#it could be a beautiful country with its variety and landscapes but the gun laws and catastrophic healthcare system are FRIGHTENING

[disco-cola]

sometimes i dream about living in the states for a while but then i just read on cnn that the latest incident in texas was just the 199th (?!!) mass sh00ting with 4 or more casualties (like anything under that wasnt even counted in) THIS YEAR thats insane like i cant believe this but the gun v!0lence archive says the same its only may you literally cant fucking go to a store or to school or anywhere without constant fear how do yall live

[itsthomasoliver]

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Often the first direction they seem to is to locate new clients, sometimes overlooking the clients they already have. In case you've provided great service and quality to your existing customers, then you have a track record which may work to your advantage. When you announce something new added to your current line up of services your clients will immediately assume you may perform to the same high level of service with all the new offering. These are the simplest clients to advertise to because they already trust you. This is actually a great instrument of accountability on the business - to provide the same high quality with an add-on service as you already provide to your routine service. If you're going to provide an add-on service it is crucial to give the same attention to detail as with the other services provided. An add-on service that does not meet the same level of anticipated quality may hurt the company's reputation. The decision to extend a new service is one that should be taken quite seriously with time and research going into this decision. Looking at the points above it's not difficult to see in which a contractor providing cleaning or janitorial solutions can add pressure washing solutions with some simplicity. A builder providing landscaping services could offer home cleaning or deck restoration to increase the overall beauty of somebody's property. Pressure washing solutions tap in the restoration and cleaning businesses, which are solutions required by all businesses and individuals. (These solutions are needed with an increasing number of frequency, I've discovered, since the planet we live in gets dirtier and dirtier!) Before you go out and start creating advertising materials for your brand new provider, however, it's extremely important to know as much as possible about these new services you will offer. Research the type of equipment you will need (including any important accessories). Learn what gear specifications are needed to present concrete cleaning versus hardwood restoration. In your study you may learn that blasting water does not clean on its own. Rather, using pressure without the advantage of the appropriate cleaner often damages property and surfaces. It is therefore always important to learn about appropriate methods, pressures, chemicals, and cleaners. When you employ the proper cleaning and recovery products that the job gets easier, but then you also have to become educated about the correct handling and safety precautions for using them. In short, owning a pressure washer does not make one a professional cleaner or restorer. Pressure washing also entails environmental issues. The associated local, state, and federal regulations based on this law state the only thing permitted to enter storm drains is rain runoff. This may turn into an obstacle in the brand new service you intend to provide. You will have to understand how to clean and stay in compliance with laws and regulations. Intentionally violating regulations may lead to quite hefty fines that can ruin your day (or even ruin your company ). Pressure washing is really a very responsible technique of cleaning once you consider water use. Pressure washing actually conserves water in most cases. Take, for instance, the simple task of washing a vehicle. If we want to clean out the car at our home with a garden hose it might take approximately 18-20 gallons of water to wash and rinse the vehicle, and this doesn't take into account the individual who continually leaves the water running with no closed off onto the hose. With a pressure washer with a gun with a shut off the same car would require approximately 8-10 gallons of water! This is quite important information to understand during drought restrictions! In most communities across the country, electricity wash contractors are exempt from water use limitations because of the efficacy of the work. A property owner who uses a pressure washer is generally not exempt from such regulations, since he does not know the right techniques and Best Practices. This can be a selling point to the support, and it should be communicated to your clients as a responsible process of cleaning. In a world where environmental problems are more important, pressure washing can be an asset to your own market attempts. As the general public becomes more educated on the wide variety of applications for pressure washers there is an increasing requirement for accountable, professional companies to provide those services. Pressure washing is over blasting pressurized water to wash them. As mentioned before, pressurized water alone does not restore or clean. Lamentably, the public perception is that a pressure washer will wash surfaces. The cleaning power really comes from professional cleaning products together with the use of dwell times that allow the cleaners to work on the surfaces. A pressure washer then really becomes a giant draining tool. Again, this goes against most public perception about pressure washer use but this is where the opportunity lies - supplying an expert'add-on' service of stress cleaning. When you've learned the appropriate methods it's not difficult to outperform your competition and the homeowners themselves (who do not know any better than to use pressure and water only). Your results will speak for themselves and also you will have a client who's joyful and'long-term' due to the impressive results you have! You are now offering a service that a home owner would otherwise employ another company to perform. Your company becomes more of a'one-stop-shop' which makes you attractive to any potential customer. Offering this service may also stop your current customers from calling in a different contractor to supply the services you do not, taking the opportunity for the client to be"stolen" from the other man. Supplying an add-on service to an present customer costs only a fraction of what it costs one to find a new customer for those services that you currently provide. Including a professional service like pressure washing into your existing customer base could be a winning formula for your organization's bottom line! Click This Link Pressure washing Address: 8290 Matisse St APT 3510 Championsgate FL 33896  

