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Landers and rovers on Mars gather data that help scientists answer fundamental questions about the geology, atmosphere, surface environment, history of water and potential for life on the Red Planet.
To get these insights to Earth, they first transmit the data up to spacecraft in orbit around Mars. These orbiters then use their much larger, more powerful transmitters to ‘relay’ the data across space to Earth.
“Normally, an orbiter like ESA’s Mars Express first sends down a hail signal to a rover as a ‘hello’,” says James Godfrey, Mars Express Spacecraft Operations Manager.
“The rover then sends back a response to establish stable communications and begin the two-way exchange of information. But this relies on the rover’s radio system being compatible with the orbiter’s.”
As Mars Express transmits its ‘hello’ signal using communication frequencies that are different from those the Chinese Zhurong Mars rover receives, two-way communication is not possible.
But in the other direction, Zhurong can transmit a signal using a frequency that Mars Express can receive.
The relay radio on Mars Express has a mode that allows this one-way communication – communication ‘in the blind’ where the sender can’t be sure if their signal is being received – but until now, the technique hadn’t been tested on the spacecraft.
In November, ESA’s Mars Express and CNSA’s Zhurong teams carried out a series of experimental communication tests in which Mars Express used this ‘in the blind’ mode to listen for signals sent to it by the Zhurong Rover.
The experiments culminated in a successful test on 20 November.
“Mars Express successfully received the signals sent by the rover, and our colleagues in the Zhurong team confirmed that all the data arrived on Earth in very good quality.” says ESA’s Gerhard Billig.
“We’re looking forward to carrying out more tests in future to continue to experiment and further improve this method of communicating between space missions.”
The data relayed by Mars Express arrived on Earth at ESA’s ESOC space operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, via deep-space communication antennas. From there, these data were forwarded to the Zhurong team at the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center, who confirmed the success of the test.
Credits: ESA
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Love Always...
A message to you, Flickr friends on Feb 14, 2009
Taking this photo in my office when I tried to annoy my friend who wanted to take rest for a while, so he put the little pillow to hide his face.
This is not at all a plot and plan to take shot for Valentine.. : D I told him to freeze still and took this shot.
Since Nov 2008 till now - 4 months I've uploaded only 16 photos and my Flickr Pro account will be expired within one month. It seems I dont use it worthy lately. Time is so tighted for me now, I travel so a lot around the end of last year and even has no time to load photos into computer and now I am attending important training course (1.5 months) which provides many new things to learn and works to do until mid of March. Including many other urgent things to do in life within these months around so I dont upload much photos.
I am really aprreciated the contacts who often visit and give comment to my photos though it is still one way communication. Hope I could find more time soon.. Thank you indeed from heart : )
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This is me in Vienna Posing with my very best friend a cold Ottakringer Helles beer, Ok I had other friends to, The Ulk but could he be trusted? Everlinn my Plastic Daughter but she was more loyal towards her mother than me :) sure Curry Curry was a friend too, but it was a very one way communication like, I am Hungry, I am bored, The box is full of poop empty it now!
Then of cause I had Uncle Daniel, Uncle Denice, Uncle Dave & Martha and so on but those I could mostly meet only when I left the apartment...
this picture was probably taken at my first bottle of Ottakringer, since I am looking Quite happy probably just starting a painting session? because later on (2-5 Ottakringers and probably some whiskey) I would as The Ulk and Everlinn become more sentimental, or crying over how horrible the world was... Imagine they had to put up with this moody fool, poor things!
Peace and Noise!
/ MushroomBrain Lover of Ottakringer! (and Vienna)
Hormonal sentience, first described by Robert A. Freitas Jr., describes the information processing rate in plants, which are mostly based on hormones instead of neurons like in all major animals (except sponges). Plants can to some degree communicate with each other and there are even examples of one-way-communication with animals.
Acacia trees produce tannin to defend themselves when they are grazed upon by animals. The airborne scent of the tannin is picked up by other acacia trees, which then start to produce tannin themselves as a protection from the nearby animals. When attacked by caterpillars, some plants can release chemical signals to attract parasitic wasps that attack the caterpillars.
