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Q: Hide command output displaying in command console while running batch file I created a batch file like given below , but this is not getting hidden in command prompt evev though echo off is used.
I doesn't want csv file or any other file to display in command prompt.
it is also showing warning using password in command prompt is insecure,
please help me.
this batch file when run in command prompt produces W P.xls as output file
@echo off
    echo %1
    echo SET @bdate := "%1"; > a.sql
    copy /b a.sql + bdate.sql out.sql
    mysql --user="root" --database="abc" --password="123" < "D:\New   Folder\out.sql"
    java -jar csvtoxls.jar
    del out.sql
    del ws.csv
    rename "W P.xls" "W P"%1".xls"

jar file
    import java.io.DataInputStream;
    import java.io.FileInputStream;
    import java.io.FileOutputStream;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRow;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;

public class csv2 {
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
        ArrayList<ArrayList<String>> allRowAndColData = null;
        ArrayList<String> oneRowData = null;
        String fName = "C:\\New folder\\ws.csv";
        String currentLine;
        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fName);
        DataInputStream myInput = new DataInputStream(fis);
        int i = 0;
        allRowAndColData = new ArrayList<ArrayList<String>>();
        while ((currentLine=myInput.readLine()) != null) {
            oneRowData = new ArrayList<String>();
            String oneRowArray[] = currentLine.split(";");
            for (int j = 0; j < oneRowArray.length; j++) {
                oneRowData.add(oneRowArray[j]);
            }
            allRowAndColData.add(oneRowData);
            System.out.println();
            i++;
        }

     try {
         HSSFWorkbook workBook = new HSSFWorkbook();
         HSSFSheet sheet = workBook.createSheet("sheet1");
         for (int i1 = 0; i1 < allRowAndColData.size(); i1++) {
           ArrayList<?> ardata = (ArrayList<?>) allRowAndColData.get(i1);
           HSSFRow row = sheet.createRow((short) 0 + i1);
           for (int k = 0; k < ardata.size(); k++) {
                System.out.print(ardata.get(k));
                HSSFCell cell = row.createCell((short) k);
                cell.setCellValue(ardata.get(k).toString());
           }
           System.out.println();
         }
       FileOutputStream fileOutputStream =  new FileOutputStream("C:\\New folder\\W P.xls");
       workBook.write(fileOutputStream);
       fileOutputStream.close();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
   }
 }
}

A: Add @ sign for commands you want to hide.
Also add > nul in front of command if you don't want show output.

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Q: How do I "Invalidate" after adding items to a collection property? I am creating a Custom control in where I am creating a property of the type "List"
Sections is a public class which has 4 properties.
The code in the control looks as follows:
    public partial class genericGauge : Control
{
        public genericGauge()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

// Stripped out code not needed for this issue question.

        private List<Sections> indicators = new List<Sections>();

        public List<Sections> Indicators
        {
            get
            {
                return indicators;
            }
        }

        protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnPaint(e);
            // Stripped out code not needed for this issue question.
        }

}

The Sections Class is as follows:
public class Sections
    {
        private string header = "Section1";
        public string Header
        {
            get {return header;}
            set
            {
                header = value;
            }
        }

        private float startvalue = 0.0f;
        public float StartValue
        {
            get { return startvalue; }
            set
            {
                startvalue = value;
            }
        }

        private float sweepvalue = 0.0f;
        public float SweepValue
        {
            get { return sweepvalue; }
            set
            {
                sweepvalue = value;
            }
        }

        private Color sectioncolor = new Color();
        public Color SectionColor
        {
            get {return sectioncolor;}
            set
            {
                sectioncolor = value;
            }
        }
    }

Everything seems to work fine except that when I add items to the collection at designtime using the property browsers typeeditor the control is not repainted to reflect what is added to the collection.
When I click outside the control on my testform it is repainted.
Usually with simple properties I would use Invalidate, but this seems not to be possible here.
I also tried with other collection types than List<> where it is allowed to have a set accessor, but Invalidate still wont be called. I assume that it means that the SET is never called.
I know how to get this to work with expandable properties but I have no luck finding how to make this update with collections.
I hope someoone can help me out.
thanks in advance.

A: Instead of using the class List, use the class ObservableCollection, and use that to get notified when a new section is added or removed from the list.
private ObservableCollection<Sections> indicators = new ObservableCollection<Sections>();

public IList<Sections> Indicators
{
    get
    {
        return indicators;
    }
}

public genericGauge()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    this.indicators.CollectionChanged += this.IndicatorsCollectionChanged;
}

private void IndicatorsCollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    // possibly inspect the NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs to see if it's a change that should cause a redraw.

    // or not.
    this.Invalidate();
}

A: When using your example exactly as it was the Indicators property was not available for editing in the property window. So I made a few changes to it.
I added a new class:
// Added this class to deal with the Sections class
public class SectionObservable : ObservableCollection<Sections>
{
        // Added a few methods here for creating a designtime collection if I need to.
}

Then I made the change as you suggested
public genericGauge()
{
            InitializeComponent();
            this.indicators.CollectionChanged += this.IndicatorsCollectionChanged;  // your suggestion
}

And made the property like this instead:
private SectionObservable indicators = new SectionObservable(); // using the SectionObservable class instead

        public SectionObservable Indicators // using the SectionObservable class instead
        {
            get
            {
                return indicators;
            }
        }

        private void IndicatorsCollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e) // your suggestion
        {
            this.Invalidate();
        }

And now works as a charm.
Thank you very much. I appreciate to see that it IS possible to get help this fast. I like this forum alot.


