This Thanksgiving season (I wish it wasn’t just one day) I want to tell you a few things I am thankful for.  First, I want you to know that, above all, I am thankful to God for everything I have.  As I have said before, everything I have is a gift from God.  All the good in my life is from Him.  All the bad in my life, that is bad or that God turns to good is a gift from Him.  And it is SO little…  I hope this Thanksgiving season, you are thankful for all of the blessings in your life, but also thankful TO someone.

My Lord, Jesus, who died in my place, so that I would become God’s son, adopted, saved from wrath, and used as a vessel to display God’s saving grace.  Thank you Jesus.  I believe, please help my unbelief.

My wife, Jennifer.  I cannot imagine a better partner in life, a companion and helpmate, with whom I live and love life with.  I love her the best I can, and pray that God gives me the strength and the courage to move deeper into her life and love her “as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.”

My parents, who love me, support me, pray for me, encourage me,  and model as best they know how the love of a father and a mother.  They are not perfect, and yet God uses them powerfully to show me how to raise children in a way that glorifies God.  Thank you, Daddy and Mama.

My sister, who, God love her, is wallowing in sin as an Auburn fan… no seriously… well, okay, maybe not, but anyway.  Jennifer’s persistence and stick-to-it-iveness is inspiring and encouraging,  Keep at it…

My in-laws.  Whoever said that in-laws would be hard to be around have never met Cliff and Deb Meservy.  Gracious, loving, giving, supporting, caring, nurturing, and fun-loving… I hope I am half the in-laws they are.

My church, Fellowship Evangelical Free Church in Knoxville.  A church that loves, honors, cherishes, pursues, engages, and lifts high the name of Jesus.  The Gospel is preached with clarity and grace, and we expect God to do His thing as a result… and He is.

My friends, both near and far.  Our lives are meant to be lived in community, not isolation.  God has blessed me with people who care for me, love me DESPITE who I am (and thankfully not because of who I am).  They call me out when I’m wrong, never tell me I’m right (a good thing, might I add), and give me fun breaks from the real world.  For those of you I don’t see often, I hope the random phone calls saying hey, or the Facebook wall posts, or the e-mails find you missing what once was, but knowing the best is yet to be.  The Lord bless you and keep you.

My school.  I spend more time with schoolwork than I do my wife.  I wish that was different, but unfortunately, that’s the way it is right now.  And Jen will tell you that  I complain a lot about lectures, or not sleeping, or any number of things.  And yet there is NO place I would rather be right now than where I am, doing what I’m doing.  This is a gift from God.  Thank you to Dean Stowers, Associate Deans, our incredible faculty, our support staff (from Financial Aid to our housekeeping staff that keeps our building a place that I am proud to call mine.  Thank you to all of you who put in long hours, hard work, time away from your own family… all so that I can succeed.

My health.  I take it for granted almost everyday.  I hope that the privilege of being entrusted with the care of others will teach me to be thankful, day in and day out, that I can walk, use my hands, and use my mind in a way that serves others.  If you are like me, be thankful that you are healthy.  And take care care of yourself.  Eat right, exercise, and be thankful.  We are all getting older.

Technology.  My dad always reminded my family of what Samuel Morse said, after inventing the telegraph: “What hath God wrought!”  It is amazing to me that God gives us the ability to come with new ways to communicate, more efficient ways to produce, better ways to conserve, and easier ways to live.

Our military.  I owe you gentlemen and ladies a debt of gratitude that I can’t repay, and almost everything I listed here is kept that way by your willingness to put yourself in dangerous situations so that I don’t have to, so that our country will still be a place where we can live lives the way we wish, worship the way God leads, speak what we think ought to be spoken, and change what we think ought to be changed.  I hold y’all in the highest regard, and I want nothing more than that everyone of you comes home safely, and to a country that honors your work and sacrifice.

There are so many more, and that is the point.  This Thursday, enjoy the turkey, and the stuffing, and the cranberry sauce, and the pumpkin pie, and the Sister Schubert’s rolls, and the Lions getting crushed (yet again), and the backyard football games.  But Friday, when you’re up at 4 am to go shopping, be thankful for the opportunity to go and buy stuff that you want.  On Monday, be thankful that you have a job to go to and earn money by providing something for someone else, and that that job enables you to do the things that you want to do when you aren’t working.  Sixty days from now, be thankful for the dreary rain that gives nutrients to the trees that will, like last year, give you beautiful buds in the spring, shade in the summer heat, and those gorgeous fall colors.  When you wake up from a bad dream, be thankful it was just a dream, and not actually real life, real life that someone else might be dealing with.  When you get the clean bill of health from your doctor at your annual physical, be thankful for it.  Be thankful for all the things in your life – they are gifts from God.  And tell Him thank you.  Tell others thank you for what they mean to you and what they do for you.

