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The CEL633C range of meters all include the Voice Notes and Audio Recording options, which provide the following features:
Voice Notes are used purely to help you to identify your measurements. They are not recorded during the actual measurement process, but usually just before starting the measurement.
After pressing Run you will be asked to record your note, which can be up to two minutes long. Press the Rec key and speak into the meter's microphone. After recording the meter will automatically start the measurement.
Pressing Exit will skip this process. You can go back to the measurement later and record the voice notes before downloading to a computer.
Voice Notes are kept with the measurement when downloaded to ensure that you can use the note to identify the measurement.
This process records the actual sound at the same time as it is being measured. The purpose is usually to help identify the source of high noise levels. Most logging sound level meters provide you with a graph of the level over time. This is very useful, but does not give a way of finding out what caused the noise - car, plane, factory, shouting, etc.
You don't usually want the audio for the full measurement period - too much data and too much to listen to, although the meter can be set to do this. There are three ways to trigger the recording:
1. Sound Level
The meter can be set to start recording when a certain level (Fast, Slow, Leq or Peak) is exceeded for a given period of time, and to stop recording when the level falls below a level for a given period. In the example to the right, the audio will start recording as soon as the Fast sound level exceeds 80dB and will stop after the level falls below 60dB for five seconds.
2. Markers - On Demand Recording
This meter has four "Markers" available. While a measurement is running you can press one of four keys to mark a section of measurement. For example, if you are interested in vehicle noise you could press Marker 1 when a car passes, Marker 2 when a bus passes, Marker 3 for a motorcycle and Marker 4 for a train. The meter can be set to record the audio whenever a Marker button is held down.
3. External Trigger
No external trigger is supplied with the standard meter so please contact NoiseMeters for more details. An example of the External Trigger can be seen with the Noise Nuisance Recorder, which is used to monitor noisy neighbors. When the external button is pressed it triggers the CEL633C sound level meter to record audio.
Often you need an audio recording to include a short period of time before the level is exceeded (for level triggered recording) or before the marker is selected. A pre-trigger can be set to record up to 10 seconds of audio before the event.
Voice Notes and Audio Recordings can be played back on the meter itself or on a computer after downloading.
Playback on the Meter
Both Voice Notes and Audio Recordings can be played through headphones or speaker system directly from the meter itself - ideal if you want to make quick checks while still on site. Measurements with audio recordings are clearly indicated in the memory recall list. The example to the right shows the playback of a Marker (on demand) recording along with the main measurement parameters.
Please note that the meter does not have a built-in speaker. Headphones or a small speaker system can be plugged into the jack-socket at the base of the meter.
Playback on a Computer
For the best results the measurements should be downloaded with the Insight software. The CasellaDrive software can also be used, but this does mean you have to manually deal with the WAV files and link them with the measurements yourself.
The example here shows the noise profile graph. The section highlighted indicates where an audio recording was made.
The player controls under the graph can be used to play the audio through the computer's speakers.
Audio recordings can also be listed by time in a table and played from there.
The Type 1 sound level meter is available alone or as part of a Kit, which includes Meter, Calibrator and Peli Carrying Case.


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NHL Game Night: 11/18/10 Lightning at Flyers
Maybe the craziest game I've ever seen.
Dan Ellis allowed 4 goals on 10 shots before giving way to Mike Smith, who allowed 3 goals on 22 shots to get the win in relief.
First Period
04:21 PHI Nodl (4), Zherdev (1), Richards (12)
05:03 PHI Zherdev (6), Carle (5), Richards (13)
08:20 TB Stamkos (17), St Louis (15), Ellis (1)(PP)
08:36 TB Hall (3), Hedman (7), Bergenheim (5)
09:51 PHI Carter (9), O'Donnell (2), Giroux (12)
13:59 TB Malone (3), St Louis (16), Stamkos (15)(PP)
15:34 PHI Hartnell (7), Coburn (5), Carle (6)
18:04 PHI Briere (10), Hartnell (7), O'Donnell (3)
18:18 TB Clark (4), Moore (3), Hedman (8)
Second Period
04:11 TB Stamkos (18), St Louis (17), Lundin (5)
04:59 PHI Zherdev (7), Powe (4), Pronger (7)
09:27 PHI Meszaros (1), van Riemsdyk (5), Betts (4)
09:41 TB Downie (3), St Louis (18), Stamkos (16)
18:59 TB Stamkos (19), Purcell (8), St Louis (19)(PP)
Third Period
05:19 TB Thompson (3), Tyrell (2), Bergenheim (6)
Steven Stamkos and Martin St. Louis were the game's first and second stars.
What'd we see tonight? 1.) 15 goals? Check. 2.) A hat trick for #91 on just three amazing shots? Three shots. Three kills. Check. 3.) Brett Clark scoring a goal by shooting it THROUGH the net? Check. 4.) Matt Roy darned near putting a guy in the hospital? Check. 5.)And the biggest shocker of all: in a game with 15 goals your winner is scored by... Nate Thompson? Nate bleeping Thompson!?
Mind you, there were a few things this game could have used to spice it up a little more: 1.) Mike Smith scoring an empty net goal and then doing snow angels in his crease to celebrate. 2.) Creating a timewarp where ex-Lightning player Kurtis Foster breaks a pane of glass and/or Evgeny Artyukhin puts a player through the glass. 3.) Steve Downie inciting a riot/bench clearer that ends with the stands being set on fire. 4.) For no good reason, Rudy Poeschek and Paul Laus happening to be in attendance and getting in a Pier 6 brawl at the nacho stand. 5.) A live penguin sliding out onto the ice and halting play. Baseball has squirrels and birds. I feel hockey should have the occassional stray penguin halting play. 6.) I like this one the best. Coach Fleming hitting Hulk Hogan with a steel chair while the ref isn't looking so Guy Boucher can get the 1-2-3 at center ice and win the championship belt. Just some suggestions to Gary Bettman and Lightning management on how to improve on the already unbelievable product we saw tonight.
Johan Harju was -2 in 4:45. You couldn't swing a cat without hitting a minus in this game tonight.