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Often the first direction they seem to is to locate new clients, sometimes overlooking the clients they already have. In case you've provided great service and quality to your existing customers, then you have a track record which may work to your advantage. When you announce something new added to your current line up of services your clients will immediately assume you may perform to the same high level of service with all the new offering. These are the simplest clients to advertise to because they already trust you. This is actually a great instrument of accountability on the business - to provide the same high quality with an add-on service as you already provide to your routine service. If you're going to provide an add-on service it is crucial to give the same attention to detail as with the other services provided. An add-on service that does not meet the same level of anticipated quality may hurt the company's reputation. The decision to extend a new service is one that should be taken quite seriously with time and research going into this decision. Looking at the points above it's not difficult to see in which a contractor providing cleaning or janitorial solutions can add pressure washing solutions with some simplicity. A builder providing landscaping services could offer home cleaning or deck restoration to increase the overall beauty of somebody's property. Pressure washing solutions tap in the restoration and cleaning businesses, which are solutions required by all businesses and individuals. (These solutions are needed with an increasing number of frequency, I've discovered, since the planet we live in gets dirtier and dirtier!) Before you go out and start creating advertising materials for your brand new provider, however, it's extremely important to know as much as possible about these new services you will offer. Research the type of equipment you will need (including any important accessories). Learn what gear specifications are needed to present concrete cleaning versus hardwood restoration. In your study you may learn that blasting water does not clean on its own. Rather, using pressure without the advantage of the appropriate cleaner often damages property and surfaces. It is therefore always important to learn about appropriate methods, pressures, chemicals, and cleaners. When you employ the proper cleaning and recovery products that the job gets easier, but then you also have to become educated about the correct handling and safety precautions for using them. In short, owning a pressure washer does not make one a professional cleaner or restorer. Pressure washing also entails environmental issues. The associated local, state, and federal regulations based on this law state the only thing permitted to enter storm drains is rain runoff. This may turn into an obstacle in the brand new service you intend to provide. You will have to understand how to clean and stay in compliance with laws and regulations. Intentionally violating regulations may lead to quite hefty fines that can ruin your day (or even ruin your company ). Pressure washing is really a very responsible technique of cleaning once you consider water use. Pressure washing actually conserves water in most cases. Take, for instance, the simple task of washing a vehicle. If we want to clean out the car at our home with a garden hose it might take approximately 18-20 gallons of water to wash and rinse the vehicle, and this doesn't take into account the individual who continually leaves the water running with no closed off onto the hose. With a pressure washer with a gun with a shut off the same car would require approximately 8-10 gallons of water! This is quite important information to understand during drought restrictions! In most communities across the country, electricity wash contractors are exempt from water use limitations because of the efficacy of the work. A property owner who uses a pressure washer is generally not exempt from such regulations, since he does not know the right techniques and Best Practices. This can be a selling point to the support, and it should be communicated to your clients as a responsible process of cleaning. In a world where environmental problems are more important, pressure washing can be an asset to your own market attempts. As the general public becomes more educated on the wide variety of applications for pressure washers there is an increasing requirement for accountable, professional companies to provide those services. Pressure washing is over blasting pressurized water to wash them. As mentioned before, pressurized water alone does not restore or clean. Lamentably, the public perception is that a pressure washer will wash surfaces. The cleaning power really comes from professional cleaning products together with the use of dwell times that allow the cleaners to work on the surfaces. A pressure washer then really becomes a giant draining tool. Again, this goes against most public perception about pressure washer use but this is where the opportunity lies - supplying an expert'add-on' service of stress cleaning. When you've learned the appropriate methods it's not difficult to outperform your competition and the homeowners themselves (who do not know any better than to use pressure and water only). Your results will speak for themselves and also you will have a client who's joyful and'long-term' due to the impressive results you have! You are now offering a service that a home owner would otherwise employ another company to perform. Your company becomes more of a'one-stop-shop' which makes you attractive to any potential customer. Offering this service may also stop your current customers from calling in a different contractor to supply the services you do not, taking the opportunity for the client to be"stolen" from the other man. Supplying an add-on service to an present customer costs only a fraction of what it costs one to find a new customer for those services that you currently provide. Including a professional service like pressure washing into your existing customer base could be a winning formula for your organization's bottom line! why not find out more Pressure washing Address: 8290 Matisse St APT 3510 Championsgate FL 33896

