Spitbank Fort | Luxury Accomadations

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CkHbBw_Kcl4?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span><b>riginally constructed to defend the British from Napoleon III's navy in the 18th century, <a href="http://www.spitbankfort.com/" target="_blank">Spitbank Fort</a> was abandoned but is now renovated as a luxury getaway hotel with eight suites. Located a mile out to sea in the Solent, the Fort is an exclusive private island.</b></div>

Spitbank Fort | Luxury Accomadations

O riginally constructed to defend the British from Napoleon III's navy in the 18th century, Spitbank Fort was abandoned but is now reno...

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iDoorCam

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/na1FDwlX9qE?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.idoorcam.com/" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">iDoorCam</span></b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span><b>ee who is at your door whether you are at home or on the go. When a visitor rings the doorbell, that prompts an alert on your iOS device and you can accept or decline the call. If you accept, you’ll see a video feed on your screen and you can see, hear and speak to your visitor. At the same time, your visitor will hear you through the speaker on the iDoorCam device. </b></div>

iDoorCam

iDoorCam S ee who is at your door whether you are at home or on the go. When a visitor rings the doorbell, that prompts an alert on your iOS...

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Small Farmers Take Their Power & Stand Up To Government

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/A8S4S49TyDk?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=564009107862031725" http:="" reason.com="" reasontv="" target="blank" usda-v-horne-farmers-fight-for-their-rig=""><b><span style="font-size: large;">Reason.com</span></b></a><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">“They want us to pay for our own raisins that we grew. We have to buy them back!” </span>~Raisin Valley Farms owner Marvin Horne</blockquote><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span><b>alifornia rasin farmers have been giving almost HALF of their crop (47%) to the US Department of Agriculture for FREE. </b><br /><br />It’s part of depression-era regulations, called an agriculture marketing order, meant to stabilize crop prices so that raisin farmers receive a fair price every year. An elected board of bureaucrats known as the Raisin Administrative Committee decides what the proper yield should be in any given year in order to meet a previously decided-upon price. Once they can estimate the size of the year's harvest, they force every farmer to surrender a percentage of their crop to raisin packers like Sun-Maid. The packers then place the raisins in a “reserve pool,” a special holding vat for raisins that cannot be sold in the U.S. Eventually, the packers can sell the reserve pool raisins overseas at highly discounted prices set by the government or funnel them into school lunch programs for next to nothing.<br /><br />The farmers were always supposed to get a percentage of the money raised from the reserve pool raisins, but as profit margins dwindled over the years, so did the return to farmers. The tipping point came in 2003, when farmers received zero dollars in return for the 47 percent of the crop they had surrendered.<br /><br />The Hornes started packing and selling their own raisins, which they believed would allow them to circumvent the marketing order. In doing so, they inadvertantly sparked a small revolution, as other independent raisin farmers saw their initial success and began to pack and sell, too. The government wasn't happy (neither was Sun-Maid).<br /><br />When the Hornes and a few other raisin farmers challenged the USDA's seizure of their crop without payment as an unconstitutional taking of property in violation of the Fifth Amendment, the government balked and said that the issue should be heard in a Federal Claims court, as the case had nothing to do with the taking of property but instead was a matter of the Hornes violating farming regulations and being fined for doing so. <br /><br />The Fifth Amendment says that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.<br /><br />The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the USDA and declared that they had no jurisdiction in the case. Luckily for the Hornes, however, the Supreme Court took the case and ruled, in a 9-0 decision, that the 9th Circuit was mistaken and must consider the case on its constitutional merits.</div>

Small Farmers Take Their Power & Stand Up To Government

Reason.com “They want us to pay for our own raisins that we grew. We have to buy them back!” ~Raisin Valley Farms owner Marvin Horne C alifo...

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The Eddie Murphy Rule

<div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F101175114" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>99% Invisible</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span><b>hat happens on the trading floor at the end of the movie <i>Trading Places</i> when Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd get rich and the Duke brothers lose everything? </b></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/uI4fVgVVpiw?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br />

The Eddie Murphy Rule

99% Invisible W hat happens on the trading floor at the end of the movie Trading Places when Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd get rich and the ...

