Regardless of whether you are putting together your own club or your own bar, or if you are planning a one time event throughout which there will be a lot of dancing, then dance floor construction is very essential consideration. It should, in truth, be one of your first concerns, because the dance floor construction and where the floor will ultimately go can and will impact the way the rest of the place is prepared and laid out.
When you are planning the structure of a bar or a club, the dance floor construction itself depend on many things. For example, how large is the place in which your bar or club will reside? If you only have a small amount of room, then you need to determine what would you like to take up the most room. For example, do you want a small dance floor? This is a good idea if you are introducing a much more intimate, relaxed club or bar. It is also the ideal alternative if you do not intend to offer dancing all of the time. In such a case, then your dance floor construction plans may include little more than buying a portable dance floor and mapping out enough room in which to put it when you need it. Having said that, if your club is in a small room but you intend to offer dancing quite a lot, then you may need to devote to your dance floor top room priority.
If you have a bigger room with which to work, then your dance floor construction plans can consider on totally new dimensions. The dance floor might be simply as big as you wish it to be though you certainly do not need to get too carried away. You see, your plans should also depend on how many potential consumers and patrons you realistically wish to have. If you are creating an intimate, relaxing room, then be reasonable. Also, if you offer dancing all of the time, that does not necessarily indicate that a whole lot of individuals will be there to dance. You do not need to waste an enormous amount of room on dance floor construction if not that many individuals are going to be using it.
Then, as well, you will need to determine what kind of dance floor you want. Once more, if you only intend to offer dancing some of the time, then a common dance floor may be your greatest bet. If, however, you feel that many people will frequent your club and you intend to offer dancing opportunities often, then you might look at a floor which is powered by LED lights or video.
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PressRelease – The Planet Automotive Group spent the entire month of May raising money for Victory Junction in Randleman, NC.
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC – During the month, Planet Automotive Group donated $100 for every vehicle sold, new or pre-owned and $1 for every person that liked the their Facebook page. The mission of Victory Junction is to enrich the lives of children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses by providing life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun and empowering, in a safe and medically sound environment, free of charge.
Best known for beating down high prices and squashing their competition by giving customers great deals, Planet Automotive Group is now fighting to making a difference for the children of Victory Junction.
Showing their commitment to Victory Junction’s incredible cause, in a special check presentation ceremony, Planet Automotive Group donated $10,000.00 to the organization! Representatives from Victory Junction were on hand and graciously accepted the donation on behalf of the children.
Planet Automotive Group knew that not everyone could come out and buy a car in the month of May, so they provided other ways for the entire community to get involved. Besides donations related to vehicle sales, for every “Like” to the Planet Automotive Group Facebook Page between May 1st and May, 31st, 2013, they donated $1 for people’s thumbs up to this great cause!
“We were happy to join Victory Junction’s mission of enriching the lives of children suffering from chronic medical conditions and serious illnesses. We wanted to help the people of Charlotte to stay informed about this great organization. We wanted to do everything we could to help fund Victory Junction and give these children a way to fight back,” said Helmi Felfel, President of The Planet Automotive Group and a proud member of the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association.
“I felt honored to be a part of this great cause,” said Laura Felfel of The Planet Automotive Group. “We’re happy to help them fight and to make a difference in their lives.”
Victory Junction is a year-round camping environment for children ages six to 16 with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses. Founded by Kyle and Pattie Petty in honor of their son Adam, the camp is located in Randleman, NC. Victory Junction offers programs for a range of disease groups and maintains strong relationships with more than 30 partner hospitals. Victory Junction’s mission is to provide life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun and empowering, in a safe and medically-sound environment. As a not-for-profit organization, the camp operates solely through the support of generous individuals, groups and corporations to provide this experience at no charge to children and their families. For more information or to donate, visit www.victoryjunction.org.
About Planet Automotive Group:
Planet Automotive Group is a premier automotive dealer in the Charlotte area and is owned by Helmi Felfel, a member of the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association. At Planet Automotive Group, we make buying new and quality used cars easy, we have a knowledgeable friendly sales staff and attractive financing options. Planet Automotive Group is proud to be the best solution for all of your car buying needs. At Planet Automotive Group, we strive to always deliver a superior buying experience and customer service is our number one concern. Planet Automotive Group wishes to earn your business for life. We know the only way to do that is to prove to you how important you are to us as a customer. Please come in and let us show you.
