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Whenever I think of my favourite photos, this one is always in the running. I can still hear the piercing cry as the hawk circled above me on that hot summer evening on the prairies.
No compromise is good. Right? I think of principled action, standing up against societal pressure or getting it right. I envision a movie plot where the hero sticks to his values whether it means winning or going down in a blaze of glory.
On the other side, compromise sounds like what committees do to get everyone comfortable, leading to a vague final statement that offends no one and does nothing.
When I think of no compromise in photography, my mind goes to excellence. I want to own no compromise in my photos! But the reality is that on most days I look at my photos and see areas to improve. Then I look at other photographers' photos and find beauty. Even I can see a bit of an issue there!
The other day I stumbled upon a simple idea – perhaps every wildlife photo is a compromise. It stopped me in my tracks. You may be thinking that I've just crashed into the obvious … and you're right. But you have to understand that sometimes I don't give up my ideals easily. Maybe it happens more than I think.
I see a wild animal and inevitably there are issues to overcome such as pouring rain. I quickly make adjustments to capture the best photo I can. That sounds suspiciously like compromise.
If the photo will be a compromise, then I am freed to make the best photo I can under the circumstances. Somehow that perspective feels liberating and not about compromising in a bad way. It's entirely possible for a photo to be beautiful and still have areas that could be improved. Maybe there's even a life principle tucked away in there somewhere.
But just for the record, my movie heroes still aren't going to compromise their principles. And maybe someday I get to take a wildlife photo where there is no compromise!
Jaw dropping photography, simply amazing. Wildlife photography is not really my discipline however I can say I am truly enjoying many of the photographs on your blog.
For better and worse I'm hooked on wildlife photography. I'm glad you liked it.
Thank you. That's about the highest, unselfish praise you could give. It was an amazing moment that lives on through the memories generated by the photo.
Killer shot of this Swainson's Hawk in flight!!!
Thanks so much. It was a magical moment.
Thanks – that's a long ways away so that's pretty good.
"If the photo will be a compromise, then I am freed to make the best photo I can under the circumstances." – I think for a photo that is not a compromise you must be in control of the circumstances. The more 'circumstances' you can control, the fewer compromises you have to make. Somebody working in a studio ought to make near perfect photographs if they photograph inanimate objects. A way of photographing insects might be to take them into the studio – perhaps a tank set up with strobe lighting.
If we rely on chance to take our wildlife pictures we increase the circumstances that work against our ability to produce a good photograph.
I have seen Woodpeckers in my garden, but I wouldn't put much hope in taking a good photograph of one there – I'd increase chance by finding a wood and then a tree in a wood, maybe a nest. I'd then work out the best positions to photograph, etc etc.
It makes sense that there is a relationship between how much I control the circumstances and how much I need to compromise – you described it well.
I suppose I am a bit of an idealist since I really like to take photos of creatures in their normal habitat. I recognize it is a lot more difficult but I have had just enough success to keep me going. There is also the thrill of the hunt in being able to catch wild creatures. As you suggest, it makes it a lot easier if I can find a nest or regular spot where they tend to return.
Whatever way we look at it we cannot be successful unless we actually go out there and do it.
I can hear the hawk as I look at the image. No I can hear a hawk – its a young collared goshawk who has chosen the trees around my place as it's hunting grounds. Most of my images are of it sitting high in the trees tearing some little bird to bits. I I could come close to getting a shot like yours I will be one very happy photographer. Its just great!!
Thanks – it was a great day when I got it and the photo brings it all back. And I would be happy to have a goshawk hunting around my place. Sounds wonderful.
Now for a comment from a real amateur photographer. 🙂 Your truly-beautiful photos inspire me.
I have just discovered your blog and website, and I am in awe. I have such a long way to go! But I know that it is not only the destination, but also the journey that attracts me. If I must choose, I would always rather see the wildlife through my naked eye and miss the shot if I have to, than miss out on both in my aim for perfection.
Though others may argue, I choose to think of my photos not as compromises, but as the best I was able to do under the circumstances of the moment. They are what they are. And they do help me on my trek to wherever I may go next. They give me joy in the capture, and in the post-viewing/processing/posting. In fact, I see in them a reflection of both my limited abilities and also of life as I saw it during my shoot. Indeed, both are compromises.
I love your "compromises" if that's what they are! Thank you for sharing.
I appreciate those thotful and kind comments. I am honoured that you find the photos inspiring.
I'm glad you made the comment about the journey because we are all on a journey to improve. Knowing what's truly important to you is great insight. Sometimes I'm not so sure.
The concept of no compromise was intentionally provocative, in no small part directed to me as a reminder to enjoy the beauty of all stages as you so accurately described. This photo has done that in so many ways. Every time I see it, I am transported back and all my senses relive the experience.
Awesome flight shot Lyle, and you captured a great expression. It's essentially perfect. I think you have to approach photography with a sort of perfectionism, at least I do. If I don't, then I don't wake up in time, I don't bushwack to that better point of view, etc. But in appreciating both the process and the results, perfectionism does what it usually does; it lessens the joy. Also, it's art, so very subjective.
