This is the scene that greeted me as I opened the front door at sunrise to get the morning paper—note the golden light kissing the snow in the foreground before giving way to the blue daylight. …
Denisé (wife) took this image of Tiger, our Jack Russell. Tiger’s a smart, very active little dog, and Denisé has done a great job capturing his “essence”. …
Here’s a photo from my visit to the East Coast last summer. I’ve shown a version of this image before in colour, but I think it works really well in black and white also. …
Kokanee, a resident of Muskoka Wildlife Centre at Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada. This Mountain Lion lives in a large enclosure with his best friend, Kootenay, a black bear. …morehere, Cycroft Photoblog: Photo of Mountain Lion.
Chéticamp is a charming fishing community on the Cabot Trail on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. St. Peter’s Church (a.k.a. l’Église Saint-Pierre) was built in 1883. …more here, Cycroft Photoblog: Photo of St Peters Church at Chéticamp, NS.
Taken at the seashore in Prince Edward Island. Made me think of the many decisions we all make every day of our lives. Thank God, we live in a democracy and are free to make those decisions. …more here, Cycroft Photoblog: Where Paths Divide.
Taken at Muskoka Wildlife Centre near Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada. This is Luna, a female Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus)—she’s about the size of a coffee cup and not a large one at that. …more here, Cycroft Photoblog: Saw-Whet Owl.
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Øyvind Strømmen's article covers the entire history of Miller along with the infamy of his associates and groups. On April 13, the eve of Passover, three people were killed in two separate shootings in Overland Park, Kansas - one at a Jewish community center, one at a nearby Jewish assisted-living home called Village Shalom. William Lewis Corporon, a retired physician, and his 14-year old ...
Stop-motion animation already requires saintly amounts of patience, but it's especially tricky when you're working with a medium as messy as water. In the making-of video below (folks who don't speak Portuguese should turn on the translation captions), animator Rodrigo EBA! explains how he put Cachoeira together--and it wasn't easy. He was hoping to use larger areas of water, but found that with ...
Michael R. Bloomberg, making his first major political investment since leaving office, plans to spend $50 million this year building a nationwide grass-roots network to motivate voters who feel strongly about curbing gun violence, an organization he hopes can eventually outmuscle the National Rifle Association. Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N.R.A. ...
But what was true then is true now: Dismissing one's adversaries as wing nuts is myopic, both intellectually and politically. Like it or not, the Oath Keepers, and the myriad other "patriot" groups now emerging around the edges of the Tea Party movement, are tapping into a real strain of popular anger. And who wouldn't be angry? Unemployment for millions, bailouts and bonuses ...
Two blasts near the Boston Marathon finish line on Tuesday were an eerie reminder of last year's terror attacks. A barefoot man wearing a black hat and a black veil toted a backpack down Boylston Street, chanting "Boston strong, Boston strong," eyewitnesses told The Boston Herald. He left two packs near the site where three people died last year after two bombs exploded. ...
One could view Rosendale's ad as just part of a larger trend of political candidates, seemingly all Republican, releasing ads in which they literally use a gun to make a political point. But it's almost certainly the first camapign [sic] ad to literally target a drone. - Yahoo News, 04-15-2014 Because in the land of the upstanding white rural militia and tinfoil hats, ...
Unable to get equal time on the new Cosmos creationist apparently decided to create their own. [wingnut]Behold the truth of creation. Suck it, Carl Sagan and Neil DeGress Tyson![/wingnut] From Funny Or Die
The New York Police Department has ended a program that sent plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop and spy on individuals, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The unit, known to many as the Demographics Unit, would track where people ate, prayed and shopped, according to the Times. The police mapped neighborhoods and kept detailed files on where people in traditional Islamic ...
Trigger-warning if you hate incompetent bureaucrats and the abuse of power. Photography Is Not A Crime has flagged a story out of McDonald, Pennsylvania about a high school student whose attempts to prove he was the victim of bullying ended up landing him in front of a judge and charged with disorderly conduct. According to reports, a high school sophomore at South Fayette ...
More: MICHEL BOUREZ WINS DRUG AWARE MARGARET RIVER PRO Drug Aware is an organization in Australia that helps teens and youths with drug problems by teaching healthy living values, in case anyone was wondering why the strange name is used for a surf contest.
Justin Trudeau has talked him­self into a defama­tion law­suit that is likely to leave his party quite a bit lighter in the wal­let. The shoot-from-the-lip Lib­eral leader and his On­tario cam­paign co-chair David Mac­Naughton are named in a $1.5-mil­lion li­bel suit filed on be­half of Chris­tine Innes, a can­di­date who was barred from run­ning for the Lib­eral party. Innes had wanted to con­test ...
Creationists who believe God created the entire universe in six days about 6,000 years ago have been aghast at the reboot of Carl Sagan's legendary "Cosmos" series. Some creationists have demanded their views receive equal airtime on the show to provide balance. Others have complained that astrophysicist and host Neil deGrasse Tyson was promoting "blind faith" in science. Evangelist Ray Comfort was particularly ...
All I can say to pioneering drone pilots is land on request. period. There are two sides to every story, but in the case of Ohio copy machine repairman and aerial videography hobbyist Kele Stanley, his side is drastically different from that of the police who arrested him for flying his camera drone over the site of a car crash. To hear the police ...
New Mexico governor Susana Martinez has made it very clear that she holds all opposition and dissent in absolute contempt. In the words of Valcav Havel, "They cannot tell the difference between dissent and naked terrorism."
It's Spring, time to take play outside, and what child or adult doesn't like bubbles? If you are a photographer and need longer lasting bubbles, then use the formula further down the page with more glycerin. Here at the Exploratorium, we've found the bubble formula below to work fairly well in our exhibits. 2/3 cup Dawn dishwashing soap 1 gallon water 2 to 3 ...
Two thematically-related stories on the BBC at the moment: UK drug company Glaxo 'paid bribes to Polish doctors' UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline is facing a criminal investigation in Poland for allegedly bribing doctors, BBC Panorama has discovered. Tamiflu: Millions wasted on flu drug, claims major report Hundreds of millions of pounds may have been wasted on a drug for flu that works no better ...
But the scene above took place four years before Monica, in 1994, long before Clinton handed his enemies a scandal on a platter that seemingly made such references acceptable. It was not at a Republican caucus or Christian Coalition meeting, but at a gathering of right-wing "Patriots" who had come to hear about forming militias and common-law courts and defending their gun rights ...
Tracking Point has finally gotten their system to work with the AR-10 and AR-15 platforms. Now available in 5.56x45mm, 7.62x51mm and 300 AAC Blackout (a longer ranged 5.56 derivative). Hopefully, the Army and Marines can find the money for some of these, for these rifles will give our designated marksmen a real advantage in combat. They are also available for civilian sale, though at ...
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