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Deepa Nambiar explains the UEM Genisys saga
The Federal Court in UEM Group Berhad (formerly known as United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd) v Genisys Integrated Engineers Pte Ltd & UEM Genisys Sdn Bhd recently held that the Court of Appeal had erred in interfering with the findings of fact of the trial judge that a company and its Chief Executive Officer had acted oppressively against a shareholder within the meaning of Section 181 of the Companies Act 1965 ("the Act").
In 1993, United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd ("UEM") and Genisys Integrated Engineers Pte Ltd ("GIE") entered into a joint venture agreement ("Shareholders Agreement") to jointly venture into and exploit the mechanical and electrical engineering market in Malaysia. A private limited company, UEM Genisys Sdn Bhd ("UEG"), was incorporated for this purpose, with UEM and GIE holding 51% and 49% respectively of its issued share capital.
The day to day management of the business affairs of UEG was delegated to its Chief Executive Officer, Seow Boon Cheng ("Seow"), who was also the managing director and majority shareholder of GIE.
The business venture got off to a healthy start, but sometime in 1997, UEM entered into an agreement to sell its 51% shareholding in UEG to Nova Nusantara. When GIE learned about the transaction, it reminded UEM that under the Shareholders Agreement, UEM was obliged to first offer those shares to GIE, which UEM then did.
This was followed by protracted negotiations between UEM and GIE over a period of two years, during which, as the Federal Court put it, "the worms in UEG started to crawl in the open". UEM, which had hitherto allowed Seow to manage UEG with minimum interference, alleged that he was untrustworthy. What followed was a total breakdown in the relationship between UEM and GIE. Both UEM and GIE then presented petitions under Section 181 of the Act, contending that the other party had acted oppressively (respectively "the UEM Petition" and "the GIE Petition").
UEM complained in the UEM Petition that Seow had conducted the affairs of UEG with a lack of probity and oppressed UEM as a shareholder. UEM submitted that Seow had performed acts without proper board authorisation and kept UEM in the dark about certain transactions and payments. Accordingly, UEM sought that UEG be wound up or, alternatively, that GIE's shares in UEG be sold to UEM.
In the GIE Petition, the complaint by GIE was that firstly, UEM had acted in breach of the Shareholders' Agreement by dealing with Nova Nusantara and secondly, that UEM had starved UEG of funds so as to eventually have it wound up.
The two petitions were consolidated and heard together. The High Court, after hearing oral testimony from the witnesses of both parties, dismissed the GIE Petition and allowed the UEM Petition.
In respect of the UEM Petition, the Court found that the complaints raised by UEM, taken jointly and severally, clearly indicated that the affairs of UEG had been conducted in a manner that was oppressive to UEM and in total disregard of its interest as a shareholder of UEG. Among the acts which the Court deemed oppressive were the following:
(1) Certain moneys due to UEG had been diverted to GIE and other sums had been wrongly siphoned off to GIE and spent;
(2) Moneys in UEG had been used for GIE's purposes;
(3) GIE's nominee directors on UEG's board had made secret profits;
(4) Seow had used the staff of UEG for GIE's projects without compensating UEG and had managed UEG unilaterally without reference to UEG's board; and
(5) UEM's nominee directors on the UEG board had been denied access to UEG's office records and had thereby been prevented from discharging their duties as directors.
The learned trial judge concluded that it was gravely oppressive to allow UEG to continue as a joint venture. As UEG was insolvent, His Lordship was of the view that a buy-out was not a viable option and ordered that UEG be wound up.
GIE appealed against the decisions of the High Court.
On 14 July 2008, the Court of Appeal disallowed GIE's appeal against the High Court's decision to dismiss the GIE Petition but allowed GIE's appeal against the UEM Petition.
In setting aside the orders made by the High Court in the UEM Petition, the Court of Appeal overturned almost all the findings of fact by the trial judge. The Court of Appeal relied heavily on documentary evidence to exclude the findings made by the High Court judge as to Seow's lack of credibility based on His Lordship's observation of Seow's demeanour and the inconsistencies in his oral testimony.
The Court of Appeal ordered that the executive authority be re-vested to UEG's board and that Seow be restored to his position as the Chief Executive Officer of UEG. Subsequently, on 7 November 2008, the Court of Appeal ordered UEM to purchase GIE's 49% shareholding in UEG.
UEM obtained leave to appeal to the Federal Court against the decisions made by the Court of Appeal on 14 July 2008 ("1st Appeal") and 7 November 2008 ("2nd Appeal").
1st Appeal
The main issue to be determined was whether the Court of Appeal had erred in interfering with the findings of fact of the High Court judge.
The Federal Court held that this was a case where the positions of the respective parties depended largely on the oral evidence of the witnesses and it is for this reason that the finding of the High Court judge that Seow, the only witness put forth by GIE, was not a witness of truth was of great significance. The Federal Court was of the view that it was clear that the High Court judge's conclusion on Seow's credibility was based on his observation not only on material attributes of Seow's demeanour but also on evident contradictions and inconsistencies on the relevant and material matters.
The High Court judge had commented that "the demeanour of Seow when he gave his evidence, was to say the least, at its lowest ebb. There were pauses, cynical smiles, confusion and inconsistencies, all rolled into one." The High Court judge also cited several examples of the inconsistencies in Seow's oral testimony, one being that he had initially stated that he could not recall why he had unilaterally accepted 2 condominiums as settlement to a debt due to UEG but moments later, proceeded to explain the reasons for that transaction.
The Federal Court was of the view that the Court of Appeal had erred in reversing the findings of fact by the High Court judge based on certain documents which had been disputed by UEM. In the opinion of the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal should have disregarded these documents as they had not been proven by GIE.
The Federal Court observed that the High Court judge had painstakingly identified and dealt with each of the issues exhaustively. As it was unable to conclude that the findings of fact by the High Court on the alleged oppression of GIE were unsustainable and plainly wrong, the Federal Court held that there was no reason for the Court of Appeal to reverse those findings. Accordingly, the Federal Court allowed the 1st Appeal and reinstated the orders made by the High Court.
