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One of the things you hear about a lot when people are talking about lenses is the focal length of a lens. But what is it? And why does it matter?
If you've ever wondered what this distance was, you might have looked it up on Wikipedia or similar, and you'll have been met with the extremely unhelpful "When a photographic lens is set to infinity, its rear nodal point is separated from the sensor or film, at the focal plane, by the lens's focal length. Objects far away from the camera then produce sharp images on the sensor or film, which is also at the image plane."
Did you follow that? Yeah, me neither, and I do this stuff for a living. Let's simplify this hugely… When the light travels through your camera, it's flipped upside-down:
As an aside, this flipping-upside-down is why a SLR camera needs to have a Pentaprism (the bulge at the top of your camera) — this flips the image rightside-up again:
Anyway, I digress. As you can see from the drawing, when two lines intersect, they have to cross at some point. In optics, this crossing point is known as a "nodal point". The distance from this point to your imaging sensor is your 'focal length':
The Focal length of a lens describes how wide its field of view is, and this, in turn, is directly proportional to how 'wide' a lens is. We'll talk more about 'wide' and 'telefocus' in just a moment, but let's take a look at focal lengths first.
Imagine if the place the rays cross is close to the imaging sensor. This would make an object appear small in the photograph:
Now, imagine that the place the rays cross is further away from the imaging sensor. This would make the object appear much bigger:
As you can see, a low focal length creates a wide angle of view, which is why lenses with low focal lengths are known as "wide angle" lenses. The opposite is also true: A long focal length creates a narrow angle of view; these lenses are known as "telephoto" lenses.
We've talked about focal lengths, and I've hinted at the fact that some lenses can have more than one focal length. The very first lenses all had only a single focal length, but then, the clever engineers started thinking "wouldn't it be nifty if a single lens could have several focal lengths?" In other words: Wouldn't it be fantastic if you could take photos of big things that are close to you (such as buildings and landscapes), or perhaps small things that are far away (birds, or people running on a football field) all with the same lens?
The science boffins came up with a way of changing the configuration of photographic lenses so it became possible to move the nodal point (as you'll remember, that's the point where the image flips upside down inside the lens) closer or further away from the imaging sensor. By doing that, they created a variable focal length lens, or a 'zoom' lens, as we like to call it today:
When zoom lenses were invented, they needed another word for a non-zoom lens – so they became known as 'prime' lenses.
Learn more – This article is an except from Haje's epic tome covering just about everything you want to know about lenses.
Haje Jan Kamps is a prolific photography blogger who has written a small stack of books about photography. He also developed the Triggertrap camera trigger and has been known to travel the world a bit. If you're of the tweeting kind, try him on @Photocritic!
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Does a campaign poster "supporting" the Affordable Care Act from his office mean that House Speaker John Boehner has changed his mind on the health care law?
Not really, but the Ohio Republican's staff have created a poster of faux support, mocking a Health and Human Services Department contest that calls for youth-created ads to raise awareness on the ACA.
Posted on the speaker's website, the poster pulls out a quote from President Barack Obama defending the law in which he said that those who want to do so will be able to keep their existing health insurance, a quote the poster calls "the promise."
In reality, the poster says, "7 million people will lose or drop their coverage as a result of Obamacare," citing a Congressional Budget Office report from February 2013.
Those 7 million are expected to come specifically from employment-based coverage and many of them, the CBO anticipates, will be joining the insurance exchanges that the ACA setup instead.
The contest is sponsored by the Center for Community Change, an advocacy group for low-income individuals, in conjunction with Health and Human Services. Called the Healthy Young America Video Contest, it offers cash prizes totaling $30,000 for a video, song or animation that encourages young people to sign up on a health care exchange.
A statement accompanying the Boehner poster cites a variety of news coverage critical of the law, including the threat of rising premiums and family members being removed from plans.
To avoid massive premium increases, the Obama administration needs at least 7 million people to sign up for the exchanges, according to estimates from the CBO. The administration is pushing for at least 2.7 million of those individuals to be young people and has dedicated millions of dollars to the task.
Created by Boehner's digital communications director, Caleb Smith, and by Don Seymour, the deputy communications director, the poster would not actually be eligible for the contest, were they to enter it. Contest rules prohibit federal employees from creating an ad "within the scope of his or her employment." In addition, entries must be songs, animations or videos, not static posters.
