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After playoff collapse, Durant future is Thunder's question
OAKLAND, California — As Stephen Curry dribbled out the clock in a raucous Oracle Arena, Kevin Durant could only stand and watch.
The Golden State Warriors are heading back to the NBA Finals, while Durant's future in Oklahoma City is much less certain.
Two nights after blowing an opportunity to close out the defending champion Warriors at home, the Thunder got sent home for the summer when they lost Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, 96-88 on Monday (Tuesday Manila time).
Instead of becoming known as the team that knocked off the Warriors after their record-setting 73-win regular season, the Thunder will be remembered for a playoff collapse. They became just the 10th NBA team to lose a playoff series after taking a 3-1 lead and now head into an uncertain offseason with Durant eligible to become an unrestricted free agent in July.
If he does leave the only franchise he has played for in his nine-year career, he will do it having failed to deliver the championship to Oklahoma City. The closest the Thunder have gotten in Durant's tenure was when they lost the NBA Finals in five games to LeBron James and the Miami Heat in 2012.
They then lost in the second round the next season, in the conference finals in 2014 to San Antonio before missing the playoffs entirely because of an injury to Durant last year.
But under first-year coach Billy Donovan, Oklahoma City earned the third seed in the top-heavy Western Conference this season and then upset 67-win San Antonio in the second round. The Thunder followed that by winning three of the first four games against the Warriors, with a pair of lopsided wins at home.
But after losing Game 5 on the road, the Thunder blew an opportunity to eliminate the Warriors at home on Saturday night. Oklahoma City led by seven points with less than five minutes remaining but made only one basket and committed six turnovers down the stretch of a 108-101 loss that could haunt the franchise for years.
The Thunder responded on the road in Game 7 by taking a 13-point lead in the second quarter. But once Curry and Klay Thompson started hitting Oklahoma City with a flurry of 3-pointers, the Thunder had no answer. The Splash Brothers combined for 13 3-pointers as Golden State outscored Oklahoma City by 30 points from behind the line.
Oklahoma City's stars were no match. Russell Westbrook missed 14 of 21 from the field and shot just 36.8 percent in the three potential clinchers. Durant finished with 27 points but took only 10 shots in the first three quarters.
Durant did score seven straight points to cut an 11-point deficit to four with 1:40 remaining. But Serge Ibaka then fouled Curry on a 3-pointer with the shot clock running down, allowing Golden State to build the lead back to seven.
Durant then missed two shots and could only stare blankly when Curry ended Oklahoma City's season with a 3-pointer with 26.8 seconds left. Now the Thunder can only hope it doesn't end Durant's tenure in Oklahoma City as well.
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Here I am on top of a volcanic mountain in north west Costa Rica, above the clouds.
I found these mountains and cloud formations too beautiful and thought provoking to describe so I guess you need to go see for yourself. You can also see the lighting difficulties I faced while trying to photograph tiny birds like the endemic Volcano Hummingbird.
We were able to find several females of this species to shoot but no males. The Volcano Hummingbird is restricted to the Costa Rica and Panama Highlands Endemic Bird Area, where it is generally common in highland pastures and open grassland with scrub, usually above 2000 m elevation. This tiny hummingbird is mainly green above, with a brilliant wine-colored gorget in the male (replaced by dark spotting in the female), a white breast band, and greenish (males) or pale rufous (females) over the rest of the underparts. The tail is slightly forked in both sexes, more noticeably so in males. Three subspecies have been named, and these principally differ in the color of the gorget, being purplish gray to brilliant green in the southernmost form. In the non-breeding season, both sexes may defend territories around certain patches of small flowers. We hiked and hiked looking for a male with no success but while doing this we were rewarded with a chance to photograph a Volcano Junco. Look close and you can see that this bird has a leg band.
I chased this bird threw scrub brush and around rocks for what seemed like an hour before it finally got tired of me and stood posing for 5 seconds so I could take a picture.
The volcano junco (Junco vulcani) is an American sparrow endemic to the high mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama.
This junco breeds above the timberline, typically at altitudes above 3000 m, but there is an isolated population at 2100 m on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica, and forest clearance on Cerro de la Muerte has allowed this species to descend to 2600 m. The habitat is open grassy or brushy areas with some stunted scrubs. The nest is a neat lined cup constructed on the ground under a log, bush or rock, or in a cavity on a vegetated bank. The female lays two brown-spotted pale blue eggs. The volcano junco is on average 16 cm long and weighs 28 g. The adult has brown upperparts with dark streaking especially on the back. The wings and tail feathers are dark fringed. The underparts are grey. The sides of the head are grey with a black mask through the eye, a yellow iris, and a pink bill and legs. Young birds are brighter brown above with blacker streaking, and have buff-grey underparts. Volcano junco calls include a thin tseee or a clearer wheew. The song is a mixture of squeaks and buzzes; k'chew chu k'wee chip chip chueee.
The volcano junco feeds on the ground on seeds, fallen berries, insects and spiders. It runs and hops, but flies only short distances.
Time to leave the always windy, very cold mountaintop. Down in the forested areas I was able to take a photo of a colorful bird that has a mean expression to it's face, a Red-headed Barbet.
Lots of people enjoy birds. Actually, bird watching is one of America's most popular hobbies. There are folks that enjoy "backyard" birdwatching. There are many that go for a walk in the park to see birds. Me, I guess I'm an extreme birder. Carlos and I would hear a bird call way off the trail we were walking and no matter what, off we would go through tick and chigger infested woods. The Red-headed Barbet is a spectacularly colored, small barbet of montane forest. The male's brilliant red head and breast contrast with the green upperparts and horn-colored bill. The female lacks the red, and has pearly blue-gray cheeks. This species is conspicuous as it moves about middle and upper strata with mixed flocks or feeds in fruiting trees. Its song, a purring trill, is also loud and distinctive. The Red-headed Barbet feeds primarily on fruit, but also take arthropods, which it sometimes gathers by searching through dead leaf clusters. The nest is an enlarged woodpecker cavity or a self-excavated hole in a rotting tree.
What's that Carlos? Me referring to a bird's call from up in a tree. Mountain Elaenia he says and asks "do you have it"? "Do you have it" means have I taken a photo of this bird. I shake my head no and off we go again. Up a leaf-covered game trail Carlos stops and whistles a pygmy owl's call. Many birds will try to mob a pygmy owl and come to escort the owl out of their territory. Among other birds here comes the Elaenia.
The Mountain Elaenia is a small flycatcher of highlands in Middle America. The species ranges from Guatemala south to Panama, and also in northwestern South America from northern Venezuela west to central Colombia, primarily in shrubby areas and open woodlands from 1500 to 2500 meters in elevation. It is olive-brown above with a yellowish-white eyering, rounded crown, two off-white wingbars, and yellow-olive underparts. Like many other Elaenia species, the Mountain Elaenia is more identifiable by its calls than by its visual appearance: listen for its descending, two-part, whistled call to clinch identifications.
