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In another depth move designed to strengthen the Connecticut Whale, the Rangers have signed RW Brandon Segal. Terms of the deal are still undisclosed, but Segal is likely going to be an insurance policy for the CT Whale, as the 29 year old winger has just 102 NHL games under his belt (11-11-22). The 6'2″, 209 lb RW plays consistent minutes in the AHL, but has never found the kind of consistency that would help him stick at the NHL level. It is likely that Segal would be an injury call up during the season, if the need arises.
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At Cornell University, researchers have built an extension to Java that incorporates security logic into a program while it's being written. The platform, named "Fabric", replaces the mishmash of security layers and intermittent patches with one simple programming interface that provides explicit and direct security logic.
Fred Schneider, a Cornell professor of Computer Science, says that computer security has traditionally been reactive, improving only after software is successfully hacked. Another Computer Science professor working on this project, Andrew Myers, compared modern security to using duct tape. We just keep putting patches on top of patches, making system security into an utter mess.
Fabric, on the other hand, creates security in distributed computing systems and weaves the security functionality into the code as you write it. The language is a set of objects labeled with security policies for data access and operations. The blocks of code have built-in policies when they are written that tell when and where the code can be run.
Fabric won't let your write insecure code. The compiler that turns Fabric language into an executable program enforces security policies transparently. Schneider and Myers plan to scale up Fabric for large-scale distributed computing systems. Right now Fabric is in the prototype. They also want to add more complex security restrictions and the ability to assure security when programs on one node are run on another.
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Yvonne Brill, pioneering rocket scientist, dies at 88By DOUGLAS MARTIN
The New York Times | March 31,2013She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. The worlds best mom, her son Matthew said.
But Yvonne Brill, who died Wednesday at 88 in Princeton, N.J., was also a brilliant rocket scientist, who in the early 1970s invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites from slipping out of their orbits.
The system became the industry standard, and it was the achievement President Barack Obama mentioned in 2011 in presenting her with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Her devotion to family also won notice. In 1980, Harpers Bazaar magazine and the DeBeers Corp. gave her their Diamond Superwoman award for returning to a successful career after starting a family.
Brill is believed to have been the only woman in the United States who was actually doing rocket science in the mid-1940s, when she worked on the first designs for an American satellite.
It was a distinction she earned in the face of obstacles, beginning when the University of Manitoba in Canada refused to let her major in engineering because there were no accommodations for women at an outdoor engineering camp, which students were required to attend.
You just have to be cheerful about it and not get upset when you get insulted, she once said.
Brills development of a more efficient rocket thruster to keep orbiting satellites in place allowed satellites to carry less fuel and more equipment and to stay in space longer. The thrusters have the delicate task of maneuvering a weightless satellite that can tip the scales at up to 5,000 pounds on Earth.
Brill contributed to the propulsion systems of Tiros, the first weather satellite; Nova, a series of rocket designs that were used in American moon missions; the Atmosphere Explorer, the first upper-atmosphere satellite; and the Mars Observer, which in 1992 almost entered a Mars orbit before losing communication with Earth.
From 1981 to 1983, Brill worked for NASA developing the rocket motor for the space shuttle. In a statement after Brills death, Michael Griffin, president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, praised her as a pioneering spirit who coupled a clear vision of what the future of an entire area of systems should be with the ingenuity and genius necessary to make that vision a reality.
Yvonne Madelaine Claeys was born on Dec. 30, 1924, in St. Vital, a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her parents had separately immigrated from Flanders, in Belgium. Her father was a carpenter.
After the University of Manitoba barred her from the engineering program, she studied mathematics and chemistry instead and graduated at the top of her class. Her lack of an engineering degree did not prevent her from getting a job with Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, Calif.
Nobody had the right degrees back then, so it didnt matter, she told The Star-Ledger of Newark in 2010. I didnt have engineering, but the engineers didnt have the chemistry and math.
She never received a professional engineers license, but did pick up a masters in chemistry at the University of Southern California while working as a saleswoman for a chemical company. Afterward she went to work for Douglas, whose satellite project became the foundation of the RAND Corp., an early research center.
It was at RAND that she worked on the first American satellite designs, remaining there for three years. While still peddling chemicals, she met William Franklin Brill, a research chemist, at a talk by Linus Pauling, who would win one of his Nobel Prizes in chemistry. At one point William Brill told her about his problems making a particular chemical in his lab.
She replied that she could sell it to him by the pound at a very low price. Soon, the couple went square-dancing, only to discover that they both hated it. They found other interests, and married in 1951. He died in 2010.
They moved to Connecticut in 1952 when William Brill got a job there. She followed him again when he later got a job in New Jersey. She did not mind the moves, her son Matthew said. She would say, Good husbands are harder to find than good jobs.
