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As a reviewer, I get to see and try a lot more products than I ever would have prior to joining Gaming Nexus. There are a lot of good products out on the market, and even more that are not so good. That's why when something truly great comes out; it's exciting to be able to let other gamers know about it. I guess where I'm heading with this is that the Razer Barracuda HP-1 Gaming Headphones are something great.
Let me start with the basics. The Barracuda is not small. The unit is roughly 10 inches tall from the bottom of the earphones to the top of the connecting support wires. Each earphone is comprised of a circular unit holding 4 sonic drivers; front, rear, center, and sub-woofer. Each driver has its own amplifier. The earphones are connected via two semi-flexible wires that are long enough and offer enough give for the tallest and widest heads. The speaker portion of each earphone is circled with a large cushion 3 ½ inches in diameter to keep the speakers from pressing up against the ears. The cushion is roughly ¾ of an inch thick, and very soft. A self adjusting strap is connected to the top of both cones spreading the weight of the unit allowing the earphones to rest fully against the head without causing too much pressure, as some units are apt to do. Putting the unit on you really notice the comfort provided by the padded earphones and the weight distribution strap.
When it comes to appearance, the Barracuda doesn't really look too dissimilar from most studio headphones. The unit itself is all black, and aside from the blue LED lit Razer logos on the outside of each headphone, the only noticeable differences are the detachable stick microphone attached to the base of the left earphone, and the control unit that sits not quite 24 inches down the cable from the unit.
The control unit is an interesting part of the unit. It offers volume control for the unit, as well as individual dials for the four pairs of sonic drivers, giving the user dynamic control over the audio mix without having to interrupt play to change game play audio settings. There's also a power switch on the unit, which like the overall volume knob is strangely unmarked.
The Barracuda Headphones are designed specifically to work with the new Barracuda AC-1 Audio Card. This is highly evident when looking at the proprietary connection at the end of the nearly 7 foot long headphone cord. It's somewhat reminiscent of an HD monitor connection. It is an HD-DAI plug, designed to work exclusively with Razers' upcoming card, which was not yet available at the time of this review. For those of us who weren't lucky enough to try the headphones with the intended audio card, an adapter is included in the box with the unit. The adapter plugs into the 4 standard audio mini-plug ports, and a USB port (for power). ;
Now that you know what the unit looks like, let's talk about what it sounds like. I played a variety of games wearing the headphones but the best overall experience when playing Battlefield 2. This is exactly the type of game that the Barracuda was designed for. The high quality audio in the game sounded amazing through the headphones drivers, and the positional audio of the surround sound really made me feel like the action I was hearing was coming from around me. In one instance in particular, I was able to pick up on the location of an enemy sniper based on the sound of the bullets in the headphones. The sounds of the various weapons, vehicles, and movements were distinct and crisp and the audio range was impeccable. From the low grumble of a tank motor, to the high pitched whine BF2 emits when you're temporarily deafened by being too close to an explosion, there wasn't a sound the game put out that didn't come through crystal clear.
While the Barracuda is designed for gaming, it's certainly no slouch when it comes to standard audio, either. I put the headphones on while writing this review, and cranked up my iTunes. My current playlist has everything from Ben Folds Five to 50 Cent, and I wanted to see how the headphones would stand up to the various musical styles. When listening to Missing Link from the Judgment Night soundtrack, there's no such thing as too much bass. So after maxing out the bass in the software, I did the same thing on the headphones control unit. I was amazed that there was no noticeable distortion as this song almost always outdoes the subwoofers on my other audio systems. Next I went to I Can Hear Music by The Beach Boys, and boy could I (hear music that is). The vocal harmonies and the high falsetto are not lost on the Barracuda, and the sound is extremely clear, with no fuzz at all behind the music, which sometimes occurs in music originally mixed in mono.
Let me not forget to mention the microphone. It works well, and the design is unobtrusive, so you're not forced to move it out of the way to take a drink of whatever is keeping you up at 3 AM on a work night, and yet still picks up pretty much only the users voice. Measuring just 3 inches in length, I never feel the need to detach it, as I rarely even notice it's there.
Even with all of the great things above, no product is perfect. While there are faults to the unit, they are small. To begin with, the control unit feels like it's upside down. What can only be a belt clip on the back of the control pod opens up when wearing the headphones and feels like it should open down. This orientation means the volume knob is at the bottom of the unit which could make for some fumbling when looking to reduce the volume during play. Secondly, the sensitivity that is at the heart of the Barracudas strength can also be the cause of interference from time to time. My audio card is not very far from my wireless internet card, and the RF signal of the wireless card is can be picked up as a sometimes disturbing buzz on the headphones. This is mostly due to the lack of shielding on my audio card, and likely why the forthcoming audio card from Razer has heavier shielding than the Death Star.
In conclusion, it's really easy to recommend a product like the Barracuda because it does what the package says it will; it provides an outstanding gaming surround environment.
* The product in this article was sent to us by the developer/company.
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Music-stock; Alexander Courage (from VOYAGE's THE CYBORG and LOST IN SPACE'S WILD ADVENTURE)
After the opening narration, Doug lands. There is different versions of the music from the cliffhanger before. Doug lands, tumbling onto a dirt area and at night. This landing is mysterious and eerie. There is dust and some crash sounds. Tony rolls out of the time vortex and lands onto rocks and in some kind of cave mine. Explosions rock a mine. A whistle blows and men run from the mine. An older man asks about the crew of 200 men in the mine. He asks a man who escaped. The man tells him the others-all 200 are trapped. The man runs to the very nice (stock?) set of a building with a sign on it that says Emperor Mine. Miners run out of a cave. A young miner deeper in, snaps orders to other miners to divert them toward a safer way out. He says one way is blocked and they should go another way, then he spots Tony, "Hey you get outta here!" Dirt falls on them, "Hold on!" Tony asks what's happened; men are trapped in a mine. Tony wants to help but the young miner yells at him to get out and punches him back (a bit extreme if you ask me and if you are trying to save his life). Tony falls on his back as the cave entrance seems to fill up with dirt. Several incomplete and even error filled synopses relate that a Nelson Leigh was cast as an American Preacher and an actor called Robert Adler was cast as the man. Strange in that it doesn't seem any Preacher was featured prominently in the episode. After the slide of dirt, Doug is on one side of a mound and Tony on the other. Doug moves wood while dust falls on both. Doug will have to get to the surface and get help (we hear VOYAGE-THE CYBORG music here). Doug finds the mine superintendent listless and saying that all men will die. The man, Henderson, tells him they're all going to die thanks to that, "thing out there." Doug runs out of the mine office and looks up. In the night sky, he sees a flaming ball of fire! (cue WILD ADVENTURE-LOST IN SPACE go around the sun music).
The time tunnel complex has lots of movement. The tunnel people see St. Peter's Square. They change the viewing angle, lose contact, then get a response--see a semi tropical area, possibly South America, Buenos Ares, England, Wales. The picture changes place but they have time fix, not a good fix in space. The comet Doug saw is Halley's Comet. Kirk asks Jerry for info on it. It seems to be Spring 1910. They view Doug in the mining office. Henderson has lost all desire to live. Doug returns to the rock slide and digs. Tony digs on his side and together they make a hole. Tony comes out of it. They have to find help for the other trapped men. The whole area collapses and they run out. Henderson tells them, "Haven't you heard? the world's coming to an end." Tony views the comet. Doug reads a note on the desk--it is 1910. Tony looks at Henderson, "Is that what you mean by the end of the world?" The boys try to talk to Henderson. Tony tells him that Blaine--who Henderson calls a young gang boss on the payroll--saved his life. Blaine calls from the shaft--the men are trapped on the 3rd level. Tony answers him. The miners trapped don't know about the comet--word came in too late for them to hear. Tony tells them that help is coming. The miners shake and dust falls. Rocks hit some. They lose the phone connection. Blaine finds the broken wire.
Time Tunnel Staff watch the comet on the tunnel. Jerry gives out info on it (we hear WILD ADVENTURE music and even the Dr. Smith theme!). Ray notes the comet came by Earth in 1531, 1607, 1682, 1759, 1835 (these dates are fairly accurate with only 1759 being in question as really being 1758; it came back in 1986; it was also visible in 1066). Ann finishes for him, "And 1910." Kirk asks if the comet could affect the complex. Ann tells him, "General, the time tunnel is not perfected yet." They only have marginal control over Tony and Doug. It is only 50 percent predictable. Kirk tells Ray and Ann, "You're both beating around the bush." Jerry tries to explain but Kirk snaps at him, "Duty here is voluntary--would you like to be relieved?" Jerry answers, "No sir." Ray and Ann continue to explain. They have to refine their focus polarization, give a quick scan, and then they may know. Doug sees a newspaper called the Sentinel--it reads Comet Strike At Dawn. "You're just gonna sit there and let those men die for nothing." Doug asks about who Ainsley is--he wants him to retract his statement of the end of the world coming due to the comet hitting the planet. Henderson tells him that might work, "A herd of wild horses couldn't make that man say anything he didn't want to." Tony wonders how but Doug tells him they cannot tell the truth about themselves being time travelers--the last thing they want is for people to think they are out of their minds. Tony will go into town---"We need men to help." He goes to the heavy set Sheriff who is no help to him but cannot help other towns that call in. He tells Tony to try Philipsberg. He knows about the mine disaster but the whole town is running around like scared horses. A man called Owens calls in but the Sheriff cannot give him help--he tells him calling the town of Carver will do no good--their County Seat is on fire (ouch!). He suggests the National Guard. Townspeople have all gone up to Pilgrimage Hill--they all took up with religion all of a sudden. The Sheriff has to answer the phone again--a Johnny calling. Doug goes to the observatory which has a telescope aimed at the comet. Every observatory Ainsley has contacted confirmed his research--every one they could reach. He meets with Doug in a dark room. Limbo? Cheap set? Ainsely checked his research 50 times. Other minds in the university agree with him. Doug tells him, "Professor, if I were to tell you about myself, you wouldn't believe me." The Professor hopes to make observation until he can no longer. If Doug continues to claim the comet will not hit, Ainsley asks for data if he is to believe him. Tony goes through the crowd at the Pilgrimage Hill. They all hold torches, "Listen to me! It's not going to hit! It's not the end of the world!" No one listens or even talks to Tony. Time Tunnel watches Doug make calculations on Ainsley's chalk board. Ray wants to send him a radar scope to prove it. Ann agrees with Kirk in that doing so would be a risk. Jerry takes the controls as Ann makes the arrangements to do it. Jerry wonders if they can move all the guys in the mine shaft but they cannot. Jerry calls Ray, "Dr. Swain." He holds the focus within the magnetic field. Masses of opposite polarity attract---Ray tells Kirk the magnetic forces of the comet can blow out all power. Kirk wonders what that would do besides sticking them with a big repair bill. Ann tells him, "So far, we've learned more from failure than from success." Tony returns to Henderson's office where the Sheriff is, come to help. Nobody with Tony suggests no one is going to help him. Henderson is gone--they figure he took off for the hills. The