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MYRTLE BEACH - A long-running and contentious criminal ethics grand jury probe into S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell has ended as the state's top prosecutor removed himself from the case and the state grand jury is no longer investigating, Harrell told a group of Republicans on Saturday.
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AG Removes Himself From the Case; Grand Jury Investigation Ended
(Columbia, SC) Just days after the S.C. State Supreme Court ruled that Attorney General Alan Wilson had the authority to pursue his Grand Jury investigation of a citizen ethics complaint made against House Speaker Bobby Harrell, Wilson removed himself from the case and the Grand Jury investigation was ended. In removing himself from the case, Wilson passed responsibility for any future dealings on the matter along to a Solicitor of his choosing. While these actions took place more than a month ago, no public notice was issued and the Attorney General's Office only recently notified Speaker Harrell's attorneys about these developments.
Speaker Harrell issued the following statement on these developments that took place more than a month ago but only recently were brought to light:
"My attorneys recently were informed that I am no longer the subject of a state Grand Jury investigation. The state Grand Jury expired June 30th and there is no longer any state Grand Jury investigation of me.
"It has also been confirmed to us that the Attorney General has removed himself from my case and appointed Solicitor David Pascoe to handle it. The AG made the decision to take these actions without any consultation or communication with my attorneys or me.
"It is important for everyone to understand that we did not know about these events until about a month after they occurred. The Attorney General's office notified us of his decisions on July 29th during a call between my attorney and a representative of the Attorney General.
"I have said from the beginning that I violated no law and have only sought an independent prosecutor free of political motives and influence. I hope these events accomplish that."
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Harrell broke the news to a closed-door meeting of House Republican Caucus members at the Grand Dunes Marriott in Myrtle Beach.
Behind the meeting-room's doors, brief periods of applause could be heard, apparently in response to Harrell's announcement.
Harrell emerged from the session and spoke briefly, reading from the statement he released statewide.
"My attorneys recently were informed that I am no longer the subject of a state Grand Jury investigation," Harrell said. "The state Grand Jury expired June 30th and there is no longer any state Grand Jury investigation of me."
Before returning to the meeting, Harrell briefly spoke exclusively with The Post and Courier.
"I said from the beginning I just wanted somebody to look at this who was independent and didn't have political motives," he said. "And I hope this accomplishes that."
Attorney General Alan Wilson removed himself from the case more than a month ago but Harrell's attorneys were not notified until July 29, Harrell said.
Harrell had been accused of using campaign funds for personal use and using his office to benefit his business, among other allegations. The Charleston Republican had long maintained his innocence and said the investigation was politically motivated.
At Wilson's direction, any further investigation in the case, if necessary, has been assigned to 1st Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe, Harrell said. Pascoe, a Democrat whose circuit includes Dorchester, Orangeburg and Calhoun counties, did not immediately respond to multiple messages left on his cell phone.
Reached Saturday morning, Mark Powell, a spokesman for the Attorney General's office, said, "We are unable to comment because the Supreme Court order directs that we are not to disclose these matters."
The surprising turn of events ends weeks of speculation about where the case was headed next, and it hands a major victory to the embattled speaker.
In July, the state Supreme Court decisively gave Wilson free reign to pursue the case after Harrell's attorneys unsuccessfully argued that the allegations against him were not criminal and could not be investigated by the state grand jury. The justices' unanimous decision was seen as a blow to Harrell, and many speculated that the case would move forward quickly.
Wilson had publicly expressed confidence in the probe. In court, Wilson's deputies said that Harrell's conduct rose to the level of public corruption, the standard for launching a state grand jury investigation. They often pointed to an extensive 10-month state police investigation as the reason for launching the state grand jury probe.
The report produced by the State Law Enforcment Division, or SLED, was described as "voluminous."
The case has seen several twists and turns, starting in January after Wilson announced that he had referred the matter to the grand jury. Harrell called a press conference on the first day of the legislative session and was combative in defending himself.
When Harrell's attorneys won a victory in May by successfully arguing that the case should be tried first in front of the House Ethics Committee, Wilson defended the case before it went to the Supreme Court, which ultimately then sided with the attorney general.
"I did not make this decision by myself," Wilson said in the interview of whether to pursue the case. "I had five prosecutors, including the solicitor general. It was 100 percent unanimous what needed to happen next."
Wilson made similar comments statewide, including on talk radio. He said that the grand jury process should be able to get to the bottom of the allegations.
"No one has indicted or accused the speaker of anything," Wilson said on the Tara Servatius radio show on Charleston-based WTMA. "All we're doing is investigating. . We're just trying to do our job."
One hurdle remained to pursuing the case freely: Circuit Judge Casey Manning was expected to decide whether Wilson had a conflict of interest in the case and should be removed as prosecutor. Because Wilson apparently removed himself from the case soon after the state Supreme Court's decision was handed down, it seems that decision never became necessary.
But the expiratation of the state grand jury does not mean Harrell is out of the woods, said John Crangle, a Harrell critic and director of Common Cause of South Carolina.
"It doesn't mean that there might not be county grand juries going forward," Crangle said. "What Harrell has said, in my opinion, doesn't indicate that he's out of jeopardy."
Asked to comment on Harrell's statement, S.C. Policy Council President Ashley Landess said not enough details of what's going on have been released and warned that Harrell has "twisted reality more than once" since allegations against him were raised.
"I think we should all take what Speaker Harrell said with a big grain of salt," Landess said.
"We don't know what's going yet. Regardless of what happens with Bobby Harrell, it further underscores the need to seriously, dramatically overhaul the structure of our government. We're not letting that go."
The accusations against Harrell, formally filed with Wilson by the Policy Council in February 2013, documented several issues they wanted the attorney general to investigate. Landess said Harrell:
Used his office for his financial benefit or that of his family business;
Used campaign funds for personal purposes;
Failed to maintain required records documenting his campaign expenditures;
Adequately itemized campaign reimbursements as required by state law; and
Violated state law by appointing his brother to a state judicial screening panel.
A 2012 Post and Courier report raised some of the most significant issues. The report found that Harrell had reimbursed himself more than $325,000 from his campaign war chest since 2008 but lacked documentation for the expenses, the newspaper's examination found. Harrell, the report said, had reimbursed himself for many expenses and did not properly document the spending was proper.