"While I was still with Monroe, Homer Morris came to see me and told me about Penn Craft in Fayette County, PA. He and Clarence Pickett had made it possible for 50 coal mining families to build their own homes with their own hands under the supervision of a project manager, David Day.
They wanted to build a second project and Homer Morris wanted to tackle another assignment in the AFSC. He asked me not only to raise the money for it and to direct the operation but he also wanted a salesman to sell the idea for others who might want to copy the method.
I asked Homer why he picked on me. It developed that several years before the Providence, R.I. I had mentioned casually to Elizabeth Chace that it seemed too bad that I was spending the fringes of my time of chairman of the R.I. F.O.R. [Fellowship of Reconciliation] and other concerns about helping the world and that I was spending the bulk of time selling Monroe Calculating Machines to feed my wife and four children. She, it seems, had told the personnel manager of AFSC.
So the main part I played except for working with David Day during the building of the second project was in financing it. I went to the head man in the coal subsidiary of the U.S. Steel Company who had given the A.F.S.C (through Clarence Pickett) $70,000 for the first project and as a result he gave through me another $35,000 because it was a smaller project.
Al Lasch coming home from the Pacific War read the Readers Digest story and needing a house he talked with a number of his fellow workmen in the International Steel Co and five of them drove down to Fayette County to see if the story was real. I told them I would come to Lorain, Ohio to help them set up a project of their own.
The banks wouldn't listen to such a wild idea because we needed a construction loan to buy the land and start building. We went to the National Steel Workers Union. No! Finally thirty seven families begged, borrowed or stole $500 each. Thus with $18,500 they bought land and building material for one house.
When that was finished we went to the bank again and said, "Now please, send an appraiser and with mortgage money we'll build the second house." The appraiser said, "O.K., $6,000." Oh, but we only need a mortgage of $3,000 because our labor is free.
After six houses were finished the bank gave in and granted enough construction loan to start building the rest of the 37 houses at once. By this time they needed the kind of project manager that Penn Craft had had. So I introduced them to Max Ratner and Douglas Johnson, architects and engineers who stayed with the project until all 37 houses were finished. Max and Douglas were both C.O.'s and were glad to tackle a job which Uncle Sam would recognize as worthy.
The last Self Help project the AFSC tackled was at 8th and Brown Streets in the slums of Philadelphia. The Self Help Committee had William A. Clarke as chairman and without him nothing would have happened.
He bought thru eminent domain the entire city block bounded by 8th st, Brown, Franklin, & Fairmount. Three story Civil War era buildings owned by wealthy people, one family in each building. When we bought it, one family in each room, bed in one corner, cold running water in another, table for eating in another and a hot plate in the fourth, toilet for several families down the hall. Awful trash in the outside court in the middle of all the buildings.
We made arrangements with a well known Quaker Settlement house, the Friends Neighborhood Guild, to have charge of choosing families to become owners by buying shares of a cooperative and renting an apartment after putting in many hours of labor in lieu of cash down payments. Each family was then to make monthly payments to pay off the bank mortgages. And so how to finance the project?
Bill Clarke introduced me to F.H.A. local official who said, "No" to the whole idea. Cooperative ownership – fixed inter racial complexion – self help down payment – location in the slums – Quakers are naïve, not business minded.
So Bill took me to Washington and we sold the whole idea to the head of the F.H.A. And don't forget, Bill was at that time chairman of the National Association of Mortgage Bankers. The F.H.A. head phoned his Philadelphia office while we sat there and told them to give us anything we wanted, which was an F.H.A. commitment for one million dollars.
Next P.S.F.S. (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society) loaned us one half million to complete one half of the project. Then a well know architect redesigned the entire block into 88 modern apartments, and a Quaker builder, the Unkefers, went to work, his company doing most of it, and he guided the new owners to do all kinds of jobs, painting, carpentering, etc. One interesting story is that one single lady learned how to lay tile for her bathroom floor. She became so good at it that she got the job of laying 88 bathroom floors.
Half the project was finished and now it was up to me (no help from Bill) to find a bank which would furnish the other half million dollars. I went to the largest Quaker bank, the Provident Trust Co, who gave a flat no. So I went to a new bank, the Fidelity Philadelphia Trust Co, and asked the vice president in charge of Real Estate loans to come with me to see what we had done.
Additional notes - Paul Lacey, Earlham College professor and a Board Chair for the AFSC, often reminded members of the Crosman family that his first introduction to the AFSC was as a teenage participant in work camps organized by Hurford Crosman in support of the Self Help Housing program at 8th and Brown.
Recently Hurford Crosman's great grandson, a medical student, was looking for affordable housing in Philadelphia. It was suggested he check out Friends Cooperative Housing at 8th and Brown, and he and his wife eventually moved there and in 2016 still reside there. It was only after they were residents that they learned of his great grandfather's role in the project.
After retiring from the AFSC in 1958 Hurford Crosman moved to Ann Arbor, MI. In 1960 he accepted a two year appointment to establish an Area AFSC Office in Ann Arbor as part of the then Dayton Regional Office.


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*Frank Weston Benson was born in Salem in 1862 and died at age 91 on Nov.14, 1951. He lived in Salem most of his life, though he summered in Maine and Cape Cod. He attended the Museum School in Boston and painted under the tutelage of Otto Grunderson and Frank Crowninshield. Benson was both a founding member of the Copley Society and member of Boston Guild of Artists. *Benson's work was very popular in his lifetime and he was successful financially as well. Benson was known for his portraits, and his later work became more impressionistic. He often painted outside. *Benson's work can be seen at most of the major art museums, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of fine Arts in Boston. *Frank Benson lived on #14 Chestnut Street from 1925-1951 and had a studio he shared with another painter, [[Little, Philip|Philip Little]] at #2 Chestnut Street. ==See Also== *Vertical File in Salem Collection - '''Benson, Frank''' *[http://www.salemweb.com/tales/benson.shtml Frank Benson] SalemWeb.com *[http://evergreen.noblenet.org/eg/opac/record/2212073?locg=63 Frank W. Benson, American Impressionist] by F. A. Bedford *"Frank W. Benson, outstanding artist, dies in his 90th year" ''Salem Evening News'', Nov. 15, 1951. p.3 *"Frank Benson Seen Artist of Happier Time" ''Salem Evening News'', Nov. 19, 1951. p.1 *"Following the Light; Peabody Essex exhibit traces work of artist Frank W. Benson, ''Salem Evening News'', Sept. 27, 2000. p.A1