By Jason Etzel

In 1832 Senator William Learned Marcy spoke the phrase, “To the victor belong the spoils.” Although first spoken (or at least documented) this was not a new concept by any means for those who won a battle of any kind. With a victory you could design how it would be viewed to those alive [at the time] as well future generations who would read and learn what you left behind as history of this battle. This meant that selective editing could always be done by the victor, filtering words, omitting particular events or details, artistic renderings showing how they wanted the victory to be recorded.

And in 1832 this was still true, until technology changed how history would be written—by both those who triumphed and those who felt defeat—by the invention of the camera, it would now be seen unchanged. In the world we live in today, doctored images are common knowledge, we know now what is seen may or may not have been really there. For hundreds of years historical figures were seen only as their statues or oil painted portraits perceived them to be. Battles were drawn showing honor and courage without really showing tragedy, violence, or loss.

In 1839 when the camera was first shown to the public, everything became real and an instrument in the field of journalism. The first war images are credited to an anonymous American who took a number of daguerreotypes during the Mexican-American war in 1847, and for the first time the face of the soldier was seen. The first known war photographer was Carol Popp de Szathmari who took photos of various officers in 1853 and landscapes where battle took place in 1854 during the Crimean War. However it was in 1861 that a portrait photographer in New York City named Mathew Brady changed the world of photography and journalism as we know it.

Having mastered the new art of photography from his time studying under the skilled daguerreotypist Samuel Morse, Brady had a thriving portrait photography studio. His subjects included numerous historical figures including past and then present Presidents of the United States of America. When the first shots were fired of the American Civil War in 1861, and against the wishes of friends and family, Brady put the essentials of his studio into a wagon and made his way to the battlefield at Bull Run. At Bull Run Brady took images of the war-torn landscape of destroyed buildings and bridges as well as the dead littering the countryside.

At times he was so close he was nearly captured by the Confederate soldiers. This was not a commissioned painting, nor an article being written for a newspaper, to be released to the public. These were images being taken, processed, and printed from where it all happened and they spoke louder than any cannon fired during any war. Through the course of the Civil War, Mathew Brady and his team of photographers captured the bloodiest battles as well as the faces of the men who fought on both sides.

War was no longer a distant battlefield; it was piles of dead soldiers and a country tearing itself apart. Many feared on both sides that the images showing war would cause both an escalation to stop or continue the war. Photography became a weapon itself, as many photos were staged with bodies moved into positions to manipulate public perception of battles.

As the years passed so did the purposes of photography and war. It was used for reconnaissance, intimidation showing strength of arms and new weaponry, and even to confirm the deaths of famous figures such as Dale Titler’s photograph of the downed plane of the WWI German Ace Manfred von Richtofen more commonly known as “The Red Baron” to discourage the German people and lower moral.

The chaos and confusion of battle was illustrated to the world with Robert Capa’s images from the landing at Normandy for the D-Day invasion of Europe. Joe Rosenthal’s “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” and Alfred Eisenstaedt’s “V-J day in Times Square” have also become timeless images showing triumph and victory on distant shores as well as at home.

During the war in Vietnam, newspaper correspondent and columnist Joseph Galloway often fought alongside the troops he covered with his cameras, documenting the conflict around him.

Perhaps one of the most famous images of the century came from Eddie Adams with his portrait of an execution of a prisoner of war in 1968. It led to not only a Pulitzer Prize for Adams, but many claimed it changed the balance and political opinions of the war in Vietnam.

Nearly 150 years after Mathew Brady set out to capture the American Civil War, photojournalism still continues to advance, educate, and at times manipulate conflicts worldwide. Just as Andrew Jackson used paintings and monuments to tell stories of victory and triumph, leaders today use the press in all of it’s forms—particularly photography—to show the frozen moments in time that they want remembered.

Sometimes they can immortalize a great achievement and cement your place in history, however it can also backfire as President George W. Bush found out in 2003. By flooding the media with images of him on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with a banner reading: “Mission Accomplished” many would believe the war ended that day in the Fall of 2003, however the conflict remains and now the banner is a mere punch line for a joke, and a large part of his presidential legacy.

Today’s media is no longer limited to just words, images, and video but also can include computer graphic based animations and renderings. For most, the portrait of Barack Obama altered by Shepard Fairey is considered a sign of change, others saw it as a violation of a law on the copyright of AP photographs. All the same it became part of everyday culture and awareness around the world.

The photojournalists are the eyes and the ears for the world. On this Veteran’s Day, it is important to remember and be grateful for those people who have been the eyes and the ears for us all—and the sacrifices they made to do so.