A similar phenomenon can be found not only between plants and animals, but also between fungus and animals. There exists some sort of communication between a fungus garden and workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa. If the garden is fed with plants that are poisonous for the fungus, it signals this to the ants, which then will avoid fertilizing the fungus garden with any more of the poisonous plant.The Venus flytrap, during a 1- to 20-second sensitivity interval, counts two stimuli before snapping shut on its insect prey, a processing peak of 1 bit/s. Mass is 10-100 grams, so the flytrap's SQ is about +1. Plants generally take hours to respond to stimuli though, so vegetative SQs (Sentience Quotient) tend to cluster around -2.In theory even an organism with a hormonal system instead of a nervous system could be intelligent in some degree, but it would be an extremely slow brain, to say the least.And yet, at least higher plants are able to produce electrical signals, even if they do not use them in the same way animals do. František Baluška from the University of Bonn in Germany is one of the authorities on plant neurobiology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal_sentience
Plants do not have a brain or neuronal network, but reactions within signalling pathways may provide a biochemical basis for learning and memory in addition to computation and problem solving.Controversially, the brain is used as a metaphor in plant intelligence to provide an integrated view of signalling.Plants respond to environmental stimuli by movement and changes in morphology. They communicate while actively competing for resources. In addition, plants accurately compute their circumstances, use sophisticated cost–benefit analysis and take tightly controlled actions to mitigate and control diverse environmental stressors. Plants are also capable of discriminating positive and negative experiences and of "learning" (registering memories) from their past experiences. Plants use this information to update their behaviour in order to survive present and future challenges of their environment.Plant physiology studies the role of signalling, communication, and behaviour to integrate data obtained at the genetic, molecular, biochemical, and cellular levels with the physiology, development, and behaviour of individual organisms, plant ecosystems, and evolution. The neurobiological view sees plants as information-processing organisms with rather complex processes of communication occurring throughout the individual plant organism. It studies how environmental information is gathered, processed, integrated and shared (sensory plant biology) to enable these adaptive and coordinated responses (plant behaviour); and how sensory perceptions and behavioural events are 'remembered' in order to allow predictions of future activities upon the basis of past experiences. Plants, it is claimed by some plant physiologists, are as sophisticated in behaviour as animals but this sophistication has been masked by the time scales of plants' response to stimuli, many orders of magnitude slower than animals'.It has been argued that although plants are capable of adaptation, it should not be called intelligence, as plant neurobiologists are relying primarily on metaphors and analogies to argue that complex responses in plants can only be produced by intelligence.[32]"A bacterium can monitor its environment and instigate developmental processes appropriate to the prevailing circumstances, but is that intelligence? Such simple adaptation behaviour might be bacterial intelligence but is clearly not animal intelligence." However, plant intelligence fits a definition of intelligence proposed by David Stenhouse in a book about evolution and animal intelligence where he described it as "adaptively variable behaviour during the lifetime of the individual".Critics of the concept have also argued that a plant cannot have goals once it is past the development stage of plantlet because, as a modular organism, each module seeks its own survival goals and the resultant whole organism behavior is not centrally controlled.[33] This view, however, necessarily accommodates the possibility that a tree is a collection of individually intelligent modules cooperating with, competing with and influencing each other, thus determining organism level behavior from the base up. The development into a larger organism whose modules must deal with different environmental conditions and challenges is not universal across plant species either, as smaller organisms might be subject to the same conditions across their bodies, at least, when the below and above ground parts are considered separately. Moreover, the claim that central control of development is completely absent from plants is readily falsified by apical dominance.Charles Darwin studied the movement of plants and in 1880 published a book The Power of Movement in Plants. In the book he concludes:It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle thus endowed [..] acts like the brain of one of the lower animals; the brain being situated within the anterior end of the body, receiving impressions from the sense-organs, and directing the several movements.In philosophy, there are few studies of the implications of plant perception. Michael Marder put forth a phenomenology of plant life based on the physiology of plant perception.Paco Calvo Garzon offers a philosophical take on plant perception based on the cognitive sciences and the computational modeling of consciousness.Comparison to neurobiology:.A plant's sensory and response system has been compared to the neurobiological processes of animals. Plant neurobiology, an unfamiliar misnomer, concerns mostly the sensory adaptive behaviour of plants and plant electrophysiology. Indian scientist J. C. Bose is credited as the first person to research and talk about neurobiology of plants. Many plant scientists and neuroscientists, however, view this as inaccurate, because plants do not have neurons.The ideas behind plant neurobiology were criticised in a 2007 article published in Trends in Plant Science by Amedeo Alpi and other scientists, including such eminent plant biologists as Gerd Jürgens, Ben Scheres, and Chris Sommerville. The breadth of fields of plant science represented by these researchers reflects the fact that the vast majority of the plant science research community reject plant neurobiology. Their main arguments are that:"Plant neurobiology does not add to our understanding of plant physiology, plant cell biology or signaling".
