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If you are here because you received an e-mail about a giant dead rattlesnake, you have come to the right place. You can also follow me on Twitter. Want to stay updated on giant rattlesnake e-mails? Subscribe here.
My original column regarding commonly circulated rattlesnake pictures is below the addendums, which I add as I am made aware of additional photographs. Want to see rattlesnakes in their natural habitat instead of dead in a driveway? Click here. If you're here because you received the picture on the right with some text about pigs or feral hogs influencing rattling behavior, you need to read this.
Let's make something clear right off the bat. There are no ten foot rattlesnakes...There are no eleven foot rattlesnakes. There are no fourteen foot rattlesnakes. They don't exist. Period. Want to know why I feel confident saying these things? Check out my FAQ. If someone claims to have found an eight foot rattlesnake, there needs to be compelling proof presented because this would make it one of the top two or three biggest rattlesnakes ever found in the history of humans or rattlesnakes. I am afraid I cannot accept snake skins as evidence of giant snakes because it has been established that they stretch when removed from the snake, whether the stretching was purposeful or not. For a great description of this phenomenon, check out this link.
Many of these pictures use the same camera tricks, specifically it's called "forced perspective". By positioning one object closer to the camera than another object that we can use for size reference, our sense of scale can be limited. Don't think that's a big deal? Check out these photographs I found online, or this video.
By reading the whole column below, you can learn relevant natural history information (including maximum known sizes) for various snake species. If you're sent a picture of a "giant" dead rattlesnake and it's not included here, please bring it to my attention.
|Demonstration photos courtesy of Mark Pyle
7/9/15 Addendum
I was sent this picture a few times but there was no information attached. So, what can I say about it? I've written before that when people send me a picture of a snake and ask, "is this real?" what they're really asking me is, "Is this snake as big as I perceive it to be?" And that can be difficult to answer. Even when people know about the camera tricks that people use to make snakes look bigger (like the first letter writer), they can still be duped. Anyway, my point is that there wasn't much for me to include in a blog post.
Cue KHOU News, the CBS affiliate from Houston Texas, who posted the picture to their Facebook page with the following text:
"An 11-foot rattlesnake was caught just outside of George West, Texas, about 85 miles south of San Antonio on June 26."
Thank you KHOU News for:
11/5/14 Addendum
Long time no snake pic!
"Fwd: 13.5 foot South Texas rattlesnake - Yikes !!! Next door to Dave Rogers Ranch in Hidalgo County"
"13.5 foot South Texas rattlesnake - Yikes !!! This is not the kind of snake you want to challenge. 13 1/2 feet long."
4/29/14 Addendum
7/6/13 Addendum
Sometimes I daydream that the myth of the giant dead rattlesnake has finally been put to rest. I imagine that inboxes will no longer be invaded by dead rattlesnakes with lengths and weights exaggerated to scare the bejesus out of people. But then I check my e-mail.
The latest picture to be doing the rounds was brought to my attention by a comment left by by Amy R on this blog. She notes that the snake on the right was allegedly killed in Mississippi. Then, Pat B. sent me an e-mail and told me the story takes place outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Both said they heard the snake was eight and a half feet (2.6 meters) long (Amy R. also noted the snake allegedly had 21 rattles).
Where do we start? I'll start by saying that those lengths are bogus and the locations are...unlikely.
The snake in the picture is an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus. This is apparent because of the black and gold diamond-patterning and, of course, the rattle. This species does not reach eight and a half feet long. That would be the world's largest rattlesnake ever known to science. I don't believe this is the world's largest rattlesnake ever known because it is clearly an animal that is approximately half that size and thrust toward the camera on a long piece of wood. It's a rattlesnake camera trick I explain several times above and below.
The Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake was once found in eastern Louisiana but is now nearly gone (if not completely). Information available online suggests the species hasn't been found in the state since 1995 but I believe these websites haven't been updated recently because I think one was found a couple years ago. In any case, Baton Rouge is nearly outside even the historic range of the Eastern Diamondback (range map). So, it is very difficult to believe the picture was recently taken in this state. I've noticed that a number of people that reach this blog are Googling "Coyell, Louisiana Rattlesnake" do they actually mean Colyell? Perhaps that is another potential location for this animal.
In Mississippi, the story isn't much better. Eastern Diamondbacks once ranged throughout the southeastern and central portion of the state (range map again). But they are increasingly rare in that area.
The caption for the Facebook photo that has been shared over 5,000 times (visible through Amy R.'s comment) states the snake was killed in "Green County". There is no Green County in either Louisiana or Mississippi. Is it possible that the snake was killed in Greene County? Greene County, Mississippi could possibly contain Eastern Diamondbacks but, as I mention above, they are extremely rare there. Greene County, Alabama is outside the range of the Eastern Diamondback. Update 1/16/13 0851, Melissa M. writes to me and notes she heard the snake was from "Green County, Georgia" Well, there is no Green County in Georgia. Greene County, on the other hand, is well outside the range of the Eastern Diamondback. Update 2/3/13, Cowper C. says the location associated with this snake is now Pangburn, Arkansas. We immediately know this is false because although Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes, Crotalus atrox, can be found in Arkansas, Eastern Diamondbacks do not occur there, and that is an Eastern in the picture. Cowper also notes that Spanish moss, evident in the back of the picture, is unlikely to be found in Arkansas. Update 2/4/13, Thanks to KARK for trying to set the record straight.
Conclusion: The length of this snake is definitely made-up and multiple (and improbable) locations point to a hoax.
Update 3/7/13, so many additional stories and locations about this snake have popped up that I stopped bothering to update the post, but recently many have claimed the snake was from Texas. In any case, it looks like the real story has finally surfaced: the snake is from Levy County, Florida and is claimed as 6'9" and 15 lbs. A rattlesnake that big would be very large but Eastern Diamondbacks can reach that length. However, it doesn't look that long in the picture.
Update 5/2/13: OK-one more update, the picture is circulating with this story a lot, so I'm obliged to note that it's not true either: "Pat Long and his son in a blind to hunt hogs near Midway when this guy poked his head in! Pat's son shot the snake... it's 9'6" long... with 22 rattles, the head more than five inches wide, the fangs 2.5" long. Anybody going for a walk in the woods this weekend? Share with your friends and see who has good snake stories!" Bogus.
For the full summary of this photo, visit this blog post.
In the last few days a couple readers have sent me the picture on the right, in which a large and dead rattlesnake is displayed. So far, the text that has accompanied this picture has claimed the rattlesnake was killed in either Poteau Mountain, Arkansas or Olla, Louisiana. Although the location may change, the size of the snake is apparently being consistently reported as 11 feet 4 inches and 59 pounds (with 28 rattles).
Let's start with what we know. The color and patterning of the snake give it away as a Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus. This species is found throughout the eastern and central United States. Both Poteau Mountain (located within Ouachita National Forest) and Olla, Louisiana are within the natural range of this species (although Olla is borderline). Therefore, we can't rule out either of these potentials as the true location of the snake. However, check out the license plate on the truck. It seems as though there is a blue line at the top, which reminded me of Pennsylvania (or perhaps South Carolina?). Although the license plate looks like it's from Pennsylvania, I don't think that this is where the picture was taken. The pine trees in the background as well as the look of the snake make me think the photograph was taken in the southeastern United States. Timber Rattlesnakes do occur in Pennsylvania, but most specimens that I've seen from the Northeast U.S. are darker or even yellow and not dominated by a tan color like the snake in this picture. Perhaps someone has a copy of this photograph with better resolution and can zoom in on the license plate.
So, we are unsure where the picture was taken. Let's evaluate the stated size of the animal. Eleven-feet long is roughly twice the size of what would be considered a huge Timber Rattlesnake. No Timber Rattlesnake ever recorded has come close to this length (and I'm confident that none ever will). A seven-foot Timber Rattlesnake is nearly unfathomable. An eleven-foot rattlesnake is completely unfathomable. It's not that long. Don't believe it.
Why does it look so big then? Because the snake is hoisted onto a large branch that is shoved towards the camera. Although the snake looks relatively large compared to the man, the man is actually much farther away from the camera than the snake. It's an old trick called forced perspective that I explain above and show many examples of below.
The last bit of "information" about this animal is that it has 28 rattles. A rattlesnakes add a new rattle every time it sheds its skin (not necessarily once every year), and it's likely an adult rattlesnake has shed more than 28 times over the course of its life. So, it's possible that a rattlesnake could have 28 rattles. However, this would be extremely unusual because they break easily and a rattle with 28 segments would be very precarious and fragile. It certainly doesn't have 28 rattles in the picture. The resolution is too poor though, for me to see if the rattle has been hacked off for a souvenir. It doesn't look like it.
