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Getting Started with ROSjs
From Brown University Robotics
A Viciously Short Primer on ROS
Before you can make use of ROSjs, there are a few things you need to know about ROS itself. Besides the practical stuff like installation, running, etc. (which we'll get to), it's important to know how ROS is architected and how it exposes all of the capabilities it provides.
If you're familiar with ROS, feel free to skim or skimp this section. Most of the material will be covered in more depth in the #Programming ROS from ROSjs section. On the flipside: if you're very unfamiliar with ROS, you would do well checking out the great tutorials and other documentation on ROS.org
Topics and Services
ROS exposes capabilities in one of two ways, as topics or as services. services should be very familiar to you if you've programmed before. They are very similar to Javascript's function call. services take arguments and return a response. One important difference from more vanilla functions you may have used in the past is that services always respond with (return) an object. As in most programming languages, this object may have fields and in this way a service may return almost arbitrarily complicated data.
Functions are often the dominant way of implementing logic in most programming languages, but this is not the case with ROS services (and is even less the case when using ROSjs). This is for two reasons: 1) ROS is network based (more on this later), so a service "call" often requires data go to ROS and back 2) service calls block forcing code to pause while it waits for ROS to respond.
topics are streams of objects more akin to Javascript events. You register a handler function (much as you would a listener in Javascript) and whenever a new topic object is available, the handler is called with that object as it's argument. Completing the analogy with Javascript events: just as you can "generate" Javascript events, you can "publish" topic objects which will then be processed by all of the handlers that have subscribed to them.
This is probably all getting a bit abstract, so let's look at a concrete example of using both a topic and a service.
ros.addHandler('/sensorPacket',function(msg) { if (msg.bumpLeft || msg.bumpRight) { alert('bump'); } }); ros.callService('/rosjs/subscribe','["/sensorPacket",0]',function(rsp) { alert('subscribed to /sensorPacket'); });
ros.addHandler('/sensorPacket',function(msg) { if (msg.bumpLeft || msg.bumpRight) { alert('bump'); } });
We'll try not to belabor the parallels to Javascript's addEventListener. Here a handler function is associated with the '/sensorPacket' topic. Notice that /sensorPacket is proceeded by a slash. Now whenever the ROSjs environment receives an object from the /sensorPacket topic it will be passed (as an argument named msg) to the anonymous function created here. How does the ROSjs environment tell ROS that it's interested in /sensorPacket objects? Through a service call:
ros.callService('/rosjs/subscribe','["/sensorPacket",0]',function(rsp) { alert('got response: ' + rsp); });
The service we are calling is named /rosjs/subscribe (as above, the slashes are important). We give /rosjs/subscribe its arguments in the form of a JSON object. If you are unfamiliar with JSON, you can read more about it. Here, we are manually creating a JSON object, but we could just as easily have used a JSON library to help us. The arguments are the name of the topic that we want to subscribe to: /sensorPacket and the minimum delay (in milliseconds) between topic objects that we can tolerate (in this case we don't really care). This argument can never be used to make topic objects stream in faster than they would have, but it can be used to slow them down.
You might think that because service calls block, that service responses would be in the form of a return value from the ros.callService function. However, to allow for maximum flexibility (and in keeping with the idioms of Javascript), service responses are handled by a callback as shown. This callback is mandatory and must be a valid (callable) function. Thus it's a common ROSjs idiom to define a nop function
function nop() {};
and to use it with service calls you don't particularly care about the response to
ros.callService('/soundOf','["tree falling in woods"],nop);
Notice that the /soundOf service expects only one argument, while /rosjs/subscribe expects two.
Besides being able to subscribe to a stream of objects associated with a particular topic, ROSjs can also create them. This is referred to as "publishing" to a topic.
//code that assigns the proper value to x and y ... ros.publish('/mouse','mouse_msgs/CursorPosition','{"x":' + x + ',"y":' + y + '}');
The publish function takes three arguments: 1) the topic to publish to 2) the type of the object to publish (again, we'll cover this more in-depth later) 3) the JSON form of the object to publish. Notice that once again, for the sake of making these examples self-contained we have manually created a JSON object. In real code, it would be far easier and less error prone to depend on a JSON library. Note that while the service name is proceeded by a slash, the type is not. You can try it the other way, but it won't work.
