India has evidence that two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the 60-hour siege of India's financial capital that killed 171 people, Indian officials said Thursday.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports:

"Police say a 50-year-old man was critically injured in an attack with a bottle outside a Salt Lake City bar and gym that reputedly caters to the gay community -- and that may make it a possible hate crime case. The victim told police that he left the 14th Street Gym, near 1400 West and 200 South, after midnight early Wednesday. As he was waiting for a cab ride, the man said someone walked up behind him, swore at him, used a derogatory sexual-orientation slur and hit him over the top of the head with a bottle, police said. The suspect then ran off. The victim, who police said showed signs of intoxication, did not get a good description of his attacker. The victim suffered cuts to his forehead and was 'bleeding profusely,' police said. He was transported to an area hospital in critical condition."

The Deseret News files the same report, adding: "In April, the Utah Court of Appeals reversed a district court's order revoking the gym's license based on reported lewd acts committed by gym patrons. The court ruled there was no evidence that the gym or its employees knew of or condoned the acts being alleged."

Interesting that the Mormon-owned newspaper tries to tie the potentially anti-gay attack to lewd behavior...

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/32642?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Report+on+Damian+Green+arrest+sent+to+CPSch=Politicsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Damian+Green%2CConservatives%2CHouse+of+Commons%2CPolice+%28politics%29%2CLondon+politics%2CLondon+%28News%29%2CPolitics%2CWhitehall%2CUK+newsc5=Policy+Society%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CLocal+Government+Society%2CUnclassifed+Contributorsc6=Andrew+Sparrow%2CHelene+Mulhollandc7=2008_12_03c8=1128029c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=Damian+Greenc13=c14=h2=GU%2FPolitics%2FDamian+Green" width="1" height="1" //divpA report on the Damian Green affair has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service "for consultation", the acting commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, said today./ppIn an appearance at the London assembly, Stephenson also insisted that the police had permission to search Green's office in the House of Commons, that he had not been under political pressure to order the investigation, and that the police had not sought to bug Green's office./ppStephenson, who was flanked by Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor and chair of the Metropolitan police authority, did not refer to Green by name as he briefed the assembly and he said that he was reluctant to give details of an ongoing investigation. But he said, in view of the public interest in the affair, he wanted to set some facts straight./ppHe said that the Metropolitan police were called in after concerns were raised about a series of leaks from the Home Office. He said that the decision to arrest Green was only taken after the arrest and questioning of the civil servant allegedly involved, Christopher Galley./ppStephenson said that three premises associated with Green were searched with the authority of a warrant. And Green's office in the Commons was searched "after authority for a consensual search was obtained from the serjeant at arms", Stephenson said./ppHe went on: "Officers have an obligation to locate and secure evidence to avoid any circumstances where potential evidence could be lost," he said./ppStephenson said Green had been released on bail until February./pp"An initial report on evidence has been given to the CPS for consultation on the next steps of this inquiry," he said./ppStephenson told the assembly that he wanted to correct some of the claims made about the inquiry in the press./ppTories have revealed that Green had his offices searched for bugs after they were raided by the police because he was concerned that electronic listening devices could have been planted. Stephenson said Green's fears were untrue./ppStephenson also said that the idea that the police tried to use Galley to "entrap" Green in telephone calls after Galley's arrest and release was untrue. He pointed out that Galley had denied this himself earlier this week./ppAnd Stephenson insisted that Green had not been arrested using anti-terrorism powers, in connection with terrorist offences. He was arrested by counter-terrorism officers because special branch, which used to deal with cases like this, has merged with the counter-terrorism command./ppStephenson went on: "The decisions taken by officers will be judged through the criminal justice system and any other mechanism that the appropriate authorities deem necessary."