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Are gas prices affected by the sitting US President (Under Construction, testing html view)

Gas Prices in USA, historical analysis This report is intended to review gas prices in the USA historically for comparison against various claims. One such claim is that the sitting US President has a direct affect on gas prices. Data from the EIA - US Energy Information Administration This dataframe set GasPrices_eia_prices_1970_2022 comes from the EIA website as a downloadable CSV. The EIA provides an FAQ for using the data, which includes instructions to download the CSV and for a reference Excel document that helps with conversion. “To obtain the historical prices from the SEDS data, use the CSV file for All States—Prices. In the file, the code for gasoline prices for the transportation sector, in $/MMBtu , is: State Abbreviation (in column A) and MGACD (in column B). For example, the code for Alaska is AK—MGACD . Those prices, in $/MMBtu, can be converted to approximate dollars per gallon using the heat contents in Table A3 Petroleum consumption and fuel eth
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Lesson Plan: Acquiring a Business Using SBA 7(a) Loans - Week 1: Introduction and Preliminary Research

Week 1: Introduction and Preliminary Research Objectives: Understand the basics of SBA 7(a) loans. Identify the steps involved in acquiring a business. Activities: Research SBA 7(a) Loans: Read articles and guides on the SBA website about the 7(a) loan program. Watch educational videos on YouTube about SBA loans. Familiarize with the Business Acquisition Process: Review resources on SCORE.org about buying a business. Read case studies of successful business acquisitions. Resources: SBA.gov SCORE.org YouTube (search for SBA 7(a) loan tutorials) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research SBA 7(a) Loans: To get started on acquiring a business using SBA 7(a) loans, you can follow these steps and use the available resources: Understanding SBA 7(a) Loans SBA 7(a) Loan Overview: The SBA 7(a) loan program is the SBA’s primary program for providing financial assistance to small businesses. These loans can be used for various purposes, including
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Lesson Plan: Acquiring a Business Using SBA 7(a) Loans - Overview

ChatGPT-4o Prompt: After a multipronged conversation with GPT about SBA loans, I asked: Draft up a lesson plan based on this entire conversation on all the things I would need to learn and what places I should go to try to learn them. Lesson Plan: Acquiring a Business Using SBA 7(a) Loans Objective: To understand the process and requirements for acquiring a business using SBA 7(a) loans and to identify the resources needed to successfully navigate this process. Week 1: Introduction and Preliminary Research Objectives: Understand the basics of SBA 7(a) loans. Identify the steps involved in acquiring a business. Activities: Research SBA 7(a) Loans: Read articles and guides on the SBA website about the 7(a) loan program. Watch educational videos on YouTube about SBA loans. Familiarize with the Business Acquisition Process: Review resources on SCORE.org about buying a business. Read case studies of successful business acquisitions. Resources: SBA.gov SCORE.org YouTube (search for SBA 7(a)
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I can't find my Blogger.com DNS record?! Here's how to find it. It took me a long time because Google's own instructions fail.

I use Blogger.com for my websites. I find it easier to use without having to know a lot of technical things.  However, I bought my domain names from a third-party website, and I host them on Blogger.com.  After years of this, I tried a hosted Word Press site, I found the GUI awful and editor even worse. I'm sure it has amazing features and it looked pretty, but it was absolutely useless to me as a writer. So... I went back to Blogger.com, but ran into an odd issue. I needed my personal DNS record to provide to my domain provider.  The Google instructions " Set up a custom domain " say that I should get a pop-up message with my DNS records. There is noplace in the blogger interface to find the DNS record that I can find, neither in the website or elsewhere. That is an odd user interface failure. Others expressed the same issue and even ChatGPT4o Pro couldn't help, it kept taking me back to these instructions.  Finally! I found the answer on this page: Why I'm not g
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Learning Coding Fundamentals with Python and SQL

Learning Coding Fundamentals with Python and SQL Learning Coding Fundamentals with Python and SQL Darrell Wolfe ————————————————————— Disclaimers First It is not my intention to steal anyone’s thunder or copyrighted material. I do not believe these seven fundamentals are specific to Dr Hill (below), who was the initial inspiration to start this note file. That beings said, she has a particularly unique method of teaching, and I strongly recommend that if you are someone who needs a good teacher, she’s the one! This is my own process of learning. I take information from as many sources and teachers as possible, synthesis that material, and then practice it until I get good at it. Further, I like to take detailed notes so I can refer back to them when a particular tool starts getting rusty or dusty in my brain after disuse for a time. When I learned .rmd through my Google Data Analytics Certification, I
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