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The end of the year—and Teacher Appreciation Week—is here. Reflect on your work—why do you love it? What are your personal rewards? Please share your favorite story, one that gives you a warm fuzzy and reminds you why you love your job.
Bonus question: How many years have you been teaching?
This week has been wonderful! I feel so appreciated. Spa treatments, show tickets and luncheons while pink slips are being written. It isn't the gifts nor the lack of job security but my students who inspire me every day.
It is the smiles that greets me each morning because my students are happy to be in my care, it is the "light bulb" going on when a student understands my lesson, and it is the simple "thank you" from a parent who recognizes I have gone out of my way to help their child.
I love my job!
My warm fuzzies are all stored in a notebook that I look at when I'm feeling down. It is a collection of notes, cards, and pictures from students, parents, and even other educators that I have placed there over the years. It is my "real portfolio," and it reminds me, even at my lowest moments, why I love my job. I could never part with my notebook.
As an educator on hiatus, a mother of three, and a PTA President it is wonderful to hear that Teacher Appreciation Week still creates the same warm fuzzies that I experienced when I was a teacher. Being on the other side of the coin I would love to hear more about what worked during Teacher Appreciation Week, because we are always looking for ideas to celebrate our teachers. Also, I love the previously posted idea of the "real portfolio" and plan on utilizing that for notes, cards, and words of encouragement from previous student and the students to come.
I have captured quotes from similar discussion questions to preserve and share what members have find most rewarding about their years in teaching:
Please continue to share your favorite personal stories with us in this discussion. Why do you enjoy being a teacher? What are the rewards?
Bonus Question: Tell us how long you have been teaching.
In reference to "Teacher Appreciation Week," several members have responded with ways to make this week more memorable.
Kingston Blessing writes, "There are several concepts that I have done over the last 40 years, but what I like to do is 'spread the wealth!' What I mean by that is I have my students pick their favorite teacher and communicate with them in the form of a letter. But I have learned something new! It is a Voki. So for my 7th grade computer students their assignment is to create a Voki in www.Voki.com and send it to the teacher they most appreciated over the years and also to me for a grade."
Karen Horn says, "Teachers are too often never mentioned on the 'appreciation list,' but if a little bird could put a message in the PTA President's ear, this is a good way to get community backing and awarenss of the hard work teachers do on a daily basis. Some of the nice things that I have witnessed throughout the country include a luncheon given by someone in the community (could be a bank, a person who is interested in education and financially solvent,) and the top ten students in a high school then select their favorite teacher who is honored at that luncheon. Other ways in which teachers have been honored in places where I have taught are department votes (best English teacher in the department.) Also, at graduation, asking the graduating seniors to write notes to those teachers K-12 who have had the greatest influence on them in their K-12 education. And certainly, the traditional 'Teacher of the Year' awards that most schools engage in are ways to say thank you."
"I enjoy being a teacher because I like helping my students become better learners and more independent readers. I found using my students' interests, learning styles, and abilities helpful especially when working with reluctant readers and writers. The rewards are hearing from former students by letter or in person."
I consider myself a lifelong learner so I enjoy teaching because I always learn something new from my students. My favorite moment is watching a student suddenly understand something for the first time. That teachable moment is most rewarding!
Although I retired from teaching high school English 4 years ago, I have continued to teach at technology workshops and conferences. In addition, I am an online instructor for several courses offered through the Virginia Department of Education.
As an educator, I am following a family tradition. One aunt taught English, another aunt taught math, and my uncle was a high school principal. In fact, my uncle presented graduation diplomas to my sister, his son, and me. Now my older daughter is a college professor so the tradition continues.
My family always valued an education and taught me to respect teachers because I could learn much from them. I enjoyed my professional teaching career of 35 years and plan to continue working in the education field many more years.
Hi Lynne,
My parents were always music teachers when I was growing up. I think part of the reason I enjoy teaching is I am also following a family tradition. I also enjoy working with students whether they are children or adults and having them notice they've improved their spelling, reading, and/or writing. As their learning improved they gained more confidence. I have a former student who moved away and she writes me letters and cards.
I also enjoy talking to colleagues and mentors and have learned from them to be flexible.
Christine Muller
Hi Christine,
It's interesting that we have a tradition of teachers in our families. I agree that flexibility is a key component of being a good teacher.
Thanks for your comments.
I have been teaching 7 years.
A few years ago I stood up for a student who was being picked on by another student in my class. The bully was calling him "gay" and "***." I made a REALLY big deal about it and kicked the student out of my class and told my AP that I didn't want him back in my math class for at least 4 days. He kept him in the office to work during my class. My brother is gay and I told the class how offensive that was to me and any put-downs are not accepted at any time.
Life went on... the bully returned to my class later that week and never said anything to the other student again. I forgot about the incident and both boys simply ignored each other after that.
Well, at the end of the year, the victim's mother pulled me aside after 8th grade continuation. She told me that her son came home and explained how a teacher stood up for him that day and he was so happy. He said that he has never had a teacher stand up for him like that and it really made him feel good and that people care. He told his mom that I gave him confidence to stand up for himself. She was almost crying when she told me... it made me feel good that I didn't allow that to happen in my classroom.
To this day, this student still sends me emails about how he is doing in school and he even received a math award his senior year.
I love being a teacher and able to inspire students to be better people and mathematicians!
Hi Holly,
It's amazing the "little" things teachers do that make a "big" difference in the lives of students. I often remind students that school is a microcosm of the "real' world, and valuable life lessons are taught in the classroom that go beyond the curriculum content.
Thanks for sharing your story and reminding your students that bullying is unacceptable. I think it's important to teach students that all people have a right to make their own life choices. Others don't have to agree with those choices, but they must be tolerant and respectful.
It's always uplifting when students let teachers know the positive influence or significant impact teachers had in their lives! Those small victories make teaching very gratifying!


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TELLURIDE – The Telluride Regional Airport (TEX) slide remediation project begun last August will be completed by the end of July, according to Airport Manager Richard Nuttall.
Funding was provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, Colorado Division of Aeronautics and TEX for the geotechnical project, which will stabilize the southeast corner of the airport's runway safety area.