My guess as to the real size of the rattlesnake is about four-feet (1.2 m) long and roughly 4.5 pounds (2 kilograms).
11/17/10 Addendum
Thanks to an alert reader for forwarding the following picture (on right). The photo was accompanied by this text:
"Rattlesnake (Raystown Lake) About 80 miles from Lock Haven, PA. This snake was killed on the east side of the Raystown Dam about 7 miles south of Huntingdon. The land owner is a neighbor of one of my colleagues at work. This is a photo taken by my neighbor. He shot this rattler - twice with a 20 gauge - under his back porch. It was coiled up there and got agitated when he found it. He figured it was after his two Pekineses dogs. He says it weighed 64 pounds and was 11 1/2 feet long. It had 10 rattles. I didn't know they got this big! And I sure hope I don't find any like this one around my house!!"
8/12/10 Addendum
A reader in Louisiana provided me with the picture on the right, which was accompanied by the following text:
"If I saw one like this I would still be running! Might want to be careful the next time you are out in the woods. Rattlesnake from Alabama."
There isn't a lot of information to work with on this picture. The animal in the picture is a timber rattlesnake, you can confidently identify this species by the tan body color covered in dark chevrons. Timbers do range throughout most of Alabama. It looks to be a healthy snake and I'd say it's two to three feet long. Hoisting the snake onto a broom handle and holding it towards the camera makes it appear much larger. But, this snake is well below the maximum known length for the species, which seldom get larger than five feet.
8/3/10 Addendum
Well, it's been nearly a year since a new picture of a giant dead rattlesnake started doing the rounds...But it looks like Batesville, Arkansas is joining the club...I recently became aware of a number of hits to this blog based on keywords suggesting a new tale was circulating. A quick Google search brought the following picture to my attention.
The snake is claimed to be 14 feet and nine inches long and weigh 100 pounds. If you spend a few minutes reading the text below, I believe you'll be quickly convinced this is a completely bogus claim. No rattlesnake has ever and no rattlesnake will ever reach that length or weight. But, there's another reason we can confidently claim the story is a hoax. The snake is an eastern diamondback rattlesnake, that's clear from the distinctive patterning (black diamonds surrounded by gold), and this species does not come close to living in Arkansas, you can see a great range map here. If you're curious how a snake can be made to look larger than it really is, I've explained that technique below. I've also been made aware of this picture circulating with a version of the story stating Powell, Alabama was the location. Although eastern diamondbacks can be found in Alabama, they are only in the southern extreme of the state, not anywhere close to Powell (in the northeastern corner of Alabama).
It's now 8/10/10 and I've received several additional e-mails about the above snake and a larger photograph. One e-mail states:
"Rattle snake killed in Statesboro. Had 19 rattles and a button and measured 8 feet 4 inches. Has not been officialy measured by the DNR but if the measurements are correct it will be the new
This snake clearly does not have 19 rattles so I think we can be reasonably confident in dismissing this version of the story. We have to be open to the possibility the rattle was cut off before the picture was taken, it is common after all, to take them as souvenirs. But, the claimed size as well as the multiple versions of this e-mail suggest we have yet to learn the real story of this large dead rattlesnake.
|Now a closer look
9/8/10 This rattlesnake just made it big and was featured on this TV segment from Charleston, SC. They used this blog to research the story and you can see it passages of text from right here for about 0.3 seconds
The e-mail also contains some text from a completely different 'viral e-mail' describing a rumor about how wild pigs may be influencing whether a rattlesnake rattles or not (I tackle this issue here).
9/30/09 Addendum
St. Augustine, Florida: welcome to the discussion. One of my attentive readers from this city sent me this article about a giant dead eastern diamondback rattlesnake that was killed in Tuscany Village Townhomes. I was also provided the below photographs.
This newspaper article, and others like it, are a little different than some of the pictures that circulate online. They do not intend to deceive, they simply fall prey to what is apparently human nature: the tendency to exaggerate the size of snakes. When there is a picture involved it is sometimes difficult to determine the extent that camera tricks play a role in distorting the apparent size of dead snakes. However, in this case the rattlesnake is much closer to the camera than anything else appearing in the picture that it might be compared to for scale.
The resident who called police about the snake stated that it was six feet long. That would be a very big snake but not outside the realm of possibility. But when a spokesman from the police department saw the pictures suddenly it was estimated to be "at least 10 feet", potentially making it the largest rattlesnake in the world...by two feet!
Unfortunately, no measurements were taken (a familiar story) and the trapper that killed the snake disappeared without leaving his contact information. Perhaps we will eventually find out how big this snake was (if someone measures it) but until then it's just another big, old snake that was killed. Ten feet? No. Eight feet? Exceedingly unlikely would be an understatement.
Update 8:29 PM: Apparently the trapper that dispatched the snake was found and updated news articles state the snake was measured to be seven feet and three inches long. This is a huge, huge....huge snake, but not impossible as the species can theoretically reach this length. The trapper also stated that the snake has shrank since he put it in his freezer, so I doubt the length will ever be authenticated. One article also quoted him as saying that rattlesnakes travel in pairs, so it's likely there is another snake in the area. This is an old-wives' tale but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest maybe he was misquoted when explaining that this time of year (i.e. the fall) is their breeding season
Update 3/27/10
It took a few months, but the pictures of the St. Augustine snake have been turned into one of the viral e-mails that we are all familiar with and that include bogus information. The e-mail I received is entitled, "Florida is full of surprises" and does get the location correct but adds a number of fabricated "facts" about the snake, including that it was 15 feet long, it could swallow a 2 year old child, it weighs 170 lbs, etc. etc. We know this information is false.
9/28/09 Addendum
Here's another giant dead snake that's not a rattlesnake, although it is venomous.
The text associated with this picture suggests this snake is an eight foot long and thirty pound "moccasin" killed on the road to a fish hatchery in Cordele, Georgia. If by moccasin, they mean cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus, then they're correct. But, like so many other dead snake pictures, the size of the snake is grossly exaggerated. Cottonmouths do not reach eight feet long. A six footer would be a massive individual and snakes this large are extremely rare. If a hypothetical cottonmouth were to reach eight feet long it wouldn't be unreasonable to suggest that it weighed thirty pounds. In that sense the weight isn't as ridiculous as many figures given for dead rattlesnakes (below), but the take-home message is that cottonmouths don't get that big anyway.
There really is a fish hatchery in Cordele, Georgia and it is likely that cottonmouths, which eat fish, can fatten up in these areas; however, the stated size of this snake is larger than any cottonmouth that ever existed. So, why does it look so huge? The same simple camera trick that we've seen so many times already (described below ad nauseum).
If you look on the bottom right of the photograph, you can see the tail of another cottonmouth, also likely dead. Nothing like an afternoon of killing snakes to pass the time.
I spend a lot of time in wetlands while I'm looking for water snakes or trapping turtles. Of the many cottonmouths I've encountered, all have either depended on their camouflage to avoid a conflict or made me aware of their presence by flashing their namesake white mouth or by thrashing the vegetation as they tried to get away from me as quickly as possible. I have to work right alongside these animals and can't imagine why I would ever need to kill one (or two or three).
8/13/09 Addendum
Well, the "giant rattlesnake" picture from Manor, Texas was so popular that I hesitate to bump it, but we've got another one doing the rounds.
The version I was supplied suggested that this "timber rattlesnake" was killed outside Stuttgart, Arkansas. Perhaps you received the e-mail with the subject: "Stuttgart Arkansas Snake - killed in his front yard". First off, we know that by holding the snake so close to the camera, it appears larger than it really is. Second, it's not a rattlesnake! Notice how the picture conveniently cuts off the snake's tail? This is actually a diamondback water snake, Nerodia rhombifer.
They're often mistaken for cottonmouths, but diamondback water snakes are harmless fish-eaters (but they may give you a bite if you try to catch one). These snakes can be found primarily in the Mississippi River valley but also range into bordering states and Mexico. You can learn more about distinguishing water snakes from venomous snakes here.
