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If you are a business owner, and are in the city, chances are you are making a decent profit. The chances are also good you own your own property, and it could also be that you have a large enough profit to own at least one office building, if not more.
Regardless of whether you have one building or several, you know that in order to attract more business, you need to have a clean environment. While you could cut costs by having your own staff members do the cleaning within your business, this may end up not being very efficient for you, as they will spend more time cleaning and less time actually doing work that benefits your company.
So how do you fix this potential problem?
One solution for you might be to hire a professional cleaning company. Even if this means having to rearrange your budget if your budget is somewhat smaller than you'd like, a professional cleaning company can actually ease your mind. For one thing, a professional company can help keep your common areas clean far easier than your own staff members can. Having a tidy common area alone can mean the difference between so-so business and fantastic business.
Naturally you'll want to ask around for recommendations, in order to find the best company possible. After all, a clean building will not only bring you more business, thus more profit. The extra profit will allow you to expand your company, and purchase more business property. Of course you will want to keep the current professional cleaning company that you've hired to clean the other buildings you have purchased, especially if they have done an excellent job with the first building.
If you have already hired a professional cleaning company, especially if you've hired the best one possible, you have likely seen the results: a cleaner building equals more business, and more business means keeping a clean building at all times, bringing more business then you possibly dreamed of having. This is all because you chose to hire a professional company to clean your building, or buildings, if you have more than one by now.
However, if you have not yet chosen a professional company to clean your office building, don't hesitate to make such a phone call. It will be the best investment you could possibly make.Read More

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Today, we're happy to announce the preview version of the SQL Server Migration Assistant for Datazen is now available from the Download Center.
Download SQL Server Migration Assistant for Datazen
This application is designed to help organizations migrate their existing Datazen Server content, including dashboards and KPI's, to a SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services server. For this preview, you will only be able to migrate content built against SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services non personalized datasets (both Tabular and Multidimensional).
To get started, you should install the Migration Assistant on a machine that has network level access to both the Datazen Core Service you are pulling content from, as well as the Reporting Services server you are publishing the content to.
With that in place, you can run the application and begin stepping through the wizard –
1. First, you'll need to connect to your Datazen Server. Here, we'll need to enter the instance id, hostname and encryption key (these are same settings we'd entered in our Datazen Server Service configuration file)
2. Next, we'll enter our information for the Reporting Services instance we'll be publishing the content to. This is the same information you'd enter when connecting to the report server using the Mobile Report Publisher.
3. Select an empty folder on your report server where you'll want to place your content.
4. Select the content from the Datazen server you wish to migrate and hit the migrate button. Your content will be transferred to new folders for any dashboards and KPI's you've migrated. The folder names will be the same as the Datazen group names this content was migrated from.
If you select certain content that cannot be migrated, you will see these notifications on the right hand side of the screen as well as in a log file located in the folder where the app was installed.
Items that can't be migrated in the preview include:
- Any items based on datasets outside of SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services
- Any data refresh plans that have been set in Datazen for the content
- Any dashboards created against personalized datasets in Datazen
We expect to add support for migrating these items in an upcoming release of the migration assistant.
More to come
The GA version of the Migration Assistant available for customers later this summer. In the meantime, please download the preview and let us know what you think in the comments section.
Try it now and give us your feedback!
- Download SQL Server Migration Assistant for Datazen
- Read the Datazen end of life blog post – Link
- Post in the Reporting Services forum (or if you prefer, send us an email)
- Join the conversation on Twitter: @SQLServerBI, #SSRS


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Welcome to Cutting It Straight! Here's a little about me.
I was born in British Columbia and grew up in Calgary in a large family. I joined the Canadian Army at 17 as an artillery officer candidate and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. My hopes of a military career were ended in 2003, when I suffered a training injury which, thankfully, God used to awaken me out of a backslidden lifestyle and back to a living faith in Christ.
After leaving the Army in 2005, I took a Master of Divinity from Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary in Cochrane, Alberta. While in seminary I served as Teaching Pastor at a Southern Baptist church plant in north Calgary. I currently serve as an Elder and Executive Pastor at Calvary Grace Church of Calgary, Alberta, and "on the side" I work both as a hotel chaplain in Banff and as a "tentmaking" front desk person in the hotel industry. My wife Erin and I live in Cochrane, Alberta, with our six children, trying to keep it all straight!


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Sights, Camera, Fashion
Learn documentary storytelling with James Whitlow Delano from Tokyo. Elsewhere, dig into pastas and biryani, while Kumbaya brings down hand-stitched apparel.
Camera worthy
Find out what it takes to be a top documentary storyteller. Acclaimed reportage photographer, James Whitlow Delano, will take you through the paces in an upcoming workshop. The event is part of Pondy Photo, the biennale festival by PondyART. Free registration. From August 27 onwards.