2nd Appeal
The Court of Appeal had ordered UEM to purchase GIE's 49% shareholding in UEG and adopted the valuation of the valuer who had valued UEG at approximately RM81 million. The Federal Court held that the effect of the orders of 7 November 2008 were tantamount to unjust enrichment as the court had failed to consider Seow's own evidence which led to the High Court's finding that UEG was insolvent. In any event, as the orders of the High Court had been reinstated, there was no necessity for the court to address this issue. Accordingly, the Federal Court allowed the 2nd Appeal.
This Federal Court decision sends a clear message that appellate courts should be slow to interfere with decisions of the court of first instance which are predicated on the oral testimony of the witnesses and the findings of the trial judge as to their credibility based on his observation of their demeanour.
This decision serves as a reminder of the principle laid down in Kumagai Gumi Co Ltd v Zenecon-Kumagai & Ors [1994] 2 MLJ 789 and affirmed per obiter by the Federal Court in Owen Sim Liang Khui v Piasau Jaya Sdn Bhd & Anor [1996] 4 CLJ 716 that relief under Section 181 of the Act may be sought by the majority shareholders of a company in circumstances where they are unable for any reason, such as the existence of an arrangement to share management power, to exert their will at a general meeting.
Deepa is an Associate with the Dispute Resolution Division of SKRINE. She is a graduate of the University of London.
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. A narrow, broken ridge of chalky hills in the south roughly follows the coast, the easterly ridge being known as the Purbeck Hills. Further north, a region of sandy heathland (Hardy's Egdon Heath), extends from the Hampshire border to the centre of the county, and another range of chalky downs runs eastwards towards Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
. Central Dorset is traversed by the wide, rolling expanse of Blackmore Vale, and in the north is the densely wooded chalk mass of Cranborne Chase, shared with Wiltshire. Portland Bill is a rocky peninsula extending south into the channel, connected to the mainland by the long pebble ridge known as Chesil Bank. The rolling hills of the interior are archetypically English, green and gently undulating, but Dorset 's 75 mile-long shore is full of unusual coastal scenery, such as Chesil Beach and Portland Dill.
. The isle of Purbeck is not actually an island, but a promontory of low hills and heathland jutting out below Poole Harbour , giving it the appearance of an island.
Origin of name: West Saxon settlers who made their home around the Roman city of Dorchester were known as the Dorsaete. Seatan is Old English for settlers.
Name first recorded: 940 as Doseteschire.
DORCHESTER : Lively market town. The local museum is a must for Hardy fanatics.
Other Towns
ABBOTSBURY: Part of 11th century Abbey still remains. Famous swannery and sub-tropical gardens.
BLANDFORD FORUM: The most handsome and uniform Georgian red-brick and stone town centre by the Bastard Brothers.
BRIDPORT: Once famous for its marine rope-making, now an attractive old town. The wide pavements are said to have been for twisting the lengths of hemp.
GILLINGHAM : Historic town where Edmund ironside defeated Canute's army in 1016. Royal manor of Plantagenet kings and hunting lodge King John's Palace; the moat still survives.
LYME REGIS: Scarify steep and winding road drops you into this predominantly late-Georgian seaside town.
POOLE : Sunny resort - tear yourself away from the harbour to see the largest Bronze Age canoe found in Britain , in the Town House museum.
PORTLAND : Famous for its prison, its military bases and its quarries, source of the stone for so many great buildings - including St Paul 's Cathedral.
SHAFTESBURY: Market town of Saxon origin. Don't miss the museum and its display of buttons for which the town was once famous.
SHERBORNE: A gem of a Dorset town historically and architecturally, with two castles and an abbey with a superb fan-vaulted roof. Cheap Street (cheap means market) has a row of Tudor tenements.
SWANAGE: Medieval fishing village along spectacular cliff-lined coast that became a fashionable seaside resort with the coming of the railway.
WEYMOUTH : Port with a good-looking seafront with late-Georgian terraces along the Esplanade.
WIMBORNE: MINSTER Friendly and intimate small town with unusual twin-towered church, many old inns and hotels and excellent local museum.
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Pilsden Pen at 909 feet.
. May 13: Garland Day in Abbotsbury. Garlands were once thrown into the sea to ensure a good fishing catch.
. Early June: Wimborne Folk Festival at Wimborne Minster.
. June: Pitchfork Rebellion pageants, to commemorate the landing of the Duke of Monmouth in 1685, in Lyme Regis.
. Late June/July: Swanage Festival of the Arts.
. July: Thomas Hardy conference, based in Dorchester , with lectures, barn dances, guided tours around Hardy Country, coach trips to Higher Brockhampton.
. Late August: The Great Dorset Steam Fair, one of the world's largest, is held at Tarrant Hinton, Blandford Forum.
. August: Dorset County Fair, Dorchester .
. September: Dorchester Agricultural Show.
. Thomas Hardy, outstanding English writer, was born at Upper Brockhampton, near Dorchester , and lived most of his life in Dorset .
. Lyme Regis's most famous resident is John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman.
. Sherborne School , a traditional Anglican public school, has been used as a film location many times. The Browning Version (1951, 1994), Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), and The Guinea Pig (1948) were all made here. Although it is a working school, it is possible to see around the grounds.
Most of the County of Dorset is two-tiered: Dorset County Council on one level and five district councils called East Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, West Dorset and We/mouth & Portland on the other. Poole is governed by its own unitary authority. Chardstock, Dalwood and Stockland are Dorset detached in Devon controlled by Devon County and East Devon Councils, while Wambrook is Dorset detached in Somerset administered by Somerset County and South Somerset District Councils
DORSET HAS BEEN my 'on location' home for many a television appearance. I filmed the old BBC show The Goodies at Beammster and the classic Canterbury Tales at Milton Abbas. And, of course, Meryl Streep enacted one of cinemas most famous scenes on the Cobb, Lyme Regis, in The French Lieutenant's Woman. I have a vivid recollection of walking along the front at Weymouth , watching the ferries sail to Normandy , when I was staying at Wyke Regis with my showbiz friend Marian Davies.