Mathieu Roy was -1 with a hit that almost put Darroll Powe in traction in 4:39.
Dana Tyrell had a helper on the game winner and 2 shots and 2 blocked shots in 11:39. Andrej Meszaros is a dead man the next time the Lightning play the Flyers for trying to take out Tyrell's knees in the third period, especially considering Tyrell had major knee surgery less than 2 years ago.
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Food Security a Problem in Montana [AUDIO]
America has a 90 day emergency supply of oil, but most Americans have only a 3-day supply of food.
Spokesman and lobbyist for the Montana Farmers Union, Chris Chistaens, says most Montanans have less than a 3 day supply of food and potable water in their home in the event of an emergency.
Christaens is also concerned that lack of a Farm Bill may lead to massive inflation in food prices. He says if certain aspects currently in the bill are allowed to expire, the price of a gallon of milk could rise to nearly $6.00 per gallon, or a loaf of bread could rise as high as $8.00 a loaf.
Christaens says farm subsidies currently in place actually keep prices lower for consumers, so that the true cost of producing, transporting and marketing food is not reflected in the retail price.
Christaens says he expects the current crop of lame-duck politicians to kick the can down the road for the next Congress to handle.
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Hurricain Ike, Sept 12, 2008
On Friday Sept 12, as bumper to bumper traffic fled the coast, I headed into the maw of the storm to house-sit the Longmont house. During the night the TV station went off air, then all power went out. From then on I was in an information vacuum, no word of what was happening, or what had happened, but by listening to the radio in my car and word of mouth. No color radar, no CNN. Cell phone use quickly became overloaded, unreliable and a hassel. For instance you went straight to voice mail, then voice mail was "busy". Text messaging continued to work. If you didn't have a car cell phone charger you were out of luck. My forways out to take pictures were very limited. Roads were clogged with debris or simply impassable due to high water or downed trees. And no traffic lights to boot. It was always a relief to get back "home" and start the cleanup (yuck!). The Longmont house fared well.Read More
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Stores started warning shoppers in early December that the new rule requires food stores to charge a dime per bag instead of handing them out to customers, except for those shoppers who receive food assistance from WIC or CalFresh food assistance.
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The regulation is often called a ban. Instead, the "price signal" is supposed to encourage fewer plastic bags in circulation by requiring any stores selling packaged or fresh food to provide a recyclable paper bag or a reusable bag at a minimum charge of 10 cents.
The reusable bag could be made from plastic if it is 2.25 millimeters thick, which makes it more durable than the usual ones now in use.
The stores, which already pay for the bags they provide to customers for free, would keep the income from the surcharge.
Sit-down and takeout restaurants, clothing retailers and other stores selling things not related to food are exempt.
Violators could face a fine of up to $1,000.
Staff members from each city and county must first approve citations for violations within their jurisdictions. San Jose and San Francisco were among the first and largest cities in the Bay Area with programs to cut down on plastic bags, a trend that has expanded to 51 cities and counties.
The ordinances faced the stiffest opposition from Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, a group of manufacturers and distributors of plastic carryout bags. The group filed 27 pages of critical comments and objections to the ordinance and threatened to sue if the county adopted the ban or anything similar to it.
The coalition tried to water down San Francisco's plastic bag regulation with an unsuccessful lawsuit but managed in the past to soften bans by excluding restaurant use of carryout plastic bags.
So far, the group has not sued Alameda County or StopWaste.org.
For more information about the regulation, go to StopWaste.org.


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Volatility is a very important measure in evaluating the risk of an investment. It shows how the prices fluctuate in a given period of time. The greater the volatility, the wider the range of prices. High volatility means that the price of the asset can change dramatically over a short time period of time in either direction. A lower volatility means the asset's value does not fluctuate as dramatically.Instead its value tends to change at a steady pace.
Volatility of Gold and Silver
First of all, notable fluctuations of the price of a security make long-term investors more nervous. They cannot be sure if the rate of return comes back to its average.
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The chart presents two hypothetical gold stocks: the "First Gold Stock" and the "Second Gold Stock.".Which is more volatile? The answer is quite simple – the "First Gold Stock". Why? Its price fluctuates more than the price of the "Second Gold Stock". If you try to predict the prices of these two stocks you will conclude that it is easier to predict the price of the "Second Gold Stock" as it does not diverge significantly from the $30 level. The "First Gold Stock" also fluctuates around this level but its moves are far more rapid and therefore it is considerably more difficult to anticipate future price levels of this stock.
Volatility is not just a theoretical concept. Please, take a look at the charts (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com) below.
The upper chart presents gold's price path during a given period while the lower chart presents silver's price path during the same period. You can easily notice that the two metals have different volatility. If you calculate (more on that in the following part of this page) the relative volatility of gold in this period, it will turn out to be smaller than the corresponding relative volatility of silver. You can spot that the price moves in the upper chart are not as dramatic as those in the lower chart.
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First of all, notable fluctuations of the price of a security make long-term investors more nervous. They cannot be sure if the rate of return comes back to its average.
Secondly, gold price volatility and silver price volatility presents opportunities for traders to buy assets cheaply and sell them when they are overpriced. In the above example, silver gives you a greater chance to earn more when compared to gold (silver's price changes more dramatically), but investing in the white metal is more risky. (In the modern portfolio theory volatility = risk, however we believe that there are some exceptions.)
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Let's use a hypothetical example to explain the concept of volatility. Assume that we have two weather forecasts for tomorrow.The first forecast suggests an average temperature of 68 °F with a volatility of 3.6 °F, and the second implies the same average temperature of 68 °F, however with a volatility of 10 °F.
Which forecast is better for us?
The answer is clear: the forecast with lower volatility. It provides us with a hint that the temperature changes would not be as huge as in case of the second forecast, and allows us to be better prepared.
If we consider the second forecast, we are not so sure about the weather. The temperature in the morning might be 68 °F and then it might drop to 58 °F, so we are not quite sure if to pick a jacket or just a sweater.
To illustrate the main idea more clearly let us show you some real life example.
