Randy Travis to enter drunken-driving plea

SHERMAN, Texas (AP) ? A prosecutor says country music star Randy Travis is expected to enter a guilty plea in a drunken-driving case in North Texas.

Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown says details of the agreement will be released following Travis' court appearance Thursday in Sherman.

Travis was naked when he was arrested following a single-vehicle accident Aug. 7 near Tioga, about 60 miles north of Dallas. Authorities have said his blood-alcohol level was more than 0.15. The legal limit for driving is 0.08.

Brown says Travis will plead guilty to misdemeanor drunken driving, punishable by up to two years in jail and a $4,000 fine.

The 53-year-old Travis also faced a retaliation charge for allegedly threatening officers, though that charge is no longer in court files.

His attorney wasn't available for comment.

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Turning Girl Scout Cookies Into Graphene

Researchers at Rice University in Houston have discovered a cheap source of the wonder material graphene: baked goods. Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of The Annals of Improbable Research, talks about how to transform a box of Girl Scout cookies into $15 billion worth of graphene?in theory, at least.

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How much did you pay for that last box of Girl Scout cookies you bought? Five bucks, six maybe, maybe more? How about $15 billion? That's the price of a single box if - if it were turned into graphine. Researchers at Rice University in Houston have discovered a way to turn anything with carbon into graphine, the super-strong wonder material that can be worth over two million times the price of gold. You heard that right, two million times.

Forget alchemy, that's for chumps. This is graphene, worth a lot more in its weight of gold. Marc Abrahams, editor and founder of the Annals of Improbable Research is here to tell us why graphene is so pricey and what this invention could mean for nanotechnology. Welcome back to SCIENCE FRIDAY.

MARC ABRAHAMS: Thanks, Ira, nice to be back.

FLATOW: So what is this thing about turning Girl Scout cookies into graphene?

ABRAHAMS: All right, we'll start with a little reminder about graphene. Graphene is just a form of carbon. It's a form of carbon people knew existed, but just about eight or so years ago, for the first time, people were able to get enough of it to actually look at it. It's the two-dimensional form. It's like a big sheet of chicken wire, that's the shape, and it's really hard to get.

The guys who figured it out did it in a goofy way, using pencil and scotch tape. When you write with a pencil, that stuff that comes off, that graphite, that's really sheets, and sheets and sheets of this thin stuff. But separating those, that was expensive.

The numbers you've tossed around show you how expensive. People have been able to do experiments. They've found all kinds of really interesting possibly valuable properties, but nothing, no industry is really going to start until they can make enough of this stuff cheaply to use it.

Until now, most of the ways of making it started with this first step: Get some really pure, really expensive chemicals that you're going to mix in and do the next stuff. Huge expense. What Jim Tour down in Houston discovered and showed is that anything that's got carbon in it you can turn into graphene.

And to demonstrate that he meant anything, he did it with Girl Scout cookies. He turned those into graphene. He did it with chocolate. He got some chocolate half-dollar coins. He did it with dog feces from a miniature Dachshund, and he did it with a cockroach leg. And essentially he just got a really big oven, heated it up to about 1,000 degrees C and filled that oven with a little bit of this stuff, the cockroach or the dog feces, whatever, and a sheet of pure copper and a little bit of gas, left it for about 20 minutes, and viola, he'd made little bits of really high-quality graphene.

FLATOW: Wow.

ABRAHAMS: He was making still little, tiny amounts. It's still really expensive. But if you just do out the little numbers from it, from the amount he made, if you could convert all of the cookies in a standard box of Girl Scout cookies, if you could convert all the carbon in them into graphene - when he did this a year and a half ago, that would be worth about $15 billion.

FLATOW: Are those...?

ABRAHAMS: (Unintelligible) today, now it's - the technique have gotten better. So now it would only be worth about $12 billion.

FLATOW: Are those the thin mints?

ABRAHAMS: No, these were the shortbread. But you could do it with thin mints.

FLATOW: What a waste of those thin mints - they wouldn't last long in my kitchen.

(LAUGHTER)

ABRAHAMS: Well yeah, so you're just throwing away money when you do that, Ira.

FLATOW: Can anybody do this? And this being adopted and adapted by commercial industry?

ABRAHAMS: Well, anybody with a little equipment could do it. The thing is, it's still not easy, and it's still really expensive because you can only make - right now they only know how to make really, really, really tiny amounts. But the big thing he was trying to show is you don't have to start with really expensive feed stocks, is the chemical term.