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Anime is nothing more than a style of animation, specific to Japan and featuring certain elements that make it unmistakable. The style has captured the imaginations of many artists, who then go on to create amazing anime artworks, often featuring large eyes and vivid colors.
But as the images flash before us it can be easy to forget that the best anime drawings are often found within the anime themselves.
Some anime has amazingly beautiful art, whether it's in the details or the scenery, the character expressions or their features. Other anime is striking for its style, its ability to elicit powerful emotions, or even simply its technical skill.
The images below are the best we could find from among the many beautiful anime out there. All, save for a couple of pencil sketches, come directly from the anime itself. How often do you pause an anime and take in the artwork? Let's take a moment to appreciate the anime drawings found within the amazing medium that is anime.
Super clean sketches of Byakuya and Renji from Bleach. If the anime was re-imagined as a one season, 12 episode type deal, this would be the kind of detail we'd love to see.
This gritty collage lies closer to the original style that mangaka ONE uses, but it's got a very expressive, epic feel to it. Deep Sea King looks amazing here.
A couple of different styles of anime eyes, some of which we see regularly in anime today. Is it just us or do Sakura and Madoka's eyes feature in there a couple of times?
Let's get meta as the beautiful Garden of Words shows up again. This image does an incredible job of showing a sketch within a drawing. The sketch is just a bunch of shoes, but they're so realistically sketchy that it's easy to forget you're watching an anime and not a movie.
Bleach on one side, Naruto on the other, artist Roggles fills his pages with a collection of awesome pencil sketches. Roggles' skillful use of lines casts shadows and creates movement, and overlays the sketches in such a way that they feel like one coherent work.
We cheated a bit for this one, as it's not purely a pencil drawing, but rather a watercolor one. But this amazing fanart drawing is too bright and wonderful to pass up. The artist captures the feel and style of the Studio Ghibli movie, and adds their own flair, to create one beautiful artwork.
The Garden of Words is a beautiful anime through and through. This simple image of a boy's back shouldn't be remarkable, but this anime makes it amazing. The boy is surrounded by so many details and stunning art: the calendar and notes pinned up, the mess of dishes before the boy, and even the crumpled kitchen towel make this single shot a moment frozen in time.
It's not always the detail that makes an impact on us, but rather the style. This image from Ping Pong the Animation is an unexpected style, with shaky lines and a distinct lack of facial features. But you can tell that each brush stroke and line are deliberate, created with the goal of emphasizing the only bright and colorful part of the drawing: the butterfly wings. There is beauty in this mess.
Tekkon Kinkreet is another anime that has a very distinct and unique style. The boys in the foreground are drawn with choppy lineart that works perfectly with the painterly backdrop. And just look at the amount of detail found there: no matter where you look, you'll discover something new. This anime is fantastic at creating a certain atmosphere, and this drawing is a perfect example of this.
Out of all the other anime in this list, Hibike! Euphonium is the one that looks most like it was drawn by an artist as a still. You can see the amount of skill that went into drawing every frame of the anime. This picture is a great example of this, where the light gleaming against the back of Reina's hair gives her an ethereal glow and turns the screenshot into more like a soft painted piece.
This art goes to show you that you don't need something complex to create something beautiful. Despite being a fairly simple anime drawing, Eru Chitanda is breathtaking in this screenshot. The droplets in her hair and on her face, the rest of the hot springs shrouded in a soft steam, and her beautiful long eyelashes are all amazing together. Hot springs are often used for comic relief, usually of a sexual nature; instead, this series opts to create a sensual moment.
It's hard to pick just one image from 5 Centimeters per Second when talking about gorgeous anime. The entire movie is a work of art, every shot a beautiful drawing that would make an amazing print or wallpaper. For this shot, we see the entire world bend around this one couple - and believe it or not, every shot before and after are equally stunning.
Whether you loved or hated SAO, you were no doubt impressed by the environment art, which stood out as a beautiful backdrop to the story. Here we see one example of how the background makes the moment as a tender kiss seems to stretch into eternity. The couple seem to be sitting on the edge of the sky. It's definitely a perfect place for a kiss, and a beautiful work of art.
Showing up a second time on our list is Your Lie in April, for this unforgettable scene. The beauty and colors of the moment are captured perfectly in this drawing, which makes you think of swirling notes and harmonious sounds. Can't you just hear the music?
Bakemonogatari (and the other anime in the series) employs a very unique style that draws largely on lines, repetition, and color. This image of the lead couple in the series is a fantastic anime drawing that shows exactly how unique the style is. The yellow and black lines follow the rule of thirds, while the background shows nothing but repeating windows, until we get to the bodies of the two characters, which break the lines by curving into each other. Every line in Bakemonogatari feels deliberate; content notwithstanding, it's like watching a work of art in motion.
Attack on Titan's attention to realism and anatomy shows in this anime eye drawing. The eye is more realistic than most anime eyes, and reflects an entire world within its many colors. It's a captivating shot, set against the backdrop of a softly faded face, almost like a macro photograph.
Nai's color scheme and even his name mean he barely exists, nearly faded out. That is, until you see his eyes. Every moment featuring Nai is overwhelmed by his expressive orange-red eyes, which include more detail than the rest of his face. This shot shows the beauty of a well-crafted color scheme.
Eru Chitanda makes another appearance on our list due to her unforgettable eyes. Wide-eyed, sparkling, and full of wonder, Eru's eyes truly are windows to her soul. You won't forget her -- or those eyes -- in a hurry.
You simply can't have a list of beautiful anime drawings without mentioning Mushishi. The anime is a rare gem among anime: slow-paced and pensive, it focuses on environment and feelings over action or movement. This screenshot is just one example of the many beautiful environments found in this wonderful anime.
Sunday Without God is an underappreciated work of art with crisp character designs and artwork, and a sunny golden color scheme. The entire world looks like it's stuck in a permanent sunset, and this image is no exception. All we see is a girl draped over a coffin, with the shadows of other people surrounding her. The image is so simple yet so poignant that it evokes some strong feelings in us without even needing to know the context.
The character art for Madoka is at striking odds with the anime's backgrounds -- most notably, the nightmare environments. The cute and simplistic girls are constantly placed against a complex (and often multimedia) backdrop like in this image. The colors and shapes in this anime drawing create an vivid frame that drives the eye to the girls, depicted as so small in this world. This, and any image from a nightmare world, make Madoka a visual masterpiece.


