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Your favourite shot of 2006
Posted 16 December 2006 - 04:44 PM
Continuing with the tradition, I am asking now that you post your best shot of 2006. Remember, only one image allowed and a short explanation of why you consider this your best shot. Here is mine:
Nothing too unique or especially difficult about it, just brings me memories of one of my best dive trips. Taken with the D2x, Nikon 16mm fisheye and 2 Ikelites SS200.
Now let's see yours!
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Nikon D800, Aquatica AD800, Ikelite strobes.
Posted 16 December 2006 - 07:22 PM
This wreck is huge, and I plan to go back once a year for a while.
Posted 16 December 2006 - 08:55 PM
I call it "Blue Manatee".
Why? Well it is the first series of shots with my new DSLR I'm learning. It was an incredible day with the manatee - I actually got other shots where I like the "behavior" and interaction better, maybe even other shots that tell a better story or have better composition.....
But my jaw dropped when I saw the colors in this one. I hope it communicates on all monitors. Plus it is pretty much straight out of the camera. I'm proud of that because I'm just learning..... [d200/16mm/subal dome]
Blue Manatee - haunting, primal, sweet-natured, aesthetic above and beyond - but also "blue" in the sense that his future is uncertain.
It is a "blue" and bittersweet shot. I'm picking it as my best because it captured a uniquely "blue" moment in time.
Edited by seagrant, 16 December 2006 - 09:10 PM.
d300/Subal/ULCS/Sea & Sea 110s/16;12-24;60;105vr;Tokina 10-17
Posted 16 December 2006 - 09:46 PM
Nikon D200, Aquatica AD200
Posted 16 December 2006 - 11:29 PM
This is my eight year old mermaid. Of all the UW shots I had the opportunity to take in 2006, this one is still my favorite!
Posted 17 December 2006 - 12:04 AM
I spent a couple of days takin pics of these guys and this one really stands out for me. Not the best shot or the most unique subject, but damn i got a sore arm holding the housing vertical for an hour!
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Posted 17 December 2006 - 03:41 AM
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Nikon D4 (Subal housing). Nikon D7100 (Subal housing). Olympus EPL-5 (Nauticam housing).
Posted 17 December 2006 - 04:21 AM
Dive safe
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Posted 17 December 2006 - 05:41 AM
Okay not much of still guy but here is mine..Beauty and the Beast.
Queensland Grouper under the Exmouth Navy Pier.
Yep he was big and we got real close
Amphibico Phenom & EVO PRO & Navigator 900
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Posted 17 December 2006 - 08:15 AM
Subal ND70 + 2X DS125 ... mostly 10.5, 16, and 60
Posted 17 December 2006 - 09:37 AM
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Posted 17 December 2006 - 10:01 AM
I also wanted to add a bizzare find... (happy.jpg)
Edited by gorgipark, 17 December 2006 - 10:09 AM.
Posted 17 December 2006 - 10:42 AM
Seastar, barnacles and a coral hawkfish on Alcyone. d200, 12-24mm lens @ 24 mm, 1 x SS200 on manual. I like this shot as it is a reminder that there are often things on the dive site other than what you came for...
And here I go, breaking the rules...
Two frigates off Cocos Island. I'm going to call this my favourite topside image
d200, 70-200 AFS Lens (handheld) @ f2.8.
D300, D200, D70, 12-24 f4 AFS DX, 60mm f2.8, 70-200 f2.8 AF-S VR, 105 f2.8 AF-S VR, Tokina Wunderlens.
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Posted 17 December 2006 - 11:53 AM
Posted 17 December 2006 - 10:06 PM
Life is a beach and then you dive.
My Website
Posted 17 December 2006 - 10:26 PM
Canon 5D; Aquatica housing; 2 Inon Z220 strobes; Canon 100mm macro, 17-40mm ; Sigma 15mm FE, 24mm macro, 50mm macro
Posted 17 December 2006 - 11:03 PM
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Posted 18 December 2006 - 02:11 AM
Like so often, my favourite shot is not necessarily my best. The favourite ones being the images taken deep, dark and in poor viz...
This one is a good compromise in between.
Taken during Alex's Red Sea workshop last summer. Apart being a nice picture, I like the fact that this was really "made" in stead of "taken".
Posted 18 December 2006 - 05:30 AM
I hate you Dave...
Ditto Dave!
all photographs posted © Todd C Mintz
Posted 18 December 2006 - 06:39 AM
Cheers wags, I liked the underwater wedding photo's you posted or though you looked a bit green in the gills on that shot Lost some weight though i see
Sorry just can't resist it...
