NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! INFRASTRUCTURE FORTIFICATION & EXPANSION Aquifer Restoration, Economic Opportunities, Micro Hydro Power Generator

Let’s Rebuild The Rucker Canyon Dam Proposal To Cochise County, State of Arizona, Veterans Administration & Department of Energy…

Coronado National Forest’s GPS Coordinates Latitude, Longitude: Rucker Canyon Dam Reservoir 31.7800951° -109.3106183° Elevation: 6204 ft. (1891 m.)

Rucker Canyon Dam Rucker Canyon Lake

FLIPPER MISSION Re-purpose & provide meaningful opportunities for Veterans to re-build the Rucker Canyon Dam and other infrastructure needs

NEW AGE PRINTING “CONTOUR CRAFTING” SOLUTION Builds 2,000 sq. ft. in less than 24 hours – 40%-60% below traditional construction costs (3D, 4D, 5D PRINTING, ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, LASER METAL PRINTING, PLUS WHAT’S NEXT)

INITIAL MASTERMIND ALLIANCE – GROWING DAILY Sherwood Akuna, Frank Ambriz, Lloyd & Toni Hardin, Frances L. Nechas, Matty Ray, Michael Ravenswing, Doctor of Chiropractic Jeri Rose, Lee Reisch, Nettie Wingate Col. Charles Long, Buffalo Soldiers Re-enactors Association Leslie C. Hardin, Veterans Church, J. Nayer Hardin, Computer Underground Railroad

Contact: Skype; j.nayer.hardin – Email; [email protected] – Phone; 520-829-0164 © Moses A Movement To Freedom – PAu2-759-072 – 2019 - All rights reserved

1 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! The Flipper Mission In Honor Of Buffalo Soldier

Henry Ossian Flipper

NEW AGE PRINTING SOLUTION (3D, 4D, 5D PRINTING, ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, CONTOUR CRAFTING, LASER METAL PRINTING, PLUS WHAT’S NEXT)

21st Century Infrastructure Upgrade ‘Now that Vets can print, what are we gonna’ do with it?’

PROBLEM SOLUTION Our infrastructure Provide opportunities for veterans to new age print is crumbling, innovations, repairs, replacement, expansions & unprepared for fortification of our infrastructure using climate emergencies high quality, locally produced and sourced materials Veterans homeless Positively repurpose veterans and others (Veterans & suicide rates First) with meaningful, well-paying legacy work, skyrocketing transforming collateral damage into collateral beauty Climate crisis refugees “If you want a job done right, hire a Vet!” as a result of ocean Start building for mass exodus from coastal areas level rising, pollution, inland. New age print environmentally conscious nuclear waste, etc. communities, products & improved lifestyles

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... 4

RUCKER CANYON DAM RESTORATION ...... 6 Why start New Age Printing in Cochise County, AZ? ...... 7 Rucker Canyon Dam Facebook Post ...... 8 Rucker Canyon Dam Project – Enriching Resources ...... 8 Rucker Canyon Lake ...... 10

COCHISE COUNTY IS WATER RICH...... 11 Water Table ...... 12 Water Policy for Cochise County ...... 13

VETERANS AND NEW AGE PRINTING ...... 14 New Age Printing - The difference between 3d, 4d & 5d? ...... 16 3D Veterans completes first educational 3D printing bootcamp, aims to train 400 vets per year ...... 17

NEW AGE PRINTING INFRASTRUCTURE ...... 21 New Age Road & House Printers - Contour Crafting - Popular Mechanics Article ...... 22 Power Management Firm Eaton To Use 3D Printing In US Government Hydropower Project ...... 25 Future of Road Repair May Belong to 3D Printing ...... 27 Building Automated Construction ...... 28 Assistive Technology Clinic Using 3D Printing ...... 30 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructs 3D printed barracks ...... 32 3D Printing Concrete Structures ...... 33 Longest 3-D Printed Concrete Bridge Opened In Shanghai ...... 35 Infrastructure Construction ...... 36 MVRDV’S Liquid Architecture In The Imprint ...... 38

HENRY O. FLIPPER ...... 45 West Point Academy and Black Cadets ...... 46 Second Lieutenant Henry Flipper ...... 53

3 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

“INFORMATION IS TRANSFORMATION” Pastor: Rev. Isaac Pitre, Sr., Phoenix, Arizona

Rainstorm in the Chiricahua Mountains. We must repair the Rucker Canyon Dam. Build additional dams, waterlines, roads, bridges & parks just in time for the future! Attention ‘solution-ist’! A union of the Will of the People, Cochise County, the state of Arizona, Veterans Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Energy, etc. can pave the way to wisely upgrade our infrastructure. We must make a way for the projected population movement at least due to our climate crisis. Combining the wisdom and innovation of Henry O. Flipper with World War II’s 1942 Hemp For Victory program as guidelines, we can make all lives better. Technology intelligently applied blends new age printing with our talented pool of veterans and community to solve problems at the level of cause. Participants benefit from being part of legacy infrastructure projects made from locally grown and mined materials, further cutting costs and enriching local economies, i.e. agriculture. Here in Cochise County, AZ the Flipper Mission has begun by building a mastermind alliance to initially repair or replace the Rucker Canyon Dam. We can also build into it a mini hydro power station as an energy source to finance park operations and other vital services. Repairing and building new dams can supply neighboring towns and cities like Phoenix with water. We can help Phoenix much like the Colorado River quenches Los Angeles, CA’s hydration needs. We must repair or replace the Rucker Canyon Dam in a cost-effective manner. The excitement of the community engaging in wise water management is contagious. New age printing’s contour crafting technique builds a 2,000 sq. ft. structure in less than 24 hours at 40% to 60% below traditional construction costs. Lead by re-purposed veterans, we can encourage self-respect and prosperity for all who participate. We must act now. This is no time to be at ease.

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The Flipper Mission is a community movement to develop and implement solutions to our infrastructure crisis by combining veterans and new age printing plus locally available raw resource materials. The initial project we are working on is the restoration of the Rucker Canyon Dam. We must also focus on our aquifer. Residents report having to dig deeper and deeper wells as industrial farming and other factors take their toll on the once rich aquifer. We’re doing a Flipper on the dam’s future as an initial task. Included is information concerning the water table, water policy for Cochise County and the Arizona water map. The Veterans Administration already has a great 3d printing training program and the Hemp Farming bill was signed into law in 2018. We also have an opportunity to repair or replace the dam by incorporating it into a new age printed Eaton Government Hydropower project. Local farmers can produce the raw resource materials to complete the task in a cost-effective manner. The community response to this still loved dam and park after being broken almost a quarter century ago is touching. Using the contour crafting technique once the sediment is cleared out we can quickly upgrade our infrastructure. The future of road repair may belong to 3d printing. One of the best things, there are many, to love about living in Cochise County is the space to expand ideas. Beautiful landscape, inspirational sky, an abundance of good souls and fresh clean air are just a few of the blessings here to share. It’s also a great place to quickly build housing and infrastructure for the many climate change refugees that will be coming as a result of global warming’s ocean level elevation, radical changes in weather patterns, midwestern flooding and our crumbling infrastructure. Now is the time to prepare for the future. It’s time to stop pretending not to know the value of what we have, fixing and enriching it. This action plan draft has basic information on how we are accomplishing the Flipper Mission of combining new age printing, our veterans and the necessary resources to achieve mission accomplished. We can fortify our infrastructure and beyond with structures that factor in the environment. The wise way used by Flipper serves as a model to solve the problem of our lowering aquifer. He made water flow up hill. It is in honor of Henry O. Flipper’s brilliance, style, spirit and drive, that we undertook this mission to empower veterans to new age print our infrastructure. We have started where we live, in Cochise County, Arizona. This blessed area is 6,219 sq. miles with a population of about 150,000 and an average elevation exceeding 2,000 feet above sea level. Cochise County has a brilliant government team and a sheriff’s crew that resembles old school peace officers. The Veterans Administration has developed one of the best and most innovative new age printing training programs. Our crumbling infrastructure is in need of repair. Through a WPA style program that employs veterans with a new purpose to rebuild and expand our infrastructure using the art and science of new age printing, we can solve many problems we are dealing with now. “We’ve only just begun……” Thanks for considering this mission and let us know, should you decide to accept it, how we can work together to amply prepare for our infrastructure needs. The time to deal with a crisis is before it becomes one, like now. It’s time to marshal the forces on this peaceful, heroic mission. Thank you for considering this work.