Harrell later told the Associated Press he would be more careful with documentation but that all the expenses were related to his official duties and he had done nothing wrong.
"The way I've been doing it is within the law," Harrell told the AP in September 2012. "Going forward, I probably will be more specific."
The case cast a pall over the last legislative session. Political motivations were cited on an attempt at ethics reform and other measures as the feud between Harrell and Wilson played on in the background.
Harrell was never asked to step aside and no one publicly raised the issue. In an interview in March, Harrell said he would continue to fight the allegations and the investigation. "It is incredibly important to me to make sure everybody knows that my family's reputation that has been earned over generations should be as good as it's always been," he said.
At Saturday's GOP meeting of lawmakers, several came to Harrell's defense.
"We're happy that after two years it appears that the end of all this is in sight," said House Majority Leader Bruce Bannister, R-Greenville.
Bannister doubted a House Ethics investigation of Harrell would be mounted either. "The reason is, they know there is not a real issue there."
Rep. Mike Sottile, R-Isle of Palms, said he didn't expect Pascoe's Democratic Party affiliation to be a factor as the probe goes ahead.
"I think that as a prosecutor, you've got to look at everything independently," he said.
Added Rep. Jim Merrill, R-Charleston, "Nobody would wish what Bobby and his family went through on anybody."
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A Light-weight Approach to Developing Interactive Model Transformations
Siikarla, Mika
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2011-02-18
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University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Tieto- ja sähkötekniikan tiedekunta – Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Department: Ohjelmistotekniikan laitos – Department of Software Systems
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a software development paradigm that is proposed to increase the efficiency of software development. To realize this goal, the design of the software application and the design-time decisions are captured in models. The models are kept consistent with each other and the source code by model transformations. Designing the modeling languages and specifying, designing and implementing the model transformations are critical tasks in applying MDE successfully. Applying MDE to the development of a certain type of software is primarily about understanding and defining the process, work practices and methods that are to be used in the development. The input and output information for each phase in the process are defined and suitable modeling languages are selected to express the information. The relationship between the input and the output is defined as a model transformation. The more stable, well-understood and explicitly defined the phases are initially, the easier it is to apply MDE. A software product line environment is a favourable target for applying MDE. Similar products are being built and have been built before, so the information needed in each phase is understood well. Therefore the model transformations and modeling languages will be quite good from the start and can be expected to change relatively little. The same model transformations are used in the development of multiple products and benefit each of them. The combined gains are enough to justify a large one-time investment into developing high-quality model transformations. However, developing a unique or a first of its kind software application is a challenge for applying MDE. There is little prior experience and the understanding of the requirements is poor. Therefore, the initial assumptions will be wrong and the model transformations and modeling languages will undergo frequent changes while the understanding gradually grows. Because there is only one application, the gains do not compound and a much smaller investment can be justified. Also, the time spent building model transformations delays the start of the development of the application.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - By the scheduled 6 p.m. start of Incline's senior farewell homecoming game Friday, the Highlanders already led West Wendover by a 14-6 score.
It was that kind of action-packed night for the Highlanders, who sent their seniors out on a high note with a 45-12 rout in a game that kicked off a half-hour ahead of schedule.
"It was a very good game. It was very satisfying on several levels," said Incline head coach Scott Conn. "One was the importance of it being homecoming, the second was it being senior night - and we said goodbye to some of the best players to come through Incline - and third, we clinched a playoff spot."
In fact, the Highlanders clinched a playoff berth for the first time in 13 years with the victory, which improved their season record to 6-2 overall and 5-2 in Northern Division III play. They'll square off against top-seeded Pershing County (7-1 overall, 6-0 league) on the road this week to end the regular season, as well as the following week to open the postseason.
"We face the difficult task now of facing Lovelock (Pershing County) back-to-back at Lovelock," Conn said. "It will be a challenge for us. I'm not sure how we're going to pull it off, but we're going to give it our best try."
Incline's four seniors shone brightly in their final home game. Michael Wegener, Brendon Steinmeyer and Sean Herrera each scored two touchdowns apiece, while fellow senior Ben Reber was an animal on defense, recording nine tackles.
Led by their seniors leaders, the Highlanders built their lead to 20-6 by the end of the first quarter and 42-12 at the half after exploding for 22 second-quarter points.
Junior quarterback Christian Biscotti fueled the Incline offense with a sharp performance, as he completed 11 of his 14 passes for 210 yards, with two TD tosses. Both of those TD throws went to Wegener, who finished with 143 yards on just three catches, with a long reception of 64 yards on the first of his scores.
West Wendover, which featured a potent passing attack led by quarterback Kylar Sharp and receivers Stefan Eveleth and Kaydn Sharp, scored on a 17-yard pass play to Eveleth late in the second quarter to narrow the score to 35-12.
But Biscotti and the Highlanders answered with another deep bomb to Wegener, this one a 58-yard strike to adjust the score to 42-12 after Steinmeyer's PAT, with 0:00 showing on the clock.
Steinmeyer was all over the field, recording a team-high 14 tackles, including six solo, while Michael Guymon had nine tackles and Masxsimo Battel had eight.
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Animal models contribute significantly to our understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying disease pathologies. However, few models predictably translate preclinical findings into what will happen in humans.
Investigational drugs are able to cure mice from many diseases, but continue to fail in clinical trials. This fact is largely attributed to poor model designs that do not sufficiently reflect the pathophysiology of disease in humans. In addition, tremendous diversity of human genetic background, co-medications, dosing, timing of treatment, and many other factors greatly influence the treatment outcome.
The new generation of animal models, described in this article, takes into consideration previous shortcomings. These models aim to reflect the human condition as closely as possible and to close the gap between translational research and the bedside.
Inbred lab mouse strains with fixed and highly reproducible genotypes are a powerful tool for genetic manipulation. Mouse embryonic stem cells are easily amenable to genetic modifications, and thousands of genetically modified mouse strains were developed in the last 20 years.
"And yet, the inbred lab strains proved to be a poor system for discovery of specific genes associated with a particular trait, such as obesity or high blood pressure," comments Gary A. Churchill, Ph.D., professor and principal investigator, The Jackson Laboratory.
