By Michael Booth The Denver Post From a solar-powered battery charger that fairly shouts “eco- friendly rawk!” to a clock-radio fit for a space odyssey, there are better ways to run your iPod. Feeding, clothing and caring for your iPod with accessories has become a major American growth industry, seeing as how Apple sold 21 million of its me- dia players in the last three months before Christmas. Estimates put the sales mar- ket for iPod add-ons at $1 bil- lion a year, and growing fast. Companies like Griffin, Belkin, JBL and Bose have ei- ther launched or revived entire brand names by jumping on the iPod’s goodwill marketing train. Many of the accessories are ridiculous, of course. Do you need the $40 iFish, that ampli- fies your iPod and flops around on the floor in time to the mu- sic? Or the iPod dock for the bathroom that also dispenses toilet paper? We think not. Ah, but that $100 sun-pow- ered battery charger from So- lio.com — that’s a winner. When you want to be off the grid but remain in tune, the charger gives you one hour of play time for each hour soaks in the sun. It also provides eight to 10 hours of battery storage on top of your regular charge. The most useful iPod tools these days put the sound where you want it, when you don’t want it in your ears: through your car stereo. Industry product reviews call the Belkin TuneFM a cheap, decent-sounding option for wireless transmission of your iPod’s signal into your car stereo and speakers. The TuneFM model ($40 to $50 online) plugs into the cig- arette lighter as a charger for your iPod, and mounts on the bottom of the iPod to send the music signal through an un- used FM frequency. But many users of the wire- less transmission gizmos are frustrated by static, or con- stantly searching for better fre- quencies as they roam a signal- filled city. Hard-wiring your iPod to the car stereo is a bet- ter option if you spend a lot of listening time in the driver’s seat. There are a few basic op- tions for car owners. Car Toys will hard-wire an FM modula- tor that connects your iPod to your existing stereo, leaving a connecting cord dangling through the dashboard. You’ll still have to control the music on your iPod’s panel, a dangerous pastime while mov- ing at 65 mph. The equipment costs about $49, and the in- stallation is about $75. Newer cars and separately- purchased car stereos include an auxiliary or headphone jack on the front panel of the tuner. Your iPod can hook directly into that jack from the iPod’s headphone jack; you are still controlling the playlists through the iPod itself. New radios with that set-up include a Panasonic model starting at $120. February 25, 2007 25L Sunday Gazette-Mail What Can You Do? Be involved in Your Healthcare and Ask Questions. Nationally Known Locally Owned (304) 369-3981 2008 Smoot Ave. Danville TIM RIGGS. R.P.H. OWNER/ MANAGER MON-FRI- 9 AM 6 PM, SATURDAYS 9 AM -2 PM • MOST INSURANCES ACCEPTED • PRIVATE CONSULTATION AVAILABLE • COMPUTERIZED RECORDS William L. Harris, M.D. William L. Harris, M.D. William L. Harris, M.D. Board Certified Family Physician and Board Certified Geriatrician by the American Board of Family Practice of The American Academy of Family Physicians 3100 MacCorkle Ave., SE Charleston, WV 25304 344-2451 GOLDEN HEART IN-HOME CARE SERVICES (304) 343-1981 Director Shida Jamie (304) 610-6090 Weekends and 24 hour Service -RN Assessment -Home Community Based Medical Waiver Services -Veterans in Home Services -Private pay Homemaker in Home Services -Competitive Prices Companionship, preparing meals, light house- keeping, grocery shopping, transportation, errands, laundry, and more. Dependable, affordable, bonded and insured. HOME HELPERS HOME HELPERS Home Helpers 766-9774 Home Helpers 766-9774 Est. 1980 Physical Therapy Speech Therapy Occupational Therapy Skilled & Intermediate Quality Nursing Services DAVID J. GALLIEN Administrator 199 Court St. Jane Lew, WV 26378 Office - (304) 884-7811 - (304) 622-5486 Home - (304) 884-7020 Fax - (304) 884-7057 Central West Virginia Aging Services, Inc. Wants you to know that the following services are available: Charleston 346-7595 Sutton 1-800-814-8514 Parkersburg 304-424-3457 Buckhanon 1-800-296-0069 Oak Hill 1-800-681-0886 “Serving the Elderly and Disabled Since 1974” Serving the Elderly and Disabled Since 1974 Fairmont 1-800-436-3780 Martinsburg 1-877-767-3997 •RN Assessments •Case Management •Home and Community Based Medicaid Waiver Services •Chore Services/Charity Care •Indigent Prescription Assistance •Veterans’ In-Home Services •Workers’ Compensation In-Home Services •Private Pay Homemaker In-Home Services -Competitive Rates •Older Worker Training Programs for those 55 