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When bride-to-be Dana Olsen's fiancé got cold feet and called off their wedding six weeks before they were to be married, she was understandably shocked. "I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure out what happened," she wrote on xoJane. But when life gave Olsen some particularly sour lemons, she made lemonade. "What's a girl to do?" she wrote. "Well, you've still gotta throw a party." After realizing she wouldn't be able to get any of her reception deposits back ("tens of thousands of nonrefundable dollars," she estimated), Olsen ... teamed up with Mary's Place, a Seattle homeless shelter for women and children, to put together a special night - complete with flowers, candles, plenty of food and a live band - for those living in the shelter. Olsen's generosity inspired others to contribute to the event, according to The Seattle Times. A group of hair stylists and makeup artists offered their services, ensuring each partygoer felt like a million bucks. "Turning the would-be wedding into an event for women in transition has made me feel a little less desolate," Olsen wrote. "It's helped distract me from the fact that I'm a jilted bride." Though Olsen's mother attended the party, Olsen herself chose to spend the day hiking with her dad.
Note: For more on this inspiring event, read this Seattle Times article.
Lava Mae - the unlikely nonprofit that turns old Muni buses into shower stalls to be used by homeless people - said Tuesday that its second bus is rolling along and that it has a new plan to expand throughout California. Doniece Sandoval, founder of Lava Mae, stood in front of Bus No. 2, which will be parked every Tuesday on Fulton Street next to the Main Library. Sandoval ... had the idea for Lava Mae after seeing a filthy homeless woman crying and saying she would never be clean. Lava Mae's simple solution of providing homeless people with showers and toilets has captured the attention of people around the world, many of whom have asked Sandoval to help them create a similar program. City Librarian Luis Herrera said Lava Mae is a great addition to the Main Library, which sees up to 3,000 visitors every day - many of them homeless and seeking bathrooms, sinks or just a place to rest. Despite all the praise, getting Lava Mae up and running has been much harder than expected, Sandoval said. The first bus is being taken out of rotation for a few weeks so some electrical glitches can be fixed. Finding licensed bus drivers adept at working with homeless people and willing to do it for $16 an hour has also been a huge problem, especially with all the competition from corporate shuttle buses. Sandoval said the bus driver shortage has prompted her to plan for the third Lava Mae vehicle to be a pickup truck pulling a shower stall on wheels. That should be running early next year.
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NASA has set up a Planetary Defense Coordination Office - to defend the Earth from asteroids and comets that get too close for our comfort. The department, which includes the position of Planetary Defense Officer, is managed by the Planetary Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. And its mission includes the early detection of potentially hazardous objects (PHOs) - asteroids and comets which get within 0.05 Astronomical Units of Earth's orbit around the sun (7.5 million kilometers) and are large enough, greater than around 30 - 50 meters (98 - 164 feet), to reach the Earth's surface. They must also track and issue warnings on the minor planets, or even try to redirect them. If it's too late and space rubble is found hurtling towards the Earth's surface, the team will coordinate with the U.S. government to plan a response to an actual impact threat. More than 13,500 NEOs have been discovered to date and about 1,500 are detected each year. "Asteroid detection, tracking and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "While there are no known impact threats at this time, the 2013 Chelyabinsk super-fireball and the recent 'Halloween Asteroid' close approach remind us of why we need to remain vigilant and keep our eyes to the sky."
Note: Dr. Carol Rosin, spokesperson for modern rocket science's founder Wernher Von Braun, made this comment about Von Braun, asteroids, and more: "The reasons for space-based weaponry were all based on a lie. He said the strategy was to use scare tactics - that first the Russians, then terrorists are going to be considered the enemy. The next enemy was asteroids. The last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens, and all of it is a lie." Read a two page summary of the UFO cover-up for more.
A national debate has played out over mass surveillance by the National Security Agency. [Meanwhile], a new generation of technology ... has given local law enforcement officers unprecedented power to peer into the lives of citizens. The powerful systems also have become flash points for civil libertarians and activists. "This is something that's been building since September 11," said Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "First funding went to the military to develop this technology, and now it has come back to domestic law enforcement. It's the perfect storm of cheaper and easier-to-use technologies and money from state and federal governments to purchase it." But perhaps the most controversial and revealing technology is the threat-scoring software Beware. As officers respond to calls, Beware automatically runs the address. The searches return the names of residents and scans them ... to generate a color-coded threat level for each person or address: green, yellow or red. Exactly how Beware calculates threat scores is something that its maker, Intrado, considers a trade secret, so ... only Intrado - not the police or the public - knows how Beware tallies its scores. The system might mistakenly increase someone's threat level by misinterpreting innocuous activity on social media, like criticizing the police, and trigger a heavier response by officers.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about government corruption and the disappearance of privacy.
Just months before Rob Bilott made partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, he received a call on his direct line from a cattle farmer. The farmer, Wilbur Tennant of Parkersburg, W.Va., said that his cows were dying left and right. He believed that the DuPont chemical company, which until recently operated a site in Parkersburg that is more than 35 times the size of the Pentagon, was responsible. Tennant had tried to seek help locally, he said, but DuPont just about owned the entire town. He had been spurned not only by Parkersburg's lawyers but also by its politicians, journalists, doctors and veterinarians. Bilott decided right away to take the Tennant case, [and] filed a federal suit against DuPont in the summer of 1999. Dozens of boxes containing thousands of unorganized documents began to arrive at Taft's headquarters: private internal correspondence, medical and health reports and confidential studies conducted by DuPont scientists. The story that Bilott began to see ... was astounding in its breadth, specificity and sheer brazenness. DuPont was nothing like the [other chemical] corporations he had represented at Taft. "DuPont had for decades been actively trying to conceal their actions. They knew this stuff was harmful, and they put it in the water anyway. These were bad facts." He had seen what the ... tainted drinking water had done to [the Tennants'] cattle. What was it doing to the tens of thousands of people in the areas around Parkersburg who drank it daily from their taps?
