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Windows Prefetch files, introduced in Windows XP, are designed to speed up the application startup process. Prefetch files contain the name of the executable, a Unicode list of DLLs used by that executable, a count of how many times the executable has been run, and a timestamp indicating the last time the program was run. Although Prefetch is present in Windows 2003, by default it is only enabled for boot prefetching. The feature is also found in Windows Vista, where it has been augmented with SuperFetch, ReadyBoot, and ReadyBoost. For SSD drives Prefetch is disabled by default [1].
Up to 128 Prefetch files are stored in the %SystemRoot%\Prefetch directory [2]. Each file in that directory should contain the name of the application, a dash, and then an eight character hash of the location from which that application was run, and a .pf extension. The filenames should be all uppercase except for the extension. The format of hashes is not known. A sample filename for md5deep would look like: MD5DEEP.EXE-4F89AB0C.pf. If an application is run from two different locations on the drive (i.e. the user runs C:\md5deep.exe and then C:\Apps\Hashing\md5deep.exe), there will be two different prefetch files in the Prefetch folder.
- 1 File format
- 2 Prefetch hash
- 3 Timestamps
- 4 MetaData
- 5 Registry Keys
- 6 See Also
- 7 External Links
- 8 Tools
File format
Each Prefetch file has a 4-byte signature (at offset 4) "SCCA" (or in hexadecimal notation 0x53 0x43 0x43 0x41). The signature is assumed to be preceded by a 4-byte format version indicator:
- 17 (0x00000011) for Windows XP and Windows 2003
- 23 (0x00000017) for Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 and Windows 2012 (note Windows 2012 has not been confirmed)
- 26 (0x0000001a) for Windows 8.1 (note this could be Windows 8 as well but has not been confirmed)
For more information about the file format see: Windows Prefetch File Format
Prefetch hash
There are multiple known hashing functions to be used for prefetch file filename hashing, namely:
- SCCA XP hash function; used on Windows XP and Windows 2003
- SCCA Vista hash function; used on Windows Vista
- SCCA 2008 hash function; used on Windows 2008, Windows 7, (possibly: Windows 2012) and Windows 8 (including 8.1)
SCCA XP hash function
A Python implementation of the SCCA XP hash function:
def ssca_xp_hash_function(filename): hash_value = 0 for character in filename: hash_value = ((hash_value * 37) + ord(character)) % 0x100000000 hash_value = (hash_value * 314159269) % 0x100000000 if hash_value > 0x80000000: hash_value = 0x100000000 - hash_value return (abs(hash_value) % 1000000007) % 0x100000000
SCCA Vista hash function
A Python implementation of the SCCA Vista hash function:
def ssca_vista_hash_function(filename): hash_value = 314159 for character in filename: hash_value = ((hash_value * 37) + ord(character)) % 0x100000000 return hash_value
SCCA 2008 hash function
A Python implementation of the SCCA 2008 hash function:
def ssca_2008_hash_function(filename): hash_value = 314159 filename_index = 0 filename_length = len(filename) while filename_index + 8 < filename_length: character_value = ord(filename[filename_index + 1]) * 37 character_value += ord(filename[filename_index + 2]) character_value *= 37 character_value += ord(filename[filename_index + 3]) character_value *= 37 character_value += ord(filename[filename_index + 4]) character_value *= 37 character_value += ord(filename[filename_index + 5]) character_value *= 37 character_value += ord(filename[filename_index + 6]) character_value *= 37 character_value += ord(filename[filename_index]) * 442596621 character_value += ord(filename[filename_index + 7]) hash_value = ((character_value - (hash_value * 803794207)) % 0x100000000) filename_index += 8 while filename_index < filename_length: hash_value = (((37 * hash_value) + ord(filename[filename_index])) % 0x100000000) filename_index += 1 return hash_value
Both the NTFS timestamps for a Prefetch file and the timestamp embedded in each Prefetch file contain valuable information. The timestamp embedded within the Prefetch file is a 64-bit (QWORD) FILETIME object The creation date of the file indicates the first time the application was executed. Both the modification date of the file and the embedded timestamp indicate the last time the application was executed.
Windows will store timestamps according to a Windows file time.
Creation Time
The creation time does not have a static offset on any Windows platform. The location of the creation time can be found using the offset 0x8 + length of Volume path offset. See section Volume for more information.
Last Run Time
A timestamp of when the application was last ran is embedded into the Prefetch file. The offset from the beginning of the file to the "Last Run Time" is located:
- at offset 0x78 on Windows XP and Windows 2003.
- at offset 0x80 on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 (up to 8 entries for Windows 8).
In each Prefetch file, the size of the header is stored and can be found at offset 0x54 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The header size for Windows XP is 0x98 (152) and 0xf0 (240) on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
The Prefetch file will embed the executable's name, up to 29 characters, into the header at offset 0x10.
Run Count
The run count, or number of times the application has been run, is a 4-byte (DWORD) value located at offset 0x90 from the beginning of the file on Windows XP. On Windows Vista and Windows 7, the run time can be found at 0x98.
Volume related information, volume path and volume serial number, are embedded into the Prefetch file. The precise offset for this information is the same for each Prefetch file and Windows operating system. In the header at offset 0x6c, the location of the volume path is stored. The location is a 4-bytes (DWORD) value.
At the location given from offset 0x6c, a 4-byte value is stored which is the number of bytes from current offset (location from offset 0x6c) to the beginning of the volume path string. The location from the offset 0x6c, for ease of reading, will be called the "volume path offset." The volume path is embedded as an UTF-16 encoded string.
The length of the volume path string is a 4-byte value is located at volume path offset + 0x4.
The volume serial number is a 4-byte value that identifies a media storage. A serial number does not have a consistent offset within a Prefetch between Windows operating systems. The 4-byte value can be found eight (8) bytes from the creation time location. The vol command on Windows can verify the volume serial number.
End of File
The end of file (EOF) for each Prefetch file is located at offset 0xc. The location of EOF also denotes the size of the Prefetch file.
