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Thursday, September 05, 2013
Art Colony Giverny
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The hot pink flowers are Dahlia. What a lovely place to paint and I'm sure it smelled wonderful.ReplyDelete
I think the pink flower is a type of dahlia? What a fantastic opportunity to paint inside the garden xxxReplyDelete
Ai, que paraiso! Uma boa sexta-feira para você!ReplyDelete
I thought Dahlia too:)ReplyDelete
What fun..enjoy every moment..Why did I say that?
I KNOW you will~
I had never heard of a Tithonia..so thanks!
Carol, this looks pretty darn fabulous, and i do hope that you will write and show us much more about this access to Giverny and the fun and beauty and inspiration to be found there.ReplyDelete
(Hoping that not too many crowds are found in the gardens? The Central Park crowds always put me off sketching there.)
As I am now my own pet, I certainly wish to send my pet to Giverny...will happily identify flowers in return! Than you for yet another experience to put on my "to do " list.ReplyDeleteReplies
Art Colony Giverny is 'bucket list' material.Delete
As someone I know used to say, "Lucky Duck!" Are you staying out there for 7 days? Wouldn't the group from Owl's Head love to join you here! I liked her sites & all the links.ReplyDelete
Gale Bennett was an artist here in Southwest Florida, too. Many artists here benefited from his unique way of explaining light and color and traveled to France to paint at Giverny. It was fun to see his name in your blog.What a wonderful experience for you to be in Monet's gardens without the crowds.ReplyDelete
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Ain't it just!Delete
I keep pinching myself to make sure it's real.
Are you just lucky or do you make your fortunate circumstance? This is just wonderful. I googled the flower - Tithonia, Mexican Sunflower and then clicked on images and hundreds of your beautiful flower appeared.ReplyDelete
Ive been in Giverny few years ago,3 I think ,it was an amazing end of july day,sunny and dry..I remember the hause ,the gardens ,the famous lake and the coq...We had a rest in a bistrot just outside the Museum,under a big tree drinking iced and sparkling local cider.It was a perfect summer day.ReplyDelete
the dark pink flower is a Dalia yes...I like them ,sometimes they are really big...
as usual nice post,amazing pics! Thank You.
Beautiful! What a lovely spot. A little peace and tranquility away from the hustle and bustle of Paris! Yes, tithonia and dahlias are the flowers. Later this month, go see the dahlias in Jardin des Plantes. Enjoy your stay with the spirit of Monet.ReplyDelete
Quelle joie d'avoir l'occasion de faire la peinture à Giverny! It is one of the special places. Your wonderful experiences never fail to brighten my mornings and to make me long for my next sojourn in France (March).ReplyDelete
I LOVE how you get to see the shutters closed, no tourists about and can reflect in the gardens and appreciate them like Monet. That 2nd last shot without a queue in sight is amazing. Even although we're only 40 minutes drive from us, the queues put us off going back so I'm really looking forward to seeing your private garden walks, Carol. Sounds like the perfect retreat!ReplyDeleteReplies
Just go when the crowds leave Jill, usually on the 2:20 shuttle back to Vernon train station.Delete
You have it almost to yourself. And if you order your tickets ONLINE no waiting in line eithher.
Oh, my! What an amazing experience. May I say that I'm just a teeny bit envious? Okay, I'm totally envious! I visited the garden once, with hordes of tourists around. To have the garden to yourself, wander around taking photographs, painting. Happy sigh!ReplyDelete
(I don't suppose you need an assistant, do you? I could maybe carry your paints? Or keep Bear company while you paint? Or is he painting, too?)
Okay, must run - have to revise my Bucket List.
OH WOW..What a lucky ducky you are..I would LOVE to belong to this group to go here and paint and or photograph too. Living Monets life.. wow.ReplyDelete


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A lot of stuff going on this beautiful Eastern North Carolina fall weekend; let�s get to it, shall we?
AN ODE TO OUR NANCY: Monday is Nancy Saunders� final day at The Free Press.
You have no idea how hard it was for me to type that sentence.
Nancy, who is retiring, came to TFP in 1999, and has impacted hundreds � if not thousands � of lives in the last 14 years. To you, dear Free Press reader, she is the person who is responsible for most of the lifestyles items you see in the paper (weddings, engagements, reunions, etc.).
But Nancy�s impact goes far beyond what you see in the paper. To a lot of folks in Kinston, she is The Free Press � and there isn�t a better person I�d like to have representing this newspaper.
To us in the office, though, she�s more than a coworker; she�s been an adopted mom to those of us who aren�t from here and whose mama may be anywhere from an hour or two away to all the way across the country.
You can tell how special someone is by the loving nicknames they acquire; at various times in our office, she�s been called �Nancy Drew,� �Fancy Nancy,� �Mama Hen� and many others. Nancy and Johnny Hussey (who worked here for an unbelievable 47 years before retiring a few years ago) are two of the most beloved employees at The Free Press in the past few decades.
Tomorrow will be a bittersweet day as we all bid farewell to our Nancy. It�ll be a good day for her as she will now have time to spend with her children and family, but it�s going to also create a humongous void in our newsroom as we lose the person who has taken care of all of us in one way or another over the past 14 years.
It�s been a jarring few years at TFP as we�ve bid farewell to some of the most important people in this newspaper�s history in Johnny, Charles Buchanan, Patrick Holmes, Larry Powell, Mary Ellison Turner, Judy Strickland and Denise Fernandez.
But saying good-bye to Nancy is going to be particularly hard for me. It�s hard for me to imagine this newsroom without her.
K-8 COULD BE ON THE HORIZON FOR LCPS: A lot of conjecture, a bunch of rumors and a plethora of disinformation are out there about the possibility of Lenoir County Public Schools going to a K-8 model throughout its system.
In a story first reported by The Free Press two weeks ago, the school system is looking hard at turning all 11 of its elementary and middle schools into K-8 schools, in much the same way Contentnea-Savannah is currently set up. LCPS Superintendent Steve Mazingo would like for it to begin the next school year, but that appears unlikely at the moment.
Free Press education reporter Noah Clark and I sat down with Mazingo last week for an informative meeting in which the superintendent laid out his vision for K-8 schools in the county, how they�d be set up and the positives he sees in their possible implantation.
Be sure to check out Noah�s front page story in Monday�s Free Press on that meeting, which includes interviews with Lenoir County Commissioner J. Mac Daughety, LCC�s John Paul Black and Contentnea-Savannah Principal Frances Herring. We are also going to have many more stories in the next few weeks breaking down the different facets of the K-8 plan.
Daughety and Herring were part of a special task force set up by Mazingo, who have been researching the possibility of the K-8 coming to LCPS since earlier this year. The task force, which didn�t include a media member (although an invitation was sent to Patrick Holmes, our former publisher before he left TFP at the end of February), has met at least a half dozen times or more, including in subcommittee form.
Mazingo will present the idea of K-8 to the full school board at an Oct. 7 meeting, although he stresses that the only thing he is looking for is the board�s approval to formally look at the idea of K-8 in Lenoir County. The superintendent promises there will be at least three public forums for parents and citizens to receive more information about the proposed move and that no decision will be made until every opinion is heard.
COME WATCH �BREAKING BAD� WITH US: I wrote about AMC�s �Breaking Bad� in a column a few weeks ago, so you know how I feel it�s the best show in TV history. We even dedicated this week�s Free Press Radio Show (find it at Kinston.com) to the show in a roundtable discussion that included myself, Jon Dawson, Matt Holbrook and Zach Frailey.
The groundbreaking series comes to an end today at 9 p.m. � and I�d love for you to join me, Jon, Matt, Zach, Wes Wolfe, Noah Clark and other Free Press folks at a viewing of the show at the DugOut, 674 Stratford St. Ricky and Ryan Killinger, the owners of the DugOut, are graciously allowing us to watch the show on their HD 120-inch projection screen.
There�s no admission charge, so come on out and see what happens to Walter White and his family. We�re going to tape a portion of the new FPRS at tonight�s viewing; come on out and join us and you could be on the show, too.
Bryan C. Hanks is the editor of The Free Press; his column appears in this space every Sunday. You can reach him at 252-559-1074 or at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BCHanks.