"We have been monitoring this slope for many years," Nuttall said. "During the runway reconstruction project in 2009, we moved the service road further north of this area," eliminating some runoff, "which helped to partially alleviate some of the problems.
"With this slope stabilization project," he said, "the fix is complete."
The primary stabilization design consists of the eight-by-eight foot concrete anchor plates, now visible from Highway 145 at Lawson Hill. Anchor plate are tied to the embankment by a strand anchor tie-back system, and covered by native soil. Turf reinforcement mats will be placed over the entire site and seeded and a Tecco mesh will be applied, possibly by helicopter, over the entire site to stabilize the soil.
Williams Construction Company of Norwood is the general contractor; DBM Enterprises, of Seattle, Wash., is the sub-contractor. Kimley-Horn & Associates and Terracon provided the engineering expertise for this complex engineering project.
TEX expects to complete runway electrical and drainage projects in late August or September, and runway "distance remaining" signs and threshold lights will be relocated, per FAA requirements. Runway electrical work will be completed between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. for approximately 10 days, so the airport stays open for normal operating hours for the festival season. Drainage repairs, include cleaning existing drain pipes, installing riprap (using waste rock from the airport quarry) and installing a new drainage pipe, will be conducted during normal airport operating hours.


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The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in South Boston has had its share of both bedevilment and blessings. A grand gray building, a pile of granite chunks pierced by Gothic arches and topped with a copper-clad bell tower, was erected in 1844 and dedicated with extravagant ceremony; four years later, it burned to the ground. After it was rebuilt, it was so popular that another parish had to be established nearby to handle the overflow. But in time South Boston started to empty—slowly at first, and then like a bathtub with an open drain—and Saints Peter and Paul emptied, too. On New Year's Day, 1996, the Boston Archdiocese desanctified the most eminent Catholic church in the area and shut it down. But last spring Saints Peter and Paul was reborn once more. Cleaned up and cleared out, with additional windows cut through its three-foot-thick walls and the new, secular name of 45 West Broadway, it went on the market as thirty-six luxury condominiums suspended in the building's soaring open space.
The church is not the only thing in South Boston that is experiencing a resurrection. Across West Broadway, a ratty gangster bar—for years the South Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger's favorite place for a cold drink—reopened a few months ago as a polished-wood-and-granite sports café. Now, instead of being known as a convenient drop-off spot for dead bodies, the bar is known as the 6 House, which is the nickname for the local police precinct, and among its customers are scrubbed and well-shaved managers from the Gillette Corporation, whose offices are a few blocks away. Next door to the 6 House, a former Irish bakery has risen again as a sushi bar. Not far away, the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center—the largest building ever erected in New England—opened last June on what had been sixty acres of cracked blacktop and obsolete factories. All of South Boston is bristling with construction cranes, growling with backhoes, stickered with for-sale signs and building permits. Up and down Broadway, weary old stores are emptying out and being renewed.
All of Boston, in fact, is as hale as it has been in decades—its economy fit, its residential areas sprucing up, its eternal traffic mess finally straightening out—just in time for its spotlight moment this month as host of the Democratic National Convention. Thomas Menino, the mayor of Boston, made sure that the state delegations' welcoming parties would be held in an array of neighborhoods around the city, to show off how much they have improved. He was reportedly most excited about the venue for the New York party: Carson Beach, beside the old L Street Bath House, in South Boston. The churn of gentrification in old city neighborhoods is not a novel story, and recently gentrification has arrived, for better or for worse, in neighborhoods no one would ever have expected to revive—Washington's Capitol Hill, Brooklyn's Williamsburg. But it is an especially surprising turn in South Boston, a place that had always seemed cut off from the cycle of city life, and whose character was, for a century or so, rooted in a mighty, and sometimes violent, resistance to change.
One recent afternoon, I met up with Patrick Lynch, a blond, bright-eyed man who is one of the three brokers for the church condominium project. Lynch was showing Saints Peter and Paul to a lawyer who lived in downtown Boston but was considering a move. Lynch grew up in the housing projects near the church, and his sister was married and his nephew christened there. So far, he and the two other brokers have sold twenty-eight of the church's thirty-six condos, along with all the apartments in the church's rectory, next door, which was converted to condominiums last year.
The lawyer was taken with Penthouse 3, a one-bedroom with a stained-glass window depicting St. Gregory. The asking price was $799,000. "Breathtaking," the lawyer said. "This is worthy of any of the Red Sox. I could see someone like, say, Nomar Garciaparra and his soccer-playing wife in here, couldn't you?"
Lynch said he could, and, after a moment, led us past St. Gregory and into Penthouse 1, the biggest unit, which has exclusive access to the bell tower. We climbed up to see the view from the tower windows. Seagulls floated past with an eye toward an errant bag of trash on the street below. In the distance, a huge silent boat slid by in the harbor. "This place is the hot thing," the lawyer said. "I have to tell you, until now South Boston wasn't even on my radar." He said that he was originally from Washington, D.C., but had lived in Boston for many years—long enough to know South Boston's reputation for clannishness and impenetrability, and to remember its past as the epicenter of resistance to busing. That uprising took place almost thirty years ago, but the image it created for the neighborhood has abided. In fact, when the location of the New York delegation's party was announced, Herman Farrell, the head of the delegation, objected because of the neighborhood's "history of racial turmoil and tension."
"Oh, I know, I know," the lawyer said. "But the attraction now is, one, proximity to the subway; two, proximity to downtown; three, value. That's what's on my mind."
"We're getting a lot of people looking who've never been in the neighborhood before," Lynch said.
"By the way, what's with the for-sale sign on the building next door?" the lawyer asked, pointing to the rectory. Lynch explained that a South Boston native who owned the unit was being transferred to California.


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Brada Laptop Cooler
Materials: Brada Laptop support, 2 PC Cooling fans, screwdriver, drill, hole-punching bit.
Description: I love Brada laptop support. It's very cheap -9,95TL in Turkey- and comfortable. But in summer times my laptop need cooling. Well I decided to modify my black Brada laptop support. I drilled two large holes for cooling fans and four more holes for the fan installation. I decided to use 7″ fans. Maybe you can use larger. After 5 minutes of working my modified Brada is ready to use.