Embedded within each Prefetch file are files and directories that were used doing the application's startup. The Prefetch file separates both filenames and directories into two different location in the file. Each string is encoded as a UTF-16 string. Windows operating system uses UTF-16 encoding.
The offset to the first set of filenames are at 0x64. The size of the first set of filenames can be found at offset 0x68. Both offsets are consistent between Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
In the bottom section of the Prefetch file are UTF-16 strings of directories. At the time of this writing (7/2011), the precise offset and size of the directory listing is unknown. The distance between the end of the Volume Path string and the beginning of the directory strings is given. An approach to finding the offset to the beginning of the directories listing is to obtain the distance value and the offset when the Volume Path string ends (after the NULL bytes). The distance value is at volume path offset + 0x18 (24). The distance is a 4-byte (DWORD) value. The end of second set of strings will complete the Prefetch file. The size of the directory listing is calculated by subtracting the start position of the directory listing from the end of file position.
Registry Keys
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters
The EnablePrefetcher Registry value can be used to disable prefetch.
See Also
External Links
- More detail from Microsoft
- Wikipedia Prefetcher
- MSDN: Disabling Prefetch
- Kernel Enhancements for Windows XP, by Microsoft, January 13, 2003 (Microsoft's description of Prefetch when Windows XP was introduced)
- Misinformation and the The Prefetch Flag, MSDN Blogs, May 25, 2005
- Prefetch file metadata, by Harlan Carvey, July 13, 2005
- Prefetch files, revisited, by Harlan Carvey, April 13, 2006
- Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives, by Steven Sinofsky, May 5, 2009
- De-mystifying Defrag: Identifying When Defrag Has Been Used for Anti-Forensics (Part 1 - Windows XP), by Chad Tilbury, August 5, 2009
- Windows Prefetch File (old blog entry from 42 LLC), by Yogesh Khatri, April 14, 2010
- Decoding Prefetch Files for Forensic Purposes: Part 1, by Mark Wade, December 8, 2010
- Prefetch Files at Face Value, by Mark Wade, April 11, 2011
- Windows Logical Prefetcher, TTS blog, July 30, 2011 (article is in Russian)
- Prefetch i niedokładny licznik by Paweł Hałdrzyński, August 20, 2011 (article in Polish; uncertain about the year of publication)
- Prefetch Analysis, Revisited, by Harlan Carvey, March 8, 2012
- Prefetch Analysis, Revisited...Again..., by Harlan Carvey, March 15, 2012
- Prefetch Hash Calculator + a hash lookup table xp/vista/w7/w2k3/w2k8, Hexacorn blog, June 13, 2012
- Prefetch file names and UNC paths, Hexacorn blog, October 29, 2012
- NTOSBOOT Prefetch File, by Corey Harrell, December 5, 2012
- What's New in the Prefetch for Windows 8??, by Jared Atkinson, September 21, 2013
- Windows Prefetch (.PF) files, by Yogesh Khatri, October 21, 2013
Free - Non Open Source
- PrefetchForensics, PrefetchForensics is an application to extract information from Windows Prefetch files
- Prefetch-Parser, Parse the prefetch files and display information
- Windows File Analyzer - Parses Prefetch files, thumbnail databases, shortcuts, index.dat files, and the recycle bin
- Windows Prefetch Parser (pf), Free tool that can be run on Windows, Linux or Mac OS-X
Open Source
- prefetch-tool, Script to extract information from windows prefetch folder


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There are few who would have chosen Maggie's Dries van Noten. And if they had we would have been aghast. But there's something to knowing what works for you uniquely. And her style confidence is what consistently delivers inspired, interesting choices.
Charlize Theron usually has that going for her as well. But it was a rare misstep. And with Dior no less.
Cupcakes. Cupcake breasts. And the material. It's so unflattering. It's wrinkled all over. It's giving gapes where there shouldn't be and aren't. It's messy. What is happening with the comet tails coming out of those cupcakes that meet at the back? I am offended. Galliano or not, this is a junior design project. At best.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Living up to its namesake, MIT engineered a, 4-3, non-conference victory against NAIA opponent Fisher College on Wednesday at Briggs Field. Overcoming four errors and a quiet day at the plate, the Cardinal and Gray showed its resiliency by finding a way to win despite not playing its best baseball.
For the second consecutive day, the Engineers (10-10) were out-hit by their opponent, but took advantage of key opportunities en route to their sixth win in their last nine games.
Junior Stephen Toth started on the hill for MIT and turned in a solid effort despite a rocky second inning. Back-to-back walks and a wild pitch to lead off the stanza put two Fisher (13-13) runners in scoring position while both free passes resulted in runs after run-scoring singles by Edwin Pena and Eddy Delcarmen.
MIT tied the game with two runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning. Freshman Dan Hyatt worked in a bases loaded walk and a fielder's choice by Deron Brown provided the equalizer.
Both Toth and Falcons' starter Zach Thompson settled down after the bumpy frame and kept the offenses at bay for the rest of the afternoon. Toth came out of the game after completing the sixth, giving up two earned runs and striking out four while ending his day in line for the victory.
Thompson, who tossed 6.2 innings with five strikeouts, yielded two more runs against the Engineers to endure the loss, although MIT's last two runs were both unearned.
MIT took the lead in the fifth off an RBI single to left center by Stewart Park with two outs. Brown swiped one his two bases on the day prior to Park's hit to set up the score.
Junior Matt Loper took over on the mound for MIT in the seventh. Loper, who entered the game with opponents hitting just .174 in his three previous appearances, surrendered a lead-off double down the third-base line to Anthony Perry, who scored on Jose Diaz's sacrifice fly to deep center.
The Engineers moved back in front in the bottom of the seventh as Brown capitalized on a lead-off walk and two errors to score the eventual game-winner. After pitching to four batters in a scoreless eighth, Loper (2-0) turned the game over to senior Jay Turner, who threw a 1-2-3 ninth en route to the save.