Thanks – I really like that expression.
I think you have precisely captured the essence of the struggle. I want better photos and more joy at the same time. Tough to get.
Thanks so much. It's a special one to me.
I think that every photo is a compromise – it's the nature of photography. Focus, light, depth – all are traded off. I went to a seminar about landscapes and saw some amazing work – printed images over 10 feet across, pin sharp. Turns out that the photog is shooting very long exposures – he can show you amazing detail, motion spoils it – even the wind ruins his exposure.
I think that hawk shot is amazing – what else could you want? A cloud? Really special shot. I think we see the compromise in our own work much more so than we do in others.
Landscapes 10 feet across would be something. No question there would be compromises made there. I qualified it with wildlife because I was thinking about studio shots where you can bring in the light to make your shot. But landscapes would require serious choices in changing light.
No question we see the compromises in our work much more clearly. This post was an attempt to rebalance my pursuit of excellence with just enjoying my photos. I enjoyed the irony of putting up one of my best photos with it. The next photo I post won't be half as good but I still like it. See – its working.
I do studio shots at work – product and model photography – there certainly is more control, but very little freedom. I totally get it though – I see things I wish I had done differently or better in almost every photo. It's so important to enjoy your shots and the experience of capturing them.
I didn't know you shot in the studio at work – that makes you infinitely more knowledgeable in that area! I dread having to blow the dust off my flash to actually use it and find little freedom or fun in using it.
I find the studio very functional & mechanical. Most of what I shoot is clipped and photoshopped – so there's mostly no composition. I did write a post about cameras that I shot in the studio. I only carry a tiny pocket flash and a flexible macro light in my kit. I use them for macro shots – and only rarely.
I can see where the fun factor is reduced. And no deer wander into the studio!
Bloody fantastic shot, sharp as a tack, and great position, LOVE IT… you should be extremely proud of that moving photo, I love how the mouth is open.EXCELLENT!!!
It was just one of those magical evenings with a red sky and the hawk just kept circling around me giving lots of opportunities fire away. And fire I did. I am very pleased with the shot. Thank you for all those wonderful accolades.
Thanks. I wish they all turned out like this one! Perfectionist is one of those provocative words, like compromise, that carries some negative overtones at least for me. I will readily admit to enjoying excellence in a few areas and photography is one of them. You might call it perfectionist. I'm guessing I'm like others in that I completely balance it out in other areas.
Thank you. And if only you could hear that fierce cry at the same time.
I can see why this is the photo that comes to mind when you think of your favorites. The hawk's expression is fierce, the shot, beyond spectacular. Now it too is one of my favorites. Thank you hardly seems enough for sharing your gift.
I'm glad I made it to your favourite list! It's fun to share and interact about something that means a lot to me. I appreciate the comments.
Dear Lyle, I am no great shakes in taking pictures,but I can only say that my vocabulary is drying up faster than the time you take to click such magnificent pictures. Each on is a master piece. I enjoy and also take a lot of pleasure in forwarding them to my young friends.Thanks and regards, Ganesh.
Your compliments are always so kind and I appreciate them. I'm glad you like the photos but this one is particularly special to me.
I'm with Mike Powell. Maybe you could have waited hours for a better picture, although I can see any imperfection ( but I'm not a photographer), but wouldn't you compromise other things then? Such as time with family?
That's true – life and photography are all about choices. In addition, if I don't stop myself, I can always find something that could have been a little better on the photo.
Awesome in flight shot in sweet light, Lyle! Just beautiful. And, I agree with the point you are making. Actually, I would go as far as saying that wildlife photography is the quintessential art of compromise since you are not in a studio, you do not have controlled lighting and you are totally dependent on the timing of your subject, and most of the times you just have to make do if (for instance) action happens in awful light (or hardly any light at all) or if your angle of view is not the one you would like it to be because you are confined in one spot and your subject moves "the wrong way", or that defining moment you were looking for happens right when you were still setting up… Life happens no matter what and wildlife photographers, as you aptly put it, try to do their best under the circumstances. And the, occasionally, there are those perfect times when it all comes together at the right moment, in perfect light with you there all set and ready to capture that great image, just as you had hoped for – I think those moments are so big a reward that they make you persevere and keep trying to capture more.
Thank you. I had initially written that all photos are compromises but then I thot the same as you that in the studio you have the opportunity to control the light and the subject. Life certainly happens and seems to happen a lot but it is so thrilling in those moments we are given.
I hadn't thought about quite like that, which makes the idea of taking the "perfect" (uncompromised) photo that much sweeter.
The pursuit of that dream is the driver to keep improving. It is a elusive.
Thanks. It's always interesting how a photo takes your right back to the spot where you took it. Great memory.
I appreciate that. It's funny how I tried and practiced for years and in a few wonderful moments it's there to be had.
It was a special moment. Thanks.
Thank you. I was sure excited when I got it.
That shot of the hawk is amazing–it's the kind of shot that I aspire to shoot. For now, I am content to try to take advantage of the situations that I find myself in (or put myself in) and try to do the best I can with the equipment and skills that I have. I served in the US Army at a time when its recruiting slogan was, "Be all that you can be." Perfection is hard to define and virtually impossible to achieve.