Details: pondyphoto.com
Art alert
DakshinaChitra is hosting a series of interesting events, as part of Madras Week. Besides a photography exhibition curated by KT Gandhirajana��of ancient temples of the citya��catch the heritage quiz for school children and talks by professor Jinu Koshy (on prehistoric sites) and writer Vaishnavi Ramanathan (on contemporary art). From 3 pm onwards. Details: 27472603
Sing with Suraj
Just a week after their performance in Chennai, as part of Amaranta Entertainmenta��s The Music Festival, Bengaluru-based Suraj Mani & The Tattva Trip will be performing at the inter-college festival at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research. Monday, from 8.30 pm onwards. Details: 0413 2298283
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As part of their ongoing Freedom Sale, Kriti Ecoboutique is bringing down Madhya Pradesh-based Kumbaya. The 21-year-old brand will showcase cotton apparela��kurtis, dresses, tops, skirts and morea��that have been hand-stitched by village women.
Rs 250 onwards. All month.
Details: 9787709611
Dindigul dairies
Weekends are incomplete without biryani. Grab a thali with Dindigula��s best at Sunway Manora��s food festival. Start with a glass of buttermilk and then sample starters like mutton kola urandai, chicken varuval and meen varuval, before tasting the biryani, served with chicken/mutton/meen kuzhambu. Rs 399. Till Sunday. Details: 0413 2281608
Time for pasta
If you are a fan of this Italian staple, head to Le Dupleix for their hand-crafted pasta festival. Choose from options like the tequila chicken penne, classic spaghetti carbonara (eggs and bacon), sea salt roasted vegetable lasagna and more. Till Sunday, from 7-11 pm.
Pastas from Rs 375 onwards. Details: 0413 2226003


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This quick tutorial will show you how to provision a LEMP server running Ubuntu 16, Nginx, MySQL and PHP7.1 in three commands.
In this tutorial we'll take a look at virtualisation for beginners, run through the benefits and how to set up your first virtual machine using Virtualbox and Vagrant.
How to create basic membership functionality including registration, login and protected pages using the Symfony 2 framework.
How to add a post's featured image to your WordPress RSS feed inside a new tag.
How to setup sass and compass for WordPress themes.
This tutorial shows you how you can add a wordpress search form to your site then customise the markup and styling.
How to add custom css, html and javascript into a squarespace site.
How to reset a wordpress password via the database using phpMyAdmin or command line.
The golden rule - always backup your data! This couldn't be more important than for the driving force behind most web sites - the database. In this article we're going to look at how you can save yourself some time by automating your database backups directly to the amazon s3 cloud.
This article documents the steps to migrate a database from one server to another using the command line.
If you'd like to work with code synthesis on your next project get in touch via the contact page.


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Texted Thursdays
Now it's possible for non-Danish speaking audiences to get the full experience of a night in the theatre!
With an app Teater GROB will text our current play, The Panda Affair, on three Thursdays;
Thursday February 25th at 8 PM
Thursday March 3rd at 8 PM
Thursday March 10th at 8 PM
All you need to do in order to make use of the texting app is to bring a smartphone. If you do not have one, you can write us an e-mail at email@example.com, and we will book you an iPad.
In advance you can download the app called "Thea" through Google Play or the App Store..
If you have any questions do not hesitate to send us an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
The ticket price is the same as a regular ticket! Read all about the play here.
The app is developed in cooperation with the theatre festival CPH STAGE and supported by Bikubenfonden


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So, my banjolele is starting its journey. The pot is ready. More pics when they arrive from Holland.
Banjolele – the journey so far!
For all things ukulele in Newcastle, Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire
The Gigasecond Tour
The world renowned all-singing, all-plucking superstars return with their toe-tapping music, hilarious banter, and sheer superlative entertainment. Last year they celebrated 30 Plucking Years of ukulele action, this year they will have been active for One Billion Seconds.
See and hear for yourself why the appeal of the Ukes of GB (the original Ukulele Orchestra, the oldest and the best) and their hilarious, entertaining, witty shopping trolley dash through all genres of music has led to sold out shows all over the world from the Royal Albert Hall to Sydney Opera House.
They play ukuleles, they sing, they say funny things, they whistle, but they bring a lot more to the table than that. 'Magisterial', 'The best musical entertainment in the country', 'A much loved National Institution', are some of the things audience members and reviewers have said in attempting to encapsulate the indefinable magic and atmosphere of all round good humour, light heartedness, well being and joy which permeate their live concerts.
(No Children under six years old may attend performances.)
We've just booked to go on a cruise to Canada in late August aboard the Cruise and Maritime ship Marco Polo. Details of the cruise are here.
We went on the same cruise last year and on board they had Pete Crush who ran a series of classes on the ukulele for new players. This was the first time I had ever tried to play an instrument (and sing in public) since being kicked out of music lessons at my old school – Vincent Thompson High School – by our music teacher 'basher' Brooke.
Every year we all had to audition for the school choir, and he would wander around tapping on the shoulder all those not worthy of making it into the hallowed ranks of the singers. For some reason every year he used to stand behind me as we stood, his arm outstretched so even as I was half-way up he would tap my shoulder! Do you think her was trying to tell me something?
