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I remember just a handful of the Christmas presents I received as a child: My first Barbie doll with her skinny black sequined gown. My soft, pink Pat-a-Burp doll. The microscope I got in second grade.

But I have many, many memories of our holiday traditions. The lovely aromas of holiday ethnic food. Riding the South Shore train into Chicago to visit the “real” Santa. Using a paintbrush to decorate sugar cookies with colored frosting. Setting up our manger scene.

Traditions add so much joy to the holidays. Traditions give a child a sense of belonging and identity. They strengthen bonds across generations and live long in memory.

A family rich in traditions has a powerful antidote to commercialism. The more focused you are on pleasures that cost little or nothing, the more all the gifts tend to stay in their appropriate place.

Best of all, many traditions are perfectly suited to today’s busy families. Here are a few favorites:

SIMPLE PLEASURES

Light candles at dinnertime. If December mornings are dark where you live, light candles at breakfast, too.

Take an evening stroll or car ride to look at Christmas lights.

Serve warm chocolate with candy canes for stirring.

THE JOY OF GIVING

Let your kids in on the excitement of finding and wrapping gifts for those they love. Compliment them for being big enough to keep the surprise a secret.

As a family, decide on a charity and make a donation. Our favorite is Heifer International (www.heifer.org).

Take a plate of cookies or other holiday treats to a homeless shelter or to a police or fire station.

GRATITUDE

Give family members strips of paper in holiday colors. Let everyone write or draw something they’re thankful for on each strip. Link the strips into a chain and hang as a decoration.

Write thank-you cards to each other. Decide together when to open them.

CONNECTING GENERATIONS

Interview grandparents, aunts, and uncles about holiday traditions they remember from their childhood. Adopt any traditions that fit your family.

Ask relatives for holiday recipes that have been handed down in your family. Or, search the Internet for holiday recipes related to your ethnic origins.

NEW YEAR’S EVE

If your kids are little, it works fine to celebrate the new year at 9 PM instead of midnight!

Pull out photos and videos from the past year and share your memories.

Keep a box of inexpensive noisemakers and party hats that you can re-use each year. The kids will enjoy pulling out their old favorites.

NEW YEAR’S DAY

Decorate a box in which you’ll put photos, ticket stubs and other souveniers of the coming year. Talk about your hopes and wishes.

Let each family member put New Year’s resolutions into their own envelope. Author Mimi Doe (”Busy But Balanced”) has a tradition of sealing the envelopes with wax — a nice, magical touch.

(c) 2004 Norma Schmidt, Coach, LLC

Norma Schmidt, Coach, LLC, specializes in helping working mothers create balance. She offers workshops, teleclasses and individual and group coaching. Her free e-mail newsletter, “The Balance Point,” is published bi-weekly. Visit http://www.NormaSchmidt.com

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1. When Chuck Norris does a push up, instead of pushing himself up, he pushes the world down
2. There are no steroids in baseball… only people Chuck Norris has breathed on
3. Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris decided to punch his way out of his mothers womb
4. Chuck Norris once shot down a German Fighter plane by pointing at it with his finger and shouting “Bang!”
5. Chuck Norris does not churn butter… he simply roundhouse kicks the cow, and the butter comes straight out
6. When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. He has not had to pay taxes, ever.
7. In the final page of the Guinness Book of World Records, in fine print, it notes that all records are held by Chuck Norris, and these are only the closest anyone else has ever come
8. When the boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris
9. Chuck Norris is currently sueing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
10. Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Too bad he hasn’t cried. Ever

For the full video, visit http://www.jokebadger.com/joke/157/

Joshua Yudaken currently runs a joke site that is build up steam, especially with the latest Chuck Norris Jokes craze.

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London Bus Tours are an essential part of sightseeing in London. They may be slightly tacky but there is no better, more cost effective way of seeing London in all its glory than by a big red bus. If London Bus Tours are too run of the mill for you, why not take an executive ride in a London limo or a daring helicopter ride for two, or experience the tube (London Underground)in rush hour? There is so much more to London than the norm. We are here to show you what else you can do. Here is our alternative top ten of what to do in London.

