Making a Long Distance Relationship Work

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It is not uncommon for a couple to be afraid of what long distance can do to their cherished and valued relationship. However, there may come a time when a couple will have to make do with a long term relationship due to reasons such as career opportunities and family illnesses. Unfortunately, there are many couples who almost take it for granted that they are not going to make it through the period of long distance in their relationship. Despite the fact that dubious statistics all over the internet claim that long term relationships do not work, it is possible that relationships can survive through the tests that long distance and reduced meetings cause.

So how is it that some couples manage to not only survive but also come out stronger from their long distance relationships? Do they love each other more than normal mortals? Do they have some special understanding? Or is it just that they turned out to be lucky? None of these answers even brushes the surface of the truth. The real answer is trust and love in addition to some basic steps to sustain the relationship. The following are some of these steps.

1. Communication:

Communication is one of the most basic building blocks of any relationship and when it comes to long term relationships, it is even more significant. If the couple communicates on a regular basis then it is less likely that other temptations will take hold of the man or the woman and derail the relationship altogether. Furthermore, as long as the couple communicates, the chances of suspicion and misunderstanding popping up will be reduced.

2. Frequent meetings:

A couple, in order to be happy, needs to spend time together as much as possible. This fact is doubly significant for couples that are separated by long distances. Not surprisingly, meetings between long time separated lovers tend to be especially steamy and tender. Therefore, regular visits should be planned along with special surprises by both of the parties at regular intervals.

3. Surprises:

Surprises do not have to be limited to visits alone. Between visits, the couple could send each other special gifts. Acts like these can easily show your partner how much you love him or her as it is difficult to show such expressions of affection if you are not face to face.

4. Honesty and fidelity:

Honesty is the foundation stone of any relationship. Similarly, fidelity is also something that every person expects from his or her partner. Therefore, honesty and fidelity are vital for any relationship to sustain itself, regardless of the distance concerned.

People often have the idea that long distance relationships do not work. However, relationships do not survive on the basis of proximity or gifts; they survive on something as basic and fundamental as love. Therefore, as long as the couple are in love with each other and find ways and means to show it to each other, there is no reason why something as inconsequential as distance should prevent their happiness.

Celtic Tattoos and Their Popularity

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The history of the Celtic peoples goes back thousands of years. The early Celts displayed their skills in complex artwork particularly metal, jewelry and weapons as they were regarded as fierce warriors by the Romans. Evidence of celtic crossses and celtic artwork can still be found all over Ireland.

Modern Celtic peoples have evolved symbols for themselves, and in the North American people of Celtic descentoften wear these symbols to show that they are of Celtic descent. The ancient Celts passed knowledge down through an oral tradition of storytelling and didn’t keep many written records, consequently, there is little evidence of their tattooing remaining even though celtic cross tattoos and celtic know tattoos are very popular designs.

Most of Celtic tattoo designs are taken from the Irish Illuminated Manuscripts ‘The Book of Kells’, on display in the library of Trinity College in Dublin, my home town. This is a much later time period than the height of Celtic tattooing. Designs from ancient stone and metal work are more likely to be from the same time period as Celtic tattooing.

Celtic knot tattoos are usually loops with no end or beginning symbolising the never ending cycle of death and rebirth. Celtic animal (zoomorphic tattoo designs) designs are similar in construction but the cords terminate in feet, heads, tails. Pure knots are usually unending, unless the end of a strand is stylized into a zoomorphic element or a spiral.

Celtic knotwork’s meaning defies literal translation and is to be found at a deeper level. The repeated crossing of the physical and the spiritual are expressed in the interlace of the knots. The never ending path of the strands may represent the permanence and the continuum of life, love and faith and for these reason celtic tattoos have become so popular.

For people who have a Celtic heritage, whether Irish, Scots or Welsh , getting a Celtic design can be a way of expressing pride in their heritage by reaffirming an affinity the indigenous artistic style of their ancestors. They are usually not easy designs to do, and it is strongly recommended to anyone contemplating getting one to make sure that the artist they are considering has experience in designing Celtic tattoos. Not all tattoo artist have the eye for detail and exacting line placement needed to draw the intricate patterns particular to Celtic art.

The Primordial One (Triquatrain Poem)

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The Primordial One is immanent,while He’s never transcendent

And this existent world, at the beginning, was only His vision.

The Lord has Being to create his vision-world without lightweight

For this real world of Becoming, with His meticulous precision.

At the beginning, we were His imagination; we were a reason for creation

And, only for being with Him, He made us, in time, to become so real.

Tower of Babel wasn’t an illusion, when people suffered tongues confusion,

God isn’t an illusion in our perfection, when His plans He wants to reveal.

