Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Schedule your trip during the spring or fall. Begin in either Chicago or Santa Monica to travel the entire highway. Choose a city along the way for a shorter trip. Drive a car or ride a motorcycle for the most authentic experience. Expect to search for parking if you take an RV. Make lodging reservations 2-3 months in advance. Make arrangements for your return trip. Create a travel budget

Answer: Route 66 gets extremely hot during the summer, and portions of the road may become unsafe during the winter. For the most pleasant driving conditions, schedule your trip between March and early June or between September and November. Oklahoma and Texas get a lot of tornados between late April and early June. If you travel during these times, make sure to keep an eye on local weather forecasts for any tornado warnings or watches. If you want to travel the entire 2,451 mi (3,945 km) road, you’ll need to start in either Chicago, Illinois or Santa Monica, California. This will allow you to get the full Route 66 experience while traveling across the country.  If you are travelling in the spring, begin in California and make your way to Illinois. If you are travelling the the fall, start in Illinois and work your way to California. This should provide the most ideal weather conditions. Depending on how often you stop and how many places you explore, a one-way road trip from Chicago to Santa Monica (or vice versa) will take anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks. As a general guideline, plan to travel between 70 and 90 mi (110 and 140 km) a day if you want to stop and see everything. If you only want to explore a portion of the classic highway, you can start in Missouri, the southeastern tip of Kansas, Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, New Mexico, or Arizona. Choose a starting point based on its appeal or its proximity to your home.  Route 66 passes through a number of major cities including Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Amarillo, Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Los Angeles. Once you know your starting point, decide where you want to end your trip and plug the information into an online mapping service. Then, use the service’s distance estimate to determine how many days it will take you to complete your journey. Due to the road’s size, a car or motorcycle is the best way to experience Route 66. You’ll get a great view of all the sights and can stay at hotels or motels along the way. In some places, you may even be able to camp out!  If you live in the United States, consider using your own vehicle for the trip. If you’re flying in from another country, or if your vehicle isn’t durable enough for the trip, you can rent a vehicle. If you only want to visit the major cities on Route 66, you can book a 14-day train trip. Though you can take a large vehicle like an RV, certain parts of the road may be difficult to drive on as the road is narrow and winding in some areas. You’ll also have a harder time finding parking and RV campgrounds. Route 66 houses a number of unique hotels and motels, such as the famous Magnolia Hotel in St. Louis and the themed Mayo Hotel in Tulsa. These places fill up fast, so make room reservations 2-3 months beforehand if at all possible.  For a full list of Route 66 hotels and motels, visit https://www.theroute-66.com/hotels.html. If you’re travelling by RV, find and reserve campgrounds ahead of time. You can also check out tent campgrounds if you’re travelling by car or motorcycle and want to sleep under the stars. If you aren’t planning on driving both ways, decide how you’d like to get home. You can take the train or bus, or even book a flight, though you’ll have to pay to ship your vehicle home if you choose not to rent one for the trip.  You may want to book a flight with free cancellation in case the trip takes more or less time than you anticipated. If you rent a vehicle to make the drive, choose a company that has a hub near the airport you plan to fly home from for your convenience. . Before your trip, break down how much you expect to spend on gas, lodging, food, entertainment, and miscellaneous items like souvenirs. For things with specific rates, like gas and lodging, look up current pricing information online. For anything else, create a rough estimate based on how much you normally spend during vacations.  For a 1-way trip from Chicago to Santa Monica or vice versa, expect to spend a minimum of $300 on gas, $1,700 on lodging, $600 per person on food, and $200 per person on entertainment. Boost your final budget by 10-20% to account for unintended expenses, price hikes, and emergencies. Don’t forget to include the cost of the return trip!


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Pay attention to fears of contamination. Note any excessive preoccupation with symmetry, order, and exactness. Watch for compulsions to keep loved ones safe. Notice any obsession about causing intentional harm.

