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Towing Services Can Be Great Help in an Emergency

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It is a roadside assistance contractor or a road service operator that normally offers the towing services. In case of breakdowns, collisions or accidents of vehicles, they tow the vehicle to a garage or some other destination, if the authorities do not impound it on legal grounds

Sometimes you have a horrible accident or collision far from home, or you can have an irreparable breakdown. All these conditions require towing your vehicle, and you could do well to remember that the multifarious applications of the towing service could stand you in good stead in emergencies. The most important factor in towing is to bring the vehicle to safety. However, in your own interest, ensure that you employ a good towing service with the appropriate trucks to bring your vehicle undamaged to the destination.

A towing service always comes in handy when you are in the precarious situation of a breakdown or an accident. Always remember to keep your roadside assistance number or that of your towing service at hand for use in any kind of vehicle emergency. The traffic police also use the towing trucks to remove vehicles parked in restricted areas, or to tow away vehicles involved in accidents or from a crime scene, for further forensic and braking efficiency tests. Since the incidences, requiring towing is on an unprecedented upswing, the towing services are also modernizing their operations with the latest tow trucks and techniques.

Most of those who earn towing services either do the work on their own or work as a subcontractor for other agencies. The owner has a higher responsibility than the workers do, as he has to bring in the investment and obtain a certified license for towing, failing which they will have to work within restricted hours only. With a certified license in hand, they can operate unhindered round the clock, 24×7 and 365 days.

Insurance

In this business, it is imperative for the towing truck owners to cover the insurance risk for his tow trucks, his employees and the truck or vehicle that requires towing. The owner must, additionally submit proof of insurance coverage in case of an accident involved with the customer’s car/vehicle, during the towing process. It is mandatory to carry the insurance documents in the tow truck at all times.

Background verification

Selection of the driver for the towing services is extremely important, as the rules clearly state that the driver should have a clean record without stamping of major offenses like DWT (drinking while intoxicated). They will also have to undergo criminal background checks including drug test. Employment of drivers with criminal background can cause the owner to lose is towing license forever.

Today, most towing companies equip themselves with the right tools, techniques and vehicles to tow vehicles carefully without damage to the destination. Most vehicle owners can buy peace of mind when they hand over the vehicle to the towing service. However, do not ever make the mistake of employing an inexperienced company; you will only end up as penny wise and pound-foolish.

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Source by Sooraj Surendran

Marriage Problems – You Can Laugh at Them if You Follow This Simple Spiritual Plan

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As I glanced in my rearview mirror, I could see the huge red fire truck bearing down on me… lights flashing aggressively.

Hastily, I made it out of the way just in time.

But then something odd struck me… the sirens were not blaring. There wasn’t an emergency. What was going on?

Then I looked closely. And what I saw?

A lovely young girl with hair like burnished gold… maybe 19, 21, dressed in sparkling white bridal garment… along

with a sharply dressed, smiling young man. Holding hands together and standing in the back of the open-air truck they were

waving and smiling at the crowd.

Whoa! This young couple newly married just hired a fire truck for the evening drive around town!

I joined the crowd and waved back. The spectacle just brightened the whole place and drew smiles of joy from the face of everyone.

At that moment it dawned on me what a precious joyful thing marriage was designed to be.

This was 6:15pm Thursday evening.

Another Time, Another Place

Different set of people.

By 7 am Sunday morning in church I was jolted back to hard cold reality… like someone poured a bucket of ice-cold water

on me.

It happened when I innocently asked a brother how his family was doing …

“She’s gone… walked out on me with the kids,” came the sad reply.

“Y…you m..mean…” I stammered trying to contain my shock. Not these ones. They always seemed so happy… always smiling.

“She just said she felt like she was in prison or something. Packed up with our 2 kids and left for Arizona,” he said sighing wearily.

Then a thought struck me.

“I’m so sorry to hear that.” I began.

“That’s okay, thanks,” he said.

“Excuse me for asking this…is there any pattern like this in your family… or hers?”

“Not mine,” he said gently but firmly, “in her family no one stays married for long.”

Hmmm.

Before that week was over I had heard of 5 more similar cases.

What could be going wrong?

Shocking Revelations

In our ministry years back we did an in-depth spiritual research into disintegrating marriages and up came certain shocking revelations.

Some of them were not pretty.

In fact, the enemy starts with one of the oldest and most successful strategies in the book – confusion of tongues.