Note: Read the complete, detailed account of the lawsuit that exposed DuPont's massively harmful criminality at the link above. Read more about the thousands of people DuPont knowingly poisoned in this article. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing corporate corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.
Fourteen years after 9/11, Truthers, as they've been pejoratively labeled since 2001, have not gone away. In 2006, Zogby found that 42 percent of Americans nationally believed the U.S. "concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks," and that "there has been a cover-up." There are millions of people in the U.S. who believe the official story of 9/11 is ... false. That's not a fringe group. It's possible that you know a friend who's a Truther. Or a dentist. Or a bartender. Maybe they just haven't told you. Bob Mcllvaine lost his son, Bobby, in the north tower of the World Trade Center. He joined a group called 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, [and] helped lead a march of 250,000 anti-war protesters in New York. "I didn't want to be a victim," he said. "I wanted to have change." The turning point came when he attended the 9/11 Commission hearings. "I felt then that this whole thing has been a big lie," he said. "People just don't want to talk about it." His status as the father of a victim hasn't protected him from critics of the Truther camp. But he also says that after one Fox News segment a few years ago, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Fox host Geraldo Rivera both told him footage of WTC 7 looked like a controlled demolition to them. Mcllvaine also said he gets anonymous calls from the CIA or FBI encouraging him and saying they agree it was an inside job.
Note: The Boston Globe recently published a letter by Richard Gage, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Watch the excellent new documentary "Incontrovertible" which presents powerful proof that the fall of WTC 7 was known and reported before it actually happened on BBC news and elsewhere. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing 9/11 news articles from reliable major media sources. Then explore the excellent, reliable resources provided in our 9/11 Information Center.
Cologne's police chief has been removed from his post amid criticism of his force's handling of a string of sexual assaults and robberies carried out by groups of men in the German city on New Year's Eve. His enforced departure came as a witness to the violence told the Guardian the events appeared to have been coordinated. Lieli Shabani, 35, said she saw three Arabic speaking males who were "clearly giving instructions". A leaked police report [describes] how officers were initially overwhelmed by events outside the city's train station, after which more than 100 women filed criminal complaints of sexual assault and robbery, including two accounts of rape. Cologne mayor Henriette Reker suggested on Friday that police had held back information from her, and said in a statement that her "trust in the Cologne police leadership is significantly shaken". The leaked police report, obtained by the German newspaper Bild, said women were forced to "run a gauntlet ... beyond description" to reach or leave the station. The incidents in and around the square in front of the main train station have led to accusations of a police and media cover-up. Evidence has emerged that similar attacks had taken place in seven other German cities.
Note: It's entirely possible that these attacks were coordinated in order to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about sexual abuse scandals and the manipulation of public perception.
Authorities need to quickly determine whether a string of New Year's Eve sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne blamed largely on foreigners may be linked to similar offenses in other cities, Germany's justice minister said in comments published Sunday. Authorities and witnesses say the attackers were among about 1,000 men gathered at Cologne's central train station, some of whom broke off into small groups that groped and robbed women. "If such a horde gathers in order to commit crimes, that appears in some form to be planned," Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the newspaper Bild. Police in Hamburg are also investigating similar sexual assaults and thefts in the St. Pauli district, which occurred on a smaller scale in the northern city on New Year's Eve. Authorities in Sweden and Finland are also investigating similar incidents in their countries. Cologne police are investigating 379 criminal complaints filed with them, about 40 percent of which involve allegations of sexual offenses. So far, of 31 suspects detained by police for questioning, 18 were asylum seekers but there were also two Germans, an American and others, and none of them were accused specifically of committing sexual assaults.
Note: It's entirely possible that these attacks were coordinated in order to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment. There were news reports that the police stood by and let these assaults happen. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about sexual abuse scandals and the manipulation of public perception.
In 2002, the Boston Globe's Spotlight team, a group of five investigative journalists, uncovered the widespread sexual abuse of children by scores of the district's clergy. They also revealed a cover-up: that priests accused of misconduct were being systematically removed and allowed to work in other parishes. The journalists' story, and those who suffered at the hands of the clergy, are the subject of Spotlight, a Hollywood movie. Phil Saviano was battling to get his story heard long before the Spotlight team's stories were published. Saviano ... was abused by his parish priest from the age of 12. Now in his 60s, [he] was one of the victims who refused a settlement from the church and retained, unlike others, his right to speak freely about his experience. He's the founding member of the New England chapter of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. After the Spotlight investigation, Snap's membership swelled to more than 22,000 as victims came forward, according to its executive director, David Clohessy. "Before Spotlight's work, Snap members were usually ignored," he says. "They were unsuccessfully trying to warn parishioners, parents, police, prosecutors and the public about this massive, ongoing danger to kids. After Spotlight's work, people started to pay attention." Since the Spotlight investigation, the Vatican has moved to establish a tribunal to hear cases of bishops accused of perpetrating or covering up child abuse.
Note: Watch an excellent segment by Australia's "60-Minutes" team titled "Spies, Lords and Predators" on a pedophile ring in the UK which leads directly to the highest levels of government. A second suppressed documentary, "Conspiracy of Silence," goes even deeper into this sad subject. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing sexual abuse scandal news articles from reliable major media sources.
According to public disclosures, by giving just 12 speeches to Wall Street banks, private equity firms, and other financial corporations, [Hillary] Clinton made $2,935,000 from 2013 to 2015. Clinton's most lucrative year was 2013, right after stepping down as secretary of state. That year, she made $2.3 million for three speeches to Goldman Sachs and individual speeches to Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments, Apollo Management Holdings, UBS, Bank of America, and Golden Tree Asset Managers. To put these numbers into perspective, compare them to lifetime earnings of the median American worker. In 2011, the Census Bureau estimated, that across all majors, a "bachelor's degree holder can expect to earn about $2.4 million over his or her work life." A Pew Research analysis published the same year estimated that a "typical high school graduate" can expect to make just $770,000 over the course of his or her lifetime. This means that in one year - 2013 - Hillary Clinton earned almost as much from 10 lectures to financial firms as most bachelor's degree-holding Americans earn in their lifetimes — and nearly four times what someone who holds only a high school diploma could expect to make. The Associated Press notes that during Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state, Bill Clinton earned $17 million in talks to ... financial firms.
