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MORE than half of motorists surveyed in Dorset do not believe speeding is dangerous.
And one in six people admitted to getting behind the wheel when they were unsure whether they were over the drink-drive limit.
Around 850 people across Dorset voluntarily completed a set of questions for Dorset County Council about their own road safety behaviour. The council wanted to find out what Dorset residents think are key road safety priorities, their perceptions of the acceptability of certain behaviours and their own self-reported behaviour.
The top five most important issues that Dorset residents think the Government should address are, in order: 1. Drink driving 2. Speeding 3. Mobile Phone use (handheld) 4. Careless driving 5. Drug driving Although almost all respondents agreed it is unacceptable and dangerous to drive when over the legal alcohol limit, more than 40 per cent knew of people who they thought had done so. Worryingly, one in six people admitted to have driven themselves when unsure if they were over the limit and four even admitted to driving at some time when they knew they were over the limit.
Although speeding is cited as one of top issues to address, more than half of respondents did not agree that it was dangerous. The survey suggests it is the behaviour most frequently self reported with more than half of the respondents admitting to doing the following at some point: • Driving at 40mph in a 30mph speed limit area • Exceeding the speed limit on a country road • Driving at 90mph on a motorway when there is no traffic about Using a hand held mobile phone whilst driving was considered the third most important road safety issue to be addressed. A greater proportion of younger respondents aged 17-24 were more likely to admit to using a mobile phone for texting and to consider it socially acceptable than other age groups.
The survey results suggest the older and more experienced the driver, the more dangerous and socially unacceptable they consider it to be; however, half of all those questioned knew of people who had used a hand held mobile phone while they drive to make or take calls or to send or read texts.
Peter Finney, Dorset County Council Cabinet member for environment and economy, said: "Although this survey is only a snapshot, it's interesting to see the discrepancy between what the Dorset public think are priorities for Government to tackle, i.e. drink-driving and speeding, and their own self reported behaviour. We are very grateful to all those who took part in the survey which has given the road safety team a lot to consider for the future in terms of how our safety campaigns should be targeted."
As an incentive to complete the online survey, there was a prize draw which was won by Pete Bull, from Bournemouth. He was picked at random from the entries and received £30 worth of vouchers to spend in Halfords.

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Federal role 'far more defensible' with shift from direct payments, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says
By DOUGLAS BURNS
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
February 7, 2014
The meat of the just-passed farm bill, expected to be signed by President Barack Obama today into a law governing agriculture for the next decade, is the elimination of the $4.5 billion annually in direct payments in favor of an expanded crop-insurance program.
The package also reduces spending on food stamps by about $8 billion over 10 years - about 1 percent of the total Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) budget.
Those items have received the headlines and lion's share of media coverage. But the 959-page, $956 million bill - known as the Agriculture Act of 2014 - includes a king's ransom of lower-profile provisions intended to have wide-ranging impact on the estimated 16 million Americans involved in agriculture and the people who consume their goods.
In a half-hour phone interview with The Daily Times Herald Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, a former two-term Democratic governor of Iowa, delved deeply into the spending and policy in the farm bill, saying Iowa producers can mine it for opportunities to improve rural life.
The Daily Times Herald asked Vilsack to focus on some of the under-the-radar elements of the legislation.
The farm bill, for example, includes a series of programs to create new market opportunities for small- and medium-sized operations, Vilsack said, adding that one of the challenges in agriculture is the perception that "you've got to go bigger or you're not going to survive."
"We want to rebuild the smaller and mid-sized operators, and to do that, we've got to give them options outside of marketing in a commodity market," Vilsack said. "A commodity market basically puts a premium on efficiency and volume."
Smaller producers need new, direct-market opportunities, the ability to sell direclty to a customer, Vilsack said.
The bill includes more funding for farmers' markets, value-added producer-processing opportunities and money for state ag departments to promote specialty crops, he said.
Here's another nugget: Returning veterans interested in getting into farming have been able to access a microloan program for up to $35,000. Congress has increased the credit limit to $50,000.
"So you could as a returning veteran or someone interested in beginning farming use that money for a wide variety of purposes, buying a piece of equipment, renting some ground, buying inputs, to begin starting your operation," Vilsack said. "That may be something folks may not be fully appreciative of."