We are in our Apollinian illusion, when we think that God means confusion

And our own perfectionism we try to reach in the mean time.

But in the reality of our Apollinian confusion, God is no longer an illusion.

In this ache of Being and in this agony of Becoming, He’s sublime.

To reach our perfection we sing a hymn, we need to be with Him,

Because when we are not with Him, we are in the illusion of Being.

Without transmogrifying us, to transfigure Him, sometimes, we have a whim,

Because we need to understand our illusory own perfection in wellbeing.

We try to put ourselves in His place, in order to understand His grace

We need the Dionysian illusion of Being to experience the world we know.

In both Dionysian and Apolllinian illusions, we jump to our conclusions.

We are illusory Primordial Beings creating our Apollinian powerful show.

I am this person staring back from His mirror at me, I want existent to be.

I want to identify this image with myself and to realize who I really am.

Because of my sins I lost my serenity, I have a sense of my mistaken identity.

I was His dream, I am His child and for saving me He sent me His lamb.

Everyone is dreaming, but it seems that no one really believes in dreams.

One by one we need to wake up out of our own illusions of self.

The world of minds is the God’s mental projection, it has interconnection.

Without this major pervasive reality, the world is not existent in itself.

The sufferings of people can be for some an illusory space, having no grace,

And they live in their own world of solely material realities without restricts.

Others believe in the world, which is non-physical and it’s essentially spiritual,

They need a mental, spiritual and moral dimension to life, without conflicts.

The Primordial One (Triquatrain Poem)

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The Primordial One is immanent,while He’s never transcendent

And this existent world, at the beginning, was only His vision.

The Lord has Being to create his vision-world without lightweight

For this real world of Becoming, with His meticulous precision.

At the beginning, we were His imagination; we were a reason for creation

And, only for being with Him, He made us, in time, to become so real.

Tower of Babel wasn’t an illusion, when people suffered tongues confusion,

God isn’t an illusion in our perfection, when His plans He wants to reveal.

We are in our Apollinian illusion, when we think that God means confusion

And our own perfectionism we try to reach in the mean time.

But in the reality of our Apollinian confusion, God is no longer an illusion.

In this ache of Being and in this agony of Becoming, He’s sublime.

To reach our perfection we sing a hymn, we need to be with Him,

Because when we are not with Him, we are in the illusion of Being.

Without transmogrifying us, to transfigure Him, sometimes, we have a whim,

Because we need to understand our illusory own perfection in wellbeing.

We try to put ourselves in His place, in order to understand His grace

We need the Dionysian illusion of Being to experience the world we know.

In both Dionysian and Apolllinian illusions, we jump to our conclusions.

We are illusory Primordial Beings creating our Apollinian powerful show.

I am this person staring back from His mirror at me, I want existent to be.

I want to identify this image with myself and to realize who I really am.

Because of my sins I lost my serenity, I have a sense of my mistaken identity.

I was His dream, I am His child and for saving me He sent me His lamb.

Everyone is dreaming, but it seems that no one really believes in dreams.

One by one we need to wake up out of our own illusions of self.

The world of minds is the God’s mental projection, it has interconnection.

Without this major pervasive reality, the world is not existent in itself.

The sufferings of people can be for some an illusory space, having no grace,

And they live in their own world of solely material realities without restricts.

Others believe in the world, which is non-physical and it’s essentially spiritual,

They need a mental, spiritual and moral dimension to life, without conflicts.

The Trick Lies in Adjustment Image Masking

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What is an adjustment layer and how can an editor make the optimum use of it?

It is a coating that has the ability to alter the picture with the use of another one. It can be masked or even deleted whenever required. Hence it is ‘adjustable’ or ‘adaptable’. This means a dull image can be made brighter if it has not been adequately exposed while clicking. This also means that if the editor has made several changes and needs to pull out the adjustment layer, there is no need to undo it all. Just that coating can be removed. Any image can have a very cool edge or frames around it. A finished look need not be confined to a portrait square only. An editor can easily use an adjustment layer, and turn it into a better-looking frame. Many readers may have seen the filmstrip encasing a picture of a single person or a scene from a film. Now how is this done? The editor uses a threshold mask and frames the picture. Many different shaped graphics can be applied to pictures by using this technique. Several advanced designers use it as a creative weapon. The flexibility of using the image masking in various ways makes it a valuable way to give different looks to any picture. It is very important to learn how to make the layer for masking. This is the only way to work without damaging the entire picture. The mask is an alpha channel. When the mask is created as an adjustment layer, other tools can also be used as part of the editing process. The gradient or brush tool can be applied to control the grains around the boundary of the picture. For an added outcome, a feather effect can work wonders. But then it shows look appropriate with the main subject of the image. If it does not, it is best not to use it.