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Hello all,
As part of the 2.1 work we are reconsidering the themes we should include within the release package: we want to make it hold by default only one theme, the default theme, and have all other themes of interest developed as official themes outside the package.
We're pretty sure this is the way to take, to allow future separate release schedule, and at this time Ema is already working to take Core out of his 2.1 work repository, submitting his changes further, to enter the official repos.
To be honest, I think this is best, and I intend to make these changes in the official packages for 2.1: the SMF release package should contain the default theme itself, while others are (they really are) custom themes. Feel free to shoot me on this one, if you hate it. :)
Other themes, legacy themes such as Classic, Babylon, and Core, should be updated in the measure of our possibilities, as long as the community needs them, however, worked on in their own repositories, packaged separately as well, with possibly slightly different requirements than SMF itself (i.e. supported browsers), and released on the theme site or downloads site on their own. The same goes for newer themes, we may make, developed by our developers, customizers or other contributors, that we may be able in the future to make available to our community as official themes, under an Open License and maintained by us.
However, we need to make sure that the legacy themes still needed by the community are further developed, updated to newer versions, tested on the major browsers, etc.
This is the intention, and making them have their own release schedule is meant to serve it: different and more people can take part to them, fixing them and updating them (without depending on a SMF release) when needed and ready. And we need your help with it. If you're a theme designer, you can help by submitting your fixes, improvements, or ideas, for these themes, any contribution is very appreciated! If you're an admin wanting to use one of these themes on your 2.0 site, you can help testing it, and reporting issues with it. (please make sure to always include the browser in the report). If you just have some spare time, you can test it on your local site, and let us know issues with it.
Classic theme
Yabb Classic update for 2.0.
Once it passes a bit of community review (feel free to check it out!), it will be on the customize site, for our users to have for their forums. IchBin also intends to upload it on Github, in the official Classic theme repository:
Classic theme repository.
If people need it for 2.1 as well, and may be interested in it, please feel free to tell, and to contribute to it any way you see fit.
Babylon theme
Babylon is in a worse situation. We have not updated it for 2.0, unfortunately, as yet. If you are interested to help with it, or perhaps you have already worked on it for your own site, please do contribute your fixes. We need your assistance and welcome your contributions!
I have made a repository for Babylon theme also available now to the community, please find it at:
Babylon theme repository.
Notes on open development
For interested contributors, you may want to note: we are starting to use the Github site for more of our projects, mirroring them on our internal repositories, and we will continue to do so more extensively: the Github site offers very good tools for development, using Git versioning system (to which we have converted our internal repositories), and a set of site facilities for looking at the code, issue tracking, diff-ing, etc, which few have. We have decided to not try any longer to do everything ourselves for the infrastructure we need, instead use when possible and as appropriate, the facilities of the Github site.
More importantly, I really don't want to see us continuing to work on our projects/subprojects (official themes, as well as others) in our closed environment, unavailable and unreachable for our community. While the transition to an open development environment involves quite a number of projects/subprojects (themes, converters, scripts, official mods, smCore, and of course SMF itself, among others), workflow changes and setup differences, it is underway and will continue to happen.
Allow me to also note that the Github site has a very good help on how to set it up to get the code, and how to use the site for contributing to projects, that you may find of use, if you wish to contribute to these - or other - of our projects. I will actually detail also in another blog, more, on the Git versioning system, Github site, and other projects we already have or are setting up on Github site.
Core theme
On Core further updates (for 2.1), I haven't made the repository yet; you'll find it ASAP on the same location under Simple Machines account on Github site. Core is included in the SMF 2.0 release package, as legacy theme. For SMF 2.1, however, I don't think it should be included, as said before, but available separately instead. As far as we can tell, there's a low usage of the Core theme for 2.0 forums already - but there is an usage -, and we would try to fix and update it, for the next version of SMF.
Curve theme
Because Curve as the current 2.0 default theme is changing, and people are working to designs that arguably may make the new default theme a different theme, we will have to see if people will need both for their 2.1 forums. I'm not ready to answer this yet. Either way, on this matter, I'll make sure we present them to the community, first.
Excuse the rather quick writing of this blog. And please, as always, do let me know your feedback and thoughts.
Well, with limited time & team members - this is the one of the best decision can be made by team.