Cheap, easy and comfortable…
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~ Hakan Cezayirli, Turkey
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Great! , but how did you power the fans? As far as i know, those are made to be plugged to a 3 pin motherboard socket, not to a USB port.
You can use a 10V adapter. Or like me, you can use an old mobile phone adapter. Take a look to youtube, you can easly find a "how to" video
Wondering the same.
You can buy a converter I believe, I ready that another post. Check newegg.com


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Third Installment of Novel-in-Progress from the Sisters of the Traveling Computers
Third Installment!
Sisters of the Traveling Computers
Eight great writers are going to produce a progressive novel -- like a progressive dinner! Each one will write a couple paragraphs, a chapter, two chapters (whatever strikes her fancy) round robin style without discussing it with each other. This novel-in-progress will continue through the rest of the year. The scribes are Eleanor Brown (The Weird Sisters), Heidi Durrow (The Girl Who Fell From the Sky), Siobhan Fallon (You Know When The Men are Gone), Therese Fowler (Exposure), Tanya Egan Gibson (How to Buy a Love of Reading), Caroline Leavitt (Pictures of You), Sarah Pekkanen (Skipping a Beat), and Rebecca Rasmussen (The Bird Sisters.) All great books for reading groups!
First installment (May 15)
By midnight, he still wasn't home. Or he wasn't picking up the phone, which he knew would make her frantic with worry. She couldn't leave the Martin's now. Already, Mrs. Martin had told her that just cleaning up after the party wasn't enough, that she wanted her to also redust (redust!) the figurines on the mantle because "You didn't take enough care last time." Should she tell Mrs. Martin how Mr. Martin groped her as she trying to arrange the baby chocolate éclairs on a plate? Should she tell her how Bobby, Mrs. Martin's son, called her a stupid bitch and kicked her out of his room so she wouldn't catch him doing Jesus knows what?
She wasn't supposed to use her phone when she was working, but she dialed again. Maybe he was with Bette, his terrifying girlfriend. Maybe he was walking again, clearing his head about what had happened.
Second Installment (June 22)
Maria wasn't ready to become a grandmother at 42. And that was what she said first when--with his lips trembling—Mark told her that Bette was pregnant. She should have held him. He looked so scared. How could her teenage son become a father before he had a chance to become a man?
That was just five weeks ago, and now she wouldn't have to be a young grandmother. She wouldn't have to watch Mark struggle to take care of a family too young. Why couldn't Mark see the miracle in this moment?
The phone went to voicemail again.
It was a thirty-minute drive home from the Martin's. Let him be home by then, she thought. Just please let him be safe.
Third Installment (July 1)
"Dammit!" The most ghoulish figurine, the one with the trio of black-eyed children gaping up as if caught forever in the middle of wailing some god-awful song, skittered across the Pledge-shiny mantle and shattered on the floor below.
Maria dropped to the marble and quickly swept the delicate porcelain into the dust rag. Her right knee grinded roughly and she winced, maybe she would have been old enough to have been a grandmother after all.
"What have you done?"
Maria looked up at the doorway and saw Mrs. Martin standing there in that blue dress of hers, the one that had the extra padding in the front and made the woman look top heavy enough to fall on her face. What Maria would give to see Mrs. Martin fall on her face. Though it looked like tonight just might be the night as Mrs. Martin tottered over the smooth floor toward her. Maria tried to judge the distance between the door and the mantle—would Mrs. Martin, who clearly looked like she had finished off every wine bottle in her cellar, notice the missing figurine? Should Maria pretend she was just wiping up a speck of dirt on the marble and get herself to the department store tomorrow to find one of these ridiculous chatkas, get it back on the mantle before Mrs. Martin had finished nursing her hangover and got out of bed at noon? Whenever she had broken something in the past, Mrs. Martin docked her pay a good fifty percent more that the true price of the broken item. Maria knew that vase the cat knocked over, the one she got blamed for, had been a Wal-Mart special rather than any Shannon Irish Chrystal from Macy's, but she had let it slide.
Now she curled those shattered little goth kids into her palm. "How was the party, Mrs. Martin? Did your guests just love those éclairs?"
"I thought I heard something break in here." Mrs. Martin seemed unsure. Then she slipped, looked like she was about to do a split and quickly righted herself. That's what she deserved for wearing those three inch hooker heels, Maria thought. Clear heels! No one could get away with clear heels except… well, hookers. Didn't Mrs. Martin know that a fifty year old woman had a better chance of keeping her man if she let herself age gracefully instead of buying out Victoria Secret push-up bras and over-botoxing her face?
"Did you say something broke in the kitchen? I'll get right on it." Maria rose, again feeling that weakness in her knee. For a moment she felt a rush of sympathy for Mrs. Martin and the skin stretched too tightly across her face, the highlighted hair that only seemed to emphasize her grey, the manic way she held her wine glass as if it's contents was the only thing allowing her to think that she was still young and lovely in the eyes of her husband.
"The kitchen is a disaster," the woman sneered, and Maria felt her spine straighten, her sympathy evaporate. The kitchen had been pristine ten minutes ago, all the party's washing up done and put away. The only thing left should be a few coffee cups from the hanger-ons who pretended to sober up before drunk-driving their Hummers and Mercedes home.
"I'll take a look before I go," Maria whispered, eyes down. Then she glanced up, rearranging her face as sweetly as possible. "Oh, Mrs. Martin, I think Bobby wanted you to go on in and say goodnight when your guests left, he seemed like he was waiting up for you."
Maria left the room, shoving the rag deep into her pocket. She hoped Mrs. Martin walked right in on that little pervert and caught him watching whatever sicko pornos only rich tech-savvy kids had the time and money to become addicted too.
She peeked into the kitchen; the gleaming granite was just as clean as she left it. Two dirty coffee cups in the sink. Two dirty coffee cups now constituted a "disaster." Maria shook her head and quickly put the mugs into the dishwasher. This family didn't know the disasters that knocked them upside the head every day: Mr. Martin chasing anything that peed sitting down, Bobby talking to topless girls in Thailand through a web-cam, Mrs. Martin with a liver that wouldn't see the next decade. Oh no, the only disasters the Martins recognized were the fluctuation of stock prices, a new wrinkle on Mrs. Martin's rigid face, Bobby not getting into Princeton.