Anyway, back to the cruise. We were lucky enough to cruise to the West Indies at the start of this year – on the Marco Polo – and Pete and his wife, Lynda, were giving more classes so I joined in. He mentioned to us that they would be on this particular cruise back to Canada, so we've got a late booking. Honest, Pete – we're not stalking you!
Canada is a wonderful place for the ukulele as the school system positively promotes the playing of this instrument. You can read more about it here; https://www.ukuleleintheclassroom.com.
In addition, university places are provided for this purpose and annual trips are taken to Hawaii to further educate ukulele players.
I bought a soprano ukulele at O'Briens in St John's, Nova Scotia. This is an amazing shop which has been trading since 1939. I emailed them a few weeks back about buying a banjolele but sadly they didn't get back to me. Still, as seen in an earlier post one has now been ordered from Holland. We are going to visit a music festival in St John's this time in Water Park – if we arrive in time. Hopefully the weather will be better – last year it POURED down! The rain was unbelievable. So, finger's crossed.
I will be taking my Kala resonator and my banjolele – hopefully it will arrive by the end of July – so I can join in and have some more lessons from Pete and Lynda.
A few weeks ago I started to look for a banjolele to add to my collection of 4 stringed instruments – but what to choose? As I play tenor ukuleles I decided to stick to the same size.
The first place I looked towards was, of course, Amazon.co.uk, and the one that drew my attention was the Kala BNJ. This is, however, a concert-sized instrument and I really wanted slightly larger. There is an Aiersi tenor banjolele and the review to this was more positive than the reviews to the Kala. However, there is only one review and I'm always a bit weary of making a decision on just one recommendation.
I then looked at Southern Ukuleles (a great source of uses and all things uke) and they had a good number of ukulele banjos. I was very tempted by the Deering Goodtime Tenor – see the Youtube video.
But I just felt I wanted something different – something unique. After much searching I came across the website banjolele.net in Holland and the owner/manufacturer Wim Van De Laden. After looking at the videos on YouTube (search Banjoleles Wim) and reading the reviews on Ukulele Underground I decided to contact him this weekend. He is away on holiday in the South of France, but had a reply from him the same day. I asked a few questions and was happy with the replies. So – my order for a handmade tenor banjolele has been issued. It will be two or three weeks before it's delivered and will let you know how things are going.


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Like digital fingerprints, we leave small clues about our lives all over the Internet — and social media is no exception.
This is especially true for Millennials, a generation that's come of age with nearly non-stop sharing thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and social networks. It's not just would-be identity theft criminals who exploiting Millennials' willingness to over-share: police are paying attention, too. Continue reading Police are Using Facebook to Solve Crimes: Is Your Privacy at Risk?


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If you are going to be moving it is a good idea to do some research to gain information that you will be able to use to make it a lot easier. Just as there are many reasons to move, there is also tons of relocation information out there to help make your move easier and more fun. Depending on where you are relocating to and how much time you have, planning a move can be a difficult time in your life.
Now days, the internet has helped a lot of people over the years when it comes to relocating and is an excellent source of relocation information. There is much that you can find out about a new area by conducting a little online research. If you need to relocate quickly, the Internet can be a real benefit.
The internet can help you locate a home or apartment, give you a general idea of what the area is like, provide local information for schools, realtors, leasing offices, and other relocation specialists, allow you to rent moving trucks or vans, learn about basic information about electric companies, cable companies, DMV, vehicle registration requirements, tax information, restrictions, and much more.
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Digging for relocation information on the internet is a excellent way to find the best prices and referrals to help find the things you will need for the move. It will not only save you the stress of doing many things yourself, but also give you a great choice of relocation assistance to choose from and prices that fit your budget. Use the Internet to get an idea of what is available and then start creating a list of possibilities and making appointments.
Another good idea is to gather relocation information that assists you in building a guide and time line for your move. There are many great tips that can save you a lot of time and are worth investigating before starting the moving process. These may include valuable relocation information like how to pack your items correctly, break large tasks into smaller ones, share responsibilities with your partner, spreading tasks over time, and creating a budget.
Stress can occur any time during the process of relocating. Even those who are eager about moving may find themselves overwhelmed by the small details. That is why gathering relocation information beforehand can help reduce the amount of stress associated with moving and let you focus on other things such as, saying goodbye to friends and family, and taking care of the many last minute details.
No matter if you are planning a large international move, a move across the country, or are just planning on moving across town, collecting and researching relocation information before moving will save you time, money and stress.
It's a good idea to plan to take a few days before starting the moving process to assemble valuable tips and research prices of home moving companies, packing materials and vehicle transportation companies in order to have the smoothest moving experience possible.
Before every easy move is a successful plan. Planning a successful move will come from doing your research and taking advantage of the relocation tips and benefits you will find by studying relocation information.
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Length: ~7.6 cm
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ELLWOOD CITY - Ellwood City electric and sewer customers are facing rate increases in 2008.
Most sewer customers will see 22 percent hikes while electric customers will have to wait until the completion of a rate analysis by Utility Financial Solutions of Holland, Mich., expected later this month to realize what increase will be passed along.