Dorset 's heart beats at a leisurely rate. Dorchester , the county town (Casterbridge in Hardy's novels), is still predominantly a market town - in many respects little changed from the days when Hardy cycled its streets in search of inspiration for his novels. His statue now stands on High West Street .
Down on the coast, Poole is one of the most continental towns in Britain . It has a wonderfully balmy climate and in the harbour - the largest natural harbour in western Europe - the forest of yacht masts and pavement cafes give you the impression you could be in Le Touquet or Sainte- Maxime - a far cry from the day when Poole was a favoured base for buccaneers and smugglers. In 1747 smugglers boldly raided the Customs House, departing with a rich cargo of tea. From Poole's promontory satellite town of Sandbanks you look out across just a few hundred yards of water to where, at Studland, the Isle of Purbeck throws an embracing arm around the harbour mouth. In the harbour itself, Brownsea Island is 500 acres of woodland and heath run by the National Trust; a boy scout's paradise. To the west are family resorts like Wareham , the comfortable old town of Bridport and West Bay , its fishing village outlet to the sea, and Lyme Regis, where Jane Austen would go when sea bathing was all the rage. Gourmets will be pleased to know that restaurants in the coastal towns and villages make a speciality of lobster - fishing is still an important industry here - and afterwards they will be able to enjoy Blue Vinny, a very strong Dorset cheese similar to Stilton. Inland, the countryside curls and folds in great swathes of quintessentially Wessex landscape - wild and rugged downland, interspersed by pleasant wrinkles of greenery. Here you'll find the most euphonious collection of place names in England - Cerne Abbas (where the giant is cut into the hillside) and Piddletrenthide, Fifehead Magdalen and Gussage All Saints, Winterbourne Whitechurch and the delightful Droop. But in Dorset you carry on until you drop as there's so much to see.
Sturminster Newton, Blandford Forum and Wimborne Minster are towns as beautiful as they sound, and in the charming hilltop town of Shaftesbury the cobbled, cottage- lined Gold Hill has frequently been used as a backdrop to films and television commercials. Sherborne is a splendid base for exploring the ancient trackways and defensive earthworks of west Dorset .
Stone Age man has left his mark on Dorset . The 115-acre site at Maiden Castle is among the most significant in Britain . It was first developed about 2400BC by a Stone Age farming community and subsequently used also in the Bronze and Iron ages. But the ancient Britons' sling stones were no match for the Romans and Maiden Castle fell in a bloody battle in AD43. Thirty-seven years later the Romans founded Dorchester - Durnovaria - and many Roman remains have been found in the town and the surrounding area, such as at Maumbury Rings, where vast gladiatorial contests were once held.
These gruesome traditions continued into the Middle Ages when the gladiators were replaced by bear-baiting and public executions - the notorious Judge Jeffreys once sentenced 292 men to death in Dorchester . Seventy-four of them were hung, drawn and quartered and their heads stuck on pikes throughout the county. Corfe Castle is a monument to centuries of feuding and cruelty dating back to 978, when the 18-year-old Edward the Martyr was murdered on the orders of his step-mother Queen Aelfthryth.
In happier times, British monarchs took a shine to Dorset . Edward I put the royal into Lyme Regis, the county's most westerly town, way back in 1284. George 111's passion for bathing - some say it was an early symptom of his eventual madness - led to him becoming the first monarch to plunge into the sea, at Weymouth in 1789. He set a trend. Georgians headed for Weymouth in large numbers and the town is still a thriving holiday resort and Cross Channel ferry port today. Dorset achieved another cause celebre in 1834 when six men from the village of Tolpuddle were sentenced to be transported for banding together to form the first trade union - the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. The Tolpuddle Martyrs maintained they needed a small wage increase on the grounds that their families were starving and after a public outcry they were pardoned. Their story is told in the room in Tolpuddle in which they were tried, now a museum.
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A Las Vegas police K9 officer was shot and killed Thursday — just three weeks after he returned to duty following a machete attack that had sidelined him for a month.
Nicky, an 8-year-old Belgian Malinois, was killed in the line of duty when his human partner, Sgt. Eric Kerns, was involved in a confrontation with an armed man about noon (2 p.m. ET) Thursday, Las Vegas police Capt. Shawn Andersen said.
A dead man and woman were later discovered in a nearby home; police described them as homicide victims. The suspect was shot, as well, and was being treated at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Andersen said. His condition wasn't disclosed.
Witnesses told NBC station KSNV that the suspect was randomly shooting at people in the community.
Nicky had returned to duty on March 8, after almost a month recuperating from severe injuries inflicted by a violent suspect wielding a machete, police said.
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Wildflower vs. Weed
Many people love the look of a prairie-style or native garden, where they let wildflowers grow wild. The question many gardeners face is how to keep this style going? How do you determine what is a wildflower, growing as it would in a prairie, and what is a weed?
A lot of people define a weed as anything that is growing where you don't want something to grow. In fact, Webster's dictionary defines it as "a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth."
Based on this definition, you can think of any beautiful flower that creeps into your lawn as a weed. The common blue violet often spread into someone's lawn, but is not usually welcome. It is, however, planted in beds as a beautiful perennial. So while it is a weed in your lawn, in a garden bed it would be considered a flower.
While weeds can be beautiful flowers, they are seen as a weed due to the location they're growing, the habit they are growing in, and how easily they can be to get rid of. Wherever weeds grow, they are in competition for nutrients, sunlight and water with your other plants. They take all of these things away from the area, which is why they are undesirable.
Weeds can also host diseases that then spread to your plants. Mildew is one that I often spot on weeds in my garden. Not only do weeds hog the good stuff like sunlight, but they can share the bad stuff like diseases and pests.
Another attribute of weeds, is that they are often vigorous in growth. They steal the necessities for growing from the plants around them and grow like crazy, invading your garden and choking out other plants. Because of their growing habits, they can be difficult to eradicate. It doesn't help that some weeds, like dandelions, spread their seeds by air, while other vining weeds have runners that are hard to dig up.