Sheriff takes a shovel, "Let's dig those fellows out." They find Henderson there first, moving rocks. Tony got him to thinking, "A man has no call to sit around and wait for the end..." Tony tells him they need timbers to support the walls first. Henderson doesn't listen, "What's a little cave in among friends." He causes a cave in on all three of them. The time staff watch as looting and pillaging and burning is everywhere. Ray asks Jerry to get a fix on Dr. Phillips. Doug shows the Professor the perihelion and trajectory of the comet and confirms his findings. A tech puts the radar scope in the tunnel and leaves. The hum builds but they have an imperfect fix. Jerry zeros in on the comet to try to get a time-space fix from there. Ainsley tells Doug, "You're an exceptionally intelligent man." Doug wishes he could have an explanation. The phone lines are dead, the operators have given up. There is two hours and 25 minutes left until the end of everything. Sheriff finds Tony under some rubble and says, "I ain't so easy to kill." Tony tells him to get out before there is another slide but the Sheriff won't leave. Henderson, he says, was not so lucky. I imagine this means he is dead. In the mine, Blaine pep talks the trapped men telling them there must be 100, no 200 men digging them out right now. Kirk looks at the tunnel screen as the world plunges into chaos, "All because they think it will be the end." Ray says, "It will be for some." Jerry mentions their early talk in the afternoon---the comet and Earth are bodies that have mass and attraction. Today, Halley's Comet is a billion miles away from Earth Ann says but with the constant fix on the comet in 1910 more and more impossible. Doug and Ainsley talk: a dark mass can divert the comet from its trajectory into the Earth--it reflects no light but the dark mass can move the comet. Doug tries to figure out what data instruments they have he can use to prove it, "1910, 1910." He says a radiometer could. Ainsley tells him he is wrong that the radiometer is not yet in existence--it is--there are only about six of them and he calls it Nichol's radiometer. The university he is a part of has one--it was a gift to the university. Doug asks for it and the Professor claims he will get it. The Sheriff digs Tony out. Tony says, "I guess it's hard to tell how a person's going to react when faced with how they're going to die." The sheriff tells him they will face it--like poor Henderson did. Suddenly dust and dirt rain down on them!
Doug calls the radiometer a crude device, puzzling Ainsley who calls it the most advanced piece of equipment they have. They hook it up to the scope and get intense radiant energy above. Doug sees nothing, not a darn thing. Ainsley tells him that a non reflective mass of something can divert the trajectory of the comet. They must go to the mob on the hill and tell them Ainsley was wrong. He retracts his statement on the hill but the mob doesn't seem phased. They don't even talk. To prove it, he tells them the tail of the comet is a cloud of flaming gas which will evaporate in 16 seconds. Doug tells him, "You'd better be right." He is. Doug tells the Professor to bring the people to the mine and Ainsley gives him a handkerchief to wipe a smudge off his face. The Prof is one of those nice characters that crop up from time to time (pun intended I guess) that offset the evil characters in history. This episode is full of nice people who are well meaning. I did hope Henderson didn't die as he proved that men rally around and when the worst is about to occur, can accomplish great heroics and deeds, even the most unheroic men. In many ways, this episode foreshadows Irwin Allen's disaster movies and in general, all disaster films. It certainly is better than the later CAVE IN but people work together to help each other survive incredible odds as in THE TOWERING INFERNO and the earlier THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Other TIME TUNNELs also show the later Allen preference for disaster: CRACK OF DOOM foreshadows WHEN TIME RAN OUT and other volcano movies, there was the Titanic which foreshadows POSEIDON ADVENTURE.
Time Tunnel watches the comet which Jerry fears they are locked onto. It's coming right at them Jerry gasps. Kirk tries to calm him but the tunnel is connected with 1910. Kirk says, "Jerry, that's just an image, it can't affect us." Jerry tells him, "The tunnel connects us to 1910---now!" Ann agrees, "Jerry's right, the time tunnel does connect us with 1910 and the comet--we're in the same time frequency." Kirk and Ann argue briefly. Something in 1910 can affect them physically. Kirk wants Ann to talk common sense and logically. Ann tells him as far as she knows no one's ever succeeded in defining time logically. Kirk orders them to clear the complex. All get out but Ann, Ray, Jerry, and General Kirk as they shake and fall from the comet. Men run on bridges again, bridges over each other, bridges over the atomic furnace. The power jumps the circuit breakers and the comet pulls the foursome. Jerry is pulled to the foot of the tunnel! The others go flying to the consoles. Ann screams, "Jerry!" Jerry is being pulled into the mouth of the tunnel!
Interior angle of the tunnel as Ray runs and disconnects the console. All stops. Kirk helps Jerry back, Ann cries. Jerry falls and stops breathing. Heart attack--electric shock. Ray and Kirk try to revive him using heart massage. They call for someone to come with a resuscitator. Ann pulls a wire from the console and uses electric shock to stimulate his heart. They revive Jerry and techs take him to the Medical area. Ann gasps, "We almost brought the comet itself back!" Ray says, "I think it's time we reexamine the whole project. We're dealing with forces of cosmic proportions about which we know little or nothing." He goes on to tell Kirk that bringing the force of Halley's Comet across billions and millions of light years and time right here into the tunnel--into their own time and place is not just a calculated risk. He says the H bomb is just a toy balloon compared to the forces they are loosening here. Ann tells him he's forgetting Doug and Tony but Ray tells her he is not. He is just weighing their lives against the lives they're endangering here. Ann barbs, "Our own!" Kirk scolds her, "That isn't fair. Ray has risked his life as much or more than all of us here." Ann concedes, "I know, I know, I'm sorry."
Kirk tells them to build more safeguards around the project, not scrap. Ray won't let it go, "Don't we say that a couple of times each year, then we come right back here the next morning and play with forces beyond imagination."
Ann tells them they can't be out of touch with Doug and Tony too long or they may lose them forever. A couple of hours or days to fix, Ray cannot tell yet. Blaine, in the mine, is fixing the wires. Tony and the Sheriff go to the office. Tony asks what time it is and finds out, "This has all been for nothing." Blaine calls, proving him wrong. They are not dead, everyone is left so far but they can't hold out much longer. As Tony is about to answer, the Sheriff tells him not to give those men false hope. Tony rethinks and is about to tell them the truth when Doug bursts in--a whole mob is coming that will dig the men out in no time. They hear shouting and the Sheriff sees Tony and Doug vanish into thin air! The boys fly into the time vortex. Tony appears over a desert in an extreme long shot (this whole sequence is from the unaired pilot). He is in mid air and then he falls to the desert floor. Ray says, "They're separated in time." Tony looks for Doug but can't find him. A jeep rides up to him from the ground--the Tic Toc labs! A soldier is sent by Jiggs to Tony. A soldier doesn't believe Tony is one of the men in charge of the project. He has been here 14 months now and doesn't know Tony at all. Tony tells him he's been here for close to seven years! Jiggs comes to him and Tony tells him he didn't recognize him without the moustache. Jiggs tells him he never had a moustache! Tony realizes they brought him back too early--it is not his time. Agitated that they brought him back in the wrong time, Kirk watches, "Newman was still in school--he and Phillips haven't even met yet. Imagine the nightmare Tony is going through." Ann asks to see the license plate of the jeep--A-2630-Grand Canyon State, Arizona 58---1958. Doug arrives in a nice 1950s car. He doesn't know Tony either. He tells them to bring him back to town but Jiggs tells him that their security officer will have to question him first. It was ten years ago. Ann tells them to close a gap. Jerry asks why not just go out there--why would he ask such a stupid question? Why--I'll tell you why--his lines were replacing the lines from the Senator Clark in the unaired pilot--Clark didn't fully understand the implications but Jerry should have. Ann tells him he would see nothing. Ray wants to superimpose Tony's signal with Doug's. They do and as Tony breaks free of the guards, he vanishes.
CLIFFHANGER: After Tony's harrowing experience in the year 1958 where neither Doug nor Jiggs knew him, he is transferred back to Doug into the time crystal like vortex. The pair fly through the time vortex and toward an island. They land in the Japanese consulate room in a corner. It is Honolulu, Hawaii and three Japanese men---Chief of Espionage Tasaka, his aide Okuno, and agent Sumida are burning files that they take off a desk. Kirk, Ann, and Ray see when this stop is by looking at the clear calendar on the office desk: Dec. 6th 1944. After a brief questioning by the three, Doug and Tony lie about being tourists and quickly leave. Tasaka sends the large Sumida on a mission: "Follow them, if they make one suspicious move---kill them!" END OF CLIFFHANGER. NOTE: Cliffhanger music would differ greatly but many of the later episodes have the same theme or variations of the cliffhanger theme.
END SCENES TO NEXT WEEK FOR END OF THE WORLD includes: music from WILD ADVENTURE from LOST IN SPACE (on the CD set) set to scenes from CRACK OF DOOM and REVENGE OF THE GODS. A native comes at them, "The earth trembles and we must appease the gods." The scientist tells Tony and Doug, "This island is called Krakatoa." Doug mentions the greatest explosion and then no man's land from REVENGE OF THE GODS and we see the spears. There are also quotes from Ulysses who will rescue Helen, the traitor, and Helen herself confronting the traitor. A narrator then says, "The Exciting Past, the Breathtaking future, next week on this channel!"
NOTE OF ACCURACY: The Earth swept through the tail of Halley's Comet in 1910 with no noticeable effect, enterprising merchants sold comet pills as protection against the disaster. 1910 was also the year of the radio direction finder. Although difficult to find at first (perhaps because of embarrassment) I did find this in WHAT HAPPENED WHEN: "This year thousands of people became convinced that the end of the world was at hand. The cause: Halley's Comet, named after the English astronomer Edmund Halley, who saw the comet in 1682 and predicted it to return in 76 years. He also determined it was the same comet from 1531 and 1607. Miners refused to work on May 18th when the earth was due to pass through the fiery tail. Many workers stayed home with their families. Farm families hid in cyclone cellars. In Milwaukee, Wis. two men were said to have committed suicide. The comet's tail could be seen across much of the night sky. Mark Twain said he came in with Halley's Comet and would go out with it was not disappointed. He died on April 21, 1910 and was 74. 1910 proved to be a rough year: The last major outbreak of Black Plague struck, killing millions in China and India; in February a train wreck in Washington were hit by a severe blizzard and one hundred and 18 people died in the disaster---avalanches. There was an LA fire at the LA Times building on October 1. Later in the day a suitcase was found at the home of the LA Times publisher and which police carried to a safe location in a park, moments before it blew up. 22 workers perished in the scandalous fire. Clarence Darrow was defending the alleged perpetrators. There was a forest fire in Montana and Idaho which killed 85 people in August. And in a British Coal Mine Disaster a total of 334 miners were killed by an explosion at the Number 3 Bank Pit Colliery in Hulton, England on December 21. Not a good year.
Miners were dying in explosions and cave ins for many years. 1909 saw a fire and explosion in an Illinois Coal Mine, killed: 259 miners. 239 miners died in explosion in Darr coal mine in Jacob's Creek, Penn on December 19, 1907. In 1906 the Courrieres Mine in France blew up, killed: 1060 including would be rescuers from gases. Not to mention the many children who perished in mines in England and America as well as other countries. Of note is the blast in 1908 in Siberia. This was believed to be a meteor, a comet, or an asteroid that exploded in mid air above the area in Russia---which left trees standing but dead and stripped of their branches at the center of the crater left. No record of a cave in in the year 1910 and not on the day that the Earth passed through the tail but I suppose it could have happened but it is fair for THE TIME TUNNEL to take dramatic license and tell a rousing tale, which this time it definitely did.