/ppHe said: "Clearly this was going to be a sensitive investigation and it is right we should be held to account at the appropriate time ... at issue in this investigation, and the work of the service as a whole, is our ability to maintain operational independence. The police must be able to act without fear or favour in any investigation, whomsoever may be involved, where there are reasonable grounds to suspect they may have committed criminal offences." /ppAnd he stressed that ministers had not been involved. "I would strongly refute that I or any senior officer under my command have or would allow any improper influence on operational actions for political purposes," he said./ppStephenson outlined the investigation conducted since the arrest of a junior civil servant on November 19 by officers from counter-terrorism command. /ppHe said that officers from this branch of the force were involved because they include former special branch officers whose responsibilities include official leaks. /ppStephenson said: "It is our duty to follow the evidence wherever that may take us. It was as a result of the initial investigation and arrest that the decision was made by officers under the command of Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick to arrest an MP and to search three addresses connected with him under authority of warrants." br / br /Johnson was grilled over his decision to make public a private meeting with Stephenson after the arrest of Green was revealed./ppLen Duvall ,the Labour assembly member who was ousted as MPA chair by Johnson in October, asked the mayor why he had leaked the details of his conversation with Stephenson to the press./ppJohnson insisted he had not sought to bring to bear political influence on police operations involving a Tory colleague./ppHe said it was "entirely right" for him in his capacity as chair of the MPA and as a "layman" to raise with Stephenson the likely political consequences of the arrest of an MP in a leak inquiry./ppJohnson said he had only sought to "warn and counsel" Stephenson./pp"Nothing I said turned the course of that inquiry," said Johnson. /ppHe added: "Perhaps I should be arrested for leaking the details of my own conversations."/ppJohnson told the assembly that the police should be left to get on with the inquiry. "It has just got to run its course and after that time it may be that within the MPA we should look at what went on and whether anything went wrong."/ppHe resisted suggestions that the MPA should "countermand" police operations./ppDetails of Johnson's row with Stephenson were released by his office to the press last week./ppAs news of the arrest of Green emerged, Johnson told Stephenson he found it "hard to believe" that anti-terrorism police had been used to "target an elected representative of parliament for no greater crime than allegedly receiving leaked documents./ppThe Tory mayor told the new acting commissioner that he would need to see convincing evidence that this action was necessary and proportionate. 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During the December 1 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, commentator and author Christopher Hitchens -- a frequent critic of the Clintons -- again claimed that in 2000, Hillary Clinton "got" her husband "to change his plan to visit India and to build in a visit to Pakistan on the way in return for" thousands of dollars she received from a fundraiser held by a Pakistani-American PAC. Hitchens cited no source for his assertion, and reporting at the time said there was "no evidence" to support such a claim. Hitchens made similar claims on the March 29, 2000, edition of the show, as well as in the 2000 edition of his book No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family and in a May 1, 2000, column in The Nation. Hitchens made these accusations despite offering no support and despite reporting undermining his claim.

