A normal fax machine receives a coded message over the phone and translates it into a pattern of black and white dots on a page of paper. But there's a kind of fax machine that builds a three- dimensional object instead of a picture on paper.
Charles Hull invented the process, called stereolithography or solid imaging, in 1984. More than just a 3-D fax machine, it's a whole new way of making things. Descriptions of objects are stored as computer data files, which can be given physical form in a solid imaging machine.
A solid imaging machine creates an object by scanning a light beam across the surface of a liquid. The liquid solidifies wherever the light touches it. The newly created solid is lowered slightly, and another scan adds another layer of solid material. An object of almost any shape can be created.
More about stereolithography: http://www.aaroflex.com/stereo.htm http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~kbhiggin/VDF/SLA.html
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside. GK Chesterton ================== God is powerful beyond our imaginations! After I've asked God for some pretty big things, I'm glad to end my prayer with the reminder that God is supremely powerful. The throne in heaven is not empty. God is there, seated and in control. He can do whatever He determines to do. He said a word and the worlds were made. He spoke and the moon and stars were flung into space. He is an awesome, almighty God. And my prayer links me to Him! Talk about power!" --Dr. David Jeremiah ==================
Who is Jesus? (http://www.ccci.org/whoisjesus/interactive-journey/)
*[The Lord says,] "Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand." --Isaiah 41
Mickey's Mantle of Faith Yankee great, who would be 75 tomorrow, committed life to Christ prior to death http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52498
It's October – World Series time.
During much of his Hall of Fame baseball career, Mickey Mantle was a fixture in the Fall Classic.
He was known as a great baseball slugger.
He was known as the fastest man in the major leagues.
And he was known as a hell-raiser off the field.
But two of Mickey Mantle's closest friends – Bobby Richardson and Pat Summerall – say that's not how he died 11 years ago. And, had he lived to see his 75th birthday tomorrow, the world would have a much different picture of the New York Yankee great.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Mickey Mantle's name was synonymous with baseball.
Beginning in 1951, he played for New York Yankee teams that appeared in the World Series 12 of the next 14 years.
Inheriting the centerfield position from the legendary Joe DiMaggio, he won three American League Most Valuable Player awards and the coveted Triple Crown in 1956.
Mantle's former New York teammate, and later the Yankee team manager, Billy Martin, once said, ''No man in the history of baseball had as much (baseball hitting) power as Mickey Mantle.'' Mantle was inducted into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame five years after his retirement from the major circuit in 1969.
Yankee buddies: Mickey Mantle, Bobby Richardson and Whitey Ford.
But despite all the triumphs and accomplishments, Mantle's baseball career was hobbled by injuries and the ever-present real fear of an early death.
His father, Mutt, an alcoholic, died in his 40s of Hodgkin's disease – a plague with a virulent family history.
From the mid-1950s until his death in 1995, Mantle developed a strong relationship with two professional athletes that would later have a profound effect on his life. One of those athletes was Bobby Richardson, the Yankee second baseman and Mantle’s teammate from 1955 to 1966. Richardson had strong Christian convictions. He also had some outstanding years with the New York team, including winning the World Series MVP in 1960. Richardson described his friendship with Mantle as ''one that lasted a lifetime.''
Richardson always had the ear of his good friend Mantle.
''On numerous occasions Mickey would help me with various (outside) interests I was involved in,'' Richardson told WND. Mantle participated ''in sports banquets, fund-raisers (for the YMCA) and even a baseball instructional film event'' from the University of South Carolina, where Richardson was head baseball coach in the 1970s.
During their years with the Yankees, Richardson had many opportunities to share his faith with Mantle. It appeared at the time, though, that Mantle never really took Richardson's words of spiritual advice seriously. Most everyone closely associated with Mantle knew he had a reputation for playing hard and partying even harder. He also struggled with alcohol.
While Richardson never got discouraged in sharing his faith with his friend, he noticed that Mantle, with the realization of his own mortality, finally asked the questions that revealed he was open to spiritual things. In a television interview with Bob Costas long after he retired from the game, Mantle said he had ''a void in his heart and an emptiness inside'' after the 1985 death of his friend and former Yankee great Roger Maris.
In the 1950s, Mantle used the same locker stall as another New York professional athlete, Pat Summerall, but during different seasons. Summerall was the place kicker and tight end of the NFL's New York Giants. Summerall recalled that he first met Mantle when they played minor league baseball together. Over the years, Summerall and Mantle ''played a lot of golf and interacted socially.''
When Summerall entered the Betty Ford Center for Alcohol in the early 1990s, Mantle showed interest in the center. Summerall told WND, ''Mickey was concerned about his own alcohol consumption.''
After many long question-and-answer sessions with the Hall of Fame baseball player, Summerall challenged Mantle to enter the clinic. Summerall was thrilled when his friend agreed to enter the facility, and did so on a day not normally reserved for new patients.