Easy to see where this bird gets it's name. The Yellow-thighed Finch proved especially difficult to photograph. It seemed to know exactly what I wanted to do, (take his picture), and it would stay just out of range in the dark woods. I would sneak up and just when I was get ready to shoot, off it would fly across the dirt road.
Like I always say, "It's not just the birds that I love, it's all about the places birding takes me". I see places in the world I would have never seen staying at 5 star resorts, etc. 'til later, Happy Birding
Well, you can see what I mean. These Caiman (an American Crocodilian species) lined the slough banks with mouths open cooling themselves in the very humid, warm weather of the Costa Rican low-lands. My guide, Carlos Urena email@example.com and I were searching for Jabiru, my main target bird for this trip. I'll say that Carlos is a fantastic birding guide, birds by ear, speaks english, knows what he is doing and I am already booked for next year.
I'll blog about the Jabiru in my next post but today I'm gonna focus on the owls and other night birds we successfully hunted. I've never liked using flash photography to shoot birds at night because of the red-eye effect and the possibility of injuring the bird. After doing a lot of on-line research, I purchased a five star rated light that does a wonderful job of "painting" owls and nightjars without bothering the birds. Fenix TK35UE is the name and I'm pleased as pie with it. Check out this Bare-shanked Screech Owl I photographed at about 30 feet at night under a forest canopy, dark as can be.
I've been to Costa Rica before but, with the expertise Carlos possessed, I was able to to add about one hundred fifty new birds to my camera's list. The nights were full of the sounds of cicadas and and all sorts of animals but Carlos recognised the call of this owl. The Bare-shanked Screech-Owl is found from Costa Rica to extreme northwest Colombia, although it is largely absent from most of Panama, except the far west and the extreme east of the country. It is generally found at altitudes of 900 to 3300 m, and the species is strongly dependent on dense montane forest. Compared to other Megascops in the same range, it can be separated, given reasonable views, by its tawny facial discs, which lack any obvious rimmed effect, and its whitish-spotted underparts. It is also a relatively large screech-owl, with a proportionately large head, but small ear-tufts. However, like other Megascops, the Bare-shanked Screech-Owl is most likely to be located by its deep-whistled song, hu-hu, HOO-HOO hoo.
Another owl I was able to get a shot of was the Black and White Owl. This bird seemed very shy and kept it's distance, maybe fifty feet. Still lit up fairly well.
It's an eairy(sp) thing to do to hunt owls at night in the forest in a strange country. Black and White Owls are only active at night. Both sexes are similar, but female is larger than male and has longer wings.
Adult has sooty-brown to blackish upperparts. The tail shows four narrow white bars. The legs are feathered white with dark bars.
Underparts are white, all narrowly barred dark brown to blackish.
This black-and-white pattern extends to the neck sides, the nape and the upper back.The head is rounded, with black facial disk. Eyebrows are speckled white. Crown is blackish.
Eyes are dark brown. Bill and feet are orange-yellow.Juvenile has whitish face, white barred dark brown upperparts and buffy-white barred dark underparts.
Carlos and I were slowly driving down a dirt road out in the boonies one night and he heard a call. "Pacific Screech Owl" and out of the car we go. Using my light, which is a tiny thing, but has 3200 lumens, we spot the critter. Just then a guy drives by us, stops and backs up and gets out of his car. Obviously drunk as a skunk he tries to ask us in a threatening tone, what we are doing. I stayed where I was, about 30 feet away and Carlos goes to face him. He's ready to blast the guy in the face with the high-intensity strobe my light has if he gets aggressive. The guy just utters something and leaves, whatever.
So, back to the owl. He's still there in the tree and Carlos lights it up and I fire away. The Pacific Screech-Owl can only be found right along the pacific coast from Oaxaca to Costa Rica (maybe only as far north as Chiapas). It is extremely similar to the Oaxaca Screech-Owl that inhabits the northern extents of its range in Oaxaca. It has also been compared to the Vermiculated and Western Screech-Owls but, of course, has a distinct call, different markings, and range.
We hear another owl calling down the road a bit. Driving slowly, the bird's call becomes faint. Patients pays off as we stop the car and wait and now the owl is closer. Pretty far away for night-time photography but Carlos lights up the bird and I try for a shot. This is a beautiful Striped Owl.
The striped owl (Pseudoscops clamator) is a medium-sized owl with large ear tufts and a brownish-white facial disk rimmed with black. Its beak is black, and it has cinnamon-colored eyes. It has shorter, rounder wings than most of its close relatives. The upperparts are cinnamon with fine black vermiculation and heavy stripes. The underparts are pale tawny with dusky streaks. It is native to South America, and parts of Central America.
I hear a bird's night-time call and ask Carlos what this is. Dusky Nightjar he says. Not an owl at all but a bird I want to shoot. We drive around the curve in the road and find a place to pull over. Out of the car we go and Carlos starts calling the nightjar. I don't know what it is about nightjars but they always want to land on my hat and this one tried to as well. It settles on the ground nearby returning the call and my camera does it's job.
Also sometimes called the Dusky Whip-poor-will, on account of it being perhaps more closely related to the other whip-poor-wills than to other New World Antrostomus, this nightjar is restricted to a relatively small range in southern Central America. It occurs from central Costa Rica to westernmost Panama, where it is found in montane forests and woodland between 1500 and 3100 m. This is a mid-sized brownish nightjar characterized by its buff throat band and lack of white wing markings; males have white tips to the outermost rectrices, but these tips are buffish in females. Although Dusky Nighthjar is locally common, very little appears to have been published concerning its ecology or behavior.
The last bird I'm posting about today is the weirdest. There were two of these things sitting on posts by a river in the dark. Carlos swatted at a large bug by his head and when it flew away from him both Great Potoos attacked it, in total silence. Spooky birds!
With its characteristic drawn-out moaning growl, the vocalizations of the Great Potoo are among the most exciting and perhaps most unsettling nocturnal sounds in the Neotropics. Apart from its vocalizations, the Great Potoo is an intriguing species. Great Potoos are nocturnal and feed on large flying insects, and occasionally bats, which they capture in sallies from a high perch. During the day, they remain motionless in mimic of broken tree branches. The Great Potoo is distributed throughout humid and semihumid forested habitats in Central and South America. Across this vast region, there is little geographic variation in size or in plumage; two subspecies sometimes are recognized, but these do not differ greatly from each other. Despite the lack of conspicuous geographic variation, populations on either side of the Andes have been found to be very distinct genetically. This level of divergence is similar to the genetic divergence found between other species of potoo, pointing the possibility for 'cryptic' species within the Great Potoo lineage.
Carlos and I hunted birds from high mountains to lowlands. The people of Costa Rica were some of the friendliest anywhere. I'm going back for more but this time I'll be ready for the ticks and chiggers, the worst part of my trip. After every day I had ticks embedded in my legs and chigger bites there as well. 'till next time, Happy Birding from firstname.lastname@example.com
Rugged terrain, awe-inspiring beauty. This is Nayarit and Colima, Mexico. A place for adventure.
