![]() Skim coat plastering is a hybrid of the old 3-coat plaster wall and the new world of drywall that provides the speed and ease of drywall while delivering some of the notable benefits and beauty of older plaster walls. One of the best ways was skim coat plastering. Drywall fell into that category and people began looking for options to dress up their drywall. No homeowner wants to brag about the cost saving parts of their house or show them off to the Joneses next door. The appearance is significantly different from a plaster wall and being that drywall is cheaper than plaster, houses made with drywall were seen (rightly so) as inferior to houses with plaster walls. While the builders loved the speed of drywall the public felt a general unease with such a cheap and quick product even though they were clamoring for quick, affordable housing. The sheets are screwed onto the studs and the seams taped and bedded with more gypsum which is cured and ready for paint in just a couple days. Unlike plaster which is traditionally made of slaked lime and san, drywall was made from gypsum sandwiched between layers of paper. Relatively unskilled laborers were needed to screw the drywall into place cutting production times down dramatically and opening up the labor pool massively to almost any able bodied man with a drill. A new form of wall covering called “drywall” aptly names because unlike plaster it was applied dry became immediately popular with builders. The need for quick, affordable housing butted heads with the artisan trade of plastering that required years of training, and even with that resulted in slow to be applied and even slower to cure plaster walls and ceilings. The old ways of building were replaced with the assembly line which was implemented in places like Levittown, New York with stunning efficiency. After WWII the baby boom caused America to need a lot of housing and quickly. Why did we ever stop using plaster you may ask. They were slow and expensive to install, but extremely durable and beautiful. Years ago houses were built with plaster walls that were typically hand troweled 3-coats thick, required a skilled plasterer, and took up to 30 days to cure before being ready for painting.
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![]() Twenty thousand people lived in Kuhonlich and the surrounding areas. Kohunlich has three temples, a ball court, and many residential buildings. On the short walk from the entrance to the ceremonial area we encountered many howler monkeys. Cohunes are the type of palm trees in the area. Kohunlich is actually a mispronounced version of Cohune Ridge. We are going to focus mostly on the ceremonial area which has been excavated. Kohunlich consists of over 200 mounds that are spread out over 20 acres, most of which have not yet been excavated. The driver passed out more waters before we started. Once we arrived in Kohunlich we had another opportunity to use the facilities prior to starting the tour. We stopped in a Mayan village where the tour guide for the lagoon excursion picked up the couple that was going on that tour. ![]() They have unlimited free water in the ice chest up front.įrom this intersection you can turn left to go to Belize city or right to go to Playa Del Carmen. They’re going cave tubing in Belize so the kid will probably enjoy that one more. Six or seven years old would be my guess but I’m terrible with kids ages. They say they don’t recommend this tour for kids under six and I think she was right around that age. Me and a couple from Dallas with their daughter. That left just four of us going to the ruins. One of the couples was going on a lagoon excursion. I arrived at 8:50 which was perfect timing for my 9am tour. They want you to arrive 10 minutes ahead of time to check in and use the bathroom. The lady working the counter told me it’s a two hour ride with no bathroom break and recommended I use theirs before leaving. The guys outside told me to head inside the building to check in for my tour. I believe I could shave 5 minutes off of that time now that I know my way around the port area. It took me 25 minutes to get from the ship to The Native Choice on foot. I walked it but I did ask a taxi driver how much they would’ve charged for a ride. If you book through The Native Choice you will need to navigate the port area, then take a cab or walk to the Native Choice building. They won’t allow the tour operators to pick you up in the port area but they will allow them to drop you off at the port. If you aren’t taking a Carnival tour, you have to exit the port area to meet your tour.Ĭarnival makes it as difficult as possible for people who book outside tours. ![]() It’s the first thing you see when you come off of the pier. If you booked through Carnival, this is where you would meet your tour. I decided to book through The Native Choice who received excellent reviewson past tours. Two days before our arrival in Costa Maya I received a letter from Carnival saying the tour had been canceled due to a lack of participation. I originally booked this tour through Carnival for $110. ![]() Walmart is also one of the few photo printing services that offers free shipping for orders over $35. ![]() Many of the items, including passport photos, can be ordered and picked up at your local Walmart the same day, thus saving shipping fees. The variety of products you can order at Walmart is staggering. I had no big issues with the quality the prints all look great and the photo book was fine for what it was. Walmart's prices are some of the cheapest I've found overall, plus there are always promo codes and deals going on. My single card came with two plain white paper envelopes, I guess in case I mess one up. So you cannot print anything on the back like you can at places that use cardstock for their cards. The card is printed on photo paper, which means the back just looks like the back of a photo print. Generally, the photo printing services that don't require a minimum card order are quite expensive when you order a single card, but Walmart's single card was just $1. I was pleased to see that there was no minimum size order for cards like most places have. I know the edges will settle down eventually but overnight with books on the corners didn't do it.