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Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:13 pm |
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After The Storm
A rainbow forms over the peaks of Grandfather Mountain after a storm passed through
the area near Linville, N.C., Sunday afternoon, July 13, 2008.
(Photo: AP/Grandfather Mountain/J. Morton)
Cuddly Cubs
Three rare white lion cubs, which will be raised by keepers using a bottle, are presented to the
media at the Safaripark in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, western Germany,
~TODAY ... Monday, July 14, 2008. A total of seven white lion cubs were born at the park
by two mothers on June 30, 2008. While three cubs are being raised by their mother 'Kibo,'
the four other cubs were refused by their mother 'Mawensi.'
(Photo: AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Getting Their Kicks
Paramilitary police officers demonstrate their fighting skills in an exercise in Wuhan
in China's central Hubei province Sunday July 13, 2008. With the Olympic Games drawing
near, China is stepping up security measures across the country.
(Photo: AP Photo )
In Harm's Way
A reveler slips and falls during the San Fermin Fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain,
~TODAY ... Monday July 14, 2008. The fiestas, held since 1591, attract tens of thousands of foreign
visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights.
The San Fermin festival gained worldwide fame in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel
'The Sun Also Rises.'
(Photo: AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Spectating Sisters
Nuns applaud as the pack passes through Lourdes
during the 10th stage of the Tour de France cycling race
between Pau and Hautacam, southern France,
~TODAY ... Monday July 14, 2008.
(Photo: AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)
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Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:16 pm |
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Star Bright
The newly discovered second brightest star in our Galaxy, the "Peony Nebula Star," is seen
in the central region of our Milky Way as captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope. While the
existence of the star was already known, it wasn't until the Spitzer's infrared instruments
were able to pierce the dust in the nebula that scientists could calculate it's brightness.
The star puts out light equivalent to 3.2 million suns.
(Photo: AP Photo/NASA)
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| SavannahStar
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Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:19 pm |
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Oh what a beautiful pic......OMG......how can anyone be an atheist?
(Sorry.....that's pretty O/T.)
That is AWESOME, Fash. Thank you.
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| Schmerty
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Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:22 pm |
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Incredibly beautiful! I just want to keep gazing at the loveliness of our Universe. Thank you Fash! Thank you for all you do!!!
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Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:51 pm |
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Fash, thank you...that is so incredible!
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Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:52 pm |
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Nelson Mandela Reaches his 90th
He named the boy Rolihlahla - the Xhosa slang for troublemaker - and that child, now better known as Nelson, would grow up to liberate his country and inspire the world.
"We want to be like him on our best day", is how Bill Clinton put it in a recent public appearance with Mandela.
It's a brave man who dares to share the stage with South Africa's iconic statesman. Even at 90, he can outshine anyone with just a few words or a smile.
He is the ultimate "hard act to follow"- as South Africa has found out.
The rainbow nation was born when Nelson Mandela walked to freedom 18 years ago. He offered hope to those oppressed under apartheid; reconciliation and reassurance to those who feared the end of minority white rule.
The new South Africa was a place of optimism and energy. Times have changed.
His successor, Thabo Mbeki, leads a country struggling with staggering rates of crime, AIDS and poverty.
Many of the country's new "fat cats" are black and there is a growing black middle class, but that's probably little comfort to those in the sprawling townships who are still waiting for a job and a decent home.
To be fair to Mbeki, South Africa's problems - most of which are the legacy of apartheid - are so vast that there are no quick fixes, but on some issues his approach defies comprehension.
While Nelson Mandela has devoted much of his retirement to promoting AIDS awareness, Mbeki has dragged his feet - first denying a link between HIV and AIDS, and then delaying the distribution of anti-retroviral drugs.
He's displayed a similar belligerence over Zimbabwe by refusing to criticise Robert Mugabe, even as refugees continue to flood over the border from the collapsing nation to the north.
I frequently hear South Africans (many white, some black) claim their country is fast going the way of Zimbabwe - it's an exaggeration of South Africa's troubles but an indication of the disillusionment of the post-Mandela years.
