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California Lays Down the Kill-Switch Law
Aug 27, 2014 7:30 AM PT
Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed into law a bill requiring that anti-theft measures be incorporated into all smartphones sold within California. The measure applies to phones manufactured after July 1, 2015.
Though it doesn't specify the particular technologies used to enable that capability -- both hardware and software solutions are possibilities -- Senate Bill 962 does require that the feature, often referred to as a "kill switch," give smartphone users the ability to remotely disable their devices in the event they're lost or stolen.
Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, authored the bill, which was designed in part to combat the increasing prevalence of smartphone theft.
"Getting mugged or robbed just because you have your cellphone in your hand is soon to be a thing of the past," said Skinner, calling the signing of the bill into law "a victory for consumer safety."
In May, Minnesota became the first state to adopt kill-switch legislation.
'A Big Plus'
Some 1.6 million Americans were victims of handheld device theft in 2012, according to the National Consumers League.
Zeroing in on California, roughly 50 percent of property crimes in San Francisco involve mobile devices, Skinner said, while about 60 percent of last year's thefts and robberies in Oakland involved a cellphone.
"Anything that lets us lock, wipe and disable our wireless phones when they are lost or stolen is a big plus," wireless industry analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times.
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In particular, smartphone kill switches target a crime referred to as "Apple picking," where thieves steal iPhones from consumers and then resell them, noted Carl Howe, vice president for data sciences research at 451 Research.
"The concept of the kill switch is that if the original owner of the phone can render the phone useless remotely, then thieves won't bother stealing the phone in the first place," he explained.
Yet California's legislation goes further than Minnesota's does, Howe pointed out, by requiring the kill switch capability to be turned on by default. Minnesota requires only that consumers have the ability to opt into a kill switch, he told the E-Commerce Times.
'Detrimental to Wireless Consumers'
While smartphone manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Huawei and Nokia have supported the kill switch concept, "debate on the topic has largely come from mobile operators who view it as unnecessary regulation that will stifle other ways of addressing the problem," Howe noted.
Indeed, CTIA - the Wireless Association has criticized the California law.
"The safety and security of wireless users is the wireless industry's top priority, and we've taken significant actions to provide consumers with the tools and information needed to help deter smartphone theft," said Jamie Hastings, the trade group's vice president of external and state affairs.
Those actions include setting up stolen-phone databases, running consumer education campaigns, developing anti-theft apps and establishing the Smartphone Anti-Theft Voluntary Commitment.
"Yesterday's action was unnecessary given the breadth of action the industry has taken," Hastings added. "Uniformity in the wireless industry created tremendous benefits for wireless consumers, including lower costs and phenomenal innovation. State-by-state technology mandates such as this one stifle those benefits and are detrimental to wireless consumers."
'The End of That Debate'
There are other possible reasons for the industry's opposition, however.
"Many mobile operators see significant revenue from insurance that covers stolen phones, and reducing thefts could reduce consumer perception that they need such insurance and thereby reduce that revenue stream," Howe explained.
"California's new law will presumably begin the end of that debate," he predicted, "as mobile operators now start working to implementing the new mandate for their devices."


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Shadow of Chinatown (1936)
Sonya Rokoff acting as a representative of a European importing firm hires Victor Poten (Bela Lugosi), a Eurasian mad scientist who hates both whites and Asians, to ruin the tourist trade in San Francisco's Chinatown. Rokoff soon realizes that Poten has become an unstoppable monster, beyond her control. Poten's nefarious activities draw the attention of newspaper reporter Joan Whiting and her novelist boyfriend Martin Andrews who begin to investigate the mysterious, and violent events in Chinatown.
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Vengeance Trilogy (US - BD RA)
Gabe finally finishes with Palisades Tartan's anticipated Blu-ray release...
I've already written quite a bit on both Oldboy and Lady Vengeance over my tenure with DVDActive, so in the interest of time and sanity I'm going to supply links to those reviews rather than re-writing them. Below are the links to my thoughts on those two films, followed by my thoughts on Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.
R1/R3 Oldboy DVD Comparison
R1 Oldboy Collector's Edition Tin Review
RA Oldboy Blu-ray Review
R1 Lady Vengeance Review
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun) is a sweet natured deaf-mute who spends his days caring for his terminally ill sister, and toiling away at his menial steelworks job. Ryu discovers his sister needs an immediate kidney transplant, and that he is not a compatible blood match. Ryu opts to sell one of his kidneys, plus ten million won, to a mother and son(s) black market team, who agree to give his sister a replacement in exchange. Unfortunately, the black marketeers steel both Ryu's money and his kidney. In the meanwhile a proper donor kidney is made available, so Ryu and his left-wing radical girlfriend decide to kidnap his boss's daughter for the ransom. Things get much worse from here.
To call Mr. Vengeance the least successful of the three films in this collection comes down mostly to semantics—there simply aren't a lot of thematically similar films that fairly compare to either Oldboy or Lady Vengeance. Mr. Vengeance is still an impressive accomplishment, and a successful production on its own terms. Of the three films Mr. Vengeance is the most brutal, uncompromising, and spontaneous. It's the hardest of all Park Chan-wook's films to watch (it's a pretty joyless exercise), and probably the least likely to see excessive replay from fans, but it's certainly worth revisiting. It's especially interesting to consider that the film was basically a flop in its native Korea, and wasn't very well received by anyone until after the success of Oldboy, and Park's international fame. Mr. Vengeance isn't the director's first film, or even his first well-received film ( JSA, the director's fourth film, was so successful he was given the chance to make Mr. Vengeance despite misconceptions), but it does see him developing his intricate visual style, which sets it apart from his more conventional early work ( JSA is a fantastic film, but it follows a more tradition visual thrust than Vengeance Trilogy, I'm A Cyborg or Thirst).
Mr. Vengeance features a structure and pace that uninitiated Western audiences will find pretty challenging, but actually matches the general feel of most modern Korean films, at least in my experience (which is certainly limited). Oldboy and Lady Vengeance are both more fantastical in tone, and more challenging in terms of story structure, but in both cases the viewer is more involved. We're invited into these worlds, rather than left as static bystanders. This more detached approach (there are almost no moving cameras in the whole film) gives Mr. Vengeance much of its dramatic strength (we can't do anything to stop these tragic events), but Park risks failing interest by presenting his story which such brutal inevitably. The film remains powerful in terms of performance throughout (this might be Song Kang-ho's best performance ever, which is saying a lot), and certainly works as a psychological horror film, but once the vengeance part of the story is set in motion, the joylessness adds up. Though it leaves its audiences with a series of intriguing questions, it also tends to over-dramatize seemingly for the sake of being over-dramatic, or at least deeply upsetting. The first half features moving bits of levity, but even the absurdist humour takes a dive into the abyss when the plot turns (unless, of course, one considers the constant onslaught of bad news so excessive it becomes ironically amusing).