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Looking for a job while you currently have one can be tricky, especially depending on the industry and organization that you work in. Discretion is key as you do not want your current employer to get wind of your plans. Besides the obvious no-no's such as:
Do not print out job descriptions on the general office printer
Do not print copies of your resume and cover letter at work
Do not let anyone see you perusing external job boards
There are a few more tips that one should keep in mind when they've reached the next step in the job-hunting process – the interview. Below are 5 tips that one should keep in mind:
Schedule interviews before work or after work.
Most companies are more than willing to work around your schedule. Schedule early morning interviews or late afternoon appointments in order to keep red flags down.
If the organization you work for has a casual dress policy, keep your interview clothes in a gym bag and change off-site before your interview.
Change in the fitting room of a nearby retail store or if you have a friend that works in the area, change at their office and leave your gym bag with them. Should you change in a fitting room, be sure to give the fitting room attendant a heads up. (This writer has been known to at times walk into a retail store in one outfit and out with another without a word to anyone– usually people are too busy to really notice.)
Take a vacation or personal day and try to schedule as many interviews on that day as possible.
If you are able to schedule an interview a few days in advance, immediately give your employer a heads up that you would like to take some time off.
Take phone-interviews away from the office in a quiet place, not at your cubicle or in your office.
While looking for a new job you don't want to sacrifice a chance at losing your current one. You do not want someone walk by and overhear your conversation so have them off-site.
If need be, use simple excuses such as a doctor's appointment in order to sneak away for an hour or two.
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Today, I'd like to play "truth or dare" for the readers, but truth is the only option. Specifically, I'd like to know what are some of your guilty pleasures.
QueerJoe's Guilty Pleasures
Being such a snob about so many things, including food, and travel and movies and people, I have a small list of things that I love, but I'm not proud about loving them.
1. I love a bologna and cheese sandwich on white bread with plain yellow mustard...the cheaper the bologna, the better.So, what are some of your shameful pleasures?
2. Dirty Dancing is one of my most shameful and beloved movies.
3. I could spend hours reading an issue of People Magazine
4. For about a year, I used to love browsing through the local dollar stores, and I would often spend over $20 in a visit.
5. I have become an expert in both Freecell and Solitaire, two of the games delivered with most MS Windows computers.
6. If I eat just one Hostess Donette (the powdered sugar ones...not the chocolate covered ones), I have to finish the whole box.
Current Knitting
Since my last post on Wednesday, I have had little desire to knit or crochet anything. I have done some work on the Trekking sock.
You'll see I finished the first sock, and I've started on the second one. I've mentioned that I have combined three components of different socks into this pair of socks. The toe is a standard toe-up using a figure eight faux-cast-on, like Judy Gibson describes. I know there are other as good or better cast-ons, but I'm comfortable with this one. I cast on a total of 24 stitches, and then increase every other round until I have 64 stitches on the needles.
The heel is something I found on the Socknitter's List. Colin of Colinknits.blogspot.com, has invented a heel he calls the Andersson heel (I assume that's his last name). It requires no picking up of stitches, and it's relatively simple to do, once you understand his instructions. He's written a description of it twice, but I think it would have been easier to just write a pattern, and have folks adapt it based on all the questions he seems to be getting about it.
But despite all that, it's a comfortable heel, and easy to execute.
Finally, the upper part of the sock is from The Knitting Man(ual). It's not a pleasure to do this stitch, especially if you knit tightly, like I do, but it looks great for a man's sock. I extended the pattern on the front of the sock a little lower than the back, and I'm very pleased with the result.
Readers' Comments/Questions
Marilyn writes, "By the way, the sock yarn is Trekking. Just in case you lost the band, which I always do."
She is exactly right...I just didn't have the band with me when I posted last. It's color number 69 (my favorite number).
Karen writes, "Could you maybe describe how you keep all of your knitting supplies organized? Especially needles. I have a small space and am constantly searching for the size I need."
As Thaddeus will gladly tell you, I don't really keep anything organized, or at least not very neatly. I took a picture of my main knitting area, which is the chair where I watch television, exactly as it looks most of the time.
It's an old wooden tool shelf that works wonderfully for the purpose of knitting. On the bottom shelf, you can see some of my cones of yarn (I have dozens more in a closet upstairs). The top shelf is partitioned off, and I keep my stitch markers, crochet hooks, needle gauge, current knitting book(s) and all my so-called straight needles) On the right side of the top shelf, are a bunch of holes that I can just put my straight needles through without them falling through. The handle for the tool shelf extends out on the left and right of the shelf, and I hang my cable needles on the protrusions. The cat knocks the cable needles down every once in a while.


