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The S.C. Department of Revenue has mailed letters to more than 600,000 state residents and 760,000 non-residents informing them that their data was, in fact, stolen in last years hack, the agency announced Thursday.
Since the letters are going out in order of postal ZIP code, from lowest to highest, Charleston-area victims of the cybersecurity breach dont seem to have received their notices yet.
The department is aiming to send all letters by the end of the month, an agency spokeswoman said, and when they come, their core message is bold-faced and underlined.
We are writing you today, first to confirm that as an electronic tax filer your tax information was compromised and second, to encourage you to take immediate steps to protect yourself against identity theft, the second sentence of the one-page form letter states.
If you do not receive such a letter, it is likely that your data was not hacked.
The breach, announced in October, resulted in the theft of records of 3.8 million individual taxpayers, 1.9 million dependents, 699,900 businesses, 3.3 million bank accounts and 5,000 now-expired credit card numbers.
It is the largest known breach of a state agency in U.S. history.
Whereas all state taxpayers going back to 1998 have been operating under the assumption that their information is at risk, the letters identify whose data has actually been compromised.
According to DOR spokeswoman Samantha Cheek, the agency began sending the out-of-state letters Dec. 10. Letters to in-state taxpayers started going out on Christmas Eve, according to Gov. Nikki Haleys spokesman Rob Godfrey.
The total cost of the mailings will be $1.3 million, Cheek estimated.
Meanwhile, the states banks have been working over the past month to figure out which of the 3.3 million hacked accounts are still active and to whom they belong. A Columbia judge set up the protocol by which the DOR could transfer that account information to the banks.
Fred L. Green III, president and CEO of the S.C. Bankers Association, said Thursday that between 25 and 40 percent of the hacked accounts are inactive, and that banks are now able to better help the owners of the remaining active, compromised accounts.
What it really does is, it eliminates a tremendous amount of uncertainty between the customer and the bank and that creates, I want to say, peace of mind, Green said.
In the case of the compromised accounts, Green said banks are looking at those accounts with a tighter screen for unauthorized transactions, and some are sending out letters of their own.
Mount Pleasant resident John Taylor, who does information technology security work in Charleston, received one of those letters this week from the Bank of South Carolina. It confirmed that his account had been compromised.
The Bank has taken extra precautions and placed an alert to help protect your affected account, the letter, dated Dec. 31, stated.
The note also put him on heightened alert, said Taylor, 34, and made him pretty angry at the fact that my information was breached in the first place. He called Haleys initial claim that it couldnt have been prevented a crock.
They just literally had no safeguards in place, he said.
Taylor, who has not yet received a letter from the state, has received monthly updates from Experian, which is monitoring his credit through its ProtectMyID service. They say he has not been defrauded.
More than 1 million people had signed up for the state-sponsored Experian ProtectMyID program by Thursday, according to Cheek.
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The ashes may have cooled from the torched San Bernardino mountain cabin, his burnt body carted away to the morgue, but the Christopher Dorner story is not going away. Protesters seeking answers reportedly converged on the Los Angeles Police Deptartment's headquarters Saturday.
Holding high huge placards which read "LAPD is corrupt," and "Stop law enforcement corruption today," demonstrators said they were not marching in support of what Dorner did - killing four people, including police officers, and injuring three more - but requesting answers on the LAPD corruption he spoke of in his online manifesto and the way law enforcement conducted the manhunt.
According to LA Weekly, another ex-LAPD cop, Joe Jones, also posted his manifesto supporting Dorner's claims of rampant racism and police abuse in that department, and yet a third - a female officer - said that the biggest problem on the job is not facing the community at large but rather the Los Angeles Police Department itself.
Protesters believed Dorner was fired unfairly and that he was a victim of racism. They also called out the department for mistakenly shooting innocent people during the search for their former fellow officer. One woman, shot in the back, is still recovering. One protester, Michael Nam, held a sign with the Latin phrase "RIP Habeas Corpus," and a tombstone engulfed in flames painted by his girlfriend.
Apart from the weekend demonstration, there is an online video game starring Dorner as a hero. Called "Christopher Dorner's Last Stand Survival Game," players get to shoot out the window of a cabin at the snowy mountain outside.
The vigilante ex-cop turned suspected killer had taken police on a weeklong chase after avenging his 2009 termination. The cat-and-mouse hunt ended last Tuesday, when the "hunters" cornered "the hunted" and burned the cabin he was allegedly holed up in to the ground.
Videos have since surfaced showing the siege and police officers were heard saying, "burn that f**king house down." They also used the words "pushed him back" several times. The LAPD has since released a statement saying they did not deliberately torch Dorner but used tear gas to spook him out. However, this does not add up with officers saying they "pushed him back" into the cabin. If they were trying to get him to run out, why push him back in?
Dorner reportedly didn't die from the fire but from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
Despite being an alleged murderer, he has sparked support, which throws a troubling light on the undercurrents of our society. The masses are growing to increasingly mistrust those in authority, especially our government and law enforcement. This is decidedly unsettling, for it's a sign of our well-crafted civil order cracking at the seams.
This mistrust has spilled over into the gun control debate and many say they will not give up their guns for it is their last defense against tyranny. Are we heading for our own "Western Spring?"
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Hey guys, I have read through all the previous posts of users that were having this error pop up and I tried all those suggestions and I am still not able to get a job running from a remote connection through the comm port. Here is what I have done:
1. Verified on the physical server that the AL_* jobs are running
2. Verified that the Business Objects Data Services services is running
3. Successfully ran a job ON the physical server
4. Confirmed port 3500 is allowed on the server
5. Confirmed that DS program is a firewall exception on both the server and the remote computer
Could really use some help figuring out what is apparently not running.
Let me understand correctly. Your designer and job server on same machine and client installed on another machine right? So how are you connecting to the database? Do you have a user id for that?
Yeah, we have both. The job server(SA2AIMS) is a VM here in the building. I have administrator access to that box and have installed Tomcat, DS job server, repos, SQL Server, etc over there. We connect through the firewall directly to the machine.