Finally, wildflowers may be considered weeds in one region and flowers in another. Depending on the region you live in, you may consider the same plant a wildflower or a weed. This again goes back to where it is growing for you, the habit it is growing in, and if it is desirable. A great way to define the difference of a wildflower vs. a weed is whether or not it is a nuisance.
So after all of the deciding factors are looked at, wildflowers can be weeds and vice versa. When growing a wildflower or native garden, it is important to keep the plants that have the most attractive display of flowers for your garden. It is recommended to avoid more invasive species, just so you won't be having to pull them out of your yard as they spread beyond your garden edge.
A few of these choice wildflowers are perennials like gaillardia, Echinacea, rudbeckia, daises, asters, liatris and coreopsis. For more native plants to Illinois, check out this great link.


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Patient Policies
At A Place for Women, we want to make all our patients feel comfortable and have a complete understanding of their obstetrics, gynecologic and well-woman care, conditions, therapies and surgical options. The medical team also wants to ensure that all OB/GYN patients have access to the A Place for Women policies. Many patients find the policies we list helpful to fully appreciate our dedication to compassionate care. If you have any questions about the following patient policies, please call 321.939.3553
Appointments can be made by calling A Place for Women directly at 321.939.3553 during regular practice hours. Alternatively, you can fill out the Request an Appointment form on this website. Please bring your current insurance card, referral form if required, a list of any medications (over the counter or prescription) currently taking or refills needed and a list of any questions you may have. If you would like to ask the doctros at A Place for Women any questions before your appointment, please fill out a Contact Form to help assist you during your visit.
Billing and Financial Policy
If you have insurance, A Place for Women will file the claim and bill your provider. However, patients are responsible for any required co-payments or outstanding balances. Payments are expected at the time of visit. We accept cash, check (with proper identification) and credit cards (Visa, MasterCard).
Cancellation Policy
Please call the office 24 hours in advance to cancel appointments, failure to do so could inconvenience A Place for Women medical team and our other patients, therefore delaying our ability to deliver our special quality of care.
Emergencies and Labor
If you feel like you are in labor outside of regular office hours, we ask that you contact our answering service at 321.939.3553 or go directly to The Baby Place at Celebration Health. The physician on call will contact you within 15 minutes of your call. If you are having a medical emergency, call 911 immediately or go directly to Celebration Health Florida Hospital.
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For the most part, lab and test results will be discussed at A Place for Women follow-up appointment. Upon completion of the specific test, further instructions will be given as to how and when the results will be made available.
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If you are going to be more than 10 minutes late for A Place for Women appointment, we request that you call our office. If the schedule allows, the appointment time will simply be shifted to accommodate the delay. However, if the tardiness can't be handled, we may request you reschedule your appointment. We work diligently to stay on schedule and suggest that you arrive 20 to 30 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment to allow time for any necessary paperwork.
Physician and Specialist Referrals
The medical team at A Place for Women is happy to complete referrals if insurance requires. Referrals can be handled in a variety of ways. Patients can print out the referral form, complete all the required information and then either fax, mail or drop off at our office. Please allow at least three (3) business days for completion of a referral.
Calls for prescriptions received in this office after 12:30 pm will be addressed the following day after 2:00 pm. Please try to call A Place for Women at least 48 hours in advance for all medications. Calls received after 12:00 pm Friday will be returned after 2:00 pm on the following Monday.
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Scott Disick & Chris Brown Hang Out in West Hollywood
Scott Disick rocks a pair of ripped jeans while arriving for dinner at Koi restaurant on Saturday night (December 19) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 32-year-old reality star was joined by his pal Chris Brown, who drove him there in a red Ferrari.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Out Of This World
I used jillibean papers for this card, from the homemade 6 bean soup pack and the neopolitan bean bisque pack. The sentiment is computer generated (font: rabbit on the moon) and I inked the circle up with yellow and lime zest.
I used a digi from pollycraft coloured with promarkers: bright green, lime green, apple, pear green, canary, yellow, gold and mustard. Added a few star shaped gems and a few small circle gems to finish.
I'm submitting this for:
- Cute Card Thursday #253 - Out of this World
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In other news, I now have 50 followers! Yay! Keep an eye out very shortly for my first ever blog candy!
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The New Kitchen Trend You're About to See All Over Pinterest
There was once a time when neon signs were reserved for neighborhood bars, takeout joints, or man caves. The times, though, they are a changin'. Nowadays neon art (think: cheeky phrases and cute shapes) are popping up in kitchens — and we're kind of loving it. Simply put, this trend is lit.
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It's no secret that we're into the idea of art in kitchens. And neon signs take it a step further, adding a funky bit of 'tude that's rarely found in the most practical room in the house. Plus, they're a great way to add color! Whether it's a cute pink heart, bright flamingo, or an oversized pineapple, a neon sign can be a stylish-yet-practical addition to a kitchen or dining room.
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What is an ugly interaction?
Today at work while working through a design during a scoping & requirements definition session with my internal stake holders, I found myself challenging my team because I felt the popular suggestion in the room (can't really talk about the design by committee situation I ended up in) was leading towards what I could only describe as an "ugly interaction".
I know when I come back to the office tomorrow morning, I'm going to be pressed to do a better job of expressing why I feel this way and what it means to be an "ugly interaction".
What is sorta interesting about all this is that it is right on the tail of my discovery of a recent Jonas Löwgren piece on issues that effect the aesthetics of interaction design. So the concept of beauty of interactions was sorta on my mind today anyway. I've also been arguing heavily on the IxDA.org discussion list (check the web site here) around what it takes to be an IxD and why UCD standard practices aren't really all that helpful or revolutionary from the position of standard design theory. So designerly thinking was also on my mind.
So what was it that was so darn ugly and what made it ugly. In this case, I'm pretty sure that it was the use of exception messaging when they really weren't necessary. Creating a dead-end for an end-user when it REALLY isn't necessary or even through an inelegant method throwing a human being into an unexpected and possibly undesirable flow or context to me is … well … ugly and in this case, even FUGLY. (Let's just say its a not nice way of saying VERY ugly.)
