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Blackberries and Black Raspberries?
When I first moved in here there were berry bushes growing wild in the back. I remember asking the landscaper if he thought they would be raspberries, black raspberries or blackberries. He said he didn't think they were even berries. Well of course he was wrong. In doing some research I found out that raspberries and black raspberries are very difficult to grow down here. I assumed then what I had was blackberries which I found out were prevelant here. The past couple of years I have been picking and eating them without looking at them much. This morning I was picking my first batch for this year and I noticed I must have 2 different varieties. One being long while the other was wider and squatter. Then I noticed the squatter one looked like it had powder on it the way some blueberries do while the longer one was shiny. Then when I picked the squatter one I noticed that it was hollow while the other one kept part of the stem which I think I read on here meant blackberry. They were both ripe and came right off the stalk. Also the Squatter ones leaves are more yellowish. So now I am thinking that maybe the squatter one is a black raspberry even though they aren't supposed to grow wild here or maybe it is some other type of berry that I don't know about. What do you think?
PS. I can provide pictures if you would like to see them.
Provide pictures.
The hollow one is not a blackberry. It sounds like a black raspberry.
At my place the black raspberries have a reddish cast to the stems and are much less vigorous than the blackberries.
You are correct that you have both blackberries and black raspberries, and your identification of each is also correct.
While it is possible that either or both of these berries is "wild" (i.e. native), it is far more likely they were planted by someone years ago. People have been living in North Carolina for a long time, and those look like cultivated berry varieties to me.
Blackberries do very well in the Southeast climate. They grow just fine here, and my climate is not so much different from yours. I don't know why anyone would say black raspberries are particularly difficult either, since they did well for me here when I had them, but they are subject to a number of viral and fungal diseases that can make them difficult to grow in certain locations. For whatever reason, the variety you have seems quite well adapted to your climate and location or they probably wouldn't have survived.
If you value these berries, and want to restore them to their full producing capabilities, you might try keeping the areas around the plants free of weeds, mulching the plants, and even fertilizing when that is necessary. I seem to have picked up the suggestion that your black raspberry leaves are yellowing, which could be due to low fertility or iron deficiency. You should also use the practice of cutting old canes down to the ground after they have produced, to allow the new canes room to grow in. If you particularly like the black raspberries, it is possible to start new plants by allowing the canes to arch down to the ground, then burying them so that they tiproot. If you can get rid of that leaf yellowing with some soil amendments (although this could also be a symptom of viral disease), you might be able to grow quite a few black raspberries.
Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA
When Don says "cutting old canes down to the ground after they have produced" he means only the canes that just had berries on them.
The green canes that came up from the ground this year won't have berries until next year and you won't cut those ones down until they bear fruit next year.
Thanks for confirming the identification. The reason I said that they were difficult to grow is that both the UNC and Duke horticultural sites say that in the Piedmont, unless you are near the mountains, it is difficult to grow the black raspberries because of the temps and diseases.
I don't know how much I can do to restore them as on my property the swath is 100ft by 20 ft on a very steep hill and then they continue for hundreds of feet in both directions beyond my property all infused with weeds and even some trees. I may try and take a little area and try and clean that out.
Thanks again,
Any thoughts on what these are? We have tons of rasberries growing, some around these berry's too. We also have blackberries growing but they are still green and on the other side of the yard. My first thought was that they were a blackberry, but if you look at the stem, it has the stem/top of a rasberry but what looks to be the body of a blackberry. We just recently moved into this house and have been loving the rasberries but I am confused on this berry. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!


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MIDI over Bluetooth, Part II: Latency and Jitter
by Peter Brinkmann
A 2005 paper on MIDI over Bluetooth by Bartolomeu et al. presents some rather discouraging latency measurements. They report typical delays ranging from 25ms to 275ms, with the odd peak over 500ms, for events sent from the slave device to the master. For events sent from master to slave, the numbers are a little better but still bad, with typical delays between 15ms and 80ms. That's very bad news, huge latency and terrible jitter, with a side of asymmetry. Their results seem sound, and their experimental setup indicates that they were really measuring Bluetooth delays and nothing else.
On the other hand, my initial experiences with my own MIDI over Bluetooth setup have been rather promising. I never noticed any major latency, but then again, I haven't yet used it much, either. Time to investigate.
Since this project is strictly a hobby and I don't intend to publish the results in any formal way, I figured that crude measurements with a certain systematic error would be acceptable. Here's the basic setup: Take one MIDI cable and plug one end into the MIDI In port of the Bluetooth adapter and the other one into the MIDI Out port. Now send a MIDI event from the Android phone to the interface and measure the time until the phone gets the event back from the interface.
This approach has all sorts of problems, of course. It only measures round-trip times rather than one way, it relies on the timing capabilities of Java/Dalvik, and it is subject to the whim of the scheduler on the Android side. In other words, it measures a sequence of random delays, and the Bluetooth delays may only be a small part of it. Still, the results show that my initial impression was correct: I'm getting round-trip times between 30ms and 70ms, with a mean of 34ms and a standard deviation of 6ms.
In other words, the round-trip delays plus delays from other sources are much better than the one-way times that the 2005 paper reports. Those numbers are still not great; they probably won't be good enough for highly sensitive musical applications. Still, they're small enough to be useful in a lot of settings. I'm wondering where the improvement came from. My best guess is that technology has progressed since 2005; in particular, the BlueSMiRF modem that I'm using is a Bluetooth 2.1 device, while the authors of the paper were using Bluetooth 1.1. In any case, I'm glad I started hacking before I read their paper.

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35 Truly Dramatic Examples of Animal Photography
- By Vitaly Friedman
- Posted in Photography
- 292 comments
Sometimes we take wildlife pictures that we see in books and magazines for granted; seldom does it give you the impressions that they were taken easily. The truth is, photographing animals (especially in wildlife) is very involved, such a moment could only be told through some timely amazing shots. For someone who loves animals, photographing them can be both very fulfilling and frustrating at the same time. Excellent animal photography requires experience, knowledge and patience.
Animals can make very eye catching subjects to photograph in wild. Taking wildlife photography in a place where the animals don't fear humans makes your task a bit difficult. In their natural environment, animals often provide many opportunities for taking dramatic shots. Let's now take a look at some of these dramatic images of animal photography to see emotions in the wild nature.
- Designzzz, 20 January 2010
Awesome Photography !! well done
- cass collins, 27 October 2010
fantastic photos!!
- r0man, 20 January 2010
Wow, stunning! I love the cat/mouse photo.
- rOman's Mom Lover, 01 February 2010
i love your moms photo ;) (winky face)
- muhib bd, 03 March 2010
awesome pictures!!
- Tanzanette, 12 May 2010
That's just unnecessary.
- hi, 01 June 2010
u r just unnesecessary…
- Hi, 17 June 2010
*UnnecessaryYour horrible spelling is unnecessary.
- r0man's Mom Lover's Lover, 30 May 2010
Honey, don't talk to the poor man's mom like that. ;) (douchebag-winky face.)
- romans moms lovers lovers lover, 01 June 2010
I think it is quite necessary
- fail, 07 June 2010
anon posting never works out well
- Steep Gradient, 08 September 2010
Was she the baboon?
- LuJu, 28 September 2010
Cat and mouse photo was one of my favourites! And yeah, they are truly and utterly astonishingly amazing! :):D
- V, 28 October 2010
I agree, I especially love that the mouse is holding a goldfish cracker in it's dainty little mouth.
- Pixzii, 20 January 2010
Cool roundup. I like most of them
- Leh Valensa, 20 January 2010
This is incrediable !!!!! I'm a photographer but i still do not know how make same photos
- Jeremy, 27 September 2010
Its mostly Adobe Photoshop, sorry to burst your bubble.
- Screamingmantys, 23 November 2012
Indeed… It's obviously shopped…
- Jordan Walker, 20 January 2010
The wonders of this beautiful planet are composed of the creatures which inhabit it.
- michael, 17 June 2010
true that
- k²bytes, 20 January 2010
Really awesome! There is nothing more fantastic than our nature. And think about, how long it takes to get those photos! Great
- Schop, 20 January 2010
I vote for the one with the owl! Awesome photography.
- rick, 20 January 2010
Great collection of images. Too many good ones to pick the best.
- Photography ideas, 20 January 2010
Awesome compilation.
- Carly, 20 January 2010
You forgot the dramatic picture of my Schnauzer:
- madazza, 01 February 2010
thats a great pic too x x
- Beth, 17 August 2010
your baby is very cute, very Colin.
- Kai, 20 January 2010
Amazing ! Thanks.
- Tony, 20 January 2010
The snake one is from a Fark Photoshop contest, but the funny thing about that is that it's less interesting than some of the ones that are clearly real photos. Some great stuff here.