The majority of the borough's sewer customers, 3,045 out of 3,963 customers, discharges 5,000 gallons of sewer on a monthly basis and will see an increase of $5.50. Their bill will go from $24.50 to $30 per month. Those who face the highest increase, 25 percent, will be customers who discharge 35,000 gallons or more per month (15 customers).
Rate increases for sewer customers were needed as the borough repays an $18 million state loan for the building of a new wastewater treatment plant in Wayne Township, said Dom A. Viccari, borough manager.
The state Department of Environmental Protection ordered the building of a new plant in 2005 because of system overflows.
Sewer rate hikes, which were formulated by Hill Engineering of Northeast, Pa., the borough's wastewater consultant, will take effect on Jan. 1.
Hikes in electric bills will be needed as the borough's energy cost for 2008 is set to grow by 19 percent to $3.5 million, an increase of $575,000, Viccari said. This is due to deregulation and a shift from cost-based rates to market-based rates by its electricity supplier, American Municipal Power-Ohio.
The cost of energy is now based on "what the market will bear," Viccari told council.
In 2006 the borough paid about $2.6 million for electricity, and it is projected that it will pay about $2.9 million this year.
Viccari explained that the 19 percent increase likely will be divided over five classifications of electric customers (residential, residential heat, small power, large power and industrial) and 10 different rates. Residential customers have one rate while residential heat customers have two rates depending on usage.
Small power customers, such as small businesses, have one rate while large power customers (commercial customers) and industrial customers each have three different rates depending on usage.
The new rates will be based on the cost of providing power to each of the classifications as well as a profit margin attached to the various rates among other factors.
Rate increases will begin once council decides on the recommendations made by Utility Financial Solutions.
Even though rates likely will be increased, Viccari noted that there is good news for the borough. Because the borough has a power supply agreement with AMP-Ohio for the next five years, there will be a lock on rates with marginal increases over the length of the contract.


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Savannah, Georgia, Trial Attorneys for Burn Injury
Burns can be one of the most painful injuries a person can experience. At Ladson Law Firm, PC in Savannah, Georgia, we represent the victims of burn injuries, including second and third degree burns caused by flames, scalding, electrical burns and chemical burns.
Especially if a young child is severely burned, burn injuries can require a lifetime of further treatment, like plastic and reconstructive surgeries, physical therapy and treatment for the late effects of burn injuries — infections, chronic ulcers and pressure sores. Victims of burn injuries also require social and psychological support as they learn to cope with chronic pain.
At Ladson Law Firm, PC, we understand how difficult this can be for victims and their families. That is why we fight so hard in court. Our goal is to give burn injury sufferers the resources to get better — and we accomplish this goal by holding negligent people and companies accountable for their actions.
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Our two trial lawyers, Brice Ladson and Mitchell Ladson, are dedicated to achieving the best possible results in the courtroom. They begin each burn injury case with utmost attention to detail. Combing over the facts and laws involved, they never hesitate to dig deeper — finding the actors responsible and structuring arguments that win in court.
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To talk with our law firm about your burn injury, please contact us at 912-341-6956. We offer free initial consultations and accept skin burn victim cases on a contingency basis, meaning that there is no fee unless you recover.


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People these days don't like cooking for various reasons. For some it is a messy affair, cleaning the kitchen is darning. For some it is time consuming activity, some get just bored with a thought of cooking. My conjecture is that most people who admit to hate cooking are actually just making excuses to avoid it. If you like eating, why would you really hate cooking? Have you tried your hands at cooking? Cooking more than a therapy
How cooking brings you closer to your near & dear ones
Guys if you don't cook you are losing out on a fantastic skill to have. Not only does it save you time and money on food which you buy from outside, it can also contribute to improved health, bring you closer to your near and dear ones besides it is a great stress buster. While stress numbs your senses, cooking stimulates them. It's a sensory experience: touching, washing, cutting, chopping, grating, aroma, seasoning, the visual delight and even the sizzling sound everything can just rouse your senses.
How cooking is therapeutic
A psychiatrist working in London, Mark Salter suggests that cooking and baking activities could be therapeutic for patients with depression. They can stimulate cognition, get people working on memory tasks and allow patients to connect with a feeling of nurturing and protection. I'd argue that cooking and baking have another benefit: the possibility of sharing, and the enrichment of interpersonal relationships that occurs as a result.
His claims are supported by some counselors, therapists and mental health treatment centers all over the world which use cooking therapy as a tool for their patients. In addition to helping people learn skills for independence and self-care by teaching them how to cook wholesome, balanced meals, cooking can also help patients get more active, grounded and connected with their environment. And evidently the focus on tasks can be beneficial for a brain in turmoil.
How cooking can open a world of opportunity
You don't have to love cooking, but knowing the basics and feeling competent in the kitchen can open a world of opportunity to improve your quality of life. We are busy doing so many things in our lives. We have better things to do than slave away in kitchen cooking a breakfast, meal or a dessert. Until you champion the task of cooking the planning, shopping, chopping, cooking, preserving and cleaning involved in making a meal can bore you to death. Frankly speaking it does.