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|Circle of poison - Pesticides and People in a Hungry World (Food First, 1981)
THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE in pesticides is an ever changing affair. In the ebb and flow of commerce, buyers, sellers and products change constantly. To illustrate how hazardous pesticides find their way overseas, we have selected the example of DBCP, which provides a fascinating and well-documented case study of the problem.
Until recently, once or twice every working day a sealed semi-trailer drove through a grimy industrial section of the Los Angeles basin called City of Commerce. The truck moved slowly up Pacific Street past a row of dingy warehouses to a loading dock at the rear of Amvac Chemical Corporation's pesticide plant. There, from a storage area labeled "Restricted Area/Authorized personnel only beyond this point," light blue, 30-gallon drums stacked three high were loaded into the semi-trailer.
When it was filled, the rig headed for one of the interstate highways cries-crossing the area, and moved into the stream of traffic flowing back and forth across the country. The driver carried emergency telephone numbers and special instructions in case the colorless, odorless fluid in the drums somehow spilled or was released. No unloading or transfer of the toxic cargo was permitted en route to the shipping docks, where the chemical would be sent overseas.
The pesticide in the light blue drums was 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane, or DBCP. DBCP is a nematocide, effective against the small worms called nematodes which attack food plants such as pineapples, bananas and citrus fruits.
Many of the trucks carrying Amvac's DBCP were bound for the Gulfport, Mississippi, loading docks of Standard Fruit & Steamship Company, a subsidiary of Castle & Cooke. At Gulfport, the light blue drums were loaded onto a "banana ship," destined for Puerto Limón in Costa Rica, La Ceiba in Honduras, or Guayaquil in Ecuador.
DBCP bananas for U.S. tables
AFTER FOUR TO SEVEN days at sea, the banana ship docked and the pesticide drums were unloaded and taken to their ultimate stop - the vast banana and pineapple plantations of Castle & Cooke. Castle & Cooke is one of the largest foreign corporate landholders in Central America. Workers on the company plantations, mostly illiterate peasants, used this pesticide to kill soil-dwelling worms that attack bananas. Then virtually all the bananas were shipped to U.S. tables.
Castle & Cooke stopped importing DBCP from Amvac in late 1979 when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency suspension of all uses of DBCP (except on Hawaiian pineapples) because DBCP is believed to cause cancer and make humans sterile.
"Castle & Cooke decided to stop importing DBCP from us directly," an Amvac marketing official explained. "Their policy is 'let's not cause any furor - we will get the stuff through local importers down there.' Now we have to contact the people who import it for them in Central America. Castle & Cooke won't buy it directly anymore, but they encourage their plantation managers to buy it from local importers down there."
Castle & Cooke, however, maintains that it stopped purchasing and using DBCP, directly or indirectly, immediately following the EPA ban. According to Leonard Marks, Jr., executive vice president of the company, "It is Castle & Cooke's corporate policy that we will not use nor purchase product treated with any pesticide which is not specifically registered for that use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."
Amvac, however, according to the marketing official, continued to sell DBCP after the ban "anywhere in the world where bananas, pineapples, citrus, and cotton are grown. There's no problem with the ban of DBCP (within the United States)," he said. "In fact, it was the best thing that could have happened for us. You can't sell it here anymore but you can still sell it anywhere else. Our big market has always been exports anyway."
Where giants fear to tread
RECENTLY, Amvac apparently suspended production of DBCP. For several years, however, it was the only company anywhere producing the substance.
When workers at Occidental's DBCP plant in California discovered in 1977 that many of them were sterile, the State of California banned the use of DBCP outright - an action that the federal Environmental Protection Agency waited two more years to take. Occidental, Dow and Shell quickly ceased their production. But little Amvac rushed in to seize the profit opportunities suddenly abandoned by the giants.
The company candidly explained its motives in its "10-K," an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: "Management believes that because of the extensive publicity and notoriety that has arisen over the sterility of workers and the suspected mutagenic and carcinogenic nature of DBCP, the principal manufacturers and distributors of the product (Dow, Occidental, and Shell Chemical) have, temporarily at least, decided to remove themselves from the domestic marketplace and possibly from the world marketplace," the report states.
"Notwithstanding all the publicity and notoriety surrounding DBCP," Amvac's report continues, it was {our}opinion that a vacuum existed in the marketplace that {we}could temporarily occupy... [we] further believed that with the addition of DBCP, sales might be sufficient to reach a profitable level."
A former Amvac executive told us why company officials decided to produce DBCP. "They're not really for spreading cancer or 'no-population' growth {a reference to the chemical's sterility link}. But DBCP is very important to them," he explained. "Quite frankly, without DBCP, Amvac would go bankrupt."
Before moving into the DBCP business, Amvac was in bad shape. In late 1978, one of its two principal stockholders, MTM Enterprises (controlled by Mary Tyler Moore and her former husband, and which produces the popular television show Lou Grant), decided to divest itself of its 12 percent portion of Amvac's common shares. Amvac faced imminent collapse until its major creditors formed a lenient repayment schedule, and even then the company missed its debt payments several times. DBCP offered Amvac a way out of the financial doldrums; the company chose to take it.
Amvac's yearly sales of roughly $10 million may be dwarfed by the multi-billion-dollar behemoths of the pesticide industry, but Amvac was not alone in profiting from pesticide dumping. In fact, it shares its profits with Dow, which received a three percent royalty on all DBCP sold by Amvac under a patenting agreement. Thus, even though Dow no longer made DBCP it still profited via the interlocking financial arrangements that link the small companies to the large, giving all a share in the global pesticide business.
Velsicol's pesticide shell game
THE STORY OF the pesticide Phosvel - and the "Phosvel Zombies" it created - is a chilling example of the cruel shell game the multinational companies can play as they move their poisons from one country to the next, trying to maximize sales before their pesticides are banned again.
Phosvel, the exclusive brand name for an organophosphate nerve toxin called leptophos, was marketed by Velsicol Chemical Corporation, a division of the mammoth Northwest Industries, which distributes everything from Cutty Sark Scotch whisky to Fruit of the Loom underwear.
