Conventional wisdom tells us that certain species of trees may be more harmful than others to water and sewage lines if planted too close That is true as far as it goes but all trees have some ability to invade water and sewer lines First tree roots invade mostly through lines that are damaged and in the top 24 inches of soil Sound lines and sewers have very little trouble with root damage and only at weak points where water is seeping out The larger fast growing trees are the biggest problem Avoid planting these trees near your service and watch very carefully these kinds of trees near your service Roots don t actually crush septic tanks and lines but rather enter at weak and seeping spots on tanks and lines Many fast-growing large trees are considered more aggressive toward water service when finding a water source coming from that service Try to avoid planting these large fast-growing aggressive-rooted trees to include Fraxinus ash Liquidambar sweetgum Populus poplar and cottonwood Quercus oak usually lowland varieties Robinia locust Salix willow Tilia basswood Liriodendron tuliptree and Platanus sycamore as well as many Acer species red sugar Norway and silver maples and boxelder

Shares of Lenovo were set to open at HK 36 5 3 on Tuesday compared with its previous close of HK 36 5 58 JP Morgan downgraded Lenovo to neutral from overweight due to a near-term slowdown in revenue growth from weak China demand and a slower ramp-up of the U S consumer business The downgrade came soon after U S computer giant International Business Machines Corp IBM IBM N sold 36 77 3 million worth of Lenovo shares IBM sold 116 19 million shares or a roughly 1 3 percent stake in Lenovo at HK 36 5 19 each the bottom of a range of HK 36 5 19 to HK 36 5 36 per share a source close to the deal said Reporting by Donny Kwok Editing by Anne Marie Roantree

Definition There seems to be strong factual basis for the other wonders of the ancient world but the hanging gardens of Babylon may be one wonder of the ancient world that never was It could simply have been the luxurious appearance of a greenery covered ziggurat that led writers to claim that a hanging garden existed Diodorus Siculus described the hanging gardens as a quot series of superimposed terraces of reducing size rising to a height of 75 feet quot H W F Saggs quot Civilization Before Greece and Rome quot p 55 Strabo said it was much larger with a a square base with each side 400 feet long The water could have been brought from the Euphrates River to the garden by irrigation and a series of buckets or pulleys The hanging gardens are said to have been built in the sixth century by Nebuchadnezzar for his wife or in the ninth century by the Assyrian Queen Semiramis Hanging probably meant the gardens were overhanging or terraced

NEW YORK CNNMoney com — The economy slowed in June as higher prices for food fuel and other goods translated into a dip in growth according to a private group s measurement released Monday The New York-based Conference Board s forecast of future economic activity fell by 0 1 matching the consensus estimate of Wall Street economists The group revised May s number down to a 0 2 decrease from a 0 1 increase The report indicated that the economy may not improve over the next six months quot The report is saying there s no pickup there s no recovery from where we are six months ahead quot said Allen Sinai chief economist at Decision Economics He said the report showed a fragmented economy with housing and finance in quot a depression quot alongside healthy sectors like health care and exports The situation is complicated by the fact that while real GDP has not declined many important monthly indicators - such as job creation - have shown weakness quot So how do I characterize it More of the economy is doing poorly than well so I m calling it a mild recession quot Sinai said The leading indicators index is an aggregate of data such as stock prices unemployment claims weekly manufacturing hours and the difference between short-term and long-term interest rates Four of the 10 key factors contributed positively to the index Most important were building permits an increase of 0 3 and interest rate spread an increase of 0 2 Of the six factors that weighed down the index money supply fell by 0 3 and stock prices decreased by 0 2 nbsp First Published July 21 2008 10 29 AM EDT

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