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Class 207 type 3-D DEMU set no. 1302 is seen emerging from Grove Hill Tunnel into Tunbridge Wells Central with train 2L24 the 12.34 Eridge to Tonbridge.
1302 receive TOPS set number 207 002 in August 1986 as a 3-car set. From March 1992 it was reduced to a 2-car set for use on the Hastings - Ashford line and renumbered 207 103 with the intermediate trailer 60601 being scrapped in May 1992. Then in May 1995 the unit was selected for augmentation with a 4-CEP EMU centre coach 70286 and was reclassified as a 3-MAG (Marshlink Additional Gangway) and renumbered 207 203. Against all odds it then became the last class 207 unit in service being withdrawn in January 2005. It was saved for preservation as a 2-car formed of vehicles 60127+60901 as the intermediate EMU coach 70286 went to Immingham for scrap. The unit is now to be found on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway.
une augmentation de bon goût d'une gare classique
gare Strasbourg Ville 11-3-2011
eine geschmackvolle Ergänzung einer klassischen Bahnhof
En mer, les bas-fonds et les obstacles peuvent constituer un danger caché pour la navigation. Celles-ci sont indiquées sur les cartes marines des zones à fort trafic. Un bon positionnement et une carte marine sont une nécessité pour éviter ces dangers. Une aide supplémentaire consiste à signaler le danger en plaçant des balises. En mer, une balise largement utilisée est la bouée.
Pour indiquer l'emplacement du danger, des bouées de formes, de couleurs, de voyants et de lumières diverses sont utilisées selon un système disposé. Système de balise. Chaque région avait son propre système. En raison de l'augmentation du trafic international, le besoin d'un système général s'est fait sentir pour plus de clarté.
Le marquage cardinal est un moyen de baliser les obstacles tels que les bancs et les épaves. La forme et le signal lumineux dépendent de la position de la voie d'eau sûre par rapport à la bouée. L'Association internationale des autorités des phares a établi ce système au niveau international dans le système de flottabilité maritime de l'AISM (International Association of Lighthouse Authorities).
La bouée Nieuwpoortbank est une bouée cardinale Ouest. Les pointes des cônes se dirigent l'une vers l'autre et la couleur est jaune-noir-jaune.
La bouée Nieuwpoortbank est une bouée flottante ouest du système de bouées cardinales.
Jusqu'au début des années 1990, cette bouée flottait au-dessus du bord sud-ouest du banc de Nieuport pour indiquer que le banc doit être passé le long du côté ouest de la bouée pour rester dans les eaux navigables.
Caractéristiques:
type : jaune – noir – jaune
voyant : deux cônes superposés dont les extrémités pointent l'un
vers l'autre
longueur de la tour : 6,55 m
longueur de queue + corps : 8,16 m
longueur totale : 17,6 m
diamètre du corps : 3,1
m longueur de chaîne : 40 m
chaîne en pierre poids : 2750 kg
poids bouée : 10000 kg
gaz propane bouée : 4 kg pression
At sea, shallows and obstacles can constitute a hidden danger to navigation. These are shown on nautical charts of high traffic areas. A good positioning and a nautical chart are a necessity to avoid these dangers. An additional help is to signal the danger by placing beacons. At sea, a widely used beacon is the buoy.
To indicate the location of the danger, buoys of various shapes, colors, lights and lights are used according to an arranged system. Beacon system. Each region had its own system. Due to the increase in international traffic, the need for a general system has arisen for greater clarity.
Cardinal marking is a way to mark obstacles such as benches and wrecks. The shape and the light signal depend on the position of the safe waterway in relation to the buoy. The International Association of Lighthouse Authorities has established this system internationally in the IALA (International Association of Lighthouse Authorities) Maritime Buoyancy System.
The Nieuwpoortbank buoy is a West cardinal buoy. The tips of the cones point towards each other and the color is yellow-black-yellow.
The Nieuwpoortbank buoy is a western floating buoy in the cardinal buoy system.
Until the early 1990s, this buoy floated above the southwest edge of Nieuport Bank to indicate that the bank must be passed along the west side of the buoy to remain in navigable waters.