5 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! RUCKER CANYON DAM RESTORATION

This presentation is only initial ideas of how to accomplish the mission of revitalizing the area by rebuilding and expanding the area’s dam structure. Abundant, clean water is essential to a successful infrastructure. When lifting a community, it is frequently wise to start with the foundation of life, water. As demonstrated in the fictional movie Saving Grace starring Tom Conti, when we secure the water we upgrade the community. The Flipper Mission is developing a strategy to blend the many talents and skills our veterans to lead the repair and expand our infrastructure with new age printing tools. That way we can quickly fortify our physical infrastructure, which is not in the best of shape at the moment. Utilizing new age printing can also create great new opportunities after we achieve mission accomplished. Repurposed veterans in this powerful new field can be positively lifechanging, the difference between a bullet to the head in the VA parking lot and a way to restore peaceful minds and souls. We can replace hopelessness with positive purpose, a proven source of pride for participants, their families and communities. Changing the perception from hopelessness to helpfulness, the Flipper Mission is in operation. We are in the planning stage to rebuild Cochise County, AZ’s Rucker Canyon Dam. The work is based on the dynamic and innovate Henry O. Flipper, whose style was to build the infrastructure with the best interest of the people in mind. We’re developing teams of veterans to innovate ways to quickly restore and expand our roads, bridges, parks and dams using economical new age printing, locally sourced materials and other innovative techniques. Flipper’s Ditch is still impressive. The legendary wise ways he used serve as a model. We can use it to fix and upgrade our infrastructure, making lives richer and more peaceful. Rebuilding the Rucker Canyon dam as part of capturing the water from the mountains is truly the right thing to do for all concerned. How would you like to participate?

6 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! Why start New Age Printing in Cochise County, AZ?

➢ Relatively low cost of living – 150,000 souls on 6,219 square miles ➢ On a large aquafer whose level needs raising, 3,419 feet- 9,793 feet elevation ➢ Great, ethical economic, cyber and social opportunities for on-line businesses ➢ A perfect place to raise a family, retire and/or run an on-line business ➢ Plenty of clean land to help resettle the large coastal areas due to Red Tide, polar ice caps melting / breaking off, radical weather changes, “leaking” nuclear plants & waste, need for nature, Fukushima & lead. ➢ Dedicated, wise, inspirational, rapidly expanding team. ➢ Environmentally conscious community-based innovation center in Mc Neal, AZ ➢ Positively repurpose veterans and their families to eliminate suicide & homeless rates ➢ Lots of research on contour crafting, want to print in hempcrete & hemp plastics too

A Community Enrichment Idea

New Age Print Emergency Housing For 9 Million People On 200 sq. miles

Manhattan is only 25 square miles and houses about 1.5 million people. 6 Manhattans = 150 sq. mi. plus 50 sq. mi. for parks and agriculture = 200 sq. miles = 9 million souls elevated at least 1,000 feet above sea level. Build as needed.

Climate emergency refugees are major reasons to fortify our infrastructure NOW!

7 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! Rucker Canyon Dam Project – Enriching Resources

The Rucker Canyon Dam is located in Cochise County Arizona’s Coronado Forest. The dam broke in the early 1970’s and according to locals, has not held water since the mid 1990’s. The dam and others like it could be both a supply of fresh water and a source for hydro, solar and other power creation at least sufficient enough to pay for the upkeep of the park and other vital services. Rucker Canyon Dam Facebook Post Posted Dec. 3, 2013 – underlines in this piece are from FB Copy / Paste – Bold names & special notes I dug this old picture up it's Rucker Canyon miss this lake 27 Comments Billy Gunn Thxs

Berta Piles Bowers One of the saddest changes in AZ...... such great fun. I even won a prize during a fishing derby once upon a time!!!

Joanne Rummel Wow. Forgot how big it was. :-( Marilyn Western Dryden Thanks for the memories! We used to camp in Rucker Canyon and fish in the lake. It's too sad that it is gone. Julia Villado Nice picture! My mother and siblings camped here a lot growing up. Mom use to take us there when I was growing up. I loved the Bathtub area as a child for swimming. Mom and Dad took my daughter camping there when she was 6 or 7 and a bear shook their camper they were in. She always remembered this trip vividly! He was probably after the great fried chicken and potato salad that went on these trips with them. Great memory. Very sad that this area was changed so much! Joe Gilliland Incredible loss! Camping and hiking was glorious there! John Mangum I worked there in the summer of 1961. Lived in the old Rucker cabin down the road. Fought fire, cut fire trails and took care of camping areas. We'd ride our horses back into remote areas and check fire lines. It was a great summer. JW Bill Bigham I have pictures of it empty !!! The fish got sick so they drained it . Of course I wasn't going to walk out there. sinkholes. Robert Folino What year was this pic taken if you don't mind sharing. Billy Gunn I believe it was the early 80s Brenda Higgs-Kingston I think I have some photos somewhere also. Need to dig them up.

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Kathyrn Ann Gibbons-Bourke We used to go there when I was growing up. Fun memories. Judy Contreras Okay, I must be stupid but what happened to it? Why is it no longer? Joanne Rummel Big forest fire about 8-10 years ago, followed by a lot of rain. With nothing to hold back the ash and soil, the lake filled up. Angie Acedo-Rivas This is the way it looked in the 60's.

Judy Contreras Thank you Joanne. I don't know why I did not know this.

John Rogers Sr. I used to love camping there. I really miss it.

Mike Hall Great photo. I've been looking for a photo of John Hands or Herb Marty (Cave Creek Canyon) before they filled in.

1Andy Ward I believe it was the Rattlesnake Fire in 1994. It's a shame they won't try dredging it out.

2Henry Dillman Rucker lake.....wow.

Bev Parks Wow. Thanks for posting this. Rucker Canyon is still my husband's favorite place in the Chiricahuas. We were just there in September. Still beautiful. Just no lake.:(

1Ann Marie Silva I have many happy memories from my Ballard family trips to Rucker Canyon when I was a child. It was one of my Dad's favorite places.

Bill Bigham How can this thing be filled in ??? Its huge !!!!! And they spent money to fill it in rather then stock it with fish . Our Government is STUPID!!!!!!!! But I have known this for quite some time now.

Rebecca Orozco Government did not fill it in. They just quit dredging it. It was a manmade dam. There was a major forest fire that burned off the hill above the lake. Erosion from the burn caused the lake to fill in. The USFS had regularly dredged it because it woul…See More

Bill Bigham Perhaps if they plant some trees . Years from now they can dig it out . Cant believe it is that full and cant be cleaned out . I really need to go see this . Sounds like the fire changed it a lot . They couldn't stop the fire?

Rebecca Orozco Pine bark beetles had killed a lot of the trees so it was very difficult-- combination of huge fire, dry conditions and lots of dead trees.

Bill Bigham Very sad. Az needs all the lakes she can get.

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Rucker Canyon Dam Falls at Rucker Lake in Man-made Waterfalls Posted by: outwest63 N 31° 46.717 W 109° 18.574 - 12R E 660063 N 3517140 Quick Description: Roper Lake was filled in from debris caused by the Rattlesnake Fire in the late 1992. The stream now flows over the Dam. Location: Arizona, United States Date Posted: 10/28/2010 8:03:41 PM Waymark Code: WMA11C - Published By: J.A.R.S.

10 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! COCHISE COUNTY IS WATER RICH

WISE UP AND START WITH OUR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE! Aquafer Map When the problem is a lack of water, the solution is to go where the water is and manage it from there. When the problem is a lack of clean water The solution is to the clean water Use a dual cleaning system as water enters and leaves structures we can make the aquifer cleaner. Use Hydreva

www.hydreva.com

Sherwood L. Akuna www.sherwoodakuna.com Inventor, Akuna Brass Catcher – catches auto pistol brass as shot Missionary General, Computer Underground Railroad, Veterans Church, Mc Neal, AZ Co-Founder – The Flipper Mission – Let’s flip this for the highest good for all concerned!