The key to the use of any adjustment layer for image masking is not working overtime on it. Smart uses of few tools are sufficient to make the impact. Isolation of any part of the picture need not be back breaking either. A complex edge can be made easily without making a mess or starting all over again. A desired channel of isolation should be created with the desired mask. In simple words, the Source (picture to be used for image masking) and the Target (final place where the applied mask will be adjusted). For ensuring that the work concludes successfully, both the images should be of the same size and resolution. This will mean less use of adjustment layers to match the tonal quality of the final frame.

There are many tutorials that can be studied before actually using the adjustment mask for any purpose including edges of pictures. They come with the masks and are useful when pictures need to be retouched. There are many online firms that employ graphic editors who know how to apply it to make a picture look classier. The service is affordable and bulk work also is done in quick time. This is just one trick, which is based on the simple truth of image masking.

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True Love Poems: Words for Feelings

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Love stories. True love poems. I love you poems. The world over, people fall in love. And the world over, people feel the need to put the feeling into words.

Sometimes the poems are romantic poems. Sometimes they’re passionate and urgent. Sometimes they’re gently erotic and sexy poems.

What does it do for us, to write and read sexy poetry, romantic poems, desperate and aching and secret and despairing poems?

When we’re in love, the feeling grips us. Sometimes all we can do is think of whoever we love.

And when we’re not in love, we may want to get back a taste of that feeling.

Maybe most of all, to give a true love poem is to say, I love you.

To receive a this poem is to receive love.

Plus, poetry is known to get others to fall for us. The most famous Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, was deluged by passionate letters from women he had never met – but his love poetry got them to fall in love with him.

Sometimes they’re English poems about love. Sometimes they’re Hindi, Urdu, French.

Over and over, it isn’t enough for us to feel it. We search for the words to say it.

“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.”

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…”

One poem stopped me cold when I came across it. It’s by John Donne, a famous British poet from a few centuries ago. It starts something like, “Shut up and let me love…” Not very romantic at all.

True love poems both express the feeling and arouse our emotions. For me, this poem by John Donne may his express his feelings. It doesn’t arouse mine!

Why, by the way, don’t we just settle on whatever we figure out are the best poems, the most romantic poems?

There are as many ways of feeling love as there are people. And even for any one person, it keeps changing.

There can be distant attraction, utter confusion, helpless falling in love, choosing to fall in love, easy content love, affectionate loving, urgent intense sexual passion, tenderness. And so we have plain old I love you poems, but also sexy erotic love poetry, passionate poems and on and on and on. Poems for him. Poems for her.

Poetry is like everything else about us – we share so much with other people, and yet we’re unique.

How do I love thee? That poet counted the ways.

That is only the beginning.

Love poetry – feeling intensified, brought alive by words.

Platonic-Fullerene Chemistry and Nanopolymer Technology

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The science of Platonic Fullerene Chemistry has been reunited the cultures of science and art to re-establish the ancient Platonic Science for Ethical Ends. This means that the concept of Aristotle’s ethical science to guide ennobling government can now re-emerge throughout the world. The objective of that ancient science remains exactly the same as it once was. It is science, designed to avoid human extinction. The existence of two separate chemistries, one about the physical material reality and the other about the functioning of Dr Candace Pert’s Molecule of Emotion, forms the structure of this human survival science. Both chemistries entangle with each other to describe universal reality. This provides the basis of the ancient Greek political concept of allowing the people to choose between what Buckminster Fuller’s called Utopia or Oblivion.

The global slide toward oblivion today is much as it once was in ancient Athens, when the Tyrants plunged the city into impossible debt, threatening such chaotic violence that Solon was appointed to sort out the economic differences in a peaceful manner. He abolished personal debt and interest on loans, as well as making property ownership more accessible to the people. Within ten years Athens became extremely prosperous. His wisdom, on behalf of the people, made contributions toward more democratic concepts in the face of complex greed manipulations by unethical power brokers.

After ten years of growing prosperity the Tyrants again seized control and Athenian power began its path to decline by foreign aggression. Today the same situation has returned to Greece and other nations caught up in the current global economic nightmare, now threatening to destroy the civilisation of the United States of America. It can be considered that stakeholders in global economic rationalism might be able to conceive, to their benefit, a modification of their present economic legal responsiblies, by upgrading them to meet the new medical chemistry guidelines.