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The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families. The book, "Dark Money," by Jane Mayer, traces the rise of the modern conservative movement through the activism and money of a handful of rich donors. The book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to World War II. One venture was a partnership with the American Nazi sympathizer William Rhodes Davis, who, according to Ms. Mayer, hired Mr. Koch to help build the third-largest oil refinery in the Third Reich, a critical industrial cog in Hitler's war machine. The Kochs' vast political network, a major force in Republican politics today, was "originally designed as a means of off-loading the costs of the Koch Industries environmental and regulatory fights onto others" by persuading other rich business owners to contribute to Koch-controlled political groups. In Ms. Mayer's telling, the Kochs helped bankroll - through a skein of nonprofit organizations with minimal public disclosure - decades of victories in state capitals and in Washington, often leaving no fingerprints.
Note: Coincidentally, George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was also in business with the Nazis. The conservative political network overseen by the Koch brothers plans to spend $889 million on US elections in 2016. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing elections corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.
Robert Reich, former secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton and a professor of public policy at University of California, Berkeley, spent years warning of twin demons: Technology and globalization. Machines displaced ... workers whose routine jobs could be automated, and globalization meant the flight of manufacturing and service jobs to factories and call centers in emerging countries. The result was ever-widening inequality. In his latest book, "Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few," he's changed his tune. While those two factors still play a role in growing inequality, he cites a new culprit: "the increasing concentration of political power in a corporate and financial elite that has been able to influence the rules by which the economy runs." [Reich explains], "Capitalism is based on trust. It's impossible to have a system that works well and is based on billions of transactions if people don't trust that others are going to fulfill their obligations, or they fear someone will take advantage of them or exploit them. That's when a system moves from production to protection. Economists have been documenting inequality using various measures, but I haven't seen much documentation of this issue of power. Political scientists and economists are [reluctant] to get into this field. Economists look at market power and monopolies, but the other areas I've talked about - this vicious cycle of compounded wealth and power that changes the rules of the game - economists are really not taking it on."
Note: Read how the market is rigged to grow inequality in this summary of a Robert Reich essay that recently appeared in Newsweek. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing income inequality news articles from reliable major media sources.
Goldman Sachs will pay about $5 billion to resolve state and federal investigations into its handling of mortgage-backed securities in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, the bank said today. The agreement will settle "actual and potential civil claims" by the U.S. Justice Department and the attorneys general of New York and Illinois, as well as the Federal Home Loan Banks of Chicago and Seattle and the National Credit Union Administration. Goldman said the settlement, an agreement in principle, has not yet been finalized by the parties involved. If it is, it will reduce earnings for the last three months of 2013 by $1.5 billion. Ever since the subprime mortgage crisis upended the global financial system, authorities have been investigating a number of large financial institutions and their sale of mortgage-backed securities. The investigations have centered on whether the banks misrepresented the real value of the assets. Regulators have already won large multibillion-dollar settlements from several large banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup. Last May, Goldman announced it was negotiating with federal and state authorities to resolve claims against it.
Note: Yet no individual goes to jail for their actions which costs taxpayers billions of dollars. Once again, those who commit white collar crimes go free. And since the bailout in 2008, the percentage of US banking assets held by the big banks has almost doubled. Could this possibly have been planned? For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about corruption in government and in the financial industry.
About 8 percent of Americans experience PTSD; for veterans, that number is 30 percent. Treatment is notoriously difficult, but people could find relief in an unusual form: psychedelic drugs. MDMA - found in molly and ecstasy - earned a bad rap in the 1990s as ravers' drug of choice. But psychotherapists are coming to value the way it increases empathy while decreasing fear and defensiveness. "MDMA gives people the ability to revisit an event that's still painful without being overwhelmed," says psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer. Following a recent MDMA trial, 83 percent of his treatment-resistant participants no longer showed symptoms of PTSD. In one study, Mithoefer worked with a New York City firefighter post-9/11. The subject had tried treatment before. While undergoing a popular method that uses eye movement to reprocess a trauma, he'd been so overcome that he ripped a sink off the wall. MDMA, however, worked. "It wasn't easy for him," Mithoefer says. "But our sink is still attached." MDMA isn't a one-trick pony either; it can treat end-of-life anxiety and alcoholism, and it's not addictive. "We're talking about the rise of a whole field of medicine," says Rick Doblin, founder of the nonprofit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which is running a handful of MDMA trials, including Mithoefer's. Doblin thinks the FDA will greenlight the drug for mainstream use by 2021.
Note: While the war on drugs has been called a "trillion dollar failure", the healing potentials of mind altering drugs are starting to be investigated more openly.
Farmer Phub Zam, 55, is in a hurry. Monsoon rains have hit ... and Zam is rushing to harvest her broccoli. "Of all my vegetables, broccoli is the most sought after," she said. Each kilogram sells for ... 15 to 30 cents more than broccoli imported from neighboring India, because her produce is grown without the use of chemicals. After decades of subsistence farming, Zam went organic four years ago. Now she grows 21 crops on her 1.3-acre farm, [earning] three times more than she made before. Zam's success is part of Bhutan's plan to support sustainable farming as one key to build a thriving "green" economy. In 2011, the government launched the National Organic Program, which aims to make the country's agriculture 100 percent organic by 2020. Zam's switchover came when a team of officials from the agriculture ministry told her they were offering women farmers in her village free training in organic farming, including composting and selling the compost for a profit. After attending a three-day training course, Zam started her home compost heap. Today, she sells about 60 kilograms of compost - made of grass, leaves, cow dung and sawdust - every two months to tourist resorts and other buyers. Zam also uses the compost at her farm, including in the two greenhouses she bought and installed with an 80 percent subsidy from the government. In June, officials announced that the government had so far provided 176 greenhouses to farmers and planned to install 650 more.