On the beginning-farmer front, the bill includes $200 million in insurance-premium support for new farmers and ranchers, those with less than five years of experience.
"That's a new wrinkle," Vilsack said.
Vilsack said the bio-based agricultural economy is affording more ways to use byproducts from from grain and livestock operations for profitable side ventures - "a corn cob into a plastic bottle, a cornstalk into a sheet of clear plastic that can be used in the windows of envelopes."
"There's a whole new world of opportunity here with bioprocessing and manufacturing, taking crop residue and livestock waste and woody biomass and converting into these chemicals and materials," Vilsack said.
The bill allows programs that in the past had been geared for renewable energy and fuel to help finance bio-based manufacturing.
"That's an exciting opportunity," Vilsack said.
American agriculture has never had a vehicle for research similar to health care, a one-two punch foundation seeded with government money and augmented with private funds.
The bill provides $200 million and requires matching dollars for a foundation that will spin out innovations in agriculture.
The intent is to do for agriculture what the National Institutes of Health does for medicine.
"Yes, it's similar to that," Vilsack said.
According to Vilsack's department, U.S. agricultural exports reached a record $140.9 billion in fiscal year 2013 and supported about a million U.S. jobs. In fact, compared with the previous five-year period from FY 2004-2008, U.S. agricultural exports from FY 2009-2013 increased by nearly $230 billion.
Vilsack, echoing the the president's State of the Union comments, said the past five years represent the strongest five-year period ever for American agricultural exports.
Since 2009, USDA has led more than 150 U.S. agribusinesses on agricultural trade missions to China, Colombia, Ecuador, Georgia, Indonesia, Iraq, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam.
"We are aggressively promoting agricultural exports overseas," Vilsack said. "We're breaking down trade barriers. We're negotiating free-trade agreements. We're proposing additional free-trade agreements in the South Pacific and in Southeast Asia as well as in Europe."
The bill maintained controversial Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) supported by consumer groups but opposed by livestock producers who say the measures are unnecessarily burdensome and could spark a trade war with Mexico and Canada.
The World Trade Organization, Vilsack said, had criticized the more generic labeling developed by the USDA, and forced the department to require more information about where animals are being raised, slaughtered and processed.
"We've done that with the new new label," Vilsack said. "The Canadians and Mexicans are still concerned about this, and we're still in the midst of working through that dispute. I think it's important to let that dispute run its course so we can get clear direction."
On the center-stage provision, Vilsack said it was time to end the $4.5 billion a year in direct payments, fixed per-acre disbursements that had nothing to do with crop prices - and often went to people not actually involved in agriculture.
"It's pretty obvious to me that the direct-payment system was the source of justifiable criticism on the part of those who don't farm," Vilsack said. "It was frankly hard to explain to people why farmers were receiving checks when corn was selling for $8 a bushel and soybeans were at $15 a bushel, at record prices. And the same was true for cotton and other commodities."
The farm bill, which is expected to reduce the deficit through $23 billion in savings, some tied to SNAP, some savings connected to consoldiation of conservation programs, does expand crop insurance by $7 billion over the decade.
"We now have a system that's far more defensible because it's a system designed to help farmers when they need help, not when they don't," Vilsack said. "It does put a focus on crop insurance."
Vilsack - saying he was directing his remarks on crop insurance at Americans who don't farm - stressed that insurance programs are partnerships between producers and the government. Both pay part of the premiums.
"There's a real simple reason, and that is that we want to save taxpayers money," Vilsack said.
In the absence of government assistance, crop insurance would be dramaticlly higher, with insurance companies pricing packages high to protect the $62 billion worth of crops produced annually in the United States, Vilsack said.
"That's the extent of risk that insurance companies would be asked to bear if the government weren't involved in any way in this program," Vilsack said. "So the premiums would be so high that very few producers would actually buy crop insurance."
Here's what Vilsack says would happen under such a scenario: There'd be a drought or a flood or other disaster and farmers would seek relief through congressional disaster bills.
"This is really designed to save money in the long term," Vilsack said.
According to The New York Times, the crop-insurance program, which is administered by 18 companies that are paid $1.4 billion annually by the government to sell policies to farmers, pays 62 percent of farmers' premiums.