Dive safe
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Through partnerships with the YMCA and NSCAA, Dynamo Youth Programs held a coaching clinic at BBVA Compass Stadium that allowed over 80 local YMCA coaches to receive their NSCAA Level One Coaching Diploma last Friday.
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The Dynamo's partnership with the YMCA offers coaching education opportunities, like this one, to develop their soccer programming. The event worked hand-in-hand with the Dynamo's work with the NSCAA to provide top-level coaching diplomas throughout the Greater Houston area, targeting volunteer coaches to elevate the level of coaching and play in our area.
The Houston Dynamo are excited to provide opportunities to players outside of the Houston area. The Gonzales Soccer Club in Gonzales, LA, will be the first club in Louisiana to host a Houston Dynamo camp on February 22 and 23 2014.
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The Houston Dynamo Youth Programs have partnered with the Eclipse Soccer Club in Sugar Land to provide the Club with training and coaching support through its Club Support Program for the fall 2013 and spring 2014 soccer seasons. This system offers organization programs that range from training for recreation, competitive and premier players to specialty clinics, team training sessions and coach education programs for volunteer and experienced coaches within the partner organization.
"Eclipse Soccer Club has been delighted with the collaboration with Houston Dynamo in bringing quality trainers to our program and working seamlessly with the Eclipse staff," said Eclipse S.C. Academy Director Eddie Edwards. "Eclipse is dedicated to providing the best possible training environment to our members to ensure that our players receive the very best instruction, and this program certainly meets that expectation."
Edwards added, "As a club, we feel a responsibility to develop players to reach their highest potential and then encourage those players looking for the ultimate challenge to pursue the Dynamo experience. Eclipse Soccer Club will continue to work tirelessly to do what is best for each individual player and will support and encourage the movement of players towards Houston's professional club."
Adrian Moses, Houston Dynamo Director of Soccer Programs, noted, "Eclipse is a traditional and historic Club in Houston soccer and it is a pleasure for us and our staff to work with a professional youth soccer organization that is so clearly focused on providing their players, staff and families with quality environments and opportunities. We are very happy with this partnership and are looking forward to a great future with Eclipse."
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When BBVA Compass Stadium opened on May 12, 2012, the city of Houston new that great things would be in store for the downtown gem. Eight months later, the city was treated to an undefeated Dynamo campaign, a World Cup qualifier for Mexico's El Tri and a stop by the Olympic gold-medal winning U.S. women's national team.
With today's announcement that BBVA Compass Stadium will host a U.S. men's national team match in January, Houstonians are in store for one more treat.
"I think it's great that we are going to have the U.S. men's national team make its debut at BBVA Compass Stadium" Dynamo president Chris Canetti said. "BBVA Compass Stadium is a beautiful stadium in one of the best soccer markets in the country."
The USMNT is 1-0-2 all-time in Houston. The squad was last here in 2011 when they defeated Panama 1-0 in the semifinals of the Gold Cup at Reliant Stadium. With the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying Hexagonal schedule announced last month, fans will wonder if BBVA Compass Stadium will be on the list of venues selected by US Soccer as a potential host city.
"Hopefully, this match is the start of a long relationship between the city of Houston, BBVA Compass Stadium and US Soccer in making it a frequent home for U.S. national team matches," added Canetti.
There is no timetable for when the squad for the January camp and friendly will be announced. Historically, the January camp has been very MLS heavy with some players mixed in who play in Scandinavia.
Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, Dec. 21, at 10 a.m. CT through ussoccer.com, by calling 1-888-929-7849, and at the BBVA Compass Stadium ticket office (open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Groups of 20 or more can obtain an order form at ussoccer.com or call 312-528-1290.


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Life after 50 is filled with change and can be confusing. Whether you're looking to switch careers, pursue a relationship (or end one) or buy a house, having a trusted posse to review life's bigger questions helps. Invite several nonjudgmental friends who will encourage and guide you. And do the same for them.
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OOO OOOO Can I joinOriginally posted by Saint Greg
It's never been a problem. The league on the saints board has been going on for over 5 years. They had a waiting list to get in the league last year.
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Well any of us that are Fins fans are Winners and the Bills and Jets fans are losers. :jk:Originally posted by Section126
How do you determine winners and losers?
Last year we didn't wind up doing anything about picking a winner but hopefully this year they can set it up so we can vote at the end.
