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Contour crafting
Architecture Computing Design Engineering Industry Technology
Contour crafting is a building printing technology being researched by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (in the Viterbi School of Engineering) that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry to build edifices rapidly and efficiently with substantially less manual labor. It was originally conceived as a method to construct molds for industrial parts. Khoshnevis decided to adapt the technology for rapid home construction as a way to rebuild after natural disasters, like the devastating earthquakes that have plagued his native Iran.
Using a quick-setting, concrete-like material, contour crafting forms the house's walls layer by layer until topped off by floors and ceilings set in place by the crane. The notional concept calls for the insertion of structural components, plumbing, wiring, utilities, and even consumer devices like audiovisual systems as the layers are built.
The technology consists in the extrusion (extrusion) of a layer after a layer of special concrete along the path laid down by the program, growing walls of the building, therefore the technology got this name. In this, it is very similar to conventional 3D printing using Stratasys FDM® technology (layering of the heated thermoplastic filament in accordance with the working file).
A feature of the technology is to connect an additional tool of the machine – a manipulator that installs into the design position the supporting and supporting structural elements, engineering communications (jumpers, floor beams / cover beams, truss structures, trays, chimneys, ventilation channels, etc.).
Building material for the construction of supporting structural elements (walls, floors) is a fast-hardening reaction-powder concrete, reinforced with steel or polymer microfiber. A feature of the reaction-powder concrete is the absence of coarse aggregate without loss in the ratio of binders / solid component, as well as the highest performance characteristics. Cheaper types of concrete can also be used, such as fine-grained and sandy concrete modified with additives (hyperplasticizers, hardening accelerators, fiber).
The reinforcement technology can be applied innovative technology woven volume mesh frameworks. In theory, such frameworks can be tied into a single structure during construction.
The advantage of technology lies in the speed of construction. According to the car, it can build a residential building with an area of 150 sq.m. in 24 hours.
The disadvantage is the complexity and, in some cases, the impossibility of building open-plan buildings and complex architectural forms because of the need to create supporting structures.
Caterpillar Inc. provided funding to help support Viterbi project research in the summer of 2008.
In the early 2000s the theoretical principles and first feedback are available, and many authors are testing or planning for the future of automatic building systems of entire buildings by robots or a single multitasking robot.
In the years 2002 to 2004 the development of automation in construction has been slower than in other areas (automotive and industrial robotics in particular), but based rapid prototyping by adding material used in other branches of industry, and after improvement of extrusion heads and adaptation of materials (cement, plaster, uncured ceramics, using the principle of Adobe, Plastic, resin, polymers or blends…) it is now theoretically advanced enough to allow the additive construction, including the moon and other planets according Khoshnevis from the University of Southern California.
In 2007, an alternative to the overhead traveling crane is under consideration: the use of a print head oriented in space by the movements of the cables to which it is suspended, these movements being controlled by the computer; this option is being studied by Bosscher and his colleagues in Ohio and improved in 2008.
In 2008, the company Caterpillar Inc. decided to provide funds to support research projects Viterbi (summer 2008).
In 2009, graduate students from Singularity University (an unofficial Silicon Valley University) set up an ACASA project, with Khoshnevis as project director, to commercialize the "Contour Crafting" (CC) technique..
In 2010, Khoshnevis says thus be able to build a robot (House-Bot) a full house in one day with a crane or electric gantry (can be powered by a clean energy source, safe and renewable for electricity green) by producing very little waste of building materials. If this challenge is met, this technique could then strongly limit the environmental impact and the carbon footprint and the ecological footprint of the construction of houses.
That same year 2010, Khoshnevis announces that NASAis evaluating the possibility of using the Contour Crafting for the construction of bases on the planet Mars and / or Moon, which also requires the ability to collect, transport and prepare the lunar material at reasonable costs, a question studied two years earlier by Zacny et al. and Zeng al (2007).
In 2013, based on earlier work (2005) and in view of a possible construction in situ of a lunar laboratory, NASA control a small study at the University of Southern California to refine this 3D printing technique by considering, among potential applications, the construction of structures or infrastructures that could be built on the moon in ISRU mode (in-situ resource utilization), that is to say with a material containing at least 90 % of lunar materials and not more than 10% of material imported from the Earth.
The first French building printed in 3D (YHNOVA, social housing, announced in March 2017 should be born in Nantes, on the basis of a technique "Batiprint3D", patented by the University of Nantes, and conceived with the CNRS, the School Centrale, Inria and IMT Atlantique, and patented by the University of Nantes).
Khoshnevis stated in 2010 that NASA was evaluating Contour Crafting for its application in the construction of bases on Mars and the Moon. After three years, in 2013, NASA funded a small study at the University of Southern California to further develop the Contour Crafting 3D printing technique. Potential applications of this technology include constructing lunar structures of a material that could be built of 90-percent lunar material with only ten percent of the material transported from Earth.
In 2017 the Contour Crafting Corporation (of which Khoshnevis is the CEO) announced a partnership with and investment from Doka Ventures. In the press release, they claim that they "will start delivery of the first printers early next year"
The house is designed on the computer and the data is then forwarded to the 3D printer. The 3D printer is a fully automatic gantry robot that is larger than the building; The fast-hardening special concrete and normal concrete are supplied via concrete containers.
First, the gantry robot pours a frame layer by layer using the fast-hardening special concrete. Its computer-controlled spray nozzle places thin traces of the concrete on the ground, which are brought to their final shape by two side-mounted trowels. Then the frame is filled with normal concrete. Furthermore, finished steel frameworks or the like can be introduced with. Thus, a building is created exactly after computer drawing.
This principle of rapid prototyping was developed by the US researcher Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
In general, automated systems allow additive, formative or subtractive management of the material. They can also combine – in situ – these 3 approaches.
The CC (Contour crafting) method adapts to the needs of a large construction software and hardware tools created to machine or produce molds to produce industrial parts for foundries, glass or plastics and then for 3D printers.
Since the mid-1990s, Khoshnevis has been gradually adapting these technologies to a rapid home construction project, which could be implemented, for example, after devastating natural disasters (tsunamis, earthquakes) such as the earthquake. hit his homeland, Iran) or even on other planets in the context of space exploration with human presence. In Europe, the Italian Enrico Dini has created his own machine called D-Shape which deposits layers of sand hardened by an inorganic binder to produce objects up to six meters high (in 2014).
In the first case, a fast-setting material such as concrete from sand and cement used with a "set accelerator" shape – layer by layer – the walls and elements of a home, to floors, ceilings and roof set up by the gantry crane or crane.
The voids necessary for the insertion of plumbing, electrical and computer wiring, ventilation or insulating materials are provided upstream in the computerized plan, but the robot and its gantry can theoretically also install pipes or some secondary elements of the structure, or decorative and protective elements such as tessellations, tiles, plaster, paints, etc.
Alternatives or ecological variants
They seek to use basic materials that are widely available and have a small ecological footprint (sand, gravel, clay, etc.) and to use a free and safe source of energy such as solar energy (transformed into electricity and in the form of heat)..
Recently (2012-2013), artistic and / or technical experiments have used machines constructing objects or decorations in sand, sometimes of large size. This is the case for example of:
sets or elements of printed architecture (or "computational architecture") produced by architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger, with the Architecture Department of ETH Zurich 36. In this case, the 3D printer manufactured large objects (columns, walls, rooms) made from sand. The pieces were formed from algorithms aiming at rapidly producing complex and decorative architectural objects that are almost impossible to achieve by the means of classical sculpture, which should be exhibited in France at the FRAC in Orléans in 2014
Sculptures or utility objects built by a computer-controlled " Stone Spray Robot" capable of printing in multiple directions at a time (in two planes, vertical and horizontal) to produce complex, possibly self-supporting shapes (furniture, walls, sculptures… built on sand agglomerated by a glue (ecological binder LEEED certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), with a power supply which is a photovoltaic panel. This robot was produced by Shergill, Anna Kulik and Petr Novikov, supervised by Jordi Portell, Marta Male Alemany and Miquel Iloveras of the IAAC (Catalan Institute for Advanced Architecture (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia;
Objects in melted sand; fusion is produced by concentrating a solar light beam on a renewed layer of desert sand; It was Markus Kayser who developed the first very simple prototype, successfully tested in the Sahara desert, using a simple fresnel lens driven by a computer powered by solar panels ("Solar Sinter Project"). The lens concentrates the heat of the sun on sand added in the machine layer by layer, the shape being programmed as a digital model.
The P r Behrokh Khoshnevis, with the University of Southern California and the funding NASA and Cal-Earth Institute tests in 2014 a "giant 3D printer" with the project to build a house in 24 hours. The printer is here a robot that extrudes concrete according to a plan stored in the computer that controls it.
According to proponents of this technique, such robots could in the future build – with materials collected (or recycled) on site – civilian and military buildings, airstrips, roads, hangars or radiation walls as well as possibly habitable structures on the moon, march or other extraterrestrial environments. Tests are done in a laboratory located in the desert of NASA (D-RATS). This process is or has been tested on a small scale (project "House of the Future / Urban policy initiative" (2004) and is considered by industry for several years.
The project "3D Print Canal House" uses a printer of intermediate size, operating in a container, called "Kamermaker" easy to bring on site (test underway in the Netherlands 49), elements of walls that are then easily assembled on square; in this case, the plastic used is made of 75% vegetable oil, but other types of plastics are experimented.
The Caterpillar Inc. has funded the Viterbi School project since 2008.
Khoshnevis also says that NASA is evaluating outline construction as a method of building bases for the colonization of Mars and the Moon.
