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An acrimonious dispute between the state and the Seneca Nation of Indians ended Thursday with a deal to re-start tribal casino revenue payments to Albany and localities in return for New York banning any new gambling competition in Western New York.
The agreement, announced in Niagara Falls by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Seneca President Barry Snyder Sr., came after four years of name calling and legal wrangling by both sides.
"It's easy to keep fighting ... and it's hard to find the path of compromise and peace and it took sober minds and open minds and gracious personalities to do that," Cuomo said in announcing the deal with Snyder.
"It's a historic day for us," Snyder said.
The pact has local and statewide impact. It ends Cuomo's threat to let a non-Indian casino operator into Western New York, and possibly Niagara Falls, and now leaves just three regions upstate – the Southern Tier in the Binghamton area, the Albany area and the lower Hudson Valley including the Catskills – as initial sites where the first four of seven casinos may be located under a gambling expansion package being negotiated at the Capitol that could go before voters in a statewide referendum this fall.
Cuomo said Western New York will still have a stake in that referendum because if it passes all counties in the region would share in the Seneca Nation casino proceeds instead of just the three municipalities that currently host casinos. He is proposing dropping the state share of Seneca casino revenue sharing so more of those counties could get a portion while keeping whole annual payments intended for Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca.
No state legislative approval is needed for Thursday's agreement, but the Seneca Nation's council must OK it. Snyder said he saw no problems with that happening, though some Senecas have expressed feelings in the past that the tribe should stick with an ongoing binding arbitration process that began last year as a way to get a better deal.
In an interview, Cuomo termed as a key turning point a Wednesday night session at the Capitol with Snyder and a number of council members, at which they discussed everything from the dispute to his Native American ties he forged when he was the nation's housing secretary in the Clinton administration.
"Having a thorough conversation with the Council was helpful," Cuomo said.
The agreement, a five-page document that was not immediately released, ends a dispute that began in 2009 when the Senecas accused the state of violating the terms of a 2002 compact giving the tribe certain exclusive gambling rights in a large area of Western New York extending from the center of the Finger Lakes area to Lake Erie.
Halting a mandate to turn over 25 percent of slot machine revenues at its casinos in Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca because they felt the pact had been violated, the Senecas' ran up a tab to the state of $559,442,218 as of May 31.
The agreement lets the Senecas keep $209.8 million of that, with the state getting the same amount. The three local host communities will share $139.9 million, with $89 million going to Niagara Falls, $34.5 million to Salamanca and $15.5 million to Buffalo.
The Senecas will also pay $54.1 million of $67.1 million owed for State Police coverage at casinos and background checks the agency performed on casino employees and vendors, as well as all the $4.3 million it stopped paying for casino-related work done by a state gambling regulatory agency. The deal ends State Police law enforcement coverage at the casinos, a deal similar to that at two other Indian casinos in New York state.
A Cuomo administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the deal does not specifically extend the term of the 2002 compact, which features an initial end date of 2016. But another state source said both sides did a "wink wink" deal to ensure a seven-year extension clause kicks in, taking the compact's lifespan until 2023.
Unlike recent casino agreements Cuomo made with Indian tribes in central and northern New York, Thursday's Seneca deal involves no side issues unrelated to the casino compact dispute. For instance, it does not address tax-free cigarette sales by the tribe, and it also does not, as the Senecas had sought, give them the state's blessing to build a fourth casino in their exclusivity zone. The tribe has been talking about opening a new casino in Monroe County.
Forging the deal was months in the making, and came with a week left in the legislative session in which Cuomo's gambling bill called for placing a new casino in Western New York unless the Senecas resolved the $600 million revenue sharing dispute before lawmakers left Albany for the summer. The deal Thursday was big enough that Cuomo took two State Police planes to Niagara Falls International Airport to accommodate his senior advisors and a contingent of Western New York Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
Racetrack-based casinos operating in Hamburg, Batavia and near Rochester will face changes under the deal. The state Lottery Division in 2008 began allowing those tracks to market themselves as "casinos," instead of as "gaming" or "racino" facilities. Now, the word "casino" in Hamburg Casino and the other two facilities will be banned and will have to be taken down from any entrance signs, billboards, T-shirts or any other place where the word is used. They will also not be able to market their video lottery terminals – which look, sound and play like slot machines – as "slot machines."
"In building future customers in the future, it will have an impact," Michael Kane, president of the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp., said of the marketing changes. The OTB is owned by counties in the region as well as the cities of Buffalo and Rochester, and the casino it owns in Batavia has proven increasingly successful over the years.
The three track-based casinos will also not be able to offer electronic table games, as other such facilities can in the state. "I don't think it's a great news day for us," Kane said. Counties in the region had been pressing Albany to let Batavia become a full-blown, Las Vegas-style casino, complete with table games like poker as now allowed at the Seneca facilities. But that idea died Thursday with the Cuomo and Seneca deal that now bans the region from any further casinos.
Dennis Lang, chief executive officer of Buffalo Raceway, which runs the Hamburg Casino, called it a mixed day. He supports not having to compete with another casino coming into the area, but said it remains uncertain how the new marketing restrictions on his facility will hurt sales.
The dispute began during the administrations of former New York Gov. David A. Paterson and former Seneca President Robert Porter. The Senecas said New York broke the compact, in part, by letting the track-based casinos in their exclusivity zones market themselves as if they were full-blown casinos.
The fight intensified between Cuomo and Snyder. The governor at different points suggested he would help locate a casino near the tribe's Niagara Falls casino if the Senecas did not break the stalemate while Snyder last week, in an interview with The Buffalo News, twice called Cuomo a "bully."
On Thursday, the tone was decidedly friendly. Cuomo said the Seneca concerns raised about the state violating the compact were "legitimate," while Snyder started off his remarks at the Conference Center Niagara Falls apologizing to Cuomo for the bully remark.
The governor, with a week to go in the scheduled 2013 legislative session, is trying to nail down the final details with lawmakers of a plan to permit up to seven casinos in the state. The initial round would be limited to upstate, which he defined as one of six regions. But over the past month, three of those regions, including Western New York on Thursday, were taken off that casino expansion list by deals he cut with Indian tribes involving revenue sharing payments, as well as land claim settlements involving two other tribes, in return for keeping new casino competition out of those areas.