īeing able to order a single photo card for a low price was a pleasant surprise. I don't love that packaging choice because it means the edges are rolled up. The 20x30 print did come in a tube, which is pretty typical. The prints look great, all of them came out exactly how I'd expect, including the black and white photos. Walmart certainly has plenty of other photo book options up to and including leather-bound premium lay-flat options, but I was going for the least expensive one. I mean, it's a nice cardstock paper that looks and feels nice, but it seems like a delicate choice for something meant to be handled repeatedly. When the photobook arrived, the quality was fine, but they weren't kidding when they call it a Paper Cover book. You can't change the number of photos on each page nor can you put text on the book's cover (or if you can, it's difficult to figure out.) It was all very frustrating. While there are tons of photo book options, it was hard to edit the book's pages. Putting together my whole order was easy, except for the photo book. All of the professional engagement photos you see in my order were taken by JMS Imagery. Interestingly, Walmart has a minimum wallet photo order of two, instead of the usual four. I ordered four 4圆 prints, an 8x10 print, a 20x30 print, two wallet prints, one card (there's no minimum order), and a photo book. ![]() At least, until you get to the photo book creation platform. While Walmart's website is extensive, it isn't hard to navigate the photo printing portion of it. ![]() Poster shipped in a tube so it arrives with rolled edges.Huge variety of photo prints and products.Walmart Photo Printingīottom line: Walmart's photo printing services are well-priced, but creating a photo book is frustrating. But creating the photobook was such a headache. Having no minimum size order for photo cards is a nice touch. Plus you have the option to pick up some items on the same day. The selection of photo products and the prices cannot be beat, especially because shipping is free on orders over $35 and cheap on orders less than that. The overall quality of the order I placed was quite nice. You'll get a lot for your money here, but there were some issues. ![]() You can imagine the difficulty of supporting different PC operating systems and desktop versions, so I get it. The other plan was and still is pushing companies off of one program to their other program with a monthly subscription model. The fact that there has been no improvement in this area in QBO is a huge tell. Construction, yes, but also nonprofits and any other industry where allocating labor is essential. Costing out labor is the #1 reason companies stay with QBDT. But there is NOTHING on the market that does job costing of labor at a low price point as great as QBDT. They would be better off improving the interface with 3rd parties and dump it. Payroll is complex, and the government screws with it nonstop. Still, seasoned accountants are also cut off, and support can not keep up. They turned off the ability for users to produce payroll returns and make corrections, probably due to massive support calls from people screwing up their payrolls. The fact that they are not improving payroll supports chatter that something else is in the works. Unless your payroll is bare-bone basic, they are horrible. One embedded and one separate that interfaces. They have two versions that work with QBO. Add-ons such as Expensify & Tallie in the credit card coding/expense report/receipt arena are squeezed out with new features. Intuit even started their own bank, pushing companies to sign up for ease of use. They incorporated Billdotcom, but I’m sure their own online bill pay service is in the works. Obviously, this plan isn’t working because they are adding features to the “advanced” level ($150 month) at a good clip, including inventory, and buying add-on companies such as T-Sheets and Re-wind. Doug Sleeter, highly respected in accounting tech, coined this “chunkification.” Add-ons with additional subscription fees enables configuring an accounting program specific to your industry. The original plan for QBO was to maintain a basic G/L accounting program, and any function with any complexity would be an add-on. ![]() This causes unnecessary confusion from sales to support in forums like this. Anyone selling QuickBooks is forbidden to use anything other than one logo that makes no distinction between the two programs. Naming both programs “QuickBooks” is a marketing ploy. When a company decides that it needs to move to another accounting program, they typically research pros & cons of available solutions and develop a migration plan to the chosen program. Understand that it’s an entirely different program. Intuit didn’t get serious about QuickBooks Online until 2013-2014. Its features are amazing, especially at it’s price-point. ![]() QuickBooks Desktop has been around for 28 years. Expecting QB Desktop features in another program isn't entirely realistic. Outside the fact that Intuit canned hundreds of seasoned, long term US employees and moved most support overseas (including for certified Pro-advisors), your frustration may be based on an assumption of what QBO is. If these people get paid for this, what it is it’s waaaaaay too much. “Actually no one is around in the back end team right now, can we get back to you by email?” It may take a while so i can respond via email” I said “no, I’m able to stay in the chat, it’s okay, usually I don’t get a response via email and the next person I chat with knows little to nothing about my issue so since we’ve already spent so much time on it let’s just keep going.” he then responded with the cut and paste “great, is there anything else I can help you with today?” So I reiterated “no there must be confusion, im going to stay on the chat,” he says “okay, this one is beyond my power, let me connect with the back end team.” I respond “Sure thing.” Literally a minute later “Okay, is there anything else I can help you with today?”