Nodes and Types
At its heart, ROS is really a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and data-sharing mechanism. ROS provides a server program, roscore, that acts a central registry for (amongst other things) topics and services. This facilitates ROS-compatible programs, called nodes, communicating with each other through named channels (topics and services). Of course, just having a /topic or /service is not enough to facilitate communication. There must me some kind of hope that the programs will understand one another. This is where types come in. In ROS, an object's structure (the organization of its fields, and the kinds of values those fields can take on) is called its type. ROS nodes can be confident in their ability to process the objects published by a particular topic because each topic is associated with a specific type. In our earlier example, we published to the /mouse topic. In this case the /mouse topic is associated with the mouse_msgs/CursorPosition type. If a node knew how to examine mouse_msgs/CursorPosition objects, it could confidently subscribe to /mouse knowing there would be no surprises in the structure of the data it receives.
While it would be next to impossible to make use of ROS without some knowledge of the types involved, with ROSjs the only time you need to explicitly handle ROS types is when publishing.
Dive into ROSjs
Enough talk about abstractions and types and whatnot. Let's move a robot from our web-browser! To get started there are a few things you'll need:
ROSjs is not specific to the materials listed here, but we do use them as our example.
Setting up your ROSjs environment
We'll assume for the moment that you already have ROS installed, and that it is installed in /opt/ros/cturtle/ . If you have a newer (or older) version of ROS or a non-binary version, make appropriate adjustments to the paths as we go along. Let's assume you are staring at a bash prompt on a Linux machine.
Source the appropriate ROS environment:
source /opt/ros/cturtle/setup.sh
now make a directory to house ROSjs and the iRobot Create
mkdir diveIn
add this directory to your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH:
export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH:/absolute/path/to/diveIn
now enter the diveIn directory and fetch both ROSjs and the irobot_create_2_1 driver
cd diveIn svn co https://brown-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/experimental/ROSjs ROSjs svn co https://brown-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/unstable/irobot_create_2_1 irobot_create_2_1
make the irobot_create_2_1 driver (you may have to type this command twice, sometimes ROS has a hard time finding freshly added packages)
rosmake irobot_create_2_1
If the make fails, it is most likely due to the lack of some prerequisite ROS package. Depending on how you installed ROS, you may need to apt-get the packages indicated by the error messages, or download and make them yourself.
Once irobot_create_2_1 builds, attach the robot to /dev/ttyUSB0 and start up the driver
rosrun irobot_create_2_1 driver.py &
If your robot is attached to a port other than /dev/ttyUSB0, you'll need to set a rosparam before using rosrun
rosparam set /brown/irobot_create_2_1/port /dev/otherPort
Finally, you're ready to run ROSjs
cd ROSjs ./ROSjs
If you don't get an error from ROSjs, you're ready to write your first ROSjs enabled webpage.
About ROSjs webpages
ROSjs listens for websocket connections on port 9090 of the machine it's started on. Since ROSjs uses websockets and not AJAX, the machine that serves the HTML content does not necessarily need to be the same machine that ROSjs is running on. With ROSjs, a direct connection is made from the web-browser viewing the page and the machine running ROSjs. If the browsing machine can reach 9090 on the machine running ROSjs, all is well. If it can't... well... not much will happen. Make routing arrangements accordingly.
One advantage of this flexibility is that you don't need a web-server to start experimenting with ROSjs, you can view a locally hosted file and everything will work just as it would if the page were served from Apache, IIS, or what-have-you.
Your First ROSjs webpage
We'll start with the following HTML skeleton

The first script tag imports the latest minified version of ROSjs. The second is where we'll define the main function called by the body onload.
The Create's basic motion is controlled by two parameters a forward velocity, x, and a angular velocity z. We'll start by defining two variables for these parameters.
var x = 0; var z = 0;
Now to create a ROSjs object. This object will be our gateway to ROS services and topics. To initialize it, we'll need the address or hostname of the machine running ROSjs.
var ros = new ROS("ws://hostname:9090");
To use this ROSjs object, we need to register three callbacks: one for when a server connection becomes closed, one for when errors occur, and one for when a connection is successfully opened.
ros.setOnClose(function (e) { document.write('connection closed
'); }); ros.setOnError(function (e) { document.write('error!
'); }); ros.setOnOpen(function (e) { document.write('connected to ROS
'); });
Here's what our webpage looks like so far:
      function main() { var x = 0; var z = 0; var ros = new ROS("ws://hostname:9090"); ros.setOnClose(function (e) { document.write('connection closed
'); }); ros.setOnError(function (e) { document.write('error!
'); }); ros.setOnOpen(function (e) { document.write('connected to ROS
'); });
Since we need a connection to ROS to do pretty much anything at all, most of the action will happen inside the OnOpen callback.