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Awem studio announces the release of version 1.0 of Cradle of Persia, an astonishing match 3 puzzle that lets you become the creator of the greatest architectural treasures of Persia. Use your wits to build some of the most amazing monuments in the Middle East history.
The Earth has known many great empires, but none of them had as many tales as Persia. The legends say it was a place of amazing architecture and culture, the land of golden palaces and almighty genii. The story of the Persian kingdom had its rises and downfalls and composed of several epochs. And it's is your destiny to guide Persian people towards prosperity and wealth with your final goal of possessing the greatest artifact you can ever imagine. You are to restore some of the most significant places on the Persian map, solving intriguing puzzles to find out what's hidden behind the sacred doors of the Cradle of Persia. And so your journey begins.
Welcome to Persepolis, this is where you start off. It's the capital of the Empire but there's little left of its former glory, the precious pearl of Persia has turned into faded ruins. The only hope to restore the noble city is to collect scattered resources presented by tiles. To do so, you need to link three or more similar tiles by clicking on the first piece and dragging cursor over the adjacent ones. But to get the job done, you also need to get rid of all marble plaques underlying some tiles. That won't be easy with all the obstacles to face with, such as chains, boxes and walls preventing tiles from sealing. There's also a timer giving extra challenge to the player.
As there are plenty of obstacles standing on your way, there are even more means to avoid them. Cradle Of Persia awards nice matching with bonuses. At first you can only use dynamite but as the game progresses you will gradually enlarge your collection up to eight bonuses, facilitating your challenge in various ways. That includes the power of lightning, hourglasses, magic wands, etc. Moreover, you can double the fun by upgrading bonuses by playing well and make series of strikes using several bonuses together.
Still, there's much more to do after you handle a puzzle. Cradle of Persia wouldn't be so extremely addictive without the city construction part. Certain types of tiles bring you resources that may be spent on erecting various structures, each giving you some sort of advantage for the upcoming challenges. You decide how to rebuild the city and select which buildings should appear. This feature has a serious impact on the gameplay - to success in restoring the city you have to remember gathering resources even when the timer rushes fiercely.
In Cradle of Persia, it takes a long road to fulfill your role, but the prize for your effort is great. On your path comprised of over 100 levels you will witness 7 historical epochs and reveal 20 most valuable architectural treasures of Persia, and finally, discover the secret of the Cradle of Persia. Altogether the game offers a good old match 3 entertainment with impeccable visuals and a catching background story. Make the history of Persia with your own hands. Please, try out the free trial right now from https://www.awem.com/cradle-of-persia.html.
Pricing and Availability
Cradle of Persia runs under all versions of Windows and costs $19.95 (USD) for a single-user license. Licensed customers are entitled to the fully-functional version of the product, free technical support and free upgrades. Further information on Cradle of Persia, as well as a free trial copy is available free of charge from https://www.awem.com/cradle-of-persia.html.


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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
You praise greed it is not slander. You did not say that the greed that causes so much pain and suffering was exempt of your praise and until you do you are embracing a monster. I have watched picture after picture of dead children stroll across my screen, so yes I'm quite disturbed when someones praises the very cause of those unnecessary tragedies.You tell me that you don't praise greed and I'll take it back.
No the facts are there you people just won't look at them. My thinking skills work just fine. You can not praise little greed w/o praising "big" greed unless you distinguish the two. No distinction was made.
Believe it or not Jag I scored the highest on reading comprehension, score= mastered! Astre can play the "devil's advocate" but don't be so whiny when people get in your face about it. I just wanted to show how terrible it sounds to say "I Praise Greed." That statement means a lot more than just her own personal experience it's a widespread epidemic that kills.


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MAIS All-Star basketball games
Prairie View will be represented in both the girls and boys MAIS Class 2A-3A All-Star basketball games Friday at Jackson Prep. Action gets under way at 11 a.m. with the Class 1A girls game, followed the 1A boys at 12:45 p.m., the 2A-3A girls at 2:30 and the 2A-3A boys at 4:30.
Point guard Kristen Oliphant and Brendan Tubbs will both play for the North.
Oliphant, who also played in the MAIS All-Star softball game in the fall, helped the Lady Spartans to a 30-8 season, a third-place finish in the State Tournament and their first-ever victory in the Overall Tournament. She averaged 8.6 points and 5 assists per game.
Tubbs averaged 16.6 points per game as the Spartans compiled a 16-12 record and finished runner-up in District 3-2A.
Oliphant is joined on the North squad by Peyton Clanton of Carroll, Carly Chinn and Mollie Blair of Jackson Academy, Anna Katherine Nowell and Hannah Peoples of Leake, Tori Hines of Madison-Ridgeland, Shay Atkins of Oak Hill, Chloe Bush and Christian Robertson of Pillow and Shay Richardson of Washington. Coaches for the North are Doyle Wolverton of Leake and Jan Sojourner of Jackson Academy.
For the North boys, Tubbs is accompanied on the roster by Calvin Brown of Canton, Bennett Davis of Central Hinds, Kevin Anthony and Matthew McMullan of Jackson Academy, Cameron Monix of Lee (Miss.), Jordan Hubbard of Madison-Ridgeland, Fernando Van Hook and Hayes Carr of Magnolia Heights, Brad Bennett and Peyton Lewis of Marshall and Jackson Pannell of Pillow. Thomas Tubby of Leake was selected to the team, but will miss the game with an injury. Phil Douglas of North Delta will coach the North squad.


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Right in the central Ötztal Valley you find a large 20km long basin covered all in green, embedded in the stunning Alpine scenery under deep blue skies. We warmly welcome you to scenic Längenfeld at 1200m above sea level! Discover a picture-book landscape of outstanding natural beauty and indulge all your senses in this lovely holiday region.
With its huge indoor and outdoor program Aqua Dome offers a spa day with health treatments of a very special kind.
"Ursprung" Spa Dome features 34°C to 36°C warm waters, an activity pool with underwater fitness equipment and panoramic glass windows with the stunning Alpine scenery as lovely backdrop - also in winter! "Talfrische" Outdoor Spa comprises three bowl-shaped pools which are truly unique.
Cycling fun at the heart of Ötztal valley
Längenfeld's perfect setting makes it a truly unique base for memorable cycle tours and mountain bike adventures. The giant basin, dating back to the glacial period, offers no less than 40km of signposted cycle trails with almost no change in altitude. The gently rising trails lead you from one little hamlet to the next and guarantee plenty of cycling fun for the whole family. Among the highlights ranks the scenic cycle path along the rushing waters of Ötztaler Ache brook.
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Revolution Wave in the Middle East by stefanstraten
Youth from Egypt and Jordan discuss the revolution wave in the Middle East.
The participants from Egypt and Jordan are all youth leaders and work with the organization of youth and social change in their communities. They are in Denmark with young Danes to undergo training as climate ambassadors in collaboration with Crossing Borders, the Green Think Tank CONCITO, Wadi Environmental Science Centre in Egypt and Masar Center in Jordan.