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THE Minehead Lifeboat crew's 2014 fundraising campaign got off to a stunning start, despite the weather's attempts to disrupt things.
And organisers say Saturday's Lifeboat Dance probably benefitted from the gale force conditions rather than losing out.
More than 180 people struggled through the weather to the Hobby Horse ballroom in Minehead for an evening of fun which raised a staggering £3,100 for RNLI funds.
Minehead RNLI chairman Bryan Stoner said: "I'm sure the weather made more than a few people reflect on the commitment of a group of people who would willingly have put to sea to save lives that night, had the call come."
The dance was the second the crew have organised since taking over responsibility for local fundraising a year ago.
Last year they were able to hand over nearly £32,000 to the RNLI - roughly a third of their station's annual running costs.
Mr Stoner added: "From the response we got to the second event, it's clear the dance has already become a very popular fixture on the local social calendar.
"It was a great team effort by the crew to raise quite so much in a single night, congratulations all round."
The next major fundraiser will be a hog roast and jazz night, with local band the Darktown Strutters, taking place in the boathouse on May 24.
- If you went along on Saturday evening and have any pictures you'd like to see in this week's County Gazette, email them to: email@example.com.


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A great wine list doesn't have to be a lengthy leather-bound tome written in fancy script -- in fact, more often than not the best restaurant wine lists are simple, concise, and user-friendly.
Call me an idealist, but I like to think my favourite wine lists are born out of a love of wine and food, and the overall experience of sharing both with friends. Having said that, there are a few key components I typically find in my favourite wine lists:
Familiarity. While I'm a tireless advocate of trying new wines, the inclusion of a few tried-and-true popular favourites helps keep a wine list from becoming intimidating or confusing. Diners need a starting point from which they can try new wines. These more popular wines can incite discussion between the guests and the server -- something like "If you like wine X (the popular wine) you'll love wine Y."
Diversity. At the same time as the comfort of familiar wines is important, so too is offering customers a healthy cross-section of choices -- grape variety, flavour profile and so forth -- on a wine list. Diversity also means keeping a wine list fresh and current; this can be as simple as changing a wine list seasonally with a menu, or test-driving new wines as a monthly feature or a by-the-glass pour.
(Speaking of wines served by the glass, eschewing the same old super-safe whites and reds by the glass is a plus. I get excited when I see off-the-beaten-track whites and reds as by-the-glass pours.)
Value. You're never going to pay the retail price on a bottle of wine at a restaurant, and I have no problem with that -- from storage to staff training to glassware purchase/maintenance to retaining an inventory, there are plenty of associated costs. One way savvy restaurateurs up-sell wine is to mark up pricier bottles less, encouraging diners to splurge on a pricier bottle of wine to get a better value. Nothing wrong with that.
Information. Even a line or two highlighting a wine's basic features helps provide guidance. "Light and fruity" is all I would need to see to know a mid-range Cabernet Sauvignon won't have the backbone to stand up to a big steak. Descriptors can go so far as to offer a few adjectives about the flavours of the wine; some wine lists even suggest food pairings. And if the wine list doesn't offer descriptors, a server should be able to talk about the wine and suggested food pairings.
Compatibility with food. The most important point. You can have the cleverest wine list in town, but if the wines don't match with the meals you're not doing anyone any favours. And while most wine Winnipeg wine lists feature input from whoever is selling the establishment the wine (Manitoba Liquor Marts or private wine stores), the best wine lists include input from chefs as well as servers.
The people who create and/or serve the dishes are the ones getting the feedback from diners as to what does and doesn't work. A food-and-wine pairing sounds good in theory, but if people doing the eating and drinking don't think it works, it's time to have another look.
There's plenty more to factor in, but these are the touchstones of a great wine list. What are some of your favourite wine lists in Winnipeg? Leave a comment on the Free Press website, send me an email or @ me on Twitter.
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Joel Gott 2011 Riesling (Columbia Valley, Washington -- around $26, private wine stores)
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In many ways, all of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College's alumni are distinguished. As leaders, mothers, volunteers, entrepreneurs and trailblazers, our graduates consistently make significant contributions to the quality of life of others. Each year, the College honors a specific alumni who embodies all of these characteristics. For her time, energy and leadership to make a significant and inspiring impact in her community and to her alma mater, SMWC will name Martha Becker Head as the 2011 Distinguished Alumni at its commencement exercises on Saturday, May 7, 2011.
