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NIAGARA FALLS — Ryan S, Smith, the Niagara Falls man whose conviction for two home invasions, a shooting and an armed robbery was overturned because police used a Taser to force him to give a DNA sample, pleaded guilty to all of those crimes last week.
But in exchange, Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas promised him a prison sentence of no more than eight years, about half of which Smith already has served.
It's a big reduction from the 45-year sentence Smith, 25, received after a jury convicted him on 24 counts in August 2009. The sentence was later cut to 30 years by state prison officials applying the laws on sentencing for multiple felonies.
"It wasn't our offer. It was the court's prerogative," said Paul C. Parisi, an Erie County assistant district attorney who served as a special prosecutor in the case.
"The DA couldn't believe she made that offer, when you go through all the stuff that's in the indictment," said Joseph Terranova, the court-appointed defense attorney whom Smith kept trying to fire.
Farkas had promised the attorneys in her chambers two months ago that, if Smith pleaded guilty to all 24 counts, she would treat him as a first-time violent felon.
"She regrets making that sentencing commitment, but she wasn't going to go back on it," Terranova said. "I'm really happy with it."
The guilty plea came as a surprise after a prolonged court session in which Smith was questioned at length about his ability to act as his own lawyer. Farkas has repeatedly refused to replace Terranova as Smith's counsel.
The case was mired in further disputes over DNA evidence, and without that, Terranova believed, Parisi had insufficient evidence to convict Smith.
After refusing to submit to a court-ordered DNA swab, Smith in September 2008 was handcuffed on the floor of Niagara Falls Police Headquarters and zapped with a Taser so that officers could open his mouth to take a swab from the inside of his cheek.
The use of that force was reason for overturning the eventual conviction obtained from the DNA sample, the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled last March.
Since then, Farkas has ordered Smith several times to give another DNA sample for use at his second trial, and Smith has refused.
Smith ordered Terranova to appeal Farkas' DNA order, but first Smith needed so-called "poor person relief" to be spared from having to pay filing fees.
On March 5, the Appellate Division refused that relief, which Terranova said was a tip-off that the appellate judges thought the appeal had no merit. That angered Smith, who blamed Terranova for the loss and tried again to have him fired.
"We were arguing these things, and then Joe said he wanted to talk to his client," Parisi said. Smith's plea followed shortly thereafter. The sentence will be made official May 29.
"I was saying to him for weeks, 'You won,' " Terranova said.
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The dreaded "fiscal cliff" created more than enough headaches leading into the New Year. But now that a deal has been reached, will there be any hangover for pocketbooks?
The tax hikes will hit high-income households – and working households will see 2 percent less in their paychecks as a payroll tax break comes to an end in 2013. That can add up.
Here's a look at what else is ahead:
• For 2013, the 2 percentage-point break on payroll taxes has an immediate hit to everyday spending, taking about $100 billion out of the U.S. economy in 2013. If you're making $1,000 a week, this tax hike means that you'd have $20 less a week in your pocket in 2013.
• Social Security taxes will apply to up to $113,700 of wages in 2013. The limit had been $110,100 of wages in 2012.
For some higher-paid taxpayers, the changes in the rate and taxable wages mean an extra $2,425.20 in payroll taxes in 2013.
The Social Security payroll tax is going to be restored back to the full 6.2 percent for employees.
• Some middle-class tax breaks remain in 2013.
A few specific tax breaks are going to be extended for five years now, as part of the fiscal cliff package – the higher-education related American Opportunity Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit, according to Mark Luscombe, principal analyst for CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business.
Luscombe noted that the bill also would permanently extend alternative minimum tax relief with inflation adjustments to the exemption amount.
• A 39.6 percent tax rate will be added to tax brackets and apply to wealthy families.
Taxable incomes above $450,000 for married couples filing joint returns will face the 39.6% rate in 2013 – up from 35%.
The higher rate would apply to earnings above $400,000 for singles.
President Obama had wanted to raise the top tax rate on individuals making more than $200,000 a year and families making more than $250,000 from 35 percent to 39.6 percent.
Luscombe noted that the compromise means that fewer households will be hit by the new 39.6 percent rate.
Luscombe said one positive is that tax brackets are to remain in place and not face sunset provisions in upcoming years, as well, which provides more certainty in tax planning.
• Some tax changes will hit other families, too.
A phaseout for personal exemptions will make a comeback in 2013, as well as a limit on itemized deductions for higher-income households.
Limits on itemized deductions, for example, will start when an individual has an adjusted gross income of $250,000, and a married couple filing a joint return has an adjusted gross income above $300,000. The limit comes into play when adjusted gross incomes exceed those thresholds.
Alan Gallatin, tax practice leader for Grant Thornton in Southfield, Mich., noted that if a married couple had $310,000 in adjusted gross income, a 3 percent haircut would apply to $10,000 – or could reduce itemized deductions by $300 in this example.
The amount of itemized deductions is not reduced by more than 80 percent. Certain items, such as medical expenses, investment interest, and casualty, theft or wagering losses are excluded.
The fiscal cliff deal reached last week is likely to cause about a 2 percent drag on the nation's gross domestic product – hitting mostly in the first and second quarters, said Robert Dye, chief economist for Dallas-based Comerica Bank.
But it could have been worse with a 4 percent drag or more, based on earlier forecasts, if tax hikes had been more extensive.
"I expect the U.S. economy to feel somewhat sluggish through the first half of this year," he said.
Dye now estimates that real GDP growth for the first quarter will be about 1 percent and can range from flat to 1 percent in the second quarter.
"I believe that the compromise budget bill passed by the House does not automatically throw the U.S. economy back into recession, but the odds of recession in 2013 are elevated, well above normal," Dye said.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. � Steven Spielberg�s Civil War epic �Lincoln� led the Golden Globes on Thursday with seven nominations, among them best drama, best director for Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.
Tied for second-place with five nominations each, including best drama, are Ben Affleck�s Iran hostage-crisis thriller �Argo� and Quentin Tarantino�s slave-turned-bounty-hunter tale �Django Unchained.�
Other best-drama nominees put forward by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association are Ang Lee's shipwreck story �Life of Pi� and Kathryn Bigelow�s Osama bin Laden manhunt thriller �Zero Dark Thirty.�
Nominated for best musical or comedy were: the British retiree adventure �The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel�; the Victor Hugo musical �Les Miserables�; the first-love tale �Moonrise Kingdom�; the fishing romance �Salmon Fishing in the Yemen�; and the lost-soul romance �Silver Linings Playbook.�
Globe attention can give contenders a boost for Hollywood�s top honors, the Academy Awards, whose nominations will come out Jan. 10, three days before the Globe ceremony.
The directing lineup came entirely from dramatic films, with Affleck, Bigelow, Lee, Spielberg and Tarantino all in the running.
�It�s very gratifying to get this many nominations from the HFPA for a film I worked so hard on and am so passionate about. I look forward to having fun at the Golden Globes with my cast mates and fellow nominees,� Tarantino said in a statement.