In 2009, undergraduate students from the University of Singularity established the ACASA project with Khoshnevis as CTO to market the construction by contours.
Anteriority
The concept of additive manufacturing exists among modelers who use clay, wax and architecture in craftsmen or decorators who use plaster or stucco. The construction of layered walls of adobe (banchage) consolidated or not by lime, straw, fibers, etc. has existed since antiquity, but it would now be potentially fully automated, accelerated and no longer require formwork.
One of the most successful systems for contouring construction is D-Shape, the developer of which is Enrico Dini. D-Shape allows you to perform buildings without human intervention. In this case, D-Shape uses a special technology for converting sand into a mineral with microcrystalline characteristics, whose properties are superior to Portland cement. According to some claims, such material does not require reinforcement. It is noted that D-Shape allows you to speed up the construction process up to four times compared with traditional methods.
In 2009, the D-Shape system had already erected a building 3 meters high.
In 2014, a breakthrough began in the field of building construction using contour 3D printing with concrete.
During 2014, the Shanghai company WinSun announced, first the construction of ten 3D-printed houses, erected in 24 hours, and then printed a five-story house and a mansion.
The University of Southern California passed the first tests of a giant 3D printer that can print a house with a total area of 250 m² per day.
Various more or less experimental models were created at the end of the xx th century and helped gradually producing parts increasingly large, usually single-material and of the same color.
The three-dimensional printer was initially science fiction (Arthur C. Clarke evoked a "replicating machine" in the 1960s, machine that would replicate objects as they printed books, which would have a profoundly positive effect on society: "humanity will adapt as in the past" or comics (in 1972, in the cartoon Tintin and Shark Lake, Professor Tournesol invents a three-dimensional photocopier immediately coveted by Rastapopoulos to manufacture of false by duplicating artwork stolen from major museums).
The technical solutions existing in the 1990s suggest the possibility of a rapid and fully automated construction of a building or a set of buildings, with automated painting, robotic installation of tiles and other decorative or functional elements such as piping water, gas, air conditioning or aeration, integration of electrical, electronic or fiber optic cabling, etc.
In 2014, robot surgeons exist, including brain surgery. Some medical robots can be remotely controlled (tele) and under development models can already adapt in real-time respiratory movements or reflexes of a patient. They suggest that the accuracy of 3D printing applied to architecture can progress further.
Similarly, typologies of materials are likely to increase in the future as technical progress. Reactive or "intelligent" materials structured to store or conduct or filter air, water, moisture, calories or frigories, information, etc. are also considered.
The biomimetic could inspire engineers and architects and offer new ideas for eco-housing with very low environmental footprint, without "water footprint" or carbon footprint, or likely to repay their ecological debt. Such constructions could for example be inspired by the constructive model of certain termite mounds, bioconstructive and / or photosynthetic organisms, etc. using micro-robots capable of possibly producing a nanotructured material with novel characteristics.
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When my son was in need of a therapy bike, (which was out of my price range) New Hope for Kids stepped in. They made sure to take care of us and treat us like family! Granting his wish to give him a therapy bike and making sure it fit his body type and physical needs was amazing. Any and all questions I ever had from the beginning were always answered in a timely matter.
Also, they were welcoming when inviting my son and family to other events that their program is involved in! New Hope for Kids doesn't just help lives, they improve lives! Making things that might otherwise be difficult, less stressful and even enjoyable! If it was not for this foundation, my son (after all he has been through) wouldn't have the bike he needs to help build his physical strength and emotional/mental confidence back! Thank you New Hope for Kids for all you have done, all that you are doing, and all that you will do for kids and families in the future!
Justin is a nine year old boy that was born with a rare birth defect called craniosynostosis. In addition to pressure in the brain, this causes delays in development, abnormalities to the skull and face. Over the years he has had reconstructive surgery and continues to face medical issues. Because there is no cure and only basic treatments, Justin must take medication and work with a large number of specialists on an ongoing basis.
Each of his conditions creates obstacles in day to day life. He suffers from headaches, fatigue, stomach pain, seizures and leg pain. The leg pain makes it difficult to balance and walk. It takes significant time and effort for Justin to do everyday things that are second nature to many of us.
Justin's passion is animals. He loves cuddling with them and they help him to relax. Justin's Wish was for a service dog. The service dog was trained by 4 Paws for Ability, Inc. located in Xenia, Ohio. They trained a dog specifically to help Justin, whose seizures can be extreme. In his case, the service dog alerts his parents of seizures, provide comfort, and also help Justin relax during procedures, assist him with balance, and other necessary support. Justin has not only received a new pet but a life changing companion!
Kaley recently had a very difficult surgery to lengthen her leg. Before she faced months of treatment and therapy, Kaley only asked for one thing: a Disney Dream Cruise! Her family had the best time swimming, playing games, and sightseeing. Every day was an adventure beginning with a cool and windy day and moving into sunshine and the warmth of the Bahamas.
J.P. wanted to see his New York cousins and celebrate in the Big Apple! One of his favorite things to do is sightsee at the iconic Statue of Liberty, Freedom Tower and the Empire State Building! New Hope's Wishes for Kids provided airfare, accommodations and spending money to make J.P.'s wish extraordinary!
Samantha, a 12 year old with cerebral hypoplasia and ataxia, never considered the possibility that her wish might not come true. She knew she wanted to see snow, go sledding and make a snowman! With a little help from friends at the Liberty Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania she is pictured above fulfilling her dream.
What does it take to stop a dream? Is it fear of failure? Lack of self-confidence? I wish I had the courage I see demonstrated by the children and families I serve. Is it difficult for me to get going in the morning? I have a body that works, a mind that is sound (despite what friends and families might think ha ha), and resources to fulfill any dream I might pursue.
What stops you from fulfilling your dreams? Let's take a hint from Samantha, and make those changes we think about but never do. Start writing that book. Begin a new routine. Forget about TV for a while, and paint your masterpiece. Whatever is in your heart, go for it! Let me know if Samantha's dream motivates you!
I finally got around to organizing the pics and have been meaning to send this email to you since we got back. Our cruise was amazing and a blessing that refreshed and renewed us as a family. The children are still talking about their experience on the Disney Cruise and it is still unbelievable to us that we went on such a wonderful trip. We can't thank you/New Hope enough!! Tati was able to meet other wish children, as the Wish Director on the cruise held a party for all the children in different wish programs. It was an uplifting and encouraging moment.
Tati and Elijah were so funny, on the last day of the cruise they were devising ways that they could stay on the ship and asked if they could work as servers. lol! I told them they had to graduate from college first!
I'm attaching a few pictures. The lady in the picture (not shown) was our Disney Wish Coordinator, Bernadette from Hungary, and she did an amazing job making sure we were enjoying ourselves and that everything was taken care of for Tati and her special needs. The dolphin swim was the highlight for Tati…the water was surprisingly cold. brrr! Gussie was the dolphin assigned to our group and Tati fell in love with her.
This will be a memory that we will forever cherish. A blessing that gave Tati a fresh perspective on her condition and hope for the future that God will always take care of her every need. And a blessing for our family during a time of much stress in our lives–it was wonderful to forget about things and relax for a little while. Many thanks again!
Jose knew exactly what to wish for. He's only 8, but his mind was made up. He wanted to meet his favorite basketball star—Lebron James of the Miami Heat! With the help of some wonderful staff at RDV Sportsplex and our own volunteers, Michele and Steve Chamberland, his wish came true. Jose stood in awe as Lebron approached. In a soft voice of admiration Jose exclaimed, "My Lebron James!" He could barely believe his eyes.
In keeping with this wave of joy, UCF Cornerstone Team, aptly named "King Jose's Court," raised enough funds to provide box seats for another Magic Game. They also planned a party and co-hosted it with O'Charley's Restaurant who generously donated delicious dinners for Jose and his guests. Other donors included Ernst and Young, Kohl's and other kind members of our community. It offered Jose an opportunity to forget about his illnesses and just enjoy being a kid having fun.
Jazmine is a spirited 7 year old with a rare disease called Klippel Trenaunay Syndrome. She painfully suffers through the majority of the long list of ailments caused by KTS which significantly affect her day to day activities.
Jazmine has already undergone 13 different surgeries plus countless procedures and appointments. Her medical needs often require her family to travel from Lake Mary to Tampa or even as far away as New York. As you can imagine, the travel-related expenses and noncovered medical needs cause a significant financial burden for her family, not to mention the emotional roller coaster they endure. Despite all this, Jazmine, whose favorite color is pink and who wishes to go on a Disney cruise with her favorite character Hook, is an energetic, positive little girl.
UCF Cornerstone team Jazmine's Genies "adopted" Jazmine to help make her wish come true. They not only raised $2,025 for her cruise, they also combined another $787 plus $3,303 of in-kind donations to host the most incredible tea party in town! The Orlando Sheraton Downtown provided a dinner room and patio complete with twinkling lights for her beautifully decorated tea party, "Jazmine in Wonderland". It was complete with a chocolate milk "tea" ceremony, scones, cakes and then a full meal. As DJ Cheyenne played music, Jazmine and her friends spontaneously began dancing and singing. It was beyond precious.
Many caring people contributed to this magical evening. Delicious food came from the Sheraton, Tropical Smoothie and Tuscan Pizza, decorations and supplies from Target, a gift bag full of cruise niceties for the whole family from Wal-Mart, face painting by Clown Service, and new hairdos by Jane Ellis at Unique Hair for Mom, Jazmine and her two sisters. The team even provided a date night gift card for mom and dad!
At the conclusion of their class assignment, Jazmine's Genies shared, "The most meaningful part of the project was feeling the love and appreciation from the Gonzales family." Now they have everything they need for a fun time on ship Disney Dream!
accurately call her handicapped. Jeanmarie's wish was to go to the Maile School for Acting and Modeling. Her goal is to be in a real commercial and she had her first "shoot" this summer. Now she's ready for T.V.!
UCF Cornerstone Team "Living the Dream" chose to help with Jeanmarie's wish. They raised $1,142 and planned a fun party at Chuck E Cheese where everyone had a grand time enjoying cake, pizza and games.
come back as his special guest for the April 4th game!