The set starts with a bit of a shock— Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance looks amazing. Not that I expected Palisades Tartan to drop the ball, but the DVD always struck me as so grainy. Apparently I entirely forgot how colourful the film was, and I forgot about Park's deep focus, high detail compositions. There are very few camera movements in the film, and the static nature certainly doesn't hurt the possibility for utter clarity in 1080p HD. The costumes, and props, not to mention Shin Ha-kyun's hair, are all set apart with bright colours, which pop beautifully against the grey, industrial backgrounds. Detail levels are close to fantastic, and relatively consistent, from extreme close-ups to the big, wide-angle shots. Park's visual choices are consistent enough that I find it hard to point to a specific sequence as standout; rather, the whole thing looks pretty great. I suppose the whole of the middle of the film river scene is a good enough candidate, especially the overhead shots of Ryu burying his sister with rocks, which is swimming with fine details, and perfectly separated colour elements. There are some minor artefacts here and there, like small dark blotches towards the beginning of the film, some slight edge-enhancement on the harshest contrasting elements, and some heavier grain during the darkest scenes. The second half of the film does feature more noticeable fine grain overall, but nothing immediately apparent in my opinion.
This brings us to Oldboy, which you may have already heard from your friends that found a copy of the set at Best Buy (I could not), is a bit of an A/V flop. For some reason Palisades Tartan decided to cram all the available extras onto a single disc, and the transfer certainly suffers (more on the audio below). This transfer is brighter, and features more vibrant colours than any of the DVD releases (the colour timing is the same as all previous Tartan releases, not as green as the Korean DVD version), but a comparison to the Blu-ray Tartan released just before going under (Palisades Tartan is mostly a different company) reveals some pretty obvious inadequacies. The old disc is sharper, especially during busy wide shots, and the grain is finer. The edges here are often muddy, the grain is chunky, compression artefacts abound, and the blacks bleed over the colour edges during the darker scenes. Frame rates appear a little rougher as well, revealing some minor interlacing effects, even though this is technically a progressive transfer. It's not a travesty of a transfer, and fans without the older Blu-ray should be moderately satisfied, assuming they aren't thinking too hard about the problems, but in all this is a disappointment, and it does resemble an up-converted DVD. The one and only advantage I can see over the previous Blu-ray is the relative lack of sharpness keeps the harsher whites from blooming as they did there (though honestly, you can get that from the up-converted DVD version).
In a strict visual sense Lady Vengeance is probably Park's masterpiece, and the piece of this collection I was most looking forward to seeing in HD. The transfer features minor problems that probably could've been avoided had two versions of the film not been squeezed onto one disc (each with their own DTS-HD track), but this 1080p release is a pretty sizable upgrade from both the interlaced Tartan DVD, and the progressive Korean special edition releases. Some of the brighter, sun-drenched scenes exhibit minor edge-enhancement, mostly during expansive wide-shots, and there's still sizable grain during the darkest scenes, specifically those taking place in Geum-Ja's basement apartment. The black are not consistently pure, which is a holdover issue from both DVD versions. Background blacks especially tend to absorb the hues around them. According to my sources (this guy named Chris) the UK Blu-ray wasn't particularly vibrant, so I'm happy to announce that the good news begins with the colour quality, which is impressively bright overall. The difference between the present day and flashbacks was always clear on old release, but the difference between each flashback is now more readily apparent, specifically differences in saturation. Fine detail increases are a bit less impressive, but backgrounds are notably sharper, and textures plenty pleasant. The middle film assassination attempt, which was excessively dark on every DVD versions, specifically benefits from the HD detail increase. Certain shots are still too dark, and the blackness still isn't pure, but the sharpness is a marked improvement. The climax purposefully contrasts the more decorative hues of the earlier scenes (even when not fading to black and white), so I'm not sure any release will ever be less than gritty during the latter sections, but my expectations were still slightly stilted for the final thirty or forty minutes of the film.
This release has a distinct advantage over the long available UK Blu-ray release—it features both the full colour, theatrical version of the film, and the 'fade to black' version. The fade to black version, which slowly turns to black and white with a few colour highlights (ala Schindler's List or Sin City), is idealistically the preferred version, and is a stylistically interesting idea (which originated with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance), but it's never quite worked. The latter third of the film is, as stated, darker and less colourful even when presented in full colour, but the post-production de-saturation muddies the details, especially during the climax, where the lack of highlights causes an utter loss of definition (during the colour version the skin tones and costumes set the characters slightly apart from the backgrounds). Perhaps if the film was shot black and white specifically in mind (apparently Park didn't commit to the idea until after the theatrical release) the contrast would've been cleaner, and the concept would've worked, but as-is, the full colour version is the way to go for first time viewers. It is important to note that those without multi-region players have never had the chance to see this version before, so American fans should definitely give the fade to black version a chance. This high definition version works better than the Korean DVD release, featuring more aggressive contrasts, sharper blacks, and finer grain, but is still, in my opinion, not the ideal way to watch the film.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance isn't as visually stylized or abstract as Oldboy or Lady Vengeance, but the sound design is a few steps above either film, or perhaps any film in Park's catalogue. This new DTS-HD 5.1 audio track doesn't blow the DTS DVD away, but is generally better on every level. The uncompressed nature certainly makes a difference in volume levels. The opening scenes immediately roll out all the track's strengths, including the major disparities in sound between the film world, and Ryu's interpretation of the world. The scene that establishes the character's factory work environment is incredibly busy with sound, from the frontal assault of spinning metal tumblers, to the unsettlingly realistic rear channel machinery, which also sets the LFE throbbing. This is followed by a scene of Ryu and his sister in their apartment, where the paper thin walls fill each channel with a different little story of domestic hell. The design doesn't let up from here, though spoken words do become slightly more important once the story shifts over to Dong-Jin's story. The huge sonic difference between Ryu's deafened world view. The sheer noise of his various environments continues to titillate (or drive the viewer to near madness, as in the case of the autopsy scene), and hyper-realistic aural details keep the centre channel lively despite the general lack of spoken dialogue during the film's first half.
The biggest error in this whole collection is not the less than stellar video quality of Oldboy's HD transfer, it's the missing DTS-HD 7.1 Master Audio track. It's listed on the back of the box, it was included with the previous Blu-ray release, but it is not here. The lack of space created by including all the extras leaves only room for a Dolby Digital EX track. This means the sound on the Blu-ray is actually a slight step back from the DVD release's compressed DTS track. The track features no obvious sync issues, misplaced directional effects, or overt distortion, but it is compressed, and sizably quieter than the other discs in this collection. I suppose this is all I have to say about the subject. Feel free to visit my old Blu-ray review to hear more about what you're missing.