- Phill, 20 January 2010
Very nice pictures!!
- Mike Ward, 20 January 2010
Very tidy!!!!
- shutterboo, 20 January 2010
Love the snail.
- schumysbabe, 11 May 2010
the snails amazing!
- Vidit Kothari, 20 January 2010
Hats-off to nature's creation and the one who captured it for us to see.
These pics are sufficient for people to love nature and help it HEAL.
- Callum Chapman, 20 January 2010
These are absolutely incredible. I love them all, but especially love the black cat – it's all about being in the right place at the right time I guess! Thanks!
- Brent, 26 January 2010
Or knowing how to use PhotoShop.
- Connie Girl, 29 April 2010
shuddup Brent. Its obvious that this person didn't use photoshop.
- fandango, 27 October 2010
looks at some of the photos, its almost imposible to get motion blur like that with even a high end slr camera… and where on the planet (relating to the very first photo) does there exsist a place where animals are visibel with a complety black backdrop???.
- jay k, 01 June 2010
These are def shopped
- Connie Girl likes the V, 07 June 2010
Clearly this is photoshoped, I can tell by some of the pixels
- Beth, 17 August 2010
see, us old farts remember a time when we used to believe a photograph.
- jd, 08 September 2010
I changed my desktop background to the black cat photo.
- babycat64, 26 September 2010
me too, love those cat's
- Maicon, 20 January 2010
Incredible images! The one with the eagle is awesome.
- Robert, 20 January 2010
Very nice collection. My favorite is no. 7 :)
- Mahmud Ahsan, 20 January 2010
Awesome! I like all of this collection. Excellent work.
- brian, 20 January 2010
Some are really amazing, but a few are photoshop jobs. Overall great collection. Cheers!
- gio, 20 January 2010
- Webios, 20 January 2010
Really awesome pictures and pretty cool animals!! Excellent work, thumbs up!
- Zohaib, 20 January 2010
terrific :)
- Nabeel, 20 January 2010
Absolutely phenomenal! Great work!
- Web Design New York, 20 January 2010
Fabulous Collection.. Great Post :)
- Stone, 20 January 2010
Awesome photos! Great post!
:X - dlv, 20 January 2010
great collection! as always
but, today I have to tell… Where are photographer's names ??
Please, waste some minutes and add their names, they are more than the half of this pieces of art, is their work….
thanks in advance
- Me, 15 October 2010
You need to learn English before you post anything else.
- Web4half, 20 January 2010
- Dratio, 20 January 2010
All and all very nice photo's. I have one remark though: The photo of the snake attacking the bird is fake. I don't know whether it was the post author's intention to only show real photo's or not, but that one for sure isn't one. Seen how the same snakehead has been applied to more photo's.
- MissingDesign, 20 January 2010
Wow, those were some amazing shots.
The one of the cat & mouse was cool, and I loved the dramatic lighting on the housecats, lol.@Dratio Do you have other examples w/the snakehead? That's interesting, I wouldn't be surprised though… That shot would have had to be a one-in-a-trillion chance.
- kendall, 20 January 2010
ummm i love almost all of the pictures but the one with the Yorkie pittbull/mixed well i like the yorkie cute cute cute but the picture isnt very much proffesional which is what i recall they wanted
- Yegor Korzh, 20 January 2010
First image is the best, haven't seen it in other recent similar collections. And agree that photoshopped images are less interesting than some real ones!
- manz, 20 January 2010
Noticed a few comments about the fake snake picture. Might be best to separate real from photoshopped in the future.
I thought the snail picture was amazing. And I never pass up the sight of a gorgeous kitty photo!
- jase, 25 July 2010
It's not long before there is no difference between a photo that is Photoshopped and one that isn't. Several cameras are integrating algorithms derived from Photoshop to enhance a picture as it is being recorded. Should those be separate as well? Not. Who cares, really? These photos are no less beautiful because they are created rather than captured.
- Daniel Ulczyk, 20 January 2010
Cool pics! Nice…
- Anna, 20 January 2010
Wow. Really amazing photography.
- slacle, 20 January 2010
Amazing! Must get me a camera.
- sobean, 20 January 2010
Awesome Photography!!! :-)
- Andris, 21 January 2010
I love animal photography. check this funny picture of my pug called "Caramelle": http://andrislinz.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/caramelle1.jpg
- elena, 15 May 2010
that is a pretty adorable picture!
- Aidan, 21 January 2010
These are really awe-inspiring photos. Especially for a animal lover like me.
- Steffi, 21 January 2010
Love the rhino.
- Sarah Lynn, 21 January 2010
The little penguin is saying "Where can I buy sneaks like those? What a lucky penguin!" Haha. Each of these photographs have so much to say! The bison photo is incredible as well. Seems so surreal. Thanks for sharing!
- Dariyn, 11 May 2010
That's a kiwi, actually. :P
- elena, 15 May 2010
Actually its too big to be a kiwi and also it has wings which a kiwi doesnt.
Baby King peguin i would say:
http://www.ladatco.com/Falkland%20Islands/King-baby.jpgA kiwi looks like this:
- Tom Ross, 21 January 2010
Some of these photos aren't all that dramatic, but a lot of them are amazing. I love the first photo.
- elena, 15 May 2010
truly amazing.. breathtaking really, one of the best pictures i have ever seen.
- Matthias Matz, 21 January 2010
very great works, big pictures
- Giulia, 21 January 2010
The are very spectacular!!! Well, most of them, but anyway, they all look good!
- Rahul - Web Guru, 21 January 2010
Awesome photography… all are good.
- Rupal Chawla, 21 January 2010
Pretty amazing … good work
- Violent Heretic, 22 January 2010
Serious?! Obvious photo shop on some pics….. Pathetic! The real pics cool … but try shooting with a 35 mm with low speed film and catch those pics, Then you'll Impress me!
- Amit, 22 January 2010
wat spectacular images..great catch i must say..amazing timing, superb composition and nice clarity..very much inspiring..
- Dario, 22 January 2010
I love nature and I love this pictures.
They're just incredible and someway inspiring. - Taras Kozlov, 22 January 2010
All cats are awesome!
- Danielle Lancaster, 23 January 2010
- heptal, 23 January 2010
Awesome! Great works…
- Claudia, 23 January 2010
Hard to decide which one I like best – quite simple to choose the worst: green background, snake & redbreast looks like a photoshop disaster to me. Thanks for sharing.
- Gini, 24 January 2010
extraordinary artistic talent…thank you
- Thirteen, 24 January 2010
Wow… This is breathtaking! Almost makes me want to be a wildlife photographer…. Almost.
- Kelsey, 25 January 2010
Glad I found your site. Amazing work! On a side note – is it odd that every time I see a little bird about to be eaten I suddenly think of Twitter?
- carlos Eduardo - Kadu, 26 January 2010
Achei o artigo interessante e citei o mesmo no meu blog. Claro que citei a fonte que foi o site de vocês.
Algum problema? Se sim removo o artigo do meu blog!
GRANDE abraço! - Phil E. Drifter, 26 January 2010
Looks photoshopped.
- genesiiaa x, 01 February 2010
YOUR SOOOOOO BORINGG – ITS BEAUTIFULL :P JUST ACCEPT THERE A BETTER PHOTOGRAPHER THAN Y :pp
- Chantelle, 27 January 2010
Absolutely AMAZING photographs!!! Thanks for such a totally cool post :))
- nahh, 28 January 2010
truley amazing.
i loved the tiger ones! - Nathan Brown, 29 January 2010
Awesome collection of photos. I love the tiger and water photo at the top. Nice work!
- lisa, 30 January 2010
These pictures are truly awesome. Very well done! Just amazing!
- Andrea, 31 January 2010
those were great pictures
- Samyk, 20 April 2010
It's truely amazing!
- Malini, 01 February 2010
Fantastic photography! i'm so touched by all the photos… its beautiful
- genesiiaa x, 01 February 2010
omg i hope the bird was okaa :) xx gorgeous picss darlin's xx i lovee the tigerr and the cat nd mouse ;) xxx
- Peter, 01 February 2010
No.20 owl is displeased
- Sarah, 01 February 2010
the most incredible photography i've ever seen. the majority of these are just so raw, which is hard to come across nowadays. i'm glad none of this was dolled up. fantastic!
- JJ, 01 February 2010
awww, baby harpseal
- Kyle Webs, 01 February 2010
Oh wow, nice photos. Interesting stuff.
(:- muhib bd, 03 March 2010
excellent collection!
- simon, 01 February 2010
i love the one with the 2 birds with crazy hair looking in opposite directions. it almost looks like one face. i like the one with the white tiger and the monkey, too. they're all good.