Planet Automotive Group is the best place on the planet to buy a car!
For any additional information please visit http://www.planetautomotivegroup.com/ or call (704) 209-7847
Engine Automotive Oil Additives or Snake Oil? Oil additives have failed to deliver for years.
In August 1992, a brilliantly written article exposed the repeated failures in the claims of the oil additive (engine automotive and trucking) industry. The article was entitled Snake Oil – Is That Additive Really A Negative? It was written by Fred Rau and was originally printed in Road Rider magazine, now Motorcycle Consumer News. That expose provided the basis for what we in the industry knew: oil additives are a means of lifting money from the wallets of uninformed consumers.
Many in the engine automotive industry were already skeptics. Weve heard all the promises of friction reduction, longer lasting engines, and fuel savings. Repeatedly, such wanna be solutions failed to live up to the hype. With over thirty years in the field, I was a full blown skeptic with dozens of oil additives experience under my belt.
However, an experienced entrepreneur in the field of toll blending for heavy duty industrial solutions drew on his expertise to create an environmentally safe, friction reducing, motor oil additive, solving the one problem oil additives failed to overcome.
Now, if the problem is truly solved, the benefits are obvious:
-less friction means engine automotive protection
-less heat means engine automotive friction is reduced
-longer engine life means a surge in engine automotive performance
-less friction/heat produces a drop in engine automotive related expense
-less friction, heat also leads directly to increased engine automotive fuel economy
Motor oil, as a lubricant, works but is not always sufficient. When it gets hot, motor oil breaks down, vaporizes and burns. The oil industry has been quite innovative, using different additives to combat this process. Motor oil additives consisting of zinc compounds, molybdenum (moly), chlorinated paraffins, and others. The problem with all these additives (apart from plugging oil passages and toxicity) is they are only suspended in the oil.
But, you say, thats the way to get the additives to the hot spots needing friction protection. You must suspend the oil additive in the oil so it is carried to the engine parts needing protection. Thats standard theory.
Yes.
And thats been the guiding assumption for the oil additive industry all along. Suspend the oil additive in motor oil and let it be carried to the friction hot spots.
2. The necessary assumption also provides the problem with engine automotive theory.
Repeat: Suspend the oil additive in motor oil and let be carried to the friction hot spots.
So, whats the problem?
The problem is, the oil additives do not permanently adhere to internal engine stress points. Its presumed in all oil additive engineering approaches that the motor oil is going to carry its oil additive to the high stress points of the engine. This is where the extra lubricating properties are needed.
In that necessary assumption also lies the problem.
As an engine works under heavy load conditions, pressure and friction build up at some of those metal points. The result? The oil is suddenly “missing in action”. It burns up from excessive heat or is squeezed out (exceeds its load bearing capacity) due to excessive pressure.
Either way you end up with metal on metal. The additives themselves cant work because there isnt enough oil present to suspend them. Its been squeezed out or burned up. Put bluntly, an additive can only be where the motor oil is present.
Remember, if oil additive engineering is relying on an additives suspension in motor oil to do its job, then engineering is also stuck with the limitations of the oils properties to withstand heat and pressure.
Note. The additive must be able to withstand heat and pressure to a greater degree than oil or Why bother adding it?.
3. Solution: What if an oil additive actually starts to perform at the temperatures and stress where oil normally fails?
The solution was an additive already meeting industrial needs concerning friction and heat build up.
Carried by the motor oil, it comes to friction points
– engine rings against the cylinder wall
-bearings
-camshafts
-lifters
-valve guides
-turbo charger
-oil pump
Here it does something that no other additive has ever been able to accomplish. This oil additive disassociates (molecularly) from the oil and literally adheres to the metal at the point of friction, leaving a soft metal carboxylate film that can out perform motor oil as a lubricant in a high friction/heat application (as can be seen in the pictures/test results referenced at the site below).