♦ Jason Etzel is a working photographer who is well respected in the photographic industry today. For 15 years he has worked for companies such as Unique Photo, B&H, and Dyna-Lite, providing sales, education, and research development of photographic products. In addition, he is also a frequent contributor to photographic publications such as Photo Insider and other photographic blogs. Even though he is based out of New Jersey, Jason is frequently seen from coast to coast at photographic events discussing the history of photography, where it is today, and where he hopes it is going tomorrow. Look for future articles by contributor Jason Etzel on Picture-soup.com.

Five years ago.

It’s almost hard to believe we re-elected a man who lied us into a war, claimed a false victory and was incapable of delivering a comprehensible sentence no less a sound economic program for the country.

A fool.

We elected a fool for a president.

And now we still listen to and admire his unsuccessful successors to the Republican crown.

John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Two more fools.

Senator McCain, a great admirer of his own sagacity, still talks to us on the Senate floor along with his favorite fool foil, Senator Joe Lieberman.

Fool Lieberman, as a loyal Democrat, would be for health care reform except that he lives in Connecticut, national headquarters for the major insurance companies of the somewhat United States. He lost his seat as a Democrat, ran as an Independent and won but stayed with the Democrats after they promised him ice cream and candy. He votes with the Democrats consistently inconsistently.

He looks endearingly sincere, a pose he has developed into an art form of international consequence.

A fool.

Senator McCain was once tortured by the Viet Cong but refuses to capitalize on his war time performance. Senator McCain was once tortured by the Viet Cong but refuses to capitalize on his war time performance.

Note: I have never been tortured but believe you, me and Dick Cheney it wouldn’t take much to break this 82-year-old. I might have to make up a few secrets but I’d sing relentlessly.

Senator Kerry of Massachusetts was defeated by George W. Bush in 2004. He had been known for his war time service in Vietnam until the nation learned that he had really “flunked the war”. He also went to Harvard and spoke French. Real heroes do not attend Harvard or speak French.

President Bush, on the other hand, drank a lot during the period of the Vietnam War and took drugs although we do not yet know what they were. He became a pilot but decided to help run an election campaign in Alabama rather than attend Vietnam. He was consistently applauded (it was sometimes hard to hear the cheers) for his service in our behalf.

Like Tom Dewey in 1948 he won the 2000 election, defeating Al Gore who, we were told, repeatedly, claimed to have invented the Internet. Vice President Gore denied claiming this but everybody knew how untrustworthy he was. He too had attended Harvard and could speak English. Real heroes do not attend Harvard or speak English.

Now we have a Democrat in the White House. His name is Barack Obama, an unlikely name to succeed Rutherford B. Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt or even George W. Bush.

Sarah Palin and many another Republican believe he was born in Kenya and can’t be president according to our rules and, quite naturally, They always play by the rules.

They will NEVER believe he is president because:

He is half black or half white.

He speaks English quite well.

He is known to think about things.

Well yesterday they held several elections with results that made some Republicans cheer and others lament.

They won Governor’s seats in Virginia and New Jersey. This usually happens in Virginia but since 1970 there have been four Democratic administrations in New Jersey and three Republican. Hmm.

The Republicans lost the only two Congressional seats contested but these don’t count. One had been in Republican hands since 1832 but when you look at it from a certain angle the Republicans won. Ditto for a California race.

Summary. The Democrats are in terrible, awful, disastrous shape and may turn to beach volleyball and simply give up on politics.

The Republicans now control the White House, United States Senate, House of Representatives and the House of Burgess in Jamestown, VA.

Samuel Morse said it most eloquently with his first telegram, “What hath God wrought?”

Morse was not only a Yale man but a painter.

George W. Bush attended Yale but is not nationally renowned as an artist.

The New York Yankees won the World Series.

Casey Stengel, a former manager of The New York Yankees, once let a bird fly out of his cap while pretending to patrol part of an outfield. He spoke a form of pigeon English.

Babe Ruth did not graduate from either Harvard or Yale.

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SAMUEL MORSE (1791-1872), American inventor and painter
Portrait: Daniel Huntington

Jesus put His finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then He looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” — that is, “Be opened!” — And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. (Mark 7:33-35)

In this day and age, communication skills are very important. To succeed, we have to be good at P. R. We could say that the beginning of the 21st century is the Age of Communication Skills.

Right after Holy Baptism, the priest or deacon touches the ears and lips of the newly baptized and says, “Be opened.” The minister says, “May the Lord open your ears to hear His Word and your lips to proclaim His praise, to the glory of God the Father.”

