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your-local-grubdog · 2 years

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Hocotation Headcannons/Star Touched AU Intro Thingy

Hi hello I have been working on a shiny new AU. Best way I can describe it is being like Pikmin+. For the most part it’s just me adding on new stuff to cannon stuff. Have a whole story idea for it and everything, but for now let’s keep it simple with this! Headcannons about Hocotate and Hocotations! Yay!

And as always with world building, it exists so that the characters and story can break + challenge the rules/expectations set before them.

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Yeah!!! Uh, with that, I’m just going to copy paste what I have written down in my big ole google doc!!!

The Planet

Hocotate as a planet is fairly small, and very cold. It lies just within the habitable zone of its red star, so while it can support life only the hardiest of creatures can survive. Two moons orbit the planet, an icey blue moon and an iron-rich red moon (that is also still fairly icey despite appearances!) alongside some rings made mostly of dust and ice. Ships coming to and from the planet must take care not to fly through a ring, or they risk damage to their ship.

Hocotate's land masses are rather interesting as there are no true continents. Rather, a series of sub continents in the form of large islands are peppered across the planet's surface. Smaller islands are, of course, present as well. The largest sub continents take about 3-4 days of constant driving via car to cross, assuming traffic won't stop you (which it will). It generally takes only 2-3 days of constant motion by a modern boat to get between the various land masses.

Being so cold, the polar circles on Hocotate are proportionally larger than those of Earth. The very ends of each pole are almost completely inhospitable due to low temperatures. The only lifeforms that live there don't quite count, as they're microscopic organisms at the bottom of the ocean eating funky chemical soup from underwater volcanoes that are considerably warmer than the ice caps far above them.

The only real "temperate" zone of Hocotate is found at its equator. Yes, the hottest spots on Hocotate (aside from volcanic areas of course) don't get much hotter than 85°F/64°C during the summer. Winters are the mildest here, being about 42°F/27°C. For better comparisons, I used the weather history for Columbus, Ohio as reference for their equator temperatures.

The rest of the planet's habitable zones really only have two modes: summer and winter. There is an inbetween stage of course, but the springs and autumns move by very quickly. Summers in these zones are very cool, and on the hottest of days you could get away with a thinner long sleeve if you really wanted to. Think 60-70°F/40-50°C range. Their winters, however, are brutal. Temperatures will drop below freezing, and heavy snowfall will coat the land.

Fresh liquid water tends to be rare to find, as most is either frozen or salt water, though modern technology has managed to negate that.

Biology

Hocotations have many natural adaptations to combat the cold, as it is what most Hocotations will be dealing with most of the time.

The first and most obvious to many is the fact they are fuzzy. They have a fur coat comparable to that of a short-haired house cat, which comes in a variety of shades of brown and cream colors. Flushing of the skin is still visible through the fur though. It'll bristle and raise whenever a Hocotation is cold, scared, or angry. It keeps them quite warm on their planet, though fairly miserable on warmer ones (and desert worlds like Koppai are literally hell for them).

Their eyes generally appear to be mostly pupils because of fresh liquid water once being rare! Pupils help filter light, and will expand/contract based on how much light is needed. Water (and ice, if they're desperate enough to boil some for water) is very shiny, and thus they can catch the glittering of it easier. This is also why they love treasure and generally shiny things so much - they're subconsciously programmed to think shiny = will keep you alive. This is also why humans love shiny things so much! Though it is a little more extreme in Hocotations.

Hocotations are omnivorous! While they can eat any food type at any time, they do tend to eat mainly vegetables in the summer and meat during the winter. Because Hocotations will "hole up" during winter (more on that later) and because vegetable crops tend to be their most popular export, a lot of other races tend to assume they're vegetarian. They do have some very sharp teeth though! They can also rarely have a trait that gives them longer and pointer tongues, but it does no harm nor no good for them. Just kinda is.

They have long pointed ears which will move about depending on emotion. They will perk up slightly when spooked or alert, droop down when angry or sad, and pin back slightly when annoyed. They also have a sharp sense of hearing, and their ears will twitch when they hear a sudden and/or loud noise.

Animals here are referred to by Earth animal names to provide the closet description for what the animal is. Think of it more like a translation than the actual words being used. Hocotation dogs, for example, resemble bulborbs far more than they do any Earth dog. But they're called "dogs'' to describe how they act and where they fit in the world. The same applies to whatever Earth plants Louie has mentioned - there are no avocados on Hocotate (at least, not before Koppaites were able to start exporting scaly custard), but there is an avocado-like plant.

Culture

Hocotate can best be compared to post-World War II Americana. It is an extremely hetro-normative society where monetary success is highly valued. While there are always exceptions, most families tend to follow a fairly strict "working husband, stay-at-home wife, 2.5 kids and a family pet" set up. Men tend to be expected to wear a business casual outfit even in casual scenarios, and women are expected to look "nice". And yes, that is a vague description.

Do the kiddos follow these expectations? Not really. Most tend to dress far more casually, and there is a young but quickly growing punk movement. Most adults brush it off as kids being kids, but these kiddos don't quite intend on changing when they're older.

They have a small handful of as-of-now unnamed holidays. Which ones are celebrated and how varies from region to region, but the general list is as follows:

A new year's celebration at the beginning of spring, also celebrating the coming of spring

A summer solstice festival, where families will go out on picnics and hit up local carnivals. The short night will be brightly lit for a few hours with paper lanterns and lights of all kinds.

A harvest festival in the fall, meant for seeing extended family one final time before winter.

The winter solstice is also celebrated, but has the most variance due to being in the middle of winter. Various areas and even various families have wildly different ways of celebrating, so it's impossible to pin down any one true way of celebrating.

The clothing worn during these holidays resemble Japanese kimonos. They'll wear soft close-toed slippers alongside these.

Their buildings are all specifically designed to deal with winter. Roofs look like a horizontal "{" (pointy bracket thing idk what it's called), allowing for some snow to build up and help insulate the house but still causing most to fall off as to not put too much weight on the house. The area is terraformed beforehand so that the house will stand on a hill. Garages, if present, will be part of the basement of the house. All houses are also at least two stories tall, with the second floor being home to a supply closet in which a snowmobile is kept. This closet will have an emergency staircase and pulley system attached to it to allow the snowmobile to be lifted into and out of the house. In cheaper houses, the second floor will be this supply closet and nothing else.

Ramps are used instead of staircases to walk up to house doors. This is mainly due to the natural Hocotation response to sliding on ice (as salting roads/stairs is pretty pointless for reasons we'll soon get into) working flawlessly on flat surfaces and inclines… but causing hard falls near edges and in turn, stairs.

Valleys are usually avoided at all costs, though some very cheap housing can be found there.

Buildings are unable to go above five stories in most of Hocotate, meaning most dense cities are just lines of five story buildings smushed together tightly. There's a single city that looks more like New York, complete with skyscrapers, but it's on the equator and is largely a tourist trap.

All of the above housing choices are due to Hocotate's brutal winters. Winter is not just freezing on Hocotate, but early winter brings with it a brutal storm that forces people to hunker down in their houses. The snow will pile up so high it is impossible to leave the house normally, and while the snowmobile is an option if needed it's generally considered unsafe. Everything in whichever hemisphere is experiencing winter will come to a full stop as families cuddle up inside. Having enough supplies to last through winter is a must, and they can easily put a conspiracy theorist's bomb shelter to shame in how much they'll stock up on. They cannot leave the house until early spring when the snow all melts away.

Richer Hocotations will usually just own a house in each hemisphere, and move to the other when winter is close.

Other

Hocotation school is structured much like American school. The big difference is that winter break lasts all winter (for… obvious reasons), and is the break between changing grade levels. They otherwise only get a week off in summer and fall, with occasional periods off for the various holidays.

Hocotate is an absolute capitalist hellscape. There are few laws/regulations to protect consumers and workers. It isn't nearly as bad as America's gilded age, but is still pretty terrible

As of the pikmin games, there are more workers than jobs that can actually support a person. Getting fired is detrimental, and finding jobs is a nightmare

There are LGBT+ rights on Hocotate, but they also are not always enforced. Homophobia is common but on a slow decline.

Hocotations are also known to keep small collections of items that mean something to them. These collections are highly personal and thus vary wildly, but can range from engagement rings to a cool pebble your friend found.

Hocotate also has a rather large amount of national parks/nature reserves, though most are in valleys people refuse to live in.

Hocotate's most practiced religion is a polytheistic one wherein families/communities/individuals (depending on where you go) will gravitate to one particular deity to study/worship. The belief in ghosts/spirits is also common even in otherwise nonreligious people.

Hocotate engineers just have to complete so many years of college and internships, compared to Koppai having apprenticeships. However, they can still choose to go to Koppai and be apprenticed, and be acknowledged as an engineer on Hocotate.

All you need for a space faring licence on Hocotate is to be 18 or older, a fairly clean driving record, and courses on how to fly + repair a ship. Needless to say, Hocotate is infamous for having the most lax rules when it comes to this (most other planets need a stricter driving record, to be 21, and to also take a first aid class).

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mints-software · 3 years

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theurbansquared · 3 years

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Guide To Avoiding A Loser Brokerage

by James Hill | theurbansquared

Brokers can be bastards and some even get better at it while other brokers are legitimate life-changing business Sherpas

A broker is supposed to guide you through a career in real estate much like a coach or pimp - offering protection and how to understand a complicated system better and direct it to revenue without getting your neck broke while playing the game. I created and ran the most well-reviewed, largest full-service brokerage in the fastest-growing city in America. This gave me access to nearly ever broker and their broker's pay structure and innovations. I also got the agent's version of my same broker buddies brokerages when they eventually joined my brokerage; hovering anywhere from 20–60 agents. Trending insider chatter has blame going to real estate brokers of decades past (and current) and how they’ve managed their agents - - letting unsupervised agents with no experience run wild on the streets practicing on the public wearing out Realtor love and making a need for all the Mountain Dew-made Zillow-y options that currently exist.

Brokers are out of touch more than ever with today’s current media load, having to understand and use social media platforms for their advertising (since the private Town & Country affair that real estate once was is forever over and the landscape is a bit more like a half Juggalo, half programmer flea market).

Let’s dive into some situations and tenets that most agents don’t consider when choosing a brokerage.

Sales Volume

This is a bit of negotiating psychology and due diligence. Simply ask how much sales they (the brokerage) did last year and how much they’re currently at. If they don’t know these numbers they’re goons. If they don’t give it, you guessed it - they’re hiding something; their lack of revenue. I’ve hired and fired hundreds of agents and in interviews so few ask this question but it’s one of the most important questions you can ask as an agent and you need the information. An agent that doesn’t ask this has already given a tell that they’re not a top producer since they’re not interested in the production capacity of the team they may join. No bueno. Creep the brokerage as well obvi -- reviews, FB & IG engagement and current running ads, and make sure the company Christmas Party isn’t catered by Chic-fil-a at a Burnet Road dive bar.

Office

40% of your learning and 350% of your work will be done at the office. Those numbers will make sense 90% of the time after a few years in real estate. The rest should be on the streets - your car, properties, driving 75 mph talking and sending out docs, gorging on breath mints. Office, home, tiny homes, motorhomes have all blended into one larger conversation where work/live ethos are all in re-definition.

But, when you do need a more savvy moment in any market when people talk about borrowing or selling something that’s over $100K they don’t want to hear some bullshit too loud pedantic conversation seated right next to them at Starbucks or the local kooky coffee shop. In real estate Murphy’s Law is always in effect. The super important listing sign off that has to go well and they want to hear you pitch again before deciding? There will be someone (at this super ‘caj’ coffee house meeting) there projectile vomiting, or throwing cats, or something else tiresome or bad that takes more calls.

Speech and body language are massive parts of sales so when the entire set is thrown because a barista is running through a whole Sublime album. You want the most inviting cool office you can ever pull off at any given moment in real estate . Was that ever a question? There's a balance -- you can't afford that year one or three, but it’s called real estate for a reason. Sexy, exciting buildings is what the brochure said when I joined. Also, it’s about style not size.

If you haven’t lost business to coffee house back pressure you really haven’t failed at agency properly.

Social IQ

Social reach is the only conversation now. Many brokerages won’t make it as the lead generating aspects of the industry aren't powered by a private MLS anyone and the publicly-hated ‘Realtor’ designation have both brokers and agents guessing about tomorrow. Calendars, best practices and free shitty tips & templates are the du jour of the day for anyone trying to get an agent's eyes. You can Google and get all the ‘basic’ social media dance steps, but with everyone at the same happy hunting spot, you’re being covered up, which leaves all your new artistic efforts fruitless and also squandering winning time.

Traffic, leads and engagement are all separate areas that have to be fulfilled properly and even this is in flux with historic corporations and current start ups all on the same advertising playing field. Social reach and engagement is about going to the consumer direct and becoming their friend with soft bribes -- free food, gifts, prizes (trips, events tickets) or industry work tools. The great news is, real estate has always been mostly consumer direct - start up a convoy at the grocery store (bar, church, meetup) and you’re in the car that weekend looking for houses with a new client. While you, your brokerage and the world are figuring out their exact social media mix, you need to make sure a brokerage isn’t lost on social media since many won’t be able to stay in business in the next few short years. Your brokerage needs to have a plan and and at best some presence on social media. Plus, they should be running low-cost performative marketing ad campaigns to get a feel for what and if set user groups are responding to ads. Anyone can post on IG but people engage on IG when they become inspired. A brokerage should have some sort of inspiration and relationship tied in with the local allure of their city -- or heading that direction.

Mentoring

Much like a neurotic buyer chasing an interest rate for their home mortgage (and then never buying a house) agents too focused on commission may miss the essential career need for mentoring -- for their clients and career. I had a 5 deal minimum for my new agents before they were ever unsupervised and received more commission. I've had new agents with celeb clients in hand and celeb agents with no clients in hand. No one wants to do business with someone with absolutely has no, experience but they do it because they like you as a friend or fam. Your mentor is the person riding shotgun with you at the beginning of your career. On many levels you want to be this person since they embody the position and role. You're literally and figuratively are borrowing experience from them and they deserve to be paid for it. You always have to strengthen your brand outside of your brokerage but if you don’t have any experience your brand doesn’t have ‘strength’ you simply have a logo and a drag & drop website where you're possibly talking about yourself and love of unicorns or football shit but the big boat deals you dream about in bed aren’t gotten this way. Remember, no unicorn could ever throw a football good without a lot of practice and a good mentor.

Support

Support in a brokerage is really communication and solutions for small problems, and systems for managing bigger ones with people. Most of the annoying things in real estate happen outside of the deal - contracts, calls, emails, docs, signatures, more docs. You typically want a super admin, broker, or agent manager that you can call and they pick up the phone. It’s pretty simple. With a mentor, admin, or broker you’re going to have a n 8:30 PM question or deal that’s going down. You’ll need printer help. Real estate always happens now (this was one of the main mantras in my office). Printing, prequal, weekend support and constant post dinner shenanigans.