Assume that we have been forecasting the weather again. We used satellite photos and measurements from weather research stations to make our forecast. We predicted that the next day the temperature would be at the level of 68 °F (20 °C) during the day. These had been our expectations but in reality the temperature next day was 65 °F at 8 a.m. 72 °F at midday and 67 °F at 6 p.m. These changes in the temperature during the day are used to calculate the volatility of the temperature. We can predict the average or the most probable temperature, but our forecasts rarely hit their precise targets – it is more likely that the actual temperature will be in the range based on the forecast +/- the implied volatility.
Volatility – Examples
Consider a security with an expected rate of return of 10% and with an annual volatility of 5%.
This means that the average return is 10%, and using the volatility we can calculate the range of possible return. Thanks to statistical measures (and the assumption that the data is normally distributed), we may estimate our range with 95% confidence at 0% to 20%. It means that 95 times out of 100 our rate of return will be a value between 0% and 20%. This helps us to estimate whether it makes sense to invest in this particular security.
Let's now consider a security with the same rate of return but with a volatility of 10%.
The estimated range is now at -10% to 30%, with 95% confidence.
We can clearly see that higher volatility gives us a wider range, which means that we can possibly earn or lose more – so in a way more volatility means more risk.
Below you will find a chart showing how the annual volatility of the rate of return of gold has been changing over the years.
Volatility and Options
Volatility is extremely important if you are planning to trade in options. All other things being equal, an option's value tends to rise along with the volatility of the underlying asset and decline when this volatility decreases. There is a special coefficient called Vega (sometimes referred to as Kappa or Tau), which tells you how much (in dollar terms) the price of a given option will rise, when the implied volatility of the underlying security rises by one percentage point, and nothing else (interest rate, time, price of the underlying security) changes. Although at first glance this might seem complicated, we will show you that it is really intuitive.
Remember our chart with the "First Gold Stock" and the "Second Gold Stock"? Take a look at it once again. The last price for both stocks is $30, and this is also the average value of each of the stocks in the analyzed time frame.
Which stock is more likely to surpass the level of $35? Of course, the "First Gold Stock". Since its daily trading range is so wide, it would be surprising not to see this stock occasionally getting past this level. The "Second Gold Stock", on the other hand, would most likely need to rise consecutively for a few days before it would have a chance to get beyond $35. As you see, the probability for the stock price to go above a certain level is higher if this stock is highly volatile. Now imagine that the$35 level represents the strike price of a particular option. If we're not taking time into, the call option's value is the difference between the current price of the underlying security and the strike price. If the "First Gold Stock" has a greater chance of going above the strike price than the "Second Gold Stock, all other things being equal, than options on the "First Gold Stock" should be worth more than options on the "Second Gold Stock".
To sum up, options on stocks that are less volatile are cheaper than options on more volatile stocks. If a particular company's shares suddenly become more volatile, then options on this company will become more expensive. And, if these shares calm down and trade in a close range, then the value of options will decrease (all other things being equal).
Drawbacks of Volatility
Though volatility is very useful and important in evaluating the risk, it has one significant weakness. Namely, it does not take into consideration the way the price moves. High volatility can occur both when prices are flying high and when they are taking a nosedive.From an investor's point of view, the first situation may be desirable,while the latter one in most cases is not. That means that analyzing volatility should be supported by analysis of other risks in the market e.g. the fundamental factors driving it.
Calculating Volatility
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The standard deviation shows how much variation or dispersion there is from the average (mean or expected/budgeted value). A low standard deviation indicates that the data points tend to be very close to the mean, whereas high standard deviation indicates that the data are spread out over a large range of values.
Let's get back to our temperature example.
Our average was 68 °F. The standard deviation is calculated as follows.
First, we compute the difference between every single observation and the average. In our case the results are: (65 - 68) = - 3, (72 - 68) = 4 and (67 - 68) = - 1.
We square our results: (- 3) ^ 2 = 9, 4 ^ 2 = 16 and (- 1) ^ 2 = 1.
We add our squared results up: 9 + 16 + 1 = 26.
Now, we divide our sum by the number of our observations less one which in our case is 2 (3 - 1 = 2). Our result after this operation is 13 (26 / 2 = 13).
Let's take a square root of our result: sqrt(13) = 3.6.
Our standard deviation is 3.6 °F.
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Peter Graves, the rugged actor who starred in the hit TV series "Mission: Impossible" and whose career took a comic turn in the disaster spoof "Airplane!" has died. He was 83.
Graves was found dead Sunday afternoon in front of his Pacific Palisades home from apparent natural causes, said Officer Karen Rayner of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Peter Graves obituary: The obituary of actor Peter Graves in the March 15 LATExtra section said the television series "Mission: Impossible," in which he played intelligence agent James Phelps, ran from 1967 to 1973 on CBS and from 1988 to 1990 on ABC. The show debuted in 1966; Graves joined the cast in 1967. —
Graves had just returned from brunch with his family to celebrate his upcoming 84th birthday. He collapsed on the driveway before he could reach his house, said Sandy Brokaw, his publicist. One of Graves' daughters administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation but was unable to revive him, Brokaw said.
Graves starred in more than 70 television series and feature films, typically playing the straight-laced hero. One of his first major roles was in the 1953 classic, "Stalag 17," in which he played an undercover Nazi spy placed among American POWs in a German camp.
His most memorable role was in "Mission: Impossible," the 1960s CBS series in which he played intelligence agent James Phelps, leader of the elite Impossible Missions Force. The show ran from 1967 to 1973 on CBS and 1988 to 1990 on ABC.
Every week, Graves could be seen listening to a tape of instructions for carrying out his team's secret missions. He won a Golden Globe in 1971 for his role.
"Mission: Impossible," along with other Western, military and action parts in the 1970s, branded Graves as an actor who could deliver solid, straight-shooting roles. But that changed in 1980, when he became the star of the comedy "Airplane!," in which he played Capt. Clarence Oveur, the bumbling pilot whose one-liners included, "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"
Graves initially turned down the role. "I read it and thought, 'Gee, this is dangerous,' " Graves told The Times in late 2009. "It was in terrible taste."