The dangers of Phosvel became public in 1976, when the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) revealed that workers at Velsicol's Bayport, Texas, plant had developed serious disorders of the central nervous system. Fellow workers dubbed them "Phosvel Zombies" because they lost their coordination, and their ability to work, talk and think clearly. The workers sued Velsicol, and the company closed the plant.
But even after all the publicity generated by the Phosvel Zombie scandal (including charges by U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy that the company knowingly continued to make Phosvel even after its employees became ill), Velsicol kept selling the pesticide overseas.
Velsicol's marketing of Phosvel shows that even when third world countries join the United States in banning especially dangerous pesticides, the multinational giants who control the global pesticide supermarket can often continue to sell dangerous chemicals for years.
Although more than four years have passed since Phosvel's dangers burst into the headlines, there is disturbing evidence that it is still on the market.
The EPA never allowed Velsicol to sell Phosvel in the United States, although it did routinely issue a one-year experimental use permit. Velsicol used this permit to its advantage in Colombia. When the Colombian Committee for Environmental Information began campaigning against the pesticide's disabling side-effects, Velsicol first threatened to sue, then produced its experimental use permit as "proof" that Phosvel had been registered for use in the United States for eight years.
Meanwhile, with $4 million in AID funds, 13.9 million pounds of Phosvel and other banned pesticides were shipped to 50 countries as part of the U.S. foreign aid program from 1971 to 1976. (This practice was eventually stopped by a lawsuit brought by environmental groups. ) In Egypt, a widely publicized Phosvel epidemic in 1971 killed over 1,000 water buffalo and an unknown number of peasants. The victims suffered a slow and agonizing death, gradually paralyzed until they asphyxiated.
Velsicol beats the Phosvel ban
ALTHOUGH VELSICOL says it no longer manufactures Phosvel anywhere in the world, documents show that during 1978 - two years after the notorious Phosvel Zombie publicity - Velsicol imported Phosvel into Costa Rica via three shipments originating in Panama and Mexico. In addition, according to the government of Indonesia, large quantities of Phosvel are still being sold there.
In Colombia, authorities banned Phosvel in July 1977. Velsicol simply moved its stockpiles of Phosvel to a free trade zone, technically out of Colombian jurisdiction, and then shipped it to nearby countries where it was not yet banned.
Attempts by the company to peddle Phosvel elsewhere, however, met with resistance.
After the Philippines banned Phosvel, according to that country's Pesticide Technical Services Chief Ricardo Deang, "Velsicol came to us and said, 'We want to export our stocks of Phosvel to Thailand.' But we couldn't let them do that to our sister country. So I said, 'You have to prove to us that Thailand really wants this stuff. Otherwise you must send it back to the States for disposal.' So then they ended up shipping it all back to the U.S."
Guatemalan official Fernando Mazariegos remembers, "After the Phosvel scandal in the U.S., Velsicol came to us and said they wanted to study the possibilities for its use in Central America. We turned that request down. I think their purpose was to stare selling a lot of it in Central America and in other countries."
Company spokesman Richard Blewitt says Velsicol did not try to mislead officials in Colombia, the Philippines, or Guatemala about Phosvel. But he does admit that "what happened happened. We're trying {to}make sure that {it}never happens again. A new team has been amassed {at Velsicol}."
Phosvel is not Velsicol's only hazardous pesticide. Once Phosvel was removed from the market, at least officially, Velsicol began manufacturing EPN as a substitute. But EPN - now under EPA review - is believed to be twice as neurotoxic as Phosvel. Velsicol also manufactures ingredients for three essentially banned organochlorines - heptachlor, chlordane and endrin - at a plant in Chicago, and formulates the finished products in Memphis. Most of the production is for the overseas market, since endrin use is severely restricted in the U.S., and heptachlor and chlordane are completely banned for agricultural purposes inside the continental U.S. (Like DBCP, endrin may be used on pineapples in Hawaii until the end of 1982 - which testifies less to the need for either pesticide on pineapples than to the political clout of the Hawaiian Pineapple Growers' Association, dominated by Del Monte and Castle & Cooke.)
Hooker: the Love Canal dumper
THE HOOKER Chemical and Plastic Corporation - in-famous for the Love Canal tragedy - is another pesticide dumper. Hooker is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Occidental - one of the three major firms which ceased DBCP production when workers at its California plant discovered they were sterile.
At the Love Canal near Niagara Falls, New York, thousands of pounds of lethal chemical wastes at an abandoned Hooker chemical dumpsite percolated to the surface 20 years later. This tragedy is still being felt in the residential neighborhood today, four years since the site was rediscovered in 1976. An unusually large number of children are born with birth defects, adults and children are suffering from high rates of chemically-induced diseases, and a whole way of life has been disrupted as people have been forced to sell their homes to escape the leeching poisons. The Love Canal tragedy was a turning point in the growing movement of people fighting against the invasion of toxic chemicals.
In the third world, Hooker's marketing of pesticides may eventually cause similar tragedies. But third world peasants usually do not have access to information about Hooker's toxic products and practices, and probably will not know what has affected them. In addition, most of them cannot simply move away like many Love Canal residents have done.
One example of Hooker's third world marketing practices occurred in 1976. Hooker voluntarily withdrew its EPA registration of the organochlorine BHC, after feeding tests with mice showed it causes tumors, kills fetuses and causes premature births, and has other dangerous reproductive effects even when absorbed in tiny concentrations. But when it withdrew BHC from the U.S. market, Hooker explicitly stated that it would continue producing the chemical for use overseas.
In recent years, records indicate, Ortho has imported BHC into Costa Rica, the German firm Schering imported BHC into Colombia, and, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture cables, BHC was used on coffee grown for U.S. consumption in Peru and Guatemala.


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Mr. President (@BarackObama, @WhiteHouse), it is time to offer USA Corporations a tax amnesty program:
1) Allow Corporations to file for the program on the grounds of International Instability caused by Russia. Russian instability threatens Multinational Companies too — not just EU countries, Companies with EU offices or Bank Accounts too.
