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Food design: the secret ingredient of a circular economy

You may be a food designer, but you might not know it

By Gaëlle Le Gélard, Circular Design Manager, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

What is food design?

Like most French people of my generation, I grew up eating Petit Ecolier biscuits. They are delicious biscuits draped with a layer of chocolate imprinted with the image of a schoolboy wearing a beret and carrying a basket. You start by eating the corner, then the sides and finish with the chocolate layer. Un délice.

It wasn’t until recently that I realised that those biscuits had been designed. They are the result of a number of intentional decisions taken at the development phase. A brand manager had created the concept, a food scientist had come up with the recipe, a buyer had sourced the ingredients from specific suppliers, and a retailer had chosen the shelf where my parents decided to buy them.

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This is what we call food design: The series of decisions made between the moment where a raw ingredient is harvested until it ends up on our shelf or plate. Food design happens in restaurants when chefs create new menus; it happens with food brands when teams launch new products, and it happens in cities when nutritionists create guidelines for school canteen menus.

What we need to ask ourselves is: is there a clear and positive intention behind those decisions? Do they enable a regenerative food system?

Why is it important?

Food design defines what ingredients you end up eating and how diverse they are. Currently, despite there being hundreds of thousands of edible plants and animals, only 12 crops and five animal species account for 75% of our food intake, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation. Food designers could decide to use a whole range of new ingredients, helping us discover forgotten flavours, whilst increasing biodiversity.

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Food design defines what is wasted or not. For example, the popular Swedish Rscued fruit juices are made from discarded fruits and vegetables, intentionally avoiding waste.

Eventually, food design greatly influences what farmers grow, and how they grow it, by creating sufficient demand. Biscuit maker LU has set up a protocol called the Harmony Programme to work with some of its suppliers. If the farmers agree to grow a certain type of wheat that meets certain criteria — for example, if 3% of the wheat field is dedicated to wildflowers for pollinators, or if the use of pesticides and fertilisers is reduced — LU will buy their wheat at a premium price. The choice of the brand to have local, high-quality wheat in their biscuits has encouraged farmers to switch to more regenerative practices.

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As in many other disciplines of design, the scope of food designers — although not many would yet define themselves as such — is widening. What was important 20 years ago was to make tasty products that people would love. In recent years, there has been a strong focus on products that are nutritious as well as tasty. What we see emerging now is a demand for nutritious, tasty products that leave nature in a better state than it was before they were produced.

Who are the food designers?

However, designers can be considered as all the actors that have influence over the decisions taken at the design stage of any given system.

For the food system, that means:

  • The nutritionists and chefs who define the menus and the recipes in restaurants and canteens
  • The brand managers and product developers in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies who create the concept of a new product
  • Food scientists who define the ingredients
  • Buyers who source each ingredient
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Two roles have an indirect but nonetheless important influence and should not be overlooked:

  • The leaders who define the commitments that the company will need to fulfil and can unlock resources
  • The sustainability leaders who translate company commitments into activities for each business unit

If you belong to one of those categories, you’re closer to food design than perhaps you first thought. What’s more, you have great power to leverage in the transition to a circular economy for food.

Where to start: re-designing food in three steps

  1. Change your mindset: Try to design products and menus around what nature needs. For example, legumes are extremely beneficial crops because they fixate nitrogen in the soil, which other plants need to thrive. Why not integrate more green peas or lentils in your recipes?
  2. There is no such thing as waste in nature, but unfortunately, a lot of waste is created throughout the food system. Perfectly good fruits and vegetables are set aside because they don’t fit specifications, and peels and seeds are thrown away because they have no place in the recipes.
    Using ingredients that otherwise would have been wasted is called upcycling. Learn more about how you can use upcycled ingredients in your kitchen or lab thanks to the Upcycled Food Association.

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In a new study published in Gastroenterology, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine report on the clinical course of COVID-19 and risk factors for adverse outcomes in a large cohort of patients with IBD collected through an international registry.

When the Covid epidemic started to unfold around the country, the researchers collaborated to form an international registry of patients who have Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and COVID-19. The registry, Surveillance Epidemiology of Coronavirus Under Research Exclusion for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (SECURE-IBD), to date includes 528 patients from 33 countries.

“We established the registry to better characterize the clinical course of COVID-19 within the IBD patient population and evaluate the association between demographics, clinical characteristics, and IBD treatments on COVID-19 outcomes,” says study co-lead author, Erica Brenner, MD, a pediatric gastroenterology fellow at UNC Children's Hospital.

The researchers conclude that increasing age, comorbidities, and corticosteroids are associated with severe COVID-19 among IBD patients, although a causal relationship cannot be definitively established. Notably, TNF antagonists do not appear to be associated with severe COVID-19.

“One of our main takeaways for the IBD patient population is that maintaining remission with steroid-sparing treatments will be important through this pandemic. Our finding that TNF antagonist therapy is not associated with severe COVID-19 is reassuring news in light of the large number of patients who require this therapy, currently the most commonly prescribed biologic therapy for IBD patients,” says study co-author, Ryan Ungaro, MD, Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a gastroenterologist with Mount Sinai Hospital’s Feinstein IBD Center.

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Looking at catchments as closely coupled hydro-geo-ecosystems reveal a highly organized architecture that is characterized by typical patterns of topography, soil and vegetation and self-similar flow networks at all scales. These patterns, biota and networks organise storage of water, nutrients and energy exchange as well as mass export (water, sediments) across large-scale gradients. While catchments exhibit complex internal organisational structures, understanding the similarity across catchments with respect to both underlying processes and responses can provide a pathway to a common framework for catchment classification. Understanding similarity is also fundamental for building more realistic dynamic catchment models that balance the necessary complexity with the greatest possible simplicity and to address the problem of transient hydro-geo-ecosystems.

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Part 2/6 in a series on the history of Tanzanian universities

What universities are in Tanzania and where have they come from? We started with a quick search of Wikipedia and university websites. Some of the universities listed here have multiple campuses: for simplicity we’ve just included the ‘originals’.

