#artifact 30 seconds to mars

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Curiosity captures a martian day, from dawn to dusk

When NASA's Curiosity Mars rover isn't on the move, it works pretty well as a sundial, as seen in two black-and-white videos recorded on Nov. 8, the 4,002nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rover captured its own shadow shifting across the surface of Mars using its black-and-white Hazard-Avoidance Cameras, or Hazcams.

Instructions to record the videos were part of the last set of commands beamed up to Curiosity just before the start of Mars' solar conjunction, a period when the sun is between Earth and Mars. Because plasma from the sun can interfere with radio communications, missions hold off on sending commands to Mars spacecraft for several weeks during this time. (The missions weren't totally out of contact: They still radioed back regular health check-ins throughout conjunction.)

Rover drivers normally rely on Curiosity's Hazcams to spot rocks, slopes, and other hazards that may be risky to traverse. But because the rover's other activities were intentionally scaled back just prior to conjunction, the team decided to use the Hazcams to record 12 hours of snapshots for the first time, hoping to capture clouds or dust devils that could reveal more about the Red Planet's weather.

When the images came down to Earth after conjunction, scientists didn't see any weather of note, but the pair of 25-frame videos they put together do capture the passage of time. Extending from 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. local time, the videos show Curiosity's silhouette shifting as the day moves from morning to afternoon to evening.

The first video, featuring images from the front Hazcam, looks southeast along Gediz Vallis, a valley found on Mount Sharp. Curiosity has been ascending the base of the 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain, which sits in Gale Crater, since 2014.

The second video shows the view of the rear Hazcam as it looks northwest down the slopes of Mount Sharp to the floor of Gale Crater. The rover's right rear wheel is visible, along with the shadow of Curiosity's power system. A small black artifact that appears at the left midway through the video, during the 17th frame, resulted from a cosmic ray hitting the camera sensor.

Likewise, the bright flashing and other noise at the end of the video are the result of heat from the spacecraft's power system affecting the Hazcam's image sensor.

These images have been re-projected to correct the wide-angle lenses of the Hazcams. The speckled appearance of the images, especially prominent in the rear-camera video, is due to 11 years of Martian dust settling on the lenses.

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #nasa #astrophysics #MARS #Youtube

[2o3dinge]

It's been a long time now since...

...Thirty Seconds to Mars released This Is War in 2009, an album allegedly born out of the struggle against their record company EMI who required a bigger output which they could not or would not (and possibly shouldn't) deliver thus leaving them in immense debt. Record label EMI put them under threat of a 30-million dollar lawsuit, then dropped it and released the record. Maybe some part of the deal was that 30STM would tour this album to no end around the world, even gaining a Guiness World Record in December 2011 for the "longest concert tour by a rock band".

Two years, 309 concerts, a world tour truly that had Jared increasingly at war with ill health, a failing voice and all sorts of pain. It surely had a cost for Tomo and Shannon too. But - it was the foundation to their worldwide fame. It was what catapulted them from a rather obscure alternative rock band to sing along arena rock in the vein of U2. Producers Flood and Steve Lillywhite made sure of that and pulled off an energetic and unique sound for This Is War.

All of this helped by the full embrace of the blooming social media age for communication purposes and constant documentation. Through Tumblr I became an unwitting follower of that period, not as a fan but interested observer. Jared even made a documentary about it, meant as a reckoning and FY to the corporate music industry. Artifact (2012) won some nice accolades. It was a daring strategy to attack - the album title being a kind of mantra - but it paid off. By now Jared Leto is really effing rich.

You gotta give it to Jared Leto: he never shies away to work his ass off and he'd rather attack than give in. All while being quite entertaining. I'm sure there are many people behind him who make his vision of an artist's life possible and he conducts them all with perfectionist verve. He's doing his part well. Presenting a designer-clad surface, demanding and holding attention, weird and mysterious and good looking - he seems to unapologetically enjoy it.

He was never relatable though, always obscuring himself, his interviews over the years have become more and more... vacuous. Being relatable as a human being, not an idol or screen of projection, is nothing that comes easily for him, it seems work. Most often he meanders between two states when fronting the public, intellectual distance or infantile provocation as way to obfuscate himself. He's made an art form out of merging the two. His brother on the other hand is way more natural, but he's not the great talker or shower. That's why, beyond their biographical bond, they make a good team.