First let's define a local function that will set the Create's linear and angular velocity based on the values of x and z.
function pub() { ros.publish('/cmd_vel', 'geometry_msgs/Twist', '{"linear":{"x":' + x + ',"y":0,"z":0}, "angular":{"x":0,"y":0,"z":' + z + '}}'); }
As with our earlier examples, we are hand-crafting a JSON object. This is fine for this toy example, but in general you will want to make use of a real JSON library.
function handleKey(code, down) { var scale = 0; if (down == true) { scale = 1; } switch (code) { case 37: //left z = 1 * scale; break; case 38: //up x = .5 * scale; break; case 39: //right z = -1 * scale; break; case 40: //down x = -.5 * scale; break; } pub(); }
Now we simply register this function with the as a key event handler for the webpage body.
document.addEventListener('keydown', function (e) { handleKey(e.keyCode, true); }, true); document.addEventListener('keyup', function (e) { handleKey(e.keyCode, false); }, true);
The complete webpage looks like this:

That's really it. Change hostname to the name or IP of the machine running ROSjs, and you're good to go. Load the page in a websocket supporting browser (you can check for compatibility here). Remote teleop in less than 60 lines of HTML!
Teleop is great and all, but what about actual control? Here is a more realistic example that implements wall following.

To use this controller, place it in an html file as before. Once you've loaded it in your browser you'll need to give the script the host and port that it should connect to. You do this from the URL itself. For example, if your browser displays this address:
You would tell it to connect to 9090 on hostname by extending the URL like so:
Once the page is reporting that the controller is running, you can start it by pushing the play button on the Create. You can pause it with the advance button. Closed loop control from a web-browser!
Advanced ROSjs webpages
For the sake of clarity, our examples have done a number of things you wouldn't want to do when doing "real" work. To preserve your sanity, we highly recommend that you use a Javascript framework. ROSjs should be compatible with your favorite. Being from Brown, we like Flapjax.
Also almost essential is a JSON library. ROSjs takes service call arguments and objects to publish as JSON objects, and a library will help make generating these much simpler.
Programming ROS from ROSjs
Including the ROSjs Library
To make use of ROSjs, you must somehow include the ROSjs library in your Javascript. As shown in our previous examples, one of the easiest ways to do this is through a script tag that sources the latest version on-line.
Creating a ROSjs Object
To use ROSjs, you instantiate a ROSjs object. The constructor takes a single argument, a websocket URL.
We now have a ROSjs object referenced by the the variable ros. To make real use of ROSjs, you must also register handlers for the closing, error, and connection opening events. This is done through three functions: setOnClose, setOnError, and setOnOpen. The functions take a single argument: a handler function (taking in a single argument).
ros.setOnClose(function (e) { //pass }); ros.setOnError(function (e) { //pass }); ros.setOnOpen(function(e) { //pass });
The setOnOpen handler is where the action is, and can be thought of as the entry point for ROSjs programs.
Service Calls
ROSjs provides access to underlying ROS services and topics. It also provides some unique services of its own. These services are meant to help you manage a ROS environment from within ROSjs and provide many of the same services that the ROS command line tools do. These services are accessed exactly like "real" ROS services, so we will cover making service calls first.
A ROSjs service call takes the following form:
ros.callService('/service', JSONArg, function(resp) { //handle response });
where '/service' is a string containing the service name, JSONArg is a JSON list of arguments, and the handler function is a way of handling any response the service returns. All three arguments are required, even the handler. If you don't take about the response, you will still need to supply a handler that does nothing.
Another important point is that the JSONArg list is always a list. If you are passing no arguments, you should pass an empty list. If you are passing in a single argument, you should still wrap it in a list.
ROSjs Services
ROSjs provides a number of services itself, they are accessed exactly as you would a ROS service.
Service Performance
As in ROS, service calls block. In ROSjs, there is an additional performance disadvantage. Calls to services through ROSjs block not just the calling code, but the network connection. This means that, amongst other things, while a service call is being processed no new topic objects will be received. Use services sparingly and try to use them in the "initialization" portion of your code.
Topic Handlers
Topics are handled in ROSjs via the registration of handler callbacks. First you register a callback with the local ROSjs object. You then use a service call to announce to the ROSjs server your interest in that topic.
var bump = false; ros.addHandler('/sensorPacket',function(msg) { if (msg.bumpLeft || msg.bumpRight) { bump = true; } else { bump = false; } }); ros.callService('/rosjs/subscribe','["/sensorPacket",0]',function(e) {});
Notice that since we aren't particularly interested in the result of the call to /rosjs/subscribe, we pass an empty handler. When a new topic object is received it will be passed as an argument to the topic handler function. For details about the format of this object see #Types and JSON.