Characteristics:
type: yellow - black - yellow
indicator: two superimposed cones, the ends of which point to one
towards the other
tower length: 6.55 m
tail + body length: 8.16 m
total length: 17.6 m
body diameter: 3.1
m chain length: 40m
stone chain weight: 2750 kg
buoy weight: 10,000 kg
propane gas buoy: 4 kg pressure
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La version précédente de ce modèle était plutôt bien réussie, mais je n'ai jamais aimé ses cornes. J'ai donc tenté une version améliorée avec: meilleures cornes, personnage plus défini avec moins de demi-divisions, gueule plus profonde, nez et mâchoire séparés, augmentation du nombre de dents de 50%. J'aime beaucoup l'effet des pupilles plus visibles si on regarde du point de vue du personnage. Les yeux étaient sensés être plus rapprochés du nez, mais les épaisseurs du modèles en ont fait autrement (visible au niveau de la bouche.) Cette version peut également avoir une bouche plus ouverte ou fermée. Malgré toutes les modifications apportées, cette version reste très similaire à la précédente.
The previous version of this model was well done, but I never liked its horns. I then tried an upgraded version with: better horns, more defined character with less semi-divisions, deeper maw, separated nose and jaw, number of teeth increase by 50%. I really like the effect of the pupils more visible when seen from the character's point of view. The eyes were supposed to be closer to the nose, but the layers of the model gave a different effect (visible on the mouth). This version can also have its mouth more opened or closed. Even with all the modifications, this version remains quite similar to the previous one.
[Mesh Bento Body] Maitreya Lara
[Mesh Bento Head] Catwa Catya
[Mesh Bento Facial Piercings] Blaxium Aradia
[ Mesh Collar] Cult Rise]
[Mesh Hair] Olive The Cybernetic
[Mesh Robo Legs] Blah love Ai
[Mesh Bento Arm] Fika Antebrachium Augmentation
[Mesh Watch] Junk Food Hologram Watch
[Mesh Glasses] Sekas Hvcked eye
[Mesh Outfit] Glitzz Midnight
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...so I relish the challenge of buying cheap dresses on eBay and the ever popular charity shop finds. I always try to keep it all below £5, sometimes only £2 per item. Anyway, that policy goes for the foundation garments too, so no fancy breast augmentations for me. Trying something new here, a digital augmentation. This dress seemed to be calling out for more cleavage and I have the kit here and know how to give it a whirl. Modest working, but it helped. But who am I kidding, who's looking at those digital breasts anyway?
I just got my breast augmentation last week and I'm healing well..I hoping to get some pix done soon so stand by... Next surgery hopefully after the first of the year...my facial feminization then I'll be complete!!! FYI if you notice the picture just before this is the same top as in this one, and you can obviously see the difference the breast augmentation has made, sort of a before and after shots. Thanks to one very humble friend for gifting me PRO, he is a gentleman and special to me. You know who you are I won’t post your name out of respect wanted to let you know I appreciate it so much, thank you once again 💋
A hulking beast, the WXM6 is only to be used by soldiers with appropriate augmentations, such as the BELTFEED forearm (shown) and a support exoskeleton (not shown). Due to extreme rapid fire, the WXM6 is easily able to tear through walls, infantry, and arial units. Armour piercing rounds are available, making short work of tanks and other armoured units as well.
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Approx. 60% of the subject's body was replaced. The new fuel cells are able to power the unit successfully. The Human Augmentation Initiative is proceeding as planned.
A failed Peregrine clutch. Always so disappointing to come across at Peregrine nest sites. This ledge was flooded in heavy rains and without adequate drainage it simply goes pair shaped for them. In recent years we have been trying to help various pairs of Peregrines by making some 'changes' to the ledge in order to afford them better protection from such cases. Unfortunately not all ledges conducive to augmentation though. Hoping for a better result this season.
Earlier this week the local media was waxing lyrical about this year's autumn display; Lakeland in particular.
If, like me, you turned up yesterday (3rd Nov'), this was the order of the day, as wave after wave of sullen drizzle bursts swept the celebrated landscape.
Going monochrome seemed to reflect my feelings for the day (you don't say!); I had no intention of photography in this light but, as the day neared an end, I suddenly thought I'd go back to my black & white roots & attempt something less fanciful; something more truthful maybe.
No doubt the technically unrestrained out there would transform this into something more dynamic; I, for one, am getting more & more fed up with Flickr uploads that attempt to turn our beautiful landscapes into grotesque fantasy lands that simply don't exist in reality. This practise would seem to conclude that what we have scenically is somehow inadequate & therefore requires a level of augmentation that doesn't answer to taste.