I must say dropping some themes to community ... well we can see some different works and improvements that's for sure :)
Doctor Deejay:
I have no idea how I could miss this topic. o_O But good news team :) I'm going to miss Core as a default theme, but I'm sure the 2.1 default theme will be awesome :)
I too am disappointed that Core is being dropped from the package, as its the one I use (actually, force upon our users).
I hope this means it doesn't get forgotten about when it becomes community developed.
--- Quote from: IamTheBoy on September 08, 2012, 05:04:20 PM ---I too am disappointed that Core is being dropped from the package, as its the one I use (actually, force upon our users).
I hope this means it doesn't get forgotten about when it becomes community developed.
--- End quote ---
Well, as much as (i think) dev team hates dropping something but we have to understand that they are lacking time so they have to focus on something.
All those themes are open to anyone so i think people can fork it and develop further open PR to it.
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Told by two families that a visiting priest was suspected of molesting their children in 1988, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles did not immediately notify police. Instead, Cardinal Roger Mahony's right-hand man alerted the priest -- a heads-up that allowed him to flee the country for Mexico.
He remained in the priesthood there for another 21 years, allegedly continuing to molest. He has denied the accusations and remains a fugitive.
Newly released church documents show the behind-the-scenes machinations of top officials within the Los Angeles archdiocese making decisions on how to deal with pedophile priests, hindering police investigations and saying, in private, something completely different than what they said in public.
Mahony, one of the most powerful men in the Catholic Church in America at the time, received constant updates on molesting priests and sometimes gave orders on how to deal with cases, including once telling subordinates to deny a police request for a list of altar boys. In at least one case, minute details like retirement benefits were discussed for an admitted molester.
On Saturday, Mahony faced a deposition, answering questions on his handling of the abuse scandal for the first time since the documents' release.
He will journey next to Rome to join the conclave to decide the next pope -- a decision that has stirred controversy among advocates of abuse victims and many Catholics.
Anthony De Marco, an attorney who has spent decades representing abuse victims, said the newly released documents surprised even him, because they show "how frequently there was correspondence back and forth between Cardinal Mahony and his top assistants and others after a priest was accused."
"We know a lot more about his conduct and his words now than we ever have, and I believe that's going to make for a much more thorough deposition," said De Marco, ahead of the deposition he was scheduled to lead.
The archdiocese had fought for years against the documents' being made public. But a judge ordered the release of the material -- more than 12,000 pages that detail the extent of sexual abuse within the archdiocese dating back to the 1930s.
"I find these files to be brutal and painful reading," Archbishop Jose Gomez said in rebuking Mahony, his predecessor.
Still, Gomez supports Mahony on his journey to Rome, where he will join the papal conclave in the Sistine Chapel to choose the next pope. In a letter to priests within the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Gomez asked them "to pray for Cardinal Mahony as he fulfills this sacred duty as Cardinal Elector."
"I am confident that Cardinal Mahony's accomplishments and experience in the areas of immigration, social justice, sacred liturgy, and the role of the laity in the Church will serve the College of Cardinals well," Gomez said.
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The case of the Rev. Nicolas Aguilar-Rivera is a microcosm of the larger abuse crisis within the church. It was expected to be at the heart of the deposition.
At a time when the archdiocese was widening its base within the ever-growing Latino community in Southern California, Aguilar-Rivera came to the United States from Mexico, in March 1987. Aguilar-Rivera's bishop in Mexico had asked the Los Angeles archdiocese to take him in.
The archdiocese welcomed him and found a spot for him in two parishes where parents trusted him with their children, unsupervised.
"He even used his status as a newcomer, his need to learn English, as his ruse for getting children alone," said Terry McKiernan, founder of the church watchdog group BishopAccountability.org. "It's one of the most extreme combinations of devout Catholic people very open to a priest, very respectful of him, and the callousness and carelessness of hierarchy on both sides of the border about the dangers that this priest posed."
McKiernan added, "This is a man who was a total predator, whose entire life and being seemed to be focused on abusing children."
Once in the United States, Aguilar-Rivera was first sent to work at Our Lady of Guadalupe, a church with a largely Mexican-American population in East Los Angeles. The bishop for that area, Juan Arzube, Mahony's vicar general for the San Gabriel Region, had once been accused of molestation and often lobbied on behalf of molesting priests, arguing they deserved to be forgiven, the documents show.
