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After months of spear shaking on both sides, the first skirmishes in the high-definition disc format wars have begun. In early May, I looked at Toshiba?s chosen format, HD DVD. Today, I present the very first Blu-ray disc player, Samsung?s significantly more expensive BD-P1000...
...give the public broad access to government documents. See Cape Cod Times v. Sheriff of Barnstable County, 443 Mass. 587, 592 (2005); General Elec. Co. v. Department of Envtl. Protection, 429 Mass. 798, 802 (1999); Globe Newspaper Co. v. Boston Retirement Bd., 388 Mass. 427, 436 (1983). To that end, disclosure is favored by a "presumption that the record sought is public." G.L. c. 66, § 10 (c ). See Bougas v. Chief of Police of Lexington, 371 Mass. 59, 61 (1976) (documents presumed to be public records when possessed by public entity). See also Matter of a Subpoena Duces Tecum...
...records of judicial nominating council not "public records" subject to disclosure where Governor is not "agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority" of the Commonwealth within explicit meaning of G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth); Globe Newspaper Co. v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth. Retirement Bd., 416 Mass. 1007, 1007 (1993) (records of retirement board not subject to public disclosure under G.L. c. 66, § 10, where such entity not "board" of Commonwealth under G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth); Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. v. Sergeant-at-Arms of the Gen. Court, 375 Mass...
...scene; they use SM props or fantasies every time they have sex. The scene has become so large and varied that it encompasses the rich farrago of coupling practices known as BDSM, which includes not only SM--the erotic enjoyment of inflicting and/or receiving pain--but also BD (bondage/discipline) and DS (domination/submission). BD usually involves physical restraint and a punishment/reward setup (say, Nurse Ratched with a patient). DS relationships are often as emotional as they are carnal. Submissives relish transferring authority over aspects of their lives to others; the submissive might allow the dominant not only...
...quiet reality behind the giddiness. It's up to people whose compasses are more reliably functioning to step in and point the way. Says Dr. Gary Sachs, director of the Bipolar Treatment Center at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and principal investigator for the STEP-BD project: "Treatment is modeled on Homer's Odyssey. When Odysseus gets blown off course, he asks the help of his crew...