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Expeditions: Conquistador is a tactical role-playing game with a touch of strategic resource management and a pinch of choose-your-own-adventure. Conquistador is set in a rarely visited part of history which is rife with mystery, political intrigue, and good old-fashioned violence.
You will take on the role of a Spanish Conquistador in Central America in 1518-1520. Select the members of your expedition and explore campaign maps based on the actual topological maps of Hispaniola and Mexico. Through intricately branching dialogue, you will engage with the characters and situations that you encounter across these uncharted areas, and when it's time to spill blood, a tactical combat system of great depth and brutality will let you control your individual troops in battle.
Combat is intimate and detailed, and failure has great consequences. Every expedition member has a face, a past, a set of personality traits, and of course a combat role - their morale will change depending on your decisions, they will chime in when you're weighing your options, and if they fall in battle, their injuries will carry over to the world map, where they must be treated by your doctors until they're back on their feet. Should you fail to treat your expedition members, they will die and be gone for good.
Choice and consequence is central to the play experience of Conquistador. As the leader of the expedition, you will face difficult decisions about the use of your troops and your resources, as well as how to engage with the factions of the savage New World. Will you defy history and be a diplomatic envoy of peace? Or will you be a ruthless conqueror determined to lay all of the Aztec Empire at your feet?
Game Features:
- Engaging and intricately branching storyline with difficult decisions and long-term consequences.
- A gallery of unique expedition members who chime in during events & conversations and react to your decisions - pay attention to their morale or you may have to deal with mutiny!
- Random events that throw you into danger, present unexpected opportunities, and build relationships with the members of your expedition.
- High replayability - dynamic endings reflect decisions you've made throughout the story, how much gold you bring with you back to Spain, and how many expedition members you've lost (or gained!) along the way.
- Detailed and tactical combat - make use of flanking, traps & barricades, attacks of opportunity, interrupts, cover & concealment, character abilities, and more.
- Character management - unlock special abilities by promoting your expedition members, assign equipment to your troops, and treat injured or sick characters with a triage system.
- Dynamic trading system - barter with different merchants and buy & sell resources based on local market conditions.
- Campaign maps based on actual topological maps of the Dominican Republic and Mexico.
More articles about Expeditions: Conquistador


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We all know that playing outdoors is the best cure for cabin fever. But some days, it's simply too yucky or cold to go out. We're seeking inspiration from the natural world and bringing it indoors via plenty of eco-decor and furniture. From jungle animal twists on the traditional rocking horse to gorgeous, hand-painted FSC-certified kid-sized tables and chairs to adorable PVC-free wall decals, we've got your child's room covered. So until it is garden or playground weather, your family can stay cozy in your home and still dream of the world outside and all its creatures. Read on for 6 examples of decor and furniture that were inspired by nature.
Tree bookcases are such a fun design element for little nature lovers who love to read. This spruce tree bookcase has branches that aree wide and strong enough to hold numerous books as well as keepsakes that your tot wants to display. Available in green or white, this bookcase, which is finished with high-gloss, low-VOC lacquers, fits in with almost any color scheme.
Wee Gallery's wall decals can take a nursey from blah to beautiful, plus they're removable (great for apartment dwellers who can't alter their surroundings permanently). With themes including monkeys, sea creatures, and safari animals, even tiny tots can delight in these simple and sweet graphics covering their walls. The wall graphics are PVC-free and printed in the USA. Looking for something more permanent? Paper your child's room naturally with this owl wallpaper, made with water-based inks.
Sometimes it's the littlest details that make the sweetest impression. A mother and baby bird cuddling take this peg rack from useful to whimsical. And the whole operation is green from start to finish: the wood is FSC-certified poplar and the product is sealed with a non-toxic, no VOC, soy-based coat.
Lilipad Studio's vibrant table and chair sets are like funky works of art. Covered in butterflies or printed with exotic flowers, these functional and beautiful sets are perfect for inspiring a love of nature, drawing, and design. Made from FSC-certified poplar, the table and chairs are also painted with VOC-free paints and covered with a low VOC finish.
+ Set of 2 chairs and 1 table $795.00
Wee Rock Toy Co. features a traditional rocking horse model, but what kid wouldn't rather be on a gorilla, elephant, rhino or giraffe? Made in the USA using FSC-certified bamboo plywood and finished with a food grade conditioner, these heirloom quality toys let your little wild one rock on (and rock off some of that extra energy)!
Mod Mom's Chase storage chest is stylish enough to fit in your room, but we think it's great for kids too: the clean design has tons of room for storage: an interior chest as well as two open cubes. Featuring a bird, plant leaf, or dandelion graphic, the chest, hand-crafted in conjunction with an Amish furniture manufacturer, would blend well with any design scheme while still offering a subtle nod to nature. Another storage option are these cute toy boxes.