1. Taunt a Buckingham palace guard. It’s not like they get it every day! Try something different from the usual pulling funny faces. Why not see if they are ticklish? Or if you tickle their nose, will they sneeze? Please refrain from groping them, all though they may enjoy it you may end up in court.

2. Talk to a tramp. (Official definition - a foot traveller; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond). If you can bypass the smell of urine and special brew you may happen upon a wonderfully enlightening conversation. Or you may get your pockets felt.

3. Visit London’s secret gardens. Well they are not really secret, everyone knows they are there, however for 364 days of the year they are closed to the general public. For one weekend in June we get to see what all the fuss is about. Visit the main website here, www.opensquares.org

4. Visit a cemetery. A little morbid perhaps? Bear in mind there are no queues, no fees to get in and people are dying to get in there! Highgate cemetery down Swain’s Lane, N6, nearest tube Archway, is our favourite. Many a famous dead person is in here, including, Faraday, Karl Marx, George Eliot, and Sir Ralph Richardson.

5. Tramp/bum fighting. Ok this is bit extreme and may exploit those involved but hey, you’re on holiday! What you do is, find a tramp, preferably one a little the worse for wear as this makes it more exciting, then find another one. They generally hang around in groups so it should be easy. Then you offer them money to fight each other. Winner takes all! Be ready to run as us Londoners are a bit protective of our tramps.

(Disclaimer: 24-7 London does not endorse tramp/bum fighting, any persons indulging in this activity do so of their own free will. We do not recommend it especially as a recent episode of Casualty featured a tramp who died as a result of this ’sport’)

6. Visit a concert for free. Our favourite is St Martin’s-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square, WC2, nearest tube is Leicester Square. They have free classical concerts on Mondays, Tuesdays & Fridays at 1.05pm. You can combine this with the tramp fighting as there are generally loads asleep in the side doorways of this church.

7. Get on TV in London. Many of our most popular comedy shows give tickets for free. However you do need to book well in advance. Try www.hattrick.co.uk or www.sroaudiences.com and www.tvrecordings.com. Americans beware; these shows will contain English humour in all its glory.

8. Go on a ‘Jack The Ripper London sightseeing tour’. Not for those with a weak stomach and sore feet. This involves walking around London, visiting the murder sites of this horrible mans’ victims and getting to view genuine Victorian photographs of the streets and murder sites. You also get to take home a fact sheet to help you remember every aspect of each murder. The stuff nightmares are made of.

9. Go on a ghostly adventure. London has several underground stations that have been the subject of some rather peculiar and unnerving phenomenon. Aldgate Station on the Circle Line has had a variety of strange sightings. At Aldgate the line crosses over older sections of underground rail, and strange sightings are so frequent that they are recorded in the station log.

10. Visit ‘Speakers corner’ in Hyde Park on a Sunday morning or early afternoon. Basically people get up (sometimes on their soap box) and whinge about anything and everything. This is great fun as arguments are common and you do get to see the odd student get slapped. Sunday morning or early afternoon is the best time to catch them (drunk from Saturday night or Sunday lunch time.)

Failing that, follow the crowd and check out hundreds of things to do in London by going to our website http://www.24-7london.co.uk

24-7 London is an online entertainment guide to London. We try to feature the run of the mill stuff to do in London as well as the more unusual. Check out our website for further details of things to do in London.

http://www.24-7london.co.uk

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Many people collect Inuit art as investments. Inuit art is growing internationally but it has been suggested that the number of actual Inuit artists are actually declining. The creation of the Nunavut government which represents Canada’s third official territory, has resulted in many new employment opportunities for the Inuit, particularly the younger ones. Carving and the entire process of bringing back suitable stone from distant quarries to their own communities are hard work for Inuit art carvers. Many young Inuit prefer to pursue less physically demanding careers such as regular nine to five, weekday only government office occupations. As government offices grow, so will the local businesses to support them which create even more local jobs for Inuit people. These trends are not only
affecting Inuit males but also females as well. As more young Inuit women move towards a ’southern’, i.e., more North American lifestyle, Inuit art drawing, wall tapestry and doll making will be less attractive skills to learn compared to office or retail skills.