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Larger outsourcing contracts may boost IT revenues in FY19
New Delhi: The twin trends of outsourcing larger technology contracts and Fortune 1000 companies awarding work that was earlier done internally to its vendors have led analysts and information technology executives to suggest that the sector could grow faster in the year starting 1 April.
These trends are the third positive development for India's $167 billion information technology (IT) outsourcing sector, after the first six months of the current fiscal saw IT firms adding more employees and raising salaries of some of them by as much as 40%.
"Digital spend is industrializing a little bit, moving from pilots and PoC (proof of concepts) to big spends. That should look well overall for the industry, so I am quite optimistic," Nasscom chairman Rishad Premji said in an interaction with Mint last month. "The other interesting and exciting thing is, again at broad basis, the return of larger deals."
The ability of IT companies to offer solutions through mobility and data crunching platforms that allows their clients, from Citigroup Inc. to Walmart Inc., to do their business more efficiently saw the technology vendors generating more revenue from stand-alone deals signed in 2018 than ever before.
This development is one reason for improved growth at some of the largest companies, including Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS).
The largest IT services companies, including TCS, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Infosys Ltd and Wipro Ltd, shared this optimism when they briefed analysts at an event organized by outsourcing research firm HFS Research in New York on 12 and 13 December.
"[M]anagement shared that 50% of the value of new deals are coming from 25% of the new signings, which implies that contracts are longer in duration with increasing complexity," Keith Bachman, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets, wrote in a 17 December note.
Bachman made the observation after speaking with the management of Genpact, the New York-based business process and technology management firm, at the HFS event.
For close to a decade, outsourcing deals shrank as tech work became commoditized. An added challenge for IT firms was the rise of in-sourcing, which saw several large clients setting up their own technology units or captives to do the tech work.
However, 2018 saw this change, according to three executives from TCS, Cognizant and Wipro.
"Several service providers discussed clients that have taken work in-house out of frustration with service providers, but have experienced difficulty in implementing new technologies without external help. As a result, clients are returning to service providers with more realistic expectations," Bachman wrote in the note.
"I do not see a huge rush to captives—the big issue is talent shortages in higher value areas, such as digital, AI (artificial intelligence), analytics, machine learning, etc. No one wants to hire those internally—the talent is too expensive and hard to retain," said Phil Fersht, chief executive officer of HFS Research. "Hence, we are witnessing a resurgence in services based on higher-value services and deeper, more consultative partnering."
"In a nutshell what we are witnessing is the shift from 'outsourcing' to 'real value partnering' and the winning providers are those who can convert to the latter with smart talent and operating model investments," said Fersht.
TCS, Infosys and Wipro declined to comment as all three are in a quiet period ahead of declaring their December quarter results.
Since December last year, Mumbai-based TCS and Bengaluru-based Wipro have won four multi-year mega deals, which will together generate over $7.2 billion in revenue.
"A lot of deals, beyond the four mega deals, have seen integrated traditional offerings like infrastructure maintenance and BPO, along with deployment of data analytics platforms and some level of automation. This means that a resulting contract is of larger value than a pure-play traditional work," an executive at TCS said on the condition of anonymity.
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This new multi-family apartment complex is located within a 43-acre urban, mixed-use redevelopment project just north of downtown Tampa, Florida.
As the first new structure in this redevelopment project, the apartment building, with 314 dwelling units and 28,000 SF of retail space, established the architectural character for the new district. Located on a four-acre site, three new apartment buildings are organized around a five-level 500-space precast parking structure and central courtyard. Precast concrete wall panels and floor decks were central to the design concept from the beginning. The goal was to create a contemporary-style building that highlighted the area's history as an industrial district. The client also demanded buildings that would be long-lasting and low maintenance.
At seven stories tall and more than 500 feet in length, one of the key design challenges was to break down the scale of the building to reflect the character of the nearby early 20th century commercial street. Precast finishes, such as tinted concrete, textured patterns, and thin brick, were used on the exterior wall panels toward this end. On the interior, the clients requested an urban, loft-style character. In response, insulated precast concrete wall panels were utilized so the interior of the walls panels could be left exposed in both common areas and dwelling units. Additionally, exposed precast concrete slabs in common areas and exposed precast concrete ceiling in apartments met the clients' desired look.
Finally, the clients wanted to reduce construction time in order to minimize financial carrying costs. Using Metromont's wall and deck system reduced the construction time in comparison to alternative construction systems by approximately three months.
Load-bearing precast concrete wall panels with continuous insulation
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Q: Cut mask out of image with certain pixel margin numpy opencv I am playing around with the Mask RCNN (https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN) segmentation program that is trained on the COCO data set. It detects persons (along with many other objects that I further neglect) in an image and returns one or multiple Person masks, i.e. Boolean Numpy arrays containing True values for all pixels that are classified as a 'Person' and False values for all other pixels:

So an inputted image (uint8 array of shape (3900,2922,3)) becomes a mask (Boolean array of shape (3900,2922)) or multiple masks when multiple persons are detected in the picture.
Now I can use this mask to cut the person out of the image with some simply Numpy array indexing:
mask3d = np.dstack([mask]*3)
cut_out_mask = np.invert(mask3d)
res = np.where(cut_out_mask, 0, image)

This returns the following image:

Since the masks that are returned by the Mask_RCNN program are quite tight, I would like to add a margin of a few pixels (let's say 15px), so that I get something like this:

Which Numpy/ OpenCV functions can I leverage to cut out the mask from the original image (similar to np.where), adding a margin of 15 pixels around the mask?

A: One method to do this is to use cv2.dilate to increase the surface area of the mask. Depending on your mask shape, you can create varying structuring element shapes and sizes with cv2.getStructuringElement.
For instance, if your mask shape is rectangular you might want to use cv2.MORPH_RECT or if your mask shape is circular you can use cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE. In addition, you can change the kernel size and the number of iterations to dilate. After dilating the mask, you can use cv2.bitwise_and to get your result. Here's a minimum reproducible example:
Original image

Mask

Dilate

Bitwise-and for result

import cv2

# Load image and mask
image = cv2.imread('1.png')
mask = cv2.imread('mask.png')

# Create structuring element, dilate and bitwise-and
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (25,25))
dilate = cv2.dilate(mask, kernel, iterations=3)
result = cv2.bitwise_and(image, dilate)

cv2.imshow('dilate', dilate)
cv2.imshow('result', result)
cv2.waitKey()

A: You may use cv2.dilate morphological operation for widening the mask:
new_mask = cv2.dilate(mask, cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE, (50,50)))

Sample code that loads a mask and widens the mask:
import cv2

# Read the mask from a file (for testing).
mask = cv2.imread("sample_mask.png", cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE);

new_mask = cv2.dilate(mask, cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE, (50,50)))

# Display mask and new_mask
cv2.imshow('mask', mask)
cv2.imshow('new_mask', new_mask)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

mask:

new_mask:

A: The function you are looking for is the cv2.filter2D().
I wrote a short demo for you:
import numpy as np
import cv2

First we create a demo mask, with contains a square in the middle:
mask = np.zeros((300, 300))
mask[100:200, 100:200] = 1

Then we create our kernel for the filter2D function:
kernel = np.ones((32, 32))

I used the size 32, to get the desired padding of 15 pixel.
paddedMask = cv2.filter2D(mask, 1, kernel)

Just for demoing I display the Image with the following code:
image = cv2.threshold(np.array(paddedMask, dtype=np.uint8), 1, 255, 1)[1]
cv2.imshow("Test", image)
cv2.imshow("Org", mask)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Hope it helps.


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Saudia Airline to fly to 33 destinations in November
October 26, 2020| News| IMTM
The flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, Saudia, is to recommence flight operations to 33 destinations in November.
The list of destinations include countries in Asia, such as Islamabad, Lahore, Delhi, Mumbai, Dhaka, Guangzhou, Jakarta, Karachi, Kochi, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Multan, and Peshawar. Next month, Saudia will cover Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Kuwait, Beirut, Dubai, and Oman in the Middle East, according to Okaz newspaper.
Addis Ababa, Cairo, Alexandria, Khartoum, Tunis, and Nairobi in Africa, will also be visited. Eight more destinations in Europe and the US, include Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Istanbul and Washington.
The recommencement of their flights come after international flights in Saudi Arabia were suspended temporarily in March of this year, due to the global pandemic. Basic health and safety measures have been taken by numerous countries and businesses around the world, as precautions to prevent the spreading of the coronavirus. Thus, due to the ongoing pandemic, travelers are expected to follow regulations and should exercise caution, to protect themselves and others.
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Annual Temple Beth Am Service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Temple Beth Am's annual service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be graced by a special guest, Robert Azriel Devine, on Friday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Am Temple Beth Am, 879 South Beverwyck Rd. in Parsippany. The talk, "Kol Yisrael," will feature Devine speaking about his unique experience growing up as both a black man and a Jew.
Devine was born and raised in Chicago, Ill, and has practiced Judaism since birth. On Aug. 23, 1969, when Devine celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at the south side's well-known Congregation Rodfei Zedeck on Hyde Park Avenue, he was the first black child to achieve this milestone in Chicago's Jewish community.
Devine's spiritual growth was especially nurtured by his father, who was serving as the Rabbi of the House of Israel Hebrew Cultural Center and was also the chairman of the United Leaders' Council of Hebrew Israelites, an organization of black Rabbis from Chicago, Illinois, and Gary and Indianapolis, Ind.
Devine studied briefly at Ida Crown Academy and is an alumnus of Camp Ramah. He is attending the Academy of Jewish Religion in Yonkers New York. His goal is to become an ordained Rabbi.
Azriel will also help attendees understand how black history connects to Judaism, revealing a diversity that is the fabric of modern Israel and Jewry as a whole.
Thank you for ten years, Rhonda!
Cantor Inna isn't the only person celebration a special 'tenth' at Temple Beth Am this year! Rhonda Jacoby (Mom of Andrea, Aleph class madricha, and Adam, Confirmed) has served as our dedicated Education Committee Chair for the last ten years. She will be officially be handing over the reins to our new Co-Chairs, Christine and Dave Weinberg (parents of Hannah, Aleph class). Rhonda, our school, our students and our congregation owe you a huge debt of gratitude for the hours and months and years you dedicated to our children and their Jewish education. THANK YOU for being here for us!
We are thrilled to share that our first Temple Beth Am Family Club event was a success and a lot of fun for everyone who attended!
A couple of weeks ago, the TBA Family Club had a morning of bowling in Madison, New Jersey. With a great deal on bowling for the morning, everyone was able to bowl a couple of games. There were squeals of delight from the youngest who were there when more pins fell than they expected. Also, som friendly competition between some of the adults. All in good fun, of course!
Afterward, several families enjoyed going out to lunch together as a spur-of-the-moment idea. This gave everyone more time to get to know each other.
Everyone who attended had a nice time, and new friends were made as well. Many ideas were shared on other family activities we could plan for the future and even some adult night's out while the kids enjoy time with the Beth Am Youth Group (we'll try to coordinate with them whenever possible!).
This summer, we are looking into planning a trip to a minor league baseball game and a trip to the Treetop Adventure Ropes at Turtle Back Zoo. Once more details are finalized, we will be sharing that information with all families at Temple Beth Am. We look forward to many more events filled with fun, laughter and new friends!
If you would like more information or have ideas on something you'd like us to include in our planning for the next year, please contact Debbie Lesser or Patsy Kreitman at FamilyClub@tbaparsippany.org.
Join us on Friday, April 17th at 7:30 p.m. as we observe Yom Hashoah to memorialize the Holocaust. Our annual Joseph Gotthelf Memorial Lecture will feature Allan Chernoff as our guest lecturer to discuss his book, "TheTailors of Tomaszow." Chernoff is a veteran of national network news serving as a Senior Correspondent for CNN and reporting for CNBC and NBC.
Please click on link to an article "Time is running out to hear their stories" to learn more about the Joseph Gotthelf Memorial Lecture and Allan Chernoff written by Lisa Kintish of ParsippanyLife (northjersey.com/parsippany).
Birthright Trips to Israel! Register now!
Registration for summer 2015 Birthright trips to Israel is open now.
Birthright Israel provides a gift of a peer group, educational trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26 from around the world. This is a great opportunity for young Jewish people to come to Israel, see it, experience it, talk about it, and think about what Israel means for them and the Jewish people.
The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life is an emotionally moving celebration of life and cancer survivorship; It's the signature activity of the American Cancer Society and celebrates cancer survivors and caregivers, remembers loved ones lost to this disease, and empowers individuals and communities to fight back against cancer.
It is a unique team event designed to raise awareness about cancer and raise funds to support the American Cancer Society's mission of fighting cancer, raising awareness of cancer prevention, and eliminating cancer. The money raised at Relay For Life saves lives and creates a world with less cancer and more birthdays through funding fighting cutting-edge cancer research, early detection and prevention education, advocacy efforts, and life-affirming patient services, thus people staying well, helping people to get well, and finding cures for cancer by fighting back.
Register and donate what ever you can. If you raise at least $100, you will receive a tee shirt.
If you have any questions please contact Ellen Mancini at 908 295-3572.
On January 28, 2015, Temple Beth Am hosted an evening at the Hanover Manor filled with Italian food and over 100 tricky tray baskets for our major fundraiser of the year. With the auctioneering skills of our very own Jeff Morrison, our live auction was very successful! The 50/50 and tricky tray basket ticket sales were very successful due to the hard work of our volunteer committee that has been busy requesting donations from many businesses in the area.
With many from the TBA community in attendance along with the local community and Parsippany's Councilman Michael dePierro, the event brought so many people together to help raise money to help support Temple Beth Am.
Marci Gorman, Laura Quinn and Patsy Kreitman, co-chairs of the Taste of Italy Tricky Tray, would like to thank each and every volunteer and supporter of this event. Without their time and commitment to our temple we could not have had such a successful event!
As American Jews how can we vote in an election that will influence the direction of the State of Israel?
I encourage you to consider voting in the election because the WTC is the Parliament of the Jewish people and this body helps guide budgetary and policy priorities of the Jewish Agency for Israel. In the last WZC election ARZA (American Reform Zionists of America) won 40% of the US representation in the WZC. As the largest US delegation, ARZA has helped bring over $20 million dollars of funding to Progressive Reform Israeli groups in the past 5 years; it has attained government-provided building for Reform communities; it has been instrumental in passing resolutions supporting civil unions, egalitarianism at the Kotel and anti-racism laws.
I am also looking for a cadre of volunteers who would like to assist me in registering voters for the election; if you are interested please contact me at rabbi@tbaparsippany.org or 973.887.0046.
There will be much more to follow…please look to this blog and Temple communications for more information!
*Any American Jew over the age of 18 who is not voting in the upcoming Israeli election can vote in the World Zionist Congress election that begins on January 15, 2015 and ends on April 30, 2015.
How can sharing a conversation over a cup of coffee change a congregation? It can if it is multiplied many times over by members of our Beth Am community!
Telling stories of our lives and asking questions of others regarding their lives really helps us connect with one another. This is how I would like us to continue to grow our congregation in warmth and connectedness.
Please consider this my invitation to you join me in a quiet yet transformative activity: ask another member of the congregation to join you for coffee (or your favorite beverage or food) to get to know one another's stories.
I intend to get this relational activity started by inviting you to share coffee and a conversation with me. My only request would be that you "pass this along" by having a similar conversation with someone else that you may not know well in the congregation.