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urged him to meet with the young filmmakers, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, who told him that they wanted somebody of stature and dignity to play the role "absolutely straight," Graves recalled.
"They say you are supposed to stretch as an actor, so let's go stretch it," he said.
He joined other actors known for serious roles, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Nielsen, in the film.
Graves was born Peter Aurness in 1926 in Minneapolis, the son of a journalist and a businessman. Graves' older brother, James Arness, would later play Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke." Graves adopted his grandfather's last name to avoid confusion with his brother.
He studied drama at the University of Minnesota until arriving in Hollywood 60 years ago. He married his college sweetheart, Joan Endress, that same year
One year later, he landed his first movie role in 1951's "Rogue River." He later starred in the TV show "Fury," playing a horse rancher who befriends an orphan. The contemporary Western series became a hit and ran on NBC between 1955 and 1960.
"I wanted Peter Graves to be my dad," Jerry Zucker, who directed "Airplane!" told the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 1997.
During the 1990s, Graves hosted the documentary series "Biography" on A&E.
In an interview with The Times in December, Graves said he wasn't ready to retire. "There has got to be some good parts around for guys my age," he said.
Recent roles included a guest part on "House" and 11 episodes on "7th Heaven."
He recently read for a part on a TV series as a grandfather, Brokaw said.
In addition to his wife, Graves is survived by three daughters and six grandchildren.
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Times staff writer Andrew Blankstein contributed to this report.


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We want a shirt that a Certified Athletic Trainer would actually want to wear. The focal attention of the shirt should be on the athletic trainers howling at a cookie moon with an understated logo of Shuttle Balance somewhere on the t-shirt.
Must be a great looking t-shirt that can be give away as a prize. We plan on using these shirts at our annual trade shows.
This will be a take-off on the popular Three Wolf Moon shirt - except we want three stereotypical Athletic Trainers howling at a cookie moon (Photos attached)....
Stereotypical Athletic trainer features are:
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Must have the 3 Athletic Trainers' faces looking out to the Cookie (moon).
Please PM if you have any questions, ideas, or need more content this project needs to happen ASAP because the show is approaching (Late June).


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This Blog focuses on Ancestor Stories, both the stories themselves about my family's ancestors and discussions of where they come from and how to prepare and share them. These stories may be non-fiction or fiction – we will always tell which is which, of course. Also see my KINNICK blog and The HOMEPLACE Series Blog, left sidebar, scroll down.
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Researching your female ancestors
Researching your female ancestors
I have mentioned here before that researching our female ancestors has been a priority my wife and I have each had through the years we have been doing family history and genealogy research. We hope you will too!
Today, I'm doing a double-dip with this post. I wanted to be sure you saw the article: "Three Ideas for Tracing Your Female Ancestors" by Gena Philibert-Ortega, Guest Writer, at 'The In-Depth Genealogist: a digi-mag for every genealogist' because it spells out very nicely the approaches we have used successfully over the years, and I recommend it to you, if you are not already doing so.
Secondly, as noted earlier, I've joined the team at The In-Depth Genealogist team as The Heritage Tourist where I will be contributing a monthly column to the digi-mag and two blog posts each month in the spot where Gena's fine article appears.
It is my pleasure to promote the digi-mag and blog, and urge you to sign up, free, to receive this useful and interesting information on a regular basis (if you have not already). You can sign up on the right sidebar on the page that opens at the link, above.
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I have been following the group and your stories. I just do not post comments daily. Sometimes I have more luck with females other times I am really mired in the muck. One is the MADISON ancestor I recently blogged about. Thanks for all your writing.
Thank you, Susi. I really appreciate your comments. You are a very loyal follower! ;-)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for mentioning my blog post. I really appreciate it.
I look forward to reading your posts on IDG.
Thank you, Gena. It was a pleasure. I like to recommend articles that are meaningful to me - and have it be in IDG was as nice bonus! ;-)ReplyDelete


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We wanted to start this blog with a positive note and what more can be a positive note than this – XLabz wins 1st Prize & Audience Choice Award for the best RIA application build using the Flash Player Platform. Adobe RIAthon is a Nation wide event held by Adobe.
We thoroughly enjoyed the event and at one point when the audience were asked to voice out the name of the application which they thought won the event, we were able to hear only two names FlexJobs and CloudBuzz.
We thank Adobe for giving us such a wonderful opportunity to showcase our capabilities and the participants for voting us into the Audience Choice Award.
We nominated two applications:
FlexStats – A real-time Web Monitoring Solution build on Flex and AIR
CloudBuzz – A micro-blogging and news data mining software build on Flex and AIR
FlexStats won both the awards for us. These were the prizes:
2 Groovy iPhone 3G's
2 iPod Shuffles
Here is a brief and some screenshots of the applications:
FlexStats is a real-time web monitoring system build from ground up using the Flash Platform which can be used to monitor real-time live statistics of a website/blog as they happen. FlexStats is build on Flex and AIR. The application can be installed on a desktop machine as an AIR application and any website/blog can be monitored by launching the application from the desktop.
Unlike other web analytics and monitoring tools which runs of the browser, FS runs from the users desktop as an standalone AIR application and live updates are streamed to the tool from the website. All that a web owner has to do is to place two PHP files on his server. For this demo we had hard-coded the application with the URL of our site (www.flexjobs.in).
Data Mining on Steroids
CloudBuzz is an innovative tag based data mining and information research tool build completely on Flex & AIR. CloudBuzz pulls data from popular micro-blogging news sources like Twitter, technical feeds like Adobe MXNA, new sources like Google News and thousands of other information sources. It then filters the data using an in build dictionary of words and plots them on a spatial tag cloud which is ranked based on the number of occurrences of a keyword. The application filters approximately 1500 commonly used words and also uses RegEx pattern matching techniques to deduct in-appropriate words which falls within a pattern matching range.
Just to get an idea of the amount of information being processed, at any given minute there are approximately more than 50,000 words (based on the information sources) which are being processed to generate the cloud data. With this application one can easily have a spatial look at the various terms which are making news and also get an idea of how intense the news is. The data-points are color coded based on word density.