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BBQ celebrated at NC State Championships
More than $20,000 in prizes on line
BBQ celebrated at NC State Championships
More than $20,000 in prizes on line
Tryon is in hog heaven as the Blue Ridge Barbecue and Music Festival celebrates 20 years over the weekend.
Gov. Pat McCrory formally declared the event as the state's barbecue championship, with more than $20,000 in prizes on the line in the winner-take-all competition.
"This is like the Super Bowl for us. It's such an economic impact on the whole. We are just a few miles from Landrum, (and) it means a lot to the area," said Chuck Britton, chairman of the Blue Ridge BBQ Festival.
The event also features a classic car show and a motorcycle poker run.
Rocky Top Barbecue from Jonesborough, Tenn., took home the top prize as the overall winner for the event, while Asheville's Smoke in the Mountains was crowned as the top North Carolina team.


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From hang gliding, to a flying trapeze, you could say Libby Segal has done it all, or at least tried to.
"Piloting a plane has been my absolute favorite hobby, I did it twice, that's how much I enjoyed it," said Segal.
In February of last year, the University of Rhode Island grad embarked on an endeavor, dubbing herself: "The Hobby Hoarder."
Her goal: to try something new once a week for a year.
"I knew I had to start the project with something no one really expected me to ever try," said Segal.
That something was pole dancing.
"It was absolutely outside my comfort zone, all about self image," said Segal.
And the most unusual activity she tried?
"Something really strange I didn't know even existed until I went on to one of those deal sites, samurai sword fighting," said Segal.


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(Reuters) - Strong subscriber gains by Netflix Inc prompted analysts to sharply raise price targets on the stock, even as some worried that the shares are getting expensive as the online online video company faces bigger bills for original programs.
Netflix shares were set to open 9 percent higher at around $387, having more than doubled in value in the last six months. It is the biggest gainer in the S&P 500 index this year.
At least 12 brokerages raised their price targets on Netflix's shares by as much as $200, yet most of the price targets are still below the current share price.
Netflix added 1.3 million customers to its U.S. streaming business during the September quarter and said on Monday it expects to end the year with between 32.7 million and 33.5 million users.
"We recognize how difficult it is for a company to continue growing at that rate, but we do not see any evidence that the rate will slow down in the near-term," Evercore analyst Alan Gould wrote in a note to clients.
He raised his price target to $350 from $150 and upgraded the stock to "equal weight" from "underweight."
Original content is helping Netflix differentiate from other online video services and will have a significant positive impact as they accumulate audiences, JP Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth said.
Netflix has invested heavily in original series such as political satire "House of Cards" and critically acclaimed prison drama "Orange is the New Black".
Anmuth added that a Netflix deal with Dreamworks Animation to launch its first animated original series, "Turbo: F.A.S.T.," in December and its decision to reinvest earnings upside in new international markets will drive up viewership.
However, some analysts remained skeptical of the company's sky-rocketing stock, which is trading at 113 times earnings, according to Starmine.
"We find it difficult to justify this valuation given the risks of rising content costs, heavy competition, and the likelihood NFLX may need to raise additional capital to fund operations," Jefferies & Co analysts wrote in a note.
Jefferies raised its price target by $55 to $215 -- just over half the current share price -- but maintained its "underperform" rating.
It said Netflix's operating model will come under pressure from its content liabilities of about $5.4 billion, long-term debt of $500 million, free cash flow of $7 million and need to raise additional capital.
"Netflix cannot maintain high growth and high profits at the same time," said Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, as the company faces "ever increasing content costs while satisfying customer demands for ever increasing content quantity and quality."
Pachter said Netflix's content strategy will lead to low profitability, limiting the company's value to well below its current price.
(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan and Rachel Chitra in Bangalore; Editing by Rodney Joyce)


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Cig-smoking, fur-toting, British glamour queen, art muse, and fashion icon Kate Moss has returned to the frontline for Saint Laurent's spring 2018 campaign lensed by David Sims. And you've got Anthony Vaccarello to thank for that.source: https://www.instagram.com/manifestomedia
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CHICAGO – Rocking chairs, birthing tubs and changing tables haven't yet been ordered, but organizers in suburban Chicago are eager to start furnishing their birth center – which may become the first such facility in Illinois.
The birth center at PCC South Family Health Center needs a permit and a license. But these steps seem within reach after years of work by supporters of options for Illinois women with low-risk pregnancies. Birth centers operate in 37 other states. Organizers said they've been a long time coming to Illinois.
A state health planning board is set to consider on Feb. 5 whether to grant the first permit to PCC, a nonprofit health center in suburban Chicago that already provides primary care, dental care and behavioral health services. No letters of opposition have been filed about the project.
Illinois once prohibited birth centers, leaving women to choose between giving birth at home or in a hospital. It took two decades of lobbying by Illinois midwives before a 2007 law authorized a pilot program. Their opening was then held back by a lengthy rule-making process that involved negotiations between hospitals, doctors and midwives.
"It nearly brings me to tears sometimes," said Gayle Riedmann, a certified nurse midwife in suburban Chicago who has led the birth center movement. "It has been a long journey."
Birth centers can look like homes or clinics from the outside. Inside, women can get prenatal care and deliver their babies in a homelike setting. Trained midwives, rather than doctors, typically monitor the labor and birth, avoiding medical interventions like drugs and cesarean sections when possible and offering alternatives like water births.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists doesn't endorse home births, but puts accredited birth centers on par with hospitals for safety. The group's guidelines say either hospitals or free-standing birth centers that meet accrediting standards are "the safest setting" for childbirth.
What's more, birth centers provide care more cheaply than hospitals can – on average, $2,300 vs. $8,900.
What took so long? For years, legislative proposals met opposition from the Illinois Hospital Association and the Illinois State Medical Society, Riedmann said. To answer their concerns, the bill was rewritten as a pilot project allowing only 10 birth centers in Illinois.
A turning point came in 2007 when state Sen. John Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat who later became Senate president, threw his support behind the bill.
"He took it on and it just shifted the momentum," Riedmann said. Cullerton's staff convinced doctors and hospitals to work out an agreement with the midwives.
Cullerton was persuaded by a key aide, Jay Rowell, whose fiancee was a student midwife. Rowell and Annette Payot are now married, and she is a certified nurse midwife at the PCC clinic.
"We won him over on the facts and my wife's personal experience and her understanding of the issues," Rowell said, noting that overcoming resistance from the medical society was "extremely challenging." The society felt "the best type of care [was] through a doctor, period," he said.
The medical society and hospital group now take neutral positions on the law.
A task force began working in 1985 to change the Illinois law that prohibited birth centers, said Margie Schaps of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group in Chicago, a nonprofit organization that's worked on the issue.
"It's been a long time coming," Schaps said. "On one hand, I'm thinking how could we not have done this sooner? On the other hand, I'm excited for the women of Illinois that this choice should be available to them."
If approved, the birth center in Berwyn would be staffed by certified nurse midwives and backed up by physicians who work at the clinic. A nearby hospital, West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, has agreed to take transfers if complications arise during a birth.
The center will have two birthing rooms, said Cecelia Bacom, a certified nurse midwife who has led the planning.
PCC's birth center will take only women with low-risk pregnancies, Bacom said. In order to ensure the health and safety of mothers and newborns, women who go into labor before 37 weeks of pregnancy must deliver at a hospital. Expectant moms who smoke also must go elsewhere to deliver.
Nearly 80 percent of the current patients at South Family Health Center are uninsured or covered by Medicaid. For women on Medicaid — which pays for more than half of Illinois births — home births haven't been a real alternative.
"The state pays so little and so slowly" that midwives can't afford to offer their services for home births, Bacom said. "Out-of-hospital birth was essentially not available for Medicaid women."
There are 248 centers in the United States, a 27 percent increase compared to 2010, according to the American Association of Birth Centers.
After Berwyn, the state's next birth center may be in Chicago. Erie Family Health Center is searching for a site near Swedish Covenant Hospital on the city's northwest side, said Dr. Andrea Lee, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the health center.
Bacom hopes to open the Berwyn center within a year, if all goes well. It's taken much longer to get to this point than she ever imagined, she said, so predicting an opening date seems unwise.
"I honestly have no idea," she said.
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board meets Feb. 5 to review applications, including from the Berwyn birth center.


