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Slowly, amid rumor and misinformation, a picture of the killer is emerging, and it is dismayingly familiar. Adam Lanza was yet another young, withdrawn, middle-class male who for some unimaginable reason graduated from his adolescence as a mass murderer.
What happened Friday in Newtown, Conn., was a variant on what the country has witnessed repeatedly in recent years. Once again, it was a pseudo-commando attack, as if the killer were playing a video game and racking up points for every victim. Once again, the crime appeared to be staged for maximum shock value. And once again — just as in Aurora, Colo., this past summer — there was the element of overkill, with multiple weapons, a military-style rifle and massive amounts of ammunition.
Lanza, 20, shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, at home, and then invaded Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed 20 first-graders and six adults, firing 30-round clips from a .223 Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle before taking his own life. How many bullets? "Hundreds," Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance said Sunday.
Detectives recovered evidence at the Lanza home that might help explain the killer's thinking, but authorities have not revealed what they found. For the moment, the Newtown massacre remains as inexplicable as it is horrifying. "We don't have a specific reason," Vance said.
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The location and lethality of the Newtown tragedy, and the preciousness of the victims, have turned the holiday season into a period of national soul-searching and calls for action to curb gun violence. Newtown dominated the Sunday talk shows. President Obama flew to Connecticut to join the mourning, and people nationwide revisited with new urgency the complex issues of gun laws, mental illness and access to mental health care.
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CYPRESS also Bald Cypress, Swamp Cypress
Bald cypress grows in swampy areas along the Atlantic coast from Delaware to southern Florida, west along the Gulf Coast to southeastern Texas and along the Mississippi river valley to southeastern Illinois. About one-half of the cypress lumber comes from the Southern States and one-fourth from the South Atlantic States. It is not as readily available as it was several decades ago.
The Tree
Bald cypress trees can reach heights of 150 feet, with diameters of 12 feet and an age of 2000 years. Most commonly, however, it grows to about 100 feet, 5 feet in diameter, and an age of 500 years. When grown in wet conditions, the tree produces "knees"; extensions of the roots which grow above the ground and the surface of the water and allow oxygen to reach the roots.
The Wood
General: The sapwood of bald cypress is narrow and nearly white. The color of the heartwood varies widely, ranging from light yellowish brown to dark brownish red, brown, or chocolate. The wood is moderately heavy, moderately strong, and moderately hard. The heartwood of old-growth timber is one of our most decay-resistant woods; but second-growth timber is only moderately decay resistant. Shrinkage is moderately small, but somewhat greater than that of the cedars and less than that of southern pine.
Frequently the wood of certain bald cypress trees contains pockets or localized area that have been attacked by a fungus. Such wood is known as "pecky" cypress. The decay caused by this fungus is arrested when the wood is cut into lumber and dried. Pecky cypress, therefore, is durable and useful where water tightness is unnecessary, and appearance is not important or a novel effect is desired. Examples of such usage are as paneling in restaurants, stores, and other buildings.
Working Properties: Bald cypress has moderate strength, hardness and pliability. Sharp tools are necessary to prevent raised grain. It nails and glues well and is high in paint holding ability.
Durability: It is rated as resistant to very resistant to heartwood decay.
Preservation: Moderately resistant to preservative treatment.
Uses: Bald cypress has been used principally for building construction, especially where resistance to decay is required. It was used for beams, posts, and other members in docks, warehouses, factories, bridges, and heavy construction. It is well suited for siding and porch construction. It is also used for caskets, burial boxes, sash, doors, blinds, and general millwork, including interior trim and paneling. Other uses are in tanks, vats, ship and boat building, refrigerators, railroad-car construction, greenhouse construction, cooling towers, and stadium seats. It is also used for railroad crossties, poles, piles, shingles, cooperage, and fence posts.

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We are two guys who work at a t-shirt shop. We love the Lord and t-shirts. In that order. It just makes sense that we put the two together. What we want from this site is to create t-shirts that will encourage you as you wear them, and also act as a tool in sharing the Word. We also wanted to have an outlet to share our thoughts and lessons we have learned throughout our week. We will put up sermons from the churches that we go to and articles that we find interesting online.
I am 33 years old and have been married to my beautiful wife Amy for 7 years. I have 2 kids: Kynzie, who is 5, and Joby is 3. My family opened a screen printing shop 23 years ago, and I have been working here in some form since we started. I have always been a t-shirt and jeans kind of guy, so working at a print shop has spoiled me. I love the creative process of coming up with designs for BTL and getting to wear shirts I have created. My hope is that you will enjoy them too.
I am 32 years old and have been married to my lovely wife, Katelynn, for over a 3 years now. We have 2 kids, Joshua, who is 19 months, and Chloe, who is 2 months. James and I have known each other since we were in 2nd grade and were next door neighbors. When James' family opened up the screen printing shop I jumped on board and asked if I could work there with them. I left after 4 years, went to college got my degree in Information Technology and worked at 2 other companies for a combination of 10 years doing IT work. I also still stayed close to the t-shirt business and help network their systems. I then decided after my last company picked up and moved to El Paso to come back to my starting grounds.
"God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin." – 1 John 1:5-7


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I had to recently add the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), to a Windows 7 Home Premium environment, which natively, does not come installed. I didn't realize that one could install this on a limited version of Windows 7, such as Windows 7 Home Premium.
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Thomas Peters, writing at CatholicVote.org, has a fascinating piece on the effort by a gay Colorado billionaire named Tim Gill to interfere in the Roman Catholic Church's affairs by funding dissident groups seeking to change the church's position on homosexuality. Peters catalogues funding to the tune of almost $600,000 through something called the Arcus Foundation that has gone to groups such as Dignity USA, New Ways Ministry, and the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual. He begins with this statement:
Pro-gay-marriage billionaires and foundations are behind an organized effort to sow dissent and confusion among Catholics on the issues of homosexuality, marriage and family. And the first step to stopping them is knowing what we're up against.
Please read the whole article. I got curious after doing so, and went to the Arcus web site. There, I found that it wasn't just "Catholic" groups this foundation was funding. In 2010 alone, I spotted these grants:
•Cathedral Church of St. James: $100,000 to support the efforts of the Chicago Consultation to advance the full inclusion of LGBT people within the Episcopal Church and to explore opportunities to promote dialogue and support for LGBT inclusion among the leaders of the Anglican Communion in the global South.
•Center for American Progress: $25,000 to amplify the voice and impact of the national social justice advocacy of Bishop Gene Robinson.
•Central United Methodist Church: $50,000 for "The Reconciling Project", a reconciling education and advocacy initiative to positively transform attitudes and beliefs about LGBT people among United Methodist congregants and pastors in Southeastern Michigan.
•Christian Community: $201,334 for the Public Religion Research Institute to conduct research to identify measures that could be utilized to document progress in achieving LGBT moral equality and to determine the correlation between perceptions of LGBT morality and support for LGBT religious and secular rights.
•Christian Community (same organization as previous): $300,000 over two years to increase support for and advocacy on behalf of LGBT people of faith in mainline Protestant congregations across the U.S.
•Church Divinity School of the Pacific: $404,351 to develop official rites for the blessing of same-gender relationships within the Episcopal Church.
•Emory University (United Methodist affiliated): $100,000 over two years for continued support for Religion Dispatches, a progressive online magazine dedicated to analysis and critique of the role of religion in public culture, with a focus on LGBT justice issues.
•Faith Partnerships Incorporated: $100,000 for support of African American Church leaders convenings on LGBT issues.
•Family Diversity Projects: $50,000 to expand support for the full inclusion of LGBT people and their families within mainline Protestant communities of faith by using a traveling photograph-text exhibit as a platform for dialogue.
•Intersections International: $100,000 for the Believe Out Loud campaign, which seeks to move moderate people of faith to publicly advocate for LGBT inclusion within their mainline Protestant faith communities.