You can make this stuff from anything. So once people figure out their techniques a little bit better, the prospects for a huge drop in price are great. Now of course there are other problems with this stuff. There's not enough of it that people have figured a lot of the technical problems. Like if you make electronics from graphene, it has all these beautiful properties. But if you make them, you've got to connect them to wires.

And the connector problem, you know, just in a way it's a version of when you plug something into your computer, how do you connect it. How do you connect something to a sheet of carbon that's one atom thick so that it's reliable and does what you want it to? People are working on that. That's still a mystery.

FLATOW: Yeah, that's why they work there, and I work here.

ABRAHAMS: But someday.

FLATOW: Someday. Thank you, Mark, fascinating...

does what you want it to? People are working on that.

Yeah.

ABRAHAMS: That's still a mystery.

FLATOW: Yeah. That's why they work there and I work here. Thank...

ABRAHAMS: Yup. Someday.

FLATOW: Yeah, someday. Thank you, Marc. Fascinating as always.

ABRAHAMS: OK. We'll see you.

FLATOW: Marc Abrahams, editor and founder of the Annals of Improbable Research. He's also the founder and master of ceremonies - excuse me - at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies that you hear every year the Friday after Thanksgiving right here.

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27 die in Egypt riot after soccer violence verdict

CAIRO (AP) ? Angry relatives and residents rampaged through an Egyptian port city Saturday in rioting that killed at least 27 people after a judge sentenced nearly two dozen soccer fans to death for involvement in deadly violence after a game last year.

The unrest was the latest in a bout of violence that has left a total of 38 people dead in two days, including 11 killed in clashes between police and protesters marking Friday's second anniversary of the uprising that overthrew longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.

President Mohammed Morsi canceled a scheduled trip to Ethiopia Saturday and instead met for the first time with top generals as part of the newly formed National Defense Council.

The violence in Port Said erupted after a judge sentenced 21 people to death in connection with the Feb. 1 soccer melee that killed 74 fans of the Cairo-based Al-Ahly team. Executions in Egypt are usually carried out by hanging.

All the defendants ? who were not present in the courtroom Saturday for security reasons ? can appeal the verdict.

Judge Sobhi Abdel-Maguid did not give his reasoning when he read out the verdicts for 21 out of the 73 defendants Saturday. The verdict for the remaining 52 defendants, including nine security officials, is scheduled to be delivered March 9. Some have been charged with murder and others with assisting the attackers.

Die-hard soccer fans from both teams, known as Ultras, hold the police at least partially responsible for February's violence, which was the world's worst soccer violence in 15 years, saying officers at the game did nothing to stop the bloodshed. They also criticize Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi for doing little to reform the police force or the judiciary since he took office in July.

The opposition says Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected and civilian president, and his Muslim Brotherhood allies in government have failed to restore stability amid continued political turmoil and crime, and point to a worsening economy.

In a statement Saturday, the main opposition National Salvation Front said it holds Morsi responsible for "the excessive use of force by the security forces against protesters." They threatened to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections if Morsi does not meet their demands that include amending articles in the new constitution.

The Brotherhood said in its statement that "misleading" media outlets were to blame for "enflaming the people's hatred for the current regime and urging them to act violently."

Immediately after Saturday's verdict was read live on state TV, two policemen were shot dead outside Port Said's main prison when angry relatives tried to storm the facility to free the defendants. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, as well as live rounds, at the crowd outside the prison.

In other parts of the city, residents tried to storm the governor's office, police stations, the power station and the main court building. Residents occupied one police station in the east of Port Said.

The director of hospitals in Port Said, Dr. Abdel-Raham Farah, said two local soccer players were shot to death as they were apparently on their way to practice. He identified them as Mahmoud Abdel-Halim al-Dizawi, who played for the city's Al-Marikh club, and Tamer al-Fahla, who used to play for the city's main Al-Masry team. Al-Diwazi was shot three times, the doctor said.

The club they were training at is near the prison that residents tried to storm.

The military was deployed in Port Said to try to restore security, but assaults continued into the evening. The army was widely used to keep order by top generals who took over after Hosni Mubarak, but the military has kept a much lower profile since Morsi was elected.

Egyptian military forces also were sent into the canal city of Suez after eight people died in Friday's clashes between security forces and protesters opposed to the new president and the Brotherhood. Another protester was killed in Ismailiya, and security officials told the state news agency MENA that two policemen were killed in Friday's protests.