You framed the issue as a question of compromise. The word "compromise" is so tainted that it may be better to frame the issue as one of decisions. In all photography, we have to make a series of decisions about camera settings, framing, angles, etc. that will have a huge influence on our images (what some others talk about as "creative choices"). Is it a compromise when you come to a fork in the road and choose to go one way and not the other? It's also an issue of balance, of balancing competing priorities, like when we juggle multiple options for shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. We make a choice (or choices if we are doing multiple exposures or are bracketing) and take the shot.
I am increasingly learning that there are no absolute "rules" for photography–at best there are loose guidelines and best practices. I try to follow them, especially as I am learning, but know that I may need to sacrifice them (i.e. compromise). When the moment comes, I have to choose. I working to improve my ability to make informed choices.
I always look forward to your thotful comments on my posts.
In my dreams I get shots like this every time but a lot of hawks have come and gone without being able to compete with this one. Being the best I can be ends up being varying degrees of quality which makes me appreciate the special times even more. Perfection is an elusive ideal and I'm not sure we ever quite get there.
Sometimes I try too hard to get better which leads to a more provocative word like compromise. Ultimately compromise is about choices and balance in a lot of areas as you suggest. It turns out there are a lot of decisions to make and no end of variables! It makes photography a lot more interesting.
I completely agree on your comments about the rules of photography and I try to avoid that terminology. It is helpful to know what generally looks good but it's even better to go beyond that to find my own ideal of beauty and wonder. To call anything a rule in photography is actually quite laughable. Get a few good photographers in the room and they are likely to have all sorts of different opinions on the same photos. Years ago I would have expected at least a general consensus.
What a shot, Lyle! Lucky you!
I was so fortunate. Like usual it was the confluence of practise and luck. I noticed the hawks seem to hang around one spot as the sun was setting. I made sure I was back there and I was so lucky that it kept circling right around me with that cry.
Hard to find any compromise in that shot. It's simply wonderful.
I'm glad you like it. I really like it a lot but I can still find things to improve if I look for them. I think it's one of the hazards of spending so much time with the photo.
Sometimes (often times) we are far too hypercritical of our own efforts. Striving for perfection is a good thing, but not to the exclusion of enjoying where you are at this moment.
That's so true. This post was my attempt to rebalance that. I liked the irony of putting up one of my best photos with it. The next photo I post won't be be nearly as good.
It turns out the warts are usually more interesting!


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Key to Victory, Black Voters Appear Solidly Behind Cuomo Over Nixon
August 06, 2018 | by Mike Vilensky
Gov. Cuomo at God's Battalion Church in Brooklyn (both photos via Governor's Office)
On a recent morning at Sylvia's, the historic soul food restaurant in Harlem, caterer Lindsey Williams was weighing his upcoming vote in New York's gubernatorial primary election.
"I listened to Cynthia Nixon, and I liked what she was saying," said Williams, the 52 year-old grandson of Sylvia's founder Sylvia Woods.
Ultimately, however, Governor Andrew Cuomo had his vote, Williams said, citing his admiration for the governor's father, late Governor Mario Cuomo, and the younger Cuomo's years of experience.
"I commend [Nixon] for running," he said, "but I trust Cuomo."
That wariness towards the first-time candidate for elected office reflects a hurdle for the actor-turned-insurgent: winning over black voters, a bloc that has helped buoy New York Democrats from Mayor Bill de Blasio to Hillary Clinton and now, according to polls, strongly supports Cuomo, who is seeking a third term as governor.
In a July survey from Siena College, 75% of black likely Democratic primary voters polled said they would vote Cuomo over Nixon. Nineteen percent went with Nixon, and 6% were undecided. Of the total polled, 60% went with Cuomo to Nixon's 29%.
In a July Quinnipiac University poll, 61% of non-white voters approved of Cuomo, compared to 42% approval among white people.
Cuomo's favorability rating with black likely voters hit 79% in both June and July Siena polls. That number is more than double Nixon's -- and it bests Siena favorability ratings with the same demographic this year for de Blasio and U.S. Senators from New York Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer.
Cuomo's favorability rating with black voters in the polls is also higher than the 65% favorability rating with the same demographic for Public Advocate Letitia James, a Brooklyn native who would become the state's first black attorney general if she wins her race this year but is not nearly as well-known as Cuomo among voters across the state.
James and Cuomo have allied throughout their races and cross-endorsed, a partnership that may bolster the standing of both among black voters.
"We work with people who have worked with us," said Keith Wright, a Cuomo backer and former state legislator representing Harlem, the neighborhood that has long been a center of black power in New York. "Black people don't throw their votes away."
As for Nixon, Wright said: "I don't know the woman."
Longevity, Trust
In interviews, black Democratic party leaders, religious officials, and voters cited the Cuomo family's longevity in politics and the governor's reliability visiting their communities and pushing issues from gun-control to an outside monitor overseeing the New York City Housing Authority.
"People are familiar with him," said Brooklyn Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte, the first Haitian-American woman elected to the state Legislature. "It takes a lot of time to penetrate these communities and get name-recognition."
