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All cars have their own unique type of car speaker installation issues although installing speakers is a relatively simple process. Most speaker installations can be finished in about an hour or less. The intricacy of the installation will vary depending on the vehicle. And again, depending on the vehicle, speakers may be installed in the dash, doors, or rear deck.

Most importantly, remember that safety should be considered when installing speakers. Damage can be caused by not installing speakers properly - this can impose added cost and even possible injury. Protection for hearing/vision should be used as necessary.

Here are fundamental steps to consider for installing speakers. Remember, some vehicles may require extra steps. Although the location of the speakers in your vehicle may vary from the mounting locations noted here, the method should be comparable.

For installation of dash and door speakers, you will need to ascertain if the vehicle has speaker grilles that are removable. If they can be removed, take the grilles off utilizing the appropriate tools, remove the screws holding the speaker in, disconnect the speaker harness that was attached to the speaker, connect the speaker harness to the new speaker, plug the speaker harness which is connected to the new speaker to the harness in the car, set the speaker in the opening and reinstall it using the screws for mounting, replace the grille and repeat with the other speaker. If installing speakers in the door, make certain the depth of the speaker will not interfere with the window operation after installation.

If the grilles cannot be removed, the dash pads or possibly the door panel will have to be removed. Be sure to keep an eye on any screws/clips removed should this be the case. Next follow the same steps shown above except you will need to reinstall the dash pads/door panel. If removing the door panel, be aware that screws can be mounted in the armrest or inside the door latch space and may be behind the trim panels. After all the screws are removed from the panel, raise it up so you can disconnect any wiring harnesses.

If installing rear deck speakers, you must determine if the speakers are top-mounted or bottom-mounted as this will determine your steps. If top-mounted, remove the grilles, remove the screws holding the speaker in, disconnect the speaker harness, connect the harness to the new speaker, plug in the harness connected to the speaker to the vehicle side of the harness, place the new speaker in the opening and mount with the screws, replace the grille and repeat with the other speaker.

If the speakers are bottom-mounted, reach in the trunk and remove the screws mounting the speaker. Then follow the same basic steps as above.

Eventually, you’d have to turn on the radio and check the operation of the new speakers.

Car sound systems and anything related to car audio are dealt with on http://www.car-sound-systems.com

The wellspring of confidence is belief. When you believe in something, you accept and have conviction about the truth, actuality, or validity of that thing. When the belief is about you, its called self-confidence. Self-confidence is your belief that you can marshal your physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual resources in the successful pursuit of a goal.

The number one predictor of individual or team success is confidence level. Confident people tend to initiate action and control their environment - even under difficult conditions. Your degree of self-confidence will determine the kinds of risks you take, the amount of effort you’ll expend, and the strength of your perseverance in time of trouble. Your confidence will determine the amount of flexibility you creatively apply in new situations. Your confidence will promote either optimism or pessimism and will dictate the degree to which you are vulnerable to debilitating stress or depression.

We’ve already said that confidence is the single most important factor in determining an individual or team’s likelihood of success. That being the case, promoting confidence is the first task that any leader should undertake. Even though confidence is a personal, intangible belief, it can be actively promoted. There are four basic ways in which we build confidence: the direct experience of success, observing someone similar to you, model success, coaching from a respected individual, and celebration.

The four ways of promoting confidence can work alone or in concert. The important point for leaders to remember is that confidence is the single greatest key to success. The great news is that confidence can be home grown and nurtured. Thus, it’s vital that individuals and teams be provided the opportunity to succeed as part of their development. Such opportunities may be provided by assigning progressively more difficult tasks or by scheduling associative experiences. High-energy models or coaches can be employed. However it’s done, this is a function of the planning process. The best results will come from the best-developed resources. It’s also a planning function to ensure that success, and sometimes failure, is celebrated on a routine basis. That is not to say that the celebration should become routine - celebrating Tuesdays would quickly lose its impact - but it should be recognized as an integral part of the work process. Growing confident people and teams is a leader’s first and greatest responsibility.

The bottom line: productivity gains of 30% can be achieved almost immediately and at little cost by simply boosting confidence.

George Ebert is the President of Trinity River Seminars and Consulting, a firm specializing in the custom design and delivery of team building, personal growth and ethical development programs. Mr. Ebert is a highly sought after speaker, educator and consultant with over thirty years experience in both the public and private sectors. He has presented widely throughout the Unites States. He is the author of the management cult classic, Climbing From the Fifth Station: A guide to building teams that work!

Do you have a list of e-mail addresses of your customers or prospects? Do you have a list of e-zine subscribers? If you have their permission, send them an e-mail survey to conduct market research. See if customers are satisfied with your products or services, or see if they enjoyed their visit at your web site.