Maria set the alarm system in the foyer and shut the front door without further ado. She was reaching for her cell phone before she was at the end of the driveway and felt a sudden stab of pain. She tugged her hand out of her pocket, heard the chime of glass hitting the asphalt. A shard of figurine had sliced into the pad of her thumb and now jutted out of her flesh. Part of a face hung perpendicular from her finger, and one of the black eyes, souless and cold, stared up at her. It made Maria hesitate and stare back, jolted and afraid. That eye looking at her felt like a bad omen. She tugged it out, threw the piece on the drive, stuck her bloody thumb in her mouth. Then she started jogging to her car, her heart tight in her chest.
Mark, she thought, dear God, Mark, please be all right.
Bette answered the door, looking peeved at Maria for trying to get into her own home. Maria would have naturally apologized for waking anyone up, but the glint of Bette's eyebrow ring, the twist on the girl's perpetually red-lipsticked mouth, made Maria itch with irritation instead. First of all, Bette was not allowed to be in the house when Maria was not. Call her old-fashioned or absolutely ridiculous, Maria didn't care. It was her number one rule. Second of all, there were plenty of bolts on that door that the kids could have locked that Maria had a key to open, but they had decided on using the chain, knowing Maria couldn't get in, which made her think that they had deliberately locked her out so they could do the sorts of things Maria told herself sickos like Bobby Martin got up to. As if getting Bette pregnant once just wasn't enough for these two. As if a miscarriage, yes, horrible, but in this case it felt like it was the will of God Almighty Himself, as if a miscarriage hadn't spared them already.
"Mark's here?" Maria asked immediately. Bette shrugged in that sullen way that made Maria want to wring her neck.
"Bette, is he here or not? And why weren't either of you answering your cell phones, I was worried sick—"
"He hasn't called me since ten," the girl said. "I don't know where he is."
Maria blinked at Bette, noticing for the first time that she was wearing a pair of Mark's boxers. "What do you mean you don't know where he is?"
The girl followed Maria's eyes. "He told me I could stay here, to make myself comfortable." She put her hand on her hip. "It's not like I could go home now that everyone knows Mark knocked me up."
Maria felt exhausted, the room tipping to the left for a moment. It was too much. "Bette, where is my son?"
Bette sighed forcefully in reply, her thick fringe of bangs lifting off her forehead with the effort, and it reminded Maria that the girl was only a teenager after all. Granted, a seventeen-year old, and she lorded that extra year of experience over sixteen-year old Mark, it was part of her strange power over her son, Maria knew. But she was still a girl, at least in calendar years, and she had been through a lot, had been pregnant and lost a baby and now it seemed as if her parents had kicked her out of her home, all before her senior year of high school. If Maria had been a better person, she would have embraced Bette immediately, asked her how she was feeling, offered to make her an ice cream sundae. But Maria didn't feel like being a better person tonight, she felt the taint of the Martin's still on her skin, making her impatient and cruel. "Goddammit, Bette, don't you sigh at me. If you don't tell me where Mark is I will call the police and tell them to take you with them."
Bette's arms dropped limply to her sides. "He went somewhere with Figgy. He didn't tell me what they were doing but he said not to worry about them unless they didn't come home by morning. He told me to make up a lie to tell you but… but I couldn't." She glanced at Maria and Maria thought maybe there was something scheming in the girl's eyes, something that didn't match the poor-little-worried-me story.
Maria sat down at the small kitchen table.
Figgy. That name rang some vague bell. Was he one of Bette's cousin's? Yes, that's right, he was the eldest Figuera boy, eighteen, the one who had repeated his freshman year of high school twice. Mark had never been friends with any of the Figueroa boys before. Before Bette. Maria should call the police right this minute, tell them her son was missing. Mark, her beautiful boy. She thought she had done things right with him, he never missed a day of school, teachers always telling her how good a kid he was with his 'yes ma'am', 'please' and 'no thank you's, his noble attempts at chess club, his weekend work at the Books and Boogie store downtown. And then this girl, this Bette-- who would give a child a French whore name like that anyway? -- always looking like she was laughing at the adults, like she knew something no one else knew, with her lip gloss and frightening piercings and tight black t-shirts that showed the small star tattoo just above her hip, this girl ruined everything. Maria thought of the first time she met Bette, how she was certain she had smelled alcohol on the girl's breath, how the girl seemed impaired by something more than youth, and when she asked Mark about it the next day, he claimed Bette had had the stomach flu and the anti-nausea pills weren't sitting well with her. It was the most preposterous thing Maria had ever heard but her son said it with such certainty, so hurt when Maria laughed at him, that Maria thought Mark himself believed the ridiculous story. Now Maria assessed Bette and wondered if she had even been pregnant. She certainly didn't seem weak or fragile for someone who had miscarried just two days ago.
Maria put her hands over her face. They were only kids. Surely Bette couldn't have lied about something like that just to tighten her grip. But Mark, where was he? One o'clock in the morning, off with a dumb-as-mud eighteen year old named Figgy, up to God knows what.
Suddenly Maria thought again of the Martins, of Mrs. Martin thickly snoring in her king sized bed, of Bobby on his computer all night, of Mr. Martin sending suggestive text messages to his secretary, and, for the first time in the eight years that Maria had worked for them, she envied them their minor disasters after all.
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The Hildebrandts found a new house without having to leave their Seattle neighborhood.
Their home had only two bedrooms, and nowhere for their 2-year-old to play without waking up her future little brother. Moving didn't seem viable. The family loved their Queen Anne neighborhood in Seattle, and given that home prices had fallen 20% since they had bought four years earlier in 2007, they doubted they would recoup the $530,000 they paid. So they started talking seriously with builders about refinishing their basement or adding a second floor.
Those conversations came to an abrupt halt, though, when the Hildebrandts found their perfect house, a $618,000 three-bedroom just blocks away.