The bottom line is that these over-indulgences seemingly attract more attention - & much more so than competent & considered composition does.
But that's another can of worms...
Alors comme ca tu veux une augmentation?
C'est pas grave si j'suis pas blonde?
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"In the end, that which lies deep within your soul, your darkest desires and impulses will always find a way to emerge. All the violence, all the bloodshed, all the hatred. Not even the most powerful Neural Inhibitors can keep it down. But when you have all those primal urges with state of the art augmentation, you tell me what kind of monster do you become?"
So I may have been watching a tiny little bit too much of Demon Bulma and got inspired for a slight makeover. I'm liking the results so far!
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Quincy. Singapore.
f/1.4. 50mm. iso 800. 1/60.
No alteration, minus a very light contrast enhancement. / Pas de retouche, hormis une très légère augmentation des contrastes.
Seoul, South Korea
The Korean Augmentation to the United States Army (KATUSA) Soldier Program was initiated on 15 July 1950 by an informal agreement between the Honorable Syngman Rhee, President of the ROK, and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief, United Nations Command (UNC). The concept of this program originally was to augment the U.S. fighting forces just after the outbreak of the Korean War. After the armistice, KATUSA Soldiers remained with Army in Korea units to receive training that was not readily available in the ROKA and to enhance Army in Korea's mission capability. The KATUSA Soldier Program has been a continuous one since 1950 with only periodic strength adjustments dictated by requirements. Originally, KATUSA Soldiers were returned to the ROKA after serving with the U.S. Army. Since 1968, however, KATUSA Soldiers remain with the U.S. Army until their service commitments are completed. The ROKA Support Group was established on 11 May 1965 at the request of the Commander, Eighth Army, as a ROKA officer liaison group to administer the KATUSA Soldier program. Its name was changed from ROKA Liaison Group to ROKA Support Group in November 1986. On 1 November 1997, the ROKA Support Group was reorganized as a unit directly under Headquarter (HQ), ROKA G2/G3, and was later reorganized on 1 December 2009 directly under HQ, ROK Army’s Personnel Command.
The Mission and Importance of the KATUSA Soldier Program
The mission of the KATUSA Soldier Program is to augment Army in Korea with ROK Army Soldiers in order to increase the ROK/U.S. combined defense capability on the Korean peninsula. The KATUSA Soldier Program is significant not only because of the military manpower and monetary savings that it provides to the U.S. Army, but also because it represents ROK/U.S. cooperation and the combined commitment to deter war. The KATUSA Soldier Program is also symbolic of ROK/U.S. friendship and mutual support.
Responsibilities to the KATUSA Soldier Program
All theater U.S. Army and ROKA personnel have an inherent responsibility to ensure the success of the KATUSA Soldier Program by observing and implementing the policies and procedures contained in Army in Korea Reg 600-2. All personnel, U.S. Army or ROKA, are strongly encouraged to submit suggestions and recommendations that may improve the KATUSA Soldier Program.
The color of the moon. with an augmentation of color in Photoshop, we can see some different geologic materials on the moon...
Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international and intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and creating widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics[3] of using such technologies.The most common thesis is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the natural condition as to merit the label of posthuman beings.The contemporary meaning of the term transhumanism was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, FM-2030, who taught "new concepts of the human" at The New School in the 1960s, when he began to identify people who adopt technologies, lifestyles and worldviews "transitional" to posthumanity as "transhuman".This hypothesis would lay the intellectual groundwork for the British philosopher Max More to begin articulating the principles of transhumanism as a futurist philosophy in 1990 and organizing in California an intelligentsia that has since grown into the worldwide transhumanist movement.