Dyrham Park is a beautiful race venue owned by the National Trust. There are nearly 200 deer roaming the 250 acres of park land and you can be sure to come across them during the day. The landscaped gardens and the avenues of trees make for an amazing running experience. After the race, stay for a picnic and enjoy the beautiful surroundings. Runners will enjoy FREE entry into the park and gardens after the event. Spectators will also be able to enjoy free entry into the park and gardens but we ask that you make a donation to Dyrham Roof project which needs to raise £500,000 to re-roof Dyrham, reface the stonework and protects the treasures within for future generations. Further information on the roof appeal is below or can be viewed by this link.
The 10km events and the 3km fun run all take place on the same 3km multi terrain loop. The race will start in the Whitefield Wildflower Meadow before turning right into the main park. The first kilometer is on the whole nice and flat with runners taking in long avenues of trees. There is a road crossing of the private drive down to the house. The only vehicle to use this road is the shuttle bus down to Dyrham house. The crossing will be marshaled but please be careful when crossing at this point.
The best sights reveal themselves from the 2km point of the course with stunning views from the top of the Cotswolds, across the plain to Bristol and over to Wales. Runners now descend past the old farmhouse and infront of the main house itself. Once again, please keep an eye out for the shuttle bus when crossing the drive. To complete the lap runners must climb back up the hill along the woodland trails.
All runners will head back into the Whitefield Meadow. 3km runners will go straight ahead to the finish line to complete their race. Runners taking part in the 10km will perform a U turn and head back out for laps 2 and 3 before heading through to the finish line.
The 300m course will be held in the Whitefield meadow on an out back course.
A £3.5 million project to re roof Dyrham House will commence later in the year, when the house will be enveloped in scaffolding for 2 years! 22 tonnes of lead need to be replaced, alongside 8,000 welsh slates, and an efficient biomass boiler needs to be installed to replace the hugely inefficient oil fired boiler, which uses 2% of the oil budget for the whole of the National Trust.
£500,000 still needs to be raised for this project to be completed. We have managed to negotiate with the National Trust to allow all spectators of the race to come in to the park and gardens for free, but PLEASE make a donation to the roof project in leiu buying an admission ticket. All money raised will ensure Dyrham house and the treasures within are available for all to enjoy for many years into the future.
Runners have FREE access to the park and gardens upon showing their race number to visitor reception. Relish Running is making a £1 per runner donation to the roof project on behalf of the runners. Runners or spectators wishing to visit the house will be asked to pay the standard admission rate.
Free parking for participants and supporters. There are toilets in the main visitors car park by visitor reception. The Park is accessible to wheelchairs, but unfortunately the course is not suitable for wheelchairs. There are no shower or changing facilities so please come changed.
The National Trust will be selling a range of refreshments from their mobile cafe by the race site.