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Chicago River Reversed in 1800s To Save City From Poop

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPUNn4kiGNDs-DL4l4QpGk9jlY9-1veRrJ_qgWT01kN-ZpOF2TWVRuzPS-LYTFh8alCUWaYv9QSLW74leju30Rz0wwcbrU4HWiGZMwjmt7igDQrc40AWG3UoDHfjnqxyJ4vlJ7C1JmLQ/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPUNn4kiGNDs-DL4l4QpGk9jlY9-1veRrJ_qgWT01kN-ZpOF2TWVRuzPS-LYTFh8alCUWaYv9QSLW74leju30Rz0wwcbrU4HWiGZMwjmt7igDQrc40AWG3UoDHfjnqxyJ4vlJ7C1JmLQ/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F104613535" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://99percentinvisible.org/" target="blank">99% Invisible</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span><b>hicago’s biggest design achievements may not be the buildings but the Chicago River.</b><br /><br />It should flow into Lake Michigan. Instead, fresh water from Lake Michigan flows backwards into the city. The Chicago River is, in large part, a carefully-designed extension of the city’s sewer system. </div>

Chicago River Reversed in 1800s To Save City From Poop

99% Invisible C hicago’s biggest design achievements may not be the buildings but the Chicago River. It should flow into Lake Michigan. Inst...

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DEFCON | The Documentary

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/69695831?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3984" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">J</span><b>ason Scott</b></a><b> created this documentary about DEFCON, the world’s longest running and largest underground hacking conference.</b> <br /><br />Attendees at DEFCON include computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, federal government employees, security researchers, and hackers with a general interest in software, computer architecture, phone phreaking, hardware modification, and anything else that can be “hacked.” The conference has attracted officials from the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, Secret Service and all branches of the military.<br /><br />Last year, four-star General Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency, was a keynote speaker.</div>

DEFCON | The Documentary

J ason Scott created this documentary about DEFCON, the world’s longest running and largest underground hacking conference. Attendees at...

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Memorial Spaceflights | Blast Your Loved Ones Into Space

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TZLTk1qIC6s?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span><b>last the remains of your loved ones into space where they can orbit the Earth for a few months or years before re-entering the atmosphere in a blaze of glory, burning up as a fiery shooting star.</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.celestis.com/services.asp" target="_blank">Celestis</a> offers the choice of Earth orbits, a landing on the moon or “a voyage through deepest space, leaving the Earth-Moon system on a permanent celestial journey.”<br /><br />Elysium Space <a href="http://elysiumspace.com/pages/mobile-app" target="_blank">provides a mobile app</a> so you can follow your loved one’s journey in real time from the spacecraft in its orbit.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Wz0iywVJzs7PNJK_aSZj46gRRQroxZLq1aShkAOGvagKeHdsrHIIcNjmGW5xdFajDwvXxWnyDbO9dshdDMGCf0tzMcAmia_kcDIOvKyJAeRE2JmSUgEpHOgP2Dz-l5aXzgOkKA7MrYA/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Wz0iywVJzs7PNJK_aSZj46gRRQroxZLq1aShkAOGvagKeHdsrHIIcNjmGW5xdFajDwvXxWnyDbO9dshdDMGCf0tzMcAmia_kcDIOvKyJAeRE2JmSUgEpHOgP2Dz-l5aXzgOkKA7MrYA/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></div>

Memorial Spaceflights | Blast Your Loved Ones Into Space

B last the remains of your loved ones into space where they can orbit the Earth for a few months or years before re-entering the atmosphere ...

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Drones & Robots Capture Images of African Lions

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zobZd8Mp3sk?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130802-nick-nichols-lion-photos-infrared-drones-mikrokopter-lion-car/" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">National Geographic</span></b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">N</span><b>ational Geographic photographer <a href="http://www.michaelnicknichols.com/" target="_blank">Michael Nichols</a> and videographer Nathan Williamson used a remote-controlled helicopter and a small robot tank to capture unique images of Serengeti lions.</b></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KCBu4X4J3Rc?rel=0" width="853"></iframe>

Drones & Robots Capture Images of African Lions

National Geographic N ational Geographic photographer Michael Nichols and videographer Nathan Williamson used a remote-controlled helicopte...

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