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As part of its 'Unlimited' campaign, Western Sydney University in New South Wales, Australia, has told the harrowing story of one of its graduates, refugee lawyer Deng Thiak Adut. In 1985, the Sudanese government began destroying villages eventually leading to the rise of the People's Liberation Army. Two years later, six-year old Deng Thiak Adut was taken away from his family's banana farm in South Sudan and conscripted into the Army. After undergoing military training, several years of army service and witnessing numerous atrocities, Deng was still a boy when he was shot in the back. A further two years later, a chance meeting led to Deng reuniting with his brother who helped smuggle him out of the country by hiding him in a corn sack on the back of a truck. After working at a local service station to learn English, Deng enrolled at TAFE and completed his Advanced Diploma in Accounting before deciding to study law. In 2005 he enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws at Western Sydney University and became the first person in his family to graduate with a law degree. Now determined to help other Sudanese refugees, the university's poignant video has prompted its Facebook page to be flooded with messages of support for the graduate and the campaign. As the refugee crisis continues to develop in Europe, the emotional advert serves as a stark reminder that if a country open its doors to those in need, people from all walks of life can come together to benefit humanity as a whole.
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Kanya Sesser, 23, skateboards, models lingerie and surfs – and she does it all without lower limbs. Sesser, who was born without legs, was adopted from an orphanage in Thailand before moving to Portland, Oregon, with her new family. Now, she earns more than $1,000 a day working as a model. "I enjoy making money from it and I love showing people what beauty can look like," Sesser told the Daily News. "These images show my strength." The 23-year-old, who uses a skateboard instead of a wheelchair, began modeling for sports brands when she was 15. The Huffington Post UK reports that the Los Angeles-based model has reportedly posed for brands like Billabong, Rip Curl Girl and Nike. "I was mainly doing athletics shoots then as I got older I got into lingerie modeling," Sesser told the Daily News. "It's something fun and it shows my story – I'm different and that is sexy, I don't need legs to feel sexy." Now, the model hopes to compete in the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, as a mono-skier.
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Hydrogen has the potential to fuel incredibly environmentally clean cars. But making that fuel hasn't been so efficient or economical. Pure hydrogen gas does not occur naturally on Earth, so scientists must devise ways to separate hydrogen from naturally occurring compounds, like H2O. Until now, cars that run on water have been out of reach. But a team of scientists have come up with a different mechanism to produce hydrogen fuel from water. These researchers have created a biomaterial that catalyzes the splitting of the water elements, which they describe in a paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry. The biomaterial, called P22-Hyd, is made up of a modified enzyme, hydrogenase, protected within the protein shell of a bacterial virus. The mechanism goes both ways. P22-Hyd breaks the chemical bonds in H2O to produce hydrogen and oxygen, but it can also combine the two gases to generate power. That reversal is how hydrogen fuel cell cars work. "The reaction runs both ways - it can be used either as a hydrogen production catalyst or as a fuel cell catalyst," study lead author Trevor Douglas, of Indiana University Bloomington said. "You don't need to mine it; you can create it at room temperature on a massive scale using fermentation technology. It's a very green process to make a very high-end sustainable material."
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It began in a trailer in the shadows of one of Florida's most elegant malls, a brazen plan by two small police agencies to take on the hemisphere's most dangerous drug cartels. Forming their own task force, members of the Bal Harbour police and Glades County Sheriff's Office struck deals with criminal organizations across the country in what grew into the largest state undercover money-laundering investigation in years. Posing as launderers, the task force took in $55.6 million from the criminal groups, keeping thousands each week for themselves for laundering the money. They spent lavishly on first-class flights and five-star hotel stays. They bought Mac computers and submachine guns. In the end, they made no arrests of their own, and ended up returning all the money they laundered to the criminal groups. They also withdrew $1 million in cash with no records to show where the money went – and struck millions in additional money-laundering deals that were never disclosed.
Note: Read the full series of articles on this incredibly corrupt situation. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing government corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.
The very richest Americans have financed a sophisticated and astonishingly effective apparatus for shielding their fortunes. Some call it the "income defense industry," consisting of a high-priced phalanx of lawyers, estate planners, lobbyists and anti-tax activists. All are among a small group providing much of the early cash for the 2016 presidential campaign. Operating largely out of public view - in tax court, through arcane legislative provisions and in private negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service - the wealthy have used their influence to steadily whittle away at the government's ability to tax them. The effect has been to create a kind of private tax system, catering to only several thousand Americans. Two decades ago ... the 400 highest-earning taxpayers in America paid nearly 27 percent of their income in federal taxes, according to I.R.S. data. By 2012 ... that figure had fallen to less than 17 percent, which is just slightly more than the typical family making $100,000 annually. Some of the biggest current tax battles are being waged by some of the most generous supporters of 2016 candidates. Whatever tax rates Congress sets, the actual rates paid by the ultra-wealthy tend to fall over time as they exploit their numerous advantages.
Note: The IRS now conducts only half as many audits of the super-rich as it did five years ago. Over half of the money contributed so far to 2016 US presidential candidates has come from just 158 families. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and income inequality from reliable major media sources.
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Mansfield woman claimed she was a military veteran with cancer to solicit GoFundMe donations, prosecutors say
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Cleveland woman accused of killing husband by running him over with SUV
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Browns left tackle Joe Thomas has made the Pro Bowl for the ninth time and Alex Mack for the third time.