11 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! Water Table

Map Underwater Fissures http://repository.azgs.az.gov/sites/default/files/dlio/files/nid984/map-23_subsidence-ground_water- fissures300_dpi.pdf Sustainability of Ground-Water Use in the San Pedro River Basin, Cochise County, Arizona (Leenhouts) https://www.slideshare.net/iwlpcu/sustainability-of-groundwater-use-in-the-san-pedro-river-basin- cochise-county-arizona-leenhouts 1987 water report - https://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/1987/4103/report.pdf Stormwater 2018 ordnance http://agenda.cochise.az.gov/docs/2018/FCD/20180925_1560/4204_STORMWATER%20ORDINANCE %20-%202018.pdf Waterwise AZ Program https://waterwise.arizona.edu/community 318 page north western detailed soil maps https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/arizona/AZ666/0/Cochise%20County%20NW .pdf “Detailed Soil Maps The detailed soil maps can be useful in planning the use and management of small areas. To find information about your area of interest, locate that area on the Index to Map Sheets. Note the number of the map sheet and turn to that sheet. Locate your area of interest on the map sheet. Note the map unit symbols that are in that area. Turn to the Contents, which lists the map units by symbol and name and shows the page where each map unit is described. The Contents shows which table has data on a specific land use for each detailed soil map unit. Also see the Contents for sections of this publication that may address your specific needs. https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/geology/publications/wsp/1475-H/ AVAILABILITY OF ADDITIONAL WATER FOR CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA

By Phillip W. Johnson

HYDROLOGY OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 1475—H

Prepared in cooperation with the National Park Service

1962 - TABLE OF CONTENTS

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WISE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Water Policy for Cochise County https://www.cochise.az.gov/water-policy/home

Cochise County along with other governments in the Sierra Vista Sub-watershed of the San Pedro River have committed to meeting the needs of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area and the people living and working here. Cochise County has committed to assist Fort Huachuca meet its water mitigation requirements. Fort Huachuca is the major economic engine of Cochise County. Cochise County wishes to reduce or eliminate the threat to our local economy should operations on Fort Huachuca be reduced due to environmental concerns. Cochise County is a member of the Upper San Pedro Partnership (USPP), a group of 23 federal, state, and local government agencies, political bodies, non-profits and other business organizations with a commitment to meeting the needs of people and the river. The U.S. Congress recognized the USPP in the 2004 Defense Authorization Bill and required annual reporting through December 2011 on progress toward meeting the sustainable yield of the aquifer so as to protect the San Pedro River. The Cochise County Toilet rebate Program is one step in meeting local water management commitments. For more information email [email protected] or call 520-432-9200.

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The Veterans Administration is already leading the way to train and empower our veterans in the world of new age printing. Innovations from medical to industrial are being developed by these brilliant souls. According to the Veterans Administration: “Veterans of the United States Uniformed Services may be eligible for a broad range of programs and services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).” The Veterans Administration is also responding to the challenge of stricken veterans in need of re-discovering their positive purpose through accomplishment of great missions. Using strong materials to build with, we will be creating essential infrastructure elements that will last for generations while enriching our environment.

The VA’s training program is producing outstanding results in this field, yet as Dr. David Carroll, Executive Director, Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention at the VA said in his Goal Statement: “While interventions to reduce the likelihood of suicide and overdose have been developed, they do no good unless they reach the people who need them at the right time”. The VA goes on to report, “The suicide rate among middle-age and older adult Veterans remains high. In 2014, approximately 65 percent of all Veterans who died by suicide were age 50 or older… After adjusting for differences in age, risk for suicide was 2.5 times higher among female Veterans when compared to U.S. non-Veteran adult women.” Positively purposed people tend to not commit suicide.

The Flipper Mission As A Way To Reduce Suicide One of the main reasons veterans are killing themselves is because they just can’t take it anymore. Their sense of purpose is lost and there is no hope for the future but the futile statement of suicide. The act is committed because it seems the most reasonable option at the time. It is not. The level of stress in their lives exceeds their ability to handle it and they explode, sometimes taking others with them. As simple as it sounds, love is the key to reducing the suicide rate. Instead of killing themselves in the VA parking lot, they could be coming there for a sense of respect, gratitude and a helping hand from Uncle Sam. There are countless reports of shattered dreams at the VA. We must positively re-purpose our veterans and engaging in legacy projects like this can help. New age printing offers many opportunities for veterans to positively and prosperously express that side of themselves. Veterans will be able to point to whatever projects they were working on with pride to their community, taking the experience as a foundation to their ever greater works. We’re not saying new age printing is the only way, just a tool to help address this crisis. Ample mental health services must be made available now, unconditionally. The family of veterans need the homestead help of the VA more than ever. Leave no soldier behind. Please!

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Veterans focused on using new age printing to upgrade our infrastructure will bring opportunities & prosperity to their regions, producing a renewed community and self respect

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe - He can achieve!”

15 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! New Age Printing - The difference between 3d, 4d & 5d?

Like traditional paper printers, both squirt out ink / filament based on computer instructions from what is frequently called a CAD – Computer Aided Design File 3d printing prints like a dot matrix printer from a large, though traditional style print head. 4d printing prints in one form and takes its shape in another place, self-assembling, stretching

5d printing moves both the printer head and the base it’s being printed on for a stronger object.

We’re calling this New Age Printing – leaving room for what’s next, like laser printing!

Here are some links to examples of the VA’s 3d printing training program in action. 3D Veterans Completes First Educational 3d Printing Bootcamp Stratasys 3D Printing of Prosthetics Devices Spurs Innovation for VA Challenge 3D Printers Lend a Helping Hand to VA Occupational Therapists - Stratasys Blog Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) Home 3D Printing at the US Department of Veterans Affairs – Boundless opportunities to innovate veteran’s healthcare.

Here are some links to examples of the VA’s 3d printing training program in action. 3d Veterans Completes First Educational 3d printing Bootcamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfM-BQ4NAvw 3D Printers Lend a Helping Hand to VA Occupational Therapists - Stratasys Blog Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) Home 3D Printing at the US Department of Veterans Affairs – Boundless opportunities to innovate veteran’s healthcare

Papers, Links and Proposals: 1. FEMA Dome House article - Florida house / fortified structure. 2. Colorado Dome House, 1970's 3. Contour Crafting Site – 3D printing construction technique 4. Ten Fold Engineering – Self Assembling Buildings Site 5. How To Bridge The Digital Divide 6. 3d house printer company BetaAram 7. 3d house printer company 3dprinthuset 8. Apis 3d house printing company 9. USA Hemp Museum - New Hemp Cities – Hemp Building Materials 10. Hemp Farm Bill 11. FarmAid 12. First day for hemp farming in Arizona

16 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! 3D Veterans completes first educational 3D printing bootcamp, aims to train 400 vets per year http://www.3ders.org/articles/20161031-3d-veterans-completes-first-educational-3d-printing-bootcamp- aims-to-train-400-vets-per-year.html Oct 31, 2016 | By Alec

It’s one of the hidden problems of American society, only visible if it affects you or one of your family members or close friends: veteran reintegration. Those men and women who have made the immense sacrifice of serving their country in war are faced with very serious challenges when trying to reinter the workforce, in part because they are still struggling with what they have experienced and in part because the job market has fundamentally changed in a few short years.

As these problems aren’t discussed openly enough and veteran agencies are consistently struggling with bureaucratic and financial problems, the veterans themselves are now taking matters in their own hands. With backing from America Makes and the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation, 3D printing specialist David Schnepp (previously of 3D Systems) and Army Medical Corps veteran Michael Moncada have set up 3D Veterans, a training program that provides veterans with free courses on digital processing, CAD design and 3D printing – skills that can give them a head start when looking for jobs in the technical sector.

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The concept is ambitious. As the Obama administration revealed during Manufacturing Day 2016, 3D Veterans is seeking to train 400 veterans every year through a special bootcamp that will be held at locations in Los Angeles, Carson, San Francisco, Philadelphia and El Paso. Backed by a Google.org Impact Challenge grant, these are six-week long intensive courses that will enable veterans to get to grips with all the tools and skills necessary to build up a second career. Even startup creation advice is provided. Aside from veterans, active military personnel and Transitioning Service Members are also welcome. “Our missions align with the President Of The United States efforts to revitalize American manufacturing and encourage companies to invest in the United States. 3D Veterans aims to bridge the gap of skilled manufacturing workers with highly skilled Veterans,” the founders say.

