After a month of passing a speed camera on the 400 block of South Rolling Road, commuters peering through the drizzle Monday morning may have noticed that the camera was gone.The camera was moved to the 500 block of South Rolling Road near the campus of Catonsville High School .Police have said they will move the camera from each side of the 500 block of South Rolling Road and the site on the 400 block.

Baltimore County police spokeswoman, Elise Armacost, said in an email sent Tuesday morning that the police would not provide information about when and how often the camera will be moved.”Motorists know that speeding in the 400 and 500 blocks of Rolling Road is enforced by cameras,” Armacost wrote. “And they should adjust their driving behavior as if the cameras are active in both blocks during the stated hours of operation.

“They shouldn’t be speeding in these school zones anyway, with or without the cameras,” Armacost wrote.County law requires speed cameras to be placed in school zones. Both sites are located between Hillcrest Elementary School on Frederick Road and Catonsville High.Armacost said that Baltimore County police could not provide data about the number of violations the camera had recorded at the 400 block location since its installation.

Opgal Optronic Industries, a leading global provider of innovative thermal imaging and near infrared illumination solutions for security and safety applications, has announced that it will introduce the long-range EyeSecZoom 225 as the latest addition to its advanced line of thermal security cameras at IFSEC 2012. TBI releases security camera footage of Mayes .With this launch, Opgal becomes the first camera manufacturer to offer an uncooled thermal camera with the continuous zoom performance and reliability of a cooled camera.

The EyeSecZoom 225 is equipped with a continuous zoom lens ranging from 25 to 225mm and provides an unparalleled human detection range of over 5km. Its high-sensitivity, uncooled 640 x 480 resolution detector with a 17μm pitch provides a detailed and clear picture, offering a superior visual assessment tool for a range of perimeter and homeland security applications, such as airports, correction facilities, transportation and many others. Secured inside a ruggedized enclosure, the camera can withstand the harshest weather and environmental conditions - including rain, direct sunlight, high humidity and dust.

In line with all of Opgal’s innovative thermal imaging solutions, the EyeSecZoom 225 is best suited to video analytics and is recognized for its unparalleled image quality and strong signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Available in multiple configurations, the EyeSecZoom 225 can be used as a stand-alone camera and/or as an OEM sensor integrated with the customer’s surveillance system. The camera adheres to IP66 standards.

The video shows 35-year-old Adam Mayes at Mississippi Market on April 30.He’s accused of kidnapping Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters from their home in Whitefield days before the video was taken.Investigators found the bodies of Bain and ehr oldest daughter behind Mayes’ Mississippi home last week.Officials are still searching for Bain’s younger daughters. The girls are believed to be with Mayes who may have cut and colored the girls’ hair.Mary Mayes was charged with conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping, while Teresa Mayes was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping.

An affidavit states that Teresa Mayes told investigators she drove the mother and daughters from Hardeman County, where they lived, to Union County, Miss.The bodies of Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne Bain were found last week behind the home where the Mayes family lived.12-year-old Alexandria Bain and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain were still missing.Edtitor’s note: Previous versions of this story identified Teresa Mayes as Adam Mayes’ wife. The TBI has since reported she is Mayes’ ex-wife.

Police have arrested the wife and mother of a man suspected of abducting and killing a Tennessee woman and her oldest daughter and kidnapping the woman’s two youngest daughters.A court clerk confirmed that Adam Mayes’ wife, Teresa Mayes, and mother, Mary Mayes, are in jail in Hardeman County, Tenn., and will be arraigned Tuesday.The clerk did not yet know what charges they face.Teresa Mayes’ sister Bobbi Booth said Adam Mayes and his wife lived with his parents.The bodies of Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne Bain were found behind a house in North Mississippi late last week.

I spent 12 years of my life in front of a television camera. I always said when asked “My Greatest Wish” was that the biggest critics of our finished product had to put together just one television show.I can tell you horror stories about high-dollar TV cameras falling 25 feet to the ground when a camera man fell asleep.All of those times are distant memories and with those times I remember the long hours and the dedication of the real secret to “Dan Chason Outdoors.” His name is Andy Chason, and he started filming for me at age 8. Today, he is a senior at ULM and works professionally in the video and production business. He is now 29 years old with 21 years of experience. Now that is a resume. I could tell you many stories about our travels but hopefully this one today will showcase who really makes a show zing.

Or, I can tell you my greatest memories when I filmed a show catching fish at Black Bayou with my daughter, Danielle, that we entitled “Daddy’s Girl.”Then there are the times on Lake Fork with my son-in-law, Chad Powell, who had signed on as a camera man at the age of 16. Chad became Cpl. Chad Powell after marrying my daughter. Try these 4 camera app alternatives to Instagram.We lost Chad in Iraq on June 23, 2005. But those memories and photos of fishing with him still linger. In fact, there is a deer stand where I hunt that took a direct hit from a red oak tree after his death in 2005. I never rebuilt it, and it still stands. We affectionately call it “Chad’s stand” as it was the last place he got to go deer hunting with me.