So this lubricant, unlike oil, whether it be synthetic or petroleum, actually starts to perform at the temperatures and stress where oil normally fails. Remember what happens inside the engine, when fuel ignites at the top of the compression stroke and the piston is moving down the cylinder. There, most of the oil on the cylinder wall gets burned up.
But this additive doesnt burn up like the motor oil carrying it. It molecularly embeds itself into the pores of the cylinder wall. So, when the piston is traveling back up the cylinder, the additive acts as a lubricating agent and is always there.
So, in summation: since youre getting rid of the friction, then youre getting rid of the heat generated from it. That means your oil lasts longer. It doesnt get contaminated as quickly because those high friction points are being adequately lubricated. Adequately lubricated, they will cease to be high friction points, running cooler, the oil will pass through those points without burning which creates harmful acids and sludge.
Most importantly your engine can last longer, run more efficiently, and the fuel that was being used to overcome the friction can now be used to move you down the road to where you need to go.
Identify your real needs for secondary containment leadership and how to support them with the right choices for your field tank operations. Choices and decisions need to be made for secondary spill containment, tank secondary containment, spill containment berms, and secondary containment systems for above ground storage tanks that are all representative of secondary containment for environmental protection. Gaining the tools and right information in order to form leadership decisions in your field can be a weighty responsibility and one that demands your attention and with the abundance of misinformation out there it may also be tedious. Leadership in your Field Operations however requires that the question be answered: “what is in this for me” as a leader?
We understand your scope-of-your-work, responsibilities, as leaders that you must give to environmental protection today, it is significantly important and often also urgent. Gaining the tools and right information in order to form leadership decisions in your field can be a weighty responsibility and one that demands your attention and with the abundance of misinformation out there it may also be tedious. We believe that you will find the support network in this article that you need to form quality leadership decisions toward environmental Secondary Containment for your field operations. You will find this approach is different in that we believe that making a difference is often more important than simply making a sale.
First lets identify your real needs for secondary containment leadership and then support them with the right product choices.
1. “Protecting Your Investment; Preserving Our Environment”. You need what may sound simplistic but really isn’t and is stated in our Manufacturing Division use for their trademark: “Protecting Your Investment; Preserving Our Environment” – a simple slogan but saying much more.
2. Confidence, Security, Assurance. Your secondary containment installation should leave you confident at the end of the day that it will provide the level of protection required. You need to know that potential spilling from the primary tank will remain secure within the bounds of the containment. And you need the assurance that you as a leader have made the wise choice best suited for your operations. In many ways assurance is most important of these three as it really defines that question we have about any product: “what’s in it for me?”.
3. Environmental Regulatory Compliance. You need to be confident that your secondary containment installation meets all of the county, state or provincial, and Federal Codes. EPA, SPCC, NFPA, OSHA, OH&S, ERCB, SEM and more. Does your secondary containment supplier have these codes considered in their product engineering? Confidence, security, & assurance in your product supplier and the product goes a long ways in answering real needs.
4. To ‘Audit-Proof’ your site. Today with so many large EPA fines and shut-downs in the news almost weekly it is critically important that you ‘audit-proof’ your site. While most of the “news” related fines are in reaction to an actual spill occurrence rather than a regional inspection, it is wise to give leadership to secondary containment in SPCC plans in a proactive way rather than to follow through after a spill occurrence. Poor leadership tends to react rather than act. This is true leadership when we can foresee potential problems and place actions in place beforehand. One of your real needs is to ‘audit-proof’ your site in a proactive way.
5. To Show Community Responsibility. More and more Producers are recognizing this need in a participatory way by actively including themselves in the local community. For many of us leaders, we must live in the same community that we work. To answer some of the community’s concerns about our operations and the environment some producers today join league with other producers in the region to give ‘town hall’ type presentations to address community questions. Our community needs to know that we as Producers are showing community responsibility. Secondary Containment does have a role to play in Showing Community Responsibility. To many local residents the sight of a Steel Containment Berm surrounding the tank speaks “confidence” and “security” more than the former days when tanks were bermed only with dirt. It gives assurance to the community that your operations are environmentally responsible in the community. (You may have noticed here the law of leadership… Only when the leaders has confidence, security, and assurance himself can he give confidence, security, and assurance to others…)
6. Ease of Construction. The ease of construction of your secondary containment system becomes important on two levels. First, in the matter of overall project cost. Second, in consideration of your local roustabout crew doing the assembly. A rule-of-thumb with any product and project is “to keep it simple”. A typical secondary containment berm should be assembled in less than a day following proper pad preparation. Aside from the visible sense of accomplishment at day’s end though is that the ease of construction reflects highly upon your leadership among even the working crews. Leaders make wise choices before construction commences. Another real need then is ease of construction.