"There is no evidence for structures such as neurons, synapses or a brain in plants".The common occurrence of plasmodesmata in plants which "poses a problem for signaling from an electrophysiological point of view" since extensive electrical coupling would preclude the need for any cell-to-cell transport of a ‘neurotransmitter-like’ compounds.The authors call for an end to "superficial analogies and questionable extrapolations" if the concept of "plant neurobiology" is to benefit the research community.There were several responses to the criticism clarifying that the term "plant neurobiology" is a metaphor and metaphors have proved useful on several previous occasions.[37][38] Plant ecophysiology describes this phenomenon.Parallels in other taxa. As described above in the case of a plant, similar mechanisms exist in a bacterial cell, a choanoflagellate, a fungal hypha, or a sponge, among the many other examples. All of these individual organisms of the respective taxa, despite being devoid of a brain or nervous system, are capable of sensing their immediate and momentary environment and responding accordingly. In the case of single-celled life, the sensory pathways are even more primitive in the sense that they take place on the surface of a single cell, as opposed to a network of many cells.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology)
Recent surprising similarities between plant cells and neuronsPlant cells and neurons share several similarities, including non-centrosomal microtubules, motile post-Golgi organelles, separated both spatially/structurally and functionally from the Golgi apparatus and involved in vesicular endocytic recycling, as well as cell-cell adhesion domains based on the actin/myosin cytoskeleton which serve for cell-cell communication. Tip-growing plant cells such as root hairs and pollen tubes also resemble neurons extending their axons. Recently, surprising discoveries have been made with respect to the molecular basis of neurodegenerative disorders known as Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias and tip-growth of root hairs. All these advances are briefly discussed in the context of other similarities between plant cells and neurons.There are very prominent similarities between tip-growing plant cells and the extending axons of neurons. However, recent advances reveal that these visible similarities stretch beyond the tip-growing plant cells and include plant tissue cells generating action potentials3 and accomplishing vesicle trafficking and recycling, typically at actin/myosin enriched cell-cell adhesion domains resembling neuronal synapses. Moreover, plant cells and neurons are similar from the cellular perspective, when most of their microtubules and Golgi apparatus organelles are not associated with the perinuclear centrosomes.In plant cells, Golgi stacks and Trans-Golgi Networks (TGNs) are motile organelles extending through the whole plant cells. Similarly in neurons centrosome-independent cortical microtubules are abundant in axons. They transport, among other cargo, so-called Golgi Outposts—which correspond to the TGNs of plant cells toward neuronal synapses. In both plant cells and neurons, TGNs act as independent organelles separated both spatially/structurally and functionally from the Golgi apparatus.Intriguingly, similarly as in neurons, also the TGN of plant cells is the inherent part of the endosomal/vesicular recycling pathways, supporting the dynamic and communicative nature of plant synapses.Plant action potentials (electric spikes) run in an axial direction, along the longitudinal axis of any plant organ, and the highest spike activity was scored in the transition zone of the root apex in maize.Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) represents a heterogeneous group of genetic neurodegenerative disorders affecting the longest neurons of the human body, extending from the brain along the spinal cord /down to the legs.21 In the HSP disorders, axons of these long neurons degenerate causing problems in controlling leg muscles. One of the major genes in which mutation results in the HSP is Atlastin. Recent study has reported that Atlastin is homologous to the RHD3 protein of Arabidopsis.RHD3 protein is essential for proper growth and development of root hairs in Arabidopsis.Moreover, RHD3 is also important for the proper arrangement of root cell files which underlies the direction of root growth.In order to maintain their ordered cell files, root apex cross-walls (plant root synapses) perform active vesicle recycling. Both Arabidopsis RHD3 and Drosophila Atlastin are important for shaping tubular ER networks.RHD3 is also known to be required for the proper arrangement of the actin cytoskeleton and cell wall maintenance via vesicle trafficking.Moreover, similarly as Atlastin in neurons,RHD3 is important for the GA morphogenesis in plant cells too Importantly, both RHD3 and Atlastin are implicated in membrane tubulation and vesiculation whereas rhd3 mutant line emerges to be less active in endocytic internalization of FM endocytic tracer.Drosophila Atlastin regulates the stability of muscle microtubules and is required for both the axonal maintenance and synapse development. All this suggest that Arabidopsis emerges as an attractive and useful model