Aries (March 21-April 19)
Lionheart. Critical choices are at hand – what to keep, what to let go? Work, property or domestic conditions are restructured to fit new ideals and expectations. New color preferences indicate how much your tastes are changing. Sort through piles on Saturday.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Climb every mountain. You’re fully charged and on a mission; your soul is set to achieve dharma, an important life work. The big hurdles are overcome by Thursday. Catch up with people and little details like bills over the weekend.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Represent! A transformative process is at work as the week begins. Releasing the past frees you to redefine yourself and your future. If somebody pushes your buttons on Friday, move the buttons. Enjoy concocting playful mixtures over the weekend.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Multiple guess. Two new moons in your sign (June 21 and July 22) signal a powerful period of reorientation. An initial breakthrough is smooth as silk as the week begins. You’re ready for this! Face forward and tell Mr. Worry to take a hike.
Leo (July 23-August 22)
Unite and conquer. Cooperative efforts with partners are poised to flourish. Watch for power surges or mood spikes on Monday/Tuesday. Retain poise in the face of resistance after Thursday. Actions speak louder than words; pause to rethink the question.
Virgo (August 23-September 22)
Singin’ in the bathtub. Love is a powerful force for change and growth. Battles with ghosts from the past are unleashed. Anger or fury needs to be released to open the way for honest talk after Thursday. Wait out the storm so you can ride the wave.
Libra (September 23-October 22)
Sunburst and starlight. Scales fall from eyes and truth is revealed as the week begins. An authority figure overturns prior barriers. It’s a whole new game by Wednesday. Plan your next moves with the soul sisters, Prudence and Foresight, as the weekend arrives.
Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
Harmony of the spheres. Multiple resolutions intersect and create options to move in new directions. A deeply penetrating viewpoint on Tuesday confirms some speculations. Too many people make claims on limited resources on Friday.
Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)
Gallant gestures. Things cultivated in the past bloom this week and yield a bumper-crop of benefits for you. An unsolicited compliment transforms your sense of self-worth and potential. Rise above posturing and turf wars on Friday and aim for a productive weekend.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
Rock solid. Loved ones conquer obstacles in leaps and bounds this week. Frustrations dissolve with a little help from friends. Absence or mechanical glitches slow the pace on Friday. Savor blessings over the weekend.
Aquarius (January 20-February 18)
Enter through the exit. Everyone loves it when a good plan comes together. Your inner life or domestic conditions are favorably improved this week, and some additional bonuses arrive after Wednesday. Two people need help on Friday; multi-task with style.
Pisces (February 19-March 20)
Laughing Buddha. You gain an abundance of benefits through partners and family this week; past kindness is amply rewarded by emotional support through transitions. Friday morning irritations give way to a marvelous weekend. Connect with elders and old friends.

It is never too early or too late for elder-care planning. People often think it is too early if there is not a crisis, or if a crisis has occurred, many think it is too late.
In our experience, some type of planning is always beneficial, no matter the situation.
A wide range of concerns need to be addressed with each situation being somewhat different. Common concerns are asset protection, quality of care, quality of life, protecting the healthy spouse, figuring out how to pay for needed care, determining what type of care is needed and the best place to get care.
Many times it takes a team to flesh out the issues and to determine the best course of action. This team can consist of adult children who are decision makers, family caregivers, geriatric care managers, financial planners and elder-law attorneys.
Pre-crisis planning can be done long before the crisis. As we get older, we realize some type of health crisis is likely to occur. Mark has experienced this with the recent illness and death of his father, and the prior experience of his uncle suffering from several strokes, ending up in a nursing home and dying at 58.
Pre-crisis planning can include purchasing long-term care insurance, repositioning assets and making sure the proper legal documents are in place. In some cases, the language in a legal document may be the difference in reacting effectively or not being able to do much at all.
A family health care crisis can be extremely stressful and emotionally draining. Believe us, when we say this because both of us have been through some trying times. The point is it is not too late for effective planning, even after the crisis has occurred.
One of the primary concerns seems to be figuring out how to pay for the high cost of care. With nursing home care routinely costing more than $6,000 per month, the fear is running out of money. It is a shame that it can wipe out one’s life savings and leave a healthy spouse in the predicament of not having enough money to live.
A complete analysis should be done to evaluate resources, income and care requirements. It can be tricky if Medicaid is considered as an option to help pay for care. The rules are hard to understand, and timing can be crucial in knowing what to do and when to do it.
You may be reading this article and have an ailing spouse, or maybe you are a child of aging parents, or you feel like life is passing by and it’s time to take action. Whether you like to plan ahead, are a procrastinator or the crisis has already occurred, it is never too late to plan.  A good place to start is to contact an attorney who focuses on elder-care planning. Free consultations are often available.  A good elder-care attorney will be able to refer you to a financial planner or geriatric care manager, if needed, as part of the planning process.