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Pub for sale The Holly Bush InnMain Street,Oakthorpe,DE12
The pub is ideally located in the heart of a lovely large residential area enjoying a high footfall and much passing trade. The property also boasts a large car park for approximately 15 vehicles, a beer garden, children`s play area and patio seating area. More details ›
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Office for sale Charter Point Way, Ashby De La Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65
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Shop for sale Silver Street, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67
Previously well established & well known family butchers, prominent trading position. Historic weekly takings £7,480, low overheads, terrific growth potential, well fitted, retirement sale, viewing highly recommended. Freehold ref 44344 More details ›
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Office for sale 117 London Road Coalville, North West Leicestershire UK LE67 3JE
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Restaurant for sale Hall Croft,Shepshed,LE12
FREEHOLD OPTION AVAILABLE The business is located in the historical wool making town of Shepshed in Leicestershire. Livio's Italian Restaurant occupies a prominent corner position at the end of a popular retail parade. This is a freehold opportunity, the current turnover is an advised £160,000pa. More details ›
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LEASEHOLD The business is located in the affluent semi-rural village of Woodhouse Eaves. The business is very well supported by the local community with very little competition in the area. The business generates a good weekly income from newspaper delivery rounds and lottery sales. More details ›
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LEASEHOLD Newsagents and Off- licence Business for sale, located in the heart of a residential area in Measham, surrounded by takeways and local businesses. More details ›
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Markfield is a commuter village sitting within both the National Forest and Charnwood Forest and just North of the City of Leicester. The public house is well maintained throughout with the benefit of a large beer garden for the summer months. In addition there is a two storey barn. More details ›
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We're living in a very different time and place today. Unlike anytime since possibly the Great Depression we are living in very volatile socio economic times everywhere in America as well as most places in the World.
What with dynamics like poverty, homelessness, unemployment, illegal immigration and shear desperation it's clearly obvious why crime is on the rise everywhere. What were once considered very safe and secure upscale neighborhoods are now viable high value targets for those who wish to prey on them.
I've livee in a very laid back, low key semi rural North San Diego country neighborhood for the past 33 years. During that time we've never locked the doors on our cars or homes and we've always left our bicycles out unlocked.
In the past several months we've had an influx of multi-family or multi-tenant renters moving into several of the single family residents that have come up for rent throughout our neighborhood. Sometimes there are as many as a dozen old cars and trucks parked in the driveways and on the streets.
Common sense has to tell you that these folks aren't the most financially privileged or steadily employeed. Hence, lot's of folks are hungry and desperate to pay the rent so voila our once very safe and quiet neighborhoods become not so safe and secure.
As a result we've seen a dramatic increase in break-ins and burglaries. Fortunetley there has been no violent crime. Just folks stealing bicycles, lawn mowers & myriad garden tools or anything of value that's not secured. We even have a neighbor who's had 4 chickens stolen in the past month. Duh........ya think they might be hungry?
So we took measures into our own hands and with the help of local law enforcement we've facilitated a NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM. Since the signs have gone up and we've installed or activated existing security systems and video cameras and our buddies at the Sheriff's Dept have been making their presence known and we've all been keeping in touch with one another and notifying one another when we'll be out of town things have really calmed down. In fact there have been no incidents in the past couple of months.
So the long and short of it is that there is no totally safe and secure way of keeping your neighborhood free of crime. The best thing you can do is become involved in your community and stay aware of the folks who live around you.
And here is the Trulia site I referenced for Innes Avenue. Click on "Crime" under Neighborhood Info:
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To be very specific, please see these websites for Crime around Innes Avenue:
1. http://www.spotcrime.com
2. http://www.crimereports.com
Also see our SF Board's overall Hunter's Point demographic info and crime info at:
3. For Innes Avenue specifically, use this Trulia site and click on "Crime" under Neighborhood Info towards the bottom of the listing.
Hope this helps! Please feel to contact me. Good luck!
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1. got to sfpd crime website - http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=1618
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Vigor signs deal for largest floating drydock in the United States.
Vigor Industrial has reached an agreement with Daoda Marine Heavy Industry Company (DDHI) to purchase a new floating drydock for $40 million. At 960 feet long, with an inside width of 186 feet and a lifting capacity of 80,000 long tons, it will be the largest floating drydock in the United States.
"We decided now is the time to buy because demand to service large vessels is growing and large drydock capacity in proximity to the US West Coast has diminished," said Vigor Industrial CEO Frank Foti.
The new drydock, set to be stationed in Portland, will be 300 feet longer than the largest drydock Vigor currently owns. It will be one and half times wider and will be able to lift more than triple the weight.
This new capacity will allow Vigor to service the incoming generation of the US Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) dry cargo/ammunition ships, which are replacing some smaller MSC ammunition, combat stores and fuel ships. The drydock will be large enough to service private vessels including post-Panamax cargo ships and cruise ships. The increased capacity will also help Vigor meet growing demand from the Arctic as oil and gas exploration and other ship operators take advantage of longer ice-free summers.
In addition to growing demand, the past decade has seen half a dozen large drydocks go out of service in the Pacific region.
"We are thrilled that Vigor chose us as a partner for this major capital investment," said Victor Huang, Vice President of DDHI, which will build the drydock at its facility in Jiangsu Provence, China. "Our world-class facilities and experience allow us to provide the best quality drydock at the most competitive price."
The dock is scheduled for delivery in March 2014. It will be towed to Portland in three pieces for assembly, and its first job will likely be to prepare Vigor's largest Portland-based drydock for use at Vigor's Seattle facility. This would provide the Seattle shipyard with a new capacity to service Panamax-sized vessels.
"The new drydock will allow us to meet future demand, grow our business and put more people to work across the Pacific Northwest," Foti said.
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This is just weird. It feels like a coup if running a media empire. It feels like a loss if running an athletics conference. I guess we know which the B1G has become.
Does BTN open more channels or does IU get less coverage.?
Maybe BTN can now buy a camera that has a zoom..? This current coverage of half-court all the game should be improved.
I used to think I could see the game better at home. Now my nose-bleed seats have better visibility than BTN.