"This is a result of their limited genetic diversity and large 'blind spots' largely devoid of genetic variations. We cannot resolve trait association at the level of an individual gene.
"In contrast, human genome association studies map individual genes to traits with a high degree of accuracy, but this is not enough to make a conclusive disease diagnosis.
"Therefore, discovery of a genetic basis of a complex trait required a radically new genetic strategy."
Jackson Labs is a key participant in the International Collaborative Cross (CC) project, with the goal to create new types of inbred strains based on eight parents selected from the existing laboratory and wild strains.
"CC mice demonstrate high levels of genetic diversity," continues Dr. Churchill. "Jackson Labs used this opportunity to take CC ideas to the next level."
The same progenitor lines served as the parent lines for the JAX Diversity Outbred (DO) Population. This unique mouse population is maintained by a carefully designed outbreeding strategy. While still not as diverse as humans, DO mice more accurately reflect human genetic architecture and may provide better insight into genetic mechanisms of human diseases.
"The DO animals proved to be an excellent tool for mapping trait-associated loci to a higher level of resolution," says Dr. Churchill.
Using DO mice, his team mapped a cluster of genes conferring sensitivity to doxyrubicine, a common chemotherapy agent. Within the cluster, protective, susceptible and neutral alleles were identified. The Jackson lab is collaborating with the National Institute for Environmental Health and Safety to identify susceptibility genes for other environmental pollutants.
"We hope that in the future these results will support toxicology analysis of human therapeutics," says Dr. Churchill.
"Genetics of the outbred mouse population seem to provide theoretical consistency with human population," agrees Michael D. Hayward, Ph.D., group leader, Taconic.
"However, it would be difficult to use such a population as a model to study function of individual genes. Taconic fully recognizes the profound influence of the genetic background of inbred strains on the phenotype. But we use this fact to our advantage to design our phenotyping methodology."
The genetic background of lab mice may vary even between populations of the same strain maintained at different locations. Such sub-populations accumulate minor polymorphisms, leading to "genetic drifts." To control for the background diversity in their phenotyping experiments, Taconic produces a litter of heterozygous progeny of a genetically engineered mouse (knockout or transgenic) that are congenic to a characterized background strain.
The second cross of heterozygous littermates produces mice that are genetically identical except for the gene of interest. This approach is especially important to correlate for subtle phenotypical manifestations such as behavioral or psychiatric changes.
To tease out these differences, Taconic developed what essentially represents a high-throughput screening of animal phenotypes in vivo. Marketed as "PhenoTac," the analysis platform is a panel of fully validated assays representing several therapeutic areas of interest (i.e., obesity, diabetes, inflammation, neurology).
"In contrast with traditional approaches that use a large number of mice to achieve statistical significance, we conduct PhenoTac assays in the same animals, which decreases the number of mice and associated breeding costs," continues Dr. Hayward.
"To perform phenotypic assessment of each genetic modification on most of the major aspects of mouse physiology we need only 40 experimental animals and the same number of controls. This is 10 times less than what would be required otherwise.
"Validation of our sequential strategy confirmed that the outcomes of the assays conducted later in the sequence are not affected by assays conducted in the beginning."
Using its breeding approach and PhenoTac analysis, Taconic uncovered numerous clinically relevant phenotypes in laboratory strains with targeted and spontaneously occurring mutations.
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The Greeley-based Fence Post Publishing Co. has recently expanded with the acquisition of a Wisconsin-based company, which has four rural-lifestyle magazines that are distributed nationally.
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"Countryside is a perfect fit with our current agriculture and country lifestyle publications," Smith said. "With the continued success of our current Fence Post publications, we have been looking for an expansion opportunity that would complement what we have now.
"We were pleased to find a great company that reflected our values and does such a great job of being a resource to its readers searching for specific, helpful information for their pursuits."
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The magazines have accompanying websites. They are: countrysidemag.com, backyardpoultry.com, dairygoatjournal.com and sheepmagazine.com.
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The 5 Most Undeservedly Hated Famous People of 2013
It's December, which, among lots of other things, means fans of Internet entertainment should brace themselves for a veritable onslaught of lists of the best and worst things of the year that has almost passed. Cracked does them, and so does just about everyone else.
These ubiquitous lists can attribute their massive popularity, at least in part, to the howls of outrage from readers who feel wronged when something they love is excluded from the "best of" roundups or earns a mention on the "worst of" side of things. One such list, the 20 Most Hated Celebrities of 2013, as decided by the always reliable Star magazine, has been making lots of headlines this week. At least it's made enough headlines that it caught my attention, and when I read it, I spotted a few entries that struck me as more than a little unfair. Naturally, because there is no bigger affront in all the world than reading something you disagree with online, I decided I needed to say something.
Here are the five most undeservedly hated celebrities of 2013.
#5. Kim Kardashian
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Like most of the other problems in the world, the fact that Kim Kardashian is still making "most hated" lists in 2013 is probably Kanye West's fault. To be upset over any of her other perceived crimes against pop culture, like being famous for doing nothing (except Ray J) or sullying the airwaves with an inane reality show, is like being mad at the year 2007. These are things we should have all spoken our piece about and moved on from by now.
Even then, I've never completely understood the frothing rage some people seem to be able to work themselves into at the mere mention of Kim Kardashian. I'm not saying the concept of being famous just for being famous is a good thing; I'm just saying I don't give a shit. Tons of people her age live off their parents' money without doing half the work she's done. I don't care if photo shoots and running a clothing line doesn't amount to back-breaking work. It's still work. If laziness in the face of a financial windfall from her parents is what upsets you about Kim Kardashian, I'd like to introduce you to at least half of Los Angeles.
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They all wear the same glasses.
Kim Kardashian is a fucking workhorse compared to a lot of rich kids, even if it doesn't necessarily feel that way when you're dragging ass to a day job you hate. Again, though, famous just for being famous is a problem we inherited from the last administration. As stated previously, the thing keeping Kim Kardashian in the celebrity-hating community's cross hairs these days is her relationship with Kanye West.
If a melding of two of the most "newsworthy" celebrities in all the world strikes you as reason to be upset, rest assured, you're viewing the problem in the completely wrong way. Let's say you have two friends, a man and a woman, who both buy you a birthday gift each year. One day, that man and woman meet and become a couple. What happens the following year?