"The referendum created the moment to then resolve these conflicts which had been festering for a long time," Cuomo said of the casino expansion plan being used to help jump-start talks with the Seneca Nation and two other tribes.
"We've resolved all these long-standing disputes just by proposing the referendum," he said in an interview, noting the deals with the three tribes have been worth about $1 billion in revenues to the state.
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Receding floodwaters north of Bangkok have reduced the threat to the Thai capital, the prime minister said on Saturday, but high tides in the Gulf of Thailand will still test the city's flood defenses.
"If things go on like this, we expect floodwater in Bangkok to recede within the first week of November," Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on national television.
Bangkok's main waterway, the Chao Phraya River, overflowed its banks in some areas on Saturday during high tides in the Gulf of Thailand, about 20 km (12 miles) to the south. The high tides will last until Monday.
The city's normally bustling Chinatown was flooded, as were the streets around the glittering Grand Palace and Temple of the Reclining Buddha, areas usually thronged with tourists.
Buildings across Bangkok have been sand-bagged or walled off for protection. Many people have left their cars on elevated roads, although most of the inner city is dry.
Many others have taken advantage of a special five-day holiday to flee the city. Those left behind have stocked up on water, food, life jackets and even boats.
Thailand's worst floods in half a century have killed 381 people since July, wiped out a quarter of the main rice crop in the world's biggest rice exporter, forced up global prices of computer hard drives and caused delays in global auto production after destroying industrial estates.
The death toll rose overnight when a boat carrying a family of four capsized in strong wind, drowning the father, mother and eldest son in three-meter (10 feet) floodwater. Their 6-year-old daughter, the only one wearing a life vest, survived.
In Bangkok, which was sunny on Saturday, prices of eggs have quadrupled as jittery residents stockpile staples. Many shop shelves are empty but the government said flood victims would have enough bottled water, dairy products, pork and chicken.
Cash was also in heavy demand. The Bank of Thailand has repeated that there is enough money circulating to meet demand for three months following a crush of withdrawals. Nearly 400 bank branches have closed across the country due to the floods.
The floods, which followed unusually heavy monsoon rain, have submerged 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) of land, an area roughly the size of Kuwait or Swaziland, turning some towns into urban reservoirs.
In some areas, crocodiles have escaped from flooded farms and snakes searching for dry land have slithered into homes.
Yingluck said the ebbing flood in northern provinces, thanks to the draining of water into the sea through canals and pumps, had reduced the risk of large volumes bearing down on Bangkok, which sits only two meters (6 ft) above sea level.
"In this critical situation, there is some good news for us. Our water-management plan went smoothly during previous days," she said, offering the city the first encouraging words in days.
Experts were also cautiously optimistic central Bangkok's network of embankments and sand-bag walls would hold.
"We have to conclude that it's under control but we still have to do as much as we can to maintain the dikes," said Anon Sanitwong Na Ayutthaya, an academic on the government's flood team.
Seree Supharatid, director of the Disaster Warning Center at Rangsit University, said coordination between city, provincial and national authorities was critical.
"If the government can manage the pumping system smoothly, with good cooperation, we may see the water receding by early November," he said.
Although Yingluck expressed confidence inner Bangkok could be spared, the city's suburbs faced growing misery.
Authorities expect the whole of Thonburi district, on the west bank of the Chao Phraya, to be inundated within three days and Yingluck said the water would remain high due to a lack of canals. Seventeen roads across Bangkok are closed.
The Pinklao district of Thonburi, packed with restaurants, shops and homes, was under waist-deep water. Some residents waded through the flood, lugging televisions and furniture.
People in Bangkok's northern Sai Mai district sat on rafts built of plastic bottles and wooden crates. Shop owners perched on sandbags, staring out at roads turned into rivers.
Water levels appeared to have risen in the riverside Bang Phlad district, also to the west, with many people using boats to make their way through the rubbish-strewn flow.
The Chao Phraya is rising as much as 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) above sea level over the high tides and many governments have warned their citizens against non-essential travel to the city of 12 million people. Singapore Airlines said it was suspending its Bangkok flights from next Tuesday to Thursday.
Authorities have called for evacuations in four of Bangkok's 50 districts. Japanese engineers have been flown in to advise on how to protect the main international airport and the subway. Authorities have built a 23.5 km (15 mile) dike around the airport and have reassured travelers it would hold.
Bangkok accounts for 41 percent of Thailand's $319 billion economy. But even if the inner city is spared, the deluge in industrialized provinces to the north has had a global impact.
Thailand is the second-largest exporter of computer hard drives and Southeast Asia's biggest auto production hub. Global prices for hard drives are rising due to a flood-related shortage of major components used in personal computers.
Drive manufacturers have raised prices by 20 to 40 percent since water poured into factories this month, Chuck Kostalnick, senior vice president of international electronics distributor Avnet Inc, told Reuters.
"The word we're getting is that prices are going to continue to go up," he said. "This isn't going to be a one-time event."
(Additional reporting by Martin Petty, Robert Birsel and Alan Raybould in BANGKOK and Noel Randewich in SAN FRANCISCO; Editing by Robert Birsel and Paul Tait)

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When i bought a new Toshiba laptop i took out the 250gb SATA2 2.5" HDD and put in a poor mans SSD (ie. a SATA2 to SD card adaptor and a class 10 16GB SD card.)
Wasnt any slower than the HDD (in real world usage running Pussy/ Puppy, i dont mean in benchtests, i mean i couldnt see any real difference.)
Improved battery life, heat and weight, slightly. Also it is so easy to swap out HDD's (SD cards) undo a couple of screws, and swap the card out.
I switched back to the HDD because i ran out of SD cards and i decided to play some games and lay off the tech stuff for 9 months so i used the default Win 7 setup on the HDD.