Many of the young men who led the protests and clashes hail from the Ultras. They often come from poor neighborhoods and view the police force that was the backbone of Mubarak's authoritarian rule as their nemesis.

"The police are thugs!" yelled relatives of the deceased inside the courtroom before the judge took the bench.

Near Cairo's Tahrir Square, where tens of thousands had amassed to mark the two-year anniversary a day earlier, Ultras Al-Ahly waved their team's red flag as they clashed with police who fired tear gas to disburse the crowd near Cabinet headquarters and Parliament.

Underlining the distrust that lingers between much of the public and the police, survivors and witnesses say Mubarak loyalists had a hand in instigating last year's attack, which began after Port Said's home team won the match, 3-1, and that the police at the very least were responsible for gross negligence.

Al-Masry fans stormed the pitch after the game ended, attacking Cairo's Al-Ahly fans. Authorities shut off the stadium lights, plunging it into darkness. In the exit corridor, the fleeing crowd pressed against a chained gate until it broke open. Many were crushed under the crowd of people trying to flee.

Other survivors said it was simply bloodthirsty Al-Masry fans and lack of enough security that led to the deaths of their colleagues. Both sides blame police for failing to perform usual searches for weapons at the stadium.

Anger is boiling in Port Said, where residents say they have been unfairly scapegoated.

A lawyer of one of the defendants given a death sentence said the verdict was political.

"There is nothing to say these people did anything and we don't understand what this verdict is based on," Mohammed al-Daw told The Associated Press by telephone.

"Our situation in Port Said is very grave because kids were taken from their homes for wearing green T-shirts," he said, referring to the Al-Masry team color.

Al-Daw and other defense attorneys said all those sentenced were Al-Masry fans. As is customary in Egypt, the death sentences will be sent to the nation's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for approval, though the court has final say on the matter.

Fans of Al-Ahly, whose stands were attacked by rival club Al-Masry in the incident in Port Said, had promised more violence in the days leading up to the verdict if the death penalty was not handed down.

Before the judge could read out the names of the 21, families erupted in relief, yelling "Allahu Akbar!" Arabic for "God is great," with their hands in the air and waving pictures of the deceased. One man fainted while others hugged one another. The judge smacked the bench several times to try to restore calm in the courtroom.

"This was necessary," said Nour al-Sabah, whose 17-year-old son Ahmed Zakaria died in last year's melee. "Now I want to see the guys when they are executed with my own eyes, just as they saw the murder of my son."

Thousands of Al-Ahly fans gathered outside the Cairo sports club for the verdict, chanting against the police and the government.

"We are not really that happy," Mohamed Ahmed, a survivor of the attack, said. "The government helped the Ultras of Port Said by blocking the gates of the stadium until people suffocated to death.

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Associated Press writer Mariam Rizk contributed to this report.

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Video: All-Time Highs In Sight for Markets

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World stocks mostly higher, Japan's Nikkei jumps

Pedestrians look at an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Japan?s benchmark stock index jumped about 2 percent Friday after the country?s currency continued to slide against the dollar. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Pedestrians look at an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Japan?s benchmark stock index jumped about 2 percent Friday after the country?s currency continued to slide against the dollar. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Pedestrians look at an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Japan?s benchmark stock index jumped about 2 percent Friday after the country?s currency continued to slide against the dollar. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Japan?s benchmark stock index jumped about 2 percent Friday after the country?s currency continued to slide against the dollar. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

BANGKOK (AP) ? Japan's benchmark stock index hit a 32-month high Friday as the yen continued to retreat against the dollar and investors cheered the new government's plans to boost the economy. Other stock markets edged up.

Evan Lucas of IG Markets in Melbourne said he expected to see further surges in Japan's Nikkei 225 index after Yasutoshi Nishimura, a senior vice minister of the Japanese government's Cabinet Office, commented that the yen would fall further. The Nikkei surged 2.9 percent to 10,926.65, its highest close since April 30, 2010.

European stocks were mixed. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.1 percent to 6,259.49, but Germany's DAX rose 0.2 percent to 7,762.35 and France's CAC-40 edged up less than 0.1 percent to 3,754.31.

