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2' x 2' Star Ceiling Panels
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2' x 2' Star Panel - Fabric Covered with Advanced Control 8 LED Board with Twinkle Pattern
2' x 2' Advanced Black Fabric Wrapped Star Panel attaching directly to a ceiling, or for a standard 9/16" drop ceiling grid (23-3/4" x 23-3/4" actual for drop-ceiling). Like all of our high quality star panel products, it's made with 3 different diameter fiber-optic strands to simulate dim, medium and bright star effects for a more natural looking sky pattern. Advanced Control 8 LED board with the twinkling effect to create the most natural looking star panel that we know of on the market.
$175 each - Including Shipping
CineStarPanel™ star ceiling panels offer a realistic starfield effect for your setting with the relaxing starry night above, plus the added effect of a skylight to the night sky above, to help open up the feel of your room. Ideal for Home Theaters, Media Rooms, Rec Rooms and virtually anywhere in your home, they're also perfect for commercial settings such as Restaurants, Bars, Night Clubs, Performance Venues and even Corporate Boardrooms. As the CineStarPanel™ is also an absorbent acoustic panel, they can improve the overall sound quality of your room by helping tame room reverberation.
CineStarPanel™ star ceiling panels are manufactured from high quality 1" deep rigid Fiberglas acoustic panels that are either plain black acoustic panels (top product listed above), or covered with flame-resistant designer Guilford of Maine acoustic fabric. CineStarPanel™ star ceiling panels are made with 3 different diameter fiber-optic strands to simulate dim, medium and bright star effects, randomly positioned on the panel by skilled craftsmen to create a more natural looking sky. To make an even more authentic star presentation, we use alternating twinkling and static LEDs with the digital control chip on the third panel listed above, which is pre-installed inside each panel, for incredibly easy installation in standard 9/16 drop ceiling and deliver many years of dependable operation.
We try to carry some in stock, but anticipate a 2 week manufacturing time for CineStarPanel™
2' x 2' Star Ceiling Panels - large orders may take longer. Let us know if you need your star panels sooner, as we may be able to expedite your order.
- Items on this page are custom made—there are no returns for refund or exchange.
- Normally, these products take about 1 to 2 weeks to ship out. Contact us for specifics.


