A fireman's cast tribute to 9/11. (Shakeout).In April, John Alaniz, an 18-yr Chicago fireman and paramedic par·a·med·ic n. A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals. paramedic , investment cast four fireman helmet sculptures at AFS' Cast Metals Institute (CMI (Computer-Managed Instruction) Using computers to organize and manage an instructional program for students. It helps create test materials, tracks the results and monitors student progress. ) as a memorial to the firemen that lost their lives during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. "I decided to pay homage to the firefighters in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of by designing this helmet," Alaniz said. "I was in awe of it when it was finished." As a hobby, Alaniz designed and carved the wax sculptures, which were then invested in the ceramic and sand to build the molds. A class 20 gray iron was poured to make the four helmets, one of which resides at AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System , one at the Kansas City firefighters headquarters and the other two at the firefighters training academy in Chicago. |
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