For students of the Bible, this dreaded weapon was first used by

God Himself against the builders of the tower of babel in Genesis 11.

It is such an effective weapon that it can create suspicion, misunderstanding and general confusion in a marriage…

in no time at all.

It begins when the husband and wife start to disagree on practically everything… no one is listening to the other and before long communication breaks down… then the enemy unleashes other dangerous weapons.

So we leant to pray the prayer of the psalmist, “O Lord, divide the tongues of all those targeting my marriage for destruction.” – see Ps 55:9.

In these marriages, we also uncovered a pattern of:

* breakup or divorce either in the husband’s family or on the wife’s side or both.

* marital problems transferred from one generation to another… using such vehicles as unbroken curses and unknown covenants.

* hidden spiritual marriages in place.

* invisible marks of hatred placed on the husband or wife. This makes one repulsive to the other and vice versa – after only a few years of marriage.

* warning signals ignored or simply not understood. Sometimes these warnings came through dreams.

etc.

To give you an example, once we found a man who was deeply in love with his wife – for 6 months.

Then all of a sudden he couldn’t stand the sight of her. No one could think of anything wrong that she had done.

Eventually he walked out on her.

She went for counseling… no solution.

Her friends took her to all kinds of “prophets.” She went to see 5 different therapists, 2 psychics and even an hypnotist.

Nothing worked.

She went into prayer asking God for another husband.

No response.

As she put it she had desperately prayed to God to send her that special someone with whom she could glorify and give Him praise… no answer.

In fact all she seemed to be getting turned out to be nothing but “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”

She gave up… not knowing how to navigate the tricky minefield of finding a sincere, God fearing man to share her love with.

Then the Lord had mercy on her.

One day, a friend at work invited her to a Friday night prayer meeting.

It was hot and wild …no-holds-barred kind of praying.

During the prayers one sister noticed an invisible mark on her forehead… a tiny star-shaped symbol that was not visible

to the naked eye.

She stopped the prayers and raised this singular prayer point just for her:

“Blood of Jesus, wipe off all handwriting of hatred and rejection from my life in the name of Jesus.”

They prayed it 3 hot times, thanked the LORD for the answer and moved right on to the next prayer point.

Result?

That same weekend the husband called for the very first time since the breakup.

12 more sessions of customized prayers (with fasting) followed …and hubby came home.

101 Prayer Points

I digged around. And found this ebook I wrote last year as an

instructional manual for couples facing marital challenges.

It contained 101 of the most potent prayer points we’ve ever

prayed on this issue of marriage and relationships

I’ve revised it, added fresh material… more teeth, more bite,

hard working prayer points to hit straight at the root of the matter and continue working long after everyone has forgotten

about them.

I’ve added some explanatory notes and scriptures.

Plus specific instructions on how to handle them.

Please listen carefully…

Do you happen to know anyone whose marriage is not all

it could be, maybe a friend or even a relative?

* Or the marriage is on the verge of hitting the rocks

* Or has broken down already

* Or tell-tale signs of wear and tear are beginning to show

* Or someone believing the LORD for a godly spouse

* Or any couple just trying to safeguard their marriage

* Or a close friend just fed up with the boredom and loneliness of the single life?

Do them a favor… get this article to them.

They need to learn the spiritual secrets of how to keep their marriages intact.

Why?

Because the #1 warfare going on in the spiritual realm right now is targeted against marriage and family.

Because if you allow the enemy to steal the joy of your marriage and family, no amount of financial blessings can quite fill

the gaping hole… in the heart.

Because the #1 way to bring back the honey and joy of your marriage is to dedicate it to the LORD through specific prayers.

In order NOT to become a casualty in this raging battle I advise my readers, especially Christian women, to learn these

prayers of:

* housecleaning

* restoration

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Source by Elisha Goodman

Replacement Theory in Operations Research

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Replacement Theory in Operations Research

It is used in the decision-making process of replacing existing equipment with us by a new one. It is like replacing our old refrigerator, moped, car or any machinery in garage, workshop and so on. Some real life examples of this situation are decisions to buy a new TV, Car, Truck, Lathe Machine, even our House or Apartment.

What data is required to apply this technique?

One needs to two kinds of data in these situations. The first one being the maintenance cost of the equipment, that is, how much you are spending every period (every month, every year depending on the life of the item). This also keeps our spending in check and otherwise also it’s a good habit to maintain our expenses. Secondly, you need to have approximate resale value corresponding to the respective period that is weekly, monthly, yearly and so on. This resale values can be obtained by consulting experts in respective fields or even elders home.