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Right, you get one less birthday gift, because your friends are now shopping as a couple. That's exactly how you should think about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian joining forces. Instead of hearing an obnoxious story about Kim Kardashian every day and an obnoxious story about Kanye West every day, now you just get one joint story about both of them. In total, that's one less piece of "news" each day.
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It's the same thinking that goes into keeping the president and vice president in different locations during times of crisis. If they're separated, it's harder for the enemies of this country to take out our number one and number two at the same time. If you view Kim Kardashian and Kanye West as enemies fighting against your right to hear meaningful news reports, having them joined at the hip should be exactly what you want.
#4. Jay Leno
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Hey, speaking of things we shouldn't still be mad about, when we look at it in retrospect, should Conan O'Brien be glad Jay Leno cost him his job at NBC? Even without Leno and his prosthetic chin in the picture, Coco wasn't exactly killing it in the ratings. At least the Leno fiasco gave him someone to blame when things went off the rails, which, given the state of NBC in recent years, was bound to happen at some point anyway.
Again, though, just like hating Kim Kardashian for being Kim Kardashian, hating Jay Leno for what transpired between him and Conan O'Brien is the kind of thing we probably should have let go of a long time ago. In fact, the only big news story that jumps to mind involving Jay Leno this year was the one about him finally giving up control of The Tonight Show to Jimmy Fallon.
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Where's your other hand, Leno?
Unless I'm missing something, that's the opposite of bad news. The end of the Jay Leno reign is exactly what people want, right?
Still, the Conan vs. Leno drama left such a sour taste in people's mouths that, even today, Jay Leno is making his way onto lists of the most hated celebrities in the world. If you ask me, the question isn't whether we should still care about Jay Leno hosting The Tonight Show; the question is whether we should still care about The Tonight Show at all.
There was a time when we absolutely should have, and that time was back in the '80s, when the choice was between David Letterman and Jay Leno, and The Tonight Show was still an institution revered as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) late-night talk shows of all time. Who was going to take control when Johnny Carson left was a huge deal, because Johnny Carson was a huge deal and he made The Tonight Show the huge deal that it was at the time. The operative word there is "time," though, because caring about late-night television is quickly becoming a relic we reluctantly carry with us from a radically different time.
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What do we need to tune in to late-night television for these days? Jimmy Fallon wasn't crowned the next face of The Tonight Show because of his monologues, and putting him in direct competition with Stephen Colbert definitely won't make us miss his interview skills. No, Jimmy Fallon is massively popular right now because the skits from his show become huge viral hits online. You don't have to be in front of your television when Jimmy Fallon proves to be funnier than we ever expected he could be by doing something like this ...
... because five of your friends are going to email you that video the next morning. That's all we need these days. That (and the greatest band on Earth) is why Jimmy Fallon is popular right now.
If NBC executives think a massive Internet following is going to translate to improved ratings, it's just another sign that they're completely out of touch. Even if you're excited for Jimmy Fallon from a career standpoint, you probably shouldn't be. Beyond the ratings concerns (which NBC has shown a willingness to address in the harshest manner possible), don't expect a move to a more advertiser-friendly spot to mean good things for the quality of his work. It's generally accepted that Conan's best moments on NBC came after he knew he was going to be fired and stopped caring what the higher-ups thought. Translation: Something about keeping that job made Conan O'Brien feel like he had to hold back.
If you think that's a situation exclusive to him, consider the fact that, once upon a time, Jay Leno was pretty damn funny himself. His act didn't start out as an endless stream of "Jaywalking" skits and wacky headlines. Answering to the NBC machine for so many years just made it that way.
#3. Taylor Swift
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Here's a fun story! Back when I was working for Playboy, a freelancer turned in an article about why Taylor Swift was secretly the biggest dick in music.
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Yes, the writer was a woman, thanks for asking!
Anyway, because that's exactly my kind of shit, I approved the article posthaste and published it on the site. Approximately 10 minutes later, I received an email from my boss demanding that I take the article down. People loved Taylor Swift so much (this was hot on the heels of the Kanye incident) that seeing her described as a "dick" in a headline, no matter how compelling the argument contained within the article may have been, was too much for such a demure company to stomach.
Kiss her ass all you want, it's never going to happen.
And now here we are a few short years later, and Taylor Swift is one of the most hated celebrities of 2013. That's a squandering of goodwill the likes of which we haven't seen since George W. Bush managed to make the entire world hate us after 9/11. If you're keeping track, that's two Bush jokes in the span of three entries. That's the kind of mindset having to still talk about Jay Leno puts a person in, I suppose.
The public's hate for Taylor Swift, though, is still awash in that new love affair scent. Hating Taylor Swift is cool now, because, oh my God, does she have to write a song about every guy she dates?
Does she make them sign a release?
Well, yeah, she kind of does. Rather, she doesn't have to, but why in the fuck shouldn't she? For one thing, relationships are something musicians have been covering in song forever. It seems like a problem here because everyone knows who she's singing about, but how is that her fault? Lots of easily entertained people want to know that kind of information. Why does that equate to Taylor Swift not getting to write the same kind of songs that so many men and women before her have written? The video for Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" made it pretty clear who he was singing about ...
... and there has yet to be an instance in recorded history of anyone being mad at that guy for anything. So why all the guff when Taylor Swift does the same thing? Is it because so many of her songs are about ex-boyfriends? If so, and I can't reiterate this enough, the fact that you even know who she's singing about is the real problem here. If you're that concerned about Harry Styles' (whoever that is) right to privacy, read better websites and watch better television. If you do that, the problem will just work itself out, I promise.


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mike sat down and everyone could see his goat knuckle.. his wrnagleers were too tight.
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LOCKPORT – Paul E. Buck Jr. admitted in Niagara County Court on Thursday that he gunned down an 18-year-old man on a Niagara Falls street corner April 25, leaving him with a bullet lodged near his heart that surgeons are unable to safely remove.
Buck, 21, who said he has no home but jail, accepted a plea deal to a reduced charge of second-degree assault and agreed to testify against co-defendants Jacob J. Taggart, 23, and Marlyn M. Rubin, 20, of the Falls.