Wall Street appeared headed for gains, with Dow Jones industrial futures 0.2 percent higher at 13,806 and S&P 500 futures gaining 0.2 percent to 1,494.20.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index surged 2.9 percent to

A weaker yen helps Japanese exporters by making products sold abroad less expensive and also helps some of the country's trading partners by increasing demand for the raw materials they ship to Japan, Lucas said.

The recent decline in the yen's value against the dollar and drops against other major currencies have been driven by expectations that Japan's central bank will try to engineer inflation by increasing the amount of money in circulation.

The bank has been under pressure from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office a month ago, to do more to end Japan's prolonged spell of falling prices known as deflation. The ultimate aim is to create a recovery for Japan's moribund economy.

South Korea's Kospi fell amid fears that the country's exporters could be slammed by Japan's dropping yen, which makes Japanese products less expensive overseas. The benchmark fell 1 percent to 1,943.97.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.1 percent to 23,580.43. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.5 percent to 4,835.20.

In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.5 percent to 2,291.30 and the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index lost 0.2 percent at 909.52.

Among individual stocks, Japan's Sony Corp. jumped 8.5 percent and Toshiba Corp. advanced 5.3 percent. Agriculture Bank of China, one of the four main state owned banks, lost 1.4 percent

South Korea's Samsung Electronics, which said the strong won will hurt its earnings this year, fell 2.5 percent. South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. shed 3.4 percent.

Benchmark oil for March delivery was up 25 cents to $96.20 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained 72 cents to finish at $95.95 a barrel on the Nymex on Thursday.

In currencies, the euro fell to $1.3425 from $1.3371 late Thursday in New York. The dollar rose to 90.63 yen from 89.96 yen.

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Monday Brief: More BB10 leaks, The Galaxy Note 8.0, and more!

Daniel Rubino was too busy brushing his lovely locks to share his links this week so, some older Nokia news did slip in here accidentally as some of you noticed in the intro. It was covered in a previous Monday Brief but if you're interested, you can view that story here.

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Keep Your Spouse's Mind Occupied with Positive Thoughts of You ...

We?ve heard it all before, relationships take work. I prefer not to call it work, I?d rather say relationships require effort. Effort is something, that if we put our mind and energy toward, can actually happen. We are in more control of what happens in our love life than we care to admit. We have the power to make our relationship easier.

Many of the things that add stress to our marriage are well within our control. We can choose to improve ourselves, speak life into our marriage, and stay focused on the positive things that are happening. Or we can highlight the negative, complain about all the things our spouse happens to be doing wrong, and make, not only our spouse?s, but our life miserable. We can create an environment so filled with drama and distractions that neither partner looks forward to returning home at the end of a long day. I knew I never wanted that type of home. Don?t get me wrong, my husband and I disagree, we fuss, we get upset, and we grate on each other?s last nerve. But no matter what, I refuse to have a home that lacks a sense of peace overall.

I made it up in my mind, I wanted my husband to be thinking positive thoughts of me when we are apart. In order for that to happen, there a few things I must be mindful of.

Disagreements get nipped in the bud the moment they show up. No sense in holding on to unnecessary drama if it is something we can discuss and get over right away. I have to open my mouth and share what?s on my mind, the good and the bad and listen when my husband does the same. I also have to be willing to forgive and apologize when needed in order to maintain the peace.

I must shower my husband with affection. Physical touch is important in any relationship, especially a marriage. I want to leave him wanting more and give him something to look forward to coming back home to.

I have to encourage him throughout the day with little reminders of ?just how great I think he is. I can do this through text messages or phone calls as long as I make sure to remind him that I love and support him, and of how much I believe in him.

These are just a few of the small things we can be aware of as we seek to create and maintain a peaceful and loving marriage. There is a certain affect I would like ?to have on my husband. I want to keep his mind occupied with positive thoughts of me.

BMWK?? What are some things you do to keep your spouse?s mind occupied with positive thoughts of you?

About the author

Tiya Cunningham-Sumter is a Certified Life & Relationship Coach and founder of Life Editing. She helps couples and individuals rewrite their life to reflect their dreams. Tiya was featured in Ebony Magazine in the October 2008 and November 2010 issues. She resides in Chicago with her husband and two children.

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How to Make Real Big Money Online | Internet Success Blog

Posted on January 22nd, 2013 by Joseph Pragasam in Make Money Online

The internet has evolved to be a lucrative medium to make money since the late 1990s. You might have heard about it all the time and you probably know it is. But how do you really make money online, I mean, make real big money online.

