Hi all, I have been a little lax in keeping my blog up to date.
First back in July I notified the Phoenix Chapter that was leaving the Presidency of the Chapter. The reason being I was having trouble driving and getting to meetings. And the reason was Diabetic Neuropathy in both of my legs and the beginnings of Arthritic pain in my right hip.
Then in September the departure became a fact and I turned the leadership of the Chapter over to Mike, the Chapter's Treasurer.
During this time I was also doing things for the ConNotations NewsZine, Delivering copies to various locations, updating the "Events" section, Selecting and/or okaying Science Articles and working on a master listing of Science Fiction Clubs. I was also helping out with the LepreCon39 committee for Fan Tables.
But the legs continued to get worse and when I saw an advertisement for Neuropathic treatment I checked it out and decided to sign up so I could get my legs back.
More to come on this and other topics.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Friday, July 20, 2012
Monday, August 22, 2011
August 2011 Moon Society Phoenix
Convention participation: 1) We will not be participating in CopperCon31 this Labor Day. 2) We will be participating in LepreCon38 in May 2012.
Selection of a Logo for a Chapter Shirt was unsuccessful, too few votes to select a logo from the three nominated logos.
The Moon Society Phoenix website has faulty documents uploaded due to coding glitchs. Corrected files should be up and downloadable by the time you read this post.
Pictures have been added to the website and more will be added as time allows.
There is a prospective forum that we are thinking about helping out on. The forum is "A Forum on Space Policy in the Post Shuttle Era", it will be sponsored by several groups with more adding their support for the forum. There will be a Panel Discussion followed by an extended moderated discussion. The Panel will consist of Experts in Politics, Planetary Science, Manned Space Flight and NASA Operations. Location and time are tentative at this point, but will be posted here and on the Moon Society Phoenix website when it is available.
Selection of a Logo for a Chapter Shirt was unsuccessful, too few votes to select a logo from the three nominated logos.
The Moon Society Phoenix website has faulty documents uploaded due to coding glitchs. Corrected files should be up and downloadable by the time you read this post.
Pictures have been added to the website and more will be added as time allows.
There is a prospective forum that we are thinking about helping out on. The forum is "A Forum on Space Policy in the Post Shuttle Era", it will be sponsored by several groups with more adding their support for the forum. There will be a Panel Discussion followed by an extended moderated discussion. The Panel will consist of Experts in Politics, Planetary Science, Manned Space Flight and NASA Operations. Location and time are tentative at this point, but will be posted here and on the Moon Society Phoenix website when it is available.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Tranquility Community College
Tranquility CC is up and operational with the first subject posted with both a Manual and a Workbook. More subjects will be posted as they are available. Items may be down loaded and used for instructional purposes. All we ask is that when you use the various materials you give due credit to the developer/s and Chapter of origination.
If you have a presentation that you would like to share please submit it to Donald Jacques in pdf format.
If you have a presentation that you would like to share please submit it to Donald Jacques in pdf format.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
PARTICIPATION IN CONS, RACING AND EVENTS
Con:
We need members that want to participate in the Conventions, chairing Panels on:
1) Lunar Science and Engineering,
2) Costing concerns,
3) Manufacturing Methods,
4) Mining Methods for both Surface and below Service.
5) Agricultural Engineering,
6) Human Interactions,
7) Living Quarters.
Racing (Telepresence)
We need members to help in the planning and conduting of the races, also includes developing the needed venues for the racing along Sponsorships.
Events
We also need members to help in planning new events and carrying them out.
If interested come to a meeting or send me an e-mail at portercd@msn.com
We need members that want to participate in the Conventions, chairing Panels on:
1) Lunar Science and Engineering,
2) Costing concerns,
3) Manufacturing Methods,
4) Mining Methods for both Surface and below Service.
5) Agricultural Engineering,
6) Human Interactions,
7) Living Quarters.
Racing (Telepresence)
We need members to help in the planning and conduting of the races, also includes developing the needed venues for the racing along Sponsorships.
Events
We also need members to help in planning new events and carrying them out.
If interested come to a meeting or send me an e-mail at portercd@msn.com
Thursday, December 23, 2010
December Chapter Meeting
To All:
With a Quorum and Proxies in hand the yearly elections were held.
