PFT: Titus Young arrested for third time in week

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Former Lions wide receiver Titus Young has again run into off-field trouble.

Young was arrested this weekend in San Clemente, Calif. on charges of burglary, assault on a peace officer and resisting arrest, Lt. Joe Balicki of Orange County Sheriff?s Department confirmed to PFT on Sunday afternoon.

Young is currently being held on $75,000 bail and is expected to be arraigned on Monday, Balicki said. The burglary and assault charges are felonies, Balicki said, with the resisting arrest charge a misdemeanor.

According to Balicki, the incident unfolded around 11:30 p.m. on Friday night when a homeowner contacted authorities alleging someone was inside her home. When sheriff?s officers arrived, they found Young outside the home, Balicki said. According to Balicki, Young ran away from officers. After a ?brief? pursuit on foot, there?was a ?physical altercation,? Balicki said, with Young alleged to have fought officers before being taken into custody. Neither Young nor officers were hurt, Balicki said. According to the Orange County Sheriff?s Department website, Young was arrested and processed on Saturday.

Earlier in the week, the 23-year-old Young?was arrested?on DUI and burglary charges.

Young showed promise in two seasons with the Lions, but the club released him in February. The Rams picked him up, but he lasted just 10 days with St. Louis. In his last game with the Lions, he is alleged to have lined up wrong?on purpose, and the club essentially twice banished him after the incident.

The Detroit News first reported news of Young?s latest arrest earlier Sunday.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/12/titus-young-arrested-on-burglary-assault-charges/related/

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James Holmes? insanity plea expected today

James Holmes sits with defense attorney Tamara Brady during his arraignment. (AP)

CENTENNIAL, Colo.?James Holmes, the man accused of murdering 12 people in last summer?s shooting spree at a suburban Denver movie theater, will formally plead in court today what many expected all along: Not guilty by reason of insanity.

On Tuesday, Holmes? lawyers notified the court they plan to pursue the insanity defense. Since Holmes' first hearing in July, attorneys on both sides have repeatedly peppered courtroom argument with their perceptions of his mental state. Two statements from attorneys boil down just how far apart they are:

"Because he wanted to kill all of them, he knew what he was doing," prosecutor Karen Pearson said during Holmes? arraignment.

"Mr. Holmes suffers from a serious mental illness," his defense wrote in a court filing on April 29.

Here?s a look at some milestone events that led up to today?s likely plea:

? During the March 12 arraignment, William Sylvester, the first judge in the case (the judge is now Carlos A. Samour), entered a not-guilty plea on the defendant?s behalf, as allowed by law. The court expected Holmes to plead not guilty by reason of insanity at the arraignment, but defense attorney Daniel King told Sylvester the defense was trapped in what he called a legal Catch-22: Because they didn?t know whether the prosecution would seek the death penalty, they couldn?t enter an appropriate plea?guilty, not guilty, insane or otherwise. (Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler said in court on April 1 he would seek the death penalty, putting in motion today?s plea.)

? The day before the arraignment, Sylvester, who has since stepped down from the case because his schedule won?t permit a lengthy capital case, advised Holmes what an insanity plea legally entails. In a court notice, Sylvester wrote that the test for insanity applies to a ?person who is so diseased or defective in mind at the time of the commission of the act as to be incapable of distinguishing right from wrong.? But a legally insane person is not someone with ?moral obliquity, mental depravity, or passion growing out of anger, revenge, hatred, or other motives and kindred evil conditions.?

That?s the key difference, prosecutors allege: While fully sane, Holmes meticulously concocted a ?detailed and complex? plan to slaughter patrons at the Aurora movie theater.

? In the week leading up to the arraignment, Holmes? attorneys publicly announced through a court filing that he offered to plead guilty and avoid trial. But the prosecution not only turned down the request, it chastised Holmes? lawyers, dubbing the proposal a ?calculated attempt? to ?deliberately prejudice the public, witnesses, and victims? against the prosecution?s case.

?[The guilty offer] was not only improper, but grossly improper,? the prosecution said, adding that a guilty plea only proved ?that the defendant knows that he is guilty, the defense attorneys know that he is guilty, and that both of them know that he was not criminally insane.?

? In hearings during the late summer and fall, the defense tried to establish that Holmes? relationship with his university psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, continued until the July 20 shootings, and possibly afterward. This apparently was an attempt to prove he was still under mental health care?and, thus, his conversations with her are confidential. (Holmes' insanity plea may remove that confidentiality, and allow the state to administer mental health tests and delve deeper into Holmes' illness. Defense attorneys have objected to this.)

Meanwhile, the prosecution asked several law enforcement witnesses during testimony to detail the weapons arsenal Holmes amassed. The array of ammunition and body armor?in addition to the booby-trapping of his apartment?illustrates a sane and well-crafted plot, the prosecution has implied.

