The Frontstretch: Five Sprint Cup Drivers Conclude Two-Day …

September 30, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
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“It’s real good for me and the whole Home Depot team,” said Logano, who earlier this year became the youngest driver ever to start a Daytona 500 . ”I don’t have much experience here at Daytona . Even though we’re by ourselves, …

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Use Eco-Friendly Car Cleaning Products for a Healthier Home

September 30, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Did you know that every time you wash your car in your driveway or at the curb that you could be washing toxic chemicals into the environment that are harmful to you, children, pets, and wildlife? These same chemical car cleaning products could then travel from your property into the environment, our water systems, and fresh water resources, causing health problems for humans and marine life alike.

The truth is that we don’t often think about where the dirt goes after it leaves our vehicles. Most, commercial car wash companies have to think about this issue since they are required to filter the water leaving their facilities, yet for consumers, there are no such regulations. There are nearly 30 million people in our country washing their cars at home every day, using between 80 and 140 gallons of water each that can then take with it the toxins that are so harmful for human and marine life alike.

So what is in our car cleaning products and water runoff that makes this such a concern? Well, there are many toxins to be concerned about when considering your regular vehicle vanity routine:

  • The soaps, waxes, degreasers, sprays, wipes, and polishes you use for cleaning your vehicle may contain non-biodegradable, hazardous detergents that are harmful to fish and other marine and wildlife. Detergents are surfactants that destroy a fish’s external mucus layer that protects them from parasites and bacteria. Fish that come into contact with water that contains 15 parts per million (ppm) or more of detergent will likely perish.
  • The National Water Research Institute (NWRI) has categorized car debris as a major source of heavy metals, grease, oil, and rubber that gets pulled into the environment and our water supplies. In fact, three-fifths of all samples of road runoff contain potential, confirmed, or severely toxic components.
  • Synthetic phenol-based surfactants (chemicals used to get cleaning supplies to rinse off easily with water) used in many car cleaning products have been labeled by the US Environmental Protection Agency as potential endocrine disrupters. As such, these can wreak havoc with natural reproduction systems in the fish colony, causing the population levels to decline.
  • Another potential car wash pollutant is benzene. This is a flammable solvent that is poisonous if ingested and therefore a danger for pets and children.

That’s just a quick summary of some of the dangerous substances that enter our waterways when we wash our cars and allow untreated water to run away into our storm water system.

You can do something about this problem by using a nontoxic, plant and water-based, waterless car wash system. This has two main benefits. First, it will eliminate the need for water, which means you won’t be releasing oil, grease, and other automobile fluids into the environment. Second, if you choose a natural, plant-based product, even when the rain washes your car, the substance will not cause environmental damage.

Laura Klein’s Green Car cleaning system is the perfect solution. All of the products in this line are water and plant-based and biodegradable, they are nontoxic, not caustic, and contain no petroleum solvents, phosphates, nitrates, enzymes, sulfates, or silicates. These are truly green car cleaning products.

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Buy Rc Cars and Trucks Online?

September 30, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
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You will not throw out your hard earned money any way. While buying rc trucks or cars you ponders much before as you are investing in the right way or not. Definitely these toys are pretty costlier that entails you to check several aspects of the product and the offers given by the sellers.

Now that you may considerably lack time to do all these formalities, just an online search is your good friend to do all this. Several of online retailers are now dealing in rc products who can serve you a platform to buy your rc cars and trucks in quite hassle free manner.

No doubt offers given by these online retailers are best in the market for the higher competition there and they fit best when it comes to compare there services. Through a online search you can find several retailers in no time and can compare their products for the prices and quality. On each and every site you get a detail description about the product that helps you know you need as well the best match.

This is very common that the cost of running a hobby shop is very expensive so most people simply don’t have a local hobby shop near them and those that do often can’t afford the rather high prices many local rc shops charge.

Besides this, a traditional store has usually high operating cost that is paid ultimately by the end consumer like you. So with having a lesser operating cost an online store use to be a cheaper options along with a tool for saving time, saving money, and varieties of the rc cars and trucks that you hardly find in a single traditional store at a time.

The sites are easy to navigate while providing detailed descriptions and pictures of the vehicles to make your shopping experience easier. They even let you know up front if there’s any additional equipment you’ll need to get started so I always suggests for online shopping for your rc trucks and cars.

Amrendra Kr. Singh is an expert web writer and has been writing for different media. Right now he is associated with Twift.com which is an online shopping venture and has amazing product range on best rates. To view quality products in a wide range, you can feel free any time to click on http://twift.com.

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The Shifting Values in Digital Media

September 30, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
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If the 80-90s were marked by overt capitalism and indiscreet pursuit of wealth, the recession of 2008-09 marks a millennial shift to a new, more humble and deliberate form of business. While “owning it” used to be about Wall Street bonuses and “bigger is better” greed, today “owning it” has taken on a different tone. People’s priorities have come into focus and they recognize that business is about more than just flashy material accumulation, entitlement and narrowly defined success. We see this new era marked by passion, trust and authenticity.