I don't have any general rules to derive from this design experience, but I feel it in my gut that there are collections of interaction types and points that when composed together just create ugly interaction types. It is something to be care for and something you should trust your gut about. Be on the look out and heck report them when you find them.


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What kind of JOIN syntax is this?
My first gut reaction was that this code is broken and would not run. To my amazement code ran just fine. Now came the hard part, which was to figure out what the code was doing because I have never seen this syntax before. Since I did not understand what I was looking at I could not BING "weird join syntax" to get an answer. As a developer, I learned long time ago to break down code into smallest possible chunks to get the answer.
After I have figured out the relationship between tables, I was able to understand what query was doing. To be able to read query better it can be rewritten in the following way. This code is much easier to read and to understand. Students filtered by Grades and we are only interested in Students who have "A" grade. Therefore we get all records from Teacher table but only get Students who have good grades. If we would try to rewrite the query in the following matter, we would only get Teachers that have Students with perfect grades as we specified inner join; therefore, it takes precedence over the left outer join. Now that I knew what code was doing I wanted to know performance because I do not care how the code looks as long as it does not perform fast it is useless. The execution plans of the two queries are almost identical with the only difference being that when I rewrote the original query as sub-query, I got additional operation added to the plan. Physical joins were identical and execution time was almost exact.
I could not believe I learned something new after writing T-SQL for many years. All of the sudden I got another tool in my toolbelt to write better code. Now if I ever need to filter tables that should not effect result I can write with this new syntax. To be honest, I have not taken this to the extreme to see how many JOIN operations I can nest before it becomes unreadable. However, I am sure it would not take many before someone else could not figure out what was going on and would have to break it down piece by piece to see it clear.
Just imagine having to support code that looks like example 1 below instead of example 2. Even though the code in the following case produces same execution plan, it becomes hard to read and therefore hard to maintain, and if you have junior developers who are not strong in SQL, they are more likely to make mistakes. P.S. I still don't know if this JOIN syntax has special name, but at least I now know what it does.
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Oh Vlad, there are many special names for this steaming pile of ridiculous hyper-optimization and intentional obfuscation that I can think of. The real problem, which you have correctly identified, is the complete antipathy of the author to easy understanding and maintainability.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2017 at 10:04 AM
Randomly, this JOIN syntax causes the TransactSql ScriptDom to parse much more slowly - so if you're doing any sort of AST based analysis to walk dependencies - then this syntax actually makes that a lot more processor intensive as well.ReplyDelete
It's called "Logical Join Evaluation Order". You can find explanation and example in "Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying" on page 408.ReplyDelete
Hi! Like you I saw a similar code time ago and I had the same impressions regarding the script was wrong (but it wasn't). After google a little I found that this approach seems to change the execution orden in joins, which sometimes it will help you for performance issues.ReplyDelete
I have inherited a lot of legacy code that is written this way. There are lots of filtering subqueries etc. Fortunately for me there are not a lot of select * in these, so you are able to determine WTH they were trying to do. Cryptic but functional, I do prefer temp tables when possible as not to stress out memory and cache. Thanks for shedding the light, at least I know I am not alone in this discover.ReplyDelete
You see it more often in generated queries. I wrote about it in one of the "MVP Deep Dives" books, including a description of how to read it. That is, to find the first ON, and then work backwards from there to find the last (unmatched) JOIN. Everything between the two is the right side of the join (so ident, put parentheses, whatever). Then keep looking backwards until you reach another unmatched JOIN or the FROM. That's the left side of your join. Now find the next ON, and repeat. Works every time, and lets you understand nasty things that are code-generated queries.ReplyDelete
When we created the in fixed join notation, we were basing it on some notes from Chris Date in an article in one of the database magazines at the time. He never actually propose the syntax; in fact, neither he nor Dr. Codd ever sent anything into ANSI X3H2 for consideration.ReplyDelete
Our rules were that the ON clauses associate with the nearest join (assuming the particular join could take an on clause; for example, CROSS JOIN does not) and that none of the infixed joins have precedent. If you wanted that you had to use parentheses. Unfortunately, your example is pretty bad; you believe in the mysterious, magical, universal, ever-changing "id", but when you take a course in data modeling will find out that identifiers have to be the identifier of something in particular. There are no generics! You also don't seem to understand that tables are sets, and that sets should be named with either collective or plural nouns. Is there really only one room, only one student, only one teacher? Probably not. One of the horrors that SQL Server people commit is assuming that the table property IDENTITY can ever be a valid relational key. This, of course, is completely false and will make Dr. Codd very, very sick. Essentially, it's how non-RDBMS programmers mimic the old pointer chains which they learned in their previous languages.
This led to some interesting things. If you are doing nothing but INNER JOINs, then the ON clauses can be all clustered together at the end of the FROM clause. You just trust in the optimizer to rearrange things for you. This is the same thing we did in procedural programming languages with arithmetic expressions.
The problem is that when you have a nice long list of tables, it's hard to see which piece of logic goes with which table. You just trust in the optimizer to match things up correctly. The bad news is we had to turn one of those inner joins into an outer join, they don't always match up the way you might want them to.
It continues to get worse. If you do use parens, then the parenthesized expression can be given a correlation name. This changes the scoping rules for references to the tables and hides them. I mention some of these things and some of my books but may be able to get the an article on one of the websites.
In the old days, the optimizer gave up beyond a certain point, so you had to optimize the plan your self. Try this query syntax with option force order, or any join hint, then switch around the join and ON clauses, see how it produces different joins orders.ReplyDelete
The joins happen based on the order of the ON statements not the join statements. Student is first joined to grades (first ON statement) and then the results are left joined to teacher (second on statement).ReplyDelete
It could also be written as:
SELECT t.*
, s.*
FROM dbo.Student AS s
JOIN dbo.Grades AS gr
ON s.ID = gr.StudentID
AND gr.GradeLetter = 'A'
RIGHT OUTER JOIN Teacher AS t
ON s.TeacherID = t.ID
Which gives the identical query plan as the original query.
I'm not aware of any special name for it as it's how join statements work. A leftover from the days when all joins were done in the where clause.