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On most days, the division between well-adjusted norms and conspiracy theorists is pretty clear. The normals don't dwell on the North American Union or the eerie "face" formed by craters on Mars. Whether or not they accept the official explanations, they don't devote much time to the unexplained. Their obsessive counterparts huddle in Lone Gunmen-style hideouts, rewatching Zeitgeist (don't click that link unless you have an hour and lot of credulity to spare) and commenting on the Vigilant Citizen's latest Rihanna/Freemason expose (definitely click that one!). Being a lot closer to the latter type than the former, I am pleased when things happen that are too weird for even the norms to ignore. The thousands of dead blackbirds that rained down on Arkansas this week were mysterious enough to get sensible people wondering, however briefly, whether the world they inhabit is not merely a shimmering facade, behind which invisible forces move and collide.
Animals--or unexpected objects--have fallen from the sky at various times throughout history. Rains of fish, frogs, and birds have been reported periodically over the past few centuries. The animals are often alive, although some freeze to death while they're up in the air. These showers understandably shock those who experience them, especially in the terrifying case of a rain of spiders in Argentina, in 2007, or the "tangled clumps of worms" that fell the same year in Louisiana. This has never been satisfactorily explained, although in most cases it seems to be a weather phenomenon: violent winds or waterstorms pick up the unfortunate animals and dump them elsewhere. In the case of the spider rain, most people hypothesized that a tornado dropped the creatures. This does not explain why large groups of a single type of animal are dropped though, without any plant matter or debris. In 1876, residents of Kentucky reported that large pieces of beef fell from a perfectly clear sky.
The latest instance of this phenomenon is undeniably ominous: the birds blackened the ground at midnight on New Year's Eve, on the brink of a new decade. The corpses show no sign of disease, but had suffered internal bleeding, which could have been caused by loud noises from pyrotechnics or hitting something hard. The incident occurred in the middle of the night, but blackbirds normally fly only by day. A few days before, 85,000 fish were found dead in the Arkansas river. Even stranger, a second, smaller rain of dead birds fell in Louisiana yesterday. They showed no signs of damage, and included starlings as well as blackbirds.
Most people will surely accept that the birds were disoriented by fireworks and died when they hit the ground. I doubt that even Reverend Fred Phelps himself really believes, as he claimed, that Arkansas gays are responsible for this evil omen. But I hope that a few people will be so shaken by the surreal sight of dead birds falling from the sky that they understand the deep suspicion and awe of the visible world that i feel every day.
An extremely suspicious story is circulating that a movie studio orchestrated the macabre precipitation to promote a remake of The Birds, but the planes dropped the birds over Arkansas instead of California. This sounds totally phony: the movie doesn't come out until 2013, and that's probably illegal, and it doesn't even make sense to use dead birds to promote a movie about live, homicidal birds. It makes even less sense, though, to take credit for a failed prank you didn't really pull. Maybe the movie exec is so afraid of the unknown that he would rather offer an absurd explanation than face the mystery and spiral into a netherworld of cattle mutilation and numerology.
As if Saadiyat Island weren't enough, the United Arab Emirates have another island of cultural extravagance in the works: Isla Moda, a fashion wonderland off the coast of Dubai, will boast couture boutiques, private fashion shows, and those staples of overblown development projects, luxury hotels and villas. Which will surely fill up as fast as the office space in the Burj Khalifa. Karl Lagerfeld was all set to design the manmade island, but something tipped him off to the surprising fact that this may not be the best time for a project devoted to unbridled consumption. Huh. It probably would have sunk back into the sea as soon as they finished it anyway.
Regardless of the idiocy of "Isla Moda," the renderings are pretty great. I think at this point, announcements of new projects in Dubai are just an in-joke. No one actually entertained the notion of building this Jurassic Park geode-mall, did they?
Of course not. They're just having a little fun. Someone learned CAD and wanted to show off.
They could always buy the gold to plate this mall from the gold ATM in Abu Dhabi, although relying on Abu Dhabi for anything else would be awkward.
Karl Lagerfeld was smart to get out! This is ridiculous!
Without their cash flow, the masterminds of Dubai have become outsider artists, toiling away in obscurity on fantasy lands that are prove nothing but their eccentricity, just like Achilles Rizzoli.
"To lose all that is familiar-the destruction of one's environment..is the threat of a loss to one's collective identity."
-Robert Bevan, The Destruction of Memory
No city is safe from the scourge of sensational pastiche and grimly uniform luxury towers, even the sacred center of Islam. According to the New York Times, The Saudi government has begun an ambitious plan to redevelop Mecca along the lines of hedonistic Gulf fantasies like Dubai. The centerpiece of the project, bizarrely enough, is a towering replica of Big Ben near the Grand Mosque, capped by a crescent spire, and housing the requisite mall and hotel. The Mosque itself is slated for expansion as well. The government claims that new construction is necessary to accommodate the three million who make the pilgrimage every year, but the profit motive is barely disguised.
