 | Fuzzy signals sharpen the view A video by the Max Planck Society from 2004 regarding image processing. 'How do people recognize images, shapes and moving objects against a moving background? Precise image processing of moving objects is vital for our orientation in space and for our response to dangers. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried are investigating how these different impressions are calculated in the brain's visual centers. Based on a fly model, they have discovered that the brain does this by employing methods already used in the field of digital image processing ("blur effect").' Source- http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/multimedia/scienceMovies/2004/index.html |
 | ET Contact: Dr. Steven Greer Pt.1 Dr. Steven Greer is founder and CEO of Space Energy Access Systems and also the founder and Director of the Disclosure Project. He is an emergency physician and former chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital. Dr. Greer is a lifetime member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the nation's most prestigious medical honor society. He has appeared on several national programs which include The Larry King Show, CBS, the BBC, and NTV in Japan. Dr. Greer has been supervising a world-wide search for alternative energy sources, specifically those known as zero-point or over-unity devices with the plan to identify and develop systems which will eliminate the need for fossil fuels. Dr. Steven Greer returned to discuss his new memoir Hidden Truth: Forbidden Knowledge, as well as to comment on ufology and disclosure. His latest book chronicles his UFO/alien encounters that began at an early age. At 8 he saw his first UFO, a silvery disc, and later he began to have lucid dreams where he was onboard the craft. At 17, Greer said he had an NDE where he experienced "cosmic consciousness" (being at one with the universe) with two enlightened beings. Later in 1973, while at the top of a mountain, he described encountering a 3-4 ft.-tall ET lifeform that floated him into a spacecraft where he meditated with several ETs from different planetary systems. This experience eventually led Greer to form CSETI, an organization that trains people to communicate with ETs and to become "interplanetary ambassadors." (Not to be confused with SETI, the scientific institute which looks for intelligent signals from space--- Interestingly, Greer claimed that according to his inside source, SETI had recently received "very significant signals" but this information was being suppressed from the public.) Through contacts made from CSETI, Greer developed The Disclosure Project, which gathered together noteworthy whistleblowers, government employees and witnesses who had important UFO information. But because of their press conference's proximity to 9/11, the Project became somewhat derailed. Greer stressed the positive side of the ET experience. He suggested that negative scenarios such as reported in the abduction syndrome may be the product of counterintelligence/psyop campaigns using fake aliens & spaceships to instill fear in order to boost funding for the weaponization of space. June 1st, 2006 http://www.disclosureproject.org/ http://www.cseti.org/ http://www.seaspower.com/ http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/06/01.html |
 | Subdivisions - Rush "Subdivisions" is a Rush song often considered to be describing feelings of isolation, boredom, conformity, and sadness springing up from teenage life in the suburbs. "Subdivisions" was released on the 1982 album Signals. Aside from being a perennial fan favourite and a staple of live performances, the song appears on several greatest hits compilations, was released as a single in 1982, and despite doing little serious business in the UK charts, it gained a lot of radio airplay in Britain at the time. It was also played live prior to its release. Pre-release live versions exist on the internet. The promotional videos scenes were filmed in the Toronto area. The downtown scenes in downtown Toronto, the suburbs scenes in Scarborough, Ontario, near Warden and Finch. The high school scenes were filmed at L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute, in the same area. The student that walks downtown in the video is Dave Glover, a student at the L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute at the time. Near the end of the video, Glover is seen playing the video game Tempest at an arcade, which was reportedly his favourite video game at the time. Info courtesy: wikipedia.org] |
 | Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.) on Iraq Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a Senior Fellow with Hudson Institute and a professor at Yale University. As Director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation's signals intelligence and communications security. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, General Odom was Military Assistant to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff, he worked upon strategic planning, Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and Persian Gulf security issues. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1954, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970. Gen. Odom spoke on January 12, 2007 at a forum on Iraq sponsored by the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
 | Hybrid Maze Procedure Richard Lee, MD, cardiac surgeon and surgical director for the Center for Atrial Fibrillation at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital is pioneering the Hybrid Maze procedure, a minimally invasive surgery for patients with atrial fibrillation. Dr. Lee and Patrick McCarthy, MD, co-director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and the chief of the division of cardiothoracic surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital will host this interactive discussion and describe the surgery with taped footage of a Hybrid Maze procedure. The doctors will answer live email questions from the Internet during the live webcast. The Hybrid Maze procedure is performed in two stages. Stage I, minimally invasive surgery and Stage II, minimally invasive catheter ablation. Each procedure is responsible for placing scar lines in very specific places in and around the heart to isolate abnormal electrical signals that cause atrial fibrillation. |
