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Roseville Chamber of CommLifestyles Moving Bliss Posted: 10/11/2011 (NAPSI)--The next time you plan to move, you won’t be alone. Nearly 20 percent of Americans move each year, with most moves occurring during the summer months. With an average of 60 tasks to do to prepare, important decisions can slip through the cracks in the moving crate. To help, HGTV designer Lisa LaPorta and new-product journalist David Gregg, senior editor, Behindthebuy.com, recommend a few tips. These experts say that moving doesn’t have to be stressful—as long as you incorporate the right technology with the right design elements. Both Gregg and LaPorta recommend getting the appointment to have cable television, phone and high-speed Internet services connected before the move. Having them installed on your arrival day means you can go online to determine room layouts and shop for furniture, call out for pizza, and entertain the kids while unpacking. There’s a website, www.cablemover.com, that makes the process easy. And while you’re there, you’ll discover additional tech and design tips. Gregg suggests that moving is a great time for introducing new technologies to organize and de-stress your living environment. “The average person has five to six remotes sitting around on the coffee table,” he said. “Moving is a perfect time to clear out the clutter and get down to one. Upgrading to a universal remote is affordable and newer models are simple to both program and use.” Also, Gregg recommends hiding all your tech equipment behind closed doors or in other, less-traveled rooms. Using a radio frequency extender, you can keep your DVD player and other electronics from view and still operate them from up to 100 feet away. As a designer, LaPorta agrees. “Because technology has become woven into so many different facets of our lives, there’s a lot to think about from both a design and technology standpoint when setting up your new home,” she says. “In fact, designers have coined a term for this phenomenon: techorating.” LaPorta urges movers to think about the electronics they own and what they will do with them in their new homes. “For instance, it’s both costly and a hassle to move a 15-year-old, heavy, space-and-energy-hog TV set,” she says. “Consider purchasing a space-saving and design-friendly, slim new ENERGY STAR−rated TV. It can put as much as $58 per year back in your wallet while cutting your carbon footprint.” erce
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Bridging The Past To The Present

Posted: 10/18/2011

Briding the past to the present

(NAPSI)—An exciting and fast-growing hobby enjoyed by millions worldwide could be your route to learning more about yourself and your family.

Tracing back your family history as far as possible into the past and finding new living relatives in the present can be a rewarding experience, introducing you to family members you never knew and helping you learn about your ancestors and what they may mean to you today.

To help you on this journey, the most popular family network on the Web, www.myheritage.com, has a new and free advanced technology that can automatically discover long-lost relatives and ancestors. Called Smart Matching, it’s a unique search technology that discovers matches between the people in your family tree and more than 800 million people in 19 million other family trees around the world. Smart Matching can help everyone, from beginners to advanced genealogists.

The technology is sophisticated enough to overcome differences in spelling, phonetics and relationships that may exist between the trees. You can confirm or reject any matches and discuss them with family members. It works in real time as you enter new information and you will be notified by e-mail of new discoveries made by the system. The site’s huge global reach and support of 38 languages help you find and reunite with family members all around the world.

For example, David Greenberg, a myheritage.com user from Buffalo, N.Y., had been exploring his family history for over 40 years when a Smart Match reunited him with his long-lost cousin, whom he believed had perished during World War II. Another user, Jeff Ausmus from Michigan, built his family tree and through a Smart Match discovered that one of his friends from high school was, in fact, his cousin.

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All it takes is a quick visit to myheritage.com to begin building your family tree online for free—then sit back and let Smart Matching discover relatives for you. The site also helps you keep in touch with family and preserve special family photos and memories. The site is free of ads and spyware and all data is private and secure.

 

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