The Total Loss Handbook

Let's face it, having an automobile accident stinks. But when your auto insurance company says your vehicle a total loss, then it really sucks!! During my 15 years of being a Total Loss Claims Adjuster, while learning a ton of auto insurance claims stuff, I more importantly learned that the majority of drivers involved in a total loss were left in the dark and forced to navigate the complicated world of the insurance claim by themselves. But no more!! This book is designed to be your wing-man, savior, and guiding light to your total loss darkness. From beginning to end, I'll be showing you the fastest and easiest ways possible to get the most out of your total loss insurance claim. Chockfull of tips, tricks, and good advice that will not only put more money in your pocket but take away the stresses and headaches of dealing with the insurance company. Furthermore, I've banished long-drawn-out pages and pages of complicated claims insurance jargon, and instead, speak, educate, and explain in basic terms the process of getting the most out of your total loss claim, while having a little fun along the way. It's going to be a wild ride, so hang on tight!!

Obesity may seem like an unbeatable opponent, but if you obtain guidance from an expert who has overcome obesity, you can transform your body and your life. Author Efthymios Tzimas never understood why he always felt hungry. Having suffered from obesity since childhood, he reached a point in his life when he weighed more than 460 pounds. Through becoming a fitness and nutrition expert and learning how to erase his unhealthy habits, he lost 268 pounds. More importantly, he’s kept the weight off for twenty years. In The Weight Loss Handbook, Tzimas provides readers with strategies to lose bad habits and form beneficial ones; methods to break the pain barrier during exercise; sample menus to promote weight loss. Also included in this motivating handbook are beneficial phrases that can keep you on course, information on the most advantageous times of day to eat, and an examination of how athletes hone their bodies and maintain their weight. It’s possible to start losing weight today. You just need guidance from a specialist who has attained weight loss success for himself and can support the similar change in your life.

The following is a chapter from The VaR Implementation Handbook, which examines the latest strategies for measuring, managing, and modeling risk across a variety of applications. Packed with the insights, methods, and models that make experienced professionals competitive all over the world, this comprehensive guide features cutting-edge research and findings from some of the industry's most respected academics, practitioners, and consultants.

The renowned reference work is a practical guide to the selection and design of the components of machines and to their lubrication. It has been completely revised for this second edition by leading experts in the area.

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The primary purpose of this handbook is to make available to general contractors, consulting engineers, construction managers, specialty contractors, and subcontractors, as well as to professors and students in Universities and technical institutes which offer courses on the subject, the fundamentals of construction management together with the most workable types of organization, and the necessary capabilities they must include to reasonably ensure success and minimize the possibility of failure in this most hazardous profession. The second and equally important purpose is to furnish equipment manufacturers, dealers, material suppliers, bankers, surety bondsmen, and others, who traditionally rely on financial statements and general reputation, something more concrete to look for-the type of management and organization, and its scope and capability-in deciding how far to go along with contractors with whom they deal or wish to deal. This, the second edition of the Handbook, is an updated version of the work published in 1973. The book covers very many subjects which are part of construction. The greatest care was exercised in consideration of their practical aspects based on the theory and practice of construction management and its structure, and the functions of the various departments, both in the field and central offices, that make up construction organization. Leading specialists in their particular fields were selected to write chapters on the vital segments making up the structure of construction management and organization. These fields include construction contracts and conditions, job organization by general types of projects, equipment maintenance and preventive maintenance and overhaul, engineering and estimating, scheduling and controls, data processing and the use of computer equipment in engineering and accounting techniques, office administration, corporate and cost accounting, payroll, employment and labor relations, safety, public relations, legal and contractural problems, banking and finance, taxes, surety bonding, insurance, pension and retirement problems and others.