During the December 1 edition of Hardball, after making the accusation, Hitchens added: "Everyone in Pakistan knows she's open for business. This is not a left-right question. It's a matter of integrity." In response, Salon.com senior editor-in-chief Joan Walsh said to Hitchens: "I believe you cherry-picked the worst possible interpretation, as well as facts that aren't necessarily facts, and come up with this analysis."

In a May 1, 2000, column in The Nation titled "The Two Faces of Hillary" (available by subscription), which he quoted at length in the 2000 edition of No One Left to Lie To, Hitchens provided no evidence for the accusation that Hillary Clinton "got" Bill Clinton to go to Pakistan. Hitchens wrote:

General [Pervez] Musharraf's regime has now hired, at a retainer of $22,500 per month, the DC law firm of Patton Boggs, for which Lanny Davis, one of the First Family's chief apologists, toils. Perhaps for reasons having to do with the separation of powers, Patton Boggs also collects $10,000 monthly from Pak-Pac, the Pakistani lobby in America, for Davis's services in its behalf. Suddenly no more Dem jokes about ignorance of Pakistan.

Last December, after Clinton announced that Pakistan would not be on his itinerary when he visited the subcontinent, his former White House "special counsel" arranged a fundraiser in Washington at which lawyers from Patton Boggs made contributions to the First Lady's Senate campaign that now total $25,500. So, not very indirectly, Pakistani military money was washed into her coffers from the very start. Then, in February, another Pak-Pac event, in New York, was brought forward so as to occur before the arrangements for the President's passage to India had been finalized. Having been told that the First Lady did not grace any event for less than $50,000 upfront, the Pakistanis came up with the dough and were handsomely rewarded for their trouble by the presence of Lanny Davis and by a statement from Mrs. Clinton that she hoped her spouse would stop off in Pakistan after all. And a few days later, he announced that, after much cogitation, he would favor General Musharraf with a drop-by.

How does this look to you? One way of deciding it is to try the cover stories for size. "I wish I could say I had the influence and had applied the right pressure for the President to visit Pakistan, but I didn't, so I can't." That's Lanny Davis. Is this what he tells the Pakistanis in return for his large stipend? "If anybody thinks they can influence the President by making a contribution to me, they are dead wrong." That's Hillary Clinton. Is that what she said at the Pak-Pac fundraiser?

One thing that strikes the eye immediately is how cheap this is. And inexpensive, too. The Pakistani nuclear junta must be rubbing its eyes: For such a relatively small outlay of effort it can get the First Family to perform public political somersaults. [emphasis in original]

During his March 29, 2000, appearance on Hardball, Hitchens accused Bill Clinton of "selling U.S. policy on Pakistan to help his wife" and claimed it was a "scandal." Host Chris Matthews responded by asserting that Hillary "grabbed a ton of money from Pakistani-Americans, a huge ethnic group with lots of money and she grabbed all their money and then she said she was not going to encourage her husband to go to Pakistan but all of a sudden he went to Pakistan." Hitchens responded: "No, she said at the dinner I hope he goes to Pakistan."

Contrary to Hitchens' overt accusation on December 1 that Hillary Clinton "got" Bill Clinton to go to Pakistan and his suggested accusations to that effect earlier, The New York Times reported in a March 14, 2000, article that "no evidence has emerged that Hillary Rodham Clinton, who told people at the dinner that she hoped her husband would visit Pakistan, had influenced his decision last week to do so." The Times went on to quote White House spokesperson Mike Hammer as saying, "The first lady's views were not part of the decision-making process." Additionally, the Times noted that "Mr. Clinton has previously indicated his own desire to go to Pakistan."

Additionally, contradicting Hitchens' claim that Davis "organized" the February 2000 New York fundraiser, the Times reported that Davis said "he played no role in arranging the fund-raiser."

As Media Matters for America has documented, in the context of reports that Obama intended to nominate Clinton, Hitchens repeatedly attacked Clinton's foreign policy credentials during appearances on MSNBC:

• On the November 18 edition of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hitchens suggested that Clinton was not "respected in the Pentagon," despite ample evidence that Clinton "has gained a lot of respect among military leadership" and has "built relationships" with military leaders such as Gen. David H. Petraeus and Adm. William J. Fallon.
• During the November 17 edition of Hardball, as well as the November 18 edition of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hitchens revived his accusation, which he has yet to source, that Hillary Clinton blocked any action by the Clinton administration in war-torn Bosnia in 1993 because she didn't want it to interfere with passage of her health-care plan.

From the December 1 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:

MATTHEWS: OK, Joan, let me try to ask you to climb through that rubble. That's very complicated. What do you think --

HITCHENS: Rubble?

MATTHEWS: -- of this appointment? It's complicated, Christopher, because you make the point that this administration's policy hasn't been to the right of what Barack Obama is promising for his administration, which most people would disagree with your view and accept mine -- that it is to the left of what we've had for eight years now.

HITCHENS: Listen, is it left or right for Hillary Clinton to get her husband, after a huge Pakistani fundraiser -- I'm speaking about something very important to us right now. A few years ago, a huge Pakistani fundraiser, in New York, organized for her by Lanny Davis, she got Clinton to change his plan to visit India and to build in a visit to Pakistan on the way in return for a huge campaign donation. Everyone in Pakistan knows she's open for business. This is not a left-right question. It's a matter of integrity.

WALSH: I think this is ridiculous. I think --

HITCHENS: Do we want such a person as secretary of state?