I started this journey with hopes and a list of birds I wanted to photograph for the first time. I set a goal to find 20 new birds. My guide, Mark Stackhouse put me on 19 photographed and the last one, an Aztec Rail, heard but couldn't be coaxed out of the cattails before the mosquitos attacked and we were forced to retreat. I think the photograph I'm most pleased with is this one, a Cinnamon bellied Flowerpiercer. For the better part of two days, this quick little bird insisted on staying deep inside the brush only to peak out from frustrating time to time only to duck down just as I started to focus. I finally took one shot I could live with.
The cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer (Diglossa baritula) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It is a species known to be a nectar robber, apparently taking nectar while not pollinating the plant.
Photographing birds in the shadows of volcanos and deep jungle-like situations present issues of lighting that can be challenging to say the least. I took some okay phots of two hummers new to me. The Mexican Violetear
and the Violet-crowned Hummingbird.
Did a little night birding on a volcano road. These roads were tight and when we met a vehicle coming from the other direction passing felt like nearly kissing bumpers and slapping side mirrors. Here is a ghostly photo I took of a Balsas Screech-Owl. Almost spooky!
Balsas Screech-Owl is the only species of owl that is endemic to Mexico. The plumage pattern of this screech-owl is typical of the genus, although Balsas Screech-Owl is not known to have a red morph, but this species is unusual among screech-owls for having brown (not yellow) irides. This species is resident in southwestern Mexico, with a distribution that is centered on the Balsas River Basin in southern Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, central Guerrero, and southern Morelos. Information on the biology of Balsas Screech-Owl is extremely limited, even though this species is considered to be at risk from habitat loss or degradation.
In the dark of night, windows open to listen for birds and Mark stops the van, "get out". I grab my camera, step on the road and right away a bird almost lands on my cap and then lands on a nearby bush. Mark shines his flashlight and we both can see an Eared Poorwill. The bird takes off before I can focus but Mark whistles and back it comes again, almost landing on my head. It lands…
The eared poorwill (Nyctiphrynus mcleodii) is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Birds in the family Caprimulgidae, which includes Eastern Whip-poor-will , have been referred to as "goatsuckers" based on a superstition that goes back well over 2000 years. They all have tiny beaks that open to reveal an impressively large mouth used to catch flying insects, and they are active mainly at night. Their nocturnal habits made them mysterious, and their bizarre appearance required an explanation, and as early as the 300s BC Aristotle wrote about the trouble these birds could cause with goats. Four hundred years later not much had changed, and in 77 AD Pliny passed along the prevailing wisdom:
The Caprimulgi (so called of milking goats) are like the bigger kind of Owsels [Thrush]. They bee night-theeves; for all the day long they see not. Their manner is to come into the sheepeheards coats and goat-pens, and to the goats udders presently they goe, and suck the milke at their teats. And looke what udder is so milked, it giveth no more milke, but misliketh and falleth away afterwards, and the goats become blind withall.
Leaving the mountain and down at the base we come across another type of goatsucker, the Buff-collard Nightjar. Beautiful bird!
The buff-collared nightjar (Antrostomus ridgwayi) is a small sized nightjar. Adults are dark with brown, grey, black, and white patterning on the upperparts and breast. The tail is dark brown, with darker finely barred markings throughout. The male has large white outer tail tips on the 3 outermost tail feathers. The female has buffy tail tips. The most distinguishing characteristic to determine its identity from its closest relative the Whip-poor-will is from where the bird gets its name. It shows a prominent buff-colored collar around its neck and nape. Its song is also very different. It sounds like an accelerating cuk, cuk, cuk, cuk, cuk, cukacheea.[2]
Their breeding habitat is open country of Mexico and Central America to central Nicaragua. The northern limit of its range reaches just over the Mexican border to southeasternmost Arizona and southwesternmost New Mexico–(the Madrean Sky Islands in the eastern Sonoran Desert mountain region), where they are the only breeding resident birds.[citation needed] The nightjar's two eggs are laid directly on bare ground near rocks or scrubby vegetation—there is no nest. The adult may feign injury to distract an intruder from the eggs or young birds.
They catch flying insects on the wing, making forays to catch their prey from the ground or a perch from a bush, tree, or large rock. They are mainly active at night, but can also be awake at dawn or dusk. They usually rest on the ground during the day.
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Here is a photograph of my guide, Mark Stackhouse, at one of the viewing areas on the Durango Hwy. You can see the hazy lighting conditions I've been whining about. Still had a great time there.
Now on to San Blas. Mark knew right where to find this hummer of a hummingbird. The elusive Mexican Woodnymph.
Sorry about that watermark but people were always stealing my photographs. The Mexican woodnymph (Thalurania ridgwayi) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae and is endemic to western Mexico. Its habitats include subtropical or tropical moist lowland/foothill forest and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss. It has been considered conspecific with the crowned woodnymph of Central and northern South America.
In some of the wetlands of san Blas, we found Spotted Rails.
These birds had to be coaxed out the thick waterplants by calling them.The Spotted Rail is a large rail of Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of South America. It is relatively poorly known, and is curiously distributed in widely disjunct patches. The species has proven to be a long distance vagrant, with a specimen record from southwestern Pennsylvania, USA. Adults are quite dark overall, with a tapered, yellow bill with red spots at the base of the mandible, blackish head with red eye, black and brown upperparts, black underparts with white spotting, and pinkish legs.
Moving to a different marsh we call up a Ridgeway's Rail…
Ridgway's Rail is a handsome gray-and-rusty bird that lives most of its life concealed in dense vegetation. It uses its formidable bill to probe into muddy wetlands for invertebrate prey. It lives in saltwater marshes, freshwater marshes, and mangrove swamps in California, Arizona, Nevada, and coastal western Mexico. Populations are declining largely due to wetland loss and degradation, and the species is listed in the U.S. as federally endangered. This species and Clapper Rail were considered the same species (along with Mangrove Rail) until 2014.
After moving to higher ground and listening carefully, we followed our ears to capture photos of these endemic Rufous-bellied Chachalacas.
The Rufous-bellied Chachalaca is a Mexican endemic found from southern Sonora to northwest Jalisco. The most richly colored chachalaca species, the Rufous-bellied Chachalaca has bright chestnut on the belly and undertail-coverts and a bare red skin patch around its eyes. These birds are found in tropical deciduous forest and thorn forest, as well as palm plantations and mangroves where they forage for fruit and berries. The Rufous-bellied Chachalaca is tolerant of human disturbance and is not a species of conservation concern.