The year 1990 is seen as a "fundamental shift" in human existence by the transhuman community, as the first gene therapy trial,[8] the first designer babies,[9] as well as the mind-augmenting World Wide Web all emerged in that year. In many ways, one could argue the conditions that will eventually lead to the Singularity were set in place by these events in 1990.[original research?]Influenced by seminal works of science fiction, the transhumanist vision of a transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters and detractors from a wide range of perspectives including philosophy and religion.Transhumanism has been characterized by one critic, Francis Fukuyama, as among the world's most dangerous ideas,to which Ronald Bailey countered that it is rather the "movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative and idealistic aspirations of humanity".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
What does it mean to be human? Biology has a simple answer: If your DNA is consistent with Homo sapiens, you are human — but we all know that humanity is a lot more complex and nuanced than that. Other schools of science might classify humans by their sociological or psychological behavior, but again we know that actually being human is more than just the sum of our thoughts and actions. You can also look at being human as a sliding scale. If you were to build a human from scratch, from the bottom up, at some point you cross the threshold into humanity — if you believe in evolution, at some point we ceased being a great ape and became human. Likewise, if you slowly remove parts from a human, you cross the threshold into inhumanity. Again, though, we run into the same problem: How do we codify, classify, and ratify what actually makes us human?Does adding empathy make us human? Does removing the desire to procreate make us inhuman? If I physically alter my brain to behave in a different, non-standard way, am I still human? If I have all my limbs removed and my head spliced onto a robot, am I still human? (See: Upgrade your ears: Elective auditory implants give you cyborg hearing.) At first glance these questions might sound inflammatory and hyperbolic, or perhaps surreal and sci-fi, but don’t be fooled: In the next decade, given the continued acceleration of computer technology and biomedicine, we will be forced to confront these questions and attempt to find some answers.
Transhumanism is a cultural and intellectual movement that believes we can, and should, improve the human condition through the use of advanced technologies. One of the core concepts in transhumanist thinking is life extension: Through genetic engineering, nanotech, cloning, and other emerging technologies, eternal life may soon be possible. Likewise, transhumanists are interested in the ever-increasing number of technologies that can boost our physical, intellectual, and psychological capabilities beyond what humans are naturally capable of (thus the term transhuman). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), for example, which speeds up reaction times and learning speed by running a very weak electric current through your brain, has already been used by the US military to train snipers. On the more extreme side, transhumanism deals with the concepts of mind uploading (to a computer), and what happens when we finally craft a computer with greater-than-human intelligence (the technological singularity). (See: How to create a mind, or die trying.Beyond the obvious benefits of eternal life or superhuman strength, transhumanism also investigates the potential dangers and ethical pitfalls of human enhancement. In the case of life extension, if every human on Earth suddenly stopped dying, overpopulation would trigger a very rapid and very dramatic socioeconomic disaster. Unless we stopped giving birth to babies, of course, but that merely rips open another can of worms: Without birth and death, would society and humanity continue to grow and evolve, or would it stagnate, suffocated by the accumulated ego of intellectuals and demagogues who just will not die? Likewise, if only the rich have access to intelligence- and strength-boosting drugs and technologies, what would happen to society? Should everyone have the right to boost their intellect? Would society still operate smoothly if everyone had an IQ of 300 and five doctorate degrees?As you can see, things get complicated quickly when discussing transhumanist ideas — and life extension and augmented intelligence and strength are just the tip of the iceberg! This philosophical and ethical complexity stems from the fact that transhumanism is all about fusing humans with technology — and technology is advancing, improving, and breaking new ground very, very quickly. Humans have always used technology, of course — our ability to use tools and grasp concepts such as science and physics are what set us apart from other animals — but never has society been so intrinsically linked and underpinned by it. As we have seen in just the last few years, with the advent of the smartphone and ubiquitous high-speed mobile networks, just a handful of new technologies now have the power to completely change how we interact with the the world and people around us..Humans, on the other hand, and the civilizations that they build, move relatively slowly. It took us millions of years to discover language, and thousands more to discover medicine and the scientific method. In the few thousand years since, up until the last