7/29/09 Addendum
This picture started circulating today and claims that this snake was just killed in Austin, ShadowGlen, or Manor, Texas. Although there was a snake killed there, it was not seven feet long (8/5 edit, a reader has pointed out that I do not know this for a fact because I was not there--comments section). Other pictures of this snake show it is much smaller. Holding the snake close to the picture makes it look larger (tricks described below). The maximum size of this species is also discussed below; if the snake were indeed seven feet long, it would be one of the largest of the species (western diamondback, Crotalus atrox) ever found. Some skepticism is warranted, especially since other reports indicate that the snake was five feet long (a generous estimate considering how big the snake looks in all other pictures).
Conclusion: This picture is like so many others of supposedly giant rattlesnakes. The size is exaggerated by the snake being closer to the camera than the man holding it (as well as by sensationalistic text). One thing is undeniable though, it's definitely a dead snake.
9/21/09 Addendum: This is the snake rumor that just won't die. To put the issue to rest, I've embedded the video that accompanied the news story. (Edit 7/18/12-this video has since been removed).
Look at the pictures of the snake at 43 seconds, 1:07 minutes, and 1:43 minutes. This snake is clearly and obviously not seven feet long. It's unequivocal. In addition, both reporters note that the snake is five feet long (a much more reasonable suggestion). Let's move on.
7/24/09 Addendum
As expected, additional photos of giant rattlesnakes killed in your town have been brought to my attention. So, I include them here. Feel free to keep sending them.
If you read my blog below, you already know what I'm going to say. The snake on the right is a western diamondback rattlesnake (raccoon tail). Rest assured it wasn't just killed in your backyard, this picture has been circulating for a while. Maybe when you received it the text indicated it was an 89 pound rattlesnake found by dove hunters near Oktaha, outside of Muskogee and just north of Checotah.
This snake is probably about few feet long (definitely not nearly eight feet as the e-mail I received suggested; it looks bigger because it's been impaled by some sort of pole and thrust towards the camera), and still alive; the snake is not at all limp. This is a hefty animal, maybe even a pregnant female. Good job! (Sarcasm).
Recently this picture (on right) has been circulated in e-mails and forum threads claiming it is a diamondback rattlesnake (11 feet long, no less) killed in Odessa, Texas. Where do we start at this one? I can't decide which is more audacious, the claim that this is an 11 foot rattlesnake (we already know they don't get nearly that large) or that this is a rattlesnake at all! I think I'll go with the latter, because this is a python. Although some southeastern states (i.e. Florida) have problems with introduced populations of pythons, this is likely a photo taken in Africa, where they are native. 9/21/09 Edit: This is a misleading sentence, as a reader has pointed out. Although Africa is the snake's native range, the vegetation is consistent with that of West Texas. It's not unreasonable to suggest that the picture was indeed taken there. Side note: if you're afraid of 11 foot rattlesnakes, don't wear sandals like this guy.
8/5/09 Addendum
Well, we've got another one.
This is not a new picture but I only recently became aware of it. Next time it starts running through e-mail you can rest assured that this is old news. By the looks of all the pictures I come across, posing with western diamondback rattlesnakes seems to be a fairly popular hobby. There are so many similar pictures that I'm running out of ways to creatively say that this is an average-sized snake that looks larger than it is because it is closer to the camera than the people holding it aloft. Relevant natural history, including maximum known size of this species, is discussed below.
Recognize any of these pictures?
Since I recently posted a blog about a giant dead rattlesnake picture that was circulating through e-mail, I've received dozens, if not hundreds, of visitors that reached my site by googling keyword combinations such as, "giant rattlesnake killed Alabama, 97 pound rattlesnake Georgia, 97 pound dead eastern diamondback" etc. This is clearly a topic that has interested many, many people and this blog may be an opportunity to examine some of the other common dead snake pictures that tend to emerge every other year or so. The locations tend to change each time I receive them (recently, the most common iteration stated the giant snake was from Enterprise, Alabama). Perhaps it will be your town next year. If that's the case, you'll be able to refer your horrified neighbors to this site before they descend upon the local zoos and nature centers with pitchforks.
I've included only the pictures I've received or found on the internet. Please feel free to let me know if I've left some out.
In most of these pictures, these snakes are genuinely large. In that sense, they are not a hoax. Many large rattlesnakes still prowl through southeastern forests (although likely not as big or as many as in the past). However, as I note below, the size is always exaggerated and posed to look as big and menacing as possible.
I've already discussed this picture here. In short, this is Crotalus atrox, a western diamondback rattlesnake (not an eastern, Crotalus adamanteus) made to look impressively large by holding it much closer to the camera than the man. The tongs holding up the snake are likely three to four feet long. Most often, this snake is suggested to be 97 pounds and span over nine feet. That's a lot of weight for this Arnold Schwarzenegger wannabe to be holding aloft.
Eastern diamondbacks seldom reach seven feet long. Two specimens observed by seemingly reliable sources were reported to be over eight feet long but this length is considered questionable because the snakes weren't preserved. Rewards offered for eight foot specimens have long gone unclaimed. Of the roughly 150 eastern diamondbacks I've seen (most of which were in a relatively protected area), a five foot snake would be considered a monster. None approached ten pounds, let alone 97.
7/23/09 Edit: At the suggestion of Paul Hurtado, I provide a link here to show what an 80 pound snake really looks like, in this case it's a fourteen foot long Burmese python.
Although we've all seen some huge snake skins, they can be stretched to some extent after death so their length is not a reliable way to determine how large a snake was in life.
Western diamondback rattlesnakes are typically smaller than easterns. Although at least one specimen over seven feet has been reported, this species typically maxes out at about five feet. (Sentence edited for clarity on 9/21/09) Perhaps this is roughly how large the snake in the picture is. It's an impressive snake but not one for the record books and certainly not nine feet long.
This is also a western diamondback. The striped raccoon tail is a dead giveaway. More camera tricks make the snake appear fairly large but I bet it was in the 3-4 foot range. Looks like it was clubbed to death, perhaps with the piece of lumber that is now shoving him towards the camera.
See the striped tail? Now you know this is also a western diamondback. We can't attribute the tremendous length of this specimen to camera tricks as the man is holding it fairly close to his body. What's the deal with the snake's head? It looks like a sock puppet. This must be a mounted (i.e. stuffed) animal; it's too stiff. Actually, my guess is that it's two rattlesnakes sewn together. Maybe the man's left hand is covering where they are joined; I don't know why else he'd be holding the snake with that hand. We just can't say for sure what's going on here since it looks like a long dead and stuffed animal.
8/11/09 Edit: A reader has alerted me to the presence of a couple additional photos of this snake, including what is claimed to be its decapitated head (below). It's hard to say one way or the other whether this snake is legitimate. Nothing jumps out to definitively say it's a fake. If it's real, it's one of the largest western diamondbacks known to science.
Here's a different species, a timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus. You can identify this snake by the dark chevrons on its back. Timbers are a wide-ranging species, found from Florida north to Vermont and west to Minnesota in the north and Texas to the south. Rather than the bald eagle, perhaps this snake should be our national symbol, as it was displayed prominently on flags during the American Revolution with the proud warning, "Don't tread on me."
Although this species is not uncommon in the south, it is virtually extinct in the northeastern portion of its range. In the latter areas, timber rattlesnakes den communally during the winter. Unscrupulous individuals can easily kill off many of these snakes in one outing, eliminating local populations with little effort.
This picture is often circulated with the claim that it was killed on a golf course somewhere on the east coast, typically Georgia. Although timber rattlesnakes are found in Georgia, the giant sizes attributed to this snake make the entire story suspect (note the ubiquitous pose with the snake close to the camera). Timbers rarely reach much more than five feet long and these would be extremely rare and extremely large individuals.
And now we come to the eastern diamondbacks, Crotalus adamanteus. This is a whopper of a snake to be sure but are you tired of the camera tricks yet? This dude looks more likely to be able to lift a 97 pound snake then the other guys we've seen, but we already know that rattlesnakes don't get that big anyway. Update 4/30/12: A reader notes that they've seen this picture before and the caption said the snake was six feet long and 100 lbs. Six feet long could be true (I doubt it) but 100 lbs is definitely a made-up number.
Here's another eastern diamondback, according to the caption it's from Florida. Okay, so far so good. Wait, over 11 feet long! Give me a break. Notice how the gentlemen on the right are holding the snake with their fingertips; they must have quite a grip to pull that off. It's more likely that this is a stiff mounted animal, probably a combination of two individuals.
This final photograph, in which three southeastern youngsters proudly display the snake they killed in their yard, is particularly moving. Although they may have incorrectly identified the species (identified as a "black snake" in the original caption), it's truly a large animal. It's actually an eastern indigo snake, Drymarchon corais, a federally threatened species. Reaching nine feet long, these snakes are among the largest in the United States.