They are scheduled for trial Jan. 28 on charges of first-degree assault and gang first-degree assault, but Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann said that although they rejected plea offers before, she might reinstate them.
"If they asked, I probably would," Hoffmann said. The offers would be Class D felonies, the same level of plea that Buck agreed to Thursday.
The maximum penalty for that is seven years in state prison. The maximum would be 25 years behind bars for those convicted of the original charges at trial.
Although Buck admitted shooting Anthony McDougald in the incident at 12th and Niagara streets, that's doesn't get Taggart and Rubin off the hook.
County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III said the defense attorneys in the case have been fixated on who actually shot McDougald. "That's not an element of the gang assault charge or the assault charge," the judge reminded them.
The three were indicted under the accomplice liability provision, meaning all are equally guilty if prosecutors can show they had criminal intent toward McDougald.
"There was an argument," Buck said under questioning by Murphy. "We had some words. We were going to fight, but we didn't. We went toward the casino."
"You shot him?" the judge asked.
"Yeah," Buck answered.
"Were Mr. Taggart and Mr. Rubin with you at the time?" Murphy asked. "They were," Buck replied.
The plea came after Murphy ruled that Buck's statements to police would be admissible in a trial.
Taggart's attorney, Frank L. LoTempio, said he would talk to Taggart about taking a plea.
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CHARLESTON — Five seats away from a majority in the House of Delegates, Republicans this session will push for a new appeals court and pursue constitutional amendments targeting property taxes and......
I'll paraphrase here, 'The conservative hurrier we go, the dark behinder we get'. West Virginia used to be such a bell weather progressive state. We cared for and took care of our own. We had tolerance for those who are different. Then Big Coal republicans figured out the value of negative public relations wedge issues and Fox News slipped into the hen house to guard our morality. It is a 'one two' punch that has staggered a once proud people. The GOP screams 'Abra Cadabra!'and poof! We turn into sheep lead to the shears. The sad result is we no longer have neighbors with whom we have spirited debates about our state's politics. Now we only have 'that nasty bunch who live next door'. Thank You, Mr. President for continuing to try to bring us back together. Ross Ballard... (No Screen Names - Own Your Words)
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Wow, Mountain Whispers, I'm glad that you aren't writing the "paraphrase" of novel plots for Cliff's Notes...because your alternate reality view would make the summary of every Classic incomprehensible.
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Oh, monkey. Say what you will. He is your president. There is nothing you can do about it...except post on the Journal comments section...at 4:30 in the morning. Good job?
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"Ross Ballard... (No Screen Names - Own Your Words)"
If the best I could do was to write that kind of adolescent drivel, I certainly wouldn't want my name on it !
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Not to worry. Keep a close eye on their travel vouchers through the Freedom of Information Act, and it wont be long before we find out how many frauds we have in this new crop of do-nothings.
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Thanks for the comment, Ross.
Kalva, why bothering posting a comment devoid of content except for an unsupported insult?
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Contrary - "Kalva, why bothering posting a comment devoid of content except for an unsupported insult?"
What is there to comment on ? It is a silly little rant that is nothing more than typical liberal "opinion".
And whatever do you think this means - "I'll paraphrase here, 'The conservative hurrier we go, the dark behinder we get'." ? It went downhill from there !
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"Thank You, Mr. President for continuing to try to bring us back together."
Ate you on some kind of dilusional drug. This president has driven a wedge into this fourth bigger than any predicessor examples: rich vs. Poor, gun supporters vs gun opponent's, pro aboration vs. Anti abortion, pro gay marriage vs. Traditional marriage, black vs. White, I could go on and on.
If I were you I wouldn't use your name, some crazy liberal may try to get into your house and steal your drugs.
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Who politicians serve.
Who politicians want YOU to serve.
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Martha Stewart can help you decorate your home with just a pine cone and some glitter...and then she'll eat you soul.
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The profoundly evil adversary of God and humanity, often identified with the leader of the fallen angels, the Devil.the archfiend Satan, Old Nick, Devil, the Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Tempter, Prince of Darkness]
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After that child had broken my windows,Lit my house on fire and ate my cat spaghetti style, I believe he had satan in him.
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Christianity's big bad scapegoat/boogieman. Originally a Jewish demon-like character who tested you, but changed into the all-evil devil that Christians blame everything on. Allows for the dismissal of accountability.
OJ: "Satan made me do it!"
Pope: "You are forgiven."
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a misunderstood guy. he makes sure heaven doesn't have any bad people ruining it for everyone. wow. what a great guy.
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The Buffalo Sabres will be back on the ice this week. The word that players have waited to hear since mid-September – that the NHL lockout was over and the season was saved – finally filtered through the team Sunday.
"I stayed cautiously optimistic through the whole process," new Sabres forward Steve Ott, acquired over the summer from Dallas for Derek Roy, told The News by phone Sunday from his home in Windsor, Ont. "You got excited a couple times and then the wheels fell off, and you had to wait some more and hope there was a breakthrough. I'm just completely excited to get back on the ice and be in Buffalo as soon as possible."
Goaltender Ryan Miller was asleep, like much of North America, when the end of the lockout was announced at 5:45 a.m. Eastern time.
Wrote Miller in a text to The News from Southern California: "I learned of the deal when I woke up to my wife saying, 'Yay, it's over.' "
Defenseman Mike Weber tweeted a picture of his Sabres duffel bag, a suitcase and some clothes with the notation: "Fastest pack I've ever completed #gameon #seeyouinbuffalo." He also tweeted thanks to the Windsor Spitfires for allowing him to train in his former junior home and to Lorenskog, the team he played for in the Norwegian league.
Weber had returned to Windsor for the holidays and to wait to see if the lockout would end before a potential return to Norway.
Backup goaltender Jhonas Enroth tweeted in Swedish (translated via Google), "Troubled that it has taken such a time, but damn right fun to start running again now!"
Enroth is currently playing in his homeland and will have to join several other teammates in making a beeline back to Buffalo for camp in the next couple of days.
Enroth later tweeted in English: "Finally! Excited to get back to #beautifulbuffalo and start playing in the NHL again! Can't wait!"