I feel there is nothing else than cooking which offers instant gratification. If you're cooking for people whom you love and care for, your cooking can nurture relations further. The praise and appreciation that you get for cooking from your loved ones is a feeling of elation. Cooking involves innovation, imagination, novelty and thinking. You can go on innovating mixing ingredients, styling your preparations with a variety, using different materials while dishing out new recipes.
Why Cooking is an honest work
Another thing about cooking is that it's honest work. It takes you on a delicious ride and gives you a different high and yet keeps you grounded, in touch with reality. It helps you clear your mind, it stimulates new ideas, and it refreshes your outlook. It keeps you occupied – keeping you busy and helping you to forget about worries for some time.
So friends please don't give up on cooking. It's a great reliever.


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Late results of customized treatment of keratoconus and corneal ectasias with customized mini excimer laser treatment (CMELT), and customized corneal collagen cross-linking (CCXL): is it possible to get topographic recovery with very limited surgery?
Poster Details
First Author: U. Erdem TURKEY
Co Author(s): S. Altun A. Tas A. Ilhan S. Dagli
Abstract Details
To explain our customized surgical treatment of keratoconus (KC) or ectasia with customized corneal collagen cross-linking (CCXL) and customized mini excimer laozer treatment (CMELT), and. to review the outcomes of the patients in the first 5 years.
Since visual results of CXL treatment were not satisfied the patients, topography guided treatments developed for better VA. But it was not flexible and mostly limited to a certain amount of ablation. We have developed a surgical method with 7 stage customization to get more efficient results for keratoconus.
Customized keratoconus and corneal ectasia treatment based on a series of customizable parameters including corneal topography, corneal wavefront map, location of keratoconus apex, corneal thickness, shape and width of ectasia, visual acuity, age,… to get more efficient results with very limited corneal ablation. Surgical outcomes of the patients (189 eyes; 182 KC and 7 ectasia) follow up results in the first 5 years reviewed with retrospective data analysis for wound healing, maximum keratometry (KMax, DK), corneal topography indices, wavefront aberrations uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA), and best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) from our clinical trials.
The mean follow up time was 27.4±12.3 months, flattening in KMax was 4.4 ± 2.7D with 30.2± 6.3µ planned ablation. All eyes gained one or more, 173 eyes 2 or more, 112 eyes gained 3 or more Snellen line BSCVA. Improvements are even seen at 1 months and remain stable after 12 months. The steeper KMax more likely to gain more KMax flattening, and the eyes with preoperative of 20/40 or worse BSCVA were more likely to gain more Snellen lines after treatment if the corneal thickness was over 400µ. 67 eyes revealed anterior topographic recovery. 1 corneal ectasia case developed recurrent epithelial erosion several times. No serious complications encountered, No patient needed additional cxl treatment.
Customized treatment of keratoconus with corneal collagen cross-linking and customized mini excimer lazer treatment (CCXL, and CMELT) safe and effective treatment for keratoconus and corneal ectasia, with serious improvements in optical measures and visual acuity. This surgical system uses multiple parameters for corneal remodelling. The best of our knowledge this method is gives one of the best treatment options ever with minimal tissue damage even with anterior topographic recovery
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Chapter 27
The Barnyard shopping village actually looked like a barnyard with its high peaked roof, wood sided buildings. Landscaped gardens on cascading levels featured meandering paths to art galleries, boutique fashion shops, restaurants and cafes.
Abby and Winifred, close beside on leash, climbed to an upper level of the Barnyard and entered an art supply shop. Winifred immediately made friends with the shopkeeper who just happened to have a stash of dog biscuits handy.
Outside the shop, Edmund peered in the window, watched Abby pick out a new drawing pad and join Winifred at the counter.
Shopping bag in hand, Abby and Winifred left the shop and headed down a path.
Edmund followed, a safe distance behind.
A pair of hiking boots in a window caught Abby's eye and she stopped to look. Behind her Edmund stopped and browsed a window display of high end cutlery in a kitchen accessories shop.
On the patio of a Barnyard coffee bistro, an old Cocker Spaniel sat at the feet of a distinguished Gentleman sipping tea. The dog spied across the patio to a table where a man was obscured behind a book cover: The 7 Steps to Communication with Animals.
"Be with the animal is a peaceful place. Invite the animal to get quiet with you…" Jerry read, lowered the book, and looked across the patio where the old dog leaned forward and met Jerry's gaze.
Abby and Edmund turned away from their window shopping at the same moment. Abby smiled at the man in Clark Kent glasses and porkpie cap.
Edmund nervously smiled back. No harm. No foul.
And that would have ended it were it not for Winifred's nose. It began to twitch, nostrils exhaling deeply, all the better to inhale the full scent of a man too close for Winifred's comfort. Ears tucked flat against her head, tail straight back, Winifred's nose confirmed the identity of Walter Knox's killer.
The growl from Winifred's gut was enough for Edmund. Nosed by the only eye-witness, he bolted.
Winifred ripped the leather leash out of Abby's hand and charged after the assassin running down a path dodging shoppers. Howling like a banshee, Winifred charged through the human obstacles, leash dragging behind.