When i was working on Pussy and imaging / restoring it every few days with the Linux dd command using an .img file (not an ISO at the time) the SD working as a hard drive let me abuse the living hell out off it over and over with reimaging etc with no risk of loosing the Win 7 that comes with the laptop. This let me test actual simulated HDD installing and how the OS would treat running from the HDD (the laptop cant tell the difference between using a SD card in the SATA2 connector or a HDD, etc).
Nowdays i am wanting to give away the desktop computer i made a few months back and i will include the same SD card plugged into the SD to SATA2 adaptor with the write protect enabled. This lets me be absolutely sure that the contents of the internal drive remain the same so that when i am sorting out problems (usually over the phone) i can be 100% sure that there is no difference in the software causing the problem and i can be absolutely sure how the system will react to doing whatever fixes or tweaks.
But a live CD or DVD would let you do the same thing? Well yeah but you cant fit 16GB on a DVD. The save file for this setup is on a USB stick plugged into one of the USB ports. To wipe the USB stick, restore it all to the software defaults and empty out the USb stick only requires one (or two for safety) clicks to a desktop icon then restart and we are back to normal. It has 8gb RAM so no swap needed.
This also frees up the card reader and or USB port that would have a card reader attached to it. Also new desktop computers usually have 4 or even 8 SATA2 connectors, and this is more that USB ports in some cases. I see it more practical to get an SD to SATA2 adaptor and run SD cards like this than plugging everything into USB ports. You can still run the SATA2 cable and not need to plug the adaptor directly into the SATA2 port, so it may be possible to run one or more of the SATA2 cables with a SD to SATA2 adaptor outside of the computers casing.
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Me. My M&A Comapnion Netbook 1.8" pata zif hard drive is making clicking noises after a few hours of running It is a 30gig 4200 rpm hitachi drive I think.
My hopeful plan is to find either a a reasonable/cheap priced pata 1.8' ssd drive.
Or, find a zif to female usb adapter cable and use a thumb drive internally.
Or, find a 1.8" zif to sd board that will drop in the bay and use a class 10 32 gig sd flash card as a hard drive.
zif to cf card, nope. CF is too durn slow in read and write speeds. As far as installing anything linux. I got no problem with that. Finding the hard ware I want. No that is another matter.
I paid $124.00 back when I bought that netbook. I have ran various Puppy Linux installs off of external sd cards in the sd slot on that netbook. I just want to keep the slot free for other stuff and use the internal zif hard drive motherboard connection instead. Call me stubborn
I see no sense though in spending more money than what I paid for that netbook. I have a couple of eeepc's (a 8gig 701SD and a dual drive 4gig/16gig 900) that I run AntiX on quite nicely and they still work good. The
M&A Companion Netbook
I bought because it had the 2gig ram stick in it. Too bad the HD is failing though. Too bad pata 1.8"zif ssd drives are not coming down in price either.
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That was an easy task to change the HD of the 1000er ! L O L !
My 1005er needs the whole case disassembled .. GRRRRR !!!!
It had(has) a Windows 7 starter OEM with 80GB C: , 60GB D: drive, a 16MB EFI partition and the hidden 10GB OEM restore partition .
I wanted to change the HD and bought a SATA WD 320GB one .
Used an external USB-CD/DVD drive and booted the OEM installation DVD that came with the ASUS 1005HAG .
Installation finished and when windows booted it configured itself and THEN : was saying could not run on this computer !
NOTHING more ...
After searching the net I finally found this :
Let's also remember that there's a maximum hardware specification that netbook OEMs will need to adhere to:
CPU: Single core CPUs no faster than 2GHz and with a TDP no greater than 15W.
Screen size: No larger than 10.2″.
250GB HDD or 64GB SSD
So I ended up burning a 32bit Windows 8 preview DVD using Puppy's burniso2cd gui-script ( needed 2 burns , first did not boot ) onto a DVD+RW and installed that .
Since the Liczense said it would end using it somewhere in Jan-2013 I changed the year back to 2012 in the BIOS at reboot .
I am pleasently surprised for the new Windows interface . But it runs heavy , heating up the CPU , so the netbook automatically powers off out of a sudden sometimes .
Used the cd \Windows|System32 diskpart.exe utility to repartiton the D: drive as extended partition with several logical partitions . It is similar to the GNU tools fdisk and parted .
Now have fired up a Lupu-5 derivate from USB Pendrive , to check things , which runs much cooler it seems .
I want to install a Macpup Puppy-4 based full and frugal into a ext4 formatted logical partition, since the touchpad with the Xorg server 1.7 is running crazy and wild .
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With attacks on religious places and processions, 2012 could be a "particularly bloody one" in terms of sectarian conflict.
If anyone thought the increased security measures would be able to confront the threat, that has clearly not been the case, it said.
The Taliban, which claimed responsibility for Wednesday`s blasts, has threatened more attacks on the Shia community, and the interior minister has declared that the country faces serious threats in the days to come.
More than 20 people, mostly Shia Muslims, died in bomb attacks on Muharram processions in Karachi and Rawalpindi cities.
The rising level of sectarian tension should have prompted security agencies to pro-actively crack down on violent elements in the society, it said.
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On June 27, 2002, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit unanimously affirmed a lower court's ruling that university disciplinary records are "education records" under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and that disclosing such records without students' consent constitutes a violation of FERPA. "We have believed all along that disciplinary records are protected by FERPA," said LeRoy Rooker, director of the Education Department's Family Policy Compliance Office which administers the act.
As background, in 1998, the U.S. Department of Education asked a federal district court in Columbus, Ohio to enjoin Miami University and the Ohio State University from disclosing records containing the names of student victims and accused students as prohibited under FERPA. In a complaint filed by the U.S. Justice Department on behalf of the Department, the government sought enforcement of FERPA. The Department argued that FERPA prohibits educational agencies and institutions from disclosing names and other personally identifiable information from student education records, except in statutorily authorized circumstances. On March 20, 2000, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio permanently enjoined the two Ohio universities from disclosing their on-campus disciplinary records to the public.
