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A Citroën H Van parked outside the Air Force Armament Museum on Eglin AFB, Florida. The Citroën has been modified into an ice cream truck.
I'm running for the board of the H+ (formerly WTA), and I'm out stumping for a few votes. My candidacy statement is on the H+ website, but if you'd like to discuss any component of my vision don't hesitate to e mail or FlickrMail me.
www.transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/more/hbrdc/
Elections start tomorrow, so if your membership has expired you'll need to renew today.
While all the candidates look great, I'm particularly excited about working with Sonia Arrison, George Dvorsky, Patri Friedman, Ben Goertzel, Stephane Gounari, Jonas Lamis, and Mike LaTorra.
My candidacy statement...
In my early teens I became conscious of the limits of the human condition and became increasingly interested in how humans could grow past those boundaries. One of the greatest joys I had was the discovery I wasn’t alone. Others also saw a future where we would be able to transcend the limitations of our current state of violence, disease and hate through a thoughtful but ambitious application of human effort. The WTA has been instrumental in providing a framework for making cognitive and moral decisions over the last decade of my life, and I’ve decided I’d like to carry the torch as a member of the WTA Board.
Over the last decade I’ve worked on a variety of projects to extend human capabilities, in both conventional science and in more forward leaning fields. In the conventional sciences I’ve worked with a number of cutting edge laboratories at UCLA, ASU and Texas A&M with degrees in Neuroscience and Bioinformatics. More related to the WTA I’m an active adviser to the Methuselah Foundation, worked with the cryonics organizations Alcor Life Extension Foundation and Suspended Animation, as well as a variety of other transhumanist projects. I am currently commercially developing interfaces for mobile computing as part of my lifelong fascination with wearable computers. I also spend considerable amounts of time cultivating memetic substrates, most notably with the BIL Conference (next occuring Feb 7-8, ‘09, www.BILconference.com) but in other less-anarchic technology conferences PodCampAz and GeekWeek.
Humanity needs a place where ideas of consequence can be subject to rational (and sometimes irrational) debate and dissemination. As a board member for the WTA I’ll foster a haven for curious minds by supporting efforts to bring our message to university environments, a place where learned debate is flagging. I also support efforts to maintain relevancy to the rest of humanity and improve accessibility by being mindful of language and brand identity. I’ll help evolve the WTA structure to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.
Die de Havilland D.H.110 Sea Vixen war ein zweistrahliges britisches Kampfflugzeug der Zeit des Kalten Krieges. Verwendet wurde es bei der britischen Marineluftwaffe Fleet Air Arm. Es war das erste Pfeilflügelflugzeug, dessen Flügel für die Stationierung auf Flugzeugträgern beiklappbar waren, ebenso das erste Flugzeug, das mit Flugkörpern, Raketen und Bomben gleichzeitig bestückt werden konnte.
Die abgelichte Sea Vixen trägt die Kennung G-CVIX und ihre Flüge wurden von Mai 2003 bis März 2007 von Red Bull gesponsort. Seit März 2007 ist die Maschine wieder in Navy Lackierung zu sehen.
Das Foto entstand während des Goodwood Festival of Speed 2006.
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The de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen is a twin boom, twin-engined 1950s–60s British two-seat jet fighter operated by the Fleet Air Arm. It was designed by de Havilland during the late 1940s at its facility in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Developed from an earlier first generation jet fighter, the Sea Vixen was a carrier-based fleet defence fighter that served into the 1970s.
From May 2003 to March 2007 she was painted in “Red Bull” colours as a sponsorship arrangement. Since then the plane is repainted in Navy colours.
The picture was taken during the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2006.
1100 h.p. H-2 arrives at Bacchus Marsh light loco from Melbourne. One of the loco crew prepares to hand the signalman the miniature "electric staff" for the section Parwan to Bacchus Marsh. Note the old 'yard crane' in the distance, just to the left of the loco. 3:40pm, Tuesday the 20th of November, 1979.
When i saw Zessi's design for a powersuit i couldnt resist giving it a go, and this the outcome. there is also a Ranger in there for size comparison.
This is also a picture set up test, could have been better but the batteries ran out.
H&M mystery knit sweater
Trovata shorts
H&M tights
Kors boots
very vintage LV purse
www.districtofchic.com/2009/09/to-sound-of-old-t-rex-and-...