Next is a nemesis bird for me. So darn hard to photograph. This is the best photo I could shoot of this shy bird. Constantly moving in mostly high branches is the beautiful Elegant Euphonia…
Unlike most euphonias that are attired in dark blue and yellow, the Elegant Euphonia sports turquoise and orange, similar to Antillean Euphonia (Euphonia musica) and Golden-rumped Euphonia (Euphonia cyanocephala), all three of which were once considered a single species. Most often, this dainty finch is encountered in humid, montane oak forests as high as about 3500 m. It occurs northward to Sonora and Nuevo Leon and southward to the highlands of western Panama. There, flocks, occasionally numbering dozens of individuals, may be seen feeding in clumps of fruiting mistletoe. The male's bright blue crown and orange belly aid in locating this tiny bird (length 11 cm) in the foliage of tall oaks. The female also sports a blue crown, but her green back and underparts is more cryptic among the green leaves. Elegant Euphonias undergo some seasonal and altitudinal movements, occasionally being found close to sea level….Moving on, I was able to add another new bird to my photo list. The Flammulated Flycatcher…
Originally described in the genus Myiarchus, Flammulated Flycatcher now generally is afforded its own, monotypic genus, although it has been suggested that the species is better treated as a member of Ramphotrigon. Needless to say, the plumage of Flammulated Flycatcher does recall that of a Myiarchus, but in size this species is smaller than most members of Myiarchus, and the pale supraloral, broken orbital ring, and streaked throat and breast all serve to distinguish Flammulated Flycatcher from any Myiarchus. This species appears to be a Mexican endemic: although postulated to range into Guatemala, no evidence for its occurrence in the latter country has been found to date. Flammulated Flycatcher inhabits dry deciduous woodland and thorn forest, as well as shade coffee plantations, and is found from sea level up to approximately 1400 m. Lastly for today, one of the most difficult to photograph birds I've ever tried shot. True to it's name, the Rusty-capped ground Sparrow dodged my camera lens by running along the ground only pausing long enough to tease me…
Its size ranges from six to seven inches (15–17.5 cm). The adult has a rufous crown with white lore spot and its face is olive brown with white eye ring while the upper parts grayish olive. Its throat and underparts are white with a black central chest spot and the undertail covers are pale cinnamon. Juveniles are dusky brown on the upper parts with the throat and underparts dirty pale lemon, streaked with brown.
Okay, I hope you enjoy today's blog. Happy birding! My new email is email@example.com
I fly in to Mazatlan to meet my guide, Mark Stackhouse firstname.lastname@example.com , who I have birded with in the past. He is in a class by himself and probably the best birding guide I have had. The plan is to bird the Durango Hwy. and then move on to San Blas. The views of Espenosa del Diablo (spine of the devil) mountains were unbelievable. National Geographic quality all the way. Talk about rugged, man oh man! Now on to the birds. Only had a week to shoot new birds, of which I did get 30 new species for my camera. The skies were hazy so the lighting was poor but following are photos of a few of my new birds…
This Red-headed Tanager insisted on staying under cover and constantly on the move made capturing an image difficult. The Red-headed Tanager is endemic to the mountains of western Mexico, where it occurs in pine-oak, evergreen, and semideciduous forests and forest edge. This is a small species of Piranga. The male, very distinctive, is olive above and yellow below, with a red head and throat. Females, however, completely lack red on the head; they are olive above and yellow below, with a paler belly. Red-headed Tanagers travel as pairs or in small groups, which often associate with mixed species flocks. They forage from the midstory into the canopy, and consume both insects and small fruits and berries. The nest is a cup of twigs and other vegetation well up in a tree, but otherwise little is known about the breeding biology of the Red-headed Tanager.
One of my target birds was the Colima Pygmy Owl and Mark didn't disappoint me. He never does. Check out this cutie Mark called in just by whistling a call.
I think this owl was as interested in us as we were in it. Colima Pygmy-Owl is a newly-recognized species. Previously these populations were classified as subspecies of Least Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium minutissimum), although now the name Least Pygmy-Owl is applied only to the birds in eastern South America. Colima Pygmy-Owl occurs on the west slope of Mexico, from Sonora south to Oaxaca. This species overlaps geographically with the slightly larger Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium brasilianum), but Colima Pygmy-Owl can be distinguished by its shorter tail, spotted crown, and different song. This species occurs in thorn forest, semi-deciduous forests, and coffee plantations, and locally also in pine-oak forests. The song of Colima Pygmy-Owl is a short series of hollow hooting notes. As is typical of Glaucidium, Colima Pygmy-Owl is partially diurnal and hunts for invertebrates and small vertebrates, but there is very little information available about its biology.
Another target bird I was really hoping to photograph is this Golden Vireo. An absolutely gorgeous bird that never sits still for a photo shoot.
Then off we go hiking and listening for the bird of the day. I think this is the largest Jay in the world, the awesome, noisy Tufted Jay of Durango.
It was kind of funny. Once we found this flock of Jays, sometimes called a "party" they followed us back, keeping a distance, to where the car was parked. Mexico is the best country in the world for jays. More species of jays can be found here than in any other country on earth. Sixteen resident species to be exact. The state of Nayarit on the central Pacific coast of Mexico holds one of the highest diversities with a total of seven species represented, including the endemic San Blas Jay, Purplish-backed Jay and the very localized Tufted Jay. Black-throated Magpie-jays are common in Nayarit and are also regarded as endemic to Mexico – except for a small disputed population in southern California which most experts regard as originating from escaped captive birds.
I almost did't want to show this next picture to y'all because it's so dark, but I'm going to. These hard to find, deep brush finches were really putting on a musical show for us. Singing and singing. Green-striped Brush Finches.
Again, following our ears, ahead and way down a valley we could hear the calls of yet another target bird. Mark new the place to look and listen for the spectacular Military Macaws.
I've photographed these birds before but at that time we couldn't get any closer than seeing them flying about a mile away. Still a very shy bird I got a little closer this time. The military macaw (Ara militaris) is a large parrot and a medium-sized macaw. Though considered vulnerable as a wild species, it is still commonly found in the pet trade industry. It is found in the forests of Mexico and South America. It gets its name from its predominantly green plumage resembling a military parade uniform.
I'll try to blog some more about the Durango Hwy. birds and then San Blas. But I'll be heading over to Colima, Mexico soon and then off to Costa Rica. The plane ride to Costa Rica is the pits but the birds are worth it. Hopefully this time I'll get the Jabiru.
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Here on the East Cape we have two Hummingbird species that are commonly seen at our feeders. I have photos of 38 different types of hummers and I thought I'd share some of them with you today. First photo will be that of the Baja endemic Xantus's Hummingbird.
Xantus Hummingbird is a medium-sized hummingbird that can only be found in Baja, California. The bird is deemed to be the most distinctive among the few Baja specialty birds. It grows to a length of 3-3.5 inches, and weighs about 3-4 grams upon maturity. It was named after a Hungarian zoologist, John Xantus de Vesey. Debbie's photo of a Xantus's graces the cover of our book, "Birds We See" in Baja. It is also featured in the book, "Hummingbirds of the World" with our permission. The next bird is the hummer most often seen here, the Costa's Hummingbird.