When the user logs in to designer, they supply a Sql Server account name and password. That authenticates them on the database and they are able to log into their repo. When they are in the tool, they open a job and click "Execute." The job server is the only one specified SA2AIMS:3500. If we click OK to run, the pop-up comes up with the "Job server is not working" error
Can you disable firewall and see? Also when you hover the job server icon, what did it say?
Whats your DS version? Were you able to telnet and ping the server?
Tried to disable the firewall and still didnt work..
When I hover over the icon it tells me "Notification Error (BODI-1241023).
DS version is 4.0, and yes I can access the server fine.
Hi Trey,
You are using a vm-ware NIC set to bridged (not NAT) and can remotely telnet SA2AIMS 3500?
Checking with netstat -anb (b as admin will show the program using the port in the next line)
example: TCP 127.0.0.1:49316 127.0.0.1:33333 ESTABLISHED
You see that AL_JobServer is running?
There's some security layer between the designer and job server. Jobserver is not able to access the designer. Have you tried running the jobs from console?
Yeah, doing that failed too.
One more thing you can do is go to designer, tools and options. Try to open the ports in the range given there and see whether it works.
Two things....
You said, "Successfully ran a job ON the physical server". Did you exectute that job from Designer? If not, can you execute the job from designer on that Physical Server? If you suceed, can you compare the Tools-Options-Desginer-Environment screen with your local one.
2. Can you do telnet to that jobserver:port from your local machine and see whether its accessible or not? This might be the issue.
Here's how I am able to run the job:
1. Through Designer ON THE SERVER itself
2. Through web console ON THE SERVER and REMOTELY
I cannot run REMOTELY through Designer. I get errors that "The Job Server is not working." I have confirmed on the server itself that ALL ports are open to ALL programs ALL users and ALL services. The firewall is OFF on there as well. Still cant get the communication to work.
Could you test the scenario? Have you restarted the Business Objects Data Services? Whats the login credentials give? Is it mapped to the desktop?
You can try a new scenario also - Create a new job server and connect to the existing repository. Check in services.msc, go to Business Objects Data Services and enter the login and password credentials. Restart the services and see.
Yeah, I've done all that as well. I've changed the properties of all the DS services to use an administrator account, I've resynced repositories, all that.
I did a check on the BODI error I was getting, BODI-1241023 and a number of different help forums indicate that the problem is that Designer is talking to the job server fine, but it is not receiving a reply back. I have run the netstat and tasklist commands and I'm currently trying to figure out what they are telling me. Does anyone have an idea about what PID I should be looking for? I see AL_jobserver, is that the one I should worry about the port it is using?
Hi Trey,
What is the environment you are on? what version Data Services .
We had similar issue in DS 4.0 and we happened to resolve it by installing DS 4.0 SP2 and restarting the server.
Did you also check if the server is able to telnet client machine as server sends messages to the client via- different ports.
When you login to the designer from your machine, you will see small icon (with Clock on it) at the below of that designer screen. Just put your mouse on it and check on the left side of the screen. What it says?
And did you tried opening the designer (right click and 'Run as Administrator')???
I answered that one already...it gives me the message:
Notification Server Error (BODI-1241023)
Hi Trey,
did you find any solution?
With Data Services 4.1 all goes fine with 64bit client, whereas with 32bit client we encountered the problem you described above.
I find also some similar discussion (2034738, 2041542, 1022601) not yet answered.
Here our environment:
Server (VMWare): Windows Server 2008 R2 - BI Platform XI4.0SP4, Data Services XI4.1SP1 Patch 1 (JobServer 126.96.36.1994)
Client: Windows XP Professional 32bit SP3 - Data Services Client XI4.1SP1 (Designer version 126.96.36.199)
Thank you
Hi all,
we solved the issue.
With Data Services Job Server version 126.96.36.1994 (on Windows Server 2008 R2) and Designer 32bit version 18.104.22.168 (on Windows XP) the Job Server record in AL_MACHINE_INFO needs to be fully qualified (machine_name.domain_name).
With Designer 64bit (on Windows 7) the connection is established also without the full domain name.
Maybe a bug? The lack of communication seems to be (by telnet test) from Job Server back to Designer and not from Designer to the Job Server, so what's the relationship with AL_MACHINE_INFO information?
Hope this help
Thank you
Still I am getting the same issue i have SAP BODS 4.2.3 .549 in 64 bit Windos server
Client having same version in win64
I have read through all the previous posts of users that were having this error pop up and I tried all those suggestions and I am still not able to get a job running from a remote connection through the comm port. Here is what I have done:
1. Verified on the physical server that the AL_* jobs are running
2. Verified that the Business Objects Data Services services is running
3. Successfully ran a job ON the physical server
4. Confirmed port 3500 is allowed on the server
5. Confirmed that DS program is a firewall exception on both the server and the remote computer
Could really use some help figuring out what is apparently not running.
Two way communication is required for working of job server on client machine. Please check with your network team whether port 3500 is opened for bi-directional communication or not.Means your client and server should communicate with each other.


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The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco rang in 2014 by marrying beau Ryan Sweeting at the Hummingbird Nest Ranch in Santa Susana, Calif., and PEOPLE has an exclusive look at the invitation and save-the-date cards that were sent out.
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November 17, 2012, 11:19 PM
hey yall i just got some fresh meat and I was wondering if anybody had a good recipe:D for the backstraps thanks
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November 17, 2012, 11:36 PM
Don't know what kind of meat you're talking about but if I were to come into possession of some elk or deer or antelope (or beef or lamb) backstraps I'd cut them into about 1 1/2" thick steaks, put some rock salt and pepper on them and grill them about 5 minutes on one side and 4 on the other. Turn over half way through each side. Garlic powder is good too.
November 17, 2012, 11:37 PM
its whitetail deer
November 18, 2012, 02:05 AM
soak them in salt water to draw out the blood. refrigerated of course. then cut them into steaks as mentioned above and let them sit in house italian dressing or a1 new york something or another sauce for a few days, also refrigerated. Then wrap them with bacon and grill them with somewhat low heat for seven and one half minutes each side. Get too hot and your bacon wrapping will catch on fire and ruin everything, but if you do it right you'll never swear you're the world's greatest chef. Enjoy.