The Sixth Circuit concluded today that continued release of student disciplinary records "will irreparably harm the United States and the [Department of Education]." This decision is important for three reasons. First, the court agreed with the lower court that the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act provide parents and students with statistical information about the type and amount of crimes on campus. Second, the court reaffirmed the Department's broad reading of the term "education records," and stated that Congress, in amending FERPA in 1998 to allow postsecondary institutions to disclose the final results of disciplinary proceedings, must have intended that disciplinary records be education records or this amendment would be "superfluous."
Third, the court also held that the Department was within its right in seeking an injunctive relief in this case because none of the administrative remedies authorized by FERPA would have stopped the violations. In effect, the court held that the Department can take preemptive actions in enforcing FERPA, rather than only after violations occur. In the court's own words, "once personally identifiable information has been made public, the harm cannot be undone."


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Stendhal Syndrome, The (US - DVD R1)
Our Gabe Powers revisits one of Dario Argento's most cerebral and brutal films
Detective Anna Manni comes to Rome, hot on the trail of a notorious serial killer/rapist. Her search brings her to Uffizi Gallery, where she suffers an attack of the Stendhal Syndrome, a rare affliction that causes those stricken to faint when overcome with profound works of art. She awakens with temporary memory loss and is assisted by a kindly stranger who recognizes her symptoms. When it turns out that the kindly stranger is actually her serial rapist target, Anna finds herself stalked, and is in for a series of terrible attacks and depressing humiliations.
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The Stendhal Syndrome is a rarity in the Argento cannon, and in many ways his most challenging film. Though some might argue that the non-sequential nightmares of
Inferno, or even the impractical absurdity of Phenomena (Creepers) are ultimately more challenging for the average viewer in that they run on disjointed narratives, I think that the slow motion meditation in The Stendhal Syndrome ultimately alienates on an even higher level. Even Argento fans, accustomed to the daffy logic of the director's more baroque work will often find themselves bored while watching the film. When dealing with an auteur like Argento, whose work mostly covers the same themes and is often quite self-referential, it's hard to think of each piece as a standalone composition.
The majority of The Stendhal Syndrome is comparable to Hitchcock's more cerebral work, such as Vertigo or Marnie (which were both misunderstood upon their initial releases), and deals in genuine emotions rather than thinly drawn caricatures. The hallucinatory sequences have more in common with Felinni, rather than the passionately coloured nightmare images normally found in Argento's Bava and Antonioni inspired work. The fact that Argento aspires to something new at this relatively late point in his career is admirable, but is also the cause of the majority of the film's shortcomings. The simple fact of the matter is that no matter how hard he tries, Argento is no Hitchcock, or Felinni. His style works better when he allows himself to be meaningless, and outside of his comfort zone he tends to meander and over-analyze. He is the poster boy for form over content.
Another possible comparison to be drawn to Vertigo is the fact that both films act as their own prequels and sequels, and are really two short films presented as one. As in Hitchcock's coup de grace, a major tragedy toggles a psychopathic switch in the main character's mind, changing her place in the story. The second half of both films is devoted to the obsession triggered at the end of the first, though Anna is trying to forget the event, whereas Scottie is doing his best to remember. In this way the two films could be seen as equal opposites.
Blue Underground
The middle section—where Anna is trapped and repeatedly raped and beaten—is the heart of the film both in a narrative and structural sense. Though quite hard to watch, it is possibly the finest and most inspired work Argento has achieved in a decade, maybe ever again (the only more memorable sequence in the film is that of a bullet entering and exiting a woman's cheek in super-slow motion). Dario works best when exploring the 'beauty' of violence; a strange, oxymoronic concept that eludes proper criticism. The 'hows' and 'whys' of the violence, as proven in his best work, is immaterial, and better approached by artists with more interest in those aspects of life. Argento hasn't failed entirely here, but I'm not sure I'd call the film a success.
The incorporation of digital effects is awkward. The Stendhal Syndrome was made in 1996 when the Italian film industry had just barely dipped their collective toes in the digital revolution pool. The fact that the industry was dying at the time didn't help. Factually this is the first major Italian production to utilize the technology. The crudity of the digital work can be forgiven in the same way we forgive the crudity of early blue screen or stop motion effects, but the poor execution and use within the film cannot. Seeing an actor walk into an oil painting is a lovely one in concept, but perhaps Argento should've been more hesitant in using the new technology than he was. The first time Anna loses her self in a painting the effect is done entirely though camera zooms and editing, and I for one think it works quite well. When Ana physically walks into a painting later, the CG effect looks entirely out of place and painfully obvious. Other digital effects fair better, and are fortunately sparse.
Acting, to the contrary, whilst occasionally wooden, is very solid for an Argento film. Asia Argento is 'interesting' as Anna Manni, a definite improvement over her first adult role in her father's previous film, an Americanized Giallo called Trauma in both character and acting. There is something very unnatural about her performance, her mind seems to be focused on everything but the film at any given time, but her work (accidental or not) is very fitting to the role and film. The fact that she's brutally and repeatedly raped as her own father's camera looks on has been covered in better essays before, so I'll glaze over that bit of reverse-oedipal abuse.
Blue Underground
The Stendhal Syndrome is, despite its many quirks and shortcomings, probably the best Argento film since Opera, and probably the closest we'll ever see the director get to a dramatic character study. The picture is thoughtful beyond its images, unfortunately revealing a bit too much about the director's personal understanding of other human beings (Argento is a notorious for ostracizing loved ones). As a fan I appreciate this film more than I like it, but admit it improves with each viewing. The actual psychiatric study is strictly pre-med, if you will, but the actions somehow make sense in the strange world the director has thrust these characters into. Assuming the early reviews of his Inferno follow-up Mother of Tears are correct, The Stendhal Syndrome may prove to be the dying breath of an often brilliant career.
I wrote an article a year ago where in I compared the R0 Troma and R2 Medusa releases of Stendhal Syndrome, and included a few screen caps from each. My co-writer Peter Martin also supplied some caps from the R2 Arrow release. The clear winner in the video quality contest was the Medusa release, so rather than bothering with the Arrow and Troma releases, I'm going to only compare this new release to the Medusa edition.