The desert might seem like a bad place for a creature that feeds at flowers, but it is the favored habitat for Costa's Hummingbird. In Arizona and California deserts, this species nests during late winter and spring, and most then avoid the hot summer by migrating to coastal California and Baja. The thin, high-pitched whistle of the male is often heard over desert washes in early spring. We move to the high mountains of Costa Rica. The Volcano Hummingbird.
Lesser Violetear is locally common in montane regions of southern Central America and of South America, from Costa Rica south to northern Argentina, and east to the coastal mountains of northern Venezuela. Formerly Lesser was included with Mexican Violetear (Colibri thalassinus), which occurs from Mexico to Nicaragua, as a single species ("Green Violetear", C. thalassinus), but Mexican and Lesser violetears differ significantly from one another in plumage, and now are classified as separate species. All species of violetears (Colibri), including Lesser, have a patch of elongated violet feathers on the sides of the head (hence the English name). Lesser Violetear otherwise is mostly glittering green; most populations have a purely green breast, lacking the bright blue breast patch of Mexican Violetear, but reportedly some specimens of Lesser, from the northern part of the range, in Costa Rica, also may have some blue on the underparts. Lesser Violetear inhabits highland humid forest borders, clearings and highland pastures, and is resident throughout its range. I took this photo of an Ana's Hummingbird in Oregon.
Anna's Hummingbirds are among the most common hummingbirds along the Pacific Coast, yet they're anything but common in appearance. With their iridescent emerald feathers and sparkling rose-pink throats, they are more like flying jewelry than birds. Though no larger than a ping-pong ball and no heavier than a nickel, Anna's Hummingbirds make a strong impression. In their thrilling courtship displays, males climb up to 130 feet into the air and then swoop to the ground with a curious burst of noise that they produce through their tail feathers.
Soon I'll be traveling to the mainland to bird with Mark Stackhouse, one of the best birding guides ever. I should have some adventures to blog about. 'til later Happy Birding.
Sunny, clear and calm today. Weather looks great for some estuary birding. Yes, me myself and I. After loosing Debbie to cancer, here goes some little steps forward. Upon arrival the estuary looks like it was hit by a flooding, rip-roaring tornado. I don't even recognize most of it. At least most of the man-made debris is gone. Birds all over the place but they are very shy. Extremely difficult, even for stalking expert (yah right) me, to get close for good photography but here goes…
I do my best to sneak up and get a close shot of these ducks but they are nervous and soon fly off. Two scaup species live in North America: the Greater Scaup prefers salt water and is found in America and Eurasia, while the Lesser Scaup prefers freshwater and is found only in North America. The Lesser Scaup is one of the most abundant and widespread of the diving ducks in North America. I'm sorry that I scared them off, certainly not my intention. I see some more ducks ahead and decide to settle for further off photos of them today. Okay, I can see this is a Ring-necked Duck.
You can see for yourself how alert this bird is. The male Ring-necked Duck is a sharply marked bird of gleaming black, gray, and white. Females are rich brown with a delicate face pattern. At distance, look for this species' distinctive, peaked head to help you identify it. Even though this species dives for its food, you can find it in shallow wetlands such as beaver swamps, ponds, and bays. Of all the diving duck species, the Ring-necked Duck is most likely to drop into small ponds during migration. I see another small flocks of ducks swimming quickly away from nosy me. With that crescent stuck on the male Blue-winged Teal's face, this is an easy bird to I.D.
Pairs and small groups of this tiny dabbling duck inhabit shallow ponds and wetlands across much of North America. Blue-winged Teal are long distance migrants, with some birds heading all the way to South America for the winter. Therefore, they take off early on spring and fall migration, leaving their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada well before other species in the fall. I hear a sandpiper I'm familiar with and looking ahead, out in the shallow water I see a pair of Greater Yellowlegs.
Long, yellow legs. We can see where this bird gets it's name. There is a Lesser Yellowlegs but they are seldom seen in Baja Sur. A common, tall, long-legged shorebird of freshwater ponds and tidal marshes, the Greater Yellowlegs frequently announces its presence by its piercing alarm calls. Up ahead is one of my favorite shorebirds. The busy Spotted sandpiper.
The dapper Spotted Sandpiper makes a great ambassador for the notoriously difficult-to-identify shorebirds. They occur all across North America, they are distinctive in both looks and actions, and they're handsome. They also have intriguing social lives in which females take the lead and males raise the young. With their richly spotted breeding plumage, teetering gait, stuttering wingbeats, and showy courtship dances, this bird is among the most notable and memorable shorebirds in North America. Up ahead I see what looks like mice running all over the sand but I know what's going on. These are the always pretty and wary Semipalmated Plovers.
Now it's time for me to fly off somewhere for the rest of the day. Hope you enjoyed todays blog. I still haven't fixed my new email to this site. Feel free to contact me direct if you want—firstname.lastname@example.com
As most of you know by now, my darling wife Debbie, and I lost her 12 year struggle with cancer in September. Diagnosed with Ovarian cancer with a prognosis of living six months, we decided right away to stop working 24/7 and travel the world, cameras in hand. While on safaris in Botswana we noticed while other couples watched the lions and elephants from one side of the Land Rover, we were captured by the beauty of the birds. Thats when I came up with the idea of writing a book named "Birds WE See" and donate the profits to cancer research.
I thought after 12 years of surgeries, chemo and living life around hospitals, even being Life-Flighted back to the states from other countries a few times, that I might be able to cope with my loss. My family, friends and the birds remind me that Debbie, also known as "Lotta Tidbits", is no longer in pain but my heart is still broken. She was a strong and brave woman.
Trying to get my life back, I took a boat ride from Los Barriles to a "fishing spot". While the captain was focused on catching fish, which we did, I spotted a "different" bird (new to me I thought). From the rocking boat I took my first photo since Debbie's passing. Turns out the speedy, diving, single species is a Nazca Booby. Although I had photographed them in The Galapogas Islands it is a rarity for these parts. I reported the bird, photo included, to eBird and it was confirmed and given the "rare bird" designation it deserved.
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The weather is looking stormy today so I thought I'd pull up some photos of estuary birds to take a look at. We all know the golden slippers and dark beaks of the Snowy Egret sets it apart from the Great Egret, which has black legs and a yellowish bill.
I have wonderful memories of sitting in the sand watching and photographing Reddish Egrets as they chase baitfish all around the shallows. Beautiful birds they are!
Black-crowned Night Herons occasionally make an appearance here. Unlike the Reddish Egrets, they tend to forage with less enthusiasm and are often spotted sitting in trees.
What a lucky pair Debbie and I are to be able to walk or even drive a short distance to see birds like the colorful Green Heron.
And Little Blue Herons.
Plus Tri-colored Herons that, like Reddish Egrets, put on quit a show running around, chasing little fishes to feed on.
We've even seen a Yellow-crowned Night Heron once in a while.
