Leaping lizards! errr, kittenz!! 
A momentary pause.
She loves to play hockey. As you know, kittenz are naturally good at hockey.
Australian astronomer Ray Palmer was photographing the Southern Cross from his observatory in Western Australia on Feb. 19th when a flaming plume cut across the Milky Way. "I had no idea what it was," he says. "It was moving very slowly and I was able to track it for 35 minutes."
In mid-apparition the object exploded. Gordon Garradd of New South Wales photographed an expanding cloud filled with specks of debris. Tim Thorpe of South Australia saw it, too. "Quite a surreal scene," he says.
What was it? It was a mystery for almost 24 hours until satellite expert Daniel Deak matched the trajectory of the plume in Palmer's photo with the orbit of a derelict rocket booster--"a Briz-M, catalog number 28944."
One year ago, the Briz-M sat atop a Russian Proton rocket that left Earth on Feb. 28, 2006, carrying an Arabsat-4A communications satellite. Shortly after launch, the rocket malfunctioned, leaving the satellite in the wrong orbit and the Briz-M looping around Earth partially-filled with fuel. On Feb. 19, 2007, for reasons unknown, the fuel tanks ruptured over Australia.
Jon P. Boers of the USAF Space Surveillance System confirms the ID and notes "later, on the other side of the world, our RADAR saw 500+ pieces in that orbit." Today the count is up to 1111 fragments. "We're seeing more fragments as the cloud expands," he explains.
This is how she looks at me much of the time. I am putty in her paws.
I almost caught her sitting up like a meerkat. Or a kangaroo, take your pick. She actually boxes. Teh funny, if a little blurry.
In this one she kept coming up and sniffing the lens and trying to grab the camera strap.
Here she looks deceptively sweet and calm. She's not. She's gotten a little wilder everyday. This morning she was tearing around like a maniac, growling to herself (I think she just figured out how to growl). I'm pretty sure she didn't sleep much last night, and she made sure I didn't either.
Kill the dastardly feather.
Kill it some more. 
Maddie springs into action. Note the poofy tail.
Halloooooo!! Life is so surprising when you are a kitten.
She carries her feather on a stick all over the house. Teh funny.
Pouncing. She's good at pouncing. 
Damn, another 'air Maddie' photo where she's jumping out of frame. 
She loves anything with feathers. Birds of the world, beware.
Marty mouse!! in neon!!
Crumpled paper makes a nice toy too. A little out of focus, but what the heck.
Time for nap.
AP/Yahya AhmedWe need judges who are the kind of solid, common-sense lawyers who factor money into their decisions. These are the same people who take the kind of conventional law-firm jobs that pay a good salary and require the greatest sacrifice to leave.
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