Still, she managed to find jobs that allowed her to continue to work on rockets. One was at Wright Aeronautical in New Jersey. She left the company in 1958, however, to care for her young children, keeping her hand in the field by working part-time as a consultant for the FMC Corp. In 1966, she went back to work full time, taking a job at RCAs rocket subsidiary. Soon she was doing the work that won international acclaim.
Brill patented her propulsion system for satellites in 1972, and the first communications satellite using it was launched in 1983. It is still being used by satellites that handle worldwide phone service, long-range television broadcasts and other tasks.
Part of Brills rationale for going into rocket engineering was that virtually no other women were doing so. I reckoned they would not invent rules to discriminate against one person, she said in a 1990 interview.
Throughout her career Brill encouraged women to become engineers and scientists, starting by telling high school girls to stick with math. In her last week of life, she was still writing letters recommending eminent women in engineering for professional awards.
Her own many awards include the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2001 and top honors from several major engineering societies.
Matthew Brill said his mother died of complications of breast cancer. She lived in Skillman, N.J. Brill is also survived by another son, Joseph; a daughter, Naomi Brill; and four grandchildren.
In 2010, when Brill was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, The Washington Post began its article about the event by lauding two other honorees, Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver, the inventors of Post-its. The article went on to suggest that it took two men to create an adhesive stationery but only one woman to figure out how to keep satellites in place.MORE IN Wire NewsRALEIGH, N.C. Full StoryNEW YORK A city councilman on Monday said he will hold an oversight hearing this year to... Full Story
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As what should have been the second day of the 2014-2015 school year passes without any resolution to the ongoing teachers' strike, a new report shows B.C. private schools have seen a jump in enrolment.
The Federation of Independent School Associations of B.C. that represents non-public schools across B.C. is reporting a 4.5 per cent preliminary increase in the number of students this September, reports CTV Vancouver.
"Families want stability in education," said Peter Froese, executive director of the Federation of Independent Schools. "They want a place to put their kids, where they can count on the fact that the schools are open. Our kids are all in school at the present time."
Historically when the province's public schools go on strike, private schools see a jump in enrolment. Over the past decade, private schools have seen a one to two per cent year-over-year increase in enrolment when public schools have seen falling enrolment, according to Froese.
While the strike does represent a boon for business for schools that can charge anywhere from a few thousand dollars a year in tuition to as much as $25,000 for a university prep school, Froese said the number of private school spaces is limited and a prolonged strike is not good for anyone in B.C.
"If this drags on, it will have a negative effect on public education," he said. "From our perspective, we need a strong public education system. We want this resolved quickly so that families can get their kids into the schools."
The FISABC represents all independent schools in British Columbia, including independent religious schools, to chartered schools, and private university prep schools.
Altogether they represent a combined enrolment of 76,000 students who are in school this week while the nearly 500,000 public school students get an extended summer holiday.
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The Tzippori Synagogue (Sepphoris Synagogue,) is an ancient synagogue in Tzippori, an ancient town in Israel that is now a national archaeological park.
The synagogue was built in the late fifth or early sixth century, at a time when the town's Christian population was increasing and the strength of the Jewish population was diminishing. A mere 20.7 meters long and 8 meters wide, it is the narrowest ancient synagogue yet uncovered in the Land of Israel. It was located at the edge of the town. The Bimah was located in the western wall, not oriented towards Jerusalem as was done in other synagogues in that era.[1]
The town is recorded as having had many synagogues in ancient times; The Mishna describes Tzippori as having had 18 synagogues at the time of the funeral of Rabbi Judah haNasi in the late second century CE.[1]
The mosaic floor of the ancient synagogue was rediscovered in 1993 by a crew building a new parking lot at the edge of the well-visited national archaeological park of Tzippori.[2] It is the most spectacular synagogue mosaic uncovered in Israel since the discovery of the Beit Alfa Synagogue mosaic in 1928.[2] Archaeologist Zeev Weiss, then a graduate student at the Hebrew University, and his teacher, archaeologist Ehud Netzer were called to the scene, and Weiss uncovered the floor and its environs.[3]
The mosaic floor is divided into seven parts. Near the entrance there is a scene showing the angels visiting Sarah. The next section shows the binding of Isaac. There is a large Zodiac with the names of the months written in Hebrew. Helios sits in the middle, in his sun chariot. Next, there is a row of three panels depicting the offerings in the Temple at Jerusalem, including the "tamid" sacrifice, the showbread and the basket of first fruits. Above this is a depiction of Aaron offering sacrifices in the Tabernacle. Above that is another row of three panels, a Torah Ark, depicted as a pedimented building, and an incense shovel representing the incense shovels used in the Temple, flanked by two panels each displaying the seven-branched Menorah from the Temple at Jerusalem surrounded by symbols of the Jewish holidays including the Lulav and Shofar. The top, or front of the building section of the floor, another row of three panels, shows two lions flanking a wreath, their paws resting on the head of an ox.[4][5]
The largest panel or central sections of the mosaic is laid out as a large square containing a circle within a circle. This shows the Zodiac with Helios driving his chariot. As with the Hammat Tiberias Synagogue and the Beit Alfa Synagogue, the Zodiac panel at Tzippori features Spandrels depicting the four seasons.[5]
An ancient Aramaic mosaic inscription in honor of the donors reads: "May he be remembered for good Yudan son of Isaac the Priest and Paragri his daughter, Amen, Amen."[5]
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- ^ a b Ancient Synagogues in the Land of Israel, Mordechai Aviam, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, 1997, p. 21.
