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This is a picture of a Sensitive Fern at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland.
South River Quad
Inside old Clophill church.
I don't like churches and what they stand for, but I do appreciate that some people's views are very different to my own. However, like those people, I am deeply upset when churches are vandalised - even derelict ones like this. The walls of this building are covered in graffiti, much of it of a phallic nature. Where some people enjoy photos of graffiti, I found this rather offensive, so I've cranked up the contrast in Lightroom to partially disguise the vandalism. It's still there, and you'll see it if you view large, but it barely shows on the preview version to help those of us with a sensitive nature. If you don't like the graffiti, enjoy the view through the door instead.
A friends dog. This is his biggest asset (besides his charm and beauty) and he is very good in use it.
I went to the conservatory at the Huntington Museum of Art today to take some plant pictures.
This is called the Sensitive Plant from Brazil.
Winston kitty got his tummy fur shaved last Friday to help him deal with the hot, humid weather we have in the summer. We think that, though it isn't as cute as a tummy full of fluff, that he is healthier and cooler this way. However, when a visitor came to lightly tickle this tummy peach fuzz,Winston reacted rather negatively =)
The sunglass are similar to the ones he wore on the show. Being an ocean dweller, Mark had very sensitive eyes and needed protection from the sunlight on the surface.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, tours the Itaguai Naval Base during his official visit to Brazil. (José Miranda de Oliveira - Itaguaí Brisamar, Itaguaí, Brazil) 16 July 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
IAEA:
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi
Edgard Perez Alvan, Senior Advisor to the Director General
Luciana Viegas Assumpcao, IAEA Senior Press Officer, Office of Public Information and Communication
Brazilian Officials:
HE Mr. Carlos Sérgio Sobral Duarte, Resident Representative of Brazil to the IAEA
Aldo Malavasi, Technical-Scientific Advisor, Brazilian Navy Technological Center in Sao Paolo
Claudio Medeiros Leopoldino, Head Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
Marcelo Gameiro de Moura, Deputy Head of the Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies, Ministry of External Relations, Brazil
The controversial logging of an area of old growth forest next to the Village Stroll in Whistler's Village North. This will be the site of Olympic ceremonies for the 2010 Games.
Indoor Waterfall Water Feature Fountain - Features / Waterfalls / Fountains
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Gluten sensitive selection. Cake style doughnuts topped with a rotating assortment of Jelly Modern’s glazes, fillings and/or toppings.
Just playing with Adobe Elements with a picture of my new favorite plant in my yard.
When the leaves are touched they shrivel up... Not to mention it has a neat looking flower.
Touch-me-not (Mimosa pudica)
New research from a team of scientists at the University of Western Australia will change the way you think about the difference between plants and animals. Mimosa pundica plants, they found, can learn and remember, despite not having a brain. Those active little fern-like things always did seem sort of smart, though, didn't they?
With a name that literally means "shy," the Mimosa pundica is a particularly unique piece of flora, as it responds to touch by folding inward to protect itself from predators. Wondering if this was just a straightforward reflex, the Australian researchers rigged up an apparatus that would drop water on the plant in both high- and low-light environments. Much to their surprise, they found that the plant stopped opening and closing once it learned that the drops weren't harmful. More impressively, the plants remembered that lesson several weeks after the initial training.
The scientists are unclear on the exact biology of what makes Mimosa pundica plants learn and remember, but they suspect it has something to do with the plants' calcium-based signally network in their cells. This sophisticated system works not unlike animals' memory processes, giving the researchers cause to reconsider the difference between plants and animals. It just makes you wonder: Just how smart can plants get? Maybe Lord of the Rings isn't such a fantasy after all.
www.mindpowernews.com/PlantsLearn.htm
After reading the above article, a friend disagreed with me when I suggested that Mimosa pudica is the most interesting plant in the world. We considered another set of plants that make close rivals to Mimosa pudica in terms of interestingness. They are the carnivorous plants. The venus flytrap, sundew plant, etc. We reached no consensus after some deliberation. Then we went on to argue about the existence of any of the carnivorous on our side of the world being West Africa. I strongly hope we do.
Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
A shot of Touch Sensitive performing at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia in support of Disclosure. Shot on the 24th April, 2014.
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Oxalis triangularis, also commonly called the Love plant is a species of edible perennial plant in the Oxalidaceae family.
one day, while i was busy working on the bookkeeping at my office, she was in her room. i went check on her, she was very focused on her book, the Sesame Street dictionary. i was so happy that she can entertain herself without "engaging me".
after a long while, she came to me with her lovey in her hand, looking for comfort. i looked at her, her eyes were all teary. i asked her what happened? she said, big bird is sad because he didn't get any mails. I couldn't get what was the story so i asked her to show me.
this was the page she showed me. my goodness, they did a good job, i admitted this is a very expressive picture. she added, "he even sniff, it makes me even more sad"
i have a sensitive child. her name is Mia.