The clock tower under construction
An opportunistically fundamental interpretation of Islam sanctions the destruction of historic areas to clear space for highrises. Historical events after the time of Muhammad are seen as corrupt, so there's no taboo on bulldozing remnants of the city's past. Of courses, what springs up in their place will hardly be admirable from a Muslim standpoint either; catering to the super-rich contradicts the Islamic ideal of egalitarianism. The planned apartment towers threaten the Grand Mosque visually and socially. The buildings will block views of surrounding mountains, many of which are also sacred sites, as well as encouraging wealthy visitors to isolate themselves from the crowds below. Ostentatious luxury and class striation mock the concept of the hajj as a time set apart from worldly concerns. And, as in so many cities, gentrification will drive working class locals out of the center.
Pastiche fantasy architecture is a simple means of attracting tourists' attention and cash, from obvious examples like Las Vegas and Dubai to the Nashville Parthenon. The gated-community tendency of the rich to spacially sequester themselves is also dishearteningly common. It's easier to forgive (or guiltily admire) this type of development when it springs up out of nowhere. Dubai can be appreciated as an oddity because it grew out of a tiny town, a nearly blank canvas. Whatever its other faults, nothing was bulldozed to make room for the Burj Al-Arab. But when it's inflicted on a city with emotional and spiritual import for millions of people, it is a cruel act of iconoclasm.
The clock tower looms by night
Building a massive replica of Big Ben proves the government's cold-blooded disregard for the significance of the site. It is insultingly irrelevant to the Mosque, as if picked at random from a list of famous monuments and grafted onto the heart of the city. It exhibits all the symptoms of desperate architectural pandering: height, mimicry, and devoted to shopping. This kind of nonsense is expected in cities that were built on soulless capitalism, but it is intolerable in a dignified setting.
I never gave much thought to minimalism until this year. My art history education went straight from Pollock to identity-politics postmodernism, and I had no point of reference for the movement. If someone had asked what I thought of minimalism, I probably would have replied that I hated it, as the word brought to mind monochromatic canvases and white blocks indistinguishable from the plinths that hold what I considered "real" art. I assumed it was all about rules, austerity, and high-minded ideology. In short, I stereotyped minimalism as anti-fun and grueling to view.
As is probably obvious, I was very narrow minded about art for a long time. This was mostly due to stubborn traditionalism—painting was art, installation was a bunch of crap in a room—but some of my naïve irritation was justified. I still don't understand the audacity it takes to declare a canvas painted flat white a finished work of art, and most of the work I see in galleries enrages me with its heavy-handed gaucherie. However! Thanks to the insistence of a dear friend, and a drive through west Texas, I discovered an abiding love for minimalism and, consequently, a more optimistic view of art in general.
A few weeks ago my friend convinced me that a visit to the Dia Foundation in upstate New York was worth the exorbitant price of a train ticket, and we set out into the bucolic Hudson Valley. I had seen a show of California minimalist art in Chelsea a few months before, and I expected to have a similarly spa-like experience at Dia: relaxing lights, saturated colors, and comfortingly simple forms. Our day trip to Dia left me not soothed but exultant and energized. There are many wonderful pieces there: Michael Heizer's dizzying bottomless pits, On Kawara's hypnotic date paintings, and Imi Knoebel's mysterious, inviting studio.
Michael Heizer, North, East, South, West
On Kawara, Date Paintings
Imi Knoebel, Raum 19
Donald Judd's presence at Dia consists of a series of fifteen rectangular boxes partially painted red and green, a series of similar boxes hung on the wall, and a phenomenologically tricky sculpture that must be seen in person. The perfectly flush edges and bold colors of the plywood boxes are pleasing, but it is their variation that compels. Slightly different designs, all confined by the same exterior dimensions, draw the viewer into an insular logic. They are not comprehensive, because not every variation is present, and the ones that are do not follow a particular line of spatial inquiry. The viewer can only assume that Judd is adhering a list of guidelines rather than random impulse. The piece is maddening and tantalizing because it responds to a system the viewer cannot apprehend. The rules that governed its creation make the piece playful and intellectually engaging, and the boxes have a solid, monolithic presence that belies their cheap material.
