Roaming Charges: Masked and Anonymous
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"George Retes was pulled over by ICE as he was driving near the violent raid on farm workers outside of Camarillo last Thursday. The ICE agents broke the windows of his car and pepper sprayed him, before taking him into custody. Retes is an American citizen and disabled US Army Veteran. He was held in federal lockup for four days , during which time his family and lawyer had no
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Unknown parent • • •Christmas 2006 was the first year I actually considered getting a "Big Flat Screen" TV. I ended up getting a Vizio GV42LF LCD with an LG S-PVA LCD panel in 2008 for $800 onsale during School Tax Holiday (normally $1200). Took me a year to understand the market.
By 2006 Panasonic was a leader in the plasma display tech. I remember drooling over their professional models which lacked speakers and tuners...and could be scored for less money.
Panasonic also made a 37" plasma which was smaller than the typical 42". Plasma tech was more difficult to miniaturize, than LCD and more costly to make smaller with high resolution.