Training

Meet Frank Miller, David Mamet, the Sex Pistols, Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Hendrix, Tom Hopkins, The World’s Greatest Detective and Conan The Barbarian. We had a lot of different inspirations for the style and ethos of our urban brokerage. The World’s Greatest Detective is Batman. It was a moniker that became popular in the seventies. We used this example about how important due diligence and proper Fact Finding techniques are for serving and closing deals for clients. (It’s almost essential to be inquisitive in real estate esp about property/development to have success). Training is largely your sales meeting(s). Although I don’t come from a car background I’ve mentored many car guys transferring to real estate (they typically are out of the industry within 2 years and are there only for boom markets). Car guys have meetings every morning 6 days a week and they’re not at 9 or 10 am. They’re already working.

free module: The Burger King Phenomena: Why Agents Do Less Working For Themselves Than If They Were Working At Burger King

Many brokerages have no training/meeting schedule (monthly doesn’t count -- that’s a meet and greet company pump and catch up meeting). If a brokerage doesn’t have training on a schedule then there is no training. You’ll possibly be thrown a 3-ring binder, or given some PDF’s, or links to old bizarre training videos or a soup sandwich of all three and sometimes even a bill for the training. An agent’s training/meetings and their attendance to them are the difference between an agent making it or not when you’re 24 months or less in the role as an agent especially in the fast turbulent waters of the current 2021 market where brokerage and agent purpose and pay are under attack. From my experience, new agents that hide die.

Media

Having a background as a creative director I’m aware with great detail of agency and brokerage media needs, the cost and time they extract, and the corresponding revenue they’re projected to bring back. Brokerages are looking for their purpose now as simply having a brokerage doesn’t bring in leads like it used to. This is fitting, since the digital dumbass brokers that that didn’t understand the importance of ‘the web’ rickshawed our MLS data and sold the agent/broker centric real estate system for their benefit while current agents are left with an empty greasy enough to-go box to curl up with. Brokerages were never media houses or ad agencies but now that consumer level graphic programs and website builders are ubiquitous and any agent after being licensed for 10 days can drag & drop a website up in 4 hours and make it look like a brokerage that’s been around for years. I know I’m going wide on the subject here but stay with me because this is the crux of where the industry and consumer are renegotiating roles.

A brokerage’s value proposition has changed drastically with the telecommute revolution that was only sped and strengthened by Covid. Also, generational knowledge base gaps in technology are more apparent than ever with technology as younger agents can often be more media savvy than their broker. The market is flooded with self appointed companies or gurus that are taking on the role of the classic ad agency (Mad Men) or media production house. Also beware of real estate coaches with little or no real estate experience offering to guide you in social media. Okay media can’t be used in apex situations (such as the luxury listings you’re after) and doesn’t draw apex listings. Beware of tapioca room temperature tips and general lists from companies that can appear informative but are really boilerplate low grade data to get your attention to ultimately upsell you on a paid service.

As an agent or a brokerage, consumer level graphic and website building programs can be a death ticket to your business as your competitors have the same tools and are cranking out the same type of style of messaging you are now. Now agents, principals, admins and in art class creating flyers. This has been done since the nineties as the valleys of dead agent careers is full of 2-day Microsoft Word (or any of their shitty office offerings) seshes to produce nasty flyers and presentations. These programs are fun and making bad flyers absolutely work related - the kind of work you don’t want’ related to your business because it’s adult crayon coloring. Activity does not equal production. Staying busy doing the wrong things doesn’t make money in real estate. Rather than spending agent winning time staying in the wrong lanes for way too long, get with a team or brokerage that are providing the most exceptional visual media you can find in your market. It used to be cool 2 years ago, now it’s the only thing that matters. Visual content.

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Access

This is access to your broker. Brokers with families are typically less available. Your best bet as an agent is looking for a grinder broker who sleeps on the couch at their office. This person doesn’t have kids to build into so they’ll build into your career and you’ll get the most out of these brokers. Beware of cheesedick, apathetic, rich boy, bored brokers not around and more concerned with projects like a shitty vanity wine brand that their wife’s forced them to launch since she’s not living her best life anymore as an agent.

Style

What kind of style is your brokerage? Is there an opportunity to bring more style sophistication to the market -- standout in a smaller market? Or, are you in an ultra stylish market currently and butt hurt because you already have a little story about how you’re going to keep it real and be a Dockers wearing slob for eternity? The thing about style in agency is you always need to look like you can list a million dollar house. Oh, is it really that simple? Yes it is. You complicated it. Clients always care about their housing a little bit more than they care about your real estate career. They don’t have time to figure out why you’re wearing shoe styles from 7 years ago. Don’t make it hard for people to do business with you. If you’re ugly, even better. It can be a massive advantage. Everyone on the planet loves when someone who doesn’t fall into our general current ‘attractive’ spectrum doesn’t give af, looks great and puts themselves together in a stylish way that the viewer can understand (can I get away with Teen Wolf?). A great side benefit from this step in the right direction is it’s a great way to make someone who is conventionally attractive insecure.

You want to be in the same style as the people in your area but the secret is you need to lead that style pack if you can -- you always lead and dress apex. Years ago this was anecdotal but after over 100K hours in real estate a good suite (tailored) saved my ass and literally got me business. I listed the largest house in east Austin because of a suit (and got a front page story on the newspaper real estate section for free because the owner saw me walking into the next door neighbor’s house).

Offices, dress, logo, email signature are all elements of you and your brokerage’s style. Style in and of itself isn’t enough to be a top producer in real estate. I’ve had stylish and even celebrity agents that didn't do zilch, but style often is a fingerprint to something more.

Picking the right elements for your agent style is an art because you have to offer something from yourself that’s unique enough as well as something familiar (a bridge to your uniqueness). I have a background as a musician and also as a merchant sailor. Fortunately those are easy convo starters. You could be a philatelist and have some challenges, but regardless it absolutely will take a year or three to develop your own angle and style towards the market as you learn it and the agent role more.

Things that look attractive and familiar puts client’s psychologies at ease. So, if skinny jeans are in you better get in them (that’s like five years old now). You’re on stage. You don’t wear what the worker people behind the camera wear. If you want to wear boring shit get on the other side of the camera. If you want less leads saddle up to a forgettable brokerage. People have hard days. They want you to put an effort into your real estate agency role. Currently it’s a fried role so you’re dealing with that too. People love to be smiled at and sold and especially from someone who smells good. It doesn't ever get old. Don’t make them beg for your charm. Be a nice charming person with a shirt that fits good, it’s a powerful combo.

Get My Damn Paper

If you’ve never seen a werewolf in daylight mess with an agent’s commission after the deal’s done and funded. Admin? Who is the damn person who does the admin? (accounts payable is the icey pro word if you like). That person that you contact to get your commission check cut? If that person is a weirdo, or there’s an unfriendly or sketchy quality to the office or admin staff, do not go forward (don’t confuse this with new people or industry jitters). Grab some free coffee, leave the smarm and jet to the next brokerage blind date.

Software

CRM is an annoying conversation. Here’s the things with CRM’s - for all the work CRMs curtail, because of their complexity and existence and the work(time) they take to interact with you need to consider how much work you’re putting into operating the CRM software verses how much time it’s saving. Many times brokerages have expensive yearly subscriptions with per agent fees for their CRM which can make the brokerage have a zealot meth thing for the ‘team’ software and promise you can’t have a career without taking a bump too. To understand CRM better before it was a name, Client Relationship Management is what analog Proximity became. Let me explain - being close to people in Church, bar, school, same building -- all give proximity. This becomes familiarity, then ease, then trust. People do business with people they trust & like. Once people disconnected physically and started using other means more contact attempts have to be made to work for or ‘prove’ worth.

Follow Up is a large component of most CRM’s and there are gobs of money for agents who follow up meticulously. Simply ask the broker what CRM they use and research it. Something to remember - unless you’re extremely busy with your career you don’t need a CRM. You can manage & database your clients & leads ‘by hand’ and strap it to the cloud with G-Suite/Google Sheets.

Brokerage Name

A small but important aside, if a brokerage have named themselves after a precious metal or a gem, or if it says elite in the name then it’s not elite. If it has the words prestige or worldwide or international it may not be any of those either. I know a handful of exceptions to this rule but this is a great dirty primer to use when choosing a brokerage that’s going to propel your career and have shrimp options at the Christmas Party.

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homekitchenbeauty · 3 years

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How an Air Conditioner Works?

We've observed the history of AC and the newest trends in what contemporary ACs provide. However, some might not be certain how air is warmed or chilled. Let us walk you through fast how an air conditioner works.

Basic Mechanism and Principle

The underlying principle of the evaporative cooling system is that water should have heat, called the"heat of vaporization," applied for it to switch from a liquid into a vapor.

By way of instance, touching rubbing alcohol hydrates your finger since it absorbs heat from your skin as the alcohol evaporates. This signifies the principle of an evaporative cooling system.

Conversely, when the gas liquefies, it releases a great deal of warmth, and that's the way that evaporative heating occurs. A MarQ AC review indicated that the air conditioners work with these principles.

A liquid known as a"refrigerant" circulates through a closed piping system, occasionally liquefying and evaporating to cool air, and reversing this refrigerant flow (reverse cycle) heats the air.

Refrigeration Cycle

Compounds alter the condition, i.e., liquid, solid, gas, normally when they are heated or chilled. That's known as"altering conditions of matter."

Air conditioners influence the changes in conditions of refrigerant to heat or cool room atmosphere. The refrigeration cycle constantly changes the conditions of a refrigerant circulating in a closed piping system.

1. Compressing

After the cooling procedure begins, the refrigerant in reduced temperatures and pressure will be compressed by the compressor.

The warmth of the gas increases, whereby making the refrigerant gaseous in elevated temperature and pressure.

2. Condensing

The gaseous refrigerant is moved into the condenser (heat changer), in which heat is exchanged between the refrigerant and outside air.

This releases the refrigerant‘s heat into the outside air. Releasing the warmth, the refrigerant changes its state to some medium-temperature and high-temperature liquid.

3. Expansion

The liquefied refrigerant goes to the growth valve, which reduces the stress of the refrigerant. Depressurized refrigerant expands, decreasing the temperature and shifting its own state to some liquid of low temperatures and pressure.

4. Vaporization

The refrigerant becomes a low-temperature and low-pressure liquid in the expansion valve and is moved into the evaporator (heat exchanger), in which heat is exchanged between the refrigerant and indoor atmosphere.

The warmth of the indoor atmosphere moves into the refrigerant, and the atmosphere is chilled. The refrigerant picks up the warmth from the atmosphere, shifting its state to some low-temperature and low-pressure petrol, and also goes straight back to the breaker.

5. Reverse Cycle

A heat pump air conditioner utilizes a four-way valve that reverses refrigerant flow, offering you both heating and cooling for air comfort relaxation throughout the year.

This function is also known as a"reverse cycle." The expression"reverse cycle air conditioner," yet another title for a heat pump air conditioner, comes in the mechanics of this cycle.

6. Compressor

An air conditioner compressor can be described as a part of the system which increases the pressure of the vapor to create changes from the refrigerant temperature. Most home-use air conditioners have compressors within their outside units.

7. Heat Pump

Heat flows from hot to cold. A heat pump reverses flow by extracting heat from a place and transfers it into another.

Based on if the heating or cooling system is chosen, it pushes heat out and in with the heating cycle of compression, then condensation, then expansion, and finally, evaporation.

8. Inverter

A power inverter, or just inverter, is a digital apparatus or circuitry that changes direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC). Most commercial and domestic buildings are often powered by AC.

Standard voltages and frequencies vary by state. Changing voltage or frequency demands an inverter that converts AC into DC and, following desired changes in voltage and frequency, converts DC back to AC.

Air conditioners with inverters operate at controllable motor speeds—a cool method for electricity conserving.

9. Water-Cooled Chiller System

A water-cooled chiller system includes a chiller that uses water as the refrigerant and may be seen in several industrial and commercial uses.

The water picks up heat within the building, returns into the chiller, in which it's cooled, then returns to circulating throughout the building.

10. Cooling Tower

A cooling tower, sometimes located on rooftops, is a heat rejection device that aids refrigerated ac work efficiently. Heat exchange happening at the refrigeration unit raises the temperature of the heating water.

The cooling tower keeps and exposes the water to airflow to the tower to permit air, which lowers the water flow. Afterward, the water has been passed back into the refrigerant unit and used again.

11. Free Cooling

Free heating is an economical way of utilizing low outside air temperatures to help in chilling water. The heated water could be stored until used and summer from the cooling system to discharge heat.

If the ambient air temperature drops into a set temperature, then a modulating valve permits the heated water to jump-start a present chiller and operate via the free cooling procedure, which requires much less power to cool the water from the system.

What Is Humidity Control?

Reduced humidity contributes to a dry atmosphere, which causes mucous membranes in your throat to become less resistant to influenza pathogens and other ailments.

Too much humidity, flipping the coin, causes distress. After the humidity of the atmosphere rises, it permits the development of biological contaminants like mites and mold.

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) urges that indoor relative humidity be maintained between 40-60 percent.

The Difference Between AC and Dehumidifiers

A whole lot of air heaters function as dehumidifiers. Air conditioning (cooling) is a process that prioritizes the lowering of space temperatures.

Therefore, once the cooling system is chosen on an AC, then it proceeds to cool the air until it drops to a perfect temperature.

Dehumidifiers are made to decrease the humidity level of a certain distance and operate a feeble cooling manner until the preset humidity is attained.

A few dehumidifiers can dehumidify and reheat to generate a room environment using a drier atmosphere without reducing temperatures.

Applications

Air conditioning is all about producing desirable air environments for objects or occupants indoors. Air-conditioning programs are widely divided into relaxation and process applications.

Comfort application

With relaxation air conditioning, the focus is on individuals residing, working, etc., at office buildings, health centers, schools, shops, or even vehicles.

Low-Rise Apartment Buildings and Single-Family Homes

Packaged window unit (in-window) ACs or split system ACs would be the favorite options for homes and low-rise flat buildings. Split-system air conditioners come in 2 kinds: single-split and multi-split systems.

A single-split system is generally composed of a single indoor unit and a single outdoor unit, even though a multi-split system includes two or more indoor units.

The kind of system, space dimensions, and functions required are typical elements to be thought about in choosing an air compressor.

High-Rise Housing, like Condos

The bigger the building, the higher complications there will be in the AC system. Ac methods for high-rise homes are broadly categorized into two types from the way the heat source is dispersed: distributed heating and central heating.

A central heating system offers heat to the total inside of a building from 1 stage (e.g., a machine room, in which heat sources such as a boiler and heating unit are placed) to multiple chambers.

In a dispersed heating system, heating sources can be found at multiple factors where air conditioning for chambers of ground or zone is supplied.

Public Institutions, e.g., Schools, Hospitals

An educational institution or Medical center buildings have spaces with various purposes, so they require particular designs suitable for the function of how they're used.

By way of instance, waiting rooms or workplaces need typical relaxation air conditioning, even while managing rooms or kitchens need to be made to satisfy function-specific requirements.

Office Buildings

Office buildings provide spaces for businesspersons, which could be hot weather individuals or who favor temperatures somewhat lower.

Airflow instructions ought to be made select-able for comfy air conditioning. In designing a system, uninterrupted exposure to drafts from an AC should likewise be avoided.