This Is War is an album I still enjoy listening to. It's not for the lyrics and Jared's style of singing is overly dramatic at times, impatient, as if he can't decide whether to sing or belt for emotional impact. But as a whole it's coherent and carried by a peculiar spirit that is animating, vitalizing, encouraging. A battle cry that refuses to surrender to a broken heart. It does sound like a love letter often times.

One song though is outstanding to me. Not only on this album but in all their output: Night of the Hunter. This is objectively a great song. The best the Leto Brothers have written yet and it works with and without the bombastic production. Something about this song is real and timeless.

We'll see if their musical output will ever have that energy again that went into This Is War. Their last two albums didn't have that coherence or power, though not being failures as such. There are always some songs that work and I wouldn't begrudge them their trajectory towards electronic pop sounds. These guys are in their fifties, let them be.

#jared leto #thirty seconds to mars #night of the hunter #this is war #thinking about an album and a special time

[recentlyheardcom]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — How much is Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago worth? That's been a point of contention after a New York judge ruled that the former president exaggerated the Florida property's value when he said it's worth at least $420 million and perhaps $1.5 billion.Siding with New York's attorney general in a lawsuit accusing Trump of grossly overvaluing his assets, Judge Arthur Engoron found that Trump consistently exaggerated Mar-a-Lago's worth. He noted that one Trump estimate of the club's value was 2,300% times the Palm Beach County tax appraiser's valuations, which ranged from $18 million to $37 million.But Palm Beach real estate agents who specialize in high-end properties scoffed at the idea that the estate could be worth that little, in the unlikely event Trump ever sold.“Ludicrous,” agent Liza Pulitzer said about the judge citing the county’s tax appraisal as a benchmark. Homes a tenth the size of Mar-a-Lago on tiny inland lots sell for that in the Town of Palm Beach, a wealthy island enclave.“The entire real estate community felt it was a joke when they saw that figure,” said Pulitzer, who works for the firm Brown Harris Stevens.“That thing would get snapped up for hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars,” said Rob Thomson, owner of Waterfront Properties and a Mar-a-Lago member. “There is zero chance that it’s going to sell for $40 million or $50 million.”In the ongoing trial over the lawsuit, though, what a private buyer might pay for a place like Mar-a-Lago isn't the only factor in determining whether Trump is liable for fraud.WHAT IS MAR-A-LAGO?The 126-room, 62,500-square-foot (5,810-square-meter) mansion is Trump’s primary home. It is also a club, private beach resort, historical artifact and banquet hall with a ballroom that features gold leaf. It is where Trump stored government documents federal prosecutors say he took illegally after leaving office in 2021.While Trump has long admitted using “truthful hyperbole” in his business dealings, he is not exaggerating when he calls Mar-a-Lago unique.Built in 1927 by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband, financier E.F. Hutton, she gave the property its name — Spanish for “sea-to-lake” — because its 17 acres (7 hectares) stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal Waterway.Post kept the mansion after the couple's divorce, using it to host opulent galas. In 1969, Mar-a-Lago was designated a National Historic Landmark.Post, who died in 1973, bequeathed the property to the U.S. government as a winter get-away for presidents, but Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter never used it. The government, citing the high upkeep costs, returned it to Post's foundation in 1981.The property fell into disrepair. Trump bought it in 1985 for about $10 million, the equivalent of $30 million today. He invested heavily in its refurbishment.By the early 1990s, however, Trump was in financial distress after several of his businesses flopped. He told Palm Beach town officials he couldn't afford the $3 million annual upkeep, and proposed subdividing the property and building mansions. The town rejected the plan.Negotiations continued and in 1993 the town agreed he could turn the estate into a private club, giving him cash flow he could use for maintenance. He built the ballroom, but signed away development rights.The agreement limits the club to 500 members — the initiation fee is $500,000 with annual dues of $20,000.Trump typically lives at Mar-a-Lago from October to May before summering in New Jersey.SO WHAT IS MAR-A-LAGO WORTH?That's hard to say. The biggest problem is there are no comparable properties. No one builds mansions in Palm Beach like Mar-a-Lago anymore and those that did exist were demolished long ago, broken up or turned into a museum.Trump, in an April deposition, justified his belief that Mar-a-Lago could be worth $1 billion by comparing it to the price the Mona Lisa or a painting by Renoir would command — the ultra-wealthy will pay a premium to buy something that's one-of-a-kind.

