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Steubenville Sequel: Can Anonymous Crack a 12-Year-Old Case?

Mother Jones

­­A few weeks after Amanda Stevenson was allegedly drugged and gang-raped, the 14-year-old high-school freshman packed a bag and fled her tiny hometown of Laurelville, Ohio, for a new life in suburban Virginia. But memories of that horrific night still haunt her, she says: the party in the hunting cabin deep in the woods. The locked room full of laughing young men. Trying to fight her way out of a fog of tranquilizer to say, “I feel strange” or “Take me home” or even simply “No.” Her naked body flopping like a rag doll as the teens passed her around and fondled her. Blacking out and awakening to find one guy after another climbing atop and penetrating her.

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Despite the passing of years, Stevenson, now 26, says she still has trouble sleeping, still winces at any mention of the word “rape,” and still sometimes curls up in a corner, sobbing and angry. So one day this past January her fiancé, Tim Tolka, offered to help her go after the rapists, if that what she wanted.

She wasn’t sure it was. But then she read a story about a high-school rape in Steubenville, Ohio, that had become national news thanks to the efforts of Anonymous, the hacker collective. “It was just so similar to what I had experienced,” Stevenson recalls. She decided then and there that her silence made her part of the problem.

The very next day, using a pseudonym, Tolka posted a plea on the Anonymous website AnonNews.org. “I have information about a second case of gang rape by local athletes in a small Ohio town that was squashed by the authorities,” he wrote. The couple went on to post the names, a phone number, and links to the Facebook pages of two of the men Stevenson said had raped her.

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Report: When It Comes To the Deficit, Washington is Still Acting Like It’s 2010

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Washington’s obsession with the nation’s budget deficit is a mistake, according to a new report released Wednesday by the liberal Center for American Progress (CAP). Congress and President Barack Obama are locked in a budget-cutting state of mind, still hoping to reach some sort of a grand bargain deficit reduction deal later this year that would replace the sweeping spending cuts that went into effect in March.

But as the report notes, the state of the economy has changed since 2010, the year that talks over how to reduce the deficit began:

The deficit has fallen by $2.5 trillion, due to tax increases and big spending cuts already enacted.
Growth in health care costs has slowed.
Inflation and interest rates are still low, despite concern that running a big deficit would increase them.
The key academic argument that high debt causes slower economic growth has fallen apart.
Austerity policies in Europe have not worked out so well.
The US economy has not come back to life as quickly as was projected when all the budget cutting began.

“Much has changed,” Michael Linden, the author of the CAP report, writes, “and the debate should change with it.”

Although the initial push for austerity came from the right, Obama and congressional Democrats soon fell in line. As Ezra Klein noted at Wonkblog Thursday, lower deficit forecasts didn’t change Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wisc.) budget-cutting mania. “With some of the urgency gone, did Ryan ease up on the cuts to programs like Medicaid and food stamps?” Klein writes. “Of course not….The facts changed. The policies in the Republican budget didn’t.” As for Democrats, Klein says, “they’ve kept pursuing the exact kind of budget deals that led to sequestration in the first place.” Obama put forward a budget in April that, as Linden says, “goes well beyond halfway to meet the demands of conservatives in Congress.”

“It is time to reset the entire budget debate,” Linden says. “No more pretending that the sky is falling.”

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A ‘how To’ Primer To Choosing A Good Solar Panel Contractor

If you need an improvement project done for you due to a lack of free time, then hiring a solar panel installtion contractor can be a good investment. However, if you hire a contractor that wastes your time and money, then you can put a lot of extra stress on your shoulders. Don’t put yourself through this, and instead hire a great contractor the first time around by following these techniques for evaluating contractors.

Inquire what their precedence are when they get the project and make sure they are in line with yours. Demand for references and contact each one on phone so they are verified. Inquire for a schedule and have them sign it.

Visit stores that sell the materials you will use in your project to get recommendations for solar panel installtion contractors. They will always refer you to someone who seems upstanding and always pays their suppliers on time with no problems.

The work site should be well-maintained and professionally run by the solar panel installtion contractor and crew, drop by to make sure this is actually the case. If desired, have the contractor provide a daily time sheet or a breakdown of the schedule for the entire project. This will help keep everything on track. Speak with the contractor to make sure your vision and his or hers match so the project will not take a wrong turn.

Obtaining work permits can be confusing if you do not know the process. The solar panel installtion contractor should handle this as they have the experience in navigating the bureaucracy with ease. Do not try to save money in this area by trying to do it yourself, leave it to the professionals.

It is important to request multiple bids from solar panel installtion contractors before hiring in order to ensure that you are receiving the best price. This will help you to make an informed decision on choosing which contractor to hire.

Solar Panel Contractors often have a specific area of expertise, make sure this is the type of job that you hire them for to receive the highest quality of work. You would not let your beautician change your oil, so why let a plumber/contractor build your deck? Require a written contract from the solar panel installtion contractor to ensure a schedule is in place. This may stop extra costs from being incurred at the project’s completion.

If there is any corner cutting on the part of your solar panel installtion contractor then you may want to consider hiring a new contractor. Review your contractors previous jobs to see if the work and materials seem cheap or of bad quality. Be firm and clear of the required quality of the materials needed with your contractor before the project begins.

Any solar panel installtion contractor who isn’t willing to sign a written agreement detailing a time frame for each phase of improvement is not a contractor you should hire. A reputable contractor will be comfortable clearly establishing your expectations for the project’s budget and schedule, and will be committed to making your vision a reality.

Simply go to your favorite search engine and look for solar lights if you wish to enhance your understanding about solar panel consulting.

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