Now we are working on taking both of these applications to next level. We have a huge list of features which we want to include in the next versions of these applications.
There were two runners up prizes – one of which was won by a application titled GeoScope – a video searching application and another application which allowed to search for information on nearest hospitals and allowed one to make a call using the Ribbit API. We personally liked the AIR Game which used the Mac Book's Accelerometer.
Once again, thanks Adobe !


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Brady, a member of the Working Families party, was the first gay man elected to the Stony Brook University Senate. He became the lead senator on a $2.5 million budget — an endowment derived mostly from the Student Activity Fee paid for by students. Before graduating, he formed a new political party to cultivate reform-minded leaders and gained a majority of Senate seats during his last election. In Levittown, Brady worked on the County Legislator campaign for Eva Pearson, an Air Force veteran, single mother and fiscal conservative. He is also the co-founder of Save Levittown Planned Residence District, a successful community petition to stop condominiums from being built near single-family homes.
In the race for the 17th Assembly District, East Meadow resident Tom McKevitt is seeking re-election and is being challenged by Kevin Brady, of Levittown.The 17th District includes portions of Uniondale, Hempstead, East Meadow, Levittown, Bethpage, Plainedge, Farmingdale, North Massapequa, Massapequa, Massapequa Park and Seaford.
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So, here are just a few recent dinners I've managed to make, and which I've relished even more than usual. Please excuse my dark, wintertime photos. Alas, 'tis the season for poorly lit photos.
I was so excited to get my copy of Isa's new book Isa Does It! in the mail, and I finally got to make something from it: Citrus Tahini Bowl with Grilled Tofu. I love love love "bowls," and yet somehow I never can figure out what to do on my own. So, I was super excited to see so many bowl recipes in this book. This one really caught my eye, and we both loved it! I loved the flavor combos - and I loved having tofu, greens, grains, fruit and savory sauce all in one dinnertime experience. So perfect! Plus, I got to use our oranges from our very own tree, so that was extra fun.


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by Tom Utescher
Area sculling programs got a combined total of five boats through to the finals of the Stotesbury Cup Regatta last weekend, and three of them came away with silver medals.
Penn Charter's four-year-old program secured silvers in both the boys and girls junior double. The girls, stroke Heidi Zisselman and bow Maria Georgiou, were just a fraction of a second away from winning the gold medal. Their 11th-grade classmates in the boys boat were stroke Kevin Kelly and bow Spencer Grant, who finished in between a pair of entries from Ontario, Canada.
A silver medal in the senior single went to Springside Chestnut Hill Academy senior Jen Sager, who was part of the school's gold-medal senior quad at the 2011 Stotesbury gathering. This year's girls senior quad from SCH also reached the final race on Saturday afternoon, coming in fourth.
PC's Grant and Kelly had the second fastest time in the qualifying heats on Friday morning, easily earning their place among the 12 boats advancing into the semifinals. Lower down in the overall field of 29 boats, tandems from SCH and Germantown Friends did not make the cut-off, ranking 14th and 22nd, respectively. The top half of the field was closely spaced, and SCH's Seth Bakes and James Meadows were just a third-of-a-second off the time recorded by the last qualifier.
The SCH boys had a tough time in general, with only one of six entries making it past the opening round. The only advancer was the senior double staffed by Drew Adubato and John Olson, who qualified ninth out of the 12 boats that moved ahead from a field of 21. The top three boats from each of the two semifinals moved on to the championship race, so the Blue Devils saw their run come to an end when they placed fifth in their race.
On the girls' side for SCH, the two finalists were the only boats out of five entries to get past the qualifying stage.
Two of six vessels that started out for the PC Quakers went by the boards, with a boys senior double missing out by less than a second-and-a-half. In addition to the successful junior doubles, a girls junior quad and a boys freshman quad from Penn Charter advanced out of their initial time trials on Friday.
The junior quad (Katie O'Malley, Celina McCall, Julia Mammone, and Tara Malone) finished the qualifying sixth out of a field of 18 (12 advanced). In their semifinal race the Quakers placed fourth, four seconds behind the third-place crew that moved on to the finals.
A sixth-place result in the qualifying round was also achieved by the freshman quad (Peter Ciarrocchi, Ethan Ashley, James Paolini, Chad Coursen). Because there were only a dozen entries to begin with in this category, there were no semi-final contests and the six top qualifiers went directly into the medal race on Saturday afternoon. Here the Quakers duplicated their sixth-place outcome of the day before.
Andrew Bair, a Germantown Friends School 11th-grader who rows out of the Bachelors Barge Club, had gone undefeated in the junior single on the Schuylkill this spring, but that category is not part of the Stotesbury program. Bair had to move up to the senior single last weekend, but even though he was racing against a number of older rowers, he placed 11th out of the field of 40, with a time nine seconds off the pace of the leader.
He was one of the top 18 who qualified for the semifinal round. His weekend wrapped up with a sixth-place showing in his semifinal contest, but he had demonstrated that he should be competitive at the senior level next year.
In the girls senior quad for Springside Chestnut Hill, senior Anna Valciukas was the only returning rower from the Lions' 2011 gold medal crew, remaining in the bow seat. From stroke to the two seat, the line-up featured sophomore Alana Noble, senior Katie Blake, and junior Emily Eisler. Fourth among the 12 qualifiers on Friday morning, SCH moved on to the finals with a third-place performance in the first of two semifinal races.
The final on Saturday developed into two almost separate contests, with medalists (in order) Conestoga High, Episcopal Academy, and Woodbridge (Va.) leaving a gap between themselves and the other competitors. The Lions won this second stage, coming in fourth ahead of Sacred Heart and the Baldwin School, both from Bryn Mawr.
The first of the area medal winners was the girls junior double from Penn Charter. The same two Quakers had finished fourth at Stotesbury in 2011, and this time around Georgiou and Zisselman started out in a field of two dozen tandems. They qualified easily, ranking fourth out of the 12 boats that advanced. In their semifinal they were the runner-up, a little over a second-and-a-half behind Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School, located in the Canadian crew stronghold of St. Catherine's, Ontario.