Filmmakers behind best musical or comedy nominees were shut out for director, including Tom Hooper for �Les Miserables� and David O. Russell for �Silver Linings Playbook.�
Along with Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Spielberg�s epic, best dramatic actor contenders are Richard Gere as a deceitful Wall Streeter in �Arbitrage�; John Hawkes as a polio victim trying to lose his virginity in �The Sessions�; Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy veteran under the sway of a cult leader in �The Master�; and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in �Flight.�
Dramatic-actress nominees are Jessica Chastain as a CIA analyst hunting Osama bin Laden in �Zero Dark Thirty�; Marion Cotillard as a whale biologist beset by tragedy in �Rust and Bone�; Helen Mirren as Alfred Hitchcock�s strong-minded wife in �Hitchcock�; Naomi Watts as a woman caught up in a devastating tsunami in �The Impossible�; and Rachel Weisz as a woman ruined by an affair in �The Deep Blue Sea.�
For musical or comedy actress, the lineup is Emily Blunt as a consultant for a Mideast sheik in �Salmon Fishing in the Yemen�; Judi Dench as a widow who retires overseas in �The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel�; Jennifer Lawrence as a young widow in a new romance in �Silver Linings Playbook�; Maggie Smith as an aging singer in a retirement home in �Quartet�; and Meryl Streep as a wife trying to save her marriage in �Hope Springs.�
Nominees for musical or comedy actor are Jack Black as a solicitous mortician in �Bernie�; Bradley Cooper as a troubled man fresh out of a mental hospital in �Silver Linings Playbook�; Hugh Jackman as Hugo�s long-suffering hero Jean Valjean in �Les Miserables�; Ewan McGregor as a British fisheries expert in �Salmon Fishing in the Yemen�; and Bill Murray as Franklin Roosevelt in �Hyde Park on Hudson.�
Cooper said he watched the telecast from his mother�s bedroom in Los Angeles and both were thrilled when co-presenter Megan Fox called his name.
Competing for supporting actor are Alan Arkin as a Hollywood producer helping a CIA operation in �Argo�; Leonardo DiCaprio as a cruel slave owner in �Django Unchained�; Philip Seymour Hoffman as a mesmerizing cult leader in �The Master�; Tommy Lee Jones as firebrand abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens in �Lincoln�; and Christoph Waltz as a genteel bounty hunter in �Django Unchained.�
The supporting-actress picks are Amy Adams as a cult leader�s devoted wife in �The Master�; Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln in �Lincoln�; Anne Hathaway as a mother fallen into prostitution in �Les Miserables�; Helen Hunt as a sexual surrogate in �The Sessions�; and Nicole Kidman as a trashy mistress of a Death Row inmate in �The Paperboy.�
Field said the story of Lincoln connected with moviegoers on a personal level.
�It really reflects about a family, a family who�s in the heart of it, who faces such hardship. And families are facing terrible hardships all over the world, and then this one man who rises above it and keeps his eye on the prize and really the cost that he paid,� she said.
Kidman was a dual nominee, also in the running as best actress in a TV movie or miniseries for �Hemingway & Gellhorn.�
�As an actor, you look for roles that are rich, complicated and that stretch you, and this year, I was blessed to find two,� Kidman said in a statement. �To have the chance to play them was a gift in itself and to then be acknowledged this way is icing on the cake.�
�Quartet� star Smith also had a second nomination, for supporting actress in a TV series, miniseries or movie for �Downton Abbey.�
Snubbed completely was the low-budget critical darling �Beasts of the Southern Wild,� which won top honors at last January�s Sundance Film Festival. Also shut out was the stripper hit �Magic Mike,� which had good buzz for supporting player Matthew McConaughey, who also earned acclaim for roles in �Bernie� and �Killer Joe.� Another film to not notch a single nomination was �The Hobbit,� a prelude to the �The Lord of the Rings� films, which all got Globe nods.
With three nominations, �Salmon Fishing in the Yemen� was a surprise inclusion Thursday because the film had virtually no awards buzz behind it.
There will be some friendly rivalry among the hosts at the Globe ceremony, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Both were nominated for best actress in a TV comedy, Fey for �30 Rock� and Poehler for �Parks and Recreation.�
Fey and Poehler follow Ricky Gervais, who was host the last three years and rubbed some Hollywood egos the wrong way with sharp wisecracks about A-list stars and the foreign press association itself.
The Sarah Palin drama �Game Change� leads TV contenders with five nominations: including best movie or miniseries and acting honors for Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris and Sarah Paulson.
Best TV comedy series nominees are �The Big Bang Theory,� �Episodes,� �Girls,� �Modern Family� and �Smash.� TV drama picks are �Breaking Bad,� �Boardwalk Empire,� �Downton Abbey: Season 2,� �Homeland� and �The Newsroom.�
Hayden Panettiere was in Nashville, Tenn., when she got word that she�d been nominated as best supporting actress in a TV series for �Nashville.�
�I had my phone on my chest sleeping because they told me to be around just in case, but I never expected to get this call,� she said. �It took me a second and then it hit me, and I just started welling up. I got pretty emotional.�
Globe acting winners often go on to receive the same prizes at the Oscars. All four Oscar winners last season � lead performers Meryl Streep of �The Iron Lady� and Jean Dujardin of �The Artist,� and supporting players Octavia Spencer of �The Help� and Christopher Plummer of �Beginners� � won Globes first.
The Globes have a spotty record predicting which films might go on to earn the best-picture prize at the Academy Awards, however.
Last year�s Oscar best-picture winner, �The Artist,� preceded that honor with a Globe win for best musical or comedy. But in the seven years before that, only one winner in the Globes� two best-picture categories � 2008�s �Slumdog Millionaire� � followed up with an Oscar best-picture win.
Along with 14 film prizes, the Globes hand out awards in 11 television categories.
Jodie Foster, a two-time Oscar and Globe winner for �The Accused� and �The Silence of the Lambs,� will receive the group�s Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.
With stars sharing drinks and dinner, the Globes have a reputation as one of Hollywood�s loose and unpredictable awards gatherings. Winners occasionally have been in the restroom when their names were announced, and there have been moments of onstage spontaneity such as Jack Nicholson mooning the crowd or Ving Rhames handing over his trophy to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon.
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Beginning this week Lundberg said Walmart customers can only buy three boxes of ammunition per day.
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Camp Richardson has done it again! Great ambiance for the Lake Tahoe Historical Society's annual meeting held in their warm and inviting Great Room. Many members and friends attended, enjoying the warmth of the fireplace and rustic surroundings reminiscent of the early days of our Lake Tahoe Community.
We thank Vanessa and her staff who cheerfully set up the room for 60 or so attendees, this time to listen to Mark McLaughlin's (The Storm King) program on Sierra Storms. We appreciate their hospitality and willingness to house our group, friends of Tahoe history at our four meetings throughout the year. Thank you, Camp Richardson.
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Dynamic defenseman Brendan Smith has ascended to the top of Red Wings Central's prospect ranking for the first time in his career.
Smith, who is off to an outstanding start in the American Hockey League with the Grand Rapids Griffins, edged past talented winger Tomas Tatar to seize the No. 1 spot on RWC's preliminary list for 2010-11.
The 6-foot-2 195-pounder is among the top-scoring AHL defensemen and rookies with six goals and nine assists for 15 points in 25 games.
"He has the upside to be a top-four defenseman in the NHL, a guy that can run the power play for you," said Griffins general manager Bob McNamara. "There's a ton of potential and a ton of upside there for him."
Smith was a Hobey Baker finalist after a sensational junior season with the Wisconsin Badgers in 2009-10. He's a great skater with dynamic offensive flair, but his defensive game has always been his Achilles heel.
With the Griffins, McNamara said that's been a "work in progress."
