Updated 3-26-12.
Damn! Thank you Steve Jobs.
Welcome to presleyt.net, my home page and one way blog. I earn a living working with a variety of technologies. I write about them, sometimes whine about important interests and issues, and document travel. What it takes to display information in a browser has always fascinated me. I enjoy the whole publishing package so I code with a text editor, maintain the file systems, learn and have fun with it. In the forest below & left, are links to the pages. Click here- - - - > Web Pages, or scroll down and use the links in Pres' Web Pages below and left.
An oasis in a steep, rocky desert Palm Canyon Palm Springs, Ca.
Working six years in the pharmaceutical industry with Teva and Dendreon has been well received by me. The previous twelve years was with Willamette Industries and Weyerhaeuser in their corrugated packaging division. It was reliable, six day/week fire fighting work. Fire fights because they simply would not take timely care of their equipment. Some do, most don't. The pharmaceutical industry routinely conducts preventative maintenance and shuts down for maintenance. The smart maintenance program is authored by the FDA, not pharmaceutical managers. See FDA.
Tired of dialing around My FM & Amp radio soap opera babble and street language rap, I got Sirius XM. Pop Ch10, "The Pulse", is Stuck On Play, every Hour/Day!
When the giant AT&T purchased Cingular I was sad and very disappointed. Join me in this fight: We should not have to pay "Data" fees based upon the "make of your phone". At my request, AT&T blocked my access to data, yet they are billing me for it. We don't pay for calls when there are none, etc, etc, etc. This is wrong yet all of them are doing it: Fight this, fight this!
Help has arrived A new GOP
Pres has migrated to iMac
Hydronic Air Handler HVAC
Pres has migrated to Dendreon
Pres has migrated to Canon 5D Mark II
Dendreon's first Seal Beach patient
Mr. Obama get's 62 Democrats fired
We want your experience, not your tools
I dearly love playing tennis, singles and doubles. May all your shots clear the net & land in the correct box. 
Presleyt.net was first hosted by Draknet in Cedar Park, Texas. I was very concerned when Draknet was purchased by A Small Orange, Atlanta, Ga. Not being able to connect with your server is an unbelievably empty feeling. It went without a glitch though, they have been informative and considerate, and I thanked them for that.
On the right is my e-stringer and Bowflex equipment. Learning how to string my own racquets has been very rewarding and reliable. I have tried several different strings, but I always return to Technifibre NRG2-17 or 18. Hidden under the stringer is my Bowflex equipment. Feel good and maintain tone by using one or both, 10-20 minutes each day.
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We were talking photography at work one day when it was suggested that I pay old town Fullerton and the historic train station a visit. I was told that the buildings were unique and the general public can get close to the tracks. The stations web site indicated that what appears to be one, is actually two buildings where the Union Pacific and Santa Fe lines have offices. Additionally, Amtrak and Metrolink operate passenger rail service from this station. |
Palm Springs, Ca is located at the north end of Palm Canyon. As one drives south into the canyon it slowly gets narrower and gains elevation until a creek bed forms on the left. Just about here is where you will see this narrow portion of the road. After you pass through these rocks the road climbs hard until you get to the end, high on a ridge. Place your mouse over the picture. This is the beginning of miles of trail through beautiful Palm trees at the creek bottom and rocky dry mountian on either side. I will make a slide show of Palm Canyon . |
* * * Some Tech Stuff * * *
HVAC is a power hungry process that is being challenged. New controls engineering is supporting the re-introduction of the absorption chiller. In 2006 USC, University of Southern California, Northridge installed a 2000 Ton Absorption Chiller/Fuel Cell combination on its campus. Operating without a compressor, industry users have began cutting high power bills by 90%. Check this out: 2000 Ton Absorption Chiller. Google, Yahoo, Qualcomm and many others are using numerous ways to generate solar power and capture heat to reduce expensive power bills.
Federal & State governments have mandated dates where by minimum percentages of grid power must be provided by solar sites. Sites like SEGS, Kramer Junction, Ca have been operating for over twenty years. Through out the south western USA, Blyth Solar, Calico Solar, Chevron Solar, Genesis Solar, Imperial Valley Solar and Ivanpah Solar have received "fast track permits" for solar generating sites in California, Arizona and Nevada. Equipment for the home owner is also being developed.
Solar dishes and troughs are 1500% more efficient than flat and PV panels! This technology is more expensive than the flat receivers and is problematic in the wind, but the footprint is smaller. Demand is sizeable and solutions are forthcoming.
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Long past due, many believe our congress needs to be replaced with fresh blood. With an overwhelming number of angry people and organizations, the 2012 election will probably vastly change the face of congress. Let's have another "Boston Tea Party"! Vote the thieves out, bring in new blood!