Commercial Buildings that Accommodate Restaurants, Shopping Malls

Commercial buildings home varying companies that need various abilities of air conditioning when all tenants have the exact same place.

When there's a restaurant at the construction, ease of upkeep and also an oil-trapping filter system ought to be contemplated in the air conditioning layout because of its own kitchen space.

For industrial buildings, tenant-centric air conditioning together with desired indoor unit layouts and outside unit designs offering comfort for clients is an extra requirement.

Industrial Buildings

Along with relaxation, industrial air-conditioning design may demand cooling equipment for tooling and machines. Cooling the huge area of an industrial center requires significantly big power output.

That's the reason it's often suggested to utilize the ease of fans or spot coolers to decrease the total electricity consumption.

Road, Marine, and Air Vehicles for Carrying fresh food items or Passengers

Buses, railways, aircraft, refrigerated vehicles, and boats --they need air conditioning programs appropriate to the requirements of what they carry.

Public vehicles tend to get packed with lots of men and women, which makes it crucial to be well ventilated along with controlling the humidity and Temperature.

For aircraft, the cabin pressure has to be kept at a constant degree so as to make a secure and comfortable environment for crew and passengers flying at high altitudes.

Process Applications

Process applications aim to offer a suitable environment, e.g., inner heating and humidity heaps, for a procedure being completed, in addition to for machines or material used for this.

Process applications include industrial surroundings; farm and plant growing areas; meal consumption, processing, and storage areas; and ecological management of information centers.

Biological Clean rooms

Facilities for breeding lab animals have to be air-conditioned to particular requirements so as to present an environment for getting highly dependable information.

Humidity and Temperature need to be ideally controlled to levels suitable to animals being bred. Interior air has to meet cleanliness requirements and also be correctly deodorized.

Data Centers

Air conditioning for information centers must curb heat generation from servers and computers, also, at precisely the exact same period, distribute the conditioned air to match the thermal relaxation needs of people.

Capabilities for maintaining moderate humidity amount and conserving energy have to also be factored into the atmosphere condition planning.

Operating Theaters

Fundamental demands for air conditioning systems in working theaters include the regulation of humidity and Temperature and the atmosphere relaxation for patients and healthcare professionals.

Operating rooms have to get a positive pressure connection to adjoining places, i.e., a pressure inside has to be retained higher than the environment which surrounds the space.

Types of Air Conditioning Systems

The classification of home-use AC contains:

In a window AC, each of the elements, namely the compressor, condenser, expansion valve or coil, evaporator, and heating coil, are included in one box package. This device is fitted in, generally, a windowsill, eliminating the need for ducting.

Split: The split AC consists of two components -- the outside unit and the indoor unit -- also comes in only divide or multi-split settings.

Single Split System: In one split air conditioner, one exterior unit runs the machine to supply conditioned air from an indoor unit.

Multi-Split System: The outside unit of a multi-split air purifier operates more than one unit. A favorite alternative for owners of recently constructed homes. As it requires just 1 unit outside, a multi-split system leads to a slick house look.

Requirements for Multi-Split System Installation

These needs should be taken into account.

Piping Routes: A multi-split platform requires piping to connect with the outside unit and several indoor units. Dimensional constraints ought to be assessed beforehand to be sure of the installation of piping.

Outdoor Unit Capacity: The entire power of the indoor components needs to be kept under the capability of the outside unit.

Air-to-Water (AtoW) Heat Pump

An AtoW heating pump pushes heat from the atmosphere to heat the refrigerant. Just like a split system air conditioner, the AtoW process is comprised of an indoor unit and an outdoor unit.

Heated water is kept in a tank within the indoor system and used for drinking, cleaning, indoor air heating, or ground heating.

The technology uses heat from the atmosphere and has been drawing attention from Europe, where environmental issues are prompting individuals to move from traditional combustion boilers into systems that are not as impactful on the environment.

Types of AC Systems -Commercial Air Conditioning

Different types of Air Conditioning Systems -Commercial Air Conditioning

Cooling/heating ability is where commercial/industry air conditioning systems appreciably differ from home ACs.

Commercial/industry air conditioning systems are approximately categorized, by their capability, into people for medium-size offices or shops and people for buildings and massive facilities.

Indoor units arrive in many different forms to meet varying demands, which are characterized by applications and space volume.

Office/Store Air Conditioning Systems

Single-Split Packaged Air Conditioners: In one split air conditioner, one exterior unit runs on the system, which offers conditioned air from an indoor unit.

Multi-Split Packaged Air Conditioners: At a multi-split air conditioner, a single exterior unit operates greater than an indoor unit, which makes it a favorite alternative for owners of shops and standalone offices.

Packaged Terminal Air Conditioners: A PTAC or packaged terminal air conditioner is a ductless, self-contained heating and cooling system (through the wall) commonly found in resorts, home centers, and apartment buildings.

With indoor air units and outside heating units connected through partitions, PTACs are installable in a more compact region and supply individual ac.

Building/Factory Air Conditioning System

VRF/Mini VRF

At a variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system, one exterior unit operates greater than one unit. VRFs are generally installed in moderate to large buildings larger than shops or standalone offices, for which multi-split packed air conditioners will be the favorite option.

Being controlled at varying speeds, VRF units adapt to the desired speed allowing for considerable energy savings. The ones that arrive with streamlined outdoor units made for small to midsize buildings are known as mini VRFs.

Gas Heat Pump (GHP) AC System

A GHP air conditioning system includes a gasoline engine-powered compressor within the outside unit and a heat pump to cool or heat air in living areas.

Chiller: A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid by means of a vapor-compression or absorption cooling cycle. This liquid, known as a refrigerant, is circulated through a heat exchanger to cool gear.

Chillers are in use for industrial computers and lab instruments to always maintain optimal temperatures. Commercial factories and buildings use chillers for air conditioning.

Air Handling Unit (AHU): The AHU or air handling unit is a device utilized to modulate and circulate air being part of the heating, ventilating, and conditioning system.

It utilizes cold/hot steam or water to regulate the humidity and temperatures of the atmosphere that flows into living spaces.

Central Air Conditioning: In a central ac system, a heating device apparatus installed at the construction heats the water flow in the system.

The water flows into and out of an AHU to supply conditioned air. That's compared to individual ac systems, which have heating resources for each ground and area.

Kinds of Indoor Units

Indoor components of commercial/industrial air conditioners are available in a variety of forms, based on space geometries and software.

Ducted: Indoor components of a ducted air conditioner are set up in the ceiling area. The air inlet/outlet grilles are the only components visible on the ceiling.

Wall-Mounted: The indoor system is wall-mounted and completely exposed.

Ceiling Cassette: The indoor unit of an inbuilt cassette AC is installed in the ceiling area. The ceiling panel is the only component visible and exposed on the ceiling. The valves and unit, being at the ceiling, are less observable and from the way.

Ceiling-Mounted: The indoor unit has been mounted onto the ceiling and exposed.

Floor: Being put on the ground reduces the time needed for setup.

Additional Gear for Air Conditioning

Below are apparatuses that assist air heaters to provide greater room air

Air Purifier: An air conditioner or air cleaner is a device that eliminates contaminants, e.g.dust, pollens, house dust, in the atmosphere in an area to enhance the quality of indoor air.

Ventilation Fan: An air conditioner offers cool/hot airflow but doesn't ventilate. Employing fan venting, together with an air purifier, guarantees new air consumption all the time.

Fan: Utilizing a fan with air conditioning boosts the heating impact without lowering the temperature. Fans can also be helpful to efficiently produce cool air in spaces that are stuffy.

Heater: It takes some time to heat the whole room with an air conditioner in wintertime. Fan heaters boost the heating efficiency of air conditioning systems being used.

Selecting an Air Conditioner Which Best Fits Your Space

Choosing an Air Conditioner Which Best Fits Your Space

The AC's capacity is the very first component to be factored in if picking the right business AC system for your company.

To ascertain the capability required, you might also take into consideration other variables; for instance, is your area facing south, or does this have big windows.

Select one that best matches the dimensions and demands of the rooms, supplies relaxation, and conserves electricity.

Controls

Advances in communication technologies permit more air conditioning systems to become community-linked. Let's walk you through a few examples of exactly what recent air heaters offer.

Wireless LAN (WLAN) and Application Controls

The most recent air conditioners have wireless LAN (WLAN) connection capacity that provides users smartphone controllers across the net.

You are able to turn in your air conditioner when you're away, which allows you to come home to a comfy temperature.

Remote Controls

Most ACs have remote controls. They provide features like big-screen LED, ease of use, fast press buttons, and much more.

Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA)

A digital private assistant (also known as a smart digital helper ) is a software agent that provides answers and executes services or tasks for a person based on orders or queries—dialogues with the short-range leverage natural language processing technology.

Artificial intelligence and voice recognition technology embedded inside the unit allows voice control over ACs and other electronics.

Building Management System (BMS)

A building management system (BMS) is a pest management control system installed in buildings that electronically and mechanically controls and tracks the construction systems like access control, security systems, fire systems, lighting, elevators, and ac.

Smart Cloud

Cloud computing is a type of computing usage, generally, the on-demand access to computer system resources, notably data storage and computing power, without immediate active direction by the consumer.

It provides services via network-connected computers (servers) to customers' personal computers or smartphones. Nowadays, smart cloud solutions are quickly being developed after another to deliver transformation in contemporary ac.

1 illustration is Panasonic's AC Smart Cloud. It monitors the energy consumption levels, capabilities, performance performances of numerous AC devices in various locations through cloud computing methods.

Users have fast and effortless access to this information from their tablet computers or private computers to ensure sound operations of their devices, and they're ready 24/7 to respond in case of an error.

Bluetooth

Bluetooth can be described as the short-range wireless communication technology that enables apparatuses and devices to transmit voice or data wirelessly within a brief distance.

The tech is the exact same one that lets you listen to music being streamed onto your smartphone via wireless earphones.

Some recent light goods and air conditioners equipped with Bluetooth technology, capable of connecting with smartphone programs, are getting much attention in the marketplace.

Zigbee

Zigbee is a wireless community specification for high-level communication protocols for closeness (i.e., private area) wireless ad hoc networks.

The tech characterized from the Zigbee specification provides restricted transfer speed and distance in exchange for less costly as well as working on lower electricity.

Devices supporting Zigbee supply remote-controlled home automation for air conditioners, lightings, TVs, displays, drapes, and other things.

BACnet

BACnet can e described as a communications protocol for building BAC (automation and control) networks.

The BACnet protocol provides mechanisms for automatic building automation devices to swap and track data, irrespective of the construction service that they function according to manufacturer specifications for air conditioning, power, or fire extinguishing systems.

Modbus

Modbus is a serial communications protocol that's published by Modicon (currently Schneider Electric) to be used with its own programmable logic controls (PLCs).

It is now a de facto standard communication protocol and is currently a commonly available way of linking building management systems (BMS), fabricating machines, boilers, and other industrial digital devices.

The Latest Air Conditioning Characteristics That Increase the Quality of Life

ACs are active in bringing relaxation around the calendar year, specifically during winter and summer. Thus, be a knowledgeable consumer and understand what they provide. Let us have a peek at the most recent features on Panasonic air conditioners.

Fan Speed/Coverage

An air conditioner fan circulates the heated or cooled air inside the room. The coverage and speed of this enthusiast impact the cooling/heating efficiency. Air conditioners with variable fan speeds and broad coverage lower/raise the room temperature fast.

Operating Modes

Normal working modes include:

Cool: Discharges indoor warmth to decrease the room temperature.

Auto: Automatically changes and selects ways to maintain the room temperature at the designated level.

Dry: Dehumidifies the room atmosphere. Additionally frees the room atmosphere, but much less efficiently in a cool manner.

Heat: Squeeze outside warmth to inside to heat the room atmosphere.

Eco: Runs the air conditioner when restricting energy consumption.

Fan Only: Flows air to the space to provide a cool breeze with no cooling or heating system.

Human Sensor

Detects the presence of a body in a room and directs warm or cool breeze in this way. Increases air conditioning efficiency and helps reduce energy intake.

ECONAVI, a complete range of Panasonic's latest technology, comprises sensor analysis on the way the space occupant feels exactly the temperature (i.e., cold or hot ), sunlight shifts, furniture/room design to deliver customized ac.

Air Filtering & Autonomous Cleaning

Modern-day ACs have advanced air filtering capacity to eliminate dust, mold, and bacteria that can be detrimental to human health.

Many air conditioners wash out the interior of components and curb dust pile-up or mold growth. These functions maintain air purifier filters clean around the clock, reducing energy reduction, consequently efficiently lowering your energy bills.

Night Mode

Night mode in an AC has often identified a very low power mode where auto-temperature control and end flow conserving are triggered for relaxation once the consumer is sleeping.

Once turned on, you can sleep peacefully without any worries about your area getting too warm or chilly.

Angle-Adjustable Louver Slats

Due to convection where cold air moves down, and hot air rises, air dissipates efficiently when louver slats in front of AC are turned up through down and cooling when heating.

Most versions have angle adjustment controls for louver slats in their remote controls. Sideways angle adjustment aids send a cool/warm atmosphere to a specific place within the room.

Delayed Restart

Delayed restart averts restart right after an AC is switched off to protect the compressor.

Demand Response Enabling Device (DRED)

Since the consciousness of global warming develops, demand response, a cap on the energy consumption of an electric utility client to prevent peaks in demand for electricity and maintain equilibrium with the source, is becoming a popular selection for electricity consumption control throughout the planet.

Australia has national criteria for Demand Response (AS/NZS 4755 chain ) on DREDs. This system was implemented nationally by power providers. Voluntary rationing for ACs and other electrical appliances is supported by means of price incentives.

Auto-Defrost

When an air purifier is run beneath low outside temperatures and higher humidity, frost may form on its exterior unit. As time passes, an accumulation of ice may form on the evaporator coil (cooling element).

Finally, this may block the flow of the chilly atmosphere. That is the reason why defrosting is needed. Auto-defrost frequently defrosts the evaporator by melting the freeze and sparks the consequent water from the unit.

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prorevenge · 5 years

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Shady business owners don't like it when you call regulators.

Used to work in private security (rent-a-cop/bacon bits jokes go here). When I was first hired on, thought the company was fairly upstanding yadda yadda because the owner and I would bullshit a little about our respective military careers. "A guy who used to be in pararescue can't be that bad, right?"

First year was relatively normal security work, mostly fixed post (think Walmart door greeter but with a badge and handcuffs) and general "I'll tackle you if you steal things, but otherwise I'm just a breathing security camera" stuff. About a year in, I finish all of my qualifications for armed work and get assigned to patrol. Patrol is basically private police: companies would hire us to make rounds and respond to things at their locations (mostly apartment complexes, and mostly noise complaints or occasionally towing off cars and such, but occasionally managing residents during a fire or breaking up disturbances).