object for investigations of mechanisms underlying HSP disorders in humans.Glutamate is one of the best understood and the most widespread excitatory .neurotransmitter which is perceived via glutamate receptors at brain synapses in animals and humans. These neuronal receptors have, in fact, deep evolutionary origin in prokaryotic bacteria, and are present also in plants., Importantly, the plant glutamate receptors have all the features of neuronal ones, and glutamate induces plant action potentials., All this strongly suggest that glutamate serves in neurotransmitter-like cell-cell communication in plants too. Interestingly in this respect, especially the root apices are target of the neuronal-like activity of glutamate in plants, with effects on cell development, root growth, morphogenesis, and behavior. The transition zone cells, localized between the apical meristem and basal cell elongation zone, respond to glutamate with rapid depolarization of the plasma membrane and this response is blocked by a specific antagonist of ionotropic glutamate receptors, 2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoate.Cells of the transition zone, also known as the distal elongation zone or the basal meristem, are crucial for root primordia priming,and exogenous glutamate is known to decrease primary root growth and increase lateral root proliferation.Beta-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) is a neurotoxic amino acid, derived from cycads, which is well-known to act as agonists and antagonists of mammalian glutamate receptors. BMAA inhibits root growth, cotyledon opening, and it stimulates elongation of light-grown hypocotyls in Arabidopsis.BMAA affects growth of Arabidopsis organs at very low concentrations, and these BMAA-induced effects are reversed by the addition of glutamate.This is consistent with a scenario wherein BMAA acts to block plant-specific glutamate receptors.Similarly to glutamate, aluminium also induces very rapid plasma membrane depolarization specifically in cells of the root apex transition zone. Moreover, glutamate and aluminium both induce rapid and strong calcium spikes with unique signatures in cells of the transition zone.These root cells represent the primary target for the aluminium toxicity in plants, whereas aluminium is not toxic to root cells which have already entered the rapid elongation region.Similarly, although aluminium is not so toxic in most plant cells, neuronal-like tip-growing root hairs and pollen tubes1,2 are sensitive to aluminium similarly as are the transition zone cells. In these latter cells, aluminium is specifically internalized via endocytosis. Internalized endocytic aluminium interferes with vesicle trafficking/recycling and endocytosis, inhibiting the PIN2-driven basipetal auxin transport in the transition zone of root apices.Aluminium targets specifically the auxinsecreting plant synapses and affects the polar auxin-transport-based root cell patterning. Moreover, aluminium affects also nitric oxide (NO) production which is highest in cells of the the distal portion of the transition zone. Importantly, the rapidly elongating root cells are not sensitive towards aluminium and neither is there internalization of aluminium into rapidly elongating root cells. In support of the endocytosis of aluminium being the primary process linked to the aluminium toxicity in root cells, endocytosis of aluminium and its toxicity is lowered in the Arabidopsis mutant over-expressing the DnaJ domain protein auxillin which regulates the clathrin-based endocytosis.In animals and humans, neuronal cells are extremely sensitive towards aluminium which is internalized via endocytosis specifically in these cells. Aluminium was found to be enriched in lysosomes, similarly like Alzheimer’s amyloid β-peptide plaque depositions. These are also internalized from cell surface and aluminium was reported to inhibit their degradation.In conclusion, in both transition zone root cells and neurons, endocytosis of aluminium emerges as relevant to its high biotoxicity. In plants, the aluminium toxicity is the most important limiting factor for crop production in acid soil environments worldwide. Further studies on these cells might give us crucial clues not only for plant biology and agriculture but also for our still limited understanding of the Alzheimer disease. In line with the original proposal of Charles and Francis Darwin, root apices of plants represent neuronal/anterior pole of plant bodies
The "cinematic blossoming" has its graphic description as a greyish cloud with hints of flesh—colour tints (in fact the only truly amorphous shape on the glass) hanging from above. This aspect of the Bride also has many names including "Halo of the Bride", "Top Inscription" "Milky Way” and "Title"
This becomes, in a way, the "hanging out of flags” of the Bride so that her having achieved stripping and orgasm is made apparent, It is through this “top inscription”, which acts as a sort of score board, that she communicates her desires and their successes, but more often failures, to the Bachelors. However, this does remain a one-way communication as the males have no such organ of communication. This Halo also contains "elements of this blossoming, elements of the sexual life imagined by her, the Bride, desiring".