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Looking at it from various perspectives.. You have to consider where you are at when considering this. From a human point of view, you have 'free will' and choose daily whom you will serve, whether it be yourself, others, others with a motive[selfish reasons] , others out of love or concern. There is a way that seems right to a man… so we are told that even a 'bad father' can give good things to his children, With that said, you meet people who may not believe in God, yet are humanly generous & decent.
When thinking from a worldly perspective you may find a mental argument considering that if there is a God, that it would be most unfair of Him to condemn such 'nice' people to an eternal hell…or that 'if there is a God in Heaven, so and so would have to be an angel…and so on when referring to a deceased loved one and not having any knowledge of the Holy One.
Then you have those who claim to 'believe in God' and may have been brought up in a certain culture or religion, follow all the pre-set rules and behave accordingly, outwardly~ yet their actions, demonstrate they are only holding a form of religion while denying its power by their very daily actions…Example a 'slum lord' that through greed causes human suffering yet may be a pillar in his so called church…Or perhaps a person who knows there is a God but limits his service to God to what is self serving at the same time.. sharing the throne as he is ruled by his own wicked heart and not trying to learn what is pleasing to the Father, rather trying to pay his way in…Ex. Mafia killer who donates heavily to a church…[extreme example I know but made for a point]
Then you have a person, who knows there is something bigger than himself out there [God has put eternity into the hearts of men..] that may not belong to any set religion, but almost instinctively chooses to do good for others and will often put him/herself at a disadvantage by choosing to do what is best for someone else, whether it be family or stranger…Such a person would be like the Good Samaritan, perhaps, that cares for the needs of others. There are all sorts of people out there and they have all sorts of things going on inside them that motivates their actions.
WE are told not to judge by appearances, since we can not always discern another's motives..That is why the Holy Spirit searches the hearts and minds of men….Often the person who truly serves God by his/her selflessness, may be obscure in the crowd and the person you would least expect.. That is why the Jews didnt receive Jesus.. They expected an omnipotent leader to emerge as a king and destroy their oppressors…but that wasnt how he came and he was for the most part rejected, a man of sorrows , aquainted with grief, while still doing miracles that drew attention to his cause in demonstrating how we should seek the Father and how to please Him, culminating in his sacrifice on the cross…
We too must pick up our cross daily… and if we are prospering on earth for what we do for God, doesn't that make us like a hireling, since we might care more for the outward show and glory here instead of heaping up our rewards in heaven? So what must a man do to be saved and can we lose our salvation? Since the heart of man is deceitful, desperate to be corrupt, we are challenged daily by our circumstances to choose whom we will serve and how we are to justify our own actions.
We tend to blow it and make wrong choices, if not everyday, at least at times that will plainly reveal that we are in sin and not perfectly behaving within the will of God. The Jews had it all written down, just needed to obey, as to what God wants and yet even with the blessings they received, they were not content and sought after the Baals and subsequently were punished for many centuries..
The example shows us that we can be chosen by God , yet still chastized when we do wrong and sometimes die in our sins..After all when going by the Law, guilty of one is the same as being guilty of all…All have fallen short of the glory of God. The Spirit of Antichrist has been around from the beginning~ beguiling Even & Adam in the Garden all the way down to every person ever born…Satan is evil and infects mankind by whispering into our ears and offering foul solutions to life that will not please God.
Funny that human anatomy gives us two ears…not that either is good of bad, but that there is two…like the choices we get- choose daily , right or wrong…and we get two eyes..seeing a choice in everything we come across.. dark or light, good or bad… BUT we get one mouth..and out of the mouth comes the culmination of what we think…out of the mouth the abundance of the heart speaks.. We are given one heart– cant serve two masters- love one, hate the other.. WE are given one stomache that digests whatever we put into it, although some things nourish, while others make us sick… WE are wonderfully made! Still we are housed in one body while on earth and when one part of the body suffers, the entire body suffers, so becoming of sound mind means certain criteria we have to establish in our own hearts and adhere to..
Do not be double minded as such receive no blessings from God. Take every thought captive, holding fast to that which is good- Learning to please the Father. To be greatest of all when reaching heaven, become a servant of all here on earth, laying down life for a friend and putting the needs of others before your own.
Commit your way to the Lord and your plan will be established. Choose this day whom you will serve. Today is the day of salvation, as the Holy Spirit draws you into the presence of God, surrender your unbridled will to Him and taste and see that the Lord is good. Man makes alot of mistakes during his life time since now we only see in part, but it is promised that later we shall see fully and understand… Jesus is the rock of our salvation.
What does that mean to you? Are mere words a plan for war? Will wickedness deliver those who are given to it? How can you become firm in faith and be assured of your eternal reward? What tightrope must you walk if any, to be assured of the mercy of God?
JESUS~ He came to show us the WAY but many dont look at all that really involves. Most can plainly see that as a man he did good deeds and some miracles and allowed himself to be martyred for the cause, so to speak. Even demons believe~!
But what was it that made Him so special to be called the Messiah or only begotten Son of God… I mean, humanly speaking some called him a drunkard and He even demonstrated anger and violence when He chased the money changers out of the temple…So what is it about Jesus that makes anyone choose to follow Him and at what capacity? Are they mimicking a good man and have a masochistic streak that makes them want to be martyred? Even religions professing other dieties do as much , like a buddhist monk set afire to make some point…
What is it about Jesus that sets Him apart from all the others out there , like Mohamad or Buddha?You need first to be convinced in your own mind but it can be argued that Muslims and Buddhists[and others] are similarly persuaded to lay down their lives for their beliefs~
Nimrod was a mighty king in Babylon and he persuaded the known world to follow him to the point of total unity~! People saw him as right when he shot the arrow into the heavens to snot the real God and show he can do as he pleased. No wonder God didn't destroy mankind, rather He scattered their speech so they could no longer fellowship in wrong in unity but were dispersed…and why?
Another reason is 1/3 of the heavenly host were cast down to earth and these wandering spirits have thoughts that oppose God so they will be separated from Him eternally into a place where they can enjoy their thoughts which are evil and cause suffering. They are spirits and know alot more about the spirit world and have been observing and manipulating mankind from the beginning .
Not satisfied with the judgement they received in being cast out of heaven, they seek to cull out all from God's creation that embrace such thoughts..
They didnt create mankind. They know God did create mankind for His glory and they HATE God, so they want to destroy anything of God's while they are loose and wandering so they plot evil and plant it into the thoughts of the minds of men.
Starting at birth, they whisper thoughts into man's mind , right alongside the blessed and good thoughts that also are being placed for consideration into man's mind. Mischief is bound up [trapped] into the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline [thy rod and staff comfort me] will drive it far from them…[Train up a child in the way that they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it]
They even infect into man's mind, ways to twist the scriptures and cause child abuse, by the lack of knowledge people possess when reading scriptures. They twist the scriptures to make God seem unfair or harsh, when in reality He is Love…real love. The evil ones, tell a man's mind that you must 'beat' a child, when God's rod and staff comfort us, try telling a child who is beat with a rod that it is of any comfort!!
Not to say we aren't to be chastized or that a child should never be spanked, but the object of a painful punishment is to challenge the thoughts of the child to seek better choices, godly ones.. not to foster contempt and future revenge on others, but repentence from the misdeed and a clearer choice to want the rewards of doing what is right.
Spiritually we get spanked when as children of God we do wrong, but never with His intention to do us harm, rather His plans for us are always GOOD.
God is good. God is Love. God is willing that none should perish.. God wants all to come to repentence.[that is to choose right..His ways.. over wrong.. the devils ways] Devils will eventually be thrown into a prison – lake of fire- that they can continue living in but can no longer recruit follwers to…
We are here on this earth for a temporary amount of time, in bodies that are corruptible and will die.The spirit of the soul placed within our beings is eternal but will be judged by the choices it makes that are planted within our hearts and minds.It is a war within our minds to choose each day whom we will serve.
Since man tends to judge by outward appearances, is visual as some say, it is often negated or ignored that there is a spiritual world or dimension out there that we belong to, since we dont see it readily, nor do we know our own personal futures as we are trapped into the cares of the world around us, needing food, shelter and clothing and to do things that we can obtain such with.
Evil spirits readily speak to our minds continually, suggesting ways in which we can make this world our home and that the afterlife means little, so that we then tend to make ourselves as our own gods and stray away from seeking the Holy One who has another place prepared for us that is in eternal glory.
Such evil spirits, when allowed to influence a man's mind continually, will bring about an imbalance in the man's ability to make choices as confusion and chaos siege a man's mind. At such a place of being so infected with wrong, the man becomes mentally imbalanced, runs on emotions and can become a mental patient. This is spiritual oppression.
If that continues to where a man then acts on such oppressive thoughts to where they control his mind with such manipulation that the man loses his sense of free will, the person can become possessed by those spirits and wreak havoc in the lives of others and become a destroyer or murderer.
The Holy Spirit is departed from such a person, as they reject all that is good and holy . Such a person still can be delivered and spared by God, so there is hope for all who worry about their own salvation.. which may be why we are told to work out our salvation with fear[of displesing God] and trembling.[knowing it is only by His grace we are saved and not by our works, lest any man should boast!]
We can not see it or comprehend what God has prepared for those that …love…Him… So how do we love Him? How do we know what He wants? How do we serve Him? How can we be sure of what we are doing and if it is right or wrong or if it will prosper us to endure to the end and thus be saved from it all?
The righteous can fall 7 times but the wicked only once.. so we know there is room for error on our part, but as for the cursed, their future is secure in that they know they are going to hell and have nothing to gain by repentence, so in their evil thoughts seek to take along as many as they can to go into that eternal damnation…
[Woe to you Destroyer, you who have not been destroyed, when you cease to destroy, you will be destroyed..]
The Holy Spirit of God is in total unity with God. The devil is the author of confusion and chaos. God is peace . The devil is not, nor are his followers who will bite and devour one another and any they can prey into, like lions culling out a flock.. ripping them apart and eating them…
But to all who received Him, who believed in His name, He gave POWER to become children of God.
Those who do not have any love for the Truth or God could care less about salvation or eternity.
Such are narcissists and sociopaths that have NO conscience. Hard to imagine such people, but they do exist! Murderers such as serial killers and dictators who oppress their people and have little regard for human life of those they hate .{ex.Hitler & Jews]
Such serve only themselves and feign concern for others , only as they can profit by them or off them. Such people can kill with no remorse and are known even to non believers as evil and dangerous.
They are those who willingly destroy and kill for any agenda that they embrace[ such as terrorists and suicide bombers] Those who possess a conscience that leans towards doing good and are concerned over right and wrong as the lost who need to be found and they are the ones one might say are 'predestined' to be saved as the Father gave such to the Son.
[ All that the Father gives me WILL come to Me and him who comes to Me , I will NOT cast out.'] so there is a degree of predestination, but consider the race is not for the swift…
A person can prepare and practice for a race, but still not win it..so there is more involved than just predestination. A long distance runner can go so far and then lose endurance and quit the race, thus never to be crowned a winner… so we can not merely say we are predestined to be saved and going to heaven no matter what..
We have to choose, be committed and do the works that are given us to do.Not that the works are a measurement of our salvation, but that while doing works, we become living epistles and can show others to likewise become aware of the great love the Father has for us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us and we now must pick up the torch and carry on as He did .
The Holy Spirit puts the desire to do right, into our hearts. We need to listen to the Holy Spirit and choose to serve God. We need to want do do the works He did and as we try and learn what is pleasing to the Father, we must choose to reject what caused us to sin against Him.
We must not be those who lead others astray, nor become instruments of evil in the destruction of mankind. We falter.We get led astray at times. We make wrong choices or react wrongly to circumstances.
When in the Lion's Den, we may freak out- or- we can stand firm and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that the one who can destroy our bodies can not destroy our spirit…If anything we should fear only Him who can destroy both body and spirit…
Seeing the heavenly battle, knowing our enemy, not being ignorant of the devil's devices…how do we know what to do?….By taking heed according to the Word of God that was made flesh and dwelt among us~ Studying the Word ~ not from a humanly beneficial point of view~ but looking for that eternal point of view~ God's view~
Take every thought in your head that enters your mind captive! Consider if they are good and will have a good outcome and what your motives are in embracing such thoughts.
Do not be double minded…How? Dwell on whatever is good, holy and acceptable and so on..
Put on the whole armour of God, that is to choose to follow Him, not religion [as religion is full of evil deceiving spirits, a haunt of demons~] but become assured in His promises.
He is faithful when we are not!!.. His ways are not our ways~!!… Samson was a loser to his custom tailored devil Delilah~ he was imprisoned, treading out the grain on a chain…yet when you might have counted him out of the race….he was able to do more service to God at his death than in all his life!.. so dont get discouraged by what you may have already done. Spilled water can not be gathered up again by man.. only by act of God…
That sinner on the cross, beside Jesus, admitted he deserved death according to all he had done in his own life, but before his death saw the glory of God in Jesus and that Jesus was innocent , so he testified to the more evil man on the other cross to stop mocking God through Jesus…
That man was forgiven eternally and rewarded with paradise. Just as Jesus spoke about the workers in the vineyard that some come in at the last hour and are paid the same as those who worked all along…God WILL have mercy on whom He will have mercy.. So we are not to judge by appearances but with RIGHT Judgement… There is only one Judge eternally..That is the one we are to fear and respect… That is the one who seeks our love and loved us before we were even born~!
BE asssured of the Father's true love for you.. He was never a cruel taskmaster as the devils would have you think! He loves you and wants you to love Him and He is able to hold you up in the hour of your greatest trial. Before you even enter into trials and temptations.
He already has prepared a way for you to escape the wrath to come…Jesus said His yoke was easy. A yoke is your burden, what you carry with you through life, whether in bondage like Samson or in peril like Job ~ it is custom tailored to clean out the impurities buried deep within your heart so that like dross being fired out of the silver, makes the silver pure, it is then fashionable into a vessel fit for honor..
That honor is eternal life with Jesus~ You are saved. It can be coined to be predestined, by those who can't touch your spirit.That is the demons who influence your thoughts with hate that they can not destroy your eternal spirit and that God is upholding you in this life.
You are saved and no one can snatch you out of HIS hand…but the evil thoughts of demons may suggest for your pollution that you can do as you please which equals embracing their foul thoughts and leading you back into sin..
Each one is lured and enticed by their own desire[ the part of your mind that considers some earthly profit and momentary pleasures that displease God] that when conceived[ that is taken into account and decided on within your mind, to embrace and become one with= spiritual fornication= choosing what God said not to] gives birth to Sin[ which , when full grown[becomes your nature] brings for death[because you chose not to follow the Holy One but instead followed the lusts[enticements] of your own heart.
To be such a person, means you reject what God would have you do and willfully choose to do wrong. A person who willfully chooses to do wrong, without conscience, does not even care what God wants.
Such a person has a seered conscience and has rejected the Holy Spirit~ blasphemied in the sence of not listening to or yielding to what is right and noble in God's way~ and a child of God, does not behave this way. As such the child of God does not sin.[1Jn3:6] but is remorseful and repents from such sins and then goes on in the race to endure to the end.
The devils would remain as the accuser of the brethren, heaping guilt and self condemnation and other negative oppressing thoughts, to cause you to embrace own and give up on the mercy of God.That is their job~ to bring about your destruction.
They are liars from the father of lies- satan- and will never tell you the truth, but are there to torment you into despair and doubt. They wiull encourage you to do evil things that do not please God. They seek to delude and deceive you. Look how such devils convince a godless people to become terrorists and suicide bombers, how their god is nothing more than an angel of light masquerading as god, giving them a form of religion… one of hate, revenge, power and elitism! You know who they are!
Doubt entering your mind is thought that comes from an evil spirit and a person who yields to Doubt will be led into captivity.
There are spirits , biblically known as Legion[for we are many they boast] with many traits, custom tailored to lure and entice you out of the way to bring you to ruin.
Not to say God can't save you from them, but they can cause you to detour and take a harder path in life that is less glorifying to your Heavenly Father…
Remember those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars in heaven~! Heaping up spiritual rewards is what we are to be seeking to do…trying to please the Father…while our tormentors try earnestly to put our lights out and discredit and ruin us, trying to make fools out of us.
WE dont want to be those who are ashamed when judgement comes, not that we wont be saved, but that we will see all the time we wasted in idle pursuits where the devil got some browny points in being able to further disrespect God. Even the Prodigal makes it through~ God can save to the uttermost those who come to Him through Jesus…
When giving into an evil, religious type spirit of despair, doubt or guilt ~ remember that God still loves you~~LOVES~~ not in the human conditional way, but in His way- Jesus is the way~ so REJECT AND RENOUNCE ALL EVIL THOUGHTS THAT CAPTIVATE YOUR HEART AND MIND~ Which is to REPENT- reject evil and commit to do right, according to HIS Word…
You are already empowered to do so through Jesus' NAME…which is to reckon and decide that He is the way, the truth and the life and no man can come to the Father except by HIM…
Under no other name given among men can a man be saved. He is faithful even when we are not. Jesus once said " O you faithless generation!'…fully aware of the hold the enemy has on man collectively, so that Jesus came to seek out the lost, individually healing people to demonstrate the power the Father has given to Him..
All power honor and glory belong to Jesus as our Lord and Savior, Mediator between God and Man, Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords~ over all. Never doubt your salvation.Flaunt it!! When the devil inspires doubt, despair or confusion or guilt~ RENOUNCE and REJECT it…
Guilt comes from the devil to bring about surrender and live condemned on earth embracing damnation, calling God a liar in that He cant save you that you are too far gone etc, which in effect is calling God a liar and leads to blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and hell.
Conviction comes from the Holy Spirit to bring about your redemption and to steer you away from the errors of your way…Never to condemn you but to bring you to repentance and into the eternal security of God's love for you so that you can tell others of the wonderful love of the Father and be his witness.
Its not about works, but then again faith[cornerstone of trusting in Jesus] without works [still in bondage to sin] is dead [ because you cherish iniquity in your heart rather than God- who shares the throne with no one- light cant fellowship with darkness]…So be at peace with your maker, your Lord and Savior, enjoy salvation – your freedom from damnation and don't let the devil steal your joy as you meet various trials as they only serve to make you stronger and more dedicated in your service to your Creator.
So it is not very easy to lose your salvation, because so long as it is day, the Holy Spirit will continue to draw you back into the light of God's love and provision for you. If you were among those 'destined' for destruction your conscience wouldn't be tugging at your heart the way it does… 🙂
GBU~! Ave

