The Fellowes Galaxy Plastic Comb Binding Machine – An Overview

If you’re trying to select a plastic comb binding machine for your office, one machine you should look at is the Fellowes Galaxy. Fellowes is a highly respected name when it comes to business machines and the Galaxy plastic comb binding machine is one of their better products. This review will outline the strengths and limitations of the Galaxy, so you can make an informed choice as to whether this machine is the right one for your workplace.

The Fellowes Galaxy is a manual plastic comb binding machine that offers a high level of performance for both medium-sized and large offices. This is a heavy-duty machine that can bind documents that contain up to 500 pages and the punching mechanism can punch 25 sheets of paper at one time. The Galaxy has a vertical loading area so you can always punch your documents perfectly.

One of the Galaxy’s best features is the handle. It has been ergonomically designed so that everyone will be able to easily use the machine, whether you’re right or left-handed. A lot of binding machines have a handle on either the right or left side of the machine, which can make binding a challenge for some people. Another great user-friendly aspect of the Galaxy is its removable binding apparatus. This means that both punching and binding can occur simultaneously. Using this feature, you will be able to boost your productivity by having one person bind while the other punches.

Other features of the Galaxy plastic comb binding machine include a storage tray for binding combs, as well as a tool that helps you gauge which size comb you should use for your document. The chip tray is located in the front of the machine, and it is easy to open it up and dispose of the chips. Finally, the Galaxy has a rotary edge guide that allows you to control the size of your document’s side margin. This, along with the ability to disengage some of the machine’s punching pins, allows you to control where your document is punched. It also lets you bind documents that are not only letter-sized, but half-letter and A4-sized, as well.

The Galaxy is a pretty good plastic comb binding machine, but it does have a few shortcomings. The first of these is the number of disengageable pins. The Galaxy only has three of them and while this enables you to bind a couple of different sizes of documents, it would have been nice if Fellowes had made all the pins disengageable so you could bind just about any document, including legal-sized items. Also, even though the Galaxy has a respectable punching capacity, it may be tedious to punch longer documents. If that’s the case, Fellowes offer an electric version of the Galaxy (known as the Galaxy E) which can help make the punching process a little faster.

Overall, the Fellowes Galaxy E plastic comb binding machine is a good choice for offices that need a machine with a good punching and binding capacity. This machine is easy to use, it has a great ergonomic design, and it also has a two-year warranty. Plus, it comes with a starter kit that contains enough binding supplies for you to get started. If you need a plastic comb binding machine, you should give the Fellowes Galaxy some consideration.

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Stunning Portrait of the Milky Way Galaxy

New image from the Spitzer Space Telescope.

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New Galaxy Discovered!

Before I get all you amateur astronomers reaching for your telescopes and directing them towards the heavens I must point out that I’m not referring to the interstellar kind of Galaxy but the exciting new Ford Galaxy. I apologise for any confusion I may have caused but to me the discovery of a vehicle that finally suits our family’s needs is the cause for much celebration.

You see for years now we have shoehorned ourselves into all manner of estate cars and small MPV’s often resulting in miserable journeys that involve everybody being cramped and arguing with each other. Family holidays should normally be a pleasurable experience for all but all too often ours seem to descend into petty bickering with each other and the dog usually joins in for good measure.

We finally arrive at our destination tired and hoarse from all the shouting and with the windows steamed up because my kids insist on the interior temperature to be more akin to a portable sauna. Sometimes I long for one of those Perspex screens that taxis have that I could just slide across to drown out the endless chorus of “I’m bored” or “Are we there yet?.”

Then there’s all the stuff you have to take with you, I vaguely remember in my younger single days I could go away for a week with nothing more than a spare pair of underpants and a toothbrush and could always jettison the pants if required. Nowadays it seems we have to transport every conceivable modern day luxury with us and frankly might as well just hook the house up to the back of the car and drag it with us down the motorway.

There have been a few times recently when I have lost the plot and said to my kids that I’m going to go to the builder’s merchant and buy a few bags of sand and empty them in the living room so we can just pretend we are on the beach.

I am pleased to report that this is all behind us now as we are the proud owners of a new Ford Galaxy. I had driven a Galaxy a few years ago when my friend organised a stag party and in his wisdom turned up in a 2.3 petrol engine model much to our consternation as we had to drive it all the way to Amsterdam. Suffice to say that after satisfying the copious thirst for fuel this thing had there was very little left in the kitty for our drinking activities and certainly nothing left to fund a night in the arms of one of those nice ladies in the window which we had planned for him.

Despite that I do recall the Ghia model which we had was luxuriously appointed with leather and wood although it did remind me somewhat of a gentleman’s drawing room. I decided to opt for the Zetec model which is well equipped but has a more high-tech feel to the interior.

