![]() ![]() Mercedes-Benz GLC 300: The 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 comes with a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that produces 241 horsepower.Body style and drivetrain availability depend on the trim level. Rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive are available. Despite its name, these models still have four doors. ![]() The GLC is available in the standard SUV body style or a Coupe variant. Prices range from $30,460 to $62,751 and varyĭepending on the vehicle’s condition, mileage, features, and location. Pricing How Much is a 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class?īased on listings for the 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class, the average list To remain objective, we don't accept expensive gifts or trips from car companies, and an outside team manages the advertising on our site. News & World Report has been ranking cars, trucks, and SUVs since 2007, and our team has more than 75 years of combined automotive industry experience. We analyzed 28 Mercedes-Benz GLC reviews – along with reliability ratings, fuel economy estimates, and more – to help you decide if the 2019 GLC is the right new car for you. The GLC also has great crash test results and a long list of active safety features. The GLC delivers a plush ride, and while it's not as agile as many rivals, there are several high-powered AMG versions to choose from. Few others in the class match this Benz's interior opulence, and passengers will find plenty of room in the GLC's two rows of seats. Yes, the 2019 GLC is a good used luxury compact SUV. 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class Overview Is the 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLC a Good Used SUV? ![]()
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This includes most photos, vector graphics, and illustrations listed on Adobe Stock. IU users can download an unlimited number of assets of Adobe Stock's "standard content". Users have unlimited access to Adobe's standard stock assets, including nearly 200 million photos, vector graphics, and illustrations, which can be used in presentations, reports, videos, websites, and other creative work. At Indiana University, eligible users with access to Adobe Creative Cloud through IU's contract with Adobe now have access to Adobe Stock. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These were the first atomic bombs ever actually used against an enemy population. Japan surrendered on August 14 (August 15 Japan time)-eight days after Hiroshima, six days after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, five days after Nagasaki. Hiroshima and Nagasaki stood before the world as stark examples of what this really meant. By 1946, in any case, “ground zero” had become a media catch phrase referring to the epicenter of a nuclear explosion. It is possible that the “zero” designation had its actual origin here, before the bombs were deployed against the two Japanese cities. The historical monument that used to mark the epicenter of the Trinity test bore the simple legend Ground Zero. The phrase was coined in reference to the first nuclear weapons tested and used by the United States in 1945-the top-secret “Trinity” test in the desert of Alamagordo, New Mexico, in mid July 1945, and the atomic bombs dropped with devastating effect a few weeks later on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9). ![]() Prior to “9-11,” Ground Zero did in fact have a concrete, historical, explicitly nuclear meaning. What if the next Ground Zero involves nuclear weapons? As a concept, these ominous words are inseparable from the terrifying vision of WMD-Weapons of Mass Destruction. As a place, Ground Zero thus refers to the dead center of an explosive act of violence. Posted at Japan Focus on April 27, 2005.įor most Americans today, the words “Ground Zero” immediately call to mind the horror of September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center in New York City, destroying two skyscrapers and killing some three-thousand individuals. They are provided courtesy of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and form part of a much larger archive of more than 2,000 images and annotations. These drawings and paintings by Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb were created more than a quarter century after the bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors by John W. ![]() ![]() ![]() A number of years ago this spring was used to some extent for bathing, Rises on the eastern side of Cobb Valley Creek, near the head of a small meadow. In 1910 the property near the springs was abandoned or used only as a goat range. Situated in a narrow part of the canyon of Rices Fork of Eel River, 14 miles by road northwest of Bartlett SpringsĪ carbonated spring of seeping flow that issues on the Dinsmore ranch, at the west edge of Wolf Creek, has long been protected by a concrete curb and used for drinkingĮight miles south of Kelseyville a number of small carbonated springs issue near a road that was formerly the main road to Cloverdale by way of The Geysers. Three pools, which are situated on the slope 50 yards east of the bed of a ravine about 325 yards north of the road between Leesville and Hough Springs, and 2 miles west of the divide at the boundary between Lake and Colusa countiesģ9☁7′24″N 122☄9′20″W / 39.2899°N 122.8222°W / 39.2899 -122.8222 Basins or small reservoirs have been excavated and cemented at two hot springs that issue a few yards apart in a ravine that is tributary to Putah Creek.