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Often the first direction they seem to is to locate new clients, sometimes overlooking the clients they already have. In case you've provided great service and quality to your existing customers, then you have a track record which may work to your advantage. When you announce something new added to your current line up of services your clients will immediately assume you may perform to the same high level of service with all the new offering. These are the simplest clients to advertise to because they already trust you. This is actually a great instrument of accountability on the business - to provide the same high quality with an add-on service as you already provide to your routine service. If you're going to provide an add-on service it is crucial to give the same attention to detail as with the other services provided. An add-on service that does not meet the same level of anticipated quality may hurt the company's reputation. The decision to extend a new service is one that should be taken quite seriously with time and research going into this decision. Looking at the points above it's not difficult to see in which a contractor providing cleaning or janitorial solutions can add pressure washing solutions with some simplicity. A builder providing landscaping services could offer home cleaning or deck restoration to increase the overall beauty of somebody's property. Pressure washing solutions tap in the restoration and cleaning businesses, which are solutions required by all businesses and individuals. (These solutions are needed with an increasing number of frequency, I've discovered, since the planet we live in gets dirtier and dirtier!) Before you go out and start creating advertising materials for your brand new provider, however, it's extremely important to know as much as possible about these new services you will offer. Research the type of equipment you will need (including any important accessories). Learn what gear specifications are needed to present concrete cleaning versus hardwood restoration. In your study you may learn that blasting water does not clean on its own. Rather, using pressure without the advantage of the appropriate cleaner often damages property and surfaces. It is therefore always important to learn about appropriate methods, pressures, chemicals, and cleaners. When you employ the proper cleaning and recovery products that the job gets easier, but then you also have to become educated about the correct handling and safety precautions for using them. In short, owning a pressure washer does not make one a professional cleaner or restorer. Pressure washing also entails environmental issues. The associated local, state, and federal regulations based on this law state the only thing permitted to enter storm drains is rain runoff. This may turn into an obstacle in the brand new service you intend to provide. You will have to understand how to clean and stay in compliance with laws and regulations. Intentionally violating regulations may lead to quite hefty fines that can ruin your day (or even ruin your company ). Pressure washing is really a very responsible technique of cleaning once you consider water use. Pressure washing actually conserves water in most cases. Take, for instance, the simple task of washing a vehicle. If we want to clean out the car at our home with a garden hose it might take approximately 18-20 gallons of water to wash and rinse the vehicle, and this doesn't take into account the individual who continually leaves the water running with no closed off onto the hose. With a pressure washer with a gun with a shut off the same car would require approximately 8-10 gallons of water! This is quite important information to understand during drought restrictions! In most communities across the country, electricity wash contractors are exempt from water use limitations because of the efficacy of the work. A property owner who uses a pressure washer is generally not exempt from such regulations, since he does not know the right techniques and Best Practices. This can be a selling point to the support, and it should be communicated to your clients as a responsible process of cleaning. In a world where environmental problems are more important, pressure washing can be an asset to your own market attempts. As the general public becomes more educated on the wide variety of applications for pressure washers there is an increasing requirement for accountable, professional companies to provide those services. Pressure washing is over blasting pressurized water to wash them. As mentioned before, pressurized water alone does not restore or clean. Lamentably, the public perception is that a pressure washer will wash surfaces. The cleaning power really comes from professional cleaning products together with the use of dwell times that allow the cleaners to work on the surfaces. A pressure washer then really becomes a giant draining tool. Again, this goes against most public perception about pressure washer use but this is where the opportunity lies - supplying an expert'add-on' service of stress cleaning. When you've learned the appropriate methods it's not difficult to outperform your competition and the homeowners themselves (who do not know any better than to use pressure and water only). Your results will speak for themselves and also you will have a client who's joyful and'long-term' due to the impressive results you have! You are now offering a service that a home owner would otherwise employ another company to perform. Your company becomes more of a'one-stop-shop' which makes you attractive to any potential customer. Offering this service may also stop your current customers from calling in a different contractor to supply the services you do not, taking the opportunity for the client to be"stolen" from the other man. Supplying an add-on service to an present customer costs only a fraction of what it costs one to find a new customer for those services that you currently provide. Including a professional service like pressure washing into your existing customer base could be a winning formula for your organization's bottom line! check over here Pressure washing Address: 8290 Matisse St APT 3510 Championsgate FL 33896