November 18, 2012, 03:45 AM
cut into 1 inch thick medallions. butterfly each medallion and place a strip of fresh jalapeno and a slice of cream cheese in the middle. Fold it closed, wrap in bacon, then grill until bacon is sizzling good.
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November 18, 2012, 08:31 AM
Cut back straps about 1.5" thick, wrap thick sliced bacon and let sit overnight in Italian salad dressing. Pan sear each side in olive oil, finish on grill.
November 18, 2012, 09:32 AM
Don't know what kind of meat you're talking about but if I were to come into possession of some elk or deer or antelope (or beef or lamb) backstraps I'd cut them into about 1 1/2" thick steaks, put some rock salt and pepper on them and grill them about 5 minutes on one side and 4 on the other. Turn over half way through each side. Garlic powder is good too.
Soaking in salt water is to remove blood clots from shot up meat. Doctoring them up with marinades, etc. is just for meat that you don't like the taste of. You can take any kind of meat and soak it, marinade it, and wrap bacon around it and it will all taste the same .. like bacon.
If you like meat and the taste of meat, do as Mutinous Doug suggests. The choice of seasoning is yours and broiling may be substituted for grilling. Just don't overcook it - medium rare is best.
November 18, 2012, 12:31 PM
I sprinkle with Montreal Steak Seasoning, wrap in plastic wrap and chill for a day or two, then vac-pac them and freeze. Before use, I thaw, then rinse off the extra seasoning. Then they go into the smoker, with apple wood until they reach 120F internal temp.
November 18, 2012, 01:07 PM
November 18, 2012, 01:22 PM
Ain't but one way to do TEXAS backstrap, breaded/chicken fried with white gravy. :D
Texan Scott
November 18, 2012, 03:19 PM
MC is too fast... and he is correct.
I like a bit of peanut oil for this, and DON'T OVERCOOK IT!
November 18, 2012, 03:46 PM
you know fried with gravy sounds damn good add some potatoes and ill be all set.
Texan Scott
November 18, 2012, 03:52 PM
Potatoes? Why? Did your mama not teach you to make biscuits? BISCUITS, sir!
Eta: biscuits
4 cups all-star purpose flour
2 TBS sugar
6 tsp baking powder NOT baking soda!
2 tsp salt
1 cup Crisco shortening.
Use two butter knives, one in each hand, crossed like scissors, to chop the shortening into the dry mix into pea-sized bits before adding
1 & 1/2 cup of milk.
Work it into a ball of dough, cover with a towel, and let it sit for 30 minutes before rolling an inch thick and cutting into circles with a cookie cutter.
450° for about 12 minutes.
November 18, 2012, 07:24 PM
This thread got me hungry. I gotta shoot a deer...and soon!
November 18, 2012, 08:37 PM
Yep, busquits to sop that gravy up!
Rembrandt and Wyohome's pix are making my mouth water, though, and I just got through eatin' a T bone. :D
Went this afternoon, saw nothing. The guy on the place behind me got something, though. I heard the shot and the thump and it weren't pigs, don't think, cause I didn't hear any squealin'. Was about 30 minutes before dark. Darn, well, my day will come. :D
November 19, 2012, 12:08 AM
WHEW ! Wish I had me a skillet of that meat, and some of those soppin' biscuits, mmm, you fellers sure know how to eat.
November 19, 2012, 12:23 AM
We had whitetail roast with potatoes, onions, and carrots done in the crock pot for dinner.
Half of it's sitting in the fridge, waiting for dinner tomorrow.
Those backstraps look good, though.
Art Eatman
November 19, 2012, 07:41 AM
Had some backstrap at a wild game cookout. It was sliced about 1/2" thick. Rolled in cornmeal batter that had just a smidgen of mustard in it. Deep fried.
Absolutely splendiferous!
Cooking a half of a backstrap as a roast works okay, too. Low-heat oven.
November 19, 2012, 08:13 AM
You are talking top quality meat here. Never soak or marinate. Grilled med rare is all it needs.
November 19, 2012, 08:34 AM
Potatoes? Why? Did your mama not teach you to make biscuits? BISCUITS, sir!
That made me laugh. Kinda one of those just where in the heck are you from moments! Regarding the biscuits, use butter milk if you have it or let sweet milk sit on the counter for a couple hours if you dont. If the dough is easy to handle, youve got too much flour in it and they wont rise and theyll be like little bricks.
If you want taters and backstrap, pan fry them (seperatly) in oil. If you have ramps, add them to the taters after turning them. If you dont know what ramps are, you dont have ramps
November 19, 2012, 09:35 AM
I like to slice them thin like medallions, then fry lightly on each side. Add into a package mix of Beef Stroganoff by McCormick. Add sliced mushrooms and chopped onions during the simmering phase. Serve with hot rolls and Shiraz wine by Charles Shaw Winery.
November 19, 2012, 09:41 AM
That sounds very good. Do you keep the meat in the pan while making the sause?
Arkansas Paul
November 19, 2012, 12:32 PM
Whatever method you choose, this is key with venison. Cooked to medium, it's great. Any more than that, it's like chewing on your hunting boot. There is an exception and that's when you cook it up in the crock pot. Cook all night in some broth and add some cream of mushroom and cream of celery the next day and let simmer for a few more hours. Mmmmmm
You do that with shoulder meat though, not good steaks.
November 20, 2012, 04:53 PM
Fellas my momma taught me how to make biscuits just fine I figured that was a given when a man makes a good gravy :D yes it was awesome
November 20, 2012, 05:09 PM
We make as a roast in the oven. We marinate it with buttermilk for 24 hours in the fridge. Rinse it after removing it and put slivers of garlic inside the meat every couple of inches (just inside) and season it with a spice mix or a dry rub you like will work fine as we change it from time to time. Lightly brown in bacon drippings. The put it in a roasting pan with mushroom soap over the meat and dry onion soap mix over that. 1/2 cup of water (we use beef stock) in the bottom of the pan as this makes a gravy. In a preheated oven at 350 F check with an meat thermometer until done to the level you like. You can cut it with a fork when served and sliced down.
