The founder and members of h+ Visalia have decided to change the name of their club to the provocative "Neosapiens", The Visalia Transhumanist Meetup. Their h+ website has been updated to reflect this change: http://hplusclub.com/visalia/

You can also find the group on Meetup.com: http://transhumanism.meetup.com/82/

If you are anywhere near Visalia, CA please show your support for this fledgling transhumanist club! They hold their meetings on Sundays at 1:00 PM PDT; you can find out more information by joining their Meetup group.

From the club's Meetup welcome page:

"New Humans", How do you see the world? Do you see the world outside the box? Evolution has given us the human brain, the ability to question and search for answers to those questions. I am the host of a radio program Neosapien Radio on KFSC Visalia 94.1. I am searching for others that are willing to talk about truth and the reality of the human condition. I will tell you up front that I believe in the Transhumanist Movement and believe that Science, Technology and the change of social thought from materialism, television, and greed can change the species dramatically. My interests include Neuroscience, Agnosticism, Evolutionism, Cryonics, The Singularity and The Future of Humanity etc. I wanted to start this meetup because I think there are many people searching for answers to the purpose of life and maybe together along with other organizations we can build communities of like minded people, free thinkers that could be part of a movement that would be positive for all humanity. We can all be better internally and make our world better externally. Thank you and I hope you will join me in these conversations. You can contact me at neosapien@live.com.
Thank you
Noel a.k.a Neo

Michael Anissimov of Accelerating Future posted a kind mention of the h+ sites, including our recent updates.

I have been following Anissimov's blog for a long time and I recommend his perspective and commentary. There are two other Accelerating Future reference projects I recommend as highly informative, even useful:

• People Database - a who's who reference of interesting and active participants in the transhumanist, singularitarian, physical immortalist (radical life extensionist?), and related movements.
• Future Current - a collection of transcripts of talks by these participants.

Recently a few of the better known transhumanist websites were taken down by malicious hacking attacks, according to a post on the recovered WTA site. It is unclear if these attacks were ideologically motivated.

One of our chapter sites is down - CU Ethics and Emerging Technology Society (CUEETS) - also possibly due to a malicious attack, though so far this does not appear to be related to the earlier attacks. The sites hosted on hplusclub.com appear to be fine, which might indicates our newbie status in the transhumanist community or the randomness of previous attacks, or neither.

Two new h+ Chapters are currently in the planning stages:

• h+ Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota
• h+ Visalia in Visalia, California

I am working with these respective club founders, and will keep you posted if and when the clubs officially launch.

Simone Syed and John Schloendorn covered the 7th Alcor Conference last weekend for Alcor News:

• Saturday Morning Sessions
• Saturday Afternoon Sessions
• Sunday Morning Sessions

Meanwhile, I covered the event for Frontier Channel:

• Frontier Channel at 7th Alcor Conference
• Introduction

Day 1

• Steve Bridges
• Brian Wowk
• First Break
• Stephen Van Sickle
• Tanya Jones
• Luncheon
• Ralph Merkle
• Michael West
• Afternoon Break
• Aubrey de Grey
• Alcor Board of Directors Panel

Day 2

• Morning Panel
• Steven Harris
• Morning Break
• Calvin Mercer
• Christine Peterson
• Chris Heward
• No Graveyard