Kieran Ridge is a Boston based singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of The Kieran Ridge Band. The band has released two CDs, their self-titled 2003 debut, as well as Nothing Left To Lose in 2006. The Kieran Ridge Band is very popular in the Boston, New England and New York regions. They also have a large following in Western Europe.
Ridge, a native of Quincy, Massachusetts, currently resides in Brighton, a section of Boston best known as a home for the local music community. Ridge worked as a union laborer on Boston's Big Dig highway renovation project in order to pay for the recording costs of the band's self-titled debut album.
The Kieran Ridge Band is comprised of Kieran Ridge on lead vocals, guitar, and harmonica. Chris Coughlin on piano, lead and backing vocals. Carlos Gonzalez on lead guitar, mandolin, and backing vocals. Drummer John Hannaford. And Brian Murphy on bass.
Kieran Ridge writes songs that give a voice to lovers and laborers, wandering strangers, convicts, outcasts and outsiders. Songs of good times, hard times, the road and romance, sung and played with faith, love, passion, intensity and desperation. The Kieran Ridge Band is a back to basics roots rock and roll band fusing together the basic elements of blues, country, and classic rock into their own unique style. However, it has been their intense live shows, in which their loud, hard-edged, bluesy rockers, mixed with quiet, tender, acoustic ballads have won over a wide cross-section of music fans.
The Kieran Ridge Band has received outstanding reviews from across the United States and Europe. Kieran Ridge has been called: "one of the best up and coming singer-songwriter talents of this time" by Freddy Celis of Rootstime in Belgium. Mr. Celis has also written that the listener should "take off your hat to their wide ranging mastery of their music," as well as saying that Nothing Left To Lose is "a perfect album" and "superb roots rock and roll." Reviewer Kevan Breitinger calls The Kieran Ridge Band "Nothing short of spectacular."
The Kieran Ridge Band is continuing to build a dedicated audience across the U.S. and Europe as through a busy touring schedule, an abundance of radio play, and a growing internet fan base. They are currently recording their third studio CD, due out in the Summer of 2007.
Fred Woodworth is an anarchist and atheist writer based in the United States. He is an anarchist without adjectives, saying: "I have no prefix or adjective for my anarchism. I think syndicalism can work, as can free-market anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-communism, even anarcho-hermits, depending on the situation. But I do have a strong individualist streak." In his writings he has championed individualism and criticized government intrusions on individual liberty, but he has also called unethical certain ideas and actions in the global anarchist movement.
iGo is a brand of power adapters, portable keyboards and other mobile accessories. They are distributed online at www.iGo.com and from retailers including Best Buy, Brookstone airport stores, CompUSA, RadioShack and others.
iGo power adapters utlize interchangeable power tips to allow the user to power and charge all their mobile devices from one adapter. Currently, the iGo power adapters can charge thousands of devices including notebook computers, mobile phones, Bluetooth headsets, smartphones/PDA, MP3 players (iPods), portable gaming devices (PSPs and Game Boys), digital cameras and portable GPS systems. The users can select individual power tips for all of their devices and power adapters that work wherever they want to power - such as from the wall, car, airplane or batteries.
iGo recently acquired Think Outside and their line of Bluetooth wireless keyboards. Designed to be portable, these keyboards work with smartphones and PDAs and fold down for travel.
Product |
Length |
Width |
Thickness |
Weight |
Wattage |
Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Auto |
3.82" |
1.28" |
2.6 oz |
8 |
Auto |
|
auto15 elite |
3.57" |
1.94" |
3.6 oz |
15 |
Auto |
|
auto/air40 |
2.85" |
2.00" |
.66" |
3.5 oz |
40 |
Auto/Air |
auto/air85 |
3.91" |
2.01" |
1.23" |
6.9 oz |
70 |
Auto/Air |
wall |
2.98" |
2.05" |
1.04" |
6 oz |
8 |
Home & Office |
wall85 |
3.91" |
2.01" |
1.23" |
6.9 oz |
70 |
Home & Office |
ice90 |
5.67" |
2.6" |
1.25" |
15 oz |
90 |
Home & Office |
wall160 |
6.88" |
2.57" |
1.62" |
21 oz |
160 |
Home & Office |
everywhere wall (AC) unit |
3.25" |
2.00" |
1.00" |
2.3 oz |
8 |
Home & Office/Auto |
everywhere wall (DC) unit |
3.63" |
1.00" |
1.00" |
1.1 oz |
||
everywhere15 |
3.14" |
2.08" |
.98" |
5 oz |
15 |
Auto/Air/Home & Office |
Juice70 |
5.49" |
2.21" |
1.00" |
6.79 oz |
70 |
Auto/Air/Home & Office |
everywhere 130 |
6.07" |
2.54" |
1.30" |
17.2 oz |
130 |
Auto/Air/Home & Office |
Not all airlines use the the same technology for providing power. iGo adapters use EmPower technology, also known as hypertonic.
iGo adapters are rated from 110 volts to 230 volts and 50/60 hertz. For iGo notebook adapters and the iGo everywhere15 adapter, there are available European and UK AC input cables. For the iGo wall and iGo everywhere adapters, there is an international plug kit or individual plug adapters. If these items are not available a standard plug adapter will work.
In most cases there are more than one tip available for each device needing power. Different iGo products supply power in different ways so it is important to match the tip to both the iGo product and the device needing power. For example a notebook computer might need either tip 135, tip 35 or tip S35 depending on if it is being powered by an everywhere85, a juice70 or an everywhere130 respectively.
A number of celebrities have written books. Among these celebrity authors are:
- Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)
- John Lithgow (see below)
- John Stewart (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book)A Citizens Guide to Democracy Inaction)
- Stephen Colbert (I am America (And So Can You!))
- Mario Cuomo (see below)
- Ed Koch (The Senator Must Die)
- Jamie Lee Curtis (see below)
- Paul Petersen (see below)
- Leonard Nimoy (see below)
- William Shatner (see below)
- Lynne Cheney (Sisters, A Is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, America: A Patriotic Primer, When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots, A Time for Freedom: What Happened When in America, Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America, Telling The Truth, Body Politic, Academic Freedom, American Memory: A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public Schools)
- Julie Andrews (The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Mandy)
- Jerry Seinfeld (Halloween, SeinLanguage)
- Tiki and Ronde Barber (By My Brother's Side)
- James Carville
- Katie Couric
- Mia Hamm (Winners Never Quit, Go for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life)
- Bill Cosby (see below)
- Jay Leno (see below)
- Billy Crystal (see below)
- Deborah Norville (Back on Track: How to Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve, Vol. 1, Back on Track: How to Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve, Vol. 2, I Don't Want to Sleep Tonight)
- Maria Shriver (see below)
- Dr. Laura Schlessinger (see below)
- Sarah Ferguson (Budgie)
- Spike Lee (Please, Baby, Please, ''Please, Puppy, Please')'
- Jane Seymour (And Then There Were Three, Boing!: No Bouncing on the Bed, Fried Pies and Roast Cake, The Other Side, Play)
- John Travolta (Propeller: One-way Night Coach)
- Madonna (see below)
- Shirley Temple
- Elizabeth Taylor (Nibbles and Me)
- Will Smith (Just the Two of Us)
- LeAnn Rimes (Jag)
- Bette Midler (The Saga of Baby Divine)
- Amy Grant (Amy Grant's Heart to Heart Bible Stories, Breath of Heaven, Pieces of My Life So Far)