During the 20th Century it was common knowledge that our entropic chemistry, governed by the second law of thermodynamics, had correctly stated that it is impossible to construct a perpetual motion machine. However, such concepts can now be reasoned about logically with an understanding about the functioning of the integration of both the new and the old chemistries. Past economic rationalism, however, invented concepts that sought perpetual economic growth for the benefit of human civilisation. TIME Magazine’s Century of Science’s greatest scientist for 1907 was Maria Montessori, who realised this was in error, referring to the entropic second law as the Greed Energy Law that would only bring about economic collapses and continual warfare.

Working with the Jesuit Priest, Tielhard de Chardin, Montessori postulated the existence of an electromagnetic key to open the ‘Golden Gates’ to the future. This electromagnetic key was Immanuel Kant’s God-like Ethic for perpetual peace on earth, the subject of Hans Christian Oersted’s Doctorate in 1799 titled,The Architectonicks of Natural Metaphysics. Oersted envisaged a new electromagnetic biological technology, which, in modern terms, is the quantum biology of the new Platonic Fullerene Chemistry. This makes Faraday’s concept of the electric motor a child’s toy by comparison. We now know from nanopolymer research, that such an electromagnetic life-science ethic is associated with the functioning of the centriole within the human cell, giving glimpses of a truly supra technology beyond our previous ability to imagine.

It is not necessary to use such technical terminology to demonstrate to the people that modern science and economics has been constructed upon false assumptions that dismissed human feelings as part of its composition. Leonardo da Vinci was not the man of the Renaissance the public has been led to believe. His optics key in his Theory of Knowledge, claiming that the eye was the source of all cognition, was erroneously supported by Rene Descartes and Sir Francis Bacon, pivotal figures of the mechanical era. At the moment of conception the eye does not even exist to guide any evolutionary development at all. Leonardo was unable to envision the liquid crystal optics of the eye of the cell. When the fertilising sperm, driven by a male nano-scale electromagnetic motor, penetrates the liquid crystal optical construction membrane of the female ovum, Dr Carl Callerman’s universal purpose is brought into living focus as a balanced Yin-Yang electromagnetic centriole. The optics of the cellular membrane, not the optics of the human eye, holds the key to all knowledge. The centriole is the carrier of universal life-science purpose.

Scientists such as Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff are researching about what can be considered to be crucial properties of the centriole that are associated with the cerebral functioning of micro-tubule polymers. Without a doubt, nano-polymer research is now becoming crucial research for humanity’s future. However, Buckminster Fuller’s warning about making the choice between Utopia or Oblivion is of paramount importance to the people of the world. Fears about entropic nano-bot technology appear to be well founded. Plato warned about the destructive evil of unformed matter within the physical atom that could emerge from the actions of engineers who knew nothing about spiritual optical engineering principles belonging to the science for ethical ends. Today, the nuclear radiation threat spreading into Japan pales into insignificance to the threat posed by current entropic nanotechnology.

The British Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, has predicted that uncontrolled nanotechnology research is one of the inevitable human extinction outcomes that is likely to occur this century. In order to comprehend the solution to that dire threat of oblivion, we need to understand the basic relationship between the old familiar chemistry and the new one that is now emerging alongside it. We must free ourselves completely from being governed by an entropic dictatorship that denies that the science of life is linked to the infinite ethical fractal logic of the new chemistry. It is no longer acceptable to considerit heresy that Sir Isaac Newton’s conviction, written in his Heresy Papers, that the world-view of a material universe must be completed with a more natural, profound philosophy, a philosophy based upon the same physics principles that upheld the original Platonic Science for Ethical Ends. Newton’s infinite world-view can only be upheld by the same fractal logic that was basic to this lost science, and which is also fundamental to Platonic Fullerene Chemistry.

Buckminster Fuller’s warning about a science governed by entropic logic was echoed by others such as the Molecular Biologist, Sir C P Snow, the Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Szent-Georgy, and the Max Plank Astrophysicist, Peter Kafka. All of these people warned that the mind-set of Homo Entropicus was following a path to total chaos. This is indeed an entrenched scientific culture, Einstein wrote that the second law of thermodynamics was the Premier Law of All of Science. Einstein’s colleague, Sir Arthur Eddington called it the Supreme Metaphysical Law of the Entire Universe. Charles Darwin used it as the basis of his Theory of Evolution, actually citing Thomas Malthus’ economic theories, which, in the 18th Century, had become synonymous with the second law of thermodynamics. For Western Moral Jurisprudence Law to attempt to continue to enforce an entropic global economic rationalism upon the global population can be considered to be a recipe for World War III.