Here are three things that jumped out to us immediately:

  • No universities were founded in the colonial era. They are all post-independence institutions (1961 onwards).
  • There are two major blocks when unis were founded: in the 1960s-70s and the early 2000s (as shown by the shading)
  • Quite a few of the universities that were accredited in the 2000s were originally seminaries.

That led us to asking:

  • What happened around the 1970s and then in the early 2000s that saw such booms in uni education?
  • Why did religious seminaries broaden out the subjects they offered? (or why were they founded so narrowly?)

Our next step is to investigate the politics and educational philosophy of those two periods…

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The Original Frenemy

So here’s the thing.

I have a very full heart.

But when I think about everything I would love to tell everyone I’ve ever met (seriously. I love you.), I get tongue-tied and self-conscious and have poor grammar and misuse pronouns.

So instead, I write a blog post and then direct my loves to my blog, where they will find conciseness, eloquence, and subject-verb agreement.

Get in the kitchen and make me some pie.

Anyway. There’s this girl I’ve known my whole entire life who used to call me and my little sister Evil Twins. We know this was her secret nickname for us, her baby sisters, because we read her diary. So…accurate, I guess.

Today is my sister’s birthday. Happy birthday, aged cheese!

Unfortunately, she also lives too far away for a singing telegram, but not too far for our regular FaceTime lunch date so our daughters can stare at one another, try to feed each other banana slices and goldfish crackers, and say, “Hi!” over and over again, while my sister and I try to have a conversation around the more riveting one going on between toddlers. It’s unbearably cute.

But we weren’t always this close. Actually, my most tumultuous sibling relationship of all was with her, my big sister. It didn’t help that I knew exactly which buttons to push to cause her passionate-artist-temper to flare while I with my math-formulaic-brain sat in the backseat calm and rational. (Read: she was the one who always got in trouble.)

We have had some major fights. Blockbuster ones. We fought over ev-er-y-thing, from the last glass of Kool-Aid to whether or not I had used her razor or face wash without asking (I had).

The thing is, I was insanely jealous of her. She sings. She plays music. She paints. She cooks. She designs. She pretty much cornered the market on creativity and growing up in her shadow, I wanted some. I desperately wanted to be like her, and because I wasn’t, I resented her for it, at least until the moments when admiration won out, or when she invited me into her life. And those moments, brief but innumerable, are the sweetest.

Like the times she drew comic books for my little sister and me to read. (Bobbie Thompson: The College Years?)

Or when we spent entire afternoons playing School (which we all pronounced “Skoi”), so that upon entering Kindergarten, I was already reading chapter books and writing in cursive and coloring inside the lines.

Or when she set up a “library” in her bottom dresser drawer and we “checked out” books, complete with library cards with due dates stamped onto them.

Or when I got my hair permed in second grade, and had to spend ALL DAY at the salon because my stick-straight hair wouldn’t curl, even under chemical reaction, and when they finally got it to stick after three separate treatments, she let me go to the movies with her and her best friend.

Or when she taught me how to curl my bangs for my fourth grade school picture and accidentally left a burn mark on my forehead. (But then she styled my bangs so that little pink mark wouldn’t show up in the photograph.)

Or when she helped me set up a business selling friendship bracelets called “Jessie’s Strings and Things.”

For sure, those were the short and sweet moments sandwiched between the many (many) “Get out of my room!” and “Just leave me alone!” and “She started it!” shouts that gave our parents migraines and indigestion (probably).

But then we grew up and the Enemy half of the Friend-Enemy Sisterhood fell away, and all that is left is Friend.

My best friends

Best Friend, actually.

She is a confidante, a sounding board, someone who inspires and encourages. She is a beautiful mom, a devoted wife, a talented artist, a gourmet chef, a generous aunt, a wicked crafter, a bony-legged dancer, an inside-joke teller, and my big sister.

Happy birthday, sis. I love you.

(End of Conversation.)

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  1. Oh Jess! You are so lucky to have these wonderful memories stacked one on top if the other. I think my new Year’s resolution (which I don’t put much stock in) is to reach out to my brother more. I wish it could be what you describe here, but I would like more communication than a birthday text.

    So thank you for inspiring me to try to love harder. Even if it’s scary. Even if he rejects me.

  2. Great stuff Jess. The pics always look so pro around here, like something on one of those sights where you pay for pictures that fit your needs. Maybe I should just start emailing you when I need pics for blog posts and you can pick me a good one only I won’t have to pay cuz we’re tight like that. I guess this comment isn’t so much about your nice post but you understand.

  3. Lovely, lovely post! My children are like this. They fight so hard it seems like they will never make up, then they love each other with equal fire. LOL

  4. Meghan

    It got dusty in here…sniff sniff.

  5. jen

    Okay, so here’s the thing. At first glance, I was like, oh no she di’int entitle my birthday blog “The Original Frenemy.” It’s SO on.

    Then I was like, okay, whatever, get over yourself. It’s accurate.

    I’m not sure if you know this (but you’ll know it now – as will the rest of the blogosphere, now I guess), but the biggest regret of my life is that I wasn’t a better big sister to you and Maia. No, I’m totally serious. Believe me, it sucks having to live with this kind of burden.

    You’re right, I was a douche. And the fake Australian pen pal (so you’d feel special because you got mail like grownups), cool bottom drawer dresser (which I totally don’t remember, but sounds pretty awesome), and totally rad music video skits against an ethereal backdrop of floating balloons I constituted doesn’t even begin to make up for the hurt I caused you and Maia during our formative years.

    And, like you (though I guess you’re like me, since I was born first – ooh, burn!), I articulate myself much better through writing than actually speaking face-to-face.

    (now I’m starting to think posting this on a public forum is weird and unsettling. But whatever, when in Rome…)

    (and I’d also like to mention that I’m writing this during Evie’s nap time, which is actually my shower time, and as a mother, I’m sure you can appreciate the sheer value of my sacrifice)

    Okay, enough random thoughts. And enough stalling.