Eli Beracha, chair of Florida International University's Hollo School of Real Estate, agreed it's difficult to assess the value of any unique property. The fact that Trump owned Mar-a-Lago would likely increase its sale price.“Some people are going to argue that not everyone likes Trump — some people would actually pay less because of that. ... But the high bidder is probably going to be a person who buys it because it belonged to Trump,” Beracha said.Pulitzer said the rock-bottom price for Mar-a-Lago would be $300 million. Thomson said at least $600 million. If uber-billionaires got into a bidding war, they said, a sale of a billion dollars or more would be possible.The much smaller Palm Beach compound once owned by the Kennedy political dynasty sold for $70 million three years ago.SO HOW DID PALM BEACH COUNTY COME UP WITH SUCH A LOW TAX ASSESSMENT?The county gives Mar-a-Lago its current value for taxation of $37 million based on its annual net operating income as a club and not on its resale value as a home or its reconstruction cost. It is one of nine private clubs in the county taxed that way.Becky Robinson, the tax assessor's spokesperson, said that method is used because private clubs are so rarely sold or built, making it impossible to set their tax rates by comparing them to similar properties. Mar-a-Lago's property tax bill will be $602,000 this year, county records show.U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a South Florida Democrat, wrote the county saying if Trump claims Mar-a-Lago is worth $1 billion, he should be taxed accordingly. If Mar-a-Lago had a $1 billion assessed value, it’s property tax bill would be approximately $18 million.Robinson said the county bases its assessments on the law and its formulas, not the value owners claim.WHY IT MATTERSIn her lawsuit against Trump, New York Attorney General Letitia James argued that Mar-a-Lago was one of multiple assets Trump overvalued in financial statements given to banks and others.On those statements, Trump valued Mar-a-Lago as high as $739 million — a figure James said ignored deed restrictions requiring the property to be used as a social club — not a private home. Her lawyers have argued that in his financial statements, Trump should have valued Mar-a-Lago the same way the county does, based on its club status.Trump's financial statements, the New York lawyers wrote, valued the club “based on the false and misleading premise that it was an unrestricted residential plot of land that could be sold and used as a private home, which was clearly not the case.”Trump's lawyers have said no trickery was involved, and that banks probably didn't rely on his financial statements anyway when determining whether to lend him money.

[decaffeinatedfirelover]

NuVasive’s Pulse Platform for Spine Surgeries, US

In July 2021, NuVasive's Pulse spinal surgical automation platform received FDA 510(k) clearance.

The PulseTM system is the first integrated technology platform made to make all spine surgical procedures safer, more effective, and more repeatable.

The Pulse platform, developed by NuVasive, a US medical device company, can be used in all spine operations. It is a disruptive technology that has the potential to alter how patients receive spine care in the future.

After receiving approval from the European CE Mark in June 2021, the Pulse platform received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July 2021.

Design and features of the Pulse platform The Pulse spinal surgical automation platform combines a number of technologies into a single platform. Future applications like robotics will be compatible with its extensible architecture.

By streamlining the imaging workflow, the platform's Lessray® technology from NuVasive enhances imaging and boosts operating room (OR) efficiency. Additionally, it significantly reduces everyone in the room's radiation exposure.

The Pulse's procedurally integrated navigation system minimizes radiation exposure while enhancing screw placement accuracy.

With the standard setup, the platform's neuromonitoring feature provides proprietary automatic nerve detection and clinically verified alerts to reduce variability and speed up neural data interpretation.

By providing tools for surgical planning and intraoperative assessment, NuVasive's Integrated Global Alignment (iGA®) technology enables the system to assist surgeons in correcting or restoring spinal alignment. Additionally, it enables surgeons to evaluate the outcomes of operations by following up.

The Pulse system makes use of Bendini®, a patient-specific spinal rod bending technology, to produce customized rods that are bent to fit implant sites. By utilizing computer-assisted bend directions, it accelerates manual rod manipulation.

The Cios Spin® 3D mobile C-arm from Siemens Healthineers is an excellent candidate for the platform's integration of a variety of imaging systems.

All members of the surgical team in the operating room, from the surgeon to the C-arm technician to the support staff, are able to seamlessly connect to the Pulse platform and manage it thanks to its wireless connectivity.

The Siemens Healthineers Cios Spin® 3D mobile C-arm explains how Cios Spin enables precise quality control through 2D and 3D intraoperative imaging and helps to control operational risks and costs. It has three simultaneous projection displays and CMOS flat detector technology with a scan speed of 30 seconds.

In 3D images, the metal artefact reduction (MAR) tool reduces artifacts like streaks and blind spots. By automatically transferring 3D datasets to certified navigation systems, the NaviLink 3D digital interface enables seamless integration with navigation for surgical image guidance and navigation.

