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Newswise MANHATTAN, KAN. -- Researchers and students at Kansas State University are thinking in three dimensions.

University engineers and designers are developing ideas from concept to prototype using some of the latest 3-D printers. The layer by layer printing process has helped professors and students explore new possibilities for creating prototypes, formula car parts, models, tools, and -- on a less conventional note -- eyeglasses, custom-made clothes and intricately designed puzzles.

In the College of Architecture, Planning & Design, two professors -- Dustin Headley, assistant professor of interior architecture and product design, and Nathan Howe, assistant professor of architecture -- are using 3-D printers to help students explore the limits of gravity and to challenge themselves as designers.

The college has two 3-D printers: a uPrint that uses strings of ABS plastic and a Form1 printer that uses liquid resin and lasers. Students in Howe's architecture classes have 3-D printed model pieces for projects while students in Headley's product design classes have printed tiles and product prototypes.

"The printers get students to operate at a scale where they can actually touch things," Headley said. "If they aren't engaging in that, then everything becomes kind of pie in the sky. When they are forced to make things more reasonable, students discover holes in the design that the computer fails to highlight in its gravity free environment."

The architects also say that using 3-D printers helps students learn important job-related skills and makes them more marketable.

"In architecture, we are designing in an age where it is possible to build more complex forms," Howe said. "However if you can design it in a computer, it doesn't necessarily make it right. The best tools the students have are their eyes. 3-D printers allow the students to make complex forms physical, allowing them to get a lot more information out of their design process. The printer provides a mechanism to strive for more complexity that can still be rationalized."

As the college obtains more 3-D printers, it becomes quicker and more cost-effective for students to use the technology. Headley and Howe already plan to integrate the printers in spring semester classes. Headley plans to have students use the Xbox Kinect to create body scans and design and print their own custom-fit apparel or action figures of themselves. He also plans to have students in product design courses print children's toys.

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RANDOLPH TWP. Local officials are expecting a scurry of activity on some new and some long-pending development projects that they say will increase tax ratables thereby spreading the property tax burden over a larger base.

Following her election as deputy mayor at the annual reorganization meeting of the Township Council, held on Wednesday, Jan. 1, Joanne Veech outlined the progress of those projects and offered a recap of more than 3,500 acres that has been preserved as open space to date.

Theres an amazing balance between the two that we in Randolph enjoy - smart development and open space, said Veech.

Veech said several new or expanded commercially developed properties are expected to advance during the coming year.

The Grecco property, also referred to as the Shoppes at Randolph, on Route 10 with 80,000 square feet of retail space is still searching for the right anchor store tenant and will begin construction once a lease is signed, said Veech.

An application for a new Walgreens store adjacent to the Randolph Diner on Route 10 has begun the Planning Board review process.

At the same time, existing businesses along the Route 10 corridor are planning to expand their operations, such as the Performance Ford dealership.

The new commercial center, Randolph Commons, behind the Randolph Diner, was the first phase of redevelopment for this highly visible Route 10 corner, said Veech.

Phase 2, the reconstruction and expansion of the diner building, is scheduled to undergo construction in 2014.

The developers of Brightview, a125 independent and assisted living unit development planned on Quaker Church Road just behind Route 10, expect to break ground this winter with an estimated 15-month completion date.

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Horwich-built steam locomotive coming home after 650,000 restoration project

9:51am Thursday 9th January 2014 in News By Melanie Wallwork, Entertainment reporter

AFTER 16 years and a 650,000 restoration project, a treasured steam locomotive is coming home.

Enthusiasts will be able to see the Horwich-built 76084 locomotive in action when it takes to the tracks of the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) this month .

The engine was one of the last to be produced at Horwich Works in 1957, just seven months before the site stopped building them.

Members of the 76084 Locomotive Company restored it to its former glory and were delighted to see it make its first journey in many years on the North Norfolk Railway last July.

Eric Bond, from the group, said: Having 76084 on the East Lancashire Railway, even for only two months, is a dream come true.

We really want 76084 to run in the north of England as she was first built here, ran here for British Railways and eventually was restored in the north.

Running at the North Norfolk Railway puts her a significant travel time away from most shareholders and supporters.

It was the ELR that approached us to see if 76084 was available to run during their Winter Steam Gala. It will run as part of the ELRs Steam Galas on January 18 and 19 and February 22 and 23.

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January 11 marks the 205th anniversary of the Kundara Vilambaram, when Velu Thampi Dalawa, the then Dewan of erstwhile Travancore, raised the flag of revolt against the British. Although the Dalawa was defeated by intrigues and betrayals, his call for freedom is venerated as a glorious chapter in the struggle for freedom from the British. A memorial at Kundara in Kollam, his personal sword at Napiers Museum in the city and his statue in front of the Secretariat pay homage to the Dalawa.

However a visit to his ancestral home, far away from the centres of power, reveals a different picture.

No signposts guide curious time travellers to the Thalakulam Valiyaveedu, near Thucklay in Kanyakumari district, the place where the Dalawa was born on May 6, 1765. Friendly villagers help you reach the place situated in the middle of a picturesque village. An arch indicates in Tamil that this is the home of Velu Thampi Dalawa. And yes, after traversing km of unknown roads, the familiar statue of the Dalawa comes as a relief.