Ms. Bichotte endorsed Nixon's de facto running-mate -- Lieutenant Governor candidate Jumaane Williams -- but declined to endorse in the governor's race even as she is frequently critical of Cuomo.
"He's a charismatic man with a lot of experience," she said of the governor. "New Yorkers want to feel secure."
Wright expressed similar sentiments.
"He has been working on issues important to the black community for years, and his father before him," he said. "There's a track record, and a level of trust."
Nixon Camp Questions Polls
Nixon has sought to address issues of race head-on with a campaign video where she decries "an unjust system that criminalizes communities of color."
At the top of her campaign agenda is ending cash bail and legalizing marijuana, which she says would create a fairer criminal justice system. Her campaign has been centered on the notion that on criminal justice reform and many other issues, Cuomo has pushed through half-measures, if anything at all, to address racial, social, and economic inequality.
A spokeswoman said the Nixon campaign has knocked on doors in predominantly black and Latino communities, "and 70% of the people we talk to support Cynthia and Jumaane."
L. Joy Williams, a senior advisor to the Nixon campaign and president of the NAACP's Brooklyn chapter, said the polls are not capturing people Nixon is eying, who may be newly engaged in state politics and not regular voters.
"The community I am a part of in central Brooklyn is very dissatisfied in terms of affordability, access to services, the criminal-justice system," she said in an interview. "I know a number of people of color feel the same way. The question is whether they have been provided an alternate candidate to address these issues before."
But there isn't "some special thing you do for black voters," she added. "Sometimes campaigns make the mistake of thinking it's criminal justice and that's it. Going into communities, asking them questions, and then engaging people on the issues that matter to them is the key to success no matter the ethnicity."
Cuomo's Inroads
Some two decades ago Cuomo's support among black voters was shakier. He ran a heated gubernatorial primary against then-Comptroller Carl McCall, who would have become the state's first black governor.
That race ended in Cuomo's defeat, while McCall went on to lose to incumbent Republican Governor George Pataki.
People familiar with the governor's thinking said Cuomo has been self-conscious about his standing among black voters ever since.
"Since [the McCall race] there has been a realignment," said Reverend Alfred Cockfield II, the executive pastor at God's Battalion of Prayer in Brooklyn, a predominantly Caribbean African-American Church where Cuomo spoke in March. "Those hard feelings are washed away."
Mr. Cockfield and other black supporters of the governor's cited a range of policy issues, from large initiatives like removing most minors from adult criminal proceedings for nonviolent crimes and appointing the attorney general to investigate police-related deaths, to smaller-scale ones like efforts to get more state contracts for minority-owned businesses.
Geoffrey Davis, a Democratic district leader in Brooklyn whose brother, a City Council member, was shot to death in 2003, cited Cuomo's gun control work.
"If someone is campaigning of course they'll say what they're going to do," he said. "We want you to say what you have done."
"This is serious business," he added. "Now we're going from 'Sex & the City' to reform. It sounds good, but we know what Governor Cuomo is doing, and we're satisfied."
'A Subtle Disrespect'
When it comes to issues where Nixon has hit Cuomo hardest -- managing the city's ailing subways, and rooting out corruption in a state government where criminal convictions are common -- Cuomo supporters expressed skepticism she could offer improvements.
"It's a subtle disrespect," said Rev. Cockfield II. "Like they don't think we're wise enough to know she has not come to these communities before."
A minor debacle over Nixon's campaign kickoff location also made some black clergy leaders uneasy, they said.
She began her campaign at Bethesda Healing Center, a church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, but a religious leader there said church leaders thought the meeting would be private and were caught off-guard by the widely-publicized campaign event.
Organizers of the campaign kickoff apologized to church leaders for the misunderstanding, people familiar with the matter said.
A few weeks later, Cuomo invited a number of church leaders from Brooklyn, including an official at Bethesda Healing Center, to his office to highlight efforts like his "Vital Brooklyn" initiative, a multi-faceted state spending program in Brooklyn.
One attendee came away feeling that the governor is "an astute politician," this person said.
Support for Nixon
For some black leaders, the support for Cuomo is frustrating.
"With a $168 billion state budget there should be zero poverty in our community, " said Assemblymember Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat and former member of the Black Panther Party. "It sickens me and saddens me that black leaders will give these two politicians a pass," he said, referring to Cuomo and de Blasio.
He chalked up their support to ambitious politicians who can be "easily bought off by a chairmanship," and voters too easily wooed by policies he said don't help enough.
Education activist Zakiyah Ansari disputed criticisms that Nixon has only come lately to issues affecting people of color, pointing to her years of pushing for more state support for public education.
"Through the advocacy work she was doing with her children, she thought about what it looks like for black and brown communities, who were getting even less," Ansari said.
Ansari, who introduced Nixon at her campaign kickoff and vouched then for her work in communities of color, described legislators darting away when they saw activists at the state Capitol until Nixon walked with them and "elevated our voices."
When Ansari walked 150 miles from New York City to Albany to push for more school spending, on the other hand, Cuomo's office called it a publicity stunt.