    Here’s the thing, Jess. I was so hard on you guys because you were just as good as me, and even better in some things and, as a low self-esteemed, angsty tween, I felt threatened. Threatened that I would get overlooked and dismissed, erased, loved less. And sadly, instead of focusing on what WAS important: the powerful fact that you looked up to me and what kind of role-model responsibility that requires, I ruminated on the fact that I felt small and insignificant, terrified of being replaced. I was so stupid. But in my defense, instead of pouring on more love to soften the anger and heal the hurt, I was punished. And, in turn, it manifested more hurt and anger. Ugh, what a mess.

    Looking back, I wish I were stronger, smarter, and kinder.

    (Whoa. Is it getting warm in here? Hi, everyone. Hi, there. Well, this is awkward.)

    So… there you have it. I think the world of my little sisters and wish I could’ve loved harder when it counted the most. But I thank God everyday for our close relationship and how it’s somehow healed and grown into something beautiful. I love you so much and look up to you, Jess and I’m trying to be the big sister you’ve deserved all along.

  6. EllieAnn

    I was this way with my younger sister. We fought about everything. Until we became best friends and only fight about some things. 😉
    Instead of libraries we created zoos with all our stuffed animals, and I rememeber drawing bats and hanging them upside down under the table. We made pretty good fake money by charging our siblings entry fees.

  7. Marianne

    My sisters are 15 and 11 years older than me. We became friends when I got to college. It’s been a blast ever since.

  8. Oh oh oh I just love this.

    Especially how it is packed with inside jokes and yet still reads universally.

    So I’m putting this on Twitter and directing my baby sister to read it immediately.

    She always wanted to be me, too. (Ha. Just kidding. Sorry, NannyK.)

  9. I love this! My daughters remind me of what you have written of you and your sister. and Oh my the fighting drives me nuts. They are 16 and 12 now, and I only pray that some day they will call each other friend 🙂

  10. This is so sweet! I’m all about writing tributes on my blog and directing my loved ones there. TWINSIES again.

  11. Stink.

    I love both of you two the mostest (except for now I get to channel some of that heart exploding love onto your wunderbar kiddos). I don’t blog and I’m only eloquent in academic papers so unless you want a dissertation on sisters, you’ll just have to deal kthxbye.

    I look up to both of you and admire the things you are capable of so much. Jen, I am always amazed at your drive and determination. No matter what, I have always known that when you set your mind on something, nothing will stop you and it will be done with more creativity and better than anything that came before. I always told mom and dad (even when we fought) that there is literally nothing you can’t do. It’s just not in your vocabulary. You don’t confine yourself to anyone area of expertise but instead make yourself excel in them all. You’ve always been a good teacher and a great role model (even if you were annoyed with me and Jess. In my defense, I don’t remember reading your diary when we were little, but Jess and I TOTES found it when we were older. “I told her I left it very far away. (back in the store, hee hee)”. Also, maybe you should take pride that your little sisters could read — since you were the one who taught us. (Mad-is-on). Tangent over).

    The point is, I love you Jen Jen. You’ve always been the measuring stick against which I try for and judge myself against. I still feel like the tongue tied, uncool little sister around you, but now I’m just glad I realize that you aren’t the one judging me, but me. I’m sorry we two came along and rumbled in without even asking (although we knew each other in the womb, remember?) but even if you weren’t trying, you’ve been an amazing example and role model for us.

    Back to your regularly schedule programming. Thanks for being my adorkable seesters.

  12. Hi! I found your site from the Good Greatsby.

    Isn’t sisterhood the best? I too am best friends with my sister now, but we were frenemies for a while.

    I read her diary too! Here is a blog post I wrote:

    And one my sister wrote:

  13. I WANT A SISTER. My brothers just farted in my face a lot.

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When considering sustainability in fashion, draped garments sometimes come to mind. Such garments, consisting of several meters of rectangular unstitched cloth, need no altering and can be fashioned into a myriad of innovative, very personal styles, inspiring creativity and a love for the Earth.

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HOA: 27″; WOA: 51″; DOA: 21″
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DESCRIPTION: Paint-decorated poplar chest: Two lunetted rectangular painted panels with flowers in pitchers on front, sponge decoration elsewhere, and two painted stars in two lunetted rectangular panels on top; straight bracket feet have vertical chamfered glue-blocks; feet and base molding are all one piece; case and bracket feet are dovetailed; till inside of chest on left; molded top secured with pegs; decoratively engraved lock; foliated strap hinges secure the lid.

GROUP and MAKER: Wythe County was home to the most extensive school of paint-decorated furniture in the southwestern part of Virginia. A tight-knit community of Germans and Swiss settled in the western half of the county and by 1800 had established four Lutheran and Reformed churches, all within a ten-mile radius. Four distinct groups of Wythe County painted chests have been identified, most of them with three arched-head panels containing pots of tulips and other lacy, tulip-like flowers. Later chests from this school have the lunetted square panels seen on this example. More than thirty chests in this group survive, and two of them bear the painted signature of Johannes Huddle (1772-1839). The elaborate locks and strap hinges seen on many of the chests bear the initials “JH” and “JD,” and some were probably made by Johannes’s brother Henry Huddle (1768-1841), who was a carpenter and a blacksmith.

Johannes Huddle was born on June 1, 1772 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, to Elizabeth Pfeifferin and Johannes Huddle, Sr.. His father died shortly after his birth, and Elizabeth was later remarried to Peter Spangler. The family moved to present-day Wythe County around 1781. According to family tradition, Johannes Huddle and his brothers Henry and Gideon were apprenticed to learn carpentry from their step-uncle, Jacob Spangler (1756-1827). The number of woodworking tools listed in Huddle and Spangler family probate inventories suggest they may have been responsible for making as well as painting many of these chests.

