radio repetition is up by 70 percent. (OK, I won’t do that again.)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">Apparently this has happened because research suggests that radio listeners tend to flip away from anything unfamiliar. Eventually, I suppose, that means every station will simply broadcast “Hey Jude” 24 hours a day.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">My own listening habits are dominated by iTunes and (to a lesser extent) Pandora, with occasional doses of Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube. But the more I thought about that <em>Journal </em>story, I had to admit that I, too, listen to regular radio sometimes. And repetition — or really, familiarity — is part of the reason.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">All my radio listening (with the exception of involuntary situations, such as in the grocery store) happens in the car. For years this owed to simple lack of choice: Our first car was a no-extras 1999 model with AM/FM radio only. But last year we bought a new car, and something weird happened: I’ve never bothered to figure out the Bluetooth connection, or even used the CD player. So I must get something out of radio. What is it?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">For starters, even though everybody trashes radio, it’s actually possible to hear perfectly good songs. “Should I Stay or Should I Go” never gets old; ditto “Back in Black”; I like Adele; and so on. Just the other day I bumped into Dwight Yoakam’s “A Thousand Miles from Nowhere.” Good stuff.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">But because I’m generally in the car alone, I’m also free to enjoy radio’s ability to feed my most embarrassing musical pleasures — again, stuff that’s enjoyable partly because I’ve been hearing it my entire life. The number of Billy Joel songs I own is zero, but I am happy to sing along to “Uptown Girl” when it presents itself (and nobody I know can see me). You will never find me at home listening to Styx’s “Grand Illusion”; on the car radio, I crank it up. Any day that includes hearing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” for the nth time is a good day.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">At this point maybe you’re concluding that I just have bad taste. I promise that in real life, I’m an adventurous listener. The point is that nobody should turn to conventional radio hoping for Wooden Shjips, Sam Phillips or <a data-rapid_p="60" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:cbdf14cb-1e2f-3ee7-b3f0-7f887237b30b;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="http://martinibomb.bandcamp.com/" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Martinibomb</a>. I almost never “discover” new music on the radio. But I do <em>re</em>discover music: The repetition factor has actually given me a much deeper appreciation of some songs, by sheer dint of being forced to listen to them over and over. I always liked “Shattered,” for instance, but it’s thanks to radio that it’s become maybe my favorite Stones song ever.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">Partly, then, radio is a familiarity machine that spits out nonstop nostalgia. But it’s also useful for assessing the Top 40: I’ve had enough of “Royals,” but, yeah, I still enjoy listening to “Blurred Lines.” Again. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">Having said all that, I’m not really in the car very much, and if I had an hourlong daily commute, I’d probably change my tune. And none of the pleasures of repetition I’ve sketched above have inspired me to turn on a radio in my house in several years. The digital alternatives are, basically, superior.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">But in small doses, a little familiarity sounds good. Just don’t make me say this again.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><em>Yahoo Tech is a brand new tech site from David Pogue and an all-star team of writers. <a data-rapid_p="61" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:cbdf14cb-1e2f-3ee7-b3f0-7f887237b30b;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="http://www.facebook.com/yahootech" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Follow us on Facebook</a> for all the latest.</em></div></div>

Why FM Radio Is More Repetitive Than Ever. Why FM Radio Is More Repetitive Than Ever. Why FM Radio... (BLOG)

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G4T is a VICTIM OF CYBERBULLYING

9:46 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Send G4T some donation$</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">G4T is a victim of bullying and defamation.  He needs your help to combat this abuse on YOU TUBE because deep down he's really a nice guy.  Yea right.<br /><br />Listen people here's what I see going on here.  This guy is a serial con man who has taken many people directly into financial destruction at his own benefit.  He's an opportunist the preys on people and will do anything for attention.  He's a combination of things and quite a complex personality that seems to enjoy his attempt to annoy people while he himself gets a sport of this behavior and is simply working this out to feed his insatiable lust for power and control.  He might be an employee of the nation's largest employer.  They love people like this.  Could it be the intent of this is to create more chaos?  I think this fits a pattern of others who are engaged in the same program.  Remember who he's affiliated with and you might actually figure some of this out.  This is a large cartel of chaos along with role playing and various mind control experiments.<br /><br />To those who watch this guy beware.  You better have at least a limited understanding of what is going on here.  If you don't you might fall prey to this complicated game of mind assaults.  This guy is not the victim; he's the perpetrator of this.  And he's only a very small portion of a larger community of chaos distribution and development:<br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/america-is-going-over-edge.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/america-is-going-over-edge.html</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xACnykaUfhw?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">...developing...</div>

G4T is a VICTIM OF CYBERBULLYING

Send G4T some donation$ G4T is a victim of bullying and defamation. He needs your help to combat this abuse on YOU TUBE because deep down h...