Ott said he was pressing forward with workouts, trying not to ponder the fact the NHL's deadline to get a deal and prevent cancellation of the season was less than a week away.
"It's been nerve-wracking," he said. "I've wanted a chance to prove myself to my teammates and the Buffalo community and now it's finally upon us."
The Sabres' front office, including President Ted Black and General Manager Darcy Regier, was waiting for instructions from the NHL before communicating to fans and media specifics about the coming season. Some of those particulars, including ticketing, scheduling and training camp, could be revealed today.
In the short term, the Sabres have some immediate questions to answer on the ice in the wake of the lockout's conclusion.
Once the new CBA is ratified, the Sabres will certainly call up winger Marcus Foligno and center Cody Hodgson from Rochester to rejoin the NHL club.
In addition, defenseman T.J. Brennan – the Amerks' leading scorer and a former second-round draft pick – will need to clear waivers to continue playing in the AHL and that may not happen because of his strong season. So the Sabres would need to add Brennan to an already large logjam on defense.
The Sabres are also short at center and it's possible that No. 1 draft choice Mikhail Grigorenko may get a nine-game tryout rather than return immediately to junior hockey in the wake of his strong performance at the World Junior tournament that ended Saturday in Ufa, Russia.
Grigorenko has 29 goals and 50 points in 30 games with the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and a French newspaper in Quebec reported last month the Sabres had already agreed to keep Grigorenko in juniors for the season regardless of the lockout's conclusion. It will be interesting to see if the Sabres revisit their thoughts on the 18-year-old, given the fact he's already in strong shape coming off an elite international tournament.
The Sabres also will have to ascertain the health of some of their players. Defenseman Tyler Myers missed nearly a month of play in Austria with an ankle injury and just returned to the ice Friday night, scoring a shootout winning goal for his team. Center Tyler Ennis left Switzerland because of a shoulder injury and has been seen skating at the Northtown Center in Amherst. Winger Nathan Gerbe's status is also a question mark after an offseason procedure, believed to be on his back.
It will be interesting to see the conditioning of the rest of the roster as well. Only a few players have been skating in Amherst, with the rest returning to other cities or, in the case of Miller, attending NHLPA camps for players in places like Phoenix.
"I've tried to stay in the best shape possible and guys are pretty professional," Ott said.
"We all wanted this day to come. Everybody ramped up the last two weeks to prepare for a season, knowing it was going to happen or it was going to be ended. You want to prepare like it would happen and make sure we're ready to go."
Miller said the players have plenty of work to do on the ice – and plenty to do off it to regain the passion of fans who may have been lost by another work stoppage.
"Now that we have games on the schedule we just need some fans," Miller said in an email Sunday to the Toronto Globe & Mail. "I know an apology doesn't make it all better, but it's a place to start. I'm sorry and I hope that fans will forgive us for the role we played in this lockout. We will show up ready to play if they want to come to the rink and watch."
Miller said the players remained united behind union Executive Director Donald Fehr throughout the process and felt they got the best deal they could.
wAlthough they knew Fehr was in charge of baseball's players union when the World Series was canceled by a strike in 1994, they were also aware the sport is pushing 20 years of labor peace since then.
"I think Don was great," Miller wrote to The News. "I know a lot of people were judging him based on baseball but in this situation he did what was right for us in this situation.
"He listened and considered our opinion and gave the players all the information available. Part of business at a multi-billion dollar level is to take every advantage you can. There is a lot of misinformation out there about Don but from my side he was honest and professional and he cared."
The work of Fehr and Commissioner Gary Bettman, combined with a huge assist from federal mediation, avoided another nuclear winter for the NHL. In less than two weeks, the Sabres will open a 48- or 50-game season Ott referred to as "a complete sprint."
Upon learning the lockout was over, Bills wide receiver David Nelson tweeted to Ott, "Congrats on the season brother! Can't wait to see you tear it up."
Responded Ott: "Thanks Man, can't wait to have some fun in B-Lo."
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Fortunately, like most people who read or write for the Internet, I am a terrible human being. Over the years, I've honed this talent, evolving from writing shitty little online comments to actually destroying other writers. Some of you newer to Cracked might not remember that we used to have a completely different slate of columnists - all of whom were obliterated by my fiendish, back-stabbing ways. I mean, think about it. How else could I keep this job? As my last column should have made clear, I'm not really funny and everything I say should be taken absolutely literally. So when some business affairs brought me to Los Angeles last weekend, I decided it was the perfect time to stop by the Cracked office, and secure my job via patented d-bag techniques.
And now I can share these techniques with you, illustrating each with a real-world application to your friends here at Cracked. These tips will work for anyone. As long as you're a prick and out to destroy the competition, this 5 step process will move you to the front of the line, whether that is a line for blood bank donations, government cheese, or the third circle of hell.
Gain Their Trust
The first step in any evil plan is perpetuating the notion you're a nice guy. When I was a younger horrible person I used to actually cover myself in warpaint and carry a sharpened butcher knife to the office before trying to murder a coworker. But as you get older you learn subtlety is your friend. You want your evil to be a surprise.
But how do you achieve this? Stand in front of a mirror and think about drowning several kittens. See what happened? That thing in the mirror is called a smile, and you can use it to your advantage. Compliments are good too. Also, try not to stand out. You want your peers to think you're just like them, only happier and less talented. That's why when I went out to L.A. I did several weeks of surveillance to figure out how the gang dressed. I wanted to reflect their style. Also, so the lads wouldn't be intimidated by my superior good looks, I decided to have my face stung by a thousand bees just before posing for this picture. That bloated puffiness says "hey guys, you can trust me."
Create Conflict With Others
Now that you've established yourself as a good guy. You need to slyly create dissension. Like wouldn't it be great if no one were plotting to destroy you because they were all plotting to destroy each other? Of course, it would.
I set to work creating a divide between my peers. A novice would do this by spreading a rumor that one member of the office was banging the girlfriend/wife of another. But as only about half of the Cracked writers are sexually active and only half of that remaining number have successfully overcome erectile dysfunction, I thought the approach lacked credibility. Also rumors/lies have a tendency to backfire. Remember when you told all your friends that the girl who wouldn't go to the prom with you was a huge lesbian? Remember how silly you felt afterward when it came out she was banging your phys ed teacher, and the captain of the football team, and your best friend, and even a certain non-kosher farm animal in an amateur porn tape that surfaced a year later? Yeah, it takes more than just a lie to do this right.