WALSH: Christopher, your views on the Clintons --

MATTHEWS: Joan, your turn.

WALSH: Christopher, your views on the Clintons' integrity are well-known. I consider them eccentric. I believe that you cherry-picked --

HITCHENS: Getting --

WALSH: I'm not -- I'm not going to say that they are perfect, but I believe you cherry-picked the worst possible interpretation, as well as facts that aren't necessarily facts, and come up with this analysis.

HITCHENS: Name one. Name one.

WALSH: I think this is a terrific --

HITCHENS: Name one.

WALSH: I think this is a terrific -- I'm stepping -- I'm going to step around the rubble today, Christopher.

HITCHENS: One, one.

From the March 29, 2000, edition of Hardball (retrieved from the Nexis news database):

MATTHEWS: Well, tell me about India and Pakistan and what your thoughts are.

HITCHENS: What about selling U.S. policy on Pakistan to help his wife? It's a scandal. I can't believe [Rudy] Giuliani is being so quiet about it. If he saw --

MATTHEWS: So she went on television -- I know she grabbed a ton of money from Pakistani-Americans, a huge ethnic group with lots of money and she grabbed all their money and then she said she was not going to encourage her husband to go to Pakistan but all of a sudden he went to Pakistan.

HITCHENS: No, she said at the dinner I hope he goes to Pakistan.

MATTHEWS: I hope he goes. But the fact is that it was never an issue.

HITCHENS: Of course, she's lied a lot about it, as she lies about everything. But you notice that Lanny Davis, her former hack and flack, has been hired by the Pakistani military dictatorship. We were all laughing at Bush for being too nice about that general and forgetting his name, remember?

MATTHEWS: Right.

HITCHENS: Now, Lanny Davis, the hack and flack for the Clintons, is hired for 22 grand a month to represent this dictatorship in Washington and New York. We find he arranged another big dinner in D.C. for fundraising and for pressure on the Clintons. It's extraordinary.

MATTHEWS: You mean that guy that was on this show all the time defending Clinton --

HITCHENS: The whole compromise with dictatorship and with a nuclear power to try and help his wretched wife and her wretched campaign in New York.

MATTHEWS: Well, let me ask you --

HITCHENS: Where is the outrage, Christopher?

MATTHEWS: Well, it seems to be present in San Francisco where you are tonight. Let me ask you about this Lanny Davis role. I'm fascinated. Twenty-two thousand dollars a month to represent the dictatorship that overthrew the democratic government in Pakistan and he isn't part of the fundraising campaign, apparently. What's the connection between Hillary -- the fundraising in New York to get her elected to the Senate and the efforts by the Pakistani government to pay for goodwill here in Washington through the good offices of Lanny Davis?

HITCHENS: Yeah, well Mr. Davis says, when he's asked about the dinner he put on in Washington, well, I don't have this kind of influence to change Mr. President Clinton's itinerary. Well, I wonder if that's what he tells the Pakistanis when they hand him the check. Don't give this to me under the impression I can do anything, guys.