The Officers for the Chapter for the coming year are as follows:
President ----------------------- Craig Porter
Exec VP------------------------- Don Jacques
VP Special Projects ------------- Patti Hultstrand
Treasurer ----------------------- Mike Mackowski
RC Racing Committee Chairman - Stuart Scott
Chapter's presentation to visitors at Conventions and other Venues:
We will be developing new "Stand Ups" and "Display Table Exhibits" because we need to re-emphasize our position on the Moon and its eventual Settlement and development. The stand ups will feature our version of a basic, low tech, settlement and the equipment that we see as important to the settlement and its growth and survival. We will build some basic systems in miniature and some in full scale, as we are capable of.
The table displays will also have one of our RC Racers on display with a descriptionof what it is about.
Along with the new table displays we will be developing new panels for the Cons to advance ideas about what is needed, what is probable, and what is likely along with other ideas about settling the Moon. We will be looking into what we can "depend on" from the local terrain and how to utilize it successfully.
Panels will also be dedicated to the companies setting the lead in Commercial Space, such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Bigelow Aerospace and others as they develop.
The telepresence RC Racing Venue has been combined under Stuart Scott to have a better grasp on the progress of the procurement, assembly and the other associated items to make the racing a GO. Stuart will have full access to Don, Mike and Me for technical assistance and support as he needs it.
We have talked about having a larger Telepresence RC car for the Cons and other places to demonstrate the remote Control of vehicles on the Moon.
Our next Con will be LepreCon 37 in May in Tempe Arizona, refer to http://www.blogger.com/ for information, and then in September CopperCon31 in Avondale Arizona, refer tohttp://www.blogger.com/ for information.
Craig
Come take in a Convention, bring the spouse and kits, show them what we do and what others are doing to bring about the settlement of the Moon and it's development.
With a Quorum and Proxies in hand the yearly elections were held.
The Officers for the Chapter for the coming year are as follows:
President ----------------------- Craig Porter
Exec VP------------------------- Don Jacques
VP Special Projects ------------- Patti Hultstrand
Treasurer ----------------------- Mike Mackowski
RC Racing Committee Chairman - Stuart Scott
Chapter's presentation to visitors at Conventions and other Venues:
We will be developing new "Stand Ups" and "Display Table Exhibits" because we need to re-emphasize our position on the Moon and its eventual Settlement and development. The stand ups will feature our version of a basic, low tech, settlement and the equipment that we see as important to the settlement and its growth and survival. We will build some basic systems in miniature and some in full scale, as we are capable of.
The table displays will also have one of our RC Racers on display with a descriptionof what it is about.
Along with the new table displays we will be developing new panels for the Cons to advance ideas about what is needed, what is probable, and what is likely along with other ideas about settling the Moon. We will be looking into what we can "depend on" from the local terrain and how to utilize it successfully.
Panels will also be dedicated to the companies setting the lead in Commercial Space, such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Bigelow Aerospace and others as they develop.
The telepresence RC Racing Venue has been combined under Stuart Scott to have a better grasp on the progress of the procurement, assembly and the other associated items to make the racing a GO. Stuart will have full access to Don, Mike and Me for technical assistance and support as he needs it.
We have talked about having a larger Telepresence RC car for the Cons and other places to demonstrate the remote Control of vehicles on the Moon.
Our next Con will be LepreCon 37 in May in Tempe Arizona, refer to http://www.blogger.com/ for information, and then in September CopperCon31 in Avondale Arizona, refer tohttp://www.blogger.com/ for information.
Craig
Come take in a Convention, bring the spouse and kits, show them what we do and what others are doing to bring about the settlement of the Moon and it's development.
November Chapter Meeting
To all,
The regular monthly meeting was held as scheduled at the Tempe Denny's at US 60 and Rural Road.
Present at this meeting were Stuart Scott, Don Jacques, Mike Marron and myself.
Old business for today included the Teleprescience RC Racing, The Lunar Habitat development and the Chapter Website. Teleprescience Racing has three cars available and needs one more for the planned racing. Also available are one Remote TV camera, TV receiver and Monitor we need three more sets to complete the car modifications. We are also looking for the equipment that we will need for recording and broadcasting (Internet) the races with funds being raised by the sale of copies of the races to the participants as a separate cost or as part of the entrance fees. Scheduling and Advertising have been put back until after the first of the year, Possible Venues include The Challenger Center in Peoria, Cub Scout Pine Wood Derbies, The Phoenix Science Center and others.