It exists more to reveal the Bride to herself rather than to be of erotic stimulation to the Bachelors.
(Segments in parentheses are direct quotes from Marcel Duchamp).
Plantage Middenlaan 16/12/2014 20h44
One of the eye-catchers along the tram routes 9 and 14 is this artificial camp-fire in front of the botanic garden Hortus Botanicus.
Amsterdam Light Festival
The third edition for this Winter event in the city of Amsterdam. The theme for this year’s festival, ‘A Bright City’, challenges artists to create a tribute to life the city. The resulting artworks present a unique take on the modern city of Amsterdam.
The city will be complemented by light sculptures, projections and installations by contemporary (inter)national artists. The boat route, Water Colors, will take visitors past artworks along Amsterdam’s canals and the Amstel. The walking route, Illuminade, winds through the city center. During the festival, light will play a central role in the city as museums and institutions organize light-related activities, introducing visitors to innovations in light art.
The third edition of the festival will take place from 27 November 2014 to 18 January 2015. The boat route, Water Colors, will take place from 27 November 2014 to 18 January 2015, and the walking route, Illuminade, from 11 December 2014 to 4 January 2015.
www.amsterdamlightfestival.com
Camp-Fire
Artist; Wilhelmusvlug (The Netherlands)
Location: Plantage Middenlaan
Some consider campfires to be historical places where people come together to share their stories. The most beautiful fairytales were thought of in the comfort of the fire’s warmth and the presence of others. It’s hard to imagine that these days however, a time when everyone is busy telling stories all the time. Look at them: tweeting around the Twitter fire in an attempt to accumulate as many listeners as possible and listening very little themselves. There’s not much solitude these days.
Perhaps it’s time for campfire 2.0. Near the Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam-based artist and designer Wilmhelmusvlug presents Camp-Fire: an oversized, archetypal scouts fire, like the ones we know from comic books. Wilhelmusvlug also sees the campfire as the first human meeting point, one without the volatility of Twitter and the mass one-way communication of today’s world. Camp-Fire is a landmark, a safe haven for those who want to leave the busyness of the everyday behind, or for those who just want to stare into the fire or start up a good conversation.
The city, too, can be seen as a large campfire. It’s a source of warmth and light that has attracted people for centuries. Let’s give each other a hand, do a dance, talk to each other. It’s actually quite simple.
Wilhelmusvlug (The Netherlands)
Wilhelmusvlug (1962, The Netherlands) studied audiovisual design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. After working as a performance artist, he started designing for theaters, festivals, bars and nightclubs. He now works as a video artist, painter, designer and DJ, and has designed special stage lighting for dance productions and incorporated light in multimedia installations.
Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger was selected by NASA as a Mission Specialist in May 2004. In February 2006, Metcalf-Lindenburger completed Astronaut Candidate Training, which included scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in shuttle and International Space Station systems, physiological training, T-38 flight training and water and wilderness survival training. Completion of this initial training qualified her for technical assignments within the Astronaut Office and future flight assignment. Metcalf-Lindenburger served as the Astronaut Office Station Branch lead for systems and crew interfaces. In 2010, she was a Mission Specialist on the crew of STS-131 and logged more than 362 hours in space.
In June 2012, Metcalf-Lindenburger commanded NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 16. In this underwater habitat, the international crew of four aquanauts and two habitat technicians carried out simulated spacewalks to investigate the techniques and tools that may be used at a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA). Additionally, they operated under a 50-second, one‑way communication delay and conducted educational and public live video appearances.