"That was the response we got."
Undecided in Harlem
At a recent 56th anniversary breakfast for Sylvia's, a voter registration drive was on hand and patrons encouraged each other to go to the polls this year.
Voters there said they were leaning towards Cuomo in the September 13 primary, but several attendees weren't sure.
Mike Nelson, a 60 year-old respiratory therapist registering voters outside the restaurant, said Nixon "hasn't knocked on my door," but he hasn't yet settled on Cuomo. "My vote is not easy to come by," he said.
Another Sylvia's diner, 67 year-old James Wynn, said he is undecided. His union, 32BJ, endorsed Cuomo, he said, "but I'd give Cynthia a chance."
[Read: In Wide Open Lieutenant Governor Primary, Hochul Targets Votes in Williams' Backyard]
Mike Vilensky is a freelance journalist and student at Brooklyn Law School.
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I am so disappointed and ashamed that the Conservatives, a party I have supported most of my adult life, has been dishonest, has taken a swipe at democracy. If such an action had been taken by a dictatorship somewhere else, we may have said that it was typical of someone desperate to hold onto power. That it has happened here may have reverberations, far beyond politics. For example, if I was an incomer from elsewhere in the EU, I would be seriously thinking of leaving, so blatant is the bribery. What sort of people are the British to accept it?
No-one is mentioning that the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont remains dissolved. No-one has said that Martin McGuiness resigned because Arlene Foster DUP Leader and First Minister had become embroiled in a green energy for businesses scheme, which had been far too generous and was overspent by £490 million, hardly a trifling amount.
According to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, Northern Ireland politics allows a member of DUP to be First Minister, so long as the Deputy is from Sinn Fein. When Martin McGuiness of Sinn Fein resigned, the legislature could not operate and was dissolved.
For a British Prime Minister to be giving one billion pounds to the DUP, is like jumping hard onto one end of a a seesaw and hope no-one falls off. Long have we been known for our fairness and fair play. The EU politicians still make agreements with a signature and a shake of hands. EU countries like us and we like them, but we have voted to be independent again. That is all.
Let the incomers speak. They came here because we are generous with our welfare benefits and let them go back home and still pay it at British rates. We benefit from their hard work and contributions to our economy. This power-grabbing leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Would I want my children to live in a place that pays bribes, without a second thought? Middle-eastern countries are not strangers to bribes. It's just that I never thought it could happen here.
When you unbalance political power, you threaten democracy. Politicians go to work in Parliament, away from daily life, but most of them are very hardworking and do their best for us.
The payment has to be stopped. Actually I am surprised that the EU Commission has not objected to it. If this was a middle-eastern country, I am sure that our politicians would be outraged, (not that it is any of their business,) at this threat to the balance of power.
The Scots are objecting. How much did we pay again for their new seat of politics? £414 million. How much does it cost to run? Well in 2009, it was £72 million and the rest of us are footing that bill as well. And isn't there somewhere for them to stay if they are at Westminster in the week? They have had quite enough of our taxpayers' money.
The Welsh are forgiven their expenditure as they have succeeded in attracting Aston Martin to build its new car in Wales. Wow!
If the payment is withdrawn, I shall be happy and relieved. Mrs May is dangerously clueless about Northern Ireland's politics and does not seem to care, just so long as the DUP votes with her.
Let us be clear that the government must be borrowing the £1 billion. Where else have they got it from? Oh, I get it. All Councils in England will have to curb spending on care of English citizens. I could ask my MP to object to the payment, but the dolt seems to have favoured status, in a safe seat. I voted Green.
Do you agree or disagree? Comments welcome.
LucyLou
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The Tea Party of 2009 began as a protest to the stimulus plan supported by the Obama Administration. But there quickly became other reasons for its protests. This program examines what Tea Partiers want and why, how they influence political conversations and perhaps the last election, and how they will continue to protest government involvement in economic decisions.


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February 18th: Bramble Cay melomys extinction day – by Ewan Davidson
I said I would not forget, and I want to write to you, disembodied totem spirit of an ex-thing that I probably don't believe in, because I want to bear witness, to envision the end of an existence.
It was, of course, absurd. My friend reminded me of this as we waded out to a bench on the edge of a flooded pond carrying a paper replica island towards a herd of confused and curious swans. How could it be otherwise?
Firstly death just is. At an individual level – not in a jolly Halloween cartoon Grim Reaper way, but in a deep epistemological way. We humans can't comprehend the absence of existence. And we don't like it. It unsettles us.
It is a further step to imagine the death of something that you didn't know existed in the first place. That is a loss of opportunity. But also a leap into a gap which the imagination or unconsciousness might fill with projections. My own are of failing to protect something innocent and precious. Was that really you, Bramble Cay Melomys?
I also spend time thinking about rats. Attentive readers will have noticed in the sister post how quickly I conflated the unknown extinct rodent with the common rat. The analogy becomes more problematic when we consider that the survival of the melomys, until climate change finally did for it, occurred mainly because occasional human visitors to Bramble Cay had failed to bring with them the opportunistic and competing rodents which had caused the extinction of other ground-living island dwellers in the area. Real things are always fucking up our best metaphors. But still, as a familiar example of undervalued beings in our midst, rats work pretty well. We are to be observed by several as we launch our craft.