ģ9☁0′12″N 122☃0′48″W / 39.1700°N 122.5133°W / 39.1700 -122.5133 ![]() Situated about 1 mile by steep trail on the mountain side west of Anderson Springs. The property was conducted _as a small resort for several years prior to 1905, but it has been deserted since about that year, and in the summer of 1908 a brush fire destroyed the hotel building.ģ8☄6′13″N 122☄3′00″W / 38.7702°N 122.7167°W / 38.7702 -122.7167 Situated along Cole Creek where the creek flows in a brushy ravine. The water has been bottled at the spring and marketed locally as a table water. Its water rises from crushed sandstone near the edge of the stream channel, in a cemented pool about the size of a barrel. Situated a mile south of Glen Alpine Springs, in a small ravine that is tributary to Scott Creek. The property has been a camping resort for a number of years. Situated in a grove on a gentle slope bordering a ravine, about 3 miles north of east from Adams Springs, and halfway between Seigler and Howard springs. Situated on the north side of a branch of North Fork of Cache Creek, and mainly on the slopes some distance above the stream.ģ8★1′51″N 122☄1′13″W / 38.8643°N 122.6869°W / 38.8643 -122.6869 ![]() for a short time the water was shipped in tanks to San Francisco, carbonated, and bottled as a table water.Ī small carbonated spring, about halfway between Lower Lake and Reiff post office. A resort has been conducted at this place for many years, and in 1910 a hotel and several cottages provided accommodations for 150 guests.Ī number of years ago a short prospect tunnel was run into the hillside three-quarters of a mile south of east from Glenbrook post office. Situated about 5 miles northwest of Middletown, along a branch of Putah Creek. Seeps from a claylike layer in bedded gravel and volcanic ash, beneath a small bank on the side of a ravine at the southwest base of Chalk Mountainģ8☄6′30″N 122☄1′35″W / 38.7749°N 122.6930°W / 38.7749 -122.6930 Situated in the narrow canyon of Alien Creek, on the stage road about 4 miles west of Hough Springs During the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century resorts were often founded around these springs, where bathing and drinking the water was thought to be beneficial to the health. The Springs of Lake County, California are natural springs, some of which are warm and/or rich in minerals, in Lake County, California. ![]() ![]() I plan to try them all! MYEQ – The Equinox App Equinox Gold Coast The Shop at Equinox is fantastic! They carry Splendid, Nike, RLX, Orange Label by Equinox and more! And it is open to the pubic. Classes include cardio and strength, fitness, yoga, pilates, studio cycling and boxing/martial arts. The variety of classes are bar none and I have learned to use and adore the (MYEQ) Equinox app! You can see who’s teaching a class, at what time and find out more about the intensity of the class. All of the instructors at Equinox Lincoln Park are amazing, energetic and add a touch of humor to strenuous workouts, which is not always easy. I will work out on a machine if I have to, but what really whips me into shape are classes scheduled at a certain time (so I can be held accountable) with direction by instructors who will keep on me. What’s most important to me are the classes. ![]() Equinox has just the right of combination of function, cutting edge and luxury. It’s beautiful, lofty, clean, has free parking (very important) and the staff is friendly and helpful (they did not know I was taking notes, either!). I can say from experience that Equinox Lincoln Park is the perfect urban fitness club. I was a member at a neighborhood athletic club for many years and also had the opportunity to be a guest at some of the fanciest, coolest and clubbiest fitness clubs in town. ![]() I have lived in Chicago for almost 30 years and am familiar with most of the clubs in town. ![]() ![]() It rides on AMG Monoblock alloy wheels, 7.5" front and 8.5" rear, shod with 225/45ZR17 and 245/40ZR17 Michelin Pilot Sport tires. An anti-lock braking system (ABS) is standard, while Brake Assist applies full braking force in panic stop faster than a driver could. The huge four-wheel discs are larger and thicker than the other CLKs, and the rear discs are specially vented to enhance cooling. The resulting firmer, more controlled ride is made even tighter by its high-performance ZR-rated low-profile tires. The four-wheel independent suspension is basically the same as the lesser CLK versions, but AMG fits higher-rated springs, tighter shock valving, larger diameter anti-roll bars and stiffer suspension bushings. The standard CLK chassis is used, and while the current version is not based on the new C-Class platform, the AMG version of the CLK offers some special undercarriage components. Standard traction control keeps wheelspin to a