In Volume 12 of the collected papers of Bertrand Russell, written in 1902, mention is made of Platonic metaphysics, but Russell lost belief in those ideas, although that particular work is considered to warrant further serious study. His, A Free Man’s Worship, published in 1903, was a dedication to Albert Einstein’s concept, that all life must be destroyed by the dictates of the second law of thermodynamics, the universal entropy law, and this became Russell’s most popular reprinted essay. He wrote that “…the whole temple of man’s achievement must be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins…” and “… only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.” In the light of the new Platonic Fullerene Chemistry, this horrific world-view that has been governing Western science for so many centuries, is no longer acceptable.

We know that various ancient Eastern philosophies were able to associate fractal geometrical logic with human emotional feeling. For example, the ancient Indra Diamond Net Necklace fractal demonstrates emotional concepts that are relevant to Dr Candace Pert’s Molecule of Emotion discovered in1972. It is ignorant and offensive to consider such ancient philosophical ideas to have been ancient acts of pagan, barbaric behaviour, as was believed by St Augustine during the 5th Century, following the murder of the mathematician, Hypatia, in 415, who was the custodian of the Great Library of Alexandria.

During the 5th Century, over a thousand years of fractal logic life-science research were burned and dismissed from the mind-set of Western culture, influencing the Western world for another fifteen hundred years. The great genius, Albert Einstein, may have caused Bertrand Russell’s inspiration that we must accept a living hell on earth, but Einstein’s real greatness was that his protege, David Bohm, and Bohm’s colleague, Karl Pribram, managed to break the entropic barrier to give the world a glimpse of the workings of an infinite fractal holographic universe. Einstein can be considered to have been instrumental in making that possible.

The front cover of New Scientist, dated the 26th of June 2010, heralded the Rise of the Quantum Machines. The relevant feature article carried the heading that “The new breed of quantum machines promise to patch a gaping hole into every experiment ever made”. The quantum researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Nobel Laureate, Anthony Leggett, considered that although quantum theory is our most successful physics theory to date, it may not continue to describe the physical world perfectly, because there are too many issues that approximate reality.

The quantum theory mentioned in the article emphasises the physical world. The new Platonic Fullerene Chemistry, however, is about quantum biology and its interweaving with the world of quantum mechanics. This permits new models of reality to come into existence that challenge the validity of our understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. One of physics’ most famous thought experiments is that of Shrodinger’s cat, which can be dead and alive at the same time, an argument designed to demonstrate that quantum theory can be considered to flawed. Many scientists argue otherwise, referring to the property of a single Fullerene carbon-70 molecule being able to go through two separate slits at the same time within Young’s double slit experiment. Ideas about parallel universes appear to emerge from such thinking, which although interesting, do not seem to be addressing the serious consequences of maintaining an entropic mind-set.

Due to the serious issue of Fuller’s choice between Utopia or Oblivion underlying this article, it has been deemed warranted to make an attempt to present some reasoned argument that might draw public attention to its perceived peril at the hands of the second law. The properties of the Fullerene Carbon-70 is of great interest to the Science-Art Research Centre of Australia, which is closely associated with the development of the New Measurement of Humanity Project at the University of Florence. The Centre has adopted the Mark Robinson model of space-time, which provides a suggested solution to Young’s famous double slit experimental paradox and it is therefore considered prudent to mention this as being representative of the new models of space-time that are now emerging in defiance of the second law of thermodynamics

Robinson’s model was among such models noted in the text of a quantum biological paper by Huping Hu and Maoxin Wu, titled On Dark Chemistry- What’s dark Matter and How Mind Influences Brain Through Proactive Spin. The paper was about how primordial sub atomic spin influences consciousness in defiance of the second law of thermodynamics and was published in NeuroQuantology, Volume 5, issue2, June 2007.

In accord with Plato’s dictum that all is geometry, Robinson postulated that a fundamental concept of space-time describes a simple premise. Information within energy creates a unique geometrical structure of time, space and matter, reminiscent of Sir Isaac Newton’s ‘very subtle spirit’ mentioned in his Fundamental Principles of Natural Philosophy. In Robinson’s model, a constant acceleration of light upgrades a holographic pattern of space-time reality, compatible to Newton’s association of light carrying information related to gravity. Space-time comprises of three phase states, past, present and future as a singular geometric event. Each phase’s location is uniquely defined within the time line. This suggests a coherent geometry through space-time, replacing the concept of randomness and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

Nonlocality, the ability of information exchange beyond space-time, is essential to Robinson’s model. Each phase of a moment of time communicates within its being, to constantly upgrade its local environmental space-time structure of the universe. Within Young’s double slit experiment, this process might play a role to explain paradoxical events. We know from the EPR paradox that information can be in two places at once and we might now associate this with the workings of some intelligent purpose rather that submit to Bertrand Russell’s world-view of uncertainty and chaos. Order from chaos can be considered associated with sub-atomic movement evolving through space-time, compatible with both the physics principles upholding the Platonic Science for Ethical Ends and Sir Isaac Newton’s complete description of the universe.

