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Celebrating Success: Welding Technology Graduates Walk the Stage in Philadelphia

Witness the culmination of hard work and dedication as graduates from the Welding Technology program at the Philadelphia Technician Training Institute take their triumphant walk across the stage. From sparks to success, join us in honoring these skilled individuals as they embark on their promising futures.

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PTTI's Welding Program transforms students into skilled welding wizards. Through precision techniques, trainees mold steel into intricate designs. Welding sparks illuminate their dedication, forging a path to a future where they craft masterpieces from molten metal. At PTTI, they sculpt their dreams in metal.

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You may be aware of the concept of “a rental car.” It’s where you go to a store that lives inside the airport, promise to give them some money, and they hand you the keys to a car. When you’re done with that car, you just give it back and you never have to see it again. No oil changes. No windshield washer fluid repair. No welding new body panels into it after driving on a particularly pointy gravel road.

The thing is, this is an incredibly expensive procedure. Before the world broke, even the cheapest rental agencies were gonna charge you more than just flying in, taking a taxi to the junkiest piece of shit on Craigslist, and then signing a fake name onto the title. Cops give you like a week’s leeway on getting it actually registered – even more if you are there for a “business trip” and are wearing Value Village’s finest two-piece Italian-cut dead salesman’s suit. You get to drive a new kind of car, it doesn’t cost you that much, and when you’re done you can just drive it back to the seller’s house in the middle of the night and take a taxi back to the airport.

So, being forced to rent a car during my recent trip to Philadelphia in order to give the keynote speech at the Bad Cars Monthly conference, I decided I would get the maximum amount of value out of my rental. I neutral-dropped the fucker at every light, started a small side business delivering heavy goods for cheap, and did my best impression of Petter Solberg on every even vaguely curvy road I could find. At one point, I took it to a drag strip and put down a weak fifteen-second pass, the transmission warning light shrieking the entire time as I force-fed it a couple gallons of nitrous oxide that I picked up at a shop near the hotel. Never before had a 2023 Hyundai Sonata been thrashed so thoroughly and without mercy, and I can assure you that the lot boys (and ladies) were impressed when I rolled the filthy, used-up chunk of Korean iron into the lot, parked it across four stalls, and threw the keys into a nearby storm drain after yelling “Catch!”

Friends, I cannot recommend that you purchase a new 2023 Hyundai Sonata. I can, however, assure you that I have depreciated this particular unit enough that it should be really cheap at auction.

[lonestarbattleship]

"Completing the biggest lifting job ever attempted at Philadelphia Navy Yard, three 75-ton cranes yesterday hoisted the 193-ton prefabricated stern section of USS VALLEY FORGE (CV-45) into position to be welded to the rest of the ship's hull."

Photographed on June 16, 1945.

Temple Univerity Library: P565002B

[hopelichtner]

If you're wondering what the peak eclipse looked like from a 7-11 parking lot just outside of Philadelphia as seen through a welding helmet, here's your chance!

[mercurygray]

hi there! i've been exploring your profile that last few days and can i just say i love all your ocs?? the effort you put into them is amazing! i can't wait to start on tds now :) but, in the meantime,✍🏻️!

Oh, thank you so much for that, Blu! I hope you enjoy what you find there - that fic has been a labor of love for the last three years and I've had a lot of fun with it.

I would love for you to meet Billie Mitchell. The daughter of a well-to-do Philadelphia industrialist, it would be easy for Belinda Mitchell to be nothing more than a pretty society girl. But Billie, as she's usually called, doesn't go for easy - or for following her mother's expectations, either. She defies convention by first attending the University of Pennsylvania to become a nurse, and then further scandalizes her family by taking her professional training to work at a shipyard, tending welding burns and industrial accidents that range from the unfortunate to the truly gruesome.