As the cofounders explain, veterans need to be empowered to use today’s technologies and be enabled to work towards self-sustainability, career marketability, and innovative problem solving. To make this possible, they are already actively involving the Veteran Community and subject matter experts to make lessons as relevant and educational as possible. “Providing our veterans in-depth, hands-on training in 3D Printing and the various supporting technologies such as 3D scanning and design software, gives them many of the necessary skill sets required in the digital workplace. We are excited to work with America Makes on this very important and high- impact initiative,” co-founder Schnepp said.

Fortunately, all partners were immediately convinced of the value of this 3D printing initiative. “We are incredibly honored to be giving back to our veteran community through a workforce development effort of this kind. Working together with funding partners, government agencies,

18 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! and private companies in this high-impact project for our veterans demonstrates the strength of collaboration and the success we can realize when we work together for a common purpose,” said America Makes Founding Director and NCDMM Executive Director, Ralph Resnick.

And its first effects are already being felt, as the inaugural bootcamp was held earlier this fall at St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas. Leading the six-week bootcamp was co-founder Michael Moncada, who focused on project-based learning activities. “Participants will design and create prototypes for assisted devices that can have real impact for disabled veterans. As the program expands, these prototypes can be used to demonstrate quality-of-life improvements and eventually become real products,” he said when kicking off the project.

Marine veteran Len Arroyo was among the select group of fifteen vets who participated in the six-week event and jumped at the opportunity as soon as he heard of its existence. “This is considered the third industrial revolution, because of how fast its moving and changing our lives,” Arroyo, 59, said, during a break. “If we continue on this path, veterans will be able to feed their families through this program.”

With the help of two teaching assistants, Moncada taught the students about eight different 3D printing methods and led them through the design of several prototype prosthetic devices. “Imagination is the only limitation,” Moncada said. “They can make anything from a cubic inch to 10 feet wide.”

Retired U.S. Army Major and participant Joshua Munch quickly found a project for himself. Having served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was particularly struck by the difficulties faced by those veterans who lost limbs or limb functionality due to bomb and bullet wounds. After researching assistive items for these people, he noted that many struggle with the ‘simple’ task of drinking through a straw. “People have challenges holding a straw in a glass and end up spilling cups trying to get to their straw because they don't have use of their fingers or they're missing limbs,” Munch told CNN reporters.

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Munch, who has served in the Army for 17 years, therefore chose to design a straw-holding device that clips onto the lip of a cup and keeps the straw stationary. It took about a week to prototype and just 20 minutes to 3D print, while conventional objects of that size could take months to prototype with other technologies. Following advice from his kids, Munch further added various animal themes and stylistic options, ending up with a viable tool many disabled veterans can use. “If I get this out there into the veterans' community, to be able to give back to those that you worked with and served with, that's the big benefit to it,” Munch said.

Other objects created during this pilot program include a prosthetic hand and a 3D printed lightweight ankle attachment that enables leg prosthetics to be worn comfortably. Former Army Military Intelligence Officer Shawn Tillman, another participant, designed a case for organizing diabetic medical tools. While already more functional and fashionable than existing cases, Tillman is now working to ensure that the 3D printed case also stores the crucial insulin at stable temperatures. She is even looking into options to combine 3D printing with her new career as physical therapist and yoga instructor.

The inaugural 3D printing bootcamp is thus a huge success, and if anything greatly improves the confidence of veterans – convincing them that they can start a non-military career as well. If all goes well, 400 veterans can be trained over the coming year.

20 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! NEW AGE PRINTING INFRASTRUCTURE

New Age Printed Wall Interior

New Age Printed Buildings in China

21 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! New Age Road & House Printers - Contour Crafting - Popular Mechanics Article https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a10342/contour-crafting-how-3d-printing- will-change-construction-16594743/

You've probably heard about 3D printing's incredible potential to overhaul manufacturing. The same principles could upend building construction too.

Contour crafting is the brainchild of Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California. The process involves feeding data to a machine that sprays and smooths out walls and structural components using nozzles, arms, and other tools. Khoshnevis' team imagines using this technology for commercial construction, low- income and emergency housing, and possibly space colony construction.

The nozzles spray concrete along a contour path to shape the walls of a structure, hence the name. Setups can be configured in a variety of ways and can incorporate other equipment as well. The concrete mix is provided by USG, a worldwide construction materials company. Caterpillar, a major construction equipment manufacturer, has put investment into research of the technology.

The arms and nozzles make multiple passes to reinforce the materials. Buildings are essentially assembled in layers automatically along a grid: One section of the machine moves vertically, while another moves horizontally.

The speed at which a building can be built using this technology and the design quality of the finished product may enable it to become the construction industry's next big thing, according to Times Journal of Construction and Design. The benefits could include a safer work zone, speedy completion, and consistent quality. Machines do all the work with amazing efficiency, which could also mean significant cost savings through a decrease in human labor.

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Large construction enterprises may have to use custom configurations with multiple machines, and possibly other equipment for support initially, or they may require larger- scale machines that are developed with these huge projects in mind. But smaller construction jobs would need only a basic configuration with one machine. Components such as siding, windows, and fixtures may also be installed by robotic arms, either automated in conjunction with contour crafting or as a part of the process itself. Contour crafting might be a solution for building emergency housing thanks to its speed and low construction costs. It could be used for new construction in developing nations, too.

Contour crafting could even be used in space. Countries including the U.S., China, and Russia have discussed long-term missions on the moon and Mars. Khoshnevis believes his technology is the answer for building robust structures on other worlds. He also believes materials on the moon can be used to fabricate structures and other useful goods for lunar habitats.

Research is ongoing to determine the best geometric design schemes for architecture design use, methods of material delivery, and other aspects of the process. – End of article

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Detached Houses Multi-Story Buildings

Multi-Unit Large Structures

W Let’s build environmentally sound structures too!

Dome shaped to reduce wind damage, plastic waterproof layer, non-toxic building materials, magnetic based radiation reduction, free energy sources built in, plus fortify existing buildings.

24 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! Power Management Firm Eaton To Use 3D Printing In US Government Hydropower Project https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/power-management-firm-eaton-3d-printing-government- hydropower-project-121703/

US power management firm Eaton is applying additive manufacturing to generating low- cost hydropower for the Department of Energy. As part of its government contract, Eaton is set to manufacture and test low-cost integrated hydropower turbines and generator sets, before trialling a scaled-down test generator next year.

A diagram of Eaton’s hydropower dam concept for upgrading existing dams. Image via Eaton (right).

The turbines will be used within US waterways, to tap in to the “50 gigawatts of potential capacity” that, according to Eaton’s principal engineer David Yee, “remains untapped at existing small- scale hydropower sites”, dams where hydroelectric conversion facilities do not yet exist.

Cost saving by 3D printing concept models

While Eaton is not the first to use 3D printing in hydroelectricity generation, its use of 3D printing for conceptualization is on a larger scale. As part of their design process for a modular helical rotor turbine-generator system, Eaton engineers plan on cutting costs by 3D printing the initial concept models. They will then 3D print test components to make the hydroelectric generators more cost-effective, thereby cutting the cost of the electricity. One of the main concepts to be tested is the efficiency of a solid polymer rotor against that of a hollow metal rotor.

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The project is being undertaken with a view to reducing the cost of civil works as a whole, improving the efficiency of public money spent on infrastructure projects. Other more immediate considerations to be taken are the effect of climate change on water levels, and the passage of fish through the dams.

Not designing to manufacture, but manufacturing to design

Eaton’s additive manufacturing centre of excellence opened in 2016 at its innovation center in Southfield, Michigan. At the facility both metal and non-metal 3D printing, is used to produce complex high performance components, tools and fixtures through Direct Laser Metal Sintering and polymer printing.

Staff at the Eaton am facility. Photo via Twitter/Eaton.

As part of Eaton’s increasing use of additive manufacturing, engineers worldwide are now trained at the center of excellence. Ramanath Ramakrishnan, Chief Technology Officer at Eaton, commented on the positive effect that additive manufacturing would have on design and innovation, stating that it would “change the paradigm from a ‘design for manufacture’ to ‘manufacture to design’.”

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Featured image shows an existing Eaton hydro-electric plant. Photo via Eaton. Rushabh Haria

Rushabh Haria is a writer at 3D Printing Industry. Hailing from South London, he has a degree in Classics. His interests include 3D printing in art, manufacturing design, and education. Possible funding sources include Cochise County, City of New York, Department of Energy,

26 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! Future of Road Repair May Belong to 3D Printing Posted by: John Newman in Automotive, Process Development January 20, 2016 http://www.rapidreadytech.com/2016/01/the-future-of-road-repair-may-belong-to-3d-printing/

If you live anywhere with four distinct seasons, you’ll know it’s possible to follow the turning of the year by the kind of hazards found on the roads. Summer brings construction barrels, and fall brings holiday traffic. Winter brings ice and snow, which begets potholes, the scourge of the modern world, in the spring.

