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There are several plumbing problems that the do-it-yourselfer can fix with little effort and a lot less money than calling a plumber. Remember the DIY motto is to only call for professional help when absolutely necessary. Now there is nothing wrong with hiring a professional because we cannot possibly do every project ourselves but there are many projects that we can do.

Some common plumbing problems include problems with the hot water, problems with the toilet, and problems with drainage in the sink of tubs. With hot water sometimes you may find that there is not enough hot water. This is especially true for larger families. A common cause for this may be that the thermostat on the water heater may be set too low. A fix for this is to adjust the water heater thermostat upwards. This will allow less hot water to be used to still get the temperature that everyone wants.

A common toilet problem is when the toilet does not flush completely. This of course is evidenced by remnants remaining in the bowl after the toilet is flushed. The most common cause is that the ball in the tank is not being lifted high enough. The solution is to adjust the lift mechanism so that it lifts the ball higher in the tank.

A common sink drainage problem is the grease clog. In the case of clogs, the best thing to do is to try to prevent them in the first place. A good way to prevent grease clogs is to pour about a half gallon of boiling water down the drain every other day. However if you already have a grease clog, try pouring some hot vinegar down the drain and letting is set for about 20 minutes and then follow it with boiling water after the 20 minute vinegar soak.

Plumbing problems are one of the top reasons that professional help is sought. However, many of the plumbing problems that you will face can be solved as a DIY project. So make sure that you determine that you are not equipped to solve the problem before you call the plumber.

Are you hungry for more Do-it-Yourself home improvement ideas? Try visiting http://www.home-improvement-know-how.com, a popular website that provides home improvement ideas, advice, and tips for your plumbing projects.

The three most popular roller coasters at walt Disney World are Splash Mountain, space Mountain, and Thunder Mountain Railroad. Each of them has a different feel. Sometimes it's hard to decide which one to go on first.

Thunder Mountain Railroad, in Frontierland, is themed as the gold rush days in a flooded mine town called Tumbleweed, and you are seated in a runaway mine car. It is relatively gentle and geared towards adults and teens. The ride is about 3.5 minutes of hairpin turns and dark descents; where you feel like you are falling and you go around corners quickly enough to be tossed from side to side. There are 20 audio-animatronic figures including donkeys, chickens, possums, and a rainmaker called Professor Cumulus Isobar. There is antique mining equipment, falling rocks, an earthquake, and the smell of sulphur as you pass phosphorescent pools. You careen through a dinosaur's ribs, under a waterfall, past spewing geysers and over a volcanic pool. You really need to be paying attention to catch all the detail. The lines are long but move fairly quickly. It is best to go during parades, or use a FASTPASS, or go late in the day (many people say it's even better after dark). The queue can get pretty hot in the summer so a mister fan could come in handy.

Space Mountain, in Tomorrowland, is an indoor attraction, themed as a ride through outer space. You enter a space station and board and exit the ride at a space port. There are two almost identical tracks in disney World. Controlled lighting selectively hides portions of the track, so the element of surprise keeps this roller coaster as exciting as an outside one would be. Space Mountain was the first rollercoaster that was completely controlled and operated by a computer system. When you enter Space Mountain, there is a dimly lit queue that seems endless. It is a good idea to use Fastpass, especially at peak times. The best times to ride are during parades or late at night. Eventually you get to board six passenger "rockets", seated single file. Your vehicle goes through a tunnel of strobe lights and colors before "blasting off into space". You dip and swerve through the galaxy for two and a half minutes with peak speeds of 28 miles an hour, riding past shooting stars and glowing planets. The ride may be too intense for young children.

Splash Mountain, in Frontierland, is themed as walt Disney's classic 1946 movie "Song of the South". The crafty Brer Rabbit is chased by Brer Fox and Brer Bear through swamps and woods all the way to the Laughin' Place. You should definitely use Fastpass for this ride. It is best to ride it during parades, either in the day or at night. There is a long queue through the inside of "Chickapin Hill" (this is one of the most popular rides in the park, especially in warm weather) until you reach the eight passenger "log" that will take you along the flume for 11 minutes.

There are 100 audio-animatronics figures, (some taken from an old attraction at Disneyland), as you travel through caves, swamps, and bayous. You see that initially Brer Rabbit outwits his pursuers but he is headed for trouble. He plunges with you from the top of Chickapin Hill, down five stories into the briar patch, at descent speeds of 40 mph. There are several familiar songs to clap, and sing aloud to. During the ride there are three lifts and five drops in total. Getting wet is inevitable. If you want to get really wet, though, ask if you can sit up front. There are ride photos taken just when your log begins to tip down the 45 degree waterfall. It is pretty funny to see your expression after the ride, at Splashdown photos, as you exit.