"There are occasions where he's a little risky on the offensive side, trying to do things he was able to do in college that he's not able to get away with here," McNamara said. "But all in all we've been real pleased. He plays a real hard, tough physical game and he brings offense to the table. He's kind of the complete package and he's dealing with the transition from amateur to pro."
Similar to Niklas Kronwall a half decade ago, it might not be long before Smith forces the Red Wings to make room for him on their roster. Red Wings GM Ken Holland has hinted it could be sooner than later.
"I think Brendan could play in the NHL right now," Holland told CanWest newspapers. "He could play 15 minutes (a night), but I'd rather he play 25-27 minutes in the minors, where he's on the ice all night long."
Here's a look at the rest of RWC's preliminary ranking.
2. LW Tomas Tatar (-1), Grand Rapids (AHL). Tatar hasn't dropped off, Smith has just climbed higher. He remains an outstanding prospect, and his seven-point AHL game served notice he's still on course to be a top-six forward.
3. LW Gustav Nyquist (+1), Maine (NCAA). Nyquist probably could be playing in the AHL right now, but the Red Wings are being patient and letting him get stronger and more pro-ready in college. Another top-six forward.
4. LW Jan Mursak (+1), Grand Rapids (AHL). He's almost as fast as Darren Helm and he's got a little more dangle. He kills penalties, does the dirty work along the boards, and could be an effective two-way NHLer next season.
5. G Thomas McCollum (+1), Grand Rapids (AHL). The disastrous rookie campaign that made you wonder why he was a first-round pick is a distant memory. He's put himself back on the map with a solid, confident game.
6. C Riley Sheahan (NR), Notre Dame (NCAA). His production is discouraging but we're willing to remain patient, for now. His numbers as an 18-year-old freshman were solid and his size and skill are a sought after combination.
7. C Calle Jarnkrok (NR), Brynas (SEL). Not to go overboard, but Henrik Zetterberg wasn't even playing in the Swedish Elite League at age 19 let alone establishing himself as a top scorer. Jarnkrok could be a home-run pick.
8. C Cory Emmerton (+3), Grand Rapids (AHL). Emmerton is producing more and continues to play a strong two-way game. He'll be on the bubble next season and needs to force his way on to the Red Wings' roster.
9. C/LW Joakim Andersson (-2), Grand Rapids (AHL). As a defensive forward, his game is measured in more than points, but one point isn't enough — even for him. If he doesn't pick it up, he'll further slide down the list.
10. D Brian Lashoff (–), Grand Rapids (AHL). Despite injuries and early-season struggles, Lashoff is already a solid AHLer whose rock-solid, pro-style game could make him an ideal third-pairing defenseman in the NHL.
11. LW Teemu Pulkkinen (NR), Jokerit (FIN). If injuries hadn't ravaged Pulkkinen's season in 2009-10, where would he have been drafted? Now healthy, he's living up to his reputation as a natural-born sniper at Finland's top level.
12. RW Mitchell Callahan (+6), Kelowna (WHL). Callahan has found a niche as an agitator/energizer and does the job as well as anyone. His breakthrough production in the WHL has made him the highest-rising prospect in the system.
13. C Landon Ferraro (-4), Everett (WHL). Simply put, more offense is expected from Ferraro. The Red Wings believe in him and have already signed him, but he's nowhere near the 37-goal man scouts saw in his draft year.
14. RW Andrej Nestrasil (-2), P.E.I. (QMJHL). While the rest of his draft class has signed with the Red Wings, Nestrasil keeps producing points. The big, lanky winger continues to show shades of a Tomas Kopecky-type game.
15. D Logan Pyett (-2), Grand Rapids (AHL). The mobile puck-mover is having a solid season on the farm. The Red Wings may have a few blueline openings next season, but Pyett needs to take another step to earn one of them.
16. D Adam Almqvist (-2), HV-71 (SEL). It's a little surprising Almqvist isn't producing more this season, but at the same time, he's averaging close to 20 minutes per night for a top team and is working on his all-around game.
17. D Max Nicastro (-1), Boston U. (NCAA). Nicastro is a similar prospect to Brian Lashoff who has started to develop a much-needed physical edge. He isn't producing much, though, and needs to show more two-way capability.
18. D Nick Jensen (+4), St. Cloud St. (NCAA). The Red Wings drafted him for his skating and those wheels have made him an instant hit as a freshman at St. Cloud State. Expect him to keep climbing this list.
19. C Brent Raedeke (-4), Grand Rapids (AHL). Coaches appreciate guys like Raedeke. He's a consistent, defensively-conscious center/winger who gives you everything he's got on every shift. There's a little Darren Helm to him.
20. G Petr Mrazek (NR), Ottawa (OHL). He's a dark-horse prospect who is emerging as one of the best goalies in the Ontario Hockey League. He could get a chance to start for the Czech Republic at the world junior championship.
21. C Louis-Marc Aubry (NR), Montreal (QMJHL). A big, rangy project who has already been signed to an entry-level contract.
22. D Gleason Fournier (-2), Rimouski (QMJHL). The Red Wings love blueliners who can skate and Fournier is among the best. He's already signed.
23. RW Trevor Parkes (NR), Montreal (QMJHL). Pro-style winger has had to earn everything he's gotten and is worth keeping an eye on.
24. C Willie Coetzee (-3), Grand Rapids (AHL). He's adjusting to the AHL but has an impressive skill-set and could break through at some point.
25. D Ben Marshall (NR), Omaha (USHL). A classic Red Wings "sleeper," the offensive-minded blueliner has adjusted nicely to the USHL.
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Ovarian cancer
is a disease in which cancer cells grow in the ovaries. The ovaries are a pair of organs in the female pelvis that produce eggs and female hormones.
Cancer occurs when cells in the body (in this case ovarian cells) divide without control or order. Normally, cells divide in a regulated manner. If cells keep dividing uncontrollably when new cells are not needed, a mass of tissue forms, called a growth or tumor. The term cancer refers to malignant tumors, which can invade nearby tissues and can spread to other parts of the body. A benign tumor does not spread.
There are several cancers and several more benign tumors that may occur in the ovaries.
Most cancers are called epithelial cell tumors, which are the focus of this article. These tumors may grow to a considerable size before they cause severe symptoms. Malignant ovarian tumors may spread by shedding cells into the peritoneal cavity, which then causes metastasis throughout the abdomen—making these tumors difficult to treat. Early detection is very important to help prevent the cancer from spreading.
A specific cause of ovarian cancer has not been discovered, but certain risk factors are associated with the disease. Having a family history of ovarian cancer puts you at much higher risk. Your reproductive (female) history may also affect your risk, such as the number of times you have been pregnant and when you started and stopped your periods. In addition, there may be some environmental factors, but these are not definite.
Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among United States women and the leading cause of death due to cancer of the gynecologic organs.
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Cook Time 15 minutes
4 ounces Eden Dried Cranberries, 1 bag
4 ounces Eden Dried Montmorency Cherries, 1 bag, coarsely chopped
2 cups Eden Apple Juice
1 pinch Eden Sea Salt
2 Tbsp Eden Kuzu Root Starch, dissolved in 1/4 cup cold water
Place all ingredients except the kuzu in a medium saucepan, cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to low and simmer for 15 minutes. Dissolve kuzu and slowly add it to the fruit, stirring constantly until thick. Serve room temperature of refrigerate to cool.