- ^ a b Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world: toward a new Jewish archaeology, Steven Fine, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 186.
- ^ Steven Fine (May 2006). "The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (Encyclopædia Britannica).
- ^ The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an An- cient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts, by Zeev Weiss. Jerusa- lem: Israel Exploration Society; Institute of Ar- chaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2005.
- ^ a b c Jewish Heritage Report, Vol. I, Nos. 3-4 / Winter 1997-98, Sepphoris Mosaic, Symposium Held in Conjunction with Sepphoris Mosaic Exhibition, Leslie Bussis Tait http://www.isjm.org/jhr/nos3-4/sepmos.htm


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Bono's friend Julian Lennon – son of late The Beatles star John Lennon – has confirmed rumours that the U2 frontman's eyesight is deteriorating.
Lennon made the comments to The Irish Daily Star, explaining why Bono is seen wearing his trademark glasses a bit more often than normal these days.
"Bono actually has a condition with his eyes. I don't know the exact issue, but the brightness of the sun hurts them and it's a deteriorating issue," Lennon said.
Lennon said Bono's history of wearing sunglasses as part of his appearance and dress sense had helped mask the problem significantly.
"It's part of his image," he said. "In some senses it was lucky but not really of course. Maybe it's part of his process now and without the image he can't be Bono."
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After overcoming some injuries and adversity last week, Statesboro has a chance to make a major statement on homecoming.
PORTAL - Two weeks ago, Portal took a big step in notching its first sub-region win of the season. Tonight, another big challenge awaits.
BROOKLET - Times may be tough for the Southeast Bulloch football team, but there's nothing like homecoming week to put an extra spark into things.
On the Sherwood Christian Academy football roster, seniors MJ Green and Rashard Davis don't have a position on offense.
Lanier Olliff scored three different ways Thursday to lead Bulloch Academy to a 35-6 victory over David Emanuel Academy in middle-school football action.
Many teams would be sweating bullets if they had to rely on their third string running back in a big sub-region game. Statesboro just looks at its depth chart and sends in another lethal weapon.
Usually, freshmen are just some players that are waiting for their chance to shine in a year or two, or possibly serving as a capable backup.
COCHRAN - The Southeast Bulloch Lady Yellow Jackets had a chance in both games of Wednesday's Region 3-AA championship, but let both slip away in a doubleheader that left Bleckley County as the 2011 region champs.
There may have been some concern amongst the ranks of Statesboro fans when they learned that running back Quan Daniels was out of action with an injury last week.
Southeast Bulloch has a chance to clinch a region title and a No. 1 seed in the state playoffs as it travels to Bleckley County this afternoon to begin a best-of-three series.
The Bulloch Academy bandwagon is beginning to fill up - partly because of another Gator win last week, but also because many of its players aren't up for walking on their own at the moment.
BROOKLET - The Southeast Bulloch Lady Yellow Jackets (18-4-2) swept Dodge County Saturday to punch its ticket to the Region 3-AA championship Wednesday.
SWAINSBORO - Sparked by homecoming and a change in the quarterback slot, the Swainsboro Tigers (1-4, 1-2) came out hungry against the Southeast Bulloch Yellow Jackets (1-5, 0-4) and rushed their way to a 48-13 victory. Swainsboro went into the game averaging only nine points, but with Deante Johnson taking his first snaps at quarterback, the Tiger offense found its first win of the season behind 372 yards of rushing and a slew of big plays.
There's an old saying that offense wins games, but defense wins championships.
SPRINGFIELD - For much of the season, Statesboro has been on and off. The offense and defense had both shown flashes of brilliance, but never at the same time.
Friday night featured the 50th anniversary of Statesboro's 'homeless' 1964 squad finally making its first appearance on Womack Field.