and older •Free In-Home Assessments •Information, Referral and Linkage •Liquid Food Supplements at Cost Visit Hurricane’s Specialty Shoppes, Caboose Museum, Parks and Restaurants for a Fun Filled Day Call 562-5896 For More Information www.colonialshoppe.com 2723 Main St., Hurricane, WV 304-562-9243 The Colonial House Gift Shoppe Offering: • Chandeliers • Lamps • Pictures • Accessories • Gifts Boomer women gather on Internet BoomerGirl.com geared toward 50-somethings By Korky Vann The Hartford Courant There’s a new girl in town — or in cyberspace, to be exact. BoomerGirl.com, launched last month, offers news, blogs and tips on health, fashion, family, finances and fitness — all geared toward “women of a certain age.’’ The Web site grew out of a Kansas woman’s week- ly column on her own midlife misadventures and the chal- lenges and humorous happen- ings of being a female over 50. Cathy Hamilton, who wrote Boomer Girl Diary for a local paper, was surprised when she searched for similar content online and found little. “My kids are all over face- book.com and Myspace.com, which offer relevant content and a community experience for teens and twentysome- things,’’ says Hamilton, 51. “I wanted to find the same thing for women my age, but there really wasn’t much out there.’’ Hamilton took her idea for a Web site geared toward middle- aged women to the marketing folks at her paper. They saw the potential and helped get the project up and running. “The reaction to my column told me there was a need for something like this on the In- ternet,’’ Hamilton says. “Women over 40 just aren’t seeing themselves in today’s media.’’ Hamilton’s venture joins Boomerwomenspeak.com, launched by empty-nester Dot- sie Bregel in 2002, and eons.com, created in 2006 by Jeff Taylor, founder of Mon- ster.com for the over-50 audi- ence. Sandy Berger, author of “Great Age Guide to the Inter- net,’’ a handbook for “boomers and beyond,’’ says such sites make good business sense. Born between 1946 and 1964, boomers have more political power, education, discretionary income and cultural impact than any other generation. The last wave of boomers turns 43 this year. The oldest turns 61. “Back when I started teach- ing boomers computer skills, I actually had folks pick up the mouse and put it on the screen,’’ says Berger, creator of compukiss.com, which features computer tutorials, technology Man markets Fab Four clothes Stitch-for-stitch copies help outfit Beatles tribute bands, fans By John Kelly The Washington Post WASHINGTON — One day, a little over five years ago, Russ Lease decided that what the world needed was historically accurate, reasonably priced re- productions of Beatles clothing: stitch-for-stitch copies of the dis- tinctive outfits the famous mu- sicians wore in concert. Luckily, Russ was in the po- sition to provide them. With his brother, he had owned the Pants Plus clothing store in a subur- ban Maryland mall from 1976 until the mall closed in 2001. Russ knew the clothing industry. And he knew the Beatles. A fan since childhood, he’s a leading collector of high-end Beatles memorabilia: signed letters, rare albums, old performance con- tracts, one of “The Beatles” drumheads from the front of Ringo’s bass drum. At a Sotheby’s auction in 1994, Russ had paid about $5,000 for a tailored tan jacket, size 39 regular, with epaulets, pleated breast pockets and Nehru collar. It was the so- called “Shea jacket,” the very jacket Paul McCartney wore when the Beatles performed at Shea Stadium on Aug. 15, 1965. Recently, Russ, 50, slipped on a pair of white cotton gloves and eased a headless mannequin out of a locked display case. He unbuttoned the Shea jacket and removed it from the form. The fabric was clean and unwrin- kled, although there were sweat stains on the acetate lining. Russ’s idea was to reverse-en- gineer the jacket and create an exact duplicate. “All of the tailors I spoke with wanted to take it apart,” he said. “I said, ‘No you can’t do that.’ ” Finally he found a master tai- lor in Lehighton, Pa., named Pete Camioni. The two spent four days poring over the jack- et, taking measurements, mak- ing sketches. Today, you can buy your own Shea jacket — in tan or black, sizes 38 to 50 — for $295 from Russ’s company, www.beatlesuits.com. Next, Russ duplicated the frock coat Ringo wore on the cover of the “Abbey Road” al- bum. (The original — size 34 short; Ringo is tiny — is in an- other display case.) Russ also sells the collarless suits from the Beatles’ early days, the narrow- lapel jackets and drainpipe trousers they wore on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and the velvet- collared sharkskin suits seen at the end of “A Hard Day’s