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about --

HITCHENS: It's enough to make a cat laugh, isn't it? But I mean it wouldn't be the first time they'd sold off a bit of foreign policy for some domestic moolah.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari denied his nation was involved in last week's deadly attacks on Mumbai, India, and told CNN on Tuesday he's seen no evidence that a suspect in custody is a Pakistani national as Indian officials claim.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/60293?ns=guardianpageName=Society%3A+One+in+10+children+suffer+abuse%2C+say+expertsch=Societyc3=The+Guardianc4=Children+%28Society%29%2CHealth+%28Society%29%2CSociety%2CUK+newsc5=Society+Weekly%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CHealth+Society%2CChildren+Societyc6=Sarah+Boseleyc7=2008_12_03c8=1127782c9=articlec10=GUc11=Societyc12=Childrenc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSociety%2FChildren" width="1" height="1" //divpThe true scale of the maltreatment of children in the UK is revealed by child abuse experts today who say that one in 10 suffers physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect./ppUnlike Baby P, who died in Haringey, north London, while on the at-risk register after months of abuse and neglect, most maltreated children are not even referred to the authorities. /ppTeachers, GPs and paediatricians have no confidence in the ability of social services to make a difference to their lives and fear the child's plight will be made worse if he or she is taken into care and placed in a foster family, they say./ppA series of papers published today by the Lancet medical journal in collaboration with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health paints a grim picture of the unseen sufferings of an estimated 1 million children a year in the UK./ppBetween 4 and 16% of children suffer physical abuse, such as hitting, punching, beating and burning, according to a paper by Ruth Gilbert and colleagues from University College London's Institute of Child Health. The figures come from research in high-income countries, including the UK, which is not thought to differ from the average. /ppSome 5-10% of girls and 1-5% of boys have been subjected to penetrative sex, usually by a family friend or relative. If sexual abuse is defined more widely - as anything from being shown pornographic magazines to rape - it is estimated that it will include at least 15% of girls and 5% of boys./ppAround 10% of children suffer emotional abuse every year, the paper says, which includes persistently being made to feel worthless, unwanted or scared. More still - up to 15% a year - suffer neglect, defined as the failure of their parents or carers to meet the child's basic emotional or physical needs or ensure their safety./ppThose like Baby P who are picked up by the social services and placed on the at-risk register are only the tip of the iceberg. The plight of fewer than one in 10 maltreated children is investigated and substantiated by child protection services. /ppThe experts underline a key finding from the case of Baby P - that professionals are not communicating and sharing their suspicions./ppLancet editor Richard Horton said the findings, which had taken a year to reach publication, had "huge significance for considering an appropriate and measured response to the findings around Baby P". /ppHe added: "What this report does emphasise is the extent of the risk factors and consequences of child maltreatment, which are of such complexity that any reflex attempt to apportion blame or think there is a simple solution to this issue is to completely misrepresent the extent and depth of the problem."/ppThe papers also expose the paucity of evidence behind the decisions taken by health professionals and social workers. Far more research is needed into finding out what will prevent a child being abused. "We don't know how effective existing practice is," said Jane Barlow, professor of public health in the early years at Warwick University, co-author of the paper on interventions. "These are some of the most vulnerable children out there in society."/ppIn a Lancet commentary, Dr Horton says the series "will unfortunately not halt the blight of child abuse, because the phenomenon is too common, too surreptitious and too deeply rooted in deprivation and other social ills - but we nonetheless hope to raise awareness of the scientific evidence that is available, and indeed essential, to guide paediatricians and other professionals in their practice with children who might have been abused and to help bring a new logic and clarity to public debate about this contentious area."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/children"Children/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/health"Health/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/k_L_GdbSaNaqcR8rttg8Oh50Tpk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/k_L_GdbSaNaqcR8rttg8Oh50Tpk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/59046?ns=guardianpageName=UK+news%3A+Schoolgirl+killer+suspected+of+four+more+murdersch=UK+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Crime+-+UK+%28News%29%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Severin+Carrellc7=2008_12_03c8=1127773c9=articlec10=GUc11=UK+newsc12=Crimec13=c14=h2=GU%2FUK+news%2FCrime" width="1" height="1" //divpPolice forces across Britain have reopened a series of unsolved murder cases involving young women after an itinerant handyman was convicted yesterday of raping and killing a schoolgirl who went missing 17 years ago./ppPeter Tobin, 62, was given a life sentence for murder after a jury found him guilty of abducting, raping and murdering Vicky Hamilton, 15, who disappeared in the centre of Bathgate, near Edinburgh, in February 1991. 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The detective said no house searches were planned but that might change "should the intelligence and evidence warrant it"./ppDetective Chief Supt Malcolm Graham, head of CID at Lothian and Borders police, told reporters before Tobin's conviction that police across the UK were re-examining unsolved cases. There had been "information-sharing with a variety of other forces throughout the UK", he said, and that would continue "to establish whether Peter Tobin had committed any other crimes"./ppThe jury in Dundee took less than two and a half hours to deliver the guilty verdict yesterday. It was greeted with cries of "yes" from Vicky's family and friends. Her father, Michael, shouted "rot in hell" as the judge, Lord Emslie, sentenced Tobin to a minimum of 30 years in jail./ppLord Emslie told Tobin he was guilty of a "truly evil" crime, adding: "Yet again you have shown yourself to be unfit to live in a decent society." He continued: "It is hard for me to convey the loathing and revulsion that ordinary people will feel for what you have done. Abducting and killing a child on her way home from a happy weekend with her sister and then desecrating her body must rank among the most evil and horrific acts."/ppTobin was also convicted in 1994 of raping and sexually assaulting two girls aged 14 and 15 at his flat in Havant, Hampshire, after he drugged them with the sedative amitriptyline - the same drug found in Vicky's remains - and gave them alcohol./ppIn a joint statement read out by her sister, Lindsay Brown, Vicky's family thanked the jury, prosecutors and police. "Vicky was much more than a girl who was abducted and killed by a stranger, or the girl on a 'missing' poster. 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Danls92 Reviews: CoreCases Aluminum Slider