November 20, 2012, 06:11 PM
Some of you have never tried this but it is delicious: Fried deer heart. We always would fry up the deer heart(s) for appetizers at hunt camp and it would disappear in a hurry.
Just clean the valves and fat of the heart and slice in thin strips. Dust in flour with salt, pepper, and garlic powder and fry in a hot skillet. When you don't see blood coming out of the pieces any more, it's done. And it's so good that my kids fight over it.
November 20, 2012, 06:42 PM
I had an aunt that liked the brains. Me?.....nah.....:D
November 20, 2012, 06:53 PM
Heart- trim, split, clean, marinate in soy sauce overnight, bake or grill medium.
Straps- slice to 2.5", inject with worchestershire sauce, let sit overnight, butterfly, rub with salt and pepper, grill to medium rare.
November 20, 2012, 08:08 PM
McGunner and Texan Scott. I'm a fellow Texan, but I can't believe you fry back strap! :barf: Just kidding. Actually, I have never fried back strap. However, we always fry the hind quarter steaks and make cream gravy and mashed taters. My back strap and loins always hit the grill after marinading overnight in Italian dressing or something similar.
I guess it depends on how you first ate venison prepared by someone else.
November 21, 2012, 12:40 AM
Funny, just tonight we cut up the perfectly aged backstraps & tenderloins from my bull, yummmm!!! We usually grill them with very little seasoning, maybe just some salt & pepper.
November 22, 2012, 08:09 AM
I'm a big fan of rolling them in minced garlic, kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper just like the professional chefs do to prime rib. I usually finish them on the grill, but have been known to use a smoker with hickory chips or the oven in winter.
Arkansas Paul
November 22, 2012, 09:58 AM
McGunner and Texan Scott. I'm a fellow Texan, but I can't believe you fry back strap! Just kidding. Actually, I have never fried back strap.
I was 30 years old before I tried backstrap any way other than fried. It's still my preferred method, but I also like to marinate in soy sauce, olive oil and minced garlic, then add salt and pepper and grill the whole thing to medium. Let sit for 10 minutes and slice. Mmmmmm
November 23, 2012, 09:11 AM
Any damned way you like it cooked as long as it is rare. It is the best piece of meat on the animal, any animal, deer elk or beefer.
November 28, 2012, 08:21 PM
I fry 2 strips of bacon long enough to grease the pan, then add the steaks for two minutes per side on medium heat. They come out with a little pink in the middle and all their juice intact. Cut about 3/4' thick. Twogun1975
November 29, 2012, 07:39 PM
I cut them in 1 1/2 inch 'steaks', marinade them in Italian dressing for 48 hrs and jerk grill them(constant flipping) with honey-citrus or mix-berry glaze, medium rare to medium done, and dip bite size pieces in candied pepper relish.
It's had a few snobby folks fooled into thinking they were eating premium cuts of beef.
That way, or marinade for the same time, and deep fry in peanut oil, batter with flour and bread crumbs, mixing in whatever seasoning I'm in the mood for.
Lloyd Smale
December 2, 2012, 03:17 PM
Art Eatman
Join Date: December 22, 2002
Location: Terlingua, Texas
Posts: 33,772 Had some backstrap at a wild game cookout. It was sliced about 1/2" thick. Rolled in cornmeal batter that had just a smidgen of mustard in it. Deep fried.
Absolutely splendiferous!
Cooking a half of a backstrap as a roast works okay, too. Low-heat oven.
Art i was at the chev dealer getting work done on my truck earlier this year and an old timer there was talking with me about venison and he told me he deep fries it. Says its the best hes ate. Im going to have to give it a try.
December 7, 2012, 10:50 PM
Ain't but one way to do TEXAS backstrap, breaded/chicken fried with white gravy.
With cream gravy!
Lloyd Smale
December 10, 2012, 01:49 PM
make that sausage gravy on mine!
December 12, 2012, 05:17 PM
I posted this in the recipe sticky:
I screwed up and made these for people. Every time I see them they ask me to make some more. These are very good. They can be cold and still taste great.
Venison cut into thin slices (cut for short grain) with little sinew about 2"X3".... Example, just slice the back strap into thin slices.
Fork both sides.
Apply UNseasoned meat tenderizer and Cavenders to both sides.
Let sit for 1 hour to over night.
Cover with 1 part butter (melted) and 1 part olive oil mix.
Get grill hot.
Grill for 2-3 minutes on one side.
Brush with yellow table mustard... both sides.
Grill on the other side for 2-3 minutes.
Eat. Hot or Cold these are awesome.
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The message on the Twitter page of the "Supa Six" - the group name taken on by Penn State football players Bill Belton, Allen Robinson, Adrian Amos, Donovan Smith, Deion Barnes and Kyle Carter - could have summed up the feelings of all the Nittany Lion faithful late Thursday night.
"2013 letsss goooo!!!"
Nittany Nation can move ahead now that Bill O'Brien has made it clear he'll be returning for a second year as football coach, but it was letting out a collective deep breath after running the gamut of emotions as O'Brien was interviewing with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns and appeared to be seriously considering leaving Penn State.
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"The temptations were strong, but not strong enough. Thank God," redshirt freshman running back Akeel Lynch posted on Twitter.
Former Lion all-Big Ten offensive tackle Keith Conlin, who now lives in Centre County, described his feelings as those of relief at learning O'Brien was staying on. He said the importance of O'Brien's decision to stay cannot be overstated.
"I just think that if he had left, it would have been pretty bad news for people in this town, not just for football, but the town in general," Conlin said. "There's no doubt in my mind there wouldn't be a player left, there wouldn't be a roster next year [if O'Brien left].''
It wasn't just former players or area residents like Conlin that saw keeping O'Brien as a huge move for Penn State and his courtship with pro openings as exceedingly worrisome to the university. ESPN NFL analyst Adam Schefter put on Twitter that Penn State was so concerned that it actually began to contact potential head coaching candidates.
"Biggest win of season for Penn St.," Schefter tweeted.
O'Brien went 8-4 and won the Big Ten coach of the year from both the media and conference coaches while being named a finalist for several national awards after coming over from the offensive coordinators post with the New England Patriots. O'Brien accomplished that despite unprecedented NCAA sanctions that included allowing top players like Silas Redd, Justin Brown and Anthony Fera transfer weeks before the start of the season.
ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported at the beginning of the week O'Brien's began entertaining NFL offers after being misled by Penn State about the scope of the penalties - that it was a criminal matter outside of NCAA jurisdiction - although the probation automatically added four years to his contract.
O'Brien's agent, Joe Linta, told the Associated Press late Thursday night that O'Brien's experience in 2012 at Penn State played on the coach's "heartstrings" and made the decision easy in the end.
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"I'm not a one-and-done guy," O'Brien told the Harrisburg Patriot-News. "I made a commitment to these players at Penn State, and that's what I am going to do. I'm not going to cut and run after one year, that's for sure."
A social media post attributed to the Harrisburg Patriot-News, though, said O'Brien was in line to get an increase of $1.3 million in salary up to $3.6 million and receive assurances the university would make some "structural/personnel" changes to help entice him to return.
There were a number of comments critical of Penn State's investment Thursday on Internet forums devoted to Lion athletics, but Conlin said it had to be done.
"Bill deserved what he got. The university had to step up and take ownership and do what it did to keep him here," Conlin said. "They did. Thank God, for all of us that live here, that work here. It was that scary, in my opinion."
Much like the suit Tom Corbett brought against the NCAA on Wednesday to remove the sanctions, Conlin contends that the the quality of Penn State football has a direct impact on the region's economy. Had O'Brien taken an NFL job - leaving Penn State to find its fourth coach in three years - it would have signaled a death knell for the Lion program.
"I don't think any of the recruits would have came here, and I don't think any of the players would have stayed, either - they still have the ability to leave," Conlin said. "If he had left, what would keep them here?"
Cornerback Stephon Morris, who just finished up his eligibility, agreed with Conlin. He stayed for his senior year at Penn State, but he said he probably would have gone somewhere else if he was a returning player and O'Brien had moved on.
"Any player would have to think like that. It's tough to go through three head coaches in a career, especially at a place like Penn State, where you put so much faith and trust that your coach is going to be there forever," Morris said.
Morris, however, said he never doubted that O'Brien would return, or that, at least, because of his honesty and loyalty, he would have told the players and recruits that he was probably leaving. Morris wasn't alone.
"I'm not worried, I trust my coach," tight end Garry Gilliam tweeted before later adding "Practice what you preach #ThingsBOBdoes love my coach."
Blue-chip tight end Adam Breneman, who enrolls next week, reacted similarly.
"Told ya so," Breneman posted on Twitter.
All-American quarterback Christian Hackenberg remained a solid commitment and said he had spoken to O'Brien about the rumors he might leave in the last couple of months.
"So glad that Bill O'Brien is staying and that means @chackenberg1 will definitely be a nittany lion this fall!" Hackenberg retweeted.
Of course, while the 2013 recruits might be unfazed, prospects going forward might have second thoughts on going to Penn State if they think O'Brien could leave at any time.
Scout.com Penn State recruiting analyst Greg Pickel didn't believe it would have a big impact.
"Sure, could the perceived notion that O'Brien could bolt at any time to the NFL after the happenings of the last week be used against Penn State via negative recruiting? Absolutely," Pickel said. "But there are so many things - and ways - to negatively recruit at any given school, that I don't feel this past week adds any stronger firepower to those opposing coaches' arsenal. Because of the message O'Brien has sent recruits and their families, I believe they know what to expect from O'Brien."
Morris thought the pro interest in O'Brien might have just the opposite effect.
"I feel happy that our coach is interviewed by NFL teams, that he's connected, that he's part of the NFL network," Morris said. "I'm happy that he stayed. I'm happy for the parents. I'm happy for the Penn State football team. I'm happy for the fans. I definitely didn't want Penn State to have four head coaches in three years."
Morris' father, Roman, trains defensive backs - several that Penn State is recruiting - in the Washington, D.C. area said he didn't blame O'Brien for exploring his options.
"I kind of understand. He assessed the situation. You only get hot once. If you get hot twice, good for you. Can he rekindle what he did last year? I hope so," Roman Morris said. "What he did last year is going in the annals. It'll never be rewritten."
One thing is sure: This is virgin territory for a Penn State program that was guided for 46 years by Joe Paterno and hasn't had to deal with NFL competition for its coach since the early 1970s.
"We were really spoiled by Joe and his longevity and not having to worry about this. We've entered the realm of what every other college team goes through," Conlin said. "This is just another example of us having to move forward. That's just the way it is and just the way it's run nowadays. For good or bad."


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In Part One, Meursault works as a shipping clerk in Algiers, a city in North Africa. He learns of his mother's death, and although he is somewhat ambivalent upon hearing the news, he travels to the nursing home to attend her funeral and sit in vigil over her body. At the funeral he displays little emotion and is not interested in viewing his mother's body.
The following day, back in Algiers, Meursault meets a young woman, Marie Cardona, and they go swimming together. Because of Meursault's cheerful attitude, Marie is surprised to learn of his mother's death. Later, in the evening, they see a comic film together and then return to Meursault's apartment where they make love. Meursault spends the next day alone in his apartment, eating, and watching people pass by on the street.
The following evening, Raymond Sintes, a neighbor with a shady background, invites Meursault to his apartment for dinner. Although he doesn't really know Meursault, Raymond asks him to write a nasty letter to his Arab girlfriend. Raymond suspects his girlfriend of seeing other men. For no particular reason, Meursault agrees to help him.
Meursault and Marie go to the beach again the next Saturday. That night they hear Raymond beating his girlfriend in his apartment. A policeman arrives and rebukes Raymond for hitting the young woman. The policeman smacks Raymond around and orders him to appear in court. Although Marie is upset over the incident, Meursault tells Raymond he will testify on his behalf.
The following Sunday, Meursault and Marie go to the beach with Raymond. At the bus stop, Raymond points out two Arab men who are following him. He tells them that one of the Arabs is the brother of his ex-girlfriend.