The Creator became man to give us the most important communication skills. He took our human nature to Himself so that we could communicate with Him.

Let’s consider the gift that Christ has given us by opening our ears and loosening our tongues. To try to understand it, we have to go back to the beginning.

In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had special blessings. They enjoyed some of the angels’ communication skills.

The angels see God; they hear Him with crystal clarity; they perceive Him. Whatever He wills, the angels know it, and they do it.

The angels also know how to praise God. The heavenly angels’ praise of God is perfect, because they truly know the One Whom they praise. His glory fills them with love for Him, and they sing out in perfect canticles and sublime hymns.

Angels also know how to love each other. By loving each other, they glorify God. They see each other perfectly, hear each other perfectly, and love each other for who they are.

In the Garden, Adam and Eve could not see God like the angels do, but they could hear Him. As St. Augustine put it, “God used to speak to the first man as He speaks to the angels.”

God’s commandments were clear. “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it. Everything is for you to eat and enjoy, except the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”

Because our First Parents could hear God so clearly, they also could have known how to praise Him. And they could have known how to love each other.

In fact, Adam and Eve’s only jobs were praising God and loving each other. God provided everything they needed. There was to be no labor, no hardship, no struggle and toil. Neither was there to be any misunderstanding, miscommunication, or stubbornness. All communication was set up by God to be clear and smooth. Adam and Eve simply had to start praising and loving.

But they did not do it. They listened to the tempter instead. As a result, the human race became deaf and dumb.

To praise God is to speak the truth, and to speak the truth is to praise God. But the human race lost touch with the truth. We became liars who don’t know truth from fiction. We became flatterers, sweet-talkers. We forgot how to love each other and learned how to take advantage of each other.

Perhaps this is the Age of Communication Skills. “The media” fills our ears 24/7. The internet always keeps us in touch. But with what?

A person can have the greatest communication skills in the modern world–and still be a liar and a fraud who does not know how to praise God and live in the truth.

The most important communication skills are the ones that put us in touch with God. We need a communication medium more powerful than the internet, cable, satellite, Morse code, cellphones, and snail mail all put together. We need prayer.

Christ came to the earth to give us divine communication skills.

Christ became the man Who listens to the Father. He became the man Who speaks the truth. He became the man who praises the Almighty Father with perfect praise.

During His earthly pilgrimage, Christ’s ear was always open to the voice of the Father. The Lord Jesus declared: “I did not come to do my own will, but the will of the Father Who sent me…My food is to do the Father’s will…Man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”

At one point, the Lord sang out: “Father, I thank thee.” And another time: “I praise you, Father.” At the Last Supper, Christ gave the Father thanks and praise. On the Cross, Jesus said, “Father, into Your hands I commend my spirit.”

Then He gave His life for us. On the cross, He showed us how to love each other. He showed us what each of us is worth, what every human being is worth.

Christ’s ears and lips were open, and He will open ours, too. We all have to do what we need to do to communicate in this world. But first and foremost, let’s cultivate the communication skills of Christ.

O código morse é um sistema de representação de letras, números e sinais de pontuação através de um sinal codificado enviado intermitentemente. Foi desenvolvido por Samuel Morse e Alfred Vail em 1835, criadores do telégrafo elétrico (importante meio de comunicação a distância), dispositivo que utiliza correntes elétricas para controlar eletroímãs que funcionam para emissão ou recepção de sinais.

Uma mensagem codificada em Morse pode ser transmitida de várias maneiras em pulsos (ou tons) curtos e longos:

pulsos elétricos transmitidos em um cabo;
ondas mecânicas (perturbações sonoras);
sinais visuais (luzes acendendo e apagando);
ondas eletromagnéticas (sinais de rádio);
Este sistema representa letras, números e sinais de pontuação apenas com uma seqüência de pontos, traços, e espaços.

Portanto, com o desenvolvimento de tecnologias de comunicação mais avançadas, o uso do código morse é agora um pouco obsoleto, embora ainda seja empregado em algumas finalidades específicas, incluindo rádio faróis, e por CW (continous wave-ondas contínuas), operadores de radioamadorismo. Código morse é o único modo de modulação feito para ser facilmente compreendido por humanos sem ajuda de um computador, tornando-o apropriado para mandar dados digitais em canais de voz.

Código morse pode ser transmitida de muitas maneiras: originalmente como pulso elétrico através de uma rede telegráfica, mas também como tom de áudio, como um sinal de rádio com pulsos ou tons curtos e longos, ou como sinal mecânico ou visual (ex: sinal de luz) usando ferramentas como lâmpadas de Aldis e heliógrafos. Porque o código morse é transmitido usando apenas dois estados — ligado e desligado — é uma estranha forma de código digital.