KGS employees went to Jeju Island workshop from December 16, 2016 to December 18, 2016.
Formation of intimacy between employees! Promote your company's pride! Creating a new future !!!
It has become a stepping stone to make a new 2017 year and recharge time for executives who worked hard last year.
In 2017, the employees will work hard to develop KGS.


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RM SOTHEBY'S PRESENTS ONLINE ONLY: FORMULA 1® MEMORABILIA AUCTION
By Emma Illman19th November 2019 NEWS
RM Sotheby's is pleased to present the latest sale in its new online series, the Online Only: Formula 1® Memorabilia auction, offered entirely without reserve on rmsothebys.com. In celebration of the auction house's inaugural sale at the FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX 2019 organized in partnership with Formula 1 (30 November), the online collectables sale will be held concurrently with the live auction, offering complementary pieces.
Hosted on RM Sotheby's new online auction platform, the sale will offer 103 exceptional lots, ranging from large-scale handmade models, to racing helmets and suits, with a particular emphasis on the late 1980s, and early 1990s and 2000s, as well as the legendary achievements of FIA Formula One World Championship drivers, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher. Bidding for the collection will open at 1:00 pm ET on Friday, 22 November, and will run through Monday, 2 December at 1:00 pm ET.
Stand out highlights within the Online Only: Formula 1® Memorabilia collection include:
A McLaren Honda Signed Helmet, 1988 (Est. $50,000 – $70,000) and McLaren Honda Racing Suit, 1988 (Est. $10,000 – $20,000) believed to be worn in the first championship year of three-time FIA Formula 1 Drivers' World Champion, Ayrton Senna;
Michael Schumacher's Ferrari Signed Helmet from the 1998 FIA Formula One World Championship, in which he placed second (Est. $15,000 – $20,000), as well as his Ferrari Signed Helmet from the 2001 Formula 1 season (Est. $15,000 – $20,000);
A Michael Schumacher Racing Suit from 1996, his first year with Ferrari, presented in display by OMP Racing (Est. $10,000 – $20,000);
Designed by Paolo Martinelli, an 800+ hp, 3.0-liter, naturally aspirated Ferrari Tipo 051/B/C engine, built to power one of the most successful Formula 1 cars of all time, the F2002 (Est. $50,000 – $70,000);
Numerous Amalgam 1:8 scale models, including a Michael Schumacher 2001 Ferrari F2001 Model, the 39th of 100 built by Amalgam, and featuring the livery as driven by Schumacher to victory at the FORMULA 1 MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX 2001 (Est. $4,000 – $6,000).
"This remarkable group of collectables represents the groundbreaking moments of modern Formula 1 racing," said Barney Ruprecht, Car Specialist, RM Sotheby's. "We are very excited to offer F1 fans and enthusiasts the chance to acquire their very own piece of motorsport and automotive history via our new digital auction platform."
Each lot offered via the Online Only: Formula 1® Memorabilia auction has been inspected in RM Sotheby's care and will be collected by all successful bidders from RM Sotheby's Detroit, Michigan facilities unless otherwise noted. Shipping arrangements can be made via third parties to have the items collected from Detroit. The auction is governed by RM Sotheby's Bidders' Terms and Conditions.
Additional information and bidder registration are available at rmsothebys.com.