century or so, we doubled the human life span, but neurology and physiology were impenetrable black boxes. In just the last 100 years, we’ve doubled our life span again, created bionic eyes and powered exoskeletons, begun to understand how the human brain actually works, and started to make serious headway with boosting intellectual and physical prowess. We’ve already mentioned how tDCS is being used to boost cranial capacity, and as we’ve seen in recent years, sportspeople have definitely shown the efficacy of physical doping.An early television: It would've seemed incredibly alien to our grandparentsIt is due to this jarring juxtaposition — the historical slowness of human and societal evolution vs. the breakneck pace of modern technology — that many find transhumanism to be unpalatable. After all, as I’ve described it here, transhumanism is almost the very definition of unnatural. You’re quite within your rights to find transhumanism a bit, well, weird. And it is weird, don’t get me wrong — but so are most emerging technologies. Do you think that your great grandparents weren’t wigged out by the first television sets? Before it garnered the name “television,” one of its inventors gave it the rather spooky name of “distant electric vision.” Can you imagine the wariness in which passengers approached the first steam trains? Vast mechanical beasts that could pull hundreds of tons and moved far faster than the humble — but state-of-the-art — horse and carriage.The uneasiness that surround new, paradigm-shifting technologies isn’t new, and it has only been amplified by the exponential acceleration of technology that has occurred during our lifetime. If you were born 500 years ago, odds are that you wouldn’t experience a single societal-shifting technology in your lifetime — today, a 40 year old will have lived through the creation of the PC, the internet, the smartphone, and brain implants, to name just a few life-changing technologies. It is unsettling, to say the least, to have the rug repeatedly pulled out from under you, especially when it’s your livelihood at stake. Just think about how many industries and jobs have been obliterated or subsumed by the arrival of the digital computer, and it’s easy to see why we’re wary of transhumanist technologies that will change the very fabric of human civilization.The good news, though, is that humans are almost infinitely adaptable. While you or I might balk at the idea of a brain-computer interface that allows us to download our memories to a PC, and perhaps upload new memories a la The Matrix, our children — who can use smartphones at the age of 24 months, and communicate chiefly through digital means — will probably think nothing of it. For the children of tomorrow, living through a series of disruptive technologies that completely change their lives will be the norm. There might still be some resistance when I opt to have my head spliced onto a robotic exoskeleton, but within a generation children will be used to seeing Iron Seb saving people from car crashes and flying alongside airplanes.The fact of the matter is that transhumanism is just a modern term for an age-old phenomenon. We have been augmenting our humanity — our strength, our wisdom, our empathy — with tools since prehistory. We have always been spooked by technologies that seem unnatural or that cause us to act in inhuman ways — it’s simply human nature. That all changes with the children of today, however. To them, anything that isn’t computerized, digital, and touch-enabled seems unnatural. To them, the smartphone is already an extension of the brain; to them, mind uploading, bionic implants and augmentations, and powered exoskeletons will just be par for the course. To them, transhumanism will just seem like natural evolution — and anyone who doesn’t follow suit, just like those fuddy-duddies who still don’t have a smartphone, will seem thoroughly inhuman.
www.extremetech.com/extreme/152240-what-is-transhumanism-...
Humanity+ is an international nonprofit membership organization that advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. In other words, we want people to be better than well.Our Humanity+ conferences explore innovations of science and technology and their relationship to humanity. Recent conferences have been held at San Francisco State University, Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, California Technology Institute, and Harvard University.
humanityplus.org/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwipi4BRD7t6zGl6m75IgBEiQAn...
Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition. The meaning of the term humanism has fluctuated according to the successive intellectual movements which have identified with it.Generally, however, humanism refers to a perspective that affirms some notion of human freedom and progress. In modern times, humanist movements are typically aligned with secularism, and today humanism typically refers to a non-theistic life stance centred on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.[
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Me, Myself & I modelling for the LIMITED EDITION of The ultraglam FENDIOR Vanquish boots in shiny white
Only 10 pieces available! Just L$ 9000,- ...totally bargain! Want to Slay like me? well hurry to get yours before it is too late!
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Best way to enjoy my Metaverse experience. Getting my tan during summer on my terrace while I have my entertainment inside SL.