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
3 Comments:
- said...
Send a copy of the pic to Ray Nagin. He'd probably appreciate it.
- John Stone said...
Bet I know who sent this.... Ray woundn't share a crawfish with him, but that's OK, he has a gunny sack full of crawfishing from his programs this week.
Incidentally I heard yesterday that Nagin is more popular than ever in NO. It's just all the crackers in other places that make fun of him. Smart politician,
My all time favorite was Mayor Morial, who up until the day when he was sworn into office was a white guy and on that day the residents discovered he was in fact "high yeller" -- a black who can pass for white.
Ya' just gotta' live in NO to enjoy the politics,
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Anonymous said...
"Send a copy of the pic to Ray Nagin. He'd probably appreciate it."
Heywood, you sho' gets around!


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One of the world's most popular and most consumed beverages is coffee. Millions upon millions of households worldwide, make coffee a regular part of their daily routine. Almost every person in the world who works an office job starts his or her day off with a nice warm cup of brewed coffee. It has that distinctive aroma that makes it irresistible and it also has that full blended flavour that we have all come to appreciate and love. Aside from helping us stay awake, coffee also has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and its anti-hypertensive properties as well. Oh, and have I mentioned that coffee has weight loss benefits as well?
There are two known coffee plants that are used for brewing, and they are Arabica and Robusta (also known as Canephora). Between the two types of coffee plants, Arabica beans are the ones that have a higher quantity of quality ingredients in them. They are also the ones that are responsible for the efficacy of green coffee bean extracts. Basically put, green coffee beans are seeds that are not subjected to the usual roasting method that is common in making brewed coffee.
The reason why green coffee beans are not roasted is because their chlorogenic acid content becomes compromised during the process. Chlorogenic acid is a naturally recurring compound that can be found in most green plants, but are more highly concentrated in green coffee beans. They have a plethora of health benefits with weight loss being chief among them.
So how exactly does green coffee bean extract help you lose weight? Well for one thing, it would not be able to do that if it did not have any chlorogenic acid in it. Chlorogenic acid helps block the accumulation of fat deposits and converts our stored fat into energy which our body can use later on. It also boosts our metabolism rate so that we can shed off our unwanted pounds faster.
Another thing that green coffee bean extracts can do is to regulate our glucose absorption rate. Whenever we eat, our body absorbs a simple sugar known as glucose. This substance travels to our bloodstream and is then distributed to our other internal organs. This is a good thing as long as we can learn how to keep our glucose levels at a manageable rate, but if we consume too much then our body will never be able to absorb it all and the rest will remain as unwanted fat deposits.
This is where green coffee bean extracts come since they will do away with our unwanted fat deposits and convert them into energy. The great thing about green coffee bean extract is that you can still lose weight even if you do not do any exercises. But if you really want to lose more weight and make the whole process go a bit faster, then combining your regimen with a balanced diet and some exercise is the right thing to do. So now you know how green coffee bean extract can help you do away with your excess weight. Go do yourself a favour and try some today.


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Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said:
"The Cotton Bud Project and its goal to drive change within the industry towards the use of alternatives to plastic sticksis a great example of the valuable work that Fidra do raising awareness of marine litter issues and contributing to the implementation of Scotland's first Marine Litter Strategy."
"As an environmental charity we aim to help people change the way they think about Scotland's environment and encourage them to take action to improve and protect it. We are proud to support The Cotton Bud Project, and will actively encourage people to take the good buddy pledge and to dispose of used cotton buds in a bin, rather than flush them down the toilet".
Derek Robertson, Chief Executive of Keep Scotland Beautiful
The Cotton Bud Project
The Cotton Bud Project aims to engage concerns over plastic cotton bud sticks in marine litter and encourage industry to switch to alternative biodegradable materials, such as rolled paper.
Cotton bud sticks flushed down toilets by consumers continue to be a pollution issue despite 'Do Not Flush' labelling, public education campaigns and improved sewage treatment.


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Carolyn and Buddy
Carolyn and Buddy's wedding was held at the beautifully scenic Historic Seven Sycamores Ranch in Ivanhoe.
Carolyn and Buddy's wedding was my first opportunity to photograph at the Historic Seven Sycamores Ranch in Ivanhoe. I had been the wedding photographer for Carolyn's sister, Meredith, whose wedding I shot at Wolf Lakes. So I was super excited to document such an important day for such a lovely family once again. The engagement session we did last summer was super fun and got us hiking around Bass Lake.
Since Carolyn was getting ready with her bridesmaids at the ranch and the ceremony and reception were all to be there, I knew we would get tons of great photos since we wouldn't need to worry about travel time. The grounds at the Seven Sycamores are perfect for lots of great photo opportunities too.
Although the weather was a little cool for the ceremony, at least it didn't rain and in fact, the skies cleared up enough to give us a fantastic sunset photo.
I really appreciate Carolyn and Buddy and their families for trusting me and allowing me to just do my thing. I am super happy with all of the great images I got from their wedding. And just being with them makes everything great. You can look at their faces and tell their love is forever.
And luckily it won't be long before I'm back at Seven Sycamores when I photograph McKencie and Felix's wedding there later this year.