įFS! I had to ask if he’s actually reading me responses and I said “I can wait to hear back from the back end team in the chat with you,” his response. ![]() Had a fellow “help” me for two hours (the usual amount of time for them to give me incorrect answers to a seemingly simple question ) and toward the end he said, “let me take a moment and get back to you. Posted a similar question a month or so ago. ![]() Bernard, presented the plan as “an enforced slum-clearance program.”įollowing a rigged bond measure to cover the city’s costs-the St. But their real aim, according to Tracy Campbell, author of The Gateway Arch: A Biography, was to rid the city’s waterfront of “blighted” property and bring in federal construction dollars. In 1934, local business leaders promoted the idea of a memorial to Thomas Jefferson and the expansionary vision of his Louisiana Purchase. Today there’s little doubt about the gleaming monument’s visual appeal-there are three million visitors annually-but the promised “richer future” hasn’t exactly come to pass, and social critics put some of the blame for that failure on the arch itself. Eero went on to design Washington Dulles International Airport, the TWA terminal at JFK International Airport in New York and a celebrated line of high modern furniture, but died of a brain tumor at 51, fourteen years after he dreamed up the arch and four years before it was finished. ![]() Eliel uncorked the champagne-only to take out another bottle after receiving word from an apologetic official that, in fact, his son had beat him out. Completed 50 years ago this month, the Gateway Arch, the Midwest’s best-known monument, was hailed as linking “the rich heritage of yesterday with the richer future of tomorrow.”Įero Saarinen, a young, Finnish-born aesthete, won a 1947 competition for the design, but not before Eero’s father, Eliel (who designed Art Nouveau landmarks in Helsinki, including the famed central railway station), received a mistaken telegram including his name among the finalists. It’s the nation’s tallest monument, soaring 630 feet above the Mississippi River, 886 tons of stainless steel welded into a seamless curve, assembled with such precision that if either leg had veered off by just one-sixty-fourth of an inch the two couldn’t have been joined in the middle. ![]() If you have issues adding a device, please contact us. Usage: for non-commercial household use only.Get its features and additional protection for your devices, online privacy and personal information. 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It may sound like an over-exaggeration, but it significantly stands out on the MacBook and wasn't even there with the previous versions.Īnyways, I noticed that when using a wallpaper with a black perimeter, it goes completely unnoticed. Whenever I got my new 2021 MacBook Pro, I was stunned to see that for some reason they had to include it in this iteration of the newest models. Android is that somehow they haven't figured out how to get rid of the black notch that houses the camera and such at the top of the screen. Click the picture to download.Ĭlick the Rotate button to shuffle through the available colors as your wallpaper.Ĭhoose from photos, folders, and albums that you’ve added as your wallpaper.One of the things that bothers me so much about the iPhone vs. Turn on “Show as screen saver” to use slow-motion aerials to hide the desktop when you’re away from your Mac.Ī Down arrow next to a picture means the image needs to be downloaded. ![]() Click the image to download.Ĭhoose to rotate through several aerial images as your wallpaper.įrom the pop-up menu next to Shuffle at the top of the window, choose how often you want to rotate through the aerials. Turn on “Show as screen saver” to use a slow-motion aerial to hide the desktop when you’re away from your Mac.Ī Down arrow next to an aerial name means the image needs to be downloaded. Landscape, Cityscape, Underwater, and Earth aerialsĬhoose an aerial image as your wallpaper. Light (Still): The desktop displays a static, light version of the picture.ĭark (Still): The desktop displays a static, dark version of the picture.Ī Down arrow next to a Dynamic Wallpaper name means the image needs to be downloaded. Choose how long to show each image from the pop-up menu next to the current wallpaper thumbnail, and select Randomly to mix the order.įrom the pop-up menu next to the current wallpaper thumbnail, choose an appearance:Īutomatic: Switches from light to dark at sunset, based on your current location.ĭynamic: Gradually brightens and darkens, based on the time of day for your current location. You can click the Rotate button below the folder or album name to shuffle through the images. Images from the chosen folder or album are shown at the bottom of the window.Ĭhoose how you want the images to fill the screen from the pop-up menu next to the current wallpaper thumbnail. With this method, you can also select the. 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It activates many copies of Microsoft software. You can also try KMS (Key Management Service). But it could violate Microsoft’s terms and security. It bypasses the key and activates your software right away. Without a key, you can use an activator tool. Options include using a product key or without one. Here, we’ll explore different ways to activate Microsoft Office. You need to activate it to use all its features and updates. It helps individuals and businesses create, edit, and manage documents. Microsoft Office is a suite of tools for productivity. ![]() ![]() In an automatic transmission, you may notice other signs of a slipping transmission, such as being unable to shift into reverse, struggling to change gears or not being able to upshift at all. ![]() This certainly could come true, as clutch discs have a limited lifespan and are responsible for slipping transmissions in a standard shift vehicle about nine out of 10 times, but it is not necessarily the reason. Often, your first instinct when your manual transmission slips is that you will need to replace the clutch. You will hear a grinding sound when changing gears and the car either won’t go into gear at all or fall out of gear without warning. If you have a manual transmission, a slipping transmission is obvious. Before we can talk about how to stop a transmission from slipping, we should explore the different reasons why your transmission may slip.