Mbeki will step down in 2009, but there's no guarantee that it will be a change for the better.
His likely successor, Jacob Zuma, has some of Mandela's charisma, but he's facing corruption charges and leads an African National Congress which is deeply divided and increasingly accused of cronyism and shady deals.
Perhaps Mandela retired just in time, before the revolution got tough, his party became tainted by power, and the inevitable recriminations started.
But there will be many in South Africa who will raise a glass to him on his 90th birthday, and long for the days when he was in charge.
Here he is pictured in the 1960s as the South African National Congress leader.
He was imprisoned in 1964 and spent most of that time on Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town.
Here his supporters carry his daugther Zinzi, who reads a statement from her father to 5,000 people referring to the government's offer of conditional freedom: "My father says: I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people are not free."
People around the world called for his release.
Here a man washes a 'Free Mandela' slogan off the side of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
And he was set free eventually in 1990.
He celebrates with his then-wife Winnie and raise their fists to salute cheering crowd.
A young Sowetan girl hugs Mr Mandela as he visits the black township near Johannesburg in October 1990.
Former political prisoners held a reunion on the island as Mandela marked the fifth year of his liberation.
Here he chips a rock in the quarry where he endured hard labour for 12 of his 19 years in South Africa's notorious prison.
US President Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela visit cell number 5 where he was imprisoned for 18-years on Robben Island.
Clinton said he was glad Mandela survived the experience without "having his heart turned into stone".
Mr Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 which was jointly attributed to South African President F.W. De Klerk
A soldier tries to stop a frenzied crowd from approching African National Congress (ANC) President Mr Mandela during a rally in Durban in 1994 just days before the first democratic elections took place in South Africa.
ANC youths wait for Mr Mandela atop a billboard in a township outside Durban prior to an election rally.
The election made Mr Mandela the first black president of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela poses for photographers with performers taking part in the "46664" Aids benefit concert during a visit to Robben Island in 2003.
"46664" refers to the prison number allocated to Mr Mandela during his long incarceration on the island.
Freedom fighter Walter Sisulu celebrates his 90ths with a hug from the former South African president.
Sisulu served 26 years in prison alongside Mr Mandela and other leading opponents of the apartheid regime.
Mr Mandela holds the Jules Rimet World Cup in 2004 at FIFA headquarters in Zurich.
South Africa won the right to host the 2010 World Cup finals, the first to be played in Africa.
When he reached 87 he celebrated with a cake at The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund in Johannesburg
Here Mr Mandela is seen next to a drawing of him as a young man during the launching Mandela's gifts, an exhibition of gifts and awards from around the world received by Mandela, as part of celebrations for his 87th birthday in 2005.
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Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:38 pm |
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Moment Of Reflection
A tiger is reflected in the water of a pond at the zoo
in Frankfurt, central Germany, on Tuesday, July 22, 2008.
(Photo: AP Photo/Daniel Roland)
Pinwheel Galaxy
The Pinwheel galaxy sports bright reddish edges in this new infrared
image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Its research reveals that
the outer red zone lacks organic molecules present in the rest of
the galaxy. Red and blue spots outside of the spiral galaxy are either
foreground stars or more distant galaxies. Scientists also believe
the galaxy's space dust has the potential to be converted into the stuff of life.
(Photo: AP Photo/NASA/JPL/CalTech)
Mosaic Marvel
Edda Sydow walks down the mosaic
staircase near Golden Gate Heights
in San Francisco, Monday, July 21, 2008.
(Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Rock And Roll
The pack climbs towards Lombarde pass during the 16th stage of the Tour de France cycling race
between Cuneo, northern Italy, and Jausiers, French Alps, Tuesday July 22, 2008.
(Photo: AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)
A Little Legwork
Chinese workers try out props to be used in the opening or closing ceremony of the Beijing
Olymipc Games in Beijing, China, Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Rehearsals for the ceremonies of the summer
Olympic Games in Beijing are under way in a shroud of secrecy.