Probably considered the king of Herons most people see, The Great Blue Heron is a magnificent bird. Sooo graceful!
Over on the mainland they are a few herons that don't seem to be too big on Baja. Like the Bare-throated tiger Heron, an out-standing bird we shot on one of our birding trips.
Just looked up and out the window to see a whale breaching. Gotta go watch so, catch you later! Happy Birding from Chris and Debbie………like us if you do.
Birded some of the west-side of the lagoons today. Very quiet. Judging from the amount of the trash left on the beach, there were a lot of people out here over the week-end (errrrh!!!). How can people be like this. I could hear some Yellowthroats in the brush ahead. The Common or the critically endangered Belding's Yellowthroat (I hope). I can't tell them apart when they are just making their contact "buzzing" sound. I see it! Yes, a Belding's.
I'm walking along the edge of the brackish water watching a Reddish Egret chasing fish around. It stops when it sees me and poses for a photograph.
I hear a splash and swing my camera to the right just in time to catch this Blue-winged Teal taking off making a bunch of noisy squawks.
I lower the camera but up it comes again (this is work!) when I see a beautiful Cinnamon Teal.
Keeping an eye out for that sneaky bobcat that lives around here somewhere I follow a cattle trail into the brush. Right away I get smacked in the face by a thorn bush and now I'm bleeding (can bobcats smell blood). Ignoring the wound, I move in the direction of a raucous being create in the bushes ahead. I see little birds so I pissssh a few times. (remember? put your lips together and say pish–pisssh quietly) Here comes a Gray Vireo to challenge me. Its looking me all over to see where the bird that's pisshing is, ignoring me all together. The Vireo stays in the shadows but I take a pic and it turns out okay.
A ways behind but acting just as curious as the vireo is another bird that responds to pisshing. An Orange-crowned Warbler.
The last bird for today is a Cassin's Kingbird. There are 4 or 6 of these birds hawking insects. The weather is kind of hazy so the lighting isn't real good today but it's great being out and about.
Have a great day from Chris and Debbie and HAPPY BIRDING!!!

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Hi Bobby.
I'm not exactly sure I'm following. Usually these discussions about about a particular judge and the quality of his or her casuistry. If we are now talking different judges, I see two cans of worms here. One is in the realm of something post modern, the other is the bane of classicism. Let's take old school first. Back in the day, it was common to want to believe that a universal method existed for judging law. If efforts in brain science, cognition, philosophy, law, logic, metaphysics or what have you produce such a thing, then I suppose it would be proper to expect all judges to use the correct method. But because we live in a jurisprudential and epistemological world where formalism and universality has given way to concepts like structure and integrity, we live in a world where judges are only expected to have a good method or defensible reasons for what they do. So there are plenty of reasons why judges would have different approaches, much the
same way that in dietetics there are different approaches (zone, Atkins, food pyramid). We know from the failings of the past that "law" cannot be a hard science.
Now, let's go in the other direction. Would we ever reach the position where we might say that Judge A should use method X and Judge B should use method Y (as in, proscribing this)? The only argument here would be something like this. Let's say judge A's brain is good at math and abstract reasoning, while Judge B's brain is good a social intelligence. Let's say, as a result, A is a good philosopher but has poor common sense. And B is very good at seeing how people feel and is especially well read in literature. If there ever arises a case that the law could afford a resolution either way -- let's say, a strip search of a girl in high school -- then how A and B come to understand things in their brain might be important. A might say, how is this different from locker room dressing (using the faculty of comparison and contrast). B might process through the lens of social construction and see empathy. Both might reach the same conclusion -- the
search goes too far. But in each case, we might argue that A's brain can only get at the world through A's way, and so it is for B. And one might argue that A needs B around to talk about the case and visa versa. A needs reminded about things he cannot see as much as B does. And so, we might say of these two judges that A should use more formalistic techniques because they are what he or she is good at, and B should use other important cognitive tasks because they need to be there too. So if in the end we want really good cognition of problems, maybe we need each judge to have methods that are becoming of their traits.
Just an idea. I wonder if this query is not similar to asking whether business partners or competitors should use the same logics. My sense is that if there is one that is superior, we would have to use it, but if not, it is whatever makes for a more enriched perspective/context.
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Fatah and PA cartoons link Eurovision music to violence
by Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Maurice Hirsch
May 19, 2019
Fatah and PA cartoons
link Eurovision music to violence
By Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Maurice Hirsch
Last night The Netherlands won the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv. During the week leading up to the final,
Fatah campaigned for the boycott
of the Eurovision as documented by
Palestinian Media Watch
, but to no avail. Today, both Fatah and the Palestinian Authority daily published cartoons linking Israeli music to violence, including the visual depiction of the common PA libel that Israel intentionally kills civilians.
Fatah posted the cartoon above on Facebook, showing an Israeli soldier shooting at Palestinians in Gaza. Musical notes are flowing from the "Eurovision" but turn into an ammunition belt for the soldier's machine gun.
Posted text in English:
"#Palestine #Eurovision #gaza #free_palestine"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, May 19, 2019]
In a second cartoon posted by Fatah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dressed up as Israeli singer Netta Barzilai who won last year's Eurovision and brought the competition to Israel. Netanyahu is holding a missile in each hand:
Posted text, part in Arabic and part in English:
"Our blessings to the world's liberals
[Official Fatah Facebook page, May 19, 2019]
The text refers to the fact that the Eurovision competitors from Iceland held a banner in the colors of the Palestinian flag with "Palestine" written on it.
The official PA daily reacted to the Eurovision being held in Israel with this cartoon, showing an Israeli soldier playing a saxophone with a bullet being fired from it at the ruins of a building. Text on cartoon in English: "Eurovision 2019":
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Team Behind Lers Ros Thai To Bring 'Esan Classic' To The Tenderloin This Summer [Hoodline]
Courtesy of Hoodline:
A new Northeastern Thai food joint is headed directly across the street from Lers Ros Thai's original location on Larkin Street this summer.
As we previously reported, the Esan Classic is the brainchild of Lers Ros owner and chef Tom Silargorn and his co-chef, Chanon Hutasingh. Esan is moving into 743 Larkin St. (between Olive and O'Farrell streets), which formerly housed the popular pizza and martini spot Olive. Read the full article here.


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Well, the Wit has been awfully busy the last couple of months, but will soon resume the festivities here.
In the meantime....
This is not usually the kind of thing I do here, but it so happens that some friends sent me links to three videos (about 5-6 minutes each) that really made a difference to me today. My thanks to them for lifting my spirits.
First, watch this one: http://www.slide.com/r/yEEUvHngxz-5I7R9qF_IQLgrt1ryM9mV
Next, this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eadD2-9ZrmE
And finally, this one: http://www.slide.com/r/kgABqIos6T8M0FG4VtXgTy-7rMosbzU2
I thought I'd had a really bad last couple of days.... while none of them are connected to the holiday season, I find myself feeling much more celebratory.