What is the theory?

The costs mentioned above have typical characteristics. The maintenance cost of items usually goes up while its resale value goes down. This maintenance cost after a while can be huge while at the same time, the resale value of that item can drastically go down. This result into a total loss and most of the times, in such cases, we throw away that item or scrap it. Replacement theory gives a optimum trade-off between rising maintenance cost and declining resale value. This optimum period, when the replacement can be actually made, is the sum of maintenance and depreciation in the original cost of equipment.

Illustration

Consider the example of a Truck; the pattern of failure here is progressive in nature, that is, as the life of vehicle increases; its efficiency decreases. This results in additional expenditure in running or maintaining this vehicle and at the same time its resale value (also called as scrap value) keeps on decreasing. The above case makes this situation a typical case for applying ‘Replacement Theory’.

Lets see a text-book problem. A transport company purchased a truck for $100000. The resale value of the truck keeps on decreasing from $75000/- in the first year to $20000/- in the eighth year while, the running cost in maintaining the truck keeps on increasing with $3000/- in the first year till it goes to $25000/- in the eighth year. Determine the optimum replacement policy?

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Source by Rajesh Timane

Testing the All Natural Cedarshield Oil Wood Preservative

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I had read the articles, the various reports and scientific data and so, it was now time to put this apparently miraculous product to the ultimate test. A good friend of mine who specializes in the hand crafted manufacture of Ash furniture gave me the suggestion that we could try it out on a freshly cut slice of Ash tree. Normally he fills the trees, removes the branches and they are then stacked for periods of up to twenty years to completely dry out the wood and make it suitable for use in the manufacturing process. What he now suggested was that we cut a large slice from a recently felled and still wet tree, then apply this cedar oil based product to it and see what happens and if there is any noticeable difference.

Armed with a five gallon bucket of the product, an extremely long chain saw, some gasoline and a couple of saw horses, we set off in my friend’s truck towards the site where his Ash trees were kept. After about forty minutes we drove up a bumpy gravel road and turned into an area that appeared to be an abandoned stone quarry. We stopped his truck and got out to view some well stacked piles of huge trees, all set out in neat rows to both sides of the truck. We commenced by emptying out the truck box of all the items we had carried with us. My friend set up the two saw horses in the middle of the gravel yard and then proceeded to gas up his chain saw and give it a first start. Now convinced that everything was in good working order, we headed off towards one of the log piles.

I was advised that this particular stack of trees had only been felled just over one week previously and as such, they were still as wet as the day they were cut down. My friend studied each of the trees in the stack and then made his decision as to which one would be our subject for the experiment. Marking the end of it with chalk, he picked up his chain saw and climbed up to a suitable position where he could access the tree’s diameter with ease. With ear muffs on and a couple of fast pulls on the chain saw string, that well known buzz burst into life and the long chain was ready to start cutting. He stood firm and straight on the logs and commenced his first cut through a tree with a diameter of almost five feet. Within a few minutes and a couple of position moves on his part, the end of the large tree fell free to the ground. The exposed cut was clean and straight and I could see most of the circles quite clearly. Without hesitation, he climbed back up to his original position and started his second cut. The chain entered the tree about three inches from the newly exposed end and once again he worked away steadily until an almost evenly thick slice again fell free to land on top of the first slice. With that, the chain saw stopped buzzing and he climbed down to explain that this was the slice we were going to do our experiment on.

Together, we carefully pulled the large tree slice away from the pile and then, with one of us one each side we lifted the rather heavy piece of wood up and over onto the two awaiting saw horses. Placing it carefully on top of the horses, we had to adjust one of them to get it lying more solidly in position without a wobble. After a short five minute rest, we took over the bucket of fluid to start our test. Armed with a three inch brush each, we coated all of the upper side with its first coat of the cedarshield oil. It soaked into the timber as quickly as we applied it and that in itself was quite amazing considering how wet the timber was. We waited another five minutes or so and then commenced applying our second coat in exactly the same way as the first and yet again, it continued to soak in to the wood almost immediately. After this we waited maybe ten minutes before starting our third and final application. This time, by the time we were about half way across the large circle of wood, the fluid started to drip from the underside and onto the gravel below. We completed our application, closed the bucket and placed our brushes tightly into a plastic bag then went back to examine the now actively dripping tree slice. Sure enough, the underside was oozing the fluid we had applied on the surface but it did feel different to the touch. At that point we really didn’t understand what was happening or why the fluid coming through the downward side felt so different to the touch.

