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Construction Careers – A Job Someone’s Got To Do
Construction Careers – A Job Someone’s Got To Do
Article by Ajeet Khurana
The construction worker is the backbone of society since the advent of human civilization. But not too many people seem to notice that. And the role of the construction worker extends as far as the eye can see. You wouldn’t be able to go to the hospital for unforeseen emergencies because it wouldn’t exist. And you wouldn’t be able to argue with your spouse on your iPhone on your way to work. Why? Because the road you are driving on wouldn’t exist. The job of the construction worker is one that is always forgotten unless, while you are on that iPhone, you run into a traffic jam caused by a construction route. In our moment of inconvenience we wrongly transfer blame to the construction worker who is actually helping us. But construction workers are responsible for bringing life to the cities that we dwell in, and for not only making them lively, but making them safe as well. There are different kinds of construction workers that offer us varying elements of peace of mind every day, without us even realizing it.
Did you recently look at a real life monument or a beautiful building? Did you take a moment to stop and think of the labor of love that went into that structure to ensure you had a cozy fire to sit next to? Probably not. But the construction worker that was responsible for those unforgettable moments of yours is known as the bricklayer. This is a man that installs or repairs brick structures such as your chimney or fireplace, your walkway or driveway, or your beautiful brick home. This worker is no dummy. They need to be able to create and perform strict calculations, problem solve, conduct document interpretation for building layouts, and organize routines and tasks on a daily basis. If you have a fireplace in your home, you should think of the work of the construction worker that lent you your domestic warmth.
Would you like to visit a jazz club? How about a dancing joint? Many people do across all age demographics and it is easy to understand why. Nightclubs and jazz clubs are a fun way to relax with some friends and unwind after a long week. Perhaps you are one of those that appreciate the joys of the disco ball and the dance floor. Next time you are on the dance floor enjoying all the fun a disco ball, consider what it took to ensure this ball was placed there for you. Disco balls are rotating spheroids that hang from the ceilings and produce a number of light reflectors at the people beneath them. To install a disco ball requires the labor of skilled engineers and construction workers to ensure the ball is not only hung properly so that it works efficiently, but that it is hung in a manner that will be safe for all patrons. It was the relentless and meticulous effort of the good people in construction that allowed you to enjoy that one evening of pleasure and amusement.
So when you are on your fancy iPhone telling all and sundry about the lousy traffic conditions caused by construction, remember these people are doing their job. Concern of your safety and regard of your convenience is primary in the minds of the construction worker.
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What Are the Hottest New Accessories In Golf?
What Are the Hottest New Accessories In Golf?
Article by Lee J. LaCasse
What Are the Hottest New Accessories In Golf?
The latest golf gadgets are always the craze and right now there is nothing hotter than the GPS units which take the guesswork out of club selection. Wouldn’t it be nice no matter where you are playing to be able to know exactly how far you are from the pin? No more stepping off yards from the nearest marker, now the information is just the touch of a screen away.
The most popular of the units are made by GolfLogix but there are a number of different types currently for sale. Each will give you yardage estimates and the more expensive models will allow you to touch the screen to get the distance to any point on a hole. Some units can store information for 10 or 20 courses but you can download to them the layout of more than 25000 courses around the world. You can also now buy software programs which will give you the same information that can be downloaded to your iPhone or Blackberry.
If a GPS is out of your price range, you may want to invest in a golfscope which can also help you figure out the distance. The Barska Blueline Golf Scope for example sells for just .99 and can gauge distance up to 300 yards. Not only will it tell you how long you have for your second shot but it will tell you how long of a drive you just ripped off the tee.
Electronic scoring devices are also popular golf accessories which would make a good gift. The Golf Stat Tracker II G100 is a mini computer which can store information on up to 100 rounds. It can be used to keep track of how many fairways you hit, the number of greens reached in regulation and your putting average. The data can also be downloaded to your home computer so you can chart your progress.
There are other nice little accessories for golf that any player would love to have.The Samsonite golf trunk organizer allows you to keep all of your golf equipment neatly arranged. It has special pockets for shoes, rain suits, balls and gloves. The Victorinox Swiss Army Golf Tool clips onto your belt and has a divot repair tool and ball marker in addition to the usual pocket knife and scissors.
These golf accessories and many more are available athttp://www.2golfstore.com/index.php?mode=All&search=Golf+Accessories
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Lee LaCasse is an Internet Marketer and Article Writer offering his reviews and other helpful information for the educated consumer with quality in mind.