•Lutherans Concerned: $90,000 for two convenings to advance the full inclusion of LGBT people of faith by convening pro-LGBT denominational leaders from the Episcopal Church USA, the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutherans of America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the United Church of Christ, and by convening nationally recognized pro-LGBT Lutheran theologians.
•Methodist Federation for Social Action: $93,120 to advance the full inclusion of LGBT people of faith within the United Methodist Church (UMC) through a coalition of progressive justice organizations working within the UMC.
•More Light Presbyterians: $75,000 to support the ratification of denominational policy that permits the ordination of partnered LGBT persons within the Presbyterian Church (USA).
•Political Research Associates: $140,000 for a research project to expose and confront US religious conservatives who support homophobia in Africa.
•The Gay Christian Network: $73,018 to develop, test, and refine a pilot program that prepares young adult evangelicals to support pro-LGBT dialogue within evangelical communities.
•The Interfaith Alliance: $100,500 to engage communities of faith, including conservative leadership structures, in constructive dialogue on same-gender marriage and LGBT equality.
•Truth Wins Out: $40,000 for general operating support to enable Truth Wins Out to continue to challenge the ex-gay movement and monitor the anti-LGBT efforts of the religious right.
•Unity Fellowship Church (Charlotte NC): $50,000 For the Freedom Center for Social Justice to convene a summit to train a cohort of 200 transgender people of faith to work as grassroots activists.
Among the groups getting funds from Arcus in years past: the American Friends Service Committee, the Baptist Peace Fellowship, Gays in Faith Together, Integrity (Episcopal gay caucus), Progressive Christians Uniting, Reconciling Ministries Network (United Methodist), Soulforce, and Chicago Theological Seminary (UCC). In addition, Arcus has also funded a number of Jewish (including Orthodox) and Muslim (!) groups.
Despite the lack of stated religious connections on the part of staff or board members, Arcus has what it calls a "Religion and Values" program, the goal of which is described this way:
This program's goal is to achieve the recognition and affirmation of the moral equality of LGBT people. To accomplish this goal, the program supports the efforts of religious leaders to create faith communities in which LGBT people are welcomed as equal members; it also supports civic leadership to promote the moral and civil equality of LGBT people at state, national, and international levels.
Two "measurable" goals are stated:
Goal 1: Ensure that denominations and faith-based institutions affirm LGBT moral equality and support LGBT rights.
Goal 2: Support pro-LGBT faith-based leaders who form, sustain and drive the movement or LGBT moral equality and civil rights.
Thomas Peters says that the total given by Arcus since 2007 to groups operating within Catholic and Protestant churches amounts to $6.5 million. That's a lot of scratch.
The questions raised by this are enormous. Arcus has every right to fund organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD that are working for gay rights in the political arena. But by what right does a secular foundation, operating from principles that are at odds with historic Christian faith, seek to influence Christian churches to abandon that faith? Liberals have been claiming for years that there is something insidious, if not downright evil, about the support that the Institute for Religion and Democracy has received from conservative foundations, but that funding is dwarfed by both the scale and breadth of funding given out by Arcus. It's also the case that the IRD supports the traditional stances of those churches, and is not seeking to bring about radical change in historic teaching and practice, which hardly seems to be the place of an outside, non-Christian foundation.
In the current issue of First Things, George Weigel has a fascinating article about the infiltration of the Catholic Church by various agents of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies during the post-World War II era. The aim was to influence church policy with regard to the Soviet bloc, and to seek to garner support for the bloc's foreign and domestic political agendas. What Arcus is doing may be more public, and may involved using their money to fund others rather than using their own agents, but is just as much about infiltrating the churches to push a political agenda.
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"What is it, my soul, that I seek in the world? How long shall I pursue and grasp at shadows?"
–St. Francis Borgia, S.J.
(Moreno Carbonero, José; The Conversion of the Duke of Gandia)
During my second semester of university while studying abroad in Salamanca, Spain, one of my professors asked me a penetrating question, "David, what do you think about death?"
Little did I know that one of the most famous Jesuits, St. Francis Borgia, had considered the same question in the same country more than 400 years ago. Whereas my professor brought the question to my attention in conversation, the question came to St. Francis Borgia through a shocking experience, which the painting above demonstrates in vivid detail.
Francis was a member of the high nobility: one of his close relatives was the Pope and his great grandfather was the King Ferdinand who sent Columbus across the Atlantic Ocean. Francis' personal title was the Duke of Gandia.
In 1539 Empress Isabella of the Holy Roman Empire passed away very prematurely. All of Europe knew her to be a stunningly gorgeous young lady, but death unexpectedly snatched away her riches, her fame, and her beauty. As Francis Borgia was close to the Emperor's family, the authorities chose him to be the one who would confirm that the body inside the casket was in fact the body of Isabella before she would be interred. When the lid on the casket was lifted, all who looked upon the corpse inside were taken aback by the decay that had already occurred. Some report that Francis stared at the face of the former empress for several minutes while every one else turned away. Others say that Francis, as portrayed in the painting above, was so disgusted that he grabbed the shoulders of one of his knights to avoid falling to the floor in faint.
Either way, the event had a powerful effect on Francis' life. He allegedly acclaimed to those who were gathered, "This death which has thus treated the imperial diadem, has already leveled his bow to strike me. Is it not prudent to prevent its stroke, by dying now to the world, that at my death I may live to God?" Francis made plans to give up his wealth, which was substantial, and to enter religious life in the Catholic Church. As soon as his wife passed away, he set aside some money for his children, and he entered the Society of Jesus, the order to which I belong. Eventually, he became the third superior general of the Jesuits.
When my professor had asked me the question about death, my response was very different. In a moment of pure arrogance, I said, "I do not think that I will die." I responded this way because I was afraid of death and because I figured that it was a moment far away. However, little by little, I came to see, as St. Francis Borgia did, that there is no reason to fear death if we prepare ourselves to meet Christ. A life that pursues fame, riches, and beauty will ultimately lead to ruin, as it had for the Empress, yet a life that seeks humility in Christ will find that hardship and death are only the first half of the story. And who, after all, likes a story that does not contain a struggle between hope and fear?
Best wishes,
David J.W. Inczauskis, n.S.J.


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The homework for PComp involved wiring up two different analog sensors to an Arduino and then displaying serial output and LED brightness as the feedback changes.
Two screenshots from Professor Fitzgerald's class, showing clean boards and wiring:
A photocell:
A potentiometer:
Here is my layout, showing both LEDs on.
The first part of the lab involved simply hooking up a potentiometer (in this case, a small blue volume-like knob) and then outputting both to Serial and to an LED. Video below:
You can tell that in the Serial monitor, the value gets higher as the knob is turned to the right. The LED however would only have two states, on and off. It was supposed to get brighter as the potentiometer was turned to the right. I discovered in the next part of the lab that the reason for this was because the LED's output pin needed to be connected from the Arduino Uno via a true analog pin, not a digital one.
The analog pin (with a tilde by the number) indicates that it is designed to handle analog input and output. In other words, it would be able to adjust the LED's brightness via stepping, whereas a purely digital pin could not.
In the next stage of the lab, another variable input was added, and since I had no other knobs, I used the force-sensing resistor, which detects pressure placed on it (for example, by squeezing it). Both sensors were supposed to gradually dim or brighten the LED, depending on the analog input values. Video below:
At first I was getting weird power bleeding errors where the FSR would work when I squeezed it (the value increased in the serial monitor) but when I turned up the blue knob, both the knob's analog value and the FSR's would go up. This indicated that their circuits were connected somehow.
Eventually I realized (after some excellent troubleshooting from Roopa!) that I had power and ground hooked up to the same row on the breadboard, probably causing weird power-related issues. Once I straightened that out, along with plugging in the LEDs to analog pins, then my circuits worked exactly as intended, with both the FSR and knob varying on a scale from 0 to 1023.