Which roller coaster will you choose? Splash Mountain is an obvious choice on very hot days. It is fun to sing along to as well. Space Mountain is basically a fast, bone rattling roller coaster that is indoors and largely in the dark. Thunder Mountain Railroad is relatively gentle (which I like) but has plenty of the details that make disney Theme parks so much better than others. I would choose all three, especially on your first trip. They all have their own special pleasures and should all be experienced at least once.

Tracy Crowe has been on all these rides and loved them.

For all energy and beauty of the body, all sureness and boldness of the sword, but also all genuineness and ingenuity of the understanding, are grounded in the spirit, and they rise or fall only according to the correct power or powerlessness of the spirit. Spirit is what sustains and rules, and first and the last, not merely indispensable third element

-Heidegger in the fundamental questions of metaphysics

Non-figurative art shows that art is not the expression of the appearance of reality such as we see it, nor of the life which we live, but that it is expression of true reality and true lifeindefinable but realizable in plastics.-Mondrian

It is now a fact that in culture almost every thing is politicized, organized, structuralized and has lost its generic value. In arts there is always a danger of to be politicized especially in fine art, cinema, and theater since these art forms are most prone to it because of these being most communicative languages. And when a theory of exploitation is in existence which sees language as a tool for repression and exploitation than one must take precaution. Another danger is from capitalism who do consider art as a product to be produced mechanically so far they could do business and create more and more capital. Not satisfied by what they do earn from industrial production they want to make quick money from art works and not in open market rather in virtual field i.e. in auction mechanism.

These both trends will do no good to artists and art. Artist community should be aware of these dangerous trends in order to rescue the spirit of art. In fine art, abstract art genre faces no danger from political side since its power of communication is very limited but for figurative art this danger is looming large and we have seen how Husain, Nalini Malani, Arpita Singh and many other Indian modern artists has been corrupted and their consciousness has been purchased. Husain is captured by the above said both specters; first he was corrupted politically than purchased in 100 million by an industrialist thus having lost his consciousness of freedom, the very condition of to be modern he is finished.

This danger of being exploited is most critical question than an attack from a fascist regime. You can easily face the enemy if he comes in open but an enemy who is insider and have camouflaged, not easily identified than it would be tough to defeat that enemy. Fascism no doubt is our enemy but most important enemy is that one in which these all political singularities like liberal parties, pseudo Marxist parties etc. are interknitted. This enemy is identified as capitalism, in india it is feudalist-capitalism characterized by non progressiveness.

On this juncture of history no philosophy of reason can save the most sublime aspect of humanity i.e. culture. But art have that spirit since it had always fought against these forces. Those art forms which represent appearances figuratively, or narrate in a visual language had always been victim of political. However there were artists; who in figurative genre did something remarkable and immortal. Starting with Da Vinci Leonardo we have Matisse, Cezanne, Vincent Van Gauge, Paul Gauguin, Henri Moor, and Brankusi, who were engaged in creating something new other than appearances.

They wanted to transcend empirical reality, more correctly they wanted to separate art work from it since they believed that by doing so they will be able to create a second nature. This is why for these masters artworks are answers to their own questions of art. These artists were advocates of autonomy of art. Without autonomy art can not be creative as for as creativity is concerned. This question of autonomy is very important today since some political minded artists want to politicize art. The danger of loss of autonomy is not only from political side, it is also from them who want to convert art in industry and art work as an industrial production.

Artists should realize their responsibility sincerely in order to create something new. Art is not production. Art work inaugurates the truth; act of art is inaugural not political or declarations nor appeals nor interpretations of history, as we see today. In fine art only abstract art has the possibility to take a leap from the all hitherto subjects of representation because it is only available form of visual language other than philosophy which can think and take a leap. Being inaugural abstraction has no purpose other than itself i.e. completion of work in progress.

Work in progress is the very field where abstraction finds its horizon, its immanence. Abstract painting is not made; it is inaugurated in the process. This process is subjectively mediated but objectively accomplished. Abstract painting says nothing other than itself. It is poem, a visual poem but without meaning. To belong to the language of abstraction, means that we disappear in to the event of painting.