See J. Roderick Moore, “Painted Chests frm Wythe County,” The Magazine Antiques, September 1982.

HISTORY: This chest was made for Anna Brown (1803-1861) and her husband George Umberger (1806-1875), probably around the time of their marriage on March 15, 1827. A painted chest nearly identicial to MESDA’s is dated 1829 on the back and inscribed “1829/Jahr” on the left urn. The Umberger and Brown families lived in western Wythe County in close proximity to the Huddles, and two of Anna Brown’s sisters were married to members of the Huddle family. Elizabeth Brown married Jonas Huddle (1806-1881), the son of blacksmith and carpenter Henry Huddle, while Ruhama Brown married David Huddle (1809-1887), son of the carpenter and paint decorator, Johannes. The chest descended from George and Anna (Brown) Umberger to their daughter Elizabeth (Umberger) Tilson (1834-1906), to her son Sampson Tilson (1872-1920), to his son James Robert Tilson (1904-1989).

A three-drawer chest painted with three arched-head panels, now in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, descended in the family of George Umberger’s sister, Catherine (Umberger) Kegley (1805-1864). Its paint decoration can be attributed to Johannes Huddle, but the interior of the chest is signed by another Wythe County carpenter named William Brunner (1794-1870).

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I spent a delightful evening visiting with Teresa Bennett of TSB Textiles in her studio at Greensborough. Teresa taught me to weave, so it’s always a bit special to spend time with her. That, and she’s a wonderful artist and weaver and I love the chance to see what she’s done lately. If you’re over the Greensborough side of Melbourne, you should certainly stop in and see her work.

Teresa was very gracious tonight as I bubbled over with ideas for new directions at Metafour Studio. I talked and talked, as I put a quick warp on the Cricket loom, and as I drove home I thought about how very much it matters to have community with other artists. I arrived home and burbled on some more at my long-suffering partner, afire with all the ideas I have that haven’t yet made it onto my looms.

What interested me was that I didn’t actually have any new ideas this evening. But the act of discussing them with another weaver and textile artist, who could see immediately where I was going with an idea and what problems I would have to solve to make the work successful, absolutely energised me.

My creative process happens in a flash of inspiration, which I capture in one of my notebooks for later exploration, or, if it’s a fully formed idea that I simply must weave into being right away and all the materials are already on hand, then it’s straight on the loom.

Then I like to let the idea percolate in the back of my mind, until I know just how I want to approach the weaving. (Of course, that often flies out of the window once I start to work with the yarn and find that I need to make adjustments.) That can be a long process, and I might lose interest in the idea before it ever comes near a loom. I might pick it back up again later on, one day when I’m faced with an empty loom and I’m wondering what to put on it, but the urgency is gone.

Being with other artists keeps the excitement in my work alive, even more so than the great satisfaction of seeing a piece off to a happy home with a new owner. There’s just something about speaking with someone who understands your process, to get the ideas flowing. Maybe they can unstick you from a design problem you’ve been having, or maybe they will just be honestly interested as you talk about the technicalities of your work.

I knew when I started Metafour Studio that community with other artists would be very important, but it seems impossible to underestimate the true importance of that community. I want to be sure not to forget that, as I go along.

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  1. I start with a long boring exposition. Solution: Start with a scene. Many writers, even of nonfiction, forget about how much of any book is taken up with scenes, rather than exposition. A book is not an essay. You need to show things dramatically, with characters and conflict.
  2. Readers say they don’t care about my characters. Solution: You are probably starting your story too late. Go back and show your character in sympathetic, good moments before they start becoming problematic.
  3. I slow down the action by explaining too much. Solution: only one paragraph of explanation allowed at a time.
  4. My story feels like it’s just one character against the planet. Solution: characters are only interesting in relationship to each other—write other characters and get them in dialogue, have them fight with each other.
  5. I’m stuck in the middle of the book and don’t know how to get to the end. Solution: You keep thinking you need to solve your character’s problems, but most of the book should be taking up with making them even worse than they currently are.
  6. My dialogue is too flat. Solution: All dialogue should be doing at least two things at once. It’s about developing the characters, but it’s also about worldbuilding, showing conflict, moving the plot forward, adding humor, and more!
  7. My romantic characters don’t have enough spark with each other. Solution: You need to set them up so that they uniquely annoy each other and that no matter how attracted they are to each other, they will never be able to be together. Then also make them need each other so much, they have to figure it out.
  8. Killing off a Female/Black/Indigenous Character. Solution: Don’t do this. Never kill off one of these characters. It will always make your book more trite.
  9. My villain is more interesting than my hero. Solution: Is your villain actually the hero of the story? Try writing it from their point of view instead. What do they want? What do they do to get it?
  10. I don’t have enough of a character arc for my main character. Solution: Make your main character less perfect. Top 3 problem in every novel I see is that the main character is too nice/too perfect to begin with. If you’re going to show them grow and develop, they have to have a bunch of problems to grow out of!
  11. I have too many points of views. Solution: Ideally, tell the story from one point of view. Stick with that character’s point of view and only tell what they can know about the story. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
  12. I start out with a fun line/gimmick/plot idea, but it peters out. Solution: Delete it. It got you started on this story, but it’s not the heart of it.
  13. My character is too passive. Solution: Let them make more mistakes. Let them drive the plot. Often, this is a result of wanting your character to be too nice, or believing that wanting things and demanding to get them is a character flaw in real life. You may need to work on your own passivity and sense of seeing the world as a victim or other people’s actions.
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A query is a business letter. It isn’t your application to college. It isn’t the ONE thing that’s going to make the difference between publishing your book and not publishing your book. It’s a query letter that is presenting a business proposition to a business person. Yes, it should be well-written. No, you should not panic if you see a typo in it and immediately beg the agent to delete the old query letter and only read a new one. Because once you start on this process, you will do it fifteen times. Trust me, I know.