/rosjs/subscribe arguments
Besides the topic name, you may have noticed the 0 argument in the above example. This is the minimum amount of time the ROSjs server should wait between streaming objects of this type. If you wanted to receive a maximum of ten /sensorPacket objects per second, you could have used this call instead.
This instructs the server to wait 100 milliseconds between objects.
The pause factor argument is mandatory, but there is another---optional---argument set you can use when dealing with topics that contain images. By default, ROSjs detects standard ROS images inside objects and changes them into data URI's. If you would like to control the the way in which this occurs, you should make the relevant subscription call appear as follows.
This call request that the images be changed into 128x96 jpeg images at 100 percent quality. You can request images of any size and quality (keep bandwidth in mind though). However, ROSjs only supports two encodings: png and jpeg.
Publishing with ROSjs is fairly straight-forward.
The tricky bit is knowing the appropriate type-string and making sure that the JSON encoded object you pass as the last argument matches the expected structure of this type. Passing any other kind of structure will result in undefined behavior. For more details, see the next section. Again, remember that while topic and service names are proceeded by a slash, types are not. Types may well contain slashes, but they do not begin with them.
Types and JSON
Keep in mind that this image->data-uri transformation only applies to reception. If for some reason you want to pass an image object up to the server, you will need to follow the same binary encoding rules as does python.
You can discover the type-strings and structures of services and topics you're interested in via the supplied ROSjs services or via the command line utilities included with ROS. For the most part, you can ignore types, with the important exception of publishing.
ROSjs uses a type-discovery mechanism that requires that at least one topic object has been published to a topic before ROSjs can subscribe to it. For this reason, if you use ROSjs with a node such as launch (at the brown ros pkg), you may need to introduce delays into your program so that there is time for at least one topic to be published. This restriction does not apply to publishing (which is why you have to provide a type-string when publishing).
Next Steps
ROSjs is in a very early stage of development. We hope that you find the idea of using Javascript and other web-technologies as exciting as we do and help issue bug reports, documentation corrections, and suggestions to help us make it as great as possible.
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Kinston's girls hadn't played on the road against a team with lofty credentials since the last week of December, yet the third-seeded Vikings traveled to No. 2 Pittsboro Northwood on Friday and knocked off a team many had said could win a state title, 65-57, and withstood a late rally to do it.
The Chargers used a late 8-0 run to get to within four which forced Quinerly to call a timeout, thinking he needed to settle down his squad. Nope. They looked at each other and without saying a word knew what they needed to do.
Friday's eight-point win was the closest margin of victory for the Vikings (24-4) since they won at Greene Central 61-54 on Feb. 8.
"They just have that look in their eyes," Quinerly said during Monday's Eastern Regionals press conference. "They want this, and they know what it takes to get it."
The same can be said for the boys, who, after having been to the regionals the six seasons previously, act like they've never played in a regionals tournament before.
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The boys, making their much-documented seventh consecutive trip to the regionals, have lost only 26 times in their last 214 games since the current run of success began with the 2006-07 season. Folks, that's winning almost 88 percent of the time.
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This month I am talking about maintaining a product, not equipment. With chemical costs always on the rise, this tip can potentially save you thousands of dollars over the course of a year.
When it comes to chemicals, maintaining the inventory at the car wash is an important factor. To begin, you need to identify each chemical that is used in your wash. Then enter this information into a list. The list should identify four (4) things; product type, amount of product on hand, par levels and amount to order (see example #1 at the end of this tip). Par level is the amount you should try to keep on hand at all times. When developing this list, take into account a product that might be used to clean equipment and walls, and keep extra inventory for this purpose. If there is not enough of the product used for cleaning available, employees tend to use the product they have the most of, often a more expensive one. Once you have a list of the products, and the levels that are required, the usage needs to be tracked. An easy way to track usage is to mark the date the drum went on-line, and every night at closing mark ending levels with a permanent marker.