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With the opening of the Pearl Street station in New York in September 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the electric age. Ironically, however, the success of Edison's original lighting system in some ways proved its undoing—or rather, its forced modification. Though Edison himself emphasized scale and distribution in his system, the demand for electricity soon led to the desire to build ever-larger power plants and transmit that power over greater distances. Additionally, with the rapid distribution of industrial electric motors came a strong demand for voltages other than the 110 volts used for lighting. The Edison system, which used direct current (DC), was ill suited to meet these new demands. The problem of transmission was even more difficult, since the long distance transmission of bulk quantities of DC at 110 volts was very expensive.
In 1886, George Westinghouse, a wealthy and respected inventor, but a newcomer in the electric power industry, founded Westinghouse Electric in order to compete with Edison. Westinghouse's system relied on the discoveries and patents of Nikola Tesla, a Serbian (from Croatia) immigrant who passionately believed in the superiority of alternating current (AC) power. Power loss in transmission depends on voltage—the higher the voltage, the smaller the power loss. Unlike DC, the voltage of AC can be increased (stepped up) with a transformer at the generating station, and then it can be transmitted over long distances. Then, before it is delivered to customers, the voltage can be reduced (stepped down) to safe, usable levels again. Edison's Pearl Street station was enormous, but lit only one square mile of New York City. Lighting up New York would take hundreds of Edison stations. Westinghouse's AC system, on the other hand, made it possible to put large generating stations outside of cities and provide power to more customers.
Edison was less than thrilled with the emergence of Westinghouse's technology, which threatened his own dominance in a field he virtually created. He also had genuine concerns about the safety of AC. The two men engaged in a public relations battle to determine which system would become the dominant technology. In an attempt to discredit AC power Edison stooped to some low tricks. He paid schoolboys a quarter for each dog or cat they delivered to him and then he electrocuted the animals in deliberately gruesome public experiments. In another desperate attempt to sway public opinion against AC, Edison recommended that the state of New York use electrocution by means of AC power as its method of capital punishment. He even suggested calling the electric chair the "Westinghouse Chair" and recommended that the verb "Westinghoused" be used to describe electrocution.
Edison's theatrics notwithstanding, the superiority of AC became increasingly apparent to the public. And although Edison stubbornly defended DC, the use of AC equipment at the huge new Niagara Falls power facility in 1895 marked the rise of AC current.
Further Reading
For more information on the history of the electrification of New York City, Joseph Cunningham's book, York Power is available for purchase from Amazon.com


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Six Generations Here: A Family Farm Remembers recounts the story of the Krueger family farm in Watertown, Wisconsin since coming to America in 1851 for economic opportunity. Author Marjorie L. McLellan reveals the struggles of rural immigrant life over six generations. The Kruegers always incorporated their past traditions with the needs of the present to successfully operate their farm. This book follows the family through six generation as they compile a rich and varied record of Wisconsin farm life.


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Lloyd Blankfein, the 57-year-old CEO of Goldman Sachs, who was paid more than $16 million dollars last year, appeared on CBS last night to talk about the Fiscal Cliff and lay some truth on the American people: You all need to work longer.
You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career. ... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised. But in general, entitlements have to be slowed down and contained.
As Ezra Klein and others before me have noted, it is very easy for people like Blankfein who are paid outrageous sums of money to sit in offices, think, and talk to tell Americans they should delay retirement. After all, they probably aren't pining for for the day they get to stop working. Same goes for senators who would prefer to croak while prattling on during a floor speech and for national journalists who intend to keep writing until they finally go blind from staring at a monitor. They like their jobs. They don't want to leave them.
However, it might not be so easy for your average American, particularly one with a numbingly repetitive or physically taxing occupation, to work those extra years.


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The five Town of Wheatfield volunteer fire companies will open their doors to area residents this weekend as part of a statewide program called RecruitNY. Special events for kids and adults, as well as information on how to become a volunteer firefighter, will be offered.
Over the last several years, it has been very tough for many fire departments throughout state to recruit and retain volunteers for a variety of reasons. Like most volunteer fire departments, the Town of Wheatfield fire companies need to bolster their emergency responder numbers, so they can continue to provide the optimum level of protection for their residents, said Marc Kasprzak, Wheatfield Fire Advisory Board chairman and Shawnee Volunteer Fire Co. assistant chief.
On Saturday, April 27, and Sunday, April 28, the five fire companies that serve Wheatfield will hold open houses for a unified recruitment drive, as part of National Volunteer Week 2013.
Not only will RecruitNY be an opportunity to highlight the duties and rewards that come with being a volunteer firefighter, it will also raise public awareness about the need for volunteers. The hope is that a collaborative effort among volunteer fire departments statewide will turn the declining number of volunteer firefighters around, Kasprzak said. Duane Stoelting of the Bergholz Volunteer Fire Co. noted RecruitNY also will highlight some rewards of volunteering that might not be generally known by the public, such as town-sponsored service awards, state tax credits and college tuition reimbursement.
The Wheatfield fire companies plan to conduct tours of their stations and firefighter apparatus, allow visitors to try on firefighter gear, and provide activities throughout their firehouses for visitors. The fire companies will discuss the requirements to be a volunteer, as well as conduct demonstrations, answer questions, and let visitors know how to get involved in each of the companies.
Some fire companies also are sponsoring additional special activities. The Bergholz open house on Saturday, for instance, will feature door prizes, a demonstration of an auto extraction using the Jaws of Life, fire truck rides, Niagara County Sheriff's Office child safety seat checks from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., a Mercy Flight landing around noon, and music by the Bergholz German Band from 2 to 3 p.m.
Larry Kensinger of Frontier Volunteer Fire Co. said his company's open house on Sunday will include demonstrations, fire truck rides, a puppet show and refreshments, as well as an opportunity to see the new light rescue truck.
"Come on out and join us for this unique recruitment day at our firehouses," said Kasprzak. "This is a great opportunity for our neighbors to observe the exciting tasks of a firefighter. Our current members love what they do; they are everyday heroes who help neighbors in need. We hope our recruitment day will inspire other area residents to join our fire service family."
In Wheatfield, recruitment open houses will be held at:
•Adams Volunteer Fire Co., at Adams Station 2, 3805 Klemer Road, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 27.
•Bergholz Volunteer Fire Co., 2470 Niagara Road, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 27.
•Frontier Volunteer Fire Co., at its hall at 2179 River Road, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28.
•St. Johnsburg Volunteer Fire Co., 7165 Ward Road, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 28.
•Shawnee Volunteer Fire Co., 3747 Lockport Road, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27.
Call the individual fire company's non-emergency phone numbers for more information.
Established in 2011, RecruitNY is a joint undertaking by the Firemen's Association of the State of New York, the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs, Association of Fire Districts of New York State, Volunteer Fire Police Association of the State of New York, and County Fire Coordinators Association of the State of New York.