Lady Vengeance's fully uncompressed DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is a clear upgrade over the standard DTS DVD releases, but the film itself isn't exactly an aural marvel. The film's sound is more or less defined as a mix of understated, naturalistic sound, and Choi Seung-hyun's Baroque-infused musical score. In this respect the film rests sonically somewhere between the other two films. The tracks real subtlety is not found in the stereo or surround channels, but in the contrasting centre channel, which uses both complete silence and muddy noise to its advantage (the shock of sound is used to perfect effect during the final act slaughter). The reality of the centre channel, and it's occasionally crowded composition, often reminds me of a Cassavetes or Jarmusch film. There are directional effects, such as moving cars, Geum-Ja's clacking footsteps, and the odd gunshot, but the bulk of the non-musical sound is centred. The music is another story, and comes through with all the beauty and grace needed to make the contrast really work. The post-climax reprise of the operatic main theme is particularly well represented, including deep, resonating strings, warm vocals (which work through all three front channels), and a perfectly pitched bells.
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance's extras begin with a commentary track featuring director Park Chan-wook and actor/filmmaker Ryoo Seong-wan (director of Crying Fist and City of Violence). This is the best of Park's commentaries, mostly because Ryoo, as an obvious fan, acts as a solid moderator, and keeps the director talking. The tone of the track is also generally sweeter in nature, and more amusing in tone. Perhaps the director was burned out on the process by the time this track was done. There is an issue with the encoding of this specific disc, however, which will likely not be an issue for most viewers – the disc does not allow you to switch between the commentary and DTS soundtrack without accessing the pop-up menu. This makes it impossible to listen to the original audio while reading the commentary subtitles (something I like to do with foreign language commentary tracks), and prohibits switching off the commentary without a trip back to the main menu.
The featurettes then begin with 'The Process of Vengeance' (32:00, SD) is an all purpose making-of featurette, beginning with a look at the actors' time at sign language school, followed by a bit of on-set practice. Focus moves on to some words on the difficulties of dealing with such distressing subject matter from Song Kang-ho, followed by a similar interviews from Shin Ha-kyun and Bae Doo-na, who are both a little less introspective than Song. From here focus moves onto special make-up effects, and discussion concerning some of the supporting characters that move through the peripheral of the film. The featurette is pretty dry, but doesn't overstay its welcome, and does give genuine insight into the filmmaking process. There are a few amusing bloopers as well.
'My Boksu Story Retrospective' (17:20, SD) is a series of retrospective documentaries with the cast (filmed for the Korean DVD release), who again discuss the challenge of the project, along with the film's rough initial reception. More cast and crew interviews follow (40:00, SD), enough that the commentary track is rendered a bit repetitive. There's also overlap to the 'My Boksu Story Retrospective' interviews, which is frustrating. Finishing the extras off are a series of animated storyboards (10:00, SD), a trailer, a photomontage (1:50, SD), and 'Jonathan Ross on Park Chan-wook' (17:00, SD), a featurette I believe was made for the Tartan UK release of JSA.
The Oldboy extras are exhaustive, and include every found on Tartan's limited edition tin set, except the tin itself, the film cell, and the original graphic novel. Unfortunately, again, all eight hours of material has been crammed onto a single disc, albeit in a standard definition form. I've already reviewed all of these extras from my tin set review, so please visit that link. It'll save me some copy and pasting time (and this review is already verging on endless).
The Lady Vengeance extras are mostly mixed leftovers from the original Tartan DVD release and the Korean special edition release. These begin with three more rather exhausting audio commentaries. The first track features Park and lead actress Lee Young-ae. This is an emotionally warm track, which unsurprisingly focuses on acting and actors. Of the three tracks this one features the most blank space, but Lee's presence certainly keeps Park from devolving into his usual detached self.
The second track features Park, his DP Chung Chung-Hoon and art director Choi Hyeon-seok. This track is extremely technical, sometimes boringly so, especially for viewers who aren't particularly interested in such things. This is probably the most consistently gabby of the three tracks, but is disappointing because it lacks any 'meaningful' discussion about the meaning or the film. There is some brief talk about the vague politics behind some of the film's more extreme images, but it's all rather broad, and Park admits that he only offers this as one possible view. The track is surprisingly self-deprecating at points. The last track, featuring film critic Richard Pena answers some of the pressing content based questions I'd wished Park would've addressed, and helps put the film into context for viewers having trouble reading the film, especially its visual language. Also included on the first disc is a Park Chan-wook introduction to the fade to black version of the film (01:20, SD).
The second Lady Vengeance disc is a regular DVD, the exact same one that comes with the eight-disc DVD version of this set. Many of these extras suffer video issues similar to NTSC to PAL conversion discs. The extras start with 'Making of Lady Vengeance' (10:40, SD) is a tonally dour look behind the scenes of the film. This is primarily another fly on the wall collection, with a tonally flat commentary set over a whole bunch of rather fun looking set footage (it's practically a blooper reel). Subject matter includes discussion of Park's direction, actors and acting, production design, learning English, and filming in Australia. 'Lady Vengeance EPK' (28:00, SD) is more of the same, but with scenes from the film put into the mix, and a more elongated trailer tone (it actually includes the teaser trailer). There isn't too much overlap between the two featurettes, and the footage of Choi Min-sik working with the kids is pretty great. 'The Style of Lady Vengeance' is divided into five sections, 'Visualization' (06:20, SD), 'Production Design' (08:20, SD), 'Costume and Make-up' (08:00, SD), 'Special Art' (07:00, SD) and 'Computer Graphics' (07:00, SD). These featurettes overlap a bit with the information found in the commentary tracks, but are the preferred way to absorb the information.
The 'Park Chan-Wook' tab starts with 'Interview with Park Chan-wook' (42:00, SD), an interesting, but exhausting, interview with the director covering all three films in the collection, but clearly recorded on a Lady Vengeance press tour. Instead of being subtitled, Park is sitting next to a translator, which slows the discussion to a crawl. 'Park Chan-Wook: Mr. Vengeance' (17:20, SD) appears to be taken from the same interview session used for the disc's making-of featurettes, features a couple of 'all star' interview subjects, and covers much of the same stuff already covered in the collection's other interviews, but is interesting in that it visually compares scenes from all three films. 'Photography' (09:50, SD) briefly covers the director's penchant for behind the scenes photography, which was apparently inspired by Jeff Bridges (this one really should've been in HD). The section ends with a short film recommendation from Park (03:00, SD)— The Freaking Family. Too bad Palisades Tartan couldn't include the film itself.
'Characters Interviews' include stars Lee Young-ae (06:30, SD) and Choi Min-sik 0(6:40, SD), along with supporting player prison inmates (05:20, SD), and members of the bereaved families (07:40, SD). 'Lady Vengeance in Venice' (08:30, SD) covers the film's journey to the Venice Film Festival, where it won a series of awards. The press interview section again covers similar information already covered elsewhere in the set, but in a more accessible and personable manner. The disc also features a collection of deleted/extended/alternate scenes, with commentary from Park and Lee Young-ae as the only audio option (14:00, SD), 'Get Together' (09:30, SD), a brief discussion of the film's Vengeance Trilogy cameos, a Korean trailer, a US trailer, TV spots, and a poster gallery.