O código morse internacional é composto de seis elementos:

Sinal curto, ponto ou ‘dit’ (·)
Sinal longo, traço ou ‘dah’ (-)
Intervalo entre caracteres (entre pontos e traços)
Intervalo curto (entre letras)
Intervalo médio (entre palavras)
Intervalo longo (entre frases)
Portanto, o comprimento variável de caracteres do código morse dificulta a adaptação à comunicação automatizada, então foi amplamente substituída por mais formatos regulares, incluindo o Código Baudot e ASCII.

O que se é chamado hoje de código morse difere em parte do que foi originalmente desenvolvido por Morse e seu assistente, Alfred Vail. Em 1948 uma distinção das seqüências do código, incluindo mudanças a onze das letras, foi feita na Alemanha e eventualmente adotada como o padrão mundial como Morse Internacional. A especificação original do código de Morse, muito limitada para o uso nos Estados Unidos, tornou-se conhecida como Railroad ou Código morse Americano, e atualmente é muito raro o seu uso.

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Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, by Thomas Smillie, 1888, Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Little Electric Chair (Detail). Andy Warhol, 1965

Merry A. Foresta, Director Smithsonian Photography Initiative, informs,

“In addition to being the Smithsonian’s first staff photographer, Thomas Smillie was also the institution’s first photography curator. Interestingly, in 1896 when a formal Section of Photography was established Smillie was titled “Custodian” and the first objects he collected – bought for the sum of $23 – were the daguerreotype camera and photographic apparatus used by Samuel Morse, one of the first Americans to experiment with photography…”

When I saw the deathly familiar blue of Smillie’s cyanotype, I was thrown back to the electric hues of one of Warhol’s many electric chair prints.

From the rarest, unique image to the mass produced commodity. Both images of apparatus; both apparatus a steal on time and both definitively (institutionally) American.

The Smithsonian has operated Click! Photography Initiative for a couple of years now. They publish sporadically on The Bigger Picture Blog with a variety of essays about every imaginable application and interpretation of photographic culture in society. Contributors include high school kids to photography greats such as Robert Adams and a wealth of respected curators and educators including Wendy Ewald and Sandra Phillips. There’s even space for you if you wish to try you hand.

The project also nudged me back into the mind space and work of Bay Area heroine Carla Williams. Read her blog and your life will be better.

A fost creat de catre Samuel Morse la mijlocul anilor 1830 pentru a fi folosit la transmiterea informatiei cu ajutorul telegrafului electric.Dumneavoastra il puteti folosi in situati de urgenta fara a fi nevoie de telegraf electric(ciocnind in zis)(S.O.S=. . ._ _ _ . . .)

DeWITT CLINTON (1769-1828), Governor of New York
Portrait: Samuel Morse

Self-portrait

Portrait Of Marquis de Lafayette

Portrait Of John Adams

Portrait Of DeWitt Clinton

Portrait Of James Monroe

Niagara Falls From Table Rock

Helicon And Aganippe

The Chapel Of The Virgin At Subiaco

Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)

Lucretia Morse And Her Children

Portrait Of Mrs. Robert Young Hayne (Rebecca Motte Alston)

Portrait Of Mrs. Samuel Nelson (Catherine Anne Russell)

Little Miss Hone

JAMES MONROE (1758-1831), President of the United States
Portrait: Samuel Morse

Once  upon a time earmarks on legislation promoted the best inventions, and consequently, the economic success of the United States.  Below is the image of a vote count made by Samuel F. B. Morse on the bill to provide money to develop the telegraph.  Image and the text of explanation both come from the Morse Collection at the  American Memory Project at the Library of Congress.

Member list of the U.S. House of Representatives, with notations by Samuel Morse on vote of February 23, 1843

By 1842, funding from the U.S. Congress was essential if the now-impoverished Morse was to be able to build and prove his telegraph system. On February 23, 1843, his bill for appropriated funding passed in the House of Representatives by a slim majority of 89 to 83 (with 70 not voting), but obviously every vote was crucial. This annotated member list of the twenty-six states may have been used by Morse before, during, or after the vote. The symbol “O” is thought to indicate an assenting vote, “-” a dissenting vote, and “>” no vote.