And FINALLY that time has arrived again. SUN SUN SUNNIEST SUN
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Time loops climb down from the strangest dream in the sky
It was clouds of ages past, a decade if I'm not wrong
A quirk of linkage that went without saying goodbye
Thoughts gathered a generation ago, still unsure where they belong
Like customers not buying, and cars continually in reverse, what does it all underlie
The peculiarity of an Acadian smile, that tiptoe-faced secrecy
A revelation in the eyes of hidden knowledge and prophecy
Something which age thrown down upon us all, cannot yet defy
Ten years whence the uttering's of unread books have been finally heard
Chapters pass with midnight celebrity from a book that may never again be read
Who knows is merely a clue to the expediency of it's intention
What it may teach is, in time at least, unique to the evening-encroaching just up ahead-
Daylight between the pages goes unnoticed till it fades with the inattention
Then, a dream, only within itself the philology of so much passing days left unsaid
So in sleep the easing of conscience is enabled along the paths we must retread
Though we never know it, the augmentation of life, of future worlds, is re-playable word for word
If you listen carefully in your sleep, you dream alive the life you wish to keep
Released from present fear the subconscious concerns of yesteryear-
Stalk the turning-over of previous angst, bedded-down in a long lost spiral
Of rocky emotional gullies that scream and cry scree down the slopes, fall the timeless tear,
Unto a parched earth of these decadal northern summers prefaced with a vision auroral
A shop frontispiece opening, the head start for the dreamy and illusionary peace-resting request
Lay the ghost to rest within fineries divine; the illustrative legacy that future generations may be blessed,
With art nouveau engraving...contemplating, we become a period piece within ourselves the valuable commission of twilight sleep
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10h45: 29/09/2008
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A bit of a racy one here for Marilyn's leg lovers. Compared to my last presentations with the big curves, this series of photos is more lean and mean with only modest figure augmentation...
My #new #1300
"I am like so totally happy with the result, can't wait to flaunt during summertime"
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During testing, the stability augmentation system required a lot of fine-tuning. Although the Arrow was not the first aircraft to use such a system, it was one of the first to use a three axes system that other aircraft did not and was consequently problematic. But, this was not the only advanced system developed for the Arrow. Avro’s engineers had created the first non-experimental fly-by-wire control system in an aircraft and a nvaigational computer that used real-time telemetry. The Arrow’s thin wings also nbecessitated the first 4,000 lb/in2 (28 MPa) hydraulic system to supply enough force to the control surfaces using small actuators and piping. The fly-by-wire system used the pilot’s inputs to activate a series of pressure-sensitive transducers in the control stick that sent the signal to an electronic control servo that operated the valves in the hydraulic system to move the various flight controls. This resulted in a lack of control feel so to recreate the mechanical sense, the same electronic control box partly responded to the hydraulic back-pressure fluctuations and triggered actuators in the stick, making it move slightly. Test pilots came to call this “artifical feel” and was an aviation first.
In this image, RL-203 shoots through the skies in southern Ontario. All of the flight tests were conducted at Malton airport. However, on 2 February 1959, a TCA Viscount passenger airplane crash-landed in Toronto, nessistating the test flight be diverted and landing at CFB Trenton. Note the wing fences extending from the dog-tooth to control airflow over the wing. The fences for swept-wing aircraft keep airflow from bleeding to the wingtips and creating a nose-down pitching moment, thus preventing the entire wing from stalling. Soviet aircraft designers employed this technique on several of their aircraft; Western examples are limited.
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I took a trip recently to Ohio and had to spend quite a lot of time in my hotel room, and after becoming board with the internet I moved to my next favorite hobby, photography. With this piece I blended the skyline I became quite familiar with, with the digital distractions of the internet.
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Infantry
Standard troops used for almost any occasion. Basic Infantry do not receive special combat training.
Light Unit
These units are genetically augmented to perform technical tasks such as hacking into computer teminals. Information concerning the willingness of the augmentations are unavailable.
Officer/Squad Leader
Most units do not receive any special combat training. Any officer used in combat share the same appearance as squad leaders.
Scout
Scout forces receive the lowest form of special training if not any at all. Units are used for "flush-out" and recon operations.
Sniper
Standard units used in long-range combat. Troops are outfitted with precision-enhancing helmets that are highly compatible with the standard issue sniper rifle.
Heavy
Troops used for explosive operations. Most units equip heavy ordinance weapons for land combat. They are often used as the operators of vehicular weaponry.
Police
Police units provide service in nearly every town or city within Pan-Asia's boundries. They recieve very basic training.
Black Op
Black Ops receive advanced combat training and are used as Pan-Asia's special operations force. Units receive top-notch combat gear and have mastery in a variety of specializations.
Hey all, The Purge account is having difficulties with security and I am forced to post his on my own photostream. I will most likely post more information on how you can recreate these standards, but as of now (6:53 PM) I am loafing around.