H&M HandM Clothing Store, Manchester, CT 1/2015 by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube
H&M HandM Clothing Store, Manchester, CT 1/2015 by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube
I was very privileged to meet this group of long life friends at dinner with my friend H who introduced us.
The sisters and their friend Jake hadn't met in 38 years and the reunion was heartfelt.
After a short while, it felt to me that I've known them all my life. We shared stories and a meal and had lots of laughter between us all.
It is a blessing to feel the closeness of precious friendship which they all shared since college and I was grateful to be part of it :-)
www.goear.com/listen/0905bb4/moon-george-winston
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العناق .. دفء مطلق
طاقة صرفة .. تجتاح كل تعقيدات الوقت .. و كل تركيبات الزمن ..
هفهفة حارّة ... تهفو فيها الروح تجاه الروح
و تذوب فيها التفاصيل ..
و تتوه الحدود ..
لتصبح المعاني تساوي المعاني .. و تمسي الأولوية للاندماج ..
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العناق .. تلاقي الدفء بالدفء .. لتأليف ترنيمة الشمس ..
تلاقي التعب بالتعب .. لاختراع قصيدة الراحة
تلاقي الهروب بالهروب .. لاقتناص رأفة الملجأ
تلاقي الخوف بالخوف .. لارتداء مشيمة الاطمئنان
و تلاقي القلق بالقلق .. لابتداع الفكرة الحقيقية للوطن
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العناق ... فجوة زمنية تخترق دوران الأرض .. فتخرج من المنظومة الثابتة لتخلق فضاءً خاصا
غيماته لها لون السكون .. و أمطاره لها رائحة الاستقرار
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.. العناق مفهوم إلهي ينبت في مشروع أرضي .. كي يثبت أن الجسد هو بوابة مرئية لما هو أكثر عمقا من المرئي
و أكثر جدية من الملموس
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العناق بحث عن الذات في ذات أخرى .. و تعطش لخروج مطلق من دوائر الوحدة و إطارات الاضطراب
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العناق هو العدو الأول للوحدة بمعنى للانعزال ..
والصديق الأول للوحدة بمعنى الانصهار
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قد يكون العناق بداية غربة .. أو بداية رحيل .. أو بداية حب .. أو بداية بكاء .. أو بداية سكينة .. أو بداية تفاهم
وقد يكون العناق نهاية غربة .. أو نهاية رحيل .. أو نهاية حب .. أو نهاية بكاء .. أو نهاية سكينة ...أو نهاية حياة ..
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كلما دخلتُ في غمرات العناق .. عدتُ روحا .. أو عصفورا .. أو طاقة صرفة
و لمستُ كل الأشياء الغيبية في عالمي
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و لئن تجرأتُ يوما .. و عرفتُ السجود بأنه عناق معنوي حميم بين العبد و بين الله
فستكون أجمل حالات الموت ..
المــــوت .. في غمرة العنــــــــــاق ..
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Just picked up the new H&Y Magnetic Filter Holder for the M.Zuiko 7-14mm F2.8 from PhotoSphere.Sg in Singapore. This product is so simple, you wondered why nobody has ever done this before.
The holder is all metallic and fit perfectly to the lens by using a clamp with foam gasket around and in the front, there are four teeth that will go into the petal lens hood of the lens.
If you already have a 100mm filter system, you can use your existing filters by just putting the magnetic frame around your filters.
To use the filter you just put it onto the holder. Technically, you can stack as many filters as you want, however, for the 7-14mm I was able to use it up to 3 filters without any vignette. Furthermore, when you are using a graduated filter you can turn the filter up to about 40º and still not get any vignette.
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
Recently a friend from the Puget sound area brought me this portrait she found in a used couch. At this point i have no clue if it is a distant relative or not, and not sure how to track that down yet. I am putting it out here in case anyone up in that area has any idea who she was!
Platform H North is attached to a crane for installation inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Platform H will allow technicians and engineers to reach the booster for mating of the forward/center segment to the center/center segment, as well as cable routing and booster closeouts. It is the third of 10 levels of work platforms that will surround and provide access to the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission 1. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing upgrades and modifications to VAB High Bay 3, including installation of the new work platforms, to prepare for NASA’s journey to Mars.
Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
H. G. Jones (center) with two State Archives staff members, 1956 Christmas Card to Christopher Crittenden, the State Archivist at that time. From the General Negative Collection, State Archives of North Carolina.