The first step in determining the chemical cost per car is to take inventory. This needs to be done on a monthly basis. Generally speaking, 12 inches of depth equal 21 gallons of liquid in a 55 gallon drum. At the end of the month, measure the amount of liquid remaining in the opened drums. (55 Gallon Drum= Inches of liquid remaining times 224 divided by 128 = Gallons Remaining and for a 30 Gallon Drum= Inches of liquid remaining times 155 divided by 128 = Gallons Remaining). Count the full drums to determine the amount of each product that is currently on hand. Then you need to look at all the purchases that were made for the month. Calculate the previous inventory counts, plus any purchases, minus the current inventory. This can be represented as B = Previous inventory, P = Purchases, C = Current inventory. (B+P-C=Chemical Costs). This number will be the amount that was spent on chemicals for the month. Next, the amount spent on chemicals is divided by the number of cars washed for the month. This formula will give you a true cost per car. It is helpful to have an Excel spreadsheet that this information can be plugged into with self-calculating formulas (to receive a complimentary copy of the spreadsheet email your request to email@example.com and one will be sent to you).
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JKhedrup wrote:Do you mean 400€ per each monastic?
Yes.Received as a benefit in kind, which would be the basis for these calculations, I assume?
I don't think so. Monks at either Nalanda or Plum Village have no base salary- so there would be no basis for a benefit in kind negotiation. Indeed, most have no salary at all. None of them claim benefits from the French state, either. This is not permitted at Nalanda, for example, as they realize the problematic ethical questions it would present.
There is a website that explains the CAVIMAC, but of course it is in French.- Tous les ministres des cultes qui ne dépendent pas d'un autre régime obligatoire de protection sociale doivent obligatoirement être affiliés à la " Caisse d'Assurance Vieillesse, Invalidité et Maladie des Cultes " (CAVIMAC).
La CAVIMAC (qui remplace la CAMAC et la CAMAVIC) est un organisme de Sécurité sociale à compétence nationale chargé " d'assurer le recouvrement des cotisations et le versement des prestations d'assurance maladie et maternité, d'assurance vieillesse et d'assurance invalidité ". (Article 71 de la loi 99-641 du 27 juillet 1999).
Now, my information is 3 years old so they may have come to some kind of agreement. But at the time 400 Euros a month was what was recommended. If people are interested I can check when I am in France next month.
I have stayed in France several times, but it is about twenty to thirty years ago, and I have forgotten
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"Benefit in kind" means for example food, clothes, lodging, medicine, art and study materials, services like cleaning and washing of clothes, and any means of transportation. All of these are seen as a form of income by the state authorities, this form of income is called benefit in kind.
These same questions should exist it all other countries too, it is not a concern only in France, i.e. pension contributions, health insurance, taxation & income of buddhist monks and nuns.
As far as I know of the modern buddhist monks in european countries, they are officially and legally students, unemployed or employees.
Is France the only country (in Europe) in which there are buddhist monks and nuns in legal terms?


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The Syncro 10 is the perfect pack for a short ride or hike. The 3 liter Hydraulics reservoir is enough to last you a few hours. Airspeed suspension is incorporated in the hydration pack. A light wire allow frame with a 3D mesh backpanel to help promote breathability. Breathability keeps you cool and fresh, allowing you to stay out longer.
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I have used this only for road though I bought it for mountain (my MTB is being repaired). Over all I have found this to be a good pack that dies what I was looking for I bought this model for the back panel airflow. It had mesh stretched over a grande that keeps the body of the pack off your back for the most part allowing good cooling. Makes a huge difference.
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I got the m/l and it has room for my wrenches, multitool, pump, extra tubes, tire levers, wallet, phone, keys, gel packs, power bar s even when the reservoir is filled to max. I could probably get my gloves and windbreaker in there too and would still have exterior pockets to use. So it is great for a 3 hour ride, but if you need space for equipment and bulkier (ie pants and coat) outer layer you might get a bigger pack.
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JON CARDINELLI says the All Blacks will beat the Wallabies this Saturday to secure the Tri-Nations title.
After that mauling in Melbourne, the Wallabies will be hurting. Don't underestimate the damage that 49-28 loss did to their psyche. Christchurch beckons, and another figurative and literal beating is likely.
Their forwards were outmuscled at the Ethiad Stadium, and this week, the benching of Stephen Moore won't help their gainline or set-piece aspirations. The Saia Faingaa selection may add to their mobility, but mobility means nothing when you're losing the battle at the collisions and scrums.
Will Genia isn't as potent behind a losing pack and was well watched by the defence last week. The Wallabies are also missing Quade Cooper's ingenuity and running threat in the flyhalf channel. Matt Giteau doesn't take on the opposition defence like Cooper, and it's because of this that the All Blacks have had an easier time of stifling the Aussie surge.