STS-131/Discovery (April 5 to April 20, 2010), a resupply mission to the International Space Station, was launched at night from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. On arrival at the station, Discovery’s crew dropped off more than 27,000 pounds of hardware, supplies and equipment, including a tank full of ammonia coolant that required three spacewalks to hook up, new crew sleeping quarters and three experiment racks. On the return journey, Leonardo, the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) inside Discovery’s payload bay, was packed with more than 6,000 pounds of hardware, science results and trash. The STS-131 mission was accomplished in 15 days, 02 hours, 47 minutes and 10 seconds and traveled 6,232,235 statute miles in 238 orbits.
Metcalf-Lindenburger is one of three educator mission specialists selected by NASA. She had five years of teaching Earth Science and Astronomy at Hudson’s Bay High School in Vancouver, Washington. Walla Walla, Wash., 4 April 2016.
You probably don't have to read all this rambling... it's really really long...
I started grad school just as the digital age of interactivity was beginning. Seven years after sound could be captured digitally, but not played back. Six years after digital playback became available, and just as interactivity became possible. I existed in an interactive academic world just when the digital revolution put one-way communication theory into a half-nelson and turned it on its ear.
Immediately I got a computer login account, an email address, and a gopher browser and dialed, from home, into the internet where I could search the music library at Indiana University, look for microfilms at Cambridge, or browse titles and copyrights at the Library of Congress. All, from my 1meg RAM, 8mghz, Mac Plus through a 1200k phone modem.
Keep in mind that this was 4 years before Al Gore verbally fantasized about the information superhighway, and 6 years before the World Wide Web. My professors were issuing hand-written and typed exams with whiteout smudges, and we were submitting homework of laser-printed music scores.
We could converse with our more savvy profs about assignments via email at all hours, and we joined huge global listserv groups for the discussion of many apt academic topics. One of the things I remember most vividly, was typing into that computer with a dictionary on my desk. I was TERRIFIED of sending off misspellings, inappropriate word use, or other evidence of my humanity to these Doctors and Academic Titans. Suddenly, the comfort of home felt as formal as the classroom, or a submitted research paper. I felt as if my ability to think, write, and spell were being evaluated via my digital correspondence the same as my formal academic writing. No doubt, impressions were being formed.
So I re-read everything many times before pressing the hyperlinked “send” text, I looked up words in the dictionary even if I’d typed them hundreds of times before. I agonized over number vs. possession, whose and who’s, homonyms, farther, further, ie and ei, after c, and capitalization (or is that Capitolization?) Ha.
Ah, the handy-dandy hard-copy dictionary/thesaurus and, of course, MLA, or Kate Turabian for emergencies.
I have that issue still today, and like the old geezers who just couldn’t grasp the concept of interactive communication theory after a lifetime of reading published books, and gathering info from broadcasts, I now cringe 148 times a day, when I read consistent misspellings and improper uses of extremely common words. I definately can’t seperate teh edgicated from the nonedgicated. And THIS, in the age of spellcheck, grammarcheck, autocorrect, and automatic format. In fact, I had to figure out how to overpower the word processor lest Microsoft correct all of my cleverivity in that wonderful sentence back there. (cleverivity did not pass the test)
But of course, none of that is the point of my scribbling this morning. My thoughts were sent in this direction because I quickly typed a post reply on facebook this morning and as soon as I’d hit “post,” I saw that I’d used “there” instead of “their,” or some such display of stupidity. So I clicked the “edit your post” button and got a blank screen. Two hours later, when facebook came back online, the “edit your post” button was gone, and I was stuck for all eternity exposed to world for the fool that I am. This hurts folks.
Ouch.
So, I thought, indeed, correction and second chances seem quite easy in our world. Ctrl-alt-del. Undo. (Mac users just hit a button, Windows requires a key combo – different theologies for different folks, I guess) Redo, step backward.
These technological blessings haven’t always been available. A mulligan hasn’t always been as easy to secure. But through experiences like this morning, I’ve come to realize that though we seem always to get a second chance, we can’t always undo.
So, I think it’s imperative to accept that it is much less important to keep our failures secret than it is to know that they have no bearing on our being loved, respected, and cared for.
