great article, just incase folks dont read it here is a clip from it "Will the heat from the fireplace harm the plasma TV? There are a few precautions to take before hanging a plasma screen TV over your fireplace. First, take a thermometer and tape it to the wall above the mantel, in the place where the plasma TV will reside. Then build a fire, and let it roar awhile. Now, check the thermometer. If the temperature is above 90 degrees F, then the area is receiving too much heat -- either escaping from the front of the fireplace and rising up the face, or radiating through the chimney to warm the outside wall -- for a plasma TV to hang there without receiving some modicum of residual damage. It would not be advisable to run the plasma for a long period of time while its environment is this hot. Though the Plasma TV has its own cooling system, the surrounding heat will force the Plasma display to work harder to cool itself, thus shortening the overall lifespan of the unit over time. A Plasma TV may still be run for short periods of time without harming the unit (even with the environment heat at 90 degrees F or above). If the plasma display is not turned on while a fire burn in the fireplace, then the unit will not be harmed at all even though the temperature surrounding the unit may be warm. Of course, this might not be an option for people living in places where winter lasts seemingly forever, and fires are an everyday fact of life. In such cases, you should be advised to monitor the amount of heat your plasma display is exposed to while it is running."

Here is the obnoxious TV in my husband's home theater room. He's actually selling it to make room for an even more obnoxious one. Men! The drapes in there are light-blocking, so we don't _normally_ stare back at ourselves... just during photo ops I guess. :P Sorry for the miss, I'm in the middle of redecorating in there and obviously not done! I don't have pics handy of the other TVs, but the TV in the great room is on a wooden corner stand. TV in the home office is a wall-mounted flat screen above a lateral filing cabinet. TV in the master bedroom is sitting on top of an armoire (used to be in, but we needed the space). The others are in our storage room because DH is reticent to part with them, even though they're unused...

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Elmer I agree with you about the chickens at Costco. The last one I bought, I buried in the backyard. I thought that it smelled and tasted of chemicals, chlorine, in particular. Other than that, those birds are so overly processed that you can hardly know what you are eating because it all taste chemically enhanced and brined. That Costco chicken just smelled and tasted like the miserable life and death that it experienced and not something that I want to eat. I buy meat mostly from local sources when I can , with the exception of some pork, sometimes. We were in Costco and felt adventurous so we bought one of those chickens. Never again! I am very selective about meat consumption. Rather a bit of good stuff once in a while than grocery store meat with every meal. Less quantity and more quality!! That is one reason that hubs and I have many more meatless meals. I also agree with you, Elmer, that the better quality meat tastes more like meat used to taste. A good meat needs no more than some simple seasoning. The folks who buy ground meat and add onion soup or spice mix to it are just flavoring cheap meat to taste like something that it is not. . If your meat needs that enhancement, why not just find something else? If you can get some of those outdoor raised chickens you will be amazed at how different in freshness and flavor that they are . And, they dont stink and smell like factory processed chickens. They look and smell so much cleaner! And, the broth from one of these chickens is unreal! So much of the store selections are so lacking in flavor or quality that they serve not much more purpose than to provide protein.