That's why I sent this Tweet moments before I arrived.
Some of you might be thinking I've violated my own rule. Isn't that an overt attack on Seanbaby? What happened to being subtle? But as noted by the pic above, Sean was not joining us that night. My battle with him would have to wait for another day. And since Sean is a self-proclaimed mixed martial arts master, it would have to be a day when he was feverish and bed-ridden with another bout of highly contagious and incurable venereal disease. No, I was merely using Sean (much like he's been used by so many Malaysian businessmen before me).
Soren and Daniel responded to my infantile Tweet, defending Seanbaby's honor.
But did you notice something? No response from Cody and Swaim. Maybe they thought the tweet was too retarded for a reply. Maybe they had enough of a life that they didn't check Twitter every five minutes. Or maybe they had a secret. Maybe they hated Sean. Maybe they hated Soren and DOB. Lines were being drawn. Sides taken. Now I'd just sit back and watch the house of cards fall.
Empower Their Worst Ideas
Well, apparently no cards fell and after a moment all I could discern was an awkward discomfort among my peers from seeing me in person. Maybe it was my raw sexuality. Or maybe they were just creeped out drinking beers with a guy who couldn't get a pigfucker to go to the prom with him. I mean, drinking beers with a guy who had a friend who couldn't get a pigfucker to date him.
In any event, it was time to move on to the next step. This one might be my favorite. Y'see,sometimes the best way to destroy your alleged friends is to help them destroy themselves. Each of us contains the potential for our own undoing. For some, it's a death wish. For others, it's just incredibly poor judgment. Yet, most of us suppress these ideas for fear of making waves. That guy in the cubicle next to you who thinks the company should move to a four day work week because a happier worker means greater productivity? You should totally encourage him to tell the boss that.
And so I set about speaking to my colleagues, finding out their deepest dreams and goals. Apparently, Soren wanted to leave Cracked to start a summer camp for young Aryan boys. Now we were getting somewhere. I spent all night whispering invented statistics in Soren's ear as he knocked back his Chocolate Choo Choos and Mojitos: "Did you know that young Aryan boys are the largest growing summer camp demographic in the U.S."; "Why just the other day at a Neo Nazi rally in Chicago I heard several Aryan parents complaining there was just no good place to send their kid for the summer", and "No, no, I heard that mixed drinks don't affect your abs as long as they're a primary color and come with an umbrella. Drink up."
Cody wanted to do more Game-helping Squad videos, but with more irritating voices. "YES!" I proclaimed. Swaim decided never to do Cracked TV again "YES!" DOB yearned to retire his confident, cock-obsessed, humor of hyperbole. "Good call," I offered. Incidentally, they all agreed I should keep up with the long form, literary satire, no one reads. "Teacher surpasses student," I wondered...
Meanwhile, at another bar, far away, Bucholz, Brockway, and Seanbaby had nothing to do with us:


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LEWISTOWN - Nihar Suthar hit the ground running after graduating from Mifflin County High School last year and recently published a self help book entitled "Win No Matter What."
Suthar said it's a short book, 74 pages filled with inspirational stories so people can try to "get the most out of each day."
Suthar said that short books such as his, are a part of recent trend in the book publishing industry.
The book was published in May and is available online through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Suthar said if the book sells well, it will be made available at Barnes and Noble bookstores as well.
"Writing this book made me discover a new side of myself. I didn't know I could even write that well and I had no idea I even enjoyed it so much! It was really interesting," Suthar said.
Suthar said the funny thing is that he actually doesn't read much. He is an economics and finance type of guy, so he finds it weird that he doesn't really have a favorite author, but then decided to write a book.
"We are donating a portion of all the book sale profits to the Acumen fund, an international charity that invests in solutions to combat global poverty," Suthar added.
When asked what he hopes people will get out of his book, Suthar said he hopes that people will follow their passions and imbibe the different tips and strategies from the book in their lives to make each day better.
"Pramukh Swami, an Indian saint was one person who served as an inspiration to me. He was the inspiration behind building a temple in India that is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the largest Indian temple in the world, and even after such an accomplishment, he remains extremely humble and satisfied," Suthar said.
Suthar said his friends and family have been extremely supportive.
"My friends have all bought the book and been really awesome, and my family as well has been supporting me throughout the entire process. They think it is great," Suthar said.
Suthar's positive outlook on life has allowed him to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. At present Suthar is at New York University where he just finished his freshmen year. He will soon transfer to Cornell.
"It's quite the change from Lewistown," Suthar said.
Suthar currently has an internship for one of the hottest startup companies in New York a real estate digital technology company, Honest Building. In addition, he has started his own company, "Hype-Up Your Day."
"We send in trainers and speakers into corporations and schools in order to increase employee and student morale, productivity and engagement," Suthar said.
When asked what advice he would give to people, he said simply "redefine possible."


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SALEM - The city Planning Commission approved recommending a zone change Monday to help create a zoning buffer for residents east of Southeast Boulevard on Oak Street, Tanglewood, Kennedy and Edgewood drives concerned about a proposed apartment development.
"This buffer zone was put in as a protection," Commission Chairman John Panezott said.
The commission had originally discussed the idea of rezoning about 14.3 acres of land currently zoned RA multiple family to RS-2 single family two weeks ago after agreeing to forward another rezoning issue to city council related to the apartment development.
The NRP Group of Cleveland announced plans for a three-phase housing development of apartments and single-family dwellings on vacant land bordering East Pershing Street, Butcher Road and Cunningham Road. The company has a purchase option on the 67.7-acre parcel owned by Gene Zilavy. NRP Group Developer Mary Hada requested the rezoning of 6.9-plus acres along Pershing Street from C-2 commercial to RA multiple family for Phase I of the project.
Plans call for an $18 million investment in the First Phase consisting of a 120-unit walk-up apartment complex located just south of East Pershing Street where it connects to Butcher Road. A Second Phase would consist of 176 walk-up apartments located at the corner of Butcher Road and Cunningham Road. The Third Phase was described as 50 single family lots, west of Cunningham Road and southwest of Butcher Road extending south to the corporation line.