You should describe your book. Use genre words. Tell about how long it is. If you have relevant expertise, talk about that. Most of the query letter should be the middle paragraph, in which you use a nice hook (what makes your book special and why your characters are on the journey they’re on) and tell a bit about the adventure and the ending. Like you’re talking to a friend. A friend in the business.

I see too many writers obsessed with writing the perfect query letter. They seem to spend all their daily energy for a year or more on crafting the perfect letter. This is a misuse of your time. You should be spending most of your time writing your book. And rewriting it. And rewriting it again.

Agents mostly reject query letters because the book just isn’t for them, and no perfect query letter would change that. They also reject books because they aren’t good enough to publish yet. They may or may not be salvageable. I don’t know the answer to that from this distance. Not getting any responses to your query should be interpreted as a chance to rewrite the query and do the book better justice.

But more often, not getting any response to your query should also be a call to perhaps considering that the book itself needs major revision. Or that it’s time for you to work on a new book.

Good writing matters. Don’t get me wrong. It matters a lot. It’s just that it should matter in your actual book.

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The studio faces the rear parking lot that is next to the Home Depot. I can see the back-side of the Home Depot from my studio. The Home Depot will be on your left as you go down Great Oaks. My studio is on the right facing Great Oaks.

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The tenth edition of the fruit and vegetable fair "Fruit Attraction" took place in Madrid from Tuesday the 22nd October to Thursday the 24th of October. At the time, the fair started with mainly Spanish fruit and vegetable products. Last week, no less than 1800 companies from 130 countries were present, with products from 24 different sectors.

It shows that the fair has grown considerably over the years and has attracted many more international visitors. The timing is also perfect: the import season has yet to start in the Northern Hemisphere, while the Southern hemisphere has almost finished. The Spanish climate and culture also invites you to make and maintain contacts even after the exhibition days, in the evenings.

On Tuesday there was some time to walk around and discover the fair. Wednesday and Thursday in particular were all about receiving our relations. We had our own stand for the first time. A nice place where we could meet with suppliers and customers. We were able to catch up with everyone. The suppliers also talked about improved innovations in the field of sustainability, which we will be closely monitoring. Of course we also made new contacts, including with possible new suppliers who can meet the very specific wishes of our customers. It were three successful days that we look back on with a positive feeling.


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Thursday, 29 May 2014 3 days ago, a friend of mine informed me that we were going to Green Canyon. I couldn’t help but getting super excited. The whole trip was free because the purpose was to do a survey for Buddhist Reborn mid year event: Summer! Some people told me that Green Canyon and Pangandaran beach did not worth the visit. But, having been told so didn’t bring down my excitement because I had been dying to go traveling in this last 5 months of holiday and let me tell you about this place through my eyes.

As we got there, the fun didn’t begin instantly; after being equipped with life vest, helmet and something to cover our legs, we sat at the back of the truck (which we never did in Jakarta) heading to the starting point. Then we went down to the river through a rough path that stumbled me few times. I was sweating because of the hot weather but mostly because I was nervous. However, once you got into the river, the cold and fresh water swept away the fear and the excitement began.

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The view was breathtaking, the trees were so dense making the weather so friendly, and the water was greenish but I guaranteed that it was crystal clear. We could float while capturing the beauty of the nature, spotting the sunlight that seek in between the branches and listening the sound of the water flowing down the river. For once, we felt like being in hunger games movie when Katniss Everdeen trapped in the forest and I couldn’t stop taking pictures because I wish moment like this last a little bit longer and more often.

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Most of the rocks are slippery, sometimes they could scratch your body but as long as you are careful, the journey would be safe and sound. When the river was shallow, we had to cross the rocks but most of the time we could just swim, or at least float. At some point of the river, we could choose to climb up a high cliff and jump from the height of 6m. I might be scared to death every time I climbed up but the thrill you felt once you were on top and the adrenaline that rush when you were about to jump were just so addictive. Sometimes, the boys and I jumped twice just for the sake getting the good picshaha

Oh! and there were 2 Australian guys, probably 50ish, joined our group and because the tour guide couldn’t speak English fluently, sometimes they asked me to become the translator. It turned out that my english was not so bad! #feelsocool. By the way, I was the only girl who was brave enough to jump from the cliffs several times, again I #feelsocool

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These places might be not as beautiful as they were and be as developed as Bali or Singapore; the accommodations are very modest. But I’m telling you fellas, go adventuring and do something crazy while you still have the guts. Twenty years from now, while relaxing in Paris or Las Vegas, you’ll look back to your adventurous teenage life and wonder “how the hell I did that?”

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Error code 0-2031 while installing Microsoft Office

Error code 0-2031 while installing Microsoft office is due to registry corruption or network collaboration. It can also occur due to the registry errors and string value changes. It can also block the office program installation being carried out successfully in the computer.

Performing the below steps given in the article in exact order will help you in resolving the error code in Microsoft office.

Disable anti-virus software to fix Error code 0-2031

Antivirus software installed on the computer may also affect the network connection and it throws Error code 0-2031. It also make the network connection to lag, make stream error and socket connection issues. Disable the antivirus temporarily for installation of Office program. It is also a recommended step, if not fixed in offline installation.

disable antivirus to fix Error code 0-2031

Steps to disable antivirus:

  1. Open antivirus console
  2. Tap on settings
  3. Select real time protection
  4. Turn off the real time protection and select until next reboot
  5. Try installing Microsoft office again.

Disable Proxy to Fix Error code 0-2031

The Proxy setting enabled on your Internet connection may also affect the installation of Microsoft office. It pops the Error code 0-2031 while installing Microsoft office from the online setup.

disable proxy Error code 0-2031

disable Proxy Error code 0-2031

It is recommended to disable the proxy settings temporarily. The same will helps to install Microsoft office without the error message  such as couldn’t stream, execution and registry error.