Donald Judd, Untitled
In a way my assumptions were correct: minimalism is about rules, but this is its most charming quality. Much of the minimalist work at Dia, and Judd's boxes in particular, reminded me of the game Set. For those unfamiliar, Set is a card game based on four variations: shape (diamond, squiggle, pill), color (red, green, purple), texture (solid, striped, empty), and quantity (one, two, three). Each possible combination of variations appears once in the deck. Nine cards are laid out, and players must identify sets of three that share either all or none of the variations. To an observer, a game of Set is a rapid fire battle following no discernible logic. It is difficult to grasp the rhythm of game, but once you do, it's addictive and gratifying. Judd's work is like stumbling across the aftermath of a colossal game of Set played by extraterrestrial visitors. Rather than constricting, the structured variation of his practice affords the viewer great pleasure.
A game of Set, with example sets
I saw a perfected example of this principle at Judd's desert utopia, the Chinati Foundation, in Marfa, Texas. Chinati's collection falls short of Dia's (partly due to an excessive allocation of space to the junkyard clichés of John Chamberlain), but the setting can't be beat. Similarly varied boxes, this time larger and made of polished aluminum, hold court in a massive artillery shed and reflect the dusty palette and enormous grasshoppers of the Texan desert. The enlarged scale intensifies the sense of discovering a game board long forgotten by greater beings. Viewers wander tentatively between the gleaming blocks, like explorers in an extraterrestrial archaeological site. The mysterious lights that regularly appear in the sky over Marfa encourage such reveries.
Donald Judd, 100 untitled works in mill aluminum
Very convincing photographic evidence of the mysterious Marfa lights
Minimalism at its finest is not at all simple: it's a logic game, a test of variations, but what elevates it above dry didacticism is its pointlessness. It's a balance between aesthetics and problem solving, completely bizarre when juxtaposed with a natural setting. The system is so deliberate it must have a purpose, but like the game of Set, it's impossible to justify to someone who doesn't immediately take a shine to it. Viewing Judd's work, I felt simultaneously mindless and intellectual, like I was using my brain in a new way. Like the astronauts in 2001: A Space Odyssey, I was rendered speechless by an immaculate, mysterious form that seemed both ancient and futuristic.
How did they do it?
Without the mighty efforts and bitter tears of the Israelites, it's hard to imagine how an ancient society could move and shape massive stones into enduring monuments. Stonehenge is one of the most puzzling ancient sites: theories about its construction range from the mythic (Merlin asked a giant to transport it from Ireland (leaving the question open as to how it was built in Ireland); the devil did it), to the extraterrestrial (perhaps the same aliens responsible for the Great Pyramids and the Anasazi lines), to the natural (glaciers!), but all agree that tremendous man-power would be needed to recreate the process without mechanical aid; the stones themselves came from Wales, so they were transported a great distance as well as upended and arranged. Wally Wallington, a Michigan construction worker, claims to have figured out how the feat was executed, and is building a Stonehenge-like site to prove it.
Watch how he did it.
I find this endeavor quite endearing.
Weighting and raising a pillar
Wally Wallington with concrete monoliths
I'm not convinced that a tiny stone fulcrum could moved stone from Wales to England, over rough terrain, but his process of standing blocks on end is quite plausible. What strikes me about Wallington's project is the perfect convergence of outsider art-like drive and the perpetual magnetism of ancient monuments. The determination of the lone obsessive, moving blocks in his back yard, is as impressive as the efforts of the Druids (or Merlin's giant, aliens, etc.) dragging those stones the first time, although Wall-henge is greeted with bemused affection rather than awe-struck reverence. I hope Wallington's monument fascinates future civilizations as much as Stonehenge does us; it will stand as an enigmatic testament to the proud American tradition of eccentric hobbyists creating magnificent structures out of odds an ends, in their spare time.
Stonehenge seems to hold a particularly magnetic appeal for people who share Wallington's sensibility and work ethic: replicas of questionable taste and accuracy pop up all over the world, including Carhenge, Strawhenge, Phonehenge, Fridgehenge, and, shedding all vestiges of dignity, Twinkiehenge. Some, like the latter, are flippant and tacky, but many were built by genuine weirdos who clearly respected the gravity of the original.
I think Foamhenge is surprisingly pretty
Carhenge has a certain surreal charm as well
Also charming
Perhaps closest to Wallington's iteration of the site is Stonehenge II, a replica built by two cowboys outside Hunt, Texas. In 1989, Doug Hill gave his friend Al Sheppard a slab of limestone left over from a project. Sheppard stood it upright in his yard, and the two began constructing a ring of arches and monoliths to complement it. They fabricated stone lookalikes from steel, plaster, and concrete. Later, they built a pair of Easter Island heads nearby.