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Just as a hammer or saw are resources for carpenters, a pressure washer is used as an instrument by many businesses which supply you different services everyday. General contractors use pressure washers to wash new houses and buildings before turning them over to the new proprietor. Pressure washers are used to clean the exteriors and support regions of the buildings that you frequent daily. They are utilized to wash out the carts in your favourite grocery store and painters use pressure washers to prepare surfaces prior to painting. New applications for this equipment have been found daily. When there are many companies that specialize in providing these pressure washing services, more and more contractors who don't now offer power washing are becoming aware of the many opportunities to provide pressure washing services as an"addition". Business owners are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to increase sales. Often the first direction they seem to is to locate new clients, sometimes overlooking the clients they already have. In case you've provided great service and quality to your existing customers, then you have a track record which may work to your advantage. When you announce something new added to your current line up of services your clients will immediately assume you may perform to the same high level of service with all the new offering. These are the simplest clients to advertise to because they already trust you. This is actually a great instrument of accountability on the business - to provide the same high quality with an add-on service as you already provide to your routine service. If you're going to provide an add-on service it is crucial to give the same attention to detail as with the other services provided. An add-on service that does not meet the same level of anticipated quality may hurt the company's reputation. The decision to extend a new service is one that should be taken quite seriously with time and research going into this decision. Looking at the points above it's not difficult to see in which a contractor providing cleaning or janitorial solutions can add pressure washing solutions with some simplicity. A builder providing landscaping services could offer home cleaning or deck restoration to increase the overall beauty of somebody's property. Pressure washing solutions tap in the restoration and cleaning businesses, which are solutions required by all businesses and individuals. (These solutions are needed with an increasing number of frequency, I've discovered, since the planet we live in gets dirtier and dirtier!) Before you go out and start creating advertising materials for your brand new provider, however, it's extremely important to know as much as possible about these new services you will offer. Research the type of equipment you will need (including any important accessories). Learn what gear specifications are needed to present concrete cleaning versus hardwood restoration. In your study you may learn that blasting water does not clean on its own. Rather, using pressure without the advantage of the appropriate cleaner often damages property and surfaces. It is therefore always important to learn about appropriate methods, pressures, chemicals, and cleaners. When you employ the proper cleaning and recovery products that the job gets easier, but then you also have to become educated about the correct handling and safety precautions for using them. In short, owning a pressure washer does not make one a professional cleaner or restorer. Pressure washing also entails environmental issues. The associated local, state, and federal regulations based on this law state the only thing permitted to enter storm drains is rain runoff. This may turn into an obstacle in the brand new service you intend to provide. You will have to understand how to clean and stay in compliance with laws and regulations. Intentionally violating regulations may lead to quite hefty fines that can ruin your day (or even ruin your company ). Pressure washing is really a very responsible technique of cleaning once you consider water use. Pressure washing actually conserves water in most cases. Take, for instance, the simple task of washing a vehicle. If we want to clean out the car at our home with a garden hose it might take approximately 18-20 gallons of water to wash and rinse the vehicle, and this doesn't take into account the individual who continually leaves the water running with no closed off onto the hose. With a pressure washer with a gun with a shut off the same car would require approximately 8-10 gallons of water! This is quite important information to understand during drought restrictions! In most communities across the country, electricity wash contractors are exempt from water use limitations because of the efficacy of the work. A property owner who uses a pressure washer is generally not exempt from such regulations, since he does not know the right techniques and Best Practices. This can be a selling point to the support, and it should be communicated to your clients as a responsible process of cleaning. In a world where environmental problems are more important, pressure washing can be an asset to your own market attempts. As the general public becomes more educated on the wide variety of applications for pressure washers there is an increasing requirement for accountable, professional companies to provide those services. Pressure washing is over blasting pressurized water to wash them. As mentioned before, pressurized water alone does not restore or clean. Lamentably, the public perception is that a pressure washer will wash surfaces. The cleaning power really comes from professional cleaning products together with the use of dwell times that allow the cleaners to work on the surfaces. A pressure washer then really becomes a giant draining tool. Again, this goes against most public perception about pressure washer use but this is where the opportunity lies - supplying an expert'add-on' service of stress cleaning. When you've learned the appropriate methods it's not difficult to outperform your competition and the homeowners themselves (who do not know any better than to use pressure and water only). Your results will speak for themselves and also you will have a client who's joyful and'long-term' due to the impressive results you have! You are now offering a service that a home owner would otherwise employ another company to perform. Your company becomes more of a'one-stop-shop' which makes you attractive to any potential customer. Offering this service may also stop your current customers from calling in a different contractor to supply the services you do not, taking the opportunity for the client to be"stolen" from the other man. Supplying an add-on service to an present customer costs only a fraction of what it costs one to find a new customer for those services that you currently provide. Including a professional service like pressure washing into your existing customer base could be a winning formula for your organization's bottom line! check over here Pressure washing Address: 8290 Matisse St APT 3510 Championsgate FL 33896