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By Brittany Pieper – email
Elora and Jeremy Edward didn't think they would ever live anywhere besides New Orleans, but when Hurricane Katrina hit everything changed. Now, they call Shreveport home.
"It was a very scary time, but I knew when we left New Orleans that I wouldn't see New Orleans for awhile. I just had a feeling in my heart that this time it was different," said Elora Edward.
After the Hurricane, she spent a few weeks at LSUS, and then 3 more months living at Providence Church. At the time, she and her now husband, Jeremy, were saving up for a wedding. When Katrina hit they were left with no where to live and no jobs.
"In one day it all changed. All the money we had we had to use it to live on. All the hopes and dreams that we had was changed," said Elora.
Elora and Jeremy decided not to have their big dream wedding. They planned a simple ceremony, but members of the church they were staying at had a different idea.
"Members of the church actually decided, oh no, you can't have that. We're gonna have a wedding here, and they started putting everything together and decided to throw us a real wedding," said Jeremy.
Then, when they didn't know where they would live, the church provided a free trailer for a year. Jeremy found a job with the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Department.
"The hurricane, for so many people was just devastating. For us, it was devastating, but we've been blessed. We have been blessed," said Elora.
While they miss New Orleans, the Edwards say through all of the trials Katrina brought they've found a place to call home.
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Roland's SuperNATURAL sound engine for Digital Pianos explained.
Roland SuperNATURAL Sound Engine......
What is SuperNATURAL?
Roland's Super Natural Sound Engine is more than just a single sound, effect or operation. In Roland terms, it "provides the ability to realistically shape the physical parameters of virtual instruments in new organic and expressive ways". Now that might sound overly technical so we are going to attempt to make it easier to understand, and why you should always consider this when buying a Digital Piano.
Now bear in mind that this is not a new technology and Roland are not trying to blind people with science. It has been seen already in other guises on previous Roland gear, but they have been developing and trying to perfect it over the last 20 years and it is now truly beginning to pay dividends for them. Starting out as a technique called "Structured Adaptive Synthesis", this was an innovative combination of additive* and sample based synthesis*. Fast forward to 2010 and we start to see it appearing on Roland's Digital Piano Range.
SuperNATURAL takes various elements of a piano sound, for example the hammer action, the pedal sound, the string resonance, its frequency, decay time, and phase components. These elements are then used to create the final sound using additive synthesis* techniques along with modeled components and various other elements.
SuperNATURAL in Roland's Digital Piano Range
- 88 Key Multi-Sampling
- Organic Tonal Change
- Natural Decay
The 88 Key Multi-Sampling comes from Roland spending hours analysing, sampling and synthesizing a variety of world class pianos and then faithfully reproducing these tones and resonance from key to key. The natural decay of these tones are an essential part of a piano's sound. As the sound of an acoustic piano not only decreases in volume but it also gradually changes in "colour" to a softer tone. Again with some other digital piano's you are left with a looping effect as the sound decays and this makes the sound very unnatural and gives the user a very bad playing experience. With SuperNATURAL there is none of this, it replicates the natural decay just like a genuine acoustic grand piano. (See picture on the right)
Now one would think that SuperNATURAL would be specific to higher end Roland Digital Pianos but this is not so. It is fast becoming an all encompassing feature of the entire digital piano range. Below is a list of the Digital Pianos we stock currently that carry the SuperNATURAL Sound Engine on board. Eventually the SuperNATURAL Sound Engine is going to be a huge part of other areas for Roland from Keyboards to Synths. It has already started to develop into their V-Drums range with the addition of the Roland TD-30, TD-11 & TD-15 V-Series Electronic Drums. It will give user a more realisitc feel, experience and sound.
If we look at a couple of examples of the pianos that carry the SuperNATURAL Sound Engine we can see just how different their uses can be but SuperNATURAL is still relevant to each one. The Roland RD-300NX Stage Piano (Above) has a fantastic bank of instrument sounds, built in effects and EQ, a tactile 88 Key, Ivory Feel-G Keyboard. It is a lightwieght portable stage piano that gives the user all the tools they need at their fingertips. With its one-touch buttons the user can select between a beautiful lush Grand Piano, to a sharp biting Electric Piano sound modelled on classic vintage E Pianos. This stage piano is perfect for begginers to touring professionals as it has every thing you'll ever need to deliver a confident performance and give a truly great playing experience.
The Roland RP-301R Digital Piano (Above) is used very differently, as a learning tool for the home and classroom. Its ability to split the keyboard for a teacher & student set up makes this piano very unique. It is an upgrade to the previous, popular and affordable RP-301. This extremely fun piano also has amazing sounds and play-along rhythm accompaniments. The RP-301R in stunning Rosewood, like all of Rolands new range again carries their SuperNATURAL Sound Engine putting it right up there with some of their more "high end models". This piano is perfect for hobbyists and beginners to professionals alike.
- Roland F-120
- Roland F-120R
- Roland RD-300NX
- Roland RD-700NX
- Roland RP-301
- Roland RP-301R
- Fantom G6
- Fantom G8
- Jupiter-80
- The all new Jupiter-50
- And now SuperNATURAL sampling technology is finding its way into the new V-Drums Range also. TD-30, TD-11, TD-15
* Additive Synthesis is a technique that creates timbre (tone colour) by adding differeing sine waves together.
* Sample Based Synthesis is a form of audio synthesis that samples the sound of an instrument rather than its wave form.


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Reach Out was one of the few times Hank Mobley left behind driving, aggressive hard bop, choosing to concentrate on lightly grooving bop and soul-jazz instead. Essentially, the session resulted in the most commercially oriented record he made, complete with two pop covers ("Reach Out (I'll Be There)," "Goin' Out of My Head") and a laidback, swinging vibe. That wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but the band -- an impressive lineup of Woody Shaw (trumpet, flugelhorn), George Benson (guitar), Lamont Johnson (piano), Bob Cranshaw (bass) and Billy Higgins (drums) -- sounds constrained by the material and their desire to make the music appeal to a wide audience. Things rarely are worse than on "Reach Out," where the group not only fails to lay down a groove, but they often sound on the verge of falling apart, especially during Higgins' poorly timed breaks. They recover shortly afterward, but no one sounds particularly enthusiastic, including Mobley. In fact, Mobley's presence on the record feels strangely minimal. Only during "Good Pickin's" -- a laidback bop original that's easily the best thing here -- does he come alive, weaving a spell with long, liquid lines, but its subtle grace just illustrates the problems with this curiously bland record. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine


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Sydney: Left arm Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc has said he is ready to play in the second Test match against South Africa at Adelaide.
Starc is in a head to head battle with Ben Hilfenhaus to join Peter Siddle, James Pattinson and spinner Nathan Lyon in Michael Clarke`s XI for the second Test.
Hilfenhaus toiled for 2/99 in the first-Test in Brisbane looking undercooked and under pace making Starc`s left-arm variety an attractive prospect on an Adelaide strip that can test a pacer's character.
"If I am picked I am ready to go, ready to do my job for the team so if the selectors see that as well, I am ready to go to put on that baggy green," a website quoted Starc, as saying.
Starc hasn`t featured in the baggy green since the third Test win against the West Indies at Roseau in April having spent the northern summer with English side Yorkshire then a raft of successful limited overs tournaments for Australia and the Sydney Sixers.
Two first-class games for New South Wales finally has Starc getting back in the red ball groove after a long sting in the coloured clothes while toiling at the SCG is a good lead-up to Adelaide notes Starc.
"I am quite happy with how the ball is coming out in the last couple of weeks. Again in the Sheffield Shield game it felt pretty smooth and happy with how it was coming out on a flat track at the SCG, it was something to take in mind at the Adelaide Oval," Starc said.
"I just keep doing what I have been doing and try my best in the nets. I will see how I go," he added.