- Amardeep Singh, 08 February 2010
Amazing….but the Cat & Mouse one does not seem real…becos of the bone in the mouse's mouth…That looks like the artist's creativity….
- n, 17 June 2010
And you are very handsome….
- Raksha, 24 February 2010
wow. this is stunning. nature never fails to amaze me
- TGBUS-XSSFUO, 25 February 2010
it's really cute.
- Nature, 04 March 2010
Great photographs..
- D Shinde, 17 March 2010
Gr8 Photo man.nice Work…………!
- Tushar Shetty, 18 March 2010
Simply Awesome. Damn good photography. Loved it.
- Rown, 19 March 2010
amaizing pics.
- Akceptor, 23 March 2010
Cool. Expecially nice kittens ^_^
- dankymcdankers, 22 March 2010
haha, some of the photos are totally photoshopped, the mouse and cheese? how totally awesome photoshopping skills, try harder next time
- Grover, 24 March 2010
I've seen a few of these elsewhere but they're awesome nonetheless. Nice collection.
- Debra, 24 March 2010
I believe the one with the two dogs chasing the rabbit is a still from a movie- unfortunately I can't think of what movie it is, and I just watched it a few days ago. *blonde moment*
Otherwise very nice collection of photos. I love the tiger rising up out of the water.
- Spiderman, 02 July 2010
Yeah I thought that too. The movie is Snatch. Though I'm not sure if it's a still from the movie, it is very similar.
- Minty, 25 March 2010
that is soooo awesome!! you got me inspired ;)
- Twolf, 25 March 2010
Those pics are amazing if anyone knows how those were taken plz let me no
- nanda, 27 March 2010
really wonderful,nature has checks at all levels.
- Sajid, 29 March 2010
Its a Great Job done ! WELL DONE !
- PopCultureMaiden, 31 March 2010
Very pretty, very stunning. A good deal of these get the effect in edit, but still very, very good!
_______________________ - jmleclercq, 03 April 2010
Great collection !
Jean-Michel - Sharyn Cook, 06 April 2010
It would be rare to see anything like the reality captured in those shots. … so cool.
- Mafiamomma, 07 April 2010
These are wonderful photos and took a lot of time to take. These are not just a one shot time, usually. Thank you for sharing them. Yes I love the cat and mouse one too.
- noussa, 13 April 2010
awesome images made by professional photographers
- Shayna, 27 April 2010
These are amazingly awesome! I love 'em!
- jeanie, 29 April 2010
Best animal pictures i've ever seen.
- unstructured, 29 April 2010
Rare to find pictures with such expressions…
- donna374, 30 April 2010
awesome, gr8 work
- Matti, 30 April 2010
i LOVE these pictures!! they are amazing!!!
- Valerie Pegg, 11 May 2010
Really great photos, thanks for sharing. :)
- JESS, 11 May 2010
these are beautiful! - Dariyn, 11 May 2010
I LOVE the picture of the kiwi bird. :D it's so cute. :]
- Tanzanette, 12 May 2010
Amazing photos <3
- Monica, 16 May 2010
This is really stunning!
- sir jorge, 01 June 2010
someday, i'm going to beat up my guidance counselor for not telling me about getting into photography, those are amazing
- Kiran, 01 June 2010
Amazing. brilliant stuff
- snow, 01 June 2010
OMG these photo's are unreal!!!!
They capture characteristics that people would hardly ever see! thank you to the photographers for your brilliant work!! - Angel, 01 June 2010
Really sweety animals and don't so much, wildlife.
- chrib86, 01 June 2010
stumbled from germany….pretty amazing pics ….tumbs up
- pavlov, 02 June 2010
excelentes fotos
felicidades !!
- Roman's Mom's Milkman, 03 June 2010
I am loving these photos man… cute animals too ;)
- Elroy, 07 June 2010
nice pictures ! ty for your share
- somchai, 07 June 2010
Wonderful, beautiful, fair nations most
- :), 07 June 2010
I LOVE THE ONE WITH THE BIRD LOOKING AT HUMAN FOOTPRINTS. Sad and cute.
- carbon14, 07 June 2010
As I see from the comments from the source sites, most of them are photoshoped. Or are they all ?
- The Videographer, 07 June 2010
Some of the most breathtaking examples of wildlife photography I have ever seen. A marvelous presentation.
- spyder, 07 June 2010
wtf!!!why is that wolf on a chain at all.who's letting dogs near him.lett'im off n see what's up.looks cruel to me.outside of that lovely photos
- sayanti, 07 June 2010
Amazing! I like the monkey and white tiger one.
- Alyssa, 08 June 2010
- Nature is Awesome, 13 June 2010
wow! great collection, love the bird looking at human footsteps.
- Truth, 17 June 2010
some of them are so obviously photoshopped though …
- Arthuro, 17 June 2010
Awesome pictures ouaaaaa !!!!!!!!
- baris, 17 June 2010
i want to be the tiger in ice… am ready to give all :)
- baris, 17 June 2010
is the cat mouse photoshopped though??!!??
- paul, 17 June 2010
Wish the poster would actually track down the source. The cat and mouse picture source leads to another "Best Dramatic Wildlife" post with no credit given. Disgusting cannibalism of content no one creates.
- n, 17 June 2010
You definitely could have left out the picture with the wolf and the white dog.
- John F Taylor, 17 June 2010
Wow! That's all I can say what a genius job on those photos I can't even select the best one just awe inspiring!
- JBlaze, 20 June 2010
People always have a negative outlook on photoshop. Yea it can degrade a photo to nothing, but it's all apart of what you can do creatively to a photo. Creativity is creativity and you can't knock that. In conclusion I say as artists we should give the author more praise just in his efforts to create something outside the box. It takes a lot of guts to be original in this world.
- Deanna, 29 June 2010
I liked the one with the white tigers and the chimp.
- Matt, 30 June 2010
Fantastic Images.
- ateeq ahmad, 01 July 2010
The penguin looking at prints is very pretty.
I also love the snake moving to strike taken from the front. This must have been dangerous.
Wonderful pictures. I just tweet-ed your site!
- none, 05 July 2010
- chun165, 14 July 2010
very amazings.
- Endüstriyel Mutfak, 16 July 2010
Magnificent photos!!
- Budge, 22 July 2010
What Beautiful Animals, Excellent photography, just goes to show we have lots to look after in this Beautiful World!!! Before we Destroy it all
- Yuliana, 27 July 2010
Espectaculares fotos, debemos respetar a estos seres tan hermosos que comparten nuestro mundo porque es de ellos también :)
- karthikeyan, 28 July 2010
What Beautiful Animals, Excellent photography, nice work……………………………………………………………………………………….
- somia61766, 01 August 2010
hmm really amaizing..i just love animals
- tate, 10 August 2010
wow… breathtaking
- Mr.Hammer, 10 August 2010
Wow,the snake and bird picture is just stunning!
- Beth, 17 August 2010
I was bothered by the "wolf attacking dog" pic, until I saw the source. Turns out the wolf was reacting to being attacked by the white dog (and one other) while chained down. So, I don't know who to root for (and would rather not have to "root" for either.)
- Adam, 19 August 2010
Most of these are NOT wild animals…
I dare someone to get that close to a wild tiger or male lion. Depicting these animals as wild does a disservice to the conservation efforts because people think the wild animals are cute and approachable.- Kasper, 25 September 2010
Protip: Zoom.
- Britt, 19 August 2010
The details at the beginning are very helpful if you do animal photography, and the photographs themselves are just drop-dead amazing. I just wish that they would add the camera's names that they took the photograph, with.
- cheetahex2, 21 August 2010
Many things have to combine: a good camera, a nice day and being in the right place at the right time!!
Thanks for the share! - jd, 08 September 2010
I found the unnecessary over-emphasis on "nature, red in tooth and claw" very irritating, but every time I started to navigate away from the site I saw another photo that was so interesting I saved it and scrolled down to look for others. Its a very mixed bag of random button-pushers.
- Miguel B., 08 September 2010
Great photos that portray nature as it is – delicately aggressive.
- subcorpus, 08 September 2010
nice pics …
- alex, 13 September 2010
interesting post!
- Dafydd, 15 September 2010
Does it matter if they have been photoshopped or have claws. Time in life to just enjoy!
- Prashanthi, 15 September 2010
Awesome Clicks…Really loved each one of them…
- ???????, 16 September 2010
so good
- jorge, 18 September 2010
Really super quality hand-picked photos! I luv the black cat one….
- ravneet, 25 September 2010
Huge respect!
Loved all the shots, Specially the first tiger in water shot
- Jackie White, 26 September 2010
Simply Beautiful!