Introduction:
What I'm going to be reviewing is the Core Cases Aluminum Slider iPod Touch 1st generation case. It is an aluminum, two piece case that lock together to protect the iPod Touch.

How I Review: This review is broken up into 3 major categories (Design Overview, Protection Supplied, and Misc. Comments) with a final wrap-up at the end.

I have never liked the method of reviewing involved the arbitrary assigning of numbers to quantitatively express a feeling because it is so subjective. Due to this, I will not be giving my opinions a numerical value, instead I will be using the words excellent, good, neutral, bad, and horrible. For a brief description of what each means:

Excellent- Either perfect or just barely missing it. Something will receive an excellent rating if it is the best it could possibly be.
Good- Possible to improve, but by no means bad. This is the verdict I would give something that is good for what it is, but has several things holding it back.
Neutral- Neither good nor bad, I don't have any strong feelings. If I feel ambiguous about something it would receive this rating.
Bad- The unfavorable outweighs the favorable aspects. If something is not well designed, or poorly implemented this is what I would rate it.
Horrible- Unacceptably poor. If something impedes the thing it is meant to assist, or is completely useless I would say this about it.

With that being said, let's start the review.

1) Design Overview
Core Cases is a fairly prominent case maker for the Apple line-up, specializing primarily in aluminum models. Their long experience making cases is evident when you try this case out.

It is a two piece case, a front portion which covers all but the screen itself and the home button, and a back portion which covers everything except the Wi-Fi antenna. The front piece also has a cut out for the ambient light detector. The first thing that you'll notice when you remove the case from its packaging is how light it is. Being an aluminum case, I had expected something a bit heavier and bulkier so I was pleasantly surprised. Another nice feature was that the inside is lined with EVA foam, which prevents the case from scratching either side of the case. It fits the iPod securely enough though, that you won't have to worry about the iPod shifting throughout a normal day.

The nice thing about the sliding design is that the case does not have to suffer the additional bulk of a hinge or connector, as is generally the case with metal cases. The front piece slides over the bottom piece and clicks into place on two small buttons on either side. The one downside to this design is that if you hold the front piece only (which wraps around to the sides of the iPod) and push down firmly on the power button, the front portion of the case will slide off. I never experienced this during normal use and luckily it was easy enough to avoid once I became aware of it, but it is inconvenient. I would probably regard this more disapprovingly if I hadn't discovered it while testing it out upon initially receiving it, but it is the sort of thing where once you are aware of it the danger is minimal.

The entire bottom of the iPod is exposed, so it should connect easily enough to any device that requires the bottom jack, but I'm not sure how well it would work with docks as I don't have one to test it on. The two pieces clip together on the top of the case, but on either side the Power button and Wi-Fi antenna are exposed. This is a thoughtful touch, as aluminum could hamper the iPod's connectivity. It does take some getting used to that the antenna is completely exposed, and I probably would have preferred it to be covered by some sort of clear plastic, but I'm not sure about the feasability of such a change.