For my creative project, I am planning on building an envelope that simulates a wife's kiss before she sends it off to her deployed husband, to capture the magic of a kiss to seal an envelope, unlocked only by the intended recipient. It will work with an FSR, which is not ideal, but I think will convey the idea okay. :)
Sensor Walk
A list of the sensors I come across on my commute from Tompkins Square Park to the Tisch building:
- Touchscreen on HTC Incredible Android phone when I turn off my alarm
- HTC Incredible checks sunlight input via sensor and dims screen accordingly
- CPU temperature sensor on PC desktop triggers CPU and case fans to spin faster or slower
- Scrollwheel on mouse detects user input when scrolling through a page
- Touchpad on MacBook Air detects multiple finger presses along with movement
- Fridge sensor cools fridge when it gets too warm
- Traffic lights detect when ambulances with strobe lights pass by
- Police radar guns detect multi-band measures of target speeds
- Swiping my NYU ID card at the gym allows me entry through the turnstile
- Inserting ID card into copy machine at library and then adding money via bills
- Sensors in faucets and for towel dispenser in bathroom detect motion
- Bar code scanners at Walgreens for buying goods
- Adjusting volume of speakers for computer in classroom
- Using accelerometer on Nike+ to calculate running distance automatically
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Glasses that let you tap into a darknet, similar to Daniel Suarez's "Daemon" and "Freedom (TM)" books. You would put on normal-looking glasses and they would verify your identity through retinal scan. The glasses would display your chosen "layers" of data layered onto your view. So above everyone's heads, you would see data about them. People who were not on the darknet would be somewhat derisively called "NPCs", or non-player characters, for the people who chose not to interface with this deeper level of integration. The displays above people would display their reputations, perhaps their "soundtracks", their openness to dating, their interest groups…whatever they chose to display there that wasn't by default public.
The layering for people would probably need to be done by some form of direction- and range- finding, along with body recognition to identify peoples' heads. Data would be transmitted by something with a slightly better range than Bluetooth. GPS would be too unreliable for this type of feature, since it would require outdoor use with line-of-sight, plus locking in on a satellite over and over. We would need something more lo-fi.
Obviously there would be data about objects, buildings, etc. in our heads-up displays as well, using similar broadcasting tech from those non-human objects. By asking for directions to a place in your HUD, a green line would extend towards your destination in your HUD, so you just have to follow the line.
The problem with my fantasy device in the context of this discussion is that it is not really physically interactive. So, while I would prefer that the glasses could recognize your hands and allow you to manipulate an interface with them, similar to something between Minority Report and the Kinect, then I guess for now I'd settle for a cellphone or iPad extended interface.
Objects and people would appear for manipulation on your screen, letting you add them as starred IDs or add the person as "followed" or add their contact info or whatever. The device would also be something like Neal Stephenson's primer from The Diamond Age, with an anonymized actor on the other end of the network interacting with you through the device to help you get to where you need to go, or to help children learn at their own pace. An immediate application for all this would be a game in which you're looking at augmented reality and trying to hunt down other people, or do scavenger hunts.
The screen would transmit data with the glasses, and would be operated by touchscreen and whatever knobs or buttons that would also need.
Mostly I am interested in having the glasses display peoples' reputations and other data about them so that you can decipher these things when meeting someone or figuring out your safety level. There's something to be said for anonymity, but there's also said for an alternate system where those who opt-in can enjoy layered augmented reality data.


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Being unsurprised, I find that most Korean barbecue buffet places serve mainly quantity rather than good quality food for approximately $30.00. However for those that have not yet realized, you are better off going to a non-buffet restaurant and ordering away till you are full (and potentially equally as bloated if you were to go to a buffet) and pay a similar price but for a better meal!
As soon as I had placed the orders, the grill and side dishes came out almost immediately and the meat dishes shortly followed. Though in saying that, surprisingly the rice and water did take a while to come out.
Marinated Ribs - $13.00, Ox Tongue - $13.00, Mini marinated Octopus - $12.00
Barbecuing the Ox Tongue
Barbecuing the Ox Tongue
The reason why I personally enjoy Bassim so much is mainly because of their marination. Their ribs, chicken and pork are marinated really well and by that I mean you can actually taste the marinated flavours as you bite through the meat even after you barbecue it! It seems like they have actually marinated it over night because the flavours seem to be exploding in your mouth for every bite you take!
Since it was a summer day, we also decided to order the cold iced noodles and must I say, Bassim from my own experience, makes THE BEST cold iced noodles ever; not even Ceci came close! The soup is chilled and just sweet enough to balance the plain flavour of the noodles and I also find that adding the traditional spicy grassy dish to the soup gives it that something extra which takes the dish to a whole new level!
Eventually when the time came to pay the bill, between 6 people and having ordered 6 dishes plus rice, it came to a measly $14.00 per person but as cheap as it was their servings were relatively smaller. I have found from experience at Bassim that being between two people it comes to about approximately $20 to $25 for one to be satisfied.
So if you are at or around Strathfield and craving Korean barbecue, take my word and give Bassim a try!
Food: 7.5/10
Service: 6.5/10
Ambiance: 6.5/10
Value for Money: 8/10
Overall Rating: 28.5/40
- 37 The Boulevarde, Strathfield NSW 2135
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- Custom functions
- Depth-of-field
- Digital camera features
- Digital image file
- Digital image size and preview
- Exposure settings
- Firmware
- Flash
- Flash basics
- Speedlite compatibility
- Speedlite range
- Speedlite zoom
- Flash on camera
- Red-eye
- Dark backgrounds with flash
- Fill in flash
- Flash exposure lock and compensation
- Wireless flash
- Macroflash photography
- Bounce flash
- Flash synchronisation
- Stroboscopic flash
- Studio-style flash lighting with Speedlites
- Integrated Speedlite Transmitter
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- Focus points
- Image download
- Image compression
- Image information
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- Internet
- Introduction to digital photography
- Lenses
- Construction
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- All about apertures
- Lens speed
- Focusing and depth of field
- Black or white lenses
- Coloured rings
- Lens mount
- EF-S and field of view
- L-series lenses
- Fluorite, aspherical and UD lenses
- Prime and zoom lenses
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Lenses: Fisheye lenses
Camera lenses have what is called an 'angle of view', which is the limit of within which the subject can be photographed in accordance with the focal length and the imaging format, similar to human vision. The angle of view of standard lenses, which is thought to be near that of the human eye, is approximately 50º, while that of a 15mm fisheye lens is 180º (diagonally across the frame in the 35mm format). This means that almost everything that is in front of the camera is included in photographs taken by fisheye lenses – the sky above, the ground below and the surrounding scene on the left and right. To see 180º with a human eye will normally require you to turn your head and therefore, unlike the angle of view of a fisheye lens, is not visible in normal vision.
Because fisheye lenses put everything within an angle of view of 180º onto an image sensor, or film, there is much distortion around the edges of the photograph. All straight lines out side of the centre of the photograph become curved. The stronger the hyperfocal effect, which puts everything in the picture into focus, the larger the objects at the centre appear. Meanwhile, objects near the edges of the frame are extremely warped, creating a tremendous feeling of perspective.
The name 'fisheye' was first applied to this type of lens because this is how a fish underwater sees the outside world when it looks up, an effect that's related to the ratio of the refraction of light. Used skilfully this type of lens can open up unique, creative vistas as well as being able to act as an ultra wideangle lens, thanks to the fact that the lines in the centre of the image are not deformed.
In late 2010, Canon updated one of the longest standing EOS-compatible lenses, the EF15mm f/2.8 Fisheye, with the EF8-15mm F/4L Fisheye USM zoom lens. The zoom lens takes all the benefits of the original fisheye lens and improves on them in every area, as well as adding the versatility of a zoom lens. The EF8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM provides the ability to be both a full frame fisheye or a circular fisheye lens.