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Income Taxation of Academics Studying or Teaching Abroad
Dennis S. Karjala
Arizona State University College of Law
44 J. Legal Educ. 531 (1994)
When university professors or other educators teach or conduct research abroad, tax planning before and during the foreign visit can often result in substantial tax savings. The United States has tax treaties with most foreign countries providing that academics who study or teach abroad are exempt from income taxation in the host country. In seeking to reduce U.S. income tax liability, most academics who work overseas will be able to take advantage of one of two mutually exclusive tax benefits. The first is a deduction in calculating taxable income for away-from-home traveling expenses (including food and lodging) under section 162(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. The deduction is available for taxpayers whose tax home remains at the vicinity of their U.S. home institution. The other is an exclusion of foreign earned income from gross income under section 911 of the Code. The exclusion is available for taxpayers whose tax home has shifted to a foreign country and who meet certain other conditions, the most important of which is that they be physically present in a foreign country for at least 330 full days out of any consecutive twelve-month period.
Taxpayers eligible for the deduction are ineligible for the exclusion, and vice versa. The exclusion generally results in greater tax savings for persons who have significant foreign earned income (such as sabbatical salaries or foundation grants). The deduction may result in greater savings for taxpayers who have small amounts of foreign earned income, or substantial amounts of deductible traveling expenses. This article discusses the basic choices available to academics who work abroad while maintaining employment ties to a U.S. academic institution and explains how planning can optimize those choices.
Keywords: Tax Deduction, Foreign Visit Tax Planning, Academics
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SanDisk has unveiled a new SSD today called the
Ultra that is now shipping to retailers.
The Ultra
SSD is sized to work in a notebook or a desktop computer and is designed
for a drop-in upgrade to a machine for users. The SSD reads up to 280MB/s
sequentially and up to 270MB/s sequential writes are supported.
The drive has a mean time between failure rating
of up to a million hours.
"Replacing a computer's hard disk drive with
the SanDisk Ultra SSD is more cost effective than buying a new PC," said
Kent Perry, director, product marketing, SanDisk. "Our new SSD delivers
greater speed and reliability than a hard disk drive at an affordable
The SSD is offered in three capacities with a 60GB
for $129.99, 120GB for $219.99, and a 240GB for $449.99. All three capacities
are available right now in the U.S. and can be purchased from Newegg and other
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Bachelor Pad is back – so let the backstabbing begin!
The ABC show, which reunites some of the most memorable contestants from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette to compete for $250,000, will bring together exes Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi, a source tells PEOPLE, when season 2 premieres Aug. 8 on ABC.
Pavelka and Girardi's split last June ended in a nasty feud that played out on national TV, as Jake accused his season's winner of being unfaithful, while she said he was a liar and a "fame whore."
Who else is taking up residence (and jockeying for camera time) on Bachelor Pad 2 according to the source?
Kasey Kahl, who hoped to "guard and protect" Ali Fedotowsky's heart last year; Erica Rose, who brought princess appeal to Lorenzo Borghese's season; Justin Rego, who played drama king on Fedotowsky's seaon with a secret girlfriend scandal; and Michelle Money, who became the resident villain for aggressively pursuing Brad Womack.
With so much tension under one roof, it's going to be one wild summer! ABC had no comment.
Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi Move Into Bachelor Pad 2
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hey ! i found this page from a manga a while ago and i've been trying to find the name of the manga but i didn't . i really want to read it so if someone can help me ... it's about a girl that is in the classroom answering the teachers questions . the teacher asks her something that she doesn't know and the boy who was standing in front of her sais"idiot " to her and writes on a sheet of paper "x=5" and then shows her . she answers the teacher thinkking "though i just realized it today ..." please help me ... i would put the page but i don't really know how so ... (new here:D)
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RIO DE JANEIRO, 21 June 2012 – Kandeh K. Yumkella, the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and head of UN-Energy, said today that more than a billion people in the developing world will benefit from the Sustainable Energy for All initiative which is gaining momentum, with pledges of billions of dollars coming from governments, multilateral development banks, international and civil society organizations.
"Hundreds of millions of beneficiaries in developing countries will gain improved access to energy through grid extension and off-grid solutions, as well as scaled-up renewable energy sources, increased investment, and improved energy policies," said Yumkella.
Yumkella added that to-date, "more than one hundred commitments and actions have been already mobilized in support of the Sustainable Energy for All initiative. This demonstrates a powerful early momentum from governments, private sector companies and civil society organizations to achieve Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Sustainable Energy for All initiative by 2030."
The Sustainable Energy for All initiative brings together governments, businesses and civil society groups in an unprecedented effort to transform the world's energy systems by 2030. It has set three complementary goals to be achieved by 2030: ensure universal access to modern energy services; double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
A high-level group for the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, appointed by Secretary-General Ban, includes distinguished global leaders in business, finance, Governments, and civil society, and is co-chaired by UNIDO Director-General Yumkella and the Chairman of Bank of America, Charles O. Holliday.
Yumkella said that since its inception in September 2011, more than 50 Governments from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Small Islands Developing States have engaged with the initiative and are developing energy plans and programmes. The majority are from developing countries that have initiated or completed energy sector assessments and gap analyses, laying the groundwork to scale up action in priority areas, undertake strategic reforms where needed, and attract new investments and financial support.
Businesses and investors have committed over USD 50 billion to achieve the initiative's three objectives. Tens of billions of dollars have been committed by other key stakeholders – governments, multilateral development banks, international and civil society organizations – to catalyze action in support of the initiative.
In addition, said Yumkella, "the Government of Brazil, a very strong supporter of UNIDO and the Sustainable Energy for All initiative has demonstrated outstanding leadership by committing to invest USD 4.3 billion to achieve universal energy access in Brazil by 2014."
As a global leader in sustainable energy, Brazil will invest an additional USD 235 billion over ten years in renewable energy and produce a total energy savings of 9 per cent by 2030. The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) will continue to support the production of sustainable energy in others countries, including by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the African Development Bank. ELETROBRAS will cooperate internationally with other power companies to develop competitive renewable sources of electricity and associated transmission systems.
Yumkella also said that UNIDO's concrete contribution to the Sustainable Energy for All initiative was a recent report on industrial energy efficiency which is "key to sustainable industrial development, especially in developing countries".
UNIDO's Industrial Development Report urges investment in energy-efficient technologies in order to provide the economic, environmental and social dividends that will help achieve sustainable growth.
The publication, entitled "Industrial energy efficiency for sustainable wealth creation: capturing environmental, economic and social dividends", stresses that sustainable energy production is essential to overcome the major challenges the world faces today.
"A world of seven billion must take into account industrial energy efficiency if it wants to address such challenges as green growth, employment generation, security, climate change, food production and poverty reduction. Industrial energy efficiency is essential for strengthening economies, protecting ecosystems and achieving social benefits," said Yumkella.
The UNIDO report states that energy consumption could grow even faster as developing countries reduce the income gap and grapple with growing populations demanding more manufactured products. This makes it imperative to remove barriers that currently impede energy efficiency investments.
At Rio+20, UNIDO also launched the Green Industry Platform, a global high-level multi-stakeholder partnership intended to act as a forum for catalyzing, mobilizing and mainstreaming action on green industry around the world.