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Best gaming headphones for ~100 euro bucks
Hey all, i am currently looking to buy a good gaming headset so i am doing my net research.
I've spent some time reading guides and reviews on sites such as Tom'shardware, user reviews on Amazon and some other random sites i found on Google, but i am still not quite sure about my choices.
What i am looking for is something that does surround. I play quite a few online shooters and i figured having real surround sound would change the game experience a fair bit. The headset should also be comfortable, since gaming sessions can easily stretch over 2 hours straight. Sound quality is kind of not worth mentioning i guess, when shopping for a sound device. Lastly, my budget is about 100 euros, so sadly the sennheiser awesomeness is mostly off limits.
Now my first major doubt is - does surround actually work with headphones? I mean really work, like a decent home cinema 5.1 system does?
Then secondly, what to chose? There are quite a few options out there, with every major gaming gear or sound gear manufacturer offering some sort of a device that supposedly answers to my criteria.
According to a couple of reviews, the Logitech G35 are the best overall considering prices and quality. However, most of the reviews i found are kind of old, like a couple of years old, so i am not sure if they are still of importance. Also, i haven't seen much info on the Steelseries 5H (or 7H, the more expensive version).
Lastly, some of these headphones come with an "USB soundcard" - what's this all about? Could such a device provide better sound than standard MB integrated sound? Doesn't it consume too much power for an USB port to sustain properly?
I am mostly looking for personal experience based opinions, so if anyone has used/owns such headphones please share your experience.
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Nice quality Hifi headphones designed for comfort with 16-24k range or better and a decent desk mic.
I use a pair of Philips SHP5401 http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001ETSAZI/ (these are 15 - 28000 Hz)
But I paid less than that amazon link.
Heres a desk mic with good reviews but I grabbed a logitech one in a sale.
Heres a thing about "headsets" the mic is stuck to your face like Madonna in a concert and you'll be breathing all over the damn thing, It'll either be tiny and pointless or it will get in the way, when you inevitably trip over your headset it'll all be gone down the toilet.
Desk mics are just better for me., guess if you were a heavy lanner you might feel different, but if you are sat next to your teammates do you really need a mic?
Edit: adressing your concerns, avoid USB sound cards unless you have read excellent reviews, they are mostly a good idea for listening to music on terrible sound cards (if you get fizzing and crackling on your current sound card its likely EM interference, usb processing will be shielded and mostly powered by your CPU. )
Edit 2: biaural surround sound is all bollocks, TBH most of the magic of surround sound is when your head is not centred, most blockbusters have your head track things so that the sound will catch you out "lampshading" the effect, but on headphones clamped to your skull? that will never happen.
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Check this thread over on head-fi. That should give you an idea. I'm aware that there are a lot of headphone recommendations which are far more expensive, but there should be a few headphones within your budget as well.
Edit: Too expand on the previous a little. It might be nice to have some more info on a few things. Like whether you want an open or closed headphone, whether you would like circumaural or supra-aural (over the ears or on the ears).
Some other tips/ info:
Dont' look at measurements done by the company themselves. They're likely not correct or displayed in a way that is very misleading. If you're going to look at measurements at all check out something like headroom. At least theirs are acurate.
Try headphone before buying them if at all possible. Some headphone are very uncomfortable for some people. People also tend to hear things differntly. You might think a headphone sounds very harsh (too much high frequency) while someone else might perceive that as being detailed or bright.
5.1 headphones are pretty much a gimmick. You would be better of with a proper 2.0 headphone in almost every case.
Headphone which provide their own USB DAC and amp could possibly be good, but I can't think of one that actually is. If it would be any good it would also have to be significantly more expensive than the most things that are out there.
And last but by no means least: Buy a headphone made by an audio company instead of by a gaming company. I don't know of any headphones made by gaming companies which I would call good.
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Siberia steel series. Expensive, but decent sound and robust build quality. Present set well over 2 years old now and going strong. Firm thumbs up.