And some women would be content to let that be the end of defying convention- but not Billie. She enlists in the Women's Army Corps in early 1942, and volunteers to be part of the first class of female paratroopers under Lieutenant Annie Sutton, joining the rest of what I affectionately refer to as The Girl Gang down at Camp Toccoa in August of 1942. She's often found making jokes with her friend Molly Mahoney, providing needed advice to new replacements, and refusing to believe everything the rumors say about a certain lieutenant from Dog Company.

You can read more of her adventures here in her tag, on tumblr, and at The Darkening Sky, on AO3!

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IMDb: Humanitarian and actor Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, the second of five children of Doris Anna (Tiffany), a homemaker, and Homer George Gere, an insurance salesman, both Mayflower descendants. Richard started early as a musician, playing a number of instruments in high school and writing music for high school productions. He graduated from North Syracuse Central High School in 1967, and won a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he majored in philosophy. He left college after two years to pursue acting, landing a lead role in the London production of the rock musical "Grease" in 1973. The following year he would be in other plays, such as "Taming of the Shrew." Onscreen, he had a few roles, and gained recognition in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Offscreen, he spent 1978 meeting Tibetans when he traveled to Nepal, where he spoke to many monks and lamas. Returning to the US, on Broadway he portrayed a concentration-camp prisoner in "Bent," for which he received the 1980 Theatre World Award. Back in Hollywood, he played the title role in American Gigolo (1980), establishing himself as a major star; this status was reaffirmed by An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). In the early 1980s, Richard went to Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador (amidst ongoing wars and political violence); he traveled with a doctor and visited refugee camps. It is said that Richard was romantically linked with Tuesday Weld, Priscilla Presley, Barbra Streisand and Kim Basinger. In 1990 Richard teamed up with Julia Roberts to star in the blockbuster Pretty Woman (1990); his cool reserve was the perfect complement to Julia's bubbling enthusiasm. The film captured the nation's heart, and won the People's Choice award for Best Movie. Fans clamored for years for a sequel, or at least another pairing of Julia and Richard. They got that with Runaway Bride (1999), which was a runaway success (Richard got $12 million, Julia made $17 million, the box office was $152 million, which shows what happens when you give the public what it wants!). Offscreen, Richard and Cindy Crawford got married December 12, 1991 (they were divorced in 1995). Afterwards, Richard started dating actress Carey Lowell. They had a son, Homer James Jigme Gere, on February 6, 2000. Richard was picked by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1991, and as their Sexiest Man Alive in 1999. He is an accomplished pianist and music writer. Above all, Richard is a humanitarian. He's a founding member of "Tibet House," a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan culture. He has been an active supporter of "Survival International" for several years, a worldwide organization supporting tribal peoples, affirming their right to decide their own future and helping them protect their lives, lands and human rights (these tribes are global, including the natives of the Amazon, the Maasai of East Africa, the Wichi of Argentina, and others). In 1994 Richard went to London to open Harrods' sale, donating his £50,000 appearance fee to Survival. He has been prominent in their charity advertising campaigns.

[liesmyteachertoldme]

9/11: THE GREAT ILLUSION

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us.  It cannot come from abroad.  If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

                                                                             Abraham Lincoln                             

Construction on the WTC buildings 1 and 2 (North and South) was started on Sept. 11th, 1971.  At 1350 feet, they were the two tallest and most famous buildings on earth.  One fact most people don’t know is they were engineered and built like the proverbial “brick out-house”.  These buildings were over-engineered to withstand major storms and hits from large aircraft.  They were built with 47 enormous interior steel core columns, together with 236 large exterior steel columns, that were welded and bolted together with steel plates. In addition, there were steel trusses, which crisscrossed, making a mesh that connected every other exterior column; plus there was diagonal bracing and steel rods connecting the trusses.  There were also corrugated pans with poured concrete on every floor and all this was anchored in a very deep and heavy foundation.  The buildings were architecturally designed to absorb energy and sway in storms.