Holmes, 25, was a Ph.D. student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado before the shootings during a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," the latest Batman movie. He faces 166 counts of murder, attempted murder and other charges. The trial is scheduled for February 2014.

But victim Marcus Weaver said there shouldn't even be a trial. Because Holmes already offered a guilty plea, Weaver told Yahoo News at the April 1 hearing that he'd rather not see a months-long trial and that Holmes should and own up to his mistakes.

"It's anguishing. It's frustrating as a victim," Weaver said. "You're talking a whole calendar year before you get to a trial."

He added, ?You have an obligation, if you?re guilty, to plead guilty."

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Offers pour in to aid freed Cleveland women

By Kevin Gray and Kim Palmer

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Offers of help are pouring in from around the world for three Cleveland women who were kidnapped and held in captivity for a decade, with people offering cash, furniture and even use of a vacation home to help them rebuild their lives.

Three members of the Cleveland City Council have set up a fund to provide financial assistance to Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32.

"It's a big healing process that is beginning," Councilwoman Dona Brady said on Saturday.

Since it was established earlier this week, the fund has raised more than $50,000, said Cleveland Councilman Brian Cummins, who helped arrange the Cleveland Courage Fund, which is administered by a non-profit organization.

Ariel Castro, a 52-year-old former school bus driver, has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and raping the three women while keeping them locked up in a rundown Cleveland home.

DNA tests released on Friday identified Castro as the father of Berry's 6-year-old daughter, who was born in captivity.

The Cuyahoga County prosecutor also plans to seek murder charges, which could carry the death penalty, against Castro because police say there is evidence Knight suffered forced miscarriages.

Berry and DeJesus, along with Berry's daughter, left the hospital earlier this week and have been reunited with their families. Knight, who is estranged from some of her family members, according to her grandmother, was discharged from the hospital on Friday and went into seclusion.

Knight was kidnapped in 2002 at the age of 20; Berry in 2003 the day before her 17th birthday; and DeJesus in 2004, when she was 14. During their captivity, police said, the women endured beatings, rapes and at times confinement in ropes and chains.

Berry told police that her escape on Monday had been her first chance to break free in the 10 years she was held, seizing an opportunity during Castro's momentary absence. With the help of neighbors, she and her daughter broke free, and police freed the other two women.

BUSINESSES, INDIVIDUALS PITCH IN

Cummins said the fund for the three women had received donations from people across the United States, as well as Canada, France and Australia.

The money will not go directly to the victims, but be distributed to organizations to help the women pay for therapy, doctor's visits, housing and other expenses, Cummins said.

City officials said they were working to respond to a flood of emails with offers of assistance from companies, businesses and individuals.

Business owners have offered free healthcare, beauty and spa services and furniture, said Johanna Hamm, a City Council administrative official.

One offer was an all-expenses-paid stay at a lakeside vacation home, she said.

A Cleveland pizzeria said it planned to donate all the money from its sales on Thursday to the Cleveland Courage Fund. Workers at Angelo's Pizza also said they intended to give their hourly wages that day.

In a message posted on the fund's Facebook page, one woman said she hoped the women would one day recover from their horrific ordeal.

"If everyone donated just one dollar, it would make a difference in these girls' lives," said June Barter Green. "Maybe someday they can live a normal life."

(Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/offers-pour-help-cleveland-women-freed-captivity-220157479.html

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This Genius Flowchart Will Show You Exactly What to Watch on Netflix

The going gets tough on Netflix sometimes. Between the eight people sharing your account it's just not clear who has been marathoning Grey's Anatomy, and the recommendations are all over the place. How are you supposed to find something to watch?

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Planning an outdoor wedding? Fabulous! Just be sure to take a tip from Leah McCarthy, who advises having iced towels with lemon slices on hand for guests.

Join hosts The Bad Seed and Nadine Michel on this special Mother's Day edition, as they welcome jazz singer Bobby Caldwell.

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Professional life coach, mentor and author, Ciara Elle' joins T2Q to discuss how you can get control of your life.

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Australian singer/songwriter Mirva shares songs from her new album "One" and discusses the power of creativity, unity, and imperfection.

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Joey "Live From The Bay With Joey" welcomes legendary actress Shelley Morrison, to discuss a new project with Film Maker / Director Walter Dominguez.

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Better dyes for imaging technology

May 12, 2013 ? From microscopes to MRI scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital in the world's hospitals, whether for the diagnosis of illness or for research into new cures. Imaging technology requires dyes or contrast agents of some sort. Current contrast agents and dyes are expensive, difficult to work with and far from ideal. Now, Danish chemists have discovered a new dye and proved its worth against any of the dyes currently available.