The company handled pay in a kinda wonky manner. Twice a month (on the 1st and 15th) we got paid for two weeks worth of work, and every now and again (it seemed like whenever they felt like it was getting too far behind) we'd get an extra paycheck slipped in with our normal one. I got my first paycheck five weeks after starting, and there was a point where we were receiving December checks in February. Pay rates were determined by the type of work: entry level stuff made $7/hour, more advanced made $8, and armed paid $10. Raises were available on top of that (for the record, I worked there for 3 years and never got a raise, and the two people I know who got raises each got 25¢ an hour after 4 years, also all of this was during a $5.15 minimum wage). Patrol required armed officers but paid as advanced, but was also a guaranteed 42 hours a week on a set schedule (three 12 hour days, a 6 hour day, and three days off) so most of us didn't really complain.

Moving up into patrol taught me a lot about the company that I didn't know. I figured the owner was a little sexist (ex-military types tend to be) but the depths of his sexism caught me a little off-guard. And then there's the racism. I'm Latino but I look white (because I avoid sun like the plague and got my bone structure from my [white] mother's side), though my surname is a dead giveaway: there's a state in Mexico to which I'm apparently related (must be a distant relative on Abuelita's side). I was apparently good enough to be on patrol, but not promotable (even though I worked my fucking ass off, even though supervisors routinely recommended me for promotion) for some reason. Or the fact that we had one black guy on staff, and he was fired for something that other people got away with. The female officer who was assigned the easiest shift because "it's all she can handle" and "this way, it's obvious I'm trying to work with the women." Those are as close to verbatim quotes as I can recall. Or the time he held a contest between patrols for excellence and canceled it after 2 months...two months in which it happened that the female officer won once and took second once, and the Mexican dude won once and took second once. Between those two months, I made an extra $30 in gas cards. WOOO! /s

For frame of reference, here are a couple of things white dudes did that they didn't get fired for: hitting 120mph in a company car in a 40mph zone (after over a year of doing 20+ over), carrying a gun without the proper permit, blatant sexual harassment, admitting to skipping stops on a route and just sending the business a false statement, writing racist slogans on the front of company-provided TASER cartridges (Homie Down is the one I remember), tasing people without proper justification, sleeping on the job, working drunk, etc.

I also learned about how they screwed over clients: this company pays for 12 hours of continuous patrol between their three properties, but the owners want more money so that route also covers 5 apartment complexes and handles cash drops for a couple of stores. Another business pays us $1M a year for 5.5 hours per weeknight and 7.5 hours per weekend night (approximately $450 per hour) and that route jumps off property like clockwork every night to take care of 3-5 other properties at specified times, leaving that client without their only security at key times. This group of apartment complexes pays for 1 hour on property per night, might get half of that if the night is slow because of the workload.

And then he decided to fuck over his staff (more). Patrol was offered a salary (that was 10% less than the minimum legal salary), with the strong implication that if we wanted any hours at all we'd take it. Once we were all salaried (or gone), things shifted over to 48 hour weeks. I did the math at one point and realized that if I watched a movie at the theater and ate twice at fast food on every day off, it was still cheaper for me to not work than to work (because of gas and food while working, considering I walked about 12-15 miles every night as part of the patrols, which requires a fairly brisk pace, which requires calories galore). But if you were scheduled off and they called you in, you either accepted the extra hours or you got chewed out, and if you made a habit of saying no you'd get written up for anything they could think of.

Then one of my colleagues got into an accident at work. He was hospitalized for like 9 days, ended up making a full recovery. But he was in the company car, so according to the company he was responsible for paying the $2500 insurance deductible. I'd had it at that point. I borrowed some money from my mother to talk to a labor attorney. Best $200 I ever spent.

Attorney gave me three pieces of advice:

If there's a problem with the way we're being paid, talk to the labor board.

My colleague was not on the hook for the car. That's why the company had insurance. It wasn't our fault that he was too cheap to spring for a lower deductible.

Document everything, but keep my name out of anything.

I passed word to the injured colleague about the insurance thing, and he lawyered up pretty much immediately (his family had enough money that he didn't have to work). I also made a not-so-anonymous phone call to the state labor board (asking that they not reveal it was me). 3 weeks later, I'm in the office handling post-shift paperwork when the rep comes in. I GTFOed as fast as I possibly could. I didn't want to be there for that whole thing.

Fast forward about 6 months, and the labor board has finished their investigation. Turns out that the salary was in fact too low to be legally allowable, but also that our positions were not legally eligible for salary anyway. So all of those 48/60/72+ hour weeks were full of overtime. Unpaid overtime. Unpaid overtime on which we were owed interest. Also, requiring patrol to be armed but not paying them armed rates wasn't legal (based on the employment contract, any work for which we required that license required we be paid the rate associated with that license). Also, the "twice a month you're paid for 2 weeks of work" thing isn't legal either. So we got several oversized paychecks covering back pay, plus others covering interest (which had to be noted in the check stub as interest on back pay).

The labor board rep couldn't do anything about the ways they were screwing over their customers, but she did have someone she could call. Someone she should call. Someone she did call. A couple weeks later, that investigation started. I don't know all the details (I left during that time to start some higher education) but a few months later they sold the company to someone else, and I heard through the grapevine that part of the reason was that they lost several contracts and all that back pay pretty much wiped out their savings (I got something like $8K in back pay, and there were another dozen patrol officers in that time frame, so I figure around $100K total went out just to patrol, and apparently there were some discrepancies in how they managed fixed post staff as well) and they had to move to a smaller house. The rumors also said that after the sale, the new owners renegotiated all the contracts (including getting a few that the previous owners had lost to being shady) and somehow they're still profitable (even after giving raises and whatnot). It's almost like the previous owners had just been trying to milk everyone for as much as they could get.

Oh, and an aside: I got to know the manager of that business that paid us $1M/year pretty well afterwards. She neither confirmed nor denied that $1M figure. So take it with a grain of salt, but if it's true (she manages the most affluent shopping center in town, which includes a restaurant where prices aren't on the menu because "if you have to ask, you can't afford it") that one contract would cover all the expenses of all of patrol. The owners always seemed really intent on keeping her happy (and made sure that we knew not to tell her we left the area for any reason except end of shift). And they always had money to spend on things like a large house in one of the more affluent areas, and the private school for their daughter, and buying a new gun or two (higher priced stuff, where the name stamp adds $1500 to the price) every couple of weeks...

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Are condos a good investment property?

For most common Singaporeans who aren't business owners, office managers, speculation brokers or doctors, there are two fundamental approaches to make easy money—win the lottery, or purchase Singapore property and expectation its worth skyrockets.

Putting resources into riviere property is one of the most prominent approaches to develop your cash in Singapore, not least since it's something you can spend your CPF investment funds on.

For those of you who are thinking about purchasing Parc Clematis as a venture property in Singapore, this guide is for you.

Substance

How would you profit from florence residences property?

What influences Singapore property costs?

Limitations and cooling measures in Singapore

Property charge in Singapore

Step by step instructions to discover property available to be purchased

Where to discover Singapore property news

How would you profit from Parc Clematis in Singapore?

At the point when Singaporeans purchase property, they for the most part anticipate that its worth should increment after some time. This ascent in worth or cost is known as capital thankfulness, and is one key approach to make cash out of your property.

For example, if your house was worth $500,000 when you gotten it and is presently worth $900,000, that is capital energy about $400,000.

When you sell your property for more than you paid for it, you are getting a charge out of capital additions, which are the aftereffect of capital appreciation.

All things considered, it is critical to pay special mind to factors that can support more prominent capital thankfulness some place not far off, for example, up and coming MRT stations or framework upgrades.

The second key approach to make cash out of your property is through rental pay.

To discover your rental yield, essentially include all the rental salary you'd win a year, and after that convert it into a level of your property estimation.

So for example, in case you're purchasing a $800,000 property and leasing it out for $5,000 per month, you'd acquire $60,000 of lease every year. Your rental yield would in this manner be 7.5% ($60,000 x 100/$800,000).

Clearly, the higher the rental yield the better, as it implies you'll be getting a higher profit for your venture even before you sell the property. Numerous purchasers likewise channel lease got into paying their home advance.

What influences Singapore property costs?

Regardless of whether you've until now been putting resources into stocks, gold, ETFs or creator totes (hello, we never said you must be keen to be contribute), your essential objective is equivalent to some other investor's—to get back more cash than you initially spent on the speculation.

With regards to the property advertise, that implies purchasing when costs are low or if nothing else sensible, and selling when they're higher.

Keeping that in mind, it's helpful to know six main considerations that influence Parc Clematis property costs in Singapore:

1. Area and framework

Improved vehicle framework, or the structure of close-by comforts like shopping centers, noticeable schools and open libraries can push up property costs. When in doubt, improved vehicle foundation particularly can hugy affect property costs particularly with regards to new MRT stations inside strolling separation.

2. State and state of the property

The state and state of the property, particularly when it is old, can influence the price tag. For example, landed properties require a ton of support, and when they fall into decay can be in all respects expensive to fix up, which thus brings down the selling cost. On the other hand, in the event that you as of late revamped your property in a satisfactory style, that can warrant an ascent in your asking cost.

3. Rent

Quite a bit of Singapore's private property is leasehold, with the most widely recognized rent length being 99 years. As time barrels towards the last part of a rent you can anticipate a sharp drop in the estimation of the property. Freehold property holds its worth much better after some time, however is significantly progressively costly to buy forthright.

4. Loan costs

At the present time, loan costs in Singapore are extremely low for Parc Clematis. That implies you it costs less to apply for a new line of credit when you purchase a home. When in doubt, higher loan fees will in general demoralize individuals from purchasing property, which negatively affects costs.

5. Government strategies

The legislature can venture in whenever with arrangements intended to affect property costs. The cooling estimates they set up starting in 2009 have smothered costs extensively.

6. Monetary atmosphere

In a subsidence, you can expect interest at and costs of property to fall as individuals take up some slack, while the switch is valid in the midst of thriving.

Confinements and cooling measures in Singapore

So as to debilitate hypothesis, the administration has set up specific decides that make it less gainful for individuals who are undercutting their properties in the term, or who wish to purchase numerous properties.

When assessing a potential property venture, know about the accompanying cooling measures:

ABSD – Extra Purchaser's Stamp Obligation

ABSD should be paid on the off chance that you are as of now the proprietor of a current property and wish to purchase another, or on the off chance that you are not a Singapore native. ABSD rates are as per the following:

TDSR – Absolute Obligation Adjusting Proportion

The measure of cash you can obtain from the bank is topped by (in addition to other things) the TDSR, which directs that your absolute month to month reimbursements of your home advance and some other advances (counting charge card obligation) must not make up over 60% of your pay.

Accordingly, it is a smart thought to abstain from getting into Mastercard obligation or taking out weighty advances like vehicle credits just before you are going to apply for a home advance. Utilize our adding machine to perceive how much advance you can get dependent on TDSR.

LTV – Advance to-Esteem Proportion

The LTV proportion, similar to the TDSR, forces confines on the amount you can obtain from banks to fund your property buy.

Dissimilar to ABSD, which is attached to the quantity of properties under your name, LTV proportion identifies with the quantity of exceptional home loans you're overhauling. The more home advances you have to support, the less you can obtain from a bank.

On the other hand, regardless of what number of properties you claim, insofar as you've paid them off completely you can obtain the most extreme sum.

There are somewhat various principles for HDB and private property buys. On the off chance that you are buying a HDB level, these LTV proportions apply for bank credit residencies as long as 25 years. In case you're purchasing private property, it's for residencies as long as 30 years.

For HDB concessionary credits, the advance bit is up to 90%.

Should your bank credit residency be longer than that, or if your obligation will eat into your retirement years (age 65 and up), the LTV proportion will be littler so you can get less.

Property charge in Singapore

Property is an extraordinary resource for have in Singapore, yet you should impart a portion of your riches to the state. Property is saddled distinctively relying upon whether you are a proprietor occupier (ie. you are living in the property being saddled) or not.

Note that property expense is charged on the Yearly estimation of your property. In case you don't know what the yearly estimation of yours is, you can check through the IRAS connection gave.

The most effective method to discover property available to be purchased

Along these lines, you've set aside enough money and you're prepared to purchase your first venture property. Before you dial that realtor number you found on Facebook, realize that is by all account not the only method to discover property. Most Singapore purchasers search for reasonable properties from https://www.propnexsingapore.com/

Note that on online property entrances, costs are quite often lifted on the grounds that the merchant anticipates that you should arrange.

You can likewise discover property postings as our forefathers would have done it, by glancing through the classifieds segment in the papers. In any case, as less and less individuals are publicizing their properties along these lines, the majority of your exploration should at present be done on the web.

Deals dispatches

In case you're searching for shiny new property to buy, you should investigate deals dispatches being held by engineers, for the most part before development on the property has even begun. You'll have the option to take a gander at models and fake up pictures of the property.

The buy procedure of uncompleted property is any longer than it is for finished or resale property, as you will pay in stages as the property is being manufactured.

This additionally implies you won't probably procure rental pay for the property until it is fit for empty belonging, which may be a very long time after you've made the downpayment.

Property barters

These can a decent spot to get a decent arrangement. You should simply discover where closeouts are occurring, and afterward turn up face to face to offer.

The merchants are typically either banks that have abandoned property, or venders and designers who are attempting to dispose of property quick.

There will be a couple of properties set available to be purchased at every occasion, and a save cost will be set, showing the most minimal satisfactory offer.

Ensure you do your value explore before offering on a property, as save costs are not in every case fundamentally lower than what you may discover available.

Property operators

The laziest method to discover property is to procure a property operator to take the necessary steps for you. Specialists can scout for properties as per your criteria and after that ship you around in their autos for viewings.

The primary drawback is that you'll need to pay the specialist commission, normally about 1%, in the event that you are procuring them to represent you in your ability as a purchaser.

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Hair...Issues! (My MtF~HRT Journey)

One of the decisions you can make for yourself (not influenced by hormones) is allowing your hair to grow out on your scalp.

FAMILY INFLUENCES

All of my life, I have kept my hair short because my career required it. Also, prior to my transition...I was raised in a military-style family, so all men were required to keep their hair short! I recall when I was just a child, trying to adjust to my transgender nature by allowing my hair to grow and I got about two inches when I was forced to have it all cut off. It was tradition and expectations that you had to live by (living with a Korean War vet can be difficult!).

After my grandfather passed away, the rules relaxed and I found that two inches of growth was about the maximum until my family would harp and vocalize their displease. Even during the first nine months of my transgender therapy, I battled with my up-brings, past career expectations and the generalization that ‘successful’ men had short, neat, hair. It wasn’t until this year that I decided that Mira did not have short hair, and after my adoptive family’s wedding in January of 2019, I ceased all ‘cutting’ of my hair and with it being now being six months...I have made history! This is the longest and ‘longest’ I have ever gone with out a haircut.

I am hoping that by the time of my SRS, my hair will be at its desirable length. Already I have had to re-learn how to manage my hair...hence this blog post: Hair...Issues!

CHANGING HAIR CARE

One of my first changes I had to make in my 10th month of HRT was learning that a comb is useless when you have long, thick hair. Luckily I was gifted with fast growing, thick and silky hair...it is a family trait. All my life I have only combed my hair (or because it was so short...ignored it). Back in June of 2019, I would continue trying to comb my hair is it became utterly painful and pointless. My hair was just to thick for a comb and the comb itself was to flimsy!