Health risk assessments are ideally based on good quality, substance-specific toxicology data. The development of analytical chemistry however has far outstripped the resources available to the toxicologist, and as such many more compounds can now be detected and quantified than have ever been, or are ever likely to be, the subject of toxicological investigation. If the estimated human exposures are low, the means are fortunately now available to reach health precautionary conclusions of toxicological acceptability despite an absence of compound-specific toxicity data.
It is the concept of the threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) that has the potential to free the risk assessor from the analyst's overly sensitive instrumentation; our scientists are experienced and comfortable in the appropriate use of the TTC approach. The premise is that the toxicological properties of the universe of tested compounds can reliably illuminate the likely toxicology of the much more expansive universe of compounds that have never been tested. Based on the statistical analysis of oral toxicity and carcinogenicity data bases, a number of default tolerable exposure levels can be defined (TTC values), below which an untested compound is considered very unlikely to pose an appreciable risk to human health. A chemical's structure dictates the selection of the appropriate TTC value. The TTC has been embraced enthusiastically by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and a number of other regulatory bodies (and of course, by our own risk assessors). It is also a key part of the recently developed guidelines and draft guidelines from the Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI) on extractables and leachables in drug products, with which our risk assessors are familiar.


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This Porsche 959 Prototype Is One of Very Few Surviving Examples In Existence
Most of the 959 prototypes were destroyed, and then there's this one with an interesting and unique story
by Robert Moore, on December 23, 2021, 06:00
This Racing Yellow Porsche 918 Spyder Wouldn't Be A Bad Way To Spend $1.23 Million
A low-mileage 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder is up for sale in the UK at RM Sothebys
by Khris Bharath, on July 5, 2021, 14:00
This 2019 Porsche 911 Speedster in One-Off Yellow Paint Is A Wet Dream Come True
The paint alone costs almost $13,000
by Tudor Rus, on March 17, 2021, 18:00
The last production 2020 Porsche 911 Speedster auctioned for COVID-19 relief
Grab a rare sports car and help those in need
by Ciprian Florea, on April 13, 2020, 17:00
1960 Porsche 718 RS 60 Werks
What you get if you work hard at improving the 550 Spyder
by Michael Fira, on September 27, 2019, 11:00
Porsche Type 64 Fails to Sell After Massive Auction Blunder
RM Sotheby's has a lot of explaining to do, and even after all of that, it might not be enough to save its reputation
by Kirby Garlitos, on August 19, 2019, 14:00
1985 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe
A true historical icon
1968 Porsche 908 Works Short-Tail Coupe
A Stuttgart racing classic
by Jonathan Lopez, on September 13, 2018, 18:00
1980 Porsche Bisimoto 911BR "One-of-a-Kind"
An air-cooled tribute to the King of Cool
by Jonathan Lopez, on July 27, 2016, 11:00
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Stunning 718 RSK and Selection of Significant Porsches Set to Headline Gooding & Company's Return to Amelia Island
An assortment of very special Porsche models to be presented by Gooding & Company auctions at Amelia Island 2022
Amelia Island is one of the go-to spots for automotive exhibitions such as Concours d'Elegance, as well as various auctions for rare and classic vehicles. Following the rescheduled from March to May Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance 2021, Gooding & Company's classic car auction has been rescheduled for March 4th, 2022. Moreover, Gooding and Company auction will return with a bang, as it brings a stunning array of iconic Porsche models, among which a 1959 Porsche 718 RSK, which is expected to be the main attraction, at the auction.
December 23, 2021 06:00 by Robert Moore
Developing a car from scratch starts with some drawing and calculations, then the building of test prototypes, then pre-production cars, and eventually the pilot production vehicles. Most of the time, test prototypes are usually destroyed when their use has been exceeded, yet here we are looking at a test prototype of the Porsche 959 – a car that is believed to be one of the few surviving examples of the F-Series prototypes from 1985. It's currently listed for sale on Mechatronik for an undisclosed price, but is It truly authentic?
July 5, 2021 14:00 by Khris Bharath
Porsche developed the 918 Spyder as the replacement to the Carrera GT from September 2013 to June 2015. In a different light of the 'Holy Trinity' bolstered by the mighty McLaren P1 and the gorgeous Ferrari LaFerrari, the Porsche was undoubtedly the most distinctive of the three.
A Legendary Collection Of Cars Is Heading to Auction And Chris Harris Has the Inside Info You Need
Chris Harris walks us through one of the most epic car collections that's about to go to auction
May 11, 2021 12:00 by Dim Angelov
Collecting cars is a relatively new YouTube channel that focuses on quality rather than quantity. When you click on the video and Chris Harris appears in it, you know it's going to be some epic content. Although the man doesn't need much introduction, the Leonard Collection definitely does. There's an obvious focus on significant cars, most of which are different versions and generations of the Porsche 911.
Someone Paid Porsche 911 GT3 Money For this 1981 Porsche 924
This one-in-15 924 Carrera GTS Clubsport went for over $250,000 and we're not surprised
April 27, 2021 10:00 by Sidd Dhimaan
The Porsche 924 was manufactured between 1976 and 1988. Although it was launched as a successor to the 914 and was supposed to sit at the bottom of the company's model hierarchy, it came with a lot of significant bits and marked a lot of firsts for the company. It was the first street-legal Porsche to feature a front-engine and rear-wheel-drive layout. Not to mention, also the first car from the company to come with an automatic gearbox.
There were many iterations and models of the 924, one of them being Carrera GTS. The automaker built 59 examples of it and 15 of them were the quicker 'Clubsport' models. One of these 15 was on Bring-a-Trailer's auction recently and it was sold for over a quarter-million dollars! That's way more expensive than any new 911 that you can buy today.
Jerry Seinfeld's Porsche 911 GT3 RS Is Probably the Most Optioned 911 You've Ever Seen
The north-of-$400,000 sticker should not surprise anyone given the amount of gear this GT3 RS packs
April 6, 2021 14:00 by Tudor Rus
For reasons unknown to us, Jerry Seinfeld is parting ways with one of his cars. That car is a 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS with a window sticker of $449,890, out of which more than $250,000 are optional features.
This 1981 RUF BTR Is Every Porsche 911 Fanboy's Wet Dream
It has 374 horsepower coming from a 3.4-liter turbo mill and just 52,108 miles on the odometer
RUF is one of the select few automotive institutions in the world that can take a Porsche, tear it apart, tweak it, glue it back together, and the result is a better car than the stock vehicle. The Pfaffenhausen-based company's lineup saw no shortage of extreme builds over time, but few can surpass the RUF BTR.
This Ultra-Rare Porsche 930 Turbo "Rinspeed R69" Redefines Custom
There are tuned Porsche 911s, badly tuned Porsche 911s, and then there's this oddity
March 31, 2021 15:00 by Tudor Rus
It might look like the lovechild of a Ferrari Testarossa and a Porsche 911 but the two car manufacturers never worked together on such a project. It also looks like something concocted in an obscure workshop on Thailand, but it's not that either. Meet the extremely weird Rinspeed R69, a car that used to be a perfectly fine Porsche 911 930 Turbo.
Forget about the fact that the 2019 Porsche 911 Speedster was built on 911 GT3 bones. It's a car's design, paint, or sound that first makes the heart skip a beat and seeing this particular Speedster will send you to the cardiologist in no time.
April 13, 2020 17:00 by Ciprian Florea
The Porsche 911 Speedster returned for the 2020 model year after a nine-year absence. It's the final iteration of the previous 991.2-generation 911, it's incredibly expensive, and limited to 1,948 units. If you missed out on the Speedster when Porsche introduced it in 2019, you can buy the final example at an RM Sotheby's auction for coronavirus relief.
September 27, 2019 11:00 by Michael Fira
How often do you see an ex-works Porsche race car hit the auction block? It rarely happens and this is one of the few that were sold publicly in recent history. This is a 1960 Porsche 718 RS 60, member of the 718 RS family of open-top sports cars built and raced by Zuffenhausen for half a decade beginning with the RSK in 1957. The RS 60 appeared at a time when sports car manufacturers started realizing that mounting the engine behind the cockpit might be beneficial to the performance of the car after witnessing Jack Brabham muscling his way to the title in F1 in 1959. Porsche was already doing it and had been doing it for years, beginning with the 550 Spyder, a car infamous for having an important part to play in actor James Dean's death but one that was, more importantly, a successful car in road racing.
