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POLITICAL PLANNING
People moving into a new tract development are politically inert for five years.
Gary Evans, city planner
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2381 Dieting thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
CALORIES AND JOGGING
Jogging burns about 100 calories per mile.
J. Benze, plumber's apprentice
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PUTTING OUT A FIRE
Direct your fire extinguisher at the base of the flames from a distance of less than ten feet. If you can't get any closer than ten feet, the fire is probably too large for a hand-held fire extinguisher. Concentrate your efforts on leaving the vicinity of the fire.
Norman Lewis, volunteer fireman
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2893 Electricity thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
CALCULATE THE COST OF POWERING A COMPUTE
If you know the amount of heat a box puts out, in BTU, you can determine the cost of the electricity to power and cool it. BTU / 2510 * $/kWhr * hours/month = cost/month For example, if electricity costs 10ยข per kWhr, and there are on average 730 hours in a month, then each 1000 BTU server costs $29 per month in cooling and electricity. If you don't know the BTU, multiply the wattage times x 3.5 to obtain the BTU.
Charlie Quidnunc, IT, Seattle, WA, USA
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3149 Driving thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
HEADLIGHTS ON
If conditions cause you to consider whether or not to turn your headdlights on, the answer is always yes.
F Massimo, Software Consultant, Kings Park, NY, USA
(2) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-13)
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3405 Bicycles thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
RIDING WITH CHILDREN IN A TRAILER
When bike riding with your children in a trailer, you'll take 30 to 40 percent longer to cover the same distance; more if you stop often to look at horses. Safe top speed with the trailer is 15 mph; 20 on an open road.
John Schubert, Consultant, Coopersburg, PA, USA
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3917 Proportions thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
RATIO OF FLAG TO FLAG POLE
The hoist of a flag should be 1/5---or 20%---of the height of the flag pole. So on a 25ft flag pole, fly a 5x8 ft. flag.
Deborah, writer
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4173 Bicycles thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
TIRE FRICTION VERSUS AIR FRICTION
Tire and axle friction increase linearly with speed while air friction increases as a square of your speed.
Max Vidrine, KDVS DJ, Davis, CA, USA
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4429 Computers thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
WHAT HASN'T BEEN TESTED DOESN'T WORK
When releasing freshly developed software, you should assume that anything that has not successfully passed a validation test will fail doing so. Sotware essentially does not work, except at the few places where you saw it operate properly.
Yves Daoust, Software Engineer, Seraing, Belgium
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EXPERIENCE
Experience is the best of schools, and a fool will learn in no other.
Bender Bernder Rodriguez, Proffessional Bender, Chicago, IL, USA
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5197 Computers thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
HOW MUCH SHELF SPACE 6 GIGS WOULD TAKE
600 gigabytes of data will fill about six floors of an academic library.
Scott Parker
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