Of coarse, that definately meens that I’ve got to show a lot of grace two, lest their be les shone to me.
Photo: Erin Cubert (Tennessean), Tom Cheredar (NewAssignment) and me presenting on livecasting at Podcamp Nashville 2009. Here, I'm making a pitch to attendees to give $5 to help fund classroom projects in high poverty classrooms in Tennessee through the widget on the Podcamp Nashville website.
Podcamp Nashville 2009 was awesome, and all the volunteers did an amazing job keeping the day's flow going and everything. It was just top notch. It's pretty amazing what the organizers are able to pull off for a free conference.
I took a bunch of photos and a little video. My session was on livecasting. It's a concept fellow panelist Tom Cheredar conceptualized around live online communication channels.
Livecasting is sharing live content with the intent of interacting with a live audience. Livecasting is a status update on Facebook or Twitter. It's a GPS location shared in realtime, live photo, video and audio streams or live chat. Any platform that facilitates live content is a livecast channel.
It's important to interact with your audience on livecast channels rather than pushing one way content through them. Marketing and news information have traditionaly been one way communications through television, radio, and print mediums. When email came along, attempts to replicate one way communication became what is now known as spam.
In a new digital era, traditional media and marketing will have to interact with their audiences through whatever livecast channels they use or risk being seen as spam. They cannot expect different results without engaging replies or conversations about their content, and neither can individuals, for that matter.
Resurgam
Location 5023.
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Sajaki paused at this point, and Volyova noticed that he had turned slightly,
bringing a new background into view behind him.
Their angle of sight was altering as they passed overhead and to the south,
but Sajaki was aware of this and was making the necessary adjustments in his position
to keep his face in view of the ship at all times.
To an observer on one of the other mesas he would have looked strange indeed:
a silent figure facing the horizon, whispering unguessable incantations,
slowing pivoting on his heels with almost watch-like precision.
No one could have guessed that he was engaged
in a one-way communication with an orbiting spacecraft,
rather than lost in the observances of some private madness.
---from Revelation Space
by Alastair Reynolds
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this is a pic taken in heavenly hermosa, colorado , north of durango known as mission ridge, where a couple of yrs ago had a very bad fire..2day this is what remains & what is returning..it is never 2 late 4 mother earth 2 heal..
^i^
It isn't too late. We still have time to recreate and change the value system of the present. We must! Survival will depend on it. Our Earth is our original mother. She is in deep labor now. There will be a new birth soon! The old value system will suffer and die. It cannot survive as our mother earth strains under the pressure put on her. She will not let man kill her.
The First Nation's Peoples had a value system. There were only four commandments from the Great Spirits:
1.Respect Mother Earth
2.Respect the Great Spirit
3.Respect our fellow man and woman
4.Respect for individual freedom
We must all stand together as a force of love. Be united NOW. There is only one way. Communication. Knowledge. Arm yourself with truth, love and perserverance. Extend your family. Join with others in giving. We are all related. People of the earth take back your heritage. I am not speaking of skin color or religion. Our heritage is this earth... Our heritage is also extended beyond this earth into the heavens where the spirit once lived before our birth into this world. You are bound to both.
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This tower is Antenna Structure Registration 1053804 , built in 1988 for KTLA/5, and still owned by the station. Details:
Structure Coordinates: 34-13-36.0 N 118-3-59.0 W (NAD 83)
Structure Address: Mount Wilson
Structure City: Los Angeles, CA
Structure County: Los Angeles County
Site Elevation: 1737 meters (5699 ft)
Height of Structure: 125.8 meters (413 feet)
Overall Height Above Ground: 145 meters (476 feet)
Overall Height Above Mean Sea Level: 1882 meters (6175 feet)
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Some consider campfires to be historical places where people come together to share their stories. The most beautiful fairytales were thought of in the comfort of the fire’s warmth and the presence of others. It’s hard to imagine that these days however, a time when everyone is busy telling stories all the time. Look at them: tweeting around the Twitter fire in an attempt to accumulate as many listeners as possible and listening very little themselves. There’s not much solitude these days.