The Medusa disc is beautiful, and I knew it would be hard to beat. In some instances its sharper then the Blue Underground disc, and there is less overall grain and noise. However, these advantages are slight and the transfer is often inconsistent. BU's consistency and other pluses out weigh its negatives, making it the more recommended release.
The Medusa release has edge enhancement and cross-colouration issues not found on the BU disc, which employs a more vibrant colour pallet. The difference in colour is fairly obvious from these comparison shots, with the BU disc, for better or worse, erring on the more realistic side. BU utilizes a better contrast balance, with deeper, more defined blacks, and brighter whites. BU's image definition is yards ahead of Medusa's as well.
Blue Underground
BU also wins the framing competition at the correct aspect ratio of 1.66:1. Medusa's transfer is cropped slightly at about 1.78:1, which causes some loss of real estate. This is most obvious when Argento places titles at the bottom of the frame. When Anna makes her way back home at after her first ordeal with the rapist the text lets the viewer know that she is in fact, back in Rome. The Medusa transfer cuts this word in half.
The video quality race was close, but Blue Underground pulls into a strong lead with its DTS ES audio track. The DTS ES track is spacious, clean, and lively. During the outdoor sequence at the end of the second act the sounds of nature are pretty intensely realistic, and fill every channel. The dialogue is all centred and clear, and sound effects move between channels with audible accuracy. The real story is Ennio Morricone's score, which has never sounded so lovely. The separation of the instruments between channels is almost unbelievably realistic.
The problem is that this awesome DTS ES track is only available in English. Most Argento films, and in turn most Italian films, are filmed in multiple languages with multi-ethnic casts. Dubbing is nothing new, and often entirely unavoidable. Asia Argento seems to have been dubbed by an animated chipmunk, and her performance is all but lost, as is any degree of menace to her character. The majority of the cast are speaking English, according to their lips, but the dubbing is pretty soulless.
The Italian dub, which is more emotionally convincing but less in sync lip-wise, is only available in a less impressive Dolby Digital 5.1 mode, but it's no chopped liver. The Medusa release's 5.1 track was one of the most artificial sounding post-theatrical mixes I've ever heard. For the most part the surround channels are utilized only to create an echo chamber for the centre channel. The effect was grating, and this is why Blue Underground wins the race even when making a bit of a mistake by not offering the Italian dub in DTS.
Blue Underground
I should first note that this is the full 119 minute (NTSC) version of the film which was released originally in Italy. The Troma release was cut at 113 minutes (according to the box art), though the cuts are pretty unspecific, more of snips then scene removals. The superior Medusa DVD was a two disc set, but only because it included both the 113 and 114 minute (PAL) versions of the film on separate discs (the extras seemed decent, but were not English friendly). The Troma release had a bunch of Troma brand garbage special features, and two really sad interviews with Argento, one of which is an Easter egg.
Blue Underground is not a studio renowned for their extra features, rather their impeccable A/V presentations. Most of us are happy just to see the kinds of films released by the studio on DVD at all. The extras on the second disc of this two-disc collection (the first disc houses only a trailer and the film) aren't deeply enthralling, but much better than the feeble attempts made by Troma.
Disc two is made up of five interview segments, each running about twenty minutes. Though interspliced with film footage to spruce things up, the interviews are pretty dry. I personally would've preferred a single behind the scenes documentary featuring edited versions of these interviews. As is, a lot of the same ground is covered throughout the interviews, and if edited together the viewer wouldn't need to start over thematically which each interview.
Argento's interview is first, and in normal Argento fashion the director comes across as uncomfortable and a bit conceited. His information is pretty unspecific, and he glosses over some of the more controversial behind the scenes elements, like his supposed arguments with cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno and some of the actors, or the fact that he puts his own daughter in such a terrible position for a long segment of the film. Argento's never been a good interviewee however, nor is he a good commentator, which is why I personally never care when a commentary track is missing from his DVD releases.
Psychological Consultant Graziella Magherini, whose theories were the inspiration behind the film, gives us the low-down on the syndrome itself. Her segment is kind of like watching a college lecture in Italian, but she's full of vital information, and is well prepared for the interview with true stories of affliction.
Special effects expert Sergio Stivaletti's interview is probably the most entertaining one. Stivaletti has been working with special effects since well before the digital era, and his work on Stendhal Syndrome was groundbreaking in its own special way. Stivaletti has no illusions concerning the quality of the digital work, especially by today's standards, but is proud to have taken the first Italian plunge into the digital realm. According to him the Wachowski Brothers had looked at the 'bullet-through-the-cheek" gag when researching The Matrix, which true or not, makes an old man smile.
Assistant director Luigi Cozzi does his interview from Argento's memorabilia and video store Profondo Rosso, where he works these days instead of making films. Cozzi has made it his business to be Argento's historian, and starts his interview at the beginning. Large sections of the interview are spent discussing the back stories of the only two classic Argento films that haven't yet seen an American DVD release— Four Flies on Grey Velvet and Five Days in Milan. Cozzi has the dirt on a possible R1 releases (or in Flies case any release), and the news is bad. Part of me wonders if Blue Underground prepared these interviews as part of an attempted acquisition of both titles. Cozzi's interview is the longest, and covers the duo's long friendship (according to interviews in Alan Jones' book Profondo Argento, Cozzi is one of the only bridges the volatile Argento hasn't burned yet).
Production designer Massimo Antonello Geleng finished the disc. During his interview Geleng is surrounded by some of the most intriguing and bizarre artwork, and honestly I had trouble paying attention to the subtitles because of it. Geleng is a nice enough interview, and recalls his role in the film fondly. He also worked on the Argento produced, Michelle Soavi directed films The Church and The Sect, both of which are visually richer than Stendhal Syndrome.
Could this be the definitive Stendhal Syndrome release? I think it might, at least until we see a six hour director's cut, in HD and 7.2 channel digital sound, with an eighteen-part documentary about every aspect of the behind the scenes process. Until that day I'm happy to stick the definitive label on this one. The film itself comes recommended, but not wholeheartedly. Bored thriller fans looking for something they may've missed may want to give it a chance, but the unstoppable darkness of the film will turn many viewers off. Me, watching the film for the fourth or fifth time, I've decided to up my score from a 6 to a 7. I think it's more successful than I initially gave it credit for.
