Not sure on the exact equivalent of CSA (Canadian Standards Association) FT-4 but I believe it is CL2 or CL3 - riser rated. Basically, what it comes down to is that if a fire was to start at or near the in-wall cable, would the cable contribute to the fire spreading? With the correct insulation, as in in-wall rated, it would not substantially contribute. Between floors, in vertical walls, it should be riser rated. If the cable passes through air handling areas (very unlikely in residential) it must be plenum rated as well which means the fumes emitted are within specific toxic limits. The silver/gold zip-cord type of speaker wire is hardly ever in-wall rated... but the good thing is that the proper in-wall speaker cable (CL2/CL3) is usually cheaper. Coax, Video, Audio, Ethernet cables all must be in-wall rated as well.

Angelo Menna - (845) 469-8606 Please tell him it's from Melinda Koss. I live in Rockland, he lives in Orange. Will go to Westchester (asked him today). He's fantastic. As I mentioned, he built my house 11 years ago and we were happy then too. The house was being built as a spec house and was mostly done when we got involved in it. He saw that I was 100 months pregnant and had a 2 year old running around the back yard one day and said "I gotta build you guys a fence". The house is on a hill. Didn't charge us. We were thrilled when he agreed to do this job. An update - I sold the old kitchen via Craig's List. Sunday theis guy came over to see it and gave us a deposit, but said he needs the kitchen by Thursday. After speaking to Angelo yesterday morning, he sent his main guy to my house today and the two of them demo'd my kitchen. It's all sitting in my garage waiting to be picked up. Everything came out in great condition. That's a lot of service. Now I have no kitchen - weeks before the cabinets are due in - oy! Anyone want us to come for dinner??? :)

FWIW, I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was about 18 weeks along. I had been trying to gain weight and was very happy that my diet seemed to be working, and I was on birth control pills(which obviously failed due to user error), so never noticed a lack of menstruation. I was also in my 20s, so not very savvy either. Thank goodness my son was born healthy! P.S. My cousin found she was pretty far along in her pregnancy at age 42. She believed she was no longer fertile and possibly had cancer. How many other late 'surprise' pregnancies have happened like that?

The sound quality of a particular source is not something that's subjective in any way. There's nothing about a digital copy of a recording that compromises the sound source. In fact, it's the opposite, a high percentage of today's recorded music is done (at the studio level) ultimately in digital form. Though it may pass through analog equipment, thought to give warmth to the sound, along the way. The problem is with CDs and other formats. A CD has a limited amount of memory space. When the CD standard was set back at the dawn of time, it was decided to fix the bit and sampling rates at a point that would allow about 70 minutes of content. To get there requires "mastering" and down-sampling of that leaves more than half of the sound content behind. The bit rate standard is about 1400 bits per second, that's what's needed to fit within the capacity of the memory to reach 70 minutes. MP3s and MP4s (the Apple equivalent) take that already compromised sample and reduce it further with compression and further down-sampling - the top MP3 or equiv rate is about 320bps. Streaming music is usually at 128bps or less. Less than 25% of the original source content, if made from a CD, which itself is already a compromised source. . Analog sources have more capacity and so more of the master is present in a vinyl record. There a comparison with digital photography. A commercial photographer, or indeed even a photographer hired to take pictures at a wedding or other social function, will use one of several RAW formats for images. A typical image might be 50 million bits - 50 Mbs for each picture, or larger. For a family event, some of the RAWs I got approached 100Mb. Someone standing next to the photographer taking the same scene with a point and shoot camera or smartphone is going to have a file of 5-10Mbs, max. How could that be? Because the common jpg or gif formats sample, compress and downsize the image to produce a smaller file. Does it matter? Sure. You can produce large images/large print sizes with a RAW file. Any image from a RAW within a relevant range will be quite clear and sharp. With a jpg or gif, as images get much above a compact size, the image will become blurry because of the missing "data" from the image.