The only thing worse than a pothole large enough to swallow a smart car is the traffic- disrupting heavy equipment brought in to fix the holes. The drivers of seasonal climes need a hero, and that hero may have appeared in the form of a 3D printing robot called Addibot. Developed by Robert Flitsch, a Harvard grad, Addibot could The Addibot with its creator Robert Flitsch. usher in a future of 3D printed road repair. Courtesy of Harvard Saving drivers from hours of frustration or the expense of new tires wasn’t the Flitsch’s original intent. A lifelong hockey fan, Flitsch originally designed the Addibot as an autonomous Zamboni-like ice resurfacing machine. He envisioned the little machine wandering around an ice rink filling the scrapes made by skaters. Flitsch soon realized a mobile 3D printing unit could complete other, perhaps more profitable, tasks.

“By making the additive manufacturing components completely mobile, you break free of all the workspace limitations of 3D printing,” Flitsch said. “But Addibots also greatly open the field to many new application spaces for additive manufacturing.”

Instead of squirting near-freezing water into scrapes, Flitsch is attempting to redesign the robot to work with tar and asphalt. In place of workers simply dumping loose material into a pothole or crack and smoothing it down, Addibot could insert material that conforms to the dimensions of a hole and fill it with layers of material that (hopefully) won’t simply get torn back out the next time a snow plow drives past.

The biggest obstacles to transitioning the Addibot from ice to asphalt are temperature and material bulk.

Flitsch needs to redesign the system to work with hot materials, rather than cold ones. He also needs to come up with some sort of complimentary system capable of toting around large quantities of street repair materials.

27 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! Building Automated Construction www.contourcrafting.com

Contour Crafting can significantly reduce the cost of commercial construction. Projections indicate costs will be around one fifth as much as conventional construction. Contour Crafting promises to eliminate waste of construction materials. Contour Crafting construction projects will be extremely accelerated; for example a 2000 square foot house can be constructed in less than 24 hours. This rapid construction time minimizes the financing costs of construction projects that typically take six months or longer to complete. While the costs of manual labor will be significantly reduced, physical power will be exchanged for brain power in the construction industry. For the first time women and the elderly will be able to take part in the construction industry. Construction could become a consumer market, wherein a house or other structure could be designed and built by the family that will occupy it. Reduced costs, and automated building will make construction accessible to anyone. Imagine a Contour Crafting machine for lease at your local Home Depot.

CC Corp’s revolutionary technologies use modern robotics to build custom designed houses in a few hours. At the present time, the technology would be most useful for low-income housing and emergency reconstruction by disaster and relief agencies working in places devastated by earthquakes, floods, wars, and other natural disasters. Following are some of the major advantages of constructing CC Corp technologies: • Fact: It currently takes 6 to 9 months to construct an average house in the US. • Imagine custom designed houses completed in one day. • Fact: Nearly 30 million S. households face one or more of the following housing problems: cost burdens, overcrowding, and space inadequacy. Worldwide, while large cities in developing countries have been growing at rates nearing 5% per year, slums and squatter settlements have been growing nearly twice as fast. • Imagine dignified but affordable housing constructed for low income populations. • Fact: Currently it may take several months or years before disaster (earthquake, flood, war, etc.) victims are placed in permanent shelters. • Imagine comfortable and livable emergency shelters (not tents) constructed rapidly for long term usage by disaster victims. • Fact: Construction accounts for a significant amount of various harmful emissions and construction activities generate an exorbitant amount of waste. Construction of a typical single-family home generates a waste stream of about 3 to 7 tons. In terms of resource consumption, more than 40% of all raw materials used globally are consumed in the construction industry. • Imagine construction without waste and without noise, dust and emission pollution. • Fact: Labor injuries and fatalities happen frequently at construction sites. 400,000 workers get seriously injured or killed in construction annually in the US alone, a country in which stringent safety codes are regulated. • Imagine no accidents and injuries on construction sites – no related litigations. • Fact: Any departure from standard designs (e.g., use of curvilinear features instead of straight walls) significantly increases the cost of conventional construction. • Imagine new architectural designs giving new appearances to our homes, neighborhoods and cities.

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Implementation of this technology in the United States may be initially complicated by prevailing policies that regulate labor, zoning, and land costs. Nevertheless, the availability of this new technology has the potential to change the building industry in the United States. For Californians, it can the solution to homelessness, and an emergency solution when the “big one” comes. The impact of the Contour Crafting technology will be significant, given the current US construction-related expenditures which total $300 billion in the public sector and $700 billion in the for-profit sector, annually.

The following table summarizes the economic impact of construction automation by Contour Crafting in the developed countries. In the developing countries the proportion of the cost of labor is lower while that of material cost is higher. Regardless, as demonstrated by the success of other advanced construction equipment (as those used for road construction) even in the least developed countries major construction projects use advanced construction technologies because of higher productivity, higher safety, and less construction logistics and project management complexities that modern technologies offer.

Cost Portion of Conventional Due to If Automated by CC Construction

Short project length and control of time to market will 20%-25% Financing dramatically reduce financing cost

There will be no waste in 25%-30% Materials construction

Manual labor will be significantly reduced. Muscle power will be replaced by 45%-55% Labor brain power. Women and elderly workers for the first time will find new job opportunities in construction.

29 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! Assistive Technology Clinic Using 3D Printing https://www.richmond.va.gov/Assistive_Technology_Clinic_Using_3D_Printing.asp

Creating New Solutions Through 3D Printing 3D Printing, a fast growing high tech prototyping and manufacturing system is being applied to new uses daily at Richmond VAMC. The Assistive Technology Program acquired a 3D Printer in September 2012 to use in its clinical services and research. Using SolidWorks commercial 3D modeling software and their Stratasys 3D printer, rehabilitation engineers (Ben Salatin and Brian Burkhardt) are creating custom solutions for Veterans.

The team has been able to design and introduce products for Veterans within 24 hours in some cases. “We are able to save the patient time” says Ben Salatin. The 3D technology allows us to produce one of a kind items cost effectively as needed.

“For instance, we may get an urgent request from a Speech Language Pathologist in need of a key guard for a specific communication app on an iPad to evaluate a Veteran with tremors. In fact, Ben designed the keyguard and printed it overnight for the Veteran’s appointment the next day.”

In one case, a Veteran with a spinal cord injury could not change the orientation of the smart phone mount on his new wheelchair due to his limited hand function. The team designed a solution for the mount which allowed the Veteran to change orientations with no hand functions.

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“After discovering that a universal cell phone mount from one company was not compatible with the wheelchair mounting hardware from another company, so we redesigned part of the cell phone mount to be compatible with the wheelchair mounting system,” says Brian.

This solution has been used with multiple Veterans and even allowed the team to create a mouth stick holder for a patient, based on Brian’s design that was compatible with the same wheelchair mounting system. These are a few examples of how we take everyday challenges our patients experience and create real time solutions in the Assistive Technology Program. 3D printing is a valuable clinical tool for creating quality custom solutions for our Veterans.

For those of you that want to know the how of 3D printing here is a brief introduction. Additive manufacturing, commonly referred to as 3 Dimensional (3D) Printing is an advanced manufacturing process which allows a 3D physical object to be created directly from a 3D virtual computer model. Developed in the 1980s, this technology has become much cheaper and more robust in the last decade allowing this high tech process to be used in everything from the fashion industry to the medical field.

There are several different methods for performing 3D printing based on the precision requirements of the part you are creating but all the methods create parts in the same general way. A very thin layer of material is deposited one on top of the other like a layer cake until after several hundred layers in most cases, the object is created. The material being printed is most commonly a type of plastic but can include metals, ceramic, concrete, sugar and chocolate.

Richmond VAMC Assistive Technology Program is excited to see 3D printing being used in the clinical rehabilitation environment and looks forward to collaborating with Veterans and staff to create uniquely suited solutions for our Veterans.

