31-10-2011 10:16 I like the rave scene (zion dance party) in "The Matrix Reloaded (2003)" as it is but I wanted to create a new version with one of my favorite tracks "Aphrodite". I hope you enjoy my edit. Track name: Paris and Sharp - Aphrodite (Marcello Castelli Sahara Mix) I hope you don't miss the part (goddess vocal) that starts at 3:06.
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Todd Piett is the chief product officer at Rave Mobile Safety / Smart911.com. He writes about technology trends in public safety and enhanced 9-1-1. Todd is a board member of the NG9-1-1 Institute and is a member of APCO’s Emerging Technology Committee, in addition to holding numerous technology patents.
When it comes to public safety, forward-thinking government agencies are beginning to look at social media as a support tool for improved situational awareness.
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The very nature of social media's open communication and crowdsourced information provides a powerful tool for public safety agencies. Take, for instance, the Twitter user who unknowingly tweeted in real-time about the Osama Bin Laden raid, or the Florida deputy who used Facebook to negotiate a standoff, or the kidnapper who found time to update his Facebook friends.
A 911 center supervisor recently talked to me about the role social media played during a mall shooting. While police units established a perimeter around the mall and assessed the situation, they tried to sift through conflicting reports on the shooter. A 911 dispatcher jumped on Twitter and Flickr, and was actually able to obtain photos of the shooter, posted by witnesses inside the mall. Imagine the value that information provided to the incident commander and tactical operators on the scene.
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Is Emergency Response Via Social Media Feasible?
To understand the spectrum of social media applicability and the challenges it poses to public safety, it’s helpful to think how the public safety context is different than traditional social media usage. First, public safety is event or incident-driven, whether for prevention, reaction or investigation. Second, public safety is really a unique form of customer service in which the expectation of service is very high, everyone expects to receive the same level of service, regardless of his frequency of use or willingness to pay for it, and the cost of failure can be astronomical.
Think of it this way: You may feel comfortable posting to a brand’s Facebook Page and not receiving a response for a few hours or maybe even a day or two. However, if your local emergency center planned to monitor calls for help via Twitter and Facebook, it would face major concerns. Therein lies the challenge for public safety -- how do you effectively use a powerful set of tools for gleaning real-time information, without incurring huge cost and liability, not to mention, set unrealistic expectations for the public?
Where is Social Media Emergency Response Applicable?
When public safety agencies take to social media, they must remember two factors.
The direction of the communication (i.e. the agency pushes outbound information to citizens, the agency draws on inbound information from citizens, or mutual, two-way communication). The timing of the communication with respect to an incident.
For example, a local police department sends an emergency notification through Twitter, alerting citizens to poor road conditions due to inclement weather. In this case, emergency notifications through social media are outbound. Conversely, decision support relies on inbound input from citizens. Public safety agencies monitor information streams, selectively engage users if the situation dictates, and then develop a course of action.
Emergency 911 centers (or their international equivalents) are typically designed as the communication hub — or customer service center, if you will — for two-way citizen emergency communications. Therefore, they're also a natural fit for social media engagement.
However, with limited exceptions, these centers do not typically welcome technology beyond caller ID and some basic location information. Efforts like “Next Generation 9-1-1” plan to equip centers so that they may receive a wide array of media-rich content. In the meantime, individuals post photos and videos of unfolding events to social media platforms. Many of these individuals will never even contact 911 directly, assuming that other witnesses have already done (or will do) so.
Would Public Safety Face Any Challenges?
It is becoming increasingly important for emergency responders and other officials to rapidly access and make sense of relevant social media to provide a better picture of the incident and surrounding area (i.e. situational awareness). However, emergency responders are unavailable to mine these social media sites, and often, the 911 center will be too overburdened with incoming calls to do so either.
Several larger agencies have established dedicated units (often within police departments) to provide real-time intelligence. Real-time crime centers operate in several major U.S. cities — notably, New York City and Houston, TX. These centers have access to powerful data aggregation and decision support tools. The New York City Police Department has created a social media unit within its intelligence division.
Traditionally, the data used by these crime centers was more static in nature and limited to the various databases maintained by the city, such as the police department’s records management system, the municipal court information system, permits, etc. This is not the case with social media. Officials can glean valuable intelligence from social media posts across dozens of online platforms. Additionally, this data can emerge from many a dynamic scenario. Consider the foreign tourist who posts a photo of a suspicious package in Times Square, or the concertgoer who shares a video of a crowd fleeing a shooter.