LOUISVILLE - The Screven County Gamecocks were shut out for three quarters, but scored twice in the fourth quarter and escaped with a 12-7 win over Jefferson County in the region opener for both teams.
"Homecoming, at last!"
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Water supplies are dwindling in California as the state's historic drought drags on this summer. So, farmers in the state's multi-billion dollar agricultural industry are looking for water below ground instead. Groundwater is being pumped at record rates, and some of it is being sold for record prices.
In a good year, California's farmers get most of their water from the state's vast network of rivers and reservoirs. But in a drought, groundwater makes up 60 percent of the state's supply. It's a lot like an underground reservoir – and it's drying up in many places.
"When the water is gone, all the farming is gone," says Billy Grissom, a Central Valley farmer and rancher who lined up to speak about groundwater at a recent Merced County public meeting.
Many farmers in the region are relying on groundwater from wells on their land this year. When that happens, the groundwater levels drop, much like having too many straws in the same glass. So Grissom has had to deepen his wells.
"I had to add 40 feet," he says. "I have the bill right here from Shannon Pump."
Grissom is one of the lucky ones. It's tough to get an appointment with companies that drill water wells because they're booked up for months.
"A lot of people's wells are going dry," says Merced County supervisor Deidre Kelsey. "We are over-drafting the groundwater, and it is agriculture."
Groundwater pumping doesn't have to be publicly reported in California. There's virtually no regulation of it, unlike in other western states. So, often, farmers don't know how much their neighbors are taking until the water starts drying up.
At this public meeting, county supervisors are hearing about a case that's on the record because the groundwater is being sold.
"This is common practice," says Steve Sloan, one of two ranchers looking to sell up to 4 billion gallons of groundwater. Under California law, he owns the groundwater under his property. On today's water market, it could make him millions.
"Water exchanges, water transfers have been done for over 30 years," he says. "This is how we survive collectively as an ag industry in California."
The water will be sent 50 miles away to a water district on the other side of the Central Valley. Farmers there are in even worse shape – they are looking at ripping out almond orchards, says local water manager Anthea Hansen.
"We're in crisis mode," says Hansen. "I have trees I need to keep alive. We don't need large quantities of water to do that. "
Hansen is trying hard to make her case at this public meeting, but many farmers in the region don't want to see water flowing elsewhere.
"What's going to happen when you take this much water out of an aquifer?" asks Mike Gallo, a neighbor of Sloan's. "We're on the same aquifer. I don't know what it's going to do. Nobody knows what it's going to do."
The federal referee in the sale is the Bureau of Reclamation and the agency has approved it. Under current law, there's little that local county officials can do.
In the big picture, water sales can help even out the economic impacts of the drought, according to experts.
"One of the ways to deal with shortages is to let water start moving, let the markets start moving water and that actually increases your economic efficiency," says Jeff Mount, a geologist and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.
But there are caveats. Groundwater is being dramatically over pumped in many parts of the Central Valley.
"You also have to do it in ways that don't harm other parties," says Mount. "And if you start drying up your neighbors' wells to sell water to somebody else, then you are causing harm."
Some counties have taken matters into their own hands and effectively banned the sale of groundwater outside county lines.
California lawmakers are looking at regulating groundwater for the first time. Two bills are being considered in this legislative session and would have to pass by the end of August.
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Earlier in the summer, a U.S. raid failed to rescue American hostages in Syria, including journalist James Foley, who was executed in a video released this week by Islamist militants. The hostages were not where they were thought to be. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston discusses the limits on America's ability to gather intelligence in Syria, as well as the latest developments since Foley was killed.
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What is a superfood?
We think we know what superfoods are. Nutrient-rich, high in vitamins, they're fruits and vegetables with extra oomph that seem to have benefits beyond plain healthy eating.
In a recent Nielsen survey commissioned by Bloomberg Businessweek, 75 percent of consumers said they can manage their health through nutrition. One third say that they can use food to replace some medicines.
Farmers are seeing this trend and turning over crops to accomodate demand for once-unappealing wintry vegetables.
"I know we are not supposed to speak of kale on this show," said Venessa Wong, who reported on the findings for Businessweek. But she did anyway (listen in the audio player above), because its growth has been explosive.
"In 2012, about 2,500 farms harvested 'the k-word,' which is up from fewer than 1,000 in 2007," Wong said, adding, "Farmers are indeed very in touch with what people want to eat right now."
And far and away, 'the k-word' is the thing that people want to eat. But Brussel sprouts, spinach, chard and arugula are also showing a 10-20 percent boost since 2009.
With marketing buzz galore and significant public interest, the CDC journal Preventing Chronic Disease tried to define superfoods.