- Arthur, 26 September 2010
Awesome. Can I suggest mine ? http://www.flickr.com/photos/athur/3298390666/in/set-72157614210767881/
- mikey, 26 September 2010
- mon, 27 September 2010
wonderful pics!!:-).
- george, 27 September 2010
thankyou, insightful.
- YORAM, 27 September 2010
One of the best
I have See so far
God Blessed the photographer - loRelie, 28 September 2010
Subjects and photo capture are just wonderful! : )
- Licci Argentina !!, 28 September 2010
Buenísimas !!!!
- pdf to word converter shareware, 05 October 2010
Have to become a member of this blog, superb posting. Found it on bing.
- marco, 12 October 2010
- ianbeckett, 12 October 2010
Most of the photos are great, but if you're the sort of person that likes to see a rabbit pulled apart by a pair of dogs then there is something wrong with you.
- Jane Griffith, 21 October 2010
- ketan, 25 October 2010
beautiful !
- Jason Anthony, 27 October 2010
suck my balls these pictures are ugly and retarded and fags
- Francisco Paulo, 27 October 2010
Parabéns pelo conteúdo do site.
Fotos simplesmente fantásticas e maravilhosas. - DanielS, 28 October 2010
These are stunning! I'd love to have any of these framed in my house. Hell I'd even buy a print of one! Great stuff thanks!
- mayday3, 07 November 2010
Exceptional pictures!
- angelique, 07 November 2010
this was incredible and so fetching to my heart…amazing…
- mikey, 07 November 2010
really nice
- RAYMOND CASHA, 08 November 2010
I can truly say these are the best animal pictures I have ever seen a work of art!!! you are very good!!!
- ron yatteau, 08 November 2010
cool images
- mehul, 27 January 2011
this is nice an cool images
- bonnie brauer, 08 November 2010
I've never made a comment about anything on the net before. THESE ARE FABULOUS! – bb
- sothun, 09 November 2010
love so mach
- sothun, 09 November 2010
- fistudio, 09 November 2010
Great pictures… very nice collection. I'd love to take same pictures like these some day… even thou I'm not a widelife photographer…
- jmleclercq, 11 November 2010
Great collection !
- pamela, 11 November 2010
- Paul, 17 November 2010
Great collection.
That snake & robin would make a curious christmas card scene. - daisy, 19 November 2010
These photos are INCREDIBLE
- Dámaris, 19 November 2010
these photos are beautiful……
- Kari, 19 November 2010
These are fierce, spectacular photographs!
- Stoycho, 19 November 2010
Awwwww. How cute!
- Sarah, 20 November 2010
Lovely photos. Some of these are just striking.
- Stacey, 23 November 2010
You made my day :) Thanks!
Nova Scotia, Canada - Chance, 27 November 2010
I know for a fact that some of these are photoshopped. such is the case of the rattlesnake and finch for example
- jorgio, 24 January 2011
And the cat chasing the mouse that has a small wedge of cheese in its mouth
- Michael, 01 December 2010
Truly fabulous photos of beautiful animals.
- white, 03 December 2010
cute animals
- Lydia, 03 December 2010
simply wonderful
- cindy repaja, 09 December 2010
sooooo adorable!
- swis, 13 December 2010
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Awesome!! i like it All.. wonderful!
- koki, 16 December 2010
wonderful and beautiful
- IMPROVE HEARING, 25 December 2010
Very well written information. It will be beneficial to anybody who usess it, including myself. Keep up the good work – i will definitely read more posts.
- Phan Huy Quyen, 30 December 2010
truly ammazing!!!!
- mikwillson, 05 January 2011
wow,it is great
- Dick Burns, 06 January 2011
Smoke Weed
- Terrie allen, 06 January 2011
These are some of the most breathtaking photos Ive ever seen. That kind of dedication is admirable to say the least.
Terrie - balti, 06 January 2011
These are some of the best animal images I have ever seen. Great job putting them together!
- fernad, 06 January 2011
that shits gay
- Irregular Activity, 07 January 2011
Wow! That first image of the Tiger is amazing. I can't even begin to think how much time and prep work went into some of these amazing images.
- George, 08 January 2011
Great original photos on the whole, but surely some creative editing on a couple ;-)
- Conrad, 10 January 2011
wow! i love all the pictures :) great job!
- Winnie, 21 January 2011
Very nice pictures, The White Tiger one is especially beautiful.
- LeFlic, 24 January 2011
Yeah, some are photoshoped. But nice, anyways ;)
- Christine, 27 March 2012
Oh, I get it. You're pretending to be an expert on photoshop! Ha! You're funny. But I know that you MUST realize there are actually photographers out there who do take some pretty ridiculous photographs that are, you know, real. Because not everybody has the time to sit around and claim they took photographs when they are really photoshopped pictures. Usually, when a person goes around telling others something–for examples, that every photo they look at is photoshopped–that usually means it's because they're paranoid someone will catch on to the fact that they are doing it themselves. Like when a liar accuses everyone else of lying. Hmm.
- Lizthelege, 25 September 2012
You know what, I totally agree, I would never have even thought that these were photoshopped, it's a shame when someone can't leave a nice comment without having a little dig at them. I personally love these photos especially the owl catching it's pray, and the baby sea lion, so cute, oh! And the other one I thought was amazing was the cat chasing the little mouse, the concentration on both there faces was intense.
- Kelsey, 05 October 2012
Yes, the snake after a bird was totally photo shopped.
- Karina, 24 January 2011
Sure, some of these are dramatic. Then again…some are just kittens.
- Tanya Dickenson, 26 January 2011
Im impressed, I must say. Really rarely do I see a blog thats both educational and entertaining, and let me tell you, you've hit the nail about the head.
- fds, 28 January 2011
- Geoff McMahen, 02 February 2011
Very nice collection, thanks for sharing!
- Start Photography, 03 February 2011
These are great photo.
Very natural, and looks killer to me.
Inspirative animal photography.
THanks :D - rejijoseph, 19 February 2011
very very wonderful
- Mona sewinggranny, 20 February 2011
Love these cute pictures!
- brittany, 20 February 2011
these are beautiful
- Cynthia, 21 February 2011
absolutely amazing!!
- Denz, 13 March 2011
- Cowok Mata Keranjang, 17 March 2011
I very like to see a black cat picture. I don't know why but it feels so strong image and have a very big artistic things.
- Karri, 22 March 2011
The image of the snake about to swallow the bird is striking. These are all amazing pictures.
- yoxx, 26 March 2011
awesome works..
- ROSH8111, 05 April 2011
nice collection of nature images
- obat ejakulasi dini, 22 April 2011
i like it….
- obat ejakulasi dini, 25 April 2011
- Abdul Samad, 29 April 2011
Indeed very unique photography,
- Gourav, 30 April 2011
These are simply superb, never before seen anything like these.
- metti, 06 May 2011
Amazing shots…
- Fajar, 24 May 2011
Just fabulous!!!
- Ashley Beolens, 26 June 2011
Some stunning examples there :)
- tyler, 20 August 2011
nice.. pretty epic!
- Mifa, 11 September 2011
Simply STUNNING!
- Harshad, 09 November 2011
its Awesome Photography….. Classic shots…..
- darlene burrow, 15 November 2011
these pictures are so beautiful !!! i really love the tigers/cats !!!
- MrSylvie9, 17 December 2011
I love those picture, there definition , the beauty and the perfection of these colour and textures. The nature is here perfect.
- claudio ades from chile, 05 February 2012
is really beatiful picture, thanks ! c:
- rupali sandeep sehgal, 28 April 2012
these r awesome pictures
- Fulan Bandung, 09 July 2012
Crisp, sharp, shots. Watch out, birds, there is snake RIGHT behind you!
- naval kishore sharma, 30 August 2012
this all photos are amazing I like very much, this is hard work for photographer
i salute to the photographer - oksa1x, 10 September 2012
yeah! some are just kittens, that's why things turns to dramatic. Things are not common in the animal kingdom unfortunately!
Think about your great majestic kingdom.
Nothing personal, try to make things easier. FOCUS ON THAT.
Cheers. - Trisha Sharma, 11 September 2012
Awesome Pictures………..
- Rob, 13 September 2012
The snake one is fake. The snake is actually a dead snake at a museum.
- Abhi, 17 September 2012
Awsome collection of pics…Great snaps. Most Animals are on the move!!
- Hofffman, 28 September 2012
Oh wow this are amazing cool super doper pictures i really love them i wish i could take some pictures like this !!!!
- Jordie, 05 October 2012
One of these is from a movie, i will not mention what movie if you don't already know, but i just hope that the person claiming these photos actually took it.
very striking photos! - Kelsey, 05 October 2012
The photo of the bison is entitled "Three Amigos," and was taken by Steve Hinch in Yellowstone National Park. He has done some very beautiful work.