The Vengeance Trilogy is likely the most anticipated Blu-ray release of the year for some people, and I'm genuinely sad to say it's only two thirds successful in terms of HD image and uncompressed audio quality. Personally I own the older Oldboy Blu-ray release, so I'm generally satisfied that my collection is complete, but anyone that missed out on that release, or, God forbid, sold that release in preparation for this one, will be disappointed. Again, Oldboy doesn't look terrible, but it is a downgraded version of the two-disc release, and the DTS-HD Master Audio advertised on the box is not present on the final disc (I'm sorry I don't have the ability to get Blu-ray screen-caps or I'd do an image comparison for you). I can assure fans that the Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance discs are sizable upgrades from the DVD versions, and that all the available extras short of the Oldboy comic and film cell are present, but that might not be enough to make the set's price worth-while. I've seen no news on single disc releases, and assume this collection will remain scarce even after the wider release (it's still only available through Best Buy as of this writing). I'm still optimistic about Palisades Tartan's future output, and hope the company learns from the mistakes made on this release.
* Note: The above images are taken from the UK Blu-ray releases and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Gabriel Powers
hogaburger Contributor Join Date: April 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,153
My expectations were pretty much met with this box set. I appreciate Tartan for releasing the movies they do, but they never really put out reference quality material. I anticipated Oldboy looking poorly because I have the old blu-ray release. I was just very thankful that the other 2 movies didn't have the same problems. I was also very surprised to find that Mr.Vengeance was the best looking of the 3 on my system. It was like watching a whole new movie.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,831
I have to get back to watching some of the DVD set extras. The set does have a big amoount of extras. Gabe, do you like the original Lady Vengeance or the fade to white version better?
bradavon Member Join Date: April 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,945
Sorry if I've missed it but are you saying, Lady Vengeance looks better/the same/worse here, in it's Fade to Black form than the existing blu-ray (also in it's Fade to Black form)?
I've already got the USA 2 Disc Oldboy, so will be sticking with that. They dropped the ball on the UK version and instead of including extras oddly included a SD DVD of the film as disc 2.
Why didn't Palisades Tartan make this a 5 disc box set and just include the Oldboy extras on a separate disc? Like they did for the original "USA" Oldboy release. Way to go for dropping the DTS-HD MA on Oldboy too.
Mr Vengeance is thankfully already available separately but Lady Vengeance whilst also being available separately, that one only includes the Fade to Black version. I hope this new Lady Vengeance Blu-ray gets released separately, we can then entirely ignore Oldboy.
I've already got the USA 2 Disc Oldboy, so will be sticking with that. They dropped the ball on the UK version and instead of including extras oddly included a SD DVD of the film as disc 2.
Why didn't Palisades Tartan make this a 5 disc box set and just include the Oldboy extras on a separate disc? Like they did for the original "USA" Oldboy release. Way to go for dropping the DTS-HD MA on Oldboy too.
Mr Vengeance is thankfully already available separately but Lady Vengeance whilst also being available separately, that one only includes the Fade to Black version. I hope this new Lady Vengeance Blu-ray gets released separately, we can then entirely ignore Oldboy.
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I have not personally viewed the UK Blu-ray, so I can't actually compare. I thought my copy looked better than the one Chris described to me, but they might be the exact same transfers for all I know, and I just have lower expectations. If you already have the UK Mr. Vengeance, and the original US Oldboy you probably shouldn't buy this set just for Lady Vengeance, in my opinion.
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Excellent review as usual Gabe. But how did you manage to convince Chris to let you review this? I always thought Chris would be the one reviewing this set!
This is the most anticipated release for me this year (well, apart from Kurosawa's first four films Eclipse release) and despite the minor negatives pointed out regarding the discs, I will snatch it very soon. I only have the Old Boy tin release and was waiting patiently for decent releases of the other two.
Now, the most important question.... is the Harry Knowles commentary on Old Boy sorely missed or are we better off without it?
I agree with your opinions of the movie as well. I always did feel that Mr. Vengeance was the most uncompromising and brutal of the lot, Old Boy was the most accomplished and Lady Vengeance was the most visually arresting movie.
I haven't watched all Park's movies. I did watch the trilogy, JSA, Thirst and I'm A Cyborg But That's OK. Of the lot, Cyborg is my favourite film. It is so quirky and so unexpected that it could possibly be the strangest love story I have seen. I hope it gets a proper Blu-ray release soon. In the meantime, I am just waiting to pick this set up, which I will be doing next week!
This is the most anticipated release for me this year (well, apart from Kurosawa's first four films Eclipse release) and despite the minor negatives pointed out regarding the discs, I will snatch it very soon. I only have the Old Boy tin release and was waiting patiently for decent releases of the other two.
Now, the most important question.... is the Harry Knowles commentary on Old Boy sorely missed or are we better off without it?
I agree with your opinions of the movie as well. I always did feel that Mr. Vengeance was the most uncompromising and brutal of the lot, Old Boy was the most accomplished and Lady Vengeance was the most visually arresting movie.
I haven't watched all Park's movies. I did watch the trilogy, JSA, Thirst and I'm A Cyborg But That's OK. Of the lot, Cyborg is my favourite film. It is so quirky and so unexpected that it could possibly be the strangest love story I have seen. I hope it gets a proper Blu-ray release soon. In the meantime, I am just waiting to pick this set up, which I will be doing next week!
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It's a question of geography. I'm in the UK, Gabe's in the US, which is where this set originates.
The variations in the BDs globally isn't going to be massive. I've seen screencaps from a number of different Lady V discs and there's no real difference. Indeed, they have similar file sizes and bitrates.
The variations in the BDs globally isn't going to be massive. I've seen screencaps from a number of different Lady V discs and there's no real difference. Indeed, they have similar file sizes and bitrates.
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I presumed it was a UK box set. Wasn't the equivalent DVD box set UK only? Weird!
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I found a copy at the local Best Buy. Someone stuck it in with the other tin box sets, most of which are crummy collections of copyright free horror films in standard DVD.
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bradavon wrote: I presumed it was a UK box set. Wasn't the equivalent DVD box set UK only? Weird!
Not in the US review section Yes it was, but they're run as separate entities (PT UK and US that is), and the old boxed set was Tartan, not Palisades.
Not in the US review section Yes it was, but they're run as separate entities (PT UK and US that is), and the old boxed set was Tartan, not Palisades.