If I don't write anything else before then, a merry & blessed Christmas & wonderful new year to all.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Change Your Perspective, Change Your Day
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text: Accordion news! Submitted by Rick on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 9:47am The Scandalli accordion the late Mike Howley bequeathed to the side is doing well, as seen in the picture below. It was entrusted to Chris Toyne last Christmas, who can be seen playing it in Sherborne, Dorset. In Chris' words: Read more about Accordion news!Log in or register to post comments


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Mikveh Immersion
Mikveh (ritual bath) immersion is an ancient practice that honors the sacred nature of our experiences and our bodies. Immersions can mark life transitions such as weddings, births, healing from illness or trauma, significant birthdays, b'nei mitzvah, divorce, pregnancy loss, fertility struggles, and mourning.
One of our trained mikveh guides will welcome you at the mikveh and facilitate a supportive, safe immersion experience from start to finish. We do not have our own ImmerseNYC mikveh yet but our guides are able to facilitate immersions at a mikveh in Manhattan and a mikveh in Westchester. In addition, we provide suggested readings blessings and a framework for your ritual.
About Mikveh Guides
ImmerseNYC Mikveh Guides facilitate the community mikveh immersion process, from first contact at the mikveh through preparation, immersion and post-immersion reflection. They offer Jews, or those becoming Jews, a personal and spiritual experience to recognize and honor life's transitions. Mikveh guides are an extraordinary group of volunteers with a range of backgrounds and experiences. What they hold in common is their commitment to providing a compassionate presence for your ritual. Guides are selected and trained by ImmerseNYC staff and give their time and expertise as an act of sacred service. Please note that we often have multiple immersions in a morning or evening, and so you may occasionally have to wait for brief periods while your ImmerseNYC mikveh guide is supporting others. We thank you for your patience and flexibility in this.
The Immersion Process
Contact our Immersion Coordinator (firstname.lastname@example.com) to set a day and time for your immersion with an ImmerseNYC mikveh guide. Immersion appointments can be made for Tuesday or Thursday evenings (after sundown, varies by season) or Wednesday mornings (9:00am-11:00am). All of our immersions are by appointment only. You can also use our online booking form.
The mikveh where we guide immersions charges $30 for an evening immersion, $60 for a daytime immersion, and $50 for a bridal immersion. ImmerseNYC does not charge for immersions, however you are welcome to make a donation to support ImmerseNYC through the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan..
If you are coming with friends or family to support you, please note that these immersions must be scheduled for morning appointments, as the mikveh is too crowded in the evenings to accommodate groups.
At the Mikveh:
You will meet the ImmerseNYC Mikveh Guide in front of the mikveh and walk into the building together.
The ImmerseNYC Mikveh Guide will help you get checked in at the mikveh, where you will pay the mikveh. They take cash, check, or credit cards. ImmerseNYC does not charge for immersions. The mikveh will assign you to an individual preparation room. Depending on how busy the mikveh is, you may have to wait for a room to become available.
Ritual Creation:
Before entering the room, you'll have a chance to introduce yourself to your Mikveh Guide. The Mikveh Guide is there to support you and facilitate your immersion as you wish. You can share as much or as little of your story as you'd like, and together you can create an immersion ritual.
A suggested practice is to say one kavannah, intention, before immersing. You can say something from your heart or choose something from one of the pre-written rituals. Some people just say something they want to experience in the mikveh. Your guide can also read something for you, if you'd like.
You can also frame your immersion with the following:
Before the first dunk: Think about where are you coming from/what do you hope to leave behind in the mikveh waters.
Before the second dunk: Think about where you are now.
Before the third dunk: Think about where you hope to move forward to/what you hope to take out of the mikveh with you.
You may choose a song for you and/or your guide to sing as you descend.
You can choose to go in the mikveh room with your guide, friends or family, or alone.
In the Preparation Room:
Once you've decided what the immersion will consist of, you will go into your private preparation room to undress, bathe, and spiritually prepare yourself for immersion. The preparation rooms are very comfortable and have everything you would need—robe, towels, combs, shampoo, soap, toothbrush, contact lens solution, bathtub, shower, hair dryers, etc. If you have specific toiletries you would like to use, you are welcome to also bring those along.
You can use the ImmerseNYC Guide for the Preparation Room if you find it meaningful. This is a guide for your physical and spiritual preparations for you to go through before you immerse.
When you're ready, you can put on the robe or towel in the preparation room and meet your Mikveh Guide at the door. You will then walk down a short hallway together to the mikveh.
In the Mikveh:
If your Mikveh Guide is with you, they will hold your robe or towel as you go down the steps into the water. They will hold the towel in front of their eyes, so they are not seeing you undressed.
When you are ready, immerse. It is an option to have your guide say "kosher" when you emerge to indicate that you were fully under water after each immersion. If they are confirming this for you, they will lower the towel only when hearing the water splash.
It is customary to immerse three times, but you can do it however many times you'd like. You or your guide can say something each time or you can immerse in silence or song. Before your last time, it is suggested to say an intention for what you want to either leave behind or take with you or any other kind of blessing you desire.
Once you are finished immersing, you can stay in the mikveh for as long as you like. Your guide can leave you alone or stay in the room – let them know which you prefer. When you are ready to get out, your guide can help you back into your towel or robe and walk you back to the preparation room. Take the time you need as transition is a precious opportunity for holiness.
After Immersing:
The Mikveh Guide will walk you back to your preparation room, where you can get dressed and ready to leave. There are hair dryers in a shared room upstairs at the mikveh that you are welcome to use.
The Mikveh Guide will walk you out of the mikveh.
May you be blessed with what it is that you most need.
Email ImmerseNYC's Immersion Coordinator (firstname.lastname@example.com) for more information.


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Alan – Black Man in a Wheelchair
34 cut out images of Alan , an Asian man, in a wheelchair. We've removed the backgrounds from the character so that you can easily add Alan to any background in your eLearning course or presentation. Additionally, if you need more expressions, we have a complementary set of able-body images of Alan that you can zoom-in on for more variety.


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Salud, salaud.
It's really important that you know this isn't a lager. I'm going to throw a lot of words at you in a bit. Dry-hopped. Pinot noir. Bacteria. The farmhouse at the beginning of Westworld. Smith Rock. This beer is none of those things. But before I get into too many descriptors -- all aboard along this gastronomic voyage -- here's a cute little picture of a cute little beer.
If you're used to swimming in the ocean/sea -- this beer will make you feel like you've just dived into a river/lake. There's a lot of the same (rapid temperature change, you're wet, something's touching your foot), but something's off.
"This is going to be so much fun." - Girlfriend
In this case it's a feature, not a bug. The pinot noir and brettanomyces (not sure if that's right) give this its own personality. I'm really digging it. It's also a gorgeous beer. Even though this stylistic pastiche is far from the boring PNW IPAs I dump inside me on the reg., I feel like I could add it to the rotation. In fact, drinking it more would probably make me better at describing it.