Circular fisheye
Circular fisheye is the classic fisheye view - the lens projects a circular image back to the sensor so the edges of the frame are black in the corners - no light reaches them. It has uses both in science and for creative images. With the EF8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM lens, this is only possible on full frame cameras, such as the EOS 5D Mark II and EOS-1Ds Mark III DSLRs. On the smaller sensor EOS DSLR cameras, those with APS-H or APS-C sensors, the field of view of the sensor is narrower and therefore you cannot achieve the full circular effect.
When using the lens as a circular fisheye, the field of view is fully 180º horizontally, vertically and diagonally.
Full frame fisheye
Full frame fisheye takes the 180º view but only applies it to the diagonal field of view because to be full frame with no circle, the field of view in the horizontal and vertical axes can't capture a full 180º.
Full frame is more widely used photographically because many people feel it gives a more aesthetically pleasing result.
The lens works as a full frame fisheye on all three sensor size cameras in the EOS DSLR range – full frame, APS-H and APS-C - although on the smaller sensors, a little of the field of view is lost due to the sensor size.


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What a fantastic setting – I can't say I have ever heard of this vineyard though, is it a new one?
My first official wine tasting since I have moved to Stellenbosch started with a morning spent relaxing at the beautiful Stark Conde wine farm.
My friend Vincent took me to this family owned winery which is located in the beautiful Jonkershoek Valley of Stellenbosch. It is actually 20 minutes away from where I am living at the moment but felt like I was stepping into another world.
We drove through the vineyard into a small valley nestled between the beautiful mountains. The aroma of roses planted all along the vineyard fills the air and you adding to the relaxed atmosphere of this wine farm.
The tasting room is small and intimate and is actually built on its own little island. Stark Conde definitely offers not only great wines but also a spectacular view of the surrounding mountains.
With grapes harvested from some of the highest altitude vineyards in Stellenbosch, winemaker Jose Conde and team meticulously handcraft their award-winning wines. We got to taste about 5 of these fabulous wines during our visit. Unfortunately I could only take small sips of the very tasty wine as I was designated driver for the day.
We spent the morning enjoying this very relaxed wine tasting experience and were definitely not in a hurry to move on to the next wine farm on our list.
What a fantastic setting – I can't say I have ever heard of this vineyard though, is it a new one?
It has been here a couple of years but is hidden between the mountains and I couldnt find it on my gps though. Luckily my friend knew where it was otherwise I might have missed out on it.
This place looks SO delightful…sigh.
I have just started exploring all the beautiful wine farms in the region….looking forward to seeing what the others look like!!
Nice images Janaline 🙂 Looks like a great place for photography.
It is such a beautiful place and really hidden between the mountains….definitely going to visit again to take some more photos.
Wow! That's impressive 🙂
I am definitely going back to this place, it was so relaxing!!
A very pretty setting!
It is stunning!! Such a beautiful place to sit and taste wine!
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Jesus. Let me out of this office so that I can actually be productive in real life.
But first, I want these. And a new computer to go with them.
Buy them for me here
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I want this!
This is the coolest notebook retailer I've ever seen. They are hilarious on their webpage, and the design speaks for itself.
It is possible to buy them in DK, but it's cheaper to get in form the US. So if anybody is interested in teaming up on a shipping, please let me know. Im going for this one, "The Kit". With shipping it will be around 340.
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Carrie Underwood
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Steve�N�Seagulls is a Finnish band playing bluegrass versions of classic rock tracks, such as their viral hit of AC/DC�s Thunderstruck, with an arsenal of instruments ranging from accordion, banjo, Cajon, double bass and so forth. On their last album, Brothers In Farms, the band hit #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart . With another landmark album under their belt it�s time for the Gulls to tour again �til the wheels fall off the wagon!
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With Last Man Standing, Willie Nelson has added 11 essential new songs to his classic catalog. Comprised entirely of songs newly-penned by Willie along with longtime collaborator and producer Buddy Cannon, it is one of his most personal and introspective albums to-date. An album that acknowledges the transience of time while marveling at the joy, beauty and surprise the world has to offer, Last Man Standing finds Willie Nelson rolling at a creative peak, writing and singing and playing with the seasoned wit and wisdom that comes from the road.
Dierks Bentley
The Mountain is Dierks Bentley's ninth studio album. The writing process came together quickly when Bentley returned to Telluride a short time later for a retreat with fellow songwriters Natalie Hemby, Luke Dick, Ross Copperman, Jon Randall, Jon Nite and Ashley Gorley. The bulk of the album�s songs, including the title track were written during that week, which Bentley describes as the most inspiring creative experience he�s ever had.
Amanda Shires
'It's all rock & roll -- no golf!' is how acclaimed singer/songwriter/violinist Amanda Shires describes her electrifying firth album, To The Sunset. She's borrowed a lyric from the effervescent track 'Break Out the Champagne,' one of ten deftly crafted songs that comprise her powerful new recording. The Texas-born road warrior, new mom, and recently minted MFA in creative writing has mined a range of musical influences to revel an Amanda Shires many didn't know existed. 'Isn't it refreshing?' Shires asks. Indeed. Distorted electric guitars, effects pedals, swirling keys and synths, and rockin' rhythms certainly suit Shire's visceral songcraft and lilting soprano.
Check out tracks, "Eve's Daughter", "Parking Lot Piroutte", and "To The Sunset"
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With over 225,000 physical albums sold, millions of streams, and hundreds of sell-out live performances nationwide, Cody Jinks� highly anticipated new album, Lifers, marks his debut for Rounder Records and the next chapter in a book of grass-roots country music superstardom. In the two years since he released his last album, (which made its impressive debut on the Billboard Country Albums chart at #4), Jinks and his band have relentlessly toured and cultivated an immense and loyal following among enthusiastic music fans who crave the kind of authentic country music on which he was nurtured. The title track and theme of the album celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and pays tribute to the often overlooked �lifers, the struggling strivers, working long after the day is done�the last of the great generation.�
Leading with his heart as much as with his head, AHI is an emotional yet discerning lyricist who would rather demonstrate love than use the word itself. He allows his light to shine inward but only to a degree, admitting to some autobiography on In Our Time but as glimpsed through an imaginative lens. While his music possesses a quality of timelessness, the sounds here reveal a broad spectrum of influence and also toe the line between retro and revelatory. None of that is by accident: the album, like its 2016 predecessor, We Made It Through the Wreckage, was recorded in Nashville -- a place AHI finds attractive for its sound and skilled studio hands rather than its glitzy polish -- and this time on analog-to-tape with flourishes of digital technology.
Kathy Mattea
Hailed by The Washington Post as "one of Nashville's finest song interpreters," Kathy Mattea has enjoyed the kind of success many artists only dream of: two Grammy wins, four CMA Awards, four #1 country singles, and five hold albums (plus a platinum collection of her greatest hits). The dream almost ended thought when Mattea entered her 50s and began to find her voice changing. What followed was a three year journey through life challenges and vocal glitches that she describes as her "dark night of the soul," a trying time of personal anguish and professional uncertainty that threatened to silence her permanently. Instead, Mattea dug in with a vocal coach, re-committed to her music, and emerged with the most poignant album of her career, "Pretty Bird." Working with her old friend, music roots wizard Tom O'Brien, producing, "Pretty Bird" is a chronicle of her journey, song by song, back to singing for the sheer joy of it. It's an emotional, moving collection, one that draws its strength not only from Mattea's touching performances, but also from her uncanny ability to weave seemingly disparate material into a cohesive whole. From a playful take on Oliver Wood's "Chocolate On My Tongue" to a tender rendition of Mary Gauthier's "Mercy Now," from a British traditional to a Bobbie Gentry classic, these are the songs that helped Mattea reclaim her voice, and she inhabits each as fully as if it were her own.