Thomas Just S?rensen and Bo Wegge Laursen are chemists at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In a series of publications, they have shown that the aza-oxa-trangulenium dyes have the potential to outperform all fluorescent dyes currently used in imaging.

"Our dyes are ten times better, far cheaper and easier to use. The latter I believe, will lead to expanded opportunities and broadened use, by physicians and researchers in developing countries, for example." Says Thomas Just S?rensen.

Visual noise blocks correct diagnosis

It might seem odd, but one of the central challenges when taking pictures of cells and organs, is to avoid noise. The agents that make it possible to see microscopic biological structures are luminescent, but then, so is tissue. Consequently, the contrast agent's light risks being overpowered by "light noise." Just as the dial and hands of a watch might glow-in-the-dark, tissue becomes luminescent when exposed to light. Tissue and other organic structures luminesce, or lights up, for 10 nanoseconds after exposure to light. The light-life of an ordinary dye is the same -- 10 nanoseconds. But triangulenium dyes produce light for an entire 100 nanoseconds.

The long life of the triangulenium dyes means that an image can be produced without background noise. Furthermore, the extra 90 nanoseconds opens the possibility of filming living images of the processes occurring within cells, for example when a drug attacks an illness.

Neither expensive, nor difficult or technically demanding

Medical image analysis departments currently devote an incredible amount of time to staining samples, because all samples must be treated with two agents. The use of triangulenium dyes necessitates only one dye. And in contrast with typical dyes, no specialized equipment is needed to see the dyes in tissue samples. A lens from a pair of polarized sunglasses and an ordinary microscope are all that are required.

Open Source dye despite obvious competitiveness

When one compares the advantages of triangulenium dyes against the three million Danish kroner per gram price tag of traditional dyes,(500.000$US)(320.000?) you would expect that the new dye would immediately out-compete its predecessors. However, up to now S?rensen and Laursen have had to give their dye away. "I know that our dye is better, but biologists and physicians don't. Therefore, we are giving the dye away to anyone that wants to perform a comparison test. Someone who needs to assess the health of sick people wouldn't dare to rely on an untested substance. Only when several researchers have shown triangulenium dyes to perform just as effectively as its predecessors can we hope for our substance to become more widely adopted," concludes Thomas Just S?rensen.

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Virginia deserved notice on bomb suspect burial: funeral director

By Ross Kerber

BOSTON (Reuters) - Local officials in Virginia should have been told before the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was interred there, said the funeral director who handled his remains.

Worcester, Massachusetts, funeral home owner Peter Stefan also said Boston city officials had known by Wednesday where the body was being taken, shedding new light on the controversial burial.

But, Stefan said, the process was done correctly, under rules that give burial rights to family members, and that he had spoken with Virginia officials who were reviewing the situation to make sure it was legal.

"We did not just arbitrarily send that body down," Stefan said in a telephone interview with Reuters on Saturday.

"We have informed them that everything was done legally. They know that. But I just felt uncomfortable," he said. "It didn't feel right."

Tamerlan, 26, and his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, are believed to have set off two bombs near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three people and injuring 264.

After Tamerlan died in a shootout with police on April 19, disposition of the ethnic Chechen's remains became controversial with local cemeteries refusing to accept them, while some family members sought to have them transported overseas. Massachusetts officials, including the city manager in Tsarnaev's hometown of Cambridge and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, called for the body to be buried outside their communities.

On Friday, an official death certificate released by Menino's office showed that Tsarnaev had been buried in a Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Virginia, near Richmond.

Stefan said Tsarnaev's body was transported to Virginia in a van driven by his uncle, Ruslan Tsarni. Tsarni has denounced the bombing but said he had a responsibility to arrange for his nephew's burial, which took place Thursday.

A Richmond woman, Martha Mullen, told the Boston Globe she helped arrange for the burial after hearing media reports of the controversy and protests outside the Graham, Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Massachusetts.

"Jesus says love our enemies," Mullen told the newspaper, adding that the protests "portrayed America at its worst."

Stefan said Tsarni and at least one funeral home staff member drove to Boston on Wednesday afternoon and filed the death certificate with city health officials, part of the regular process of obtaining a burial permit. The certificate shows that officials issued a permit May 8, the same day.

After that step in the process, the city could have disclosed information about the burial site, said Stefan, who also chairs a state board that oversees funeral services. While he said local officials in Virginia should have been told that Tsarnaev's body was being taken there, Stefan said rules limited what he himself could say until after the death certificate was made public.

Stefan said he did not blame Menino for not flagging the form earlier, however. "He probably didn't even know it was filed. That would be some inconsequential thing to him," Stefan said.