minimum, while its Electronic Stability Program (ESP) keeps the CLK on its intended path. Also a larger four-bolt driveshaft that's four inches in diameter connects to a reinforced rear differential to keep all the extra power under control. It is fully adaptive and electronically controlled, and is a stronger unit than that of the CLK 430. The five-speed automatic transmission (722.6) is adapted from the gearbox used in the V-12 S-class models, because that gearbox can take the torque. These technologies help provide 362 hp (270 kW) and 376 lb⋅ft (510 N⋅m) of torque. The engine has a high compression ratio of 10.5:1. ![]() The 'dual-resonance' intake manifold with tuned runners helps optimize torque and power output by taking advantage of what Mercedes calls 'resonant frequencies'. The hardware list includes super-stiff forged billet steel crankshaft, forged, weight-matched connecting rods and pistons, lightweight AMG-specific chain-driven single overhead camshafts V8 (one cam per cylinder bank) with two intake and one exhaust valves per cylinder, as well as 8 coil packs and 16 spark plugs (two spark plugs per cylinder). The CLK 55 AMG is powered by a hand-assembled 5.4-litre V8 engine. The high-performance CLK 55 AMG, which was introduced first in Europe in 2000, was powered by the 347 PS (255 kW 342 bhp) M113 5.4 L V8 engine the CLK 55 AMG Cabriolet was launched in 2002, the last model year of this bodystyle. Making it the first 2001 CLK 55 AMG Cabriolet. This allowed it to reach up to 0.83G's of lateral acceleration, and 66.5 mph on the slalom run.Īlthough the CLK 55 AMG Cabriolet didn't officially release until the following year, in 2001 the CLK 430 Cabriolet could be equipped with all the AMG options as a special order from the AMG factory with the full 55 AMG setup, which includes the CLK 55 AMG engine and transmission, AMG suspension, AMG brakes and full set up as a factory option. In the United States, the CLK 430 could be equipped with a "Sport Package," which gave it the external styling of the more powerful CLK 55 AMG, and equipped it with the same wheels and tires as its AMG counterpart (see section "CLK 55 AMG"). ![]() Wing mirror-mounted turn signals were implemented in 2001 for the 2002 year model. In late 1999 for the 2000 model year, a facelift was launched which incorporated, among others, a revised instrument cluster with a bigger multifunction display, steering wheel with controls for the multifunction display and radio, Tiptronic automatic gearbox, revised bumpers and new side skirts. All models were available in both coupé and convertible form. The CLK GTR FIA GT1 racing car appeared in 1998, powered by a 5.9 L V12 engine 25 road-going CLK GTRs were made. The CLK 320 Coupé was introduced in the 1997 model year, powered by a 218 PS (160 kW 215 bhp) 3.2 L V6 engine. Two versions were initially available: the four-cylinder CLK 200 (136 PS (100 kW 134 bhp)) and four-cylinder supercharged CLK 230 Kompressor 193–197 PS (142–145 kW 190–194 bhp). MB returned to the same approach in 2023 with the Mercedes-Benz CLE-Class. Although the W208 used components from the E-Class (W210), aesthetic based on the E-Class and had a specification level higher than the E-Class, it was in fact based on the less expensive C-Class (W202) platform. The CLK introduced a new market niche for Mercedes-Benz. ![]() The W208 coupé was replaced by the W209 CLK-Class in 2002 (for the 2003 model year), although the convertible remained in production until 2003 when replaced by the C209 CLK. The first-generation C208/A208 CLK was introduced in 1997, and was based on the W202 Mercedes-Benz C-Class launched three years earlier. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is important that people feel they have a choice and voluntarily align. For example, I announce the decision and then go around the table and ask, “Jim, can you align with this decision? How about you, Lindsey?” and so on. Instead, you must ask for it and enroll people. Announce your decision and ask for alignment. ![]() This gives you an opportunity to weigh everyone's comments. ![]() If it's a big decision, you might want to take a day or so to think about it-even if you think you know the answer. Fold as much input as you can into the discussion. Once you have communicated what it is you want to accomplish, ask for feedback. Create an environment that is safe for dissent.Too often leaders assume they have communicated when they haven't. You can't expect alignment if you haven't clearly articulated your direction. Clearly articulate your vision, strategy, or program.Your entire team needs to work together to create alignment, so that you don't settle for mere acceptance or even agreement. Print out this blog post and discuss it at your next staff meeting. Discuss the three levels of unity with your team.How do you do so? Let me suggest five steps toward alignment: But it is up to you, as the leader, to create this alignment. Generally speaking, if people trust their leader and believe they have been heard, they have no problem aligning themselves with him or her. I understand your perspective, but here is what we are going to do.” The leader listens and says, “Okay, thanks for your input. The leader proposes a course of action, the team discusses the pros and cons. (I got this insight from a seminar Gap International puts on called “ The Alignment Intensive.” It was the best leadership investment I ever made.) They voice their support in public and their concerns in private.