Many master Inuit art carvers are also expert hunters. They get to see the Arctic animals regularly resulting in excellent representations in their Inuit carvings and other artwork. Many young Inuit these days prefer not to hunt since northern community grocers have reduced a need to hunt for food. As a result, the accuracy of carvings by some younger, non-hunting Inuit artists may be affected since they may not have the familiarity of Arctic animals like older master carvers do.

All of these developments may lead to the demand for good, high quality Inuit art surpassing supply. This will in turn cause a future appreciation of value for good Inuit art. Of course, characteristics of each piece must be taken into consideration. However, most art experts recommend against buying any type of art purely for investment purposes only. Art should be appreciated for its esthetic value. If a certain artwork doesn’t increase in value as hoped, then at least one would still have a lovely piece of art to look at. If one finds a piece of Inuit art that he or she really likes and can afford, then it should be purchased since the opportunity to own that one of a kind piece will probably not come around again.

Clint Leung is owner of Free Spirit Gallery www.FreeSpiritGallery.ca , an online gallery specializing in Inuit Eskimo and Northwest Native American art including carvings, sculpture and prints. Also numerous information resource articles with photos of authentic Inuit art and Native American Indian art.

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How perfect do you want to be? The answer might tell you exactly why you are struggling online.

Here’s why:

Web businesses are much like us as individuals: Some parts of us are magnificent; some parts need more than a little work.

And we are keenly aware of our flaws.

One of the reasons many people have trouble making money online is simply because they are so busy trying to create the “prefect” business they never really get anything profitable done.

Here are some realities you are going to have to face to be successful:

* Your website will never work perfectly. * Your product(s) will always have flaws. * You will have people email you telling you how imperfect you are–and some of them won’t be very nice about it. * Technical glitches beyond your control will happen, and they will happen at the worst possible time.

Here is the most important reality for you to face:

Unless you go ahead and market your imperfect site, imperfect products and do it in an imperfect way you will never make any money.

Somehow your imperfect efforts to sell those imperfect products on your imperfect site will make you money. Potentially lots of money. Give it a try, it’s worth it.

Kevin Bidwell is owner of http://www.all-in-one-business.com

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Even though divorce rates in the U.S. have been steady the last few years, there are still a lot of couples getting divorced every year. Approximately one out of two married couples will end up in divorce court. And yet, marriage is still the ideal for most men and women. A recent survey of twenty-somethings indicated that 94% of these young men and women wanted to get married someday.

Most people go into a marriage with good intentions. They expect the marriage to last a lifetime, even though the odds for that are pretty grim. It’s becoming increasingly common for people to have two or three marriages in their lifetimes. This means, of course, that they will have had two or three divorces as well. So, the question for today is: can there be such a thing as a good divorce after a bad marriage?

There was an interesting study on unhappy married couples. These were couples considering divorce, but decided to stick it out for a while. The study found that within three years, most of the unhappy couples were now happy. They were glad they were still married and no longer wanted divorces. The conclusion was that unhappiness in marriage is fairly common, but it is temporary. The bad times don’t last.

There was another surprising discovery in the study. The researchers found that the couples who did divorce were no happier than the unhappy married couples. In other words, divorce solved nothing. And when the divorced couples did remarry, they were no happier-and, therefore, no better off-than were the couples who had stayed married. The lesson from all this seems to be: marital unhappiness doesn’t last and is not a reason to get divorced. In the long run, couples have their ups and downs, but the downs seem to be temporary. The marriage can be permanent and happy.

Still, there are marriages where conditions are bad and the differences irreconcilable. Abuse, abandonment, substance abuse, and infidelity are all situations where severe damage has been done to the relationship. All marriages cannot be made loving and happy again. Sometimes, divorce is justified. Sometimes, one or both partners ARE better off after the divorce.

So how do you turn a bad marriage into a good divorce?

First, acknowledge that you may still love your partner, but that your life will be better if you live your own life away from your partner. However, you can’t live your own life if you are focused on ruining his. To have a good divorce, separate physically and emotionally. Get over it and move on. The time and effort you spend on revenge or hatred is time wasted out of your own life.
Next, you may be getting a divorce but your children aren’t. They still have two parents. Forcing your children to take sides is using your children for your own selfish ego. Let your children grow up with two parents. Again, the time you spend trying to be the right parent, the good parent, is time better spent working on this new chapter in your life.