Trust and authenticity may not be the first qualities that come to mind, when you think of news and politics, but perhaps they should be. Many of the top political and news sites in the Digital Influence in News and Politics Report have succeeded in part because of their understanding of this value shift and the way in which they address it: by becoming trusted leaders in an area they carve out for themselves, be it a certain audience/demographic, multimedia, methodology, or tone of voice. The new digital age has furthered the ability of these sites to affect influence, rapidly and deeply.

In a time of savvy and distrustful consumers, having a sincere personality and stance on a specialized area will be a competitive brand differentiator and will in turn yield both attention and profits. Outlined below are three tips for helping your company “own” a strategic category, as evident in the top digital news/political influencers we have identified:

1. Stay true to core.
Staying true to core is about offering a digital experience– be it visually provocative, innovative multimedia or other– that authentically represents the brand’s essence.

When consumers go to npr.com, for example, they know they can expect news closely integrated with multimedia audio applications. A menu bar across the top of the npr.com site prominently features “listen”, “hourly news” (with audio symbol) and “podcast” tabs (see below). A quick look at the “most popular” site of the day is aptly titled “Exclusive First Listen: The Avett Brothers” and the second most popular article is entitled “Growing up the iPod way”, also featuring music/listening content (9/22/09). The NPR site allows users to “own it” through customized playlists which allow users to have a personal connection with the brand, important when we are upholding the principles of authenticity and trust. True to its radio heritage, auditory news is central to NPR’s mission and what drives passionate consumers to its digital site and scores it 10 of the top 100 podcasts.

2. Listen to the people.
Sometimes being a leader, is simply knowing when to listen to and promote others. Google’s news approach embodies this principle. Google’s area of differentiation is being an aggregator: “Aggregated headlines and a search engine of many of the world’s news sources.” Google news is a one stop shop that works because it provides the most relevant content across the web, not just daftly offering up their personal opinion on every topic.

Google has access to countless news articles, blogs and stories and offers value by filtering them and prioritizing them based on content volume and pagerank. People trust Google’s algorithmic approach to choose and aggregate the news that is most relevant to them– be it a mainstream press release or more niche topic served up off the “longtail.” This trust, simplicity and consumer-friendly attitude is central to Google’s brand. Google news is a leader and influencer because it listens to what people are asking for and knows how to answer to it.

3. Membership has its value.
The digital influencers have learned that standing out from a crowd really helps you stand out to the crowd. What this means is that rather than boiling the ocean and trying to blindly appeal to everyone, successful news and political sites are serving up distinct opinions aimed at discrete target audiences. The hope is to really capture that particular market and then become the go to source for those outside…

To read more about the shifting values in digital media, go to Sparxoo, a digital media, branding and business development blog.

Sparxoo is a business blog that inspires breakthrough by tomorrow’s leaders. We are a strategy consulting firm with a pulse on marketing, branding, and development.

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Why Hybrid Cars Get Great Mileage

September 29, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
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You’ve heard about hybrid cars from everywhere, including the news and the papers. People talk about them in chat rooms and the internet has information on the too. You know that hybrids have many features that conventional cars just can’t match up to. One of those features is the fact that hybrid cars get great gas mileage. You would love to trade in your supposedly “greener” compact car for a new hybrid version of the same model.

Why do hybrids get great gas mileage? Are they really as efficient as everyone wants to believe they are?

The answers to these questions can be both quite simple yet also a bit complicated. Hybrid cars have two sources of power that make them work. One is an internal combustion engine that is just like a conventional car. The other is an electric motor. Both of these power sources are connected to each other by a battery pack that transmits information between them and also to a computer that runs the car.

If a hybrid still burns gas how can it not be wasting fuel and still get great gas mileage?

Conventional cars require gasoline to do everything for them such as start, drive, idle and start again. When your driving a conventional car and sitting at a traffic light you are idling. You are wasting gas just sitting there so that when the light changes to green you can automatically accelerate the car. Something similar happens when you are traveling at slow speeds, driving in the rain or snow or even sitting in a traffic jam.

Hybrids are “smarter” than a conventional car. The hybrid engine does not begin burning oil until you have reached speeds greater than 15 miles per hour. This means that the hybrid does not waste fuel while driving slowly or being stopped which is the area of driving where conventional cars burn the most fuel.

Not only that but many hybrid are equipt with a feature that will shut off the internal combustion engine when the hybrid car is idling such as when your sitting at traffic light or in bumper to bumper traffic and then turn it back on when you accelerate. This allows you to coast rather than use power.

How can it still coast if the engine is off?

As was said before hybrids have two types of power sources. The electric motor which is one of their power sources is made to handle many of the small task that a car performs. These task include things such as braking, idling and coasting. The electric motor also helps out with things such as getting up large hills. This is a point where conventional vehicles waste a lot of gas but the hybrid only uses electric energy.

So in short a hybrid gets such great gas mileage because they use two different power sources, an internal combustion engine and electricity. If it uses electricity for a portion of the time it is running, it also uses less gas which means more miles run per gallon of gasoline.

You might also want to learn about the future of hybrid cars and discuss it in the hybrid car forums

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