2) Companies must file with the IRS on instability grounds
3) Allow Companies who filed with IRS to repatriate earnings & pay only 5% tax on repatriated dollars. Repatriate the money SLOW to Moderate to FAST depending worsening (or improving) conditions with Russia
4) This will draw the money out of the World Market for loans to Russia & bring it back for lending in the Americas
5) Create Western Hemisphere Trade programs that help struggling Central/South American countries & Carribean nations (as well as Canada/Mexico). Kind of a "soft AU zone of economic growth/help"
6) Work close with Brazil/Mexico
7) Develop Natural Gas production – create a USA owned refining processing facility if the Oil Companies will not & annually lease the facility to an OIL company based upon an AUCTION (similar to FCC Airways auctions)
8) Sell/Export Gas to the EU.


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When a big orchard is pulled out anywhere in the county, tongues begin to wag on the reasons prompting the removal.
If you've seen the bulldozers and grinders at work on the parcel near the northwest corner of Barrett and Alameda, then you too may be wondering.
The good news is that tree clearing on this 30-acre lot is the first step in the Hood River Parks and Recreation District's long-term plan to create a new community park with sports fields and an extension to the existing Indian Creek Trail.
In addition to much-needed ball fields, potential uses for the land, according to Lori Stirn, director of HRPRD, include community gardens, community-supported agriculture, picnic shelters, playground equipment, additional walking and biking trails, passive recreation play areas, dog parks and other recreational options.
The land clearing has begun to meet requirements laid out as part of a HRPRD lottery-funded State Park Local Government Acquisition Grant obtained in Oct. 2007.
"A requirement of the grant is that all non-recreation uses on the property must be terminated within three years from the date of acquisition or the park district would have to locate and purchase another similar property or return the $325,800 grant funds," said Stirn.
"In an effort to keep the property located at 4010 Barrett Drive and the grant funds, we are removing the 28-plus acres of fruit-bearing trees as well as terminating the lease with the current orchardist."
Once removal is complete, HRPRD will back-fill the holes and provide rough grading and grass seeding at the site. Existing structures on the property will be left in place at this time.
Many additional steps remain before final land use approvals are obtained, but HRPRD is working closely with the Department of Land Conservation and Development and county planning staff to determine what is an allowable use on the currently EFU-zoned parcel.
"At this point we would like to begin to receive ideas from the community in an informal way about priorities for park needs and potential uses," Stirn said. As the land use approval process formalizes, countywide community meetings will be held to obtain specific community input.
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Have you got an update on this issue? I would also like to start a group at my uni. The medical campus is quite separate from everything else which would make a med student focus easy.
I have a few concerns about how the whole idea would go down also, so will be interested to read up on Dan's links and hear anything new from yourself.
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Toshiba Thrive 7″ review – A great portable tablet with too much competition in the way
The tablet market is in the middle of a revolution. Prices are dropping as processing and graphical prowess grows rapidly. Those currently looking for a 7-inch, WiFi-only Android tablet should probably have the Toshiba Thrive 7″ top of mind. By the time I got my hands on this tablet, many other reviews had already been published, ... Read More »


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Species: Eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei)
Status: Endangered (EN)
Interesting Fact: The eastern gorilla is divided into two subspecies, the eastern lowland or Grauer's gorilla, and the mountain gorilla.
Together with the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), the eastern gorilla is the largest of the living apes. Gorillas have characteristically robust, heavy bodies and dark, shaggy coats, and males are much larger than females. The eastern gorilla lives in stable family groups, led by a dominant 'silverback' male, and females in the group give birth around once every three to four years. The eastern lowland gorilla is found in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the mountain gorilla in two isolated populations in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The eastern gorilla faces a range of threats, including snares set for other wildlife, as well as deliberate poaching for bushmeat or to take infants as pets. This species is also surrounded by rapidly increasing human populations, and habitat destruction, illegal cattle grazing and timber extraction are also serious problems, as is political unrest in some areas. Fortunately, the eastern gorilla occurs largely in protected areas and a number of conservation programmes are underway to protect it. Mountain gorillas have been studied for decades, and in some places are protected by armed guards. Visits by tourists pose a risk of disease transmission to the gorillas, but these charismatic primates are recognised as an important source of tourist revenue, which may help to protect them.
Find out more about gorilla conservation at the International Gorilla Conservation Programme and the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP).
See images and videos of the eastern gorilla on ARKive.
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The other, er, brake shoe has at last dropped. More than two years after trucking first anticipated it being finalized, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has FINALLY issued it's new final rule on truck-braking standards.
It's all rather de facto and totally anti-climactic given that heavy-truck brake suppliers long ago figured out how they would most likley meet even the most stringent new stopping-distance regulation.
And to its credit, NHTSA has indeed opted for the most rigorous performance factor that it had proposed-- requiring that "large truck" stopping distances by improved by 30%.
According to NHTSA, the new standard will require that a tractor-trailer traveling at 60 miles per hour come to a complete stop in 250 ft. That's 30% better than the current standard of a complete stop within 355 ft.
Starting in 2012, Class 8 rigs will have to stop in 30% fewer feet.
Once in effect, the new braking rule will save 227 lives annually, NHTSA estimated. The agency said the requirement will also prevent 300 serious injuries and estimated it will cut property damage costs by over $169 million annually.
"Safety is our highest priority," said Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. "Motorists deserve to know they are sharing the road with large trucks that are up to the safest possible standards, so they can get home alive to their families."
The new rule won't kick in until truck model year 2012 and will be phased in over four years. Given its potential to save lives, as declared by NHTSA itself, and the oft-stated readiness of truck brake suppliers to meet the rule when it was yet a proposal, it's a shame this potent safety advance is not on even a slightly faster track to legal implementation.
Of course, that doesn't mean truck OEMs working with their brake suppliers won't roll out vehicles with better stopping performance ahead of 2012.