Around the time of the commemoration I saw an artwork by Marcus Coates. Entitled Extinct Animals it is composed of plaster castes of the artist's arms, hands or even fingers as he makes shadow figures of various extinct animals. Some of these are frankly very schematic, but that doesn't really affect the impact much. These creatures no longer cast a shadow, so…
I've been drawn to Marcus' work for several years and soon afterwards I was able to see him talk about it. He described his fascination in embodying a message of communication of some kind – and I've noticed that this is often across a barrier of some sort, of time, kind, language or even, and often, species. I've watched him being interviewed as a Blue Footed Booby on Galapagos TV, attend a community meeting in a condemned council block wearing a deer skull on his head before going into a shamanistic trance, choreograph a number of volunteers sitting in their cars, living rooms and waiting rooms into a replica of the dawn chorus, and take a question from a man dying in a hospice on a journey to and from an ageing woman in a hut in the Peruvian Amazon. Here he is, encouraging a Canadian island community to apologise to the extinct great auks which used to live there.
None of these admirable projects look anything other than absurd. But they do encourage a way of connecting which is uncanny, disorientating and affecting. I think they tug around our felt senses.
Within the growing field of climate anxiety is a recognition that our response to the evidence of climate change is also necessarily un-canny, and will feel at least some part absurd.
We have the notion that Tim Morton draws from object-orientated ontology of the 'strange stranger', the thing that we can only encounter in a phenomenological way without prejudice or preconception, and the hyperobjects he develops from that way of thinking ( I'd suggest that extinction is another hyperobject that is spreading through us at the moment, like a lump of indissoluble plastic). In the more cautious and classical philosophical position laid out by Jonathan Lear in Radical Hope,
We do not have to agree with Plato that there is a transcendent source of goodness – that is a source of goodness that transcends the world – to think that the goodness of the world transcends our finite powers to grasp it. The emphasis here is not on some mysterious source of goodness, but on the limited nature of our finite conceptual resources. This, I think most readers will agree, is an appropriate response for finite creatures like ourselves. Indeed, it seems oddly inappropriate – lacking in understanding of oneself as a finite creature – to think that what is good about the world is exhausted by our current understanding of it. Even the most strenuously secular readers ought to be willing to accept this form of transcendence. (pp.121-2, 2006)
Lear's 'hero' ( I think that is fair), the Crow chief Plenty Coups, uses a dream he has interpreted to suggest that his tribe should give up their traditional virtues, and find an accommodation with the crushing forces of American colonisation, which would (and indeed did) allow them to retain their identity and integrity. His message, however, is that in a situation when our known virtues clearly no longer protect us we must search beyond.
We must find new ways of thinking – whether these come to us from overlooked Indigenous traditions, cyber-identities, art practice, experimental philosophies or paradigm shifts in science. All of these are fruitful responses to the crisis of the Anthropocene.
As, I think, psychogeography might be. Psychogeography is a child of situationism, but has been dallying with shamanism for a while too. Being inhabited, haunted, dealing with the margins, and the supplements are the business of our trade – using the tricksterish slogan of 'Seeing Things As They Really Are' (@Tim Smith) which suggests we live in an illusion of some sort, and that our imaginations might find a reality that is somehow missing (although of course what is missing might in fact be our imagination).
So digging into this methodology I decided I wanted to create a funeral representation of the absent and unknown creatures.
I don't actually have these kinds of craft skills – which is, of course, entirely the point. We end up with a green paper tray covered in straw and leaves I gathered from the edges of a new semi-permanent floodpond near my home, some sugar mice purchased hurriedly in something that felt like a drug deal from an olde sweetie shop, and used to mould others out of moss and used kitchen towels, purslane seeds (which apparently grew on Bramble Cay), and some Australian incense (which wouldn't light in the stormwinds of Edinburgh in February). The frustrations, dead ends, ineptness and questing for meaning is what I know to be grief work. It is a process to enter that only gives partial outcomes, and usually leaves you somewhere (else).
Despite the perceived increase in eutrophication (and sugar content) of the already heavily polluted pond, the freezing conditions, and the herd of swans, we launched the tray, which floated out on the strong westerly into the mid distance and sank gradually beneath the water. My friend said it was like watching a feeling happen.
As I struggled with the process of representation I faced the futility, cost and projections in my task, I was able to ignore or avoid my own decay, overfeed my domestic guest rodents, and engage with what go missing with extinction. The answer as the ecologist, Daniel Jansen* says in terms of biology, and the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose echoes in human terms, is an opportunity to connect, potentially or actually.
As my work sank under the water, unnoticed by the rest of the world, I felt something of that loss. I may have murmured melomys rubicola under my breath without needing to know exactly what it meant.
This is not a melomys, it is a gerbil in mild peril, but it is the sort of thing I had in mind.