Despite their size, they're harmless to humans. Conversely, we have nearly wiped this species off the face of the planet. Due to over-collection for the pet trade, habitat loss, and gassing of their tortoise burrow refuges, eastern indigos cling on only in isolated patches, largely in coastal Georgia and peninsular Florida. It is considered extirpated (locally extinct) in Alabama and potentially so in the Florida panhandle.
That these individuals, their family, neighbors, and the staff of the local newspaper proudly publicized the trophy snake suggests they had no idea they were boasting about committing a felony and chasing an endangered species down the path to extinction in the process.
Nothing emphasizes to me the critical importance and pressing need of environmental education more than this photograph.


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Morning Five: 11.18.11 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on November 18th, 2011
- Just when the circus around Penn State was starting to calm down a little bit the college sports world appears to have an eerily similar situation at Syracuse. The basics of the story are that Bobby Davis, a former ball boy at Syracuse who is now 39 years old, has accused Syracuse assistant coach Bernie Fine of molesting him for more than a dozen years. It should be noted that even the strongest report of sexual abuse that we have heard out of Syracuse pale in comparison to the extent to the accusations and crimes that are now widely accepted as having happened at Penn State. Fine, who has become a fixture at Syracuse as an assistant to Jim Boeheim since Boeheim took over as head coach in 1976, has been placed on administrative leave by the school and has not commented on the accusations yet. However, Boeheim has strongly denied the accusations over the phone and in a press release issued by school. While we disagree with the tone of Boeheim's statement (particularly the one over the phone) it should be pointed out that the local Syracuse newspaper is reporting that it looked into these claims in 2005 and could not verify any of the claims that Davis made including ones that other boys had experienced something similar as all of the people they contacted reportedly denied those claims. However, given the emotional nature that these cases can take we would caution anyone who might jump to conclusions quickly.
- We don't link to rankings very often because we realize that in general they are just educated guesses at best, but very few people do them like Luke Winn. Winn, who consistently puts out some of the best content you will find, came out with his latest power rankings yesterday. We won't even bother getting into the rankings because they are irrelevant as we already mentioned, but there is a ton of interesting statistical information and even a few amusing photos that make it worth reading every week.
- By now you have undoubtedly heard about the story of Arizona's Kevin Parrom and like rankings we normally would not link to a human interest story on Parrom because many of the details have already been published, but like Luke Winn with ranking posts few people do human interest stories like Dana O'Neil and her piece on Parrom is a great example of that. O'Neil actually does not talk to Kevin much for the article (at least for what is used in the article) and instead goes to those who are very close to him to get a good look at what he has had to endure over the past few months and what keeps him playing despite all that he has been through.
- We cannot remember many top-tier teams that have had to deal with as many significant injuries as early in the season as Louisville has had to deal with this year. The latest to join the walking wounded is Peyton Siva, who sprained his ankle during a practice on Monday and is listed as "day-to-day". In the long run, it looks like this should not be a significant setback for Louisville, but could be an issue on Saturday when they take on Butler at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Louisville should have enough to beat a Bulldog team that is not very good right now, but Siva's injury may make them susceptible to Butler's guards, who have been solid so far this year.
- Tuesday night was a historic night in college basketball as Mike Krzyzewski became the all-time wins leader for men's Division I basketball. After the press conference, Krzyzewski went into a small room close to the court where he addressed a large group of former Duke players who had come to the game to support him in addition to a group of players who played for him on the US Olympic team. One player who was not there, but played for Krzyzewski although not in a Duke uniform was Michael Jordan, who we had always assumed had been targeted by Krzyzewski early in his career at Duke. Recruiting information from the early 1980s is sparse, but a letter appeared online yesterday that appears to have been sent from Krzyzewski to Jordan (h/t Lost Letterman for the find) after Jordan told the new Duke coach that he was not interested in playing for Duke. The letter's content is fairly generic, but it is amusing to read now and consider what might have been if Jordan had decided to play for the other team on Tobacco Road. While we were looking this up, we noticed that Jordan's childhood home had been sold in 1998 for $37,500 (ignore the ridiculous Zillow estimate and we are assuming there was a shift in zip code boundaries because the 28405 and 28411 zip codes are next to each other) and found it humorous that you could own the house that Jordan grew up in and the backyard court that he waged his legendary battles with his brother Larry for less than half of what you would pay for for a 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie card. For that price, we are surprised that some loaded foreign businessman has not bought the house and transported the entire house and yard to his or her home country as a very unique collectible.

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BWM_CD needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 105 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Politic360, Politic360.com
We are a witty new political website that will launch at the end of February. We will cover Politics and Policy News and Commentary. There will also be a lifestyle component of the site as well they will go inside the life of political and noteble figures.
The target audience is a multicultural audience between the age of 25-55. The sweet spot is between the age of 30-50. We want to attract the political junkie while also attracting a political novice who is just passing through. The goal is to be relatable to everyone but with a clear focus on politics. The audience will be apart of the "Obama-era Washington" or "The New Washington" that many people refer to. Not the typical boring stuffy Washington. The logo still should appeal to Washington vetrens. See the attachment for an example of what the audience will represent. The logo needs to reflect this level of moderness.
Color Palette:
The primary Color should be the Navy Color however I'd like to see a version in the Red. Additionally we will need a reversed out version of this logo, I'll need to see this on the Blue and the Red as well.
The tagline is:
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Well need to also see versions with and without the tagline.
In general there needs to be a air of sexiness, modern, but still relate to politics.
The logo should be horizontially linear as it will be used on the web.
The logo should be typographic. while we are fine with seeing a brand mark with the logotype the logotype should be strong and distitinct enough to live without it.
The logo should reflect politics and washington DC culture however should definitely convy the Obama-era, "The New Washington" that many are discussing. It consists of people in politics who are generally younger, powerful, and less "stuffy" than those in pervious eras but should still appeal and be relatable to those from a previous era.
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Last week, they were honored by the 104th Precinct Community Council for their hard work.
While patrolling the area, officers saw one male suspect exiting the Ridgewood warehouse at 615 Cody Ave., but when they attempted to confront him, he flipped his car into reverse and drove backwards up the street.
The following morning, 104th Precinct Captain Christopher Manson said they obtained a warrant from the district attorney's office and raided the facility, where they found 580 marijuana plants at roughly six to seven feet tall.
"It was a very plain warehouse," Manson said. "You wouldn't have thought twice if you were just driving down the street."
The suspect nearly struck a child riding a skateboard during a high speed pursuit that led to his arrest near Seneca Avenue and Norman Street. He had a previous federal record of narcotics violations.
Manson suggested that the plants confiscated in the warehouse were thought to have potentially generated $15 million on the street in one year.
"He's going away for a long time," Manson assured. "A whole lot of marijuana isn't going on the street because of the actions they took that night."
Officer were presented with an award at the council's monthly meeting last week at Christ the King High School on Metropolitan Ave.
"These are the guys in the unmarked cars at night making all the good arrests," Manson said. "These are the guys that are out there working all night until three or four in the morning and they target the worst of the worst."


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Flowers Foods' Bid for Certain Hostess Bread Brands and Bakeries Moves to Next Phase
Feb 28, 2013, 04:37 ET
THOMASVILLE, Ga., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO) today confirmed that its stalking horse bid for Hostess Brands, Inc.'s Wonder, Nature's Pride, Merita, Home Pride, and Butternut bread brands; 20 bakeries; and approximately 38 depots for $360 million was declared the highest and best bid for such assets, eliminating the need for the auction that had been scheduled for February 28. This transaction now moves to the next phase, which is a review and approval of Flowers' bid by the bankruptcy court overseeing Hostess' bankruptcy case at a hearing scheduled for March 19, 2013.
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Flowers' stalking horse bid for Hostess' Beefsteak brand for a purchase price of $30 million was topped by another bidder. That auction was scheduled for today, but Flowers chose not to increase its bid as would have been necessary to win the Beefsteak auction.
"We are pleased Flowers won the bid for Hostess' primary bread brands and bakeries without the need for an auction," said George E. Deese, Flowers Foods' chairman of the board and CEO. "Now we move forward with the next step, which is the bankruptcy court review. Following that, the transaction will continue through the regulatory process before it can be finalized. We expect it could be several months yet before it's finalized."