"The Green Industry Platform will bring together governmental, business and civil society leaders. Already, it is supported by some 70 organizations, including national governments, businesses and international organizations. An Advisory Board is being established that will comprise of 10-12 senior representatives from governmental, private and civil society sectors. The Platform is set to secure concrete commitments and mobilize action in support of the Green Industry Agenda, encouraging the more efficient use of energy and raw materials in manufacturing process services," said Yumkella.
He added that the Platform was exemplary for the public private partnerships that are needed to scale up and mainstream the greening of industrial development and the creation of green industry. "It will give impetus to the many inspiring initiatives at national and sector level, that will be united to direct a global transition to low carbon and cleaner industry," Yumkella said.
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Mabel Ann Blackwell
Nov. 17, 1911-Dec. 15, 2012
Age: 101
Residence: Greeley
Mabel Blackwell, 101, of Greeley, passed away Dec. 15, 2012, at her home. Mabel was born Nov. 17, 1911, in Wray, Colo., to Todd Kouba and Sarah (Howes) Kouba.
Mabel was raised on her father's homestead northwest of Wray. She married Merle E. Blackwell, Jan. 18, 1936, in Wray. Merle passed away Jan. 19, 2007. Mabel graduated from Colorado public school system in Wray in 1926. Mabel and Merle worked the family farm north of Greeley. She was a homemaker, caregiver at Weld County Nursing Home and Weld County General Hospital. She was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene.
Mabel is preceded in death by her mother; father; six siblings; daughter, Judith L. Harvey; and husband of 71 years, Merle Blackwell.
She is survived by daughter, Patricia A. Cottrell (Dale) of Mountain Home, Ark.; and son, Ronald Blackwell of Greeley; seven grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren and several great-great grandchildren.
Visitation from 9–10 a.m. Friday, followed by the funeral service at 10 a.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene. Interment Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Please visit www.stoddardsunset.com to sign online guestbook.
Pearl Eaton
Aug. 19, 1921-Dec. 15, 2012
Age: 91
Residence: Greeley
Pearl "Nickie" Eaton, 91, passed away on Dec. 15, 2012, at The Bridge Assisted Living in Greeley, where she had lived for the last 6 1/2 years.
Nickie was born on Aug. 19, 1921, in Mineral, Va., the youngest of eight children. After graduating high school she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she attended Bethesda School of Nursing and earned her R.N.
In 1950 she married James W Eaton. Together they had two children, a son and a daughter, to whom she devoted herself. Nickie's family was a source of great pride and happiness. Nickie was active in helping others through her membership at Forest Chapel United Methodist Church, leading many ladies Circles and craft projects.
In 1988 Nickie and Jim retired to Green Valley, Ariz., where they enjoyed an active lifestyle that included many long-time friendships as well as tennis, travel, and music. Nickie was a member of Green Valley Presbyterian Church and the Bethesda Nursing School Alumni Association.
Nickie is preceded in death by her husband, Jim; her parents; and siblings. She is survived by a son, John Eaton and his wife Adele, of Roswell, Ga.; her daughter, Vicki Baier of Windsor, Colo.; and grandchildren, Cuyler Eaton, Michael Baier and Matthew Baier.
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, at the Bridge Assisted Living, 4750 W. 25th St., Greeley. A second memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at Valley Presbyterian Church in Green Valley, Ariz.
Remembrances may be made to the "Alzheimer's Foundation of America" in care of Adamson Funeral & Cremation Services, 2000 47th Ave., Greeley, CO 80634.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.adamsonchapels.com.
Frances L. Rolfs
Nov. 2, 1923-Dec. 16, 2012
Age: 89
Residence: Fort Collins
Frances L. Rolfs, 89, of Fort Collins, Colo., passed away Dec. 16, 2012. She was born Nov. 2, 1923, in Johnstown, Neb., to Joseph and Lydia Pelc. She graduated from Johnstown High School.
Frances married Franklin H. Rolfs on May 15, 1943, in Valentine, Neb., and he passed away March 29, 1999. She previously resided in Chicago, Ill., before moving to Fort Collins.
She was employed by Sears and Roebuck, Texaco, and Montgomery Ward, working in the data services department. She was also a teacher in the Johnstown area. She worked for Walmart in Fort Collins for 15 years.
Frances loved to spend her time going for rides, reading and she also loved dogs. When she was a child, she put up hay with a team of horses and lived on a cattle ranch in Johnstown, Neb. She was also a champion speller. She was a very loving and sincere person.
Frances is survived by her daughter, Bonnie L. (Donald) Deibel from Platteville, Colo. She was preceded in death by three brothers and a sister.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association, in care of Allnutt Funeral Service, 650 W. Drake Road, Fort Collins, CO 85026.
Please visit www.allnutt.com to view Frances' online obituary and send a message of condolence to the family.
Guillermo "Willie" Sanchez
June 25, 1972-Dec. 15, 2012
Age: 40
Residence: Greeley
Guillermo "Willie" Sanchez, 40, of Greeley, died Dec. 15, 2012, at North Colorado Medical Center. He was born June 25, 1972, in Greeley, to Santos and Angelica Sanchez.
He was raised in LaSalle and graduated from Valley High School in Gilcrest in 1991. He was very proud to have been a Valley Vike and part of the wrestling team. During high school, he was a cook for the local LaSalle restaurant, Panchitas, for many years. After graduating he had worked several production jobs before landing his job at Kodak/Carestream in shipping and receiving. He worked there for 17 years.
Willie enjoyed playing darts and had attended tournaments in Las Vegas and won several awards. Everyone knew Willie was an avid and loyal Broncos fan. Among darts and Broncos, one of his other favorite pastimes was performing karaoke. He had even competed once on a local TV station.
Willie is survived by his fiancé, Malene Stoeckel; his granddaughters, Natalia and Mariah Hawley; brothers and sisters, Jorge (Lupe) Sanchez of Bartlesville, Okla., Joe (Kay) Sanchez of Hood River, Ore., Argelia "Angie" Sanchez and Elsa Sanchez of LaSalle, Maria Sanchez (Jaime Flores) of LaSalle, Julie (Pablo) Sanchez-Rios of Kersey, Nancy (J. Carmen) Sanchez-Baca of Greeley, Jesus (Yvonne) Sanchez of Greeley and Amanda (Leon) Sanchez-Ornelas of Greeley; uncle and aunt, Julian and Martha Arambula of Platteville; cousins, Claudia Arambula Abrego of Denver, Marcos Martinez of Greeley; and many nieces and nephews. He also leaves behind his beloved Lucy, his baby Chihuahua who was very protective of him.
Willie was preceded in death by his father and mother; nephew, Adan Omar Gallegos; niece, Loreyna Sanchez; and his cousins, Anita and Elva Arambula.
Recitation of the Rosary 9:30 a.m., followed by Memorial Mass at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at St. Peter's Catholic Church.
Please visit www.stoddardsunset.com to sign online guestbook.
Irene Van Gundy
Oct. 31, 1926-Dec. 14, 2012
Age: 86
Residence: Greeley
Irene Van Gundy, 86, of Greeley, died Dec. 14, 2012, at Safe Harbor, Life Care Center, Greeley. Irene was born in Sterling, Colo., on Oct. 31, 1926, to Carl and Margaret (Bauer) Maurer.