As we looked for a site for extinction day commemorations I checked out the National Museum of Scotland (NMS). I had only a mild hope that I might find a melomys amongst the stuffed animal collection. What I did find was a display board listing some animals which had become extinct – which did not include the melomys or indeed any other animals which had disappeared since 2010. Which gave the commemoration another more practical focus.
The list of extinct animals I was then to send to the NMS ( including only mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and freshwater fish) covering only the years 2017-19, and based only on two reputed websites and a cursory check of the IUCN Red List data base, contained 25 names. It excludes those creatures which live on only in human captivity, which we are best able to watch die out (like the Northern Rhinoceros or the Spixx Macaw). Some of the species have been declared extinct more than once, as a specimen occasionally blunders out of the undergrowth in some unlooked-for place (usually at around the time it is being levelled to make way for human activity). Others were only 'created' as species after they were gone. So its not really an exact science, but really neither is speciation, which is looking increasingly like an Anthropocene construction.
But what is not in doubt is that many, many types of animals are disappearing and that everywhere in the world the trend is for a reduction in variety and overall number of non-domestic animals. We are living in an age of mass extinction, which human activity is ultimately responsible for. For most of our existence as humans we acknowledged our kinship with other creatures, and it is only in the transformations to capitalism that philosophy and science have created these divisions (and which belatedly both are now striving to close).
To see extinction as a hyperobject is to see it extending, largely unnoticed, into numerous dimensions of existence. Some of these are exemplified in the specific losses noticed by Jansen and Bird Rose – the destabilisation of ecosystems (one wonders what is happening to Bramble Cay without its main herbivore, for example) and the loss of cultural resources (for example the oft-quoted Lost Words which have vanished from the everyday vocabulary of our children), and others are there buried in our psyche. We watch wildlife documentaries, are shamed or activated by images of turtles with plastic around their necks , and maybe are beginning to perceive morality in terms of reducing our environmental impact (or reacting against those perceptions in aggressive, nationalistic justifications of our privilege).
Around us a shadow army of pets, parasites and animal crops provide us with a distorted connection to that legacy. We are becoming used to finding our friends grieving their pets, upset by the truth of food production, or shocked by the running over of roadkill. Grief is, after all, grief, and I suspect that the central part of it is the shock of how fragile life is. Our life.
After, or at least on Melomys Extinction Day (February 18). The NMS has now promised to update the exhibit. We'll see.
After some correspondence and a brief protest action the NMS offered me a dialogue about how they commemorate extinction as part of climate change. Can I ask them to do it absurdly? I'd like there to be a way in which connections disappear, and the visitor is left increasingly in a void. Ideally this might be subtle, but colour and noise or smell would disappear. Or there is a game where it becomes a choice of what to save, but the choice has unintended consequences. Or they could suddenly find that all the exhibits in the lower level are under three feet of water.
I realise now that I am going to have to end the article. And in doing so I will feel the loss of the Bramble Cay Melomys, and the rich connections I've had from virtually knowing them. And I will also remember the list of the other known, unknown animals which I've learnt about after their end. And think about the unknown, unknown animals I haven't learnt about. Yet, or more probably, at all. And now I see the image of Sadness from the film Inside Out, who I think should be there to meet us at the exit of the new exhibit. I'm with her now.
* What escapes the eye when species go extinct is a much more insidious extinction – that of ecological interactions.
Ewan Davidson lives in East Lothian. His blog is River of Things.
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Adobe announced today that it will discontinue Flash support and updates at the end of 2020. Flash played an important part in the history of the web, inspiring many of the open standards and formats that the web has moved on to embrace.
Given this progress, and in collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.
Last year most major browsers moved to block Flash, requiring users to enable it manually for sites where they wish to view Flash content. Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla were on deck today with announcements of their own regarding future Flash support. Firefox is the most aggressive with its plan to disable Flash for most users in 2019. Only those running an Extended Support Release will be able to continue using it through the end of 2020 and no version of Firefox will load the plugin after Adobe discontinues security patches.
Chrome is also phasing out support for Flash and plans to remove it completely from the browser toward the end of 2020.
"Three years ago, 80 percent of desktop Chrome users visited a site with Flash each day," Google Chrome Product Manager Anthony Laforge said. "Today usage is only 17 percent and continues to decline.
The Microsoft Edge team also announced its plans to phase out Flash from both Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer with complete removal from all supported versions of Microsoft Windows by the end of 2020.
Although HTML5 adoption is growing among game developers, Adobe's announcement means major changes for segments of the the gaming, education, and video industries that have not yet migrated to newer, open formats. This news will also make obsolete dozens of WordPress plugins that were created to upload and display Flash content.
Adobe's announcement was met with thanks and "good riddance," with many calling for an even speedier timeline. Many are also concerned about all the orphaned content and .swf games on the web that Flash's disappearance will create. Adobe has received many requests on Twitter for the company to consider open sourcing the old Flash Player codebase for the sake of compatibility and archiving content. Adobe has not officially replied to any of these requests.


The 2008 Carlsbad 5000 weekend kicked off this morning (April 5, 2008) at 8 AM with the 12-year-old start for the Junior Carlsbad.