In addition to valuable intelligence-rich posts, people share thousands of well-wishes or anecdotes that, while thoughtful, provide no useful information to public safety officials and obscure the posts that could enhance emergency responders’ situational awareness (see the most recent shootings at Virginia Tech). The amount and velocity of social media traffic and “background noise” is so extensive that it is nearly impossible for intelligence analysts or emergency managers (let alone a busy 91-1 center) to consistently provide real-time information to first responders.
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Social Media in Strategic Communication project seeks to apply analytics and advanced data solutions to social media in the same way it has improved video analytics and other operational intelligence.
As social media continues to exponentially grow, so will the sheer volume and type of content. Public safety will be forced to develop solutions that better automate today's mostly manual response efforts. Hopefully, information sharing between the public and public safety agencies will improve and, ultimately, lead to safer communities.
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Colin Firth is joining Reese Witherspoon in Atom Egoyan's drama based on the real-life case of the West Memphis Three, "Devil's Knot."
Deadline has the news, and reports that the story centers on Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. who were convicted of the murder of three 8-year-old boys. The case was sensationalized with reports of devil worship and ritualized sacrifice, despite lack of physical evidence. Witherspoon will play a mother of one of the murdered boys, while Firth will take on the role of the heroic investigator who helped the Memphis Three when no one else would, uncovering important evidence for their defense.
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While truth is usually scarier than fiction, we have some frightening fictional features in this week's Horror Bites that should please. Hit the jump for more of this week's news.
Cubicles Are Terrifying and "Not Safe for Work"
"Wolfman" director Joe Johnston will be heading up the horror realm once more with a thriller set … in an office building. The "Captain America" filmmaker is taking on "Not Safe for Work" — about a young paralegal that becomes trapped in her office, desperately trying to evade a killer who has set out to destroy company files for a rival corporation. Writers Simon Boyes ("Broken") and Adam Mason ("Pig") lend a hand, which means this one might be more brutal than we are expecting.
From Exorcisms to Werewolves for "The Devil Inside" Team
"The Devil Inside" director William Brent Bell has a werewolf film heading our way soon. The project details have been tightly under wraps, but Screen Daily found out that the film now being called "Wer." All we know is that the movie will use a found footage element and that Bell has co-written the script with "Devil Inside" collaborator Matthew Peterman. Things start rolling for the cameras in Romania this April. Are you ready to see more from this team?
Paranormal Thrills in "Red Lights" Trailer
Last week we showed you the Spanish language trailer for Rodrigo Cortes' "Red Lights," but this week there's an English version. The "Buried" director sets Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, and Cillian Murphy in a psychological thriller involving a psychic and a dark mystery. Now that some of you can actually understand what the heck is being said, do Weaver and Murphy make good paranormal fraud investigators?
Killer Grizzly Bears Battle the "Red Machine"
Bloodthirsty grizzly bears in Alaska? Count us in! "Carriers" actress Piper Perabo just signed onto David Hackl's "Red Machine." The "Saw V" director leads the story about two couples who soak in the great outdoors on a camping expedition to the Last Frontier, but encounter a bear out for blood. Perabo plays a deaf photographer, while the already announced Thomas Jane ("The Mist") is an Iraq War veteran. James Marsden and Billy Bob Thornton also star.
"Intruders" Gets a Disfigured Poster
We saw the theatrical one sheet for Clive Owen's supernatural home invasion nightmare, "Intruders." We like the actor better with his eyes and mouth, but we suppose it's ok to sacrifice them in the name of horror. "28 Weeks Later" director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo tells the tale about two children who are haunted by a strange, faceless entity (Hollow Face) that wants to take possession of them. Are we the only ones who hope to see Owen beating the hell out of a ghost?
Uncool Vampire Comedy Coming Soon
Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords fame will possibly team up with Academy Award nominated director Taika Waititi ("Two Cars, One Night") — who is also directing an American version of "The Inbetweeners" for MTV — for a vampire comedy six years in the making. Waititi joked to The Playlist that " … It’s taken so long that vampires are now very uncool." So far we don't know much, but the director is hopeful to finally get the project off the ground. Stay tuned for more details, this one should be fun.
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