Maryland and Rutgers? Why? There are better schools to pursue than these two. What am I missing?
Ahhhhh. Greivis Vasquez. Who could forget? And then there's that loss to Maryland in the 2002 NCAA championship game. I can't stand that pipsqueak, Blake, who plays for the Lakers.
Maryland could be a nice developing rivalry. And didn't Bobby always have a lot of respect for Gary Williams? I like the chance to beat on some Establishment in Assembly Hall…as long as our Hoosier fans don't bring out their Laffy tongues during the spankings(7:35 mark).
Some fine basketball tradition at Maryland.
No one cares about Rutgers athletics-absolutely no one. Delaney is outsmarting himself and seriously diluting the B1G brand in the process. Notre Dame made sense to pursue as did Nebraska. Maybe Missouri, but Maryland? Weak, really weak.
Does the 'E' stand for Establishment? Are you afraid your reputation may suffer by rubbing shoulders in a conference with corn growers?
I've always liked Frankie Valli songs. I have absolutely nothing against Jersey.
Big E, you hit it right on the head. Rutgers? Come on, they're not likely to move the needle. In fact, they're more likely to dilute Big Ten revenue. I know a lot of New Yorkers (the city) and none of them identify with Rutgers. Maryland? Well, that makes more sense than Rutgers, but that's not saying much.
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In Indianapolis, Schneider & O'Shaughnessy notes with the city's Capital Improvement Board (CIB) facing a $20M shortfall this year, "solving the financial woes afflicting the [CIB] will be the responsibility of Marion County taxpayers, fans, visitors" and the Colts and Pacers. Indiana state Legislative leaders Thursday said that "many options were being discussed -- including requiring the Indianapolis Colts to pony up money, raising alcohol or hotel and restaurant taxes, and expanding special tax districts that already capture sales and income taxes for special purposes such as the arenas," Lucas Oil Stadium and Conseco Fieldhouse (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 3/27).
TAX HIKE: In a front page piece, the Baton Rouge ADVOCATE's Will Sentell reported guests at hotels and motels in East Baton Rouge Parish and "elsewhere would pay higher taxes to help subsidize the New Orleans Saints under a plan that could be debated in the state Legislature." Current subsidies for the team under an '01 agreement "come from hotels and motels only in Orleans and Jefferson parishes." Louisiana state Rep. Patrick Connick Wednesday said that he "wants to consider expanding areas where the tax would apply in part to ease pressure on the state's general fund, especially during tough economic times" (Baton Rouge ADVOCATE, 3/26).
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EMPTY NEST: NEWSWEEK's Melinda Liu notes seven months after the Beijing Olympics, "visitors to the Bird's Nest are paying $7 to stare at a big, empty bowl." Tourist visits "plummeted from 80,000 per day in October to 15,000 in December." The $450M stadium costs $15M "annually to maintain, but the only major event announced for 2009 is an Aug. 8 performance of 'Turandot,' directed by Zhang Yimou, the man behind the Games' opening ceremonies." With "dreams of wringing $30[M] per year from the stadium, its managers now plan to convert part of it into a shopping mall" (NEWSWEEK, 3/30 issue).


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The Toyota Corolla is a car that appeals to many tastes – but the Japanese brand has launched an ad campaign for the latest version of the car which is aimed at challenging its vanilla image.
The ad for the all-new Corolla, which is known in some markets as the Auris, features 19-year-old Ukrainian-born male model Stav Strashko – who identifies as transgender – strutting in front of the car in a red bikini, before losing his jacket and posing in front of the car topless.
The taglines ''not in trend, not casual, not for everyone'' flash on screen while the androgynous model, who appears female in most of the shots, stares into the camera.
Strashko has posted the ad on his Facebook page, with the comment: ''Omg Its finally out, my ass and face on toyota's new auris commercial!!!!''
The ad is reportedly only going to be shown in Japan.
The new Corolla hatchback will be revealed at the Paris motor show in September.
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0 · June 22, 2014
Like always, nice ride, nice scenic, and of course nice people. It was nice to see new people. Thank you Ross and the rest of the riders.
1 · June 21, 2014
Nice ride with great people!! I really enjoy my new friends & look forward to many more rides! Thx all
2 · June 21, 2014
So that means no covered bridges?
0 · June 20, 2014
I'll be there
0 · June 20, 2014
K.. Let me know tmrw nite if we r meeting at 73 n 113 n what the plan is
0 · June 19, 2014
:D, with all that's happened in the last year,I so need some me time.If the weather doesn't cooperate Sat,then there is always next week.
1 · June 19, 2014
Well I picked Wilmington,De. & it shows 30%.
Still better than yesterdad
0 · June 19, 2014
Doylestown area.
Not sure what area u plan on heading.
0 · June 19, 2014
Looking better for Saturday!
NOAA shows only 20% chance now.
I think it will be fine.
0 · June 19, 2014
Sounds good to me,let's keep an eye on it.
0 · June 18, 2014
Hi Ross,all the weather sites I've been watching show at most 40% chance,but mainly south n east of Philly,perhaps if it gets worse we could just change direction to somewhere north n west.
What do u think?
0 · June 18, 2014
Would love this ride but would like to see the route and maybe catch up with you once out of Phila. Do you post routes?
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'I'm 31 but I've got the lungs of a SIXTY year old': Mother discovers her 'asthma' is actually life-threatening cystic fibrosis
- When Natalie Crawford, 31, was five months pregnant with her son, Preston, a scan and subsequent tests revealed he had cystic fibrosis
- Medics looked at her history and thought she might also have it - she had been repeatedly hospitalised with 'asthma' and had 'pneumonia' five times
- Further tests revealed she did, indeed, have the condition
- Natalie's liver and lungs have been damaged by years of suffering from the condition without receiving appropriate treatment
- She and Preston are both now receiving the care they need and are currently able to lead normal lives
Natalie Crawford was five months pregnant when she was told her unborn baby boy had cystic fibrosis.
