Take a look at Apple’s new design book without spending $300

Apple last week impressed and shocked the world when it released a brand new product just weeks after unveiling the iPhone 7. For just $300, Apple fans can now get their hands on a new coffee table book that highlights a select history of Apple products dating back to 1997, beginning of course with the iconic Bondi Blue iMac.
Okay, so maybe nobody was impressed. And sure, maybe no one was shocked either, aside of course from the deluge of snarky Internet commenters who
were quick to blast Apple for having the gall to release a book for $300.
Dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs, Apple design guru Jony Ive explained the impetus behind the book’s creation as follows.
“Honestly, it felt more of an obligation than something that we felt really compelled to do,” Ive said during an interview last week. “The reason for
that, and I guess it’s a fairly obvious one, is that as designers, we are far more interested in and consumed by the future; in what doesn’t exist yet.
But we’ve been working together for 20, 25 years, and it felt like the right and appropriate thing to do.
You get a sense of what we’ve learned as a team and of how technology is evolving.”
The book is appropriately titled “Designed by Apple in California” and is available in two sizes, a 10.2 x 12.8 inch version that retails for $199 and a 13 x
16.3 inch version that retails for $299.
If you’re at all curious about what a few hundred bucks will get you, Michael Kukielka over the weekend put together a walk through of the book where we can take a gander at the vibrant photos
that fill the pages of Apple’s curious new product.
And in case you missed it the first time around, Stephen Colbert last week covered Apple’s new book by spoofing one of the company’s famed product introduction videos.

TMZ Posted The Photo Of Taylor Swift Allegedly Being Groped

Well, so much for Taylor Swift fighting for her privacy or a judge granting her motion to seal a photo that shows her allegedly being groped. TMZ went ahead and posted the pic.
The gossip hounds have shared the controversial photo, which is central to the legal battle between the pop star and former radio DJ David Mueller.
Mueller originally filed a civil slander lawsuit against Swift in Colorado, claiming that her allegations that he groped her during a meet-and-greet cost him his job. The singer filed a
countersuit , with the photo in question being submitted as evidence.
Though Swift's request to keep the personal image out of the public eye was granted, TMZ took the liberty of posting it online. What's more, the site
claims that "it's hard to see how this pic unduly prejudices anyone."
It seems that TMZ doesn't understand the sensitive nature of this lawsuit. According to Swift, this photo captures the moment she was sexually assaulted.
"Right as the moment came for us to pose for the photo, he took his hand and put it up my dress and grabbed onto my ass cheek and no matter how much I scooted over, it was still there," she said in her videotaped deposition. "It was completely intentional, I've never been so sure of anything in my life."
“I remember being frantic, distressed, feeling violated in a way I had never experienced before,”
Swift told the court. “A meet-and-greet is supposed to be a situation where you’re thanking people for coming. You’re supposed to be welcoming people into your home, which is the arena for that day, and for someone to violate that hospitality in that way, I was completely stunned.”

Hillary Couldn't Stop Crying, Told Friend She Blames Obama For Loss

Hillary Clinton "couldn't stop crying" once she learned of her loss to Donald Trump on Tuesday, best-selling conservative author Ed Klein told Newsmax TV on Wednesday.

"About 6:30 this morning she called an old friend," he began on "The Steve Malzberg Show" in an interview. "She was crying, inconsolably.

"She couldn't stop crying.

"Her friend said — her female friend from way, way, back — said that it was even hard to understand what she was saying, she was crying so hard.

"This is Hillary we're talking about," Klein said.
"Eventually," he continued, "her friend said she could make out that she was blaming James Comey, the director of the FBI, for her loss — and this I don't understand exactly — and the president of the United States for not doing enough."


Klein said his source then asked further about President Barack Obama.

"She said: 'Well, she felt, Hillary felt, that the president could have stopped Comey a long time ago, because that's what [former President] Bill [Clinton] said."

Man Found Living with 12 Girls Allegedly ‘Groomed’ Them to Think He Was a Prophet

While Lee Kaplan lived with 12 girls in his Pennsylvania home , authorities say, he allegedly brainwashed them to believe he was a prophet of God — grooming several of them for sex and calling six of them his “wives.”
Prosecutors this week revealed these and other harrowing details of the girls’ years of alleged mental and sexual abuse, as the investigation of Kaplan continues and he faces multiplying charges.
“This guy set up a virtual feeding ground of victims,” Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub says . “He preyed upon one by one.”
Kaplan, who was charged with sex crimes after police rescued the girls from his home in June, is now accused of not only fathering two children
with the eldest of the girls but also sexually abusing five of her younger sisters, Weintraub announced on Monday.
That same day Kaplan pleaded not guilty to more than a dozen new charges, including rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and
indecent assault, Weintraub says.
“He took these children into his home not too far from where we stand here today,” Weintraub alleged at a news conference. “Over time he played
on their trust and affection for him. He groomed them to believed that he was a religious, cult-like figure for whom they should submit their will.”
Weintraub says that Kaplan allegedly
brainwashed the girls, using tactics similar to Stockholm syndrome, by taking advantage of their innocence and abusing his position of authority.
“They to accept it,” Weintraub says. “I’m saddened.
I’m sickened, but I’m not surprised.”
Kaplan, 51, was originally charged with statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor and aggravated indecent assault after authorities rescued the girls, who ranged in age
from six months to 18 years old, from his home in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. (Authorities were tipped off anonymously.)
After Kaplan’s arrest, the eldest of the girls told investigators she was 14 when her parents handed her over to Kaplan after he helped them financially.
She told police she and Kaplan have two children together: a 3 year-old girl and a 10-month-old infant.
The eldest girl also said that years before moving into his home, Kaplan had his own bedroom in her parents’ Lancaster County home in Pennsylvania. She alleged that the sexual abuse
started one night when she was 10. It didn’t stop until her rescue this summer.
Nine of the 11 other girls living in
Kaplan’s home were her sisters, according to authorities; the remaining two were her daughters.
Newly released court documents obtained shows the sisters, who were quiet during initial interviews, recently opened up to investigators about their years of living with Kaplan.
Authorities had been unsure if he had harmed any of the 11 other girls, but six of the sisters, including the eldest, told police they were Kaplan’s “wives,”
according to the documents.
The youngest is 10.