Night.” These outfits are a godsend for people whose job requires them to dress as John, Paul, George or Ringo. These are the hardworking Beatles tribute bands, made up of musicians who comb their bangs over their foreheads and master not only the chords of the Beatles’ songs, but also the distinctive bounce of the Beatles’ heads, their knees-bent joggling stance, the slight eyeball flutter that ac- companies a lusty “Woooooo!” These groups — with such names as the Mersey Beat, the Beat Club, BritBeat, the Beatalls, the Beatlads, the Fab Four, the Fab 5, Fab Forever and Almost Fab — were cruising thrift shops looking for clothing that could be altered and made to look vaguely Beatlish. About a third of Russ’s suits go to “trib” bands. More recent rockers including Elliot Easton of the Cars and Doug Fieger of the Knack are also customers. So, too, are relatively normal folks. “Some of it is kind of back in style now,” Russ said of the clothes, made at a factory in Pennsylvania that also sews po- lice uniforms. “Then I think there are people who just want to have it to hang in the closet. I have a fair amount of women customers who want (the Shea jacket) in Paul’s size — not to wear it, not to give to their hus- band, just to have it in their col- lection, to put it on a man- nequin in their Beatles room.” There is something Shroud of Turin-like about the clothes. Looking at them brings a flood of associations. And Russ’s memorabilia-filled basement is like a reliquary, adorned as it is with various slivers of the true rock-and-roll cross. So, Russ, have you ever put on Paul’s jacket? “I’d be lying to you if I said I didn’t,” he said. “When you get Paul McCartney’s Shea jacket, you have to put it on and slap on a Hofner bass and look in the mirror and see how it looks.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! The Washington Post Russ Lease holds a copy of the “Shea jacket” worn for the Beatles’ concert at Shea Stadium in New York. Behind him in the case in is Paul McCartney’s original. Accessories for iPods are proliferating
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By Michael BoothThe Denver Post
From a solar-powered batterycharger that fairly shouts “eco-friendly rawk!” to a clock-radiofit for a space odyssey, thereare better ways to run youriPod.
Feeding, clothing and caringfor your iPod with accessorieshas become a major Americangrowth industry, seeing as howApple sold 21 million of its me-dia players in the last threemonths before Christmas.
Estimates put the sales mar-ket for iPod add-ons at $1 bil-lion a year, and growing fast.
Companies like Griffin,Belkin, JBL and Bose have ei-ther launched or revived entirebrand names by jumping onthe iPod’s goodwill marketingtrain.
Many of the accessories areridiculous, of course. Do youneed the $40 iFish, that ampli-fies your iPod and flops aroundon the floor in time to the mu-sic? Or the iPod dock for the
bathroom that also dispensestoilet paper? We think not.
Ah, but that $100 sun-pow-ered battery charger from So-lio.com — that’s a winner.When you want to be off thegrid but remain in tune, thecharger gives you one hour ofplay time for each hour soaksin the sun. It also provideseight to 10 hours of batterystorage on top of your regularcharge.
The most useful iPod toolsthese days put the sound whereyou want it, when you don’twant it in your ears: throughyour car stereo.
Industry product reviews callthe Belkin TuneFM a cheap,decent-sounding option forwireless transmission of youriPod’s signal into your carstereo and speakers.
The TuneFM model ($40 to$50 online) plugs into the cig-arette lighter as a charger foryour iPod, and mounts on thebottom of the iPod to send themusic signal through an un-used FM frequency.
But many users of the wire-
less transmission gizmos arefrustrated by static, or con-stantly searching for better fre-quencies as they roam a signal-filled city. Hard-wiring youriPod to the car stereo is a bet-ter option if you spend a lot oflistening time in the driver’sseat.
There are a few basic op-tions for car owners. Car Toyswill hard-wire an FM modula-tor that connects your iPod toyour existing stereo, leaving aconnecting cord danglingthrough the dashboard.
You’ll still have to control the
music on your iPod’s panel, adangerous pastime while mov-ing at 65 mph. The equipmentcosts about $49, and the in-stallation is about $75.
Newer cars and separately-purchased car stereos includean auxiliary or headphone jackon the front panel of the tuner.Your iPod can hook directlyinto that jack from the iPod’sheadphone jack; you are stillcontroll ing the playliststhrough the iPod itself. Newradios with that set-up includea Panasonic model starting at$120.
