Cant give you any longevity reports, but I use the americast tubs on most of my jobs and in my investment houses. I like them. There quiet, light weight, and because of their plastic insulating backing they hold heat better than he cheap steel ones.
Pineal gland. Pineal gland or epiphysis (in red in back of the brain). The pineal gland, also known as the pineal body, conarium or epiphysis cerebri, is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain. The shape of the gland resembles a pine cone, hence its name. The pineal gland is located in the epithalamus, near the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two halves of the thalamus join.
Their is a huge bronze pine cone statue in the Pine cone Court within the Vatican City, during my studies, the symbolic meaning of the pine cone is to represent the Pineal gland, which (as some of you know) controls the melatonin in your body and is shaped like a pine cone, hence the name. Some also call it the...