When they got a $520,750 offer two days after putting their home up for sale, they decided to move. "We essentially got the house that we would have ended up with 18 months later, but for a third of the cost," says Jonathan.
What the Hildebrandts gained in the move:
Square feet: 1,000
Bedrooms: 1
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Sales price of the old house: $520,750
Cost of new house: $618,000
Sales commission: $32,000
Closing costs: $1,900
Moving: $1,200
To move or to improve? For the first time since the housing market went bust, homeowners are seriously contemplating that question.
Until recently, selling a home was a dicey proposition. Even those who were lucky enough to find a buyer often walked away with far less than the home's previous value, and in some cases even less than what they owed the bank.
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Owners also put off renovation projects, causing home-improvement spending to fall 16% from 2007 to 2011, says the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Little wonder -- who wanted to sink more cash into a home whose value had already plummeted?
Now the market has turned the corner. Houses are selling faster, and prices are climbing. In a Coldwell Banker survey, 82% of agents said they expect more home shoppers this spring, singling out trade-up buyers for playing a "significant role."
Remodeling, too, is surging as owners, reassured by rising property values, tackle postponed projects. Spending on improvements hit $131 billion in 2012, its highest mark since 2006. "There seems to be a lot of pent-up demand," says Paul Sullivan of the Sullivan Co., a Newton, Mass., remodeling firm.
But just as today's market looks nothing like it did during the bubble, the decision to list or fix your home has changed dramatically. Buyers have become more conservative. The recovery is progressing unevenly, so where you live can have a huge impact on your options. And a limited supply of new homes means the relocation pickings are slim.
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MOVING: Is selling a realistic option?
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Instead, experts say, many buyers are gravitating toward areas with key quality-of-life features. Good school districts have long been equated with strong home values, says David Figlio, director of Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research, adding that "people pay more attention to these things during times of tighter housing values than they do in go-go periods of real estate."
The far-flung exurbs thrived in the boom years, but now an easy commute drives sales. "People want to live in closer to the city and in more walkable neighborhoods," says Jessica Wilkie, an associate broker at M Squared Real Estate in Washington, D.C.
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To see how your neighborhood stacks up against others in the area, compare three key metrics: price increases, speed with which homes are selling, and inventory of places for sale (you want a number that's higher than that of nearby neighborhoods for the first two, lower on the last).
You can ask a community real estate agent to run these statistics for you, or do your own investigative work on Trulia.com or Zillow.com, both of which have tools for making comparisons. If your area fares better than those around you, you're in a good position to sell.
Are you among the 22% of homeowners with a mortgage who, according to real estate research firm CoreLogic, are underwater, or one of the 23% who have 20% or less equity in their homes? If so, your choices are limited.
Even if you can sell, you will probably walk away empty-handed, or at least without the 10% to 20% cash needed to put down a deposit on a new place. Renovating is the better choice. Assuming that it will cost you less than moving, that you plan to stay in your home for at least five years, and that you can pay for the project without borrowing, it's a good bet for improving the long-term value of your home.
Related: 5 best markets to sell a home
Lisa and Josh Herman's Palm Springs three-bedroom was recently valued around $300,000 -- a far cry from the $495,000 they paid in 2008. Still, with two kids, the Hermans could no longer live with the home's open floor plan. "All you saw when you walked in the front door were toys everywhere," says Lisa.
Rather than sell at a loss, the couple opted to pull together $20,000 in savings and bonus money and started updating their bathrooms, converting an office into a fourth bedroom and turning their formal living room into a space for the kids.
The project's nearly finished now, and the Hermans say it was money well spent. It may take years for the market to get back to pre-bust levels, and that's fine, says Lisa: "I think we'll be happy here for a very long time."
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Monday Blues
Due to a vacation scheduling conflict I was away during the last week of the Tour de France. I don't regret it but I do wish I saw live video of the fireworks that happened during the week.
The first thing I did after we got back, had the kids in bed and finished our clean up after a week at a cottage at the lake was to tee up some YouTube videos of each of the stages that I had missed. Since there was no tv or internet at the cottage, I had no idea what had happened during the week. It was fun to watch quick video clips of the final kms and be surprised after each stage.
That was Friday, July 22nd. The day before Stage 21′s ITT. I was able to watch the TT and the Champs d'Élysée which was great but now it's Monday, back to the real world. Might as well go back to work, get some groceries, do some laundry, yard work, try to fit a ride into a hectic life etc.
Post Tour Thoughts
If I was a betting man, I would have put money on Evans or the Schleck brothers and do send them congratulations for their efforts and successes. I did believe that Contador was completely knackered after the Giro and wasn't going to win the tour but crashes in the first week wrecked his chances. I was pleasantly surprised to see myself cheering him on in some ways even though I wasn't quite sure he should have been in the race.
I echo a number of people's belief that Thomas Voeckler is one of the greats in the pro peloton. Not just as a cyclist but possibly as a person. How could you not cheer for someone who rides with such panache?
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At the Tamoggemon Content Network, the data from the Swedish case manufacturer Krusell has always been particularly popular – after all, it is one of the very few indicators which indicate what "common users" want.
We have just received new data for July 2012. As always, the full list is as following:
PRESS RELEASE – Krusell – TOP-10 selling phones for July 2012.
1. (1) Samsung Galaxy i9300 SIII
2. (2) Apple iPhone 4/4S
3. (3) Sony Xperia S
4. (7) Sony Xperia U
5. (4) Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II
6. (9) HTC One X
7. (6) HTC One S
8. (-) Sony Xperia Go
9. (8) Samsung GT-B2710 / Xcover 271
10. (10) Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc/Arc S
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Samsung S3 keeps the first place for the second consecutive month, at Krusell's top seller list for July. The mix of brands that we have on the list this month, is a bit surprising, says Ulf Sandberg Managing Director at Krusell. This month we have four Sony units, after the entrance of the new Xperia Go on the list. My forecast for August is that we will still have Samsung in the lead one month a head, even if we already have started to receive pre-orders on the new iPhone model.
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Years ago, a man walked the earth and revealed a life so unique it became the central point in human history. A man, who, "though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:5-8).