Hearing Abby calling after the dog, several shoppers tried to grab the little mutt or step on the leash, to no avail. Winifred was a terrier possessed. No one was stopping this wild woman from nailing her prey.
Back on the bistro patio, Jerry got deeper into the core of the text:
"Open the doors of your heart to the animal…" Jerry read, looked up and offered his most heart-felt look of benevolence to the Cocker across the patio.
Winifred chased Edmund through a corridor. Coming out behind the shops, she turned a corner and found herself in a delivery hall. Slowly padding down the hall, she turned a corner and… empty, save for several doors into the back of shops. Winifred turned and headed back when Edmund stepped into the hall blocking the exit.
Edmund removed the 154CM stainless steel Black Class knife from a pocket and opened the blade.
Winifred crouched low, pulled her lips back exposing a full snout of small sharp teeth.
"Imagine a beam of light is connecting you with his heart and soul…" Jerry read softly, then looked over the book at the Cocker, who suddenly raised up.
"All the impressions you receive will be aspects of this animal. You will be tuning in to his core essence." Jerry put the book down focusing all his attention and energy on the old dog.
Connection made, the Cocker backed up behind his master's legs and growled.
In the delivery hall, Winifred growled at Edmund, moving in, knife poised for the kill.
Winifred backed up until she was against the last door at the end of the hall.
Edmund stopped, pleased with himself. The mutt was his. Nowhere to run. No escape. His nano-second of satisfaction was all Winifred needed…
And she launched herself straight at Edmund… shot between his legs, Black Class knife slicing air behind her tail… stabbing the end of her leather leash trailing behind… the momentum of her getaway ripping the knife, stuck in the leash, out of Edmund's grasp.
Frantically looking around the Barnyard, Abby saw Winifred fly out a corridor between shops, knife stuck in the end of the leash chasing after her. Two seconds later, Edmund charged past.
Tossing her shopping bag aside, Abby took off after them.
The Gentleman on the patio held his Cocker close, giving Jerry a nasty look when Winifred flew past behind them. Jerry was still processing the vision when Edmund flashed past. Enough for Jerry who bolted from his chair, never saw Abby a second behind, sideswiped her, sending her sprawling.
Outside the shopping village, Winifred charged between decorative boulders and foliage. The end of her leash snagged a bush, Edmund's knife yanking free.
Edmund was on it, grabbed the knife… saw Jerry… juggled… dropped the blade… and took off into the parking lot.
Jerry picked up the knife, started after Edmund when he saw Winifred sprinting across the parking lot toward traffic. Screw Edmund! And Jerry took off after the dog.
The over-dressed woman from the veterinary clinic got out of her car with her over-dressed Chihuahua and watched Jerry, Black Class knife in hand, chase the little terrier across the parking lot. Screaming in horror, she fainted back into the front seat of her car.
Abby also saw Jerry and went the other way after Edmund who got to his VW, scrambling inside. Abby beat her fists on the door as the VW popped, sputtered, and pulled away, Abby running after it.
The Beetle picked up speed, Edmund taking dead aim on Winifred across the parking lot.
Jerry got there first, hurled his body onto the VW's front hood, HOWLING and pounding fists and the butt of the knife against the windshield.
Howling back at the smashed nose and face plastered against the glass, Edmund whipped the wheel over hurling Jerry into space, arms, legs and ass making a three-point landing in a decorative island of boulders and rose bushes.
Enough for Edmund who sped off down an alley behind the Barnyard.
Abby was also in full flight, ran past Jerry's body, more concerned with Winifred, still crazed and at the edge of traffic. Realizing she'd never catch up, Abby stopped, began flailing her arms, screaming hysterically. "HELP!!! WINIFRED!!! SAVE ME, WINNIE!!! HELLLLLLLLP!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Winifred turned, saw Abby collapse on the pavement in agony. Her own trauma forgotten, Winifred did a one-eighty, put paws in gear and flew back licking, kissing and making sure Abby was okay.
Not so lucky was Jerry, splayed across rocks and rose bushes. He was painfully extricating himself from the landscaping when Abby and Winifred got there.
"You okay?"
"I don't know. You?"
Jerry looked surprised.
"Oh. That. Emergency recall. When all else fails, have a hissy fit. Go bonkers. Let your dog save you. Instinct."
Jerry grimaced, raised his hand from the ground where the tip of Edmund's knife was stuck in his left palm. Jerry pulled out the knife, yelped.
Winifred recoiled.
Blood oozed from Jerry's palm. He pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped his hand while Abby and Winifred stared at the bloody Black Class knife.
Edmund stood guard in front of his Bonsai. "I don't care what you do to me. But you're not touching—"
Just inside the greenhouse door, Stanton held up his hands in a gesture of peace and forgiveness. "I'm not a monster, Edmond. Besides, you'd hate me forever. I need you. My garden needs you. Actually, I came to apologize."
Stanton took a step toward his chef/gardener.
"Far enough."
Stanton stepped back. "I should never have put you in such an awkward position. My fault entirely. But since I have no intention of spending the rest of my life in a small unattractive room playing cards with Bernie Madoff, I have already given the job to a… younger associate. So… Please, don't give it another thought. It will all be over by tonight."