Arzube denied molesting any children himself, but admitted under deposition to being alone with altar boys on many occasions in his rectory apartment. His name was part of a massive civil lawsuit settled with accusers in 2007.
Arzube's cavalier attitude toward sexual abuse is summed up in a 1980 document in which he lobbied for reinstatement of a priest who had been stripped of his duties, for a second time, because he molested altar boys. "How many priests are there completely guiltless over a period of 10 years?" said Arzube, who died on Christmas Day in 2007 at age 89.
The first inkling of Aguilar-Rivera's alleged -actions in America came on Friday January 8, 1988, when two families -- "all trustworthy people" -- informed their pastor that they believed their children had been molested. The priest, in turn, told Thomas Curry, the vicar of clergy and Mahony's second in command.
One incident "happened at Christmas when Father visited the other family," Curry told Mahony in a letter dated January 10, 1988. "There was a good deal of drinking, and the family asked him to stay. He slept in the room with the children and is supposed to have gotten into bed with one of the boys that night."
The principal of the boys' school, Curry noted, had been informed of the accusations and "will be obliged to report it to police."
But the church didn't respond by first alerting police. Instead, Curry met with Aguilar-Rivera at the church the day after the allegations were made, a Saturday morning, and informed him that a police investigation would be launched.
"I offered to find a place for him to live until he could make other arrangements, but he volunteered that he would stay with his sister here and leave for Mexico on Monday or Tuesday of this week," Curry wrote Mahony.
"... He asked that his bishop not be told, and I said that would not be possible. I told him the charges as I knew them, although I did not give the names of the families. He denied all, although he admitted that there was a good deal of drinking at Christmas. I told him that it was likely the accusations would be reported to the police and that he was in a good deal of danger."
The documents show no suggestion on Curry's or Mahony's part that Aguilar-Rivera stay in the United States, cooperate with authorities and face the allegations.
Armed with the information, Aguilar-Rivera skipped town before police were notified on Monday, apparently by the school principal. That day, a detective asked an official within the archdiocese if Aguilar-Rivera intended to flee to Mexico.
"I said I was not sure," said the official, who is not named in the documents. "I also said that Nicolas knew that it would probably be reported to the police, and that I had explained that some people were bound to report."
Law enforcement took the allegations seriously and launched an investigation, even accusing the church of not fully cooperating with its efforts -- an accusation that would eventually go public in a story in the Los Angeles Times.
One document says that a boy's relative "had heard" that cops had accused church officials of a cover-up. "The family does not want any trouble," said the memo dated January 21, 1988. "They want [Aguilar-Rivera] to receive help and that he not be able to do this again."
The memo added, "The children are not traumatized."
Five days later, police pushed for a list of altar boys at St. Agatha's, the second parish where Aguilar-Rivera worked. This request sent archdiocese officials into a frenzy.
Curry wrote Mahony that he believed the church should not cooperate. "We have no evidence that Father Aguilar-Rivera was involved with altar boys as such," Curry wrote on January 26, 1988. "All the boys involved were members of families he was friendly with in Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the alleged abuse took place while he was visiting these families or while they were visiting him."
The pastor at St. Agatha, Curry continued, had no knowledge of abuse on his premises and "his concern is that if the police come and interview the boys, the matter will spread around the parish. The parish there is a black-Hispanic one, and he finds his situation as an Anglo pastor a very delicate one."
"The whole issue of our records is a very sensitive one, and I am reluctant to give any list to the police," Curry concluded. "We are being friendly but firm."
At the bottom of the typed letter is a handwritten message from Mahony. "We cannot give such a list for no cause whatsoever," he scrawled on the page, initializing it with "RMM."
He underlined "cannot" for extra emphasis.
None of the archdiocese officials were ever charged with obstruction of justice.
Police eventually got the altar boy list, with no help from the archdiocese. Investigators learned the extent of Aguilar-Rivera's alleged crimes by interviewing boys ranging in age from about 9 to 13.
In all, police said, 26 boys were molested in just nine months, many of them repeatedly. Aguilar-Rivera would eventually be charged in a felony complaint relating to 10 boys, with 19 counts of committing a lewd act with a child.