text: Financial regulation in 2017: Europe and the US Financial Regulatory Alert Share this 19 JAN 2017 By: Jeffrey L. Hare Edward J. Johnsen Michael McKee Deborah R. Meshulam Ian Mason Georgia Karamani The result of the UK referendum on its EU membership and the outcome of the US Presidential elections of 2016 have laid the ground for 2017 to be a year of transition for both Europe and the United States. As transitions are often associated with uncertainty, this article aims to provide some insight into the legal and regulatory developments expected to take place during the course of 2017. European Union and United Kingdom The UK referendum set in motion a number of actions and preparation regarding the exit of the UK from the EU. However, all EU regulations will continue to apply to UK financial institutions until the UK formally leaves the EU at the end of the exit negotiations. This is likely to be at least two years after March 2017, when Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union is expected to be triggered. Meanwhile, the political environment throughout the EU is rather sensitive, with both the French and the German upcoming elections generating further sources of uncertainty and concern. With that in mind, the main EU regulatory areas to be affected during 2017 are outlined below: Financial crime: Financial crime is a high priority for both the EU and the UK. EU member states are required to transpose the Fourth Money Laundering Directive into national law by 26 June 2017, while the European Parliament and the Council of the EU are already considering going beyond this with the Fifth Money Laundering Directive FinTech: The General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") will have a direct effect in all EU member states from 25 March 2018. Financial institutions will consequently need to prepare in the course of 2017. GDPR may have an impact on FinTech, which remains high on the priority list for both the EU and the UK, and may also affect the transfer of data between EU and third countries Individual accountability: The UK Senior Managers Regime and the Certification Regime will be extended to all authorised firms, with the FCA consulting on the precise arrangements. "Material risk-takers" will need to be assessed by firms by March 2017, while the scope of application for Conduct Rules will be extended from March 2017 Investment funds: The EU Parliament and the Council are expected to formally adopt the proposed Regulation on Money Market Funds ("MMF Regulation") in 2017. The MMF Regulation will affect the requirements relating to the liquidity and stability of money market funds Payment services: Member states must transpose the Payment Services Directive 2 ("PSD2") into their national laws and regulations by 13 January 2018. PSD2 will have a wider scope of application compared to the initial directive Prudential regulation: During 2017, the Parliament and the Council of the EU will continue the amendment process for the Capital Requirements Regulation and the Capital Requirements Directive IV. Basel III measures will be introduced into EU law to improve lending for small and medium-sized enterprises. Meanwhile, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision also intends to amend the Basel III framework, leading to Basel IV Securities markets: Financial institutions affected by MiFID 11 will spend most of 2017 preparing for the implementation of the new regime on 3 January 2018. Financial institutions will also have to deal with EMIR and any related developments to come during this year Retail securities markets: The application date of the Regulation on key information documents ("KIDs") for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products ("PRIIPs") has been delayed by a year in order to enable the RTS on KID to be revised by the Commission. Issuers and distributors of PRIIPs will have to be compliant by I January 2018 Capital markets union: Despite the fact that the UK - one of the strongest advocates in favour of a capital markets union - voted to the leave the EU, it seems that the Commission intends to move forward with that initiative, even without the UK. Key developments will include political agreement on the proposed Securitisation Regulation and on the amendments to the European Venture Capital Funds Regulation, as well as on the European Social Entrepreneurship Funds Regulation United States A number of issues are likely to be affected by the imminent inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on 20 January 2017 and the new administration, as well as Republican majorities in both houses and the changing political atmosphere in the US. The change of leadership is bound to lead to policy changes and a possible reshaping of the regulatory status quo. It is still too early to have a clear idea regarding the specific intentions of the new President, but based on President-elect Trump's comments while a candidate and those of his transition team, it is likely that the new administration will seek to simplify the rules relating to lending in an effort to move to a more lending-friendly environment. On that basis, the operation and organisational structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, echoing a stricter approach regarding regulation, may be affected. Other key aspects of Dodd-Frank which industry has disfavoured have the potential to be challenged or revised, including: The Volcker Rule's prohibition on proprietary trading and covered fund activities by banking entities Composition and role of the Financial Stability Oversight Council and one of its primary missions of designating systemically important financial institutions for enhanced capital and scrutiny requirements Thresholds for Dodd-Frank's resolution planning requirements There is also attention on the impact of the Community Reinvestment Act and whether its mandate for credit to lowand moderate-income borrowers and communities had an unintended consequence of weakening banking institutions during the crisis. During President-elect Trump's term, the following vacancies will result from term expirations: March 2017 - Thomas Curry, Comptroller of the Currency and FDIC Board Member November 2017 - Martin Gruenberg, FDIC Chairman February 2018 - Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chair July 2018 — Richard Cordray, CFPB Director And still other resignations are often associated with changes in administration. Moreover, the upcoming departure of Chair Mary Jo White from the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") is likely to have some effect on the Commission's overall direction. Initially, only two Commissioners of opposite parties will remain to deal with the immediate post-election period. Consequently, there may be a pause in new initiatives as well as some uncertainty regarding the SEC's approach to pending investigations, particularly those where the SEC's enforcement staff is seeking to expand existing legal theories of liability. The appointment of Jay Clayton, a well-regarded M&A and capital markets lawyer, as the new SEC Chair may bring some changes on the enforcement side, but the enforcement approach to mainstream insider trading, fraud and bribery cases is unlikely to be affected. Regardless of who sits in the Oval Office or who chairs the SEC, the fundamental goal of preserving the integrity of US capital markets will likely remain unchanged and the SEC will likely continue to pursue fraudulent activity. As a result the SEC Enforcement Division's focus on potentially culpable individuals will continue and corporations will still be held responsible for violations although proposed penalty amounts may receive more scrutiny as the make-up of the SEC changes with the new administration. In addition, a newly constituted Commission may shift enforcement resources away from "broken windows" technical violations. On the regulatory side, given his background, the new Chair (assuming he is confirmed by the Senate) of the Commission could lead the Commission to focus on streamlining regulation and easing the process of raising capital. If this is the case, market participants should expect a newly constituted Commission to look for ways to cut "red tape" regulations that make it harder to raise capital while not adding to the accuracy of financial statements. Another possibility is that the new Commission may also look to expand capital raising options and ease perceived unnecessary regulatory burdens on the financial services industry. There is also speculation that Congress may decide to revisit the size and breadth of powers of the SEC itself, but nothing is certain. Implementation of the Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule, however, maybe delayed, if not repealed, considering that Republicans now control both Houses of Congress. The CFTC gained significant powers as a result of the passage of Dodd-Frank. While Republican representatives have stated that they intend to scale back that legislation, there is no clear indication that they will target the agency. Despite the potential mid or long-term change of strategy, the day-to-day regulation and operation of the regulatory bodies is likely to remain largely untouched by the change of leadership, at least in the near future. Moreover, many financial regulations are written and enforced by non-governmental self-regulatory entities such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") and the National Futures Association, which are much less likely to be directly impacted by a change in administration. According to FINRA's examination priorities for 2017, there is no indication that any major regulatory changes are expected. FINRA's priorities for 2017 include protection of senior investors, suitability of products, credit risk, trading patterns, electronic communications and money laundering. Support for the FinTech sector is likely to remain unaffected, considering that its growth potential is undisputed by both Democrats and Republicans. The focus on cyber risk, data, quality, analytics and reporting, as well as the focus on prudential standards, risk modelling and management are also likely to remain. How we can assist you DLA Piper, both in Europe and the United States, has dedicated teams of well-experienced and well-informed lawyer, specifically in these areas, able to navigate you through the new developments. We can advise and assist you on the above legal and regulatory issues that could affect your business activities and/or the arrangements you currently have in place. Please get in touch with one of the authors, or your usual DLA Piper contact.