Spokespeople for Menino did not immediately return requests for comment.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in a prison west of Boston after being charged with crimes that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted.

(Reporting By Ross Kerber; editing by Gunna Dickson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/virginia-deserved-notice-bomb-suspect-burial-funeral-director-212654413.html

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Gigantour 2013 Releases Lineup and Tour Dates Featuring ...

Rock metal fest, Gigantour, has announced their lineup and tour dates for this summer.

The lineup features headliners Megadeth and Black Label Society. They?ll also be joined by Device, Hellyeah, Newsted, and Death Division. The bands will be hitting up the East Coast, some of Canada, and a little bit of the West Coast.

Different tier packages are available for general admission or VIP admission. Within VIP, fans can choose the Premier Guitar VIP package or a Gold VIP package. The VIP packages include a meet and greet with Megadeth, commemorative memorabilia, an open bar before the show, amongst other goodies. Tickets are available here.

Check out the bands in your town this summer:

July 03: Gilford, NH ? Meadowbrook
July 05: Uncasville, CT ? Mohegan Sun Arena
July 06: Canadaigua, NY ? Marvin Sands PAC
July 08: Clarkston, MI ? DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 09: Chicago, IL ? Allstate Arena
July 10: Youngstown, OH ? Covelli Center
July 13: Lubbock, TX ? Lonestar Amphitheatre
July 14: Corpus Christi, TX ? Concrete Street Amphitheatre
July 16: Oklahoma City, OK ? Zoo Amphitheatre
July 18: Bloomington, IL ? US Cellular Coliseum
July 19: Milwaukee, WI ? Eagles Ballroom
July 22: Winnipeg, MB ? MTS Center
July 23: Regina, SK ? Brandt Centre
July 25: Calgary, AB ? Stampede Corral
July 26: Edmonton, AB ? Rexall Place
July 27: Dawson Creek, BC ? EnCana Events Centre
July 29: Abbotsford, BC ? Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre
July 30: Everett, WA ? Comcast Arena
Aug 01: West Valley City, UT ? Maverik Center
Aug 02: Broomfield, CO ? 1^st Bank Center
Aug 04: Fargo, ND ? Scheels Arena
Aug 09: Camden, NJ ? Susquehanna Bank Center
Aug 11: Toronto, ON ? Molson Canadian Amphitheatre

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Washington dry stretch to end by Mother's Day

SEATTLE (AP) -- The second-driest start to May on record in Seattle will end in time for rain on Mother's Day, the National Weather Service said.

Saturday will likely be the final dry day in a stretch that began April 30, said meteorologist Dana Felton.

"We've got a system coming in. We might squeeze out one more dry day tomorrow," he said Friday.

Eleven dry days at the beginning of May would be the second-longest period since 1946 when it didn't rain until May 24. In 1958, May also had a dry start with nine days without rain.

Oddly, this dry spell follows the second-wettest April on record in Seattle.

"We had a really fast transition, not only to really dry but to really warm," Felton said.

The high temperature of 78 forecast for Friday at Sea-Tac Airport would approach the record of 81 for the day set in 1987. A near-record high also was forecast Friday for Olympia. The expected high of 82 pushes the record of 85, also set in 1987.

That would be terrific weather for Mother's Day, but it's not going to happen.

"Unfortunately, that's the case," Felton said. Have your picnic Saturday, he suggested.

The rain coming in late Saturday will not be a big producer, but it will dampen the dust and drop the high temperatures in Western Washington back to the more-normal 60s by next week, with showers.

The front will lower Eastern Washington's 90s, but the high temperatures are expected to remain in the 80s east of the Cascades, even with some clouds.

"They could see showers and thunderstorms but not the steady rain like we get over here on the west side," Felton said.

Many rivers in Eastern Washington and the Idaho Panhandle are running high because of melting snow in the mountains. Minor flooding is expected on the Okanogan, Kettle and Stehekin rivers. Other rivers nearing flood stage are the Entiat, Kootenai, Methow, Moyie and Similkameen.

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Dressage event at Las Colinas Equestrian Center | Irving Blog

Dressage competition at 2012 Olympics (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Although somewhat hidden behind North Hills School, the Las Colinas Equestrian Center stays busy with polo matches, training sessions and more. On Saturday and Sunday, the facility will host the Dallas Dressage Club Spring Shows I and II.

So, you ask, what is dressage? It was developed centuries ago as a system of training horses. It is considered the highest expression of horse training. It?s even an Olympic sport.

The show will be presented by Cindy Francheck, the owner of Francheck Dressage at 8787 Park Lane in Dallas. She is bringing her students to the center for the competition which will qualify students for several championship events.

For details of the schedule, visit dallasdressage.org/spring_shows.html.

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