I think this join syntax is called a chiastic join, as you mention if you need to nest a join with another inner table before joining to the outer table you can use this method.ReplyDelete
Itzik Ben-Gan describes this join in the book Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T_SQL Querying: T-SQL Querying
I think this join syntax is called a chiastic relationship and is described by Itzik Ben-Gan in the book Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Querying: T-SQL QueryingReplyDelete
Nice find Mr. OsselskyReplyDelete
In other word SQL JOIN and ON statements are not required to be adjacent. Both examples show that. IMHO it's better practice, as Vlad noted, to place the ON next to the JOIN whose table it references.ReplyDelete
That's the "syntax" I teach and use (I'm an instructor). It's a consecuencuence of following the model. After joining two tables you can treat the resultset as another table so this style results naturally when we introduce outer joins.ReplyDelete
I would write the query like this to explain it:
SELECT t.*,
FROM Teacher AS t
/*SELECT s.*,
gr.* */
dbo.Student AS s
INNER JOIN dbo.Grades AS gr
ON s.ID = gr.StudentID
AND gr.GradeLetter = 'A'
ON s.TeacherID = t.ID
What to me appears weird is that developers cluster join operations by type in queries once an outer join is written. In your example, to obtain the intended results, a developer would usually write it like this:
SELECT t.*, s.*
FROM Teacher AS t
LEFT JOIN dbo.Student AS s
ON s.TeacherID = t.ID
LEFT JOIN dbo.Grades AS gr
ON s.ID = gr.StudentID
AND gr.GradeLetter = 'A'
Asuming that there's a subjects table and you want to present the subject in the final resultset, it should be obtained with an inner join since there's no grade without a subject. But developers usually would just write another left join.
I would call it a form of structured or nested query.ReplyDelete
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/from-transact-sql shows that a "joined table" can be like a Russian doll of joined tables within joined tables.
It is not obvious or intuitive, I prefer to expand things like this as common table expressions which help me build up my understanding of the nested constructs that SQL facilitates.


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A few years ago I stood on the path of a labyrinth marked out in a friend's garden and, looking up at a benevolent full moon, asked the universe what was to become of me. Did I have the courage, resources and wherewithal to give up work, follow a dream and charge out of the starting block of my third age with energy and resolve?
45 blog posts later and 7,000 kilometres travelled I look back at that night with much fondness.
We rejigged our marital finances, I saved up, and I started my Journey – around Europe, inwards, and towards positive ageing.
There was some fear at the beginning. I was afraid of there not being enough money; I was nervous about travelling alone; being a private person of a certain generation I was hesitant about revealing too much of myself in a blog; and it felt a big achievement to master the technology of a WordPress site. I even quoted the poem Ithaka before I left to give me courage! (Laistrygonians and Cyclops, wild Poseidon – you won't encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you.)
Now that first Journey is over and I can reflect on all that I saw, learned, and experienced. As I reach Coimbra in my tale, I also reach the conclusion of my trip.
Firstly, what had I seen?
I had travelled through France visiting historical and holy places such as Vézeley where pilgrims started their walk towards Santiago De Compostela centuries ago, the Chateau of Chenonceau striding across the Loire, and the momentous sight of the Chartres labyrinth which resonated with meaning for me as it was in a labyrinth that my dreams were emboldened. In Spain I saw interesting towns like Bilbao and Santander, played on the wide beaches of Mundaka with its surfing-perfect "left" wave, roamed amongst the rock steeples on Cathedral Beach, and marvelled at the cave paintings of Santillana del Mar. I slept in the Room of Life, alone in the middle of a lonely vineyard, and learned about the award-winning wines of north east Spain. In Portugal I thought I had found paradise on the Paco D'Anha estate with its echoes of times past. I experienced a Pilgrims' Mass at Santiago de Compostela after being destined to follow the mystical Way of Saint James/Le Chemin/El Camino all along my special journey, an unintentional pilgrim.
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- It is a gift to be happy in one's own company and solitude does not equate to loneliness – for after all one can be lonely in a crowd. I found that I could experience many moments of the purest joy alone. I love company and my family deeply but do not NEED them to be happy. This is an important discovery, or rather re-discovery, after nearly 30 years of marriage.
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- Silence is the gateway to inner peace, and to seeing the world around me in a more intense and less distracted way so that its details stand out more visibly and audibly.
- Being STILL is nourishing for the soul. Human beings need to balance activity and society with solitude and calm.
- Research shows that a sense of awe promotes altruism, kindness and magnanimous behaviour (Paul Piff PhD. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.) I found that my natural sense of wonder at the world around me increased my own well-being and happiness too.
- Travelling lighter, whether it be on a journey or through life, is freeing. You lighten more than a bag. You lighten the invisible weight on your shoulders.
- I was repeatedly shown that it serves nothing, absolutely nothing, to worry and fret about something before it has happened. You rattle your internal stability and destroy your present moment, often to little avail when all turns out well. Or you deal with the challenge as best you can when it actually materialises. Often the worries I whittled over never came to fruition. We can make a prison for ourselves with our negativity.
- When I was faced with real challenges and overcame them I grew with each achievement. Self-development never ceases with age, only with lack of will.
- I faced my fears, but I also surprised myself at times with my bravery or my initiative, thus I learned new things about myself.
- I realised that one does not have to write a novel to consider oneself "a writer". I adored the whole experience of putting my travels, learning and thinking into words and became lost in the pleasure of it.
- If you are brave enough to open your heart to others, as I sometimes did in my prose, you can touch another life in a much deeper way than you might otherwise. I was repeatedly surprised when a person contacted me to say that something that I had written had resonated with them profoundly.
- I found that losing someone precious and much-loved is also part of life's journey and that in the midst of your grief you can be warmed by their memory and be happy that you had them in your life.
- Most people wish you well and are helpful, kind companions on the road and on the road of life.
- I had undertaken my Journey with the express wish of learning how to approach my third age well. All along the road I met teachers again and again, people living fulfilled, contented, active lives in their seventies and eighties who showed me the way.
- I experienced the truth that one can grow, learn, have self-discovery, develop new interests and live to the full at ANY age.