Now then, where's my Four Flies on Grey Velvet release Blue Underground?
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 25th September 2007
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.66:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolbv Digital 5.1 Italian, Dolby Surround English, Dolby Surround Italian
Subtitles: English
Extras: Director Interview, Psychologist Interview, Effects Specialist Interview, Set Designer Interview, Assistant Director Interview
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann
Genre: Film-Noir
Length: 119 minutes
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The NRDC, which is a nonprofit environmental organization, stated in the report that Americans throw out 40 percent of the food they buy every year. That translates to the average American family of four throwing away an equivalent of up to $2,275 annually in food.
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A crash is a crash is a crash – or is it? In terms of security implications there are huge differences; a useful way of categorizing crashes is by looking at how they can affect the user.
Remote Code Execution
This is the worst case scenario. When can a crash result in a remote code execution vulnerability? The canonical example is an exploitable buffer overrun (BO). When the BO is encountered inadvertently, the application typically crashes due to an illegal memory access. However, an attacker could be able to exploit the bug to inject code into the process memory space and transfer control to it. Not every BO is exploitable, but many are.
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A crash falls into the less severe denial of service (DoS) category if it cannot be exploited for code execution. An attacker can crash your browser when you visit his malicious site, but cannot do any harm beyond that. The classic example for DoS is a null pointer dereference. Read access beyond a buffer boundary (as opposed to write access, which is usually exploitable) can also give rise to a DoS crash.
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- BSoD DoS: The root cause of a blue screen DoS is usually a driver problem. However, the browser or mail client can be the means to trigger the BSoD and are thus involved in the crash.
In a hang scenario, the browser becomes unresponsive, forcing the user to kill the process from Task Manager and restart it. This can be easily achieved without exploiting any bugs, e.g. by scripting an infinite loop on a web page. Again, an attacker cannot do any harm beyond forcing the user to restart the browser. Hangs are not exploitable for code execution and are always low level DoS issues.
We are continuously working on improving the robustness of IE. Investigating crashes and hangs – such as those reported to us through online error reporting – is a big part of that. I hope I have given you some insight into how we think about these, in particular how we prioritize them in terms of security.
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Circuit Judge Ernest M. Jones Jr. wanted Kimberly Lightsey to not have any more children as a condition of her probation and house arrest.
"What's the matter?" the judge asked Lightsey. "You don't agree with that? You looked back at your boyfriend. Is that something you all have planned?"
"In a couple years, after we get everything settled, because he doesn't have any children," Lightsey replied.
"But you've got four of them," the judge said.
Lightsey was arrested in October 2011 after police say she left her four children alone at a hotel.
The children ranged in age from a 1-year-old to an 11-year-old. One child had significant medical conditions, including epilepsy, cerebral palsy and brain damage, reports state.
A guest called police after finding one child strapped into an overturned stroller in a hotel hallway.
At the time, Lightsey was serving four years of probation after pleading no contest to child abuse. She was charged with hitting her 6-year-old son in the face with a belt in 2009.
To settle her child neglect and violation of probation cases, Lightsey agreed Friday to the judge's unusual condition.
She pleaded no contest to two counts of child neglect.
She was sentenced to two years of house arrest, 13 years of probation and 100 hours of community service. She was ordered to not have unsupervised contact with minors.
In October 2011, the Department of Children and Families placed her children in the custody of relatives.
The judge agreed that Lightsey could have more children in the future if she is able to fulfill various conditions of her probation and successfully petitions the court to remove the "no unsupervised contact with minors" clause.


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WARSAW — The Plymouth High School gymnastics team competed at Warsaw Thursday in just their second dual meet of the season, losing the varsity contest 98.3-86.25 but winning the JV contest 49.8-25.2.
While the loss dropped the Lady Pilgrims to 0-2 on the year, Plymouth still had some strong individual performances in the loss, led by its underclassmen. Freshman Nicky Davis continued her outstanding rookie campaign by taking home first place ribbons in all events except beam, where she finished second.
Although Davis was the only individual to place at the meet, sophomore Traci Longanecker had a no-fall beam routine on her way to a personal record score on the event. Sophomores Katie Galloway and Rachael Principe — in just her second meet since returning from an injury to start the season — scored points for Plymouth on two separate events, and freshman Megan Biglane scored her first-ever varsity points on floor exercise as she posted Plymouth's third highest score on the event.
"We didn't have a very good meet last weekend at the Lakeland Invite," said Plymouth head gymnastics coach Tony McPherron. "I challenged the girls this week, and I'm so proud of how they responded. They all did really well tonight and we had several personal records or season-highs. We lost to a team with, I believe, four seniors while we competed three freshman, four sophomores and one junior on our varsity level tonight. With a young team, all I can ask is for them to respond to adversity and continue to improve. They did both this week."
The Lady Pilgrims set a new season-high team total in the meet with their 86.25. In addition, they had their fewest falls on the year, scoring only five in the varsity competition.
"It's amazing how much better you can score when you stay on," laughed Longanecker after her beam routine. "Doctor (McPherron) keeps getting on us about our falls, and we've been working very hard. It's good to finally see the results of what he's been having us work on."
Plymouth will next venture to Logansport for the six-team Logan Invite on Saturday. The meet will start at 10 a.m. at the Berry Bowl. The Pilgrims will then face top five-ranked LaPorte on Monday at home in a meet rescheduled from last week's weather. That meet will start at 6:30 p.m.
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VAULT: 1. Nicky Davis (P) 9.2; 2. Brittany Sherman (W) 8.65.
UNEVEN BARS: 1. Nicky Davis (P) 8.35; 2. Raegan Minear (W) 8.15.
BALANCE BEAM: 1. Paige Sand (W) and Jo Richard (W) 8.5.
FLOOR EXERCISE: 1. Nicky Davis (P) 8.35; 2. Brittany Sherman (W) 8.0.