Perhaps it’s time for campfire 2.0. Near the Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam-based artist and designer Wilmhelmusvlug presents Camp-Fire: an oversized, archetypal scouts fire, like the ones we know from comic books. Wilhelmusvlug also sees the campfire as the first human meeting point, one without the volatility of Twitter and the mass one-way communication of today’s world. Camp-Fire is a landmark, a safe haven for those who want to leave the busyness of the everyday behind, or for those who just want to stare into the fire or start up a good conversation.
The city, too, can be seen as a large campfire. It’s a source of warmth and light that has attracted people for centuries. Let’s give each other a hand, do a dance, talk to each other. It’s actually quite simple.
Wilhelmusvlug (The Netherlands)
Wilhelmusvlug (1962, The Netherlands) studied audiovisual design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. After working as a performance artist, he started designing for theaters, festivals, bars and nightclubs. He now works as a video artist, painter, designer and DJ, and has designed special stage lighting for dance productions and incorporated light in multimedia installations.
Twitter employee Bryan Collick began the GiEN conference, saying, "We need to think about engagement in all things we do as an organization. The church's mission of preaching, teaching and healing isn't as effective with just one-way communication.” [photo: Daryl Gungadoo]
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View from Machias, Maine. The VLF Transmitter Cutler is the United States Navy's very low frequency (VLF) shore radio station at Cutler, Maine. The station provides one-way communication to submarines in the Navy's Atlantic Fleet, both on the surface and submerged...and is one of the most powerful radio transmitters in the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLF_Transmitter_Cutler
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In order to continue and to examine how New Media have affected the various stages in Filmmaking, it is fundamental to provide some kind of definition or characteristics about New Media. This has been a subject of discussions among communication academics for the past years and it originates with the basic attributes of Old Media.
David Holmes in an introduction of what he calls as a “Second Media Age” picks out two specific features of Old Media and points them out as the main difference with New Media. In this Second Media Age, he declares, “there are no direct equivalents to the gatekeepers of content and form which characterize the major media of the past few decades”. He continues to emphasize on the one-way communication of Old Media versus the interactivity of the New.
In another attempt to identify New Media, Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant and Kieran Kelly interestingly enough refer to the ideological connotations of the new and how the “new” offers hope for something better. Some of the following attributes of New Media are extremely relevant to this particular essay:
•New textual experiences
•New ways of representing the world
•New relationships between subjects (users and consumers) and media technologies
•New experiences of the relationship between embodiment, identity and community
•New conceptions of the biological body’s relationship to technological media
•New patterns of organization and production
Paul Levinson is the one to recognize the rapid evolution and to add another New to the term and distinguish Media such as Amazon and iTunes to YouTube and Facebook. For the purposes of this essay it is important to notice his analysis, as well. He defines some common characteristics of the New Media as:
•Every Consumer is a Produser
•You get what you don’t pay for, pointing that New New Media are free
•Competitive and mutual catalytic
•More than search engines and emails
•They are beyond their user’s control
Of course we could cite lots of definitions and analysis about New Media. Eugenia Siapera lets us free from that “dangerous” path, by explaining how the term “new” in New Media helps us include many attributes without limiting or distinguishing one in particular.
But it is the Journal of Marketing that provides us with the best “description”, that fits this essay. “New media refers to on-demand access to content anytime, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, and creative participation”.
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Collage No. 358/360
from the Series „The Journey“ (Psychogramm in 360 Collages)
Part 2: The Better Half
18 x 23 cm
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Online classes don't allow for a student to get an adequate amount of feedback on their thoughts and opinions. An interactive discussion doesn't happen.
Although it is believed that the Bible was authored by more than one individual, the idea behind the one talking to the many in the form of one-way communication remains the same. Readers are not able to contribute of give feedback after absorbing the ideas or “facts” presented to them.
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[Synopsis]
This film mainly consists of two parts. In the former half, the female protagonist speks to a doll shaped like her boyfriend to prepare for persuasion to make him give up leaving her. In the latter half, she actually faces her boyfriend to demonstrate what she does in her preparation.
[Concept]
Relationship develops when people try to communicate with each other interactively.
One-way communication can end up worsening the relationship or sometimes even destroy it. In this film, good and bad ways of communication is portrayed to contrast between them.
[Duration] 5 minutes 8 seconds
[Material] Digital film
[Production Date] 01/10/11-14/10/11