- Isaac, 13 October 2012
Nice work. beautiful photos
- Marine, 17 October 2012
Just Magnifique !!!!
- Julia, 26 January 2013
Amazing photography!
- Adrian, 01 June 2013
Stunning photography, really shows much effort that has been put in.
- Katie, 11 June 2013
Absolutely love the Tigers, are they kissing or fighting! perfect caption :)
- Yogesh, 01 August 2013
some of them angry, some are funny but whatever they all are beautiful part of this unimaginary world :)
- Daniel, 27 October 2013
Fantastic pictures, captured brilliantly. Especially love the Eagle close up shot, simple, strong and to the point! A big well done from us.


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Don't Count Out Cilantro
by Dana Angelo White in Healthy Tips, May 5, 2009
Some of you balked when we didn't include cilantro in our Top 5 Herbs for Healthy Cooking list. That doesn't mean it gets no love. We heart this fresh, leafy herb and use it in lots of dishes. And while today may be Cinco de Mayo, this baby isn't just for Mexican cuisine.
Flavor and Nutrition
In my experience, people either love or hate cilantro. Lovers (myself included) describe it as tangy and citrus-y, while haters may call it soapy or metallic. Like many other green herbs, cilantro contains vitamins A, C and K for healthy blood and bones — and with just a pinch added here or there to dishes, it adds negligible calories and loads of flavor.
Growing Cilantro
Herb gardeners, listen up: Cilantro, an annual herb, grows quickly and with minimal maintenance so it's perfect for a home garden or window container. Once the plant has finished growing for the season, keep the small round seeds it produces. If you dry them, you've got your own coriander seed (yep, coriander and cilantro are the same thing — both members of the parsley family). Pop the seeds in a spice grinder for a grounded powder. It has a deep flavor that's a wonderful seasoning for dry rubs, fajitas, chili or Indian dishes.
Savoring Cilantro
Like I said, cilantro is popular in Mexican and Latin cuisine, but this little herb gets around. You'll also find it in Indian, Mediterranean and Chinese and South Asian recipes.
Chopped, fresh cilantro is perfect in pasta salad, salsa or classic guacamole, but cook it in soups and rice, too. I often add it to softened butter to make a compound butter for fish or steamed vegetables. Create your own finishing salt by tossing a handful of cilantro in the food processor with sea salt. And if you find yourself with a bunch leftover, mix the cilantro leaves with other leafy greens for a salad blend — that polishes them off easily.
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When an item is scanned at the cash register for purchase, that information is placed in the company's inventory database and, in most cases, a new unit is automatically ordered to replace the one that is sold.
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Attorneys prep for capital murder trial by testing Internet testimony technology
Jessica Priest
July 19, 2013 at 2:19 a.m.
Sixth Amendment
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."
It took about 30 minutes of plugging and unplugging USB cords, but Victoria County technicians did it.
They projected in a hushed downtown courtroom a live feed of two people sitting in a room more than 2,000 miles away.
"Can you hear me?" Criminal District Attorney Stephen Tyler said, tapping on a large, gold microphone.
"Yes," a woman with the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office said, smiling.
Tyler successfully set up, for the first time locally, a live, two-way audio/video feed. A witness may use the technology to testify in the Aug. 5 capital murder trial of Dedrick Roy Bonner, 19, and Donnell Deshaun Dilworth, 23, both of Victoria.
The men are charged in the April 24, 2012, shooting death of Jerry James III.
The witness, Allaceia Marie Stephney, cannot testify in person because her doctors have so far forbid her from flying. She is being treated in Multnomah County in Oregon for a gunshot wound to the leg she suffered during the same shooting.
After verifying the device worked, attorneys sparred briefly before 135th District Judge Kemper Stephen Williams over whether this violates the defendants' Sixth Amendment right to face their accuser.
Attorney Jerry Clark, who represents Bonner, stressed it is an important tenet of America's criminal justice system.
He wanted to double check that Stephney is still, in fact, incapacitated since Tyler filed the motion in March. If she is not incapacitated, this is a moot point and would not satisfy standards set by the appellate court in previous cases, he said.
Tyler agreed to produce newer doctors' notes. He added that two extra cameras - one pointed at the judge and one pointed at the attorneys - give the witness vantage points that far exceed what the appellate court has historically required.
"If she could travel, I would much rather bring her here," but she might get a blood clot on the plane, Tyler said after the 1:30 p.m. Friday hearing. "I can't ask Victoria taxpayers to foot the bill on that, and I don't want to be responsible for a woman losing her leg or her life."
Williams will allow both Clark and Victoria attorney Lee Lewis, who represents Dilworth, the opportunity to submit written objections by late next week. Then, he will rule on the issue.
Lewis, declining to specify what objections he had, said the two's objections would be similar.
The parties also grappled with reserving both the room and technology in Multnomah County. Tyler wanted access to it for a whole week, should defense attorneys need to call Stephney to the stand a second time.
He feared that not producing Stephney in a reasonable amount of time would allow a judge to strike her testimony.
"I've never known the court's patience to be that elastic," Tyler said.
"If they need me to mail them a camera and laptop, I will do that," he said.
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RJ's body was transported to the county morgue by independent contractors hired by the Medical Examiner's Office, standard procedure when no medical examiner is present at the scene of a crime. There it sat for 48 hours, cause of death unknown. Larry Cameron explains the delay: "Ninety-nine percent of the time when we have a body, it's ready for release within 24 hours." But on January 4, Cameron says, the "case sheet," or number of bodies scheduled for autopsies, was "extremely long." RJ's must have been near the bottom of the list.
On January 6 the autopsy revealed what should have been obvious: RJ had been shot. "Cause of death is a gunshot wound of the chest," confirms Sandra Boyd, an investigator with the Medical Examiner's Office. That finding was relayed to police, who suddenly had a murder on their hands.
Officers scrambled back to the apartment, which had already been washed clean and traipsed through by the roommates. VonFouts and Webb had returned to remove plastic that covered the loft's drafty windows (hoping to ventilate the rooms) and to gather clothes for a move to the Radisson Hotel on Biscayne Boulevard. They stayed at the hotel for a week, and later moved out of the loft altogether.
Says VonFouts: "Forty-eight hours later [detectives] called me up: 'You have to get down [to the loft] right away' -- getting all nasty with me." He returned to find the doorways crisscrossed with yellow crime-scene tape and the area swarming with TV news crews.
Detectives questioned him again. "I was trying to tell them about what I saw when I got there, which was the same story I told them when I originally got there," he says. "And all of a sudden they wanted to know all these new details. I told them about the beer bottles and the vodka bottle, but everything had been kinda cleaned up."
I Hate Whoever Did This Kaytlynn admits she is not the most well-informed person. She doesn't read newspapers or watch television news, and so was not aware of news accounts of the murder.
She hadn't heard from RJ in a week and thought their affair was over, despite the thousands of minutes they'd spent talking. On January 9, she says, she received a call from a Miami police detective named Moises Velasquez. The detective, who took charge of the investigation when the case was classified as a homicide, said he wanted to talk to her about RJ but didn't mention anything about the shooting. She feared the worst while holding out hope that RJ was just in some sort of trouble. But in the course of her five-and-a-half-hour interview, it became clear he was gone. "It wasn't till after all that that they told me," she says through tears. "I don't even think I can explain. RJ changed my life. I had been going through my life on autopilot, half asleep, and in the two months I knew him, I have never been so understood."
Kaytlynn says she had no plans to drive down to RJ's loft on New Year's Eve. In fact, she says, she told RJ she'd be at home hosting a party. "Right before midnight," she says, "we were sitting in my house, eating ice cream cake and waiting for the ball to drop." A video of the party had been taken around midnight with a camera her boyfriend had received as a Christmas gift. "It's time- and date-stamped," she notes. (Detective Velasquez has seen the tape and interviewed other party attendees.)
"To be hours away from everything you ever wanted and then lose it all," she says. "I just don't know how to get past that yet. And that has made me wonder, was there somebody that didn't want us to be together?"
Kaytlynn says she is willing to take a polygraph test and do "anything they ask" to find RJ's killer. According to Detective Velasquez, there are no plans to call her back for questioning. Yet all of RJ's friends and relatives contacted for this story -- none of whom has met Kaytlynn -- say they believe she has more information regarding his death.
Her former boyfriend, who declined comment for this story, was interviewed once by police in mid-February. "He was completely in the dark," says Kaytlynn, referring to her relationship with RJ and his death. "And when I laid it all out for him, he was completely devastated." She says she is no longer dating him and has moved in with her mother.