 | Brainloop Brainloop www.aksioma.org/brainloop Brainloop is an interactive performance platform that utilizes a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system which allows a subject to operate devices merely by imagining specific motor commands. These mentally visualized commands may be seen as the rehearsal of a motor act without the overt motor output; a neural synapse occurs but the actual movement is blocked at the corticospinal level. Motor imagery such as "move left hand", "move right hand" or "move feet" become non-muscular communication and control signals that convey messages and commands to the external world. In Brainloop the performer is able - without physically moving - to investigate urban areas and rural landscapes as he globe-trots around virtual Google Earth. Through motor imagery, he selects locations, camera angles and positions and records these image sequences in a virtual world. In the second half of the performance, he plays back the sequence and uses Brainloop to compose a custom soundtrack. Author: Janez Janša (SLO -I) BCI performer: Markus Rapp (A) BCI supervisor: Reinhold Scherer (A) Programmer: Suncica Hermansson (HR) PD programmer: Seppo Gruendler (A) Sound designers: Brane Zorman (SLO) and Seppo Gruendler (A) Executive producer: Marcela Okretič (SLO -E) Production Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana (2004-06) www.aksioma.org Project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana Co-producers - Dept. infromationsdesign - FH Joanneum - University of Applied Sciences - Institute for Knowledge Discovery, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Graz University of Technology |
 | Brainloop Mode #1 Brainloop www.aksioma.org/brainloop Brainloop is an interactive performance platform that utilizes a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system which allows a subject to operate devices merely by imagining specific motor commands. These mentally visualized commands may be seen as the rehearsal of a motor act without the overt motor output; a neural synapse occurs but the actual movement is blocked at the corticospinal level. Motor imagery such as "move left hand", "move right hand" or "move feet" become non-muscular communication and control signals that convey messages and commands to the external world. In Brainloop the performer is able - without physically moving - to investigate urban areas and rural landscapes as he globe-trots around virtual Google Earth. Through motor imagery, he selects locations, camera angles and positions and records these image sequences in a virtual world. In the second half of the performance, he plays back the sequence and uses Brainloop to compose a custom soundtrack. Author: Janez Janša (SLO -I) BCI performer: Markus Rapp (A) BCI supervisor: Reinhold Scherer (A) Programmer: Suncica Hermansson (HR) PD programmer: Seppo Gruendler (A) Sound designers: Brane Zorman (SLO) and Seppo Gruendler (A) Executive producer: Marcela Okretič (SLO -E) Production Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana (2004-06) www.aksioma.org Project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana Co-producers - Dept. infromationsdesign - FH Joanneum - University of Applied Sciences - Institute for Knowledge Discovery, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Graz University of Technology |
 | LIGHT LOG: 8/10/2008 Night Later that night after we had spotted the orb or disc, I spotted a pale blue light in the bottom of the pane to the right of the middle pane when the yellow lights are. There are now four of them and you can see the middle one flashing now, from time to time. The top two seem to be getting bigger in my opinion. There was also a very large light in the tree that night and I expeimentated with a LED flashlight, flicking it off and on at it somewhat like a Morse code. And it reacted very strongly flaring toward me very brightly. I have some still pixs of it included. I'am wondering if the orb in the sky is the cause of these things. Could it be an alien craft that has sent probes or survellience tools here? Or could it be some of the light signals sent to us to communicate with us? SETI is a program here in the U.S. that attempts to send just such signals out into space made of laser lights searching for alien life. Maybe it's their signals being returned? Whatever the case, it is more mysterious than anything I have ever encountered. Here is more info on SETI if you'd like to examine: Optical SETI Overview http://www.seti.org/seti/projects/oseti/ And the SETI Institute Homepage: http://www.seti.org/ Still Pixs: http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/ZenaV/LIGHTS/1LghtPicAug10.jpg http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/ZenaV/LIGHTS/2LghtPicAug10.jpg http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/ZenaV/LIGHTS/3LghtPicAug10.jpg http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/ZenaV/LIGHTS/6LghtPicAug10.jpg Still Pixs I took of the one in the tree while I was flashing a light at it and got a reaction from it: http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/ZenaV/LIGHTS/5LghtPicAug10.jpg http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/ZenaV/LIGHTS/5LghtPicAug10-1.jpg http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/ZenaV/LIGHTS/4LghtPicAug10.jpg |
 | Thousand-Hand Guanyin There is an awesome dance, called the Thousand-Hand Guanyin . Considering the tight coordination required, their accomplishment is Nothing short of amazing, even if they were not all DEAF. Yes, you Read correctly. All 21 of the dancers are complete deaf-mutes . Relying Only on signals from trainers at the four corners of the stage, these Extraordinary dancers deliver a visual spectacle that is at once Intricate and stirring. Its first major international debut was in Athens at the closing ceremonies for the 2004 Paralympics. But it had long been in the repertoire of the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe and had traveled to more than 40 countries. Its lead dancer is 29-year-old Tai Lihua, who has a BA from The Hubei Fine Art s Institute. The video was recorded in Beijing during the Spring Festival celebrations this year. |