The only small problems that I encountered were mostly cosmetic. The Aluminum looks very sleek, but it also attracts finger prints like no other. Also, the front piece is very snug on the iPod, but has just enough room between the edges and the foam for dust and lint to get stuck. If you don't mind wiping it off once in a while, these shouldn't be a problem, especially as the back part covers the scratch magnet of the iPod's chassis.

Rating- Good
Generally speaking, this case is an extremely attractive option to somebody looking for a good basic case to keep their iPod protected. The few small cosmetic grievances that I had, along with the problem with the power button's depression causing the case to slide apart are all holding this case back from the excellent category. If you are presented with this case, and don't mind a no frills design, I would definitely recommend this case.




2) Protection Supplied
This is truly a solid case. For it's light weight design, it seems suprisingly strongly built and could definitely absorb a good deal of shock from a fall or being knocked against something else. If I weren't so cautious about my iPod, I would have supreme confidence that my iPod equipped with this case could stand a fall of several feet onto concrete with only my quiet whimpers as evidence that something had happened. I'm not sure how well the case itself would fare, as just normal use in my pocket with a collection of mildly sharp objects of the pen and key variety has caused a small collection of scratches, but I can't envision the damage being any more than cosmetic.

The case features the more or less standard design of extending a millimeter or so from the iPod's most valuable asset, the screen, so that if dropped face down there is a diminished chance of a crack. It also covers all except the screen and home button, meaning that the edges of the screen are completely covered. It would be nice if Core Cases included something to cover the bottom ports when not in use, but this isn't a standard accessory so it can't be held against them.

The one somewhat surprising exclusion is a screen protector, which most companies gladly throw in with a case like this. It seems that the 2nd generation case, which will be released 12/15/08 includes one, but us legacy iPod Touch users are left without one. Still, a screen protector is something of a convenience so I'm not going to hold the lack of one against them.

Rating- Excellent
Out of all of my cases, I would probably vote this one most likely to take a hit and keep going. The thing but durable make lends itself to people who handle their iPod roughly or want to be extra secure. The iPod is held firmly in place, and the inner foam lining keeps the aluminum from scratching the iPod's case. The buttom ports, and Wi-Fi antenna are left exposed, but only for the obvious reasons of compatibility and superior signal respectively.


3) Misc. Comments
I don't have much to add here on the product itself, but I'd like to give my opinion in regards to the company itself. I would like to thank Corey for all of his help in making this review happen, and CoreCases itself for providing what would be my first review unit. What I found to be most remarkable was when the case itself came, and I found not only the case but also a small bag of pop-rocks. At first I was confused, thinking that they must have fallen in from somewhere between my openning of the box and my removal of the case. Realizing that the box was in the middle of my desk with no jumping point for a curious bag.

I contacted Corey, and he told me that in every online purchase a small suprise is included so that the consumer has a little something special to look forward too along with the case. You can take what you will from this, but I personally thought it was a brilliant sentiment and a strong statement about CoreCases' loyalty to their customers.

Also, this is directly from their website rather than any corespondance, but I thought this was a good place to mention that if you put the code THEMANTLE in when purchasing a case, it will give you an additional $5 off.

4) Overall
Rating: Good- Excellent

I debated over this one for a while, but I finally decided to put it squarely between a good and an excellent. I know that this slightly contradicts my scale of rating above, but I figure that it's my review so I might as well go for it!

Simply put, there it isn't perfect enough for an excellent nor mediocore enough for a good. There's a lot going well for this case, but there are just a few small but important things holding it back. As I said above, if you're presented with this case and don't mind a slightly simplistic case this is pure gold. If you're looking for more frills, you'd best look elsewhere. What you get with this case is exactly what is advertised, a sleek and protective case.

For it's price point, it is a serious contender for anybody looking to protect their iPod.