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He never claimed to be a perfect city councilman, but Mark Sobczak was a dedicated one.
His June 11 resignation was a shock to most, but the signs of stress have been present for a while.
Often torn between allegiance to his union brothers and his comrade in the mayor’s office, Sobczak nonetheless made it a point to voice his opinions and vote his conscience.
Doubters will find plenty to argue that point, but remember Sobczak’s union-unfriendly vote that broke a tie on zoning for charter schools, and you’ll note that he was willing to go against the grain. His insistence on the unpopular idea of charging for fire services is another example of his facing media and political heat.
This latest debate between keeping Teamsters on Toledo trash detail or outsourcing the work was probably the last conflict for Sobczak, and one he would have been pilloried for no matter which way he voted. We can, I believe, deduce his uncast vote by his decision to resign.
It is easy to forget that city council is a part-time job, that our representatives must first answer to the needs of family and employer.
There are intrinsic flaws in our system of city government, and while the movement to reduce the number of seats from 12 to nine is not the only issue on the table, it is certainly germane to the conversation.
I believe Sobczak is a good man, as honest as any in local politics, and that he has learned a great deal about how business and government interact in Toledo. Perhaps at a future time, he will find a public use for that experience and knowledge.
In the meantime, he is to be thanked for his service and wished well on his new course.

Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

Some in this country today (yours truly included) are concerned about a number of the things that seem to be going on in this county. Their concern, justified or not, is that increasing government bureaucracy and the increased level of government control in the private sector is leading us down the road to a fascist form of government. Apparently not to be outdone by those on the national stage however, some of our local politicians seem intent to create their own form of police state.

Oh maybe not exactly the same kind as those on a national level (at least not yet), but they do seem intent on having more than sworn officers of the law perform low level law enforcement functions. There is a memo circulating from our Mayor, as reported by WSPD on June 15, that many other Toledo employees may soon be writing parking tickets in the city. While the Mayor refuses to answer any real questions concerning this memo, saying that streets, bridges, and harbors employees will be performing this function, neither has he denied its existence nor denied that such functions will be performed by non-law enforcement personnel.

This is not the first such proposal, as Mayoral candidate Ben Konop has suggested that our sanitation engineers should likewise be keeping a look out in our neighborhoods for wrong-doers and nefarious acts (though as we go to single person automated trucks, this may prove more of a problem). Perhaps in that same vein, we should be asking all of our street repair crews, lawn mowers, and tree planters to do the same. Perhaps we can even have clerical staff on stakeouts during their lunch hours to break the mindless tedium of their paper pushing existences, since of course since city staff cutbacks, they undoubtedly have a lot of free time on their hands.

All of this of course comes on the heels of a $12.5 million dollar deficit in Toledo, requiring some kind of new revenue source if it is to be made up. With the layoffs of 75 police officers as a consequence, it seems to be creating some rather outside of the box thinking to the city’s problem (though 500,000 $25 parking tickets seems a bit unrealistic).

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is madness! While I would assume that most in Toledo care enough about the city to report illegal activity that they witness to the police; civilian employees of the city attempting to perform even the lowest level of law enforcement presents a clear danger to both the employee and the city. The sanitation employee who is looking for illegally parked cars may not be paying proper attention to their own safety or the safe operation of their vehicle. Likewise, a city employee writing a parking ticket to an irate citizen and untrained in how to handle such situations, may be placing themselves in harms way in the process of attempting to generate minuscule revenues for the city.

Now the Toledo Police Patrolman’s Association is already threatening to take this to court (again as reported by WSPD), saying the City Charter permits parking tickets to be written by only select individuals, and that those that the Mayor lists in his memo are not among them. The city could merely counter this however, by changing parking violations so that they are no longer a criminal offense, and will be treated in the same way as red light camera citations are currently handled in the city.