īefore considering solutions to your transmission slipping problem, you should make sure the problem is actually your transmission slipping. If your car seems to ‘”slip” while in gear or shift or another gear without warning, this not only creates a serious safety risk, but it can also mean bad news for your car, as replacing or rebuilding a transmission can be extremely expensive.īut does a slipping transmission mean the end? Is there any way to stop transmission slipping without shelling out for a full hard repair at a dealership or mechanic? While there isn’t a transmission slipping quick fix, not all transmission slipping problems mean your transmission is failing/has failed. Your transmission’s job is to move your vehicle reliably and efficiently – it’s what converts your engine power to motion. If you have any questions or need more information, feel free to submit a question on our Ask A Mechanic section.A slipping transmission is enough to make any car owner break out into a cold sweat. We recommend that you have your transmission flushed and a new filter installed at least once every 30,000 miles. Any of these signs can lead to transmission slipping. ![]() This means that you should check the fluid often for any signs of problems, such as leaking, low, dirty, or burnt fluid. To prevent your transmission from slipping, you need to regularly maintain your vehicle. If you are a novice with transmissions, it’s best to have them done by an expert here at AAMCO. These procedures are complicated to explain and will require experience. On the other hand, problems such replacing or adjusting clutches, replacing or adjusting bands, and replacing gears will require you to dismantle the transmission. This will often require you to either check the fluid, change the fluid, or fix the transmission leak. You can solve transmission slipping yourself if it’s simply low fluid, burnt or ineffective fluid, or transmission leaks. To remedy this problem, you need the defective band replaced or adjusted. Bands are what links the gears in the automatic transmission together. Transmission bands can become worn or broken, which can cause your transmission to slip. Burnt fluid occurs when your transmission overheats, you will have to change the transmission fluid quickly or have it looked at by a transmission specialist in order to diagnose for further damage. Burnt FluidĬan be distinguished by the smell of burnt toast or a color that is black. The transmission fluid is in a closed system and should never be low low levels could indicate a leak in the transmission. The best way to find out whether you have low fluid levels is to check the fluid via the dipstick in the engine compartment. The most common cause for slipping is low fluid levels. Low fluid levels can create a number of problems, such as overheating and not enough hydraulic pressure being produced to engage gears. ![]() And I must tell you that you have a chance to see more of it. If the result surprised you, I want you to know that you are not alone. ![]() So if you’re asking yourself, “How much time have I wasted on lol” you can always view it from the Riot client. So, other ways may be more sensible for you. But considering that you have to finish and check each game to see it, it doesn’t make much sense. They removed this when the new interface came but added new features instead.Īs an extra piece of information, you can see the total number of ARAM games you have played on the endgame screen when you finish an ARAM game. You can even click on the champion you want and browse the details about that champion, which are optimized according to the game mode and seasons.Īlthough you could not see the total hours you played in the old interface versions of LoL, you could see the number of games you played in your profile specifically for some game modes such as ARAM and normal games. You can easily access many details, including your KDA rates, from here. By checking here, you can both find out how much time you spend in LoL and analyze yourself. Riot Games has developed this feature so much that it tells you your playstyle according to your role. Here you can also see both the stats of the champions you’ve played, your masteries, and a summary of past ranked matches. You can view them by changing the seasons and see accordingly.On the bottom left, you can see how many games you played in addition to how many hours you played LoL so far.Then go to the “Stats” on the menu that opens.Run League of Legends on your computer.You don’t need to download any programs, just log into your LoL client and log into the account you used from the start, so you’ll see how many hours and how many games you’ve played. But there are several easy ways to find out, with both in-game and out-game sites. League of Legends doesn’t provide exact data on the number of games played or the hours spent on the game. Online gaming has no end and in terms of League of Legends… You know how addictive this game is! Now let’s look at the answer to this question together, but the results may surprise you, be prepared. After spending almost the whole day playing LoL, have you ever stopped and asked yourself, “How many hours did I play LoL in total?”. |
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