There was just a question of where to make my purchase. These days there is a bewildering array of different places to visit from the traditional franchised dealers to car supermarkets and such like. After spending what felt like a lifetime on the internet I finally opted for Ford Deals Direct. They purchase from Ford and by cutting out the middleman are able to offer big discounts on new Ford cars. We saved a few thousand on the new list price which is great as the money we saved will go towards next years’ holiday to Wales. I can hardly wait as we now have dual zone air conditioning and a DVD system not to mention acres of space and room for seven. I might even have room for two pairs of pants!

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Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy

From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center. And yet, the clues have been piling up, that something important, something strange is going on in there. Astronomers tracking stars in the center of the galaxy have found the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are shooting for the first direct image of a black hole.

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The Big Bang Echoes Through the Map of the Galaxy

In the two widest-ranging exercises on mapping the galaxies carried out to date, scientists have made findings that offer serious support for the Big Bang theory. The results of the research were presented at the winter conference of the American Astronomical Society.

The wide extent of the distribution of galaxies is evaluated by astrophysicists as one of the most important legacies from the first phases of the universe to have come down to the present day. It is therefore possible to refer to the information on the distribution and location of the galaxies as “a window opening onto the history of the universe.”

In their research that lasted several years, two independent teams, composed of British, Australian and American scientists, produced a three-dimensional map of some 266,000 galaxies. The scientists compared the data they collected on the distribution of the galaxies with the data for the Cosmic Background Radiation emitted everywhere in the universe, and made important discoveries regarding the origin of galaxies. Researchers analysing the data concluded that the galaxies formed where matter that formed 350,000 years after the Big Bang relatively clustered together, and then assumed their shape under the influence of the force of gravity.

According to the Big Bang theory, everything began from the explosion of a point of infinite density and zero volume. As time passed, space expanded and the gaps between heavenly bodies grew.

The findings in question confirmed the Big Bang theory, which states that the universe began from the explosion of a single point of zero volume and infinite density some 14 billion years ago. This theory has constantly been confirmed by tests consisting of decades of astronomical observations, and stands unrivalled on the most solid of foundations. The Big Bang is accepted by the great majority of present-day astrophysicists, and constitutes scientific verification of the fact that God created the universe from nothing.

In its ten-year-long research, the Anglo-Australian Observatory in the Australian state of New South Wales determined the positions in space of 221,000 galaxies by means of a three-dimensional mapping technique. The survey, which was performed with a 3.9 metre diameter telescope at the observation post, was almost ten times larger than any previous such study. (1) Under the leadership of Dr. Matthew Colless, director of the observatory, the team of scientists first determined the position of galaxies relative to one another and the distances between them. Then they modelled the distribution of the galaxies and studied the minute variations in that model in great detail. The scientists offered their research for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In a similar study carried out by the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, USA, the positions of some 46,000 galaxies in another region of space were similarly mapped and their distribution was investigated. The study, involving the use of a 2.5 metre diameter Sloan telescope, was carried out under the leadership of Daniel Eisenstein of the University of Arizona, and is to be published in the Astrophysical Journal. (2)

The results obtained by the two groups were announced during the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego, California, USA on 11 January, 2005.

Data obtained from the COBE satellite in 1992 revealed minute fluctuations in the emission of Cosmic Background Radiation.

An Important Confirmation

The data obtained as the result of long and careful work confirmed estimates made decades ago in the field of astronomy regarding the origin of the galaxies. In the 1960s, theoreticians estimated that galaxies may have seeded in regions where matter massed in a slightly higher concentration shortly after the Big Bang. If that estimate is correct, then the seeds of the galaxies should be capable of being observed in the form of tiny fluctuations in heat levels in the remains of radiation left over from the Big Bang and known as Cosmic Background Radiation.

Cosmic Background Radiation is heat radiation that only began being emitted 350,000 years after the Big Bang. This radiation, emitted everywhere in the universe, represents a snapshot of the 350,000-year-old universe, and can be observed rather like a fossil in the present day. This radiation, first discovered in 1965, was recognised as definitive proof of the Big Bang with various studies and observations, and was investigated in great detail. Data obtained from the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite in 1992 confirmed the estimates made in the 1960s and revealed that there were ripples in the Cosmic Background Radiation. (3) Although at that time a partial link had been determined between these and the formation of the galaxies, that link could not be definitely shown until now.

However, that important link was constructed in the latest studies. Colless and Eisenstein’s teams determined a match between the ripples seen in Cosmic Background Radiation and those in the distances between galaxies. It was thus established that the galaxies seeded in places where matter that emerged 350,000 years after the Big Bang concentrated in slightly higher densities.