Theirs was the faster semifinal race, and the two boats duked it out again in the finals. Just a few dozen meters from the finish line PC appeared headed for victory, but Holy Cross overtook the Quakers in the last few strokes to win the gold. The Canadians crossed in 5:40.35, with PC a sliver of a second behind at 5:40.76. North Jersey's Ridgewood High took the bronze in 5:41.56, followed by a duo from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and two Philly-area boats, Conestoga and Sacred Heart.
As stroke Kevin Kelly pointed out, it was "two's" all around for the boys junior double from PC. Their silver medal final, which they rowed in lane two, was preceded by second-place outcomes in the qualifying round (where 29 twosomes began the regatta) and in the second of the two semifinal races late Friday afternoon.
The only anomaly was that the Quakers had the fifth-fastest time overall out of the six boats that made it to the finals.
"We were a little worried about that, mainly because we didn't want to get put in lane five or six by the island [where the backwash can make the water more turbulent]," Kelly said. "When they gave us lane two we were happy, and we said to ourselves, whatever it takes, we're going to make sure we're at that medal dock."
Like the girls, the PC boys faced a formidable Ontario opponent; E.L. Crossley Secondary School was the defending champ in the category and had returned its stroke-seat for the 2012 season.
Sluggish starts earlier this spring the year led the Quakers to work on that aspect of their racing in their practices leading up to Stotesbury.
In the final, Kelly recounted, "Our start was one of the best we've had. E.L. Crossley went ahead around the [Strawberry Mansion] bridge, and about 500 meters in I think we were actually fourth, though we were close with Conestoga and Governor Simcoe [another Ontario outfit]."
Crossley would lead all the way to the finish, while Charter first moved ahead of Conestoga and then overtook Simcoe. The latter boat tried to move on the Quakers late in the race, but PC countered and captured the silver medal in 4:56.48, about four seconds behind Crossley (4:52.66).
The bronze went to Simcoe, the last of the finalists in the four-minute bracket at 4:57.60. Ranged behind them were Ballston Spa (N.Y.), Conestoga, and St. Joseph's Prep.
The Canadians are traditionally tough in singles racing, as well, but last weekend SCH's Sager faced a talented competitor from just this side of Niagara Falls, Buffalo's Eliza Frank. A senior at the Park School who is headed to Syracuse University, Frank has raced internationally in larger vessels as a member of the U.S. Junior National Team program.
Sager said that in the geographical sense, "This was a broader range of schools [a total of 26] than I'd ever raced against before."
She was happy to rank fourth out of the 12 qualifiers, since she hadn't exerted herself fully. The same held true for her second-place finish in her semifinal race on Saturday morning.
The rower who won that particular contest collapsed on her oars after finishing, while Sager said, "I felt I still had a lot of gas in the tank.
"Instead of really extending myself to get the best lane for the finals," she continued, "I decided to conserve energy and then deal with the lane assignment when that came along. The only thing that worried me a little was that I could see from the times that I was in the slower semifinal."
She drew lane five, a decent strip of water and certainly preferable to number six, the "lane of death" alongside Peter's Island.
"The final was one of the most intense races I've been in," she said. "Halfway down the course the first five boats were basically all even. It wasn't until 500 meters to go that it started to spread out. Then we were fighting for places and I just pushed it out as best as I could."
Park School's Frank, who qualified second and then put up the fastest time in the semifinal round, won the gold medal in 5:45.36, with Sager securing the silver in 5:47.65. The bronze medal and fourth and fifth place went to Canadian singles from Oakridge Secondary (5:49.21), Grimsby, and Welland Centennial, and in sixth place was a New Jersey rower from Mother of Divine Grace.
Sager, Frank, and the sixth finalist could well meet again this weekend, since all three have signed up for the Scholastic Rowing Association of America championships in Camden, N.J.


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When Cyberbullying Goes Wrong: 50 Cent Sued For Millions By Model He Called "Thirsty Video Beyotch" On Instagram
Hey 50 it might be time to put down the phone and write the check!
Model Sues 50 Cent For Defamation After Calling Her Thirsty Bi**h On Instagram
SMH. This guy needs to seriously reevaluate how he treats women.
According to TMZ reports:
50 Cent has ruined a video vixen's life — getting her blacklisted in the business by calling her a "thirsty video b****h" in front of millions of people — or so the woman claims … and now she wants millions to call it even.
Sally Ferreira filed the defamation suit against Fiddy, claiming he FALSELY accused her last month of spreading rumors she was dating the rapper — as well as leaking behind-the-scenes photos from his music video shoot.
50 posted the accusations on Instagram and Twitter (where he has a combined 9 million+ followers) including a call to blacklist the model, writing, "WARNING: Do not attempt to work with this thirsty video b***h."
For her part, Ferreira says she NEVER leaked the photos — and insists she's openly been in a relationship with her fiance for 9 years.
Ferreira claims 50's Internet postings — which have since been deleted — not only ruined her blossoming modeling career … they have subjected her to endless public ridicule and scorn. She says she's suffered extreme emotional distress as a result.
She wants several million in damages.
See Ciara, you got out in the nick of time. If 50 Cent has a good lawyer he will likely be advised to settle quickly. Do you think 50 went too far?
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Former Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry has revealed that she's been diagnosed with skin cancer.
Michelle, 34, who won the second series of the BBC show in 2006, told Twitter followers that she was told she had cancer following a biopsy.
"Biopsy results received. Turns out that what I thought was a persistent pimple on my face is actually skin cancer," she wrote.
"Thx for your messages guys. I'm gonna be just fine. Op booked in to cut it out. Just wanted to share, to encourage others to get checked too."
The former supermarket checkout girl, who left school with only two GCSEs, beat rival Ruth Badger to win the second series of The Apprentice.
Michelle, who was running her own telecoms business by the age of 24, worked for Sir Alan Sugar for 11 months, taking a £100,000-a-year job as head of Xenon Green.
She became pregnant with fellow contestant Syed Ahmed's baby, but suffered a miscarriage after being rushed to hospital suffering from stomach pains.