The relationship you have with your future ex during the divorce can make all the difference to the ease of the entire process. Accept responsibility for your part in the break-up and don’t throw insults and accusations back in your ex’s face. Your ex is not necessarily a bad person. He’s just not right for you. And, to keep your perspective ember, you’re not right for him.

During the divorce process and afterward when you’re single again, avoid going to family functions or social gatherings together. You are a single person once again. You have no social obligations to your ex. Socializing as a couple will only confuse the kids, give false hope to the families and muddle your own feelings. No convenience sex (ex sex).

You are truly your own person now. Make the most of it. Don’t waste your new life looking backward. Look forward with gratitude at the opportunities that await you as you begin this new chapter in your life.

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I help Singles and Couples build relationships that work
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With increased mergers and acquisitions, changes in Phone Company billing systems, telecom costs are on the rise. Take a closer look at your telecommunication bills. There are many ways that your bills have hidden charges applied, not to mention telecom contracts that were signed without Management approval. It’s time for Management & their Accounts Payable Department to be on the alert for errors, over-billings, and tariff violations.

If more than one person within an organization places orders then overlapping occurs. Mike requested Sally order phone lines for a new call center, Hal heard the request and placed the order as well. Now which lines were installed, those ordered by Sally, or Hal, or both?

One very common oversight found in bill auditing is line cancellation. Sally (the Telecom Manager) is certain she disconnected a line no longer needed. She even dials the number to ensure the line is cancelled. When she hears the disconnected message she feels sure the line will no longer bill. But does the billing stop? Not always. Only a detailed review of the bill, or calling the phone company a month or so later, will determine if the line is no longer billing.

When companies have mergers and acquisitions they inherit the bills from their predecessors. All the contracts they’ve signed and advertised listings need to be reviewed. Names need to be changed and their billing address revised. Phone equipment inventory and site evaluation needs to be conducted. All lines and circuits need to be identified then documented. Next an audit needs to be conducted to determine if your company is actually paying for what they need, or just paying for what they get.

Many double billings occur because of line portability and businesses changing providers hoping to reduce telecom costs. The lines are ported from the old provider to the new provider and if any error occurs the double billing begins. These double billings of lines, features, and services are easliy overlooked. It is a real challenge for a Telecom Manager to determine when it started, who is at fault, how to prove it, and how to recover the money. This is assuming the Telecom Manager knows how to discover double billing in the first place. Funds are being paid twice for the same services (every month!), and there is a procedure to follow to get this corrected and to obtain the refunds your company is due.

Telecom Management and organization skills are necessary to gain and maintain control of telecom contracts, circuit inventory, advertised lines, features, and telecom equipment. Placing correct orders is the first place to start in any telecom department. Learning to place telecom and phone line orders properly is essential but learning how to review the orders is imperative. Without accurate, detailed records many refunds will not be available.

Contact Information: Barbara Clements, Phone: 800-473-5655, email: auditel@auditelinc.com website: www.auditelinc.com

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Should you buy a business opportunity or Franchise if you want to get into the window cleaning business? Or just start your own and work hard; grow the business into a full-time profession and expand from there? Let us talk briefly about window cleaning franchises is in general.

One could argue without too much difficulty that buying a window cleaning franchise is simply a waste of money, after all you could simply go down to be 99 cents store and by a bucket 3 towels and a squeegee and hey, you are in business right? Well one could argue that, since to really be in business, you probably need to get a business license, insurance, buy some business cards and make a few flyers. Then you need to hit the street and drum up some business, of course this is not too awfully hard, but it is not all that easy either. Over the past two decades I have known many small startup window-cleaning people who have lasted a few months at most.

What I find interesting about it is that every single one comes in with such vigor and excitement ready to take on the world. When they leave and quit business they do so for an array of excuses yet still they will swear that would not have been any different had they bought a window cleaning franchise. My answer to that is hogwash. We take someone who’s been a business 25 years and we show you had a do that business, do you honestly think that you or me or anyone for that matter can go down to the 99 cents store buy a few products of the trade, get some business cards and flyers and do as well as someone with 25-years experience? A franchise can show you a business plan with all of the mistakes that they have made in all those 25 years built out of the business model?