The sculpture depicts a proud warrior surveying the green countryside and his crumbling home. A paved barren area around the statue and the house do not have much to guide or inform visitors.

A multi-coloured residential building bang outside the heritage structure hastily brings back time travellers to the present. Inside the gracious structure of timber and lime, there is little to indicate that this was once the home of a warrior who threatened the British rule in Kerala. A poster with a picture of the Dalawa, printed in bright Sivakasi colours, and a plaque outside says Chitrakalamandalam Historical Museum, Thalakkulam Valiyaveedu. However the museum is conspicuous by its absence.

As you enter the house through a beautiful poomugham, a wooden thengapura (used to store coconuts) catches your attention. Even the blanket of dust and heap of rubbish cannot hide the workmanship. In the meantime, Lekshmi, an elderly woman cleaning the temple on the premises, spots you. She says that the temple is closed after early morning pooja but agrees to get the keys to enter the main structure while I explore the surroundings. The British had the house razed to the ground after the Dalawas death in 1809.

The present structure was rebuilt. Intricately carved, each beam and pillar is a work of art in the structure that is estimated to be more than 200 hundred years old. Even the antique locks are a tribute to the aesthetics of the workmen of a different era. The locked rooms tell a story of neglect. Plantain cultivation has robbed the pond of its charm, the undergrowth and thick foliage make it impossible to explore the house.

One of the rooms is said to hold the entrance to an underground tunnel that connect the Valiyaveedu to Padmanabhapuram, which used to be the capital of Travancore. The tunnel has now been filled, says Lekshmi in her Tamil-accented Malayalam. Next to it is another room that used to have a painting of the Dalawa in all his regalia. A lamp was lit on Thrikarthika and Pathaam Udayam. No longer, she says mournfully.

Three inner courtyards are accessible. Some of the rooms require you to wade through darkness, dust and cobwebs to explore the rooms. Bahuleyan Nair, the caretaker, who has a pair of keys to the house says he has been taking care of the place for 30 years now. But he is reticent to talk about the present. Thalakulam Valiyaveedu did have a proud past but only time will tell whether its future will be perfect.

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I usually dont trust those fun fact statistics that sound too cool to be true. Like the whole second to death, the thing that scares people most is public speaking nonsense. So, youre telling me if I gave you the option of either spending an hour in a room with a bunch of drunken IRS auditors with three years of returns and ax handles or giving a short talk on the history of crochet, youre going with Crazy Carl the Deduction Denier?

So when I heard that remodeling is one of the biggest causes of divorce, I didnt give it much credence. Cmon, how bad it can be. I have no opinion whatsoever on dcor, layout or samples of flooring, paints, trims or any other thing that comes in various colors or textures. I dont have a favorite color, a fact some people (my children) find unacceptable for some reason. And when it comes to nooks, alcoves and atrium talk, I always assumed those were assorted Asian fruits and nuts, not rooms.

So, once we locked in the cost, signed the paperwork and had my panic attack about how long it was going to take me to pay it off, I figured I was through with it until it was time to move in. Sometimes even Im shocked at my naivet and general lack of life knowledge.

We were adding on entire rooms and a garage, so someone had to actually do the building. It doesnt just magically appear because you decide to do it. Who knew? So we had to find a contractor who could and would do our addition. But when you ask people about contractors, its like asking mothers about their experience with labor. The stories are always horrible, long and detailed, and end with someone crying.

Im not kidding. Ask someone about his contractor and youll hear about the greatest schemes, scams, crimes, lies, broken promises and then you end up with shoddy construction and one of your children inexplicably missing. So I did a lot of asking around.

After getting a few names from folks whose homes seemed fairly well constructed and who still had all their children, I talked to a few contractors. After visiting with a couple (one who laughed at weird times, like after a declarative sentence that was just stating non-humorous facts and one who kept talking about his boat), we found one who seemed trustworthy. Im going to call him Maurice Graber with First Rate Construction, which makes sense since that is his name.

Actually, I now call him Job. I dont know why anyone, honest or not, would want to be a contractor. His usual morning begins with 14 texts from me with the myriad of concerns the wife has about the previous days work. After flooding his inbox with questions about paint, trim, shower doors, tile-no wood-no tile, ceiling fan placement and lots of words I have to write down and refer to when texting because I dont know what they are, Im thinking a nice little plague with lots of boils and suffering would be preferable.

This whole thing has made me recalibrate my reactions to the wifes reactions. For most of our marriage, I could meet her freak out level, spasm to spasm. House flooding or burning, were both running in pound sign and star patterns unproductively. Kid shows up at the edge of the bed at 3 a.m. with a my tummy hurts, were both doing shoulder rolls to get out of the projectile puke zone. String theory documentary comes on the TV, were both doing that of course head nod and hoping theres not a quiz afterwards.

But in remodeling, theres a total loss of the we both construction in our familial sentences.

Ill be standing there, minding my own business not really doing much of anything, and the wife will burst through the door in lugubrious panic, so I have to determine if it is because: 1) the children have been eaten by wolves; 2) the Rapture has occurred and my theory that the Good Lord has a soft spot for the goofy has fallen through; or 3) the windows in the garage door arent rounded enough. Thus far, its been the garage window thing.

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