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Release Date: 15th June 2010
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: Various
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 Korean, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Korean, Dolby Digital EX 5.1 Korean, Dolby Surround Korean, Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Director and Cast Commentaries, The Process of Mr. Vengeance, My Boksu Story, Crew Interviews, Jonathan Ross on Park Chan-Wook, Sountrack and Photos, Storyboards, Original EPK, Deleted Scenes, Behind the Scenes Documentaries, Cast and Crew Interviews, Le Grand Prix and Cannes, The Autobiography of Oldboy, Making of Lady Vengeance, Style of Lady Vengeance, Director Interviews, Character Interviews, Lady Vengeance in Venice, Get Together, Trailers, TV Spots, Collectible Booklet
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Director: Park Chan-Wook
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Doo-na, Choi Min-Sik, Yu Ji-Tae, Kang Hye-Jeong, Lee Yeong-ae
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir and Thriller
Length: 361 minutes
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An outstanding man died this last weekend. Chuck Colson (1931-2012) was a great author, speaker, and prison reformer.
He had gone from being a high-priced lawyer to senior counsel for President Nixon to going to jail for Watergate-related crimes.
Before he went to prison, he had a dramatic conversion after a friend gave him a copy of C. S. Lewis' classic book, Mere Christianity. He describes the transformation Christ made in his life in his book, Born Again, the first of about 30 titles he produced.
I have had the privilege of interviewing Chuck Colson about half a dozen times for Christian radio and television programs. He was always a great and insightful guest.
I remember one of those times in the mid-1990s. As I recall, it was a Saturday night, I got to interview him after he spoke at a conference at the Broward County Convention Center. His assistant told him that there was a crowd waiting for him outside the room where we were doing the interview. But he told Mr. Colson he knew a way the two of them could escape through a back exit.
It was late. Colson had just given a long public speech, then he had to endure a TV interview with me. One could easily see how he would have chosen to simply slip away with his aide.
But Colson preferred to go meet with the crowd to talk with them. He was a very nice man – the man I got to see on camera and off-camera.
However, he wasn't always that way. Someone erroneously said that Colson would drive over his own grandmother if it would help Richard Nixon. Colson said he had never made that statement, but he didn't bother to correct the record because he liked the reputation it gave him.
One of his colleagues in the Nixon administration, Jeb Stuart Magruder, who worked for Nixon's re-election campaign, wrote this in his 1974 memoir, An American Life: "I came to regard Colson as an evil genius. His brilliance was undeniable, but it was too often applied to encouraging Richard Nixon's darker side, his desire to lash out at his enemies, his instinct for the jugular."
Memoirs about political events can be self-serving and self-justifying. That would include Colson's and Magruder's. But it's an interesting perspective to hear what a colleague of Colson said about the man before his professed conversion. Magruder continued, "I would have to say – granting always Nixon's central responsibility for what happened in his administration – Colson was one of the men among his advisers most responsible for creating the climate that made Watergate possible, perhaps inevitable."
Having served for seven months, after Chuck Colson got out of prison, he went on to found Prison Fellowship in 1976. This is a ministry that has tremendous impact in touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of inmates around the world. The main goal has been to change convicted criminals into godly men and women.
Chuck told me in a 2009 interview that Prison Fellowship is established in 114 countries across the globe. Just in the U.S., it has a presence in more than 1300 prisons. Among many of their activities is providing Christmas gifts each year for the families of incarcerated men and women through the Angel Tree Project.
Chuck Colson did a daily radio commentary for about three minutes, on some 1,400 outlets across the country, reaching about eight million listeners a week.
And Colson has been the driving force behind the Manhattan Declaration. This statement is geared toward uniting Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians to take a stand in an increasingly hostile culture for life, for marriage, and for religious liberty.
Chuck Colson will be missed.
One of the most touching things I recall reading ever was where Colson was reflecting on his life, and he realized that he went from the pinnacle of power – with an office just a few doors down from the Oval Office – to being an inmate in prison. Yet it was the prison experience that God ended up using in his life the most – to help other inmates find God and grow in Christ.
In other words, God used his greatest failure in life for a greater good. As Cal Thomas points out, "Colson's great legacy isn't Watergate. It is Prison Fellowship."
Not a bad legacy for a man who was once Tricky Dick's "hatchet man." Colson once said, "I can very well identify with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who's one of my great heroes. Solzhenitsyn says, Bless you, prison; bless you for being in my life; for there lying on the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity, as we are made to believe, but the maturing of the soul. [End of paraphrase]. For me, prison was a maturing of the soul."
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Taurus and Beretta Single Actions
I have lots of Ruger revolvers, both SA & DA, but have a hankering for a new 357 SA. I would like a case colored blued one. I saw a new Taurus ($419) and a Beretta ($600) and must say I was impressed with the finish and they felt like good quality guns while fondling them in the store.
What is the story with them. I have never really seen either mentioned on message boards. Anyone have one? Can I expect a long life out of either? Do they have good reputations?
I know Taurus sucks l, blah blah. If you don't have any info pertaining to their SAs please move along
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I didn't even know...
I didn't even know either maker offered single action revolvers at all.
There is only one way to find out. Buy one of each and compare.
Sorry I don't have a better answer, but I saw that there were no replies yet and I didn't want you to feel ignored.
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Thanks, I didn't know they did either.
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I have a Taurus Gaucho SA in .45 colt, it shoots well and has a beautiful deep finish - better than most of the SAA repros I've seen (mine has real case-hardened frame and Sundance blue cyl/bbl). I did have to do a little tweaking with the base pin and release bolt, and ultimately replaced the base pin with a Belt Mountain pin which fixed the problem. (it was backing out and getting stuck when I fired the gun). Timing and lockup has always been rock solid, and it's been one of my favorite shooters.
AFAIK, both are pretty faithful modern reproductions of the original Colt design, except for the transfer bar safety. I think both use flat springs which will wear out sooner than coils, but they certainly add that authentic feel. I believe the Beretta SAs are made by Uberti - they make some nice stuff but I wasn't convinced it is $200 better than the Taurus. I'm sure someone out there would disagree, but I've had good luck with Taurus handguns.
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The Beretta might be an Uberti, as it's the same company.
Uberti has made western style shootin' irons for a long time.
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I would go with the Beretta which is made in the Uberti factory. They are generally good guns and parts are readily available if something should go wrong. The Taurus is no longer made and quality was spotty. Good ones were fine and the others were not repairable by the factory for whatever reason. I remember Taurus refusing to accept them for warranty work toward the end of their production run.
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I have to add another vote for the Beretta. I don't own one, but have handled and fired a few and find them excellent, I do own a few Beretta autos and have had to have word done on one and their customer service was fantastic, they went the extra mile to insure I was satisfied, even calling me a few weeks after I got it back to see if I had fired it and was happy with the service. If it has the Beretta name on it, even if made by Uberti, they will take care of any problems.
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Have a Taurus Gaucho 357. It's been back to the Taurus factory for warranty work.... Decent gun, but not sure I would personally buy another, unless it was very inexpensive.
No experience with the Uberti/Stampede's.