Three days after learning that RJ was dead, Kaytlynn posted this message on tribe.net, another Internet community she and RJ frequented.
January 12, 2004 - 07:59 AM
A Moment of Silence ... for R.J. Lockwood.
I don't know how I'm going to live with this. How I can possibly stand it. R.J. changed my life and I do not have the words to express what he means to me. I am so angry. I want to scream and break things the way my heart is breaking. It's been a long time since I hated anything but I hate now. I hate whoever did this. I hate what was taken away from us. Our dreams, plans. R.J. showed me what my life could be and the kind of love and understanding I could never have imagined. He taught me so much. To be true to myself, never to comprimise. To live my life on my terms. I will spend the rest of my life honoring his memory and living what he taught me. But oh God it hurts.


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Palo Cortado
Palo Cortado is a rare variety of sherry that is initially aged under flor to become a fino or amontillado, but inexplicably loses its veil of flor and begins aging oxidatively as an oloroso. The result is a wine with some of the richness of oloroso and some of the crispness of amontillado. Only about 1-2% of the grapes pressed for sherry naturally develop into palo cortado.[1]
The name means 'cut stick,' in reference to the mark made on the cask when this style of wine is recognized. Since the wine was originally destined to be a fino or amontillado, it will initially have had a single stroke marked on the cask. When the overseer realizes that the wine is becoming a palo cortado, he draws a cross (or cut) through the initial stroke (or stick), resulting in a crossed stroke or 'cut stick' (/). At this time the wine will be fortified to about 17.5% alcohol, to prevent spoilage from contact with the air. As the overseer continues to monitor the wine over time, he may feel it necessary to add additional measures of alcohol to the casks to continue its development. These additional measures are marked on the cask as additional crosses, and the resulting wine is designated 'dos cortados,' 'tres cortados,' etc. according to the number of 'cuts' marked on the cask. The greater the number of cuts, the greater the age of the wine.
Though a 'true' palo cortado is said to be produced accidentally, because of the demand for this style of wine it is sometimes produced intentionally by blending amontillado with oloroso to produce a wine with the hybrid flavour of a palo cortado—and a lower price than the naturally-occurring wine.[2]
- Jerez Cortado is a variety of palo cortado made not in Jerez, but in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, the most westerly of the three points of the 'Sherry Triangle', properly known as the denominación de Jerez. The city of Jerez is the most easterly point — and Puerto de Santa María lies southwest of that.[3][4]
On 12 April 2012, the rules applicable to the sweet and fortified Denominations of Origen Montilla-Moriles and Jerez-Xérès-Sherry[5] were changed. The classification by sweetness is:
Fortified Wine Type | Alcohol % ABV | Sugar content (grams per litre) |
Fino | 15-17 | 0–5 |
Amontillado | 16-17 | 0–5 |
Palo Cortado | 17-22 | 0–5 |
Oloroso | 17-22 | 0–5 |
Palo Cortado can be served as an apéritif with olives, nuts, cheese, or foie gras; it can also accompany fowl, red meats, or game. It should be served slightly chilled.
As palo cortado falls between amontillado and oloroso, it is relatively stable and may be stored for a few years before opening. After opening, it can be kept, corked and refrigerated, for a few weeks.
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I am really impressed by your depth of knowledge in badminton.
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Wow! From renegade to hero! Da, mate.
I feel a bit better now after a horrendous round of golf today but I played the blue tee to its not so bad - had a birdie but 5x missed puts for par.Ce'st la vie. Let's go on with badminton. John.
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Top dog Matthew Winkler, editor in chief and co-founder of Bloomberg News, right, and Howard Buffett, president of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and son of billionaire Warren Buffett, left, listen during a panel discussion on women in the media in 2011. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
For foreign correspondents in China, breaking stories that the censored Chinese press can't touch has long been a core part of the mission.
In the recent past, this often happened via behind-the-scenes cooperation: Stymied Chinese investigative journalists discreetly shared details with foreign counterparts, reasoning that at least the news would be on the record somewhere, and with a bit of luck, word might eventually filter back into China.
I was the occasional beneficiary of this sort of thing during six years of reporting from China for The New York Times, from 2003 to 2008. When censorship made it impossible for local reporters to write about modern slave labor in the brick-making industry, for instance, local reporters passed along information to me and other foreign correspondents in the hopes that international coverage would blow the story open. And it did.
In 2012, though, this newsgathering model itself was blown away. Against the backdrop of a once-a-decade leadership transition in China, three big American news organization, one after the other, began breaking historic ground with original investigative work, ground on which no one in the Chinese media, however plucky, had ever dared to tread.
This new wave of extraordinary American reporting was far more than coincidence, but the result of fierce competition between news organizations over a critical story: political maneuvering and corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese political system—a subject that had traditionally been almost entirely hidden from the world.
The competition would yield unprecedented scrutiny for Chinese political and economic elites and a new cornucopia of information for readers. And it would tip one news organization into crisis from which it has not yet emerged.
Like a car wreck in slow motion, the Bloomberg team that produced the investigative work began falling apart.
Two of these organizations, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, were already long-established leaders of international reporting. Between them, they had racked up six Pulitzer Prizes for International Reporting from China alone. By comparison, the third player, Bloomberg News, a wing of financial-data giant Bloomberg LP, was an upstart. And yet it was Bloomberg, with its reporting on the immense, shadowy fortunes of close relatives of the incoming Chinese president, Xi Jinping, that many people who follow China closely believe broke the most ground and deserved the news industry's greatest plaudits.
When it was instead the Times that won a Pulitzer from China—yet again—in 2013, Bloomberg reporters and editors described an immense letdown. But they were rallied by the company's editor in chief, Matthew Winkler, who urged the China staff to keep its competitive fires stoked. According to one employee, he wrote to the team that produced the work on Xi, calling their reporting "fabulous stuff," adding, "we'll just keep going."
Encouragement like this quickly led to another long-term reporting effort into the morass of political corruption at China's highest levels. In a stroke, Bloomberg was becoming an important player in international news—and now, just as suddenly, it has tainted its corporate identity and journalism brand to a degree that could last for years. All because of its China coverage.
The crisis blew into public view last November when The New York Times, followed by the Financial Times and others, reported that a big, new enterprise project from Bloomberg, said to have documented an extensive web of corrupt ties between one of China's wealthiest businessmen and elite politicians, had been spiked at an unusually late stage in the editing process. The reported spike came after an extensively footnoted version of the story had been fact-checked and pored over by company lawyers, and after members of the reporting team had been praised internally for yet more stellar work. The Times reported that Winkler, in a conference call with reporters, defended the decision not to publish the story by likening the situation to the need for self-censorship by foreign bureaus in Nazi Germany to preserve their ability to continue reporting there. That reasoning was controversial enough, but a Bloomberg executive would later let slip a motive that was even more problematic.


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An innovative concept album from a new kind of theatrical rock band (watch our video!) is ready to master, print and deliver to you! Read more
An innovative concept album from a new kind of theatrical rock band (watch our video!) is ready to master, print and deliver to you!
About this project
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for all your contributions. We are insanely excited that, with your amazing support, we've reached our initial Kickstarter goal of $1500 which means the album will definitely be printed, mastered and released in June! We are still working towards our ultimate goal of $3000 which would help cover the costs of a higher quality and quantity printing of the album, give us the option of a more comprehensive mastering session, help us repair some of our instruments & live gear and/or provide some gas funds for a west coast tour we'd like to put together to support the album!
Also, for our newcomers if you're interested in a copy of TheDarkWoods, this is THE place to pre-order our album directly from us--shipping is on the house AND you can get some other cool swag thrown in there to boot!
In case you haven't heard, The Official 2012 P L a N E T S' Battle of the Fans continues to heat up this week, a third dark horse candidate has entered the race and it looks as if the stage has been set for an official debate between the 3 candidates, take a peek at our blog here and stay tuned facebook page www.facebook.com/newplanets for updates this week!
ps. check out some new pictures below of your Kickstarter gifts in progress!
Our debut concept album, TheDarkWoods, is ready to master, print and deliver to you!
We are INSANELY excited about this album and we think that you should be too! Over the last 8 months, we've worked extremely hard recording and mixing the record ourselves at our modest home studio/band house in Alhambra, CA. What we need now is to get the album professionally mastered (aurally shined and polished for playback on all consumer systems and commercial distribution). And then, of course, we will get the record printed and released!
We set a relatively low goal of $1500 for this project because we want to make this happen and are good at doing things on the cheap. Ideally we'd like to reach a goal of $3000. Further donations will go towards
We've put together some fun, cool, geeky P L a N E T swag for you over on the right. Everything from Tshirts, buttons and one-of-a-kind CDs to yoga lessons, carrot cake and a signed glockenspiel! Find something exciting over there and grab it, it's yours, thanks!!!