Answer: Some children with OCD have obsessions about cleanliness and become afraid of being contaminated, contracting diseases, and becoming ill. They may worry about close person-to-person contact or develop fears of dirt, food, or certain places or things they believe are unsanitary or infectious. Although it can be hard to observe an obsession, you can be on the look out for the compulsions that can result from an obsession with cleanliness:  Your child may avoid certain locations, such as public restrooms, or certain situations, such as social events, because they fear contamination. Your child may become strangely habitual. For example, they may eat the same food over and over again because it is supposedly contamination-free. Your child may begin to impose cleansing rituals on you and other members of your family in an attempt to ensure complete sanitation. Your child may even develop compulsions that seem contrary to an obsession with cleanliness. For example, they may refuse to bathe due to a fear of contamination. Some children with OCD develop obsessions with symmetry and order; they need processes to be “done right” and items to be arranged “correctly.” As a result:   Your child may develop very precise ways of handling, arranging, or aligning objects; they may do this in a highly ritualized way. Your child may become very anxious when items are not arranged correctly; they may panic or believe something terrible will happen. Your child may have trouble concentrating on schoolwork or other things because they are so preoccupied with these matters, which seem so inessential to you. Children with OCD can obsess about themselves or others being harmed. This obsession may manifest itself in a variety of compulsive behaviors:  Your child may become very overprotective toward family members and close friends. Your child may try to make sure everyone is safe by checking and rechecking that doors are locked, appliances are turned off, and no gas leaks are present. Your child may devote several hours a day to performing ritualized tasks aimed at making sure that everyone is safe. Children with OCD may have violent intrusive thoughts, and they might become very worried that they will give into these thoughts and hurt themselves or others intentionally. They may begin to hate themselves or believe that they are bad people. As a result:   Your child may be overcome with guilty feelings. They may seek forgiveness, confessing their thoughts to others and seeking reassurances of their love and affection. Your child may become emotionally exhausted and preoccupied with these thoughts. Though the anxieties may be mostly internal, you can be alert for signs of increased anxiety, depression, or exhaustion. Your child may draw or write about the violent behaviors over and over.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Know your bond’s “face value. Understand your “coupon payment. Find out your bond’s “coupon yield. Measure your bond’s “current yield. Find the bond’s “yield to maturity. Look up the bond rating. Consider whether a bond is at a discount, at par, or at a premium.

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” The face value (or par value) is the amount that the bond pays at maturity. For instance, a 10-year, $5,000 bond will pay $5,000 when it matures ten years after its date of issue. Therefore, the face value of the bond is $5,000, regardless of any interest or dividend payments you may receive during that time. ” The coupon payment is the amount the bond pays periodically in interest. In most cases, coupon payments occur twice a year. If a $5,000 bond pays 10% annually, then each semiannual coupon will pay $250. That's a total payment of $500 a year (or 10% of $5,000). ” The coupon yield is the annual coupon payment expressed as a percentage of the bond’s face value. In the example above, the coupon payment is $500, and the face value is $5,000. Therefore, the coupon yield can be expressed as 10%, which is $500/$5,000. ” The current yield is the annual coupon payment amount divided by the current bond price. This gives you the coupon payment as a percentage of the current bond price. If the coupon payment is, for example, $500 and you calculate the bond's price (value) to be $4,800, then the current yield is $500/$4,800, which would be 10.4%. ” A bond’s yield to maturity is defined as the discount rate that yields the market price of the bond. This requires some additional calculations. You can read more about this particular calculation at yield to maturity. In the financial industry, a few companies research and rate bonds based on their quality, history and expected performance. The primary agencies that provide bond ratings are Standard & Poor, Moody, and Fitch. Bond ratings are grades given to bonds so that investors may judge the relative safety of any given bond investment. The highest Standard & Poor’s rating is AAA.  AA, A and BBB are medium-quality bonds. BB, B, CCC, CC, C, and D are "junk" bonds. The D rating means the bond has defaulted. A bond is selling at a discount when its yield to maturity is greater than its current yield and its coupon yield. A bond is selling at par when its yield to maturity is equal to its current yield and its coupon yield. A bond is selling at a premium when its yield to maturity is less than its current yield and its coupon yield.