Electric Cars Could Be in the Fast Lane for Hawaii
Electric Cars Could Be in the Fast Lane for Hawaii
Article by Electric Leaf
ENVIRONMENT / If you haven’t noticed, we’re in a full-tilt transformation away from conventional cars. Automakers still produce them, and are hurriedly adding on wonderful new efficiencies and technologies to meet the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. That’s great for the last days of the chapter, but it’s too late to save them as the predominant genre. The threat of peak oil prices and the call of the environment have already dulled their luster, and it’s time to move on.
The plug-in electric vehicle (EV) won’t solve all of our energy or transportation problems, but it’s part of a much larger movement toward efficiency and self-sufficiency. Is Hawaii ready to take the plunge to EVs? That’s the question.
In a world where eye-popping tech is around every corner, there are a number of entries vying for head of the automobile pack: EV, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, hydrogen fuel cell and diesel electric. The truth is that any of these could succeed. Every automaker has or is putting a horse into the race. It’s a moving target, with announcements being made as you watch.
There aren’t many EVs in Hawaii yet. The Nissan Leaf (,000 before credits) is coming any day. The Chevy Volt (,000 before credits) is coming soon, but it’s a hybrid, not a pure EV. The Leaf has a range of 100 miles and an EPA rating of 99 miles per gallon. With a 220-volt charger, it will take eight hours to charge. Three hundred people have put down and are awaiting delivery. Now available in Hawaii is the Wheego, which seats two and gets 100 miles to the charge. But the EV to salivate over is the Tesla Roadster (9,000 before credits), which has a range of 245 miles, a charging time of three to four hours, and can go from 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds. There are perhaps two of them here. They’re not exactly affordable.
Another EV to watch is the Ford Focus Electric, just announced for release in 2011. It can be charged in three hours with a 240-volt charging station that Best Buy will sell and install for you. These cars provide instant torque and put you back in your seat. Ford has an app that lets you check your Focus charge from your iPhone and has partnered with Microsoft to build a system that allows you to reduce costs by charging at off-peak hours, when utility rates are lower.
The race for renewables
It’s like the transformation in renewables (wind, photovoltaic, geothermal, ocean, hydro). Any one could succeed, but only one or a small combination of them will become predominant. On which should we put our money? We’ll have to see where the technology, the marketplace and the politics take us.
The same race presents itself with cars, although things move faster. This is a collective decision likely to be made within one car generation, that is, within no more than 10 years. What technology or combination of technologies will prevail?
Although the marketplace and the politics are not entirely predictable, the punt answer is that people are most often driven by convenience and price. Sure, the early adopters will embrace the most high-tech and environmentally sound cars-that’s what drives them. But most of us will be second-generation buyers, waiting for the early adopters to find the way in convenience and, of course, price. Let’s look at how convenience and price are shaping up for EVs.
Oahu is a great laboratory for EVs, because most drives are short. But that’s not a panacea for the dreaded “range anxiety.” For any sense of convenience, you absolutely must have a network of charging stations. If we build them, the anxiety is tolerable. If we don’t, EVs will be left stranded in favor of other technologies.
How many charging stations are enough for Oahu? The Gas Co., predictably, favors hydrogen cars and wants to build 25 hydrogen stations in the next five years. That number is instructive, and, numerically, 25 is a good start. For now, even with 300 Leafs on the way, Green Energy Outlet, the Wheego dealer on Cooke Street, may be the only location with a commercial charging station. There are various plans to build more charging stations early this year, but not all will be for consumer use.
One charging station is clearly not enough and the challenge is how to get more. They do cost money and in the absence of EVs, investors will be hard to find. It’s a chicken-egg thing. To give EVs a foothold, government needs to incentivize the charging stations, not only for drivers, but also to show dealers and automakers that we mean business and are an “EV- ready state.”
EV incentives
The Energy Office at the Department of Business Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) has million of federal stimulus money to help. Of this, .4 million will go to rebates of up to ,500 for EVs or plug-in hybrids and 0 for the purchase and installation of EV chargers. At ,000 a pop, that would cover only 280 buyers. The balance of funds will be from grants to commercial charging-station developers, and DBEDT is in the process of contracting with the successful bidders. The stimulus money must be spent by April 2012, so there’s no time to dawdle. There’s also a federal tax credit for 50 percent of the cost of the charger up to ,000 for a residence and up to ,000 for a business installation. Are these incentives sufficient?
Investors who build commercial charging stations would suffer if the Leafs are delayed. Buyers who have signed up to buy Leafs have not heard from Nissan and have had difficulty in determining when they will get their cars. To keep up the EV momentum, we need to have these cars coming into the state when promised.