She graduated from St. Anthony's High School, where she participated in speech and drama. After her children were grown, she moved to Greeley in 1964 to pursue a college education at CSC, now the University of Northern Colorado. She received her bachelor's degree in English education in 1967, and her master's degree in 1971. Irene taught at Greeley West High School for 20 years and was active in speech activities. She also attended many sports events, especially baseball, and was known as "Baseball Mom." She also supported drama and music events. Throughout her life, she was always interested in helping others. She volunteered at North Colorado Medical Center and was active in the Greeley Exchange Club. She enjoyed her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Irene is survived by her daughter, Kathy Hlad of Greeley; a son, Jim Van Gundy of Mexico. She had five grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, at Stoddard Funeral Home. A private family service will be held with inurnment at Sunset Memorial Gardens prior to the memorial service.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the baseball program at Greeley West High School or the Alzheimer's Association in care of Stoddard Funeral Home, 3205 28th St., Greeley, CO 80634.
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The picture is becoming clearer regarding Robert Griffin III.
The Washington Redskins' rookie quarterback underwent knee surgery Wednesday to treat a torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) and LCL (lateral collateral ligament). Given the fact that he needed repair of his LCL, and that it is a second ACL reconstruction (revision ACL operations generally have lower success rates and often longer recoveries for athletes), concern that RG3 might miss the 2013 season is at least warranted.
But, Redskins' team physician Dr. James Andrews was optimistic Griffin would be back on the field sooner.
"We expect a full recovery, and it is everybody's hope and belief that due to Robert's high motivation, he will be ready for the 2013 season," Andrews said in a statement released by the team. "The goal of his treatment is to give him the best opportunity for a long professional career."
The most hotly contested aspect of his injury Sunday centers around whether he should have been on the field in the first place.
USA Today's Robert Klemko reported Sunday that Andrews said that he never cleared RG3 to play after his initial injury Dec. 9. After seemingly conflicting reports from coach Mike Shanahan and a later clarification by Dr. Andrews, it appears that Griffin never had trainers or team doctors check his knee before he ran back on the field. Griffin could not play effectively, and the team quickly took him out.
A later MRI reportedly showed only a grade I sprain of his LCL. After missing the next game against the Cleveland Browns, he returned in a knee brace to play the final two regular season games. While he was on the field, it was evident he lacked his usual ability to run and change directions. It was expected that he would continue to improve each week and hopefully be near 100 percent on Sunday for the team's first home playoff appearance in 13 years.
Fast forward to the first quarter Sunday. Late in their second touchdown drive, RGIII landed awkwardly and was in obvious pain. After the touchdown that put the Redskins up 14-0, Griffin went to the training room to be examined by the medical staff. He returned to play but clearly appeared to be limited.
Thousands of fans in attendance and millions watching on television saw his knee buckle horrifically as he tried to change directions running down a bad snap in the fourth quarter.
After the game, Griffin told reporters that he was determined to play after his first-quarter injury. Shanahan said that Griffin told him, "Coach, there's a difference between injured and being hurt. I can guarantee I'm hurting right now — give me a chance to win this football game, because I can guarantee I'm not injured."
The question that fans and media have been asking since Sunday was whether RGIII should have been allowed to play or whether coaches or doctors should have held him out after that first injury.
Obviously I wasn't in the training room Sunday, so I cannot offer an opinion specifically in this case. There is no indication that Griffin played against medical advice or that doctors let him play despite a serious injury. I am not judging the decision to let RGIII play.
In general, though, there are two basic questions a team physician has to answer to decide whether to allow any player back into a game after an injury.
Is the player likely to make the injury worse by returning to the game?
Can the player effectively do his or her job on the field?
While each injury is different, the decision-making process itself is that simple. For example, if an athlete tears her ACL in a soccer game but wants to keep playing, the doctor should remove her. Her knee will likely give way when she tries to change directions or land from a jump. If her knee buckles, she risks further injury, such as damage to a meniscus, articular cartilage, or another ligament.
Likewise, if an athlete has a mild shoulder separation, he probably won't make it worse by going back in. But if he is a free safety who can't lift his arm to make a tackle because of pain, he isn't helping himself or his team.
In both cases, the team doctor would decide to hold the player out. However, if the athlete has an injury where he does not risk further harm to himself and he can do his job on the field, then we usually let him try to play, watching closely for signs of trouble.
In his post-game press conference, Griffin emphatically stated, "I'm the quarterback of this team. My job is to be out there if I can play. And to answer the next question, no, I don't feel like me being out there hurt the team in any way. I'm the best option for this team, and that's why I'm the starter."
It is this heart and determination, on top of their athletic ability, that makes fans enjoy watching these elite athletes compete. And that determination to return from injury and rehab from surgery makes them a joy to treat as orthopaedic surgeons.
As team doctors, though, we have to make sure that athletes who fight to play through injuries aren't hurting themselves in the process.
Dr. David Geier is an orthopaedic surgeon and Director of MUSC Sports Medicine. For more information about football injuries and other sports medicine topics, go to Dr. Geier's blog at drdavidgeier.com


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Place phosphorus correctly
Place phosphorus correctly
by Tom Bruulsema
The author is the Northeast director for International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI).
Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for growing crops. But in the wrong place — in excess concentration in streams, rivers, and lakes — it can lead to algal blooms. To grow crops without harming water, the right source of fertilizer P must be applied at the right rate, right time, and right place. It's called 4R Nutrient Stewardship.
Source. Plants need P dissolved in water. If we had a source that would dissolve only in the water taken up by the plant, but not in the water leaving the field, it would be the solution. But we don't. We do need sources that can be conveniently placed in the soil.
Rate. Fertilizing to recommendations based on soil and plant analysis is important.
Time. It's important to apply when the risk of runoff is low. Research shows that when P fertilizer is left on the soil surface, any rainfall-induced runoff within the next several weeks will contain much-elevated levels of soluble P. While such runoff wouldn't carry away more than a small percentage of the P applied, it doesn't take much P loss to start an algal bloom.
Place holds the greatest potential
The "right place" likely holds the greatest opportunity for improvement. The right place includes:
Where the soil doesn't have enough. Soil testing identifies where crops need it most.
In zones of need within fields. This calls for mapping variability in soil properties and soil test levels.
Close to the roots of the plants that need it. Phosphorus isn't very mobile in the soil. Many crops, especially corn, have a special need for P early in the growing season. With or near the seed is a good place for P. Applying it in bands below the soil surface reduces the risk of it moving to water by surface runoff.
In a cropping system geared to higher yields. Phosphorus enrichment gives a seedling greater potential which can only be attained when everything else is managed to avoid limitations. High yields remove more P from the soil, and the removal must be replaced to maintain soil fertility.
Into a soil that can take in and hold as much water as possible. Tillage and crop residue management, over the long term, influence soil structure in a site-specific manner. No single tillage system fits all situations, but the soil conservation strategy needs to aim for high water infiltration, high water storage, and minimal stratification of soil P levels.
There are wrong places to put P, too. To minimize impacts on water quality, you need to avoid putting soluble forms of P on the surface of runoff-susceptible soils, especially during the critical periods . . . late fall and early spring in most areas.


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The recently enacted credit card laws [3] are having some unintended consequences [4]. Just as many places reported, credit card companies are now turning to other "innovative" ways to drum up revenue – one of those silly unintended consequences. It turns out, some are now requiring that you make a minimum amount in purchases a year to avoid an annual fee. Sam recently received a letter from Citi about this:
My husband recently received a notice form his Citi Master Card that they will now begin charging him $35 per year as an annual membership fees. The membership fees will be waived if at the end of the year we make more than $2400 in purchases. We know for a fact that we will not meet that $2400 amount. We are thinking about canceling his credit card but then we thought that would probably hurt his credit score. What should we do?