Desde el más reciente al más viejo de los logotipos que nos han ido apareciendo este año en Google aquí van:

• El último de ellos apareció el viernes pasado (22 de Mayo) y estaba dedicado a Mary Cassatt. Pintora americana que vivió parte de su vida en Francia, fuertemente influenciada por Edgar Degas perteneció al movimiento impresionista . En sus obras mostraba a la mujer en la sociedad y en su vida privada poniendo particular énfasis en la intimidad entre madres e hijos.
• El logo aparecido en el buscador, el 20 de mayo,  hace referencia al ‘Eslabón perdido’ nombre que se le han dado a los restos fósiles de un primate con 47 millones de años de antigüedad, localizados hace unos años en Alemania y presentado la semana pasada en Nueva York.  Para muchos científicos se trata del ancestro más primitivo de los humanos todos los primates modernos que se ha descubierto hasta ahora, y que va a revolucionar el conocimiento de la evolución de nuestra especie.
  
  Por si alguien siente curiosidad por ver este fósil (que yo si la he tenido) este es un enlace a una foto del mismo: Darwinius masillae
• Para celebrar el día de la Madre el día 10 de Mayo pudimos ver esta imagen:
• El 27 de Abril vimos en Google un logo dedicado a a Samuel Morse, el inventor estadounidense nacido precisamente un 27 de abril de 1791, y que fue el creador del telégrafo y del famoso código basado en puntos y rayas que se comenzó a utilizar para las comunicaciones utilizando este nuevo invento.
• Google celebraba el día de la Tierra con el siguiente logotipo el día 22 de Abril.
  
• Para anunciar la incorporación de mapas históricos a las imágenes que podemos ver de Marte en el Google Earth se ha insertado en el buscador un logotipo conmemorativo en alusión a Giovanni Schiaparelli, astrónomo italiano que nació precisamente hoy 14 de marzo de 1835, y que fue uno de los primeros científicos en realizar mapas de la superficie de Marte a finales del siglo XIX.
• Para conmemorar los 200 años del nacimiento de Charles Darwin se pudo ver este logotipo el 12 de Enero. El naturalista Charles Darwin, padre de la Teoría de la Evolución a través de la selección natural de las especies, nació el 12 de febrero de 1809, en Shrewsbury (Reino Unido).

El que más me gusta es el de Marte, aunque el único que me he molestado en mirar la noticia es el del Eslabón perdido.

Próximamente los logos de este año que no hemos podido ver!! jeje

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I guess Morse Ended Up Finishing His Lafayette Painting

On This Date in History:  In 1810, a young man graduated from Yale and immediately went to England to study art.  He created a giant painting and a small sculpture and called them both “the Dying Hercules.”  These were his most significant works and I suppose that he figured that was the best he could do and so he came home to America.  He decided to paint portraits for a living.  He had some works that were considered outstanding including one of Lafayette and other historical figures that were recognized for the extreme detail.  Among his portraits of famous people was one of Eli Whitney.  The young man gained a pretty big reputation but also was known as a man with a small income.  That makes me think that if he was such a big painter, then maybe he would figure out that he needed to charge more for his paintings.  I guess perhaps his reputation was good at the price he charged. Had he charged more, then maybe he wouldn’t have been so popular.  Well, its a good thing for him, and for the rest of the world, that he had other pursuits to relieve his creative mind.

The word “telegraph” derives from the Greek word, “to write far.”  Pretty good description.   Before there was electricity, there was a communication system that fit that description.  It was in the form of tall poles that put up different arms and other signals.  It could be seen at a distance.  It was used during the Battle of Waterloo to let the folks know back in London what was going on with the struggle against Napoleon.    I suppose that has its use but for long distances, you probably would need a series of big poles with a guy hanging around each one and waiting for a signal to be seen from one direction so he could then relay it to someone in the other direction.  I suppose it was better than nothing and probably faster than relying on a guy on a horse, like Paul Revere…though Paul was pretty fast and he could travel at night, which obviously was a limitation for this early form of “telegraph.”

1844 First Telegraph Receiver

So, along comes electricity.  Now, a bunch of inventors had figured out the basic principals involved but it was left to the somewhat successful American painter, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, to understand the practical application of those principals and the first to take pragmatic steps to invent a way to take exploit those principals.  While at Yale, Morse had taken a keen interest in electricity but was lured by his love for art.  He studied under Benjamin West and Washington Allston, who were considered two of the better painters of the day.  He got married in 1818 but, while he was working on his painting of the Marquis de Lafayette, he got news his wife died.  He left the painting unfinished and became an artistic recluse in his grief.  But an odd thing happened, in his grief, he rediscovered his interest in electricity.   He attended some lectures of academics but eventually returned to art.

William Cullen Bryant by Morse

In 1829, he went back to Europe to study art.  Had he not done that, he may never had received the inspiration of the telegraph.  You see…in 1832 he was on board a ship returning to America when he came upon some scientists who were discussing the properties of electricity.  One man queried whether electricity lost its velocity over a long distance.  When another remarked that in Ben Franklin’s experiments, he had noted that a captured electrical current traveled over several miles of wire without any time differential as the reaction at the end of the wire  seemed to be coincidental with the intialization of the current.  That statement triggered the small spark of inspiration in Sam Morse’s head.