Benefits of the Pulse system The platform makes it easy for surgeons to use a variety of technologies from a small space, adopt less invasive and more advanced surgical techniques, and address some of the most common problems with surgery.

Numerous clinical studies support the advantages of less invasive surgery, such as shorter operating room (OR) times, shorter periods of anesthesia, less blood loss, and lower intraoperative risks.

Additionally, it contributes to a shorter hospital stay and a savings of approximately $5,000 per patient in hospital costs.

Pulse is one of the most adaptable tools in the operating room for the spine. It combines multiple technologies into a single platform, enabling surgeons to make clinical decisions for their patients that are more informed.

The Pulse system has the potential to improve operational, financial, and clinical outcomes. It supports all types of spine surgery, including open and minimally invasive procedures.

[marialeto]

Ascended Master of the Day

August 18th, 2022

Thursday

Anthony

Honey

Anthony’s essential oil blend consists of 5 essential oils

Saint Anthony

Black spruce 3

Lavender 4

Hyssop 2

Helichrysum 1

Geranium 1

11/2

Notes: the call to love, to be connected for others needs...

A powerful Franciscan Teacher

Born 1195 Lisbon, Portugal

Saint Anthony of Padua

Saint Anthony’s divinely blessed braided intention, prayer, and meditation bracelet is made of three strands of yarn.

Rose for blessings and truth

Light yellow for interceding

Dark blue for protection

Special message: The river of love is time stopping.

The gemstone is Calcite

Blood orange coffee

💗💛💙

Today, the planet of the day is Jupiter, the number is six, the flavor is blood orange, color is blood orange, ray of light is Blood Orange, and flame is Light Orange. The candle is orange. The Elohim is Mind. God is Amaterasu , Saint is Camael, Goddess is Helen, Being of Light is Jax, Angel of the day is Luke. The spirit animal is Wild Dogs, gemstone is Calcite, place is Sri Lanka, element is Water, star is Egypt, chakra is Sacral (plexus) [+lumbar area], it is the day of the Universe, day of the Goddess, the divinity is feminine, and the theme is Coins. The country is Kuwait.

Saint Anthony is the Ascended Master (of Padua)

The song of the day is Conquistador by 30 Seconds to Mars

Album: Love, Lust, Faith, and Dreams 2013

Today the moon is 60% waning gibbous in Taurus all day until 7:20 AM Friday moving into Gemini.

Moonrise today 11:57pm set tomorrow 1:25pm

Sunrise 6 AM

Sunset 7:49 PM

TAROT CARD 🧡

Aphrodite

Inner Goddess

Awaken the goddess within you through dance, self-care, and appreciating your divinity.

Allow your inner feminine wisdom and dynamic beauty to rise to the surface. Cherish its power and meaningfulness. We all have inner femininity to nurture. And that nurturers us. As well as guides us with its intuitive principles.

Celebrate your magnificence.

The secondary Goddess today is Kail

The messages is endings and beginnings.

The old must be released so that the new can enter.

Kali praises those hearts who except the universal order. In actuality designed down to the smallest detail. Perfect operating order.

Kali is a powerful ally. She has the ability to make the ground fertile for new crops and life. She encourages you to dance, weaving the stories of our lives in a truthful positive manner.

Card (s) today are from the Goddess Guidance oracle deck.

Today’s notes: spine health, walking, Saint Catherine, motion, movement, Mount Saint Helen, Sun, Japanese Mythology, literary texts, Ninigi, three generations, a transitional period, the heavenly kami

Today’s Gemstone, Calcite

A positive Stone for allowing the floor of positive vibrations, used in healing and for removing energy blockages. It assist with the mind and improve his memory. Often used in meditation and has been dedicated too many artifacts especially in Egypt and to Bast the deity. Many artifacts have been carved from the stone.

It improves vitality and enhances enthusiasm.

Ancient Greeks believe that calcite had healing properties. It is also considered a protective stone to the people of ancient Mexico. It was often use for amulets and talisman.

Because of his wonderful energy it is likely to be used in statues.

Notable colors today, yellow, lemon, and caramel. Other notable colors, opaque, white, red, orange, blue, green, brown, gray.

Today is Angel is Luke

The angel Luke brings us tidings of great joy.

Notables for today’s list:

Sri Lanka, known for coffee coconuts and tea, as well as tropical forests.