The first strategy I would try is to ask if the fee could be waived – unfortunately, she tried that and Citi said "No."
The next strategy I would try is to consolidate that card into another Citi [5] card without a $2400 requirement. Sam didn't have another card so this option was out of the question.
If neither of those two easy techniques work, you could use a trick I revealed for busting cashback tiers on credit cards – buying Presidential $1 coins [6]. At the moment, there are five (six technically because one set is supposed to be released August 11th, but the Mint website [7] doesn't reflect that) sets of 250 coins available and you can buy 2 each with free shipping. That gives you $2500 in actual money can you deposit in your bank.
If you don't want the hassle, you can always just cancel the card. It will hurt your score but unless you plan on buying a house or car in the next year, I'd rather dump the card, take the credit score hit, and not pay $35 a year for nothing.


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Wild horse, burro adoptions being held at Taylor County Expo Center
ABILENE, Texas - The Bureau of Land Management is holding wild horse and burro adoptions at the Taylor County Expo Center.
The adoption fee is $125 and that is set by law. Buyers must be at least 18 years of age. They also need to have a minimum of 400 square feet of corral space. Animals will be up for adoption Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 8 to noon.
Those that adopt an adult horse, four years of age or older, the government will pay you to offset your care and feeding costs, but the Bureau of Land Management would like to remind potential buyers these are not domesticated animals.
"It's important for people to understand if you're looking at adopting a wild horse to understand that it is in fact a wild animal," said Paul McGuire, spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management.
For those willing to train a wild horse or donkey, there are many reasons to choose one of the animals at the adoption event.
"Animals that we remove from the public range in order to keep those herds healthy and in balance with the land, we need to find homes for them and that's where the adoption program comes into play," McGuire said.
For those that just want someone to love, they have that too.
"That's exactly what'll happen. She'll get spoiled," said Kenny Brubaker, who adopted a horse Thursday.
The animals are rounded up in 10 different states by the BLM. Wild horses and burros have no natural predators and their herd can double every four years if it is not controlled. That's why the bureau removes thousands of the animals from the range every year and holds adoption events around the country.
Information about future events is at www.blm.gov


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When you ride like an asshole or above your limits. Squids don't wear any proper riding gear. Squids typically ride a Suzuki, and don't give to shits about anyone,or their bike
av -Mr.YummiR6 26 mars 2014
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The masturbatory act of massaging the head of your cock in a squid-like motion.
Dude I was squidding so hard last night I inked all over my computer!
av UmfangMeister 18 februari 2011
The act of which one gives the breasts of a female specimen a gentle caress and grab in a squid like motion from base to tip.
jesus christ guys I did it! After finding out what squidding is and how much girls like it I managed to squid a girl last night.
av TheSwagMeisterOfBerlin 9 augusti 2016
to deposite one's ejaculate in a public place.
'Laura is always squidding in the locker room at the gym'
av looceefir 15 juli 2008
To discharge liquid from the anus.
Last night's Mexican dinner was amazing, but I've been squidding all morning.
av murrayw76 17 april 2009
Tickling the anus of another in a surprise attack motion, using your fingers much like the thentacly motion of that of a squid.
Please don't start squidding me again.
av squidpants 29 april 2007
When one metaphorically inks the water of an argument when they feel cornered or beat then swims away in retreat.
"Stop squidding LaFupa and have some conviction with what you say."
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A 34-year-old Lancaster County man has been convicted of having sexual contact with minors.
District Attorney Craig Stedman said Daniel Leppien employed girls 16 and under at an arcade he ran out of the bottom level of a home in Marietta that he shared with his mother.
Police said Leppien used the business as an opportunity to flirt with the girls and create an environment where he could have sex with them.
Officials said they identified five victims. They said the incidents began in July, 2011 and continued until October, 2011.
Leppien faced 19 counts from the accusers. A jury convicted him on all of them.


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Celebrate Filipino American History Month At PFF21
October is month with many names. In the United States, this month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Clergy Appreciation Month, and National Squirrel Awareness Month, just to name a few. While all are good things to observe during the month of October, there's one more that's near and dear to my heart: Filipino American History Month.


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Source: Reuters
quote: Thanks again. One last question, motivated by your observation about raw vs. jpeg (and by the considered responses you've given above): I've never worked with raw (indeed, outside of those in my computer and phone, I've not yet owned a digital camera, not having returned to the hobby since I left it after the demise of film), and I'm wondering how it would not be burdensome to have to do post-production (required by raw) on each of one's shots. Back when I shot film (mostly 35 mm, but also some medium format), while I liked to compose my shots, adjust dof, etc., I never liked bothering with developing, which seems the film analog of manipulating raw files. I'd be interested to hear your observations on this, if it wouldn't be a burden.
quote: That's actually why I was hoping for effective in-camera HDR -- HDR is a good way to motivate a film person into digital, since it's a powerful, and non-gimmicky, photographic technique uniquely available from digital, and I was looking forward to being able to implement it routinely without a lot of extra work -- not so much to get that HDR look, but simply to routinely improve the dynamic range of my photos. Indeed, since what it offers -- increased dynamic range -- seems so fundamental (it's more than a mere feature -- I would think it improves performance), I don't understand why it's not considered an essential part of all digital cameras. Further, with sufficiently sophisticated auto-alignment algorithms, it seems one could routinely use a non-bracketed form of burst-mode HDR to take better conventional pictures in low light (would summing 3 pics give similar low-light performance to a single pic with a much larger sensor?), thus significantly extending the usable range of compact cameras. Of course, I'm speaking as a digicam neophyte.]
quote: Yeah, I've heard some find Lightroom much more convenient than Photoshop, so I may purchase the former instead of upgrading my Adobe suite from CS3 to CS6. Though I understand LR doesn't align images, so for HDR one would need LR + something like Photomatix (or Photoshop).
quote: Never understood why you got a bad rep around here nor why after being senselessly abused you stick around.


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Ask Joe Kocur anything you've ever wanted to know!
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COLUMBIA — South Carolina's team doctor and orthopedic surgeon, Jeffrey Guy, attended the 2011 NFL scouting combine as a guest of the Carolina Panthers.
NFL CombineWHEN: Today - Tuesday WHERE: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis WORKOUT SCHEDULE: Saturday (tight ends, offensive line, special teams); Sunday (quarterbacks, wide receivers, running backs); Monday (defensive linemen, linebackers); Tuesday (defensive backs)USC PARTICIPANTS: TE Justice Cunningham, LB DeVonte Holloman, OL T.J Johnson, RB Marcus Lattimore, WR Ace Sanders, DB D.J. Swearinger, DL Devin Taylor CLEMSON PARTICIPANTS: RB Andre Ellington, DL Malliciah Goodman, WR DeAndre Hopkins
Though Guy was part of an NFL program designed to educate college football's doctors on the combine's medical examinations, he spent part of his time talking with USC's players who attended that combine.
"One of our kids was kind of upset about (the exams)," Guy said. "He said, 'I feel like they're trying to find something.' He's right. They are trying to find something."
That is the combine's overarching goal — trying to find something. With millions of dollars in draft investments at stake, the combine lets teams obtain tangible data about potential picks.