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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Eye and Vision Care
Herpes Zoster and Vision
What affects does herpes zoster have on the eye, and what is the best means of preserving your vision, while treating the herpes zoster?
What measures and precautions should one take when treating this problem?
This is a great question.
Herpes Zoster(HZ), also known as "shingles," is a viral infection that affects the skin but can also affect the eye. It usually presents as a sore eye on one side but not the other. This asymmetry (ie, affecting one eye but not both) is important in the eye doctor's differential diagnosis.
Unlike a bacterial infection which causes a red eye and a mucopurulent (mucous and pus) discharge and usually affects both eyes, the HZ eye infection is inside the eye. The technical term for this is iritis (eye-RYE-tous) or anterior uveitis (you-vee-EYE-tis).
When detected by an eye doctor, it is usually treated with two eyedrops; an anti-inflammatory steroid and a dilating drop to keep the pupil enlarged. The patient is very sensitive to bright lights during this treatment, so wearing sunglasses is a good idea.
If systemic anti-viral medicines have begun within 48 hours of onset, there is less chance of the HZ virus affecting the eye.
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Staples boys soccer shuts out Danbury in opener
At times, the play wasn't as crisp as the two boys soccer coaches with relatively untested squads had hoped. But for Staples, which graduated 12 seniors off last season, it was good enough -- at least for the first match.
Locked scoreless with Danbury for more than 26 minutes on Tuesday, Staples ironed out some opening-day jitters, left behind a few opportunities gone bad and ultimately earned three early points.
Joe Pravder and Andrew Puchala netted goals 13 minutes apart before halftime to spur Staples to a 2-0 win over Danbury at Loeffler Field.
The Wreckers started off slow with play mainly around the midfield, but their chances soon piled up. They registered eight of a match-high 12 shots in the first half, scoring twice off crosses.
Pravder put the Wreckers ahead 1-0 with 13:47 left in the first half when he headed a ball through a crowd off a volley from Graham Gudis. The goal allowed the Wreckers to settle in and control the pace after an inconsistent start.
"(The match) could've gone either way, but once I got that goal, we were able to settle the game down and get another goal," said Pravder, a sophomore.
Clinging to a one-goal advantage, Puchala doubled the Wreckers' lead 1:03 before halftime when he booted in a corner taken by Gudis. That was more than enough offensive support for the Wreckers, who limited Danbury to just two shots in the second half.
Staples coach Dan Woog was pleased to earn three early-season points, although he expects more well-rounded performances from his team down the line.
"Communication was not what we would like it to be; the chemistry certainly (was)," Woog said. "This is a group that likes each other, that's played a lot together in the offseason. For the first game, we'll take it."
The coach continued, jokingly saying, "If this was the end of the season, I'd be tearing out what's left of my hair."
Danbury coach Sean Colley, meanwhile, was disappointed in his team's play, noting that it didn't resemble the Hatters' sharp performances from the preseason.
"That felt like a first game where we replaced seven starters from last year," Colley said. "We scrimmaged really well, so I'm disheartened."
Danbury recorded three quick shots in the opening half, but didn't have much luck navigating through Staples' back line. Staples sophomore Noah Schwaeber was solid in his first start in goal, stopping two shots while punching aside three early corner kicks.
"(I had) a little jitters in the beginning. They were coming at me," Schwaeber said. "But we did a great job defensively, especially in the second half."
Schwaeber played sparingly last year behind star netminder James Hickok, who's now playing at Dartmouth College.
"He's stepping in some big shoes," Woog said of the sophomore. "He's well-positioned, he handled 99 percent of the balls cleanly. We've got three years with him and we're looking forward to it."
While Woog envisions a bright future for his goalkeeper and the rest of his squad, he was able to relish the present on Tuesday. Staples cracked into the win column on its first try, something it failed to do last season when it relinquished a second-half lead to Ridgefield and lost 2-1.
"This is far better," he said.
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Records: Danbury 0-1; Staples 1-0.
Goals: S -- Joe Pravder, Andrew Puchala. Assists: S -- Graham Gudis. Goalies: D -- Ian Shannon (4 saves); S -- Noah Schwaeber (2 saves). Shots: D -- 5; S -- 12. Corner kicks: D -- 3; S -- 5.