February 25, 2007 25LSunday Gazette-Mail
CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK
CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK
What Can You Do? Be involved in Your Healthcare a nd Ask Questions.
Nationally Known Locally Owned
(304) 369-3981 2008 Smoot Ave. Danville
TIM RIGGS. R.P.H. OWNER/ MANAGER
MON-FRI- 9 AM 6 PM, SATURDAYS 9 AM -2 PM
• MOST INSURANCES ACCEPTED • PRIVATE CONSULTATION AVAILABLE • COMPUTERIZED RECORDS
William L. Harris, M.D. William L. Harris, M.D. William L. Harris, M.D. Board Certified Family Physician and
Board Certified Geriatrician by the American Board of Family Practice of
The American Academy of Family Physicians
3100 MacCorkle Ave., SE Charleston, WV 25304
344-2451
GOLDEN HEART IN-HOME CARE SERVICES
(304) 343-1981 Director Shida Jamie
(304) 610-6090
Weekends and 24 hour Service -RN Assessment -Home Community Based Medical
Waiver Services -Veterans in Home Services
-Private pay Homemaker in Home Services
-Competitive Prices
Companionship, preparing meals, light house- keeping, grocery shopping, transportation, errands, laundry, and more. Dependable,
affordable, bonded and insured.
HOME HELPERS HOME HELPERS
Home Helpers
766-9774 Home Helpers
766-9774
Est. 1980 Physical Therapy Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Skilled & Intermediate Quality Nursing Services
DAVID J. GALLIEN Administrator
199 Court St. Jane Lew, WV 26378
Office - (304) 884-7811 - (304) 622-5486
Home - (304) 884-7020 Fax - (304) 884-7057
Central West Virginia Aging Services, Inc. Wants you to know that the following services are available:
Charleston 346-7595 Sutton 1-800-814-8514 Parkersburg 304-424-3457
Buckhanon 1-800-296-0069 Oak Hill 1-800-681-0886
“Serving the Elderly and Disabled Since 1974”
Serving the Elderly and
Disabled Since 1974
Fairmont 1-800-436-3780 Martinsburg 1-877-767-3997
•RN Assessments •Case Management •Home and Community Based Medicaid Waiver Services •Chore Services/Charity Care •Indigent Prescription Assistance •Veterans’ In-Home Services •Workers’ Compensation In-Home Services •Private Pay Homemaker In-Home Services -Competitive Rates •Older Worker Training Programs for those 55 and older •Free In-Home Assessments •Information, Referral and Linkage •Liquid Food Supplements at Cost
Visit Hurricane’s Specialty Shoppes, Caboose Museum,
Parks and Restaurants for a Fun Filled Day
Call 562-5896 For More Information
www.colonialshoppe.com 2723 Main St., Hurricane, WV
304-562-9243
The Colonial House Gift Shoppe Offering:
• Chandeliers • Lamps • Pictures • Accessories • Gifts
Boomer women gather on InternetBoomerGirl.comgeared toward50-somethings
By Korky VannThe Hartford Courant
There’s a new girl in town —or in cyberspace, to be exact.
BoomerGirl.com, launchedlast month, offers news, blogsand tips on health, fashion,family, finances and fitness —all geared toward “women of acertain age.’’ The Web site grewout of a Kansas woman’s week-ly column on her own midlifemisadventures and the chal-lenges and humorous happen-ings of being a female over 50.Cathy Hamilton, who wroteBoomer Girl Diary for a localpaper, was surprised when shesearched for similar contentonline and found little.
“My kids are all over face-book.com and Myspace.com,which offer relevant contentand a community experiencefor teens and twentysome-things,’’ says Hamilton, 51. “Iwanted to find the same thingfor women my age, but therereally wasn’t much out there.’’Hamilton took her idea for aWeb site geared toward middle-
aged women to the marketingfolks at her paper. They sawthe potential and helped get theproject up and running.
“The reaction to my columntold me there was a need forsomething like this on the In-ternet,’’ Hamilton says.“Women over 40 just aren’tseeing themselves in today’smedia.’’
Hamilton’s venture joinsBoomerwomenspeak.com,launched by empty-nester Dot-sie Bregel in 2002, andeons.com, created in 2006 byJeff Taylor, founder of Mon-ster.com for the over-50 audi-ence.