Following Hostess' exit from the market in November 2012 and the initiation of the sale of its assets, Flowers announced on January 11, 2013, its agreement with Hostess to be the stalking horse bidder for certain Hostess bread bakeries and bread brands.
If Flowers is ultimately successful in its acquisition of these assets, they will fit with the company's long-term growth objective to reach more of the U.S. population with its fresh breads, buns, and rolls.
"Since 2004, our company has expanded the reach of our fresh bakery products from about 38% of the U.S. population to more than 70% today," Deese noted. "We accomplished this by expanding into new markets from our existing bakeries, building new bakeries, and through strategic acquisitions. We have proven experience in integrating acquisitions, having completed more than 100 since 1968 and three significant ones in just the last three years – Tasty Baking, Lepage Bakeries, and the Sara Lee and Earthgrains brands in California."
About Flowers Foods
Headquartered in Thomasville, Ga., Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO) is one of the largest producers of packaged bakery foods for retail and foodservice customers in the United States with 2012 sales of $3.05 billion. Flowers operates 44 bakeries that produce a wide range of bakery products. Among the company's top brands are Nature's Own and Tastykake. Learn more at www.flowersfoods.com.
Statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release, including, but not limited to statements regarding the timing of the transactions and required approvals, the combined company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, the expected impact of the acquisition on the future earnings of Flowers, anticipated benefits of the acquisition and expected business opportunities that may be available, and the manner in which Flowers intends to finance the acquisition, are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those projected. Other factors that may cause actual results to differ from the forward-looking statements contained in this release and that may affect the company's prospects in general include, but are not limited to, (a) risks relating to (1) the court-approved bankruptcy process and the ability of the parties to obtain necessary regulatory approvals, satisfy all applicable conditions and consummate the acquisition, (2) the ability of Flowers to integrate the acquired assets into it existing business and operate the combined business effectively and (3) the ability of Flowers to achieve the anticipated sales for 2013, (b) competitive conditions in the baked foods industry, including promotional and price competition, (c) changes in consumer demand for our products, (d) the success of productivity improvements and new product introductions, (e) a significant reduction in business with any of our major customers including a reduction from adverse developments in any of our customer's business, (f) fluctuations in commodity pricing, (g) our ability to fully integrate recent acquisitions into our business, and (h) our ability to achieve cash flow from capital expenditures and acquisitions and the availability of new acquisitions that build shareholder value. In addition, our results may also be affected by general factors such as economic and business conditions (including the baked foods markets), interest and inflation rates and such other factors as are described in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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A thread for enterprise IT anti-patterns.
Open Standards and heterogeneous environments
- Don't let a cargo-cult reliance on homogeneity blind you to the needs of the enterprise. Needs aren't going to disappear if you just ignore them. Artificial incompatibilities aren't an excuse to say no, they're a failure to plan.
- Don't commission an application that only supports Windows clients or requires ActiveX or Adobe Flash in the browser. Even if you don't already support OS or Linux/Unix on the desktop, your supported mobile devices aren't going to be Win32.
- A merger or acquisition can bring Macs into your formerly-homogenous environment, or an unexpected BYOD mandate from the top will destroy any plan that can't handle heterogeneity.
- If you need to accommodate a legacy Win32 application from other clients, access it over standard RDP/TS or VNC. The former supports a certain degree of application-level virtualization, both protocols are well supported in open-source, and both protocols have HTML5 clients usable from a browser without special plugins. Don't use Citrix XenApp just because you already have a license; it's a separate and unnecessary product to support and there is no open-source client or widespread protocol support.
Change Control/ITIL
- Don't create a change-control system where every manager, regardless of alignment, is a stakeholder has an individual veto over all change. Even without recalcitrants, this can add unneeded delay, especially during windows when those stakeholders are not reachable.
- Don't create a change-control system that puts big burdens on planned change and routine component upgrades while making emergency change and system freezes easy. otherwise you'll end up with a lot of emergency changes and change-freezes alternating in cycles.


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Egcv2332 needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 91 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Treat Yourself (TYS)
I have spent my life making sacrifices and committing myself to a dream that very few ever reach. It has been a long hard road but I finally made it and now its time to enjoy it. "TYS" stands for "Treat Yourself" and it comes from the phrase, "Don't cheat yourself, treat yourself". The meaning of the phrase is the culmination of all your hard work. After all the hard work pays off you should treat yourself... to the finer things because you've earned it!
The main logo should be a creative form of TYS and any creative vision you get from the phrase you should also incorporate. Feel free to play with colors and ideas as far as your imagination takes you.
After you win you should TYS too!
I am a professional athlete, in my early 20's and I am targeting the young adult crowd. The t-shirts would best suit the young, athletic/urban crowd.
The logo must include the letters TYS in some form. From there, you have creative license to creat an image that accompanies it or whatever you can come up with. Help me build my vision with whatever colors and images your are inspired to use.


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Danbury celebrates Portuguese Day
Portuguese Day: Thousands turn out for annual celebration and picnic
DANBURY -- Sunday's celebration began the same way as nearly every Portuguese Day in Danbury; with a flag raising at Rogers Park, Mass at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church on Deer Hill Avenue, and a festive and colorful parade to Portuguese Square at Liberty Street and Town Hill Avenue.
But for the first time since 2010, the annual celebration ended with a picnic at the Portuguese Cultural Center, which was open after undergoing 18 months of repairs necessitated by damage from a winter storm in early 2011.
"People are glad to be back," said Cathryn DeSousa, the center's vice president and special events chairman, as she motioned toward the crowd. "There's great food and beautiful weather. We were hoping to double attendance from the last time, and I think we're going to do it."
The thousands of Portuguese and Portuguese-for-a-day residents who flocked to the Sand Pit Road facility on Sunday for the food, music, dancing and the traditional soccer match found some changes from the last time the center was available.
Under a massive tent, capable of holding 400, guests enjoyed platters of the chicken, clams, dobrado and other familiar dishes. More vendors brought more wares, and the relocation of the dining tent away from the food service area eased what had become a congested spot at earlier event.
"It's bigger and it's better," said Kristen Martins, of Danbury, who comes to the picnic every year with her husband, Anthony. This year, they brought her parents, Ann and Andy Powderly, who recently moved to Danbury from Massachusetts.
"She's been telling us about this for years, especially the food," Ann Powderly said.
For Debbie Sutton and her husband, Rich, of Bethel, food was only one of the attractions.
"We've come several times," Debbie Sutton said. "We like the music, the food, and seeing old friends."
The sun was shining and temperatures were already rising when the marchers stepped off from the church around 10:15 a.m., pausing for a brief ceremony on the plaza in front of the library, where visiting dignitaries and city officials addressed the crowd.
"Today is a special day in Danbury, when we consider how important the Portuguese community is to all of us," said state Sen. Michael McLachlan, R-Danbury.
The march resumed to Portuguese Square, where Portuguese Day Committee Chairman Dave Coelho presented Emilia Costa with this year's award for her service to the community. Costa, who came to Danbury in 1970, was a founding member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, a catechism teacher and an instructor for children about to receive their First Communion.
Happiness in those roles, Costa said, "comes every day in the smile of a child," and she now finds herself teaching the children of some of her original students.
Costa was also recognized with proclamations from Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
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What's left in old cars scrapped in junkyards could lead to identity theft
Thousands of vehicles end up in salvage yards each year whether they've been in serious wrecks, repossessed, or scrapped by owners or dealerships. But it's what's in those cars that could put people at risk.
For a fee, people can buy cars from salvage yards. Most do it for the parts, but they also get everything left inside the car, too.
The information left behind is mindblowing.
"Y'all just waiting for me to find all the good stuff?"
That's Chris Shiflet. He knows the Auto Salvage Co. yard in Ladson like the back of his hand. He can find hidden gems when others think there's nothing.
"I find jewelry, money, drugs, guns..." he said as he digs through a car. "This might be a bank account, though."
He says there are also things he finds that thieves could use to steal an identity -- and it's easy picking with the right hands.
At Auto Salvage and at nearby Coastal Auto Parts, rows of cars are lined up, waiting to be crushed or sold for parts. Many of them are full of paperwork, and it's things most people wouldn't leave sitting out at home.
Shiflet picks cars at random, showing how easy it is to find information.
"Here's a Medicaid number, Social Security number right here, boo," he said. "With this type of information I cannot just become you but I can ruin your credit."
Det. Dustin Turner was surprised by the things Shiflet dug up in the scrapped cars. He's currently investigating two dozen identity theft cases.
