Getting your pool ready for summer early is a good idea as there are often some hot days in early spring when everyone would enjoy a cool dip. If you have one of the automatic pool cleaners that are available these days, preparing your pool for the swimming season will be much easier. It will also help if you’ve winterised your pool with a cover to keep out debris.
Here are some tips to getting your pool ready for the fun and games of summer
Most times in the business of removals, the move happens seamlessly. The biggest hassle in the whole job is packing up everything from your current address and then unpacking it all at the new place. The worst thing that can happen in a removalist job is some of your belongings get damaged in the move from point A to point B.
Nobody wants to think about their antique table or leather lounge suite getting scuffed or damaged when moving, or having that Queen Anne teapot smashed into little bits. But, the reality is that these things happening are a real possibility and need to be taken into consideration before you move. It’s a matter of making the right arrangements to be covered.
Planning a Safe Move
How can you, rather than the removalist, make specific arrangements in which your belongings make it to the new place in one piece? Here’s a few things to consider and precautions you can take in your planning:
This is a no-brainer, but not all moving companies are equal. Choose the right one. With online searches you can find out everything you need to know about a moving company – customer reviews, how long they have been in business, and their reputation. A good furniture removal company, such as Melbourne Removalists, will be expert in helping families and businesses to move, hassle free, and have many satisfied customers. They will have qualified, experienced, honest, courteous and reliable staff. It’s their job to look after your belongings and make sure that it all arrives at the new address in the same condition it left the old address.
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden, in New York City, has its very own bee species named “Lasioglossum gotham”, which is about the size of a grain of rice (around 3mm in length) and is one of four species recently discovered in the New York area.
In fact, the bees were actually discovered in 2009 by John Ascher from the American Museum of Natural History. The tiny bees nest underground and DNA testing has shown it to be a new bee species, along with others discovered in Westchester, Suffolk, and Nassau Counties. Over 200 species of bees live within New York’s parks and green spaces.
These tiny bees get their food from drinking the sweat of humans and animals (for salts and electrolytes), as well as from pollen and nectar. They are also very important for the pollination of wildflowers, crops, and fruits.
Let’s hope pesticides, fertilizers and GMO crops don’t interfere with allowing this bee species to flourish.
Via FerreBeekeeper & New York Times
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Ryan is a pleasure to work with and he has a positive personality and a can-do attitude! We have been extremely pleased with the extensive work he has done with our landscaping. He designed and completed a new garden bed, which has enhanced our property’s appearance and value. All the way through the project, he consulted with us on the plantings, design, and cost.
Additionally, he created a trellis for our raspberry bushes, which blends in with our forest setting. We look forward to his continued work for us, including our plans for a hard-scape patio in the near future! We highly recommend Ryan for any landscaping project!
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Crowning Touch Landscaping did the landscaping for my house in Fleetwood, NC. They completely re-terraced my side yard, fenced the entire area and built a fire pit. This area was so impressive that we held our wedding ceremony there in July (2010). It is a fantastic area and I never miss the opportunity to sit there and have a cup of coffee and enjoy the view and my dogs. We were so impressed with the work that we had them build our entry walkway and another fire pit in the front yard. This is my wife’s favorite place to sit and watch the sunsets.
I am currently using Crowning Touch to terrace the driveway. They have exceeded all expectations on every job they have done for us. The owner, Ryan Shaw, is trustworthy and a joy to work with. I recommend them for anyone’s landscaping needs.
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When you work as a sole trader, you can be anywhere that is comfortable. Creating an outdoor space and taking a backlit laptop or notebook outside to work allows you to experience the fresh air and sunshine instead of being cooped up in the house or office all day. These days there are many different styles of outdoor furniture that are comfortable and convenient. Your outside office chair can be made of wicker, rattan or boat wood from Indonesia or Bali.
Many people start their own small business from their homes – sometimes even using a corner of the dining room table for their office until they get the business going. Often they are happy to stay small, but in other the business increases beyond their wildest dreams and before they know it they’ve had to employ staff and move to a larger office.
However, there are many benefits to remaining a sole trader who doesn’t employ staff. It suits some people to continue to work alone from their home and use the internet as a way of contacting their clients. A big benefit is that you can organise your work schedule around your life and can be at home to care for children, or for when the children come home from school.
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An “invisible” Mercedes-Benz B-Class (the F-Cell) is being used in an ad campaign to show off the zero-emissions features of their new fuel-cell powered vehicle. The Mercedes-Benz B-class F-Cell will be available in 2014 with a 386km (240 miles) range.
Sheets of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) laid onA one side of the Mercedes-Benz F-Cell car are then fed by a camera image from the other side, so that the live feed makes the car appear invisible to people looking at it from the LED side. It looks pretty amazing in the Youtube video.
The advertising campaign is designed to raise awareness of this zero emissions technology being available to the public but also to help increase the number of hydrogen refuelling stations that countries are willing to build. These hydrogen stations are critical to the success of hydrogen-fueled cars of course.
The B-class F-Cell stores hydrogen in its polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. A fuel cell then converts high-pressure hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2, from the air) into electrical energy and water (H2O). The electrical energy is used to drive a 134hp electric motor and power the car, and the only ‘pollutant’ out of the exhaust is pure water. The entire process can be almost emissions free if the hydrogen is obtained from renewable clean energy.
At startup, the F-Cell uses power from a 1.4-kWh lithium-ion battery array and then the fuel cell motor comes on at 7mph (11.2km/h). It is not the fastest B-class Mercedes Benz, taking around 17seconds to get to 60mph (96km/hr) but it is the cleanest.
Only 70 F-Cells will come to the US, mostly in California and a few in Washington, D.C., and the lease cost is around $800-1000 (€602-753), at least until there are more hydrogen refueling stations available and more F-Cells are manufactured, dropping their price for the public to buy.
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