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Kells is an area of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England, elevated on a cliff to the south of the town centre, overlooking the Irish sea. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 2,437. Kells was built as a coal mining community.

A cable railway, the Corkickle Brake, was opened in 1881 to connect the pits at the top of the steep incline to the railway line in Whitehaven town below. As the pits closed, the Corkickle Brake was abandoned in 1932. It was re-opened in 1955 to serve the Marchon chemical works (later a division of Albright and Wilson) in Kells. When the Brake was again closed in 1986, it was the last standard gauge cable railway operating in the UK.

With the change from phosphate-based detergents, the Marchon works was the victim of a gradual winding down process and finally closed in 2006.

Kells Amateur Rugby League Football Club was first formed in 1931, and played in the Cumberland League winning every trophy for a number of years. Kells left the Cumberland League in 2012 to start life in division 3 of the national conference and won division 3 and division 2 at the first attempt. Kells are known as the amateur challenge cup kings making excellent progress in the competition's history Kells have recently been crowned national conference division one winners – their third national conference title in as many years. The backbone being built at Kells is extraordinary and Kells going into the premier conference 2016 as favourites and will make history if they can be the first team to win four consecutive league titles in as many years.

Roads
There are 20 roads in total on kells, they are all listed in this section in no particular order. The roads listed are roads recognised by satellites and roads that you are able to drive on (Ginns to Kells is not on Kells but it leads up to Ennerdale Terrace which is on Kells).

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Populated places in Cumbria
Whitehaven

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As every car owner knows, when you need your vehicle repaired or serviced, finding a reliable and qualified mechanic can make all the difference. If you are currently on the lookout for a new auto mechanic, read on. Below is a guide to 3 signs that an auto repair mechanic will offer a reliable and good service.
When visiting an auto repair garage for the first time, you should make a note of how busy the place is. If a mechanic has put the time and effort in to provide an excellent level of service and to build up a good reputation within the local community, it is likely that their auto repair shop will always be busy. However, if a mechanic does not provide a good service or is rude to their customers, it is likely they will go elsewhere and so the garage will be quiet. You should look for a repair shop which is often busy, as this suggest that the mechanic provides a good service.
When you visit a repair shop to have your car serviced, as well as taking a look at the setup and equipment, you should also try to take a look at the office. A good mechanic will keep detailed records of each customer, the different vehicles they are working on, estimates for work and receipts of payment. Each piece of paperwork should be properly looked after and filed away. If you visit a garage and notice that the mechanic does not keep records of the work they are carrying out or that the records are kept on a messy desk, you should think twice before asking them to carry out any work. If a mechanic cannot be bothered to look after their office, will they be bothered about looking after your car?
You should spend some time chatting with the mechanic so you can gauge the way they communicate. A good mechanic will take the time to explain the problems they have discovered and the different repair options available. They may even offer you tips which will help you to avoid problems in the future. If a mechanic doesn't take the time to explain the faults they have found on your vehicle, you should look elsewhere.
If you are currently looking to have your car serviced, you should contact a professional auto mechanic today.