Some call it cheating, New Zealanders call it mastery. Richie McCaw will continue his dominance in this year's Tri-Nations, ruling the breakdown in spite of the plucky David Pocock. That Australian back row aren't done any favours by the five up front, and as a unit, they are lacking balance. Richard Brown has been a poor ball-carrying option thus far, and will be smashed backward once again.
Anthony Faingaa was impressive in the Super 14, but is in for a difficult Test debut in Christchurch. The All Blacks forwards should have the upper hand, and Dan Carter is in sublime form. Carter's catalytic distribution should allow Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith to maximise their running talents, and the Wallabies' new midfield of Faingaa and Adam Ashley-Cooper will find them difficult to contain.
The All Blacks are in rampant mood, and whether the game stays tight or grows loose, they should win comfortably. They've been brutally effective when they've retained possession or when probing for territory. If the Aussies kick poorly or concede the ball at the breakdown, the awesome All Blacks counterattack has the class to convert opportunities into points.
I called the All Blacks to win by 10 last week, a prediction that may have come to pass had the Wallabies finished the game with 15 men. This week, the All Blacks are at least five points better for starting at home. It'll be a fourth straight win in the competition and secure them the Tri-Nations title and the Bledisloe Cup.
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All Blacks – 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Joe Rokocoko, 10 Dan Carter, 9 Piri Weepu, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Tom Donnelly, 4 Brad Thorn, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock.
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Australia – 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 James O'Connor, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Anthony Faingaa, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Matt Giteau, 9 Will Genia, 8 Richard Brown, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom (c),5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Dean Mumm, 3 Salesi Ma'afu, 2 Saia Faingaa, 1 Benn Robinson.
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Fargo, ND (SportsNetwork.com) - North Dakota State starting offensive lineman Zack Johnson will miss the 2014 season after undergoing knee surgery this week.
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In this thread about dual-spec, one poster makes the common claim that certain mechanics are "crutches" which weaken guilds who use them. Rhaina posts a beautiful response that struck me as being so perfectly right that I took the liberty of reposting it here:
If you lack one leg, a a pair of crutches is an indispensable possession that allows you to move about in the world.
If you have two perfectly good legs, a crutch is unnecessary.
If you have two perfectly good legs, but you injured one, a crutch can be a temporary necessity. Eventually, you don't need it anymore. In my experience, the physical therapist thinks I don't need it before I do. In my brother's experience, the physical therapist is trying desperately to get him to keep using it for a week longer than he thinks he needs to.
I don't think it's at all reasonable for a person who can walk without a crutch to sneer at the one-legged person for whom the crutch is mobility and independence.
There are raids where intentional use of dual speccs makes the raid capable of meetings its specific goals. There are raids where relying on dual speccs is unnecessary and just causes angst for no good reason, and may even make the raid less capable overall.
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If you read the forums on colleagues' sites lots of users lament the selling of their old full-frame Canon EOS 5D, Nikon D700 or even their bulky Nikon D3 or D3s. Practically every user, so it seems, says their pictures from those old models had something special that the newer models lack. Sony think they may be on to something and have introduced the A7S a full-frame model with a newly-developed 12.2-Mpix CMOS sensor. Read on to find out well this new model performs?
Following on from our series of selecting the best lenses for the Nikon D800 with its potential for massively detailed images from the 36Mpix sensor, we've now turned our attention to that camera's younger sibling, the 24Mpix D600.
Announced in 2012, the Nikon D800 is the current undisputed king of DxOMark, with results that eclipse every other camera from all other manufacturers. However, with so much resolution on tap, the question is, which lenses should you use to make the best of what you've got? The DxOMark labs have tested 61 different lenses on the D800 to bring you an unparalleled resource of which lenses are best and which should be avoided. To make it easy to follow, we have broken the reviews down into sections so you can concentrate on the lenses that are important to you. This first section will give you an overview of the D800. We will follow this with a review of the standard focal length lenses, then the telephoto lenses and super-zooms and finally there will be a wide-angle review.
The high-end Sony RX1 was one of the most eagerly awaited cameras in our labs and while we assessed the camera's full-frame sensor early in January, we've decided to publish the results of the Zeiss-branded Sonnar 2/35 T* lens. Readers will already be aware that it's fixed, and can't be purchased separately, but we can test it just as we would any other, albeit on one camera body only. Is this "fast", moderately wide-angle lens an outstanding performer worthy of the Carl Zeiss name? Read on to find out.