This memo, if true, could be the latest of sad commentaries on a truly sad period in the history of Toledo; I cannot help but chuckle at the prospect in one respect however. For this nonsense reminds me of the Mel Brooks classic “Blazing Saddles”, where an unscrupulous government employee Hedley Lamarr was recruiting bad guys to destroy the town of Rock Ridge and chase off its inhabitants. One small group of ‘banditos’ refuses to be deputized, stating “Badges, we don’t need no stinking badges.”

Tim Higgins blogs at justblowingsmoke.blogspot.com.

A June 18 press release said 15 harpists will play in the 12th annual American Harp Society Day Ensemble Concert 7 p.m. June 26 in the Great Gallery of Toledo Museum of Art. The public concert, it said, was a free feature attraction of Harp Week 2009.

The release said Harp Week 2009 is a harpist convention running June 22 through June 26. Harpists can enter ensemble rehearsals and practice application workshops, it said.

Amongst Harp Week’s special activities, the release said, were a special guest workshop and a traveling harp store. The former, it said, was hosted by Toledo Symphony Artistic Administrator and Principle second violinist Merwin Siu. The latter, it added, was managed by Kelly Yousoufian of the Michigan Harp Center.

The release said Harp Week 2009 was open to anyone with a year or more of harp experience. It said the concert itself would contain a range of original and traditional harp pieces played on harps of different sizes and string counts.

You gotta hand it to Carty. He’s coming up with some pretty inventive ways to close the city’s gaping budget hole. His ingenuity has once again brought international attention to our fine city.  I came up with some of my own ideas, and I’ll present them here in “Memo from the Mayor” form so hizzoner can simply copy and paste them into an e-mail to his top administrators.

To: All city commissioners and department heads
From: He who must be obeyed
As you know, I have received no cooperation from city council in dealing with our budget deficit. That panel of grandstanding malcontents has rejected my revenue enhancement proposals at every turn. Therefore, it is incumbent on you, the best paid people on my payroll, to do your part.
Here are the assignments I want you to personally perform:
Commissioner of Streets, Bridges & Harbor: Get out from behind your desk and start ticketing people who’ve parked their cars on gravel. Any gravel. If they’re parked in the street and one of the tires is on the lip of a pothole with exposed stones, slam ’em with a fine. And since you’re also in charge of the harbor, ticket the Audubon Society. Those damned seagulls are crapping all over the place. If they can’t control their birds, we will. And we’ll make some money to boot.
Commissioner of Solid Waste: I want you to … uhh … let me think about this.
Chief of Police: Catching criminals doesn’t earn us one thin dime. Until further notice, your life is all about speeding tickets. I want you to turn Toledo into one big speed trap. And I want you to tail those clowns over at WSPD. If they go so much as a tenth of a mile over the limit, I want to see a SWAT team descend on them like flies at the landfill. Think of this part of your assignment as getting two for one.
Commissioner of Inspection: Have you seen how many signs there are in Toledo with burned out or flashing fluorescent bulbs? Can you imagine how that bothers the visually impaired? As you know, I have a great deal of empathy for the disabled (See “Mayor suggests moving deaf near airport”).
Get on it. Now.
Commissioner of Solid Waste: I was thinking … but no … your people are Teamsters.
Commissioner of Health: Start policing public restrooms. Anyone who tries to exit without washing their hands, $100 right there, right now. And put your thinking cap on about enforcing flossing. Around every tooth. We’ll provide a four-tooth waiver for those who’ve had their wisdom teeth pulled.
Commissioner of Parks & Forestry: The squirrels have been on the gravy train far too long. It stops here. Same goes for the raccoons.  I’m talking an acorn tax. We pay to maintain all of those oak trees, and it’s time we got something in return. And all of those sandlot sluggers wiling away the hours this summer playing ball at one of the city parks’ diamonds? Home plate tax with a grand slam surcharge. No exceptions. Their parents send ’em to school with milk money, so they should view this as a continuation of their daily investment in their child’s development.
Commissioner of Solid Waste: You’re fine. Keep doing what you’re doing.
Chief of the Fire Division: With all of the firefighters we’ve got in Toledo, why do we still have fires? I want you personally going door to door conducting fire safety inspections. You see a faux ficus near an electrical outlet, that’s $25. Toaster with bread crumbs at the bottom? A hundred bucks. If we’re going to provide fire protection, they’re gonna pay for it. Twice.
Commissioner of Solid Waste: Your Teamsters are doing such a fabulous job, I’m going to spend
$12 million we don’t have and buy your guys some new garbage trucks. Air-conditioned? Of course!
I know that ordering you to personally carry out these orders might seem onerous. But as you know, my ideas are both inspired and unequaled. Why else would they be the buzz of the international news media?
And remember: I’m in charge here; you’re not.