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The USDA Forest Service reports that 41.4 billion metric tons of carbon is currently stored in the nation's forests and due to increases in the total area of forest land and increases in the carbon stored per acre, an additional 192 million metric tons of carbon are sequestered each year. The additional carbon sequestered annually offsets roughly 11% of the country's industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack notes that America's forests play a critical role in combating climate change, collectively capturing and storing significant amounts of carbon that would otherwise pollute the atmosphere. National forests contain an average of 77.8 metric tons of carbon per acre: a greater density than on private lands where 60.7 metric tons of carbon per acre or other public forest lands with 68.3 metric tons of carbon per acre are stored.
The Forest Service Report points out that, on average, the amount of carbon stored in forestland has increased over the past two decades. Also, carbon stored per acre can increase with increasing stand age, an increase in stand density, or it can decrease due to disturbances, such as fire. The new estimates are based on fresh 2010 data from annual forest inventories.


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Apple seeds first beta of iPhone 2.2 firmware to developers
Apple has released the first beta of their planned 2.2 firmware update for the iPhone, though Apple doesn't really say anything about what's in there.
From what I've seen on the web, one change is that in the browser the URL and search boxes, currently stacked on top one another, are now side by side.
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Mirror paper for the jingle bells, notice how round they are. I use a large ball head stylus on a foam pad to dry emboss and shape these bells. That takes the flat and boring to a new dimension, can you heard them jingle? I used 3 layers for "JOY" and the snow flakes. I think it makes a statement.
I agree with Loll I like the look of layered elements. Loll is an amazing and gifted designer. Her cards are jaw dropping gorgeous. I imagine that is why she has so many followers. You'll love her work.
I've cut several JOY cards using both the positive and the negative cuts. It's a great word JOY so simple yet deeply meaningful. My name "Carole" is defined as a joyful noise. I'm a Christmas Carol singing a creation of joy cards.
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K & Company, so rich with quality the card creates itself. Directing the colors to compliment and the embellishments to enhance. You might notice several flourishes sweet little ornaments or candy canes. All my little treasures waiting to be proudly displayed.
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Charter Oak hydrogeologists possess 40 years of combined hydrogeologic investigation experience in a wide array of oftentimes complex environmental settings including; glacial till and stratified drift aquifers typical of New England; bedrock aquifers; large alluvial aquifers typical of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Basin; and, extreme arid environments such as the Great Sahara Desert. Charter Oak personnel have performed hundreds of hydrogeologic investigations in projects ranging in size from less than one acre to tens of square miles and to depths in excess of 500 feet. Charter Oak's hydrogeologic investigation services include ground water contamination investigations, water resource and water supply evaluations, well-head protection services, aquifer test design and implementation and numerical ground water flow and contaminant transport modeling. Charter Oak's hydrogeologic investigation expertise includes:
Two representative hydrogeologic investigation projects are described below.
Charter Oak hydrogeologists participated in the investigation of an aerospace manufacturing company where ground water was found to contain chlorinated solvents and hexavalent chromium. The project site is underlain by a stratified drift aquifer confined by an aquaclude at about 35 feet below grade. Charter Oak successfully demonstrated that solvents detected in the lower portion of the aquifer did not result from site releases, but were caused by an off-site source.
Charter Oak hydrogeologists are leading a fourteen year investigation of ground water impacts related to an active explosives manufacturing site in Utah. Over thirty-five monitoring wells have been constructed to depths of more than 500 feet using a variety of drilling technologies. In addition to these monitoring wells, over twenty private and municipal water supply wells are included in an extensive ground water monitoring program. The hydrogeologic investigation resulted in the construction and operation of a ground water recovery and treatment system having a design capacity of 2,500 gpm.


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I don't recall this happening before.
We've had volatility in the past and yet there have been no warnings like this.
Do they know something we're not supposed to know?
Kiwisaver in New Zealand (the nations' pension scheme) has sent this out to reassure their investors
If you want to know if something is really happening wait for the official denial.
A harbinger of things to come?
First things first – it's important to remember that it's normal for markets to go up and down. Whilst it's concerning for KiwiSaver members when markets fall, it's all part of the natural cycle that markets go through.
This cycle is driven by a lot of factors, including economic data, politics and company performance. Investor emotion - namely fear and greed – can also be a big driver of markets in the short-term. Investors often react to negative headlines, and panic, selling their investments and causing prices and markets to fall. Once prices drop low enough, investors become greedy again, start buying and markets become more buoyant.
The fear KiwiSaver members might have around losing money on their investment is normal. And the urge to do something to combat that fear – like switching investment funds - is also normal. But the important thing to remember is not to panic.
Can my account balance go down?
How much your account is affected by market volatility depends on which of our investment funds you are invested in. While all investments have some degree of risk, they typically sit along a risk and return spectrum – generally speaking, the greater the risk, the higher your potential return.
So, if your money is in a conservative investment fund, which usually invests in lower-risk investments such as cash and bonds, with a smaller allocation to shares, chances are you won't be affected as much when markets go down.