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Take "Babel," the Mumford crew's second album, which offers a uniformly solid track list and few surprises. "Babel" hits all the right notes – pleasant banjo parts, touches of introspection, large doses of affirmation – and never strays far enough from these elements to yield any total duds. It's well-produced. It probably could keep a carload of people happy on a road trip. There's slickness to it, but not to the point of distraction.
Probably the band's biggest selling point to the skeptics, though, is that while they are accessible, they are rarely pretty. Marcus Mumford's voice has a raggedness that gives his songwriting some small edge of desperation, and when it comes across strongest, on the album's title track or the Dave Matthews Band-like "Lover of the Light," for instance, the band sounds distraught, not disingenuous.
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I may well be in a minority but I prefer the Creed.
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My buddy Kerosene recently sent me a vial of Creed Original Vetiver. I also own a tester bottle of Tom Ford Grey Vetiver. For my next Youtube video, I wanted to do a side by side smell test to see which one I actually liked better. Grey Vetiver is pretty good. Will Original Vetiver win the challange? Anybody want to cast their vote?
I may well be in a minority but I prefer the Creed.
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Creed without a doubt. No fan of Tom Ford scents.
I personally prefer Grey Vetiver by a long mile.........
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I'd go with the Creed. The Tom Ford is just unremarkable in my opinion.
I think Original Vetiver is probably best in its class, but I think Grey Vetiver is a class of its own.
I dont get a ton of vetiver in Creed's Original Vetiver. Call me crazy if you will. But the Creed does indeed smell better than the Tom Ford Grey Vetiver if you're comparing these two.
Depends on what you like...
Grey Vetiver is a modern take on the classic feel like Guerlain Vetiver.
Original Vetiver is essentially a citrus, soapy scent...I have to look hard to find significant vetiver. It smells good, but is hardly a vetiver dominant scent.
I really don't understand Creed Vetiver - all I get is this limey/soapy smell. Tom Ford Grey Vetiver is absolutley wonderfull and my favorate vetiver out there (so far).
Cast my vote for Grey Vetiver.
Grey Vetiver is nice at the beginning but the Monique-size IsoESuper woody-amber just overwhelms the fragrance. Original Vetiver is more refreshing and complex...it may come off as easy and likeable due to its light nature its heart notes phase is a vast compass of various pepper, spice and wood notes.
Grey Vetiver most definitely. Excellent elegant modern take on vetiver thar does it without making it feel outdated or old. Regardless it's still more mature but, comes across as a a modern young gentlemen fragrance.
Orginal vetiver is nice, but I prefer Mugler Cologne for the same effect. It doesn't have much vetiver in either actually
Grey Vetiver by far. It smells expensive and modern while Creed's smells to me like something that could have come from The Body Shop.
I love neither, but Grey Vetiver could just as easily be called Grey Iris. Tom Ford likes Guerlain Vetiver and he did a pale, mini mini version of it with but with as much of the popular semi-metallic iris as he did vetiver. Even the modern Guerlain Vetiver makes this stuff look structually poverty stricken and without character. Not a terrible fragrance by any means, but it's as much about iris as vetiver, and the five milliliters I had revealed itself best on fabric. All in all, a pleasant accord for people who don't love vetiver and like the new iris which lacks the feel of anything natural.
I didn't love the Creed, and it's another one for non-vetiver lovers, but I somehow think it has as more to offer, partially due to its lack of the relatively non-descript iris they love so much at Perfumanias at malls all over the country.
I was excited to try Original Vetiver because I'm a fan of vetiver. As you can guess, I was thoroughly disappointed, even more so than Vetiver pour Elle; there wasn't much vetiver and it just smells so generic.
GV on the other hand, is what I think Guerlain's Vetiver should be. The citrus and vetiver notes are so well blended that they really complement each other very well.
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I think every vetiver fragrance in the universe is for vetiver lover fakes. True vetiver lovers rub themselves with the actual root. I win. Contest over.
Knowing what I do now about Creed Original Vetiver, I should have done a different comparison. Maybe...
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Different takes on Vetiver.....Between the two I prefer OV.
I've tried both although at different times. The creed being close to Mugler cologne and the TF being close to the Guerlain minus the tobacco. I prefer the TF.
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I prefer OV of the two but don't care to wear either. I do hope I can be friends with OV in the future.
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
I think that while it's there, the Original Vetiver is a better smell. The problem is that I could apply the Creed and reapply it about 6 times to keep it there in the time it takes the Grey Vetiver to even begin to fade.
Original Vetiver because it feels so natural, and lasts longer than Grey Vetiver.
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I like GV by a nose between the two.
Does anyone know if Creed's Vetiver is discontinued? I see OV in stores and online, but never that one.


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buck up your ideas
make more effort
become more energetic and hardworking – informal
Buck here refers to the lively action of a horse jumping with all its feet together and its back arched. Buck up in its modern senses of
cheer up and hurry up
is first found in late 19th-century school slang.
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bear the brunt of
be the person to suffer the most (as the result of an attack, misfortune, etc.).
The origin of brunt is unknown and may be onomatopoeic. The sense has evolved from the specific (a sharp or heavy blow) to the more general (the shock or violence of an attack).
burst his bubble
shatter someone's illusions about something or destroy their sense of well-being.
on the bubble
(of a sports player or team) occupying the last qualifying position in a team or for a tournament and liable to be replaced by another - North American informal
This expression comes from
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with the implication that the bubble may burst.
the buck stops here = the buck stops with someone
the responsibility for something cannot or should not be passed to someone else – Informal
the buck stops
here was the wording of a sign on the desk of US President Harry S.Truman. Compare with pass the buck below.
make a fast buck
earn money easily and quickly – informal
pass the buck
shift the responsibility for something to someone else – informal
A buck is an object placed as a reminder in front of the person whose turn it is to deal in the game of poker.
1998 - New York Review of Books – The legislation left the main decisions to the individual states which may well pass the buck to the large cities where most of the problem is.
a drop in a bucket
a very small amount compared with what is needed or expected
1995 - Ian Rankin - Let It Bleed - A few million was a drop in the ocean, hardly a ripple…
kick the bucket
die – informal
The bucket in this phrase may be a pail on which a person committing suicide might stand, kicking it away before they hanged themselves. Another suggestion is that it refers to a beam on which something can be hung up…in Norfolk dialect the beam from which a slaughtered pig was suspended by its heels could be referred to as a bucket.