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SARASOTA – Several times a day, Dick Vitale prays to a laminated card in his pocket, a gift from his mother when he lost sight in one eye as a child. It's a painting of St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.
One thing, though.
Vitale, ESPN's non-stop college basketball analyst, doesn't believe in lost causes.
"I don't like that word – 'can't' – I don't like it,'' he said.
If he's devoted to finding a solution, it simply requires more creativity, more determination and more passion.
And that's why Friday night's ninth annual Dick Vitale Gala, a $1,000-a-plate affair at the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota designed to raise money for cancer research through the V Foundation, will be another example of how his life's work has become so much more than broadcasting.
When Vitale's friend, former N.C. State coach Jim Valvano, died of cancer in 1993, the V Foundation was formed. "Don't give up … don't ever give up,'' Valvano implored his audience the night he received the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage. Valvano dreamed of a cure for cancer and hope that his death would aid in that legacy. Vitale has made that cause into his own.
"I don't know how much time I have left,'' said Vitale, who turns 75 in June. "But whatever time I have will be devoted to this.''
Funds from Vitale's event will go to research grants at All Children's Hospital and the Moffitt Cancer Center. The event, which honors Alabama football coach Nick Saban, Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey and Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean, is sold out, but Vitale is seeking contributions from the Tampa Bay community.
The gala office can be reached is 941-350-0580, the foundation at 1-800-4JimmyV. Information is available online at dickvitaleonline.com.
"I am not shy about asking for money,'' Vitale said. "Money funds research and research is how we find a cure. When you are around these kids, you will touched and you will be moved. You will find a way to give what you can.''
Pediatric cancer, in particular, is Vitale's passion.
He wants to raise a record $2-million at the gala, which attracts numerous sports celebrities, including basketball coaches John Calipari (Kentucky), Bill Self (Kansas), Billy Donovan (Florida), Rick Pitino (Louisville), Tom Izzo (Michigan State), Jim Boeheim (Syracuse), Steve Alford (UCLA) and Jay Wright (Villanova), along with Florida State University football coach Jimbo Fisher. Bucs coach Lovie Smith and University of South Florida football coach Willie Taggart also are scheduled to attend.
Vitale has pledged to raise separate $250,000 cancer-research grants in the names of two children who lost their battles with cancer.
"It tears your heart out,'' Vitale said. "It shouldn't be happening, parents burying their kids, losing their kids, but it keeps happening. That's why I'm so driven, so emotional. I have to do what I can.''
The research grants will be donated in the names of Michigan's Lacey Holsworth, 8, who attended last year's gala and died from neuroblastoma, and Bradenton's Eddie Livingston, 5, who died in November.
"Lacey Holsworth, I have never seen an 8-year-old who touched so many lives,'' Vitale said.
Holsworth became known as "Princess Lacey.'' She formed a bond with the Michigan State University men's basketball team and became close with Spartans player Adreian Payne, whom she accompanied to the Spartans' Senior Day. She wore a long blond wig because chemotherapy caused her hair to fall out.
Livingston was nicknamed "Superman'' because his family felt he could do anything. He was always happy. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and fought it for nearly three years before succumbing on Nov. 24.
Vitale will honor their memory, but also pay tribute to children who are still battling. Brain cancer survivor Jack Hoffman, 8, who became an Internet sensation last year after running 69 yards for a touchdown during the University of Nebraska spring football game, also will attend the gala.
"If you're not moved by the things you see and hear at Dick Vitale's function, you're not alive,'' Izzo said.
"As much as Dick has done to promote basketball, as much as he has done for ESPN, what he's doing in cancer research is by far his most important work,'' said Calipari, who plans to attend the gala despite undergoing hip-replacement surgery following Kentucky's defeat in the national-title game.
The coaches and sports celebrities pays their own expenses to the gala – and they often contribute additional money for cancer research, Vitale said. When he calls the coaches asking for a favor, they always respond positively.
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After a two-year hiatus, Old Town lynchpin Myrtle's has reopened its doors, only this time to fill what event planners call a need for rentable space outisde the Bluffton area's gated communities.
The eatery, 32 Bruin Rd., closed in 2009 amid the declining restaurant traffic hurting the hospitality industry nationwide, construction of the sidewalk adornments known as the Old Town Streetscape, and a serious familiy illness, said Jerry Reeves IV., who manages the family-owned business.
It became less expensive to maintain the property with the restaurant closed, and attempts to lease the 5,000-square-foot space fell flat, he said.
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With plenty of room, two kitchens, a bakery, and a built-in bar, that's some space, said Leah McCarthy, who owns Bluffton's Downtown Deli, Downtown Catering and Events, and Weddings with Leah.
"Having the option of an event space outside gated communities gives clients the flexibility and a little bit more control over their budget because they can use their own catering, bar and beverage service," she said. "Whereas, if you go to a gated or privately owned venue, you're tied in."
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"I'd like to see that area surrounding it develop a bit, and having the restaurant around it as a viable concern makes that more likely," he said.
That's not going to happen under Reeves management, but the family would be open to leasing the space to a restaurateur in the future, Reeves said.
Next for Myrtle's comes a grand opening, which will likely consist of a cocktail hour between the groups that will make up Myrtle's new client base - Bluffton's event planners, business groups, and community organizations, Reeves said.
He takes Myrtle's reopening as a lesson in what many have had to learn from the Great Recession.
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Filmakers to burn the midnight oil during CASC race
A unique opportunity for filmmakers is coming to Carl Albert State College on Friday and Saturday.The inaugural Midnight Oil Film Race will begin on Friday at 11:30 p.m. and end on Saturday, April 20 at 11:59 p.m.Marcus Blair, CASC film studies instructor, said teams will have 24 hours to complete a film. There can be up to five filmmakers plus as many actors as needed per team to produce a five minute short film. Just prior to the beginning of the 24 hour time period, a theme, item, and action will be revealed to teams that must be incorporated in the films.Blair stated, "This is open to the public and we invite anyone high school age or older to participate. You don't need a background in film, you just need to come try this out and have fun." Blair continued, "This is a way for people to stretch their creativity. As an artist or filmmaker, it is a good way to challenge oneself. We have attended a similar event for several years and decided it would be great to have one in Poteau. If we have a good response this year, we hope to make this an annual event."Each team will deliver a flash drive with their film to Blair by the April 20 deadline. Then on Tuesday, May 7 a screening of all films will take place at the Hamilton Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. This will be free for everyone to attend, and winners will be announced at that time.For entry forms and rules call Marcus Blair at 918-647-1452, email him at email@example.com, or like The Midnight Oil Film Race on Facebook. There will be a $15 entry fee per team and the money will be put toward cash prizes. Awards will be given for best picture, best acting, best editing, and best cinematography.


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Security vision released as police close in on men who shot Jason De Ieso in Adelaide workshop
South Australian police have released security vision of a group of men with suspected bikie links taking part in a fatal shooting in Adelaide's north.