So I had to go shopping for a hair brush...but what to get? My mother and sister use these large ‘shell-like’ brushes, my adoptive sister and mother use a thinner bristle-like brush. So I did not know what to get...and the options were numerous. So I picked up this:

You would think that using a hair brush is pretty straight forward...and it is...to a point. It is styling that takes time...and I have been testing many styles to see which one I like. For example, a style I rarely use is in the picture at the beginning of this blog. Hair back is something my mom and sister do and even my adoptive mother adapts most of the time...but my hair does not like to be conditioned in this format.

My unconscious conditioning of my hair is as above...broken down the middle with half going right and half going left. This was the hair style I have kept all my life...and is part of the ‘mental-idea’ that Mira is suppose to have...except she also has bangs in front, but at this moment, my bang hang over my eyes and nose...and having hair in your eyes is surprisingly painful! I certainly will have to decide what I am going to do with my bangs. Do I allow them to continue growing and sweep them aside as I do now or trim them to my brow? Bang’s take a long time to grow (including the forward sides over the temples, which seem to take forever!).

GROWTH PATTERNS

A word to the wise for any MtF individuals out there. When you decide to grow out your hair, I found the hair in the back grows the quickest, then the hair on top of the head, the bangs grow the third fastest (if you grow on two inches of hair, your bangs might only grow .5-1 inch). Lastly, the hair just front of the ears and behind the ears seems to grow the slowest. I had this area shaved in January of 2019 (before my final decision to let my hair grow, unimpeded) and it has only grown 3 inches since then. My bangs being 5.5 inches long and hair in the back being 6 inches long!

(4-25-2018) This was taken just prior to my hormone replacement therapy; and I can only wonder long much longer my hair would have been if I did not cut it three times since starting my transition.

(7-15-2019) Almost one year into my transition, my hair has most certainly have grown longer and surprisingly, as the months go by, it is also changing color. It has gone from dark brown to a brown/grey mixture with the hair over my temples being almost blonde. Ironically, light brown/blonde highlights is what I always envisioned myself having. So seeing the early stages of this transformation is amazing...I just am wondering...for eight years of my life, my hair was blonde/white (could that color be coming back?) Then again, I was deathly sick in those early years and as the cystic fibrosis makes every year now a milestone, my hair-color seems to be in the process of early graying. Then again, I was graying when I was in my 20s!

Nevertheless, it is amazing to watch my body transform into what I always felt it was suppose to be and watch something as simple as hair make dramatic changes; not only in color, but also texture.

CHANGING TEXTURE & COLOR

Now, many sites will say that switching from male to female does not affect the ‘condition’ of the scalp hair; but in my experience, I don’t find that statement to be exactly accurate or true. Prior to my HRT, it isn’t uncommon to have a low count of estrogen in your blood and normal ranges of testosterone in the blood. For men in their 30s, the over production of DHT causes hair loss on the scalp, while the male hormone thickens the body hair until the testosterone levels drop and body hair begins to thin. We expect in FtM patients taking testosterone to notice a slowing of hair growth, and a increase of facial hair and body hair. By their 30s, they might begin experiencing hair loss (which is common in menopausal women in their 60s).

So if body hair patterns are determined by sex hormone and genetics, a patient who is male-to-female should expect seeing rapid hair growth and decreased hair growth over their body.

For one year, I have been on finasteride, to stop my DHT from furthering my hair loss on the front part of the scalp. Now, a few patients have claimed that finasteride had thickening their hair count by 10%; but I can not contest to those statistics as I started with abnormally thick hair. A few MfF patients also claim that finasteride and hormone therapy has started regeneration of damaged hair; I however have not been that lucky. If my regrowth was represented in a percentage, I’d say 3 percent. And the hair that did regrow is pure white.

As for the texture of my hair. I find it to be silky, but not oily as I was expecting. My hair has always been thin, which made styling a nightmare when it was short, but now, it seems to prefer a wavy pattern...but most of the time it just flies away! Over the months, I’ve noticed that the longer it becomes, the lighter it becomes. I am considering coloring to blend the lighter shades...however, I have no idea where the auburn color came from! I never had a hue of red before and now I seem to be taking on my sisters color of possibly strawberry blonde (although she has darken to a dark auburn in color).

If I am to add color to my hair, it would be to add more grey and blondes to even out the front blonding hair and the two-tone hair in the back. But at this moment, I am just fine with observing the changes and curious what colors I will end up with.

CURRENT STYLE

Currently, I have found a new style to keep my hair out of my eyes. For a few months, I’ve done my best to tolerate the bangs, but when I am outside and working, they fall into my eyes and obscure my vision. I first tried using clips, however, my hair is to silky for the clips to hold into place and I end up with hair and a clip in the eyes! Tried pins, but like the clips, it would not hold in place and slipped out with a few minutes. I was almost ready to butch cut the bangs myself for relief, but saw one of my ear-warmers I use in the winter when we had 3 feet of snow on the ground...and it worked wonders!

Wanting something more fashionable, I went to Bi-Mart to look at their hair products and looked at their hair bands and saw a picture of a lady with her hair swept back, the band keeping it out of her eyes and the product said ‘great for gym workouts’ and I was sold. I would try this product and see how it went. As seen in the image above and at the start of this blog, it comes interchangeable. With three colors: mosaic, light blue and navy blue. Two week later, my mother bought me a set of hairbands (orange, blue and white) and then three days before the fourth of July, I bought a red/white/blue headband.

I found my style! Lexie, my adoptive sister and one who has given me many fashion tips, told me that she too at one time used hairbands to restrain her hair, but found that it caused her hair to take on embarrassing styles and stopped using them. I understand what she means, I too have noticed that the bands do compress part of my hair while causing some hair to go upward. The second issue I’ve noticed that when I sweat (which isn’t hard for a CFer!), the band slips off. I am still learning techniques of placing the band in my hair to function the best...but so far, I am happy!

NEW ISSUE...

So, a new issue I am about to have to tackle is ‘what do I do with all this hair while I swim?’ I got my first taste of what is to come about a month ago when I was swimming underwater using a glide and dolphin kick and noticed that my hair kept getting in my face. Most of the time I don’t use goggles as I can see quite well underwater, however, the hair makes it difficult.

I really don’t want to have to use a swim cap and am thinking that the best solution in the long-term is to keep my bangs short and tie down my hair with something line vine or lashing. The other solution is: Get use to it! Wear’em goggles!

So far, I have not been back to the pool in about one month as I still am trying to mentally adjust after my last ordeal at the Silverdale YMCA. I want (I need) to get back into the water...when you have dreams of swimming, you know you need to go back!

In conclusion, to all the male-to-female transitioning individuals out there, don’t be afraid to experiment and enjoy the process. The one thing I have learned about my transformation is that it is a one-way trip...every pain, every change is all leading to a lifetime of discovery. Like the horrors of puberty, it is a moment in our lives where we literally transform from one creature and into another. The same is with MtF and FtM: this is your second puberty! We all get to experience something that 90 percent of the population will never...living to our fullest potential, becoming the person we want to be and not the person we are expected to me.

-- Mira Carleen

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Wordpress Website Tutorial for Beginners in 2019

This is the complete guide from WPBuilderMaster on the best way to make a WordPress site for beginners.

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Bahamas Relief Efforts Frustrated as Dorian Pulls Away

By Kirk Semple, Rachel Knowles and Frances Robles |Published Sept. 3, 2019 Updated Sept. 4, 2019, 12:32 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted September 4, 2019 2:14 PM ET |

NASSAU, Bahamas — As Hurricane Dorian pulled away from the Bahamas, relief workers, medical personnel, pilots and others gathered at a private terminal of the Nassau airport on Wednesday amid boxes of supplies, anxiously awaiting permission from the government to fly to devastated areas and provide assistance.

But with most of the runways on Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama — the islands most heavily pummeled by the storm — flooded or covered in sand, it was difficult to deliver help or even assess the damage wrought by the storm. In addition, the government has given priority to helicopter evacuations.

“It is frustrating,” said Wes Comfort, director of operations for Heart to Heart International, a Kansas-based group. “There are people who want to help and professionals who know how to help.”

Dorian made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane on Sunday, then lingered, pummeling the northern islands of the Bahamian archipelago for more than three days. At least seven people have died, including children, government officials said, adding that the toll is expected to rise. Now a Category 2 storm, Dorian is heading toward the Eastern Seaboard.

Despite the limited access to the islands, pilots have conducted flyovers revealing scenes of absolute devastation. Entire neighborhoods were reduced to unrecognizable fields of rubble, houses were crushed into splinters and boats were tossed into heaps like toys.

The Bahamian prime minister, Hubert Minnis, was able to go on a reconnaissance mission over Abaco on Tuesday afternoon, though storm conditions still prevented flying over Grand Bahama, the larger island.

“People need mostly food, security and shelter,” Mr. Minnis said in brief comments to reporters when he returned.

Videos taken by helicopters flying over the islands showed desperate residents stranded on rooftops amid swirling currents, roads turned to rivers, and basic infrastructure — including shelters, hospitals and public buildings — under water.

“It’s not just the power and ferocity of the storm, it’s also the length of time it spent over Abaco and Grand Bahama,” said Marvin Dames, the minister of national security for the Bahamas. “That’s a disastrous outcome.”

The deputy commander for the United States Coast Guard’s Altantic area, Rear Adm. Todd Sokalzuk, said on Tuesday they had brought seven helicopters into the central Bahamas. The Coast Guard, together with Customs and Border Patrol, were able to airlift 61 people from the Bahamas over two days, the United States Embassy in Nassau said on Twitter Wednesday.

The prime minister said that roughly 60 percent of homes in Marsh Harbour were badly damaged. The town “looks like a lake” and the roads are flooded, he said.

Cindy Russell, a resident of Marsh Harbour whose home was destroyed, said she had no words to describe what Dorian left in its wake.

“It’s like we just need to be rescued and put on another island to start over again,” she said. “Complete devastation.”

Rebecca Roberts, who lives in Nassau but grew up on Green Turtle Cay, which is part of the Abaco Islands, said her family there suffered heavy losses. The extended family had 12 buildings among them, between businesses and homes. Of the four they had been able to check up on, three were completely demolished.

The one building that stood, which was made of cement, was housing the entire family, she said.

“My aunt was out in the road picking up pieces from her house,” she said.

Though the weakened hurricane is pushing its way toward Florida, it did not clear the islands until early Wednesday.

“Storm surge is the number one killer in a tropical storm,” said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, speaking of the rising sea level that results from the wind and pressure changes brought on by a storm.

In Freeport, the largest city on Grand Bahama, Sarah Kirkby watched helplessly as a massive tidal flood poured in and inundated her house.

“It was absolutely terrifying,” she said. “I have never seen water come in like that. You don’t realize the power until you’re in it.”

Some local rescue efforts began on Tuesday, she said, as the water began to recede, with neighbors manning Jet Skis to rescue people trapped on their roofs — but it was unclear where they might go, since many shelters were also flooded or damaged by the storm.

All of the rescues on Abaco were conducted by the Coast Guard, which also provided the prime minister and Bahamas emergency management officials with their first flyover to assess the damages. But with conditions on Grand Bahama too poor for even military helicopters, the Coast Guard attempted no rescues there.

Rear Adm. Todd Sokalzuk said officials still had a “large volume” of calls for help from people stranded on their rooftops.

[Live updates as the storm turns toward the southeast coast of the United States.]

Responders were trying to take advantage of a window of opportunity after the eye passed over Grand Bahama to try to rescue people, but many police cruisers and other emergency vehicles were under water.

“Some of the bigger vehicles, dump trucks and fire engines, are trying to get through the water,” Kevin D. Harris, director general of the Bahamas Information Service, said. “Grand Bahama is flat, and you can imagine the devastation we are going to incur.”

There was so much water that government offices, including the government radio station, had to leave their lower floors.

The islands in the northwestern Bahamas that were hit the hardest — the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama — are 30 feet at their highest point, and the storm surge reached up to 23 feet, not counting the waves, said Joel Cline, the Tropical Program Coordinator at NOAA.

Photographs from flights over Abaco show trees sheared of limbs and leaves and saltwater ponds covering swaths of land where homes once stood. Some houses had their roofs ripped clean off, while others were reduced to piles of debris mired in water. All around, a rough ocean lapped at the low-lying islands.

The Grand Lucayan Resort and Casino on Grand Bahama had opened its doors to those who needed shelter, said Michael Scott, who is the chairman of the government-owned hotel.

“It’s a catastrophic and dystopian mess,” he said on Tuesday, estimating that more than 400 people were now being cared for at the hotel. “Other shelters which have been compromised are having their people decanted into our facility.”

How to Help Hurricane Dorian Survivors in the Bahamas

By Elisabeth Malkin | Published Sept. 3, 2019 | New York Times | Posted September 4, 2019 2:18 PM ET |

Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a Category 5 hurricane on Sunday and stalled over the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama Island for two days. The destructive winds, torrential rains and relentless flooding has likely destroyed more than 10,000 homes and wiped out much of the infrastructure, especially in the Abacos.

Aid experts say there will be immediate emergency needs before the long, arduous task of rebuilding begins.

Several organizations are working in the Bahamas:

The Red Cross has 200 volunteers in the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama. Shelter, food, water, medicine and communications are the most urgent needs, said Stephen McAndrew, the deputy director for the Americas of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

“All shelter materials are going to be highly needed,” he said. “We know that there will be a need for psychological support. That will continue.”

Global Giving has established the Hurricane Dorian Relief Fund to provide emergency supplies and long-term assistance to help in rebuilding.

World Central Kitchen, set up by the chef José Andrés, provides food to people after natural disasters. Mr. Andrés and a relief team have arrived in Nassau, the capital, and have begun to identify places where they can set up kitchens on the affected islands.

HeadKnowles is a Bahamian organization that organized relief operations during Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. They have set up a site through Go Fund Me.

Yacht Aid Global has set up “Operation Topaz” to bring emergency supplies like food, tarps, hygiene kits and medicine to Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands. The organization works with yachts in the region to coordinate support.

Team Rubicon, an organization of military veterans that provides disaster relief, is in the Bahamas.

Charity Navigator offers this list of reputable charities that are working in the Bahamas.

Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said people wishing to help could donate to the Salvation Army, which works closely with the government’s National Emergency Management Agency.

Waterkeeper Alliance, a charity that works with local partners to preserve water ecosystems and fight for clean water, is taking donations on behalf of its affiliate in Grand Bahama, Save the Bays. Type in “Bahamas” on its donation site.

The Grand Bahama Disaster Relief Foundation was set up by the Grand Bahama Port Authority, which acts as the municipal authority for Freeport, the main city on the island. The site offers suggestions on how to help, including several addresses where donors can drop off supplies in the United States.