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Q: CSS ul li 2nd and following list item has grey vertical line I need to fix some existing html content. The CSS is quite convoluted, however, I have one thing popping up that I can't get rid of.
All the ul li lists have a mid grey vertical line between the circle/dot and the li item text. The first item is fine, it is only consistently appearing after the first item. The first item is fine.
I tried margin 0 and padding 0 to no avail.
Anyone seen something similar and knwo how to fix it?
Here is the code, I was given. Put in a .html and look at it in firefox.
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    Bereavement: key facts
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What if I can't come to terms with it?

You may have problems if you can't grieve properly at the time
of your loss because of family or business commitments. Some people
don’t appear to grieve at all and return quickly to their normal
life, but then, years later, have odd physical symptoms or
spells of depression.

If you have had a stillbirth, miscarriage or abortion, other
people may not understand why you feel so deeply about it. This can
make you feel very alone and low.

You may start to grieve, but get stuck. The early sense of
shock and disbelief goes on. Years may pass and still you find it
hard to believe that the person you loved is dead.

You may find that you can’t think of anything else, perhaps
making the room of the dead person into a shrine.

Occasionally, you may feel so low that you have thoughts of
killing yourself and may even stop eating and drinking.

Bereavement can affect your physical health, with an increased
risk of cancer and heart disease. Some older people may die very
soon after their partner or spouse has died.

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Listen: Voice synthesis and ChatCPT used in AI recreation of Steve Jobs
AI technologies have been used to revive the voice of Apple's Steve Jobs, who passed away in 2011, in an eerily realistic recording.
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In the new clip from Synthetic Voices on YouTube, the voice of Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been recreated with what seems to be a combination of voice synthesis and a script from ChatGPT.
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Comments from users were completely shocked at the recording, with some stating that it is "creepy" and "truly horrifying". One user commented suggesting that the audio had been created with real audio combined with clone, but Synthetic Voices confirmed that the clip is made with an entirely AI voice.
In a second video, two voices – one of Jobs and the other of Joe Rogan – were synthesized to 'converse' with each other. Synthetic Voices shared that its prompt for that video was, "a fictional script between joe rogan and steve jobs in their style of talking. The topic is the Russia/Ukraine war."
As reported by Synthtopia, ChatGPT has been developed by OpenAI, and is a large language model that can be used for natural language processing tasks such as text generation and language translation.
The capabilities of AI tech within audio has been demonstrated more frequently in recent months – we've seen it able to produce music through spectrograms, and integrate its way into the music of artists such as Holly Herndon, or even entirely "fake" AI musicians.
Whilst some artists are taking AI in their stride, others aren't so sure. Nick Cave had said earlier this month (16 January) that a song which imitates his musical style, created by ChatGPT, is a "grotesque mockery of what it is to be human".
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Ron Paul: the far-out candidate
By Debra J. Saunders
Published 4:00 am PST, Thursday, December 22, 2011
I first met Ron Paul in 1988 at the Beverly Hills home of Dr. Timothy Leary, the onetime "turn on, tune in, drop out" LSD guru. Leary talked to me about how he was going to have his head frozen cryogenically when he died - it happened eight years later - and why he was hosting a fundraiser for Paul. The event showed that there is such a thing as being so far to the right (or left) that you bond with the fringe left (or fringe right).
Paul and Leary found common cause in their opposition to the war on drugs. (I like this.) But as I reported in the Los Angeles Daily News at the time, Paul's platform also called for abolishing the income tax, dismantling the IRS and demolishing the post office.
In his third bid for the presidency - his second run in the GOP primaries - Paul's platform is pretty much the same. His website promises that Paul "will be proud to be the one who finally turns off the lights at the IRS for good." (I italicize this as his campaign's frequent use of "the one" has a faint messianic odor.)
And: "Capital gains taxes, which punish you for success (and interfere with your efforts to hedge against inflation by purchasing gold and silver coins), should also be immediately repealed."
Those views seemed extreme in 1988. They seem extreme now - and almost certain to make Paul unelectable in November. This is why I have not considered Paul to be a serious candidate.
Paul looks strong now. He has put together an impressive organization of enthusiastic supporters - Paulistas - who could hand him victory in the Jan. 3 caucus in Iowa, where the RealClearPolitics poll average puts Paul in the lead.
A former Air Force flight surgeon and practicing physician, Paul often talks like an outsider. He is and he isn't. First elected to the House in a 1976 special election, Paul lost his Texas seat in the general election. Then he beat the incumbent two years later. He left Congress in 1984 when he ran for Senate and lost. In 1996 he ran for a House seat again and won.
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I think part of Paul's popularity stems from his willingness to take unpopular stands to stay true to his bedrock beliefs. Even when you disagree with him, you have to admire his willingness to say things in GOP debates that your average Republican does not want to hear. At a November debate, for example, Paul charged that the Obama administration "assassinated" American-born al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. It was another one of Paul's strange bedfellow marriages, this time with the ACLU.
Over time, those positions wander into crazy-talk land and wear thin. Recently Paul told an Iowa audience, "Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the (Bush) administration because now we can invade Iraq."
That kind of talk made Paul many Democrats' pet Republican in 2008. He has picked up support on niche issues - on the far right, his pledge to shutter the Transportation Security Administration; on the left, his supportive rhetoric on accused Wikileaker Bradley Manning. Paul has won support ranging from Timothy Leary's backyard in 1988 to traditional-values Iowans in 2011. He has core values. Alas, he has no middle.
E-mail: dsaunders@sfchronicle.com.
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Star Fleet Project é um trabalho musical de Brian May, músico mundialmente conhecido por ter sido fundador e guitarrista da banda britânica de rock Queen. Projeto lançado como Brian May + Friends, contém a participação do guitarrista Eddie Van Halen, o baterista Alan Gratzer (do REO Speedwagon), Phil Chen (baixista que tocou com Jeff Beck e Rod Stewart) e Fred Mandel (que gravou com o Queen e o Pink Floyd). Roger Taylor, baterista do Queen, fez backing vocal para a canção-título do álbum.