The vision overlooks the workshop of Jason De Ieso, 33, who was shot dead in the Langford Street premises at Pooraka in November.
It shows nine men approaching the workshop. Several of them then fire handguns and a sawn-off shotgun into the entrance before the group runs off.
Assistant Commissioner Paul Dickson says police believe they are members or associates of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.
Police believe the murder is linked to a dispute between the the Finks and the Hells Angels gangs.
Assistant Commissioner Dickson says police believe they know who the nine men are but need confirmation to prosecute those involved.
"We've got information which nominates who they are but obviously before we put people before the court we've got to get to a particular threshold and we're not quite there," he said.
"We just need that little bit more to actually put them before the courts."
Assistant Commissioner Dickson says police have spoken to each suspect but none will cooperate.
"These individuals have never seen this vision before so in that we believe that when they do see that vision that it may change their position in cooperating with the police," he said.
Police say five of the men were carrying firearms and one of the men has a large scar on the back of his head.
They say Mr De Ieso was an innocent bystander caught up in the conflict.
His family has released a statement appealing for information about his murder.
"A family man who loved life and gave his heart to all of who came into contact with him. I stress Jason had no links to bikies apart from the released statement by police," the statement said.
"He ran a custom paint and panel business in which his doors were open to all. Repairing and working with cars and bikes was his passion.
"He dedicated all his efforts to produce remarkable results.
"He also did work for some Finks bikie members and associates, which does not mean he was one or was an associate.
"An innocent person, who had no involvement in any incidents which were occurring between the Finks and Hells Angels members. A husband, son, brother to all. A father-to-be who will never know his child."Police have previously offered a $500,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.


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Have there been any changes to the diet? New food, including a change of flavors or protein source within the same brand? New treats? Bones? Has any human food been fed? Torn up toys or trash? Stressful changes to the environment?
Any vomiting or diarrhea?
An ER vet visit would be wise if she feels unwell. Few foods, cheese and especially human foods like pizza crust can certainly cause a substantial GI upset and might explain why her stomach is hard. The shaking and panting are likely due to nausea.If you'd like to try something from home, I can give you some steps to take at home to help your companion's stomach feel better. However, if you do not see a marked improvement from your pet or you see worsening of symptoms, they absolutely must be examined by a veterinarian.
It often helps to give medication to calm the stomach and a bland diet with higher fiber a few hours later once the medication has been given time to work. This can help to reduce the instance of nausea/vomiting, restore/improve the appetite, avoid or address changes in the stool, help to move ingested items through the GI tract, etc.
The first step is to administer a dose of regular pepcid (famotidine) every 12-24 hours. This should help with GI symptoms. You will want to give 0.5mg/pound of body weight (a 10# ***** would receive 5mg, a 5# ***** would receive 2.5mg, etc). For this, you can visit any human pharmacy and buy the OTC brand name Pepcid, or you can use the cheaper, off-brand "famotidine" that's available. Either will be useful. If your companion is avoiding taking medication, you will likely need to using a pilling technique like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P6NfbxeLX0 (this video is of a dog as it shows the finer details of how to complete the action, this method can be used in dogs, cats and other mammals needing oral medications). [Note: once symptoms have resolved for at least 48 hours, discontinue the famotidine.]
2 hours following a dose of famotidine, the time needed for the medication to begin working, you can offer a bland diet. To make the bland diet, you'll combine white or brown rice, boneless, skinless chicken breast and sufficient water for cooking in a stock pot (note: if your companion is allergic to chicken you can use a protein source they can have such as ground turkey, a filet of salmon, etc). Boil on medium until it turns to mush and the breast is easily flaked. To avoid nausea, start with small amounts to begin with and offer the amount every 2-4 hours. A few teaspoons to start is typically sufficient and you can work your way up every 2-4 hours in incremental increases until you're sure no vomiting will be seen. If your companion requires a more palatable food, try adding in pureed baby food in chicken, turkey and similar flavors. Avoid those that contain onion or garlic in the ingredient panel. Work up to feeding exclusively until at least 3 days following the resolution of symptoms. After this, work on slowly switching back to the regular food that your companion typically eats over 10 days. My recommendation is a 10% switch every day. Day 1: 10% new food, 90% old food; Day 2: 20% new food, 80% old food; Day 3: 30% new food, 70% old food, etc. This slow switch process should minimize any risk of GI upset from changing food.
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Microcool Banchetto 101 Review
Microcool is an Italian based company that was founded in 2003 to make effective cooling solutions for demanding computer systems. With this strong emphasis on heat control, the company has released several well-designed lines of cooling products such as chipset coolers, core protective rubber frames and thermally conductive tapes. One major success for the company has been NorthPole line of chipset coolers, which utilizes a modular design, is extremely quiet and reduces heat very efficiently, making it perfect for many PC users. Even though Microcool is a company built on cooling, the release of the Banchetto 101 shows us that they are far from limited to any one segment of the market. This product is the end result of over two years of development to create a light-weight, open and transparent case that is perfect of modifiers and PC Professionals. This open design makes it ideal for users that are constantly changing out their component and don't want to be restricted by the more closed design of a typical chassis. In addition to these features the Banchetto 101 also offers some aspects that might not be entirely new, but when combined with Banchetto's design make them quite unique. These include the ability to choose from multiple water-cooling setups that fit directly to the case and a removable motherboard tray that will make installation much easier. One thing I can't get by without mentioning above all the features listed is the look of the case. With the clear design highlighting the installed hardware and chrome accents it is extremely appealing to the eyes and is the reason behind the name Banchetto, which is the Italian word for feast.
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The Microcool Banchetto 101 comes packaged in a black cube-shaped box that is consistent in size for a case of this sort. The front and back of the packaging show an image of the case, with the images being relative to the direction it is actually facing within the packaging. Directly in front of these images is the Banchetto 101 logo with the slogan "a new style for your PC" under the logo. Both these panels have a nice clean look and give an interesting top and bottom view of the 101. Turning to the side of the packaging you will find some of the listed information about the case. The info comes in the form of listed specifications, a explanation about the case in multiple languages and an image of the Banchetto in use. This image shows two large HD3870 graphics cards being used on the table, showcasing its ability to not be hindered by the size of some of the larger products on the market. The last panel simply has the company's name on it and a large 'Z' like line stretching across the panel. The side is actually where you will open the packaging and the 'Z' shape functions as a seam that can be opened and closed, securing to the box with Velcro.
With the Banchetto 101 out of the box you can see that it comes almost entirely encased in Styrofoam. With such a large area of the case protected it makes it much more secure during transit and should prevent the case from damage prior to removing it from the Styrofoam. The accessories that come with the case are actually found within the Styrofoam and include around sixty thumb screws, seven stands that are used to secure rear expansion cards in place and the installation guide. The included screws come with two different threads, with one thread being used to install add-on components and the other to secure the cases modular bays in place.