Residents had expressed concern over having an apartment complex nearby, whether there were plans to extend their streets out to the apartment complex and whether it could devalue their properties. After agreeing to forward the first zoning change to council, the Planning Commission on its own agreed to study the idea of rezoning land 300 feet east of the deadends on those streets from residential multi-family to residential single-family as a means to protect the residents.
The final decision on both zoning issues will rest with Salem City Council. Council and the Planning Commission will hold a joint meeting at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 regarding the zoning issues.
During the previous meeting, Hada said there was no plan to build on the wetlands to the west of the high tension wires near the deadend streets because of the topography of the land and the wetlands. There's a gradual 60-foot drop east of the deadend streets. There was also no plan to have the deadend streets extended. Both points were reiterated during Monday's meeting.
Kennedy Drive resident Mark Pietrzak questioned how the Planning Commission could approve a rezoning change without seeing a comprehensive plan for the entire parcel of nearly 70 acres, including the infrastructure needs for water and sewer and how streets would be connected.
He also said he thought they should rescind their previous decision to change the commercial zone to multiple family, asking that the commission study and evaluate how the building plan will affect existing neighborhoods and the city's ability to provide the infrastructure. He said there should be deed restrictions to protect the citizens and the neighborhoods.
City Planning and Zoning Officer Patrick Morrissey said the city has never required deed restrictions, with Mayor John Berlin adding that it's usually up to the property owner. Commission member Royal Schiller said it's not the essence of the Planning Commission to do the business of the property owner.
Morrissey, Panezott and commission member Barb Loudon all said there was no proposal asking for the deadend streets to be extended out. Pietrzak said the water lines need connected to the new development, saying he has a problem with the deadend water. He also said they should extend the sewer lines on the deadend streets to a lift station talked about for the property.
"This has nothing to do with the NRP project. They can't be forced to fix our infrastructure," Morrissey said.
Oak Street resident Tom Scahill pointed out that when he attended the previous meeting, there were no plans for developing anything west of the creek on the vacant land near the wetlands. He questioned the need to rezone the area to single family.
Both Panezott and Berlin tried to explain the idea of the buffer zone, noting that there's no plan to build anything in the zone. By changing the zoning, at least they're ensuring that nothing can be built there except for single family homes if someone decided to build something there.
"I don't hear anyone saying they're against progress in Salem. Let's just do it the right way," Kennedy Drive resident Russ Sutherin said.
He said he would like to see something in writing from NRP that nothing would be built in the buffer zone. He also asked that they put in extra buffers of trees or bushes.
Councilwoman Cyndi Baronzzi Dickey, who lives on Southeast Boulevard off of Edgewood and represents the Fourth Ward area affected by the potential development, said the residents would like to see the change from RA to RS-2 permanent, but Berlin said that wouldn't be fair to the current owner. After two years, if the plans fall through, both zoning areas will revert back to their original zoning as requested by the current owner.
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IKON Office Solutions Signs Agreement As Exclusive Distributor Of Remlox3 Feb, 2011
IKON Office Solutions Signs Agreement As Exclusive Distributor Of Remlox
West Caldwell, N.J. (January 31, 2011) - Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions, today announced that IKON Office Solutions, a Ricoh company, has entered into an agreement with Hill Schwartz Spilker Keller LLC (HSSK) to be the exclusive provider of Remlox remote acquisition technology in the United States. Remlox is a patent pending PC data forensics software product developed by HSSK. As the exclusive provider of the Remlox technology in the U.S., IKON leverages HSSK's broad expertise in collection and data processing along with their innovative technology. Utilizing the Remlox technology allows IKON's customers to save time and money while acquiring data related to litigation or related investigations in a defensible manner.
The Remlox technology is designed to "self-collect" a complete sector-by-sector forensic image of a personal computer hard drive, allowing custodians to gather and transmit evidence without sending computer forensic experts to the client's premises. IKON has utilized the Remlox technology for two years and now includes it as part of its IKON Litovation Solutions eDiscovery suite of services. Because the Remlox technology is deployed using existing courier services and can be activated by the custodian, acquisitions can be performed quickly in even the most remote locations at a fraction of the cost of more traditional methodologies.
The combination of the Remlox software, HSSK's accredited computer forensics lab and IKON Legal Document Services provides a complete solution for the collection, verification, logging and auditing of electronic data. To gather information from a personal computer, Remlox is couriered to a custodian on an encrypted USB device. The custodian attaches the unit to the computer and Remlox automatically creates a complete physical hard drive image. A Chain of Custody form is then completed and the unit is sent back to HSSK's forensics lab where certified professionals use the acquired data to perform verification and preliminary electronic data discovery services. IKON professionals manage and integrate the process with other services to provide a total solution.
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Several Incline soccer players received All-Sierra League recognition recently, voted on by the league's coaches.
On the girls side, Incline sophomore Alondra Luna was honored on the second team as a midfielder, and junior Caroline May on defense. Senior Katie Jamison received honorable mention.
Brooke King of South Tahoe received the MVP forward award, Olivia Duner of Truckee received the MVP midfield and Melisa Pena of Truckee the MVP defense.
For the boys, senior Hector Banuelos was voted to the second team as a midfielder and senior Brian Cuadros as a utility player.
Freshman Rey Estrada, sophomore Luis Munoz and sophomore Marlon Correa all received honorable mention.
Hector Hernandez of Sparks was MVP forward, Nash McMullen of Truckee MVP midfield and Reed McMullen of Truckee MVP defense.
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These materials are most plentiful in the summer and fall. If it is the fall, you might need to gently move leaves and look underneath them.
It helps if you know which plants produce interesting seeds. For example:
One of the most flexible seed pods for this project is the milkweed. If you can find dried out milkweed pods, they are like the "cardboard" of seed pods. They can be snipped into almost any shape. Plus the fluff inside them is beautiful to watch in the wind.
The porcupine is similar to the mouse except pine needs form its needles. They were easy to stick into all the crevices of the pine cone with a tiny bit of glue on each clump.
Adapt to the seeds you find in your neighborhood!
Learn more tips about collecting seeds for crafts and gardening.
Activity created by Robin Walker.