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Nicky K
Success, passion, and dedication are copiously spoken about in todays modern music industry. Strongly reflected through him in his genre creates an obvious appreciative engagement from his audience thought the past decade. Achieving recognition in his local market pronounces his future to only become stronger in the time to come.
Unfamiliar to your surroundings, you have probably heard the sounds of Nicky K. From dance floors to digital stores, uttermost passion, meticulous studio ethics, and continuous evolution secure him aggressively at the top of his self-competitive nature. Passion has accurately curated his history as being one of the "Best Up & Coming DJs" as named in his local market.
Beginning intimately in his early journey and progressively emerging to some of the finest nightspots and stages with international talents defines his creation and live presence to be increasingly favored in a highly diluted industry. Making his first out-of-state appearance in September 2015 alongside the well known Porter Robinson at Backwoods Music Festival, OK marks spark of his fire which is destined to spread.
Trailing Nick's business footsteps only lead you to his hunger for his treasured goals and passion for world-wide success. Ending 2015 with the initial release of his first EP 'Vital Signs' to Beatport on LAD Records and other digital stores has marked the beginning of a journey of sound. Beginning the launch of Effekt Radio in early January 2016 will be home for many to enjoy his latest productions and remixes, personal favorite tracks, and exclusive guest mixes from some of the areas up & coming artists who are recognition worthy.
With commitment to his peers, appetite for everlasting success, and musical innovation, this fueled journey will touch the emotions of many, bring positivity to the deepest and darkest vibes while staying true to his early origins and reason of his existence, music.
Keep up to date with the latest events and releases on his website, www.nickykmusic.com
Tech House/House/Progressive House


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I had a harder week counting my blessings, but what was crazy was that it made me focus and look more for my blessings, even though I wasn't "feeling" it this week. I had to search for them. I had to squint and hold a hand over my head trying to shade my eyes to find them, but you know what, they were there nonetheless. My discontentment could have reigned, but my blessings were bigger. It actually made me feel like I had more to share this week.
31. how after Cai's nap one day this week, he wanted me to crawl in his crib & play "Play, Mommy?" So we made his stuffed animals dance
32. wearing stupid sequins on our heads & dancing to our own music we made up (Mommy & Cai)
33. crazy hormone changing emotions that made me a little depressed despite my blessings
34. picking fresh blueberries from our neighbor's bushes (for free) in the sunshine
35. baking blueberry muffins with Mia & Myrissa
36. sweet friends coming over for my Girl's Night, drinking wine and laughing at how many babies we are going to have (apparently I am having 5. Four boys and a girl. Yipee! At least I get a girl...haha!)
37. Cleaning my sewing area with Hart, putting up a new bigger table that will be an ironing board, too
38. floating in an intertube talking to my MIL about what's going on in my heart
39. both of our cars now have working air conditioners. the reminder that being hot is temporary & will be forgotten
40. loving the words to Matt Redman's 10,000 Reasons "Bless the Lord, Oh my Soul" song
41. watching my husband play yet another awesome instrument on our church stage. I can't believe his talent sometimes
42. reading the Bible after we eat and the reminder that regular food will only fill for a short time, but eternal "food" feeds our souls forever
43. his kiss before my head hit the pillow
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This Isn't The Sunday Roast You're Looking For
UPDATE: here, in some of its glory, is Sunday's set. The original four hours has been edited down to about two, removing the stuff that's litigious, most of the swearing and a lot of the sitting around talking rubbish. Special thanks to the entourage/roadie, Radiant Or-Bint, pourer of cider, roller of roliies, mopper of foreheads and tuner of the kazoo.
This Isn't The Sunday Roast You're Looking For
Two o'clock tunes of a Sunday afternoon.
If you're unhinged enough to listen please say hello in the shoutbox. Ta.
There will probably be swearing.


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Brianza - the part of Italy where Arflex is situated - is by tradition the furniture-making part of our country. The feature of the chair is the extra width. It's slightly wider than most chairs, making it feel more roomy and luxurious than other chairs in this typology. Still it doesn't use more floor space than an usual chair. This is because the space in side-by-side seating is measured not by the actual chair space required, but by the shoulder width measurement of a person sitting on the chair. The chair comes with and without armrests; this one is also stackable. It has an elegant and minimal design, which works in many interior contexts. The program will be developed with two leg heights; with lower legs it will be ideal as a small lounge chair. The frame is realized in moulded polyurethane foam and is placed on metal legs, lacquered in the different colors of Arflex collection.
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Sign Painting
Kick Drum Burgers
Design: Arts + Recreation
Kick Drum Burgers is a year-old food truck that you can find at Hops + Grain Brewery in Austin.
Palazzo Lavaca
Design: DSN + MFG
Assisted in the painting of a 5 ft star in the middle of the new ballroom at the Palazzo Lavaca, a downtown Austin event venue.
Phil's Ice House
Design: Arts + Recreation
Brought two designs to life at the North and South Austin locations of Phil's Ice House.
I Saved Latin
Design: Melina Sweet
I decided to take on a famous quote from one of my favorite movies, Rushmore.
LBJSC Mural
Design: Melina Sweet
I was approached to help create a mural for the LBJ Student Center featuring a verse from the Texas State fight song. They wanted something that would be approachable and fun for students to take pictures in front of.


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Robin Maria Palko, 47, of Rancho Cordova, CA, passed away on August 9, 2009, at th
e Ashbury Park Nursing Center in Sacramento, CA, after a courageous battle with cancer.
Born July 9, 1962, in Aliquippa, PA, she was a daughter of Thelma Ramunno Palko and the late Edward J. Palko, Sr. Robin graduated in 1980 from Center High School, attended CCBC and served our country in the U.S. Air Force from 1984 to 1988. She was a very devout Catholic and a member of St. John Vianney Church in Rancho Cordova, CA.
In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by a sister, Candace Ann Palko; maternal grandparents, Attilio and Lillian Colalella Ramunno; paternal grandmother, Ann Frances Naugle; an aunt, Lorraine Ramunno Rutkowski, and an uncle, Thomas R. Smith, Sr.
In addition to her mother, she is survived by her stepfather, Vito "Vic" R. Vigna, Sr. of Monaca; a daughter, Sobhian Marie Palko of CA; a sister and brother-in-law, Deena D. Palko Johnson and Mitchell Johnson of North Carolina; a brother and sister-in-law, Edward J. Palko, Jr. and Rochelle Palko of Virginia; a special aunt and uncle, Richard and Elena Ramunno Orsen of Aliquippa; an aunt, Annette Ramunno Smith of Florida; very dear and caring cousins, Dr. Robert Rutkowski, Jr. and his wife Maureen of Robinson Township; extended family, Darrell, Sr. and Debbie Vigna Namie, Vito R. Vigna, Jr. and Leiann and Tina Vigna Smith, all of Monaca, and many nephews, nieces, cousins and friends.
A Memorial Mass to celebrate her life will be held on August 31, 2009, at 11 a.m. at St. Titus Catholic Church, Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa, PA. Full military honors will be conducted at St. Titus Church by the Vietnam Veterans of America, Beaver County Chapter 862.
Cremation was handled by the Trident Society of Citrus Heights, CA.


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|If you're an independent game developer, money can be scarce. But publishers love indies right now -- they give us money because, quite often, paying us to make a game costs less than a marketing campaign, and gives them more goodwill. This talk addresses how to get publishers to pay you to make your own game for multiple platforms, who you should target, how much you should ask for, and how to keep multiple streams of revenue coming while you port your games across the landscape.