Follow the steps  to disable Proxy settings:

  1. Press windows key and R key
  2. Type “appwiz.cpl
  3. In internet properties tap on connection
  4. Select LAN settings
  5. Uncheck the proxy settings
  6. Click Apply and OK
  7. Try installing Microsoft Office again

Checking and re-enabling the Windows Installer file settings to fix Error code 0-2031

Office installation may also get stopped, if the Windows installer service is not running or enabled.

  1. Type Windows key+ R to open the run command.
  2. In the run command box, type “services.msc”.
  3. Right click on the “windows installer” file from the list and click on “properties”.
  4. Enable Windows installer action by clicking on “start” option available.

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Disk Clean Up to fix Error code 0-2031

The temporary files in your computer may also blocks the extraction and installation of new Office program files. It may throw Error code 0-2031 while installing Office 365, office 2019 and office 2016 due to the temporary left over files.

disk clean up - Error code 0-2031

Perform a disk clean up to remove the temporary files in the computer and then try installing the office program.

Follow the steps to perform disk clean up:

  1.  Windows key + R
  2. Type “cleanmgr” in the run command box.
  3. Select Drive C
  4. Select the temporary file folders listed in the disk clean up box.
  5. Click Ok to proceed and clean up the temporary files.

Disable security Firewall temporarily.

Firewall of computer may also block the office installation. It makes a non-responsive replay from the installer. It is recommended to disable the windows firewall, if the installation does not give any response while installing Microsoft office.

turn off windows firewall - Error code 0-2031

  1. Click the  Windows Firewall to Start button Picture of the Start button, and then clicking Control Panel.
  2. In the search box, type firewall, and then click on Windows Firewall.
  3. Click Turn Windows Firewall on or off.
  4. Administrator permission required for password or confirmation. Type the password or provide confirmation.
  5. Click Turn off Windows Firewall (not recommended) under each network location that you want to stop trying to protect. Then click OK.

Complete removal and reinstallation of Microsoft Office

Another problem is erroneous residual files during the installation or un-installation of previous versions of Microsoft office. It also causes the error code.

uninstall and reinstall microsoft office - Error code 0-2031

So, if the issue persists after performing the above steps, un-installation and reinstallation of the Microsoft Office program may help to resolve the issues.

  1. Windows key + R to open the rum command.
  2. Type “appwiz.cpl” in the available window.
  3. Select Microsoft office under installed program list.
  4. Click on “uninstall/change” to remove the Microsoft office completely.
  5. Reinstall Microsoft office after complete removal of the program.

How to download and install Microsoft Office

Refer below given are some simple steps to download and install Microsoft Office from a Microsoft Office account.

Sign in to Microsoft Account.

  1. Open the web browser in the computer.
  2. Enter the url as”” in the address bar and press enter.
  3. Enter the log in credentials of Microsoft Office account in the columns provided.
  4. Click on “sign in” option where you will be redirected to your personal Microsoft Account page.

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Download Office

  1. You will be able to see the purchased Microsoft Office version in your Microsoft Office account page.
  2. Click on “Install” button under the Microsoft office suit that you have already purchased.
  3. The Microsoft office suit will now start downloading.

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Installing Microsoft office

  1. Once the download is completed and set up file of Microsoft Office in “Downloads” folder in your computer.
  2. Double click the set up file which initiates the installation of Microsoft office in your computer.
  3. Select the “recommended settings” options to continue the installation when prompted.
  4. Wait till the installation gets completed successfully.
  5. Click on “done” or “finish” button to start using your newly installed Microsoft office.

Please click this link to get expert advice if you find any difficulty in installing Microsoft office in your computer.


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Saudi rushes to improve its image in advance of G20 and Biden

By James M. Dorsey

Saudi Arabia has taken multiple steps to polish its tarnished image in advance of this weekend’s hosting of the virtual summit of the G20 that groups the world’s foremost economies and in anticipation of an incoming Biden administration in the United States that is expected to be critical of Riyadh and potentially more conciliatory towards Iran and non-violent Islamists.

The initiatives target US and European criticism of the five-year old war in Yemen that has produced one of the world’s greatest humanitarian crises and concerns the Biden administration may adopt less Saudi and United Arab Emirates-centric policies than its predecessor headed by Donald J. Trump.

The steps further seek to project Saudi Arabia as being helpful in normalizing relations between Israel and the Muslim world even if it is not yet ready to do so itself and build links with Democrats in Washington as they prepare to take office in January.

Like other countries that fear a Biden administration may be less friendly than its predecessor, Saudi Arabia is looking for Washington PR and lobbying firms that can get it access to the president-elect and his entourage.

Saudi officials and Saudis close to Crown Prince Mohmmed bin Salman are counting on the fact that despite criticism US President-elect Joe Biden sees Saudi Arabia in line with long-standing US policy as a crucial partner. “I am very confident that will continue,” said Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan.

The kingdom, betting that the Biden administration would accept that Saudi Arabia as the custodian of Islam’s two holiest cities, Mecca and Medina, would recognize Israel only once recognition was more widely accepted in the Muslim world, has sought to curry favour by pressuring others to normalize relations with the Jewish state.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan charged last week that the United States and another unidentified country were pressing him to establish diplomatic relations. Pakistani and Israeli media named Saudi Arabia as the unidentified country. Representing the world’s third most populous Muslim nation, Pakistani recognition, following in the footsteps of the UAE and Bahrain, would be significant.

Missing from the Saudi menu is any effort to fend off criticism of the kingdom’s problematic human rights record. In fact, senior Saudi figures signalled that the kingdom was unlikely to bow to demands for the release of detained activists, clerics, and professionals and transparency on the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in response to Mr. Biden’s insistence that he would restore human rights as an important element of US foreign policy.

Former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to London and Washington Prince Turki Al Faisal suggested that the absence of human rights in the kingdom’s efforts was no coincidence.