The produce selected may surprise you: tomatoes, carrots, strawberries, oranges, even iceberg lettuce. Wong notes that there are good reasons for their inclusion, but on a scale of defining a superfood, less trendy veggies stand out.
"The most nutrition dense food are watercress, Chinese cabbage, beet greens, spinach, so things that don't get as much buzz as the pomegranates, the quinoas," Wong said.
And the fact that the most super of foods aren't among the supermarket bestsellers is hardly a surprise.
"As much as people believe in the power of food," Wong said, "half of people surveyed by Nielsen said that they weren't willing to give up taste for health."
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As waters rise, Mekong rice farmers switch to shrimp
It's the rainy season here in Tran De. About a dozen field workers have squished out into a green paddy that goes on for more than two and a half football fields.
They chatter in Khmer as they bend low and pull young rice plants from their monsoon-soaked beds, and toss them into piles for replanting.
"I was born in this area, I'm from this area," says a 64-year-old farmer named Minh. "I learned from my father and my grandfather, from the time I was a kid, how to grow rice."
Minh is renting the land to grow his crop. "Rice is good," he says, "you can always eat it. It's reliable."
At least right now it is.
Things will change when the dry season starts in January. That's when farmers here usually start raising a rice crop, typically relying on fresh water they pump or channel in from some branch of the Mekong River.
But the dry season has been getting dryer. And the South China Sea - less than a mile away - is rising and pushing up into empty river and stream beds.
What little fresh water there is goes salty. So does the soil.
Once that happens, rice farmers like Minh know their crops are history.
"This village is affected by saline intrusion," he explains. "During the dry season, people here can't do anything with the land. They just leave it, go somewhere else and work, or try to find some work locally."
If Minh risked planting a dry season crop, he could earn more than $2,000.
But he won't take that chance. Instead of fighting saline intrusion, he's found a way to hedge his bets and make some money off climate change.
He's gone and bought himself a shrimp farm.
So has another farmer, named Sung. Standing beside two shrimp ponds out behind his house, Sung fires up what looks like a system of small spinning steamboat paddles.
They're adding oxygen to an opaque brown pool.
This salty water is killing off the region's rice, while the shrimp, somewhere down at the bottom, are loving it.
They can earn Sung in a year more than four times what an average rice farmer brings home.
"In a good year," Sung says, "I do two crops. If it hits, I get $4,720 from these two ponds. This is the only thing I can do. Growing rice is not very profitable."
With very few choices, explains Tim Gorman, a Cornell grad student researching how peoples' lives in the Mekong Delta are being changed by global warming, some farmers are turning away from rice.
"The biggest option to people here in these areas affected by saline intrusion," Gorman explains, "is to abandon rice altogether and switch to saltwater shrimp."
This has been a "winning strategy" for many people in the area, Gorman observes. "Just driving around here you can see that there are big new houses, you see some nice new cars. And so you have some people who really have made a lot of money from growing shrimp, which is primarily exported to markets in Europe, Asia, and the US."
Shrimp farmer Sung isn't doing quite that well. He's helping his daughter pay for college, but there's no fat new Mercedes in the driveway.
That kind of money goes mostly to big-time farmers. Some people earn tens of thousands of dollars a year in the shrimp trade. With the lure of five and six-figure profits, plus faltering rice crops killed off by rising seas, Gorman says some folks are even taking hammers to the very gates and dykes set up to protect the area from the ocean.
"People are actively manipulating the infrastructure," he says, "sabotaging the infrastructure, to allow salt water to come in. Not just during the dry season, but all year, so they can switch from freshwater rice farming to saltwater shrimp farming."
Shrimp is no sure bet, either. Seeds, antibiotics, aeration systems, start-up costs - kilo for kilo, it's way more expensive to raise than rice. A few sick ones can take out a whole pond.
Sung says he's gone bust before. "In a bad year, all I have left are the whites of my hands!"
That's the risk for most farmers here - rice, shrimp, or anything else.
But more and more, those who can afford it are moving away from rice and putting their money down on a changing climate.
Christopher Johnson is a reporter for BURN: An Energy Journal from SoundVision Productions with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The flop that is 'Expendables 3'
To be blunt, "Expendables 3" was a major box office flop on its opening weekend. Part three of the action-packed franchise was the only one to have a PG-13 rating, rather than the usual R. Although their intentions were to target a younger demographic and broaden their potential audience, the film only grossed approximately $15 million.
"The problem with this movie, and it's been the problem with this whole series, is that it has this idea that the thing we really want is the great action stars all together, giving us movies they don't make anymore," says Wesley Morris, critic at Grantland. "But there's kind of a reason we don't make those movies anymore. And this movie is just plowing forward. It's so bad."