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Congestive heart failure is characterized not only by decreased pump performance and exercise capacity, but also by neurohumoral activation. Clinical data indicate a relationship between neurohumoral factors and cardiac function, and evidence is accumulating that neurohumoral activation adversely affects survival.
The baroreceptors play a particularly important role in maintaining neurohumoral homeostasis in heart failure. Their sensitivity declines in advanced disease, resulting in excessive sympathetic activation. The reflex response of heart rate, blood pressure, and vascular resistance to carotid occlusion is blunted in dogs with experimental heart failure.
Heart rate variability as a marker of vagal tone, and baroreceptor sensitivity as a marker of the reflex increase in cardiac vagal activity, are increasingly used to assess autonomic regulation in heart failure. Heart rate variability can be analyzed in the time and frequency domain. Simple time domain measures include instantaneous and mean R-R intervals, and day-night differences. The standard deviation of nor-mal-to-normal R-R intervals (SDNN) is the simplest parameter for calculating and reflecting all the components responsible for variability in the chosen time window. In most instances the analysis is performed on 24-hour recordings, although shorter ones can also be used. Spectral analysis displays the magnitude of variability as a function of frequency. In a normal subject during controlled resting conditions, this power spectrum comprises three major frequency (F) components accounting for almost all the signal variability: very low (VLF 0-0.03 Hz), low (LF 0.04-0.15 Hz), and high (HF 0.15-0.45 Hz). This division is not arbitrary, but based on the physiologic interpretation of the components that can be detected in each frequency range. Thus HF, which measures the amplitude of sinus node respiratory arrhythmias, depends mainly on the effects of vagal modulation of the sinus node, whereas LF, particularly when expressed in normalized units, mainly reflects the effects of sympathetic discharge. No conclusive physiologic interpretation of VLF is yet available.
The most widely used method for studying the barore-flex control of heart rate is analysis of the reflex heart rate response to physiologic activation or deactivation of the baroreceptors induced by pharmacologic changes in blood pressure. Angiotensin was initially used as a pressor agent, but has been replaced by phenylephrine, a pure a-adrenoceptor agonist, devoid of direct effects on either cardiac contractility or the central nervous system. Doses of 1 to 4 mg/kg increase systolic blood pressure by 20 to 40 mm Hg over baseline. Given the rapidity of vagal responses, it is assumed that each heart rate period value is related on a cause-and-effect basis to the previous systolic pressure peak, and that this reaction is linear. Prolongations of successive R-R intervals vs baseline are therefore plotted as a function of the preceding systolic pressure changes. The slope of this regression line (expressed in milliseconds of prolonged R-R interval per 1 mm Hg rise in pressure) is used to quantify the sensitivity of the arterial baroreflex control of heart rate. The linearity of the response is tested by calculating the correlation coefficient and its P value; low correlation coefficients with P>0.05 are generally disregarded. A similar linear relationship is obtained when the R-R intervals are shortened by lowering blood pressure with a vasodilator (nitroglycerin or sodium nitroprusside).
Another method of measuring baroreflex sensitivity is the neck chamber technique that allows local activation or deactivation of carotid baroreceptors by applying measurable positive and negative pneumatic pressures to the neck region. The baroreceptors sense an increase in neck chamber pressure as a decrease in arterial pressure, and thus activate a dual response comprising depression of vagal action on the heart and sympathetic stimulation to the arterial vessels. Conversely, a decrease in neck chamber pressure results in reflex reduction of blood pressure and heart rate. Neck suction is easier to use than pressure and it is well tolerated by the subject.
Yoshikawa et al investigated the relationship between cardiac function, neurohumoral factors, and frequency domain variables of heart rate variability and baroreceptor sensitivity in patients with congestive heart failure. Heart rate variability reflected plasma norepinephrine and renin levels, whereas baroreceptor sensitivity independently reflected atrial natriuretic peptide levels. Cardiac function correlated with some neurohumoral factors, but not with heart rate variability' nor baroreceptor sensitivity. These results confirmed those of an earlier study finding no correlation between heart rate variability measures, left ventricular ejection fraction, cardiac output, or functional classification. Low frequency (LF) power correlated with baroreceptor sensitivity in this study. As markers of autonomic regulation, heart rate variability and baroreceptor sensitivity may be prognostic indicators independent of conventional cardiac function parameters in heart failure.
Braunwald E, Libby P, Zipes DP, et al. Heart Disease: A Textbook of Car Zipes DP, Jalife J, Zorab R. Cardiac Electrophysiology From Cell to Beddiovascular Medicine. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: WB Saunders; 2001. side. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: WB Saunders; 2000.
Lombardi F. Heart rate variability: a contribution to a better understanding of the clinical role of heart rate. Eur Heart J. 1999,1 (suppl H):H44-H51.
Yoshikawa T, Baba A, Akaishi M, et al. Neurohumoral activation in congestive heart failure: correlation with cardiac function, heart rate variability and baroreceptor sensitivity. Am Heart J. 1999,137:666-671.
biochemistry; neurohumoral activation; cardiac contractility; heart rate variability; baroreceptor; baroreflex


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Nicholas Carr and Clay Shirky have been sparring this year on the Internet's effect on our lives and minds. Each writer published his own book on the subject in 2010.
Each author's view is reflected in his book's title. Carr's The Shallows takes a decidedly pessimistic, or at least cautionary, view of the Internet's effects. He argues that "we're training our brains to be more adept at skimming and scanning and surfing" at the risk of losing "more attentive, solitary modes of thinking–-contemplation, reflection, introspection, and the like" (from an interview with Open Culture).
On the other side is Clay Shirky and his book, Cognitive Surplus. He sees the abundance of information as a boon for society. Cognitive surplus, Shirky explains, is the result of "cumulative free time" intersecting with "public media." Public media like the Internet "enable ordinary citizens . . . to pool that free time in pursuit of activities they like or care about." But he admits that "our cognitive surplus is only potential" (27). What really matters is what happens when we realize that potential, when we create things in our free time using public media—things like Wikipedia or ICanHasCheezburger.
So, we have Carr the pessimist and Shirky the optimist. Carr's Internet is handicapping our ability to think deeply, and Shirky's Internet is empowering us to massively collaborate. If you combine these views, you can sum everything up with a redneck proverb: "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
But the labels "optimist" and "pessimist" gloss over a more accurate picture of the two perspectives. A better pair would be technological determinism and social constructivism. I came across this pair, reading an award-acceptance speech by a woman named Susan Douglas. She was addressing the question, "How do new things happen?" To answer it, she painted these two extremes as opposing views for answering the question. Here's how they would fit Carr and Shirky.
Technological determinism might be summed up in the McLuhanism, "We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us." Douglas described McLuhan's Understanding Media as "one extended exercise in hard-core technological determinism." This is, in broad strokes, Carr's pessimistic outlook. As technologies develop, they make some things possible and other things impossible, some things more likely to happen and other things less likely. Radio for instance made broadcasting possible, but made seeing impossible. Air conditioning made summers in South Carolina more bearable but made neighbors less neighborly. Technology determines the capacities and limits dramatically, and in turn, change us and our society.
Social constructivism, I would argue, is Shirky's optimistic outlook. This view believes that people create change, not technology. It's man over machine, not machine over man as technological determinism would have it. Douglas writes, "scholars began to emphasize the evolutionary and collaborative nature of invention." The word "collaborative" sounds exactly like Shirky's pooled free time. Douglas sides more with the social constructivist outlook and cites examples like the bicycle and the radio as results of collaborative inventing. She acknowledges human agents like the press and ham radio operators, ideology and corporate-state interests, as having shaped technology and society. Social constructivism concludes that human agency is the primary factor in shaping society.
So this is a more in-depth way to classify the perspectives of Carr and Shirky. Carr the technological determinist. Shirky the social constructivist. But isn't it both? It would certainly seem so.
There is a third way to describe the positions which Carr and Shirky take. This one considers their views of history—that being macroscopic and microscopic. Douglas writes, "those who adopt a 'macro' view of history and society tend to give technology a much more causal role, while scholars doing more 'micro-level' analyses . . . tend to give technology itself minimal agency." She attributes this "middle-level theory" to Thomas Misa.
In this third set of categories, of course, Carr takes the macroscopic perspective, and Shirky the microscopic one. To some degree, their arguments and styles of writing reflect their macro and micro perspectives. Carr argues using scientific research and surveys—very macro. Shirky, though, argues using case studies and anecdotes—micro—the stories of ICanHasCheezburger, Wikipedia, and South Korea's beef protests.
I think both methods deserve scrutiny. Surveys certainly do point to broader trends, but they discount individual decisions and personal agency, which can be history changing (which Gladwell has shown). This is where Shirky's method deserves a hearing. But on the other hand, Shirky's case studies ignore the broader trajectories indicated by Carr's cited research. If case studies were meaningless, surveys would be prophets and biographies would be worthless. But neither one can establish a conclusive upper hand.
I think, thus, that both methods deserve critiques. As they are, each author's method talks past the other (just like Postman and Johnson, in my previous post). Comparing case studies and surveys is apples and oranges. We must instead critique each one in its own way, consider the underlying assumptions inherent to technological determinism and social constructivism, and then perhaps we may have some common ground.
In some sense, Carr and Shirky are covering new ground on old bicycles. They've dusted off psychology's nature-nurture debates and rode them around in a different field. Shirky is certain that nature is the primary agent, the people and content are the driving factors in creating change, in answering Susan Douglas's question, "How do new things happen?" Carr, on the other hand, advocates for the power of the environment—nurture—in effecting change, focusing on systems and structures as the determinant forces.
In truth, I think McLuhan's maxim wasn't too far off in answering Douglas's question: "We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us." The change goes in both directions—not just one or the other. There is human agency and technological agency—and they are changing each other, and being changed. This is where Douglas has found herself after 3 decades of research and writing in this field: in the middle way. She calls this view "technological affordances." I would prefer something like "socio-technic dialectic."
In this dialectic, both Shirky and Carr have something worthwhile for readers. Shirky is proclaiming the power of human potential. Carr is warning of technology's rigid mold. We, the readers, must listen to Carr's warnings and Shirky's encouragement. We must understand how our tools are shaping us because we are the only side that has the sense to make a choice. Technology does not. We are also the only side for which the change matters. Thus, we must constantly consider the new hills of the likely and the unlikely, and the new horizons of the possible as well as the new impossibilities.
"How Do New Things Happen?" by Susan J Douglas
"Cognitive Consequences: An Conversation with Nicholas Carr" by Open Culture
"Connect the Dots" my previous post on Postman and Johnson
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UPDATE: Shirky has his share of detractors: Alan Jacobs and George Brock.