E-mail columnist Jim Harpen at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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One of the best-attended charity events of the year is the Toledo Zoo’s “Zoo-to-Do.” The event takes place on the zoo grounds after closing time. Grazing stations, entertainment stages, seating and dance floors are tucked underneath a series of white tents in the open air of the Zoo’s promenade. Bite-size morsels of delicacies are donated by 56 local restaurants and caterers and are highlighted in food stations designed by the restaurateurs and their staff. Music and dancing is provided on three separate entertainment stages.

Returning this year as the event’s presenting sponsor was National City Bank, now a part of PNC. The Zoo is pleased with National City’s leading partnership and the partnership of the many businesses of the businesses offering cash and in-kind donations towards the event.

National City's Teresa Beebe and Debbie Ernsthausen with the Zoo's Mary Fedderke.

“National City Bank has been fantastic for us every year,” said Peter Boyer, event chair. “Without their support and the rest of our business support this event would not have happened.”

Because of the support of nearly 100 businesses, the Zoo-to-Do is considered by many to be one of the premier grazing events in our region. National City continues to sponsor the event because of the Zoo’s importance to the region and because the Zoo-to-Do is a significant well-attended event.

“We think that the Zoo is one of the things that brings people into this city,” said Debbie Ernsthausen, senior vice president of client community relations for National City. “We also think that this is a good event and looking around a lot of people agree with us.”

For the first time in the 22-year history of the Zoo-to-Do, the organizers sought media sponsorships. Providing television sponsorship of the event was WTVG 13ABC. The event was highlighted in commercials, the news cast and nearly every community focused program aired at the station. This helped to drive ticket sales and created a sold out event for the Zoo.

The net proceeds of the event support the Zoo’s animal management, conservation, educational and scientific programs.

Recently, the ninth annual LatinoFest was held in Promenade Park. The festival showcases the diversity of Latino music, art, culture and cuisine. Regional musicians as well as national Tejano bands, Sunny Sauceda and Los DesperadoZ performed for the crowd who listened to and danced with the music.

Taylor Automotive was a first time sponsor of the event. Two Latino employees, John Flores and Lupe Cantu, proposed the idea of supporting ethnic festival to their company. The idea was embraced by the company as a way of supporting their employees and clients and as a means of reaching out to new customers.

“I’ve been to every LatinoFest since day one. I was born and raised in the South End of Toledo and still live there. This is my community. These are my neighbors and clients,” said Flores.

“The Latino community buys from Taylor, and we are out here to let them know that we are there for them whether they speak English or Spanish,” said Cantu

Proceeds of the event are reinvested into the Latino community through charities, like the Sofia Quintero Center and events, such as the Diamante Awards.

Christine Senack is a Toledo-based consultant helping non-profit organizations, businesses and individuals work smarter for the greater good of our community. On occasion she also presents the TMZ Report on FOX Toledo News First at 4. Connect with her on Facebook and Twitter.

Upcoming Events:

June 26: Preview Party. Sample fine hors d oeuvres while getting a first look at the Crosby Festival of the Arts artists’ booths. Guests at the preview party will get the first opportunity to purchase artwork offered and speak with the artists. Tickets are $75. Visit toledogarden.org or call (419) 536-5566 for more information.
June 27-28: Crosby Festival of the Arts. Our region’s original, premiere fine arts festival featuring the work of over 230 artists. Admission to the Festival on Saturday and Sunday is $7. Call (419) 536-5566 or visit toledogarden.org for complete information.