Case in point, says Morris, the proposed spin-off of the Expendable's series, in which the leads will all be women, is called "ExpendaBelles." Actress Sigourney Weaver was offered a part.
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Probably going to make a load of enemies with this one but what the hell.
Ok, so what is it about photography that attracts techie people?
For me the camera is a tool like a paintbrush is to an artist. I really couldn't give a damn about circles of confusion (or whatever they're called), and understanding the technical architecture behind camera/lens designs really doesn't make me take better photos.
I thought photography was about creativy; a right brain kind of thinking (with a hint of left brain). So why does this creative hobby attract so many people who want to argue the minutiae of lens and camera design when it really doesn't matter?
I mean, you don't find this with artists or knitting circles?
Or do you?
I wouldn't worry, Ian. Once upon a time there was a man called Ansel Adams, a well known pre-tech techie who espoused the Zonal System. Many of his contempories applauded this highly technical way of taking snapshots and that applause resounded down the decades to this day....while of course most people hadn't got, nor cared less, what the old duffer was rabitting on about.
Quote: So why does this creative hobby attract so many people who want to argue the minutiae of lens and camera design when it really doesn't matter?
Because in my opinion it does matter. The better the kit, the better your start point for making a great picture. I think....
With out the techies that are interested in the hobbie you would all still be shooting box brownies. Some may say that would be better. Not me my foot firmly with the techies. I would love to be a artie sort but I'm not so this is my outlet into creativity leave me alone I'm having fun!!!!
The more you understand, the better you can be and that applies as much to what you choose to shoot as it does to what you shoot it with. In my opinion, while in the limit the tech minutiae do make a difference to a few individuals, for the great majority of people (myself included) any modern SLR/Lens is more than adequate. Lack of technique is the limiting factor.
Better kit can give you slightly more options at shooting time - assuming you know how to use it. But it doesnt make better pictures.
So why does this creative hobby attract so many people who want to argue
'Cos you can't beat a damn good argument!
Tho' what photography has got to do with eyes, I've yet to work out!
I have to agree with the first post - I had the pleasure of knowing a photographer sadly now passed away, who had a long career as a photographer, including primarily working for the BBC, he always carried a standard point & shoot in his pocket, and he himself would point out the fact that some of his greatest photographs (and I assure you he had a lot)were captured on this the cheapest pice of kit he had. To him it was all a matter of being at the right place at the right time and having an eye to see what other people might not. Personally I think you can have the best kit available, but it will not make you a good photographer, if the eye to capture the moment is missing.
I kind of agree with what you are saying though Ian, in my opinion 90% of people who seem to spend half of there time arguing about the finner technical stuff seem to be crap at taking pictures, although the other 10% are excellent, if you can take pictures and you know about the technical stuff then you are going to get even better results.
Hyperfocal focusing etc if you get it right is going to improve your photography improve your so its worth using it if you can.
A lot of people are obsessed with kit and the finner details, but if you go back through the years they had to be, photography has got easier as cameras do more stuff for you.
With reagards to better kit gives you a headstart I would disagree, better knowledge gives you a head start.
If I was new to photography I would much rather spend money on a course/workshop to learn the basics than I would buying all the best kit.
The photographer I assist at wedding was in a camera shop a few weeks back a guy came in to bring a 1Ds MK2 camera back as he said the pictures were soft, he had never used a DSLR only a compact camera before, some people think buying better kit makes them a better photographer.
You only have to look at some good pictures in the past, Last year I saw a number of A4 sized prints made from glass plates around a 100 years ago, the sharpness and detail was stunning.
I first picked up a camera at aged 9.
I didnt get my engineering degrees until I was 21 and 22.
I was crap at art at school apart from the year they did still life when I came top of the year. Funny that I could be crap at everything except noticing the detail, angles, shadows etc of everything in front of me.
On Friday I got a call from a mate of mine who has been a pro photographer for over 20 years, previously with own studio etc etc. We usually meet up for coffee and have a yarn every week or so and he handed me his D2X, Ipaq, G4 and said - here see if you can get these talking to each other. 20 mins later - sorted.
Maybe I just like the technical side of things
Whenever I was a software engineer it was useful to have an appreciation of how things worked in the background for that one day in a million you might actually have to know these things. Right now I have no idea how many megapixels my 1D2 has 7.9. 8.3, 9, 10, 12? no idea. I think its about 8 something but there you go.
I dont know the actual frame rate, its about 8 something? I do know however that all those megapixels and that frame rate will under certain circumstances get me a photo that wont be possible on a 6MP, 3 FPS camera, once in a while. So once in every while knowing the architecture, knowing how the sensor is put together, which colours are more sensitive, how hot pixels develop, how quickly things write to cards, and the whole mechanism of what happens from when that impulse leaves the back of my eye to the image appearing on the laptop, might just make the difference.