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Andrews University will usher in the 2009 Christmas season with a host of festive concerts including classical orchestra, choirs, carols, and elementary and academy youth performances. All programs will take place on campus and are open to the public.
Voices will ring in the season with the Welcome Christmas Choral Concert on Friday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. in the Howard Performing Arts Center. The program will feature various University choirs, including the University Chorale, Canta Bella, Pioneer Men's Chorus and Andrews University Singers, under the direction of Stephen Zork, director of choral studies. The choirs will be accompanied by the University Sinfonietta. The event is free and no tickets are required.
The Andrews University Wind Symphony's Winter Concert takes place the following night, Saturday, Dec. 5, at 8 p.m. in the Howard Center. The Wind Symphony performs both sacred and secular pieces including Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed, Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson, First Noel and Divinum Mysterium arranged by Tom Wallace, Ernst August March by Blankenburg, Christmas Sing-A-Long arranged by James Ployhar, and Scenes from the Louvre by Dello Joio, directed by graduate student director Abner Perales. General admission is $5 and student/senior tickets are $3.
An Old-Fashioned Carol Sing will be held on Sunday, Dec. 13, as part of the Second Sunday Concert Series. The program will begin at 4 p.m. General admission is $5 and student/senior tickets are $3.
Ruth Murdoch Elementary School and Andrews Academy, both University-operated schools, will each continue their musical traditions to welcome the season. The Andrews Academy Feast of Lights will feature student groups performing at Pioneer Memorial Church on Friday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. Presented as a gift to the community for more than 30 years, the program includes a Nativity scene at the end and group choral singing which the entire congregation can join in. The church sidewalks will be arrayed in bright Christmas lighting and decorations. The Christmas concert by students of Ruth Murdoch Elementary School will feature the Spanish Choirs, 3rd-6th Grade Choir and the Ruth Murdoch Singers. This performance will be held in the Howard Center on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. There is free admission to the Feast of Lights and RMES Christmas Concert.


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WonderCon 2013: James Robinson Spotlight
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by LOLtron » Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:20 am
Robinson discusses past, present and future projects
Source: Various
James Robinson held a spotlight solo panel to talk about his career and answer fan questions. CBR and Bleeding Cool transcribed or reported on the panels, and we've gathered the best parts here.
When asked if he'll return to Starman, he replied: "A great magician doesn't repeat his tricks. When you do something because you think you should, but not because you want to, it doesn't turn out well. I think I closed the door on Jack Knight".
He added that there is a Starman on Earth 2: Ted Knight, an English astronomer.
Robinson also teased the big story coming up that involves Earth 2 meeting the heroes of the main DC Universe Earth. The big event that's happening in 2014 is all these characters meeting each other. Robinson's goal is to make sure the writers involved in the event are invested in the story, describing himself as "the point guy" for the event, and adding that Scott Snyder, Geoff Johns and Dan DiDio are also very involved.
"It was always my plan to make it Justice Society," he said of the Earth 2 heroes. "I think at a point where you have the heroes of Earth 2 meeting the main Earth, you have to have the Justice Society. As the book moves forward in the next five months, you're going to have more a sense of this team taking shape."
He's especially proud of how he's handled Jay Garrick. In issue #11, you'll see how integral he is. When Jay meets Barry Allen, you can see the differences in their personalities even if they're in shirts, or jeans and t-shirts.
Speaking on the designs of the Earth 2 cast, Robinson thinks that Jay Garrick's costume is one of his least favorites. "I cared greatly about how they looked. I've been far from happy with Jay Garrick, but I think Alan Scott's costume is quite good," he said. "For some reason, they were adamant about the costume for Jay Garrick. I hate the gold stripes up the leg. That drives me nuts."
Readers will see the original Trinity as well as the appearance of Earth 2's Green Arrow, known as Red Arrow, in issue #14, although it's a small appearance. His name will be Roy McQueen.
The death of Alan Scott's partner, Sam, isn't quite completely dealt with yet. The mystery of why Sam was killed leads into the arc about Wildcat and Sam's death leads into other storylines as well.
Robinson plans to bring Mister Miracle and Barda into the series, but he couldn't say much more about the possibility of more Fourth World characters in the future. The only thing he could say is that there are mainly New Genesis characters on the main prime. On Earth 2, it's mostly Apokolips villains and Mister Miracle and Barda. Some of the characters we're going to be seeing are Bedlam and Kanto.