The first memory I have of my husband as a father is him looking extra handsome in his hospital scrubs as he proudly held our son for the first time.  Shortly after, I heard the doctor pointing out my fallopian tubes to him as he held our precious little bundle, and I thought surely the next sound I would hear would be him and our newborn son hitting the floor.  He stood tall, however, and kept Jack safe and secure and close to him until I was put back together enough to formally introduce myself.
I grew up holding high expectations for the fathering abilities of whoever my husband was to be. Before it was fully in societal demand, my own dad was ahead of his time in washing dishes, cooking dinner, and being front and center at as many of his children’s ball games as physically possible. He lived on the cutting edge of modern-day fatherhood.  Meeting Mike was a relief and a dream come true because I could see that he would be the perfect dad to our children just like my dad was to me.
The second memory I have of my husband as a father is him sleeping for most of the first 24 hours of Jack’s life on the hospital’s little fold-out couch, while I struggled through my morphine stupor to tend to the needs of our first born. When he fully awakened from his coma-like day of rest, I couldn’t wait to ask him just what he thought he was doing. “I was really tired,” he explained. “Since you went into labor right at bedtime, I missed almost an entire night of sleep.”
Uh-huh. I see.
Fortunately, that first day of fatherhood was a poor indicator of how my husband was going to make the transition from just being a man to being someone’s dad. Still, there is no doubt he needs a little prompting from time to time.  When questioning why he had failed to complete a fairly obvious dad duty around the house one day, he begged me to understand that remembering to carry out such a duty was somewhat lost on him. He never had to do such a thing because his dad always took care of it. I not so gently reminded him, “That’s you! You’re the dad!”
Mike has had no trouble remembering his fatherly role when it comes to the quintessential dad quality of, as Tim Gunn would say, “making it work.” I have to admit that, in a million years, I never would have thought to clean out our stubbornly clogged dryer vent by attaching our leaf blower to it with duct tape. As taken aback and somewhat horrified to hear the leaf blower running inside of our home as I was, I have to admit that it did work.
I have to imagine that my mother felt the same way when my own father decided to paint our car with discount cans of silver spray paint he had so victoriously claimed at Big Lots. The exact number of cans it took has been lost over the years, but the rumor is that my dad couldn’t feel his thumb for quite some time. It was a classic case of a dad has to do what a dad has to do.
However, a dad’s legacy is not built on his aptitude for quirky fixes alone. My dad really did always do what he had to keep our family afloat.  I owed it to my children to pick a good father for them, and I did.
When my husband walks through the door from work, it is the highlight of our day. That first act of holding up our child safely, securely and close to him in the delivery room when I could not was the first of a countless number of loving acts he has performed for us over the years. After all that we have been through and continue to go through together, he constantly keeps each one of us from ever hitting the floor.

Shannon Szyperski and her husband Michael are raising three children in Sylvania. E-mail her at letters@toledofreepress.com.