Professor Paolo Manzelli and Professor Massimo Pregnolato were awarded the Georgio Napolitano Medal in 2010 on behalf of the Republic of Italy, for their quantum biological development of Platonic Fullerene Chemistry, as part of their New Measurement of Humanity Project, the New Renaissance. Their Age of Quantum Entanglement in science and art allows for an understanding of how the process of chaos simultaneously enacts an auto catalytic event that produces a new ethical, or healthy, order in nature, described as the “Principle of Fertile Evolution”.

5 Tips for Selecting Your Car Detailing Equipment

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Choosing car detailing equipment can be a tough job, especially since there are so many companies and products competing for your attention and your money. But if you use the following five benchmarks to judge each one in turn, you will be able to determine which products are really worth your consideration. Simply judge each product on a scale of 1 to 5 in each of these areas, tally up the score for each and then use the guide at the end to help make your decision.

1. Quality and Reputation. Companies which have spent years building a reputation in the car detailing field know the value of good work. They also understand customer needs much better than a start-up or fly by night company. Review the company’s history and look around for reviews on the products themselves before seriously considering anything. Message boards are especially helpful since the reviews there are usually more frank and honest than those found elsewhere.

2. Portability. If you plan on being able to offer on the spot service then consider how portable the equipment is. Even if you don’t plan on offering this kind of service portability can be important should you decide to move your shop or simply rearrange your work area. A machine that can’t be moved can become a liability and prevent your company from branching out.

3. Powerful Motor & Heavy Duty Construction. These two components are often the first thing people check when evaluating auto detailing equipment. The motor itself should be rugged and with a minimum strength of 0.75 horsepower. It should also be certified for energy efficiency. Outer casing should be chip resistant coated steel and should stand up well to also resist corrosion. Standard pressure washers are often made form aluminum and while this may save a few bucks, that aluminum will be less stable and won’t stand up to high pressure and usage.

4. Hoses and other accessories. Hoses should be dual layered in order to withstand near constant use. They should be flexible but strong and have quality joints. Accessories will be used often and need to be made from tempered materials which will not chip or break on tough jobs.|

5. Temperature and Flow. High pressure washers reach temperatures varying between 200 and 330 degrees. The hotter the water the better it will be at removing things like grease or tar. Make sure your machine can handle the workload of high temperature cleaning. Flow rate can help control water consumption. Many machines flow at 3 to 5 gallons per minute which can result in a lot of waste as well as high water bills for your company. A quality machine can do the job at a flow rate as low as 0.5 gallons per minute.

Once you’ve rated a piece of equipment on a 1 to 5 scale filter out machines that score below 15 points and take a closer look at those which score 20 or above. Consider your local conditions and needs as well. A state which sees a lot of rain and has long construction seasons, such as Georgia, should ensure that the equipment is up to the challenges presented by the local weather and environment. Equipment for use in colder states will have to consider the damage that can be done by road salt and other contaminants that are part of long winters and icy road maintenance. Once you’ve considered the quality of the auto detailing equipment as well as the area in which it will be used you will be able to make an informed decision.

Are Hybrid Vehicles the Answer to Rising Energy Prices?

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There are a number of hybrid cars on the market today. Some of the more popular models are the Honda Civic Hybrid, Honda Accord Hybrid, Toyota Prius, Toyota Camry Hybrid, and the Ford Escape Hybrid. As a result of those who are environmentally minded, many more hybrid vehicles are coming to market, in addition to cars. Now hybrid trucks and hybrid SUVs are also becoming very popular.

There are some viable alternatives to the gasoline or diesel engine, available to the average consumer, when looking for a new vehicle. The hybrid car has become much more popular recently. A hybrid car is one that operates on more than one fuel system. The most common hybrid vehicle combines fossil fuel with electric energy. These cars primarily run on gasoline, but are assisted by electric current that is supplied by a rechargeable nickel-metal hydride (NiMH), battery pack. With this combination of fuel systems, there are two positive outcomes; fuel efficiency is improved, and engine exhaust emissions are cut down.

If you are buying a used car, be a little leery of hybrids. The battery packs in a hybrid car have to be replaced after 80,000 to 150,000 miles. In some states they are warrantied for 150,000 miles, or up to eight years. Depending on the age of the car, it may cost you more to replace this battery pack than the car is worth.

When comparing the price of a hybrid vehicle versus a non-hybrid, it’s wise to get quotes on like models for your comparison. What I mean is this. If you are looking at a Civic Hybrid, compare its price to the regular Civic. You can then calculate the difference in price. The difference is what you are paying extra for the hybrid. By doing this, it will help you see if you can actually save money in the long run by spending a little more up front.