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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has caused quite a stir on the internet this week by stating how he is displeased at Wii U's price in an interview on Games Industry International.
"I always prefer lower pricing, so I can't say I'm happy."
There's no denying that $300 is a lot of money to many people, but is it too much for a console launch? Explosion.com examines and compares previous console launch prices, looks at what the Wii U offers in return for your money, and whether Nintendo themselves are making a profit. Read inside for the final verdict!
... if it ends up getting a huge amount of great games released for the system, then it will be worth the money.
If it doesn't get the proper quality 3rd party support everyone hopes for, it will just be another gimmick-based console which will disappoint the 'core-gamers', whoever they are.
It's a gamesconsole. It all depends on the amount of quality games coming out for it.
Well its off to one hell of a start with the launch lineup it has
nope! I believe it is well worth it. not like the PS3 at launch.
It's not. It's so competitive at $299 and anyone who says otherwise shouldn't be a gamer. Go buy a cheap phone and .99 games...lol.
Console gaming has never been dirt cheap. But Wii U has a great launch price vs. how high some consoles have been in past history.
It's not expensive for a new console but one can't help thinking that it is overpriced when the tech is basically the same of the PS3 and 360.
You may not be paying a whooping 600$ but you are not getting a next gen system either.


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Webcams, sex, and the death of privacy.
Tyler Clementi wanted privacy. Like countless college freshmen before him, he needed a place to make out, but he had a roommate. So he asked his roommate to clear out of their Rutgers dorm room for a couple of hours.
The roommate, Dharun Ravi, obliged him. But Ravi left something behind: his computer. It had a webcam and an Internet connection. That's how Ravi got back into the room, according to police. He never touched the door or window. He just tapped into the webcam from a friend's computer down the hall. Through it, he saw Clementi making out with a man. Ravi tweeted his discovery, inviting 148 of his closest friends to access the webcam. A day later, Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge and died.
Beyond the tweets and the webcam lies a convoluted tale of gay message boards, online masturbation, and a suicide announced on Facebook. What stands out is how ill-equipped these young men were, despite their technological savvy, for life in a digital world. Learning to live and love in college is hard. When you're gay, it's that much harder. But today's freshmen are grappling with something much stranger than being gay. They're growing up in a world where people are with you even when they aren't.
When I was a freshman, if your roommate left the room, you were alone. You could shut the door and make out. I'm sure Clementi thought the same thing. But he forgot to shut one last door: the webcam.
Clementi knew all about webcams. His Facebook photo is an obvious webcam product, and a highly NSFW webcam page at cam4.com apparently shows lots more of him. But wanking online will take you only so far. Human beings need physical affection. So, three weeks into college, Clementi invited a man to his dorm room. This wasn't supposed to be cybersex. It was supposed to be the real thing.
Nature didn't prepare Clementi for what followed. Like the rest of us, he was designed for life in a material world. That's why we relate to people who are physically present. Clementi wasn't thinking about the webcam. He was thinking about being there, in that room, with that man.
Meanwhile, Ravi was watching him from a computer down the hall. You'd think a guy peeping at his roommate through a webcam would understand how public the Internet can be. But Ravi, too, was blind. "Roommate asked for the room till midnight," he typed. "I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay." Then Ravi hit a button, posting the message to Twitter.
It was an amused, derisive message, the kind of mean thing you might say to a friend in private. But Ravi wasn't in private. Within two days, a user named cit2mo—apparently Clementi's alias—was telling friends at justusboys.com, a gay Web forum, what Ravi had said. "I checked his twitter today," Clementi wrote. "He tweeted that I was using the room (which is obnoxious enough), AND that he went into somebody else's room and remotely turned on his webcam and saw me making out with a guy." Clementi went on to describe the responses from Ravi's friends. Their entire conversation was visible on Twitter.
For the three days of their cat-and-mouse game, the roommates never saw each other in person. When Clementi wanted Ravi to vacate the room for another tryst, he texted him. But now Clementi knew which door to shut—and which window in cyberspace would show him what Ravi was up to. On justusboys.com, Clementi reported: "When I got back to the room I instantly noticed he had turned the webcam toward my bed. And he had posted online again [saying] 'anyone want a free show just video chat me tonight'..."
Ravi's exact tweet was: "Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it's happening again." But the show never aired. "I turned off and unplugged his computer, went crazy looking for other hidden cams....and then had a great time," Clementi told his buddies. One of them advised him: "You may want to take a screencap of his twitter feed if you want to go the legal route just so you have some evidence of his activity." Clementi replied: "haha already there baby."
Now the screen capture of Ravi's feed is all over the Internet. So is the screen capture of Clementi's forum messages. Below the messages, an administrator has written: "This could possibly be evidence in this whole sorry situation. Because of this I am locking this thread…" Somebody, presumably Ravi, has tried to delete his Twitter feed. Too late: It's already cached on Google.
One thing in this sorry tale can never be erased, and that's Clementi's suicide. He announced it—"jumping off the gw bridge sorry"—on Facebook. Near the bridge, police found his laptop and cell phone. Apparently, he used them to post the Facebook message. And then he jumped. It turned out that he wasn't a username, an avatar, or some random two-dimensional dude making out with another dude on a video feed. He was flesh and blood. His body hit the water. He died.
So here I sit, telling his story. I'm writing it from research files stored on a hard drive. But the hard drive isn't here in my office. It's in my wife's computer downstairs. Through a network, I can see most of what's on her machine. I'm there, even though I'm not. Next to her computer is a laptop with a built-in webcam. I didn't ask for the webcam, and it's never been activated, as far as I know. But I've never thought to check.
At Rutgers, students are acting like it's still the 1960s. On Wednesday, a bunch of them lay down in front of the student center to protest Clementi's death. Their leader said they were doing it for "all of those people, including Tyler, who have felt so alone." But what Clementi learned too late is that his feelings were mistaken. He wasn't alone. Neither are you.
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The Raphael Loggias (late 1780s)
Commissioned by Empress Catherine II in the late 1780s, the Raphael Loggias are the exact copy of the Gallery in the Papal Palace in Vatican City....
Metro station "Mezhdunarodnaya" (2012)
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From the left bank of the Malaya Nevka river two bridges are visible : Lazarevsky Bridge and Big Krestovsky Bridge.
The Red Wagon by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
Sphinxes in front of the frozen river
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"Greenhouses" of Zagorodny Avenue
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Transfiguration Cathedral (Saint Petersburg) / Спасо-Преображенский собор (Санкт-Петербург)
Transfiguration Cathedral (official name: Russian: собор Преображения Господня всей гвардии, The Cathedral of the Lord's Transfiguration of all the...
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Свято-Троицкий Измайловский собор в Санкт-Петербурге. The Trinity Cathedral (Russian: Троицкий собор, Troitsky sobor; Russian: Троице-Измайловский...
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