FACT: No steel structured building in New York, the United States or in the World has ever come down due to fire alone!  In the last hundred years, literally dozens of steel buildings have caught fire and burned for long periods of time and have not come down.  A good example is the Meridian Plaza in Philadelphia; a 38-story office building that in 1991 had a hot fire. It burned on 8-floors for nineteen hours and three fire-fighters died fighting the blaze, but it did not come close to bringing down the building.  In contrast, the WTC North Tower fire lasted 1 hour and 43 minutes and the WTC South Tower fire lasted 56 minutes.  The fires in both towers burned significant proportions of material (sheet rock, carpet, furniture, etc.) producing lots of black smoke, indicating they were burning inefficiently, and were relatively cool fires.

FACT: Steel melts at @2552-2822° degrees Fahrenheit (F).(Pocket Guide to Arson Investigation)

Jet fuel when mixed with air at precise proportions burns at               @1800° degrees F.

Building debris (carpeting, furniture, paper, paneling, etc.) burned at an estimated 1200 to 1300° degrees F. The mass of black smoke indicates a lack of oxygen and a relatively cool fire.

Consider that heating steel is like pouring syrup onto a plate. It just won’t stack up. The heat just flows out to the colder parts of the steel, cooling off the part you are trying to warm up. If you pour it on fast enough it will heat up temporarily but as soon as you stop, it will cool off. According to the photos most of the fuel burned outside of the buildings. So what was left was a relatively cool fire.

According to photographs, people were standing at or near the hole made in the North Tower.  So the heat could not have been that intense as the government claims

In frame by frame pictures, you can see a mushrooming gray cloud envelope the building.  One can then see debris being blown away from the building with extreme force. Then the whole building came straight down in an incredibly fast 10.4 seconds.  A 1350 foot building collapsed in a manner indicative of implosion.

The government’s story is that the building experienced a compression, or pancake demolition caused from weakened trusses and weight from above.  And that’s what it is a story.  The building collapsed from the bottom up, not the top down.  Remember the fire was near the top of the building, not the bottom and the building was over engineered to withstand massive amounts of force from either mother nature or commercial aircraft. Also compression demolition does not have enough energy to crystallize concrete or melt steel. Jet fuel at optimum expands at only 208 feet per second and there is only enough latent energy to crack or break cement in a compression demolition.

On Sept. 16, five days after the attack, NASA flew a plane over the site to take thermal readings to create a thermal map. During this five day interval hundreds of tons of debris had already been carried off and millions of gallons of water had been sprayed on the debris.  The results of these readings showed “hot spots” with temperatures of over 1000 degrees F. One spot had a reading of 1377 degrees F, this after 5 days and millions of gallons of water. 

It has also been reported that the steel columns at the base of the foundation-seventy feet underground-were melted. Which means temperatures had to exceed 2500 degrees F.

Since tons of jet fuel or compression demolition can not achieve, much less, maintained this type of residual heat for this length of time, one would reasonably have to conclude that something else caused these extreme temperatures.

With non-explosive caused collapse there would typically be a pilling up of shattered concrete.  But most of the material in the towers was converted to flour-like powder while the building was falling. If jet fuel could accomplish this it would defy the Laws of Thermodynamics.

Horizontal puffs of smoke, known as squibs, were observed proceeding up  the side of the building, a phenomenon common when pre-positioned explosives are used to demolish buildings.

Steel supports were “partly evaporated” but it would require temperatures  near 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit to evaporate steel. Neither office materials nor jet fuel can generate temperatures that high.

The facts surrounding WTC building 6 are interesting.  Shortly after WTC 2 was hit, there was a huge explosion that appeared to come from the center of WTC 6.  Only some time later did it actually catch fire.  It then burned violently for hours and was finally put out. The question is 3-fold. One, what caused the explosion in the first place. Two, what cause the fire to start sometime after the explosion instead of immediately after.  And Three, after the center of the building had been blown apart and it had experienced a prolonged intense fire, why did this building NOT collapse like buildings 1, 2 and 7?

WTC 7, which was not hit by hijacked planes, collapsed in 6.6 seconds, just 0.6 second longer than it would take an anvil dropped from the roof height to hit the ground. Where is the delay that must be expected due to the conservation of momentum, one of the foundational laws of physics?

