Business keeps customers wired
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- No studio no theater: Just you and your home computer
- Metro Atlanta mourners connect online to remember grieve
Business keeps customers wired
The News-Press
Then again so is mom dad and maybe the family dog. Counterstrike Security & Sound on Pine Island Road is so wired that customers are on camera before they walk through the front door. “People can check on their house whenever they want and tune in when they’re at work” said Kahlil Ali vice president of Counterstrike. Ali and his father Counterstrike president Randy Ali launched their company almost 15 years ago and since then have been making life more convenient for their clients via the high-tech world. Their business includes the installation and monitoring of surveillance equipment complete home theater and surround-sound systems home alarms and a vacuum system that eliminates the need to drag a canister vacuum all over house to get it clean.
Community News
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The 87-year old Shepherdstown Public Library has been housed since its inception in the 200-year old Market House building bisecting South King Street in the center of town. The beloved town icon is a vibrant and busy institution that serves 17000 people in the greater Shepherdstown community?from infants to senior citizens. Population in the county has grown 19. 6 percent from 2000 to 2006. The library has struggled to meet the increasing demand for its services with its limited space and limited resources. (West Virginia ranks 50th in the United States in the rate of local funding even when combined with state funding. ) With 1600 square feet of useable space it is bursting at the seams.
No studio no theater: Just you and your home computer
Kansas City Star
“The biggest screen they use regularly may be on their computer. Plus people increasingly are hooking their computers up to their TVs and home theaters.
Metro Atlanta mourners connect online to remember grieve
Atlanta Journal Constitution
com’s home page takes users to the 1-800-Flowers site while Legacy. com offers the opportunity to create Memorial Web sites complete with photos audio and video for $49 per year. “We’re the first to admit it’s grown far beyond our initial expectations” said Legacy chief operating officer Hayes Ferguson. “We are building a virtual community of very real people who no longer can talk over the fence or run into each other. ”That “talking” may be loudest in Georgia where 86 percent of all guest books published with an obituary received entries in 2008. That’s compared with 73 percent elsewhere. Are we more wired here? r simply more comfortable with death than say the average Yankee?“I’d say it’s that people in the South are storytellers” ventured Janice Hume an associate journalism professor at the University of Georgia and the author of the book “bituaries in American Culture.
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