Keep knocking it out of the park, Breakside!


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There are times when the struggles and challenges we face, whether individually or collectively, dominate our outlook and limit our ability to see beyond where we are. But the work of Martin Luther King Jr. is a potent reminder of how powerful imagination becomes in a world that sometimes overwhelms. When I have a week like this past one, which had me second-guessing myself at every turn and mentally preoccupied with my perceived shortcomings, I manage to remember that I live a privileged life and operate from a position of at least some degree of power and authority. This would not have been possible had our civil rights forebears not dreamed big dreams about what might be possible some day.
So while we tend to focus on the legacy of MLK during the national holiday dedicated to his memory, we are also confronted with a clear call to action to continue imagining and dreaming and planning and doing.
For myself, this means looking beyond my own circumstances, acknowledging that I come from a long line of folks who never could have comprehended teaching at a university let alone attending one, thanking my lucky stars for the numerous sacrifices made on my behalf before I ever came into existence and rolling up my sleeves.
Yes, creativity has its place when it comes to addressing peace and justice issues, and I have a responsibility to use my own imagination toward conceiving of the kind of culture and society I want to help shape beyond the here and now.
Case in point: I work in a field that cannot, unfortunately, boast much in the way of ethnic diversity. Rather than fall into the trap of simply complaining or lamenting that fact, however, it's incumbent upon me to do what I can to change those circumstances for the budding designers of color in my wake. And while I'm in the midst of figuring out specific ways to help pave the way for those coming up behind me, I am inspired by the people and organizations that are already fostering opportunities for young people who might not otherwise have access to the same kind of support and resources that I've had.
One such organization, Moving the Lives of Kids (MLK) Community Mural Project, is a testament to the power of both collaboration and creative vision. Based out of Pittsburgh, the group boasts numerous mural sites that are scattered throughout the United States as well as in Haiti and Brazil. The Broken Windows Project specifically, which was implemented in Pittsburgh's Hill District, involved collaborative efforts between professional artists and hundreds of students from the district "using paintbrushes to fight neighborhood blight."
A truly incredible example of the contribution art and design can make within a community, providing both educational and artistic opportunities for students, and transforming what was once a collection of vacant buildings into a beautified space, complete with imagery reflecting the history of the area. Right on.
I certainly admire MLK as a historical figure. But more than that, I honor his imaginative ability and subsequent determination to build and create something better—not just for himself but for countless others whom he would never meet or know.


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Okay, now I've fixed it so that we have a gadget list on the sidebar that shows all the labels, arranged in order of number of labels.
Another hint I'd like to share concerns LINKS. Look at the toolbar on the new post posting page. In addition to the little icon for inserting a picture, there is the word LINK. If there is something in your post you'd like readers to know more about (for example, in my recent post I thought readers might like to see a print of Van Gogh's "Vincent's Chair"), you highlight those words (or a single word). Then you will be automatically sent to a page where you can enter the URL for the page where you suggest readers go. On the post itself, this link will appear in a different color. Thus in my recent post, I gave readers an opportunity to go not only to see the original painting, but I liked them also to another one of my blogs that explained in more detail Marcia Stein's method of binding, whereby the binding blends in with the sides of the quilt.
The way I handle this task is to first find the place where I want readers to go. Then I copy the URL. When I highlight that place, I then can quickly past the URL in the little box. For example, if I mention that I used machine couching in my quilt, I could highlight that and then send any interested reader to an explanation for how to couch by machine.
Links are fun, I think; anytime you mention a product or a process that you feel could use more explanation, use a Link!


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Betta Basics™ is designed to provide the optimal environment for both betta and plant. Betta Basics™ removes any chlorine, chloramine and detoxifies ammonia. It buffers the water to a pH of 7.0 and provides a healthy environment for fish and plant. Feed NutriDiet® Betta Pellet Food for optimal fish health.
Sizes: 60 mL, 250 mL, 2 L
Use with each water change. For best results also use 2–3 times per week. Add 1 capful (5 mL) per each 1.25 L (1.25 quarts) of water. In Betta-only bowls (i.e. no plant) use 1 capful per 4 L (1 US gallon) with water changes.
A: It is best to do a water change 1-2 times per week. Betta Basics™ will not clear the water and I wouldn't recommend a clarifier to you because of no mechanical filtration. The problem is in a Betta environment the organics tend to build fairly quickly with no filtration. You may want to reduce feedings to at least once a day, no more food than your betta can consume in a few minutes.
A: It is fine to put the betta in the bowl immediately after using Betta Basics™ as long as the temperature is consistent.
A: Yes, Betta Basics™ is fine to use in the bowl with the fish on a regular basis to maintain pH and water quality.
A: This environment is OK for betta fish. They come from areas in Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, etc.) that flood and drain leaving not much more than stagnant mud puddles. Bettas live in these mud puddles. When it floods again, betta fish are allowed to mingle and breed. They feed largely off of insect larvae in these mud puddles/wet areas.
A: Technically speaking, you only "need" to add Betta Basics™ when either a) your pH is slipping outside your preferred range, b) you are adding new water to the tank, or c) you have detected ammonia or nitrite in the system that needs to be detoxified. Most betta keepers do not regularly test their water for ammonia, nitrite, or pH, and want a simple solution that will condition, buffer, and detoxify all at once without fear of overdose. For this reason, we recommend to add the product once a week, even if you are not doing a water change, as this will ensure that your pH remains at neutral and that any minor spikes in ammonia or nitrite are detoxified before they can do damage to the fish.
Can't find what you're looking for? Ask us a new question. One of the experts from our technical support staff will be happy to promptly respond. You can also call 888‑732‑0003 (Monday- Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST) if you would like to speak directly with a technical support representative.


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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Celebrates Its Revival at Raucous Comic-Con Panel — Watch
The highlight of this year's Comic-Con is quite easy. I had the honor of moderating this year's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" panel, which was a celebration of the show's revival on NBC after having been canceled by Fox. The cast came ready to play, and I knew the audience was ready to go the second I asked them for a "NINE NINE!"
Here's who participated:
o Luke Del Tredici (WRITER)
o Dan Goor (EP)
o Andy Samberg (JAKE PERALTA)
o Melissa Fumero (AMY SANTIAGO)
o Terry Crews (TERRY JEFFORDS)
o Stephanie Beatriz (ROSA DIAZ)
o Joe Lo Truglio (CHARLES BOYLE)
o Chelsea Peretti (GINA LINETTI)
o Dirk Blocker (HITCHCOCK)
o Joel McKinnon Miller (SCULLY)
NBC has uploaded the entire panel, watch below!
And a quick shot from the stage:
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text: Saturdays September 25, 2010personalbecci amesComment This is how I have been spending my Saturdays. Watching little people play soccer is wickedly entertaining. Examples: My daughter scored a goal, for the other team! And of course, she was enormously proud of herself!!! (and so was I) Stopping to pick flowers during the huddle. Life is good.