How much better is the gas mileage with a hybrid car? It all depends on the type of driving you do. Overall, hybrid cars save at least 15% on the amount of fuel used. In some driving environments, you may not save anything. For example, trying to accelerate while going up hills will decrease your efficiency, as it can with any vehicle.

Here are some driving styles that can affect how a hybrid car works: When at a full stop, the gas engine usually shuts off. This eliminates idling, and reduces emissions. However, in traffic with a lot of stop and go situations, this can also save a fair amount of fuel. If you are in stop and go traffic all day, the gas engine may have to switch on to keep the battery fully charged.

When accelerating from a stop, if you do it like your grandmother, the electric motor usually propels the hybrid car through the current supplied by the battery pack. This is where you can save the most with a hybrid. Unfortunately, that’s not how I drive most of the time.

When you use heavy acceleration, this draws power from both the electric motor and the gas motor. If you do a lot of this style of driving, you probably won’t save much, if anything, with the hybrid car.

During highway driving, the car is typically powered by the gas engine alone. Whenever the gas engine is running, it is charging the battery pack, but you don’t receive any added fuel efficiency because of the hybrid design. If most of your driving is on the highway, you may not save much gas at all with the hybrid. The only advantage of a hybrid car in this instance is a slight improvement in gas mileage, due primarily to the smaller engine. Several of the hybrids also are equipped with a variable transmission. This will allow the engine to operate more efficiently, by using an optimal RPM at all times.

When you break gently, coast, or decelerate, the hybrid electric motor works in reverse. It is now converting kinetic energy into electric energy as a generator. The process used to charge the battery is known as regenerative braking. This process charges the battery pack, which eliminates any need to ever plug the car in for charging. By the way, a hybrid car can’t be plugged in to charge the battery. That isn’t part of its design.

When you back up in a hybrid car, the electric motor does all the work, as the gasoline engine is disengaged. Since most people don’t back up that much, the savings of fuel in this mode is very minimal.

If a hybrid car is driven properly, one can see a fuel savings of at least 15% or more. In that case, the hybrid vehicle may be the answer to rising energy prices.

The Internet Dating Crash Course – Lesson 5 – Turning an Online Dating Match Into an Offline Date!

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Online dating is scary for some people who are shy or new to the dating scene after a long time away from it. And eventually, there comes a time when communicating online isn’t enough – and the other person (or you) wants to meet offline. You want it to go smoothly, but there are some things you can do to ensure safety, a good time, and a positive experience.

How Soon Should You Meet Offline?

Everyone will have a different comfort level when it comes to moving from online chat or email to an in-person date. And the man or woman you’re communicating with could be moving at a must faster or slower speed than you want them to.

You’ll need to be patient with this (and make sure they’re patient with you) because pressuring someone into a meeting is never a good thing. It will probably end badly.

Some people are going to find a match and immediately want to meet up for a casual, light date to talk in person and see if there’s a connection there.

Others will want to develop a deep connection before they plan to meet in person. Have you ever seen the movie, “You’ve Got Mail” with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan?

They were chatting online and dragging out the in person meeting until there were substantial feelings involved. And this can happen to you, too.

Some people (especially those new to online dating) may think that it’s impossible to develop true feelings for someone you’ve never met. But many people begin sharing things and forming a strong bond with each other just through text, and possibly phone conversations.

Do you want to just meet quickly (kind of like tearing off a band-aid), or give yourself time to see if an in-person meeting will even be worth it.

Be honest with the person you’re communicating with. Don’t ridicule them if they’re shy about meeting. At the same time, try to analyze the situation to see if perhaps you’re being played (maybe someone’s married and just messing around online with no intention of pursuing a romantic relationship).

When the time comes that you feel right about initiating in person communication, just ask casually, like this:

“Hey it would be great if we could meet up sometimes offline – are you cool with that, or do you prefer to take a little more time?”

Don’t start demanding things, like, “I MUST meet you in person by he end of the week – I can’t STAND being away from you any longer.”

This can be creepy and startling to the other person.

Safety Is Your #1 Priority – for Men and Women!

When you do decide to meet off of the site, never ever have the person come to your home to meet you.

Now you men may be reading this and laughing, but don’t discount the fact that there are women in the world who will drug your drink and steal your possessions.

So meet in a public place, like a restaurant or high traffic public park or other destination. It’s not just your address that you don’t want to give out, either. Don’t meet them at their home – even if their first date idea involves cooking for you.

Make sure someone knows where you’re going and who you’re meeting (from which online dating site). If you want to, jot a note down next to your computer so that if anything did happen, police would know where to look.