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If you have a Sound Blaster brand sound card its EAX effects do a very nice job of stereo surround with and without 2.0 headphones. It's so precise that in the old Call of Duty games I could hear a mortar falling (skreeeeerrrr) and actually turn my camera to directly face the explosion moments before it would happen. Having owned many headphones and soundcards my opinion is that this is mostly a function of the sound card. EAX is becoming much less prevalent and I find even triple-A custom sound systems (like the Source and Unreal engines) to be inferior to the precision of EAX's stereo surround.
I have the Pioneer SE-M390 cans. I use them for gaming, listening to music, and DJ monitoring although they're not ideal for the latter. They have very nice range and powerful warm bass. The ear cups are carpeted and are supremely comfortable - I never ever fatigue from wearing these and my ears are very sensitive to this. They have a single wire on one side and a nice long cable so I have it routed around the back of my to keep it out of the way. No mic, though. I think they ran me $80 Canadian.
I tried some carpeted Razor brand headphones at the local tech shop which had a built-in mic but they weren't quite as bassy or comfy as my Pioneers. 50% more expensive too.
I would agree with 7hink that gaming brands aren't known for quality headphones/headsets. And I don't just mean in terms of some uber-hifi sound quality, but also just build quality and comfort. Had a Steelseries headset that nearly squeezed the life out of my ears (even though it was circumaural and I'm no Dumbo), and then it crapped out with a loose wire somewhere. Save me, Sennheiser! And I lived happily ever after.
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My steelseries H5 lasted me for almost 3 years before crapping out and didn't vicegrip my skull.
I had a 130 euro sehneisser headset 4 years ago and after only 2 weeks the cable snagged once (not hard, the steelseries went through far more abuse) and the soldering already let go and it was broken.
I have a 12 year old phillips heaphone and it's still working perfectly with no sign of wear.
ALL gaming headsets are a scam, they are made to break so you buy a new one.
This isn't some conspiracy theory crap, it's a well known and well documented fact about products being made disposable, goes from light bulbs to nylon stockings to cars and washing machines and printers that have counter chips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxzU1HFC7Q throws a nice light on it.
Gaming headsets have a sales pitch based on style and gaming, traditional headphones are (were) pitched as something you buy to last for life, just like good old 3 way standalone speakers were renowned for lasting 20+ years and that was part of the sales pitch.
If you want to dismiss the docu, at least watch it first, it's not opinions based on making their own conclusions (like most media) ,they are well documented facts.
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It's true that most electronics aren't made to last these days and can't be made that way if they're going to be sold for a certain price. However, all the headphones I own right now have been going strong for several years. That said. I still need to replace certain parts of them every once in a while. That's one of the things that you get with headphones. No matter how expensive or robust, certain parts of them are going to fail. Think about things like earpads and headbands. Drivers can still last a very long time depending on your use/ abuse.
One of the things that makes more expensive headphones worth it is that most of them have a modular design. If a cables fails, I can get just a new cable instead of buying a completly new headphone. It probably is still cheaper to get several cheaper headphones though.
Just for reference, these are the headphones I own at the moment:
Sennheiser HD650
Sennheiser HD25-II
Sennheiser 250 Linear II
Beyerdynamic DT880 (2003 model)
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Edit: Of course, I bought these headphones for music and just happened to still have them when I started playing more games. They would make absurd recommendations for gaming headphones. My point is that there are tons of great options for all budgets that are not gaming-specific and not surround; rather than mention what I think they might be, I'd simply point to a headphone-centric hivemind.
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As I said in my rant, headsets are a totally different market, aimed at kids and students, they are built to break and squeeze every euro out of people's pockets.
Headphones (quality ones of respectable make) are still aimed at more old fashioned users who want their shit to last for many, many years.
I was trying to say the argument about which headset is best is moot as one should look for some good headphones, not overly expensive poor build quality headsets.
^^ I agree with the above.
Just as another bit of info. You can just get a modmic and stick it on pretty much any headphone you would like. I don't own one myself so I can't vouch for the quality of it, but I've heard pretty good things about it. Another option would be to go for something like the logitech microphone which a few of my friends use. Those also work quite well.
For actual headsets the only ones I can truly recommend (from personal experience) are the Beyerdynamic MMX300 and the Sennheiser PC360. Those are far above the OPs budget though.
As someone who down the ages has owned 2 sets of Zalman 5.1s, 2 sets of Medusas and another 5.1 headset I can't remember the name of - they aint worth it. You'll be much happier with a set that can push out a decent amount of bass.