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March Of The Pigs (also known as Halo 7) is a single for the song of the same name released in 1994. It was released as a teaser single prior to the album The Downward Spiral.
March Of The Pigs is the seventh official Nine Inch Nails release and a single for the album The Downward Spiral. It contains the album version as well a remix of "March Of The Pigs", two remixes of "Reptile", and an instrumental. A two-disc version was released in the UK, which added a radio edit of the title song and "Big Man With A Gun" from The Downward Spiral.
The disc art for this single features a rolled-up millipede, an image that was later used on the cover of the single "Closer To God".
Track listing
March Of The Pigs is available for download on iTunes and Amazon MP3.
US version
UK version
Disc 1
Disc 2
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Limited to 5000 copies. Same artwork as CD pt. 1.
Album Credits
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I gotcha, do you also put one of those (salt?)canisters inside the bag to trap the moisture? Sounds like your car is in good hands
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I'm still waiting for the Mets to add a pitcher. I hate to say this, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if Pedro Martinez is brought back. To think the Mets will look at what Martinez did with the Phillies and to think he might duplicate it this summer might be a reach. Afterall, part of his success has to be attributed to playing half a season and being strong down the stretch. More indicative would be his second World Series start.
I saw where the Royals are willing to trade Gil Meche and Brian Bannister. Meche is a lot of money for somebody who is now merely average.
I'll have something on the remaining FA pitchers on the market this week as well as something on David Wright.
Today, for me, I'll watch the Celtics and Lakers this afternoon. One of the great sports rivalries. Rooting interest? Celtics.
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At 43 years of age, Paula Lackie thought she was starting menopause when she missed her period. After 22 years of infertility she knew the odds were almost nil that it could mean she was pregnant, but she still held out a small bit of hope somehow after all of the heartache. Seven pregnancy tests later, much to her great surprise, she discovered she was indeed pregnant; and last month she delivered her perfectly healthy baby girl, Isla.
Lackie told the Daily Mail they consider her their "little miracle," and that while they adopted two children along the way, they never stopped trying for a biological child as well. 'Every time I look at this beautiful miracle baby in my arms I have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming."
It's an amazing story, and one that may offer to hope to those struggling with infertility. However, as someone who struggled with it for years, it's also one of those stories that can crush you.
It took more than two years of trying and emotional hell before we conceived my son. After his birth we tried and tried and tried for years to no avail. Eventually I had to give up hope because that hope was all consuming for me. I didn't want to buy new jeans, because what if the next month was it. I didn't want to plan a vacation, because a tropical vacation just wouldn't be the same without mojitos. Even buying a new pair of shoes was murky, because of the possibility my feet might grow during pregnancy. Everything in my mind was dependent that little what if.
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Sometimes giving up that hope is the best thing you can do, and I don't mean that in a "relax and it will happen" way, because I think that was the most infuriating advice I ever heard. But instead so that you can move on with your life and live it instead of always waiting, always wondering. So while I offer Lackie and her family a huge congratulations on what she calls her "fairytale ending," I also remember those who may never receive the same.
If you're going through infertility, do stories like this inspire you? Do you find it difficult or helpful to cling to hope?
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Lady Gaga Buys 55 Michael Jackson Items at Auction
Lady Gaga, arguably the new Queen of Pop (sorry Madonna!), dropped tons of cash on 55 items that were once owned by the late Michael Jackson, aka the King of Pop. But don't expect Gaga to incorporate any of the newly acquired pieces into her Born This Way Ball costumes or stage production. That would be either really cool or totally blasphemous. Instead, Ma Monster is preserving them for posterity ... for now.
According to The Associated Press, Gaga dropped hundreds of thousands on the items, which were from the collection of Dennis Tompkins and Michael Bush, Jackson's longtime costume designers.
Gaga tweeted a picture of herself with a sequined glove-wearing hand and her auction paddle, as well.
She also tweeted to let Jackson fans the world over know that she will treat the pieces with the utmost respect and care, posting:
The 55 pieces I collected today will be archived & expertly cared for in the spirit & love of Michael Jackson, his bravery, & fans worldwide
A jacket Jackson wore on the 'Bad' tour raked in $240,000. Also, a pair of his famous gloves, which were crystal-encrusted, went under the hammer for more than $100,000 each. The auction of stage costumes raised around $5 million.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Guide Dogs of America, as well as Nathan Adelson Hospice of Las Vegas.
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We think people will like Shel Silverstein?s poems because they all rhyme and are very silly. We liked the poem "My Robot" because it teaches you not to do what the kid did. We liked the robot because it is supposed to listen to the kid, but the kid listens to the robot and we think that is funny.
The illustrations are excellent and you will have a fun time looking at them. This book is like other poems we?ve read by Shel Silverstein. All of his books are similar because they contain funny stuff and have interesting words. We like this book because it will tickle you with laughter and make you want to read it for hours and hours.
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My grandparents left Washington state in 1949 and moved as far as their money would take them: Alaska. Anchorage was in its infancy and was little more than a tent city; they lived in a one-room log house until Grandpa, a self-employed contractor, could build them the house which the city eventually grew up around, the same house that they live in today.
In the basement is a two-room apartment where my parents lived while they were home between college semesters. One summer my mother gave birth and that little basement became my first home. Later Grandpa built a four-plex on a third of the property for retirement income and it was successful enough that he built another apartment building with six units on the remaining third next to his immaculately organized wood shop.
When my parents were ready to settle permanently in Anchorage they lived in one of those apartments while they saved money for a house and when Andrew and I came back to Anchorage ten years ago we lived in the same apartment while we too saved for a home. Two of my children were born while we lived there.
I celebrated my fifth birthday in Grandma's garage with a long folding table and all the relatives gathered around a drooping teddy bear cake. While running in new patent leather shoes I tripped on the pebbled walkway that ran between the her house and our apartment and cut my eyebrow--my first time getting stitches. I started kindergarten during that time and each day made the two-block trek of which the highlights were feeding the neighbor's pet, Star the Reindeer, a carrot on the way to school and then visiting Grandma on the way home.