Buckley's chance
a forlorn hope
no chance at all - Australian & New Zealand informal
This phrase is often shortened simply to Buckley's. Who or what Buckley was remains uncertain…the name is sometimes said to refer to William Buckley, a convict transported to Australia in 1802 who escaped and lived with the Aborigines for many years, despite dire predictions as to his chances of survival.
1948 - Vance Palmer - Golconda - Buckley's chance we have of getting our price if we're left to face the companies alone.
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One might quibble with this contention. Maybe some information has value in terms of big data and similar analytics. Still, the basic question to consider is whether you can dispose of unnecessary data or, at the very least, move it to more cost-effective storage. The answer is not easy; in fact, the problem is very complicated.
Meanwhile, the cost of infrequently (if ever) accessed content devours a significant portion of the storage budget each year. Moreover, pundits promise a continued deluge of new data with little if any guarantee of enhanced value or use. How can organizations afford that sort of potential waste with IT budgets so tight?
Now, a good prescription to deal with the problem is information governance, plus analytics software to help identify data value and perform other tasks, such as data disposition. While this is what should be done, such a process requires time, organizational commitment and cost. A more immediate approach is to move data to a more cost-effective storage medium than hard disk drives, such as tape.
Yes, this treats the symptoms rather than the disease. However, tape provides a more cost-effective medium by storing data in the form of an active archive using a file-system-based strategy. The active archive can be composed of a mixture of useful and not useful data without having to distinguish which is which. Moreover, the data is likely to be able to tolerate the higher performance latencies (slowness of access/delivery) that is common in tape.
Why not leave the data on hard disk? The answer is that tape for active archiving is well over an order of magnitude more cost effective than hard disk. For more, see Clipper Group reports at the LTO Consortium.
Why hasn't tape been used more extensively? Although there have been successful tape solutions, most are proprietary technologies. Only in the last couple of years has a non-proprietary technology emerged to make tape feasible as a native tier of the storage hierarchy that also supports necessary coupling and integration with other technologies.
This base technology is called LTFS (Linear Tape File System), which makes writing to tape as easy as if it were disk using a file system. IBM provided LTFS to the LTO Consortium (whose leading technology providers are HP, IBM and Quantum) for members to download. It also contributed LTFS to the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for standardization. Any vendor that uses or offers LTO technology has the option to use LTFS.
IBM first offered LTFS in conjunction with LTO as a single drive edition in 2010. The primary limitation was scaling, so IBM introduced a library edition in 2011 that presented a tape library as a single mount point for a file system. Later that same year, IBM introduced the LTFS Storage Manager. Among its capabilities are an intelligent copy manager to automate movement of files in and out of LTFS-managed tape storage and a metadata database to tag content and search.
These capabilities have made using an LTFS-enabled tape library much easier, but IBM felt that there was more to be done, including the policy-based movement of data between disk and tape. This means that business rules could be defined and put in policies for the movement of data to different pools of tape storage that can be managed appropriately for either preservation or disposal.
To help correct that situation, IBM announced the integration of General Parallel File System (GPFS) with LTFS (as the LTFS Enterprise Edition) during its EDGE 2013 conference in Las Vegas. By moving data from hard disks to tape, customers may alleviate some of the cost pressures that arise from storage overburdened with often unnecessary and useless data.
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Tape can now be a true member of the storage hierarchy using LTFS, as well as technologies that enable tape to work in conjunction with it, cost effectively in an enterprise-scale IT environment. An active archive can store data that may need retrieval at some point, such as rich media or video surveillance data.
But it can also serve to store tons of presumably no-value data more cost effectively until owners reach a decision on defensively disposing of select pools of information. That serious money savings also means that you can use freed up HDDs for more important uses, such as the incoming rush of big data streams.
Yes, there are a lot of exciting developments that IT needs to work on, but don't ignore the basics, especially if they have relevance to your business.
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Over the past couple of months, I've been getting a number of emails asking me about SkyOS' status. Since I didn't know anything beyond what's on the SkyOS website, and because, well, I have no affiliation with SkyOS, I couldn't really reply to these emails. However, after yet another email sent to me late last week, I decided to simply... Email Robert Szeleney, the man behind the project.
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Just posted this- http://www.skyos.org/board/viewtopic.php?p=99308#p99308
When Robert gets called out publicly like this is when he's most likely to be persuaded into taking action, so anybody from the old days, maybe back me up there if you agree.


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NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Dec 28th 2012, KIMREE's magnet electronic cigarette KM252 was awarded the design award for the electronic cigarette industry — "2013 Revolutionary New Product" by the International Electronic Cigarette Manufacturer Association ("IECMA").
Magnet e-cigarette, KM252, is a new-generation e-cigarette designed and produced by KIMREE, the world's largest electronic cigarette manufacturer. This e-cigarette is similar to the most classic disposable e-cigarette, KIMONE, in appearance. But in contrast with KIMONE, KM252 is a rechargeable e-cigarette with magnetic adsorption technology, which can connect the cartridge and battery stick tightly.
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"#TruvadaWhore" T-Shirts Sold For Charity By HIV Counselor
A San Francisco-based HIV-testing counselor is celebrating a controversial term to raise money to fight HIV/AIDS. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Adam Zebowski has started a Kickstarter-like fund for his AIDS/Lifecycle donations and offering his backers a t-shirt with "#TruvadaWhore" emblazoned on the front in return.
The term refers to an emerging perception in the gay community that HIV-negative men who take Truvada as a pre-exposure prophylactic against HIV before having sex are "whores."
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Be proud, you #TruvadaWhore. I support the #reappropriation of derogatory terms. I am against slut-shaming. I am pro health and wellness. I think PrEP is a great HIV prevention tool if it works for you. I am a #TruvadaWhore. $3.40 of each shirt will be donated on my behalf to my AIDS/Lifecycle fundraising goal of $3000.
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