That being said if it wasn't already obvious, headsets are just so subjective you'll really want to try them.
In terms of value to performance the 2 best headsets I've ever owned were some Technics I picked up for £20 in Dixons as a student, and a set of Logitech headphones I got for a similar price.
I've been bitterly disappointed with the 5.1 ones I mentioned above as well as a fair few generic sets as well as the creative Fatality ones which were utterly awful and felt like someone was drilling into my brain while squishing my ears tight.
However I do have a freakishly shaped head which means all headphones/sets are periodically very painful for me to wear. My quest to find the perfect set eventually took me to the Sennheiser PC350s and the Beyerdynamic MMX300s both of which I can thoroughly recommend but which are sadly out of your price bracket.
And I can usually go comfortably for a 6 hour gaming session with the above
In terms of USB amps my only experience was the medusas which got HORRIFIC interference from mobile phones (in other rooms no less), so I'd avoid.
And agree with the advice on going with a headphone company, certainly if you're purchasing without testing - although as mentioned above I got on really well with a set of £20 logitechs which I bought in desperation when I grew so frustrated with my search for a decent set.
Please please stay away from Razer - one of the worst crimes to be inflicted upon gamers over the last decade has been their continued existence.
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I use Sennheiser HD555s - they're within your budget and sound good.
Obvious downside is that they'd leave you needing a mic (assuming you actually want one). I've not really found a good solution to the mic thing - I wear an old headset around my neck and use the mic from that, but it doesn't work very well. However, I don't find myself using it very often anyway, which is why I've never really put any effort into finding a better solution.
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I currently use a set of Sennheiser HD215s headphones. I don't talk in online games that much so I don't have a mic (though I miss having a boom mic simply for convenience) and I find the quality reasonable for the price. That said, if I wasn't often listening to music, I don't think they'd offer that much of a significant advantage over a gaming headphone set.
For what it's worth, the 5.1 "surround" settings on gaming headsets (the ones that use software, not multiple drivers which sound terrible) do sort of work, but depending on your soundcard or even the game itself it may be able to virtualise this anyway.
In any event the headset that sounds right and is comfortable for you is the one you should go with... definitely listen to the suggestions here but don't just pick a headset because someone tells you it sounds better than X for $n more.
First of all, thank you all for the lengthy replies!
Now here's the deal - I am well aware that proper headphone companies produce a much better product than "gaming" ones do. as i mentioned in my original post, they also tend to be quite more expensive. Thing is, it'll be my b-day soonish and my wife was wondering what to get me, as i said our current budget is about 100 euros.
Some more info on the situation/needs - My PC is in the living room, right next to the wife's PC. We usually play together, except that she doesn't play any shooters so i play that on my own. There's also the TV in the room, with the kid watching TV/Movies on it in the evening. All's fine when playing some strategy, quest or even RPG, even if the wife's playing/watching something else next to me and the kid's watching tv, but once you get into something like BF3 or similar the sound levels mixing gets seriously annoying for everyone so in the end everyone ends up lowering the sound to a minimum. Not that's it's CRITICAL, i don't play on a professional level, but it does cut back quite a bit on the experience. I currently have the Fatal1ty headset which i bought without much thought, and i am kinda sorry about it - as others have said, it is uncomfortable, the sound is not that amazing.
With all that said, i thought about using the opportunity (my b-day) to "upgrade" my headphones. I also thought it would be nice to be able to play with some sort of real surround, so that's how i ended up looking at "gaming" headphones that do 5.1. I ain't got a real soundcard, i am using my onboard sound with a 2.1 BOSE system.
As for communications - i don't really use TS anymore, i did use it back in my WoW days, but lately i've been off MMOs. I do use Skype sometimes with my friends when playing Diablo, but that won't last much longer. Anyways, the microphone part is not a priority for me. If i was to get some music headphones, i could always buy some cheap desk mic et voila.
About the gaming headphones - I am cautious about these, that's why i started this thread (and others on other forums). The thing that kind of encouraged me was a review on tom'sguide that says that the Logitech G35 are actually quite good on terms of quality, comfort and sound. And that the 5.1 does make a difference.
Thing is, if i don't get some 5.1 headphones, i might just as well not bother with spending money on new headphones since i don't use them all that much.