Though He was human and divine, the Son of Man had nothing in the natural that would have attracted others to him. Yet in three years, He healed the sick, fed the poor, ministered to the brokenhearted, cast out evil spirits, brought sight to the blind and gave hope to the hopeless. His message was radical and His love, unparalleled. Prostitutes, politicians, beggars and kings all were the same to Him and equally deserving of love — not because of their worthiness but because God, being the very definition of Love, could do no less. He told us to live simply, to give generously and to love unconditionally.
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13), Jesus told His disciples. We need to remind ourselves that in those terrible hours Jesus hung on the cross, it was all about love. We can't comprehend that kind of allconsuming, all-powerful Love, but we can spend the rest of our lives living in wholehearted response to it.
How do we do that? "Walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God" (Colossians 1:10, emphases added].
It's clear we please Jesus by bearing fruit. But what kind of fruit? The fruit that comes from every good work. Ephesians 2:10 says, "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works...that we should walk in them." This is our purpose, one we have been gloriously restored to by the Resurrection and which flows naturally from our restored identity. Works cannot save us, but without the fruit of good works, we lack the evidence that identifies us as new creations in Christ! Just as God's nature is revealed in what He does, we reveal His nature in what we do.What are these good works? While feeding the poor, clothing the naked and visiting the needy are expressions of the Christian life, they represent only a partial "list" of the works Jesus performed. For a complete list, read the Word with the sole intent of identifying every action verb — those "good works" that both Jesus and His disciples practiced; then pray that His Holy Spirit will empower you to "go and do likewise!" Halleluiah, He is Risen!
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Local awareness is on the rise after Texas homicideFargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- The highly publicized deaths of a Texas district attorney and his wife is raising questions in the Fargo-Moorhead area - could this happen here?
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- The highly publicized deaths of a Texas district attorney and his wife is raising questions in the Fargo-Moorhead area - could this happen here?
WDAY 6 Reporter Katie Lange spoke to local attorneys about threats they've received and what, if anything, can be done to protect the innocent.
The scene is still fresh on the minds of many. It's a deja-vous scare for officials in Texas - another prosecutor from the same county, murdered in the space of 2-months.
Steve Mottinger: "Is it a local person they made mad, somebody who think they're getting picked on. A person who has mental health issues, or is it actually somebody who has a vendetta against prosecution in that county."
Attorney Steven Mottinger says he's received threats over the years, but nothing that has made him fear for his life.
Mottinger: "It more than likely is going to happen involving a high profile case or a particular case where peoples tempers are short and their emotions are high."
That could have been the case in two cases in our own back yard.
One where a man brandished a gun in Hettinger courtroom and unsuccessfully tried to fire it - and another in the sleepy little town of Grand Marais, Minnesota where a man went to the county attorney's office and wounded two people.
Although it doesn't happen often, Attorney Ross Brandborg admits he was tipped off by police once for a possible threat.
Brandborg: "They had been listening to jail phones and just to kind of watch my back on one particular case. So you go on a heightened awareness at that point."
No matter what - Both men agree that as the oil boom spreads in our region, threats could become more prevalent - as society changes.
Mottinger: "We're in a small town and everybody knows everyone and law enforcement does too. They have an idea of who they need to watch - who is a real threat versus nothing more than a loud mouth."
Both attorneys agree safety has and will continue to cross their minds - in hopes we don't have a horrific event like Texas.
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Beyoncé is one of the most recognizable characters in modern-day R&B. She first rose to fame as the centerpiece of Destiny's Child before embarking on a multi-platinum solo career. Booming record sales, Grammy awards, movie roles, and a romance with Jay-Z combined to heighten her profile and make her a mainstay in the entertainment world. Beyoncé has done awesome video treatments for her releases. Let's take a journey back and look at her work.
Her next studio album is 4. "Run the World (Girls)" is the energetic and empowering lead single.
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The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise.
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Saginaw >Food & Dining > Texan Family Restaurants
5656 State St, Saginaw, MI | Directions 4860343.437072 -84.028341
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Not too good – I was in this restaurant late night one time and I waited over 30 minutes for my food. They were very understaffed and overpriced for the amount of food they serve. I ordered a burrito and soda and the bill came to about $12 and this was there regular sized burrito. I don't recommend this place.
Stale.Lame.Best for drunks or the elderly in the morning. – I go in on the weekends late at night and it seems EVERY time there's always a lack of staff. My food takes 35 minutes and I ask why..."Sorry, we don't have enough cooks, or, sorry, we're shortstaffed."
These poor waitresses are running around like crazy...not only waiting on tables but also having to run to the cash register all the time.
A couple of times I've been in and there hasn't even been any washed cups or silverware!!!! When I asked why they said they didn't have a dishwasher!!!!
Overall, the food was alright, but it looks to me like the owner or whoever, NEEDS to come in late at night on a Saturday just to see that they need to hire more cooks, or a cashier and dishwasher or something.
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AOL owned Patch before selling it to Hale.