Lori Mckenna
Home and the people who make it have captivated Lori McKenna for years. Over the last three decades, as she became a wife and mother of five, she has also emerged as one of the most respected, prolific singer-songwriters in popular music. Her 2016 release The Bird and the Rifle netted three Grammy nominations, along with Americana Music Association nods all firsts for McKenna as an artist. Then, she made history: In 2016, she became the first woman ever to win the Country Music Association s Song of the Year two years in a row thanks to co-writing Little Big Town s Girl Crush and penning Tim McGraw s no. 1 Humble and Kind solo. Both songs also clinched back-to-back Grammy wins for Best Country Song. In 2017, she became the Academy of Country Music s first female Songwriter of the Year. The Tree is her much-anticipated eleventh studio album. Produced by Dave Cobb, The Tree takes one of McKenna s signature themes family and builds a tapestry of experiences she has lived and overheard, been told and dreamed up, to create a stunning ode to life s defining relationships.
Eleanor Tomlinson
Tales from Home, the debut album from Eleanor Tomlinson star of the PBS series Poldark, is an enchanting collection of folk-influenced songs. The album is long-awaited by fans of the series after they watched her stunning performances on the hit TV show. Tales from Home features classic hits from Simon & Garfunkel ( Homeward Bound ), Carole King ( Tapestry ) and Bonnie Raitt ( I Can t Make You Love Me ). Also included on the album are a number of Irish and Scottish folk songs such as The Spinning Wheel. The album is produced by Poldark soundtrack composer and Academy Award�-winner Anne Dudley who has previously recorded with the likes of Elton John, Tina Turner and Robbie Williams.
Eleanor Tomlinson is best known for her roles as Demelza Poldark in Poldark, Lady Isabel Neville in The White Queen and Princess Isabelle in Jack the Giant Slayer. Tomlinson has recently starred in the 2018 Academy Award� nominated film Loving Vincent with Saoirse Ronan, Douglas Booth and Chris O Dowd. She will also be featured in the upcoming film Colette with Keira Knightley and Dominic West as well as the BBC s adaptation of Agatha Christie s Ordeal By Innocence.
GRAMMY� Award-winning pair Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush are refreshing their musical visions while staying true to an authentic sound and emotive songwriting that has made Sugarland ubiquitous with Country music duos. The Georgia natives released their first new music in seven years with �Still The Same� setting the tone for their joint venture with Big Machine Records and UMG Nashville. Their highly-anticipated new album BIGGER will be released on June 8.
American Folk - The Movie [Movie]
American Folk is the soundtrack to the award-winning 2018 independent film, American Folk, starring Joe Purdy and Amber Rubarth. In addition to both original compositions and classic folk song renditions by Purdy and Rubarth, the soundtrack includes John Prine's ''Some Humans Ain't Human'' and Jerry Garcia & David Grisman's ''Freight Train.''
I'm With Her
See You Around is the full-length debut from I'm With Her, featuring multi-Grammy-Award-winners Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan. Before coming together these artists co-founded seminal bands (Nickel Creek and Crooked Still) and since have collectively contributed to critically acclaimed albums from esteemed artists including Yo-Yo Ma, The Civil Wars, Kris Kristofferson, John Mayer, Alison Krauss, John Prine, and many more. This much anticipated release reveals the commitment to creating a wholly unified band sound. With each track born from close songwriting collaboration, I'm With Her builds an ineffable magic from their finespun narratives and breathtaking harmonies. The result is a collection both emotionally raw and intricate, with layers of meaning and insight within even the most starkly adorned track. Co-produced by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Laura Marling, Paul McCartney) and the band and recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in a tiny English village near Bath, See You Around delivers a warmly textured sound that proves both fresh and timeless.
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LANCO's story begins in the small towns where all five bandmates Lancaster, bassist Chandler Baldwin, multi-instrumentalist Jared Hampton, drummer Tripp Howell and lead guitarist Eric Steedly were raised. Spread across Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia, they lived normal lives full of late nights, long weekends, hard lessons and young love. Alongside award-winning producer Jay Joyce, LANCO focused on capturing the spirit of their exuberant live shows, sharing the same goal to make everything sound authentic and human. If a particular song didn't click, LANCO would take it on the road and perform the new tune every night until things fell into place.
Steep Canyon Rangers
The sessions that produced Out In The Open were brisk and instinctive, expansive yet intimate, visceral and immediate - and they would have had to be, for herein are songs that tell the big story by drawing the small ones. There is, to my ear, as much of Raymond Carver's literate and humane influence on display as the Osborne Brothers, as much Welty in the pointed details - both sublime and confounding - as Clark and Van Zandt. Compassion and determination act as connective tissue when, throughout this song cycle, the bones, muscle, and blood of daily life dance with loose-limbed motion toward the inevitable, guided by an ethos best articulated by Sam Beckett who directed that when we falter, we try again and ''fail better.''
While in the studio, the Rangers stood in a circle - facing each other and the music with a well-worn brotherhood that was as well open to all they could not imagine transpiring between them. The songs were written as a map, and their shared history a compass blade, but the road itself - the journey - was a moving target and, as with all relevant music, remains one. And the Steep Canyon Rangers are moving along with it. - Joe Henry
Glen Campbell
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Four-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer/musician/songwriter Glen Campbell is an American treasure. Known for his music and comedy show on CBS, 80 top-charting hits and sales of 45 million albums over his 50-year career, his heartwarming voice graces some of the most popular hymns of today on this special collection. Featuring 'Amazing Grace,' 'The Old Rugged Cross,' 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus' and more, Campbell showcases his ability to transcend musical styles and his love for gospel music.


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Welfare Reform and its impact in Cornwall
Latest data* is showing the welfare reforms are having an impact on the citizens of Cornwall. As indications suggest citizens are facing financial hardship; though in some areas this is not as high as expected. However, this is before further reform like the introduction of Universal Credit.
Housing providers across Cornwall are seeing increasing levels of arrears due to the under-occupancy (Bedroom Tax) changes. In Quarter 3, 8% of social housing tenants are affected, with 61% of these are in arrears. For 2013/14 Q1 – 59% and for Q3 – 63%. (Cornwall Housing Ltd, Devon and Cornwall Housing group, Westward Housing, Coastline Housing, Cornwall Rural Housing Association).
In Q3 70% (Q1 – 59%/Q2 – 74%) of tenants affected by under-occupancy were in arrears. This compares to 23% of non-affected tenancies. That is a clear sign the Bedroom Tax is having an adverse affect on families. It is perverse people who want to move, but cannot due to a shortage of housing stock are penalised this way.
Council Tax changes and the impact of these are also having an effect on families. To date, the collection rate is slightly down by about 1.39% in Q3. Since the changes 26% of new payers (5184) are in arrears, this is slight reduction of Q1 – 28% and Q2 – 31%. It might be cold comfort, but there have been 10,500 cases referred to bailiffs this year (compared to 11,300 at the same time in 2012/13) due to increased efforts to encourage people to make payment arrangements and to attach recovery to earnings or benefits.
The Exceptional Relief/Transitional Support funding is not being accessed to extent expected. As Only 14.12% (£155,334) of the £1.1m budget is currently spent. However, the success rate for those applying has increased from 57% in Q1, 69% in quarter 2 to 72% in Q3. It has been informally agreed that unused money for 2013/14 will be accrued to 14/15 subject to formal agreement from Members. I really do not know why there is such a low take-up despite the Council's best effort to inform people of this help.
You only got to look at the following picture to see in huge increase on the use of Food Banks. It makes for some stark reading.