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CONCORD - Ossipee residents are at a "high" risk level of contracting Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) after a horse in the northeastern part of the town tested positive for the virus, according to state health officials.The risk level jumped from "remote" after the positive test results. The surrounding towns of Tamworth, Madison, Freedom, Effingham, Wakefield, Brookfield, Wolfeboro, Tuftonborough and Moultonborough will increase to a "moderate" risk level."This is not the first animal in New Hampshire to test positive for EEE this season," said state Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Director Dr. José Montero, "however this particular finding is in an area of the state where we haven't had positive EEE results in several years. This underscores the importance for everyone, no matter where you live in the state, to take steps to prevent mosquito bites until there is a killing frost statewide."So far this season, the state's public health lab has tested 4,717 batches of mosquitoes. Twenty of them tested positive for EEE and 13 tested positive for West Nile Virus. One person was diagnosed with West Nile, and another horse tested positive for EEE.EEE is a serious disease that carries a high mortality rate for those who contract the serious encephalitis form of the illness. Symptoms may include high fever, severe headache and stiff neck. There is no treatment for the disease, which can lead to seizures and coma.Symptoms usually occur four to 10 days after being bitten, the same as West Nile.
If you or someone you know is experiencing flu-like symptoms, including fever and headache, contact your medical provider.Questions about EEE and West Nile Virus can be answered by calling a toll-free EEE/West Nile Virus hotline at 1-866-273-6453. More information on both diseases may be found at the DHHS website at dhhs.nh.gov.
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Paul and Emma has an assignment to help at the developmental center early Easter morning. We had our regular church meetings as well. All that added up to a busy Easter day so I decided to not do the big traditional meal. We did breakfast food and it was sort of a bust.
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Ian Clark's Corner Kicks: Milford girls respondBY IAN CLARK
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 25. 2013 7:34PM
MILFORD -- IT'S BEEN a series of challenges for new Milford girls' soccer coach Russ Matthews.
The defending Division II champions graduated Gatorade National High School Athlete of the year Morgan Andrews (now making waves as a freshman at Notre Dame) and standout defensive player Dina Pitsas (who heads into her freshman year of basketball at Springfield College).
Those losses were going to be tough to overcome. What Matthews and the Spartans did not expect in his first year at the helm was the other bumps in the road that have Milford out to a 1-6-0 record to open the year.
"It's huge," Matthews said of the challenge so far. "Our starting keeper (Casey Phelps) is out for the season with a torn labrum. One of our fullbacks who would have been one of our captains (daughter Kaitlyn Matthews) is out with a torn ACL. We lost a lot of good players that graduated last year, injuries have happened, we brought up some JV players. We're juggling people around. We have six freshmen on the varsity squad. There's a lot of challenges."
And with the defending state champion label still firmly applied, opponents aren't going to feel bad for Milford.
"I think it's hard because they know who we are and what we're capable of but then they don't think about us losing all of our seniors and not having any seniors this year," said junior captain Morgan Stephens. "The oldest players on our team are still 16 and we're playing against 18-year-olds. It's hard, but we fight as hard as we can."
Matthews said he doesn't feel like the team has been out of many games. The 5-1 loss to Goffstown and 5-0 loss to Hollis-Brookline that opened the season gave way to closer games, including a 2-0 win over John Stark of Weare.
"In the beginning, those first two games especially, we made some simple mistakes. I think the girls are really getting it (now)," Matthews said. "I don't feel like we've been run out of any games. We've been right there. It's just young mistakes."
Junior Becca Cleary has stepped up in goal, making the move from a field player to goalkeeper.
"She has no formal goalie training at all," Matthews said. "She comes in and says she'll do it and she's come a long way."
The good news for Milford is that the toughest part of the schedule appears to be behind the Spartans. Putting together a run is not out of the question. And even if the season is labeled one for rebuilding, the renovation shouldn't be a long one with a strong core of underclassmen ready to step in as seniors next year.Games to watch: A big boys' battle is on the schedule today as Hanover (7-0, six shutouts) hosts Salem (5-1) at 6 p.m. Senior Daniel Hazlett of Hanover has eight goals this season and 34 in his career, seventh all-time at the school and moving up the charts.
Mark your calendars for Tuesday when a major girls' clash will take place when Exeter hosts Bedford. Not only are the four-time defending champion Blue Hawks undefeated (6-0) and winners of 30 in a row, they are also ranked No. 2 in the nation by the National Soccer Coaches of America. Bedford is off to a 6-0-1 start.
Girls' top five: 1. Exeter (see above). 2. Bow (7-0-0 and has yet to be scored on). 3. Portsmouth (7-0-0). 4. Belmont (8-0-0, best record in the state). 5. Pinkerton (6-0-0). Honorable mentions: Windham (6-0-0), Bedford (6-0-1), Alvirne (6-0-1), Derryfield (5-0-0), Woodsville (5-0-0).
Boys' top five: 1. Hanover (last year's Division I runner-up is 7-0-0 with a 26-2 scoring edge). 2. Derryfield (6-0-0). 3. Stevens (5-1-0, only loss coming at the hands of DII Lebanon). 4. Hopkinton (6-0-0). 5. Bow (7-1-0). Honorable mentions: Salem (5-1-0), Pinkerton (5-1-0), Portsmouth (5-1-1), Colebrook (5-0-0). Hollis/Brookline (6-1-0), Wilton-Lyndeborough (7-1-0).
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While the weather in China is very cold, it appears their economy is starting to get red hot. China's export growth exploded, rising 14% in the month of December. Because of that petroleum demand, expectations are rising as China oil imports increased by 6.8% and that could be with a bullet. China imported 271.02 million metric tons of crude or the equivalent of 5.43 million barrels a day. While that growth is a far cry from China's oil demand growth glory days, it does signal that China's oil demand could make a major rebound and exceed expectations in the first quarter. Add to that the record cold and it seems that the market is ready to ignore yesterday's stunning builds in U.S. oil products.
U.S. oil product demand grounded to a halt over the New Year's holiday week. Product demand fell to an eleven-month low while gasoline stockpiles exploded to 7.4 million barrels, triple the average estimates. Distillate fuels also surged by 6.777 million barrels. Despite the surge, those supplies are still below normal.
Crude oil supply did not rebound like I expected as supply in the Gulf Coast actually fell! Come on guys! It's time to start letting those tankers unload! Look for a big build next week!
Adding to the supportive tone is the fact that Saudi Arabia is cutting back on production. Dow Jones reported that Saudi Arabia has cut its oil production by nearly 5% in December to 9.025 million barrels per day compared with 9.49 million barrels per day a month earlier. The kingdom supplied the market with 9.151 million barrels per day of crude oil last month, according to Dow Jones Newswires.
The International Energy Agency suggested to Saudi Arabia that instead of cutting production they should work toward finding new ways to send more oil to more customers in Asia. Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said in December that the Gulf state will adhere to the 30 million barrels-a-day production ceiling maintained by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, but will meet any customer demand for additional crude. Yet one of the Saudis' best customers is going to be cutting their imports.
The International Energy Agency said that the U.S. will cut their oil imports by half by 2035. A nightmare for many OPEC producers.
Natural gas is collapsing under its own weight. More North Dakota gas going into Henry Hub and warm temperatures are taking its toll. Yet Dow Jones reports that while Nymex front-month natural gas fell to its lowest level since late September, an after-market change in forecast from NOAA may chill market bears who see February gas at $3.113/mm Btu making a run soon to $3/mmBtu. Gas has dropped 17.4 cents this week as above-normal temperatures linger in the eastern U.S., a major market for gas-heating. NOAA's latest 6-10 day forecast shows normal temperatures returning to the east between Jan. 15-19, with the southeast coast staying above-normal. In the 8-14 day outlook, below-normal temperatures take hold of Northeast while normal temperatures are expected in the mid-Atlantic through southeast."
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It's crunch time in Mali for the French military.
Radical Islamist fighters spent weeks on the run from Malian cities under a French ground and air assault - but they're brazenly fighting back this week at French troops. The French, meanwhile, are tightening a dragnet against the al-Qaida-linked militants in one of their last remaining redoubts, mountain sanctuaries near Algeria's border.
France's government said Wednesday it's still hoping to pull out of its thorny Mali operation in the coming weeks. Defense analysts say that if France wants to make that work, and avoid getting bogged down in a protracted, Afghan-style occupation, now's the time to hit hard - dismantling the hideouts and killing all the insurgents they can - to crush what it fears is a growing terrorist threat that could spread to Mali's African neighbors and even as far as Europe.
French and Malian authorities on Wednesday sifted over the fallout from a nearly six-hour gunfight Tuesday, when about 30 jihadist fighters surprised a 50-troop French reconnaissance patrol about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the town of Tessalit in the Adrar des Ifoughas region, and opened fire with machine guns.
The far-more-muscular French called in support from Mirage fighter jets, helicopter gunships, and armored vehicles firing 105-mm cannons. By the end, more than 20 insurgents and one French legionnaire were killed, French officials said.
The French operation in the area, code-named "Panthere," or panther, is continuing for a third day Wednesday.
President Francois Hollande insists that France - eager for African forces to help stabilize the impoverished West African country and its wobbly central government - is entering the final phase of its operation. But he says France will "go all the way - that's to say, arresting the last terrorist chiefs in northern Mali."
Defense analysts are blunter.
The extremists "have their backs against the wall," said Francois Heisbourg, president of the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank, and adviser to France's Foundation for Strategic Research. "They have been clobbered. And the best time to hit a guy is when he's on the ground on his back."
Heisbourg estimated there are about 1,200 to 2,000 radical Islamic fighters in three extremist movements in northern Mali: Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies; the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO; and Ansar Dine.
The groups controlled northern Mali for 10 months until the French incursion began Jan. 11. Heisbourg cautioned that if rebel fighters headed south to Niger, home to higher mountains than the Ifoghas, it could present longer-term problems for counterterrorism forces. The French have backing from Malian soldier, as well as forces from nearby Chad who are seen as battle-hardened and used to operating in harsh desert terrain and working with local Tuareg tribes.
French authorities are not yet clear if the zone between Gao, northern Mali's largest city, and the Niger border has been fully scrubbed of the insurgent threat, officials say.
Officials in France are aware of the perils of trying to predict a quick end to counterterrorism operations, which can foment suicide bombings and other guerrilla tactics that defy resolution through military force.
One comparable example is the eastern African country of Somalia, where it took a U.N.-backed force of African troops - backed by U.S. drone and aircraft strikes on targeted militant leaders - many years to degrade al-Shabab insurgents enough to allow the formation of a functional transitional government.
Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France-2 Television on Wednesday that France hopes to start moving out its 4,000 troops in Mali within weeks but, at the same time, he acknowledged that the counterterrorism operation in the Ifoghas range will continue "for a while."
Even as France talks about an eventual handover to Malian and other African forces, French troops are greeted warmly in Malian cities by waves from women selling their vegetables in piles on the street, and children who cheerfully shout "Mali! Mali!" as the soldiers pass.
Gao Mayor Sadou Diallo said about 1,000 French troops are in the Gao region, along with about 3,000 Malian and African soldiers. He said he hoped the French won't leave the job half-done.
"I am optimistic that they won't leave without finishing their work," he says. "We don't want them to stay for years. We hope that MUJAO is wiped out, that elections can be held and that development can begin."
At the Nour mosque in Gao, Imam Alassane Maiga puts the French intervention in the plainest of terms: "If they had waited until September, we would have been dead" - referring to the initial timetable planned for international troops to start fighting alongside Malian forces.
U.N. discussions about an African force for Mali have been under way for months, alongside efforts for a European Union training mission to help the Malian military. But while the world was waiting for those to come together, the extremists who had been imposing strict Islamic law on northern Mali started moving toward the capital in January. So France struck back, sending troops into help Malian forces push the radical fighters back.
Krista Larson contributed from Gao, Mali.


