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Even in my state I don’t think it’s required everywhere. In the mountains and the Piedmont there is a risk although it’s not common, but I think in the coastal plain on the sandy soil it’s uncommon. IIRC for our state the more granite in the ground the higher the risk. Having a crawlspace foundation is also better than a basement or a slab foundation because it gives a space that can easily be ventilated before the gas enters the living space of the home.

I think I saw a study once that granite countertops may offgas some radon. Maybe there’s not enough granite in the average home to cause concern.

Ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t win the cross country ski race.

I feel like it’s less of a band and more of a performance group, though

No, I never had the patience to figure it out. I think I’ve seen a video or two with solution algorithms but did not have access to a cube to try them and don’t really remember the ways now.

I think it was last year Duke researchers announced they were finding so much microplastics in the brains of Alzheimer’s victims that it was equivalent to the amount of plastic in a typical disposable plastic spoon.

How far did you get with it? As with many shows, I find the first season a bit of a slog, but it starts to get going in the second season.

I wonder if this means that in years to come, with reductions in environmental lead, we’ll see lower rates of Alzheimer’s and dementia

For all the people reading the headline and not the article, toilet-maker Toto uses its ceramics expertise to supply products used in silicon wafer production. They’ve been in the industry since the 1980s but with the AI boom non-toilet manufacturing has become over 40% of their operating income.

I think I only ever needed a white shirt and tie. My younger brother was in band but when they performed with the string orchestra to give more of a symphony I think they actually did have some sort of suit, maybe tuxedo-like. That was all arranged by the school at the very start, of course.

I would be more curious to find out more about why they were banning women from racing. It doesn’t sound like it was a universal push from the drivers, and the manufacturers she drove with seemed happy to have her. Sexism is obviously the problem, but what were they afraid of? If more women were racing they would leave their husbands and neglect their children?

I’m also curious to know more about the murder charges her mechanic beat. When I see the son of a wealthy family has been acquitted of murder charges I’m more likely to suspect he was actually guilty but had powerful attorneys.

Fascinating person! Wikipedia

This is some sort of health/beauty product? It’s not a product I have a lot of familiarity with, but it sounds like you’re on the right path starting with smaller shops, especially if you can position it as artisanal.

With smaller shops they likely won’t have a dedicated buyer position, so you will probably want to speak with a manager or owner. Normally these are busy people so they won’t want you dropping in without an appointment. Try to schedule something in advance by phone or email. If you do walk in lead with asking for an appointment, but be ready to sell yourself and your product on the spot. Practice your “elevator pitch” to try to spark interest right away.

I’d suggest you should try calling places and setting yourself up some sales trips, making appointments to see people that are at least relatively near each other. Don’t schedule too many so that you aren’t rushed to get from one to the next. You don’t want to be late, but you also don’t want to rush a visit that’s going well and end it early to get to your next one; your customers should feel that you value them and that they’re not less important than someone else. It could mean a lot of down time between calls, but you can use that to find more customers, take care of correspondence, etc.

Definitely bring lots of samples, both for the buyers and potentially that they could offer to clients. If your product won’t deteriorate when sitting in a vehicle you could bring stock with you but I don’t think most stores would expect you to supply them immediately. It might look sketchy or less professional if you’re pulling retail product out of your car’s trunk, but maybe not if this is artisanal, or it’s just a small supply for them to trial you as a product line.

Is your suggested retail price high enough that you can sell to them at a wholesale discount and still make a sustainable profit yourself? My background is electronics, and the rule of thumb I’ve typically seen for consumer electronics is the product needs to cost 3 or 4 times the bill of materials (BOM). The BOM should include your labor costs to actually make the product, but the markup lets you cover the rest of your costs like R&D, marketing, shipping, administration, etc. When I was at a consumer electronics company we would typically sell to our retail channel at a 20-30% discount off our MSRP, depending on volume. Rarely we’d sell at 40% to large customers, but below that we’d start to risk profitability except on high volume products. When you’re meeting with retailers, they’re going to want to know what profit they can make, and they’ll have an idea of what they think they can sell your product for, which might not be your MSRP.

Good luck!

Most Linux distributions offer a “live CD” experience (does not actually have to be on a CD nowadays; you can use a USB drive). Basically when the computer turns on you tell it to boot off the USB drive instead of the drive in the computer. That way you can try it out on your computer before installing it and see if it works out of the box for you with its defaults. It will probably be a little slower running off a USB drive. I don’t think you can typically install additional programs or save things to the computer (someone more experienced might chime in), but you can try doing basic things like using the web browser or word processor.

But copy is Command+C on macOS and iOS, not Ctrl+C. Maybe in the Classic Mac OS days, but I doubt they would’ve made such a significant change moving to OS X.

This seems to be garnering a lot of attention. Maybe he knew exactly what he was doing.

I feel like this should go to some of the programming communities also, but I’m not a programmer so I don’t know where

I’m not sure that’s what these are; from the pictures and description in the article it seems like the track has to be circular and I don’t see a tether mount on these cars. Initially I thought this picture showed the lanes as troughs, but zooming in I can see the track is even but has either a guide rail or slot for each lane, I’m not sure exactly what. Whatever it is, it’s not centered in the lane, which seems a little odd; I don’t think I’ve ever seen that on either hobby/toy tracks or large amusement park rides.