It was the policy of the Betty Ford Center to disallow outgoing telephone calls during a patient's one-month stay. Summerall remembers fondly how Mantle somehow got on the phone and called him a number of times, sometimes late at night. While this was a difficult period in Mantle's life, both Richardson and Summerall agree their friend was later to become an outstanding spokesman for people everywhere who were suffering from alcoholism.
By 1995, Mantle's health took a turn for the worse when it was discovered he had cancer – that on top of liver problems associated with alcoholism. While hospitalized, it didn't take long for Mantle to call Richardson and ask him to pray for him.
Richardson vividly remembers visiting Mantle a few weeks before his death Aug. 13, 1995. One of the first things Mantle wanted to tell his former teammate was that he ''now trusted in Christ as his Lord and Savior.'' Mantle assured him by quoting to Richardson and his wife one of the more famous verses from the Bible, John 3:16: ''For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.''
Years later, Richardson found out that Mantle, while in the hospital, somehow listened to a Focus on the Family testimonial tape of NBA Hall of Famer Pete Maravich. Commenting on how this tape was instrumental in leading Mantle to Christ, Focus Vice President Kurt Bruner told WND that ''after achieving nearly everything that the world has to offer and finding that something was still lacking, Pete discovered Jesus Christ and never looked back.'' Richardson felt that his former teammate identified with similar aspects of the basketball player's life.
Now, 11 years after Mantle's death, both Richardson and Summerall are more grateful than ever for their friendship with the former Yankee centerfielder.
Mantle is still adored by fans across America. His family still operates several ''Mantle's'' restaurants, and his baseball memorabilia is popular as ever.
But his New York Yankees are not in the World Series.
20,000 scientists, of whom about 2,700 of them are physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers or environmental scientists, who are in a position to understand the global warming issues, have signed the following statement:
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.1
Christians especially need to be cautious when it comes to the issue of global warming and other environmental issues. One of the reasons is that these issues have been hijacked by individuals who desire to change our way of life, and in particular, the Christian worldview that has guided the Western Hemisphere. [Columnist] Veith [noted in an article]: "A big part of the problem is that the current environmental movement has been hijacked by the far left."2
1. Beisner, E.C., P.K. Driessen, R. McKitrick, and R.W. Spencer, 2006. "A call to truth, prudence, and protection of the poor: An evangelical response to global warming," p. 10.
2. Veith, G.E., 2006. To protect and conserve. World 21(20):30.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v1/n2/human-caused-global-warmin g
A normal fax machine receives a coded message over the phone and
ReplyDeletetranslates it into a pattern of black and white dots on a page of
paper. But there's a kind of fax machine that builds a three-
dimensional object instead of a picture on paper.
Charles Hull invented the process, called stereolithography or solid
imaging, in 1984. More than just a 3-D fax machine, it's a whole new
way of making things. Descriptions of objects are stored as computer
data files, which can be given physical form in a solid imaging machine.
A solid imaging machine creates an object by scanning a light beam
across the surface of a liquid. The liquid solidifies wherever the
light touches it. The newly created solid is lowered slightly, and
another scan adds another layer of solid material. An object of
almost any shape can be created.
More about stereolithography:
http://www.aaroflex.com/stereo.htm
http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~kbhiggin/VDF/SLA.html
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds.
ReplyDeleteMen and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies
into which they never enter and with their hand on the doorlatch
they die outside. GK Chesterton
==================
God is powerful beyond our imaginations! After I've asked God for some
pretty big things, I'm glad to end my prayer with the reminder that God
is supremely powerful. The throne in heaven is not empty. God is
there, seated and in control. He can do whatever He determines to do.
He said a word and the worlds were made. He spoke and the moon and
stars were flung into space. He is an awesome, almighty God. And my
prayer links me to Him! Talk about power!" --Dr. David Jeremiah
==================
Who is Jesus? (http://www.ccci.org/whoisjesus/interactive-journey/)
*[The Lord says,] "Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be
ReplyDeletedismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help
you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."
--Isaiah 41
Mickey's Mantle of Faith
ReplyDeleteYankee great, who would be 75 tomorrow, committed life to Christ prior to death
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52498
It's October – World Series time.
During much of his Hall of Fame baseball career, Mickey Mantle was a fixture in the Fall Classic.
He was known as a great baseball slugger.
He was known as the fastest man in the major leagues.
And he was known as a hell-raiser off the field.
But two of Mickey Mantle's closest friends – Bobby Richardson and Pat Summerall – say that's not how he died 11 years ago. And, had he lived to see his 75th birthday tomorrow, the world would have a much different picture of the New York Yankee great.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Mickey Mantle's name was synonymous with baseball.
Beginning in 1951, he played for New York Yankee teams that appeared in the World Series 12 of the next 14 years.
Inheriting the centerfield position from the legendary Joe DiMaggio, he won three American League Most Valuable Player awards and the coveted Triple Crown in 1956.
Mantle's former New York teammate, and later the Yankee team manager, Billy Martin, once said, ''No man in the history of baseball had as much (baseball hitting) power as Mickey Mantle.'' Mantle was inducted into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame five years after his retirement from the major circuit in 1969.