Old Sam Looks Like a Decorated Warrior

That left Morse with a tough choice.  If he wanted to immerse himself in electricity, then he had to give up painting but, with no painting, he had no income.  He was already rather poor, often skipping meals for extended periods or depending on the help from friends.  In 1835, he was granted a teaching position in the Art Department of the State University of New York.  That gave him access to the facilities and faculty at the University and afforded him the opportunity to expand his electrical research.  With the help of a colleague, he made numerous successful experiments and developed a code of communication, known today as the Morse Code.  In 1842, Morse went to Washington to build a telegraph line.  In early 1843, he convinced Congress to grant him $30,000 to build a line from Washington to Baltimore.   An finally, on this date in 1843, Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrated his telegraph to the world.  His friend, Miss Ellsworth, came up with the first words to be transmitted.  It was “What Hath God Wrought?”  Indeed…what?  It was the beginning of the information age that eventually progressed from communications by telegraph to radio to television and now the internet.  All because a painter became heartbroken by his wife’s death and because he had run off to Europe as part of his grief. 

I suppose, this might be an example of “don’t give up.”  Difficult situations today might make you say “why me?” or make you angry.  But, it could be that circumstance that proves necessary for your later success and happiness.

Japanese Model Thinks We Get 2-3 inches of rain This week

Weather Bottom Line:  Pretty much status quo in the weather department with several question marks.  First, we remain warm and humid.  Rain chances will be in the picture for the entire week.  Afternoon showers and t’storms will be scattered about with the determining factor of the frequency and area coverage dependent on afternoon heating and little upper disturbances wandering through.  Those are so numerous and so random there is great difficulty to determine exactly when or where they will show up.  But, they will be around and so that will maintain the expectation of scattered stuff.  I would not think that any of them will be particularly tough, but given the amount of moisture in the air, if you find yourself under one, there will be the potential for heavy rain in spots.

A front is supposed to get close midweek, though it’s tough to determine if it comes through or if it washes out or goes on the retreat.  It really won’t change much.  There is somewhat of a consensus from the models concerning what was left of the quasi tropical low that came ashore in Mississippi.  It is moving past us to the Soutwest today and is responsible for the elevation in humidity.  It will move into the Southern Plains and join up with a front sliding down.  I would keep an eye on Thursday night or Friday.  Most public forecasts have Friday dry but I”ve got some model data that says otherwise and its not unusual for fronts to move slower than the foofs on TV think as we head into the summer.  Either way, depending on the timing I might suspect some action that may be worthwhile.  We’ll see how it shakes out.  Have a good Memorial Day.

Samuel Morse demonstrated his telegraph - and used the Morse code – on May 24th, 1844, by sending a message over wire from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore for the first time.

The first night game in major league baseball was played at Crosley Field in Cincinnati on May 24th, 1935. The Reds had the home field advantage, beating the Phillies, 2-1.

On this date in 1976, the Concorde supersonic jet began regular service between Washington and London.

May 24th is the birthday of “Radar” - Gary Burghoff from “M*A*S*H” (1943).

-Had a great night with friends girlfriend
-I tell her my friend really doesn’t want to be with her
-The next day she makes moves on me
How should this situation be dealt with?  -The_Coon

If you friend is mad at you, you fucked up, and you’re a traitor.
If he’s happy cause she’s gone, then the pain is temporary, you did them both a favour, you get to feel her boobies, shes your problem now, and you’re a traitor.
Unless he told you to do it, which you claim he didn’t, then you threw him under the bus for your own perceived gain, regardless of the situation now. You were considerate of your own selfish feelings over your friends, you should have consulted him first. But whats done is done, good luck.

THE HAPPENING IS SUCH A GARBAGE MOVIE. how could you like it? The acting was terrible and it rivals Gran Torino. The plot was DECENT but overall it was completely stupid. Marky Mark sucked ass in this movie. -.Munnkee

I don’t blame the acting as much as I blame the writing. That dialog was embarrassing and, ultimately, distracting. And I think the actors took the heat for that. The stunts were cool. I really didn’t think it was that much of a stretch to think that plants could evolve a defense mechanism against their greatest natural enemy.  But people are all LoL about it, so I guess I’m wrong.

Do you consider yourself to be racist? -TK420

You tell me. I notice tendencies in races, but never judge one for them. Also, I intentionally never bring race into a conversation, though I see people doing it all the time. It embarrasses me, as a white person.