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/70751?ns=guardianpageName=UK+news%3A+Tobin+guilty+verdict+prompts+reopening+of+murder+casesch=UK+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Crime+-+UK+%28News%29c5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Severin+Carrellc7=2008_12_02c8=1127677c9=articlec10=GUc11=UK+newsc12=Crimec13=c14=h2=GU%2FUK+news%2FCrime" width="1" height="1" //divpPolice forces across Britain have reopened a series of unsolved murder cases involving young women after an itinerant handyman was convicted today of raping and killing a schoolgirl who went missing 17 years ago./ppPeter Tobin, 62, was given a life sentence for murder after a jury found him guilty of abducting, raping and murdering Vicky Hamilton, 15, who disappeared in the centre of Bathgate, near Edinburgh, in February 1991. Her body was dug up in the back garden of Tobin's former home in Margate, Kent, last year./ppDetectives are understood to be re-examining at least four further cases involving missing girls and women after drawing up a detailed profile of Tobin's life and movements since he was born near Paisley, Renfrewshire, in 1946./ppDetective Superintendent David Swindle, from Strathclyde police, said Tobin had travelled "extensively" across Britain during his life, and police were working on "any potential links between Tobin's movements and outstanding missing females or victims of crime"./ppThe senior detective said there were no current plans to search houses, "but these options will be considered should the intelligence and evidence warrant it"./ppDetective Chief Superintendent Malcolm Graham, the head of CID at Lothian and Borders police, told reporters before Tobin's conviction that police across the UK were re-examining old and unsolved cases. /ppThere had been "information sharing with a variety of other forces throughout the UK," he said. /ppGraham said there would be "further joint work between police forces across the UK" to establish whether Peter Tobin had committed any other crimes./pp"Although the inquiries are potentially in progress in terms of checking unsolved cases or missing persons who have not been found, it is my expectation that we will begin that work more overtly and in earnest after the conclusion of this case," he said.br / br /Tobin is already serving life for the brutal rape and murder of Angelika Kluk, a Polish student. Her body was discovered in September 2006, bound and gagged under the floor of a Catholic church in Glasgow where Tobin had been working as a handyman under an assumed name./ppThe jury in Dundee took less than two and a half hours to deliver its guilty verdict today. This was greeted with cries of "yes" from Vicky's family and friends. Her father, Michael, shouted "Rot in hell" as the judge, Lord Emslie, sentenced Tobin to a minimum of 30 years in jail./ppLord Emslie told Tobin he was guilty of a "truly evil" crime: "Yet again, you have shown yourself to be unfit to live in a decent society," he said./pp"It is hard for me to convey the loathing and revulsion that ordinary people will feel for what you have done. You already have an appalling record of convictions for sexual and violent crimes./pp"Abducting and killing a child on her way home from a happy weekend with her sister and then desecrating her body must rank among the most evil and horrific acts that any human being could commit."/ppTobin was also convicted in 1994 of raping and sexually assaulting two girls, aged 14 and 15, at his flat in Havant, Hampshire, after he drugged them with the sedative amitriptyline - the same drug found in Vicky's remains - and gave them alcohol./ppIn a joint statement read out by her sister Lindsay Brown, Vicky's family thanked the jury, prosecutors and police. "Vicky was much more than a girl who was abducted and killed by a stranger, or the girl on a 'missing' poster. Our sister was a warm, clever, generous girl who shared many happy years with us./pp"We will always remember Vicky as she lived, not as she died."/ppHamilton's dismembered body was recovered, wrapped in layers of plastic bags, in two separate portions from a carefully dug pit in the back garden of Tobin's former home in Margate, Kent, in November last year after Lothian and Borders police uncovered DNA evidence linking him to the teenager's disappearance./ppForensic tests on Hamilton's purse, which was found in Edinburgh soon after she disappeared, disclosed that Tobin's son, then aged three, appeared to have bitten the purse while he was staying with his father in Bathgate. /ppFurther tests on a knife hidden in the attic of the house in Bathgate, found after police searched the property last year, detected a fragment of human tissue belonging to Vicky. Four of Tobin's fingerprints were then found on one of the plastic bags covering her remains in Margate, and partial DNA fragments similar to Tobin's were detected on her body./ppTobin had denied all the charges, claiming he had been in Portsmouth on the day Hamilton disappeared. 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