Yankee buddies: Mickey Mantle, Bobby Richardson and Whitey Ford.
But despite all the triumphs and accomplishments, Mantle's baseball career was hobbled by injuries and the ever-present real fear of an early death.
His father, Mutt, an alcoholic, died in his 40s of Hodgkin's disease – a plague with a virulent family history.
From the mid-1950s until his death in 1995, Mantle developed a strong relationship with two professional athletes that would later have a profound effect on his life. One of those athletes was Bobby Richardson, the Yankee second baseman and Mantle’s teammate from 1955 to 1966. Richardson had strong Christian convictions. He also had some outstanding years with the New York team, including winning the World Series MVP in 1960. Richardson described his friendship with Mantle as ''one that lasted a lifetime.''
Richardson always had the ear of his good friend Mantle.
''On numerous occasions Mickey would help me with various (outside) interests I was involved in,'' Richardson told WND. Mantle participated ''in sports banquets, fund-raisers (for the YMCA) and even a baseball instructional film event'' from the University of South Carolina, where Richardson was head baseball coach in the 1970s.
During their years with the Yankees, Richardson had many opportunities to share his faith with Mantle. It appeared at the time, though, that Mantle never really took Richardson's words of spiritual advice seriously. Most everyone closely associated with Mantle knew he had a reputation for playing hard and partying even harder. He also struggled with alcohol.
While Richardson never got discouraged in sharing his faith with his friend, he noticed that Mantle, with the realization of his own mortality, finally asked the questions that revealed he was open to spiritual things. In a television interview with Bob Costas long after he retired from the game, Mantle said he had ''a void in his heart and an emptiness inside'' after the 1985 death of his friend and former Yankee great Roger Maris.
In the 1950s, Mantle used the same locker stall as another New York professional athlete, Pat Summerall, but during different seasons. Summerall was the place kicker and tight end of the NFL's New York Giants. Summerall recalled that he first met Mantle when they played minor league baseball together. Over the years, Summerall and Mantle ''played a lot of golf and interacted socially.''
When Summerall entered the Betty Ford Center for Alcohol in the early 1990s, Mantle showed interest in the center. Summerall told WND, ''Mickey was concerned about his own alcohol consumption.''
After many long question-and-answer sessions with the Hall of Fame baseball player, Summerall challenged Mantle to enter the clinic. Summerall was thrilled when his friend agreed to enter the facility, and did so on a day not normally reserved for new patients.
It was the policy of the Betty Ford Center to disallow outgoing telephone calls during a patient's one-month stay. Summerall remembers fondly how Mantle somehow got on the phone and called him a number of times, sometimes late at night. While this was a difficult period in Mantle's life, both Richardson and Summerall agree their friend was later to become an outstanding spokesman for people everywhere who were suffering from alcoholism.
By 1995, Mantle's health took a turn for the worse when it was discovered he had cancer – that on top of liver problems associated with alcoholism. While hospitalized, it didn't take long for Mantle to call Richardson and ask him to pray for him.
Richardson vividly remembers visiting Mantle a few weeks before his death Aug. 13, 1995. One of the first things Mantle wanted to tell his former teammate was that he ''now trusted in Christ as his Lord and Savior.'' Mantle assured him by quoting to Richardson and his wife one of the more famous verses from the Bible, John 3:16: ''For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.''
Years later, Richardson found out that Mantle, while in the hospital, somehow listened to a Focus on the Family testimonial tape of NBA Hall of Famer Pete Maravich. Commenting on how this tape was instrumental in leading Mantle to Christ, Focus Vice President Kurt Bruner told WND that ''after achieving nearly everything that the world has to offer and finding that something was still lacking, Pete discovered Jesus Christ and never looked back.'' Richardson felt that his former teammate identified with similar aspects of the basketball player's life.
Now, 11 years after Mantle's death, both Richardson and Summerall are more grateful than ever for their friendship with the former Yankee centerfielder.
Mantle is still adored by fans across America. His family still operates several ''Mantle's'' restaurants, and his baseball memorabilia is popular as ever.
But his New York Yankees are not in the World Series.
20,000 scientists, of whom about 2,700 of them are physicists,
ReplyDeletegeophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers or
environmental scientists, who are in a position to understand the global
warming issues, have signed the following statement:
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon
dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the
foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and
disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific
evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many
beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the
Earth.1
Christians especially need to be cautious when it comes to the issue of
global warming and other environmental issues. One of the reasons is that
these issues have been hijacked by individuals who desire to change our way
of life, and in particular, the Christian worldview that has guided the
Western Hemisphere. [Columnist] Veith [noted in an article]: "A big part of
the problem is that the current environmental movement has been hijacked by
the far left."2
1. Beisner, E.C., P.K. Driessen, R. McKitrick, and R.W. Spencer, 2006. "A
call to truth, prudence, and protection of the poor: An evangelical response
to global warming," p. 10.
2. Veith, G.E., 2006. To protect and conserve. World 21(20):30.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v1/n2/human-caused-global-warmin
g