31 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructs 3D printed barracks https://www.thecivilengineer.org/news-center/latest-news/item/1723-u-s-army-corps-of- engineers-constructs-3d-printed-barracks Written by TheCivilEngineer.org

The whole attempt aims to efficiently construct safe barracks with precast roofs and 3-D printed walls in a small amount of time. Until now, up to 32x16x9.5 (Length x Width x Height) foot barracks made from about 25 cubic yards of concrete, were realized. The project, named Automated Construction of Expeditionary Structures (ACES), will also investigate printing concrete roof beams in the future. “This exercise had never been done before,” said project officer Captain Matthew Friedell. “People have printed buildings and large structures, but they haven’t done it on site and all at once. This is the first-in-the-world, on-site continuous concrete print.” Engineering experts from the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merril studied and conducted tests in order to optimize the project. They showed that 3-D printing can be about 5 times quicker than the current wood-framed barracks approach. ACES utilizes less money and manpower than any other construction method. Researchers also state that it would take just three trained crew members per shift for three continuous printing sessions to build the barracks. Moreover, by using concrete from local sources, the need to ship construction materials for conventional barracks would be eliminated. Captain Matthew Friedell states: “This capability would enable a great partnership with the local community because it is low cost, easy to use, and robotics could print the buildings. We can bring forward better structures, houses and forward operating bases with less manpower and fewer Marines in harm’s way.” Even if 3-D printed construction is the new trend, it should be pointed out that it is not flawless yet. Skidmore, Owings & Merril state that the printing process must not be interrupted in order to avoid structural imperfections and that it is absolutely necessary to pre-test concrete's performance. Furthermore, ACES utilizes a chevron design that undulates, changing direction every two feet so that cracks from shrinkage will not occur. Tests to improve the procedure will continue the next months. In 2019, ACES hopes to realize 4-5 such projects in the field. Sources: Theconstructionindex.co.uk, Archpaper.com

32 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! 3D Printing Concrete Structures https://www.thestructuralengineer.info/news-center/news/item/781-3d-printing-of-concrete-structures Written by TheStructuralEngineer.info Smart technology for 3D printing of concrete

A research team in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has managed to 3D-print concrete structures by the utilization of 2 robotic machines.

The project was developed by Pham Quang Cuong, Assistant Professor at NTU Singapore and his team. The innovation of 3D-printing concrete constructions lies on the automation of the procedure and the potential to create designs that are not feasible to achieve with conventional methods. Moreover, structures can be delivered quicker.

Until today, 3D-printing of large structures demands vast printers which are not convenient in construction industry due to space limitations. However, the utilization of mobile robots can alter the situation as they can operate around the construction site, making progress step-by-step. The robots at NTU managed to produce a 1.86m x 0.46m x 0.13m concrete structure in just 8 minutes. One week later, the sample had achieved its full strength and was ready for installation.

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3D-printing using robotic technology is very challenging as robots have to operate individually not interacting with each other. Therefore, a robot has to be programmed as to conduct a specific task that is dependent on the other's robot occupation at the time. Moreover, the construction cannot be delayed or achieved in segments as the joints between parts will create a weakness plain. Researchers have developed a special algorithm that ensures the avoidance of these issues. Even mixing and pumping of the specialized liquid concrete mix are intricately designed to ensure coherence.

Professor Pham Quang Cuong expects that the team's research will soon be implemented in industry. "We envisioned a team of robots which can be transported to a work site, print large pieces of concrete structures and then move on to the next project once the parts have been printed," he said. In the future, the team will investigate the manipulation of more than 2 robots in order to achieve even larger concrete constructions.

According to Professor Chua Chee Kai, Executive Director of the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, even more departments of construction industry (e.g. additive manufacturing) have the potential to expand and develop using robotics technology.

"This multiple robot printing project is highly interdisciplinary, requiring roboticists to work with materials scientists to make printable concrete. To achieve the end result of a strong concrete structure, we had to combine their expertise with mechanical engineers and civil engineering experts. Such an innovation demonstrates to the industry what is feasible now and prove what is possible in the future if we are creative in developing new technologies to augment conventional building and construction methods," he explains.

34 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! Longest 3-D Printed Concrete Bridge Opened In Shanghai https://www.thestructuralengineer.info/news-center/news/item/841-longest-3-d-printed-concrete-bridge-worldwide-opened-in-shanghai

Shanghai hosts the longest 3D-printed bridge made of concrete in the world.

The construction was accomplished by a research team from the Tsinghua University School of Architecture in Beijing. The pedestrian bridge is 26.3-meter long and 3.6-meter wide and is constructed by Shanghai Wisdom Bay Investment Management Company to span a canal in Shanghai's Baoshan District.

The design is based on the Zhaozhou Bridge, the country's oldest standing bridge, which crosses the Jiaohe River in the Hebei Province of China. The crossing is made from limestone slabs. The bridge contains stress and strain sensors to provide data about its condition in real time.

The construction was completed after 44 3D-printed concrete segments were assembled in just 450 hours. 2 robotic arms and additional technological features were utilized to 3D-print the bridge. According to the Chinese university, the total cost of the project is 3 times less compared to a conventional bridge construction with the same size.

Professor Xu Weiguo, leader of the research team, stated: "3D printing is a manufacturing revolution. The technology greatly reduces the need for skilled labor, a commodity expected to be in severely short supply in China in the next decade or so." He also revealed that a 3D-printed house will soon be constructed by the team.Before its construction, the researchers created a smaller model to ensure that the design was capable of supporting the weight of pedestrians.

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http://contourcrafting.com/infrastructure-construction/

Many types of infrastructure elements may be automatically built with variations of the CC technology. For example, a new method of autonomous construction of tall concrete towers has been proposed, which applies to wind turbine towers, bridge pylons, water towers, silos, chimneys, etc. The method employs a set of coordinated vertically climbing robots that carry a special Contour Crafting nozzle assembly and motion control system and a special method of cementitious material delivery system. Implications for wind turbine towers is further elaborated here.

Currently wind turbine towers are constructed using hollow steel segments that are produced at factories, transported to the site at great cost, and assembled using special cranes and specialized crew. The task is a very hazardous one as it is performed at high elevation often under strong wind condition and in tight work envelope involving risks of falling, getting cut between heavy steel segments and being hit by the crane or its load or accessories. Given the current method of tower construction, the tower is the most expensive part of the entire wind turbine assembly which includes the foundation, the tower (about $500K), the nacelle Generator), the yaw and the rotor (blades, the hub and the nose cone).

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The large steel sections of the tower have to be transported from the factory to the wind farm for installation. They are often classified as wide load which require special transportation considerations. Furthermore, there is currently a strong motivation to build taller towers that can reach stronger wind elevations.

However, the current method of tower construction is limited because it is expensive to build cranes that can reach higher than the current maximum height (85 to 100 meters). Also taller towers require large base segments that will be hard to transport (width limitation of available roads, height limits imposed by overpasses, etc.) Furthermore, large cranes will require wider roads at the wind farm. Currently the cost of road construction especially at hilly wind farms is very significant (about $30M for a wind farm having about 100 installations). The proposed alternative method of tower construction disclosed here is motivated by the aforementioned high costs associated with steel segment fabrication, transportation, gigantic cranes, labor needed for assembly, and road construction.

The Contour Crafting approach The proposed approach, showed on this page by an animation, is based on using concrete and automatically constructing towers by means of: a) robotic system that can climb the tower as it is being constructed by a novel construction module, b) the construction module based on Contour Crafting (a large-scale 3D Printing system), and c) a novel material delivery system. The robotic system keeps the construction module that it carries well aligned in such a way that the final tower ends up having near-perfect geometry and orientation with respect to the horizon. A small-scale version of the system has been constructed and the feasibility of the concept has been proven. Future plans of CC Corp includes the development of full-scale CC tower builders. The major advantages of the new approach are: • Fully autonomous operation • Usage of concrete that eliminates factory work on steel segments and difficult transportation • Safe operation due to elimination of human tasks at risky elevations and windy condition • Low cost of transportation

With gantries and robotics, we can build tall, environmentally conscious buildings

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LE PISCINE NASCOSTE DI SOO BURNELL MVRDV’S Liquid Architecture In The Imprint Architectural amusement takes hold of Seoul’s new touristic hub with The Imprint, MVRDV’s sculptural new project in Paradise City BY STEFANO ANNOVAZZI LODI https://www.elledecor.com/it/best-of/a23475267/the-imprint-mvrdv-seoul/ 25/09/2018

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MVRDV’s The Imprint flaunts two new buildings in a stunning example of architectural amusement recently inaugurated near the Seoul airport. Founded in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries, the Dutch studio powers ahead with yet another show-stopping urban project after last year’s Tianjin Binhai Library in China.