A Los Angeles Times reporter asked the archdiocese for comment at the time; its public statement stands in direct contrast to what the newly released documents reveal. "He was asked to stay in the country to face the accusations against him, but he chose to leave," said Joseph Battaglia, the spokesman for the archdiocese.
In the article, police said the church was being less than forthcoming with investigators; a father of two of the alleged victims said simply, "The church shouldn't be telling lies."
With the allegations now in the open, the tone of archdiocese officials shifted. Three days later, Curry wrote Aguilar-Rivera's bishop in Mexico and included a copy of the Los Angeles Times' story.
"May I request that if you know of the whereabouts of Father Aguilar-Rivera," Curry said, "you urge him most strongly to return here to answer the allegations that have been made against him."
While on the run, Aguilar-Rivera even called the home of one of the boys he allegedly molested.
"Don't you know everybody is looking for you?" the mother said, according to a March 11, 1988, memo.
"For what?" Aguilar-Rivera responded.
Aguilar-Rivera would remain in the priesthood in Mexico - for another 21 years. He would be dogged of more molestation allegations while there.
A civil suit filed in the United States in 2010 by a Mexican citizen alleged Aguilar-Rivera raped him when he was a 12-year-old altar boy in Mexico. The suit alleges Mahony and a Mexican cardinal conspired to hide Aguilar-Rivera between the two countries with full knowledge of his alleged pedophilia, putting an untold number of children at risk. Mahony has denied the allegations.
Aguilar-Rivera was convicted in Mexico in 2003 of a misdemeanor sex abuse charge, but was allowed to walk free while the case was under appeal, according to the Dallas Morning News.
He remains on Mexico's federal prosecutor's Most Want List wanted on charges of rape and indecent assault.
Aguilar-Rivera was finally stripped of his duties in 2009 by the Vatican, which approved his removal from "clerical state, a priest who has been accused of the sexual abuse of minors in Mexico and the United States," the Catholic News Agency reported on July 31, 2009.
Attorney De Marco said it's disgusting church authorities did nothing to stop him.
"He was able to walk around with the authority of the collar in a country where that authority carries more significance than it does here," De Marco said. "How could anyone ever justify that 21-year delay? This man molested 26 children in nine months in the United States. How many more were there over 21 years?"
Aguilar-Rivera, now 71, is believed to be alive, a free man in Mexico.
Mahony prays for humiliation
Mahony, who turns 77 next week, was appointed archbishop of Los Angeles by Pope John Paul II in 1985, overseeing the archdiocese until 2011 when he retired. In 1991, he became a cardinal, the highest-ranking Catholic clergy below the pope.
McKiernan, who launched BishopAccountability.org in 2003 to keep track of the widespread church abuse, said the recently released documents show the scope and magnitude of Mahony's and Curry's efforts in "intentionally evading the authorities."
"We didn't have evidence of that before. It's actually more stark," he said. "You can tell from these documents Mahony was trying to keep abused priests away from police. -... The document record is a disgraceful one."
Curry stepped down earlier this month as the regional bishop of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties and "publicly apologized for his decisions while serving as vicar for clergy," archbishop Gomez said in announcing the resignation.
Mahony has said he has long acknowledged mistakes in the 1980s and that he improved the reporting mechanisms of priestly abuse in the years that followed.
He has recently taken to his personal blog, scribing an array of posts about praying for humiliation.
"... I am for the first time realizing that I should be praying for the very things from which I cringe, the disgrace I abhor, the fool that I seem," he blogged on February 15.
In a post this week, he asked followers for "your prayers and your encouragements in my own life to handle all of my mistakes, omissions, and commissions as God asks, and as Jesus and Mary lived out: to take in what swirls around me, to hold it, to carry it, to transform it and to give it back as grace, blessing and gift."
De Marco, the attorney conducting the deposition, said Mahony should feel one emotion far greater than humiliation: shame.
Amid calls for Mahony to not travel to Rome, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles remains steadfast in its support of his trip, saying canon law dictates that he attend.
Catholics United, a liberal-leaning group that pushes for social justice within the church, and SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) said they delivered a petition with close to 10,000 signatures to Saint Charles Borromeo Church in North Hollywood on Saturday, asking for Mahony not to attend the conclave.
"His participation in the conclave would only bring clouds of shame at a time that should bring springs of hope. Cardinal Mahony, please, stay home," said Chris Pumpelly, Catholics United's communications director.
There is no indication he will.
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