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Meursault and Raymond return to Masson's beach house. Meursault walks on the beach by himself, experiencing the hot, muggy weather. Meursault wanders towards a cool stream where he meets the Arab again. With the blinding sun in his eyes, Meursault confronts the Arab and shoots him with Raymond's gun.
In Part Two, Meursault spends almost a year in prison before his trial begins. He is interviewed many times by the examining magistrate and his own defense attorney. Meursault aggravates both men with his lack of remorse for the crime and his unfeeling attitude about his own mother's recent death. He angers the magistrate when he reveals that he does not believe in God. The magistrate becomes convinced that Meursault is a cold-hearted criminal.
Everyone Meursault knows testifies at his trial. His lawyer conducts a weak defense, and the prosecutor portrays Meursault as an unfeeling killer. When he takes the stand, Meursault can only say that "the sun" was the reason he shot the Arab. Meursault is found guilty and sentenced to death.
In his cell, awaiting his sentence, Meursault refuses to see the prison chaplain. The chaplain insists and finally gets in to see Meursault. He tries to convince Meursault of the existence of God and an afterlife, but Meursault rejects everything he hears and becomes enraged at the chaplain.
After the chaplain leaves, Meursault finds he is exhausted by his outburst, but he feels calm, appreciating the "marvelous peace" of the summer night. He describes a "benign" and "indifferent" universe where no one cares about his fate. The book ends with Meursault hoping that he is greeted with "howls of execration" by a huge, angry crowd on the day of his execution.
The Life and Work of Albert Camus
Albert Camus was born in Monrovia, Algeria on November 7, 1913. His father, a soldier in World War I, died fighting for France during the first Battle of Marne in 1914. Although Camus never really knew his father, while he was growing up, and later as an adult, Camus was keenly aware of the circumstances of his father's death. At an early age Camus was made painfully aware of the tragic effects of war, experiencing the consequences of political strife on a highly personal level.
Following the publication of The Stranger and several other important works, Albert Camus gained wide recognition as one of the leading French writers of his day. As he continued to produce critically acclaimed and controversial novels, plays, and essays, Camus would earn a reputation equal to other preeminent French authors of the time such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Andre Malraux. Camus' work had a significant and lasting influence on a post-war generation concerned with political and philosophical issues that dealt with human alienation and the search for meaning in a troubled world.
After his father's death, Camus, his mother, and older brother moved to Belcourt, a suburb of Algiers where they lived in poverty for many years. In 1930, while a high school student, Camus contracted tuberculosis and barely survived. When he recovered, Camus' excellent grades in school helped get him admitted to the University of Algiers where he studied theater and wrote plays, essays, and fiction. Camus' illness, however, was another significant event in his life and it gave him a new perspective on death and awareness of his own existence. While he also began to develop the political outlook and personal philosophy that would form the basis of all of his later work, the inevitability of death would become an important theme in Camus' work, one he would explore in much of his writing.
While he was attending the University of Algiers, Camus supported himself by working at a number of odd, part-time jobs, including one with the French Algerian civil service where he processed auto registrations and driver's licenses. This dull, routine job made an impression on Camus; later he would incorporate elements of the experience in his writing of The Stranger.
In 1937, Camus' first book The Wrong Side and the Right Side (L'Envers et l'endroit) was published in Algiers. It described his life growing up in Belcourt. In 1938, Camus was hired by Alge-Republicain, an anti-colonialist newspaper, where he took on a variety of editorial tasks, wrote literary reviews, covered local meetings, and wrote articles concerning the desperate conditions of impoverished Arabs living under French rule in Algeria. Of particular note was his description of the famine in Kabylia. In his article, Camus described the devastation within some Arab families where only two out of 10 children survived.
With the outbreak of World War II, Camus joined an underground anti-Nazi group based in Paris and became editor of the group's resistance newspaper Combat. It was during this time that Camus wrote some of his most important work, including The Stranger (1942), and developed his theory of the absurd, which declared that life is essentially meaningless because of the inevitability of death. Camus, however, was never satisfied with the absurdist attitude of moral indifference. His experiences in occupied France, and other political events he witnessed, caused him to develop opinions on moral responsibility. Some of these ideas are contained in his Letters to a German Friend (1945), and in the essays included in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960).
The Stranger is a striking example of Camus' belief that "a novel is a philosophy put into images." He believed that the highest art should contain elements of diversity and complexity, while maintaining a style that is balanced, uniform, and straightforward. Sartre immediately recognized the existential quality of The Stranger, although his opinion about the novel and its relation to existentialism would later prove to be controversial.
Other works by Camus that explore his philosophical and political ideas include Caligula (1944); The Plague (1947), a novel; the long, controversial essay, The Rebel (1951); and a third novel, The Fall published in 1957. His famous essay The Myth of Sisyphus, published in 1942, concerns Sisyphus, a Greek mythological figure who was condemned by the gods to spend an eternal, meaningless existence pushing a huge boulder up and over a hill, and then back again from the other side.
Following the publication of The Fall, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. During his career, Camus became well known for his political views and activism. Although an anti-communist, he was an outspoken critic of capitalism, and he remained a proponent of democratic socialism and nonviolent confrontation. He believed in the principle of le juste milieu which recognized that the solution to human problems is not usually found in absolute strategies or ideas.
In 1960, Camus died suddenly in an automobile accident. Camus' work, and the political, religious, and ethical issues it deals with, remains controversial, but his writing endures because it expresses Camus' profound concern for human suffering and the philosophical and moral dilemmas faced by all individuals.
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The average reader should be able to read The Stranger in four or five hours. The book could be read in one or two sessions. The novel is a quick read and is divided into two equal sections: Part One with six chapters, and Part Two with five chapters. The sentences are short and easy to understand and Camus' style is clear and distinct. The translation used here is by Stuart Gilbert and contains 154 pages.


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Freedom Township police said the deceased was Dustin Brown, 24, of Martinsburg.
Police discovered the man's remains inside a home on the 2100 block of Everett Road. The body was severely decomposed, and initially police were not sure if the remains were that of a man or woman.
An autopsy and dental records were used to determine the man's identity, Blair County Deputy Coroner Cindy DiAndrea said.
Brown's parents were told of their son's death on Tuesday, DiAndrea said.