(Photo: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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| SavannahStar
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Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:52 pm |
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OMG Fash, this looks like a PAINTING, it's so beautiful.
WVgirl......LOVED the Mandela pics!!!!!!!!
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Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:45 am |
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Netherlands' Roy Beerens (right) got a little grabby with Belgium's Sebastien Pocognoli (left) during a match in Gent earlier today.
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| LISA
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Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:58 am |
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Ouch!
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| Fashionista
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Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:08 pm |
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Blur-cycles
The pack passes a restaurant adorned with colored bicycles on the outskirts of Roanne during
the 19th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Roanne and Montlucon, central
France, ~TODAY ... Friday July 25, 2008.
(Photo: AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Prehistoric Art
Scientists and journalists look at the famed
Lascaux cave drawings in southwest France,
~TODAY ... July 25, 2008. Clusters of black
fungus is the latest biological threat to the
drawings, which were discovered in 1940
and are considered one of the finest examples
of prehistoric art. Carbon-dating suggests the
murals of bulls, felines and other images were
created between 15,000 and 17,500 years ago.
(Photo: AP Photo/Pierre Andrieu, Pool)
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Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:44 pm |
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Solar Spectacle
The total solar eclipse is observed above the mountainous Siberian Altai region, about
1,850 miles, east of Moscow, ~TODAY ... Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.
(Photo: AP Photo/Oleg Romanov)
Germany
The partial solar eclipse is seen, pictured through the telescope of the observatory of the
University of Applied Science in Kiel, northern Germany, ~TODAY ... Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.
The eclipse began in Arctic Canada, then passed through Greenland, western Siberia,
Mongolia and China.
(Photo: AP Photo/Kieler Planetarium)
United Kingdom
Neza Pintaric, 9, and sister Ula, 11, right, from Slovenia watch the partial eclipse of the sun
through solar glasses in Hyde Park, central London, Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. The moon covered
about 20 percent of the sun between 9:30 a.m. and 11:20 a.m.
(Photo: AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
Bulgaria
A playful owner puts protective glasses onto
his dog during a total solar eclipse near
the Bulgarian's Black sea town of Varna
east of the capital Sofia, ~TODAY ... Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.
(Photo: AP Photo/Petar Petrov)
Afghanistan
The moon partially covers the sun the during a solar eclipse observed in Kabul, Afghanistan,
~TODAY ... Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.
(Photo: AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
China
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a part of the total solar eclipse
is observed at 6:37 p.m. ~TODAY ... Friday, Aug. 1, 2008 in the north of Xi'an, capital
of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The total solar eclipse, was the first in China
in the new century.
(Photo: Xinhua/Ding Haitao)
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| DocTar
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Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:50 pm |
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Thanks, Fash....I am completely enthralled with things like eclipses. Those are incredible pix!
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| SavannahStar
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Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:17 pm |
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Lovely!
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| Schmerty
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Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:25 pm |
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OH MY!!!!! Thank you, Fash.
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:03 am |
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The orphan deer adopted by a pack of bloodthirsty fox hounds
The heaving mass of fox hounds would intimidate even the biggest stag.
But tiny orphan deer Bam Bam isn't scared.
Like his namesake Bambi the 10-week-old is a friendly creature and trots along with huntsman Adrian Thompson, 42, and his pack of 60 hounds.
Oh Dear: This little deer thinks he's a fox hound
The pack immediately accepted the lost fallow deer when they found him shivering by the Thompsons' front gate just an hour after he had been born.
Rather than being overwhelmed by the attention of such a large pack of dogs, from the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray hunt, the confused little fawn thought he'd found his family.
A surprised Mr Thompson said: 'Now Bam Bam thinks he's a Fox Hound because they all treat him like one of their own.
'He won't be going on any hunts though - he doesn't have the stamina for it. It's a fantastic sight to see although we know it's a strange one and Bam Bam certainly gets a lot of funny looks from passers-by.
'People shake their heads in astonishment when they spot Bam Bam in among all the hounds as if they can't believe what they're seeing.'