There are many more questions to be asked if one is truly interested in knowing what really happen on September 11, 2001.

Almost 40 miles north of the WTC on the Hudson River is by far the deadliest terrorist target in the United States.  Indian Point and its 3 nuclear power plants, two of which were online, have 65 years of accumulated, stockpiled highly radioactive waste. Indian Point is only 24 miles north of New York City.  It is surrounded by the densest concentration of people in the United States.  Why did American Airlines Flight 11 fly directly over the Number 1 terrorist target in the U.S. and not hit it?

The terrorists would have known their best shot at bringing down the strongest country in the world would be to hit them hard and fast.  To bring lasting and terrible destruction in a single blow.  Striking Indian Point would have instantly turned the entire area for miles around into a radioactive wasteland for thousands of years.  Experts have said casualties could have exceed 20 million premature deaths from radioactive poisoning.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission admits that these planes could have easily penetrated the nuclear reactors since they were not build with this in mind.  And they were just minutes away. So why didn’t they strike?

If the terrorists were targeting the WTC, don’t you think they would have waited until 10:00 or 11:00 am when these buildings would have been full, approx. 50,000 people? And to cause the most death and destruction isn’t it elementary to strike these buildings as low as possible instead of near the top. Why was the Pentagon hit on the so-called “peaceful” side, which was under construction as opposed to the command center on the opposite side.  Of course we “know” these terrorists are smart. The FBI and the CIA said so.  This attack was said to have taken years to plan, but our intelligence agencies said they knew nothing about it.  The taxpayers spent $40 billion a year on intelligence but let a religious fanatic living in a cave thousands of miles away outsmart what is considered the most advanced and sophisticated intelligence agencies in the world. (And hell froze over when?)

Give this some thought.  On September 11, 2001 the world trade center was destroyed. On October 24, 2001 just over a month later the original Patriot Act was presented to Congress.  The table of contents to this document is 342 pages long. This is just the table of contents.  In just 43 days they wrote a document whose table of contents is longer than many books. Think back to the research papers you did in college and how long it took you just to write a rough draft, let alone the final copy and how many pages was it.  Remember the table of contents is 342 pages long in 43 days. My point is this.  Given the bureaucracy of the federal government, there is no way that document could have been written in that short of time. It had to have been written long before 9/11 occurred and/or in preparation thereof.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2005, New York City auxiliary fire lieutenant Paul Isaac Jr. asserted that 9-11 was an inside job. “I know 9-11 was an inside job.  The police know it’s an inside job; and the fireman know it too.”  In reference to the federal gag order by the FBI preventing police and fire departments from openly talking about inside information on what really happened, “It’s amazing how many people are afraid to talk for fear of retaliation or losing their jobs.”

For a decade before the 9-11 terrorist attacks, the World Trade Center has been protected by a “no-fly zone” and at least 1000 times pursuit aircraft have intercepted planes that have strayed too close.  In all cases the planes violating the no-fly zone have been intercepted within 4 to 5 minutes.  It was standard operating procedure to launch interceptor planes when air space was violated.  Officials had been on special alert since  the 1993 truck bombing at the world trade center.

Why would the U.S, government allow the terrorist attacks to happen?  There is historical precedent.  Serious scholars no longer debate over the fact that President Franklin Roosevelt had advanced knowledge of Pearl Harbor or that he gave Japan no choice.  Or that Woodrow Wilson used the sinking of the Lusitania to justify entering World War I. The Lusitania was full of illegal arms for Britain in violation of America Neutrality Act.  The German government had warned the ship would be sunk, even buying ads in newspapers to warn Americans when their public announcements were ignored by the press.  It was President Lyndon Johnson’s fabrication about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that prompted Congress to pass a resolution giving him license to go to war in Vietnam.  There never was a “Gulf of Tonkin incident”—as sailors on the ship acknowledged after they were discharged.