Then again, maybe its just me
I used to fish a lot and used to read a lot of articles about oval filament, carbon weave versus kevlar, using rubber instead of plastic lures or which particular shade of orange mayfly would go for depending on barometric conditions.
Takes all sorts.
LOL Mark .. well for a start I defy you to have a blindfold strapped on, be spun round and then asked to take a decent picture. Although, what comes out could possibly end up being an abstract or avant-garde candid ..
I think there are techie sides to all creative pursuits - and vice versa. Someone might be interested in the frequencies of a piece of music and enjoy its patterns on an oscillator, and compose music with that visual screen in mind, whereas someone else might scratch notes on a stave in a freezing garret by the light of a guttering candle and hear the whole piece in their head.
Look at the precise work of Escher, and compare it with that of someone like Pollock, or Turner.
I've got an eye for a picture, but it doesn't always necessarily follow that I can translate that into a photograph, or even that I want to. Sometimes it comes out as something else, like a painting, or a story, or a poem. Granted, it helps me if I can learn as much as I can about a camera, but if what I'm looking at doesn't grab me in some way, I'm not going to take a photograph that I'm happy with.
Neatly put, Luke! I did get wrapped up in the technical - now I push it to one side. Sadly, the artistic side remains elusive!
Edit: That's me, Suzi - carried away with the oscillations! Shame its a camera I've got!
In defence of pere Ansel (though I think he's had a malign influence on landscape photography in general), the zone system was effctive in its time when working with LF film/plates with limited exposure latitude and precise control of contrast was very necessary. Utterly tonto idea with miniature film tho where you can bracket to your heart's content... of course this is probably the sort of techie knowledge that pisses off the 'artistic'
Do we have a romantic notion of artistic ability, that there is somehow a wellspring of genius from which great art emerges effortlessly? Painters for example go through a great deal of 'techie stuff' preparing surfaces, paints and brushes etc before a stroke is laid down.
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The government's advisor on the natural environment, Natural England, has just published the long-awaited Natural Character Area profile for the Isle of Wight.Sounds dull? It isn't. NCA profiles are being compiled for the whole of England, and each one is an in-depth analysis of the landscape, wildlife and human activity within one of England's 159 Natural Character Areas. It's not an action plan but it does have some "Statements of Environmental Opportunity" which mostly prove to be longwinded ways to make some pretty obvious suggestions for priorities if we want to conserve and enhance our natural area. And given how we have done so far, obvious suggestions are not at all a bad thing. Continue reading
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Should we pay £375,000 to poke buzzards out of their nests?
Something's gone badly wrong at the Greenest Government Ever. To say I've been profoundly disappointed at the environmental performance of the Coalition – in comparison to its glowing promises – is only the start of it. But at least, up until now, it has only been the traditional environmentalist's bogeyman the Chancellor of the Exchequer who has been the boo-hiss villain happy to deride current protection of wildlife and landscapes as a "ridiculous cost" on business.
Now the foes of our native biodiversity are expanding their reach. They are optimistic enough to be openly at work through DEFRA – traditionally the department that is responsible for nature reserves, protected landscapes, biodiversity, and protected species as well as farming, food and fishing. A modest DEFRA proposal for a research project on birds of prey has caused an extraordinary backlash of criticism from a wide range of respected voices throughout the conservation field. Having read it, I can understand why. The project is not large, but the implications are. And as far as I can see there are two possible explanations, neither of which give me any comfort. Either those who proposed this idea have an alarmingly poor understanding of the role and relative importance of native species versus introduced ones; or they don't, but are confident enough to believe that any resistance to the proposal can be safely disregarded. Continue reading
Government websites: Natural England disputes DEFRA's announcement
In a previous post (Government pro-chips website batters National Parks, Naturenet 30 June 2010) I pointed out the list of government websites controlled by DEFRA which are to close, which was announced via a parliamentary question from Tom Watson MP. Now it appears that there's some internal government dispute about this, with somebody from within Natural England taking issue with the list announced in parliament.
A stroll by the beach
A few papers have picked up the latest development in Natural England's mission to open up coastal access around England. Perhaps not surprisingly, news of the death of Bobby Robson and 'blasphemous' nudie photos in a church have taken a more prominent place in the headlines… but actually, this could be pretty important. Especially for the Isle of Wight and other English counties with long coastlines.