The real surprise came when the fluid finally stopped dripping through the wood and we decided it was time to lift the slice back to the truck. Again, with one of us at each side we grabbed hold of the wood and commenced to lift it. We both stopped in unison and dropped the wood back onto the saw horses for we had discovered it was now very light in weight compared to the time we had placed it in position. After some discussion on this, we again lifted it up and carried it over to the waiting truck for transportation back to my friend’s workshop. With everything now packed up and well secured, we left the site and headed back home with our newly cut slice of Ash tree. Upon arrival at his home and workshop, we were both eager to investigate the treated timber in more detail. Yes, its weight was now equivalent to that of dried Ash of the same dimensions but we had to ask ourselves why? We sent the slice through his planer and thickness machine and out it came fully dressed just like a piece of fully seasoned dry timber I was advised. To my friend who was well used to working with this type of timber, this discovery was truly amazing in itself. However, when we read the technical data for the fluid and found that the wood was now dimensionally stable, that it would not split or warp and that it was also fully protected from all types of fungal attack, rot and insect attack, my friend looked at me and stated “This has to the most miraculous invention for the treatment of wood ever!”

Upon reading the technical data further, we discovered that the cedarshield fluid contained double tailed molecules within its formulation and upon its application to timber, these molecules would instantly attach themselves to hydroxyls within the timber, acting as a water scavenger and instantly turning the inherent moisture into ethanol gas which immediately evaporated and left the wood totally dry and completely preserved again almost everything. Truly an amazing achievement and even more so when we considered that this fluid is 100% natural organic in its make up and contained no toxins, poisons or hazards of any kind. My friend continued to work on our newly cut circle of Ash wood and now, I am the proud owner of a highly polished and most certainly all natural Ash picnic table that I seen being manufactured literally from start to finish. This unique fluid is now saving my friend from waiting for periods of up to twenty years before he can work his beloved Ash timbers. It is most certainly a wonderful, safe and highly effective product that is likely to be used throughout all areas of the lumber industry.

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Source by Robert M Littlejohn

How to Move a Steel Building

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Depending on the size and design of the steel building there are two options for moving it. Larger steel buildings sealed to a foundation will need to be disassembled and reassembled, while smaller steel buildings may be able to be moved short distances in one piece. Either way, moving a steel building 50 feet or 500 miles requires a lift and a skilled lift operator; if it’s being moved any significant distance an 18-wheeler will be required.

It is possible to move smaller steel buildings like sheds or small garages without disassembling it. If a smaller building is being moved a short distance, say from one end of a property to another it can actually be slid. The process begins by carefully raising the front of the steel building with a lift and sliding wood under it to act like a stand and then again repeating this process on the back to the building. Then, by attaching a towrope to the wood beneath the building, the steel structure can be towed from one place to another.

While this method is much less costly than disassembly and reassembly it’s also more risky. Uneven movement can cause bending and warping that can damage or destroy the structural integrity of a steel building. An advisable, but not surefire method of preventing flexing is to reinforce the skids by attaching 2×4’s cut to the width the building to the skids creating a sort of frame. In the end the building can be towed on the skids by a truck; much like a child being slid through the snow on a sled by his parents.

If the building needs to be moved further then it can be raised up by the lift from the 2 until a truck is able to move below it at which point the lift can lower the steel building or shed onto the bed of the truck. The truck can then relocate the building and then again a lift and raise and lower the steel building onto its new property.

Moving a larger building is much more complex because it involved breaking down a building into its basic components, transporting the components, and then reassembling them back together. The most important part of breaking down a building is organization. Improper deconstruction can create costly expenses in the form of lost or damaged parts. It’s highly highly recommended that skilled laborers be hired to ensure the structural integrity of the steel building is protected through all phases of the moving process.

Breaking down a building is essentially done in the reverse order of constructing one. Remove the trim and accessories, then the roof and wall sheeting, then the framing. A new foundation with the appropriate anchor bolts will need to be prepared at the new location. Once all of the components are moved from the original location to the new location the reconstruction process can begin as if it were a brand new building. High-quality buildings will be easier to move because their components will be able to better withstand the wear and tear of being taken apart and put back together. Also, pre-welded clips on buildings will speed up the entire process and prevent the loss of loose bolted clips during the move.

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Source by Cristina La Fevers