In the Nov 2010 midterm election we fired 62 Democrats that backed Obama Care and refused to work for a balanced budget. Obama has changed his tune slightly, but remember he spent hundreds of millions trying to buy jobs. He believes, actually believes, that industry needs the federal government in order that they can make products!!! Get rid of him.
Fact Of Life #1 - - - - > "The vital principle of democracy is that a just government must derive it's powers from the consent of the people, and that this consent must be regularly renewed at free and fair elections." - - - - > Abraham Lincoln
Fact Of Life #2 - - - - > "With USA federal, state and local governments you probably will not get what you pay for, but you will eventually get what you vote for." - - - - > Pres
Fact of Life #3 - - - - > "Governments are specialized business that provide services for the public. Governments pay for their services with tax levies. With this power they will of course justify their importance as much as possible". Our founding fathers suggested: "Use as little government as possible." - - - - > Pres
GMP practices are based upon SOP. Required by the FDA, Standard Operating Procedures are written documents, recipes, that describe a procedure or process step by step: Purposely insuring consistent and predictable results.
Dendreon, renamed from Activated Cell Therapy, is a biotech company that started in Mountain View, Ca in 1992. They concentrate on methods to stimulate (immunotherapy), wake up, the human immune to fight cancers. Several years later the name was changed to Dendreon when they moved to Seattle, Washington. Dendreon is establishing facilities in New Jersey, Atlanta and Seal Beach, California. On April 29, 2010 the FDA approved their immune system activator, Provenge, for the fight against prostrate cancer. This plant received FDA approval than began processing in July 2011. Mouse over to see the first patient. Check out the processing video at Provenge.com. After 4.5 years with Teva, 7-17-06, I started with Dendreon on Mon, 1-17-11. Fun stuff.
This facility operates much different than any I have worked in. The people here manufacture a product that is patient specific, one quantity at a time. This process is clearly explained in a video at Provenge.com. Provenge is owned by Dendreon, but for now it is contract compounded.
Dendreon has one maintenance group: facilities. It is comprised of two groups, CGMP and non-GMP. The CGMP, "Current Good Manufacturing Practices", people work mostly in clean rooms.
Because the FDA becomes involved in campus equipment maintenance procedures, these facilities operate with far better equipment up-time than I experienced before. Since escaping from the corrugated industry I have had time to attended schools and acquired certifications. While at Teva, I have graduated from refrigeration & and building operators certification schools. I earned the EPA, Universal Refrigeration (commercial), and BOC I & II certifications. I have long wanted the refrigeration certification and the BOC, Building Operator Certification, education was a real eye opener.
Dendreon wants your experience, not your tools. Teva, as with all my past employers, expected you to own tools. Dendreon says no to personal tools, so I moved my roll away into the apartment. Stuffed with almost everything needed to keep a plant running, it is now handily serving as a table.
Robots Rule: Doubt It - Don't Know It - The Competition Does! |
The USA's tremendous resources have been diverted away from our normal course. Isolationism and minding your own business, sometimes, can be a dangerous way to live. So the USA can develop the innumerable products that benefit civilized people on this plane, how do we help others better help themselves?
Mr. Laden remember this: In 1941, after striking Pearl Harbor, Japans' Admiral Isoroku stated; "I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve". Mr. Laden knew resolve would come at anytime. 5-1-11 resolved.
On 10-20-11 a third & fourth world class bad guy has met their maker: Mr. Gadhafi, and his son, Mutassim Gadhafi were hunted and shot by their country men. On 12-30-06 Mr. Hussein was hanged by his country men.
Looking for higher ground, Dec 2010, I moved away from Microsoft to Mac. With years of Adobe Acrobat's file converting capability, I have been converting payroll, banking, utilities, credit card, etc html pages to reliable digital pdf files: Enjoying a paperless life. With a long string of abandoned operating systems and general screw up's, I just didn't trust Microsoft anymore. Year after year, Mac has just does things better.
Mac's OS-X file system is different than MS, but wisely designed so one can move precious non-Mac data into it's file system. I transferred my data and precious pictures across the network while Mac replicated everything in about ten minutes time.
Then there's web speak! Working with code and pictures is simply great fun. I initially used web publishers, dragging and dropping, but I wanted to learn more about html code. I purchased books, studied from informational web sites, then began typing code and using major browsers to verify results. I use Dreamweaver as a text editor. It provides an easy, coaching forum to create, edit, store and get help from. Slowly I have expanded basic HTML using cascading style sheets (CSS) and dynamic, DHTML using javascript and ajax. Fun stuff.
The quality GIF's I have placed all through these pages were created by talented people at the Animation Factory in Sioux Fall, SD. Check them out.
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