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All of our custom home designs are unique. Jerry believes a home design should be a true collaboration between owner, architect and builder to make a dream a reality. Having established relationships with a couple of very high-profile builders, Jerry works closely with them to deliver realistic price expectations to his clients. Oftentimes clients are disappointed by a builder's inability to construct what their architect rendered or the client's final building cost was so far off the initial quote, the plan has to be abandoned and begun again. This waste of time and frustration can be avoided: Jerry works tirelessly to ensure this never happens to his clients. "If these kinds of circumstances occurred to my clients, I wouldn't have done my job. My job ends when my clients are enjoying their homes."
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Let me preface this post with a disclaimer- I am not crafty. I do not know how to knit, sew, crochet, draw, paint or do just about any DIY home projects. That's the good news, for those of you reading who are also not craft savvy!
So I always saw the cutest newborn shadow boxes that held keepsakes from babies birth. I thought that was such a great idea! I opted for a baby book instead because all I really had taken home from the hospital as a keepsake was our bracelets, which I put in the book along with her little footprints. But I still loved the idea of a shadowbox, so I decided- I'm going to dedicate one to her first vacation!
When you take your babe on their first ever vacation, keep your shadowbox in the back of your mind throughout the trip. Think of the keepsakes you'll want to include from the trip and put them somewhere you won't lose them.
PI bought a $10 shadowbox from Walmart for my project and put it all together in minutes! And there you have it, the cutest DIY babies' first vacation keepsake!


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|Bougainvillea. Best of Show, Mid-America 2011.
He went on to explain. The bougie has a very good design, that design has been established, and the tree's structure has been set. But, he said, while the primary branches are fine, the tree lacks much secondary and tertiary branching; the foliage mass needs to fill out further, to balance the visual weight of the trunk; and the layers of the
canopy need to be defined. So, while it deserves the award he gave it, a Japanese artist would not consider it ready to show for a few more years.
Many of you know that Ryan Neil spent six years in Japan, serving a standard apprenticeship under Masahiko Kimura and then staying for an extra year as an assistant at Kimura's request. Since returning to the USA, he has established his own bonsai garden, International Bonsai Mirai, within view of Mt. Hood in Oregon.
Bonsai mirai means "bonsai future" in Japanese, and Neil wants to make a contribution to that future. I very much look forward to seeing that contribution in the years ahead.
So what's the "nine minutes well spent?" This video, in which Ryan Neil introduces himself and his dream. It's well worth your time. :-) Bonsai Mirai video


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Family members whose relative died during surgery in Michigan do have legal rights. Under the Michigan Wrongful Death Statute, surviving family members may file a medical malpractice lawsuit to collect damages, if it is proven that the death of the relative was caused due to physician, surgeon, or hospital error.
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How long should a drug company be allowed to be the exclusive manufacturer and seller of their product? Crestor, a best-selling statin (cholesterol-lowering drug) that has enjoyed exclusivity for the last 12 years, is due to lose that protection today. AstraZeneca, the maker of Crestor, is fighting that decision, hoping to squeeze a little more time as the drug's exclusive manufacturer before generics hit the market. [More]
Drug Co's Pledge To Choose More Closely Docs They Pay
Several big pharma companies pledged to more tightly screen the doctors they pay to pimp their drugs to other medical professionals. The news comes after a major ProPublica investigation revealed the pill makers were paying princely sums to some docs with splotchy backgrounds. [More]


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How to Maintain Plate Heat Exchangers
Like any other device, a heat exchanger also requires regular maintenance to provide optimal performance. The good thing about plate heat exchangers is that it is easy to maintain them in comparison to other heat exchangers and in addition to it, it is relatively easy to diagnose problems that occur, which means there is lesser need to look for replacement plates.
In the following sections, we will examine things you need to do to maintain your plate heat exchanger in proper condition.
Maintenance of Plate Heat Exchangers
In case, there is no regular maintenance of a plate heat exchanger then the efficiency of such exchanger starts declining.
This happens due to what is known as plate fouling wherein matter starts building up in plate's grooves, resulting in a reduction in heat transfer capacity of plates and eventually you may have to look for replacement plates.
Moreover, with an increase in scaling over the plate, the rate at which fouling occurs expedites and as such, it becomes necessary to perform maintenance work regularly so that large expenditure on maintenance and extended downtime can be avoided.
Let us now examine things you must do to maintain your plate heat exchanger in the right condition and avoid the need to get replacement plates.
Keep Records
You need to keep a record of the date when last maintenance work was performed. In addition to it, you should regularly check the plate pack for tightness as well as lubricate the guide as well as carrying bars so that it becomes easier to open the heat exchanger.
By maintaining a record of all the details you will be able to properly schedule maintenance work on regular basis and keep your heat exchanger in good condition.
Perform Regular Inspection
By performing visual inspection you will be able to tell whether plate pack is in the tightened state as per given specification and the gaskets are undamaged. In addition to it, you should also examine the pressure gauges present at both ends of your plate heat exchanger to ensure that pressure drop will be within desired limits.
If during the inspection it is found that there is excessive pressure drop then it will indicate that there is a fouling issue that is to be addressed on urgent basis.
Moreover, the pressure drop could also be due to other reasons and as such, you should also check to ensure that all the pipes are in good condition and pumps are functioning properly.
Carry Out Cleaning
Cleaning on regular basis can be helpful in avoiding issues which can become major problems over time. The main aim of these cleaning procedures should be to flush out debris from your plate heat exchanger as well as to clean the plate pack, which in turn will help to prolong the lifespan of your exchange and reduce the need to purchase replacement plates.
The Bottom Line
To conclude we will say that it is important to maintain heat exchangers in good condition so that they continue to perform in optimal condition. By having a clearly defined maintenance schedule in place, it is less likely that you will have to look for replacement plates and other parts at regular interval.


text: And now it's time for a little Friday fun! Instead of answering a trivia question today, you can post your favorite Russell Hoban quote in the comments section below for a chance to win Riddley Walker. Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. EDT tonight. Please review the rest of the contest rules here. Good luck!


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The first book of a promising fantasy series.
An oncoming ice age, known as the Freeze, is bringing masses of refugees from a string of islands to the fortress city of Villjamur, seat of the authoritarian Empire. Far outside the walls, battles rage and strange happenings abound; inside, Villjamur is often a rough and violent place. A politician is mysteriously killed, and city investigator Rumex Jeryd—part of a strange race called the rumel—must solve the crime. Meanwhile, the emperor himself suddenly commits suicide, sparking political intrigue; a thief, Randur Estevu, consults with cultists—users of seemingly magical technology—on a mission to save his mother's life; and far outside the city, Empire Commander Brynd Lathraea confronts a terrifying and inhuman enemy. The novel is fast-moving and intricately plotted, though sometimes a bit gory; one character is ripped apart by grotesque blood beetles, who toss bits of his flesh into the air "in a fine pink mist." In general, however, the violence serves the story and contributes to the dark tone.
Readers who don't mind occasional violence will enjoy exploring this impressive world.