The RS 60 Spyder raced everywhere around the world, following the trek of the World Endurance Championship and, along the way, ticking starts at Le Mans, the Nurburgring, and Targa Florio. Only 18 were built in period and the factory kept for its own use a mere four examples and this, according to RM Sotheby's, was "the only to likely become available". Powered by a four-cam engine - first a 1.6-liter mill and, in 1961, a 2.0-liter one - the car you see in the pictures, chassis #044, doesn't boast with the most enviable of racing records having retired out of both the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans race and all of the three major races it contested in 1961: the 12 Hours of Sebring, the 1,000-kilometer race at the Nurburgring-Nordschleife and the Targa Florio in Sicily. Having said that, it must be said that the car was fast, taking pole position outright in the Italian road race before being raced extensively by Bob Holbert, father of Porsche legend Al Holbert, an amazing driver in his own right - both behind the wheel of Porsches and, later, Cobras. It is, then, no wonder that chassis #044 sold for over $5.0 million back in mid-August during the Monterey sale. That's one expensive aluminum Spyder!
August 19, 2019 14:00 by Kirby Garlitos
RM Sotheby's is in a world of trouble after its auction of a 1939 Porsche Type 64 went off the rails. Confusion and embarrassment reigned as the auction turned into a farce over as an upset crowd booed the attempted sale of the high-value model. In the end, the Type 64, otherwise known as Ferdinand Porsche's "Nazi car' failed to meets its reservation price. It is currently marked as "still for sale" on RM Sotheby's online auction catalog, though given everything that transpired during the actual auction, it's unlikely that anyone's going to touch the Porsche Type 64 anytime soon. As for RM Sotheby's reputation, well, that's up in the air, too.
Car For Sale: 1958 Porsche 356 A Sedan Delivery 'Kreuzer'
The entire Taj Ma Garaj, John Dixon's eclectic collection of cars, will be up for grabs and this Porsche is one of the must-haves
July 22, 2019 08:00 by Michael Fira
Remember the days of the compact but practical delivery wagons based on your average car? Stuff like the Pontiac Pathfinder or Ford Courier in wagon form with no rear windows and truck-like doors in the back for easy access to the cargo area. Known as sedan delivery vehicles, they stopped being popular over half a century ago but, even in their heyday, no small business owner dreamt of owning something like this. But Jon Dixon did and this is the fruit of that dream, the Porsche 356 A Sedan Delivery 'Kreuzer', a car to annoy the purists and bring a smile to the faces of those that like to see tasteful and unconventional builds strive to exist in a world of uniform tastes.
The Porsche 356 was the first car built by the factory after the war, first at Gmund, in Austria, then at Porsche's original home in Zuffenhausen, near Stuttgart, from 1950 onwards. The 356 A arrived in late 1955 as a 1956 year model and replaced what's now known as the 356 Pre-A, or the first 356s to be built in Germany with steel bodies (because Reutter Karosserie that handled body construction didn't have the know-how to weld light-alloy body parts like those of the 356/2 examples made in Gmund). The 'Kreuzer' is, at heart, a 1958 Porsche 356A Speedster so you can imagine how much work went into getting it to look as it does today.
Car For Sale: 1939 Porsche Type 64
A Porsche from before there was Porsche
May 15, 2019 18:00 by Michael Fira
When you think of the first Porsche, you probably have in mind the 1948 Porsche 356/1 also known as the "Porsche No. 1". Indeed, that was the first car to wear the Porsche badge, but you'd have to go back almost a decade to find the first Porsche-named car, and that is the streamlined vehicle that stands before your eyes now. It's called the Type 64, and three were built precisely 80 years ago of which two survive now, and only this one has the original sheet metal on it. Mechanically, it is a strengthened and tuned Beetle but, as far as looks are concerned, it has the 356's DNA written all over it. Now, it's up for auction, and if somebody other than the Porsche Museum buys it, I'll be shocked.
Porsche's crazy about its history. The German company has built its reputation via winning races - much like Ferrari has - and it can't stop reminding everyone about its landmark moments. There are multiple events dedicated to the history of Ferdinand Porsche's company, such us Luftghekult or the Rennsport Reunion. If you arrive in Stuttgart, the first thing you stumble across is the Porsche Platz, and there, on one side of the roundabout at the entrance of the city, there's a futuristic-looking building. That's Porsche's own museum that's filled to the brim with everything Porsche both new and old. But Porsche doesn't currently own this car, the Type 64 chassis #38/41. It was designed by Ferdinand Porsche as a marketing ploy to showcase that you can extract genuine performance from the unassuming platform of the Beetle. If Porsche wants it back, it'll have to join the crowd at the RM/Sotheby's auction in Monterey, California, that's scheduled for August 15th through to the 17th.
Did Jerry Seinfeld Really Sell a Fake 1958 Porsche 356A for $1.5 Million?
He apparently knew about the issue, offered a full refund but didn't come through
February 4, 2019 12:00 by Andrei Nedelea
You may remember that back in early 2016 we covered Jerry Seinfeld's announced auction of several of his classic Porsche models - all of which eventually sold for some $22-million in total. One of the cars he sold then has been proven to not be authentic and he's now being sued for $1.5-million.
1997 RUF Porsche CTR2
The replacement for the fastest car in the world, an even faster car
January 23, 2019 21:00 by Michael Fira
RUF builds some of the fastest modified Porsches in the world, cars altered so much that they are barely Porsches when the process reaches the end and the car is ready for delivery. Such a car is the CTR2, the replacement of the Yellowbird, a 993-based monster that could reach 215 mph in 1995, beating anything but the McLaren F1.
If you're asked to name a few really fast cars of the '90s images of the Lamborghini Diablo, the Bugatti EB110, or the Jaguar XJ220 would probably spring in your mind. Well, how many of you would think of a modified Porsche that could beat anything that Zuffenhausen had to offer, even the ludicrous race-bred 911 GT1? Yes, it's the product of a tuner, but the cars built by Alois Ruf Jr., and his men have always been impeccably well-built. They also have an enviable record of humiliating established supercars over the years. The CTR2 is the bridge between the pure Nurburgring-slashing CTR and the mid-engined CTR3 that takes the ideas of the Carrera GT to another level.
A 1997 RUF Porsche CTR2 with Pikes Peak History is Expected To Sell For $1.5 Million
Back in the '90s when this RUF-modified Porsche tackled the Pikes Peak Hillclimb, it wasn't all asphalt like today
RUF, the mad scientists from Germany who take usual Porsches and make them bonafide supercar-killers, built two special RUF CTR2s to humiliate other mortals at Hillclimb and circuit events. With 702 horsepower on tap, these Sport Prototype examples were probably the fastest road legal Porsches in the world in the late '90s and, now, one is up for grabs at the upcoming Bonhams Paris sale on February 7th.
As far as supercars go, the RUF CTR2 is an unsung hero. Every car nut has heard of the mad CTR and its 213 mph F40-crushing top speed. Everyone has seen it being thrashed around the Nurburgring-Nordschleife in that period VHS video that might as well be one of the first 'viral' automotive videos on the world-wide-web. But not too many people know about the CTR's replacement, the CTR2.
RUF again built very few of these around the chassis of a 993 Turbo, so it's unlikely you'll ever see one. However, if you do, allow yourself a few moments to just gaze upon it while trying to breathe normally because this is automotive royalty although the bulbous bodywork could mislead you into thinking this is yet another weird tuning job from the '90s.
1965 Porsche 911 007
An Art Car that isn't a BMW for once
November 9, 2018 18:00 by Michael Fira
A Porsche Art Car isn't something unheard of, but this is one of the strangest of them all. Designed by Peter Klasen, a German artist part of the 'La Nouvelle Figuration' movement, it is an early 911 modified for racing with about 192-horsepower on tap and is named 'Project 007'. And no, there are no links to that secret agent.
Early 911s are revered for their purity in terms of the construction and the classic design of the body. The original 911 (901) is a Butzi Porsche design whose lines are still relevant on modern Porsches that we see and hear today. This particular 911, though, is something that we don't see every day. Its colorful livery was drawn up by Klasen in 2009, and it's similar, in terms of the color palette and some of the themes and elements displayed, with previous liveries he's done.
Maybe Klausen's most prominent work in the automotive world is a racing livery that adorned a Porsche 962 CK6 entered by German outfit Kremer Racing in the 1990 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The German artist also designed the red-white-and-blue livery of a Porsche 911 (993) GT2 entered by French team Sonauto in the French GT Championship in the late '90s.
There is no substitute to a lightweight Porsche
The Porsche 911 Carrera RS is an exercise in reducing a formula to its purest form. It was built as a lighter, faster, and more powerful version of the 964-generation Carrera 2 and it stands as a spiritual successor of the magnificent 911 Carrera 2.7 RS from the early '70s.
The Benjamin Dimson-penned Porsche 911 (964) debuted in 1989 and featured a rounder body shape in tune with the times which was a clear, but not profoundly radical, departure from the design of the previous 911 that was still tracing its roots back to the original Ferdinand Alexander Porsche-drawn model launched in 1963.