Addressing an American audience this week, Prince Turki said: “As far as human rights is concerned, we admit that we have issues to improve and we’re working on that. It is a work in progress. But respectfully, your country also has issues of human rights to improve upon. Witness the turmoil during your elections and the police shootings. We did not…invent waterboarding. Your issues are also a work in progress… Your elections are a wonderful spectacle from which we can learn. They also include elements which we will not learn.”

To drive the point home, a Saudi human rights group asserted this week that Khaled al-Oudeh, a brother of prominent cleric Salman al-Oudeh, who has been held in prison since 2017 and potentially faces the death penalty, had been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of "inciting sedition and destabilising security."

The Saudi Council of Senior Scholars last week, in the first official statement from the kingdom since Saudi Arabia and the UAE banned the group in 2014, labelled the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. The council said the group did not represent Islam, seeks “to grab the reins of power,” wreaks havoc, and commits “violence and terrorism.”

The council’s statement came as France and Austria were cracking down on Islamist groups, including the Brotherhood. The crackdown was in response to several attacks in Europe, including the gruesome murder of a French schoolteacher.

The statement, implicitly calling into question Saudi Arabia’s alliance in the Yemen war with Al-Islah, a Yemeni party aligned with the Brotherhood, came as the kingdom said it would honour a ceasefire if the Houthi rebels accepted a buffer zone along the Saudi-Yemeni border. The offer was designed to show that the kingdom was seeking a way out of the quagmire.

At the same time, Saudi authorities have stopped just short of blaming the Brotherhood for recent attacks on the French consulate in Jeddah, the Saudi embassy in The Hague and a French-sponsored World War One commemoration at a cemetery in the Red Sea port city, the first attack with explosives in years targeting foreigners in the kingdom.

The kingdom and the UAE fear that “Democrats can (re)create an atmosphere that enables the rise of the Brotherhood in the Sunni world like a decade ago. This is, in my view, what they see as a threat similar to the threat from Iran, if not a bigger one,” said Eran Segal, a research fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran & Gulf States research at the University of Haifa.

Mr. Segal was referring to former US President Barak Obama’s support for elections in Egypt and Tunisia in 2012 in the wake of the 2011 popular revolt that toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Tunisian counterpart, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, longstanding US allies, despite the likelihood of Brotherhood electoral victories.

In Egypt, the victor, Mohammed Morsi, a Brotherhood leader, was removed from the presidency a year later in a UAE and Saudi-backed military coup that brought general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to power.

Saudi Arabia’s G-20 presidency has sparked discussion on what the best approach to the kingdom would be: criticism and boycott or engagement. It is a debate that also confronts the incoming Biden administration.

The mayors of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris boycotted in September a G20 summit of urban leaders. Members of the European parliament and the US Congress have called on European leaders and Mr. Trump to not participate in this weekend’s summit.

It is an approach that David Rundell a US foreign service officer who served half of his 30-year career in the kingdom argues is doomed to failure. “Saudi Arabia needs encouragement for its economic reforms as well as in addressing its human rights record,” Mr. Rundell said, advocating greater engagement with rather than isolation of the kingdom.

A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Podbean, Audecibel, Patreon and Castbox.

Dr. James M. Dorsey is an award-winning journalist and a senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute

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Corned Beef. Cooked to perfection.

Reinventing the classics – Corned Beef. How can you not love corned beef? To be honest as a kid I didn’t like it at all, it’s only been the last 15 years or so I have become to appreciate this classic dish. I was dining in chef Jeremy Strode’s Surry Hills eatery Bistrode many years…

Great Italian Food

Many years ago, my friend Leanne and I would hit the Italian Deli’s in Sydney’s inner-west suburbs of Haberfield and Leichhardt. This became an obsession for quite some time, and I have to say we became professional gourmet food shoppers on many levels. It was something we looked forward to and would do it as often as we could.


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Crafts from shells for beginners

Beautiful, graceful seashells, different in form and size resemble a relaxing holiday by the sea. These cute little things are often left without a case, thrown out a long time stored in packages. Using a natural material, it is possible to make Souvenirs made of shells that can decorate the interior or clothes, be a wonderful gift.

How to make crafts from seashells and stones with their hands

The production of nautical gifts is easy and affordable. To create crafts made of shells for beginners, you need to collect and process the natural material, clean off it from dirt and sand. Then the shells are dried and stored in a dry place. To assist beginners used thread, lace, paper, cardboard, fabric, wire, salt dough, plasticine. Serve as an additional decoration:

  • beads;
  • braid;
  • of the tape;
  • rhinestones;
  • sequins.

Details of marine products are bonded with a reliable adhesive. It is important that the liquid remained transparent, almost invisible after drying. Homemade souvenir for beginners work pretty, neat. Suitable to bond the glue gun. If you plan to use paint, it is better to choose a material based on acrylic. Coating products with lacquer in one or more layers lends durability.

Processing shells for crafts

To prepare natural material for work, beginners need:

  1. Thoroughly rinse the sink.
  2. Boil the material in boiling water with salt at least an hour, if there are the remains of shellfish. Otherwise the shell will become a source of unpleasant smell, and a beautiful thing will be discarded.
  3. To handle the sharp broken edges, using file, sandpaper or nail file.
  4. Lubricate the surface in any oil for the gloss, richness of color, unless you plan to cover the product with varnish.

What can be drawn from the shells with your hands

The availability of natural material – a good excuse for beginners to use imagination, develop creative skills. The result of the original things that adorn the interior. Decor of seashells with their hands can be manufactured in the form of paintings, candlesticks, wood or flowers. Homemade earrings, necklace or bracelet are able to effectively complement the image or to become a memorable gift. Simple kids crafts fun to make for beginners.

Sea shells in the interior

Products made of natural materials fit perfectly in the thematic interior, decorated in a nautical style. However, DIY seashells for beginners look appropriate in any style direction thanks to its unobtrusive appearance. Original flowers, candlesticks, vases, chandeliers, paintings, picture frames or mirrors, panels made of shells will complement any interior, will add a touch of fabulousness, romance. Beautiful garland in a marine style will plunge into the memories of the holiday.