Hurricane Dorian Tests Florida’s Ability to Move Older Adults Out of Harm’s Way

By Patricia Mazzei, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Richard Fausset |

Published Sept. 3, 2019 Updated Sept. 4, 2019, 12:10 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted September 4, 2019 2:15 PM ET

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — As the outer bands of Hurricane Dorian began brushing the Florida coast on Tuesday, a woman raced to pick up her mother-in-law at a retirement community, where the elevator was about to be shut down. The staff of a nursing home packed up more than 200 residents as well as the supplies they might need: cases of water, air mattresses and board games. At another center, residents were evacuated in specialty ambulances, rented motor coaches and private vehicles.

Across the state, a scramble was underway to move older Floridians to safer ground as a weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Dorian, once a Category 5 storm but now a vast Category 2, threatened the state’s Atlantic coast.

[Follow live updates on Hurricane Dorian here.]

The last major storm to hit the state was foremost in officials’ minds. When Hurricane Irma came ashore two years ago, a dozen patients died after a nursing home in Hollywood, Fla., lost its air-conditioning. The tragedy prompted new regulations and an acknowledgment that evacuation orders were not enough to protect the state’s large older population. When it comes to older people, no state has more retirees than Florida, where they make up one-fifth of the population, according to the AARP.

A new state law requires backup generators and enough fuel to maintain comfortable temperatures at nursing homes and assisted living centers, a mandate first tested last year when Hurricane Michael struck the Florida Panhandle. Last week, four nursing home workers were charged in the Hurricane Irma deaths, which were ruled homicides.

At the Towers of Jacksonville, a retirement community in Jacksonville, Fla., officials advised residents with just a few hours’ notice that it would disable its elevator on Monday afternoon. That would have left Lois Evelin, 72, unable to get downstairs unless someone carried her, said her daughter-in-law, Ester Evelin, who rushed to pick her up earlier than she had planned.

“It was a little frustrating, because we were still trying to get our place hurricane-ready,” said Ms. Evelin, 45, whose mother-in-law is now safely at home with her, her husband and their son in Neptune Beach. “But there are a few people that had to stay because they didn’t have any family near that could get to them in time.”

North of Florida, the worry, preparations and evacuations for Hurricane Dorian’s next possible targets could be found for hundreds of miles up the coast. Meteorologists warned that the storm could bring tornadoes, life-threatening storm surges and dangerous winds along the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas into Thursday.

In Georgia, a mandatory evacuation order was in effect for coastal counties.

In South Carolina, an evacuation order was issued for all or part of eight coastal counties, an area whose population is roughly 830,000. Gov. Henry McMaster told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that 244,000 people had already left the region.

In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper said he would issue an evacuation order for all of the state’s barrier islands.

Some 190,000 people live in Florida nursing homes and assisted living centers, most of them in the state’s southeastern tip. Patrick Manderfield, a spokesman for the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration, said on Monday that all but 42 of the state’s 3,062 licensed assisted living centers had an on-site generator. Five centers had emergency plans to evacuate “if needed,” he said in an email.

Nursing homes, which tend to be larger and have more beds than assisted living centers, are a different story. Reuters reported on Friday that some nursing homes were still waiting for temporary generators, though a state website suggested that they might have all been supplied by Monday afternoon. The Miami Herald reported last week that nearly 60 percent of the state’s 687 nursing homes did not yet have enough power backup.

Large centers for elderly residents who require constant care have put complex emergency plans into action. Among them was the Samantha Wilson Care Center in St. Augustine, Fla., which is near the Intracoastal Waterway. Fearing a dangerously high storm surge, the center evacuated its 126 residents to three separate facilities in Orlando and DeLand, said Shellye Nutter, vice president for clinical and residential services in the center’s skilled nursing unit.

The residents in more delicate health traveled in specialty ambulances. Other traveled in rented motor coaches, sometimes with caregivers and relatives in tow. Clearing out the entire center took all of Monday, Ms. Nutter said.

“They’re the most vulnerable population — they’re totally dependent on us for care,” she said.

About four dozen residents temporarily settled into the Orlando Lutheran Towers, a community with skilled nursing and assisted living centers. Amy Dickens, the director of nursing, said it was the first time that the center was taking in evacuees, so it stocked up on extra food, mattresses and clinical staff to support the caregivers coming in from St. Augustine.

“If you’re taking an elderly patient from their normal room to transport them to another facility where they’re maybe on a bed or a mattress, you just try to make it the best atmosphere,” she said.

At the Good Samaritan Society’s retirement home in DeLand, nearly 400 residents milled about in a building that until Sunday had housed about 150. They bit their nails, worked on crossword puzzles or dozed as a television showed a local newscast featuring footage of waves crashing on Cocoa Beach. Water and stacks of fans sat nearby, and in another room a group of women were filling in outlines of hummingbirds with paintbrushes.

Administrators said they had moved 237 residents to the home in buses and ambulances because of mandatory evacuation orders that included Good Samaritan’s homes in Daytona Beach and Kissimmee.

It was a far cry from two summers ago, when a last-minute evacuation stretched past nightfall before flooding from Hurricane Irma submerged golf carts, soaked rooms and caused $500 million in damage at the nursing home. During that storm, many residents were moved to local shelters.

“Here we have sunshine and nice sky,” said Mark Barglof, the executive director of the group’s three Florida locations. “Before, we had floodwater and were working into the night.”

Nate Schema, vice president for operations of the Good Samaritan Society, flew from the organization’s headquarters in South Dakota to keep an eye on the storm. He said the nursing home was lucky to have just completed a new, 80-unit wing, most of which was sitting vacant before the evacuations.

“The good Lord had a little hand in pulling that together,” he said.

Most residents on Tuesday said they felt safe and were thankful for the care they were getting, even if the move to DeLand was a hassle and they had to sleep on air mattresses.

Melanie Gentry, a retired member of the Air Force, was at the nursing home on Tuesday with her mother and father. She said that while her family had been prepared to leave for Hurricane Irma, she was grateful there was more notice this time.

During past storms, they grabbed only important documents and an heirloom or two and put everything else on high shelves, Ms. Gentry said.

“Now, you have so much time you have to stop yourself because you can’t take everything,” she said with a laugh.

For older people who live alone, storms also present a challenge. Sometimes, they also need a nudge from a friend or relative to get out of harm’s way.

PeggyAnn Cromartie, 72, left her home in the inland Palm Beach County town of Pahokee, Fla., after a friend in South Carolina encouraged her to make a plan to avoid getting stuck in case of an emergency.

“I wanted to be safe, because you never know what may happen,” said Ms. Cromartie, who evacuated to the West Boynton Park and Recreation Center in Lake Worth, Fla., on Sunday. “It’s not really scary, but I thought about the flooding or the lights going out.”

Randye Carol Pollack, 68, of Boynton Beach, Fla., said she feared her 30-year-old apartment building might not fare well in a strong storm but planned to stay if she could not find accommodation with her parakeet, Sweet Pea. That did not prove to be a problem: The pet shelter had an area set aside for birds.

Patricia Mazzei reported from West Palm Beach; Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs from DeLand, Fla.; and Richard Fausset from Atlanta. Susan C. Beachy contributed research.

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Every once in a while you get a call from a large facility that has an issue keeping the common areas warm at ground level. The recommendation of adding fans when they are complaining about being cold has raised an eyebrow more than once....

How To Fight Air Stratification in Conditioned Facilities

The key to controlling stratification is to find a way to get the heated air at the upper levels of the space to drop down and mix with the cooler air at lower levels.

Among the more difficult buildings to properly heat and cool are those with high ceilings. During the heating season, the warm air rises towards the typically unoccupied areas near the ceiling, while colder air settles towards the floor where most building occupants are located. To maintain temperatures at the lower levels where most thermostats are located, the heating system must supply additional heat which rises towards the ceiling.

During the cooling season, the process is reversed with cool air settling to the floor. The higher one goes in the space, the warmer the temperature. If the space has a mezzanine level, maintaining temperatures at that level may require that ground level spaces be overcooled.

This process of the air being layered by temperature is known as thermal stratification. In a typical building, the temperature rise is approximately 0.5 degrees F per foot in height above the floor. The overheating and overcooling that is required to overcome stratification results in comfort issues and energy waste. Estimates of the annual energy savings that can be achieved if the effects of stratification can be reduced range between 15 and 20 percent.

The higher the ceiling of the conditioned space, the greater the potential for stratification. But ceiling height is not the only factor that impacts stratification. Heat generated within the space by occupants or equipment contributes to stratification as does solar gain. Stratification is more pronounced in buildings where the building envelope, particularly the envelope near the ceiling, is in poor condition, resulting in high heat losses due to conduction and exfiltration.

Fighting stratification

The key to controlling stratification is to find a way to get the heated air at the upper levels of the space to drop down and mix with the cooler air at lower levels. There are two major ways to do this: axial fans and high-volume, low-speed fans.

Axial fans are self-contained units that, when installed near the ceiling, can direct air towards the floor. They are small units that can be used in applications with ceiling heights up to 60 feet. They operate at a speed that, while high enough to move the air from higher levels to lower levels, is low enough to allow thorough mixing of the air from the ceiling with air located at the floor without causing irritating drafts. They are low in energy use and do not generate significant noise. A typical application requires roughly one fan per 1,000 square feet of floor space.

High-volume, low-speed fans in contrast are large units, typically eight to 14 feet in diameter. Also mounted near the ceiling, the units decrease stratification by churning the air rather than by forcing a stream of air downwards. They are best suited for use in open spaces with ceiling heights between 15 and 30 feet. Like axial fans, they are low in energy use and noise generation.

One consideration when installing high-volume, low-speed fans is that it may be necessary to relocate existing light fixtures. If lights are located directly above the fans, the rotating blades can produce an annoying strobe effect.

There are two basic types of control systems for both the axial and high-volume, low-speed fans: preventive and reactive. With preventive controls, the fans operate continuously to prevent the development of thermal stratification. Reactive controls measure the temperature at the ceiling and at the floor, turning the fan on when a preset temperature difference develops between the two. Both systems are effective in reducing stratification.

Fans can reduce thermal stratification in practically all facilities that have high ceilings. Properly designed systems can reduce the floor to ceiling temperature differential by more than 80 percent, providing both energy savings and improved comfort.

Fans for destratification are particularly effective in some special use applications. For example, the fans can help control condensation in areas with high humidity levels, such as swimming pools or gyms. Similarly, reducing thermal stratification can reduce fogging of windows during the cooling season and frosting of windows during the heating season.

Another special use application where fans can improve both comfort and energy efficiency is facilities like warehouses that have large door openings. Every time the door is opened, large quantities of conditioned air are lost to the outside. When the door is closed, it takes time for the HVAC system to restore the space to the desired temperature. Destratification fans can reduce the time required.

Fan limitations

Destratification fans cannot solve problems with buildings whose envelope is in poor condition, particularly when those poor conditions exist near the ceiling. High levels of heat loss near the ceiling set up thermally induced currents that result in the cooling of the air, causing it to fall. Destratification fans in this case would accelerate this cold air back towards the floor. The heat loss issues of the building envelope must be addressed first.

Similarly, buildings that have improperly sealed openings near the ceiling must have those issues corrected first. Openings, particularly when they are near the ceiling, result in air leaks from the building. This exfiltration is a particularly strong contributor to stratification. For example, if air is leaking out of the building at or near the high point of the conditioned space during the heating season, it creates a slight negative pressure. This negative pressure draws cold air into the space, usually at lower levels. This cold air lowers the temperature of the space at the level of the thermostat, so it calls for more heat. The heated air then rises in the space, leaks out, drawing in even more cold air.

Facility managers responsible for buildings with poorly designed or operating HVAC systems must address those system issues first before investing in destratification fans. Poorly operating systems may not be properly distributing the conditioned air throughout the space, resulting in some areas being warm while others are cold. This in turn contributes to stratification. Correct the HVAC issues first, then consider installing destratification fans.

Destratification fans should not be installed in unconditioned spaces. While it might seem beneficial to keep air moving in these spaces, destratification fans are not meant to serve as ventilation fans. Unconditioned spaces tend to be poorly insulated, if they are insulated at all. During the cooling season, the fans would simply move hot air from near the ceiling down to the floor. During the heating season, they would just increase the quantity of cold air reaching the floor.

Properly applied, destratification fans can improve comfort levels while reducing energy use. Typical energy savings from the use of the fans provide a simple payback of five years or less.

James Piper, PhD, PE, is a writer and consultant who has more than 35 years of experience in facilities management. He is a contributing editor for Building Operating Management.

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108.

That’s the new measure for the hottest day in Seattle.

Temperatures at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday afternoon eclipsed Seattle’s previous record of 104, set on Sunday, bringing a dangerous and unprecedented heat wave to a crescendo in a wilting city.

Temperatures could drop at a record rate as a surge of marine air brings a measure of relief early Tuesday morning.

For those without air conditioning, it’s unlikely to provide deliverance. Typical high temperatures check in around 74 degrees this time in June, according to Matthew Cullen, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Seattle.

Highs in Seattle Tuesday are expected to be in the 90s, Cullen said, adding that there would be “plenty of sun.”

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And east of the Cascades, temperatures will only intensify on Tuesday, when they will peak. Meteorologists say temperatures could match and perhaps exceed the state’s record of 118.

The heat wave has sent dozens to emergency rooms in Seattle; fouled the air with ozone; primed the state for wildfire; buckled roadways, causing traffic jams; and set the stage for disaster for northwest salmon.

The full scale of its human health impacts won’t be known for weeks or months, said Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County, adding that heat can stress underlying health conditions.

“It will take a while to study the increase in those conditions,” he said.

Low-pressure heats us up, then cools

The heat wave’s intensity was amplified Monday by a thermal trough — a low-pressure weather system — that moved across the Olympic Peninsula and into the region, drawing hot, dry air through the Cascades and into Seattle, Cullen said.

Marine air, chasing that system, was expected to seep into Seattle in the middle of Monday night, causing temperatures to dip as low as the mid-60s.

Seattle’s biggest difference between one day’s high temperature and the next day’s low temperature is 43 degrees, according to Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik, a postdoctoral researcher in agricultural meteorology at Washington State University.

The overnight temperature swing Tuesday morning could approach that mark, but ultimately the sea air will replace extreme heat with merely abnormal warmth.

“By Wednesday and Thursday, we’re looking at high temperatures only in the 80s. Still warm for here, but not close to the dangerous heat we’ve seen the last several days,” Cullen said.

The thermal trough will march eastward on Tuesday, sending temperatures east of the Cascades to their peak, said Joey Clevenger, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Spokane.

“We’re going to be close to breaking the all-time record,” Clevenger said.

Clevenger said weather models show temperatures in the Moses Lake and Tri-Cities areas could reach 118.

Washington has seen temperatures rise that high only twice — at Wahluke on July 24, 1928, and at the Ice Harbor Dam on August 5, 1961, according to the state climatologist’s office. Preliminary data from the National Weather Service suggests two Washington weather stations — one in Dallesport and another near the Sol Duc River — hit 118 degrees Monday.

Scientists say climate change’s fingerprints are plainly visible and help explain the intensity of this high pressure event.

Climate change has increased baseline warming and the potential for extremes, said Ben Zaitchik, a climate scientist and professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies extreme events.

The prolonged drought across the West, which Zaitchik said is spurred by climate change, is reinforcing the surface heating allowed by the high-pressure system.