Scared Coyote from TheDarkWoods (rough mix)
The song is set to a scene from Cliff Lake, a haunting short film written by our lead singer Adam Stilwell. TheDarkWoods was born from the writing and recording sessions for the films soundtrack. Another song from those sessions, Some Fires, also appears on the new album.
DarkWoods symbol
Designed collectively by members of the band.
DarkWoods costumes by Joseph Hu
Designed for a dance performed during Miracle Tip, a song from TheDarkWoods.
Thank you for checking out our little corner here at Kickstarter. We plan on having a lot of fun with this page! We'd love it if you'd tell your friends about us too! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU...you're making our dreams come true.
PS. If you aren't familiar with our band and would like to donate, thank you very very much! Be our friend and keep up at www.facebook.com/newplanets
P L a N E T S Collaborators:
Natasha Snow Needles - Lima (Choreography, Set Design, Puppeteer, Art, Dancer, Percussion)
Melanie Keller - WA (Dancer, Puppeteer, Art, Percussion)
Bryce Whiting - WA (Percussion, Art, Dancer)
Joseph Hu - CA (Costume Design, Art, Set Design, Headbanger)
Adam Cotton - TX (Guitar, Songwriter, Vocals, Music Man)
Adam Stilwell - MT (Vocals, Songwriter, Writer)
Jessica Katz - CA (Vocals, Guitar, Percussion)
Nathaniel Peterson - MT (Art, Ukele, Robot, Clown)
Brick Patrick - MT (Father Time, Filmographer)
Nick Daue - MT (Tech, Lighting, Special FX)
Lemuel Thornton - (Filmographer)
Joanne DeCarlo - (Photographer)
Ben Caron - IL or IA or OH one of those (Characters, Percussion)
Elna Kordijan - CA (Stage Manager)
Red aka Randyll Wendll - CA (Photographer)
Dennis Widmyer - NY (Filmographer, Photographer)
David Blair - ID (Percussion, Filmographer, Zombie King)
Adam Pitman - MT (Filmographer, Box Painter)
Kaylie Brown - MI (The Witchghost of Old Towne, Dancer)
Channell Clemons - CA (Dancer)
Kenya Williams - CA (Dancer)
Stephanie Beinfeldt - CA (Dancer)
Natalie Briggs - CA (Dancer)
You - wherever you were born
- Shipping is included for all US and Canadian donors, for international donors please add $10
- General correction: Estimated delivery dates should all say June instead of May, sorry for any confusion there!
Guitar Pick Earrings by Natasha
DarkWoods textile CD sleeve prototype by Joe and Bryce
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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Thanks for your interest! You will recieve a digital download of the first single from TheDarkWoods!
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Digital download of the first A side/B side single released for TheDarkWoods! Promised will be a flashy first single on the A side followed by a creeptastic thriller of a B side.
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Digital download of TheDarkWoods in its entirety a week before it's release!
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First Edition hard copy of TheDarkWoods! And, digital download of the record a week prior to it's official release. Plus
A DarkWoods BUTTON! Every fan needs a button.
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P L a N E T S T-shirt!! With our DarkWoods symbol (see pic to left) emblazoned on the front of it. Confuse and impress your friends (in that order)! Plus the button and digital download.
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HEADED DOWN THE TRAIL: Find yourself smack dab in the middle of TheDarkWoods w/ free entry to our theatrical record release show! Plus handmade guitar pick earrings made by our own Natasha Snow! And of course you'll get the CD and that sweet button!
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LOST IN THE DARKNESS: One-of-a-kind limited edition hard copy of TheDarkWoods with a textile CD case made from fabric used in the DarkWoods shows designed by our costume designer Joseph Hu and artist Bryce Whiting. Plus everything in the Headed Down The Trail package above!
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SCARED COYOTE: Everything in the Lost In The Darkness package from above, AND a DarkWoods T-shirt to boot!
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CLIFF LAKE: See and hear what started it all! Limited Edition First Print DVD of our singer Adam Stilwell's haunting short film "Cliff Lake" **which inspired** Adam Stilwell and Adam Cotton's "DARK WOODS Original Music And Score For CLIFF LAKE" (you'll recieve a digital download) **which inspired** TheDarkWoods! PLUS everything else that's been mentioned thus far!
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WANDERED OFF: Choose ONE of the following--1.Guitar lesson in person or via Skype with our guitar player Adam Cotton. 2.Private yoga lesson for you and your friends with Natasha Snow. 3.Haircut or gourmet dinner by Joseph Hu. 4.A carrot cake from Bryce! 5.A couple friends forever bracelets made by Mel! Plus the Scared Coyote package!
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THE HUNTER: The CLIFF LAKE package + a CD booklet of handwritten lyrics to go with your one of a kind textile-covered CD AND an 11x17" limited edition DarkWoods poster by artist Nathaniel Davis, signed by everyone in the band. It'll kill on Ebay in a couple years!
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CHILDHOOD MTN LION: Pick a song for us to cover, and we will! Then we'll film it. Post that baby on Youtube. And dedicate it to you! Plus The Hunter package from above!
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SILVER BACK GRIZZLY: You will be listed in the liner notes of TheDarkWoods fo' sho'. Plus, any one of the services listed in the Wandered Off package, admission to all 2012 P L a N E T S shows AND the Childhood Mtn Lion package from above.
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FOREST FIRE: We will come play an acoustic show at your home (if outside of LA, you cover travel and lodging, but we'll show up with brewskies!) or we'll throw a BBQ/show in your honor at our band house in Alhambra, CA + everything in Silver Back Grizzly above!
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KING OF THE WOODS: All hail! You dark ruler! You are now not only executive producer of TheDarkWoods, but also of our upcoming space rock album, TheLastStarfighter! Add to your loot a signed glockenspeil, the girls' instrument of choice, and any package you'd like from above and anything else listed here that you want, just let us know!
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THE SHADOWS: You are untouchable! Be a character in a future P L a N E T S show and/or gain full access to the creation of our next record TheLastStarfighter! And, just take everything you've read on this page. Signed, sealed, delivered, all yours. Hugs forever. You had us at hello. We'll never let go, Jack (3D style). You complete us.
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What You Missed: Open for Questions with Dr. Sally Ride
Yesterday, Dr. Sally Ride, former NASA astronaut and first American woman in space, joined us for a special live chat to take questions from students at the Denver School of Science and Technology and across the country. Dr. Ride talked about the importance of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and answered questions about her experiences in space.
You can check out the full video of the chat below or use the links below to skip to your favorite questions. A special thanks to the students at the Denver School of Science and Technology and National Geographic Kids for participating in yesterday's chat.
- What class in high school prepared you the best for space?
- What was it like being the first woman in space?
- What made you so interested in science, technology, engineering, and math? What would you tell an 11-year-old girl about the importance of these subjects and what she can do to pursue these?
- How did your training and education prepare you for your first trip to space?
- What kind of extracurricular activities did you participate in outside of school?
- What is the coolest thing that ever happened to you in zero gravity?
- How have you seen technology change since you went into space? And want do you think about the direction of those changes?
- How did your education influence your decision to become an astronaut?
- Why do you think so many kids worry about math and are scared of it?
- Did you ever think of giving up on your dreams?
- Do you feel there was any part of your education that was missing?
- Do you think that going on fast rides at places like Disneyland are good practice for going into space?
- Would you want to live on the moon?
- Is there a lot of garbage in space?
- Would you want to live on the moon?
- What animals have been into space?
- Is it good for pets to go into space?
- Can you get online when you are in space?
- Would you like to be our graduation speaker?
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Cynthia's writing has also been featured on ShortStoryBook.net, and Women Writers, Women Books. Wind made it to the 2nd round in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest. You can follow Cynthia on Twitter and read her blog, here. Enjoy!
The Shy Man Cometh: My Encounter with Joey Ramone
By Cynthia Warson
By Cynthia Warson
When I was seventeen, I hand an encounter I would recall with fondness many years later. It was the night I met Joey Ramone. Actually, it wasn't just Joey; Dee Dee, Johnny and Tommy were there too, but it's Joey I remember.
It was 1977. Jimmy Carter was President; serial killer, "Son of Sam", was terrorizing New York, the first Apple computer hit the stores, filmgoers line up for hours to see a new movie called "Star Wars," and Elvis Presley would die that August. But for me and my friends, newly sprung from the confines of a private, Catholic all-girls high school, it would be a summer of music, cool clothes and fun.