"Stealing an identity in South Carolina, you don't really need to have a whole lot, just need to have one piece of information," he said.
That one piece of information could be as simple as a driver's license number.
Turner recommends shredding old paperwork. And for anyone who has a car that might end up in a salvage yard due to an accident or trade-in, he says they need to go through the car completely and pick out any identifying information.
For people who think their identity has been stolen, check bank statements looking for single dollar charges.
"I see this strange dollar charge but I don't know what is it for and then a week later your bank account is empty," Turner said.
If there is a suspicious transaction, report it immediately, Turner says.
Back at the salvage yard, Shiflet has found evidence of identity theft. "Somebody had fraud already, you see it right here," he said, holding up a document.
The victim had apparently reported identity theft, saying someone had her Social Security number and address. Shiflet found enough information to steal her identity again.
"I could probably use this little bit of information to violate you, become you," he said.
Turner says it's a person's own responsibility to protect their identity, and one of the easiest ways to protect it is to not keep a lot of identifying paperwork in a car.


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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Climbing Curves - not destined to be a pattern
I've saved this quilt to show you for Blogger's Quilt Festival. "Climbing Curves" is a bright little quilt that I think would suit a baby boy or girl equally well. I used Saffron Craig's adorable Beetle Bugs range, and the inspiration for the pattern came from her fabric, Snails and Ladders.
I started off with a bunch of sketches of straight ladders with lots of bugs climbing up the sides.
But then, after the curved piecing on the back of this quilt turned out so well, I decided to stretch myself with some curved piecing of the ladders.
It was quite tricky (for me), and I had to unpick and try different techniques before I was happy. There was still a little bit of puckering, but nothing the iron couldn't take care of. Curved piecing isn't difficult on smaller cuts of fabric (like in my Sea Views or Sherbet Dreams patterns), but on large pieces its easy to get out of hand resulting in lots of puckering. That's why I decided that this wouldn't become a pattern. I would hate for someone to buy my pattern, and then have difficulty following the technique and not be happy with the result. If I have time though, I might write a tutorial sharing what I did, so you can give it a try if you like.
Originally, I planned to applique bugs climbing up the sides of the ladders, but when I auditioned the bugs it looked too busy to me. I liked the clean line of the curves by themselves. So I opted to hand quilt a few bugs and I really like the overall effect (you can find my hand quilting tutorial here). I tried using a Hera Marker to mark the line of the bugs and it worked perfectly! It was easy to see the line and there was no mark to remove at the end.
I think a cute quilt deserves a cute model - Grace wears it well don't you think!
Thanks for visiting - be sure to check out all the other quilts at Bloggers Quilt Festival.
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It's beautiful, Kate! And so is your babe.ReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful, Kate - I do hope you find time at some point to do a tutorial - I love this and surely would like to tryReplyDelete
And your little angel is growing! How quickly they go from a wrinkly bundle to smiling gurggling giggly mini people! She looks so very happy - you must be doing it right! Sending you all lots of love from the wet & windy UK xx
Oh this is darling! I totally love it!ReplyDelete
So adorable!!! I mean, it's hard to be cuter than your little Grace, but this quilt sure is lovely. Thanks for sharing that gorgeous picture of Grace, adorable babies always make me smiley :)ReplyDelete
Yep the quilt is so fantastic!! Grace is looking so content and adorable in that photo, I can't wait for more cuddles XOXOReplyDelete
It's beautiful. Perfect for your little lady.ReplyDelete
What a fun quilt, I love hearing about the evolution of it.ReplyDelete
What a cute quilt, Kate! Thanks for sharing your process, and also the reason for no new pattern. Love seeing Gracie, too - she's such a cutie!!ReplyDelete
yes, please make a tutorial. I love this quilt so much! Great post for Quilt Festival!ReplyDelete
Great quilt. Gorgeous model :)ReplyDelete
Sweet, sweet, sweet .... Quilt and model! Love the hand quilting, curves and the pink cheeks.ReplyDelete
Now that is a fun quilt. Love it Kate. But then I am your biggest fan! :)ReplyDelete
Love to Grace and you too.
Oh how I just love this quilt! The curves are FANTASTIC! I'm glad to see another SLP like myself finds time to have a little quilting fun! I would love a tutorial on this!!! :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Kate! Great to read your design decisions! Perfect of course!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful quilt, I love those curves and your hand stitching!ReplyDelete
Grace wears it very well, indeed. Another lovely quilt. :)ReplyDelete
It is beautiful! I love the fabric range and I would love to see how you did the curves.ReplyDelete
Hi to Grace the cutie. I really like the design. Curves freak me just a little. I suspect i do not have the patience to tackle them.ReplyDelete
I'm not really a clucky person, but Grace is just so cute!!ReplyDelete
I love the quilt too. The curves and the hand quilted bug silhouettes; very very clever. :)
This is a beautiful quilt - love the hand quilting!ReplyDelete
I love the movement in it!
what a gorgeous quilt, and would sign up for a tutorial or quilt along for sure! I love the wavy effect and it's calming effect. and the quilting: perfect! Thank you so much for sharing and so nice to meet you, Kate!ReplyDelete
Your quilt is absolutely beautiful. I love that it's not a straight ladder and the red border stitching really makes the ladders pop.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 15, 2011 at 7:29 AM
Way to take on curves! It looks fantastic! And I love that it's hand quilted, the stitching is great.ReplyDelete
Beautiful quilt. I love the stitching!ReplyDelete
when i saw the curved piecing you did on the sherbet pips quilt, i was definitely inspired to try it, too! i didn't follow a tutorial, i just kind of came up with my own way of doing it - don't know if it's the right way or not, but it worked for me! but it was only on a pretty narrow table runner, so i didn't have to do a lot of it. this quilt is awesome! i definitely want to work with it some more. and yeah, mine puckered a little, too, but the quilting fixed it.ReplyDelete
Kate, this is a really cute quilt, and Grace looks adorable on it.ReplyDelete
This is sooo adorable. A tutorial would be great - a good reason for me to get over my fear of hand quilting!ReplyDelete
Your Quilts are always Stunning and this one is no exception!ReplyDelete
Great quilt, wonderful model :-)ReplyDelete
I love the curves :)ReplyDelete
The quilt looks great and Grace is a perfect model.
And it would be great to see your tips on piecing such big curves, I only ever tried small ones.
Really, really cute and clever!!! Wonderful material and your little bugs are so cute. What a creative person you are! Darling little grace wears it so well. Thanks for sharing and have a great dayReplyDelete
The curves elevate it from ordinary to extra-ordinary.ReplyDelete
I like it.
Great quilt! Love the hand stitching accents.ReplyDelete
It's absolutely fabulous Kate as is the model. I adore your hand quilting and the bugs are just perfect.ReplyDelete
Ohhhh!!!! I LOVE it!!! It looks so great for a babyquilt and the handquilting in red matches perfectly!ReplyDelete
Sorry you couldn't make a pattern out of this one, but it turned out amazing. The hand stitches are sooo cute!!!ReplyDelete
That is a sweet, sweet quilt and your stitching really makes it!!ReplyDelete
What a darling baby! Super quilt, very original, and great colorsReplyDelete
I love your quilt! So cute!ReplyDelete
Adorable! I just love the wonky columns, and your stitching is divine, love the little bug bumps! Really sweet! Your quilt design is refreshingly original, and makes me smile :)ReplyDelete
Molto divertente!!!!!ReplyDelete
Love the quilt and your daring curved piecing. I may try it even without a pattern.ReplyDelete
beautiful baby .. I love his workReplyDelete
Love the curves. And the story behind it. Hard to tell by looking at this quilt that you had any trouble with the curves. Oh, and your hand quilting is amazing!ReplyDelete
Beautiful quilt and the handstitching is perfect!ReplyDelete
Love what you did with the quilting. Very creative. Great quilt. Thanks for showcasing it for us.ReplyDelete
I love the look of the quilt. Such a good idea to do the curved lines.ReplyDelete
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?
Jeremy Shaw observed today that "Haskell is moving up in the world." His evidence was that a Google search for "haddock" now puts the Haskell documentation tool third on the list.
I guess we'll know that Haskell is a complete and total success when we overhear some kid in a supermarket asking, "Haddock is a fish?"
I guess we'll know that Haskell is a complete and total success when we overhear some kid in a supermarket asking, "Haddock is a fish?"
Posted by Clifford Beshers at 3:06 PM
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- Neil Mitchell said...