MSFC artist’s concept depicting an aft view of the Liquid Boost Module proposed to meet DoD launch requirements for missions originating from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Additionally, from the abstract of “SHUTTLE PERFORMANCE AUGMENTATION WITH THE TITAN LIQUID BOOST MODULE”, proposed by the Martin Marietta Corporation & Aerojet Liquid Rocket Company, and linked to below:
“The projected 24,000-pound payload lift capability for the baseline Space Shuttle, with anticipated orbiter and external tank weight savings programs implemented, will not meet the 32,000-pound payload requirements for the DoD Mission 4 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. NASA has selected the Titan Liquid Boost Module (LBM) to provide thrust augmentation during the boost phase sufficient to meet and provide margin for the defined Mission 4 requirements. The LBM will use Titan 34D Stage I engines and a cluster of four Titan derived 10-foot diameter tanks. The module will be attached to the aft end of the ET. This paper will provide a description of the LBM and discuss some of its advantages and capabilities.”
At, with a whole lot more, to include diagrams:
commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2565&con...
Credit: EMBRY-RIDDLE Aeronautical University Scholarly Commons website
“Mission 4" requirement:
“…The requirement to increase the Western Test Range (WTR) payload capability by 8,000 pounds is to satisfy the Performance Reference Mission 4 requirement of 32,000 pounds deployed and 25,000 pounds retrieved at 150 NM circular and 98-degree inclination on a 4-man, 7-day mission. This requirement encompasses all known, projected civil and military needs during the current mission model period.”
Again, for shuttle purposes, WTR applies to VAFB.
From/at:
www.gao.gov/assets/masad-81-6.pdf
Credit: GAO website
See also:
Credit: "The Unwanted Blog" blog
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Eating Dates Produces Powerful Health Benefits
By Sayer Ji •
Originally posted on GreenMedInfo.com
Since biblical times, dates were believed to possess profound healing properties, but only now is science catching up to confirm our distant ancestors knew exactly what they were talking about.
If you go by the Nutrition Facts panel of an ordinary package of dates, they look more like sugar bombs than a healthy snack. Check this one out:
But are they really as nutritionally vapid as these label claims make them seem?
Not by a long shot.
When we apply the complementary lenses of modern scientific investigation and ancient wisdom, dates begin to look like both a holy- and a super-food of immense value.
Here’s a neat example.
From the Koran to Clinical Trials: Dates for Better Birthing
In the Koran, the central holy book of Islam, Allah instructs the Virgin Mary to consume dates when she gives birth to Jesus.[1] And so, not surprisingly, dates are commonly referred to within the Islamic tradition as beneficial to pregnant women. We might chalk this up as “pre-scientific” magical thinking without basis in medical fact, were it not for a remarkable human clinical study that confirmed their value in pregnancy…
Published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2011 and titled, “The effect of late pregnancy consumption of date fruit on labour and delivery“, researchers set out to investigate the effect of date fruit consumption on labor parameters and birth outcomes. Over the course of 11 months at Jordan University of Science and Technology, two groups of women were enrolled in a prospective study where 69 women consumed six date fruits per day for 4 weeks prior to their estimated date of delivery, versus 45 women who consumed none. These women were matched so there was no significant difference in gestational age, age and parity (the number of times a woman has brought a pregnancy to viable gestational age) between the two groups.
The results of the date intervention were reported as follows:
•Improved Cervical Dilation: “The women who consumed date fruit had significantly higher mean cervical dilatation upon admission compared with the non-date fruit consumers (3.52 cm vs 2.02 cm, p < 0.0005).”
•Less Damage to Membranes: “[The intervention group had] a significantly higher proportion of intact membranes (83% vs 60%, p = 0.007).”
•More Natural (Spontaneous) Labor: “Spontaneous labour occurred in 96% of those who consumed dates, compared with 79% women in the non-date fruit consumers (p = 0.024).”
•Less Drugs Required: “Use of prostin/oxytocin was significantly lower in women who consumed dates (28%), compared with the non-date fruit consumers (47%) (p = 0.036).”
•Shorter Labor: “The mean latent phase of the first stage of labour was shorter in women who consumed date fruit compared with the non-date fruit consumers (510 min vs 906 min, p = 0.044).”
The researchers concluded:
“It is concluded that the consumption of date fruit in the last 4 weeks before labour significantly reduced the need for induction and augmentation of labour, and produced a more favourable, but non-significant, delivery outcome. The results warrant a randomised controlled trial.”[2]
Thanks to research like this we can see how the mythological and scientific ways of understanding now converge and confirm one another. I believe that rather than contradict and/or negate one another, the mythos and logos are beginning to assume a far more productive complementary relationship as we move into a new era of understanding where the profane and sacred are perceived as intimately entwined in our direct experience. The field of nutrition, as you can see, is no exception.