Why do spiders need eight eyes and eight legs? That’s just being greedy tbh. -UnpredictablePenguin

Are you saying we should be investing in research to transplant spider appendages to other animals, or is this a profound theological rhetoric aimed at an imperfect designer?

damnit, my roommate has been in the tv room with his date all fucking night. i want to play some fucking resident evil, why can’t they just go sit in his room and talk? they were in there when i went out, they were there when i got back, and they’re still there, wtffffffffffffff -Dashoon

“I want to play some FPS, but my roommate is trying to get some. He is so selfish!”  Just so we’re on the same page. This is what you are claiming, in a nutshell?

WTF, why can my Ps3 play Ps1 games but not Ps2 ones? -Archetype66

Because the PS2 is still selling. Once it goes away, in a couple more years, they’ll be a firmware update and we’ll be set.

Have you ever been adiccted to a drug? -UncleSkar

I’ve definitely abused drugs, but I don’t think I have ever become addicted. That is to say if I experienced withdrawal symptoms, I blamed the cause on something else.

So what happened in history around this time last week that made google go all morse code? -Oysterfarmer

Samuel Morse’s Birthday. But, they really should not be honouring him.  Sure it was important then, but its completely irrelevant today. It’s not like he even invented the telegraph or anything. He just made up an alphabet. Okay, so an American perfected an antiquated technique for a fossilized piece of equipment.  That deserves recognition? Who wrote the owners manual for the cotton gin? Shouldn’t his birthday be recognized too?

favorite underrated combination? mine is fritos and salsa – gasmaskedcasket

Watermelon sherbet with chocolate chips is my favorite.

so how long until Twitter goes away? I give it another 3 months, tops. -CharlieStone75

Until the ad revenues make it unprofitable, which at this point will never occur.  The “buzz” surrounding it will die soon, its pretty much jumping the shark now.

I want to see every high school/college whore burn. I want to see them drown in the flames of disgust and torment, let them see what happens when you unleash filth and promiscuity upon the young world.  -InternetDick

Why would you want to kill the practice girls? They’re doing your future wife a solid by teaching how to please women. Of course I’m using the term “teaching you” loosely because it’s obvious you’re only upset that the girls who will spread their legs for 95% of men have included you in the “no-dice” 5%.

Una de las mejores adaptaciones que hemos visto del logotipo de “google” en conmemoración del natalicio de Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor y pintor estadounidense mundialmente conocido por haber inventado el telégrafo, el cual se basa en comunicarse a travás de sonidos cortos y largos representados por puntos y líneas, el famoso “Código Morse”

El Rehilete

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be part of history in the making. I always wondered what that would feel like. Since I was a child, I had envisioned the entire scene. With a gold medal hanging around my neck, television reporters from around the country would be interviewing me. I would even have a feature page in The Guinness Book of World Records.

But making history came in a much more subtle way than I ever could have imagined. With the click of a button, I chose to follow Ashton Kutcher on Twitter. In case you haven’t heard, Ashton subsequently became the first Twitterer to gain 1,000,000 followers.

I was kind of upset at first. Granted, I was happy Ashton won and was willing to make a charitable donation because of his win, but I was a little upset that I was just a number. One in a million to be exact. So my vision didn’t exactly turn out as expected, but making history via the Internet makes me feel very 21st century, especially since I grew up without the Web.

The experience made me realize how communication has improved the ability to share information faster and smarter. The capabilities we have discovered are now so often taken for granted. Monday, Google celebrated Samuel Morse’s birthday and his invention of the single-wire telegraph, which was less than 175 years ago. Amazing that in 175 years, we have seen communication channels transform from the telegraph to the Internet. Samuel Morse couldn’t have dreamed of the capabilities we have today – the ability to instantly connect from anywhere in the world.

CNN wrote an article in January that delved into the technological advances we can expect to see by 2025 – everything from sensors woven into clothing to systems portrayed in science-fiction dramas. CNN suggested that the computer network will become the face of government:

“The [technological] changes hold such promise that Americans’ view of government could begin to improve as services become more efficient and the public interacts with previously faceless bureaucrats. Meanwhile, advances in technology could change our basic notions of the republic, making it much more direct and involved.”

So, is this technology the Morse code of our day?

I think so and @aplusk would probably agree.

-Kayla Gail Anthony

În caz că ieri v-ați întrebat ce e cu imaginea de la Google

iată răspunsul: pe 27 Aprilie a fost ziua lui Samuel Morse.

Happy Birthday to Samuel Morse, responsible for the single-wire telegraph and Morse Code.

Look at that, Google taught me something new today.  Fair play Google, fair play.

Now if only the Federal Government considered today to be a worthwhile holiday.

Samuel Morse