Stonehenge II
Hill and Sheppard
According to a comprehensive list of American Stonehenges from the online guidebook Roadside America, "it's hard to explain why America is filling up with replica Stonehenges. Thousands of miles from England, on solitary vistas in places such as Alliance, Nebraska, and Fortine, Montana, citizens have taken it upon themselves to build their own Stonehenges, sometimes true to the original, sometimes merely inspired by it. It's an obsession as mysterious and primal as the original circle of rock slabs." Sites like Stonehenge and Easter Island persist in the public imagination not merely because of their historic or aesthetic value, but because their physical presence, whether seen in person, imagined from pictures, or experienced online and in movies, is so compelling, so weighted with labor and mystery, so impresionante, that they linger in the mind. The awareness of such powerful objects spurs the desire to answer that imposing power with an equally mighty endeavor. Only by recreating them can people get at the heart of the attraction and relieve the fascination they exert.
Trying to get at the heart of the Stonehenge obsession reminds of an essay called "Confessions in Stone", from Chuck Palahniuk's collection Stranger than Fiction. Readers who wearied of Palahniuk's schtick after slogging through tripe like Invisible Monsters should give this book a chance: he shines as an insightful observer of others' strange proclivities rather than a celebrator of his own. The essay profiles a number of men who built their own castles in the Pacific Northwest, and it explores the attraction to massive stone creations that feel tied to history, even if the act of building them severs these ties. Palahniuk appreciates the way these guys throw themselves into a totally absurd, romantic goal, often at great personal and financial cost. I think he'd recognize the same irrational nobility in Wally Wallington. You can read it on Google books; it starts on page 61.
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Tibetan / Vajrayana
Vajrayana Buddhism is most closely associated with Tibet and can be characterized by the figure of the siddha, the master whose spiritual realization is so profound that he or she has power over the phenomenal world, and in whom the profundity and vastness of absolute truth is fully and completely manifested. Many of our most well-known authors come from this tradition of Tibetan Buddhism .
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Cutting Through Spiritual MaterialismIn this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights a common pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal human tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essentially empty. "The problem," Trungpa says, "is that ego can… Read More
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Drona (2010)
Drona is a story based on myth or superstition. This story is about two wealthy families involved in fight for generations. The first half of the story deals with Kunjunni, who deals with ancestral buildings. He happens to find a house that interests him. But, the house was a haunted one. In spite of it, Kunjunni tries for it but it results in his death. Then enters his elder brother Pattazhi Madhavan to take revenge for his brother's death. He is a very powerful man, who chants Sanskrit all the time, having long hair and mustache. The spirit of Savithri has some grudge toward's Pattazhi's family that points to the destruction.
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Treatment & Testing Portland's Water
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Stevie Wonder once said, "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
Though only an eighth grader at the St. Marys Area Middle School, Kersey resident Nicole Holland is currently using her abilities to make a big difference in the lives of patients at the Hahne Regional Cancer Center, a division of DuBois Regional Medical Center located in DuBois.
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Ridgway gradually pulled away with the help of small spurts throughout the game as the Elkers remained undefeated with a 61-38 victory over Port Allegany in boys basketball action Wednesday night at Ridgway Area High School.
The Gators (1-2) held with the Elkers (4-0) through the early section of the first quarter as the game was even at 9-all. Ridgway closed the opening quarter on a 6-0 run as a Tony Leithner basket was sandwiched in between two hoops from Eric Matheson.
JOHNSONBURG – Despite a late rally from Smethport in the closing minutes of the game, unblemished Johnsonburg (4-0) closed out the visiting Hubbers, 55-49, and now shift their attention to next weekend's Elk County Holiday Basketball Tournament.
Nursing a 3-point lead down the stretch, Clay Schuler came up with a timely steal off Johnsonburg senior Kyle Sheldon and hit a layup on the other end to cut the deficit to one point at 48-47.
Officials of the North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission [NCPRPDC] are looking forward to the new year as applications are being looked at by state government for PREP [Partnership for Regional and Economic Performance] funding.
During Wednesday's board meeting, the commission's executive director, Eric Bridges, reported that NCPRPDC has complied with the Department of Community and Economic Development's [DCED] requests for a single application for approved funding under PREP.
The Elk County Monitoring Project, spearheaded by Elk County Conservation District [ECCD] watershed specialist Kim Bonfardine, has expanded to the Brockway Watershed.
The monitoring project is designed to keep an eye on stream conditions in the wake of the Marcellus Shale drilling by measuring the temperature, flow and conductivity in each stream. The total project cost for the four-year program is estimated at $329,330.
As of Monday night's ECCD meeting, Bonfardine said one satellite telemetry system has been installed and another will be installed within the week.