Streets, water supply strained

High temperatures revealed tension on Washington’s infrastructure as roads crumbled and communities asked residents to cut back on water use.

Concrete panels on freeways crumbled in the heat Monday, an unprecedented breakdown that caused sudden traffic jams. The Washington State Department of Transportation on Monday closed some lanes of I-5 for emergency repairs.

Morgan Balogh, an assistant regional administrator, blamed the sudden damage mainly on the declining pavement, which is more than 55 years old, cracked and rutted by heavy trucks and nonstop traffic. Triple-digit temperatures caused these already weak concrete panels in north Seattle and Shoreline to push against each other and buckle upward, he said.

“We get buckling of the freeway when it’s hot — but not like the last few days,” Balogh said.

Marysville required residents to curtail water use, in part because of high demand during Monday’s heat wave.

The demand, along with a pump that failed at Stillaguamish Ranney Well, caused “concern trends” for the city’s water supply, the city said Monday afternoon.

Customers were told to limit all nonessential household and recreational water use, like filling swimming pools or watering laws. Residents were asked to delay laundry and dishwasher usage, if possible, the city said.

Prepare for wildfire smoke

The heat wave has primed Washington for wildfire.

“Be prepared for the smoke to hit,” said Vaughn Cork, a fuels analyst with the Washington Department of Natural Resources, saying the heat wave was “baking things and getting it all ready to go for the next hot and dry event we have to take off.”

A healthy snowpack is insulating vegetation at elevations above 5,000 feet, but the state’s low-elevation forests and grasslands are as dry as they would typically be by the end of July or early August, Cork said.

March and April were the fourth driest on record in Washington State since 1895, according to the state Department of Ecology.

The heat wave erased the impact of rainy days in May and earlier in June.

Much of the state, including the Puget Sound region west of the Cascades, was under a red-flag warning Monday, meaning that fires could spread quickly.

“Any kind of spark or ignition could produce a decent fire,” Clevenger said.

An air quality alert was in effect Monday for parts of King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, not because of wildfire smoke, but because of pollution caused by the heat.

Sunlight can intensify chemical reactions that create surface-level ozone, which can trigger health issues like chest pain, coughing and congestion. Ozone levels spiked Monday and should decrease Tuesday as temperatures drop, according to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.

And the intense heat spells danger this summer for fish and trees.

On the Columbia and Snake Rivers, temperatures are already within two degrees of the slaughter zone of 2015, when half the sockeye run was lost due to high water temperatures. An estimated 250,000 sockeye died that year long before reaching their spawning grounds.

The sockeye run is at its peak right now just as temperatures are climbing. Spring and summer chinook and steelhead migrating in the rivers also are at risk.

“We are crossing the line to temperatures that can be disastrous for fish,” said Michele DeHart, manager of the Fish Passage Center, which monitors and studies fish migration in the Columbia and Snake Rivers. “I would say the outlook is pretty grim.”

The drought — and a helping of historic heat — also has amplified the stress on trees, which become more vulnerable to bugs, pathogens and fire.

Public health toll

The heat wave’s impacts on public health won’t be fully understood for weeks or months.

On Sunday, 91 King County residents visited emergency departments for heat-related illness, according to an email from Public Health – Seattle & King County spokesperson Gabriel Spitzer.

Of those visiting emergency rooms Sunday, 22 were admitted to hospitals, and doctors diagnosed 11 with acute kidney failure, 11 with encephalopathy and seven with fever.

Some 40 patients visited ERs on Saturday, Spitzer wrote.

But Duchin, the health officer, said emergency visits hardly begin to describe the heat wave’s toll on health.

Heat can exacerbate underlying conditions, such as diabetes, renal disease and cardiac disease. Heat over several days can have a cumulative effect.

“Your resilience to bounce back is decreased over time as the extreme heat progresses,” Duchin said.

Climate change has a disparate impact on communities and that’s made bare by heat, Duchin said. Less affluent communities often have a higher proportion of people with underlying health conditions. They could have less access to air conditioning and more people who work outside.

In an interview Monday, Gov. Jay Inslee said the heat wave, like COVID-19, was “another eye-opener on inequalities in society.”

Heat waves are a test of the social fabric of society, said Zaitchik, the Johns Hopkins University professor.

Heat stress, in general, is relatively easy to avoid even without air conditioning when people are helping one another, and in particular those most vulnerable, to stay cool.

After tens of thousands died in a heat wave in Europe in 2003, including many elderly people, “there was a lot of soul searching,” Zaitchik said, about air conditioning and also why no one had been there to help.

“Climate change — it’s a stressor on our physical system and natural system. It’s a stressor to our social system.”

Seattle Times staff reporters Paige Cornwell, Lynda Mapes and Mike Lindblom contributed to this story.

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Traveling This Memorial Day Weekend? Pack Patience. Last year, for the first time in 20 years, AAA, the automobile owners group, declined to put out its annual Memorial Day travel forecast as the surging coronavirus pandemic kept many people close to home. Its forecast this year: Travel is back. More than 37 million people are expected to venture 50 or more miles away from home between May 27 and May 31, AAA said. That’s a 60 percent increase from the 23 million who actually traveled last year, the lowest on record since AAA began counting in 2000. “Americans are demonstrating a strong desire to travel this Memorial Day,” said Paula Twidale, AAA’s senior vice president in a statement. “This pent-up demand will result in a significant increase in Memorial Day travel, which is a strong indicator for summer.” The Transportation Security Administration essentially said the same thing at a news conference on Tuesday, when Darby LaJoye, the acting administrator of the T.S.A., warned of longer wait times at some security checkpoints at airports because of the increasing number of passengers. On Sunday, the T.S.A. screened more than 1.8 million people, the most since the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020. While the increasing numbers may be good news for the travel industry, which has been among the hardest hit by the pandemic, for travelers they could make things complicated. AAA said that drivers in major cities should be prepared for road trips to be double or triple the length of a normal trip. So many ride-share drivers have stopped working that those relying on ride-sharing apps may face long wait times and prices that are multiples of their usual fares. Hotel rooms are booked up and many destinations are still struggling to hire staff, meaning that stays may be rocky. Many Americans seem to have booked earlier this year, perhaps spurred by eagerness to get out of the house once they were fully vaccinated. A recent report by the travel technology company Amadeus found that, when the pandemic was at its height, most people were booking within a week of their expected travel, perhaps because it was so hard to make plans. But recently, same-day bookings have been falling, while those for stays 31 to 60 days out have increased. They now make up 11 percent of reservations, compared to 6 percent in the first week of 2021. The result: a shortage of places to stay, especially in top destinations like the Outer Banks in North Carolina and Cape Cod in Massachusetts. “We have 19,000 guest rooms, and we expect them to be full this weekend,” said Bill DeSousa-Mauk, a spokesman for the Cape Cod Convention and Visitors Bureau. “I think we’ll have a completely sold out summer on the Cape this year,” he said. Lodging choices may also be limited because many people who own second homes on the Cape and rented them out in past years have moved, at least somewhat permanently, to the area. Lee Nettles, the executive director of the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau, said that the area, known for its more than 100 miles of shoreline, is also experiencing a shortage of rental properties. “Our lodging partners are telling us that they’re getting really close to being sold out” for Memorial Day weekend, Mr. Nettles said. Those looking to stay in the Outer Banks should, he recommends, “contact your lodging providers as quickly as possible.” The travel industry still has a ways to go. There are nearly six million fewer people traveling this weekend than did so in 2019, according to AAA, and air travel has yet to reach prepandemic levels, largely because business travel has not resumed. Big cities with hotels devoted to conventions are still experiencing low occupancy rates. But those who are traveling may feel the crunch because of diminished capacity. Hosts on Airbnb have dropped off the platform, and Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s chief executive, recently told CNBC that demand would “probably” outpace the number of available Airbnb listings as travel rebounds. He added that the company would need to add “millions more” hosts in the coming years to keep up. Campers, too, should brace themselves for what experts said could be the busiest camping season ever, according to data analyzed by the e-commerce company Pattern. The company tracked consumer behavior in 2021 so far compared to the two previous years, and found that the demand for camping tents this spring is already up 97 percent compared to the same period in 2020 and 85 percent compared to 2019. Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service, said that overnight lodging at many of the system’s top destinations, such as Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Teton, is nearly or fully booked through Labor Day. Campsite bookings through Recreation.gov, the government’s reservations system, are up 73 percent compared to this time in 2019, she said. “One of our top tips is to make sure folks have reservations before they hop in a car for that weekend road trip,” Ms. Anzelmo-Sarles said. “We don’t want people to show up and have nowhere to stay.” This increased demand is coming at a time when many parks, hotels and food service establishments continue to experience staffing shortages. Over the past 15 months, many hospitality workers have been laid off or have left the industry, and seasonal workers from overseas have been unable to get into the United States. Ms. Anzelmo-Sarles said travelers may see limited services in parks or in businesses in surrounding communities. And a survey of members of the American Hotel and Lodging Association found that 48 percent of hoteliers have closed or limited food and beverage and other hotel services because of a lack of staff. The tourism bureaus in Cape Cod and on Michigan’s Mackinac Island said that Covid-19 restrictions have prevented the usual flood of foreign workers who typically help during their busiest seasons from arriving. “At the moment, there are a lot of owners that are wiping down tables, busing tables, cleaning guest rooms, making beds, doing laundry, because they have to,” Mr. DeSousa-Mauk of the Cape Cod tourism bureau said. “Logistically, will people who visit be happy coming and having to wait for dinner or if their room’s not ready when they arrive at the hotel?” he added. But some people said they got ahead of the curve. Christian Asencio, the executive chef and general manager of the Chatham Squire in Chatham, Mass., on Cape Cod, said he “thought ahead about the staffing issue” after facing it last year. “We put up a bunch of ads,” he said. “I personally contacted chef friends from Maine and chef friends from Florida for seasonal cooks, and they were able to send me a whole army of cooks and servers.” Bill Catania, who owns the Cape Codder Resort and Spa, in Hyannis, said that keeping a core staff helped him prepare for the surge in travelers over the last few weeks. “Fortunately we had a strong base staff to start with, so we’re able to get it done. It’s just a lot harder to do,” Mr. Catania said, adding that accessibility to certain services has been limited and that he has set two- or three-night minimums on some rooms to minimize checkouts. “We basically allow the amount of business that our staff can handle.” But it can be hard to balance that with guest expectations, said Jake Hatch, the director of sales and marketing at the Sanderling Resort in Duck, N.C., on the Outer Banks. The resort’s occupancy is at a record high, and it is charging higher than usual rates. At the same time, daily cleaning has been eliminated and its high-end restaurant, Kimball’s Kitchen, has been closed since the end of the summer season in 2019. It will finally open this weekend. Mr. Hatch worries that guests will want more of a four-star resort. “That’s been a tough line for us to straddle,” he said. Across the Outer Banks, he said, “it’ll be very noticeable around the island that everybody is short-staffed,” with longer waits and restaurants declining to take reservations. “It’s still the same beautiful Outer Banks,” he said, but people should “just be patient as they can be with staff.” Higher prices for ride shares may add to the misery. Susan Subracko, a mother of three who lives in Brooklyn, was trying to get to Kennedy International Airport in early May. She was forced to cancel two rides after the Lyft drivers did not arrive, and when she finally got a ride it cost $160 — about twice what she was originally quoted and $100 more than she usually pays. The company reimbursed her after she filed a complaint. On her way home, there were no ride-share cars available and she instead waited two hours for a yellow cab. A Twitter user who goes by @sundeep recently shared a similar experience: His ride to J.F.K. cost him nearly $250 — about as much as the cost of his flight to San Francisco. In April, Uber announced a $250 million driver stimulus to boost earnings for drivers and get them back on the road. Lyft is also providing incentives for drivers to meet the increased demand. The national shortage of rental cars is another hurdle for travelers. Emily Armstrong, a community college instructor in Kansas City, Mo., said she and her husband booked a van for their family of six three weeks ahead of their 12-hour road trip to the Smoky Mountains on Saturday. But when Ms. Armstrong called the rental company to ask for an earlier pickup, a customer service representative accidentally canceled their reservation and later told her there are no more similar vans available in her area. Instead, she said the family would either squeeze into their four-door sedan or have some of their children ride with relatives. “I know this is a first-world problem, and we understand the shortage,” Ms. Armstrong said. “It was just kind of a surprise and caught us off guard.” Adding to the tension for travelers are the conflicting feelings and differing regulations around mask usage and other Covid-19 rules. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that vaccinated travelers do not need to wear masks, but this does not necessarily apply everywhere. Masks are still required in airports and planes, for instance. Tim Hygh, the executive director of the Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau, said that though regulations in Michigan have been relaxed, masks are still required on the ferry that takes people to the island. He added that “each business on the island is still adapting their own rules based on what they want to do for their employees and what they want for their visitors.” The Federal Aviation Administration recently said that there has been a “disturbing increase” in the number of unruly passengers who have returned to the skies with the easing of pandemic restrictions. The F.A.A. said this month that it had received more than 1,300 unruly-passenger reports from airlines since February. In the previous decade, the agency said, it took enforcement actions against 1,300 passengers total. Earlier this week, a woman on a Southwest Airlines flight was arrested after getting into a physical altercation with a flight attendant, who, according to one passenger on the flight, had reminded the woman to wear her mask. The flight attendant lost two of her teeth, according to a letter from a union representative to the head of Southwest. Mr. Hygh, of the Mackinac tourism bureau, urges visitors to be flexible and do their research ahead of traveling. “Any time you’re in a time of transition, there’s going to be confusion and sometimes confusion can lead to anger,” he said. “I’m hoping everyone gives everyone else a break.” Jackie Snow contributed reporting. Source link Orbem News #Day #memorial #pack #Patience #Traveling #Weekend

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iRobot Roomba 860 Review 2021: Really Worth Buying?

Through our iRobot Roomba 860 Review 2021, you’ll know much about this little fellow. Whether you are a Roomba veteran or a newbie to the robotic vacuum, picking out a new vacuum cleaner is kind of a tough task.

If you are having any interest in the iRobot Roomba 860 vacuum cleaning robot, then you’re among the savviest of shoppers.

It’s reasonably priced and contains all the core features of expensive Roombas in the 800 series. For the rate, it seems like a bargain, though.

However, how does it compare to every other model in the same series? This article will make sure you’re armed with all the correct information before you make your purchase on any Roomba model.

If you do not have time to read the whole article, then just know that the Roomba 860 is a perfect solid robot vacuum that is worth the purchase.

iRobot Roomba 860 Review 2021

Specifications Chart

This table will show you all of the available functions that the iRobot Roomba 860 vacuum cleaning robot has, or is lacking. You‘ll be able to find the functions you want, and you can also see if this model fits your requirements.