When reached for comment on Wednesday, Brown's mother, Amy D. Fouse, said the family was still unsure of the circumstances surrounding his death.
The official cause of death remains undetermined pending the results of toxicology tests, DiAndrea said.
Investigators did not find any evidence at the scene that suggested foul play, she said.
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three way cross of Purple Urkel, Grape Ape, and Lavender. These three strains came from the same mother.
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A young man in shackles stood in silence, the seconds ticking by, as Circuit Judge Thomas Hughston Jr. stared down at the paperwork before him, considering the list of offenses summarizing the man's criminal career. The man had just pleaded guilty to a stalking charge, and Hughston wanted him to understand the ramifications of that action.
"You're about that close," Hughston said, holding his fingers a hair apart, "to you going to prison for a long time. A young man like you, it wouldn't be nice. It wouldn't be a nice place to be."
Hughston paused, leaned his chair forward, and sentenced the man to five years behind bars. But before the weight of that sentence could sink in, Hughston quickly suspended the prison time and placed the man on probation for two years.
Relief washed over the young convict as he realized he would remain a free man.
Scenes like this play out regularly inside courtroom 4D in the Charleston County courthouse, where Hughston presides over dozens of plea hearings each month. A short, bespectacled man with a head of white hair and a deep, gravelly voice, he sits in judgment on a parade of criminals seeking leniency in return for an admission of guilt.
They, their families, their attorneys and their victims fill the hard wooden seats in the gallery and, at times, overflow into the hallway outside. Hearing more than 1,300 pleas in a year, Hughston has the process down to a science, dispensing justice in what he sees as a firm, but humane, manner.
"I want them to feel good when they leave my courtroom," he told The Post and Courier in a recent interview, "because it's the first step in rehabilitation."
Hughston's approach to punishment has drawn scrutiny and criticism lately, following decisions that helped two high-profile offenders escape years in prison for their crimes. One decision kept an accused child molester on the streets. Another halved the sentence of a drunk driver who killed an elderly woman.
For years, members of the law enforcement community have grumbled about Hughston's soft touch in sentencing, referring to him as "Judge Hug-a-Thug" — and worse. But like some lawyers who also have chaffed at Hughston's perceived leniency, none would agree to speak on the record, saying they did not want to anger a judge who could preside over their cases in the future.
Lately, though, some victims' families and their advocates have become increasingly vocal in their criticism of Hughston. Among them were the family members of 72-year-old Eleanor Caperton, who were enraged when Hughston reduced the sentence of the drunk driver who killed her.
"In my opinion, (Hughston) thinks that he is above the law," said Gina Buchardt, Caperton's niece.
The Post and Courier reviewed Hughston's sentencing records for the past year and compared those numbers with the records of two other judges from the same circuit, Markley Dennis and Kristi Harrington. The analysis found:
Hughston, 70, placed more than twice as many offenders on probation than he sent to prison, nearly half of all his cases.
Harrington, 44, sentenced slightly more offenders to probation than she did to prison.
Dennis, 65, put roughly a third of offenders on probation. He sent a clear majority to prison.
The review found that Hughston sentenced twice as many offenders in the past year as Dennis and Harrington did combined. That's because those judges handle criminal trials while Hughston does not.
The records also do not reflect how many of the sentences Hughston imposed by following the recommendations put forth by prosecutors or were the result of negotiated punishments agreed upon by the attorneys involved.
Hughston said he doesn't believe he's too lenient, particularly when his heavy case load is taken into account.
"I think I do a good job at judging. It's the best job in the world as far as I'm concerned. If everybody sentenced like me, it would be great."
On a recent morning, Hughston pointed to a white poster board on an easel inside the chambers he shares with another judge. On it, in bold-face black lettering, was a list of factors Hughston said he takes into consideration when sentencing every criminal: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation and retribution.
With each case, Hughston said, he tries to learn as much as he can about the players involved, the lives they have led and what led them to his courtroom so he can impose a sentence that he considers meaningful and fair.
"The most important thing that a decision-maker can do, a judge can do, is to ask the right question," he said. "Through those questions you create the scene of the crime."
These principles have guided him in the 28 years he has served as a judge.
Hughston, who grew up in Greenwood, spent years as a defense attorney before he came to the bench. The former high school athlete and Citadel graduate also was a state lawmaker for eight years, and spent three decades as a high school football referee on the side.
But it's the law that has been his driving passion. He has no real hobbies, other than tending to the grounds of his church, and there are few other places he would rather be than on the bench, he said.
Hughston tried retirement in 1998, but that didn't last long. "I came back from retirement for very little pay," he said with a chuckle. "There's nothing more rewarding than doing this job as you think it should be done."
One perk is that he rarely has to travel like active circuit judges must do around the state, he said. He mostly stays put in Charleston County, which is part of the 9th Judicial Circuit, dividing his time between criminal and civil cases.
Attorney Charlie Condon, a former 9th Circuit solicitor and state attorney general, called Hughston "one of the best judges in South Carolina." Condon, known as a law-and-order Republican, said people should not jump to conclusions about Hughston's sentencing record without knowing the facts involved in those cases.
"I think he tempers justice with mercy in a really appropriate fashion," Condon said.
Ninth Circuit Public Defender Ashley Pennington agreed. He said Hughston is appalled by crime and sees its results much more than the average citizen, but he strives to balance punishment with a desire for a better, long-term outcome for society, he said.
"My own sense of him is that he feels the lock-them-up, throw-away-the-key approach has failed when it comes to providing a safer community when people are released," Pennington said. "It does a good job of incarcerating them while they are gone, but I think he's very conscious of the fact that part of the criminal justice system is steering people who are capable of doing better toward a healthier lifestyle."
Others don't see it that way. Charleston Thug Life, a local law-and-order blog, has kept a steady drumbeat of criticism for months calling for Hughston's departure. In one post, Hughston is blasted for not sending a man to prison who committed four offenses while already on probation for other crimes. In another, Hughston is faulted for giving probation to a drug convict who later was charged with armed robbery.
Calling him Judge Thomas "Felon's Friend" Hughston, the anonymous blogger urges citizens to pressure state lawmakers to dump Hughston.