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As the final days of 2013 pass into history, the StarNews has brought readers its top 10 sports stories of the year. Nos. 10-7 were released Monday and Nos. 6-2 came out Tuesday. Here it is: The top sports story of 2013.
1. UNCW decides against cutting sports
After three months of meetings, the Intercollegiate Athletic Review Committee at UNCW recommended in mid-May that five sports be dropped in order to eventually save more than $750,000 per year. The eliminations included men's swimming and diving, which has won 12 consecutive Colonial Athletic Association titles, and a men's track & field program that has 10 conference championships since 1997. The recommendation also called for the elimination of women's swimming and diving, men's cross country and softball.
Chancellor Gary Miller decided May 30, however, to go against the IARC's plan and keep the sports program intact with no changes.
"One of the best things about this discussion … It's given us a window into where our support is, how deep it is in certain areas, we've learned about our internal processes," Miller said in a May 30 news conference. "This particular report was the last piece we needed to make sure both, we knew for sure our current strategy wouldn't support these 19 sports and that there was enough passion in the community to have them …. If we get the community support that we need, and I'm convinced we can, we'll move into a period of prosperity."
Rob Aycock, executive director of the Seahawk Club, said overall giving has exceeded expectations through the final five months of 2013.
More than $180,000 has arrived through the Dub Club program from 243 donors, and total athletic donations are up 91.8 percent year over year in the July to November time frame. Overall, 1,067 individuals donated to UNCW athletics in 2013; its goal was 750.


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While 8Kb of flash memory and 256 bytes of RAM might not sound like a whole lot of space, it's enough for an intelligent coder to make use of, and for someone with malicious intent to abuse. K. Chen presented his findings at this year's Black Hat conference.
It's actually quite easy to abuse the memory and RAM in Apple keyboards, thanks to Apple's HIDFirmwareUpdaterTool, which is used to update the firmware in HID devices, among which is the Apple keyboard. "The tool is run, a breakpoint set, and then you simply cut and paste the new code into the firmware image in memory. That's it," SemiAccurate explains. Nothing is encrypted, decrypted, and it's all very simple to do. Resume the HIDFirmwareUpdaterTool, and a few seconds later, your keyboard is compromised. Rebooting won't help, you can't pull any batteries, and it's impossible to detect.
K. Chen demonstrated a rudimentary keylogger which would print the last five typed characters. There was 1Kb of free space left inside the keyboard, so you can store quite a few keystrokes. It wouldn't take much to do this remotely, using a compromised website, for instance.
"Apple needs to patch this problem ASAP. It is completely remotely exploitable, and almost impossible to remove, especially if you don't know it is there," SemiAccurate writes, "This huge hole that Apple has in it's hardware turns any remote exploit, Apple is full of them, into a huge security problem."
They would've told Apple about this, but the last few times when they called Apple in similar cases, the company didn't even return their calls. "Don't believe them when they try to spin this as minor, owning a keyboard gives you ownership of a system."
Chen can write a tool to lock down the firmware, he says, but he's waiting for a possible official solution from Apple before he attempts to do so. However, he is afraid that Apple will fix this in current and future versions of Mac OS X only, leaving the keyboards open to be attacked from other sources. The fix needs to be implemented at the hardware/firmware level, he says.


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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A man arrested in the killing of a Transportation Security Administration worker at Los Angeles International Airport was in critical condition, police said.
Officials said Paul Anthony Ciancia, a 23-year-old Los Angeles man, used an assault rifle to kill a TSA agent and wound several others about 9:20 a.m. PDT.
Los Angeles Airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon told reporters at a news conference the man pulled the gun out of a bag at a security checkpoint and started shooting, and then kept shooting at other locations before police shot him at the airport's Terminal 3 and took him into custody.
"At this point we believe this was a lone shooter," Gannon said.
Police said seven people were treated on the scene for injuries and six were hospitalized.
Los Angeles Police Department anti-terrorism officials were on the scene, but sources told the Los Angeles Times investigators were not aware of any ties to terrorist groups.
Police said Ciancia, who formerly lived in Pennsville, N.J., had written materials in his possession suggesting he held strong anti-government views.
The alleged gunman was not a TSA employee, as initial reports indicated.
Pennsville Police Chief Allen Cummings told NBC News in Philadelphia Ciancia had texted his brother in New Jersey prior to the shooting that he was contemplating suicide.
Leon Saryan, a witness, told MSNBC Ciancia, brandishing his weapon, was walking calmly through a terminal when he asked Saryan if he worked for the TSA.
"All he said was, 'TSA?' Just like that," Saryan said.
The incident occurred in Terminal 3, which was evacuated.
Vernon Cardenas, 45, of West Hollywood, told the Times he was at the airport for a trip to Philadelphia.
"Sitting down, all of a sudden, literally just out of the blue, you hear a rumble in the background and a couple of seconds later, people are running at me," said Cardenas, who is involved in casting for the Fox reality show "MasterChef."
Federal authorities told NBC News the shooter had a rifle or other long gun. A large box of ammunition was at the scene, a law enforcement official said.
The Los Angeles Police Department's bomb squad was trying to clear suspicious packages.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the situation at the airport had become "static" but he still cautioned people to stay away from the area, as no passengers were being permitted to go into the airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered flights grounded at LAX, the third-busiest U.S. airport and the sixth-busiest in the world, with 1,500 departing and arriving flights daily.
"Due to OTHER / SECURITY and GATE ISSUES and GATE ISSUES, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA [LAX]," a message posted on the FAA website said. "To see if you may be affected, select your departure airport and check 'Delays by Destination.'"
FlightStats, a website that tracks air traffic, said 133 flights had been canceled by mid-afternoon, including 68 departures and 65 arrivals. It said the main road to LAX was closed to all but emergency vehicles, and some inbound flights were being diverted to other airports in the area while other inbound flights were not being allowed to take off from their originating airports.
Delays and cancellations are likely to persist, even after LA reopens, the website said.
LAX was already crowded when the shooting began, due to flight cancellations caused by bad weather affecting major East Coast airports, including Logan International Airport in Boston, LaGuardia Airport in New York and Philadelphia International Airport.
President Barack Obama, following a White House meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said: "Obviously, we've been monitoring, and we're concerned about it. But I'll let the law enforcement folks talk about it directly."
"We will continue stay in touch with our federal and local partners," a White House spokesman said. "The LAPD is leading the response and investigation. We urge citizens to listen to the authorities and follow directions from the first responders on site. The president will continue to receive briefings throughout the day."
Tory Belleci of the cable television show "Mythbusters" tweeted: "Heard gun shots then everyone starting running for the door. Not sure if anyone was hurt. #LAX."