Most public attention focuses on drills, such as the 40-yard dash, which are now broadcast on live television. But for players recovering from a serious injury, like former USC running back Marcus Lattimore, the most important part of the combine is the more secretive medical exams.
"I think that would be the most fascinating thing for the NFL Network to show at the combine," said Dr. David Geier, an orthopedic surgeon and the Medical University of South Carolina's director of sports medicine, who attended the 2005 combine with the St. Louis Rams' doctors.
The combine, and all of its obsessively thorough analysis of players, runs today through Tuesday in Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium. Perhaps no part of it more closely replicates a grocery store produce section than the medical exams. It is there, in a secure set of rooms not far from the on-field drills, that players are poked, prodded and questioned about their physical condition as NFL team doctors search for data of their own.
Lattimore might have been a first-round pick in April's draft if not for the right knee injury he suffered Oct. 27 against Tennessee. In a gruesome collision, he dislocated his knee and tore three of its four ligaments. Lattimore has been rehabilitating in Pensacola, Fla., and while he has expressed optimism about his progress in media interviews, he will not participate in drills at the combine or run at USC's pro day on March 27.
Lattimore will interview with teams at the combine, and while everyone he talks to probably will leave impressed by his mature and positive demeanor, the medical exams in Indianapolis and a check-up just before the draft are vastly more important in determining where he will be selected.
"The NFL is collectively holding its breath to see where he is," said NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock. "If he can play next year, even if it's the second half of the year, that will add to his value. I think a third-round grade is fair for him, because you're going to get his most production two years down the line."
Jury still out
So where is Lattimore in his recovery?
Not surprisingly, Lattimore has said he plans to play in 2013. While Guy said in December that it wasn't impossible, he said this week that "it's too early to tell" if it will actually happen. Famed surgeon Dr. James Andrews agreed, though he told USA Today that Lattimore is three months ahead of his rehab schedule and "twice as far along as we ever expected him to be."
"Marcus is on schedule," Guy said. "I never use the word 'ahead of schedule.' He's doing really well, but when you talk about ligament surgery, the strength of ligaments is based on the concept of re-developing a blood supply. There's only so much you can do (in rehab) while that's happening."
With assistance from Andrews, Guy performed Lattimore's right knee operation. Guy also fixed the anterior cruciate ligament in Lattimore's left knee in 2011, an injury he completely recovered from before hurting his right knee.
Though Guy is not directly supervising Lattimore's current rehab, he speaks to Lattimore regularly, and Lattimore's physical therapist sends Guy videos of the rehab process.
Guy said Lattimore is approaching the critical four-month anniversary of his Nov. 2 surgery. In the first four months, the surgical grafts in the knee take hold and blood supply ideally improves. The next two months will be when Lattimore increases his leg strength.
Because Lattimore is still in the four-month window, his running has been limited to an underwater treadmill. Moreover, Guy said, "we're a little bit more cautious" with Lattimore's rehab, because he tore multiple ligaments, not just an ACL.
But Lattimore has regained range of motion in his knee, and leg muscle strength. When doctors touch his knee to measure its progress "the knee feels really good," Guy said.
"But the bottom line is, it doesn't really matter if they feel like he's ahead of the game," Guy said. "The (NFL) teams themselves are going to have to make a final decision of whether or not they want him to play. These teams are not going to draft Marcus and try to hurry him back because they want to try to get him to play. There's nobody out there right now that could tell you Marcus is going to play in 2013. The jury is out."
Lattimore's big day
NFL organizations are notoriously paranoid about other teams learning their inner workings. But the NFL's medical community is more open, and that's on full display at the combine.
One of the Panthers' doctors who attended the 2011 combine with Guy was Dr. Robert B. Anderson, a renowned foot and ankle specialist. Anderson also serves as a consultant for other NFL teams. So when other team doctors noticed a foot or ankle injury during a combine exam, they poked their heads into Anderson's room and asked his opinion.
"In general, they're just trying to find out the status of all these kids," Guy said. "All the politics, they let all that stuff happen at other levels."
For Lattimore, the medical exams are scheduled to begin Thursday, with a hospital pre-exam, X-rays and MRIs on both knees. For all 333 players who attend the combine, any body part they ever significantly injured likely will receive an MRI when they arrive.
"The joke when I was Indianapolis (for the 2005 combine) is they run every MRI in town 24 hours a day for the week of the combine," Geier said.
All players also undergo a standard physical, with blood tests and an EKG heart exam.
Then Lattimore's serious business starts Friday, in secure exam rooms. There are five to six NFL team doctors in each room. One will examine Lattimore's knees. The doctor will combine his observations of Lattimore's MRIs and knees with the operation notes from Lattimore's surgeries, and then deliver a spoken presentation about Lattimore to the other doctors. A full written report on Lattimore's exam and injury and surgery history will be given to the doctors.
As Lattimore stands next to the presenting doctor, he will listen to the doctor detail his injuries, how long it took him to recover, who performed the surgery, even what type of graft was used. The other doctors can ask Lattimore questions about his injuries and rehab, and physically examine his knees themselves — and they will. Lattimore then heads to the next room and repeats the process until he has covered every team.
"I imagine he will get more hands put on his knee than anybody else at the combine this year," Geier said.
All doctors can see Lattimore's latest MRI, but scar tissue sometimes obscures post-surgery MRIs. The absence of cartilage damage on the MRI, which Guy called a "savior" because of the complications it can cause, will alleviate many concerns often associated with multiple knee ligament tears. Still, doctors will find most value in handling Lattimore's knee, Guy said.
Guy told Lattimore doctors will want to see three things in addition to his MRI: how well developed his quadriceps and hamstring are, if he has full range of motion and if his ligaments are stable.
To measure strength, they will have him flex his upper right leg and compare it to his left leg. Because Lattimore fully recovered from his left knee injury, which Guy said is beneficial for how NFL teams will view Lattimore, doctors will bend his legs to compare range of motion. They will do the usual 15-second ligament stability check with their fingers, poking at the inside, outside, front and back of the knee.
Guy said NFL doctors obviously won't expect Lattimore to be 100 percent, but they will want to confirm he is progressing as Andrews said he is. Then the doctors will do it all over again at the check-up exam shortly before the draft.
"It's going to be a very important part of his process," Guy said of Lattimore's combine exams. "People coming out of surgery, having the medical doctors that work for the teams (examine them), it's a big point of discovery for lots of things."


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A man who cheats on you and has unprotected sex with a whore (only twice he says) and then the whore gets pregnant, and he tries to blame you for doing it!
by retrotess December 05, 2008
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"hooking up" with girls, even if they're 10 years younger than him and have boyfriends. Yet he says these hook-up girls are "only friends" since he wouldn't want to jeopardize his "happy" marriage of over 12 years! What a Man Slut! Pitty the poor women who's married to him...
OMG, did you know that she walked in on her cheating husband at the party that night...what a man slut.
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quote: [Google's relationship with Apple has] always been on and off. Obviously, we would have preferred them to use our maps. They threw YouTube off the home screen [of iPhones and iPads]. I'm not quite sure why they did that.
quote: Copying trade secrets that aren't well protected is not a crime and is not wrong. When Apple allowed the Google CEO to sit on their board they gave away their secrets. Obviously they didn't expect Google to get into the phone market, but legally that is irrelivant.
quote: the Android strategy has been a total failure from the point of view of Google's business, it's still a massive cost centre
quote: ...the Android strategy has been a total failure...