I have heard people argue against franchising and I know little bit about. I have heard people brag to me about how great they are and how they can do anything. I myself have even thought that, but really be honest; fact is that nothing good life is easy, it never has been, it never will be, that is not good or bad it just it is. I applaud the startup entrepreneur, I applaud the street vendor, I applaud Donald Trump in his new reality show for making those contestants go out into the street and sell lemonade. The open market and free enterprise that you’ll learn from doing can not be taught in schools, it often Fries me to listen to M.B.A. students tell me how great they are, greatnesses does not come from saying; it comes from doing, it comes from perseverance dedication commitment and strength of character.

It does not come from reading chapters in paragraphs in textbooks that were written 40 years the prior and re-edited every decade or regurgitated with the latest buzzwords. No my friends you cannot learn about free enterprise by reading the teachings of Karl Marx in Das Capital. Likewise you cannot understand the writings in the novel Fountainhead or when Atlas shrugged or any short story, lecture or novel by Ayn Rand. I do not claim to be a know-it-all in all areas of the free market. I realize there is always more to learn to fully understand free markets; you must participate in them. Elliot Spitzer has no business crying “foul” over the shenanigans of Martha Stewart, he clearly does not understand. Greenspan on the other hand did participate in free markets after he had finished college.

Let’s not be too quick to judge what may appear to be simple, for nothing is simple. Window cleaning or car washing may appear to be very simple procedures and something you can train your third grader to do. I can safely say that that carwash industry, specifically the mobile carwash industry that our company the car wash guys is in seems more like rocket science than the simple business it appears to be. There is no one and no team which has studied the markets, participated in them and continually strives to innovate and build new prototypes to service more niches that our company http://www.CarWashGuys.com. In the window cleaning business the window wash guys http://www.windowwashguys.com has been around some 25 years. You cannot tell me that in 25 years of specializing in a specific niche like that, that someone cannot become excellent at their methods and procedures, marketing and managing, equipment and signage, uniforms and scheduling. Not to mention that the entire time a company like The Window Wash Guys is trying new products, new coatings, new chemicals and new procedures.

For someone to argue to what is “why should I buy a franchise? I could start a window cleaning business for $200, why do I need to pay you?” Is utterly ridiculous to us and preposterous for us to even bother to explain. If someone cannot see the value and knowledge that one gains from being the best they can be at a specific task for 25 years, then they truly are not smart enough to join our company in the first place.

So if you really think your are so smart and can do it yourself; then by God go get busy and do not waste franchisor’s time. After all what you are doing is trying to learn on their dime which you have not paid for; isn’t that why you really contact the franchise company? That is a chicken crap way to do things. Lying and playing games to steal information; If you are so special and so great and so wonderful that you think that you can understand 25-years of trial and error by going out and doing it yourself, then; go get em’ big guy? I hope at least you have the smarts enough to by a book about the subject or two from someone who knows what they are doing. Franchisees of strong market player franchisors eat the competition for lunch? The arrogance of some people is just ridiculous? They say things like; “Why should I pay you a dime, I can do this on my own?” Our answer is simple; if that is true, go do it. Shut up and stop wasting our time. That is what the franchisors think of your petty comments? “Loser, Show ME; don’t tell me what you are going to do, get busy and do it; Mr. Wonderful!” As a franchisor, I get perturbed listening to silly little humans, tell me how great they are and how they can do anything, better than our team within a week or two. You see I have watched thousands of these folks talk a good amount of smack and be here and gone in under 3-months. Grow up.

In my days in motorcycle racing, we use to call these bragging talkers; squids. Newbies, they would be balls to the wall before the race and then end up crashing or in next to last place a few hours later. You cannot be the best by osmosis; it takes hard work, practice and knowledge and of course a few hard knocks. A franchisor in any business has done much of this for you. If you are wise you will listen and not talk so much. Think on this, but do not call us if you are going to play games, we are busy.

“Lance Winslow” - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

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1. Thou Shalt Not Pursue A Free Lunch:

Chances are, you will not get rich quick. Deal with it. Don’t waste your time convincing yourself or listening to others who tell you differently. Hard work and perseverance will not fail you.