īy the way, you should know that your teammates can be aligned without being in agreement. They also have your back and the backs of their teammates. They are fully committed to making your common vision a reality. This is the third and ultimate level of unity. This is why you may not experience resistance, but you can't seem to make things happen. You have their minds but not their hearts. ![]() But they are not personally invested or committed to making it happen. People agree with your direction and generally support it. They may or may not agree, but they decide to go along because the cost of objecting-whether real or perceived-is too great. People acquiesce to your leadership without protest. This is the first and lowest level of unity. There are actually three levels of unity: If you are going to be effective as a leader, it is important for you to be able to discern the difference. The pastor mistook acquiescence for unity. Why? Because the pastor had a history of shutting down debate and emotionally punishing anyone who resisted his leadership. However, I had spoken with several of his team members who disagreed with his vision and strategy. He remarked, “I am really blessed with unity in my team.” He was extolling the virtues of his leadership team. But too often leaders are unclear in their understanding of unity.įor example, I was recently speaking with the pastor of a large church. It is one of the most fundamental functions of leadership. That's why creating it-and preserving it-is so important. ![]() ![]() ![]() During my time there, I fought very hard to stay but faced information vacuums, little outreach or resources, and a heavy commitment to technicalities by the administration. From the time I failed one class in my first semester, it felt like the veil of rosy promise was lifted and I was suddenly no longer a “valued student” but instead an idiot interloper. Unfortunately, I struggled to manage my academics from the get-go (hello undiagnosed ADHD in women!), and the response from the school was disappointing, to say the least. Rather than cashing out his entire portfolio in a down market, it’s worth finding a compromise that will make you, your financial advisor, and him happy.ĭo you know if there’s any recourse for loan forgiveness from a school that you were academically expelled from? I attended a small, “elite,” and VERY expensive liberal arts college right after high school that advertised themselves, particularly on their ability and commitment to “care for and support” each student due to their small size (and crazy high cost). You could try to persuade him with charts and graphs about dollar-cost averaging, but it’s essential to recognize the validity of his stress about a fluctuating market when he’s planning to retire soon. It’s a challenging time to convince risk-shy folks like your husband that they should keep investing in a bear market. But if your husband panic-sells all your equities while the market is down, then those losses will actually be realized. If you can stick it out until the market recovers as you want, you haven’t lost anything except on paper. Even if the dollar value of your portfolio has decreased, you still hold the underlying securities. The past few years had historically high returns on the market, so (if possible) don’t fixate on the lost dollar amounts in your portfolio right now. Frustration With Spouse’s Investment Knowledge It’s always better for an inheritance to be a happy surprise than a terrible disappointment. Your father’s financial circumstances could change, he could have significant medical expenses, or you could become estranged. But even if it is equally partitioned in a trust, it’s best not to plan your life around someone else’s estate. ![]() Your best defense is to get precise information about the estate plan’s survivorship rights and trust structure. She could also have end-of-life costs (or go on a shopping spree) after he passes that leave her with nothing, remarry another spouse, or fall out of contact with you. Since your father and stepmother crafted a plan document (hopefully with a lawyer), some of these possibilities are likely spelled out in the estate plan. If their estate is not structured to avoid it, your stepmom could remove you and your siblings from the estate’s beneficiaries after your father died. Such trusts make property ownership clear in the case of blended families, reducing the likelihood that your stepsiblings could claim your father’s portion of trust assets if your stepmom outlived him. If that is the case, can stepmom start giving assets to her two kids so my sister and I would get nothing when she dies? I just want to be prepared and not count on money that won’t actually be available to us. My dad has always allowed this so we don’t have much of a relationship, although recently he has expressed a lot of remorse and wants to make