Many feel that the Nissan Leaf has the potential to transform the automotive industry and the way people drive. Check out YouTube and you’ll see lots of early adopters in a state of excitement about EVs. No, they don’t have the deep rumble of conventional cars, but they beat them at drag races. They’re silent, but their torque is amazing. They provide a new driving experience that most people will like a lot.
All charged up
You know how Mini owners have clubs where they can share their enthusiasm? Well, this month the Electric Vehicle Association of Honolulu was organized as a chapter of the Electric Auto Association. To join, you pay on [eaaev.org].
You’ll go to EV rallies like the one that toured Oahu last week and ended up at Mother Waldron Park in Kakaako for food, music, politicians and press. There were only seven EVs at the rally, but the organizers promised many multiples of that at the second annual rally, which they are now planning. After all, we do expect 300 Leafs between now and then, don’t we?
For single-family houses, it’ll be relatively easy to install a charger. Condominium dwellers will find it somewhat more challenging. Despite Act 186, adopted last year to prohibit condo associations from barring the installation of chargers, condo boards have been slow to approve them over concerns about running cable to multiple individual parking stalls in the condo parking lots. These delays will continue, and we can expect a certain level of frustration among the early adopters.
Is charging safe? With the SAE J1772 connection standardized last January, there is no power until the charging cable is locked into the charging station, so you can’t get electrocuted unless you do something really dumb. Will this be covered under existing car and condo insurance? Ask your broker.
A Level I charger takes 110 volts and could require more than 15 hours to charge. A Level II charger takes 240 volts and requires three to eight hours, and would be the best approach for most people, who already have that voltage at home. The Level III charger takes 480 volts and could complete the charge in minutes, but will cost tens of thousands of dollars. Most people won’t spend that much. Tesla and others are building induction chargers that charge wirelessly, and that’ll be another game changer.
The Level III charger would be most useful for a commercial charging station. People will pay for a fast charge, and you can charge more cars in a given period. Gas stations would be well advised to include these charging stations. Parking lots have to include them starting this year under the charging-station bill lobbied by Better Place when it came to town a couple of years ago. We can also expect tow trucks to be outfitted with chargers to help you on the highway.
Better Place designed a carwash-like machine that switches your battery in 10 minutes. Will the replacement battery be as good as the one you’re giving up? Switchable batteries were to come with the Nissan-Renault EV that Better Place was going to market, but we haven’t seen them yet. It looks as though each EV will have its own integrated battery, so switchability may not be happening.
Accessorize
EV makers say the batteries will last for the life of the car but if that’s not so and you need to replace one for any reason, a new battery will cost you as much as ,000. That’s not affordable, either.
The EV will change the landscape for auto dealers, too. EVs don’t need as many moving parts and won’t require as much maintenance and repair. Space requirements at dealerships are likely to be affected. Car buying and leasing are also likely to migrate to the Web. EVs are more like commodities or computers, and the web will be a more viable venue for many EV customers.
Just as a century of car development has nurtured the development of a huge assortment of accessories, EVs will likewise call for lots of accessories. Although they can also be sold on the web, the likelihood is that dealerships will continue to carry those accessories. This means the empty floor space at the dealerships will be reallocated to charging stations and accessory displays. These accessories will include battery-life extenders and smart software apps.
This isn’t going to happen this year. Standing at the tile mosaic in the atrium of the Hawaii State Capitol, David Rolf of the Hawaii Auto Dealers Association compares each tile of the 600,000-tile mosaic to a car on Hawaii’s roads. In that huge sea of blue, green and white tiles, you find one red tile. The EV is that one tile, and it’ll take years to bring in enough new red tiles to change things.
In the meantime, there’s one more generation of cars to sell. To the extent that people buy EVs, they’ll probably use them for short trips and rely on their conventional or hybrid cars for longer trips. In the short term, the advent of the EV may wind up increasing the number of car registrations, and a driver with a conventional car or hybrid may wind up adding an EV as a fun member of the family fleet. We’ll join the transformation, but we’ll also hedge our bets.
If you think the 100-mile range of the Leaf or Focus Electric is the end of it, think again. That’s like saying the development of renewables will end in 2030. If the Tesla can build a car with a range of 245 miles, the Leaf, the Focus Electric and all the others can’t be far behind. It’s just a matter of time. Most people will be happy to pay a little more for greater range and, thus, greater convenience.