And lastly, about music headphones - some months ago, when i got my wife an Yamaha DGX 640, we decided she would need some proper headphones if she was to play it a lot. We ended up choosing the Sennheiser HD 518 as the best money/quality solution. They are in the budget too, so i guess if we don't get me some "gaming headset" and still decide to stick with a headphones gift we might go for them, since we've already done a bit of research about them. Opinions?--
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In that case (i.e not needing the mic) I'd recomend going for a pair of headphones rather than a headset. The HD518s which you've already looked and or the HD555s are both in your budget and either would both be good purchases.
One slight caveat is that they're "open" headphones - which means they'll "leak" a fair bit of sound. (i.e. people in the room will be able to hear your headphones). Though unless they're trying to watch a really quiet film, or you have them cranked up stupidly high, it shouldn't be a problem
We picked open over closed for comfort's sake (heat)...--
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Homeless children live in her heart
Published: Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 5:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 5:13 p.m.
Courtney Allen has fielded hundreds of calls for help over her six years as the Alachua County school system's point person on homeless students.
Facts about homeless kids
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, reauthorized by Title X, Part C, of the No Child Left Behind Act, ensures educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness.
The term "homeless children and youth" means individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence. This includes children and youths who are:
Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason;
living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative accommodations.
Living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement>
Living in a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for humans.
Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings.
The Alachua County Public Schools homeless education coordinator, Courtney Allen, said there are 500 students identified as homeless in Alachua County. She projects the county will have about 700 or 800 identified students by the end of the school year.
SOURCE: Alachua County Public Schools
One still haunts her.
An Alachua County principal called her about five years ago for help with a very promising student who had been kicked out of her mother's house.
Allen kept a close eye on the straight-A student, who eventually moved back in with her mother.
One morning, Allen received another call from the girl's school.
"Ms. Allen, are you sitting down?" the school guidance counselor asked.
"Yeah. What's going on?" Allen responded.
Allen learned that the student had been found dead.
"I think about her to this day," she said. "She would have graduated by now, and I have no doubt that she would be doing well."
Of all the sad cases Allen has handled, this one lingers the most.
"That was the hardest time," she said, "the hardest time."
Allen is living proof that homeless students can excel in school and in life. After losing her home, the Jacksonville native moved in with relatives during her high school years.
"You can be sad and depressed and crawl up in a shell and desire not to thrive anymore," she said, "or we can look around and be thankful for what we do have and keep moving."
When she was 4 or 5 years old, Allen would visit her grandmother, who was a foster mom. She spent nights at her grandmother's group home playing with the foster children. It was there, she said, that she learned the importance of helping others.
"I certainly believe that those experiences from our childhood play into what we become," Allen said. "She played a very instrumental part in my life. She was a great person and a wonderful advocate for people, and that's what she did."
When Allen was in high school, her grandmother died.
"It was like a whirlwind, and I remember my mom, who was extremely distraught as any child would be after the loss of a parent," she said. "Sometimes parents just don't have it all together, and they can't navigate or deal with the emotions of the time."
Allen's immediate family ended up losing their home and moving in with relatives. "I can in retrospect say that was my life. That was my experience," she said. "When talking with my families and the kids I encounter, I think it is important that they know you're not alone."
Allen said there was no program in school to help homeless students like there is now. She did not have the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, which provides federal funding to states to support programs for homeless students to fall back on. Nor did she have the counselor at school to tell her she qualified for the act's services.
"We kind of navigated through it, and 'this too shall pass' was the feel of it all," she said. "We had fallen on tough times. Such is life, and it's not uncommon, and you're not exempt. We just pick up the pieces and keep moving."
Allen moved from homelessness into college life. She received a singing scholarship that allowed her to afford her higher education.
"Music was my thing. It's something I've done all my life," said Allen, who continues to enjoy singing, especially gospel. "Music is so powerful. It's universal."
She graduated from Bethune-Cookman University with a Bachelor of Science in psychology. Allen knew she wanted to continue her education, and when a professor informed her of a possible opportunity in Atlanta, she decided to move.
"To move to another state wasn't hard to do," said Allen, who earned a master's in counseling from Clark Atlanta University. "You just put gas in the car and go."