Leigh Justice April 01, 2014 at 11:43 AM
@John, I was thinking the same thing last few times I tried to find LOCAL news & info here. …Read MoreWha t a waste of time. I think it's gone downhill since Nicolle Charky left. She was into it & got people involved. A little enthusiasm, replies to followers & once again..wait for it...LOCAL news, info, gossip, announcements, etc. is what made this our Patch. Isn't that the friggin' point!? Patch defines itself as: "Simply put, Patch is an innovative way to find out about, and participate in, what's going on near you. We're a community-specific news, information and engagement platform driven by passionate and experienced new media professionals. Patch is revolutionizing the way neighbors connect with each other, their communities, and the national conversation. " Hmmmm....not in about a year, in my estimation. Did some Googling & found Nicolle's farewell. I don't know her, but I came to know her writing, humor & interest as well as her name...synonymous with Montrose Patch - for a reason. She connected. BRAVO, girl...onward to the LA Times. http://montrose.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/nicole-charky-patch-goodbye All that's left now are a bunch of re-posted trending items on subjects I don't give a BEEP about. "Around Town" news was last updated 2/6/14 with generic SoCal Flex Alert info, the Police & Fire Blog was one day more recent - 2/7/14, and Top News was heart-stopping! Muffin Tin Frittatas & some Zillow real estate crap. Ooh, that's hometown journalistic magic right there! I don't care that AOL (geez, they're still around!? Shows you my level of disinterest...since they charged by the minute about 20 years ago, I haven't cared for them much) owned/owns it, or that some other venture capital/investment/turnaround group took it over...Hale something? Hale Bopp? Isn't that a cult? Or a comet? That might be preferable and a better explanation than the reality. It figures that a New York based company is behind Patch now as we see it wither on the vine, losing the charm, appeal and now apparently the attention of individual communities along with the direction it was once headed. Are they too fast-paced and corporate for Patch? I can find what's trending in LA, CA or the USA splashed all over other sites. I want to run away from the spoon-fed sheeple and know what is actually happening in real time within a few mile radius, banter with others concerned about Meatball or what happened on the 2 or 210, comment on strange hill person sightings...and at one time, Patch was there. I saw a how-do-you-like-us-now type thing at the bottom of the page. Though they won't like it and may not even care, I might take them up on their offer to let me spout off on how OUR Patch has become GENERIC standard Patch...repetitive, uninteresting, sadly lacking and not worth visiting.
Leigh Justice April 01, 2014 at 11:44 AM
....and so much for preserving my formatting. I had nice paragraphs, I swear!
John MacDougall March 22, 2014 at 10:23 AM
Stud nets?
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I am a parent of a Kindergartener and I LOVE Fulbright! My daughter did not attend Pre-K and we were very concerned that she would be behind. My daughter is very smart and a fast learner and she fell right into place. The teachers amd Administrators are wonderful! They know many if the children by name. I enjoy watching them give personal attention and allow hugs from students. My daughter is a big hugger and loves to have adult conversations whenever possible.. I also love how many parents and PTA members are so involved. There is no lack of events to volunteer for and many willing participants! I am looking forward to my daughters continued growth amd learning during her Fulbright years. I attended Joe T. Robinson Elementary And this 'open' classroom setting is nothing compared to that school.. but once the kids understnand what is expected and use their inside voice.. it does not hamper their learning. I would recommend this school to everyone! I am so honored my daughter is able to attend!
this school is intolerable to students from the teachers! when my daughter went to care she came home upset and in worse case even crying! and she was on cheer and she hated it because she felt like her teacher did not like her and treated her unfairly in comparison to the other girls the only thing good about that school is the PT because they are really involved with the events for their school
We have been thrilled with Fulbright Elementary School. They have a fabulous PreK program that our child thrived in and we are loving kindergarten. The PTA is excellent and is very involved. There is a member up at the school every day of the week. So thankful for such wonderful teachers.
My daughter attended 3-5, and the school had always been great! The administrator and some of the support staff for the two years was not. All of this turned around in the last year, and Fulbright is indeed a wonderful, well-rounded school with great administrators, teachers, and some of the most active volunteeers and PTA you will ever see! I love this school!
Fulbright has been a wonderful experience. My daughter loves her teacher and the staff and she is excited to start kindergarten next year!
Fulbright is the total package-great teachers who are attentive and make sure kids learn, professional principal, beautiful building, parents who care and who show up at the school to volunteer, very involved PTA, other kids that I am happy to have my kids around. . . this is our first year here and we love Fulbright
Fulbright is an excellent school. This is my son and daughter's first year attending this school.They have really helped my son academically considering that he came from a charter school that didn't teach him anything and got him up to the grade level he should have been in within 5mos. I recommend this school to anyone. It even has pre-k as well. All 3 of my kids will be attending Fulbright next yearl!
Fulbright is crowded and hectic. The open pod design means that all the students in a grade hear all four classrooms at once. The school's test scores are above average, but that's more a reflection of the demographics of the neighborhood rather than the quality of education received at the school.
My daughter went here for Kinder and First grade, then for Second grade she went to the new school Roberts which is within walking distance from our house. It didn't take too long to realize what a treasure we had at Fulbright, and now I am doing anything possible to change her back. Fulbright is an amazing school!
we have had a our child in Private school and switched to Fulbright and we wish we would have made the change sooner! It is a great school.
This is my son's 4th year at Fulbright. He loves it! Each year we have been lucky to have wonderful teachers. They have all taken extra time to challenge him and to instill in him a desire to challenge himself. His teachers and the administration have always made themselves available.
When we moved here from antoher state, eveyone told us how lucky we were to be in the fulbright Zone. Maybe it's because I was comparing it to our former school, but I was shocked at how the aides we allowed to yell at the kids. We put in one year, then were thrilled when my daughter's name came up on the list to go to Gibbs.
I have two children at fulbright, and I have to say I am extremely pleased. This is their 2nd year, and they both love it! the only thing I can say that I have not been happy with is the principal seems to not be with it at times. I have tried to contact her on 2 occasions this year, and get no response from her. My son has been there 2 years and she has asked him twice if he is a new student. But overall it is a fantastic school, and the teachers are excellent! Kudos to mrs. Watson, and mrs. Shelton! we love you!
awesome the best school ever
This is not a school for the easily distracted, ADHD, or kids who cannot concentrate with a lot of noise. The school is 'open' meaning that the classrooms are not separated by doors and walls, but rather partitions and curtains, so you hear noises from the other classes around you. Its very loud all the time. Even the library is not in a closed room. Each of the class areas has an open window out to the hallway, which carries noise from the hallway into the classroom. My child finds it very hard to concentrate and pay attention due to the noise, and this is not well understood by his teacher who believes a 9 year old is capable of sitting still, and concentrating for 5 hours out of the day and ignore the very loud noises of the open space school.
My child has special needs and has an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). At first it was difficult to get cooperation in having her IEP implemented. However, once I let the principal know that I was serious about having it put into action, she and the other staff responded with respect and enthusiasm. My child had been to two other public schools and was miserable at each of them. Although Fulbright may not have the highest test scores, I believe the reason is because Fulbright has a lot of chilren with special needs. Academic programs, availablility of music, art and other extracurricular activities is good. Fulbright probably has the best parent involvement of any elementary school in Little Rock. My child's fifth grade teacher is our favorite. We will miss Fulbright Elementary, home of the Falcons. We believe that Fulbright Elementary is the best elementary school in the Little Rock School District.