There is a common thread: all 3 were “peace” presidents. Wilson was elected because he had “kept the nation out of war”.  Roosevelt promised American mothers “again and again” never to send their sons to fight on foreign battlefields. Johnson promised never to “send American boys to fight a war Asian boys ought to fight for themselves.”

American presidents seem to love war, no doubt because it gives them power, creates “prosperity”  and gratifies the banks and “the military-industrial complex” to quote Dwight Eisenhower.

[stauphenmccnair]

Steel Welding Art: Moving Hot Steel

Jaclyn Davidson is not a welder, however, she does deal with metal and solders some fantastic precious jewelry. She began dealing with gold, however, for the last 10 years, she has actually been working with weathered carbon steel, turning it into fashion jewelry that is showcased in the Smithsonian and the Museum of Art and Design (MAD). Her work has actually gotten “finest of the program” in locations along the east coast, consisting of the Philadelphia Craft Show in 2005. My work got a Verdura reward in 2007. She is represented by Charon Kranson at SOFA.

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Steel Welding Art: Moving Hot Steel

Jaclyn Davidson is not a welder, however, she does deal with metal and solders some fantastic precious jewelry. She began dealing with gold, however, for the last 10 years, she has actually been working with weathered carbon steel, turning it into fashion jewelry that is showcased in the Smithsonian and the Museum of Art and Design (MAD). Her work has actually gotten “finest of the program” in locations along the east coast, consisting of the Philadelphia Craft Show in 2005. My work got a Verdura reward in 2007. She is represented by Charon Kranson at SOFA.

[pttedu]

Welding Job Search In The US: How To Boost Your Job Search

Discover practical strategies to enhance your welding job search in the US. From certifications to networking, unlock valuable tips for success in the welding industry.

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As a beginner, welders need to learn the different types of welding that make their work smooth and easy. Read on to learn about the techniques in detail!

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Carbon Steel Tubing - The Unsung Hero of the Modern Age

In the Age of Information, it is easy to take for granted the technological accomplishments of our past. On a cold, windy night, we crank the thermostat, anticipating a burst of warmth to greet us instantly. We expect hot water to flow seamlessly from our shower taps on a cold morning. And when the time comes to add milk to the morning coffee, we pour away confidently, knowing the refrigerator has once again done its job. While it is easy to live without contemplating the sources of these modern marvels, none of them would be possible without the introduction of steel piping.

Titanium Tube

Reed plants fashioned into pipes (in the most general use of the word) were first introduced to transport water to the wealthy in ancient China as early as 2000 B.C. More than 3,500 years later, Colonial Bostonians used hollowed-out logs to create the first public waterworks system in 1652.

The development of the modern welded steel pipe went through several advancements in the mid-1800s. The first modern use for the welded steel pipe was to transport coal gas throughout London to operate the newly introduced coal burning lamp system. The first plants to utilize what became the modern process for manufacturing piping, known as the butt-weld process, opened in Philadelphia in 1832. And in 1895, the first plant to manufacture seamless piping was built.

Titanium Sheet

The type of pipe used is dependent on its function. Seamless pipes are lighter and are more fit for transporting liquids, whereas welded pipes are heavier and more rigid, fit for gas transportation, as an electrical conduit, and for plumbing. Regardless of function, most modern pipes today are made from steel and its various alloys, including aluminum, copper, and titanium.

So the next time you pay your gas or water bill, take a minute to think about the miles and miles of carbon steel piping creating an underground network, ensuring your daily routine remain undisturbed.

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Welding Technician Training Institute - Philadelphia

Welding certification training program provides hands-on technical & much-needed business skills to start a career as a welder.

[hopelichtner]

If you're wondering what the peak eclipse looked like from a 7-11 parking lot just outside of Philadelphia as seen through a welding helmet, here's your chance!

[martinosigns]

Full Service Company

The number one requirement you should be looking for in a sign contractor is a full-service company that will work with you from design to installation. Look no further!