The Odds and End Bin

Many issues can arise when owning a car, whether having a flat tire or your engine blowing up. These problems can be avoided by maintaining your vehicle correctly. This could be taking your car to the mechanic regularly or checking it yourself. If you don't know what a noise could be or don't know what to look for, you should bring it into an auto shop so they can fix it properly if it has issues. However, simple things can be done to avoid taking it into the shop often. Only some things need to be checked frequently/monthly, but it is good practice to know what to look for when the time does come around. Pennzoil A simple thing most people need to learn is to check/change their oil . Every car uses oil, except for electric-only cars, to lubricate the engine and other moving parts, which can cause numerous problems if it runs low or old. The first thing to do is make sure the engine is not running. Next, you'll need to locate your oil dipstick in the engine bay, clean it of...

The first ever fast food chain to be made was White Castle. Its first location was in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921, resulting in several more fast-food chains appearing a couple of years later. KFC in 1930, McDonald's and Dairy Queen in 1940, and Chick-fil-A in 1946 were some companies to open within the next thirty years. But the one that is the most popular is McDonald's, owning just over forty thousand locations. However, when it first started, it wasn't always so popular.  FoodBuisnessNews It was 1948 when the brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald converted their barbecue restaurant into a burger and milkshake place. This was in San Bernardino, California, but in reality, it was the second food industry business: a hot dog stand they ran near the Santa Anita track. They had hoped that it would pay off by focusing on burgers, fries, and shakes and selling them at a lower price than other restaurants. They could only achieve this by having a self-serve counter where the cus...

Every day, people drive to and from work in their vehicles, their primary means of transportation. With it being such a crucial thing that people need, they must take care of it. One of the ways that people can do is the tires on their car. Though a regular but not frequent thing that needs to be replaced, only a few know the importance of it, with the rest just doing it because they are told to by their mechanic, family, or friends. Tires are the only thing that makes contact with the road, making them a crucial part of being able to drive. It affects not just the vehicle's handling but the vehicle's safety, ride, and braking. If not taken care of properly, it can result in something like needing to replace more than just the tire or something more severe like a crash. However, these situations can be easily avoided by knowing a few simple things to look for. One of the simplest things that one could check is their tread depth. This is important because the tread on the tire m...

Fresh: having its original qualities unimpaired. Fresh is what most people think that foods in the grocery store are. But in reality, most of the grown food, particularly in the US, has lost its essential nutrients. In the movie " Fresh ," they talk about food production in America, how it's changed over the years, and what some people do to make nutrient-rich and healthier food. Fresh hopes to translate the issues industrialization has had on farming, like monocultures, manure lagoons, and unnutritious foods. Fresh (2009 film) They show these problems in the movie by introducing several different farmers, some using mainly pesticides and artificial fertilizer and others working their farms as they would be in nature. For example, Joel Salatin, a sustainable farmer from Swoope, Virginia, moves his cows from pasture to pasture to imitate what they would do in the wild, "always moving." Doing this avoids what leading industrialized farms do: feeding dead things to...