Launched in January 2012 the Nikon AF-S 85mm f/1.8G prime lens offers a great focal length for portraiture and a wide maximum aperture for low-light photography. Compatible with both Nikon FX and DX lens mounts this latest version of Nikon's popular short telephoto prime also features a built in autofocus motor making it full functionality on all Nikon DSLR cameras. At $500 it boasts a great price too, so if you're after a 85mm portrait lens this could be the one for you.
The Nikon D4 spent only a few days in the top spot for DxOMark sensor results before being dethroned by the Nikon D800, which is a complete success in every sensor-related respect:
In the course of the past several weeks, both Canon and Nikon unveiled their professional digital reflex cameras for the next two years to come. With the D4, Nikon has updated a number of points in its pro camera body which cumulatively lead to an entirely new generation of SLR camera.
Announced at PhotoKina 2010, the Zeiss 35mm 1.4 lenses for Canon and Nikon are arriving on the market and have now been tested on DxOMark.
With these new lenses, the German brand extends its already extensive line of fast wide-angle lenses such as the Carl Zeiss Distagon T 28mm f/2 ZE Canon and the Carl Zeiss Distagon T 28mm f/2 ZF2 Nikon.
Launched in spring 2010, the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 16-35mm f/4G ED VR was a very good surprise for Nikon enthusiasts who previously had only a choice between the very good but expensive (and heavy) AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED and the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED.
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With a DxOMark Sensor score of 88 points, the Nikon D3X takes the lead for dxomark.com rankings as of January 14, 2009. It shows very good color depth (24.7bits) and max Dynamic Range (13.7bits), with a somewhat lower Low-Light ISO value at about 1990 ISO (all 3 values in "Print" mode).
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Adrian Weinbrecht is an Australian-born professional photographer living in London. He has been shooting for 21 years. He says: "To be successful as an advertising photographer, you need to be positive, resourceful and command a presence. You also have to be a great photographer, but there are many great photographers who simply don't get noticed because they don't have the personality to go with it."
You know when you're working with a good dancer by all the little things… the way the foot is pointed or how the position is held, mid-air, until the last possible moment before hitting the ground. These are the things that make a big difference when shooting dance."
Insight Adrian Weinbrecht is an Australian-born professional photographer living in London. "I've been shooting for 21 years," said Adrian with a smile, "even though I look much younger." To be successful as an advertising photographer, you need to be positive, resourceful and command a presence. You also have to be a great photographer, but there are many great photographers who simply don't get noticed because they don't have the personality to go with it. That doesn't seem to be a problem for Adrian! "I considered studying law, but when I looked at older lawyers I decided that this wasn't the life for me. I had always been passionate about pictures, so I walked into a local studio one day and was offered a job on the spot as an apprentice." Adrian studied photography part-time at Mt Lawley College, Perth, with esteemed Australian educators such as Brian Barrow and Mike Taylor, and expanded his experience by working in a pro lab, a city wedding studio and finally in a commercial studio as an assistant and studio manager.
By the age of 23 he had saved enough money either to put a deposit on a house or to travel overseas. "I believed I could go to Europe and in two or three years of assisting learn what would take me 10 years shooting in Australia. I had no intention of staying away from Australia, of course." That's not quite how things turned out. After gaining experience in Switzerland, Germany and England, he returned to Perth in 1996 to start his own studio, but it wasn't long before he found himself back in London and married. "Assisting in Europe and working with a number of different photographers gave me very solid foundation, not just in photography but in business philosophy and methodology. I also did a short business course because my observations showed me that those who succeeded weren't necessarily the best photographers, but without exception they were certainly the best business people." Today Adrian shoots for a diverse range of clients (including Sony, Unilever, HSBC, UBS, Lucozade, Mazda, Land Rover, 3 Mobile and a range of publications), yet it appears his passion is for dance photography. "A few years ago, a PR friend approached me, showered me with flattery, told me she had no money and asked if I would photograph dancer and choreographer, Cathy Marston. Cathy had been with the Royal Ballet and was starting a new project for which she needed some photos. The job sounded like fun and, having always been interested in form and movement, I said why not."
The Dancer The association with Cathy Marston provided several opportunities and Adrian developed his approach with each new assignment. The first photographs were taken in the studio with Cathy in a black dress and striking unbelievable dance moves. To accommodate her movement, Adrian used only one strip light horizontally, placed high above so the dancer could jump up and forward, without feeling restricted by the light heads. With this introduction, Adrian discovered that he loved dance photography. Cathy also loved the first set of images so much that she returned a year later, this time with a group of dancers. For the second session, Adrian created a more involved lighting set up. Used as promotional photos for The Cathy Marston Project, the shoot took place again in Adrian's home studio, a relatively small space, but ample in size for the dancers. "I often shoot a little wide because this way you can give the dancers space to move, and of course shooting on medium format you can crop afterwards with no problem."