In Indian modern art context there are few masters who give us hope today. Today many abstract artists are producing designs in the name of abstract art; they dont understand the demand of abstraction except market demand. They are selling abstract art in the name of spiritual art though they dont know what is spiritual. These artists are mostly from a recently born school called Bhopal school of which there is a pope ( not naming now ) and a sanrakshak artist. This school follows Raza since sometime he promotes them and distributes them Raza award. They are religious-spiritual in their tone and language.

I have come across many artists who are cleverly using religious words and terminology as a title for their paintings though they have never come across those philosophical concepts. Abstract artist should not identify abstraction with religion since abstraction is a modern concept of art. It may or may not be necessarily spiritual and mystical; abstraction is just going beyond empirical reality, it is transcendental. This is why it is more concerned with philosophico- mysticism than religious.

In india abstraction has become religious; it has lost its philosophical flavor. The most important abstractionists in india like Raza, Gaitonde, Sohan qadri, G.R.Santosh, O.P.Sharma., KC.S.Pannikar, J.Swaminathan (before initiated in Vedanta swami was materialist) etc are religious abstractionists. They do associate themselves with religions and religious mysticism. Though it is not bad concept regarding abstraction (if one really understands religious consciousness) yet it dilutes artists consciousness because of which they do not really experiences the real ecstasy of artistic creation.

Abstraction as an experience itself; an experience in which one discloses him self into work of art is what is described by modern masters and aestheticians as an act of abstraction. In Kandinskyan sense too, Abstraction is the seeking of the inner by the way of the outer means through work in progress one opens himself. Abstract art work is spiritual only through the negation; it speaks the language of neti neti. Abstraction gives freedom to negate but it is not nihilism; it crates something out of nothingness but at the same time this something is not about something. It is that something itself, it is self sufficient entity: it is a work of art. This is why it is autonomous entity and demands autonomy for its existence.

From this point of view Abstraction is not considered as a genre rather as another form of expression within visual language. And it must be considered as such because this is the only platform from where one can take a flight. This is its relevant today when art has been considered political if not social. When postmodernism as a philosophy of life is knocking our doors and pursuing us through communication industry to indulge in a sheer material pleasure by declaring the demise of subject itself; the theory of abstraction becomes more important. Abstraction is most revolutionary of all art forms because it defies rationalist challenges and gives hope to humanity. Mans manliness is not only the gratification of desires rather to discover his being. See what Heidegger says in his poem -

At first take the last glow of blessing

from the dark hearth of be-ing

that it may kindle the countering:

godship-human kind is one.

through the distress of bold clearing

Between the world and the earth as song

To inaugurate all things

In joyful thanks to accord and rank.

Shelter in word the silent message

Of a leap over the large and small

And lose the empty findings

Of a sudden semblance on the way to be-ing.

Author is an art critic and writer of three books 'contemporizing Buddha', ' Hindu tantra Yoga' and 'Concerning The spiritual In Art-an Indian modern art perspective'. He has been awarded with 'Lalit kala Academy Scholarship Award' for art criticism in 2005. Currently working on a book 'Buddhist tantra yoga'. He lives and works in Delhi india.

JVC developed and used a high-performance reflective film to produce this revolutionary three layer structure. The outer Blu-ray layer can be read by the blue light laser but it is transparent for the red light laser which therefore has access to the inner dual dvd layer.

The JVC disc sums 33.5 GB in total storage capacity of which: 8.5 GB are allocated to the standard video content; 25 GB hold high definition content.

JVC unveiled its intentions to promote its disc to the Blu-ray disc Association, in the spring of 2005. Mass production will begin when BD-rom players are available, early 2006. The combo disc will be available for a 30% higher price than standard DVDs.

The idea is to ease the transition among standard DVD and high definition discs. All big players on the dvd market, including JVC, expect SD and HD dvd to cohabit for a while.

At the beginning of this month, Toshiba and memory-Tech were announcing their dual-layer DVD/HD DVD disk able to store both DVD and HD DVD content. The DVD layer had a 4.7 GB capacity, satisfying specification of current dvd discs, while the HD dvd layer could store 15 GB capacity.

At least with storing capacity, until now, JVC (Japan Victor Corporation) is the market leader. The company is currently working on a Blu-ray/ dvd combo rom disc with even more storage capacity. This later disc will feature 50 GB of high definition data (BD format), stored on a dual layer and 8.5 GB of dvd dual layer structure.