sure we are included in the estate as he did not help us with college costs or anything else over the years. To the extreme-excludes us from everything, won’t let us have time alone with our dad, etc. Here is the problem: My stepmom really hates my sister and me. Stepmom has two kids, each gets 50 percent. They have put their considerable assets into an estate plan with this basic structure: Dad and stepmom each have half of their assets to distribute. He is now approaching 80 and his wife is 67. He also began making quite a bit of money. My parents got divorced when my sister and I were very young. ![]() I have a question about family estate planning. ![]() Have a question? Send it to Lillian, Athena, and Elizabeth here. ![]() ![]() Parliament is intended to protect against an over-mighty government. It was almost as if they were relieved to ditch the responsibility. No one can fault the MPs for the rigour or energy with which they investigate and attack each other – but where was this energy when the lockdown rules were being designed? Where was our forensic democratic apparatus when it was needed the most? Our MPs abandoned their posts, signing emergency Covid powers long after the emergency ended. Parliament is not much better, as the Privileges Committee’s report proves. It’s a sign of a deeply dysfunctional system. So ministers can preside over policy calamities and keep getting promoted – but send a message from the wrong email account, violating Section 2.14 of the code, and you’re out on your ear. ![]() The ministerial code, which is now held up as the golden rule book, prohibits (for example) government announcements being made outside Parliament or telling anyone what is said in Cabinet. The use of legal technicalities to destroy political opponents is, overall, a deplorable trend. So making him the first prime minister in history to be denied a pass to enter Parliament will look to many like a deranged overreaction. But there is not a shred of evidence proving that he knowingly misled MPs. ![]() Those of us who spoke brightly about his potential as prime minister have had to feast on humble pie. His lack of grip meant his government descended into a disgraceful shambles that squandered his historic election victory. His aloofness doesn’t diminish his culpability in many ways, it makes things worse. His hands-off style worked when he did my job editing The Spectator and when he was London mayor. The culture under Dominic Cummings, then his chief adviser, was one of seeing him as a “wonky shopping trolley” that was supposed to go in whatever direction they pushed it but sometimes didn’t. He knows not to ask and those around him know not to tell. He can sense when things are going on that he’d best not know about. ![]() He lives in a world of plausible deniability, using a combination of his intelligence and his clownishness to play dumb when it suits him. ![]() But did Johnson himself know about those “wine-time Fridays”? He says not, and I’m afraid to say I believe him – knowing, as I do, a bit about how he operates. We do see an appalling culture in which No 10 was (in the words of one staffer) an “oasis” in the lockdown regime imposed on the rest of us. The Privileges Committee report she presided over finds him guilty of “deliberately” misleading Parliament in his false denials – but nowhere in that 108-page document is there any hard evidence of this. Harriet Harman’s absurd overreaction to his partygate excuses has now given him what he doesn’t really deserve: the ability to say he was framed. It’s easy to forget that he was forced out of No10 not by a technicality or witch hunt, but because he ran a court of chaos under which his own MPs were ultimately unwilling to serve. Of all the sins for which Boris Johnson deserved to lose his job as prime minister, his public mutterings about office parties would not even make the top 20. ![]() ![]() The average mileage on a used Chevrolet Trax 2020 for sale in Lynchburg. Sales person though is great just don’t trust the service dept. Drive home this 2020 Chevrolet Trax for sale near Oak Lawn, IL, with an easy financing contract from Kingdom Chevrolet. The average list price of a used 2020 Chevrolet Trax in Lynchburg, Virginia is 20,525. ![]() What a coincidence at the same time they told me they had no loaner and refuse to cover half of a rental so I called GM they were very helpful now I opened a case Inside my glove box I have a brand new set of fuses closed and in my center counsel I have new led bulbs which are not opened so this so called mechanic was searching thru my stuff which I did report it. On Thursday I got a call saying that the so called mechanic said there was wires, fuses, bulbs all a over that it will take 5 hours to remove it I told them he’s lying the valet didn’t see it I told them send me pictures they never did so I picked up my truck I asked show me weres all the things he said they stood quiet then they were charging me almost $400 for diagnostics which I refuse I asked to speak with the manager then they said he’s busy he said there’s no charge. from 11221 Check availability Show details View all 33. 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