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New Panasonic LED LightbulbS Rated at 19 Years
Panasonic is set to release the EverLed series of light bulbs-the most efficient LEDs ever produced- next month in Japan. The bulbs use 1/8 the power of an incandescent and are said to get up to 19 years of burn time. They will retail for roughly $40 US and use only 85 lumens per watt for 40W bulbs and 82.6 lm/W for the 60W bulbs so the cost to run one could be as low as $2 per year when their 19-year lifespan is taken into account.
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Monday, 1 October 2012
Navarre Guides
The Basque country of north eastern Spain was a fertile recruiting ground for the Carlist cause. The area enjoyed the autonomy of remoteness and was traditional in outlook - its inhabitants were conservatives and natural Carlist supporters.
The province of Navarre provided a dozen battalions to the Carlist northern army and a battalion of "Guides". The Guides of Navarre appear to have been essentially elite light infantry. They took part in the battle of Oriamendi in March 1837 and then the Royal Expedition into central Spain in May.
28 figures. Painted January to March 2012. Flag from Adolfo Ramos.
Labels: Carlists, First Carlist War
7 comments:
- Christopher(aka Axebreaker) said...
They look just marvellous Giles! Love the pattern work!
- 1 October 2012 at 22:29
- Andy McMaster said...
Excellent work Giles. Again :)
The blankets look excellent.
- 2 October 2012 at 06:24
- Rodger said...
Beautiful painting Giles. Very very nice.
- 2 October 2012 at 09:14
- Michael Awdry said...
What a superb unit, tremendous work Sir.
- 2 October 2012 at 16:10
- David said...
They look really good, Giles! I really enjoy seeing your Carlist War collection expanding.
- 4 October 2012 at 10:28
- legatus hedlius said...
Most unusual. Their faces look really...Spanish (or Basque, rather)
- 5 October 2012 at 22:02
- DCAja said...
love it!
- 30 September 2018 at 02:11
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28 May 2010
And then there were peas
At our old rental joint something always got to the peas; if it wasn't a critter, it was mother nature. This year looks to be a lot different.
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4 comments:
- frugalmom said...
Yay! So pretty and so delicious!
- May 28, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Kate said...
Yum, those look great! We put our sugar snaps in containers on the deck this year and so far (fingers crossed) nothing has gotten to them yet. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for any of the gardens farther away from the house...
- June 7, 2010 at 2:00 PM
- Jana said...
New here----these look yummy. So what happened with the chickens?
- June 7, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- Send Flowers To kuwait said...
I suggest this site to my friends so it could be useful & informative for them also. Great effort
I am also being a part of flowers delivery
- July 14, 2010 at 6:48 AM
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
A Lost Art
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what a lovely image - did you write the letter? The handwriting is perfect! visiting from tt.ReplyDelete
Beautiful photo, really love the vintage feeling but still with bright colors.ReplyDelete
A truly beautiful vignette!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous love the colour and still life visiting from Texture Tuesday...ReplyDelete
This is so true. I love getting handwritten notes - especially from the grandchildren.ReplyDelete
Neat! Thank you Stephanie!ReplyDelete
Very pretty. I just don't understand why the powers that be don't want cursive writing taught in school anymore.ReplyDelete
love writing letters & receiving snail mail ♥
A beautiful photo! And lovely handwriting - is that yours?ReplyDelete
Here I insist on handwriting and have pretty gel pens to induce neatness.
Beautifully done. You are right . . . it is a lost art. I used to teach calligraphy for about 20 years. But even now, my pens sit on the side and are seldom used.ReplyDelete
I love writing handwritten letters and my face always lights up when I find one in my mailbox too.ReplyDelete
There is certainly something special about a handwritten letter. I actually can't remember the last ice I wrote one or received one... I love the way you photographed this!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/18/13, 9:14 PM
Oh how I use to love fountain pens and even the ones later on that took a refill instead of having to fill them. I still love writing letters, and receiving mail, but as your photo states...sadly, I think a lost art among many others. Love the different colors in your photo. Really nice.ReplyDelete
Such a beautiful nostalgic image.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/18/13, 10:12 PM
Loving the 3 cats on the ink bottle. A lovely vignette Stephanie. :)ReplyDelete


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Jewish Book Review » You Come for One Reason But Stay for Another: Making the Odyssey to Israel could be subtitled "It takes an Optimist"
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Jerusalem Trail
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The Israel National Trail ("Shvil Yisrael") was officially marked in 1991. One of its purposes is to give Israelis a way to experience the entire breadth of Israel firsthand. It is a hiking trail that crosses the entire country from Tel Dan in the north to Eilat in the south. The trail is close to 600 miles from beginning to end and would take over a month to finish if hiked continuously. It is marked with three stripes painted on rocks along the way (white, blue and orange). The route is divided into 12 sections. A Trans-Israel bike trail is also presently in the works.
That's the good news. Unfortunately, this wonderful trail bypasses the city of Jerusalem. And so, just last year, The New Jerusalem Trail was officially inaugurated. It connects the Trans-Israel Trail with Jerusalem and is marked with the special symbolic Lion that appears on Jerusalem's city emblem.
The first time I hiked this trail was during the annual late-night hike my Yishuv takes on Yom Yerushalayim. Since then I've had the good fortune of guiding many people along this trail, including my wife and children just this past Pesach. We had loads of fun.
The trail begins (or ends!) at the entrance to the Emek Tzurim National Park (free admission) on the Mount of Olives, between Hebrew University and Beit Orot. The park was only opened in the year 2000. Enjoy the Mount Scopus lookout. It's about a 10 minute walk down into the Kidron Valley.
During Pesach, we stopped off at the recovery center of Temple Mount remains. This is a wonderful project involving sifting through the dirt which was carted off the Temple Mount some years ago. You can spend an hour or two (or more if you want) assisting the archaeologists as they make their fantastic finds. We discovered an ancient coin while we were there. It's really a lot of fun. Contact the City of David at *6033 for more information.
The trail continues into the Kidron Valley, up to the Orson Hyde Park and then down towards Derech Hashiloah where the Mount Olives information center is located. From there it's just a short walk to Absalom's Tomb and then onward to the Pool of Siloam in the City of David. From there I walked up to the kotel, but you can continue on into the Ben-Hinnom Valley, the ancient border between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, up to the Cinamateque Bridge.
Plans are underway for the trail to continue on up to Armon Hanatziv into Shvil Yisrael into the Judean Hills. For more information, contact National Parks at *3639.
And for you techies, The City of David offers a self-guided tour of the Jerusalem trail with your own mp3, cell phone or PDA. Simply go to www.cityofdavid.org.il and choose the Jerusalem Trail tour. Download the complete tour files and transfer the files to your device. Each track is a station on the tour.
Enjoy a safe and wonderful summer. Be sure to always bring along plenty of water on your hikes.
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I am a postdoctoral researcher in Secure Systems Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. My research interests include architecture support for security, trusted computing, mitigation of software vulnerabilities, code reuse and side channel attacks. I received my PhD from Binghamton University in 2015.
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Ensuring energy and power safety in data centers
We are investigating attacks targeting the power and cooling infrastructure of data centers. If power is oversubscribed with the assumption of benign workloads, a malicious set of workloads could cause costly outages in the data center.
Hardware support for malware defense and end-to-end trust
We are working on hardware features that reduce the trusted computing base by protecting the integrity and confidentiality of security domains, even from privileged software.
Integrity Measurement Architecture is a Linux security subsystem that extends ideas and features from secure and trusted boot into the operating system and user level. We are working on usability issues to get distros to adopt this technology.


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Sunday, 19 January 2014
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- rashbre said...
Hoping things are cheering up for you. I sometimes listen to morose bedsit music when I'm down, which can have a suitably uplifting effect.
Hmm. That could be a blogpost at some stage...
- 19 January 2014 at 10:51
- Jo said...
You do always look happy. Or almost always ;-) Except when you're in your cave. Like you said, share with some of that happy face thing my dear?
- 19 January 2014 at 13:11
- Doris said...
LOL Rashbre, that made me chuckle trying to think of a morose bedsit music playlist. Thank you!
Thank you Jo - nice to see you visiting me :-)
- 19 January 2014 at 19:32
- Jay said...
I'm the same, Doris. I smile - at least at strangers and the camera - no matter how crap I am feeling. Sometimes I wonder why!
OH and I do moan and groan to each other at home though. I mean, you have to let off steam somewhere, don't you?
And it's interesting that you talk about old photos. I've just scanned every single page of my parents' old photo albums from before I was born until the early sixties. It has been fascinating seeing those old pictures of young parents and us siblings as children!
- 21 January 2014 at 10:27


