Keep your hat stored in a cool place to keep it in good shape. Heat can cause the sweatband to shrink, rendering the hat unwearable. The foyer, for example, may be an excellent spot if the heating is moderate in that area. Purchase a water-repellent felt hat protection spray to safeguard your hat. These sprays protect against rain and stains. Using these sprays extends the shelf-life of your hat. When putting on and removing your hat, avoid touching the top (the crown). The oils on your fingers or hands could transfer to the felt and leave a stain. Instead, handle your hat gently by the brim.
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One-sentence summary -- Store your hat in a cool place. Use a felt hat protection spray. Avoid touching the top of your hat.

The value of a vehicle can be effected by a number of variables, but the most important information to start with includes the year, make and model of the car. Locate this information in the car's owner's manual or on the salvage title itself. The value of a car can vary significantly from one year to the next, so it's important to identify specific information about the vehicle. The title should provide all of this information. Many cars can be purchased in a variety of trim packages. These trim levels determine things like interior accommodations, engine size and suspension components, as well as the appearance of the car. The trim may be indicated on the title, or it may be included in the name of the car. Some automakers like BMW include the trim in the model. The BMW 3 Series comes in a variety of trims indicated by the numbers after the 3; such as the 318 or 335i. Other automakers will add letters to the model to identify the trim such as a Chevrolet Cobalt LT. You may be able to find guidance on the automaker's website to better identify the trim of the vehicle. There are a number of websites that will allow you to enter the information you've gathered in order to see the current market value of the vehicle if it did not have a salvage title. Use one of these sites to determine what the car would be worth with a normal title. Look up the value of the vehicle on a website like www.KBB.com, www.Edmunds.com or www.NADAGuides.com. Be sure to include information regarding options the car has such as a sunroof, CD player or alloy wheels. Once you have determined the market value of the vehicle if it had a normal title, take that figure and divide it in two (or reduce it by fifty percent) to establish an estimated value for the car with a salvage title. This method will only give you a ball park value for the vehicle. Insurance companies often will reduce the value by 75 to 80 percent instead of 50 for claims purposes.
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One-sentence summary -- Identify the year, make and model of the car. Determine the trim of the vehicle if possible. Look up the blue book value based on what you know. Reduce the figure provided by fifty percent.

Add 2 tablespoons (30 ml) of olive oil to a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan. Place the pan on the stove, and heat it over medium heat until it begins to shimmer, which should take approximately 5 minutes. You can substitute vegetable oil for the olive oil, though you won't get the same flavor.
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One-sentence summary -- Heat the olive oil.

That means just going out and researching. If you spend time creating a close outline of your presentation paper, you're most likely wasting that time, as the research you gather might not fit neatly into every slot. Instead, start with your school's library (or the local public library). Spend time collecting stacks of books and skimming them for valuable information until you've exhausted those resources. Keep an open notebook or a portable device with a notepad on hand, and copy down everything you might use verbatim. It's generally considered more convincing to source one item from three different authors who all agree on it than it is to rely too heavily on one book. Go for quantity at least as much as quality. Be sure to check citations, endnotes, and bibliographies to get more potential sources (and see whether or not all your authors are just quoting the same, older author). Writing down your sources and any other relevant details (such as context) around your pieces of information right now will save you lots of trouble in the future. Once you have good information from your local resources, use whatever tools you have access to gather more from online databases such as JSTOR. If you're a college student, chances are you've got free access to many of these resources through your school; if not, you might have to pay to subscribe to some of them. This is also the time to do general online research, at sites with reputable information such as government agencies or respected nonprofit organizations. Use many different queries to get the database results you want. If one phrasing or a particular set of words doesn't yield useful results, try rephrasing it or using synonymous terms. Online academic databases tend to be dumber than the sum of their parts, so you'll have to use tangentially related terms and inventive language to get all the results you want. By now, you should have more information written down (and properly sourced) than you can possibly use in one paper. This is the time to get creative and really breathe life into your project. Visit museums and historical societies for records that can't be reviewed anywhere else. Speak to respected professors for academic information you can use as a primary source; call and speak to leaders and professionals in fields related to your topic. If it's sensible, consider heading out into the field and speaking to ordinary people for their opinions. This isn't always appropriate (or welcomed) in a research project, but in some cases, it can provide you with some excellent perspective for your research. Review cultural artifacts as well. In many areas of study, there's useful information on attitudes, hopes, and/or concerns of people in a particular time and place contained within the art, music, and writing they produced. One has only to look at the woodblock prints of the later German Expressionists, for example, to understand that they lived in a world they felt was often dark, grotesque, and hopeless. Song lyrics and poetry can likewise express strong popular attitudes. By this point, you should have a lot of research on hand, well-cataloged and at least somewhat sorted. Review all of it through the lens of your research question, looking for answers or partial answers to it. Read between the lines, as well use context, source age, and other background information to inform your quest for understanding. With any luck, you should have more than enough to suggest and support one answer over the others. Go through all your sources one more time and set aside any that won't be directly useful to your project. From here, all that's left is to put your information into a sensible format, apply your own interpretation to it, and prepare it for presentation.
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Start with the basics. Move outward. Gather unusual sources. Review and trim.