Wow, I assumed that this might be because you were signed into Google and that boosted haddock as you often do Haskell searches. But I just signed out and haddock was second on the list, behind wikipedia!
- May 14, 2008 at 4:08 AM
- Jeremy Norris said...
Hey Cliff,
How's it going? Have you checked out Scala? It's not "pure" fp, but it's statically typed with many fp concepts (Martin Odersky) and it runs on the JVM. There is a lot of rumbling going on about this becoming the basis of "java3". It's worth checking out.
Also, this is a very interesting interview: http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-05/episode-97-interview-anders-hejlsberg (Anders Hejlsberg, Chief language strategist at Microsoft).
- May 22, 2008 at 9:33 AM
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2014 Internet Cat Video Film Festival
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The Internet Cat Video Film Festival is the first offline celebration of online cat videos. The festival is a live event, gathering fellow feline fanatics to watch a curated collection of cat clips—from six second Vine videos to short films and everything in between—in a social environment.
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Not frozen over, but nippy with a light frost.
The Chicago Cubs are NL Central Champs!
Now if only we can get over that damn goat!And Steve Bartman!It's only been 99 years since our last World Series Championship...
29 September 2007
It's getting chilly in Hell
Not frozen over, but nippy with a light frost.
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This reminds me of a joke told down here in Georgia when the Falcons were actually good.ReplyDelete
There was a man from Georgia who went to hell. The demons came over to Satan and told him that they were having trouble with this guy. "He just works without complaining. In fact, he is whistling cheerfully."
"Just turn up the heat." Said Satan.
After doing so, the man was still whistling happily. Satan went over to him and asked him what was up.
"I'm from Georgia. I am used to the heat."
"Well, if he loves the heat, then let's give him the opposite" suggested Satan to one of the demons. So the demon turned the temperature of Hell to icy coldness.
With this the man started jumping up and down and cheering wildly.
"What in hell are you doing?"
The man didn't answer, he just kept saying the same thing over and over:
"The Falcons are in the Super Bowl! The Falcons are in the Super Bowl!"
Hey, I was at the game, lots of fun. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more blue than red in the stands, and chants of "Let's go Cubbies, Let's go!"ReplyDelete
- Susan RN9/30/2007 5:29 PM
Go Cubbies!!!ReplyDelete
Woot! Woot!
- Anonymous9/30/2007 9:34 PM
Go Cubbies, Go!!ReplyDelete


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Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Cool Training Runs, Part 4: Rip Rap/Wildcat Ridge in the SNP
Every once in awhile I like to post about my favorite training runs, just in case one of my readers needs a new trail to discover. Over the past few years I have posted on the Priest and Three Ridges, the Wild Oak Trail, and Catawba. All are solid, 5-9 hour outings with tons of climbing, great views and beautiful trail.
This morning Quatro and I ran the Rip Rap/Wildcat Ridge/AT loop in the Shenandoah National Park. This 20+ mile circuit was first introduced to me by VHTRC buddies Greg Loomis and Jeff Wilbur. It's a 25 minute drive from my front door to the trailhead (I know, I know...lucky!). The parking area is at the Sugar Hollow reservoir, which at 7:00am is nearly empty but at 12 noon is usually packed with day hikers and swimmers. This morning temps were in the high 30s at the start and didn't get out of the 50s all morning, so we saw very few swimmers when we returned.
I brought Jack on this run---temps were low enough and there was ample water available along the route. I do envision running this loop a lot in the summer, but in very hot weather it would be prudent to bring water treatment tablets or a filter and pump as the middle section is over an hour without a water source.
Here are some pics of the day...
Sophie and Jack crossing the first of eight medium-sized streams...this is a run where you will get your feet wet.
Looking upstream at the Moorman's River erosion...in 1996, this entire gorge was flooded and it changed the landscape forever.
Little Blue Hole, a favorite place for swimming (especially for families with young kids), about a mile from the parking area. The rock in the center is a great place to jump off into 5+ feet of water.
Q poses in front of Blackrock Falls, about 3 miles up the trail.
Typical trail
Looking west at the Shenandoah Valley from Chimney Rocks
Cool rock formations at Chimney Rocks
Q poses in front of another fave trail route, the Blackrock/Trayfoot Mountain loop (part of the ridgeline behind him).
Rip Rap gorge
Swimming hole in Rip Rap gorge that was voted "best kept secret swimming hole" by Blue Ridge Outdoors---note the slip n slide into the hole.
The 2 mile climb out of the gorge, which I ran in 27 minutes---great hill training!
Since this was MMT training run #3 in 36 hours for Q, he opted to power hike instead.
The Blue Hole, known around these parts as a fave place for high rock jumping and lots of college student parties. This is at mile 19 of the run---perfect after a hot day on the trail.
The end of the run...the Moorman's River before it dumps into the Sugar Hollow Reservoir downstream.
Overall, a great training run in perfect weather! Here is the link to more details about the Rip Rap/Wildcat Ridge trail.
n.b.: a shout out to my training partner Bill Potts who is running his first Boston Marathon on Monday, then following it up with Promise Land 50K on Saturday...and to my friends Anne and Hallie, wishing them healing thoughts as they recover from injury. Big hugs to you both!
3 comments:
- Rick Gray said...
Sounds like a great loop run with some nice climbs and super nice swimming holes. Just the thing needed for some heat training. Looks like you and Quatro had a grand ole time out there enjoying a some beautiful trails and spectacular views!
Bill is going to run great today at his first Boston. I wonder if it will slow him down at Promise Land!
I hope things are not too bad with Anne and Hallie and that they will heal soon and get back to running.
- April 19, 2010 at 7:34 AM
- ultrarunnergirl said...
Wow, great photos, looks like a gorgeous run! Thanks for letting us in on some of your best trails!
- April 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- clynton said...
Gorgeous views! Looks absolutely lovely to run. Looking forward to reading more of your posts and learning some tricks on fitting running into a family schedule.
- April 23, 2010 at 4:41 PM


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National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund
On December 16, 1927 at 2:00 a.m., Deputy Cleo Platt and his wife were walking home in downtown Charlotte when he stopped to assist a motorist.
Noticing stolen items from a local store in the vehicle, Deputy Platt sent his wife home and was subsequently shot
in the shoulder and abdomen by the suspect while Deputy Platt was attempting to effect an arrest.
Deputy Platt was married and had two young children.
The murderer and his accomplice were apprehended, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life at hard labor.
On January 1, 1967 at 4:58 p.m., Deputy Dean Foster reponded to a call of suspicious activity at a Delta Township gas station.
Upon arriving, an armed robbery was in progress and Deputy Foster was shot seven times at close range.
Deputy Foster had been recently married.
The suspects were apprehended in New York, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
On December 10, 1985 at 8:55 p.m., Deputy Don Rice was assisting stranded motorists on US-27 between
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The Middletown Health Unit's hours of operation were reduced last week, according to the Delaware Health and Social Services' Division of Public Health.
The Middletown Health Unit's hours of operation were reduced last week, according to the Delaware Health and Social Services' Division of Public Health.
The division alerted patients earlier this month that the clinic's hours would be reduced to 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, effective April 5.
Public health officials said the changes were necessitated by the center's dwindling use by patients and the division's need to consolidate its services.
The Middletown Health Unit at 214 N. Broad St. provides family planning and women's health services, sexually-transmitted disease testing and counseling, as well as services related to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
WIC office hours will not be impacted by the reduction in health clinic service hours, division officials said.
Health unit patients unable to walk in or schedule appointments on Tuesdays and Fridays have been provided a list of area medical providers who accept Medicaid, private insurance and a sliding scale fee system for those without insurance.
On days the Middletown Health Unit is not open, patients are directed to call the Porter State Service Center in Wilmington at 302-777-2860 to speak to a nurse.
For additional information on specific medical tests, patients are directed to visit www.dealwareunisured.org or call the CHAP/VIP program at (800) 996-9969 or 211 for service referrals.
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It's a common refrain at City Hall: Employee raises have been frozen since 2009 due to austere budget conditions.
But that doesn't necessarily mean city employees haven't been making more money.
In 2012, roughly three-quarters of the top 45 salary-earners made more than they did the year before, even though the vast majority did not receive promotions, city records show.
The employee who had the greatest pay increase without a promotion made $33,303 more in 2012 than the year prior.
The difference in pay comes, in general, from a variety of factors, including overtime and guaranteed annual boosts known as "step increases." Promotions also played a role for those that took on higher-ranking jobs.
Of the $15.4-million budget gap the city closed last year, $1.4 million was attributed to step increases.