- And finally, there are quite simply times when you have to seize the day and not wait to have a desired experience or to follow a dream. You have to make them happen.
Coimbra is famous for its historic university at the top of the precipitous hill on which the town sits. Founded in 1290 it is one of the oldest in the world. How appropriate that I should end my first Journey and reflect on all that it taught me at this ancient seat of learning.
What then? Shall we sit idly down and say
The night has come; it is no longer day?
Something remains for us to do, or dare;
Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear;
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.
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Note: I have now completed this first Journey around Europe alone, and am back in France, where my French home borders Geneva, Switzerland. I will be setting out on Journey Number 2 very soon. Watch this space! MK
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Absolutely inspiring. This blog has taught me a lot, thank you. Also some of your words of wisdom reminded me of a very dear old friend's words. Much love Jenny xx
Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou lovely lady. Once again one line hits me right in the heart at precisely the right time. Love you. S xxx
I found this blog to be very thought provoking and it chased me out of self doubt.
I just hope the next journey can carry me with you. Good luck!! Joan x


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Discrete Symmetries in semi-realistic D-Brane realizations
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We study the presence of abelian discrete gauge symmetries in D-brane semi- realistic compactifications. After establishing the constraints for the presence of a discrete gauge symmetry we perform a systematic search for discrete gauge symmetries within semi-realistic local D-brane realizations of the MSSM and the MSSM with three right-handed neutrinos. If time allows we will discuss the presence of U(1) and discrete symmetries in concrete global realizations based on D-branes on singularities.
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Sometimes the easiest breakfast tastes the best. With this strawberry jam ready in your refrigerator, you can have a quick toast with fresh homemade strawberry jam. This is the easiest way to prepare delicious strawberry jam at home. The best part about it is it has no preservatives. You can spread it on a bread or a flatbread, or can have it as a sweet dish. Kids are very fond of this jam. You can pack roti with jam for their tiffin too. This strawberry jam is soft and scrumptious. Sterilizing of jar is an important step to get rid of bacteria before pouring the jam. You can refrigerate it.
Homemade Strawberry jam is best for quick breakfast, you can spread it on a toasted bread and can have it with a glass of chocolate milk. In jiffy, this is the most preferred breakfast combination for me. It is easy toprepare and with minimum preparation. If you have strawberries handy, you can make it anytime. You can add sugar according to your taste, if you like it sweeter, add more sugar.
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Ingredients :
- 250 grams strawberry / 18 medium sized strawberry
- 1.5 cup powdered sugar / powdered Jaggery (according to taste)
- 1 lemon
- Wash and rinse the strawberries
- Wipe them with a clean towel and hull them, remove the stem
- Chop them into small pieces
- In a non-stick deep pan, add chopped strawberries, sugar/jaggery and lemon juice
- Cook them on a low flame and mash it with a potato masher
- Stir often till strawberries are cooked and sugar is dissolved
- Strawberry's will release some juices, let it cook
- Make sure that sugar is dissolved properly, bring it to boil and stir continuously
- When the mixture will be thick and strawberry juice is dissolved properly, then you can check if it is done by taking it on a spoon and placing it on ice or a cold plate.
- If it sets properly like a gel, then it is done otherwise keep cooking
- If done, keep it aside and let it cool down
- Pour it to a air tight container made of glass preferably
- You can refrigerate it
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- Sterilize jar before pouring (you can boil water in a container and add jar in it for few seconds and then take it out and keep it aside. Once it cools down, pour jam in it.


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Graciously, Dave Burgess gave me permission to repost this blog: "Literacy isn't the English teacher's job; it's everybody's job." This theory hit a nerve and resonated with me, I was compelled ask Dave if I could share this short but very powerful dissertation. I absolutely encourage everyone involved in educating our youth to put literacy at the forefront of everything they teach! Thank you, Dave for sharing this powerful piece, sorry you won't be at ISTE this year!
The Teach Like a Pirate Corollary
I'm sure you've all heard the following phrase many times in the educational world…and it must be said in an earnest tone with a completely serious face:
"Literacy isn't the English teacher's job; it's everybody's job."
I actually agree wholeheartedly with this. However, I would like to promote a Teach like a PIRATE and add this Corollary to it:
That's true for EVERY subject!
We need to take a far more holistic and cross-curricular approach to education and forever do away with the "that's not my subject" mentality. It's just as counter-productive and frustrating as the employee who says, "That's not my job."
Break down the silos! Think wide instead of narrow! Read wide, too!
It may be strange to hear me say it since I publish educational books, but we spend far too much time in the education aisle at the bookstore. Incorporating outside perspectives and ideas is a cornerstone of the TLAP philosophy. My background in rap, magic, coaching, entrepreneurship, marketing, and success literature played a foundational role in the development of Teach Like a Pirate. It was in large part about looking outside of education and drawing ideas in.
I just read a blog post from Teresa Gross about how much she gained from reading The Classroom Chef, which I have described as Teach Like a Pirate with all math examples. Here's the thing…she doesn't teach math. It didn't matter. It was about creating powerful lessons and on a new way to think about our profession.
We have to take off the blinders and be willing to develop the peripheral vision of a great point guard. See the whole court! Make powerful connections!
Writing in a math class? Absolutely!
Math to help understand history? Yes, please!
Science across the whole curriculum? Yep!
Art and music (and technology for that matter!) are perfect examples of what I'm talking about. Art and music aren't just the art and music teacher's job. They aren't just something we have kids do when they are over in "that" part of the building. Art and music, when embedded throughout the curriculum are a part of what brings school alive for kids. Creativity crosses all curricular content. It's the rub, seasoning, and marinade that brings flavor to your lessons. It helps students process material in multiple ways which improves understanding and retention. The incorporation of art and music specifically, and a cross-curricular approach generally, is a big part of the Teach Like a Pirate system.
So while it is absolutely true that literacy isn't just the English teacher's job…let's not stop there!!