William M. "Tooley" Zimmerman, 75, of 3034 Rasselas Rd., Wilcox, died Tuesday night, Dec. 20, 2011, at the Lutheran Home in Kane following a lengthy illness.
He was born Feb. 15, 1936 in Rasselas, son of Michael and Mary Fiscus Zimmerman. He married Cecelia Yankovich on June 29, 1963 in St. Ann's Church, Wilcox, and she preceded him in death on April 2, 1990.
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Residents in Ridgway Township will not see an increase in taxes after the board of supervisors adopted the 2012 budget during their regular meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Supervisors unanimously approved a $1.9 million budget that will keep taxes the same.
The township has not seen an increase in taxes since 1993, said supervisor Millie Bowers.
Supervisor Sarah Dickinson served her last meeting Tuesday.
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ST. MARYS – The Elk County Catholic Crusaders opened play in the District 9 League with a 45-38 victory over the DuBois Area Beavers at the ECCHS gym. This was also the home opener for the Crusaders.
The Crusaders were able to take a 19-9 lead at the half, then outscore the Beavers 18-10 in the third period to take a 37-19 lead in the final eight minutes of play. DuBois outscored Elk 19-8 in the fourth quarter, cutting Elk's margin of victory to 45-38.
"It was a good win tonight," said ECCHS coach Aaron Straub. "Obviously DuBois missed a lot of shots early."
The Ridgway Borough Council approved a request for the 13th Annual Ridgway Chainsaw Carvers Rendezvous to be held along Center Street during their regular meeting Monday night.
If all goes to plan, Center Street will be blocked off from S. Broad to Mill Street. Court Street and South Broad Street from Main Street to South Street will also be blocked off to make room for the event.
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01-11-2008, 04:56 AM #11Senior Member
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01-11-2008, 07:12 AM #12Originally Posted by fabricator
Mig (GMAW) Metal Inert Gas is no longer used....Gas shielded Metal Arc Welding is.
Tig (GTAW) Tungsten Inert Gas is no longer used....Gas shielded Tungsten Arc Welding.
Stick (SMAW) Well, stick will always be stick....Shielded Metal Arc Welding.
I suggested using proper nomenclature because it simplifies things when members ask questions. Which is easier to you???
"Yeah, I'm having a wire feeding problem with my Mig......."
"While GMAW with .035" ER70S-6, I am having a problem with...."
Just thought if everyone used the same (proper) terminology, things would be simpler.Later,
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Mig is what they call the machine nowadays. GMAW and FCAW are the processes (we tend to just call them gas or fluxcore here, but then again I own the shop so I can call them whatever I want). I've never worked anywhere that the machines were referred to as the fcaw or gmaw or gtaw, etc. I've been around long enough not to be confused by terminology and am much more concerned with proper procedure.
Now to answer the mans question. The primary differences have already been pointed out. FCAW has more dig than GMAW and it does take a little adjustment on technique and requires the same type of cleaning between passes as SMAW. Fluxcore works well on galvanize (in fact they make a wire specifically for it). In ironwork in order to use 7018 all of the galvanize must be ground off (anything done to code requires that regardless of electrode) whereas 6010/6011 can be used to weld without grinding the galv off (not for code welding though) that's why they use 5P on unistruct (that may be misspelled) for the electrical stuff. If you grind the galv off there is nothing left to weld. I have worked with the ironworkers (G6 cert) and have never seen FCAW utilized except for skinning boiler houses. I am sure that will be changing in the future, if it hasn't already, especially with the introduction of Lincoln's STT process which is cheaper, faster and simpler.
As in all processes the procedure is determined by the code, or the wire classification for non-code work. Some FCAW wires are all position, and some are limited position just like stick electrodes.
Bottom line is that if you are a good hand with GMAW then FCAW is an easy transition.Lincoln: Eagle 10,000, Weld-Pak HD, Weld-Pak 155, AC-225, LN-25 wirefeeder
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01-12-2008, 09:33 PM #14Senior Member
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fcaw is mig without the sheilding gas since it is self shielded wire.
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On a lighter note. While it is correct to call a process using flux cored wire FCAW but it sure sounds stupid to say. I use MIG because it is easier. The type of wire comes later if needed. For example, I MIG welded it together using flux cored wire. If you buy a machine to weld FCAW it will say MIG on the box. I am a professional welder with many years of experience. Now I work inspecting welds and qualifying procedures. Even the most experienced person will call the general process MIG. I think the most important thing this can do is create and maintain a non intimidating atmosphere for the new welder to seek answers to questions. If more information is needed ask, nicely. Otherwise that person will leave with a bad feeling for the best welders made, Miller. Sorry for the rant.