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The plane ascended to 49,000 feet as it crossed into the Arctic Circle, high enough that I could make out the blue-green curvature of the Earth stretched out below. Then, somewhere over Greenland, we spotted the fuzzy line of the solar terminator fast approaching. The dividing line between night and day whips around the world every 24 hours, though the speed of the line itself depends on your distance from the equator. This far north, our plane could keep pace with it—for a while—and for 40 minutes, it was almost as if time stood still as the pilot adjusted our speed to keep us, literally, in the twilight zone.

Civilization at the Edge of the World

It was a fitting welcome as we neared the Arctic settlement of Longyearbyen on Svalbard, a remote archipelago of granite mountains, inching glaciers and frozen tundra that glistens under the midnight sun during the summer, then plunges into the total darkness of polar night during the winter, thanks to its extreme northern latitude. I had come to explore the frigid reaches of the planet, a region of increasing geopolitical importance as melting sea ice opens new shipping lanes and oil fields. I also intended to plant my own feet, however fleetingly, at 90 degrees north, if conditions would allow it.

Svalbard is the staging ground for practically everyone who tries to reach the North Pole. The island group is officially part of Norway, though Russia has long had a presence there, and it’s strategically important because it has the world’s northernmost permanent human settlements. The main town of Longyearbyen has about 2,000 year-round residents, while the rest of Svalbard’s “villages” host mere handfuls of researchers or miners.