This is one of the best schools in the Little Rock School District. The teachers are highly qualified and show creativity and flexibility with their teaching. The principal is very involved and approachable. The parent involvement is high. My son walks home from school, where he is escorted by an adult as far as allowable. The only complaint I have is the carpool line/traffic in the mornings. Traffic is high on Pleasant Valley Drive and not all drivers appear to be concerned they are in a school zone. But as for the school, I am very pleased.
I have four children that have or are attending this school. As a parent I see continuous improvement in the quality of teaching, commitment to excellence and parent involvement. In the four years we've lived in Little Rock, we've seen the PTA budget triple, the school and parents combine to purchase new software for a new computer lab, add an art program to the curriculum and win awards for volunteer hours per student. The teachers are warm and engaged, always seeking to pull the best from each student. The administration is accessible and commmitted. An excellent school!
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300 Pleasant Valley Dr
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Aboutgmusicbrowser : An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc/ape files, written in perl.
by Quentin Sculo (email@example.com)
warning : I use my own mp3/ogg/flac/mpc/ape tag library for reading/writing tags ... use at your own risk.
- perl
- gtk+2 and its perl bindings
- gstreamer and its perl bindings or mpg321/ogg123/flac123/amixer or mplayer
- (optional) the Gtk2::MozEmbed module or the Gtk2::WebKit module. To use the WebContext plugin (used for wikipedia artist page and searching lyrics with google) (Gtk2::MozEmbed may have problems on some systems, see this page)
- (optional) the Net::DBus module is needed to control gmusicbrowser through DBus or to use the included gnome multimedia keys plugin (for gnome >= 2.18)
- (optional) the Gtk2::Notify module is needed to use the notify plugin
main features
- made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind (currently developed with over 25,000 songs)
- customizable window layouts (see layouts documentation)
- artist/album lock : easily restrict playlist to current artist/album
- easy access to songs related to the currently playing song
- songs from the same album
- album(s) from the same artist(s)
- songs with same title (other versions, covers, ...)
- support ogg vorbis, mp3 and flac files (and mpc/ape/m4a with gstreamer or mplayer)
- simple mass-tagging and mass-renaming
- tray icon, with a very customizable tip window, which can be used to control the player
- very customizable SongTree widget for a pretty list of songs (example)
- support multiple genres for a song
- support multiple artists for each song by separating them with ', ' or ' & '
- customizable labels can be set for each song (ex : bootleg, live, -'s favorites, ...)
- filters with unlimited nesting of conditions
- customizable weighted random mode (based on rating, last time played, label, ...)
- The possibility to act as a icecast server, to listen to your music remotely (experimental)
- plugin system, included plugins :
- nowplaying (to update an external program when the playing song changes)
- last.fm
- find pictures
- simple lyrics
- WebContext : use the mozilla/webkit engine to display wikipedia artist page and search lyrics with google
- Update this website !
- handling of static playlists could be improved
- improve the SongTree widget
- support other file formats .wma ?
- better alternative layouts and more layouts widgets
- translations (see this page for the translation status, contact me if you are interested in translating to other languages)
- web-radios
- skinned layouts (partly done, but still experimental)
- ipod support
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Hundreds of birds found in Aurora hoarder's home
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Aurora Police, Fire and Animal Control investigate the scene of a home housing hundreds of birds both dead and alive on Friday, October 19, 2012. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
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AURORA — Police are investigating an apparent animal hoarding incident after finding hundreds of birds inside a home on the city's far East Side.
"It's really difficult to articulate in words," what was seen inside the home, police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said. "It's a pretty extreme case."
Police, fire, animal control and property inspection personnel all were called to the home in the 200 block of Shadybrook Lane Friday.
Ferrelli said they were unable to determine how many birds were alive — or dead — inside the home because the scene was not deemed safe for investigators to enter. He estimated the number of birds — finches, canaries, parakeets, conures, cockatiels and others — was in the hundreds.
Crews are waiting on air quality tests before they enter the home.
"It might be too dangerous. The safety of our first responders is first on our mind," Ferrelli said.
Ferrelli said air quality samples will be forwarded to a lab in Phoenix, Ariz., for additional analysis. The final test results are not expected until Monday, he said, so there will be no cleanup efforts at the house over the weekend.
Hazmat crews entered the home on Friday wearing white suits and protective face coverings, but were unable to remove the animals. Ferrelli said garbage, junk and bird feces littered the inside of the home, but that the situation was not dangerous to neighbors.
According to police, the investigation began on Wednesday when a painting contractor working on the outside of the home noticed several dead birds inside and called police.
Aurora Animal Control and city inspectors started an investigation based on what they saw looking through the windows of the home. They deemed the property unfit for habitation, contacted the homeowner, and received a search warrant for the property.
Bird sounds could be heard coming from inside the residence on Friday afternoon.
Ferrelli said the home's 57-year-old owner has been cooperative, and seemed to be very concerned about the animals. He stopped by on Thursday to bring food and water to the birds. Ferrelli said he was unsure if the man was actually living in the home, but that he had been tending to the animals.
"He thought he was caring for them in a manner they should be cared for, but that was obviously not the case," Ferrelli said.
Animal Control has made arrangements to have the birds checked by a veterinarian and transferred to the Greater Chicago Caged Bird Club rescue group once they are removed from the home.
A neighbor across the street said the owner would often say hello.
"I've lived here for three years and I didn't know something was wrong," said the woman, who asked that her name not be used. "I had no idea."
Joey Mroz moved into his home nearby two months ago, but said he did not know the man.
Mroz called the situation startling.
"I consider it to be very strange," he said as he watched crews try to remove some trash and debris from the home. "I never through that would happen in Aurora."
Ferrelli said in his 16 years working with the Aurora police, he has seen few incidents like the one on Shadybrook Lane.
"It's a very challenging situation in there," he said.
No code violations or criminal charges will begin until the birds are removed from the home and the investigation progresses.