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Thursday 22 July 2010

PAGB E-News No. 31

Hi All

Welcome to Issue 31 of e-news with a report of the Warwick Inter Club PDI Championship - the full club scores will be published shortly in Issue 32.
Click HERE to read the PDF file.

rod whelans

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Photo Course in Sussex.

Just a note to inform your members of 2 half-day workshops I'm leading on Saturday 31st and Sunday 1st August. It'll be based on the South Downs visiting 3 or 4 locations. Meet will be at Alfriston where we head off in the minibus for the afternoon and evening. Time will be 3pm till sunset. It's summer and as photographer's we are all fully aware that the best time to take landscape images is early morning and evening.

Much of our photography will be centered around the Cuckmere Valley, near Seaford in East Sussex. We will shoot sweeping vistas of Downland hills, the Cuckmere River, The Seven Sisters and as the sun sets, beach scenes and majestic cliffs.

This is suitable for those of all levels, from the beginner to the more experienced shooter.

In order for Robert to spend quality time with each person, numbers will be limited to just 5. Aside from making transportation to various locations much easier, it also makes for a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

Cost for the day will be £70 which includes transportation to all locations.

For full details including how to book, please visit my website at www.robertcanis.com
or phone me on 07939 117570.

Wednesday 14 July 2010

Sam Cal Pics

Sorry about the abbreviations. It is a vain attempt to stop crawlers from finding this page.

Some of you are using Steve's System on public.me.com/stevepereira and it is working very well.
Would all use this from now on please?

It would be a good idea if you can add your name somewhere in the image plus copyright data just to protect yourselves.


The way to do this will vary depending on the software you use.
For instance on the humble Photoshop Elements 2.0 go to File > Info and the following box appears.

I have filled in the spaces that are needed.
In addition if you click on the Section drop down you can check on the EXIF data.  This will tell you exactly when you took the picture [assuming you set your camera with date and time of course].
The Title section is not necessarily the same as your actual file name. And we do need a proper file name and not the one the camera gave it.

We still need more of your images please.
Today is soon enough.
Thanks

Friday 9 July 2010

A true story

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS President Dr Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death.

Thus the story: --------

On March 23, 1994...... The medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus, and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head.

Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency.

As he fell past the 9th floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been installed just below the 8th floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

'Ordinarily,' Dr Mills continued, 'Someone who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide.' That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a "homicide" on his hands.

The room on the 9th floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously, and he was threatening her with a shotgun! The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife, and the pellets went through the window, striking Mr Opus.

When one intends to kill subject 'A' but kills subject 'B' in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject 'B.'

When confronted with the murder charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant, and both said that they thought the shotgun was not loaded.

The old man said it was a long standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, assuming the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident.

It also transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother.

Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder even though he didn't actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.


Now comes the exquisite twist:

Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the 9th story window.

The son, Ronald Opus, had actually murdered himself. So the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

A true story from Associated Press.

Thursday 8 July 2010

Print Leagues for next season

All the league fixtures are now on the SPF web site. Click HERE
With just 5 leagues in the print section we are in the top league No.1 a tough group indeed!
Bournemouth, Farnborough, Basingstoke, Chichester, Ordnance Survey, & Salisbury!

Wednesday 7 July 2010

PDI Leagues for 2010 to 2011

The list of Pdi Leagues has now been finalised and you can see them HERE