Though it cannot be directly linked to the welfare changes Hospital admissions with malnutrition have increased in Cornwall. There has been an 87% increase over the last 5 years. This compares to a 63% increase nationally (2008/09 – 63, 2009/10 – 79, 2010/11 – 92, 2011/12 – 130, 2012/13 – 118).
More hardship is set to follow with the introduction of the Universal Credit. Details are still a little fuzzy on how this will be implemented in Cornwall and how Cornwall Council will be involved. Luckily for Cornwall this will be implemented before 2016.
However, the Government have set a target of 80% of universal credit transactions to be carried out online. This is likely to impact in two ways; those who cannot or will not use the internet and those who are able, but do not have access to a computer. Universal credit will be paid direct to the 'head of the household', monthly in arrears.
The line 'We are all in it together' seems very hollow, as reality is far from it.
( *Cornwall Council's Understanding the impacts of Welfare Reform report Q3 2013/14)


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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Telecom operators hit out at a new European Union proposal that aims to spur investment in faster fiber optics networks by reducing profits generated on copper-based networks, saying it was wrongheaded and would actually stunt progress.
Executives from nearly a dozen companies, including France Telecom, Telefonica and Telecom Italia, came out against the proposal only minutes after EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes laid it out in a speech at an industry conference in Brussels on Monday.
Kroes said she would open a consultation period to debate whether to reduce the amount telecom operators charge rivals to rent their copper-based telecom networks. Under the new approach, which is still in its early stages and could still change, operators which present credible plans to invest in fiber networks could be exempt from the lower rental charges.
Kroes portrayed the idea as a way to break the logjam preventing operators from investing the hundreds of billions of euros needed to roll out ultra-fast broadband across Europe.
She argued that telecom operators are too comfortable — and earning healthy profits — with their old networks and have little interest to spend heavily to rip up streets to install fiber networks.
Calling the idea "simply crazy," Telecom Italia CEO Franco Bernabe said this new regulation would serve only to handicap further the industry at a time when the it was already suffering from falling revenues and profits.
"We need lower taxes, less regulation, a good operating environment, and more profits. Instead we are getting the opposite," he said on a panel at the conference.
"I think we are in a Kafka-esque environment. I don't understand what people are thinking and what kind of world they are living in."
Henrek Poulsen, CEO of Denmark-based operator TDC, told Reuters that the proposal was wrongheaded: "This will reduce profits in the industry so there will be less money to invest," he said.
Kroes' proposal reflects a growing concern among European regulators and some national leaders that the Continent is falling behind in building high-speed broadband as well as new mobile networks.
The EU is far from achieving the goals set out in its "Digital Agenda" that aims for all Europeans to have access to broadband and by 2020 at least 50 percent of European households should subscribe to Internet access above 100 Mbps.
The slowness of fiber build outs have some policymakers worried that the region is losing a source of economic growth and becoming less competitive compared with the U.S. and Asia.
Pierre Louette, general secretary for France Telecom, told Reuters that he was surprised that the EU was opening another consultation process, and said it brought unwelcome uncertainty to the industry.
Louette said that for its part, France Telecom was moving ahead with its plan to invest 2 billion euros in fiber networks by 2015 because it believed it was the best strategy for the company, and it did not need further prodding by regulators.
Louette added that France Telecom has already signed an accord with smaller rival Iliad to cooperate with building out fiber outside major French cities, and that it planned to sign a similar deal with Vivendi's SFR in the coming weeks.
"Fiber investments are not falling behind in France," he said. "More punitive and confiscatory regulation doesn't do anyone any good."
Investors are likely to be spooked by the EU's move given the regulators' track record of forcing lower call termination rates and roaming fees, two policy changes that while positive for consumers did dilute the profitability of the industry.
"The proposal, vague as it is in its early stages, has the potential to do material damage to incumbent operators in principle," wrote analysts from investment bank Jeffries in a note. The threat was twofold, the analysts wrote, operators would either have to accept lower fees and therefore see broadband prices erode in their markets, or they would have to embark on costly fiber investments that were uncertain in terms of returns.
The EU move is likely to set up a lobbying battle between regulators and companies.
Vimplecom CEO Jo Lunder told Reuters that despite the gulf between the two sides, both agreed on the need for Europe to develop strong communications infrastructure to feed growth and innovation. "I think we all agree on the long-term objective, we just need to agree on how to get there," he said.
Additional reporting by Foo Yunchee. Editing by Jane Merriman


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Celina Jaitly honoured by Governor of Egypt
Celina Jaitly was recently honoured by Governor of Luxor at the "One million Indian tourists" campaign in Egypt. Celina launched the campaign as tourism ambassador, along with tourism and aviation minister of Egypt. Celina is seen here sporting a Burberry red dress coat on the outdoor event held at the ancient temple of Luxor on December 29th.


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Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 was released earlier this month, consolidating more than a year of security patches and other bug fixes since Service Pack 2 shipped. It, along with related documentation, can be found at www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp3/default.asp.
SP3 includes the contents of Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2 and Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package Version 1, as well as many additional fixes. As such, it should be applied but only after appropriate testing.
The service pack introduces three components: Microsoft Corp.s automatic update agent (which, if configured to apply updates automatically, will unfortunately also reboot machines automatically); Microsoft Installer 2.0; and a seriously ineffective tool to hide the presence of Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Windows Media Player.
As with other service packs, caveat emptor. Windows 2000 SP3 installed without error messages for us on Microsoft Web server, Domain Name System, domain controller and IBM database server boxes running Windows 2000 Server, and weve been running those systems on SP3 for a week with no application breakage.
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Others havent had that experience. SP3 early adopters posting their difficulties on Microsofts support newsgroups report crashes, blue screens on boot and other troubles on machines. Machines with Logitech Inc. mouse drivers, Symantec Corp.s Norton Personal Firewall and Promise Technology Inc. Ultra100 IDE controllers all had compatibility problems with SP3 for at least some posters. Our memory of Windows NT Service Pack 6, which broke IBMs Lotus divisions Notes servers, is still a recent one, too.
As with any major operating system upgrade, theres no substitute for local testing. Two important pre-installation tasks are updating the system repair disk before installing SP3 (as the installer advises), so a system repair can be done after the service pack install, and choosing to save system files so the service pack can be uninstalled.
We also caution that installing SP3 does not, on its own, result in a fully patched-up default Windows 2000 installation: The Windows Update site already contains a security update marked "critical" for Windows Media Player (Q320920) that is not included in the service pack.
The update site suggests upgrading to Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2, but Windows 2000 SP3 does automatically update the default Internet Explorer 5.01 installed with Windows 2000 to Internet Explorer 5.01 SP2 and so applies the latest security fixes.


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Zero Hour For Halting Amnesty: Frank Roche/Renee Ellmers Primary Today
Republican voters in North Carolina's Second District will choose today between incumbent Renee Ellmers and conservative challenger/Tea Party favorite Frank Roche.
Polls are open until 7:00 p.m. this evening.
Ellmers is a favorite of House GOP leader John Boehner, and she has been exposed as a vocal advocate of amnesty despite attempting several times during her campaign to conceal her position from her constituency. To review:
WHAT? Renee Ellmers Claims She Has 'Same Immigration Stance as Cruz, Paul, Lee'
Video of Renee Ellmers Berating Anti-Amnesty Constituents
All-In on Amnesty: Renee Ellmers Is Boehner and Cantor's 'Tell'
Her measured statements on amnesty mirror the concealed, ambiguous remarks from Boehner and Eric Cantor. The surreptitious politicking is most galling to me as a U.S. citizen, more so than the position itself: when your elected public servants don't wish you to know how they intend to govern, you can be sure they intend to disregard you.
At such a point, you bear the responsibility for selecting a new individual with whom to place your sacred trust.
Frank Roche, in addition to holding a rational, disinterested opinion on amnesty -- the "rule of law"-based position that, as opposed to popular culture's lazy usage of the word with folks such as Sandra Fluke, actually does require courage to hold -- has been crystal clear with his constituents regarding where he stands.