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My husband has a particular genius for random acts of ... randomness. Passing through my writing space the other day, he said, "You know, if I were going to clone something ... it would be a sweet potato." And he was gone.
"Sweet potato" was my mother's pet name for me. Thinking he was perhaps suddenly hyper-intuitive, I called after, asking if he knew that.
Nope. His reasoning (which is a generous use of the word) was that sweet potatoes were so irregularly shaped, no one would know if you were successful or not.
A few days later, visiting the prison, I asked some men whether they had nicknames as children. One laughed and said, a little sheepishly, "Lump."
He rubbed his shaved scalp and confessed, "I always thought it was on account of having a big head. But my mom finally told me it was cause I was my father's only boy. She had kids from other relationships but I was my father's only. And she told me that when I was born, he kept kissing and kissing on me. He couldn't stop. So she –"
He fell silent, jaw muscles clenching. Finally he continued. "She asked my father how come he wouldn't stop kissing me, and he said, 'Cause this here's my little lump of sugar.'"
Together in that barren sky-less place, we remained hushed. So much unspoken, of tenderness and grief. Then he shook his head in disbelief. "I learned as a kid that real men don't cry. Man, you wouldn't believe some of the beatings I got. Never cried. No matter how hard my mom beat me, I refused to cry. But now? Shoot. I can't even watch 'Extreme Home Makeover.' I'm serious," he insisted over our laughter. "It's like all those tears are now coming back."
A soft-spoken man related a different kind of home makeover, "I remember me and my little brother, we'd clear stuff out of the closet and that's where we'd play. Climb inside the closet with a box and play solitary confinement."
I thought about my own children, how they built teepees and tree houses and forts. How they never once played prison. They didn't even know what it was.
"My mother was in prison, my grandmother was in prison, and so, yeah. That's what we played."
No other society
No other society in human history has imprisoned as many of its own as we do here in the U.S.
The skeletons in our closets are real men and women shredded by mental illness, violence, abuse, and poverty. As one formerly incarcerated twenty-something said, "Poverty and prison go together like Kool-Aid and sugar. Without sugar, you ain't got no Kool-Aid. Without poverty, you ain't got no prison."
Scholars from around the world refer to our current state of incarceration, and the population locked behind bars, as "American apartheid." Oddly, that gives me hope. If South Africa somehow managed the most extreme makeover imaginable, perhaps we might do the same.
It was a nearly impossible challenge. How do you convince a people, who have only experienced the legal system as a violent tool of racism and oppression, that the law is suddenly their recourse to justice? How do you build on such a sordid foundation?
From their own raw materials of hate, the government pieced together something new. They built the Constitutional Court on top of the old prison complex, the infamous No. 4 that brutally incarcerated Nelson Mandela and Gandhi, among countless others. Bricks from those former structures were left exposed in the new building, as if to acknowledge the power of the past to inform our transformed future. The Court's glass front, rising like a tree, promised transparency.
Blue supermarket bag
A decade later, its walls are ripe with art. One piece will bring you to your knees.
During the Truth and Reconciliation hearings, an artist listened to a security officer explain how one young mother had been detained by the police, stripped and locked naked in a cell. The young woman managed somehow to fashion an undergarment from a blue supermarket bag. The police officer ended with, "She was brave this one, hell, she was brave. She simply would not talk."
The woman asked only one thing: to kneel and sing "Nkosi Sikelele," the national anthem, before he shot her. When the woman's body was excavated from its shallow grave, all that remained was her skeleton and the tattered plastic bag.
As a tribute to the woman, the artist pieced together a dress. From blue plastic bags. Inside she wrote: "Sister . . . Memorials to your courage are everywhere; they blow about in the streets and drift on the tide and cling to thorn-bushes. This dress is made from some of them."
Every discarded grocery bag reminds me. What can we piece together from a damaged life?
What can we reclaim from the thorn-bushes of our world? Is it someone's sweet potato? Their lump of sugar?
Truth. Reconciliation. Reclamation. We have far to go but it is a path we're walking together, whether in South Africa or North Carolina. Bless our bluest sky.
Lynden Harris is the founder and director of Hidden Voices, a nonprofit telling the stories of under-represented communities. You can reach her at email@example.com


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Small business owners warn against sacrificing entitlements as 'fiscal cliff' loomsBy J.D. HARRISON
The Washington Post
December 04. 2012 8:51PM
WASHINGTON - As lawmakers try to reach a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff," many small-business owners have expressed concerns about the impact of potential changes to the tax code. In particular, their attention has been focused on the fate of the Bush-era cuts and several temporary tax breaks intended to benefit companies on Main Street.
But with the precipice less than a month away, some small employers say those tax discussions are overshadowing a potentially larger threat to their businesses - cuts to entitlement programs.
"If I could talk to Congress, I would tell them to stay away from entitlements," Mary Black, owner of a UPS franchise in Baton Rouge, La., said in an interview. "I'm willing to pay more taxes if that's what's needed to pull up the country, and my business would be OK. But cutting Medicare and Medicaid could have some really bad consequences for small businesses."
Without government-backed insurance, Black said she would no longer be in business. During the summer of 2010, her 71-year-old husband fell ill with pneumonia and was hospitalized for more than four weeks, much of it in an intensive care unit. He recovered, but not before the medical bills soared to more than $130,000.
In 2007, for which the most recent census data is available, one in eight small-business owners in the United States was over the age of 65, and twice that many were less than a decade away from being eligible for Medicare. But the program, and others like it, could see cuts next year as Republican lawmakers push for Democratic concessions on entitlements in exchange for their votes to increase taxes.
"We understand that an end to the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2 percent could be traded off for cuts to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare," a dozen small-business owners who are part of the Seattle-based Main Street Alliance (MSA) advocacy group recently wrote in a joint letter to leaders in Washington. "This constitutes a bad deal for small businesses - Congress should reject it."
Jim Houser, part of the MSA's national executive committee and owner of Hawthorne Auto Clinic in Portland, Ore., said cuts to entitlements also affect the customers many firms rely on.
"A lot of people like to retire in Oregon, and I need my customers to be able to afford my services," Houser said. "If suddenly, because of age or injury, they can't even afford to own a car, let alone take care of it, that affects my business directly"??
Houser, like Black, said he would gladly accept a tax increase if it meant lawmakers left entitlement programs alone. His company grew considerably during the Clinton era, when tax rates were higher for both the wealthy and middle class, and he said that even if those rates were restored across the board, it wouldn't hurt his company - "not one bit."
"If that's what it takes to speed up the financial recovery and allow my customers to afford to replace their timing belts and replace their tires, then that would be fine with me," he said.