It was devastating news – the incurable disease can cause major lung damage and digestive problems, and the average life expectancy for sufferers is just 40 years.
Then doctors realised that Natalie, who was then 28, had the disease, too.
Natalie Crawford was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was pregnant with Preston who also has the condition. She was 28 and had spent her whole life believing she had severe asthma
The 'asthma' she'd suffered all her life – and which had put her in hospital ten times as a child – and the 'pneumonia' she'd had five times in her teens, were in the fact down to cystic fibrosis.
'I always felt poorly from as young as I can remember,' says Natalie, now 31, a former nursery school teacher and mother-of-two from Northampton. 'There was no family history, so I was totally shocked by my diagnosis and my baby's. It was the worst day of my life.'
Natalie was 20 weeks' pregnant with her son Preston, now two, when a scan showed a blockage in the baby's bowel - a warning sign of cystic fibrosis, one of the most common life-threatening inherited conditions (it affects around 10,000 people in the UK).
An amniocentesis confirmed that Preston had the disease. After looking at Natalie's medical history, doctors dropped the bombshell that they believed she, too, was likely to have it. Tests confirmed their suspicions.
Cystic fibrosis is caused by a faulty version of a gene that helps salt and water move in and out of the body's cells – important for maintaining a thin coating of fluid and mucus inside the lungs, pancreas, and other organs.
Natalie (pictured with Preston and daughter Skye) was only diagnosed because doctors started to look at her medical history when they discovered that her son had cystic fibrosis
In people with cystic fibrosis, this process doesn't work correctly and the mucus becomes thick and sticky, clogging up sufferers' lungs and digestive system, causing a myriad of potential health problems.
One serious consequence is that mucus can clog up the pancreas, meaning the body cannot absorb nutrients properly, resulting in malnutrition, poor growth, and weight loss.
The damage to the lungs can lead to scar tissue and cysts, and patients find it increasingly hard to breathe, and would suffocate without a lung transplant.
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic condition in which the lungs and digestive system become clogged with mucus.
Symptoms usually start in early childhood and include a persistent cough, recurring chest infections and poor weight gain.
An early sign is also that a child's sweat is unusually salty.
There is no cure so the aim of treatment is to ease the symptoms.
Most commonly it involves using medication to help expand the airways, taking antibiotics for infections and physiotherapy.
In some cases, a lung transplant may be required.
The condition is caused by a genetic mutation which allows too much salt and water into cells resulting in a build up of mucus.
This mucus causes blockages in the body's tubes and passages which leads to damage to the lungs, digestive system and other organs.
The condition is most common in white people of northern European descent and in the UK affects one in every 2,500 babies.
To develop it, both of a child's parents have to carry the gene mutation.
If this happens, there is a one in four chance the baby will not inherit either faulty gene, a one in two chance they will inherit one copy and be a carrier but not have the condition and a one in four chance they will inherit both copies and be a cystic fibrosis sufferer.
Treatment has improved life expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis but it remains at about 40.
Source: NHS Choices
One in 25 people of white European descent are carriers of the cystic fibrosis gene. If both parents are carriers, their child has a one in four chance of having the disease.
Since universal screening was brought in for new borns in 2007 (using a blood test), most cases of cystic fibrosis are now diagnosed at birth. But it is by no means unheard of for it to remain undiagnosed until adulthood - last year of the 274 patients diagnosed with the disease, 24 were adults.
The reason adults can have missed out on a diagnosis is because their symptoms weren't severe enough.
'Some mutations of the cystic fibrosis gene are less faulty than others which leads to relatively mild symptoms,' explains Professor Stuart Elborn, director of the Regional Adult Cystic Fibrosis Service in Northern Ireland.
Patients with milder symptoms are less likely to have problems with their pancreas - and their life expectancy is expected to be 60 to 70 years.
Professor Elborn sees three or four adult cases like Natalie's every year and believes there will be other adults out there who don't know they have the disease.
'The milder symptoms mask the
severity of the disease in the first few decades, but as people get
older the lung and digestive symptoms get worse, so what was originally
called asthma turns out to be cystic fibrosis.'
Natalie Crawford was diagnosed with asthma when she was two, and given inhalers and steroids.
'I had weeks off school when I couldn't move off the sofa,' she recalls.
'Even on the days I was well I'd have chest pain and feel so tired that it was a struggle to get through the day.'
As a teenager the condition got
worse, especially after nights out in smoky bars when she'd usually end
up in hospital. Doctors gave her stronger inhalers and upped her doses
of steroids, to no avail.
In spite of her ill health, Natalie
achieved very good GCSE results and went on to college where she
qualified as a nursery teacher.
her infections got worse in her 20s and she had to have a lot of time
off work as a result. She was referred to ear, nose and throat
specialists who still failed to diagnose cystic fibrosis.
She married, and at the age of 26 had a daughter, Skye. Despite struggling for breath more than ever through her first pregnancy nothing was picked up at this point.
Natalie says she was devastated to learn that Preston had the condition but that she was relieved to finally have an explanation for her repeated periods of ill health
Skye, now five, doesn't have cystic fibrosis, although tests revealed she is a carrier of the gene.
says learning about Preston's disease was a devastating blow but she
admits there was an element of relief on receiving her own diagnosis.
'I felt that no one truly believed how poorly I was before and now I would get some answers and the right treatments.'
Doctors warned her about her baby's
reduced life expectancy and how tough the condition was to live with,
and offered her an abortion.
'I couldn't imagine aborting my own child knowing they had the same genes as me.
Natalie said: 'I always felt poorly from as young as I can remember. There was no family history, so I was totally shocked by my diagnosis and my baby's. It was the worst day of my life'
'I have come this far with a good quality of life. I never doubted that I wouldn't manage,' she says.
Preston has the same, milder form of the disease as Natalie. Although he attends preschool he suffers with more colds and viruses than typical children and needs lots of rest as his treatment regimen is so tiring.