The truth is that millions of people try but only a few succeed. Why is this so? Because most people are seeking ways for a get-rich-quick system. But these people are not really to be blamed. Who wouldn?t want to be rich quick?

The hype about making money online overnight have been widespread on the internet that it?s become very hard to tell hype from the real deal. You probably heard about normal people like you and me, making 5 figure monthly incomes. While making this kind of money is very possible online, it doesn?t happen overnight. It involves effort, time and a bit of money. The truth is, the level of online income you make depends on how much and how smart you are willing to work.

So how to really make money online?

If you do a search on Google, Yahoo or MSN or read blogs and forums, you could find lots of information about ways to make money online.

But to make REAL BIG money online, there are only 3 main ways to do it

1. AFFILIATE MARKETING

Affiliate Marketing is the easiest and fastest way to start making money online. If you do not have your products or services to offer, then affiliate marketing is the one for you to get started with.

Affiliate Marketing is a very popular way of promoting internet businesses where an affiliate is rewarded for every customer provided by his efforts. It is a modern edition of compensating referrers with fees for the introduction of new customers to a business.

In Affiliate Marketing, you sell or promote someone else?s product or services. You just need to refer people to the merchant site and get paid a commission once a sale is made.

Promoting products or services as an affiliate have the following advantages:

• Don?t require to have your own product or service
• No troubles with payment processors
• No stock inventories or shipping expenses
• No troubles on treating refunds or returns
• No employees
• No customer service

You just need to drive traffic to the merchant site. The rest is taken care of by the merchant.

Affiliate Marketing is a ?pay-per-action? model. You are paid if the action is fulfilled. There are 2 main types of affiliate marketing models.

A) Pay-Per-Sale Affiliate Marketing

In this model, you, as an affiliate, send traffic to the merchant site in order to help him acquire new customers. You?ll receive commissions when a sale is made.

B) Pay-Per-Lead Affiliate Marketing

In this model, you send traffic to the merchant site in order to help him acquire new leads. You?ll receive commissions when potential customers fill out a form providing their contact information.

The wonderful thing about affiliate marketing is, you harvest a substantial share of the profit on each sale with lesser trouble. And while promoting them, it gives you hands-on experience on how things work in the area of ecommerce, and also get to apply the crucial marketing skills that would bring success in any online business you will be involved in.

2. SELLING YOUR OWN PRODUCTS OR SERVICES

Selling your own products or services, whether it?s physical or digital, is the other way to make money online. You?ll be a more successful Internet entrepreneur, selling your own products or services online.

When you have your own internet business selling your own products or services, you are in control over your business. You can twig and change things to make it more profitable. And in most cases, 100% of the sales amount goes to you.

Another significant advantage is that you are now the merchant. You can have affiliate program to get lots of affiliates to promote your products or services. That?s free marketing for you and only pays them commissions when they make a sale. Even, the internet big guns, like Amazon and eBay, have affiliate programs. They obviously know the value of affiliate marketing.

And as a merchant of your own product or service, you might need to hire employees when your business starts to grow. You also have more overheads, possible inventories to keep if its physical products and you need to have a shipping system in place.

A) Selling physical products

If you have offline business that sells physical products, having an online virtual shop will enable you to have greater exposure to more potential buyers from all over the world.

Even if you do not have a offline business that sells physical products, you still can make huge profits by being in the middle of the wholesalers and online customers. And also you don?t need to stock up inventory as you can use dropshippers to ship the inventory to the buyer.

Your online virtual shop can be on your own website or on mega online shopping portals like eBay and Amazon. The key to secure long term income is to source for in-demand products and sell them at a reasonable mark-up on the price that you yourself paid.

B) Selling digital products

Selling digital products, like eBook or software, is the most profitable internet business you can have. The good point about digital products is that it doesn?t require you to store any inventories as it can be downloaded instantly by customers. The only drawback is that it takes time to create your own digital products and requires good knowledge in your field.

When you are creating your product you will want to be extremely focused and create something of high value so your customers will keep coming back. If you spend some time planning and learning what your market wants and then give them the solution to their problem you will become very well respected in your field and it will help you make a whole lot more money than your competition.

Your goal is to make sure you are marketing to a market that has enough customers who will spend enough money so you can make a good income from your product launch. Keep in mind that if you are going to have any success in your internet business, you need to have a very high quality product to be able to sell copies of your product.