Disco reigned supreme, but suddenly, out of the excess of thumping, and reverberated vocals, came a new music. While the rest of the world was listening to the Bee Gees, I had found a new sound—Punk Rock. Punk was fast, hard-edged, stripped-down, with an anti-establishment message; a welcome diversion for bored teenagers. The punk attire du jour was skin-tight, straight-legged jeans (when mainstream fashion was still dictating bell-bottoms), ripped T-shirts adored with safety pins, stiletto heels, inky eye shadow, and the garment de rigueur, a black leather jacket.
The only Punk club in Toronto in those early days was the "Crash 'n' Burn", submerged in the basement of a downtown warehouse. It was frequented by kids dying to hear the new sound from local bands like Teenage Head, The Diodes, The Dishes, The B-Girls, and The Viletones. But bands playing larger venues would stop in after their gigs; bands often hailing from the Mecca of North American Punk—New York City. I recall meeting Deborah Harry from Blondie. Debbie was beautiful in an ethereal way—as though sprinkled by fairy dust—and smaller than you might think. One night I found myself in a deep conversation about motherhood with a heavily pregnant Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads. But the night I remember with the most clarity is when The Ramones stopped in for a post-show beer.
Joey wasn't hard to spot. He towered over everyone like a gentle giant (he was 6' 8", apparently). He was dressed in the official Ramones "uniform": straight-legged blue jeans, shabby T-shirt, white Converse sneakers, black leather jacket. Joey looked lost in the throng, like a child who suddenly finds himself separated from his mother in a crowd. I approached him. Joey was sweet, polite, and shy to the extreme. Wearing his trademark rose-colored shades, he said he was enjoying Toronto, and was amazed at its cleanliness, especially in comparison to the Bowery, the Manhattan neighborhood in which he lived. Joey revealed his favorite band was a New York-based group I hadn't ever heard of—The Cramps.
Joey and I chatted, shouting to be heard over the raw guitars screaming furiously from the small stage. Thrilled at meeting my teenage crush, I could not seem to leave his side, as though my feet were glued to the beer-splashed concrete floor. Eventually, a friend tapped me on the shoulder, and then shouted in my ear, "You don't have to stand with him all night, you know." I flushed, embarrassed at my foolish schoolgirl zeal. I reluctantly said goodbye. Joey leaned down from his rarefied atmosphere, virtually bent over double, hugged me, and with a shy, half-smile, said goodbye.
I wound my way through the bopping crowd to the make-shift bar; a large, ice-filled aluminium tub, the kind you'd find in any garage. I reached in, my hand quickly becoming numb as I fished around for a bottle of beer. Glancing back, I saw that Joey was still standing alone, shyly watching the mayhem surrounding him, like an alien from another planet, sent to observe our way of life.
I was truly saddened when I heard about Joey's death from Cancer in 2001. Thirty years later (it just can't be that long!), I was surprised when I heard a long forgotten, but familiar beat coming from my sixteen-year-old daughter's bedroom. I tapped on her door, and then entered the incense-filled room. Yes, it was, "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker", blaring from the small speakers connected her minuscule iPod, so unlike the once state-of-the-art plastic turntable I had possessed and been so proud of, so many years ago. I began to sing along, amazed the words came easily. My daughter stared at me wide-eyed, as though really seeing me for the first time. As we sang together, I became aware of the music becoming a timeless connection— a lyrical conduit of my daughter's youth and mine. I moved the clump of clothes perpetually strewn on her bed. Sitting down, I began to tell my daughter about my teenage encounter with Joey Ramone. She was amazed, delighted. It was the first time I recounted it to anyone. This is the second.


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Life can be well described as an obstacle course, with impediments that get re-arranged every time we start a new day. This fact is one of the elements that makes for rich experience, not only in our careers, but also in our personal lives.
Unfortunately, many children learn too early that obstacles are either there for someone else to deal with, or simply not worth the trouble. Consequently, too many young people leave school and enter the workplace without a good grasp on the possible.
The obstacles are not going away, and our children need to understand the art of the possible. We have this great opportunity to be involved in preparing young people to live complete and fulfilling lives.
All Pro Dad has 10 ways to teach your children to overcome obstacles:
Be a role model: Kids learn most of what they know about problem solving by watching their parents deal with difficulty. So demonstrate the deep satisfaction that comes with negotiating a challenge.
Equip them with the right tools: Tools such as motivation, self-confidence, perseverance, faith, strength of character, sound judgment, and experience in solving small problems.
Play problem-solving games as a family: Scavenger hunts, board games, word puzzles. This helps kids understand that obstacles are an important element of a rich and fulfilling life experience.
Understand the difference between "childhood" and "irrelevancy": This is very important! Too many parents offer children neither responsibility nor the respect of expectation. Two truths come out of this point:
- When we expect nothing of our children, then that's exactly what we get. Rather than solve problems, they will likely cause them.
- Children who are not allowed to contribute to family life tend to develop other skills instead – and those are typically destructive.
It's important to act as if our children really are an integral part of family life, and that they really do have something of value to contribute.
Provide children with practice: Introduce obstacles that kids can deal with; teach them how to develop strategy; encourage them to persevere; and then make a big deal of it when they succeed. Involve children with planning family outings, working out details on vacation, and handling the logistics for other family events.
Do not reinforce giving up: Never solve a problem for your child that they can (with guidance) solve themselves. Instead, nudge and encourage so that "hanging in there" for success is experienced as much more rewarding than conceding defeat.
Be there when failure threatens to overwhelm: This is the other side of the coin. There's no benefit to abandoning children to failure when the struggle is too huge. Can you help them re-direct? Can you steer them toward success, then back off? Can you be realistic, and counsel with them when an obstacle simply will not budge?
Facilitate solution-oriented conversations at the family table: "Hey, kids, what do you think about such-and-such?" "I've got a challenging situation – any ideas?" "We've decided to slice 10% off the family budget – let's all talk about what we can do together to make this work."
Volunteer with your children: Find a facility where so-called "handicapped" individuals work hard to overcome obstacles. Participate in community or church projects that call for creative thinking – then let your kids take the lead.
Don't forget balance: Sometimes it's appropriate to ask for help when an obstacle won't budge. We don't drill our own teeth for a filling, most parents need assistance when it comes to funding a college education, and some of us really shouldn't mess with our own plumbing. Don't let your children confuse stubbornness with tenacity and perseverance.
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i like miley and im not the type for hating on others, lifes too short for that crap, but as a past self harmer i know what its like, and the need to cover up. judging by the fact that she has one sleeve rolled up (showing the scars of SH) and the other one rolled down, she may be doing it for attention, but then agan, how can we know? if anything it may even be a cry out for help, she may want to get help, you never know, again im no miley hater but neither a miley lover, just getting my point across…
stop stirring trouble
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I'm really not the sort of person to hate on celebrities, especially not Miley Cyrus, but to be perfectly honest I actually think there is a possibility she is doing it for attention. After all, Demi used to do it, and Miley and Demi and best-friends near enough. I think if she was insecure and upset because of what people could have said to her she wouldn't do it in the most visible places if she didn't want anyone to know.
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As a 5 year sufferer of self-harm and depression, I understand and know first hand the secrecy you feel about your self harm. Miley clearly doesn't feel that due to the short sleeves she is wearing. She knows she will get spotted to, so I believe this a just stint for attention really.
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News Release 432
Department of Natural Resources, Lee's Summit reach settlement on wastewater overflows
Volume 38-432 (For Immediate Release)
Contact: Judd Slivka
JEFFERSON CITY, MO., JULY 29, 2010 – The city of Lee's Summit has agreed to pay nearly $60,000 as part of a settlement negotiated with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources related to a series of wastewater overflows during 2008 and 2009, the department announced today.
The settlement, part of an abatement order on consent, also requires the city to take a number of steps to limit the negative environmental effects of future wastewater overflows.
"This agreement holds Lee's Summit accountable for wastewater overflows into Missouri's waters," said Department of Natural Resources Director Mark N. Templeton.
As part of the agreement, the city agreed to make nearly $60,000 in payments:
- $24,000 administrative penalty to the Jackson County School Fund.
- $26,000 to the Natural Resources Damages Fund.
- $9,717.38 in damages and investigative costs to the state.
The city also agreed to install and operate an alarm system to all of its pump stations, lift stations and other sewage handling facilities, and agreed to immediately respond and take appropriate action every time an alarm is triggered.
The department cited a series of 2008-2009 wastewater overflows in the order, including the Sept. 4, 2009, release of more than 100,000 gallons of sewage from its Tudor Road lift station into Prairie Lee Lake.
The department considers discharges of wastewater from sanitary sewer collection systems to be potential threats to public health and the environment. Such discharges have the potential to contaminate lakes and streams, causing serious water quality problems.