Because Natalie's cystic fibrosis went undetected for so many years her lungs have been irreparably damaged and she's been told she already has the lungs of someone in their 60s. She also has liver damage and mild osteoporosis as a result of her inability to absorb some vitamins properly, although thankfully her pancreas is working efficiently for now (although she is tested annually).
Sadly, the strain of Preston and Natalie's diagnosis was too much for her marriage and at the beginning of this year she split up from her husband.
Her main focus now is ensuring she and Preston stay as fit and well as possible.
People with cystic fibrosis are vulnerable to bacteria that would be harmless to most people.
Normally, mucus traps germs, which are then cleared out of the lungs. But in cystic fibrosis, they remain trapped, causing infections.
'For the first year or so after having Preston I was really paranoid - everything had to be so clean and I wouldn't let anyone hold him, even my daughter, unless they'd used a hand gel,' says Natalie.
'When I wash up, the dishcloth goes straight in the washing machine on a boil wash. Toothbrushes have to be dried straight after use and replaced almost weekly.'
One of the cruellest aspects of cystic fibrosis is that sufferers are told not to mix with others in the same boat because of the risk of cross infection of bacteria.
'It's really hard to know we're putting each other in danger although I was told Preston's more of a risk to me than me to him because of my lung damage. If one of us is unwell, usually a day or two after we both will be unwell.'
Staying active is important as movement loosens the phlegm in the chests, allowing for it to be coughed up. So Natalie and Preston jump on the trampoline, dance, and run in the garden for half an hour a day.
Natalie and Preston now have to follow a strict treatment regime including having physiotherapy twice a day. Image shows a chest X-ray from a patient with cystic fibrosis (file image)
Natalie found the logistics of making sure she and Preston stuck to their complicated treatment routine so overwhelming she gave up her job in order to focus on it.
They both take several antibiotics daily and use a nebuliser – a device that turns liquid antibiotics in to droplets that can be inhaled and delivered directly to the lungs - for 20 minutes twice a day.
They also need 20 minutes of physio a day to clear their airways.
Natalie goes to the gym six days a week and she's hoping to complete a half marathon in March in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
She strives to let Preston and his sister have as normal a life as possible.
'Preston's a typical cheeky little boy who loves getting messy, splashing in muddy puddles and doing everything he shouldn't.
'He's been through so much - but he just takes everything in his stride.'
If you would like to sponsor Natalie visit uk.virginmoneygiving.com/nataliecrawford
For more information visit www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk
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ACT Party leader Rodney Hide has warned Prime Minister John Key of a public backlash if the government ignores the result of the controversial smacking referendum.
Snubbing the referendum result sends a message that politicians know what's best for the people and that the government is running a "nanny state", Hide wrote in a letter delivered to Key's office on Friday.
The referendum question asks: "Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand." The postal ballot, which is voluntary, opened on July 31 and closes on August 21. As of Thursday, chief electoral officer Robert Penden said 570,300 people had voted.
Those who believe parents should be allowed to smack their children have campaigned strongly for a "no" vote. They want to repeal the 2007 law that removed the defence of reasonable force in child-assault cases.
Key, however, has said the law will not be changed back unless it can be shown that good parents are being prosecuted for light smacking.
He described the referendum question as "pretty weird" and a case of "yes means no and no means yes".
"It could have been written by Dr Seuss," Key said.
The referendum has also been controversial for its $9 million cost.
In the letter to Key, Hide, who said he had been shocked by the number of parents who had been unfairly treated under the new law, urged the prime minister to act on the result of the referendum, a sign that the "no" campaign believe they will score a decisive victory.
Hide told Key the law change two years ago had driven a wedge between parent and child and although some people might disapprove of the way others behaved, it did not give them the right to make the others criminals, "unless their behaviour is demonstrably causing harm".
Hide said one of the reasons Labour lost the last election was because people were sick of being told how to live their lives by politicians and "it would be a tragedy if, six months into your government, a nanny state tendency emerged once again in ignoring the clear wish of the people... "
"The referendum gives an opportunity for the public to speak. Their views must be respected."
But the "yes" campaign says the government and parliament should wait for a review of the new law, due to be completed this year, before it responds to the referendum.
Spokeswoman for the Yes Coalition, Deborah Morris-Travers, said the new law had drawn a line in the sand to say that children should be able to live free of violence. She likened the current debate on smacking to protests years ago against the introduction of child-safe seats in cars.
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Sakar debuts iView portable iPod video device
Sakar International recently announced the iView, a new 7-inch portable viewing device for the iPod. Priced at $150, iView promises a high-resolution picture and built-in stereo speakers. Features include a Dock Connector cradle for playing media and charging the iPod while in use, a built-in rechargeable battery which provides upwards of five hours of run time, a thin design, and A/V outputs to connect to a larger screen.
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For being a "technology leader", they've sure got a horrible site. Good luck finding anything about this device on their site.
Posted by rg on January 24, 2007 at 2:59 PM (CST)
Completely agree, rg. What a terrible, disjointed site. Good luck finding the item or even navigating around.
Posted by Obadiah on January 24, 2007 at 3:30 PM (CST)
What iPods does this thing work with? Hmm
Posted by Jonathan N on January 24, 2007 at 9:22 PM (CST)
This is obviously designed for the Vid Ipod.
The question is does it present 4:3 video in 4:3 ratio or does it stretch it?
Posted by Tom on January 25, 2007 at 2:15 AM (CST)
I sure home iLounge is going to put this thing through the wringer. Based on the research i've done i'm still waiting for something like this that doesn't have any bad caveats! Unfortunately, this one looks kinda cheap, but it is a cheaper price. Hopefully Sonic Impact will fix their streching issue…and lower the price by $100!
Posted by rg on January 25, 2007 at 8:12 PM (CST)
As a web designer all I have to say about the website is "eek!" but I am still curious about the product I am defiantly wanting one of these types of products for my iPod but I don't want to spend too much on it.
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