You can learn things you didn’t know about your business by surveying. Maybe your customers buy your main product just to get the free gifts. Your visitors may think it’s to hard to navigate through your web site. You may find out that most of your customers make over $100,000 a year. By knowing this type of important information you can improve your web site, products/services, advertising, and marketing.

3 Popular Types Online Business Surveys

Customer Satisfaction Surveys - what did you like or dislike about our product or service, what can we improve or add, how satisfied are you with our customer service, etc.

Web Site Feedback Surveys - did you find it to easy navigate through our site, did you find the information you wanted, what did you like or dislike about the site, how did you find our site, etc.

Demographic Surveys - what’s your gender, age, income, occupation, marital status, etc.

Sometimes people don’t want to take the time to fill out a survey. To encourage them to fill out the survey offer them a freebie if they fill it out. Some ideas are free ebooks, free advertising, free reports, free internet services or a free e-zine. Hold a free online contest or sweepstakes and ask visitors to fill out a survey before they enter.

If you don’t yet have an e-mail address list you could post your survey on appropriate newsgroups, forums and e-mail discussion lists. You could also upload survey software to your web site or use a free survey service on the internet. To find such services just type in the keyword “survey” in your search engine of choice.

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Budgeting for Your Water Feature

Anyone that has ever constructed a water feature will tell you that it can be surprising how quickly the cost of installing such a feature can escalate. For this reason it is imperative that careful planning takes place BEFORE you rush in and begin constructing your dream water feature. Such planning can prevent nasty shocks from occurring.

Design

The first, and often overlooked, consideration should be having a plan put to paper by a Water Feature Specialist. Frequently, your vision and a tradesperson’s vision of what your feature should look like is a matter of interpretation. Plans put this issue and any other conflicts to rest. Also, Water Feature Specialist can advise you on important issues such as the best style of water feature to suit your space, placement, material choice and practical considerations (eg: location of underground services, water tables, safety, site specific issues etc). Ultimately employing the services of a Water Feature Specialist to design and/or construct your water feature not only avoids costly mistakes but ensures that you will be delighted with the end result!

Material Choices

This is the area that will absorb most of your budget. If you have employed the services of a Water Feature Specialist then you will already have a list of materials that you need to purchase that has been designed to suit your budget.

If you are designing and constructing the feature yourself there are many ways to save money on materials without compromising too much.

A few examples are:

• Reproduction stone instead of natural stone
• Facia a wall rather than construct from stone
• Rendered and painted Besser Blocks rather than more expensive blocks
• A liner pond rather than a concrete one
• A solar pump in a small feature eliminates the need for an electrician
• Second hand bricks/pavers can be replaced with modern imitations

Be creative and spend more time at this stage, you will be amazed at how much money you can save.

Buying Equipment

Purchasing Pumps and Filters for Water Features can be a daunting task. It is best to always seek professional advice here as mistakes can be very costly. In order to get professional advice you will need to be able to answer the following questions:

1. What size is your pond/water feature (or volume, if known)?
2. What is the ‘head height’ of your water (ie. The height your pump will need to push water)?
3. How often and for how long do you intend to run your pump?
4. What other features must your pump run (eg: Spitters, Filters etc)?

It is wise to buy the best pump that you can afford as this is the heart of your feature. Buy a pump that is large enough to run your feature (consider future additions also). Imagine a car where motor that wasn’t quite powerful enough to run it, your water feature is no different. If you skimp now you may need to buy a new pump later on, a costly mistake.

Construction

When considering your budget it is prudent to consider the types of skills required to complete construction of your feature as the construction of a water feature often requires many skills. Be realistic about your skill level and decide if it is best to call on the assistance of a Water Feature Specialist.

If constructing the water feature yourself you should make allowances for tool hire/purchases as you will most likely not have all tools required on hand.

Other costs to consider:

Tip / Skip fees - you need to dispose of waste, especially if excavating

Electricity supply - always employ a suitably qualified and licensed electrician. As all mains power must be at least 600mm below ground level you may elect to dig the trench yourself to save money or consider hiring a trenching machine.

Aquatic Plants & Soils / Fish - Often overlooked at this stage

Delivery Fees - plan and co-ordinate delivery of materials well so that you do not overspend on delivery fees

Consumables - don’t forget tubing, fittings, nails, screws, glue etc

Nets / Water Quality Test Kits and Treatments etc - all essentials for owning a water feature

Estimating Time

Often the time required for construction of a water feature is not sufficient and more often than not, twice the amount of time originally estimated is actually required. When planning how much time you will spend on your project add time for ordering, visiting suppliers, phone calls, inclement weather, late deliveries from suppliers and other factors outside your control.

Remember that set-up and pack-up also adds time onto your day. Allow yourself plenty of time and be realistic in your expectations of yourself and make creating your water feature and enjoyable experience.

About the Author

Danielle Dickinson is an avid water feature enthusiast. She is a regular contributor to Gardening Magazines. Visit her website http://www.waterfeaturesonline.com.au for more information on building and maintaining any type of Water Feature as well as a huge range of water gardening products.