Svalbard is also home to about 3,000 polar bears, a fact made crystal clear by the rifles slung over resident’s shoulders in an otherwise peaceful place where people commute by snowmobile. The hotel I stayed in didn’t have room service, but there was a gun locker at check in. That’s because Local law mandates that anyone venturing outside the towns carry a firearm to deter the bears. Fortunately, it’s not a green light for hunting. The polar bears are highly protected, and the only time one can legally take a shot is when a bear poses an imminent threat.

I stopped in Longyearbyen as a layover en route to the Barneo Ice Camp, a seasonal base within helicopter range of the North Pole. But I took advantage of my time there to explore, including a visit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Permafrost deep in the side of a mountain, 800 miles above the Arctic Circle, makes an ideal location for preserving seeds from the world’s vital food crops in case an apocalyptic event destroys the crops worldwide. This “doomsday” vault currently holds about 880,000 seed samples from almost every country in the world, with room for up to 4.5 million varieties in total.

Barneo: One Step Closer

To get from Longyearbyen to Barneo Ice Camp requires another 2.5 hours of flying aboard the Antonov AN-74 aircraft that shuttles visitors to and from the camp. The plane lands on a makeshift runway carved into thick sea ice. Each year, construction equipment and supplies are airlifted to a suitable location by the camp’s operators, Irina and Alexander Orlov, with oversight from the Russian Geographical Society.

There’s an air of comradery on the ground at Barneo. Only about 250 people make the trek here each year, bunking in temporary shelters that look like a moonbase from a science fiction story. Some visitors are adventurers, others are Arctic researchers or documentary film crews. I even met a group of Russian soldiers who were there doing military exercises, thinking to myself “who sends their military all the way up here?”

Of course, the Russians are relatively close, they have experience operating in these climates, and they have good reason to be there. A 2010 report in Quaternary Science Reviews predicts the Arctic Ocean could become seasonally ice-free by 2040, and the waterways around the North Pole could become navigable even sooner. If that happens, this will be a hotly contested area, both for shipping and oil and gas exploration. Russia seems poised to quietly dominate the Arctic before other global powers even take interest.

Notes from the North Pole

From Barneo, I boarded a military helicopter with the goal of landing at the North Pole. Knowing that ice and weather conditions could prevent us from landing, I brought along my skydiving gear and made a jump plan with the pilot. But eventually we found a spot where the ice was strong enough to hold the aircraft, about half a mile from the North Pole. We walked the rest of the way, navigating a gaping crevasse that stood between us.

It’s hard to describe the effect of visiting this bitterly cold place. Unlike the South Pole, where I traveled a couple years prior, no sign or landmark lets you know you’ve reached the North Pole. It’s simply a speck of ice among an ever-shifting ice floe, with nothing but a GPS to tell you that you’ve arrived. There were others there. Some brought their country’s flag. Some brought sentimental items or good luck charms. One couple brought a bottle of champagne (which quickly froze).

I took the opportunity to wander alone in that stark place, and to find beauty in the ice—the iridescent blues, the subtle shades of violet—and the otherworldly landscape. I also thought about how most people who venture out here are unsung scientific researchers. As the head of the Manzanita Foundation and a medical doctor, I’ve spent years supporting and participating in research programs, but being here gave me a whole new appreciation for the work they do under such extreme field conditions to better our understanding of the planet.

Last Flight to Svalbard

After we boarded the helicopter and returned to Barneo, I learned that the evening flight back to Svalbard would be the last one for nearly a week due to incoming weather, and there were only 10 seats available. I found the camp manager and felt a surge of pride for negotiating my way onto the plane. Then I boarded and realized everyone at the camp had greased the same wheels.

A least 30 people jostled for space on board, laying on the floor and taking up every square inch of space. When the final passenger climbed aboard, the people in the seats practically crowdsurfed him over their heads until he could scramble atop a pile of luggage.

It was a Wild West scene unlike anything I’d ever seen in my years of operating aircraft worldwide. But extreme circumstance sometimes call for extreme measures, and we were all mutually grateful not to be stranded on the ice for a week. Once we were in the air, amid the din of singing and excited conversation, someone broke out a bottle of vodka and passed it around, toasting our good fortune.