Are you my mummy? Bam Bam investigates the camera
The friendly fawn is happiest among his fellow hounds on their daily walk.
Mr Thompson's wife, Karen, 41, said: 'Bam Bam seems most content when he's ambling along with the hounds. He's about the same size as them now so he fits in perfectly and walks along with the pack like they're his brothers and sisters.'
Although the Fox Hounds have come to accept Bam Bam as one of their own, Mr Thompson's other dogs are rather less tolerant.
He said: 'A pack of domestic dogs would most certainly kill a deer that came across it's path - I also have two terriers and they would certainly kill anything that came into the garden. They're only just starting to accept little Bam Bam but I still wouldn't leave them alone with him.
Bam Bam runs with the hounds, his new family
'My Fox Hounds are very different though - the image of them as savage killers is completely wrong. They can be very placid animals and are very accepting of other animals - especially deer.'
After Bam Bam was discovered by the dogs earlier this summer he was brought into the family home in Petworth Park, West Sussex by Mr Thompson's 12-year-old son, Tommy.
When Karen came down for breakfast that morning she was stunned to see the pair sitting happily on the living room floor.
She said: 'It was such a surprise, the deer wasn't afraid at all. He seemed to think that Tommy was his mum because he followed him around the room, and would hide behind the furniture if Tommy ever left.'
Adrian Thompson and his wife Karen Barker get to know the newest member of their pack
It was uncertain whether Bam Bam would survive without the care and attention of his mother who had deserted him just yards from the Thompsons' home, possibly scared off by the dogs.
Karen said: 'It was touch and go for the first few days. We had to feed him half an ounce of lamb's milk every hour - this had to be done 24 hours a day and was quite draining.'
Bam Bam is now regarded by the Thompsons as a member of the family.
Karen said: 'He wanders around the garden and comes to play with us. We've had a few garden parties and he is such a favourite with the guests - he's so friendly and is adored by everyone who meets him.'
Bam Bam, who will grow into a 177 pound adult, will stay with the family until they feel he can be safely released into the wild.
One of the gang: Bam Bam on his daily walk with his fox hound friends
Karen said: 'We can't release him into the park here because there are too many people about. Bam Bam is not afraid of humans and we're worried that this may make him dangerous.
'He already gives us a nudge when he wants to eat and it's not so bad because he's only little but imagine what a nudge could do when he's got a fine pair of antlers.'
The Thompsons will be sad to lose such a treasured member of the family but they know they can't keep him forever and plan to set him free once he's fully grown.
Next year they intend to rehome Bam Bam in a private park where he will be able to join a herd and finally learn how to be a deer.
Traditionally, deer hunting involves chasing the animal with a pack of dogs until it surrenders to exhaustion and can be shot.
This practice was banned under the Hunting Act 2004.
Deer stalking, where the hunter is close enough to kill the animal with a clean shot, is still permitted but with no more than two dogs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043269/Pictured-The-orphan-deer-adopted-pack-bloodthirsty-fox-hounds.html
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:21 pm |
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A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m.
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A face from ears: Palin is carved into cornfield
This undated photo released by Duke Wheeler shows a corn maze rendering of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at Wheeler Farms in Whitehouse near Toledo, Ohio. The 16-acre cornfield has been carved up in the likeness of the candidate. (AP Photo/Duke Wheeler, HO)
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on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, September 29, 2008
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Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:21 pm |
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Autumn Scene
Leaves begin to change color along the Swift River in the White Mountain National Forest
in Albany, N.H., ~TODAY... Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. (Photo: AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:21 am |
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Autumn Scenes in WV
Just click on the pic for the slide show
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| SavannahStar
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:01 pm |
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Beautiful, wvgirl!!!!! 
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| Need2Know
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:09 pm |
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| wvgirl wrote: | Autumn Scenes in WV
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Thanks for a glimpse of your world my friend. God's creation is amazing.
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These nature photos are so tranquil. Thanks.
PS: that eclipse looks like pac-man!
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