Interior decorated with shells

Decor candle holder

Beautiful piece of furniture is made beginning from sea shells, stones, etc. Materials are covered by nail Polish, sprinkle glitter. The elements are held together with the glue gun. The base of the candlestick is the CD-ROM. In the centre on the shiny side, which was written music, is a candle. The edges fixed the «flowers» with petals made of shells, stones in the middle. The candle can be easily removed, install the new one.

Another option is making candle holders for beginners requires less time and effort. This would require a large counter sink. Processed edge with sandpaper. The workpiece can be decorated with sequins, nail Polish, rhinestones, beads. Is placed in the recess of the yoke. The next step is the filling with melted paraffin. The original candlestick is ready immediately after cooling.

Picture made of shells

Fabric items made of sea shells – great idea for the interior. In addition, to create a picture of need glue, paint and other decorative materials (beads, sand, grass, sticks, bars). If you plan to depict flowers, shells are selected, glued, painted with acrylic. Then you need to stick to the ground of sisal or decorative mesh with a pistol. Attach additional parts – leaves, twigs. The end product of shell for beginners is covered with three layers of clear lacquer.

Picture of shells

Shell topiary with their hands

For the manufacture of decorative trees needed:

  • shell;
  • adhesive;
  • a plaster solution;
  • glass;
  • the foam layer;
  • wooden sticks;
  • twine;
  • stone chippings.

The order of execution:

  1. First contact of sticks, then wrapped a rope.
  2. In a bowl, make a small hole.
  3. Then «trunk» is inserted into the Cup with plaster of Paris. When the ground is dry, attach the top crown in the form of a foam ball.
  4. The upper part of the paste paper decorated with shells, beads, sequins.
  5. The hem is also decorated in sea style with satin ribbons.

Shell topiary

Flowers made of shells

For the beautiful bouquet you need:

  • shell;
  • good glue;
  • wire;
  • clay.

  1. The elements combine to make the flower.
  2. Closer to the center, stick the small «petals».
  3. Then attach the major parts of sea shells for beginners.
  4. The center of the flower is made plasticine ball.
  5. Additional decor items you can create with paint, beads, sequins.

Rose made of shells

Stylish jewelry made of shells with your hands

Empty «houses» of mollusks have been used successfully by beginners to create jewelry. Necklaces, pendants, earrings, bracelets in a marine style perfectly accentuate the image, create a romantic mood. Sea shells are perfectly combined with pearls, beads, metal pendants. To make a decoration for beginners, you need to make a hole. This can be done by using a drill or by hand using Gypsy needle. It is recommended to use masking tape. Adhesive tape will protect the material from cracking during drilling.

The beads are made beginning at the next instruction. Need:

  • line length of 50 cm;
  • shell;
  • acrylic nail Polish or colorless nail;
  • clasp;
  • beads.

The procedure of manufacture:

  1. First you need to pin part of the clasp on the edge of the line.
  2. Each shell should drill a hole using the awl or drill.
  3. Natural material is covered with varnish for better preservation.
  4. Shell beads are strung in the correct order.
  5. Next on the line is fixed the second part of the clasp.

Earrings made of seashells with pearls

Kids crafts made with sea shells with their hands

Natural material can be used for beginner products in the form of birds, animals, paintings, flowers. Children especially like to make different animals. To make a cute turtle, you need to take a bit of clay to sculpt the torso, head and legs. Shell will serve as a sink of the appropriate size. Then vyleplyaet the muzzle and eyes. In the same way produced other children’s crafts from shells with their hands. The baby will like the idea to make a dog, cat, elephant, fish. The more difficult task is to make a ship with sails of shells.

Video: frame made of shells with your hands – master class

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Mini Bins Makes Skip Hire in Adelaide Simple

Hiring a skip bin in Adelaide is a process many people abhor now because of how complicated waste facilities make it.

You don’t have to sign multiple contracts to hire a mini bin; in fact, the process doesn’t take more than 10 minutes with us, Mini Bins.

We offer many services that make hiring a skip bin with us as stress-free and easy as possible. Here are some ways we make skip hire in Adelaide simple:

Accept A Wide Range Of Waste

Adelaide residents produce a wide variety of waste, some of which are hard to dispose of sometimes. Until you hire a skip bin, you won’t realise how hard it is to dispose of certain types of waste. Building waste, for example, is one waste that’s hard to handle because of the asbestos it contains.

Most Adelaide skip bin hire companies rejects building waste, green waste etc., in their skip bins because of how delicate they are- with MiniBin, you don’t have to worry about your waste being rejected.

We accept a wide range of waste, including household waste, green waste, solid and clean waste. Many things fall under the waste categories above, and it’s rare to see waste we can’t handle. But even if we can’t take your trash, we’ll get you a company that can handle it for you.

Online Booking

You don’t have to drive a far distance when you want to hire skip bins from us. You can book the skip bins you need from the comfort of your bed. In addition, we simplify the booking process by cutting off the need to drive to our depot to fill out any booking forms manually.

All you need to do is fill our form online, and you’ll be getting your skip bin before you know it. You should book your skip bins before you need them so you can get them on or before the date. There’s also the possibility that the skip bin size you want will be unavailable- prevent this by booking early.

Since you can book our skip bins online, there’s no need for you to do them personally. The logistics issue of skip bins is a huge problem during the hiring process because finding transportation trucks can be very hard. Worrying about how to transport skip bins when you’re working is unnecessary with MiniBin.

We will bring your skip bin to you, wherever you are in Adelaide. Just input the location you want the skip bin delivered to in the online form, and you’ll receive it.

Our skip bins come in various sizes that will come in helpful regardless of the project. From constructions project to spring cleaning, we have adequate measures. However, knowing the different skip bin sizes and how to select the adequate ones is not an easy feat, so we have helpful articles on our blog that can assist you.

However, you can also give us a call or message, and we’d guide you on selecting the perfect spin size.

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