http://silenciobarnes.com Poet, Musician and Writer for Hire Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:47:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Poet, Musician and Writer for Hire SilencioBarnes.com no Rasheen Armstrong - All Rights Reserved Poet, Musician and Writer for Hire http://silenciobarnes.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://silenciobarnes.com/category/news/ http://silenciobarnes.com/news/cantaloupe-recall-and-listeriosis-outbreak-092011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cantaloupe-recall-and-listeriosis-outbreak-092011 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/cantaloupe-recall-and-listeriosis-outbreak-092011/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:37:58 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=2293 So, apparently there’s been a recall on cantaloupes of all things. Specifically cantaloupes from Colorado carrying the Listeria bacteria which causes Listeriosis. Check the FDA Press Release Here: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm271899.htm From the CDC site: What is listeriosis? Listeriosis, a serious infection usually caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, is an important public [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/cantaloupe-recall-and-listeriosis-outbreak-092011/feed/ 0 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/where-to-file-state-and-federal-taxes-for-free/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-to-file-state-and-federal-taxes-for-free http://silenciobarnes.com/news/where-to-file-state-and-federal-taxes-for-free/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:26:44 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=2142 Filing Federal Taxes Every year, somebody asks me about how I do my taxes. The short answer is, online. I have been doing my taxes online since my 2nd W-2. My first time was at an H&R block walk-in, and since I made so little money, the guy did it for me for free :) [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/where-to-file-state-and-federal-taxes-for-free/feed/ 3 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/massive-nationwide-egg-recall-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=massive-nationwide-egg-recall-2010 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/massive-nationwide-egg-recall-2010/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:43:30 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1840 *UPDATE August 20, 2010 - It seems that a SECOND farm has also issued a recall making the amount of recalled eggs over half a billion now! Read the full story here (CNN.com) http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/20/eggs.recall.salmonella/ If you didn’t already know, there is a huge egg recall going on right now…that’s right…eggs aka the incredible edibles A [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/massive-nationwide-egg-recall-2010/feed/ 0 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/local-news-from-lehigh-valley-august-17-18-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=local-news-from-lehigh-valley-august-17-18-2010 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/local-news-from-lehigh-valley-august-17-18-2010/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:46:39 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1831 Here’s some local news items that I found interesting for one reason or another. All of them are from the Lehigh Valley’s local newspaper The Morning Call and took place approximately around August 17 and 18th 2010. So, in no particular order: Emmaus Man Steals Almost $400,000 From His Company Over the Course of 9 [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/local-news-from-lehigh-valley-august-17-18-2010/feed/ 1 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/why-are-some-towns-getting-rid-of-their-police-force/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-are-some-towns-getting-rid-of-their-police-force http://silenciobarnes.com/news/why-are-some-towns-getting-rid-of-their-police-force/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:16:13 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1751 July 17, 2001 This article from AolNews took me a little by surprise. I knew that towns, and even whole states are feeling the financial crunch right now…but I had no idea that you could disband a town’s police force to save some money. It seems that San Luis, Colorado and various other towns are [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/why-are-some-towns-getting-rid-of-their-police-force/feed/ 0 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/how-things-are-going-in-my-hometown-north-amityville-ny-11701-june-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-things-are-going-in-my-hometown-north-amityville-ny-11701-june-2010 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/how-things-are-going-in-my-hometown-north-amityville-ny-11701-june-2010/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:29:58 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1553 I was curious as to what has been going on recently in and around my hometown of North Amityville, NY – Ya know, it’s been a while since I visited to see family and old friends. So I hit the news sites to see…and ya know what I saw? Nothing new. Also, this is all [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/how-things-are-going-in-my-hometown-north-amityville-ny-11701-june-2010/feed/ 0 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/campbells-recalls-15000000-pounds-of-spaghettios/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=campbells-recalls-15000000-pounds-of-spaghettios http://silenciobarnes.com/news/campbells-recalls-15000000-pounds-of-spaghettios/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:42:32 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1548 This has already been reported a thousand times by every major news source online so far, but I’m surprised that some people still don’t know about it. Keep in mind, this is a Class I Recall, which means the HEALTH RISK is HIGH! WASHINGTON, June 17, 2010 – Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC, a Paris, [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/campbells-recalls-15000000-pounds-of-spaghettios/feed/ 2 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/angry-american-crashes-plane-into-irs-building/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angry-american-crashes-plane-into-irs-building http://silenciobarnes.com/news/angry-american-crashes-plane-into-irs-building/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:39:11 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1324 On February 18, 2010 – Andrew Joseph Stack III flew a small plane into a building that housed IRS offices. Many are already well aware of this particular news item. I’m a little late to it. It’s already been reported, blogged about and hyper-analyzed all over the usual places, so I won’t go into the [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/angry-american-crashes-plane-into-irs-building/feed/ 3 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/black-friday-ads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=black-friday-ads http://silenciobarnes.com/news/black-friday-ads/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:29:19 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1139 Black Friday 2009 – Deals, Ads, Flyers, Info *UPDATE – It seems that the good folks over at Mashable came up with what I eventually wanted to turn this post into…so why not just link em:) HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Black Friday Deals Yes, I hate Black Friday. It brings out the [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/black-friday-ads/feed/ 1 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/twitter-down-and-facebook-acting-up-too-august-6th-2009/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=twitter-down-and-facebook-acting-up-too-august-6th-2009 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/twitter-down-and-facebook-acting-up-too-august-6th-2009/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:39:21 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=233 Meh, everybody else was blogging about it, so I figured I would too :P You mean Twitter AND FaceBook?!?! The Social Web Weeps:’-( It seems that Twitter is currently down – Not only that, but the reason for the popular social site going off air is because of an ongoing DDoS attack, which has been [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/news/twitter-down-and-facebook-acting-up-too-august-6th-2009/feed/ 2 http://silenciobarnes.com/news/woman-sued-tweet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woman-sued-tweet http://silenciobarnes.com/news/woman-sued-tweet/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:29:13 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=221 Seems some chick in Chicago tweeted a semi negative review about the apartment she was staying in…and the realty company that owns said building is trying to sue her…for $50,000!!!!! And you know the greatest part? A quote from the realty company: “We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization” I think [...]

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