Says Roche:
I'm looking for something quite different than what we've experienced over the last four decades. And I'm not only talking about illegal immigration. We of course have to stop this once and for all by properly securing our borders, getting a handle on our short-term visa program, and, of course, dealing with those who are here illegally -- which would not include amnesty, or anything like amnesty, or "path to citizenship," or any other semantic twist of phrase they want to use.
These are tough stances to take these days without being labeled a bigot, a "nativist," even by fellow Republicans.
So recall that the actual implication of Ellmers' stance on immigration is a drastic drop in wages, a severe economic blow to the past couple decades' worth of legal immigrants who did everything right and have been pulling their families towards a more secure future. "Nativist" is a disgraceful term to throw at those defending that generation of recently arrived Americans.
If Ellmers survives, expect GOP House leadership to be emboldened and to press on for amnesty after primary season.
Take that thought with you to the polls today, NC-02.


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Marjorie Morningstar (film)
Marjorie Morningstar is a 1958 WarnerColor melodrama romance film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. The film, released by Warner Bros. and directed by Irving Rapper tells a fictional coming of age story about a young Jewish girl in New York City in the 1950s. The film's trajectory traces Marjorie Morgenstern's attempts to become an artist - exemplified through her relationship with the actor and playwright Noel Airman. The film's cast includes Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, and Claire Trevor.
|Marjorie Morningstar
|Directed by
|Irving Rapper
|Produced by
|Milton Sperling
|Screenplay by
|Everett Freeman
|Based on
|Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
|Gene Kelly
Natalie Wood
Claire Trevor
|Music by
|Max Steiner
|Harry Stradling
|Edited by
|Folmar Blangsted
Beachwold Productions
|Distributed by
|Warner Bros.
Release date
Running time
|128 minutes
|United States
|Box office
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The central conflict in the film revolves around the traditional models of social behavior and religious behavior expected by New York Jewish families in the 1950s, and Marjorie's desire to follow an unconventional path. The film is notable for its inclusion of Jewish religious scenes - including a Passover meal, a synagogue sequence and Jewish icons in the Morgenstern house. These depictions were one of the first times Jewish religion was portrayed overtly in film since The Jazz Singer in 1927. The movie received an Oscar nomination for Best Song ("A Very Precious Love"), sung by Gene Kelly.
Marjorie Morgenstern is a student at Hunter College and the girlfriend of an eligible young man, Sandy Lamm, who attends her family's synagogue. Her parents are happy with her choice of mate, and her mother Rose Morgenstern (Claire Trevor) tells her father, Arnold (Everett Sloane), that she hopes the two kids marry.
Marjorie breaks up with the boy, though, and goes to the Catskills that summer to be a camp counselor. One night, Marjorie and friend Marsha Zelenko (Carolyn Jones) sneak to a Borscht Belt resort for adults called South Wind. There she is caught by resort owner Maxwell Greech (George Tobias), but social director Noel Airman (Gene Kelly) vouches for Marjorie as a guest and offers her a job, beginning a relationship with Airman and a friendship with aspiring playwright Wally Wronkin (Martin Milner), who writes Airman's stage act. The latter has a romantic interest in Marjorie, but she's tempted by the older, cynical Airman, who meets the disapproval of her parents. Airman, whose original name was the more Jewish Ehrman, renames Marjorie as well from Morgenstern to Morningstar.
Marjorie's sweet Uncle Samson (Ed Wynn) comes to the resort to keep an eye on her. But when he dies of a heart attack while entertaining guests, Marjorie goes back to the city. There she dates a doctor named Harris, with whom she quickly breaks up when Airman returns to find her. He declares that love has convinced him to become respectable. Marjorie tells her mother, who insists her daughter bring him to a Passover meal. "Not Passover, mother. He's not very religious. He doesn't believe in those things," Marjorie says. Rose answers, "He doesn't believe in those things... you're going to get married. How are you going to raise your children?"
In the midst of the Passover meal, he leaves and Marjorie follows him. She is concerned he's bored, but he says, "I wasn't bored. I was disturbed, deeply. I couldn't help thinking of all the things I've missed in life. Family, your kind of family. Faith, tradition. All the things I've been ridiculing all the time. That's why I couldn't take it anymore. I love you very much, Marjorie Morgenstern."
Airman gets a job at an advertising firm and seems to do well. But one week he doesn't show up to work and refuses to take Marjorie's calls. She goes to his apartment and finds him drunk with a strange woman, Imogene Norman. He has decided he cannot stand the professional lifestyle and wants to be an artist. The impetus to change careers is the success of Wally Wronkin on Broadway; the playwright has launched a series of hits and Airman is consumed with jealousy. Airman and Marjorie reconcile when girlfriend Marsha's new husband agrees to invest in his play. But it gets panned by critics. "We were crucified," someone explains to Marjorie, and their relationship is unable to survive. He runs away, again; she chases after him, even to Europe. In the end, Wally tells her Noel is back at the resort, where all first met.
Marjorie returns to South Wind, where she watches Noel rehearsing a new summer show. Everything is exactly the same as it was, her first summer there, except for herself. Greech observes that she's done some growing up. We see her board a bus. In the rearview mirror, Wronkin sits in back. He smiles, as he's been waiting for her to get over her summer fling. The suggestion is that they will embark on the relationship Wronkin had been hoping for from the beginning.
- Gene Kelly as Noel Airman
- Natalie Wood as Marjorie
- Claire Trevor as Rose Morgenstern
- Everett Sloane as Arnold Morgenstern
- Martin Milner as Wally Wronkin
- Carolyn Jones as Marsha Zelenko
- George Tobias as Greech
- Martin Balsam as Dr. Harris
- Jesse White as Lou Michelson
- Edd Byrnes as Sandy Lamm
- Paul Picerni as Philip Berman
- Alan Reed as Puddle Podell
- Ruta Lee as Imogene Norman
- Ed Wynn as Uncle Samson
Natalie Wood, who would later go on to her greatest hit, West Side Story, had until Marjorie Morningstar played mostly childish roles, including that of Judy in Rebel Without a Cause. A NY Times reviewer wrote of her performance, "Natalie Wood, who only yesterday was playing with dolls in films, has blossomed into a vivacious pretty brunette who very likely is as close to a personification of Marjorie as one could wish. But the character is hardly complex, and while Miss Wood is competent in the role, it is rarely a glowing performance."
Gene Kelly was near the end of his film career when he appeared in Marjorie Morningstar. His 15-year association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had ended the previous year. Born in 1912, he was 46 when he took the role of Noel Airman. By contrast, his love interest Wood was only 20 years old. The Times noted: "Although Mr. Kelly appears a mite uncomfortable in his assignment, he plays it with understanding. And, as a professional song-and-dance man, he both hoofs with polish and pleasingly warbles 'A Very Precious Love,' the film's theme number."
Times critiques of the other performances: "Carolyn Jones, as Miss Wood's best friend, makes it an outspoken performance marked by one truly poignant scene in which she reveals her essential loneliness. Ed Wynn, in the comparatively short role of an impecunious but understanding relative, adds some glint of humor and compassion. Claire Trevor, as Marjorie's over-protective mother and Martin Milner, as the playwright, who is one of Marjorie's retinue of devoted suitors, are well-turned, if not inspired, characterizations."
Differences between the film and novelEdit
The most significant difference between the 1955 novel and the 1958 film is the ending. At the end of the novel, the free-spirited Marjorie Morningstar settles down with a man agreeable to her parents. In a criticism of Herman Wouk's ending, Alana Newhouse writes in Slate Magazine that "In the final nine pages, the formerly vibrant Marjorie gives up on her career, gets married to a man named Sidney — er, Milton — Schwartz, and moves to Westchester... Most female readers cry when they reach the end of this book, and for good reason. Marjorie Morningstar, as they came to know her, has become another woman entirely: 'You couldn't write a play about her that would run a week, or a novel that would sell a thousand copies. … The only remarkable thing about Mrs. Schwartz is that she ever hoped to be remarkable, that she ever dreamed of being Marjorie Morningstar.'"