At a press conference on the subject, Dr. Eisenstein said that the way galaxies are scattered across the sky now corresponds to the sound waves that gave rise to that distribution. Researchers think that gravity affected the waves and shaped the galaxies. Eisenstein made the following comment:

“We regard this as smoking-gun evidence that gravity has played the major role in growing from the initial seeds in the microwave background (left over from the Big Bang) into the galaxies and clusters of galaxies that we see around us.” (4)

In a statement to the AAP news agency, Russell Cannon, from the other research team, noted that the findings were of the greatest importance, and summarised the significance of the research in these terms:

“What we’ve done is show the pattern of the galaxies, the distribution of the galaxies which we see here and now, is completely consistent with this other pattern that’s seen in remnants of the big bang…” (5)

Findings were also obtained from the study regarding the levels of matter and energy that constitute the universe, and the universe’s geometrical form. According to these, the universe consists of 4% normal matter, 25% dark matter (matter that cannot be observed but that is calculated to exist), and the rest of dark energy (mysterious energy that leads to the universe expanding faster than expected). As for the geometrical shape of the universe – it is flat.

Support for the Big Bang

Sir Martin Rees

The findings made in these studies have further strengthened the Big Bang theory. Dr. Cannon said that the research added serious weight to the Big Bang theory about the origin of the universe and emphasized that support in these words:

“We’ve known for a long time that the best theory for the universe is the Big Bang — that it started in some enormous explosion in a tiny space and it expanded ever since.” (6)

In a comment regarding the studies, Sir Martin Rees, the well-known Cambridge University astronomer, noted that despite using different statistical techniques and observations, the teams had arrived at the same conclusion, and that he regarded this as an indication of the results’ accuracy. (7)

Physicsweb.org, one of the most important physical sciences portals on the Internet, commented that the studies “provide further evidence for the standard big bang plus inflation model of cosmology.” (8)

Scientists learned that the universe had a beginning (Big Bang) and was expanding (Inflation) by reading the radiation and heavenly bodies in space thanks to the possibilities of modern science. However, these fundamental data are not at all new to mankind. Mankind has been reading these two facts, which scientists were only able to read in the depths of space in the 20th century, in the Qur’an for the last 1,400 years.

Two Basic Pieces of Information about the Standard Cosmological Model Are Provided in the Qur’an

In the Qur’an, and in the Torah and the Bible that were corrupted after their revelation, God has revealed that the universe and all matter were created out of nothing; in the Qur’an, the only text that has not been corrupted, He reveals one other miraculous secret that the universe is expanding.

The way the universe came into “being” from “non-being” is reported thus in the Qur’an:

He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. (Qur’an, 6:101)

The expansion of the universe, one of the main areas of research of modern science, is revealed in this verse:

And it is We Who have constructed the heaven with might, and it is We Who are steadily expanding it. (Qur’an, 51:47)

As we have seen, two elements of the standard cosmological model, the Big Bang and Inflation, were reported in the Qur’an at a time when the means of astronomical observation were very limited. This represents clear proof that the Qur’an was revealed by God. The findings of modern science are in complete agreement with what is related in the Qur’an, and these latest studies once again draw attention to that close compatibility.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR, HARUN YAHYA

Born in Ankara in 1956, Adnan Oktar writes his books under the pen name of Harun Yahya. Ever since his university years, he has dedicated his life to telling of the existence and oneness of Almighty Allah, and to disseminating the moral values of the Qur’an. He has never wavered in the face of difficulties and despite oppression, still continues this intellectual struggle today exhibiting great patience and determination. For mor information pls visit: http://www.harunyahya.com/theauthor.php

1- “Galaxy patterns reveal missing link to Big Bang,” January 12, 2005, online at: http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Media/Media_Releases/_2005/_January/_120105redshift.asp

2- “Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies”, submitted to Astrophysical Journal on December 31st, 2004. See. Sloan Digital Sky Survey, “THE COSMIC YARDSTICK–Sloan Digital Sky Survey astronomers measure role of dark matter, dark energy and gravity in the distribution of galaxies,” January 11, 2005, online at: http://www.sdss.org/news/releases/20050111.yardstick.html

3- “Galaxy patterns reveal missing link to Big Bang”, January 12, 2005

4- Deborah Zabarenko, “‘Cosmological ruler’ helps measure the universe,” January 11, 2005, online at: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=7297222

5- “Scientists Score Galaxy Breakthrough,” AAP, January 13, 2005, online at: http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/Scientists-Score-Galaxy-Breakthrough-39646.html

6- “Scientists Score Galaxy Breakthrough”, AAP.

7- Maggie McKee, “Big bang sound waves explain galaxy clustering,” NewScientist.com News Service, January 12, 2005, online at: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6871; Mark Peplow, “Echoes of Big Bang found in galaxies,” News@nature.com, January 12, 2005, online at: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050110/full/050110-8.html

8- “Galaxy surveys put cosmology on sound footing,” January 12, 2005, online at: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/1/7/1

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