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This year, the studio embarked on an audacious new project, The Imprint, where a bold pair of buildings contributes to the Paradise City complex, encompassing 6 structures in total. Tackling the Wonderbox, an indoor theme park, and a Nightclub, The Imprint has become the city’s metaphoric welcome drink in a playful, elegant casing.

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With an absence of external openings, natural light was eliminated from the structures, allowing architects free creative reign in designing the building’s façades.

In an effort to avoid crafting a complex as a self-contained universe, architectural motifs were borrowed from Paradise City for The Imprint, such as proportions of fictitious windows and arches “melting” in sinuous lines. Architects claim the goal was to launch a new touristic hub, livable under every aspect and not just a series of disconnected attractions in Las Vegas style.

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Derived from its unique construction method, The Imprint’s name comes from the 3D printing used to create the over 3,800 panels in glass fiber reinforced concrete needed to cover its façade. A liquid architecture that surprised even the complex’s clients, who have labeled the project a true work of art. Completely masked volumes are painted in white, except for the large drop of gold interrupting the chromatic continuity, marking the nightclub’s entrance while mimicking the Korean flag.

The monolithic project by MVRDV in Seoul is tempered with impossible folds, like a lifted curtain rising to reveal what’s hidden beneath. Images sure to hit your Instagram feeds shortly include an extraordinary kaleidoscopic light enveloping visitors for a peaceful moment to follow a fun night out.

41 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Napoleon Hill

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44 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! HENRY O. FLIPPER

From the groundbreaking work of Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA and Historian that explains why this mission is dedicated to Henry O. Flipper. No matter what happened, with or without the glory, he stayed true to the task and accomplished the mission at hand. Flipper’s Ditch still serves, as will the new age printed infrastructure that we build. Remember, we are responsible for life at least seven generations ahead. It is our responsibility to do the right thing!

Henry O. Flipper was a West Point graduate, legendary engineer and infrastructure planner. He served admirably in a number of combat assignments on the frontier and also worked brilliantly as an engineer. He designed and perfected a drainage system that eliminated diseased stagnant rainwater (and subsequent malaria) that was plaguing the fort. Still known as “Flipper’s Ditch”, it became a national landmark in 1977. It is in honor of his brilliance, spirit and drive, that we undertake this mission to empower veterans to 3d print our infrastructure.

45 NOT A FUNDRAISING DOCUMENT The Flipper Mission – Rucker Canyon Dam – For Discussion Purposes Only! West Point Academy and Black Cadets From the book available on Amazon BLACK PEOPLE AND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY By Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA, Historian, Honorary African Chief

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point (West Point), New York was initially established as a corps of engineers by President Thomas Jefferson under an 1802 Act of Congress. General Sylvanus Thayer was appointed superintendent in 1814 and became known as the “Father of West Point” because of his academic expansion. Since members of Congress had to nominate West Point cadets, no African Americans were nominated until the Reconstruction period when Black voters elected Black Congressmen. The 13th, 14th, and 15th constitutional amendments made Black Congressmen possible. Emancipation was accomplished by the 13th amendment (1865); citizenship through the 14th amendment (1868); and the 15th amendment granted suffrage to Black males (1870).

African American Congressmen nominated 27 Blacks to West Point between 1870 and 1887. Only 12 members of the group passed the academic and physical examinations for admission. Academically, they were examined in mathematics (including fractions and decimals) in addition to the rules of correct grammar. Candidates also had to demonstrate knowledge of “U.S. and world geography, by discussing various historical periods, wars, and U.S. administrations.” The physical examination required the absence of infectious and chronic disease. During the four- year program, the cadets studied French, Spanish, chemistry, engineering, philosophy, law, mathematics (including calculus), mineralogy, and geology. Despite the many nominations, only three African Americans graduated from West Point during its first 130 years of existence.

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The first African American nominated to West Point was James Webster Smith who attended from 1870 until January 1874. James Smith was described as “a hot headed activist, bent on righting the wrongs of racial inequality.” Smith was forced to repeat his first year at West Point because of an alleged lie in response to a charge of inattention in the ranks. After his fourth year, Smith wrote his patron, David Clark of Connecticut, complaining about the academy’s mistreatment of Black cadets. His letters sparked a congressional board of inquiry, which eventually recommended the court martial of several White cadets. However, since one of the White cadets was the nephew of William Belknap, Secretary of War, the punishment was reduced to a mere reprimand. Smith’s personal and public need to eradicate social injustice at West Point resulted in extreme classmate hatred and the eventual dismissal of Smith from the academy for fighting after a court martial and three-week imprisonment.

Johnson Chesnut Whittaker was chosen to fill the vacancy created by James Smith’s dismissal. Contrary to Smith, Whittaker was described as a quiet, shy, cowardly student who sought solace in the Bible. After completing four years and just prior to his final examinations, Whittaker was found on the floor of his room, “bleeding and insensible, bound hand and foot to his bedstead. His head was partly shaved, and his feet and hands slashed.” Whittaker claimed that three masked men were responsible, and this created such uproar in the press that Congress initiated another investigation. A court of inquiry accused Whittaker of self-mutilation to avoid his final examinations.

He received a court martial and was sentenced to a dishonorable discharge from the military and one year hard labor in prison. President Chester Arthur reversed the entire proceedings but did not allow him to finish the Academy.

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Henry Ossian Flipper, a former slave, was a roommate of both James Smith and Johnson Whittaker and was determined to finish at all costs. Henry received his appointment to West Point upon the recommendation of Congressman James Freeman, who needed the Black vote for re-election. Despite threats, bribes as high as $5,000, and refusal of any cadets to speak to him for four years, Flipper became the first Black West Point graduate on June 14, 1877. Prominent Blacks throughout the nation were proud of Flipper’s accomplishment and Charles Douglass, son of Frederick Douglass, sponsored a New York City reception in his honor.

On January 2, 1878 Flipper received his commission as second lieutenant and was assigned to the all Black 10th U.S. Calvary (called the Buffalo Soldiers) at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Henry Flipper performed exceptionally well during his first four years and was well liked by everyone. He served admirably in a number of combat assignments on the frontier and also worked brilliantly as an engineer. He designed and perfected a drainage system that eliminated diseased stagnant rainwater (and subsequent malaria) that was plaguing the fort. Still known as “Flipper’s Ditch”, it became a national landmark in 1977. Unfortunately, he was transferred to Fort Davis, Texas in 1881 commanded by the racist Colonel William Shafter. Shafter disliked Blacks in general and the Buffalo Soldiers in particular. Shortly after Lieutenant Flipper’s arrival, he was accused of stealing commissary funds. Flipper stated at his court martial that he hid the funds in his personal trunk because there was no secure place to keep the commissary funds and that Colonel Shafter was fully aware of this. Despite the fact that Colonel Shafter had Lucy Smith, Flipper’s White housekeeper, laundress, and cook, searched and that $2,800 in commissary checks were found in her blouse, this fact was never mentioned at the trial. Moreover, the local town merchants, who highly admired Flipper, took up a collection and replaced all the missing funds. The court martial panel could not convict Flipper of embezzlement but were able to convict him of “conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman.” Although the Army’s Judge Advocate General concluded that the conviction was racially motivated, President Chester Arthur refused to reverse his conviction, and Flipper was dishonorably discharged.

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Henry Flipper used his outstanding education at West Point to carve out a distinguished career as a civil and mining engineer, especially in and around Mexico, since he had learned fluent Spanish. He initially worked for an American mining company surveying land in Mexico. When Texas and Arizona joined the United States, Flipper translated Spanish land deeds and titles for the Land Grant Court and investigated their authenticity in Mexico City records. Flipper later joined the Justice Department and Senate Foreign Relations Committee as an expert on Mexican political developments. Subsequently, Secretary of Interior, Albert Fall, a close friend of Henry Flipper, chose him as chief civil engineer in determining the course for the Alaskan railroad lines.