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During her presentation, Camisar noted that B'nai B'rith "believe[s] that it is extremely important for a convention against racism and discrimination to specifically address anti-Semitism, as it is one of the oldest forms of malicious intolerance and violates the basic principles of human dignity and equality that are essential to a free and fully democratic society. We applaud [OAS] for including in the text of the preamble a specific reference to anti-Semitism. We strongly believe that it is imperative for this language to remain in the text. We also believe that a reference to anti-Semitism… should be included in the text of the convention itself."
During her address, Camisar provided several examples of anti-Semitism in the Americas just in the last year that need to be multilaterally condemned, such as graffiti on synagogues.
According to Camisar, the growth rate of anti-Semitic groups in much of Latin America has been staggering over the past few years. It is an issue that must be focused upon in the next draft of the OAS document and convention.
B'nai B'rith International has had a strong presence in Latin America since the founding of a chapter in Argentina 83-years ago. Today, BBI is active in more than 20 nations in the Western Hemisphere, including Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, and Venezuela, communicating regularly with government officials and religious leaders while providing humanitarian relief to various countries.
> Read the full presentation to the Organization of American States.
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One of the hallmarks of successful urban spaces all over the world is the use of movable chairs. William Whyte's studies in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces found that people create ownership of public space by being able to control where and how they sit. This theory was recently tested in Times Square, where the moveable chairs in the new pedestrian plaza have proven to be enormously popular.
But will the same application work in Italy? That's what Friends of the High Line Co-Founder Robert Hammond will soon find out.
Last spring, Hammond received a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, allowing him the opportunity to work on a proposal for the adaptive reuse of the area surrounding Rome's Tiber River. The walkways and embankments along the Tiber River were built around the turn of the twentieth century to control the annual flooding of the river. Although the embankments have served their purpose of protecting Rome, the walkways are essentially unused by Romans and visitors alike.
Hammond realized that making the walkway along the Tiber River into a vibrant social open space does not have to be difficult or complex. An alternative to grand architectural and urban planning schemes is to focus on two simple issues: seating and programming.
Next week, his experiment will be put to the test. Hammond and Lisa Bielawa, a composer, vocalist and Co-Founder of the MATA Festival in New York City, have organized an art and music intervention for the banks for the Tiber River.
"The Performance on the Tiber," which will showcase the work of Soprano Susan Narucki, the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, and the Blue Chamber Orchestra, will take place on Monday, May 31. One hundred movable park chairs will be placed in the open space along the walkway on the Trastevere side of the Tiber, next to the Ponte Sisto. At the performance times, the musicians will arrive one or two at a time, over the course of seven minutes, so that it is not clear exactly when the performance has officially begun. Similarly, at the end of the 35-minute piece, performers will leave one or several at a time, so that when the piece is over, there are no musicians present.
For our supporters in Italy, there will be two preview performances of the project on Sunday, May 30, as part of the opening weekend of the new MAXXI museum designed by Zaha Hadid. That day the chairs will be placed in the museum's piazza. The musical performances will unfold both inside the museum and in the piazza.
And for our supporters in the States, the May 31 project will be documented through video and time-lapse photography. We cannot wait to see the results!
For more information, visit Chance Encounter on the Tiber's web site.
"The Performance on the Tiber"
Monday, May 31
18:30 - 19:00 and 20:00 - 20:30
Walkway on the Ponte Sisto at the Tiber River
Preview Performances
Sunday, May 30
15:30 - 16:00 and 17:30 - 18:00
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Established as a frontier town by English and German settlers in
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Allegheny Mountains. The city's location along the National Pike (U.S.
40 / Patrick Street), was an important factor in its immediate
financial success.
This is evidenced throughout Frederick's outstanding 33-block historic
which is nationally renowned for its wonderful examples of 18th-,
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Frederick's downtown from being put to the torch by responding to the
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Today, the historic district serves as a spectacular setting for
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commercial buildings house specialty stores, antique shops and fine
Throughout the year, the historic district is the site of regionally
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Frederick's historical sites, shopping outlets and dining
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With proper documentation, cats can travel freely throughout the United States. Hawaii is the only exception, requiring all entering cats to be quarantined for 30 to 120 days. Check with officials prior to your trip or move.read more
Numerous studies conclude that cats reduce the stress levels of their owners. Few things are as soothing as a relaxed cat purring or snoozing on your lap, since we sense those good vibes that can carry over to us.
The process isn't just mental. Dr. Karen Allen -- a medicine research scientist at the at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York -- and her colleagues studied 48 male and female stockbrokers who were using medication to control high blood pressure. Allen and her team found that those with a pet experienced half the increase in blood pressure under stress as those who did not own a pet.
"The results are dramatic and significant," says Allen, who measured heart rate and blood pressure responses to mental and physical stress. "We've shown over and over that it's beneficial to be with a pet when you're under stress."
Yet another study, conducted by psychologist Sara Staats of The Ohio State University, found that college students could handle stressful situations better if they had a pet.
"We might not think of college students as being lonely, but a lot of freshman and sophomores are in an early transition from living at home to living in dorms or off-campus," says Staats. "We found that a lot of young adults are choosing to have an animal companion to help get them through these difficult and stressful situations. Many more say that without their pet, they would feel lonely."
Finally, if you have a cat or another pet, you may enjoy closer relationships with humans, feel more satisfied in marriage and respond better to stresses that can break apart other couples. Allen and her team also found that systolic blood pressure readings of couples with pets were lower at baseline, rose less in response to stress and returned to baseline quicker than they did in couples without pets.
"Many studies have shown that social support is protective of cardiovascular health," says Allen. "We know that people who have many social interactions are healthier than people who don't. In this study, people who owned a pet had significantly more interactions with other people than couples who didn't."
Paul says: cats that are not showing mstpyoms of AIDS do not need anything special to expand his life just treat him as you would any other cat. if mstpyoms do arise, or kitty gets a cold, get him to the vet so that they can give the cats meds to get rid of the cold . good luck!
Suryo says: Demodectic mange in your cats can cause baldness also but may also cause milnicuse red patches that can become highly inflamed. The last type of mange is Sarcoptes, and it's highly rare but has happened in cats, and when it does, it is highly tough, enduring, and can be particularly heavy for your pet. Cortisone may be prescribed to help with the itching that your kitty will have.
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Southton Rail Yard in Texas celebrates grand openingWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
Southton Rail Yard, a 300-acre dual rail-serve facility in San Antonio, Texas, designed for transloading energy-related products, celebrated its grand opening June 11.
The Southton Rail Yard officially opened for business and announced plans for phase two of the facility. The second phase of the facility calls for 6,000 feet of additional rail and six new, on-site storage silos.
"We are proud to celebrate the grand opening of the Southton Rail Yard and announce our facility's expansion. In just a few months of operation, we have seen a high demand for rail to truck transloading and will be expanding our facility to include six brand new silos and expansion of our rail tracks," said Kevin Bowen, chief executive officer of Southton Rail Yard.
The Southton Rail Yard features 25,000 linear feet of rail, offers easy access to Interstate 410, Interstate 37, Interstate 35, Interstate 10, U.S. Highway 281, Texas State Highway Loop 1604 and has capacity for more than 160 direct rail-to-truck car locations. It is also dual rail-served by both Union Pacific and BNSF and was designed with the needs of the energy sector in mind.
The facility employs approximately 50 San Antonio-area residents and is operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week by Arrow Material Services, which has managed material transportation logistics since 1954 and currently operates more than 30 rail transloading locations in the United States.