ROOMBA 650

Roomba 860

Weight

8.4 pounds

Dimensions

13.9″×13.9″×3.6″

Automatic Resume

Recharge Time

3 hours

Runtime

Up to 60 minutes

Battery

2600mAh Lithium-ion

Automatic Recharge

Yes

Collection Bin Capacity

0.65L

Filter

AeroForce high-efficiency

Mobile App

Wireless Communications

Remote Control

Bluetooth

Mapping

Sensor Based

Voice Commands

Local Controls

Yes

Navigation

iAdapt Navigation Technology

Bump Sensors

Yes

Drop Sensors

Yes

Containment

Virtual Wall Barrier

Dirt Detection Sensors

Yes

Full Bin Indicator

Yes

Scheduling

Yes

Floor Types

All

Side Brushes

Warranty

1 year

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Who the iRobot Roomba 860 vacuum cleaning robot is For?

the main motto behind narrating iRobot Roomba 860 Review is to let you know whether the 860 is suitable for you or not. It is a modern robotic vacuum manufactured with everyone in mind. While it will not be perfect for everyone, it’s a good fit for those that:

Do not need a ton of extraneous control features.

Having multiple floor types and wanting a single robot to clean them all.

Having allergies and requires high-efficiency filters to help control all allergens.

Who the iRobot Roomba 860 vacuum cleaning robot is Not For?

Sometimes you might find yourself needing to expand your budget to get some updates you really require. This might be one such instance if you:

Have a huge floor space that requires constant cleaning.

Require mobile app or voice controls.

Want a robot with as many whistles and bells as you could afford.

iRobot Roomba 860 Review 2021: Most Thrilling Features

AeroForce Technology

The 860 features an exciting three-stage technology that gives for up to five times more suction than the 700 and 600 series models.

This process starts with a rotating brush on the side of the Roomba that pushes all debris and dirt into the path of the Roomba’s under suction and brushes. In the 2nd stage, the brushes underneath the robot vacuum rotate in opposite directions, so there is nothing left in the way.

Dirt and Hair alike are forced upward inside the vacuum’s suction to make sure that nothing is missed. Besides that, The brushes work to loosen dirt from hard floors and carpet so that they get a thorough scrubbing as well.

For the 3rd stage, the vacuum cleaner itself sucks all the kinds of materials brought into its way and passes them through a modern filtration system. Huge particles and Hair will be caught in the Roomba’s bin collector, which could be easily emptied when it’s full.

In addition to all of this, the 860 provides a Frobot that breaks down what is gathered so that there won’t be any clogging. This max suction makes sure that suction is not lost and gathers every last bit of debris, dirt, and Hair which comes across its way.

Now, let’s move ahead n our iRobot Roomba 860 Review and know about the filteration system (something that we call “excellent”)

HEPA Filter

After a Roomba has sent everything through this 3-stage process, it’s recirculated inside the air through a HEPA, which stands for High-Efficiency Particulate Arrestance filter.

HEPA is a government certified standard that removes 99.97% of all particles which are larger than 0.3 micrometers. Top of that, These filters are best for those with breathing problems or other allergies because they could remove almost all irritants from the environment.

If you are having these kinds of conditions or are concerned about the purity of your home’s environment, the HEPA filter is included in the 860, an excellent feature.

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iAdapt Technology

All iRobot vacuums include iRobot’s iAdapt technology. This tech uses optical and acoustic sensors to guide them around your home or apartment. This permits the robot to maneuver around your big to small furniture, avoid steps, and then run along walls.

You’ll notice that the 860 won’t follow a direct path when you are vacuuming your room. Instead, the iAdapt technology surveys your room in a somewhat zigzag pattern, which will appear random.

When the 860 is zipping around the room, the sensors would be detecting the presence of dust. As it does so, it’ll go over those same places multiple times until it no longer observes anything on the floor.

So, while it might look like your Roomba is just tripping around your rooms randomly, however in reality, it’s efficiently removing the dust from your carpets.

Virtual Compatibilities

The 860 is eligible with 3 add-on functions that you could buy to customize your vacuuming: lighthouses, virtual walls, and barriers. These are used to restrict it from tripping into places you don’t want it to go. In this way, you could ensure that the robot focuses only on those places you want to clean.

iRobot Roomba 860 Review 2021: Pros and Cons

Now that we have seen the main functions of 860 let’s take a look at some of the things customers love and some of those things that customers aren’t so happy about when it comes to the 860.

Pros BIG FEATURES Feature Importance of the feature Long-Lasting Battery This model comes with a lithium-ion battery. These batteries are much lightweight (deducting the power required to drive the vacuum around) and also hold a HUGE charge.

The batteries could be recharged several times and are also known for their reliability. It Cleans All Over The 860 has much power and techs to thoroughly clean any room or any small apartment. It’ll get right up against your walls and ensure there is no dust or dirt left behind.

This provides you the peace of mind that your house is clean. No-Hassle Charging One best plus for the 860 is that when the batteries are getting low, it will automatically go to its docking station in order to charge itself. You don’t have to worry about plugging in the vacuum cleaner or making sure it’s charged before you begin it to work.

It takes care of everything for you! You could Schedule Cleaning The iRobot Roomba 860 vacuuming robot comes with the accessibility to schedule while it turns on and starts cleanings. You could set it to clean up to seven 7 times per week at any set time you desire.

This provides you great versatility of usage, which doesn’t come with all Roomba models. It tells you when it is full This model includes a “full bin” light indicator that lets you know when the gathering bin is required to be emptied.

This way, you don’t have to keep checking to see if it is full. This is the best convenience, which will save you a ton of time and effort.

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Cleaning system

The 860 contains a three-Stage Cleaning System, totally made up of the airflow accelerator, brushless extractors, and HEPA vacuum:

Brushless extractors – the 800 series Roombas have taken the rotating brushes of the previous generations and converted them in two rubber rollers. The rollers have tiny “feet” and spin much fastly, using this fast motion to shake and then bounce the dust off your floors and into the way of the suction power. The shaking helps break up the dust particles, making them smoother to suck up. This is the solo most ideal improvement since the intro of Roomba in 2002.

The “brushless-ness” makes maintaining the Roomba so much easier.

You used to have to cut and pick hair out of the brushes on the previous generation Roombas. They came with little hair extractors with the box. We are so joyful that the 800 series do away with these completely. And also the maintenance is truly a breeze.

Airflow Accelerator – Fancy name for a series of air ducts which channels the vacuum cleaner suction from the motor to the particular surfaces of the floors.

Vacuum with HEPA filters – The 860 comes with an extra and incredible HEPA filter, and you could purchase more easily. They take about thirty seconds to change.

Navigation

Without the use of an onboard navigation system, the Roomba wouldn’t be capable of vacuuming your floor or carpet much efficiently. Although it’s supposed to be smart, it doesn’t always seem that way to us. It manages to cover every centimeter of the house, however, in a less-than-elegant, seemingly random manner.

For instance, it will vacuum the floor behind our standing mirror over again, leave your room to vacuum another part of the home, then come back to the vacuum behind the mirror again.

We were half expecting it to get stuck; however, in the two months that our experts have tested the 860, it has yet to get trapped, though. There is a corner of the kitchen which has specific trouble with.

The area underneath the cabinet is just short enough for our Roomba to barely squeeze in. This makes it individually hard for it to get out of there. However, it has been capable of doing so every solo time.

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We thought every time it vacuums. However, it has managed to not get trapped; that’s a great thing!

Spinning Side Brush

All advanced Roombas have a spinning side brush that permits them to sweep the dirt in corners and wall edges in the way of the vacuum.

Battery

This is one place where the 860 outperforms its more expensive sisters and brothers. Whereas the 880 and 870 have NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) batteries, although the 860 is equipped with a long-lasting Li-Ion (Lithium Ion) battery.

This is the kind of battery that is used in virtually all smartphones. (And for an appropriate reason: Li-Ion stores approx 30% more power than NiMH)

Virtual Wall Halo

The 860 includes this accessory. In Virtual Wall mode, it communicates to the Roomba just to make it aware of not going beyond the wall. In Halo mode, it says. This particular unit is useful if you have places you really do not want the Roomba to go or pet bowls you do not want the Roomba to knock over. Or else, it’s not all that necessary.

Let’s conclude iRobot Roomba 860 Review

When it comes to all the robot vacuums, the iRobot Roomba 860 vacuuming robot provides an excellent high-end choice with some demandable features. The HEPA filter and modern vacuuming system must appeal to everyone, especially to those people who are concerned with air purity.

When it does not include some of the functions (like Wi-Fi) that we would like to see on a model that goes beyond the bare-bones, though, it reaches a great middle-ground with the modern features it does come with.

If you really want the higher technical choice, you will have to spend a bit more cash. However, if you’re happy without having the mobile app feature, the iRobot Roomba 860 vacuuming robot will do an ideal job automatically keeping your house clean.

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Things You Should Know

F.A.Q How well does it clean?

Very well. The Roomba is intelligent. When it’s vacuuming along a wall, it is totally aware of pointing the spinning brush against the wall so it could sweep any dirt out away from the wall.

After getting the Roomba, we never manually vacuumed our floor anymore. Maybe our standards are just low. Some people who own this vacuum say they still vacuum only once a month; however, in our lab, we have yet to see the requirement to do so.

Is the iRobot Roomba 860 vacuuming robot good for hard surfaces or carpet like tile and hardwood?

It cleans both of them very well. Having to run it on a battery, the suction isn’t as powerful as a corded vacuum. However, the iRobot Roomba 860 vacuuming robotwould make many more passes over your carpet or hard floor than you might be vacuuming manually.

Also, the dust sensor tells it to focus on places that need more attention. This outputs on a very clean floor, whether it is a hard surface or carpet.

How noisy is the irobot Roomba 860 vacuuming robot?

The Roomba produced approx 61 decibels while vacuuming the hardwood floor in our lab. It’s much quieter than any other traditional vacuum, however still a bit sound it makes in our expert’s opinion.

We guess suction comes at a rate. It’s much quieter on the carpets, measuring approx 58 dB.

How much maintenance is required?

It takes about one minute to clean the Roomba when its bin gets full. We empty the dustbin afterward each time because it’s so easy.

Once a month, we unscrew the spinning side brush and then pop out the rubber rollers so we can clean out the hair. This particular process sounds tedious; however, it is actually much easier to do.

It takes a total of about five minutes to do this particular task. This is a more pleasant experience than the previous older model Roombas, where you gotta have to pull out all the hair in the bristles with the hair extractor they provide you.

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An audio system’s performance is always negatively affected by a room’s unique characteristics. The size and shape of the room, its construction, the furnishings, and other factors cause standing waves, resonances, and reflections that can color the sound played by loudspeakers. Utilizing proprietary algorithms developed by Anthem engineers, ARC Genesis creates custom correction curves that retain the favorable acoustic signature of speakers and remove negative room contributions. These custom filters are then used to program high-quality digital signal processing (DSP) technology embedded within compatible audio products.

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Expanded Compatibility

ARC Genesis® is backward compatible with many Anthem, Paradigm, or MartinLogan products that are ARC or PBK enabled (see full list of compatible products below). Mac os x lion 10.7 dmg free download. This third generation of ARC represents a major leap forward in room correction with the most comprehensive features ever. ARC Genesis transforms the audio performance of compatible speakers or electronics to the unique characteristic of any room. Proprietary Digital Signal Processing (DSP) software works in tandem with the calibrated microphone provided with your ARC enabled product to provide an astonishing improvements to the sound you hear.

ARC Genesis Compatible Products:

AVM 60

MDX-16 / 8

MRX Gen 2 (710 / 510 / 310)

MRX Gen 3 (1120 / 720 / 520)

STR Integrated / Preamplifier

ARC Genesis Compatible Products:

Defiance V12 / V10

Defiance X15 / X12 / X10

Millenia SUB

Persona 9H / SUB

Prestige 2000SW / 1000SW

PW 800 / 600 / AMP / LINK / Soundbar

Seismic 110

Soundplay

X-850

ARC Genesis Compatible Products:

BalancedForce 212 / 210

Bravado / Cadence / Forte / Unison / Verse

Dynamo 1600X / 1500X / 1100X / 800X / 600X

Expression ESL 13A

Illusion ESL C34A

Impression ESL 11A

MDA16 / 8

Renaissance ESL 15A

ARC Genesis Key Features

Demo Mode: Experience the software first hand. Demo mode offers access to the full suite of tools without having an Anthem, MartinLogan, or Paradigm compatible product connected.

Assign Amp Channels: For products such as Anthem’s MRX audio/video receivers and AVM home theater processors, ARC Genesis allows you to configure the assignable amp channels from within the software, making quick work of setting up your receiver for zone 2 or height effects channels.

Set Up Bass Management: For products such as Anthem’s MRX audio/video receivers, AVM home theater processors, and STR preamplifier and integrated amplifiers, ARC Genesis not only optimizes the performance of your system, it also lets you set up bass management from within the software. To redirect bass to a subwoofer (below a speaker’s Crossover frequency), set the Send Bass to Subwoofer (or Low-Frequency Extension Slope) control to “Send bass to the sub.”

Customize Target Curves: With ARC Genesis’ Professional Mode, the target curves for the system as a whole, are adjustable using room gain, deep bass boost, and tilt controls. Individual sets of speakers allow for the adjustment of high-frequency roll-off and crossover frequencies and slopes. Subwoofers allow for the adjustment of high-frequency extension, low-frequency extension, and low-frequency extension slope.

20 Hz to 20,000 Hz Full-Range Room Correction for Each Set of Speakers: For products such as Anthem’s MRX audio/video receivers, AVM home theater processors, and STR preamplifier and integrated amplifiers, ARC Genesis allows you to set a different maximum correction frequency for each set of speakers, up to 20,000 Hz. For example, you may want to use room correction on your dipole electrostatic front speakers up to 400 Hz and your small in-ceiling height effect speakers up to ARC’s default of 5,000 Hz.

Multiple Measurements: Some devices allow you to create multiple measurement sets (up to four, depending on the device). We recommend more than one if some significant transformation predictably takes place within the room that can alter the room’s acoustic response. For example, take one set of measurements with a drop-down video screen deployed and another with the screen hidden, drapes up or down, doors open or closed, and so on.

Multiple Profiles: Alone in the dark mac download. Some devices allow you to create multiple system profiles (up to four, depending on the device). For example, one profile can optimize your system as a multi-channel home theater with sub and another as a 2-channel music system without a sub. Can't transfer photos from iPhone to … - Apple Community.

Remeasure: If you’ve spent time working with ARC to dial in the performance of your system and later decide to upgrade your center channel or another speaker, ARC Genesis allows you to open a saved configuration file, remeasure only your new speaker, and update your target curves without needing to start over from scratch.

Pan and Zoom: ARC Genesis allows you to examine graphs in great detail. To zoom on a computer, place your cursor over the graph and spin your mouse wheel or choose Zoom In or Zoom Out. To pan on a computer, left-click on a graph and drag it to change position. On a touch screen enabled device, you press the Zoom In or Zoom Out controls or press and drag to pan.

Multiple Languages: Support for several languages is available under ARC > Preferences > Languages. To switch to a different language, select your preferred language from the Preferences panel, close the application, and restart it. At the time of launch, ARC supports Chinese, English, French, German, and Spanish.

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Quick Measure and Snapshots: Quick Measure allows you to experiment with speaker and subwoofer positioning and settings outside of ARC while monitoring the resulting acoustic response in real time. The snapshot feature allows you to freeze a curve to compare against subsequent changes that affect the acoustic response.

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