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I'm moving my old laptap along. My tech-savvy computer-helper wrote it up:

FOR SALE: Asus Laptop Model M51Sr, $300

Very good shape, very clean and never abused. Windows 7 64-bit Operating System (new build). 2 GB of RAM; Upgradeable to 4GB (via www.crucial.com ). Processors are Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.20GHz each. ATI Mobility Radeon HD Video. Screen resolution is 1280 x 800 (All pixels working). 250 GB Hard Drive. Wireless Ethernet

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Hurricane season starts on June 1st and again we are uncertain what it will bring this year. Could we have to deal with another Sandy? Well, let’s hope not. Recently I read that the township of Brick and a few other New Jersey cities chose the geotube system for their oceanfront protection. Geotubes are made of a material invented by TenCate, an American-Dutch company, and I happen to be…