Despite such rhetoric, no official complaints have been filed with the South Carolina Judicial Merit Screening Commission, which periodically reviews judges. With no opposition, the commission has waived Hughston through to reappointment without a formal hearing since 2001.
Decisions draw scorn
Still, some of Hughston's most recent decisions have struck a nerve in the legal community.
On July 11, Hughston gave 55-year-old dentist John Newton Cagle probation on a charge of lewd act on a minor.
Cagle, who had been accused of inappropriately touching an 8-year-old girl in his Sullivan's Island home, had entered an Alford plea, meaning he did not admit guilt but conceded there was enough evidence to convict him.
As part of his sentence, Cagle will have to register as a sex offender and wear a satellite monitoring device for life. The victim's family did not oppose the sentence, but some people, including former People Against Rape Director Melanie Marek, felt prison was warranted.
"The judge should have given him some time," she said.
Hughston called the sentence a just punishment, one that would keep Cagle in line. "Everyone in the community knows about it, knows what he's done," he said. "I think I accomplished everything good I could accomplish with that sentence."
Hughston drew more scorn when he cut in half a 15-year prison sentence he had imposed in January for Samuel McCauley, who at age 19 killed Eleanor Caperton in a drunk-driving crash on Interstate 26 in July 2011. The judge took that action in June after McCauley's attorney presented information that his original sentence was too high compared with other felony DUI cases in the county.
But the move, done without a formal hearing, angered Caperton's family, who didn't learn about it until two months later.
The South Carolina chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving called Hughston's action "underhanded," and 9th Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said in a motion that the judge's handling of the resentencing "threatens the integrity of our criminal justice system."
Phyllis Savenkoff, Caperton's sister, felt so slighted that she filed a formal complaint with Gov. Nikki Haley's office.
"I don't believe our family got justice at all. I feel like his behavior was very unprofessional and made our family very uncomfortable and feel irrelevant," she said. "This is not the way a judge should conduct himself. Hopefully somewhere down the line, he won't be on the bench."
Haley's staff declined to comment on the complaint, citing confidentiality laws.
The disdain of his critics is not lost on Hughston, who lately has received some angry phone calls and anonymous letters.
"You can't help but listen to them and know it affects you," he said, adding that it is difficult not to take the criticism personally.
Still, Hughston stands by his work and his belief in rehabilitation, that people can improve their lives and, at times, deserve another chance.
"The easiest thing for a judge to do is sentence defendants to the maximum in every case. No other facts are considered. I don't think it results in a just sentence," he said.
So, in most cases, Hughston offers advice to criminals, as he did recently with a man who pleaded guilty to having a gun during a traffic stop.
"What I keep telling people like you is if you think you're going to go somewhere where you think you may need a pistol, don't go," Hughston said, shaking his head. "Stay home. Go to the picture show. Go play basketball or baseball."
And with that, he let the man go free.
Reach Natalie Caula at 937-5594 or Twitter.com/ncaula.
Judge Thomas Hughston in his office at the Charleston County Judicial Center. (Brad Nettles/postandcourier.com) 7/1/13×
Judge Thomas Hughston talks about his years on the bench in his office at the Charleston County Judicial Center. (Brad Nettles/postandcourier.com) 7/1/13×
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Dancing with the Stars: Zendaya Shines, D.L. Hughley Bombs at Premiere
The show returned for season 16 Monday night, and there were some thrilling surprises, relieved celebrations and disappointing scores handed out during the two-hour premiere.
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Sixteen-year-old actress Zendaya of Disney Channel's Shake It Up proved herself in the ballroom with a stunning contemporary dance that had her leaping off the judges' table and into their hearts. She and partner Val Chmerkovskiy earned the night's biggest score of 24 points to kick off the season.
"Amazing!" said judge Carrie Ann Inaba. "You are a fantastic dancer with a maturity that is unexpected out of a 16-year-old."
At the other end of the spectrum was comic D.L. Hughley, who prepared by smoking a quick cigar, then proceeded to choke on the dance floor.
He received just 12 points and withering criticism from the judges, including Bruno Tonioli, who said: "You terminated the cha cha cha."
"I have some bad news," added Inaba. "You've got to go back to work and practice a little harder for next week."
Hughley, a standup comic, snapped back: "That's the equivalent of bullying a second grader."
The emotional highlight was a poignant winter-themed contemporary dance by Dorothy Hamill, the 1976 Olympic skating gold medalist who underwent surgery for breast cancer five years ago.
"That dance should be designated as an area of outstanding beauty," said Len Goodman, who along with the other two judges awarded her 21 points.
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"I really enjoyed it in a crazy way," said Tonioli.
Country singer Wynonna Judd made up with attitude what she lacked in daring during a gospel cha cha that brought cheers from her mom Naomi and sister Ashley in the audience, along with her husband Cactus Moser, who lost a leg seven months ago in a motorcycle accident.
"You can give it a little more, just give it more," said Inaba. "You got it, honey, it's there."
In other dances:
Kellie Pickler kicked off the show with a smooth foxtrot that earned 16 points and showed great promise. "You've got sass and you've got class," said Inaba.
Real Housewife Lisa Vanderpump brought her amazingly calm dog Giggy into the ballroom – host Tom Bergeron joked the dog looked "hammered" – then performed a respectable 18-point foxtrot.
The Bachelor's Sean Lowe impressed with a promising foxtrot that garnered 19 points.
Soap star Ingo Rademacher soared with a 20-point contemporary dance that Tonioli called "very raw."
Boxer Victor Ortiz's stiff foxtrot got him 18 points and praise for showing his boyish charm.
Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman showed off her sexy side in a dangerously low-cut costume that had Tonioli joking, "You're ready to burst out big time." She got 21 points for her cha cha.
Football star Jacoby Jones electrified the audience with a groovin' cha cha that got 20 points but left Goodman cold. "It was all icing and no cake," he grumbled.
Dancing returns next week with more performances on Monday, followed by the season's first elimination on Tuesday.


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He stared deep into the spider's many eyes. His arachnophilia had possessed him once more, and he longed for the spider to come and crawl up his arm.
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