Lunar Habitat design and planning continue with various questions being raised and answers sought for a variety of problems. The Habitat group have opted for the lowest possible tech solutions and are building test designs for evaluations. This approach, in our opinion, allows us the position of letting nature to do its share of problem solving. We have noted the NASA's "One Way Plan for Mars" but are taking that into consideration in our planning. The work continues.
The Chapter Web Site continues to be a problem. Chuck has been unable to recover our original Web Site from the hackers. This leaves us with the options of starting a new site from scratch or not keeping a web site. If we choose to not keep a web site then we lose our ability to communicate with those that are interested in what we have to say and offer comments and suggestions. If we do keep a web site then that leaves us with several options, one is the old 'YAHOO' site, we could update it and go with it, or we can start a new site and go with it. Currently we are experimenting with two different sites, one by Mike on the carrier that services his personal web site and Don is experimenting with a format on the same basis as Mikes, just different servers. Links to the sites will be on my blog later today or tomorrow for both sites for review and comments.
My blog site will be brought up to date and the new information will included as it is available and I will see if I can make down loadable data available.
New business consists of what to have for panels and information for our outreach tables at the up coming Conventions in May and September. So far it is possible that I will be doing the "disaster Strikes" panel again with additional material included. I am thinking about presenting this same material to various groups that request it. Later this year I might even have some demonstrations on what can be done with materials around the home.
Don and Patti will most likely have their Dealer's Table and do panels on Publishing and Writing and Don way have some panels on Science Topics.
Craig D. Porter
Come to the Conventions and see what we do and meet with us at the Table and attend our panels.
The regular monthly meeting was held as scheduled at the Tempe Denny's at US 60 and Rural Road.
Present at this meeting were Stuart Scott, Don Jacques, Mike Marron and myself.
Old business for today included the Teleprescience RC Racing, The Lunar Habitat development and the Chapter Website. Teleprescience Racing has three cars available and needs one more for the planned racing. Also available are one Remote TV camera, TV receiver and Monitor we need three more sets to complete the car modifications. We are also looking for the equipment that we will need for recording and broadcasting (Internet) the races with funds being raised by the sale of copies of the races to the participants as a separate cost or as part of the entrance fees. Scheduling and Advertising have been put back until after the first of the year, Possible Venues include The Challenger Center in Peoria, Cub Scout Pine Wood Derbies, The Phoenix Science Center and others.
Lunar Habitat design and planning continue with various questions being raised and answers sought for a variety of problems. The Habitat group have opted for the lowest possible tech solutions and are building test designs for evaluations. This approach, in our opinion, allows us the position of letting nature to do its share of problem solving. We have noted the NASA's "One Way Plan for Mars" but are taking that into consideration in our planning. The work continues.
The Chapter Web Site continues to be a problem. Chuck has been unable to recover our original Web Site from the hackers. This leaves us with the options of starting a new site from scratch or not keeping a web site. If we choose to not keep a web site then we lose our ability to communicate with those that are interested in what we have to say and offer comments and suggestions. If we do keep a web site then that leaves us with several options, one is the old 'YAHOO' site, we could update it and go with it, or we can start a new site and go with it. Currently we are experimenting with two different sites, one by Mike on the carrier that services his personal web site and Don is experimenting with a format on the same basis as Mikes, just different servers. Links to the sites will be on my blog later today or tomorrow for both sites for review and comments.
My blog site will be brought up to date and the new information will included as it is available and I will see if I can make down loadable data available.
New business consists of what to have for panels and information for our outreach tables at the up coming Conventions in May and September. So far it is possible that I will be doing the "disaster Strikes" panel again with additional material included. I am thinking about presenting this same material to various groups that request it. Later this year I might even have some demonstrations on what can be done with materials around the home.
Don and Patti will most likely have their Dealer's Table and do panels on Publishing and Writing and Don way have some panels on Science Topics.
Craig D. Porter
Come to the Conventions and see what we do and meet with us at the Table and attend our panels.
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