Robinson plans to introduce both Hourman and Wildcat in the near future. Hourman is a bit further off than Wildcat. "Ted Grant" will appear in approximately issue 14 or 15 and we'll see "Wildcat" issue #19.
Robinson teased two new villains called Solitaire and Rhapsody. Solitaire is a reinterpreted Gambler and Rhapsody is a reinterpretation of The Fiddler. Ultra Humanite is also on the table for a possible Earth 2 villain.
A fan question of whether Robinson might do stories for Marvel came up, and Robinson responded with his dream cast for a book. "If I was to do it, the characters I like at Marvel are the odd ones," he said. "If they offered me 'Secret Avengers,' it would be the Black Knight, Quicksilver, the original Human Torch, Black Bolt -- that's who I like. I think other people are doing much better jobs with [Thor and Iron Man] than I ever could."
Robinson ended by saying that he had more creator-owned work coming down the line. "At San Diego last year, we announced a book I was doing with J. Bone and I have two other ideas that I'm talking to pretty well-known artists about working with and they'd probably be at Image, too," he said, saying his project with J. Bone had been delayed because the artist had been offered Rocketeer. "You'll be seeing more creator-owned things from me."
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by Herald » Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:39 am"A great magician doesn't repeat his tricks," Jim "JUSTICE!" Robinson said as he killed off some obscure characters unrelated to his main character(s) for the UMPTEENTH TIME.
"Good thing nobody considers ME a great magician, then!" he admitted, smiling sheepishly.
by Zechs » Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:57 am
by alaska1125 » Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:47 pm
Yeah, I agree. I think it's telling that he mentions that it not only hit after the Nu52 debut (making its initial few issues confusing, continuity wise), but it was poorly promoted. That series was Robinson back in fine form. I guess I'm happy all 12 issues made it out of the gate.
by Zechs » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:05 pm
Me too. It's why I hate the new 52. It has good stories which are way over than meager quick cash-ins.
by Eric Ratcliffe » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:21 pm
So you're just blatantly trolling/being a dick?
No one liked that book, still pointing it out almost 3-4 years later is just beating a dead horse.
Earth 2 and the Shade have been 2 of the only positive things that I've heavily enjoyed in the new 52. Let it go.
by Eric Ratcliffe » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:24 pmAnd before you go off on one of your bullshit diatrab's Herald, maybe offer something constructive or actually you know, read the damn article and offer a comment about the New Gods or Wildcat or the fact that Robinson can seemingly get away with talking negatively about sales/costume designs.
There's plenty inside this actual article that someone spent time writing instead of going "Hey remember that miniseries no one liked that has nothing to do with this write up? Oh you don't? Here's your reminder."
by Herald » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:38 pm
I'm pointing out that this "magician" DOES repeat certain tricks, one of them being "Let's drag a character or five out of limbo just long enough to massacre them."
1. It's still on his resume, just like the Starman series, like the first Shade mini, like the "Golden Age" mini... You know, all those books that gained this man his reputation, all those books that people STILL "beat a dead horse" about ALL THE TIME.
And I seem to recall those books being a little older than "almost 3-4 years". But hey, you do the math on those and get back to me.
Funny thing how the rules are suddenly supposed to change when someone's sacred cow puts out some universally sour milk...
2. He dragged characters out of limbo to be killed off in the aforementioned series, too. Did you forget the infamous Starman #38??
Like you said, those are books that YOU enjoyed.
Me, I'm:
Ooh, characters like Jay Garrick are Younger and Hipper now. YAWN. I found it more impressive when the writers could make the OLD (in more than one sense of the word) Jay and the others interesting. But suddenly, we shouldn't expect that level of craftsmanship anymore.
by bkthomson » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:40 pmCarry on. I'm watching. .
by S.F. Jude Terror » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:47 pmDammit Herald! spoilers for Starman #38!
by Zechs » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:49 pmHerald are you serious dissing Robinson's Starman? Come on now. And with that particular issue it was minor heroes who got fed to the new Mist (a character he later on killed as well). Nobody was using these characters at the time and honestly Blue Devil needed to die to get rid of that stupid extreme 90s getup he had.
The thing is though Cry for Justice was an editorial mess. You know it. I know it. We all know it. Don't go fingering Robinson just because he was the one who had to write it.
by sdsichero » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:50 pm
That's the reason you hate Nu52?
by Herald » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:54 pm
I read the article, thank you. I'm not impressed with Robinson ragging on costumes and sales, which is why I didn't say anything about it.
Riddle me this: Has anyone else been required to say something positive (or -- GASP!! -- negative!) about Jimbo?? Or comment on the New Gods or Wildcat?? NO?? Then why should I be??
I cited something that Mr. "JUSTICE!" said in this article, and commented on it, just like everyone else. I'm not required to shout "Hosanna!" about this guy just because YOU like his work.
How nice for the person who wrote it. I'm sure the act of writing the article inspires a feeling of accomplishment in itself.
But the bottom line remains: YOU can worship Jimmy like he's having his very own Easter tomorrow. That doesn't mean I should.
by Eric Ratcliffe » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:54 pmI really get tired of your schtick and putting words in people's mouths.
This article written about and teasing the man's current work. He specifically talks about the negatives as much as the positives which you know, you'd figure would interest the guy who is so anti-dc. (Newsflash, I don't enjoy 80 percent of their content either)
He brings up that he doesn't like Jay's current costume, that Shade was almost cancelled at issue #8 and how things aren't exactly as smooth as they could be. It's all there if you read the actual piece.
I like Golden Age and absolutely love Starman, Robinson also did an amazing Captain America one shot a few years ago. I've even had the pleasure of interviewing the man last year.
I just don't your need to instead of talking about what is in the article to be like "OMG GUYS DIDN'T CRY FOR JUSTICE SUCK?!"
by Eric Ratcliffe » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:56 pmAlso wait...did he really take a shot at Starman?
fucking performance art at it's best folks.
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