Forward-looking public agencies are weighing the cost of these guaranteed benefits that have been in place for decades, but may not be the best fit for modern times, said City Manager Scott Ochoa.
"Before, no one really wanted to look out and have that discussion. Maybe now is the exact opportune time," Ochoa said. "The old way of thinking is completely gone."
But forging a new civil compensation system will be a rough road, said Larry Rosenthal, a Chapman University law professor with expertise in local government law.
"Like almost everything in public policy, it's complicated," Rosenthal said.
Most of the top 45 earners last year were fire and police officials who benefited from overtime as they filled in for sick workers or aided other agencies that needed help.
When Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, several Glendale firefighters went to New Jersey, but overtime pay for mutual aid work is reimbursed by state and federal funds, said city spokesman Tom Lorenz.
In addition to freezing across-the-board raises, Glendale stopped doling out merit-based bonuses in 2009. The year before, the bonuses — dispersed to about 40 employees — cost the city about $228,400, according to city documents.
Firefighters are set to get a 2.5% across-the-board wage increase next fiscal year — although that's less than the 4.5% boost that had originally been scheduled after an agreement was reached with City Hall.
Step increases, on the other hand, aren't considered one-time bonuses or promotions. Instead, they're permanent pay raises that are triggered — so long as an employee gets a satisfactory evaluation — every year until the employee reaches the highest step.
It takes almost nine years for a rank-and-file employee to get to that final step.
That's what happened to Asst. City Manager Yasmin Beers last year, whose salary jumped by $18,067 to $192,301 in 2012 as she took a step up in pay and received more compensation for roughly six weeks while acting as the interim city manager.
City Atty. Mike Garcia and Director of Community Development Hassan Haghani also took steps up, Lorenz said. Their gross salaries last year grew by $17,991 to $227,995 and by $9,289 to $194,965, respectively.
Overhauling the compensation system in Glendale may spark heated negotiations with unions and perhaps even public backlash, Ochoa said.
"The public has a distaste for anything else," he said.
The fairest way is to align public salaries with similar jobs in the private sector, but that can be like comparing apples and oranges when defined pensions or unique jobs, such as firefighters, are factored in, Rosenthal said.
And the current system in Glendale — guaranteed step increases with no cost-of-living raises — benefits older employees and makes government work less attractive to newcomers, Rosenthal said.
"What you really need is a real and effective system of accountability," he said.
City officials say step increases aren't automatic because employees have to perform satisfactorily to get them, but former Neighborhood Services Administrator Sam Engel — who ran unsuccessfully for City Council last month — said on the campaign trail that he had given positive reviews to employees who didn't deserve them because of pressure from higher-ups.
That kind of situation, and the protracted recession, have fueled a negative public perception of city compensation rates.
"The public perception of public-sector wages is never generous in good times, but in hard economic times, it's even worse," said Jaime Regalado, a political analyst.
City officials have reduced some pay rates, such as cutting the salary for a vacant Glendale Water & Power customer service manager by 22% last week. But, some have also been adjusted upward after nearly 150 employees left City Hall because of early retirements and layoffs last year.
At the same time, the city has ratcheted up how much employees pay toward their own retirements in recent years to between 8.5% and 12.5% of their paychecks. That may have to increase again in coming years due to a rate hike imposed by the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or CalPERS.
"These are tough times," Councilwoman Laura Friedman said, adding that officials have to be fair to both employees and taxpayers, all while dealing with the added pressure of competing for top employees.
"We are competing in a marketplace," she said. "You want to have the best employees you can get."
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$100 would buy a pretty nice orginal vintage carded figure, and would take up less space.
Looking to catch up on ordering these?Buy 1 Gentle Giant item @ EE, get a 2nd at 50% off until March 29th.According to the details, items may be in stock or available for pre-order, so all the upcoming mini-busts and jumbo Kenner figures should count... also the deal is stackable (if you order 4, you get 2 @ 50% off).
Quote from: Dan on July 25, 2010, 10:47 AM$100 would buy a pretty nice orginal vintage carded figure, and would take up less space. Wow, I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right. In fact, you can buy a lot of them for under $100. I'm passing on these, cool as they are.
I love 'em and I really love the giant card artwork that I am using for "wallpaper" in my collection space. I'll post a pic when I get a chance
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Review: Barielle Total Foot Care Cream
Don't be alarmed! I WILL NOT BE SHOWING YOU MY FEET IN THIS POST!
Now that we have that all cleared up, today I will be reviewing Barielle's Total Foot Care Cream (4 fl oz. Retail Value: $19.50 US). Everyone who knows me in "real life" knows I have crusty ass feet lmao. Seriously though, the heels of my feet get super dry and no matter how many times I scrub and apply lotion, nothing every works.
The box reads:
"Total Foot Care Cream for Callused, Chapped Feet - An award winning, luxurious, conditioning formula that softens and helps to eliminate calluses while moisturizing chapped areas of the feet. Contains no harsh peeling ingredients, acids or camphors, so it will not irritate the sensitive areas of your skin. Leaves your entire foot feeling soft and silky."
"Massage into feet twice a day - once in the morning after bathing and once again in the evening before bed."
For Best Results:
"Put plain socks (100% cotton) on feet after applying cream. Leave on overnight to seal in moisture."
I have had this for a few months but never really used it more than a handful of times because I never remembered to! However, lately I have been using this quite regularly and I have to say, this stuff is pretty darn amazing. It smells like baby powder - a little strong at first but then fades away to a comfortable scent. The texture is not too thick and a little goes a long way, which is great for me because I hate heavy lotions. The best part is that it doesn't leave my feet feeling greasy at all!
I only remember to apply this at night and it would be a miracle if anyone could get me to wear socks to bed. However, I do notice a difference in the heels of my feet, especially now that it is winter and my skin tends to get much drier.
I have really been loving this and I am glad I have added it to my routine.
Enter my OPI 007 Skyfall Giveaway!
*Funds to purchase this were sponsored by SkinCareRx.com months ago. All opinions are my own. I really do have crusty ass feet.
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StrssFr needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 49 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
We would like a logo for a new Information Technolgy services firm that pickups on a "Stress Free" theme.
The company promotes itself as providing stress free solutions for it's clients.
The logo must be detailed enough to printed on company letterhead, shirts and other logo ware without looking crappy. We are not artists, but we were thinking of a hammock with an outline of a person in hammock.
Please use "StrssFr" in the logo design
- Item 1...Preference something using green. - but not limited to that color. Another design option, pickup on the company short name Strssfr. This is our company website name.Please us StrssFr in the logo design
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In my latest column I discuss a Native American tribe that was issued a permit to kill two bald eagles for use in religious ceremonies.
I aim to convey a simple lesson, that is, we ARE NOT required to respect the beliefs of other human beings. We are required to respect the RIGHT of a human being to maintain his or her own set of beliefs. This is an important distinction. Let me know what you think (especially of the last paragraph in my column).
Brian T. Murphy
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
Twitter: @writesofmurph
This recent news story angers me. Individuals, not groups, should have certain rights but to kill based on irrational, primitive beliefs is just wrong- it's not rational or reasonable. The question is how should the law deal with this? I can understand killing animals for food and clothing as a means of survival and recreation but this isn't the case at all. Why are we protecting the eagles in the first place? If the ban on hunting is a logical, fact based law why would we make an exception for the weakest, most irrational reason imaginable? In that case, secular hunters should have a greater reason and privilege to hunt the eagles as well.
Being ignorant and mystical should not be a basis for granting special privileges and rights. The real culprit here is the concept of 'Group Rights' that is destroying the principals our country was based on. Once you acknowledge that groups (ethnic, religious, sexual, etc.) have rights, you open the flood gates for insanity. Also, reparations is a immoral, illogical basis for granting group rights. No individual should benefit or receive special rights because ancestors were denied certain rights in the past. An individual is an individual. There is no mystical, spiritual blood connection between family members that should grant them extra rights. (Laws respecting 'sacred burial grounds' are equally wrong!) Of course, our country is now plagued with 'unlawful' and subjective laws and there is no end in sight as legislators come up with new insane regulations on a daily basis.


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How to pick a ripe pineapple.
Pineapples available in the grocery have been picked ripe and can be used immediately. Pineapples should be plump and firm with fresh green leaves on the top. Look for a mild pineapple scent at the stem end. Color may not indicate ripeness, since some varieties are green when ripe. Click here for pineapple recipes and here for storage and nutrition information.