The hot weather has finally arrived, and along with it comes the high humidity associated with this area. I don’t think anyone can ever really get used to the humidity and heat combinations here in Northwest Ohio. It comes upon us, nonetheless, every year about this time. The only real relief is our air-conditioning (a/c) units in our homes, workplaces and vehicles.
All our a/c systems fundamentally operate the same way regardless of what, or where, they are cooling. The refrigerators and freezers in our homes use the same principles of operation as does our vehicles. And although our refrigerators and freezers rarely give us trouble, that is not often the case with the a/c systems in our cars and trucks.
The primary reason for the breakdown of our vehicles’ a/c systems is the harsh environment in which they operate. Unlike the a/c units in our homes, which remain stationary while in use, our cars’ a/c systems are constantly in motion. This constant movement of components and the exceptionally high underhood temperatures in which they operate can cause our vehicles’ a/c systems to develop small leaks. Those leaks bleed the a/c refrigerant into the atmosphere and ultimately cause the a/c system to fail.
This constant bleeding of the refrigerant into the atmosphere has turned out to be a real problem for our environment. It seems the refrigerant we once used (refrigerant 12 or simply R-12) in our vehicles a/c system was destroying the ozone layer of our atmosphere. As the refrigerant bled out of our vehicles, the vaporized refrigerant began to rise. Once it reached the ozone layer, located in the stratosphere, it began to destroy it.
The ozone layer shields you and me, and all of Earths’ creatures, from harmful ultraviolet rays. Those ultraviolet rays come from the sun. Overexposure to those ultraviolet rays can cause skin cancer and cataracts and can kill off vast quantities of our seas’ and oceans’ plankton. Of course the sea’s food chain supply begins with plankton. It is not hard to imagine the consequences to mankind should the sea’s food chain be destroyed.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, during the life of an air-conditioning system it will leak, on average, 2.3 pounds of refrigerant into the atmosphere. Roughly 40 million pounds of refrigerant leaks into the atmosphere globally each year.
Because of the ozone’s imminent destruction, countries around the world joined together and banned R-12 which was destroying it. Since 1993, all vehicles have used a more environmentally friendly refrigerant called R-134a. Whereas R-12 is chlorine-based, the replacement R-134a is not.  Several other protocols for servicing vehicles’ a/c systems were adopted at that time, chief of which is the requirement that all a/c system service technicians be certified in the proper handling, reclamation and repair of any a/c system.
Some a/c fundamentals
Hot always moves toward cold. Never the opposite! It’s one of those physical laws of nature that we cannot break. If we were to stick a large block of ice inside our passenger compartments within our vehicles, then the interior of our cars would cool off quite rapidly.
At least until the block of ice melted. Essentially that is what we do in an automotive a/c system. We stick a very cool component, about the size of a block of ice, within our passenger compartments. We refer to that component as an evaporator. All the heat from the passenger compartment immediately begins to be absorbed by the refrigerant inside the evaporator. The absorption of the heat from within the interior of the vehicle, via the evaporator, causes the refrigerant inside the evaporator to change physical state from a liquid to a vapor.
An interesting byproduct of the normal evaporator’s function is that it removes the moisture from inside a car as well as cools it.
As the heat is attracted to the low temperature of the evaporator core and then is absorbed by the refrigerant inside, the moisture trapped within the heat collects on fins, which are attached to the outside of the evaporator.
Then the collected water pools and drains out the bottom of the evaporator housing, via a hose, to the ground. That’s the water you see dripping under the car on a hot summer’s day.
The textbook definition of cold is the absence of heat. If the heat we are removing from inside the passenger compartment is greater than the heat that is entering from outside the vehicle, then the inside of the car begins to cool down. It does so because with the absence of heat, all that remains is cold. We can break the laws of man, but we cannot break the laws of nature. We can, however, use those laws to our advantage. Such is the case with the a/c system. By removing heat from our cars, what remains is cold. Controlling the amount of heat we remove will control the temperature within a vehicle.
Once the refrigerant absorbs the heat from within the passenger compartment, it is drawn out of the evaporator and into a compressor. Once inside the compressor, the vaporized refrigerants pressure is raised dramatically and pushed out of the compressor pump, through some plumbing and on toward the front of the vehicle. Located in the front of the vehicle, immediately in front of the radiator, is a device called a condenser.
The compressor not only raises the pressure of the vaporized refrigerant, it also raises the refrigerant’s temperature. It raises the refrigerant’s temperature to a point very much above the outside ambient air temperature. Remember, hot always moves to cold! As air is drawn through the condenser, the heat trapped in the refrigerant vapor is absorbed by the surrounding atmosphere, and the refrigerant vapor turns to a liquid. Therefore, hot moved to cold.
The liquid refrigerant is then pushed out of the condenser by the  same compressor pump that raised its pressure. It then is forced through a small nozzle that resembles, in function, the nozzle on your garden hose. When passing through this nozzle the pressure, and the temperature of the liquid refrigerant is substantially lowered.  The refrigerant then re-enters the evaporator as a low pressure and low temperature liquid. Thus, the whole process begins again.
Now there are obviously quite a few electrical devices and various other gadgets that make the a/c system function properly within our vehicles. Nonetheless, the basic operation is accurately described above. The neat thing about the above description of operation is that our home refrigerators and a/c units work the same way. The only real difference is the switches and other gadgets that control the temperature of those devices.
There is no magic at play in the operation of these a/c systems. It is simply physics at work. Does that make the men and women who service those a/c systems applied physicists?
Most folks could give a hoot about how their a/c systems operate. They are only concerned that those systems do in fact function correctly, especially so when it’s 85 degrees outside with 85 percent humidity.
To ensure the continued normal operation of your vehicles’ a/c systems, and to be a proper steward of our environment, each of us should have our a/c systems serviced on a regular basis. The system should be inspected every couple years by a certified a/c technician.