Junior Seau?s home burglarized just days after his death

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There are people in or around the town of Oceanside, Calif., who just got an express trip to the place where the red guy with the horns and pitchfork does his business. There are few things more disgusting that a robbery that affects the family of a man who just died, but that's what happened last week to the family of Junior Seau.

Just five days after the great linebacker took his own life, some sorry excuses for humanity broke into Seau's home, went through cabinets in the garage, and stole a bicycle that belonged to a friend of Seau's.

Oceanside police Lt. Leonard Mata said that the bike is gray with chrome fenders and a black seat, and there are 143 spokes in each wheel. Whoever broke in didn't enter the house -- just the garage. Nothing else was taken. The estimated value of the bike is approximately $500.

On May 7, at approximately 9:35 a.m., Seau's girlfriend placed a 911 call indicating that she had found the body of the future Hall-of-Fame linebacker in a spare bedroom of his home. The death was suspected to be, and was later ruled, a suicide.

Seau, a 12-time Pro Bowler and 6-time First-Team All-Pro, was selected fifth overall in the 1990 NFL draft after an outstanding collegiate career at USC. He played with the San Diego Chargers through the 2002 season, spent 2003-2005 with the Miami Dolphins, and then signed with the New England Patriots in time for the 2006 season. In New England's perfect regular season of 2007, he played in all 16 games and started four. Seau first retired after that season, only to come back and play in 2008 and 2009 before finally leaving the NFL for good.

"I'm going to go surf," he told Showtime upon his January, 2010 retirement announcement. Whatever happens, I can honestly say, that that probably was my last game."

Seau committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest, which is similar to the way former Chicago Bears great Dave Duerson ended his life.?Duerson shot himself in the chest on February 17, 2011 -- the method used so that his brain could be examined for symptoms of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), a trauma-induced disease common to NFL players and others who have received repeated blows to the head. Seau's family has considered, and reconsidered, donating Seau's brain to science so that he can be examined for CTE symptoms.

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Low-level clashes as Palestinians mark Nakba Day

Israeli forces faced off with Palestinian stone-throwers in the West Bank on Tuesday during the annual Nakba Day protests over the "catastrophe" that befell the Palestinians in 1948.

At Beitunia checkpoint near Ramallah, youths hurled stones at troops, who fired tear gas, metal pellets and rubber bullets in a bid to break up the demonstration, an AFP correspondent said.

Many protesters could be seen with blood on their faces as they waved black flags and roared angry slogans.

Clashes also broke out at Qalandiya checkpoint south of Ramallah, where youths threw stones at Israeli troops, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them, AFP correspondents said.

A source at Ramallah's government hospital told AFP that 17 people had been injured by rubber bullets, 15 at Beitunia and another two at Qalandia.

There were also reports of clashes in Hebron and at Rachel's Tomb on the edge of Bethlehem, where the Israeli military said 200 protesters confronted troops.

Two soldiers were lightly injured, a spokesman said.

The protesters were commemorating the "Nakba," when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes in the war that accompanied Israel's declaration of independence.

But this year's confrontations were largely low-level, in stark contrast with last year, when thousands tried to breach Israel's northern frontiers, prompting troops to open fire, killing 10 people and injuring hundreds.

In the West bank city of Ramallah, where president Mahmud Abbas has his headquarters, sirens wailed and hundreds of people at a rally in the central Clock Square stood in silence for 64 seconds -- one for each year of Israeli statehood.

Cars flew black flags carrying a picture of a house key and the word "return" in English and Arabic to remember homes they left or were forced from which are now inside Israel, an AFP correspondent said.

Further north, several thousand people gathered in Nablus city centre waving flags and calling for the right of return, with a similar number showing up in the southern city of Hebron.

They also hailed the successful end of a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, which was resolved late on Monday.

This year's Nakba anniversary was to have been a protest over the ongoing mass hunger strike by 1,550 prisoners, most of whom refused food for between four and 11 weeks.

But in a last-minute development, the dispute was resolved late on Monday when prisoner leaders signed a deal with Israel, agreeing to end their fast in exchange for an easing of their conditions.

In Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, clashes broke out in Issawiya between police and stone-throwers, with four people arrested, police and an AFP correspondent said.

And in downtown Gaza City, thousands joined a march organised by the ruling Hamas movement.

On a lighter note, Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya joined dozens of other men, several sporting middle-age spread, in a 500-metre (yard) Nakba Day jog from the central Al-Jalaa Street to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Haniya and his companions wore track-suit bottoms and t-shirts with numbers, with others carrying Palestinian flags for the brief run, which was organised by the ministry of youth and sport.

Arab Israelis also held a march near the northern town of Umm al-Fahm with around thousand people joining in, some carrying Palestinian flags, participants said.

More than 760,000 Palestinians -- estimated today to number 4.8 million with their descendants -- fled or were driven out of their homes.

Around 160,000 Palestinians stayed behind and are now known as Arab Israelis. They now number about 1.3 million people, or some 20 percent of the population.

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Gumroad Gets $7 Million Series A From Kleiner Perkins For Indie E-Payment Platform

Gumroad, the startup that lets individuals receive e-payments through a simple URL link, has received $7 million in new funding led by Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. The round, which serves as Gumroad's Series A, brings the startup's total outside investment to just over $8 million -- Gumroad closed on $1.1 million in seed funding back in February, and all those investors also pitched into this round. Gumroad founder and CEO Sahil Lavingia tells me the new funding will be used primarily to aggressively hire more people and bulk up its current staff of three.

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WATCH: Coldplay Pays Tribute to Adam Yauch at Concert

As fans around the world mourn the death of Beastie Boys member Adam "MCA" Yauch, many celebrities have come forward to share their condolences. But but Coldplay took it one step further, by singing a tribute to the fallen hip-hop pioneer, filmmaker and humanitarian.

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Mindfulness Meditation May Help Doctors Provide Better Care, Study Suggests

It Makes Your Brain Plastic

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Quite literally, sustained meditation leads to something called neuroplasticity, which is defined as the brain's ability to change, structurally and functionally, on the basis of environmental input. For much of the last century, scientists believed that the brain essentially stopped changing after adulthood. But research by University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson has shown that experienced meditators exhibit high levels of gamma wave activity and display an ability -- continuing after the meditation session has attended -- to not get stuck on a particular stimulus. That is, they're automatically able to control their thoughts and reactiveness. Quite literally, sustained meditation leads to something called neuroplasticity, which is defined as the brain's ability to change, structurally and functionally, on the basis of environmental input.

For much of the last century, scientists believed that the brain essentially stopped changing after adulthood.

But research by University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson has shown that experienced meditators exhibit high levels of gamma wave activity and display an ability -- continuing after the meditation session has attended -- to not get stuck on a particular stimulus. That is, they're automatically able to control their thoughts and reactiveness.

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It Makes Your Brain Plastic

Quite literally, sustained meditation leads to something called neuroplasticity, which is defined as the brain's ability to change, structurally and functionally, on the basis of environmental input. For much of the last century, scientists believed that the brain essentially stopped changing after adulthood. But research by University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson has shown that experienced meditators exhibit high levels of gamma wave activity and display an ability -- continuing after the meditation session has attended -- to not get stuck on a particular stimulus. That is, they're automatically able to control their thoughts and reactiveness.

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