Flipper unsuccessfully devoted his entire life to clearing his name. Four bills were introduced in Congress between 1903 and 1908 to clear Flipper, but racist southern politicians allowed the bills to die in committee. Despite all of his accomplishments, he died at age 84 (1940) bitterly disappointed. The redemption of Flipper’s name was rekindled by a schoolteacher from Valdosta, Georgia named Ray MacColl who learned about Flipper while taking a Black history course and embarked on a tireless campaign to right what he regarded as a major injustice. Through MacColl’s efforts, the Army’s Board for the Correction of Military Records reviewed the circumstances of Flipper’s discharge and changed his discharge from dishonorable to honorable in 1976. Moreover in 1977, exactly 100 years after his graduation, the Henry O. Flipper Memorial Award was established at West Point and is given annually to the cadet who best demonstrates leadership, self discipline, and perseverance. On February 11, 1978, his remains were reburied with full military honors in his hometown of Thomasville, Georgia (from an unmarked grave in Atlanta).

On February 19, 1999, President Clinton granted Henry Flipper the first posthumous pardon in American history, calling the pardon “an event that is 117 years overdue.” Retired General Colin Powell, who attended the pardon ceremony, kept a picture of Flipper on the wall of his office at the Pentagon when he was Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. Powell wrote in his autobiography: “We knew that the path through the underbrush of prejudice and discrimination had been cleared by the sacrifices of nameless Blacks who had gone before us, the Henry Flippers…and to them we owed everything.”

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Henry Flipper is now a revered figure at West Point where a memorial bust is dedicated to him in the cadet library. Eighty Black cadets graduated in West Point Academy’s class of 2000, and they should never forget that African Americans “stand tall because we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us.” Pioneers are those with “arrows in their backs,” and we must never stop honoring our pioneers.

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Lt. Emily Perez The first Black woman to serve as Corps Commander Sergeant Major at West Point.

Perez graduated in the top 10 percent of her class, out-ran many men, directed a gospel choir and read the Bible every day. She also headed a weekly convoy as it rolled down treacherous roads, pocked with bombs and bullets near Najaf, Iraq.

As platoon leader, she insisted on leading her troops from the front. Shortly before shipping out to Iraq with the 204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, she flew cross-country to be a bone marrow donor for a stranger who was a match.

At 23, she was the 64th woman from the U.S. military killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. September, 2006

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BLACK CADETS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ambrose, S. (1966) Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. Black, L. & S. (1985) An Officer and a Gentleman: Milit. Car. of Henry O. Flipper. Dayton, OH: Lora Co. Donaldson, G. (1991) The History of African-Americans in the Military. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Co. Eppinga, J. (1996) Henry Ossian Flipper. Plano, Texas: Republic of Texas Press. Flipper, H. (1878) Colored Cadet at W. Point. Autobio. of Lieut. Henry O. Flipper. NY: Homer Lee & Co. Foner, J. (1974) Blacks and the Military in American History. New York: A New Perspective Publishing Co. Glass, E. (1921) History of the Tenth Cavalry. Tucson: Acme Printing Co. Greene, R. (1974) Black Defenders of America: 1775-1973. Chicago: Johnson Publishing. Harris, T. (ed.) (1963) Negro Frontiersman: Western Memoirs of H. O. Flipper. El Paso, TX West. Col. Pr. Lanning, M. (1997) Afr.-Am. Soldier From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Gr. Mullen, R. (1973) Blacks in America’s Wars. New York: Pathfinder. Nalty, B. (1986) Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. NY: Free Press.

Free .pdf book link – Black People And Their Place In World History by Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA, Historian, Honorary African Chief

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FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN GRADUATE OF WEST POINT

On February 19, 1999 President William J. Clinton posthumously pardoned Second Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper. The event came 59 years after his death and 117 years after the young lieutenant had been dismissed from the United States Army. A short statement penned by President Chester Arthur in June of 1882, upholding the court-martial sentence of dismissal, had signaled the end to his military career.

At age 21, Flipper became the first African American graduate of the West Point Cadet Henry O. Flipper United States Military Academy at West Point. His assignment in July 1877 to the Tenth U. S. Cavalry, one of two African American cavalry regiments organized after the Civil War, was the realization of a personal dream.

In the fall of 1881, Lieutenant Flipper was court-martialed for embezzlement of commissary funds in violation of the 60th Article of War, and for “conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman” under Article 61. Flipper pleaded not guilty to both charges. Although found not guilty of embezzlement, he was convicted of the second charge for making a false statement, for signing financial records he knew to be incorrect, and for writing a check on a nonexistent bank account. By regulations, this conviction carried an automatic sentence of dismissal from the army.

Early Schooling

Born into slavery at Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856, Flipper later attended schools operated by the American Missionary Association and entered Atlanta University when it was established in 1869.

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Military Career

The future cavalry officer’s military journey began in January of 1873 when he wrote to James Freeman, newly-elected Georgia congressman, asking to be appointed to West Point. Freeman responded that he would recommend Flipper if he proved "worthy and qualified." A series of letters exchanged between the two, ultimately resulted in Freeman nominating Flipper to the Academy. Flipper passed the required examinations and officially entered West Point on July 1, 1873.

Flipper’s four years as a cadet were characterized by above average grades earned in an environment of almost total social isolation from his classmates. When he graduated in 1877, he ranked 50th in a class of 76. He was assigned, along with four other graduates, to the Tenth Cavalry and soon found himself stationed on the frontier with Company A at Fort Sill, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

Early in 1879, Flipper’s company transferred to Fort Elliott, Texas. In November, the unit returned to Fort Sill where Flipper served briefly as the commander of Company G. While at Fort Sill, Flipper was detailed as the post's engineer and ordered to survey and supervise the construction of a drainage system to eliminate a number of stagnant ponds blamed for causing malaria. His efforts were successful, and in 1977, what became known as "Flipper's Ditch" was designated a Black Military Heritage Site.

In May, 1880 Company A left Fort Sill taking station at Fort Concho, Texas on June 17th. Two weeks later, the company was one of several in the field pursuing the elusive Apache leader, Victorio, and his small band of warriors who were raiding on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Flipper arrived at Fort Davis on November 29, 1880 and soon was assigned the duties of Acting Assistant Quartermaster and Acting Commissary of Subsistence. He temporarily served as quartermaster until the regimental headquarters of the First U. S. Infantry, with its commander Colonel William R. Shafter, arrived in March 1881.

All seemed to be going well for the only African American officer in the army, until some commissary funds he was responsible for turned up missing. Stalling for time and fearing Colonel Shafter, who had the reputation of being a strict disciplinarian, Flipper tried to conceal

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Civilian Accomplishments

After leaving the army, Flipper attained recognition and respect as a surveyor and in 1887 established a civil engineering office in Nogales, Arizona.

From 1893 to 1901, he worked for the U. S. Department of Justice as a special agent for the Court of Private Land Claims. In addition to his primary job of translating Spanish documents, he also surveyed land grants and often appeared as a government witness in court cases.

Flipper next was employed as a resident engineer with a mining company in Mexico. When the company ordered its employees out of the country following the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1912, Flipper moved to El Paso. While in El Paso, he served as the local representative of the Sierra Consolidated Mines Company.

Flipper became an interpreter and translator in 1919 for a Senate subcommittee on foreign relations, and in 1921, he was hired as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior working in the Alaskan Engineering Commission.

In 1923, William F. Buckley hired Flipper as an engineer for his newly formed Pantepec Oil Company in Venezuela. He remained in that capacity until July 1930 when he sailed for New York.

During the years following his dismissal from the army, Flipper maintained his innocence. He sought to clear his name through the only avenue open to him – the passage of a bill by Congress.

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His first attempt to restore his former army rank and status occurred in 1898. His final effort resulted in legislation introduced into the Senate in 1924. None of the bills gained enough support or interest; all died quietly in committees. Henry Flipper died in 1940 at the age of 84, never knowing that his rank would someday be restored.

The Court-Martial: Another Look

It was the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and a concerted effort by historians to tell the story of all Americans that brought attention to the circumstances surrounding Flipper’s dismissal.

In late 1976, the case was reviewed by the Army Board for Correction of Military Records. While acknowledging that Flipper had falsified reports and lied to his commanding officer, the board concluded that “the continuance of the stigma from a dismissal, which characterizes his entire service as dishonorable, is unduly harsh, and therefore unjust.”

The board, therefore, recommended that all Flipper’s army records “be corrected to show that he was separated from the Army of the United States on a Certificate of Honorable Discharge on 30 June 1882.”

In the 1999 Executive Grant of Clemency, President Clinton granted “a full and unconditional pardon to Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper.”

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