For 1992, Porsche launched the Carrera RS in Europe which was, in essence, a road-legal version of the Carrera Cup racing cars. This single-make series was on the bill of the Formula 1 World Championship weekends as support races in between F1 sessions.
The 911 Carrera RS never officially made it across the Atlantic and into the U.S. market. With that being said, 45 cars that were meant to be used in a Carrera Cup U.S. series that never materialized did trickle down to dealerships and were quietly sold in 1993 in the shadow of the RS America which deserves its own review as it isn't identical to the European RS.
Porsche Classic's "Project Gold" Brought in $3 Million at Auction - All For a Good Cause
It was sold within ten minutes!
October 30, 2018 09:00 by Sidd Dhimaan
Porsche turned 70 this year, and the automaker decided to celebrate it by auctioning off the Porsche 911 Turbo Classic Series - a collection of 51 vehicles - at RM Sotheby's "The Porsche 70th Anniversary Auction 2018" event. The highlight of the auction was a 993 that was finished in flashy Golden Yellow Metallic paint. After nearly 40 bids, it's destined to go to a new home with a price tag of €2.7 million or about $3.1 million at current exchange rates.
1988 Porsche 911 Turbo 'Ruf CTR'
The giant-killer from Pfaffenhausen which was faster than an F40
October 12, 2018 08:00 by Michael Fira
The original RUF CTR, commonly known as the "Yellowbird", outran the Ferrari F40 and the Porsche 959 from 0 to 100 mph and kept going all the way to a top speed of 213 mph. It was the fastest car of the '80s and, arguably, the most extreme road-going interpretation of the Porsche 911 Carerra at the time.
As a follow-up to the vicious BTR, the RUF CTR was even more insane. It used parts from the Porsche 962 Group C prototype racer, had lightened body panels, a gearbox built just for it, tires similar to those on the spaceship that was the 959 and a bright yellow paintjob that made it stand out and earned its nickname: Yellowbird.
Before Alois Ruf and the team set about building the CTR, the world's fastest car was the Lamborghini Countach. Surely, with all the wings it had grown by the time it received four valves per cylinder in 1985, it looked the part. Sadly for the Italians, the more understated Ruf CTR blew by the Countach, and the Testarossa, and the 288 GTO and just about any other supercar you can think of. And Ruf themselves thought that they could've eeked more with longer gears.
Keep reading to learn more about the ludicrous Ruf CTR
The Porsche 930 Turbo was a turning point for the German manufacturer as it debuted turbocharging for the public rich enough to afford it. Debuting in the mid-'70s, it took a turn towards flamboyance in the '80s with the Slant Nose version which, in its rarity, is as era-defining as the Ferrari Testarossa or the Lamborghini Countach. Early turbo-lag freights never looked this wacky!
The 930 Turbo, or rather the Turbo Carerra as it was sold in the US, was Porsche's first stab at turbocharging a car for the public roads. Sure, they weren't the first of the European manufacturers to do it, with BMW launching the 2002 Turbo three years prior in 1972, but the Turbo from Stuttgart had substantially more grunt which made it a bit of a menace.
From the get-go, a Turbo'ed 911 had over 250 horsepower making it the fastest car Germany could offer. It also had an unmistakable look with the black graphics on the lower sides and the enlarged whaletail wing that aided in both cooling and downforce. The German manufacturer had loads of experience with turbocharging on the racing front, debuting the 917/10-TC in 1972 and sweeping the Can-Am title with it. Then came the 917/30 which was even more dominant, to the point that it killed off the series, and then the 911 Carerra RSR Turbo which was based on a road-going 911 albeit with countless modifications.
That purpose-built prototype that looked like your streetwise 911 is the father of the 1975 930 Turbo which was unveiled at the Paris Auto Show in October 1974. For 1975, Porsche put out just 400 Turbos to meet homologation requirements for their next racecar, the 934. Unlike the previous homologation special, the Carerra RS 2.7, the Turbo really caught on, and by 1976 it became available in the United States.
The one-off, road-going 935 replica ordered by McLaren backer Mansour Ojjeh, then president of TAG, sparked an interest among well-to-do Porsche customers for a 930 with the nose flattened. The German manufacturer duly listened to the wishes of its customers and the Slant Nose – Flachbau in German – was born.
The design proved polarizing, and with an MSRP in the period of $29,000, which increased the cost of a 930 Turbo by almost 60%, less than 1,000 Slant Noses were made beginning in 1981. This special optional extra was also available in the US under the 930 S moniker.
After its production had ended, the 930 Turbo remained a cult classic with the Slant Nose the rarest version of them all. It's a testament of the times and quite a bit more than that, as the racing-inspired modification actually aided handling and acceleration.
Keep reading to learn the full story of the Porsche 930 Turbo Coupe
The little German giant killer
September 19, 2018 18:00 by Jonathan Lopez
The Porsche 550 is a true icon of Porsche history. Known as both a race car and a sports car, the 550 was the kind of machine you could drive to the track, take the win, then drive back home. The famous British-American racing driver Ken Miles called it the "greatest long-distance racer in the world," and despite its low power figures, this plucky little two-door could take down cars with far more power and straight-line speed. Eventually evolving into the even-quicker 550a, the 550 is now widely recognized as one of the more desirable collectible Porsches in the world.
Continue reading to learn more about the Porsche 550a Spyder.
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Just days after being released by the Philadelphia Phillies this spring, Dontrelle Willis signed a minor league deal with Baltimore Orioles. You may be wondering why teams keep signing Willis, who has been with six teams (Tigers, Giants, Diamondbacks, Reds, Phillies, and Orioles) since 2010. I wonder the same because all of these teams (with minor exception to the Giants) did not try Dontrelle out as a lefty specialist in the bullpen – he continues to be placed in the rotation, where he has been atrocious since 2007.
Here is why Dontrelle Willis is valuable if he is used exclusively as a lefty specialist.
Take a look at Dontrelle Willis' splits for key statistics in 75.2 innings last year and in his career as a whole underneath. The main numbers that pop out are his BAA (Batting Average Against) and K/9. Lefty batters have hit just .196 against Willis throughout his career, while RHBs have hit a respectable .276. Even more astounding – Willis' strike out rate for LHBs is nearly doubled that of RHBs in his career (10.5 K/9 vs 5.72 K/9).
Two reasons for his success vs LHBs: 1) He throws strikes significantly more often to LHBs than he does to RHBs and 2) He induces ground-balls more often vs LHBs than he does vs RHBs.
Even though Willis has lost his overpowering velocity, he is able to succeed vs LHBs because of his off-speed pitches (slider and curve) which he has become more reliant on in recent years.
Another interesting note is Willis' swinging strike percentage, which jumped up to 15% last year – the first time it reached such high margin since leaving the Marlins.
If Baltimore puts Dontrelle in the bullpen as a lefty specialist, the team will have a valuable asset.
With Prince Fielder in town and Miguel Cabrera heading over to third base, second base has become a hot commodity in Detroit. Since losing his spot at the hot corner, Brandon Inge has been seeing time at second base for the first time in his career this spring and is now competing with Ryan Raburn and Ramon Santiago for the starting spot. Let's take a look at what metrics tell us about who should start at 2B on opening day.
Right off the bat we can eliminate Inge from the conversation because he was atrocious at the plate last year and has no experience at 2B. Inge's biggest asset is his glove – as seen by his career 5.6 UZR/150. But even with solid defense last season, Inge was a less valuable than an average AAA replacement player.
Ramon Santiago is definitely the defensive option to start at 2B – metrics place him as an above-average defender overall (career -3.5 UZR at 2B, 3.6 UZR/150 including SS/3B). Last year Santiago posted the highest WAR of the three, highlighted by his 3.8 UZR/150.
That said, Raburn is still the favorite to start at 2B because of his offensive value. He boasts a career .337 wOBA – far superior to Inge's career .301 and Santiago's abysmal .296 career wOBA. This will probably be enough of an offensive spread for Leyland to overlook Raburn's atrocious play in the field (-23.8 career UZR/150).
A strategic platoon is going to be the right way to play this one out. Two things are important here: 1) Ryan Raburn is a significantly better hitter vs LHPs (career OPS .847) than RHPs (career OPS .731) and 2) When Rick Porcello is on the mound, defense should be the priority. Porcelo sports a 51.4% GB rate and life is going to be tough on him with the Tigers awful defense.
With that, Raburn should be a shoe-in to start vs. southpaws. He will probably get most of the starts vs RHPs as well given Santiago's offensive struggles, however; it would be strategic to give Santiago the nod at 2B when Porcello is on the mound. This essentially knocks Inge out of the picture aside for coming in as a late-inning defensive replacement, spotting at the hot-corner as an injury replacement, or filling in on potential DH days for Cabrera.