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Remember when Waynesboro's steel lockup held its first murderer? No? Me neither. I wasn't born, for that matter neither were my dad or my granddad.
Remember when Waynesboro's steel lockup held its first murderer? No? Me neither. I wasn't born, for that matter neither were my dad or my granddad.
In 1913, Charles Gibson became the man to hold the title of first murderer held in steel lockup.
December 8, 1913
Murderer Comes to Charmian For Safety
For the first time in its history Waynesboro's steel lockup held a self-confessed murderer. The man imprisoned there was Charles Gibson, a Baltimore colored man, 42 years old. He spent Saturday night, Sunday and part of today behind the bars of the prison and was then taken to Baltimore, where his crime was committed, by an officer from that city, who came here, for him.
Gibson's crime was the killing of Elsie Webb, a colored girl, to whom he was attentive, in the kitchen of the home of Mrs. John Findlay, Cathedral street, Baltimore, Monday of last week. While angry during a quarrel and partly lost to reason because of drink, he shot her with a 32-caliber revolver.
There was an eye witness to the shooting, Mrs. Mary Hanson, but before she could communicate the crime to the police authorities, Gibson had hurried out of the city.
He walked for several days until he reached Charmian, where he had been employed for six or seven years, and there he was arrested, Saturday evening.
His arrest was effected by Postmaster C.S. Martin and David Woodring, in the house of Miss E.R. Dorraine. These two men went into the house and put him under arrest without resistance or trouble of any kind on his part. While they entered the building, Albert Shindledecker, Joseph Carson, Charles Carson and Benjamin Solliday, residents of that section, maintained a guard around the house, so that the negro could be apprehended if he escaped the two men and endeavored to get away.
Postmaster Martin, James Dick, George Fitz and the postmaster's son, Joseph, brought Gibson to Waynesboro by trolley and delivered him into the keeping of Chief of Police Staley, who placed him in the lockup and then communicated with Marshal Farnan, Baltimore, who promised to send an officer for the murderer.
To Chief of Police Staley and Patrolman Daywalt, Gibson made a confession, Saturday evening, while he reclined on the cot in his cell.
He admitted the shooting of Elsie Webb and said he shot her in a moment of anger. They were in the kitchen of Mrs. Findlay's residence, Cathedral street, and the girl as trying 'to throw him over' because he was out of work, he said.
An argument was begun and waxed warmer and warmer until he pulled his revolver and discharged four shots, one of which killed the woman.
He added that he had been drinking and that this led him to commit the crime.
He expressed himself as 'very sorry now that he did it.'
Gibson is a seemingly intelligent colored man and courteous and would hardly impress one with the idea that he had shot down a woman in such a heartless manner.
When Gibson left the Findlay home he hurried out of Baltimore afoot. On his way he passed the Northern police station. The patrol wagon and several officers were standing at the station as he went by, but no word had then been received there of the shooting and he continued on without interruption.
For a night Gibson remained in the vicinity of Roland park and then walked to Hampstead and from there came to Charmian, via Hanover and Gettysburg.
Postmaster Martin saw him at the Dorraine cottage. He had read in the Baltimore papers of the shooting and when he discovered a colored man there he communicated with the Baltimore authorities and was instructed to arrest Gibson.
Elsie Webb, the dead woman, had been in the employ of Mrs. Findlay for a number of years as a waitress and was with her at her Charmian cottage each summer. There Gibson learned to know her. When Mrs. Findlay and the girl returned to the city recently, Gibson followed. He had been employed for seven years by Benjamin Solliday, a Charmian liveryman.
Many people went to the lockup, Sunday, to get a look at the murderer but the officers would not permit any one to see him.
Chief of Police Staley believed it best to have a guard over the colored man and a patrolman or some other person was in the corridor of the lockup practically all the time. Former Patrolman Abram Ditch spent last night there.
It was proposed to take Gibson to jail but he requested that he be allowed to remain here. He was very pleased with the treatment he received in the lockup, he said.
The woman, Elsie Webb, died in a hospital a day or two after the shooting. The coroner's jury met in the central police station, Baltimore, Saturday evening, after word had been received of Gibson's capture and rendered a verdict holding Gibson responsible for the woman's death.
Gibson was indicted by the grand jury, this morning.
Gibson is still in the lockup. The officer who was to take him to Baltimore has not arrived here yet.
"Once Upon Our Times" by the Rev. Lee E. Daywalt is a compilation of local newspaper articles from 100 years ago. It appears weekly in The Record Herald. Daywalt is pastor of New Baltimore Church of God and administrator of Preserving Our Heritage Archives and Museum, 11191 South Mountain, 11191 South Mountain Road, South Mountain. The museum is open from 8 a.m. to noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and at other times by appointment. For information, call 762-2367 or visit:


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But Carney raises a legitimate issue when he questions the impartiality of Richard G. Stearns, the judge who is presiding over the case of the notorious gangster, who is charged with 19 murders.
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As the city's premier arena football league, the Pittsburgh Power, took the field, Ryan Wockley, a senior athletic training major at Waynesburg University, smiled with satisfaction and wished the players luck. More than a fan, the Pittsburgh Power athletic training intern watched as his hard work bandaging injuries, treating conditions and wrapping ankles resulted in points on the board.
"My favorite part was game days," Wockley said. "There's nothing better than seeing all the work you've done with the players pay off. When they can perform at their best because of the work you did with them, that makes it worth it."
According to Michele Kabay, assistant professor of athletic training and clinical coordinator for Waynesburg University's athletic training program, Wockley began inquiring about possible athletic training internships in his sophomore year.
"Ryan is a very hands-on learner, and although the athletic training curriculum includes clinical education requirements, Ryan took the initiative to begin networking with athletic training professionals, which helped lead to the unique experience of an internship with the Pittsburgh Power," Kabay said.
Wockley, who serves as president of the Waynesburg Athletic Training Student Association (WUATSA), couldn't imagine spending an entire summer not practicing his athletic training skills, so he applied for an internship with the well-known athletic team.
"I enjoy the clinical work, and I didn't want to go a whole summer without doing something related to athletic training, so when I heard about the Power internship I jumped at the opportunity," Wockley said. "I saw myself become more confident in my abilities and my knowledge. This internship showed me that I have the confidence and the tools needed to succeed as an athletic trainer."
He worked with the Power's professional athletic training staff to tape, brace and treat the players before and after practices and games. Wockley and his fellow trainers were responsible for conducting rehabilitation programs for athletes both on the active roster and also on injured reserve to help them progress, maintain or return to play.
Without exceptional teaching from Waynesburg University and the structure of its programs, Wockley said he would not have made such an impact or had such a great experience.
"One thing that sets Waynesburg apart is that students are accepted into the advanced program and begin core classes and clinical rotations sophomore year, as opposed to other schools where that doesn't happen until the start of junior year," Wockley said. "Having that extra year of clinical experience really helped because I was able to call on past experiences other interns may not have had."
Though he initially struggled with the autonomy granted to him in the internship, Wockley said he quickly learned to trust his knowledge.
"The Power trusted us to work with the athletes and allowed us to treat their injuries as we saw fit," Wockley said. "It was a challenge at first to trust in what I had learned and what I knew. Once I got into the first few weeks, I became very confident in what I was doing because I realized just how much I had learned at Waynesburg."


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OpenNTF blog: Best Open Source Contribution 2010 Lotus Awards
October 19 2009
Niklas Heidloff has just updated the OpenNTF blog with lots of additional details on the 2010 Lotus Awards for best open source contribution:
For both categories, Lotus Awards will be presented to the individual/business partner that provides the best template, solution or sample, made available via open source through OpenNTF.org. The judging will favor offerings that leverage new technology innovations introduced into the IBM Lotus Notes and/or IBM Lotus Domino 8.X such as XPages, widgets, Eclipse plugins (e.g. for sidebar) and Lotus Symphony. Entries will be judged based on wow factor and innovation, potential business value and possible reuse and documentation.Details on eligibility, process, and rewards are all covered in Niklas's blog entry.
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The Utah Jazz go for the home-and-home series sweep over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday night at the Sleep Train Arena.
The Jazz squeezed out a 104-102 victory on Friday, thanks to Gordon Hayward, who is clearly embracing his role off the bench. Demoted from the starting lineup three games ago, Hayward has scored double-figures in every game, including 23 on Friday.
Hayward poured in a long jumper with 4.5 seconds to go and helped the Jazz polish off a 13-point comeback.
"I thought we won with a lot of grit, gut, staying together, understanding the time and moment of the game and what we had to do and our defense," said Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin. "That last seven minutes, I don't know off-hand, but I think we had 11 or 12 stops out of 13 or 14 at the end and they were big defensive plays."
The Jazz, who are undefeated at home this season, were also aided by some bonehead moves from the Kings. Sacramento put Utah in the penalty early in the fourth quarter and the Jazz went 13-for-15 from the foul line.
Derrick Favors had started the last two games, but Corbin re-inserted Marvin Williams into the starting lineup and the decision worked. Williams had a season-high 20 points.
Sacramento played brilliantly for three quarters, shooting 54.2 percent from the field. DeMarcus Cousins dominated the third frame with 10 of 14 points, but did very little positive in the final quarter.
The Kings managed a respectable 22 points in the fourth, but shot 38 percent from the field. They surrendered 31 points and their leader is getting frustrated.
"Mental mistakes, mistakes down the stretch, fouling, fouling, all those things put us in a tough situation to win," said Kings coach Keith Smart. "Mental mistakes that I've talked about all year killed our team tonight."
Smart has also tinkered with his starting lineup of late. Aaron Brooks took Isaiah Thomas' job as the starting point guard and in fact, Thomas didn't even play on Friday night. Brooks scored in double-figures in his last two starts, including 17 in the losing effort on Friday.
Six Kings scored in double-figures against the Jazz, led by 19 from Tyreke Evans. Sacramento is second in the NBA in points in the paint, averaging 46.7 ppg.
The Kings snapped a five-game losing streak on Wednesday with a 16-point victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. But the bottom-dwellers in the Pacific rank 24th in scoring and 25th in opponents' scoring.
The Jazz, who have won three in a row, are 6-3 in their last nine against the Kings. Utah is 4-3 in its last seven games in California's capital.


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