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3D Printing With Polymers - The Stereolithography Way

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Stereolithography is a unique process of creating three-dimensional objects with a computer within a few hours. It is also called 3D printing, 3D layering or additive manufacturing. It employs a novel technique to create a solid object in its entirety. The base is a drawing (CAD) and the computer uses the drawing to create the three dimensional object. The computer literally creates the object layer by layer and this is why it is also called additive manufacturing. How it works? A liquid polymer - like polyurethane resin or silicone rubber - forms the base for forming the solid plastic object. The technician has to first design a CAD drawing of the desired object. The computer will then break up the CAD program into layers before 'printing' it on the material. Indeed, the computer literally prints (or paints) the cross section pattern of the base of the object using the desired polymer in the vat. A thin layer is formed which quickly hardens when exposed to ...

A Star Is Born Here In Delray

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Kim and Matt Guerrise knew their son had been interested in the performing arts, almost from the start. As a small child, Anthony started to sing and act, even at home. His relatives enjoyed visiting while being entertained by one of their own. However, it was in the play performed at his school, Unity, that his parents were sure this would be his future career. Rev. Nancy Norman, Minister of Unity of Delray could recognize talent when she saw it and that is why she chose Roxanne Lamendola to direct, followed by Anthony Guerrise, to play the lead of Oliver. Together, along with all the others, they put on a spectacular play, that would, surely, be the envy of broadway. Anthony Guerrise has a beautiful voice, though it was soft, as the role called for, he could be heard clearly. There was no doubt that Guerrise was Oliver, even his accent was right on. This role of an orphan boy, later found by his family, brought tears to the audience, I'm sure they felt what he p...

The Shot Gun Wedding Between A Beautiful Greek Doctor And a Sicilian Sailor

It all started in the shower. I was doing what I do daily, while singing, "How Great Thou Art." Isn't it amazing how beautiful our voices sound with the acoustics of a tile enclosure? If I were not electronically challenged, I think I would install a recording studio. Anyway, I had reached the part about," Mighty Thunder" when I notice a suspicious lump in my groin. Since I have had the experience of two hernias before, I realized that this was an encore. So, being a veteran and enjoying the privilege of medical care, I headed to the emergency room at the Stratton V.A. Hospital in Albany. I explained my symptoms to the admitting nurse and she took me into an examining room, told me remove all my clothes except my shorts and gave me a gown to put on. I am sure you are familiar with the hospital gowns that cover everything except your rear end. It never ceases to amaze me that we can put a man on the moon but not invent a better cover up. Is there any...

Finishing Our Wicker Baskets Using Unique Products

Stake Basket Choose eight long, medium willow shoots to serve as the basket's "stakes." These are the vertical pieces that form the structure of the sides of the basket. Use your knife to sharpen the end into points. Insert a stake alongside each of your spokes, pushing each one down into the weaves as close to the center as possible. Bend the stakes so they are pointing upward toward the sky. Use knife, to trim the spokes back so they're level with the edge of the weaves, then tie the stakes together at their tips to keep them in place. Weave two rows of three rod wale. This weave requires three weavers, which are woven among the stakes to set them in position. Find three long, thin shoots. Sharpen the ends into points. Insert the shoots into the base of the basket on the left side of three consecutive stakes. Now do two rows of the weave as follows: Bend the far left weaver to the right in front of two stakes. Pass it behind the third stake and out to th...

Worlds Beyond The Martian Underworld

The Martian Underworld (The Great Tsunamis of Mars, 3.4 Billion B.C.) Part I of II In the year 3.4-Billion B.C., the Demon of Mars had to go underground after the Great Tsunami took place. The Greatest Title wave that had ever existed or came to be known in Mars' solar system, triggered by an asteroid or comet strike into its ocean of water, it covered 750,000-square miles, the title-wave was 400-feet high. This wave energetic as it was, picked up sediments, to include massive boulders, and dumped them at high and low elevations, and cut new channels into the orbs surface, and caved in many of Mars' underground channels and passages. The areas known as Chryse Planitia and Arabia Terra, were badly hit, regions of Mars. And ever since, these new and some old passages, and dome like cavers have been home to the Mar-demon. Moohtluv the Liege, came sometime thereafter, a life form from Venus, the last of his kind, for all of his species had been fossilized on Venus afte...