Never get intoxicated during your first date with the person you’re meeting. Keep an eye on your drink – don’t leave it to go to the bathroom. If you do, have the bartender get you a new one.

Also take your purse or wallet with you if you go anywhere so that your date can’t look up your driver’s license address or take things from you without you knowing about it.

After the date, don’t let them drive you home – even if it went well. You still don’t know this person well enough to be showing them your home address, so take a cab or drive yourself and make sure you aren’t being followed.

Some of these tips may seem a bit paranoid, but it’s better to be overly cautious than take a risk. The people on the dating site know you’re single – and you don’t want to dangle yourself out there like bait if there happens to be a savvy shark in the dating waters, do you?

The most important thing is to trust your intuition. If you feel creepy about this person, end the date right then and there. Don’t prolong it and wait to see if something might happen.

Perfect First Date Ideas

The first date is going to depend on the two of you to a big degree. There is no “one size fits all.” There are some common places you can choose for a first date, but there are also some neat special first date ideas that could suit your style even more!

If you want to meet for a quick date, then try your local coffee shop. Some people like to meet for a Frappachino and to have a little discussion over iced coffee before moving on to a date that lasts longer than 30 minutes.

You may even want to see if your local Barnes and Noble has a Starbucks in it so that you can meet to find a new book and have something to discuss on your date, too!

If you’re already determined to have a romantic date, then by all means go all out with a romantic restaurant meal. Italian restaurants often have a nice ambiance.

If you’d like to keep conversation to a minimum, try going to see a movie together! This way you’ll meet and chat for a little before it starts, and then get to chat a little when it’s over (maybe even go for ice cream afterward if you want the conversation to continue).

If you’re both the outdoorsy type, then meet at a local outdoor activity like a public park or nature center. See if your area has a botanic garden for a beautiful setting.

If the arts are a big part of your lives, check out the museum showings. Or pick up a free magazine usually found in your grocery store entrance, to see what music activities are happening that week.

If you both have dogs, see if there’s a dog park in your area. If there’s not, just plan to take your pets to a park and meet up. Make sure you feel safe having your dog around their dog, if either happens to be an aggressive animal.

If you each have friends who know about the meeting, why not suggest a double date? Or even a platonic group setting? You don’t want too many people there who might start having fun with your situation. Just one wingman each would do the trick is anxiety levels are high.

If you’re both daredevils, see if you can schedule something amazing – like a hot air balloon ride, rock climbing, or even a jump out of an airplane!

Breaking the Ice When Conversation Stalls

Now sometimes there can be a drawback to waiting too long to meet your online dating match in person. If you keep the conversation going via chat and phone for too many weeks or months, you wind up with little to say in person when you finally do have that first date!

Some of the dates will automatically inspire conversation. For example, if you go to a museum together, you can provide your commentary on the exhibit pieces you’re seeing.

Make sure you don’t make all of the conversation about you. You show someone you care by asking about them, too. But don’t take it too personally if they don’t extend the same courtesy.

Some people are just so nervous on a first date that they blurt out things without thinking.

You can ask questions about the other person – their favorite things, for example. But don’t get too intimate and ask something embarrassing or something they may want to keep private.

This may be a time when you’re sizing up a future together, but you don’t want to interrogate them with questions like, “How many kids do you want? What kind of money do you make? Do you want to meet my parents?”

It’s okay to be nervous (and to admit that) but just try to take a deep breath and maintain that happy balance between being too shy and reserved and overly hyper and demanding.

Ending the First Date and Deciding If There Will Be a Second

Ending a first date should never be decided ahead of time. You never want to say that you have to be home by 10 because that prevents you from leaving at 9 if you want to.

Don’t have a friend text you with an emergency or tell them you’re going to the restroom, only to disappear. Be a grown up and respectful about it and just kindly say something like, “I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m feeling like maybe we ought to go ahead and say goodbye tonight because it appears we aren’t a great match.”

When you meet your online dating contacts, some will be absolutely fantastic matches, some will be nightmares, and some in between. You will have an easy time deciding about the horror stories, but if the date was just “okay,” you’ll need to decide If there should be another on the horizon.

You may want to give it one more shot if you feel there could be something there. First dates are made fun of because they’re often awkward, so a second attempt could prove more fruitful.

On the other hand, if there’s no spark and you feel like it would be pointless, don’t drag it out and make them suffer.

Online dating is a wonderful thing that connects people all over the world to like-minded individuals. Like offline dating, you have to try new things and step out of your comfort zone, but it puts in place a barrier of protection for you initially that the offline world can’t provide and allows you to analyze a prospective partner based on more than looks!