 | Teracom DVD Video V2 Fundamentals of Telecom 2 - preview Preview of Fundamentals of Telecom 2 COMPANY: Teracom Training Institute http://www.teracomtraining.com DATE: May 15 2007 TYPE: Tutorial, DVD URL: http://www.teracomtraining.com/teracom-overview-v2.htm RELEASE INFO: In this video course, we drill into the technology a bit, to understand the concepts, standards and technologies for actually transmitting voice calls from one place to another. We'll give you a real understanding of what "digital" actually means, and how it is implemented. We'll explain what a "DS0" is, and take a practical tour of digital circuits, including T1, T3, SONET and ISDN. At a high level, we'll see how voice, data and video can be integrated. Then, we'll take a closer look at how this is all actually done, with Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and digital carrier systems that are the technologies at the heart of telecom networks. Without getting bogged down on technical details, we'll provide you with a basic understanding of how transmission systems work, including T1 over copper wires and SONET over fiber. Most of the transmission systems we have in place were designed for digital voice communications using these techniques... but they are also used for data and networking. This video course provides you with the concrete knowledge of the telecommunication circuits necessary to a full understanding of data circuits and network services. Course outline - V2: Fundamentals of Telecom 2 Length 124 minutes. DVD-R NTSC format. 63-page 8.5" x 11" softcover bound workbook. Production year 2006. Chapter 1 Digital Communications 1.03 Why Digital? 1.05 Analog and Digital: What Do We Really Mean? 1.07 Continuous Signals, Discrete Signals 1.09 Voice Digitization (Analog ? Digital Conversion) 1.11 Voice Reconstruction (Digital ? Analog Conversion) 1.13 Voice Digitization Summary 1.15 The Digital Hierarchy: Industry Standard Line Speeds 1.17 Popular Technologies: Digital Carrier Systems 1.19 ISDN BRI and PRI 1.21 Digital Circuit Voice Applications 1.23 Digital Circuit Data Applications 1.25 Digital Video 1.27 Integration: Voice, Video, Data Chapter 2 Transmission Systems 2.03 Time Division Multiplexing 2.05 T1 Carrier System 2.07 T1 Basics: Multiplexers 2.09 Framing and Channels 2.11 Pulses and Repeaters 2.13 How T1 is Provided 2.15 Fibers and Cables 2.17 SONET and DWDM: Core Networks 2.19 International Digital Hierarchies Appendix A Acronyms and Abbreviations Teracom's self-paced DVD-video courses: ideal for learning about telecom, datacom, networking, IP, MPLS, Voice over IP and wireless outside of structured seminars. |
 | TERACOM VIDEOTUTORIAL V2: Voice Digitization Part of DVD course 2 "Fundamentals of Telecom 2" by Teracom Training Institute ... best of breed: telecommunications training - since 1992 http://www.teracomtraining.com DATE: May 15 2007 TYPE: Tutorial, DVD This tutorial is sections 1.09 through 1.13 from the full course outline below. Enjoy! - - - In this video course, we drill into the technology a bit, to understand the concepts, standards and technologies for actually transmitting voice calls from one place to another. We'll give you a real understanding of what "digital" actually means, and how it is implemented. We'll explain what a "DS0" is, and take a practical tour of digital circuits, including T1, T3, SONET and ISDN. At a high level, we'll see how voice, data and video can be integrated. Then, we'll take a closer look at how this is all actually done, with Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and digital carrier systems that are the technologies at the heart of telecom networks. Without getting bogged down on technical details, we'll provide you with a basic understanding of how transmission systems work, including T1 over copper wires and SONET over fiber. Most of the transmission systems we have in place were designed for digital voice communications using these techniques... but they are also used for data and networking. This video course provides you with the concrete knowledge of the telecommunication circuits necessary to a full understanding of data circuits and network services. Course outline - V2: Fundamentals of Telecom 2 Length 124 minutes. DVD-R NTSC format. 63-page 8.5" x 11" softcover bound workbook. Production year 2006. Chapter 1 Digital Communications 1.03 Why Digital? 1.05 Analog and Digital: What Do We Really Mean? 1.07 Continuous Signals, Discrete Signals 1.09 Voice Digitization (Analog ? Digital Conversion) 1.11 Voice Reconstruction (Digital ? Analog Conversion) 1.13 Voice Digitization Summary 1.15 The Digital Hierarchy: Industry Standard Line Speeds 1.17 Popular Technologies: Digital Carrier Systems 1.19 ISDN BRI and PRI 1.21 Digital Circuit Voice Applications 1.23 Digital Circuit Data Applications 1.25 Digital Video 1.27 Integration: Voice, Video, Data Chapter 2 Transmission Systems 2.03 Time Division Multiplexing 2.05 T1 Carrier System 2.07 T1 Basics: Multiplexers 2.09 Framing and Channels 2.11 Pulses and Repeaters 2.13 How T1 is Provided 2.15 Fibers and Cables 2.17 SONET and DWDM: Core Networks 2.19 International Digital Hierarchies Appendix A Acronyms and Abbreviations Teracom's self-paced DVD-video courses: ideal for learning about telecom, datacom, networking, IP, MPLS, Voice over IP and wireless outside of structured seminars. |
 | AmateurLogic.TV Episode 21 A tour of the very interesting Australian Army's Signals Museum. Tommy gives us a quick look at editing video. George introduces the MFJ-259B Antenna Analyzer and some of it's capabilities. And Peter attends the Wireless Institute of Australia's annual general meeting in Broken Hill where he also visits the "School of the Air", the "Flying Doctors" and more. |
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