However, if your money is invested in a growth investment fund, which has a greater exposure to markets and, therefore, sits at the higher end of the risk and return spectrum, your KiwiSaver balance stands more chance of being impacted when share markets fluctuate.
A useful rule of thumb is that riskier assets such as shares will fall by up to a third every five to seven years and take five to seven years to regain their value. This means that shares can deliver no returns at all for significant periods of time, and investors should be prepared for this at any point. However, to compensate you for taking on all this risk, you can generally expect to be paid significantly higher returns over the long run.
So, should you change which fund your money is invested in simply because of a downturn in the market?
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There was a large hill in the center of our small town that just beckoned to the neighborhood children when the ground was covered in white. An elderly woman lived there, and though many of us had never met her or even laid eyes on her, it was understood that we were welcome to sled on her property as long as we were safe about it. My brothers and I would bundle up in one layer atop another until we could have been mistaken for twins with a character in a certain classic Christmas movie. We would take our beat up sleds up the hill and spend hours designing ways to make each descent more enjoyable than the one before it. When we got home, we would change out of our wet clothes and sit by the wood stove, which was our only source of heat in the winter, drinking the fresh cups of hot chocolate our mom had prepared for us. These are some of my fondest winter memories.
As I grew older, I changed, as children so often do. Snow became more of a nuisance than a thing to be enjoyed. It did not take long for me to grow weary of scraping ice and brushing snow off of my car when I wanted to go somewhere, allowing extended time to get there once the clearing was completed, dodging it's reflective glare on everything if the sun was out, and driving like the guy from the DMV was in the passenger's seat the entire way to my destination. Amazingly, I only had one minor wreck on the ice/snow. But I no longer saw it as a thing of beauty either.
This hatred of snow I developed was one catalyst for my move to the Southeast. It turns out I'm not such a big fan of cold weather in general either and with every passing year, a house at/near the beach beckoned to me.
In some ways, it's amazing we purchased a house here, considering what happened during our first winter in our new state. Our first nine months here, we lived in a third-floor apartment within walking distance to the local mall and many other stores and restaurants. It was a nice location. Until January. We had been told that it never snowed here. That we had moved close enough to the coast to avoid snow altogether. Apparently never ended in January, 2003.
In the Midwest, you go to school in the snow, on time, unless there is a strong wind and the roads are drifting shut, which of course becomes a safety hazard. In many parts of the Southeast, you cancel school if the weatherman says there might be a chance that a single snowflake could fall sometime prior to the opening of the school day. And you do not, under any circumstances attempt to drive anywhere in it, even if you are accustomed to driving on ice-laden roadways.
We had been holed-up in our upstairs apartment for about 36 hours when my wife announced that she could no longer stay there and she wanted to go look for a house. Thankfully everyone else had heeded the no driving advice and we were one of the few cars on the road that afternoon. We didn't find our house that weekend, but did the next and had closed and moved in within two months time, which was not bad for first-time homebuyers with no money for a down payment.
That snowfall was the last one until this winter. It has been unseasonably cold for us, though not nearly as cold as it has been in many parts of the country. One day in November we had snow flurries, but miraculously they did not adjourn school early that day. There was a day in December with scattered flurries as well. We've had a few delays for ice, one in January and one in February, respectively.
But the big snowfall came while we were out of town. We were returning from a snow-covered visit to the Northeast when we found our connecting flight had been cancelled. It turns out that snow had started falling that afternoon and, true-to-form, everything had closed, including our local airport. We flew into a neighboring city and rented a car to complete the journey that night. I was already off work the following day, which was probably a good thing.
I have grown to despise snow and ice, but I was not even remotely prepared for the emotional impact this snowfall would have on me. I have seen and been in snow many times over the intervening six years between snowfalls here. I played in it with my daughter in the Midwest the week after Christmas. We spent two days traipsing around a major city in it together over MLK weekend. Those snows affected me the same way all other snows have since I turned sixteen almost half a lifetime ago.
But this one was different. This snow instantly took me back six years. We were still technically newlyweds. We lived in that tiny upstairs apartment with a cat and dog, both of whom have since passed. Our beautiful daughter was but a gleam in her Maker's eye. It was a time when we would rent movies and huddle up under blankets to watch them together. A time when we would sleep in on Saturdays and stay in our pajamas most of the day after that. It was a time when college-living had begun to merge with real adulthood, but traces of both were still visible around the edges.
It was a time when she was healthy.
It was a time when she was here.
It's snowing here again tonight. They've already called with a two-hour delay for school tomorrow, but we're only supposed to get a dusting.
I hope they're right.
I don't think I could take another groundcover this winter.


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Product Description
The Manthorpe SmartDrain Junction Unit is to be used when a 90º corner, T-junction or cross junction needs to be produced when laying the SmartDrain system. The Junction Unit has thinned out side walls which can be easily removed with a craft knife. Simply remove whichever and however many sides required and connect to the rest of the system with the easy to fix clips.
The junction unit is made up of the channel base and grate lid which falls into the channel, locating on its four location pins. Available with a black or silver grate.
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