Natural England has now assessed existing coastal access, and published indicative maps showing what they think the situation is around England. This picture is an extract. So, what does it mean? Continue reading
Natural England: former EN website was hacked
Naturenet reported on 7 April about the problems with the former English Nature website. A fortnight later and it's still broken – so what's the story? Chris Moos, Natural England's Online Communications Manager spoke exclusively to The Virtual Ranger about the problem. Continue reading
Natural England website spurns former English Nature data
Oh dear – a bit of a cock-up on the technical front over at Natural England.
Coastal right of access – what's all this about 'spreading room'?
It's been a couple of months now since Natural England announced the proposals to create a new right of access to the coast of England, similar to that which already exists in Scotland.
Secretary of State for the Environment, David Miliband has waded in and made it very clear indeed what he wants to happen. Continue reading
Natural England to recommend right of access to England's coast… and pay for it?
It seems remarkable, but just a short while after the end of the seemingly interminable hurly-burly of creating the open access land facilitated by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, Natural England are sticking their heads well and truly above the parapet and recommending that the government
…provide Natural England with the powers to deliver a new right of access to the coast… to create clear and well managed public access along the entire 4000 km length of England's coast.
This is powerful stuff. The so called 'right to roam' proposals stirred up a frenzy of complaining landowners, some with very valid objections. The final legislation, after considerable amendment, fell short of the sweeping rights that were originally envisaged. The introduction of the new rights of access have not led to the predicted catastrophes, either, so perhaps the final result was a good one.
Natural England… reading the runes
Today The Ranger attended a seminar across the water in Winchester, to talk about the biodiversity of Hampshire. Of particular interest were some of the obiter remarks by Merrick Denton-Thompson, former Hampshire County Council countryside planning supremo and a recently-appointed member of the Natural England board.
Mmm, nice logo
Merrick prudently prefaced his presentation with the proviso that it was only his personal views, and not any official statement. It's always dangerous to read too much into off-the-cuff remarks but it is true that at present any colour smoke from the chimney of Natural England is of interest, as many in the industry, like The Ranger, are watching with great interest to see the deeds as well as the words, and maybe divine which way the new organisation will jump, or indeed, whether it will just sink to its knees. The Ranger cadged a pencil from a colleague and scribbled on the back of the agenda two of the more striking things that Merrick said.
Natural England needs to be locally accountable through existing local democratic arrangements. It is not good enough to be just accountable to the Secretary-of-State.
This is an interesting proposal – and one to be expected from a time-served local authority man. However, it might have considerable merit if implemented properly. The Ranger would suggest that the Environment Agency's sometimes impotent Area Environment Group arrangements are not a good model to follow. He hopes that Merrick has in mind a more rigorous scrutiny arrangement.
We have got to do something about public perception of the environment. English Nature hadn't found the right ingredient to really spark public interest. They forgot that the public is our prime customer. We're going to have to make that connection between town and country.
That was an assertion that this ranger found quite exciting. Admitting the problem is a big step forward. EN really didn't crack this one, despite some heroic efforts – Local Nature Reserves, for example – and never actually looked as if they were going to. Merrick went on to identify the BBC Breathing Places campaign as a key example of what he meant by this. And lo, on the Natural England press release list today is a press release called "A Natural Health Service" talking about just that. Maybe this new organisation really could be doing something.
Natural England dress code guidance
A contact within Natural England sends The Ranger the following snippit which has been circulating on their internal email:
Natural England dress code guidance As part of our effort to achieve a strong and visible new identity for Natural England it has been decided that staff at all levels below the Executive Board will be issued with new NE uniforms to be worn at the office, and while attending meetings or other functions in a representative capacity. The uniforms will be durable and practical, and careful consideration has gone into their design. In order to facilitate transition to the new NE personnel structure uniforms will be colour coded according to tier. Based on the three primary colours the following scheme will be adopted. Leader Group (Team Leaders, Project Leaders, and Major Project Leaders ) " Mustard yellow Specialist Group (Principal and Senior Specialists) " Light blue Team Members (Everyone else) " Scarlet An additional corporate stylistic change has been agreed on advice from experts in the field of branding. The original NE logo has been deemed too indistinctive for an important new organisation needing to establish its credibility among a wide range of partner organisations and opinion formers. The breeze block design has, therefore, been dropped. Instead a more natural looking arrow shape based on the leaf of Hedge Bindweed Calystegia sepium has been chosen. The exact design has yet to be agreed but it is likely to incorporate a superimposed ring element to symbolise the unification of the three founding bodies. The new logo will appear on the uniform of NE staff. Photos of the new uniform in its three colour variants bearing "working draft" versions of the logo are shown on the following page. We hope you will enjoy wearing them and agree that they reflect the culture of Natural England effectively.
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Duffield, DE56 4BA
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Duffield, DE56 4BA
(01332) 840536