The biggest rage in television today is a show called “Duck Dynasty” starring Phil, Willie, Si and Jase Robertson of Duck Commander in West Monroe. This A&E show has taken the television world by storm. I am a big fan as the story board is strong and the executive production is second to none. Some may call this show dumb, corny or weird, but the guys at Commander have done a great job at showcasing our area without making all of us look like a bunch of alligator wrestling idiots. True enough, they are different, and anyone that has ever known Phil will attest that he is what he is and is happy in his own skin. Apparently this has passed on through the gene pool as Jase truly keeps me in stitches with his delivery while Si … let’s just say Si is unique.

My favorite among the ones I tried, Photosynth lets you take 360-degree panoramic photos that become interactive on a smartphone or computer screen.The app guides you as you stand in one place and capture photos in all directions. Then it stitches those images together to create a sphere-like panorama that viewers can scroll around in and zoom in and out.You can share the panorama on Facebook, Twitter or Photosynth.net.It takes a bit of practice, and it’s not an app I would use every day.

But I found that in the right setting — such as Roman ruins by the sea in Byblos, near Beirut, or my sister’s beach wedding — the results can be breathtaking.Tilt shift is a camera effect that blurs the edges of a picture, creating an optical illusion that makes everything look miniature.Instagram has that feature (it’s the droplet icon when you are taking or editing a picture). TiltShift Generator gives you more control.You can control where and how much blurring to produce. You can also determine how much darkening around the corners you want to produce a vignette effect. You can also adjust the saturation, brightness and contrast.I had a hard time figuring Hipstamatic out, but it’s worth the effort.

Unlike most filtering apps, you don’t adjust a photo after you’ve taken it. Instead, you choose different virtual lenses, flashes and film beforehand, and you can’t change the setting after you take the shot.Descriptive Camera prints images in text.The app is not very intuitive, the settings are hard to keep track of and the accompanying guide isn’t very helpful. But once you get a sense of which virtual lens works best under which conditions, you can create stunning photos.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but Matt Richardson has figured out how to make 20 words worth a picture. Richardson is the creator of the Descriptive Camera, a camera that prints out text descriptions of what it sees, rather than actual photos.There’s a human element to making this work. Point the camera (in this case, a USB Webcam) at a scene. Take a picture. The picture is sent to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk outsourcing service. A human writes up a quick description and sends it back. The camera prints it out using a tiny thermal printer.

Here’s an example. The camera took a photo of an old building in bright light. The result is a printout reading, “This is a faded picture of a dilapidated building. It seems to be run down and in need of repairs.”Richardson describes the inspiration for the camera in an email to Crave: “It started as a ‘what if there were a camera that could record what was happening in the photo as searchable text?’ I made this camera to explore that ‘what if?’”

Richardson estimates that the camera cost about US$200 in parts, but developing the code to make it work took a lot of time. The price for each use of Mechanical Turk is US$1.25. That’s roughly equivalent to the cost of a Polaroid photo.The Descriptive Camera was created for a class on computational cameras that Richardson took through New York University this spring.The prototype is designed to play with the idea of metadata. Our cameras often attach lots of information to photos, such as time, date, location, camera settings, and type of camera. Now we finally have a camera that gives us the most important metadata information of all: what it just took a picture of.

Given life-threatening wind, hail, lightning and flying debris, chasing tornadoes would seem harrowing enough.Now add this new and growing danger:People risking their lives, gawkers clogging roadways, some with kids in the backseats of their cars or in the beds of their pickups. They sit poised with cell phone cameras, stop dead in the middle of lanes beneath roadway bridges, travel at breakneck speeds for the chance to get up close and personal with one of nature’s most powerful and deadly displays.New Kensington Camera Club recapture nature’s floral beauty in exhibit.

Chancy Smith, the director of emergency medical services for Dickinson County, Kansas — raked by a series of tornadoes on April 14 — caused a minor storm of his own when, after the tornadoes, he publicly called the throng of chasers who flooded his county “morons” for risking their lives and possibly the lives of others by impeding emergency services.After a quick rebuke, Smith has since said he did not mean to malign legitimate storm spotters and chasers or scientists who do much to help the National Weather Service predict and track major storms.

It has hit a nerve among emergency services people and longtime storm chasers who say that, in recent years, it seems that witnessing tornadoes up close has gone from a risky endeavor attempted by adrenalin addicts to a family spectator sport.Local high school kids looking for tornadoes using apps and websites on their smartphones have become common.”I really couldn’t tell you why it’s occurring,” said S. Joe Koch II, the emergency management director in Saline County, Kan. “It is becoming more common for people to go out and see these tornadoes.”