While living in Atlanta, Allen and her now-husband of 12 years, the Rev. David Allen, started a homeless ministry and would prepare meals for the homeless and hand them out after church on Sunday.
"We were in Atlanta for four years, and I would say three of the four years that's what we did on the weekends," she said. "My husband had a truck, so we set up the back of the truck and bought all of the utensils and food, and hundreds would come."
The 37-year-old mother of three now works with 500 students who have been identified as homeless in Alachua County. She has been the Alachua County Public Schools' homeless education coordinator for six years, and the role has not been easy.
"The first couple of years, I would go home in tears — a wreck — worrying and thinking about these babies, and whether they would eat that night and where do they sleep," said Allen, who previously worked as a guidance counselor in other counties. "Until I established healthier boundaries, I would have people calling me literally all times of the night."
The job took a toll on her family as well, she said, especially her two sons — now ages 6 and 7 — and her 11-year-old daughter.
"I was worn out by the time I got home. I had nothing to give myself, my kids — just depleted because I was so overly consumed with 'I wonder if Jimmy got food tonight,' " she said. "It was like, 'Mommy, can you read us a book?' and I'm sleeping and nodding through the book."
Allen's husband said his wife became disappointed and overwhelmed when she learned certain families were not being given the services they deserved.
"Several days in the first two to three years, Courtney brought a lot of her work home and the disappointment she harbored," he said.
He said they both now understand their own children are their first priority. They have designated Friday evenings as family time. "People are going to be pulling at us all the time, but that does not mean our kids take a backseat," he said. "Courtney is a strong supporter of eating together and praying together."
Allen said no matter what she is home for family dinner every night. "That's non-negotiable," she said.
Her husband said she is the nurturer of the family.
"She's the one who will cuddle with you in bed and stroke your head," he said.
Allen said she now realizes that, while it is her job to help homeless families, there is only so much that she can do.
"Rather than continuing that unhealthy vein, I had to really focus my energies in a different way," she said. "I became more involved in the community and seeking out resources and trying to educate and give my parents somewhat of a fighting chance and really empower them to do the research for themselves as well, because that's part of the process."
She said that, although she works to ensure students have food, shelter and proper resources, the main focus of her job is making sure the children and the parents receive the education that they need.
"For our parents in particular, there are referrals for parenting classes," she said. "Some parents I've had to encourage and support by way of finding resources for them to go back to get their GED. Sometimes it's financial literacy.''
A big part of what the job of homeless education coordinator requires is just talking with families and students, she said.
"For my students, it's really just encouraging them through this traumatic period in their lives," she said. "What I don't want them to do is drop out. I don't want them to become so overwhelmed or consumed with the things in the home or the lack of a home or the things that are not in the home so that they totally lose focus on their schooling."
Allen said she is a "one-man show" and must depend heavily on guidance counselors within the schools because she does not have the ability to meet one-on-one with all the students.
"We have 24 elementary schools, nine middle schools and seven high schools, so it's virtually impossible," she said. "So I have points of contacts at each school who are aware of the students who have been identified at their schools."
She keeps tabs on the students through a student database and constant communication with the schools. She said at least once or twice a week she does a site visit to area shelters, schools or homes.
Some of her responsibilities include training school employees, networking within the community and completing reports for the state.
Shelves filled with school supplies, hygiene supplies and uniform shirts line a wall of her office, and a copy of Dr. Seuss' "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" is positioned tall on top of her filing cabinet.
Allen said the most challenging part of her job has been dispelling the myths of what the homeless should look like.
"That's an ongoing battle within the schools because people's perceptions and definitions are very different," she said.
Allen said strides have been made, however.
"There has been more intention in ensuring that no school is left behind," she said.
Allen is also a member of the Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry. She said "it's a must" to stay connected.
"It's not required for this job. It's one of those things you know you need to be a part of," she said. "We share resources and ideas and what's going on in the community."
David Allen said people who know and appreciate his wife often stop him in the grocery store. He said people now associate Allen with the McKinney-Veto Act and her regard for life.
"I'm married to an angel," he said. "Her faith in God has really given her a special outlook on life that puts her in a place of serving more so than being served."
He said what makes his wife so successful is her ability to think several steps ahead and the passion behind her care.
"It's obvious that it's not just a job," he said.
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