Every year at Christmas my family and my uncle's family gathered at Grandma's house for Christmas dinner and a chance to play with the cousins. When I was in high school I had to write an entrance essay and I wrote about my Grandmother's house and how she mopped her garage floor and had a fabulous Button Box, an ancient hand-cranked ringer washing machine and plastic chickens and ducks she put out in her garden every year.
But this year will be different because Grandma and Grandpa have decided that they can't take care of the apartments any more, the taxes on the place are killing them and they won't raise rents enough to cover the rising costs. Grandpa can't take care of the maintenance issues like he used to and can get dizzy when he stands for too long. They've decided that it's time to move.
Because the property is one big piece of land they can't sell the apartments separate from the house. So the whole lot is on the market and they have bought a condo in a senior retirement community. One of the brand new complexes going up around town with a swimming pool, an elevator, a garage, even a woodshop for Grandpa to putter around in. It's very safe and has all the amenities a octogenarian couple could want.
I'm glad they've found someplace comfortable that fits their needs, where they can relax from the stress of maintaining apartments, where Grandma won't break her hip while trying to shovel her front steps, but to leave the home they've known for fifty years where they've raised their three children and where at least five of their fourteen grandchildren have lived is an upheaval that hurts to watch.
Grandpa will have a shop but it won't be his shop, with his screws organized and labeled in baby food jars on the peg board and his own jar of candy by his own radio playing horrible country western music. That really twangy, Patsy Cline variety.
They're trying now to sort through fifty years of treasures, trying to figure out how to live with less--for Grandma this means giving up her empty 1976 Mason jars that she's sure must be worth too much to just give away to charity. I've taken as many as I can but I just don't do as much canning as she did.
The darkest secret is that when the land sells, and if not this time then the next time around, the value of such a prime piece of downtown property will be too much for a developer to resist and the house will be demolished--and possibly the other buildings too--to make room for the fancy town homes that are mushrooming around town. Someone will knock down a $60,000 house and replace it rows of condos that will sell for $600,000 apiece. I don't think I want to be here to see that. I hope it doesn't happen in Grandma and Grandpa's remaining time.
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Grandma and Grandpa's House
My grandparents left Washington state in 1949 and moved as far as their money would take them: Alaska. Anchorage was in its infancy and was little more than a tent city; they lived in a one-room log house until Grandpa, a self-employed contractor, could build them the house which the city eventually grew up around, the same house that they live in today.
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- Anonymous said...
Wow....what a story!
What a family!
Yeah my grandfather and his wife are moving from their home of over 50 years to an EVEN BIGGER home....but on Vancouver Island.
Fifty years of stuff to pack at the age of 90.
And the house will be pulled down.
And yeah..hands grabbing those foamy things....ick!!!!
- Anonymous said...
That's a great post.
I hope your grandparents enjoy their new life. I wish for you to maintain those memories for your children and keep that home alive for many more years to come.
- Belle said...
That is so sad...it always breaks my heart to see something like that happen.
I do hope when it does happen, that it doesn't trouble your grandparents (or you or your family) too much. I know it's cliche, but hold on to the wonderful memories you all have of the place.
- Jenny said...
This story brought me to tears.
Thanks you for sharing it. So personal and beautiful.
- Jeana said...
I love reading all of the memories. The change is sad, but...
My grandmother is getting married next year and I know it will be sad to say good-bye to the house my grandfather built and where I've spent every Christmas Eve since I was born; but moving her things out under these circumstances is so much happier than moving them out under the circumstances I always imagined.
What is a Button Box?
- Waya said...
I love reading about other people's history and lives. I just hope they don't demolish that house during your Grandparents' time too, or ever.
- Carinne said...
- Anonymous said...
It's too bad you and your husband couldn't buy the land, just to keep it in the family...or if you could pool together with siblings or something. Then again, i am a sentimental freak. Not very good with the financial side of life--when it comes to this stuff anyway. I hope your grandparents enjoy their new home--sounds nice and posh!
- Anonymous said...
Touching. When I was 12 my parents had to sell the family farm in Ohio. I didn't understand it then, but now it makes me so sad. My husbands family still lives in that area so I drive by occasionally. The house and barn are still there, but the land has been parceled off. I keep saying I want to take my kids and walk the property, so many memories. Maybe I will do it when we are there for the holidays.
- Anonymous said...
btw I thought of you when I was hanging laundry today! :)
- Dana said...
Great story. I also concur with your sentiments regarding that sort of "gentrification."
- Cece said...
What a great story. I can't imagine how hard it must be for your grandparents to have to give that up. Very heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing that piece of your family with us.
- J said...
Oh yeah, that's what would happen around here too. Sigh.
We had to move my grandma out of her house last year...she had been there for over 50 years, and my grandpa had physically built the structure himself, using old railway cars because lumber was short (WWII). It was really hard. She's better off where she's living now, but it really doesn't make it any easier.
- scribbit said...
I know I'm sentimental about the whole thing and honestly, my husband and I looked at the idea of pooling resources with the other family members but those of us who could invest in the real estate don't have time or means to keep up apartments. They're a lot of work and I'm spending entirely too much time blogging as it it.
I know it's "just stuff" that it's just a house but I can't help but feel for them. And actually, they seem to be taking it better than I am--they're rather excited now that the papers are signed whereas I'm sniffing all over the place.
- chelle said...
Wow, what an amazing time for you family. Sad and exciting at the same time. I can only imagine the treasures that will be found!
- Damselfly said...
That "knock down an old house to build a bigger one" business seems to be happening everywhere. My husband's grandfather's home is in a neighborhood where a certain style of homes built in the 1920s and 1930s are slowly being forgotten because people are coming in to build McMansions that take up nearly every inch of the property. As a result, the neighborhood looks like quite a hodgepodge now: fancy behemoths with pavers and iron gates next to humble little homes that still have yards. It's really strange.


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No PS3. D:But I love this series so much. Might buy one just to support it, get a PS3 down the line, yadda yadda.
I really should pre-order this. Gamestop is the only place offering some sort of pre-order bonus, though...and I hate Gamestop.
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