Predictions
By 2015, cars will be lighter, with carbon fiber and other high-tech materials; EV batteries will exceed the range of current conventional cars; and charging times will shrink to what it now takes at the pump. The market will demand it, and, with the research and development made possible by EV sales, the technology will be more mind-boggling and the industry will easily find a way. Like computer chips, capacity will grow logarithmically, while prices go lower and lower.
Right now, EVs are more expensive than conventional cars and many buyers will depend on rebates and tax credits. EV owners also enjoy free use of county and state parking facilities and high-occupancy-vehicle lanes. If government reduces these incentives before EVs reach critical mass, EV sales will be impacted and EVs could again fall out of the mainstream. As EVs pass critical mass, their prices will go down, ensuring their success. Just as free auto registration for Hawaii EVs has ended, at some point, rebates and tax credits will go away.
The mobility offered by cars defines our quality of life and our economy. Our cars are our most interactive tools, protectors and friends, especially when you add computers and software. People love their cars for business, recreation and everything in between. We’ve had a century to perfect that relationship, and that’s why this transformation is so disruptive, and so important.
Cars will change more dramatically than ever in the next few years, and we will be that much more dependent. They’ll change the way we drive, work and live. They’ll be better transportation, smarter and more dedicated to serving our every wish, and adding new dimensions to our lives. Watch what happens.
Has the age of the EV finally come? Will it succeed, or will it be seen as a golf cart? We can answer those questions by our actions. Manufacturers won’t build what we don’t buy, no matter how advanced the tech may be. Remember the laser disk and digital audio tape? These technologies didn’t fail because they were defective. They failed because not enough of us bought them.
Right now, it costs to to charge an EV. Not bad for 100 miles. Some say EVs are only as good as what powers the grid, and, if the grid is powered by oil, then EVs are powered by oil. Nevertheless, an EV running on today’s grid is more efficient than a conventional car running on oil. Where the efficiency of conventional cars is limited to 30 percent because of energy lost in heat and friction, EVs can get 60 percent. If energy losses in grid transmission could be avoided by charging directly from rooftop photovoltaic cells, EV efficiency could be more like 90 percent.
You will hear much more about the EV this year. Before you reject buying one or diss the people that do, remember that every great technology has had early adopters, from the light bulb to the cell phone, and each was ahead of its time. As digital cameras have transformed photography in only a few years, EVs are likely to transform transportation. Pay attention, or you’ll be left standing in the road.
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JAY FIDELL writes a column for Honolulu weekly. Electroleaf is a one stop shop for news concerning the Nissan Leaf.
iPhone Insurance: Is It Required?
iPhone Insurance: Is It Required?
Article by Amran Jockie
Since iPhones have become one of the most favorite buys of the present generation, iphone insurance has become a booming market. These gadgets are definitely the most prized possessions people would like to have. However, do you dread to think what will happen if you accidentally lose it?
Relax! There is good news now for all the iPhone users- iPhone insurance has been introduced in the market to give protection to your expensive buys and most importantly, to give you some peace of mind, which you definitely need when you take your iPhone out. This will surely enable you to use your prized possession with more confidence than ever before! Many third-party companies offer insurance for iPhone, but it would be a good idea to do some market research before actually going for insurance.
Apple, who manufactures the product, has come up with a year’s warranty and also an extended warranty; but this warranty gives you protection only in case of manufacturing defects and repairs. However, it does not cover theft and damage that may result from any mishandling and does not even cover the accidental damages that will include everything from spills, water damage, damages from drops. Apple’s warranty covers only the product failure and not any of the damages that may result from mishandling. However, the iPhone insurance will cover all these accidental damages including theft and all you need to do is buy the insurance for as little as per month, depending on what kind of coverage you would go for.
The iPhone insurance in some cases will also cover accessories amounting to 0 dollars. In addition, some of the companies offer worldwide coverage; but these are definitely those high-priced policies. Nowadays, the trend is that when you buy an iPhone, the insurance comes with it more as an add-on purchase and this is preferred by most. But most of the insurance companies offer the insurance on their own terms and conditions, like not covering the theft of the iPhone if left unattended in a public place. The iPhone insurance is thus, one of the best investments that you will make, as these expensive gadgets often tend to get lost and are dropped quite often.
It is also important to know that many of the traditional insurance companies also are offering iphone insurance policies clubbed with the traditional insurance and these are in the category of personal articles insurance and are gaining popularity as well. The rates are very competitive and they will not burn a hole in your pocket; on the contrary, insurance for iPhone will give you peace of mind.
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The rates are very competitive and they will not burn a hole in your pocket; on the contrary, insurance for iphone will give you peace of mind.
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