7. To Demonstrate Financial Responsibility. As an operations leader you need to demonstrate that you have been “financially responsible” in your decisions for the Owners and Shareholders of your Production Facility. Knowing that you have gotten a ‘best price’ on the product and the ease of construction goes a long way in showing leadership in this arena. We have discovered that at many locations where indigenous soils are not available to berm tanks and must be hauled and constructed, the cost of dirt berms is often greater than that of assembled steel. Care must be taken however with choice of steel product. Some agricultural manufacturer steel products supplied for upstream petroleum secondary containment may appear lower in initial cost only to suffer in installation costs and time creating a higher project cost. There is a real need for operations leaders to demonstrate financial responsibility. We help you meet these needs.
Bristar Containment is a leader in Secondary Containment Manufacturing based in Denver CO and Wimborne AB that has addressed these real needs with products and services that give Leadership to this sector of the industry Secondary Containment. Bristar’s leadership in 15 years of serving Upstream Petroleum Operators & Producers needs has tailored solutions directly for the field and for leaders in the field. Bristar Containment Industries Ltd is the only Steel Berm Manufacturer specifically native to the Upstream Petroleum Industry. Why does this make a difference?
“The difference is in the engineering”. Bristar Steel looks different. (See: The resource box below for details.) Bristar’s design approach to secondary containment has not been adapted from agricultural backgrounds but is rooted in Professional Civil Engineering that meets specific “oilfield” parameters and codes & requirements. Being birthed out of a background of Oilfield Production Tank Fabrication and Production Measurement in 1995 Bristar employed veteran Petroleum Engineering Services to engineer a secondary containment system specific to Upstream Petroleum use. Being strict in their parameters to meet various codes, Government regulatory requirements and their own critical goals gives Bristar the confidence, security, and assurance that manufactured Secondary Containment products meet your real needs.
For small business public relations has a particularly obvious role. These are the very companies that are greatly dependent on generating awareness, credibility and trust if customers or investors are to be convinced to do business with them. Of course, such firms have many different marketing routes to choose from, so why should they contact a PR agency?
The truth is that PR is the most cost-effective of all of the marketing methods out there for smaller businesses, catering for almost every need. It’s easy to imagine that advertising, social media or content marketing will get your small firm the results that it deserves, but there’s one crucial difference between all of those and PR: the party that is doing the communicating.
While self-promotion has its undoubted value, it just doesn’t pack the authoritative power that coverage from a well-respected third party does. Whether such a party is a journalist or an influential PR industry figure, they will have credibility that they pass on with each message that they communicate. Such messages are very much word-of-mouth marketing, of the kind that has been so effective for generations at building credibility and trust for the subject.
Such public relations are even more effective for your small company, however, when they are performed in conjunction with the other marketing methods mentioned above. This is where our own free, no-obligation PR Audit comes in here at Vantage Public Relations. When you enquire about PR from Vantage PR, you benefit from all of the expertise accumulated during our more than 20 years’ experience in the field – manifesting in a programme that is powerful, cost-effective and perfectly tailored to your small firm.
The process that follows your request of a free PR audit from us is a very meticulous and considered one. For instance, we will take the time to review the current position of both your company and its competitors with regard to media coverage, company and brand awareness. We will then recommend the PR strategy that will be most impactful in helping you to reach your desired audiences.
Finally, a PR action plan will be developed based on a central strategy, embracing all of the essential elements for getting your small business noticed by the right people, in the right mediums and in the right way. Get in touch with the friendly and professional Vantage PR team today to receive your own free PR audit.