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That or support a write-in candidate.
But now they, as reported in a blog by Linda Starr, are openly threatening not to support local superdelegates Nick Lampson (TX 22) and Charles Gonzalez (TX 20) and will support and vote for their Republican opponents. Says she:
"I've been contacting the HRC supporters and contributors, all of whom previously supported Nick Lampson in his bid to take Tom Delay's old seat. These women are so incensed because they say Lampson could never have won without their volunteer help and financial assistance and they will vote Republican, if Obama is made the nominee because their own representative defied them."
First, I just want to point out that a lefty Democrat would never support a Republican candidate in anything. Starr, on her various blog appearances, seems to align herself with the left. So I have to say that either this is just so much huff and bluster, and an empty threat, or Starr or her sisters are not Democrats anymore.
In fact, Starr in this same blog piece mentions that she is "starting a new national women's party for the specific purpose of electing women". So that's how you get a true majority: form a splinter group.
Second, need I point out that Starr and others of her ilk are saying that they intend to vote for a resolute anti-choice presidential candidate? I need to ask which one of the "feminist issues" surpasses the right of a woman to choose whether or not to have a child? And it isn't just a four-year thing when they can have Hillary as president in 2012. When they help to elect McCain president this November, they will usher in an era when Roe v. Wade will be overturned. Justice John Paul Stevens, a pro-choice justice who turns a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court to a 4-5 minority whenever an abortion case comes before it, has made no bones about the fact that he wants to retire. He's battling poor health, but clearly is hanging on in order to preserve women's abortion rights.
With McCain in office, there goes a woman's right to choose, and we are back to the bad old days of backroom botched abortions.
And third, I am suspicious why Starr lumps Lampson's district, CD 22, with Gonzalez' CD 20. This is again a new metric, I think. Boy, am I getting tired of new metrics.
While I don't know how Charlie Gonzalez' district went in the primary as far as the presidential race, I think that it's safe to assume from its large Hispanic population that it went for Clinton. Gonzalez, however, has endorsed Barack Obama. Now that would irritate me, also. If my congressman was endorsing the candidate that my district did not support in the primary, I would be righteously irate. But how, pray tell, are these supposedly Democratic women hoping to bring Republican Robert Litoff (who has no campaign fund to speak of) a victory in November in a congressional district so heavily Democratic that Republicans did not bother to oppose Gonzalez in '06, and he trounced his Republican opponent 65% to 32% in '04?
Are they using some new metric to back up their threat?
Contrast that to Nick Lampson's CD 22. Now Nick's district IS a swing district and everyone knows it. Nick's own votes in several key areas bear witness to the fact that he is trying to play to both sides of the aisle. But from the quote above, it would seem like Lampson has also gone the way of Charlie Gonzalez and thrown in with the Obama camp.
Nothing could be further from the truth. I heard it from the man's own lips. He will remain uncommitted in this presidential dust up. I, and everyone else I know, assume that he will make his choice known when the winner is a foregone conclusion.
But now, here we have all these irate women gnashing their teeth at how Lampson needs to vote with his constituents. I quote:
"My whole point, if the superdelegates are willing to defy their constituents and vote for Obama for whatever reason, they are no longer representing their constituents interests (women's suffrage), their constituents primary votes, or their will."
Fort Bend County: 25,812 for Obama, 18,209 for Clinton
CD 22 Totals: 52,072 for Obama (53.4%), 45,472 for Clinton (46.6%)
So I just have to ask: what metric allows Linda Starr to come to the conclusion that Nick Lampson would "defy" his constituents if he casts his super vote for Barack Obama?
Is it the metric that says if he doesn't bend to the minority will they will be royally "pissed off" (her words)?. Well, OK, that's fine. Be pissed off. Be angry that Barack Obama has the majority of delegates and seems to be inevitable.
Yell and scream.
Then, at the end, in the fall, let passions subside and let self-interest, logic, and, yes, party loyalty prevail. No true Democrat wants John McCain to be president. No feminist wants Roe v. Wade overturned. And most Americans want to put an end to the war in Iraq next year.
Yes, be angry. But then do as many of us who have a bone to pick with some of our Democratic candidates do.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration's nominee to become the next FBI director, James Comey, told members of Congress on Tuesday that federal judges who oversee government intelligence programs are "anything but a rubber stamp." But Comey also agreed to work with legislators to improve the laws governing surveillance activities.
Comey said he wasn't familiar with the details of the government's phone and Internet surveillance programs that recently became public, but he said that collecting that type of information can be "a valuable tool in counterterrorism."
"Folks don't understand that the FBI operates under a wide variety of constraints," Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering his nomination for FBI director. He added that when critics discount the oversight of federal judges and call them a rubber stamp, it "shows you don't have experience before them."
Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the expansive scope of the surveillance programs raises the question of "when is enough enough?"
"Just because we have the ability to collect huge amounts of data doesn't mean that we should be doing so," Leahy said.
The senator asked Comey if he would be willing to work with legislators "to enact some common sense improvements to our surveillance laws," and Comey agreed to do that if confirmed as FBI director.
In the aftermath of the uproar over NSA spying, Leahy has introduced legislation that would improve privacy protections and strengthen oversight and transparency provisions in U.S. surveillance programs.
Comey stepped carefully when asked what positions he would take as FBI director.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., asked Comey whether he would be willing to support declassifying or releasing declassified summaries of rulings by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
"Senator, I agree with you that transparency is a critical value, especially when weighing tradeoffs between security and liberty," said Comey. "I think it is a worthy exercise to look closely at it."
Comey spent 15 years as a federal prosecutor before serving in the George W. Bush administration, where he is best known for facing down the White House over a warrantless surveillance program. The White House made changes in the program when Comey and current FBI Director Robert Mueller threatened to resign.
Comey got a warm reception from the both Democrats and Republicans on the committee, who repeatedly referred to his independence in standing up to the Bush White House.
Civil liberties groups have nonetheless expressed concerns that Comey signed off on abusive CIA interrogation techniques for terrorist suspects during the Bush administration, when he was the Justice Department's No. 2 official.
Comey told the committee that he argued strongly within the Justice Department against the interrogation techniques, telling the attorney general that "this is wrong, this is awful" and insisting that his arguments be presented to the White House. But his objections were overruled.
Leahy said he was concerned that while Comey was deputy attorney general under Bush, he approved a legal memo that authorized use of waterboarding "and other techniques long recognized as torture under both domestic and international law."
Comey explained that he regarded one Justice Department memo that said waterboarding would not violate federal law on torture as "a serious and reasonable opinion" about individual interrogation techniques.
Comey said he fought a subsequent legal memo that allowed a combination of harsh techniques to be used by CIA interrogators.
The second memo "was terrible. I thought it was irresponsible both as a policy matter and as a legal matter, and so I objected to it and took that directly to the attorney general and made my case that that was wrong. He disagreed with me and overruled me."
After leaving the Justice Department, where he served as the agency's No. 2 official, Comey was senior vice president and general counsel at defense contractor Lockheed Martin. He later became general counsel at hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. His financial assets include $5.2 million in securities and a home in Westport, Conn., valued at $3 million, according to financial statements filed with the Senate.


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A chain of events caused by climate change has led to a decline in butterfly populations in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, researchers at Stanford University recently found.
The study, published in the scientific journal Ecology Letters, could be prescient in determining the long-lasting effects of climate change on many of the world's species.
As climate change leads to an early spring, the snowmelt caused by the warmer temperatures on the Rocky Mountains decreases the number of summer wildflowers. Fewer flowers, of course, mean less nectar available to butterflies.
In the researchers' tests, the more nectar female butterflies ate, the more eggs they laid. Therefore, less available nectar led to fewer butterflies being born and, consequently, population declines, they concluded.
If climate change could have such a dramatic impact on butterfly populations, could similar cascading effects be seen in other wildlife species?
It's quite likely, scientists say, because of the close interconnection among species within an ecosystem.
For instance, earlier snowmelt's effect on flowers also impacts bees , which pollinate many of the plants that other species rely on for nutrition.
All of these studies serve to remind us of the wide-reaching impacts of climate change.
"Long-term studies such as ours are important to understanding the 'ecology of place,' and the effects of weather and possible climate change on population numbers," says David Inouye, co-author of the paper. "This research is critical to assessing the broader effects of weather on an ever-changing Earth."


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His firm has been dedicated to law in the public interest. He and his colleagues have been the recipients of the Equal Justice Award of Community Legal Services, the Social Justice Award of the Jewish Social Policy Network and the Pro Bono Award of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. The firm's commercial/public interest model was featured as an exemplar in the Penn Law Journal. The firm used a portion of its recovery in Faloney to establish the Langer Grogan & Diver Social Justice Fellowship at the Law School.
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