The film's ending suggests a possible relationship between Marjorie and Wally Wronkin, the playwright. Although he is successful, he is far more artistic than the Milton Schwartz that Marjorie settles for at the end of the novel. This ending suggests a different conceit in the film than Wouk's novel. The novel suggests that people grow up to realize they have no real choice but to follow their family and upbringing. The film's ending suggests that maturity implies assuming responsibility for one's choices and finishing what was started. Wally had been waiting for Marjorie to learn that Noel will never mature in this sense. In the novel the moral seems to be that her only solution is to settle, as her Mother warns her, for someone to take care of her. In the movie, she begins a new journey.
The film is also contemporary, set in the late 1950s; whereas, the novel is set in the 1930s.
See alsoEdit
- Popkin, Henry. The Vanishing Jew of Our Popular Culture: The Little Man Is No Longer There.
- Prell, Riv-Ellen. Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation. Beacon Press, Boston.
- Dundes, Alex. The J. A. P. and the J. A. M. in American Jokelore. The Journal of American Folklore > Vol. 98, No. 390 (Oct., 1985), pp. 456–475
- Weiler, A.H. Version of Wouk Novel Opens at Music Hall. NY Times, page 32, April 25, 1959.
- Tanabe, Kunio Francis. The Washington Post Book Club - Marjorie Morningstar' by Herman Wouk/ The Washington Post, page BW13, July 4, 2004.
- Newhouse, Alana. Why Do Women Love Marjorie Morningstar? Slate Magazine, Sept. 14, 2005.
- Heifetz, Laurie. Scarlett's Falling Morningstar The Forward, May 11, 2007.


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Sit n Stroll Stroller?
We will be flying from the east coast to San Diego with our two year old. I am trying to save space as I am sure our cabin will be small. I found something called the sit n stroll stroller which is an FAA approved car seat that converts into a stroller and also can be a booster seat. Has anyone seen/tried this and how much room in the cabin would it take up?
If all goes well on this cruise, I wouldn't mind paying for it if it works well and we can use it again and again.
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I've seen others with that stroller and there are plusses and minuses. THe plus is that you don't have to haul a car seat with you throughout the airport, etc. The minus is that the stroller then is a bit large to fit into a cruise ship cabin, since it's wide enough to be a car seat. We usually take a small fold up stroller (has an awning to keep the sun out, etc.) so that we can store it in the entrance way to our cabin. Sometimes we'll keep it folded up in the hallway but some cruise lines don't like the hallways being blocked...
Hope this helps?!?
Smooth sailing,
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Yes, you have been so helpful! Do you think a regular car seat is a better idea then? The airlines are telling us we have to fly with one since she will be 2 yrs. so it will be in tow with us regardless. I am trying to be the most space economical and appreciate your thougts.
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You don't need the carseat on the airplane. We fly with our 2 year old all the time and just strap her right in the seat.
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You should use a car seat on the plane. You don't drive your car with your child not in a carseat - why would you do it on a plane? If you hit any type of turbulence your child will not be protected in a plane seat. The adult seat belt could hurt internal organs. This is the same reason you do not use an adult seat belt on a child in a car.
To the original poster:
I have a sit'n stroll on order for my child. I'll be taking that along with an umbrella stroller on our upcoming cruise. I'd rather stroll my child thru the airport than carry a car seat! I'll check the umbrella stroller.
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Our pediatrician told us to always use a car seat on the plane in case of turbulance, etc but also gave us a great bit of advice: it keeps your toddler from asking to get out of their seat. It's not easy to haul the car seat around at the airport (we bought a bag w/ a shoulder strap at The Right Start), but once we get it installed on the plane w/ our daughter in it we tell her it's just like the car - you have to be buckled while in motion. It has worked like a charm (just make sure you follow the same rule by using the restroom beforehand so you won't need to leave your seat).
The cruise line will store the car seat for you, you don't have to keep it in your room.
In the past we've used our light weight stroller and been pleased. You really need the canopy in sunny ports! (This year our dilemna is that we now have a baby and a toddler and only want to bring one stroller so we got a new lightweight stroller that we can attach the infant seat to.) I've seen people in the airport strap their regular car seats to regular strollers but ours was always too wide to fit in the stroller. Check to see if your's will fit. If it does (and you can secure it) you've got the best of both worlds - a stroller, a car seat and no need to lug the car seat on your shoulder.
Good luck!
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Thanks for all your thoughts and advice. The sit n stroll does come with a sunshade and it seems like it might be the easiest thing overall. That way, I can also use it in cabs in port (hopefully) and through the streets as well. Maybe there will be some good deals on the 2003 models once 2004 gets here.
I have my fingers crossed she will fall asleep in the carseat on the plane and I wouldn't be comfortable flying without one. Thanks again!
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I am a certified car seat technician and we NEVER fly without a car seat for my daughter, even when she was under 2yo (she's 2.5 now). The issues regarding turbulence are VERY real and the comments about keeping your child happy and strapped in their seat for the duration of the trip are very true in my experience.
We've taken two trips by air to date and will be cruising in January w/ her and will be flying to FL. Each time she slept like a rock on the plane rides. This past October we flew to Orlando and on the trip home she was the ONLY child over 2 in a car seat and also the ONLY one to sleep the entire ride.
The Sit n Stroll is a decent option. It covers both stroller and car seat in one fell swoop...however like most things that do double duty it doesn't do either very well. It can be heavy and sometimes a bit too bulky to use in many instances.
Using your car seat from home is definitely a very good option. It's your seat, you know how to install it well and your child is used to it. We have a Britax seat which is on the large side and have a Samsonite Micromover luggage cart that has built in bungees and folds up small enough to put in dd's backpack diaper bag. We also have a lightweight stroller that is a breeze to use in the airport. It is a bit of a challenge to get everything through the line to check the luggage (for longer trips like a cruise) but once it's checked it's very easy. One of us takes the stroller w/ dd and the other pulls the carseat on the mover. We even put some carryons inside the seat.
I wanted to add this VERY good link to info about flying with a carseat....
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I have a two year old, she will be 3 in April and I didn't realize that I should use a car seat in the airplane. My travel agent never said anything to me about it to me. The TA is my parents age, who also like my TA are from a time when child seats weren't used and view the regulations regarding them as an inconveinence more than anything else. Now I am going to take my carseat but I am just wondering how I can make carrying that huge thing around more conveinent. My daughter and I will be traveling alone and will be meeting my parents in PR. I want to bring a stroller also, my parents insist that they will carry her and how often will we need the stroller they ask. But even if she doesn't get in it it is conveinent because I can put my bags on it. I have a cheap umbrella stroller but want it to survive the trip. How can I prepare it so it doesn't get damaged en route? Thanks for the link about air travel and child safety. I am obsessed about her safety in the car, but can't believe I didn't think much about it on the plane. Thanks for any information you can give.
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Very good points here, but good luck using your carseats in most ports. most taxis don't even have seat belts, and the tour buses never have that we've seen.
I still say consider the booster type carseats for kids over two. There are so many on the market that if you check around you should be able to find a safe , smaller version that is very transportable.Good luck and happy cruising,soon the kids will be big and these concerns will be far away!
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To Kahlias mom:
Yes, traveling with a car seat and a child alone is difficult. Since she's 3, she can probably walk in the airport and you can perch the car seat on top of the stroller and put your carry on in the basket under the stroller. We use an umbrella stroller that has a sun awning and also a basket to store things -- my two year old has been on 4 cruises already and it has worked very well for us.
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