Wild dogs, meaning family, community, positive attitude, compassion, success, and character.

Egyptian star is known for stone circles, measuring time, diagonal star tables, and the movement between planets.

Kuwait is known for hot sand dunes, stunning cityscape, and chocolate on the Persian Gulf.

The theme is coins today, meaning publishing, organization, illustration, flow, grounding of life, navigation, pentacles, planets, creativity, diamonds, promises, and relationships.

#saint anthony #ascendedmaster #tarotoftheday #inspiration #Thursday #August 18

[thesecretinside96]

The problem with life is that we are always waiting for the next thing to come and honestly it’s exhausting trying to reach the next goal the next step in life as if we’re going to run out of years of life and all this happens while being in the middle of something we already began … sometimes I want time to stop for a while so I can catch my breath

#love #cat stevens #gothic poetry #fashion #lovers #w.s merwin #john green #literature #dejan stojanovic #franz movie #designe #edgar allan poe poetry #poem love #hot kisses #fiftyshadesmovie #fiftyshadesdarker #lust #artifact 30 seconds to mars #artists on tumblr

[shesastrangertosome]

These screenshots of our Shanbear in “Artifact” are too beautiful 🤭🐻

I really love watching him behind the drums.

(I love how good he looked with his red bandana on too btw ❤️)

#30 seconds to mars #30stm #thirty seconds to mars #shannon leto #drummer #drums #Artifact #screencaps #screenshot #shannon leto drum god #shanimal #shanbear #shan #i am the echelon #echelon love #echelon forever #echelon life #echelon family #echelon #mars army #mars family #this is the life on mars #mars lab #this is a cult

[storysofalife]

Every time I wake up I look at myself in the mirror as if I was reminding myself something or just remembering who I am before the beginning of a long day

Life

#life #hp lovecraft quotes #lovers quotes #love quotes #lovers #art #artifact 30 seconds to mars #kissing quotes #anais nin quotes #book quotes #quotes #like4like #why am i like this #hot kiss

[50shadesofjaredleto]

#jared leto #thirty seconds to mars #30stm #Mars #music #song #echelon #jay #Leto #30 seconds to mars #love #humans #jared #TB #artifact

[cleoleto]

#my heart can't take this #Leto babies #Leto brothers #Shannon Leto #Jared Leto #Artifact #thirty seconds to mars #30 seconds to mars #30STM #cleoleto #cleoletoimg

[matt-erialgirl]

I made an intense discovery last night

 Last night I was listening to the documentary “Artifact” as I was working on my drawings and you know, when you can’t see something, your other senses are at peak.  At the minute 19:55 of the documentary, Jared’s sat at a piano. He sings two lines of a song we had never heard before... until March 29, 2018. The two lines Jared sang in the documentary (technically ten fucking years ago) are the first two lines from “Rescue Me” Yes, my mind is blown too. Wonder how many other songs he’s got stashed away like that and for how long...

@esoltis280 @downtowngirlkate @fyeahproudglambert @lolainblue @guccilowell @iraniq @nikkitasevoli @mustlove6277 

#Mars #30 seconds to mars #thirty seconds to mars #artifact #documentary #music #america #jared leto #shannon leto #tomo milicevic #tstm #30stm #rescue me

[beautifulstuff89]

This documentary is such an eye opener to how music labels work these days. Its about 30 Seconds to Mars and their label trying to sue them. It’s so hard to watch. Support your favs, buy the music, do what you can. They have nothing with out you.

#artifact #documentary #one direction #harrystyles #louistomlinson #niallhoran #liampayne #zayn #30 seconds to mars #music label #industry #music

[ssfoc]

Sea, have you watched Artifact about 30 Seconds to Mars fight with their label? I a, watching it right now and I am it makes me sick how corrupt these labels are. I can totally see the possibility that Louis is being fucked over by TPTB. 😡😡😡

It was directed by Jared Leto— interesting!

https://youtu.be/1c909GObOrM

#artifact #30 seconds to mars #30 august 2018

[jeyusoo]

I miss Tomo! Come baaaaaack!

#shanimal #tomo miličević #jared leto #thirty seconds to mars #tstm #30stm #30 seconds to mars #artifact #shannon leto

[hephaestn]

#jared leto #jaredletoedit #thirty seconds to mars #30 seconds to mars #artifact #mine~ #jl~ #artifact~ #p: jared leto

[imwithmars]

#30 Seconds To Mars #jared leto #shannon leto #tomo milicevic #2009 #artifact #making of TIW