Sandy Berger, author of“Great Age Guide to the Inter-net,’’ a handbook for “boomersand beyond,’’ says such sitesmake good business sense.Born between 1946 and 1964,boomers have more politicalpower, education, discretionaryincome and cultural impactthan any other generation. Thelast wave of boomers turns 43this year. The oldest turns 61.
“Back when I started teach-ing boomers computer skills, Iactually had folks pick up themouse and put it on thescreen,’’ says Berger, creator ofcompukiss.com, which featurescomputer tutorials, technology
Man markets Fab Four clothesStitch-for-stitch copies help outfit Beatles tribute bands, fans
By John KellyThe Washington Post
WASHINGTON — One day, alittle over five years ago, RussLease decided that what theworld needed was historicallyaccurate, reasonably priced re-productions of Beatles clothing:stitch-for-stitch copies of the dis-tinctive outfits the famous mu-sicians wore in concert.
Luckily, Russ was in the po-sition to provide them. With hisbrother, he had owned the PantsPlus clothing store in a subur-ban Maryland mall from 1976until the mall closed in 2001.Russ knew the clothing industry.And he knew the Beatles. A fansince childhood, he’s a leadingcollector of high-end Beatlesmemorabilia: signed letters, rarealbums, old performance con-tracts, one of “The Beatles”drumheads from the front ofRingo’s bass drum.
At a Sotheby’s auction in1994, Russ had paid about$5,000 for a tailored tan jacket,size 39 regular, with epaulets,pleated breast pockets andNehru collar. It was the so-called “Shea jacket,” the veryjacket Paul McCartney worewhen the Beatles performed atShea Stadium on Aug. 15, 1965.
Recently, Russ, 50, slipped ona pair of white cotton gloves andeased a headless mannequinout of a locked display case. Heunbuttoned the Shea jacket andremoved it from the form. Thefabric was clean and unwrin-kled, although there were sweatstains on the acetate lining.
Russ’s idea was to reverse-en-gineer the jacket and create anexact duplicate.
“All of the tailors I spoke withwanted to take it apart,” hesaid. “I said, ‘No you can’t dothat.’ ”
Finally he found a master tai-lor in Lehighton, Pa., namedPete Camioni. The two spentfour days poring over the jack-et, taking measurements, mak-ing sketches. Today, you can buyyour own Shea jacket — in tanor black, sizes 38 to 50 — for$295 from Russ’s company,www.beatlesuits.com.
Next, Russ duplicated thefrock coat Ringo wore on thecover of the “Abbey Road” al-bum. (The original — size 34short; Ringo is tiny — is in an-other display case.) Russ alsosells the collarless suits from theBeatles’ early days, the narrow-lapel jackets and drainpipetrousers they wore on “The EdSullivan Show” and the velvet-collared sharkskin suits seen atthe end of “A Hard Day’s Night.”
These outfits are a godsendfor people whose job requiresthem to dress as John, Paul,George or Ringo. These are thehardworking Beatles tribute
bands, made up of musicianswho comb their bangs over theirforeheads and master not onlythe chords of the Beatles’ songs,but also the distinctive bounceof the Beatles’ heads, theirknees-bent joggling stance, theslight eyeball flutter that ac-companies a lusty “Woooooo!”
These groups — with suchnames as the Mersey Beat, theBeat Club, BritBeat, the Beatalls,the Beatlads, the Fab Four, theFab 5, Fab Forever and AlmostFab — were cruising thrift shopslooking for clothing that couldbe altered and made to lookvaguely Beatlish.
About a third of Russ’s suitsgo to “trib” bands. More recentrockers including Elliot Eastonof the Cars and Doug Fieger ofthe Knack are also customers.So, too, are relatively normalfolks.
“Some of it is kind of back instyle now,” Russ said of theclothes, made at a factory in
Pennsylvania that also sews po-lice uniforms. “Then I thinkthere are people who just wantto have it to hang in the closet.I have a fair amount of womencustomers who want (the Sheajacket) in Paul’s size — not towear it, not to give to their hus-band, just to have it in their col-lection, to put it on a man-nequin in their Beatles room.”
There is something Shroud ofTurin-like about the clothes.Looking at them brings a floodof associations. And Russ’smemorabilia-filled basement islike a reliquary, adorned as it iswith various slivers of the truerock-and-roll cross.
So, Russ, have you ever puton Paul’s jacket?
“I’d be lying to you if I said Ididn’t,” he said. “When you getPaul McCartney’s Shea jacket,you have to put it on and slapon a Hofner bass and look inthe mirror and see how it looks.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
The Washington Post
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