Dates Contain Nourishing Information
Dates, of course, are in the palm tree family, and along with coconut and red palm, are some of the oldest cultivated plants known in the historical record; in fact, they are so old we don’t know where they first originated. They have provided life-sustaining nutrition in regions that are often sparse in edible resources, and are increasingly being researched as a powerful medicinal food that could reduce much suffering in malnourished and disease prone populations, especially in underdeveloped countries.
Even while scientific analysis of dates are beginning to reveal that they are actually densely packed with a wide range of minerals, vitamins, amino acids and fatty acids, it should be emphasized that they are not just sources of energy and material building blocks for our body. We must acknowledge that they are also sources of biologically valuable (perhaps indispensably so) information. We can not analytically decompose a food into the minerals, vitamins, and macronutrients (e.g. lipids, fats, and protein), that we believe are responsible for its nourishing and life-sustaining properties, without losing quite a lot in the process. Foods contain hundreds, if not thousands, of physiologically important biomolecules, together which modulate the expression of thousands of genes in our body, as well as affecting our microbiome. In fact, our microbiome works on the foods we ingest, and together produce an intermediary layer of biomolecules known as the metabolome, many of which may be indispensable to our health.
This is why when we say food is medicine, we are not simply using a metaphor. We now know that food is capable, on a molecular level, of positively modulating a wide range of biological pathways simultaneously, in a manner that drugs simply can not replicate. In fact, I believe food contains an immense, if not infinite, amount of information which our bodies draw from to realize optimal gene expression, especially in times of stress or imbalance. Looking at it granularly, I believe food contains discrete units or packets of gene-regulatory energy and information. This can be inferred by the way curcumin, for instance, which is only one of hundreds of biomolecules found in the spice turmeric, is capable of modulating over 2,000 genes simultaneously within a cancer cell line, with a positive end result. Both the specificity and broadness through which these food compounds are capable of correcting imbalances is simply astounding and speaks to an intelligence within certain plants of particular food and medicinal purpose that can not be exhaustively explained through terms and methods of the reductionistic sciences that still form the backbone of our understanding of conventional nutrition.
So if my theory holds true, and dates, which are a food type (namely, fruit) we co-evolved with for quite some time, are more than just a package of mainly simple carbohydrate (half fructose/half glucose) and mineral quantities of alphabetic vitamins and minerals, but also possess gene-regulatory energy and information, shouldn’t it perform a number of therapeutic effects? Indeed, the research now bears testimony to exactly this fact.
I took the liberty of doing a cursory meta-analysis of the extant research on dates available through the National Library of Medicine’s biomedical database MEDLINE, accessible of course through the google-like search engine pubmed.gov. And to my pleasant surprise the research on dates as a whole (including the fruit, pollen and seed extract) reveals approximately 19 specific beneficial modes of action, and a preventive and/or therapeutic role in about 40 different health conditions.
Consider for a moment that most of the blockbuster drugs on the marketplace only have one therapeutic mode of action and one condition they are approved to treat. Additionally, there are on average 75 adverse health effects for each drug. The fact that it is classified and sold as a food and not a drug should not delude us into thinking it is not as powerful as a pharmaceutical. In fact, it should be clear that foods are actually far more powerful in affecting root cause resolution of health conditions by nourishing us deeply, nutritionally, and again, informationally (literally: to put form into).
To gain greater familiarity with the literature demonstrating the various therapeutic properties of dates, view our Date research page. You will notice that one of the potential therapeutic properties of dates are its beneficial properties in diabetes – which underscores our original point, that if you go by nutrition facts panels alone you are bound to miss out on a number of healthy foods include fruits like dates.
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Notes
[1] The Holy Koran, Chapter 12 – verses 22-25, retrieved on Feb. 28 2015, “So she [Virgin Mary] conceived him, and she retired with him to a remote place. And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. she cried (in her anguish): ‘Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!’ But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm-tree): ‘Grieve not! for thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee; And shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree; it will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.'”
[2] [Note: “non-significant” here means insignificant in statistics, which is often due to insufficient numbers of subjects enrolled to draw results with adequate statistical power]
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