C) Selling your services

If you have specialised knowledge or skills like writing, copywriting, editing, transcription, website design, graphic design or computer programming, you can sell your services for a handsome profit through online freelancing.

Services such as Elance advertise outsourced remote working opportunities on behalf of thousands of businesses and companies looking to outsource the jobs they can?t or don?t want to do. It allows members to sign up to assignments according to their desired criteria. Depending on your skills and availability though, there is a lot of money to be made selling your services.

You can also market your specialised knowledge or skills through your own website or blog. The key to secure long term success is to provide excellent value and service beyond the customers? expectations.

3. SELLING ADVERTISEMENTS

The third way to make money online is through selling advertisements. The internet is the world?s greatest advertising medium, better than TV, Print and the Radio.

And Google is a perfect example for that. They make billions in revenue every month by allowing other website owners to advertise on their search result pages through a program called AdWords.

There are two ways to make money through advertisements. You can do it by earning commission from contextual advertising or advertising banners placed alongside your website or blog.

Contextual advertising is using ads based on the page content of the website or blog. The ads shown will always be relevant to the page contents. An array of third party tools is available for contextual advertising, but Google AdSense remains one of the more popular choice and easiest to use.

Through Adsense, you can earn a share of the revenue that Google earns from AdWords by displaying the same text ads on your site. In other words, you?re helping Google advertise and they pay you a percentage of what they earn.

You don?t have to have your own Web site or even figure out how to set up the advertising. At Blogger you can set up a blog for free in less than five minutes without knowing a thing about web design. Blogger even automates setting up Google AdSense so you can make money off your blog by displaying ads and getting paid when people click on the ads.

Banner advertisements are also a great way to promote products. Affiliate programs have banners that are designed especially for their affiliates. They come in different sizes to better fit in the website or blog.

If you can generate high traffic to your website or blog, internet business will be waiting in queue to pay you to have their banners on your site. You can earn a handsome monthly income by charging a premium amount to have their banner advertisements in your website or blog.

These are three main ways to make real big money online. However, the real key to successfully make money online is to get massive traffic to your website or blog. You can have the most beautiful website or blog. But you?ll never make a single cent, if there are no visitors.

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SWAT standoff in Ga. uncovers dismembered body

This December 2012 handout photo provided by the Effingham County Sheriff's Office shows Chad Moretz. A SWAT team sniper shot 34-year-old Moretz on Jan. 11, 2013, ending a four-hour standoff when Moretz emerged from his Effingham County home armed with an assault rifle. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Effingham County Sheriff's Office)

This December 2012 handout photo provided by the Effingham County Sheriff's Office shows Chad Moretz. A SWAT team sniper shot 34-year-old Moretz on Jan. 11, 2013, ending a four-hour standoff when Moretz emerged from his Effingham County home armed with an assault rifle. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Effingham County Sheriff's Office)

This Jan. 12, 2013 handout photo provided by the Effingham County Sheriff's Office shows Kevin Lambert, charged with helping hide the body of Charlie Ray of Savannah, Ga., who police say was killed and dismembered by his brother-in-law, Chad Moretz. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Effingham County Sheriff's Office)

This Jan. 12, 2013 handout photo provided by the Effingham County Sheriff's Office, shows Kimberly Moretz, charged with helping hide the body of Charlie Ray of Savannah, Ga., who police say was killed and dismembered by her husband, Chad Moretz. Police came to Chad Moretz's door to ask questions about a missing person and quickly found themselves in an armed standoff that ended in bloodshed. It was at least the fourth time in 18 months that Effingham County deputies had been dispatched to the house. Neighbors and relatives in southeast Georgia had previously accused Moretz of chasing his wife with a machete, threatening to kill a man with a handgun and of stabbing a dog with a pocket knife after it bit him. None of that could prepare investigators for what they found after the fatal standoff Jan. 11. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Effingham County Sheriff's Office)

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ? Police went to Chad Moretz's home to ask him about a friend who had gone missing and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff when a relative answered the door and whispered: "He's got a rifle. He's going to kill y'all."

It was at least the fourth time in 18 months deputies had gone to see Moretz. Neighbors and relatives had accused him of chasing his wife with a machete, threatening to kill a man with a handgun and stabbing a dog with a pocket knife. But none of that prepared investigators for what they found Jan. 11 after Moretz walked onto his front porch with an assault rifle and was killed by a SWAT team sniper.