Adrian is an advocate for Phase One medium format digital backs, using P30 and P45+ backs, although by now he may have moved into a P65+. The quality and dynamic range of the files is ideally suited to his dramatic studio lighting, holding both shadow and highlight detail, plus all the nuances and texture of the skin and clothing. "On this occasion I used several lights positioned behind and to the sides of the dancer, creating an outline around Martina to contrast against a black background. I really wanted to show a lot of shape and I think this was achieved with the modelling you can see in her arms and legs." The outfits were put together by Turkish fashion designer Bora Aksu the weekend before the shoot – he was a friend of Cathy's and, Adrian acknowledged, the outfits were very beautiful. Adrian's years of studying martial arts helped him to relate to the form and movement of dance, and Cathy obviously liked his work because when she was offered the position of Creative Director for the Berne Ballet, Adrian found himself on a shoot in Switzerland with a twist.
Lake Thun Wanting to produce something quite different to standard studio work, Adrian thought of taking the dancers outdoors. "I flew to Switzerland and scouted a number of places, but when I returned a couple of weeks later for the shoot, the weather had closed in and I ended up photographing the dancers in the studio." However, he continued with the location idea, photographing each dancer so he or she could be seamlessly stripped into his outdoor backgrounds. For instance, the dancer at Lake Thun is holding the most incredible pose, high above a blue lake with her head turned back towards a bright, blazing sun. "The location was photographed midmorning in August with a summer feeling to the light and the location. When I took the exposure, I bracketed several stops, but kept the aperture constant. I exposed for the sun, for the mid-tones and for the shadow areas. I mean, you already have the most amazing dynamic range with the medium format backs, but when you combine three different exposures, what you have is nothing short of sensational. In the finished file there's detail everywhere."
Back in the studio, Adrian adjusted his lighting to mimic the sunlight under which he photographed the lake. Each shoot might last only five minutes and Adrian marks up a square on the studio floor to give the dancers an area within which to work, rather than a precise position. "I also needed to take into account the camera height and angle to ensure that the dancer would look like she really was jumping off the pier. The lights were angled to produce a strong highlight down the edge of her legs, just as the sun would have done. "Before we began, I showed the dancer the background image and explained that we wanted something that didn't look like a typical dance movement. We didn't want a classical pose from the Nutcracker, rather a deconstruction of what the dancers have learned in order to produce a more contemporary feeling. "It's pretty simple stuff as long as you think it all through." Adrian uses Elinchrom lighting and says he owns just about every accessory and light shaper they make. And shooting with studio flash means there is a short pause between exposures while the floor packs re-charge, so after the dancer jumps, there is time to re-balance, ready for the next movement. It's not a matter of shooting with a DSLR firing at 10 frames per second, rather Adrian watches the dancer and with a little practice can nail the peak moment. He would take no more than twenty or thirty shots in a session. "Normally I only direct dancers when something's not working. I like to see what they can come up with before I take over – maybe what they do on their own will be even better than what I imagined."
A Matter of Multiples Shooting single dancers can be challenging enough, but capturing two, three or more at the same time is more interesting still, especially the lighting and timing. The light has to be broad in coverage and suitable for a range of different dance positions. And then there's the small matter of synchronising the dancers. "It's not as complicated as it sounds. I just count to three and the dancers jump. I suggest they're careful and don't kick or punch each other (it can happen), because the strongest compositions are usually made when the dancers are close together. However, this is what they do for a living and usually it doesn't take too many shots to get it right." Adrian says he doesn't believe in working tethered for dance photography because he feels it changes the dynamics of the shoot. "I want the focus to be on what's happening in front of the camera, not the computer screen at the back of the studio. I also like downloading the photos from a card because this means I have the data in two places and I never over-write a card on the same day. "However this isn't to say the dancers don't get to see what I'm shooting. During a break we may show them the images on the back of the camera so they can see what's happening, but I find that you don't have to direct good dancers much at all. I don't mean to make it sound easier than it is, but typically professional dancers move really well and understand what you're trying to achieve." While Adrian admits some aspects of his images can be happy accidents, like the juxtaposition of dancers or the flow of a costume, by paying attention to the lighting and equipment he uses, he's able to maximize whatever he's given. "There are no rules for shooting or lighting dance photography. Every situation is different and calls for a different solution."
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