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"Let Me Out" (May) 7:13
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His very first communication to staffers on May 25, 2001, said that one of the "C"s they needed to avoid was corruption and the second, a new year message, said that 64 of the 147 cases of corruption being examined against ONGC officers had been recommended by him. Given this background of speaking his mind, it's hardly surprising ONGC chief Subir Raha fell foul with Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar whose successor Murli Deora simply toed his line and refused to extend Raha's tenure after five years.
The IIT Kharagpur alumnus who then did an MBA from Leeds (the MBA was sponsored by IOC where Raha began his career) bested Aiyar on most occasions — Aiyar opposed his mammoth Rs 30,000 crore expansion at MRPL and creation of a spanking new petrochemicals complex in a SEZ, which would have made ONGC a formidable player in the exports market of value-added products, and even wanted to increase the number of government directors at ONGC. Aiyar won the battle to oust Raha after he'd been removed as minister, though.
reserves is better than in the past decade or more, even though, unlike its private counterparts, ONGC has a lot more blocks in non-producing and frontier areas.
New enhanced oil recovery programmes for fields like Bombay High which were declining since the early 1990s resulted in a situation where, over 25 years, an extra 140 million tonnes of oil can be got, and the decline in production from 32 million tonnes in 1995-96, to 24 million when Raha took over is poised to reach 27 million next year.
Though Raha's inter-personal relations leave a lot to be desired, few in even the private sector doubt his competence as a manager. MRPL, a joint venture between HPCL and the Aditya Birla Group had Rs 1,200 crore of accumulated losses when ONGC bought it, and turned it around in a record 368 days. It's not just the oil price spiral that resulted in ONGC's profits rising two-and-a-half times under Raha.


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Q: An arrangement of entangled squares Is there an arrangement of finitely many axes-parallel squares in the plane, of $k$ different colors, such that:

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*The squares of each color are pairwise-disjoint;

*Each square overlaps at least  $4$ squares of some other color (e.g. each red square overlaps $4$ green  or $4$ blue squares; each blue square overlaps $4$ red or $4$ green squares; etc.)?

For $k=2$ colors, Barry Cipra proved that the answer is no. Can his argument (or another one) be extended to $k>2$?
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The beautiful constructions by Manfred Weis show that, for $k\geq 4$, there exists an arrangement in which each square overlaps at least 4 other squares that may be of different colors (e.g. a red square may overlap two green and two blue squares). But my intention (which was probably not clear enough) was that each square should overlap at least 4 other squares of the same color (e.g. a red square should overlap 4 green squares, or 4 blue squares).

A: A solution for $k=4$ colors can be constructed from the arrangements of squares that square the square in the followig way: if an square has a corner in common with the bounding square and is neighbor to only 3 inner squares, then split the neighboring square whose corners are strictly inside the bounding square into four equal parts.
That is illustrated with A. J. W. Duijvestijn's smallest squared square.
the squares with sidelengths 33 and 27 are only neighbors to 3 other squares; splitting inner squares with sidelengths 4 and 8 makes all squares neighbors of at least 4 other squares; increasing the size of each square by $\epsilon$ while preserving the location of their centers makes each square overlap with at least four others.
If we take as vertices of a planar graph the squares and as edges pairs of overlapping squares, then a vertex coloring of that graph yields a coloring of the squares such that no overlapping pair has the same color.

one of the possible 4-colorings of the squares that remains valid after a slight center-preserving enlarging of the squares

The smallest satisfying arrangement of squares from which a satisfying example can be obtain by slightly enlarging the squares of the arrangment:

A: It is possible for infinitely many squares:

tile the plane with a shape made up of 5 squares with centers at $(-1,0),(0,0),(+1,0),(0,-1),(0,+1)$ each of a different color and sidelengths equal to e.g. $0.6$.
The centers of squares of the same color are the corners of a rotated square grid of knight moves.
The depicted arrangement is also utilized in the printing business, however with different colors.

A: There is such arrangement, for some large $k$. In the text below, I did not try to optimize $k$.
1. First, we reduce the problem to the following uncolored version:
There is an arrangement $\mathcal A$ of finitely many squares such that each $a\in\mathcal A$ overlaps with four pairwise disjoint squares in $\mathcal A$.
Indeed, given such arangement $\mathcal A$, for each square $a\in \mathcal A$ we introduce a color $C_a$, find four pairwise disjoint squares overlapping with $a$, and put into an arrangement $\mathcal B$ their copies having color $C_a$. Then $\mathcal B$ satisfies the requirements: each square in it is a copy of some $a\in\mathcal A$, and hence the color $C_a$ fits for it.
2. Now we construct a required $\mathcal A$. We introduce the colors to distinguish the squares; those colors have a few in common with the colors in the initial problem.
On each step of the process, we say that a square is good if it satisfies the required property, and bad otherwise. The degree of a square is the maximal number of its pairwise disjoint overlappers.
Start with a $10\times 10$ grid of just-non-overlapping red squares, and put into any interior vertex of the grid a blue square. All squares are good, except for the boundary red ones (see left figure).
A convenend property is that for any point $x$ in the upper-eft quarter of the figure (within the grid), we may take a large square with $x$ as an either upper-left, or upper-right, or lower-left corner; this square will be automatically good, as it overlaps with many red squares. We attach such squares (not shown in the figure) to each side of the grid. Now, still boundary red squares are bad, but each of them already has degree 3. [In fact, this is not needed, so it is made just for visibility reasons.]
Now take any two adjacent boundary red squares in the upper-left quarter; the right figure shows them magnified. We do the following chain of operations:

$\bullet$ add a green square; to two its dark-green vertices attach large non-overlapping squares, as described above. The red squares become good, the green one has degree 3 (due to the upper red square and two large oens);
$\bullet$ add a magenta square, and attach two large squares to its dark-magenta vertices --- its degree is 3 (due to the green square and two large ones), the green one becomes good;
$\bullet$ add a yellow square, attach three large squares. All squares in this small area are good (the yellow --- due to the upper red square and three large ones).
Applying such operations to every pair of adjacent boundary red squares (or even splitting them in pairs), we reach the goal.
(The construction is superfluous, but, as I told, I did not try to optimize.)


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York Peppermint Pattie Ice Cream Bars
A Treat Review
Labels: discontinued, good_humor, minty, peppermint, review, treats
[Appear to have been discontinued to make room for 2015's thin mint version]
One of the neatest looking new 2012 products has to be the York Peppermint Patty Ice Cream bar. A York is a straight forward (and tasty) treat that should translate well to ice cream... ok, no suspense today. This treat does translate pretty well, but let's dig into why this is a good treat and not a great treat.
The new 3oz York Peppermint Patty Ice Cream bars are peppermint light ice cream dipped in a dark chocolate flavored coating. This box of six only set me back $3.28 at Walmart.
Doh! Good Humor lost a perfectly good chance to set the mood here. You all know I get frustrated by plain white wrappers. A simple shiny wrapper with little blue York logos might add a few cents to each treat, but it's a crucial step in setting the mood.
Thankfully I had some regular (snack size?) peppermint patties laying around..... no, let me rephrase that. I stole this peppermint patty from the pack I bought my wife the other week, but hey, it's all in the name of (dessert) science.
I'm sure you are noticing what I did. The ice cream's chocolate isn't as dark and doesn't have that cool trademark ripples of the original despite the fact that the box implies it will have them. (I don't like false advertising, it's not nice!). I took a big whiff but that wonderful York smell isn't really present either.
Don't worry, I bit the ice cream bar first so as not to skew my opinion of it. There's a nice light peppermint ice cream inside. The flavor isn't too potent and the light ice cream is very soft and typical of what we find in many of these treats. I'm way too picky to say it tastes just like a York but it's a totally respectable treat and I think a lot of our York lovin' compatriots will be glad to finally have something like this in their freezers.
Ok, let's recap. One, it needs a better wrapper. Two, the shell could be thicker and darker, and in a perfect world, I'd love it to be a little softer just like the original. Three, the ice cream is perhaps a smidge mild, but I don't want to complain too loudy because it's better than being overpower. You know, I rarely ever crave a York peppermint patty, but when I do have one, it always hits the spot. It's just a straight forward and consistent treat. I think it's the peppermint filling's texture that sells it for me. If they could some how add a bit of grit to the ice cream's texture, this thing would be perfect in my mind.
So there you have it. A nice minty treat that should sell well. Nice job Good Humor.
On Second Scoop: This really is a nice homage to York Peppermint Patties. I just had one and I'm totally in the York zone... in winter. There's that familiar York tingle, the dark chocolate balance, it's all here, it's just in a chilly place. This may not have been clear before but I really do like this treat. I know I nitpicked a little, but it's only because I have a lot of respect for the original. Try these out.
Verdict? A nice addition to the freezer aisle
Buy Again? [I have a few times]
Serving Size 1 Bar (58g)
Calories 170 from Fat 90
- Sat Fat 7g 35%
- Trans Fat 0g
- Dietary Fiber <1g 3%
- Sugars 15g
Posted by Dubba Scoops
trampus said...
I just saw these yesterday and got kind of excited. I remember Klondike had some York branded bars out a few years ago and I loved them. I was hoping these would be like a round Klondike.
Dubba Scoops said...
yeah, I remember those now that you mention it, but I never tried one. Definitely give these a try.
York Ice Cream bars are the best ever. The Chocolate covering was super and the Ice Cream was wonderful. Hope you make other yummy things.
Good humor makes a wide range of treats!
Mmm - totally excited to see my fav candy as an ice cream treat.
The plain white wrapper helps keeps the cost down. (:
then you'll definitely enjoy these
yup, i know it keeps cost down, doesn't mean I have to like it though
These are the best, ready to take stock in Good Humor. Yea the
chocolate can be a bit darker and thicker. The taste is phenomenal.
This comes from an ice cream geek.
Delectable!
I loved these. So yummy. Then again I enjoy most mint ice cream so that's to be expected. As I've mentioned before, mint ice cream is my OTP!
I especially enjoyed the crunchy chocolate shell. Yum!
Yes they were super yummy and at first I though a thicker chocolate covering would make it better but the more i ate itthe more perfect it became
Goddess said...
I absolutely loved these ice cream bars. I've been looking for them but I can't seem to find them anymore in any of the local grocery stores where I live. Did they discontinue the ice cream bars?
Uh oh, they arent on the website anymore. I just assumed that they were still there, but now that I think about it, i think I only see the thin mint version now, they are similar but not as good http://www.onsecondscoop.com/2015/04/girl-scouts-thin-mints-ice-cream-bars.html
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