Inside the home, amid filth and roaches and foul odors, police found the missing man's severed head and two hands hidden behind a kitchen cabinet inside a hole in the wall. The rest of the body, dismembered by a power saw and wrapped in bags, was discovered in a storage locker a half-hour away in neighboring South Carolina.

"I don't believe there was a motive," said David Ehsanipoor, an investigator for the Effingham County Sheriff's Office. "It wasn't a drug deal gone bad or a love triangle. Chad was just crazy."

Medical examiners confirmed the body belonged to Charlie Ray, 35. Ray had been a friend of Moretz, and his family had been searching for him since New Year's Eve.

An autopsy showed Ray was stabbed more than 40 times and had been dead more than a week before his remains were found. Moretz's wife told investigators her husband and Ray had been drinking and talking, then started arguing. She said Moretz grabbed a knife and started repeatedly stabbing Ray in their kitchen, Ehsanipoor said. Investigators suspect Ray's body was dismembered to make it easier to hide.

Ray's mother, Sandi Ray, said in a brief phone interview her son struggled with Tourette's syndrome.

Megan Edgerly, a friend of Ray's since childhood, said the debilitating brain disorder left him unable to drive or to hold down a job. She said he handled his tics ? flailing arms and vocal outbursts ? with grace and humor and treasured friends who accepted him in spite of it.

"Charlie never had a frown on his face," Edgerly said. "He was dealt a bad hand, but he always maintained a real positive attitude throughout all of it."

Moretz lived about 20 miles from where Ray lived with his parents. Moretz had moved there from southwest Florida, where violence devastated his own family a year and a half ago.

His father is scheduled to stand trial in April for the slaying of Moretz's mother in Naples, Fla. Police said Jeffrey Moretz, 55, followed his estranged wife, Christine Moretz, to a hospital and fatally shot her while she was visiting a friend on July 5, 2011. He then shot himself, but survived. Court records show Jeffrey Moretz filed for divorce in Collier County, Fla., two weeks before his wife's slaying.

One of Chad Moretz's neighbors, Ross Maruca, said Moretz didn't work and let his grass grow knee-high before Maruca decided to cut it himself. He said Moretz once showed up at his door and asked his wife for food and money. She gave him $20, he said, and Moretz later paid it back.

"You could look at him and tell something was wrong, just the look he had," Maruca said. "He looked like he was dazed all the time."

Deputies jailed Moretz on July 23, 2011 ? not quite three weeks after his mother was killed ? when his brother-in-law told police he'd received a frantic phone call from his sister saying Moretz was chasing her with a machete. Moretz's wife denied the story. Deputies charged Chad Moretz with trespassing when they found him hiding by a shed in a neighbor's yard.

Last May, neighbors called the sheriff's office when they said Moretz stabbed a dog that had gotten loose after he was bitten several times. In November, a friend told police Moretz asked for a ride, and when he refused, he pointed the gun at him and threatened to kill him and his family.

Deputies arrested Moretz on charges of making terroristic threats on Dec. 22. Jail records show he was released on $3,500 bond the same day.

Almost two weeks later, Maruca called police after seeing a TV news report that Charlie Ray was missing. Maruca knew Ray because he had lived at Moretz's house for two or three months the previous summer. The neighbor said he saw Ray at the house Jan. 2.

Police initially talked to Moretz's wife, who said Ray wasn't there. Days later, they decided to return to the suburban neighborhood of modest brick homes talk to Moretz himself. His brother-in-law, Kevin Lambert, met detectives at the door and whispered a warning.

"He said, 'Chad's in here, he's got a rifle, he's going to kill y'all,'" Ehsanipoor said.

Detectives dragged Lambert out of the house and retreated. Moretz, armed with an assault rifle, refused to come out or to let his wife leave. A hostage negotiator and a SWAT team were brought in.

After more than four hours, Moretz's wife ran outside through the front door and collapsed in the yard. Then Moretz emerged with an AR-15 rifle. Ehsanipoor said he was raising the gun when a sniper shot him.

Though investigators say they believe Moretz alone killed Ray, his wife and brother-in-law have been charged with helping conceal the death. Kimberly Moretz did not immediately return a message left at a phone number listed for her on a police report. Lambert did not have a listed phone number.

Investigators said it was one of the siblings who told authorities during the standoff that Ray's remains were hidden in a storage locker in nearby Jasper, S.C.

"Everybody's still in a state of shock," said Edgerly, Ray's longtime friend. "This isn't supposed to happen."

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