There are thousands of polygamists in the Mountain West. Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormon Prophet, started it all. (To his credit, he did not start polyandry for the women, only polygany for the men. Polygamy includes both terms.)

His first wife, Emma, was against it. (So were many church leaders and even more wives.) She said, “God did not say that!” She was angry! (Well, she didn’t say it exactly like that, but near enough.)

Her son, Joseph Smith III, denied and tried to prove that his father did not practice polygamy. That didn’t help. The ex-wives he interviewed in Utah after his father’s death evidently all lied to him. He insisted that his father never was a polygamist. (Sounds good to me.)

The practice of polygamy poured so much misery on the Mormon Church that they dumped it. The Federal Government had the top leaders hiding in Mexico or in the basement of one of their homes. Polygamy could only continue to cause misery to the point that the church would not be able to function to its full destiny which is to save every man, woman, and child on the planet Earth, living or dead. Utah would still be a territory.

The polygamists are now booted out of the Mormon Church whenever or wherever found. Polygamy is bad fruit.

Present-day polygamist say the Mormon Church was wrong in dumping a fundamental belief that a person had to be a polygamist to get really good real estate in the Celestial Kingdom. They say about the banning of polygamy in the Mormon Church: “God did not say that!” (Well, not exactly but close enough.)

The Mormon’s have three Kingdoms of Glory guaranteed by the atonement of Jesus Christ.

The really bad go to the Telestial Kingdom, the good go to the Terrestrial Kingdom, and the Mormons and children under eight go to the Celestial Kingdom. The few left are Sons of Perdition. They go to hell to live with Second Mate Satan and his mutinous crew of angels.

It doesn’t end there. You could bounce to the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom by being a polygamist. That was before the Mormon Church banned the practice. Now to avoid being a servant in the Celestial Kingdom, you must simply be married in a Mormon Temple.

The Mormons are building lots of temples which they hope will keep operating into the Millennium so that living and dead can all go to the top of the Celestial Kingdom. All living ordinances such as baptism and marriage are performed in the temples for the dead (Unless you are Jewish. Then you must have special authorization from the family to do any ordinance, living or for the dead. Israel got angry about the Mormons saving their dead for them. They like to do things like that for themselves.)

The Mormons will not be happy in the Celestial Kingdom unless you are there with them.

That’s why you see so many young men walking around the face of the earth in white shirt and tie. There are young women too, but they don’t have such a stressful dress code. Young men or young women, they want you to know that God wants you right up there at the top. From this experience most of these missionaries become wonderful monogamous parents.

First God separates the sheep from the goats. Mormons then separate the sheep from the sheep.

Anyway, polygamy is causing more and more problems because of what Mormons call, “Unrighteous Dominion.”

The polygamists are now considered by Mormons and Non-Mormons to be living in cults. A typical cult (there are a number of them) has a dictator who decides how to divide up the young women. The young men are shooed out of the clan so that there are more young women for more old men. These young women are not educated less they become wise and bug out from the clan. They are prisoners. They have no say in their destiny. They can not refuse marriage to an old “holy man.” (I got this simplistic view from the newspapers. Don’t blame me!)

The State of Utah is fighting the polygamist. The Utah Attorney General wants the worst of them in jail. Some polygamist men are nice to their women. He can’t put all of them in jail because there are too many of them. One problem is that the polygamist cults are breeding schizophrenics and people with both physical and mental disorders by the dozens. The major problems are caused by inbreeding. This inbreeding must stop.

My father was always afraid of inbreeding. He saw lots of that in Idaho when he was young and was afraid to death of it. When two of his grandchildren got married to each other, he went into a “whizfanggle!” (This is a new word for you folks that have grandchildren marrying each other. It was a niece and nephew in my case. The marriage flopped.)

We moved to Idaho two years ago. We learned this: Never say anything bad about anybody. If you do, you will be talking to his or her cousin, aunt, grandparent, nephew, or such. Everybody in town will be mad at you. And they are not polygamist. What would things be like if they were?

“Safe Houses” are being setup throughout the west for runaway polygamist brides. Some of these brides are very young in their early teens. They need to be schooled, clothed, and gainfully employed. They also have to be protected from the cults they ran from. Some former polygamists run these safe houses. God Bless Them!

The cults are secretive and sometimes deadly. If you see a polygamist man and you are a young woman, run, run, run!

That’s what Emma Smith did after husband was murdered–and she was right.

She knew that God is not stupid and that even prophet husbands can make mistakes. Anyway, that is how I see it.

Copyright©John T. Jones, Ph.D.2005

John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com)is a retired R&D engineer and VP of a Fortune 500 company. He is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering), poetry, etc. Former editor of international trade magazine. Jones is Executive Representative of International Wealth Success.

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