2. Thy Products Must Solve A Prospect’s Problem:

We humans are greedy creatures most times. We want comfort, ease, peace of mind, and a plethora of other self indulgencies. Put yourself in the customer’s shoes and ask “What’s in it for me?”. If your ads or products do not clearly spell this out, and tell the customer how you will give him what he desires, most times you will not make the sale.

3. Thou Shalt Educate Thyself:

Read, Read, Read. Observe other successful people in your field. What are they doing? Read some more.

4. Thou Shalt Budget For Advertising:

Free advertising is an oxymoron. The only people reading free ads are the ones who are placing them there, and all they’re looking for is their own ad, not yours. Instead, learn all you can about your target audience, and find them. Whether it is through pay-per-click advertising using highly targeted keywords, eZine ads, banners on related sites, etc. Don’t go after the general public. Go after people who are looking for your type of product or service. Allow a certain monthly expense for advertising and stick to it.

5. Thou Shalt Track Thyne Advertising:

You made a sale! Congrats! How did the customer find you? If you have 10 different ads on 10 different sites, how on earth will you know which one(s) are working? View your server logs to see where the users came from. Create unique URLs to use in each ad. For example: http://www.yourdomain.com?ad1 http://www.yourdomain.com?ad2 etc. Just add the ? and ad number to the end of the URL you post along with each ad. Change the number for each one & for goodness sake, write them down somewhere! StatCounter.com offers a great free service that will assist you in tracking your visitors.

6. Thou Shalt Tweak:

Familiarize yourself with the term “split-run”. A split run is where you take 2 ads and send them out simultaneously and measure the results to see which ad pulled more clicks and sales. You take the better of the 2 ads and create another one. Run a split-test again with your best ad & your new ad. The winner moves on to the next round. Repeat this process often.

7. Honor Thy Mailing List:

Your current and previous customers are an incredible source of revenue for you. It’s a shame that many online business owners neglect this each and every day. Stay in touch with your prospects by sending an email or printed newsletter or flyer. Offer them special discounts and loyalty bonuses. If you forget them, they will surely forget you.

8. Thou Shalt Not Be Hindered By Failure:

You will fail. Period. Dust yourself off & get back on the horse. It is part of your education. Learn from it and move forward.

9. Thou Shalt Duplicate What Works:

Commandment number six goes hand-in-hand with this one. The wonderful thing about doing business online is the ease at which you can scale-up your operation. If you find something that works, do it again, and again. Reach a larger audience. If you’ve found a successful niche as an affiliate with a mini-site, set up 25 more sites.

10. Thou Shalt Reward Thyself:

You need some time away from the computer. Go outside. Go shopping. Visit friends. Buy yourself a new toy. Read something non-technical, fiction maybe. You’ve earned the right to treat yourself. Make it a habit or it will become a resentment.

About the Author:
Mike Nalbone is the Webmaster at www.Plug-In-Profit-Site.net - Visit Mike’s site & he will show you how to launch 5 automated residual income streams in just 24 hours!

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A traditional race circuit as a rule includes a selection of straight road on which the starting grid is positioned. The pit lane, where the Formula 1 drivers enter for fuel & replace tyres during the Formula One race, & where the Formula One constructors operate on the Formula One cars previous to the F1 grand prix race, is traditionally situated next to the starting rows. The outline of the other parts of the course varies greatly, although in a great number of instances the track is made in a clockwise direction. Those few race courses that run anti-clockwise (C181& so have predominantly left-handed bends) could cause grand prix drivers neck problems because of the vast amount of sideways forces produced by F1 cars dragging their body in the opposite direction to normal.

Most of the circuits currently in operation are uniquely created for racing days. The existing street race circuits are the Circuit of Monte Carlo and Melbourne, even though street races in other countries come and go (For Example, Las Vegas and Detroit) and proposals for such races are constantly discussed ? recently London and Beirut. A few other race circuits are also completely or partially laid out on normal roads, like that of Spa-Francorchamps. The charm & prestige of the Monte Carlo F1 grand prix are the principal reasons why the race circuit is still in use at present, since it is thought not to meet the rigorous safety conditions imposed on other race tracks. Three-time Formula 1 World champion Nelson Piquet notably illustrated racing in Monte Carlo as “like riding a bike in your own living room”. Visit F1Tribute.com today to find information about Formula 1.

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