Dave Burgess is the New York Times Best Selling author of Teach Like a Pirate and co-author of P is for Pirate. He is a highly sought-after keynote speaker well known for his outrageously energetic performance style and inspirational, yet practical, message. Dave is also the president of Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc., a disruptive publishing company specializing in innovative, creative books and professional development programs designed to transform education and uplift educators to reach their full potential.


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Lots of coverage lately about the unhinged behavior of Kevin Garnett. Of course you've seen the much discussed incidents with Jose Calderon and Jerryd Bayless. Many pundits consider his antics a motivational tactic. I'm more inclined to think that KG's just a foul-mouthed spaz with a glandular disorder or some particularly obscene form of Tourette's Syndrome.
He's certainly no tough guy. Despite all the trashtalk, this is what happens when somebody actually calls KG out (in this case former journeyman Anthony Peeler).
Personally, I've always been entertained by his quirkiness but I'm surprised that more players haven't pulled a Peeler and clocked his ass.


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Tatiana and I have been on some pretty awesome road trips over the past few years. But it was a comment Tat made last weekend that sparked my creative inspiration to write today blog.
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We spent last weekend driving to Lake Louise and the Athabasca Glacier for the ice trek on the glacier. We left Vancouver, BC around 8pm and made it to the Columbia Icefield around 6am on Saturday. We generally pack everything we need to survive while on the road for a few days. This saves on cost and time, but also for those remote locations we travel through at times. While heading to the Athabasca Glacier, a very tired Tatiana said to me, "Can we stop at Starbucks for a coffee and some breakfast." To give you an idea of where we were, the picture below is of the road we were travelling on. I believe my comment back was something like "let me know when you see a Starbucks and I'll pull over."
Here are our top 5 tips for surviving while road tripping:
1. Bring food and water with you
This will really depend on how you road trip, but we generally bring food to last us a few days. You might end up breaking down somewhere and have to spend the night outside a closed gas station waiting for help. It's best to be prepared. Sometimes it's also a long drive between towns, or the only food options are greasy fast food places. Come prepared with food.
2. Expect the unexpected
The first time we went to California was spring break several years ago. All we could think of was beaches and sunny weather. I fell asleep in the backseat of our car just before Grants Pass in Oregon, and woke up in the middle of a snow storm. Lesson learned: expect the unexpected. We've also come across tornadoes, hurricanes and flash flooding while road tripping. Be prepared for all weather conditions, and expect the unexpected.
3. Don't skip the personal hygiene
Just because you might be miles and miles away from civilization doesn't mean you stop brushing your teeth twice a day :)
This picture's actually from an older trip in Yellowstone National Park, but it highlights the importance of keeping up on personal hygiene while road tripping.
4. Bring blankets with you
Aside from curling up under a nice warm blanket when ready for a nap, it`s a good idea to bring a blanket with you for if your car ever breaks down. Travelling through the Canadian Rockies was quite cold, and if we had car troubles, we could have been there for several hours before help arrives. Some remote locations also don`t have cell or GPS reception, making it hard to call for road side assistance.
Mid-July it was a high of -2 celsius plus wind-chill. That`s a little cold to be sleeping in a broken car with no heat.
5. Look up attractions along the way
(This one's just for fun, but it's also important to get out and stretch your body after driving long halls).
Driving to the Athabasca glacier was a long trek. Before we left, we looked up a few fun roadside attractions to see before we arrive at our destination. We ended up finding an inuksuk along Highway 1 just outside Golden, BC. On the inuksuk, a Canadian flag was spray painted, along with the words "Canada's G Spot." I've seen references online about Golden, BC being called Canada's G Spot but have no clue why. This little roadside attraction was a fun break from driving, and gave us an opportunity to stretch our legs and have a little fun while on the road.
Do you have a road trip survival tip to add to our list? Leave your comment below and let us know what you'd add.
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text: The historic Hester Store near Greenville, S.C., has been purchased from the Palmetto Trust by an innovative Charlotte restoration company that plans to restore it and use it as their Upstate S.C. headquarters. A special renovation launch is scheduled for Jan. 18. Built in the late 1800's, the Hester Store – a sort of roadside country store once typical throughout the South – is 20 minutes from downtown Greenville at the busy intersection of Thomas Mill Road and Hester Store Road in Pickens County. Vacant and in disrepair for many years, the old Hester & Sons Grocery store once served the Dacusville community. (Historic details at http://bit.ly/HesterStore.) The wooden, two-story building with a stone facade has been purchased from the Palmetto Trust by Falcone Crawlspace & Structural Repair, a Charlotte company which specializes in repairing and restoring the foundations and floor beams of houses and buildings throughout the Carolina and Georgia. Co-owner Melissa Falcone saw the store listed on the Palmetto Trust website and noted that it had extensive termite and moisture damage. "I thought, 'I know someone who can fix that!'" she said. "Our business has really grown since it started in 2005, and we created 12 jobs last year. We need a second branch location to better serve the South Carolina Upstate and western NC. We expect the rehabilitation project and construction of a detached workshop will cost about the same as leasing an office and warehouse space for five years, so it makes good business sense for us." A special renovation launch will be held Jan. 18, with local elected officials and Palmetto Trust staff on site at 10 a.m. "Even though we have an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and have 59 Angie's List Super Service Awards under our belt, it's still scary for homeowners to choose someone to repair their crawl space," she said. "Buying this humble building and turning it into our permanent Upstate office should help show homeowners that we're solid, and we're investing in improving the community." Her partner/husband Fred Falcone noted, "The building was very well-built, but was neglected over the years. There are holes in the floor, walls and roof… but the building is definitely repairable. As our company grows, we look for new ways to train employees, and the Hester Store building is an excellent training site. In about a year, when structural and cosmetic repairs are complete, Falcone Crawl Space will have an office upstairs and open a 1,400 square foot retail store on the first floor. Eight to 10 full-time local jobs will be created for by our company in the process." The bulk of the work that needs to be done is structural, she explained, but the nearly 10,000 vehicles that drive by each day will notice the biggest changes this summer when a new metal roof is installed and the wood siding is repaired and painted. For more information, visit www.FalconeCrawlspace.com or contact Melissa Falcone at 866-651-8989.