Jolly Roger & Paul....I realize what you are both saying and I do the same myself. I have to use the term Mig often too because that's what everyone else knows it as....from watching American Chopper and American Hot Rod, Biker Build Off etc etc. Mig is what it has always been called....Doesn't mean that the term is accurate. I thought that we, as the professionals could educate the beginners, but if you guys are fine with leaving your fellow Americans uninformed and ignorant....That's OK with me. I'll concentrate on helping the Canadian members.
Originally Posted by migman69
I am not singleing (sp?) this youngster out, I intend no disrespect or hurt feelings. I am aware that he is 17 or 18 and a newcomer. I am using his quote as an example of how misinformation is spread.
In direct rebuttle to his statement: Flux Core wire can be self shielded or "gasless", OR it can be dual-shield and require an externally applied shielding gas, just lke GMAW.
Most newcomers & hobbiests, young & old, come here to learn out of convenience, rather than pick up a book, read, and educate themselves.....If we do not provide them with correct, accurate information, how are they going to learn???
I'm not going to respond to this further on the open forum. Any further comments may be directed to me via PM.
My apologies to Migman69 if he feels he was treated unfairly. Such was not my intent.Later,
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Black Wolf Do not back down on this it is way to important.
If one can't bother to learn the proper terms and explain his/her question in terms standard to the industry how can I answer them?????
As to someone getting his feelings hurt oh well that is life take it or leave it.
I am not advocating intentional rudeness or attacking fellow members. Stating fact and asking we all use one terminology to express our selves about welding is only logical. I would not want my doctor speaking to a colleague about my health care using nonstandard terms, why would we as professionals act any less professional.
And to the chap who was a welder and is now inspecting, I expect better out of my inspectors, I you had that attitude on my job site you would not last long.
As a CWI it is incumbent on me to hold my self to the code so as to not mislead some one into making an error based on my poor use of language.
The AWS, ASME, ANSI, API, and on and on were developed just to combat this type of thing.
Behind you all the way Mr. Wolf!!!!TJ______________________________________
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Fat Fab and Black Wolf
You are both entirely right. We should use the correct terms for processes. I constantly educate experienced welders in proper terminology not to mention proper procedures. The fact that most of the people seeking information from this web site are not professional welders just makes it more important to provide proper information, Nicely. I fear I may have overreacted to what I felt was rough treatment of a person asking for information. I did not intend for my comments to be taken personally. I apologize for any offence. I would never call our neighbors to the north uninformed and ignorant. Some of the best information I have found on this site has been posted by you (Black Wolf and Fat Fab )and other Canadian members.
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im sorry for my ignorance fellas
Im sorry yes i am ignorant to the proper aws nomaclature, That is why I start welding school tommorow for a year to earn my aws certifications for Gmaw, Gtaw, and smaw, Upon complition of this school i will be a aws certified welder. Once again i apoligize for my ignorance And to correct you I am 24 years old still young but have been out of highschool for a while. yes the machines themselves will be refereed to mig, tig, and stick, I understand your refering to the processes themselves
Was going to do this VIA PM, but I'll do it this way.
No apologies neccessary. I didn't intend for you to think that I was picking on you, I just used your quote to illustrate my point. Sorry I had your age wrong, we have SO MANY new members on these sites that are teenagers or newcomers it gets a little confusing.
I'm not sure if he is offended or not, but Fat Fab is a snow bunny of a different colour.....He's from Alaska.
Thanks for the PM's.Later,
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Seeing as Red Rocks is said to be one of the bands all time favorite venues we are very excited to have them back to our mountains. What would be the ultimate DREAM SET LIST for incubus 2011 RED ROCKS show??This is the set list from the ALIVE AT RED…Continue
Started by James. Last reply by Sarahh (SHAFT!) Jun 2, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
does anyone have any recordings of this? ren said there was no official recordings so did anyone record it live? Continue
GET READY FOR THE PRESALE - public sale on 25th of april!!
So excited for today!!! Hopefully some of us could bump into one another!!!!
Does anyone know what time they'll be playing tonight?
I'm so excited....it's been a while since I've seen them live....like before I moved to Colorado. Sarah and I have been doing a count down at work....so glad to find another Incubus fan.
Hello CO :)
Anyone interested in carpooling to the show on thursday from denver? going solo and would really love to experience this show with other incubus fans!
Any Questions about venues/tickets/presale and main HQ matters you can always email : firstname.lastname@example.com
What do you mean RSVP? Im so lost on this. And how do we connect with Lauren Clay and when is this livenation presale?