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TIGER grant funds Anacostia trail extension
DC was awarded a federal grant today, for $10 million to extend the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail into Maryland. The grant will cover construction for the segment shown as a pink dashed line on this map:
USDOT announced this morning about $500 million in multimodal "TIGER" grants in 47 locations around the US. A combined DC/MD/VA regional application that would have funded $20 million worth of bike/ped projects near Metro stations, as well as bikesharing expansions in Montgomery and Arlington, was not funded. However, DC and MD worked together on one that was.
The winning application received $10 million in federal funds to help pay for a 4-mile extension of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail. The project will extend the trail along the east shore of the river, from Benning Road NE, through Kenilworth Gardens, to just shy of Bladensburg Road in Prince George's County. It will include 5 bridge segments, and some raised sections.
At its northern end, it will connect to the already-completed Anacostia River Trail. That trail currently ends just south of Bladensburg, and links to a network of trails in the Anacostia watershed, stretching up the Northeast Branch, Northwest Branch, Indian Creek, Paint Branch, and Sligo Creek.
Bridging this gap will give easier access to cyclists traveling between DC and points in the northeastern part of the region, including College Park and Wheaton.
AnacostiaWaterfront.org has a press release with additional information.
Jefferson County, WV is also a winner
The TIGER grant process stipulated that some percentage of winners had to be in rural areas. One of those rural awards went to Jefferson County, WV, which is the next county west from Loudoun, and is only about 60 miles from DC. They received $5 million in federal funds to help pay for a $24 million project to convert Fairfax Boulevard through the town of Ranson into a complete street, extend Fairfax Boulevard to a retail area on the edge of town, and build a transit center in downtown Charles Town that when complete will be the transfer location for bus service to nearby MARC stations in Harper's Ferry, WV and Brunswick, MD.
The Town of Ranson's project fact sheet gives additional details, and this map shows the location of the projects.
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Hinchingbrooke and Peterborough hospital decisions condemned
The Department of Health has been criticised for allowing a new hospital in Peterborough while a private firm was being hired to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital 24 miles away.
The future of the cash-strapped hospitals was now "in doubt", the Commons public accounts committee said.
The MPs said there had been a "complete lack of strategic oversight" of NHS services in the region.
Ministers said locals would continue to receive high-quality health services.
In its report the committee said that "the strategic management of health resources across the East of England SHA [Strategic Health Authority] has failed".
It said the Department of Health was "ultimately responsible" for the decision to locate two hospitals "only 24 miles apart... in an area of the country where the NHS has a long-acknowledged over-provision of acute healthcare".
'Unachievable savings'
The new Peterborough City Hospital was built under a private finance initiative (PFI) scheme which has proven to be financially "catastrophic" for the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Trust, the committee said.
The MPs said the trust had accumulated a deficit of £45.8m by the end of 2011-12, on a turnover of £208m - the highest deficit to turnover ratio of any NHS trust.
Huntingdon's Hinchingbrooke Hospital was taken over by Circle Healthcare, a private company, in February 2012, after its bid to take over Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust had been accepted in November 2011.
"We are concerned that Circle's bid was not properly risk assessed and that Circle was encouraged to submit overly optimistic and unachievable savings projections," the MPs' report said.
"While some financial and demand risk has been transferred to Circle, the NHS can never transfer the operational risk of running a hospital, leaving the taxpayer exposed should the franchise fail."
Conservative MP for Peterborough Stewart Jackson, a member of the committee, said the Department of Health was now paying almost £1m a week to keep the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Trust afloat.
There will have to be "unprecedented" levels of savings for the two NHS trusts to become viable, leaving the future of both in doubt, he added.
"The trust's financial position is now so serious that, even if it achieves challenging annual savings, it will still require significant financial support of up to £26m a year for the next 30 years to remain viable," the report explained.
It also said: "The decision to approve these two deals flies in the face of past and present government policy to treat more people outside hospitals and to concentrate key services in specialist centres."
The report also found that management consultants had been used at "great expense to little effect".
'Unique challenges'
Circle aims to achieve savings of £311m over its 10-year franchise contract, but the MPs said the company had not achieved the savings it expected in the first few months of operation, and had parted company with its chief executive only six months into the project.
Unison's Christina McAnea said: "Unison warned from the start that selling Hinchingbrooke off to a private company was the wrong cure for its problems. In just one year some of our worst fears are coming true, and the much-hyped savings that many claimed would be delivered are not materialising."
Health Minister Earl Howe said the difficulties seen at the hospitals showed the "unique challenges for managing healthcare in the East of England".
He added: "We will not sweep these problems under the carpet, and in doing so our priority will be to ensure the needs of local patients continue to be met in the best possible way.
"We are working closely with both hospitals and Monitor [the regulator of NHS foundation trusts] to ensure local patients continue to have access to high-quality services whilst managing the financial issues faced in the east of England region."


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|Medtronic Insertable Cardiac Monitors Detect Atrial Fibrillation in Stroke Patients in 'Real-World' Study
Findings Reinforce Patient Benefit of Reveal LINQ in Real-World Setting
New Data Demonstrate Cost-Effectiveness of Long-Term, Continuous Cardiac Monitoring with Potential to Prevent Recurrent Strokes
DUBLIN and NASHVILLE - Feb. 11, 2015 - Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), today announced the results of a new "real-world" study of patients who have had a cryptogenic stroke (stroke of unknown cause), in which the Reveal LINQ(TM) Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM) detected atrial fibrillation in everyday practice at an even greater rate than that found in a recent, rigorously-conducted clinical trial (the CRYSTAL AF Study, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine).
The observational real-world study, which is being presented at theAmerican Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee, this week, evaluated 1,247 cryptogenic stroke patients across the U.S. to determine whether atrial fibrillation (AF) could be detected using long-term, continuous cardiac monitoring (Reveal LINQ ICM). At 182 days of monitoring (median), AF was detected in 147 patients, resulting in an AF detection rate of 12.2 percent, which was nominally 37 percent higher than the rate observed in CRYSTAL AF at the same time point.
"Unlike a randomized study, an observational study provides a practical way to study real-world clinical practice. What's most exciting is that the detection of AF in real clinical practice exceeded that observed in the rigorously-controlled CRYSTAL AF study, allowing physicians to intervene even more with stroke preventive therapies," said study co-author Mark Richards, Ph.D., M.D., director of Arrhythmia Services at ProMedica Physicians Cardiology in Toledo, Ohio. "This suggests that AF may go undetected at an even greater rate and reinforces the benefits of long-term rhythm monitoring in cryptogenic stroke patients."
Atrial fibrillation is a common cardiac condition when the heart beats irregularly or rapidly; patients with AF are five times more likely to have a stroke1 due to small blood clots that may form in the heart and subsequently travel to the brain, obstructing a major blood vessel leading to an ischemic stroke.
Each year, approximately 692,000 Americans experience ischemic strokes (the most common type of stroke); cryptogenic strokes account for approximately 20 - 40 percent of ischemic strokes in the majority of modern stroke registries and databases.2-8
Undiagnosed AF is believed to be responsible for a significant portion of cryptogenic strokes; however, because AF often has no symptoms, it may not be detected by conventional monitoring techniques such as in-hospital monitoring, electrocardiography or traditional ambulatory cardiac monitors such as a Holter. Unlike conventional monitoring methods, the Reveal LINQ ICM automatically and continuously detects and records abnormal heart rhythms for up to three years.
Continuous Cardiac Monitoring is Cost-Effective
In the CRYSTAL AF study, detection of AF with the long-term cardiac monitor was superior to conventional monitoring methods (30.0 percent with the ICM, and 3.0 percent with standard monitoring at 3 years; p=<0.0001) that are the current standard of care over a three-year follow up.
"These results show that continuous cardiac monitoring with an ICM is a cost-effective tool," said Klaus Witte, M.D., FRCP, FESC, FACC, associate professor and consultant cardiologist, and lead clinician for cardiology at the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the United Kingdom. "Detecting AF in cryptogenic stroke patients enables physicians to change their medical therapy so we can reduce their risk of having a second stroke."
Cleared by the FDA last year, the Reveal LINQ ICM System is the newest generation of ICM and the smallest cardiac monitor available (~1 cc, or one-third the size of a AAA battery). Common uses include monitoring syncope patients for potential episodes of bradycardia/asystole, monitoring cryptogenic stroke patients for possible episodes of AF, and monitoring patients suffering from intermittent chest palpitations for potential episodes of atrial or ventricular arrhythmias.
Like its predecessor, this even smaller LINQ device is placed under the skin of the chest, and its battery allows for up to three years of monitoring. Additionally, the device communicates wirelessly with a patient bedside monitor that uploads device data to the Medtronic CareLink® network.
In collaboration with leading clinicians, researchers and scientists worldwide, Medtronic offers the broadest range of innovative medical technology for the interventional and surgical treatment of cardiovascular disease and cardiac arrhythmias. The company strives to offer products and services that deliver clinical and economic value to healthcare consumers and providers around the world.
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Any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties such as those described in Medtronic's periodic reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results.
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