From beginning to end, Don Henderson says, flowers are a significant part of our lives.Think about it, the president of New Kensington Camera Club says: “We give flowers to our sweethearts, to our loved ones when they are sick, on holidays, special days, anniversaries. Flowers are part of our culture. We plant them around our houses, treasure them for their beauty, their fragrance, their symbolism,” he says. “Flowers are a sign of respect and sympathy when we pass.”They definitely serve multiple roles in our lives, says Angela Shearon of New Kensington. “They celebrate birth, spring, new life,” she says. “There is not much not to like about them, other than they don’t last forever.”

Shearon, Henderson and fellow members of the camera club are seeing what they can do about extending that lifespan by preserving as many flowers as they can for the club’s debut “Spring Flower Photo Show” at the Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society’s Heritage Museum in Tarentum.Dolly Mistrick of Tarentum, president of the historical society, says the organization is pleased to host the event. “It demonstrates the value of bringing people together to share their talents,” she says. “It also will show the community we are open and willing to work with other groups in the Alle-Kiski area.”

“Spring is a time of rebirth, and this show will symbolize the rebirth of the camera club,” Henderson says. “Photos from some really talented photographers can be purchased to raise funds for a historic marker for New Kensington’s own Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, the late Eddie Adams. So, this is important for the whole community to be a part of, plus a little color will brighten up your day.”Proceeds also will help fund the first Eddie Adams Photography Festival on June 9 and 10, celebrating the life and talent of Adams. “He showed the world the power of a photograph,” says show vice chairman William Hall of Lower Burrell, club treasurer.

West Side Camera’s new owners — David Baird, Tim Bureck and Jeremy Griffin — are expanding the store’s offerings to include digital cameras and accessories as well as traditional film cameras. Brand names include Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sigma and Tamron. They will also offer cleaning and repair of both film and digital cameras.The business will also offer three-hour digital single lens reflex photography workshops on Saturdays beginning April 28. Workshops will include camera operation, editing with Photoshop and using Lightroom. West Side Camera will now also have a professional studio and darkroom for custom photo printing available for rent on a hourly or daily basis.

Restoration of old family photos and historical prints, slides and negatives will continue to be offered. VHS and 8 mm tapes can also be converted into DVD format at West Side Camera.The former KFC restaurant, 705 E. Jackson Blvd., is being transformed into a Little Caesars Pizza. According to building permits filed at Jackson City Hall, Brian Weiss plans to remodel the building before opening a pizza business at that location. In addition to removing an exterior awning, he is also renovating the inside of the building, according to city documents. The building has been empty since the KFC closed last summer.

The Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission has denied a request from Menards to increase the total sign area of a sign at the new home improvement store to 700 square feet.Five Broken Cameras documents Palestinian resistance . A request to increase the sign’s electronic message panel to 300 square feet was approved, with the condition that the total sign area not exceed 400 square feet. Cape Girardeau shop Annie Laurie’s Antiques, 526 Broadway, is featured in the April issue of Midwest Living Magazine. The magazine has a circulation of nearly 4 million copies, according to its website.

Americans divided over the theory and practice of “Stand your ground” in Florida should sympathize with a painfully similar concept in the West Bank and elsewhere. Be it Trayvon vs. Zimmerman or Palestinian villagers vs. Israeli settlers, the question is always the same: Who’s standing their ground against whom?There’s no doubt where director Emad Burnat’s sympathies lie in “Five Broken Cameras,” a joint Dutch-French-Palestinian-Israeli documentary being screened tonight only as part of the Carnegie Mellon “Faces of Others” International Film Festival.A Palestinian falah or peasant farmer, Mr. Burnat never intended to be a “real” filmmaker.

But his five cameras would turn him into one. Arrayed side by side on a table, like dead pigeons, at the outset, their battered exteriors reveal as much as their interior videotape about an ongoing story of resistance to Israeli occupation.Mr. Burnat got his first camera when his fourth son, Gibreel, was born, with the prosaic intent to make some home movies. He, like most folks in his village of Bil’in, eked out a living as olive pickers and gatherers, but that modest livelihood was disrupted by Israel’s construction of a barbed wire and concrete barrier to separate the villagers from the new Israeli settlers.

Olive trees are pulled out or burned in preparation for the settlements. Protests against the dividing wall intensify. As Gibreel graduates from baby to toddler, his first words are “cartridge” and “army,” while his father’s home movies gradually come to document the turmoil surrounding the barrier: Night raids terrify the children. Mr. Burnat’s four brothers are all jailed at various points, as are his friends leading the resistance: furious and fearless Adeeb; cheerful Daba, shot for throwing rocks at soldiers; “Phil,” the town’s charismatic clown — killed before our very eyes.