According to race officials approximately 3,500 kids were registered to fun the one-mile race up Grand Ave, out Coast Highway then back down Carlsbad Village Drive to the finish at State Street.
Age 12 winner Steven Fahey blurs through the finish.
A herd of 11 year olds pounding up Grand Ave. See anyone you know?
Emma Abrahamson, 11, of the San Diego So Cal Road Runners turns in a personal best (and we think dominated the day) with her incredible 5:27 mile. Yes, five minutes, twenty-seven seconds.
Everyone gets a medal and a smile. This Carlsbad local recorded his second best time ever with a 6:47.
In the 10-year-old division it was a battle to the finish San Diego So Cal Road Runner Trevor Capestany squeezing through the ribbon for a first place finish. Oceanside's Catherine Morales won the 10-year-old girls division.


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The U.S.-Japan COIL Initiative is fostering virtual exchange through collaborative online international learning (COIL), a method developed and promoted by the State University of New York's (SUNY) COIL Center that uses online communication to help teachers and students from different countries work together. Because it does not necessitate travel, COIL is a low-cost and accessible approach to bringing multicultural global learning opportunities to more students.
COIL first derived from efforts across the SUNY system to develop more online courses with an international dimension. The SUNY COIL Center now helps a number of institutions implement the method, including six chosen as a part of ACE's U.S.-Japan COIL Initiative.
Attendees at the U.S.-Japan COIL opening workshop at ACE pose for a group photo.
Several of the initiative's participating schools applied in tandem with existing Japanese partner institutions, while the rest had their partnerships arranged for them by the program. Some of the participating institutions already have similar virtual exchange programs or long-standing partnerships with Japan. Others are just starting to expand their international education offerings.
The University of Alabama, for example, has an established relationship with its U.S.-Japan COIL partner Chiba University, among other Japanese institutions such as Ritsumeikan University and Meiji Daigaku, with which they manage exchange programs. Alabama is looking now to expand this partnership into the virtual realm.
DePaul University already has an existing virtual exchange initiative very similar to COIL called the Global Learning Experience, but it is using this opportunity to expand the program to Japan, where it did not have any virtual partners.
Sinclair Community College comes to the initiative as a two-year institution where most students do not study abroad. They have several short-term faculty-led study abroad programs, but virtual exchange will allow more students to have a more prolonged global experience and help the institution expand its internationalization efforts.
The U.S.-Japan COIL participants met in person with their partners at an introductory workshop hosted by ACE last month and will continue to collaborate throughout the next two years.
Expand higher education ties between the United States and Japan by forging international partnerships.
Demonstrate the effectiveness of the COIL method and using technology to facilitate international education.
Increase student access to internationalized educational experiences.
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Richard Phillips Feynman's life and work signify the joy of discovery and the pleasure of exploring things. He demonstrated that doing science could be fun. He provided an "image of science that cut right across the stereotype". He loved people more than he loved' physics. He believed that the highest forms of understanding one can achieve are laughter and human compassion. He was an accomplished drummer. He was so fascinated with drumming that he hardly missed any opportunity to beat a rythm - whether on a wall, a table, a pot or on a pan. He enjoyed listening to African drum music. He also became an accomplished amateur artist and he could organise an exhibition on his own. And, of course, Feynman is one of the greatest physicists that the 20th century produced. He was a great problem solver even if it meant breaking a lock.
He was against pseudosciences. While explaining the underlying difference between real science and different forms of pseudosciences he said: "It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty – a kind leaning over backwards.
For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked – to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.
'See that bird?' he say. 'It's a Spencer's warbler. (I knew he didn't know the real name.) 'Well, in Italian, it's a Chutto Lapittida. In Portuguese, it's a Bom da Peida. In Chinese it's a Chung-Iong-tah, and in Japanese it's a Katano Takeda. You can know the name of the bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You'll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird. So let's look at the birds and see what it's doing – that's what counts!
Feynman was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 with Julian Schwinger and Shinitro Tomonaga for their development of quantum electrodynamics (QED), a theory describing the interaction of charged subatomic particles within electric and magnetic fields. QED combines quantum theory and relativity and asserts that charged particles interact by the exchange of photons. The theory not only describes all interactions involving photons and electrons but any interaction between light (photons) and charged particles. Feynman is best known for his invention of Feynman diagrams, which illustrate the interaction between charged particles by the exchange of virtual photons. "The diagrams", Feynman pointed out "were intended to represent physical processes and the mathematical expression used to describe them. Each diagram signified a mathematical expression. Mathematical quantities were associated with points in space and time." Feynman explained the superfluid behaviour of liquid helium. When liquid helium is cooled below 2.2 degrees Kelvin it behaved differently than the liquid helium above this temperature. It behaves as superfluid. It can move through capillary tubes effortlessly that is without experiencing any frictional resistance. It even climbs up the walls of the container to escape through pores which do not allow gas to pass through. He was a key figure in the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb.
To consider Feynman simply as one of the greatest physicists of this century would mean undermining his true achievements. He was one of the greatest teachers that the 20th century ever produced. The Feynman Lectures on Physics have inspired generations of students worldwide and continue to do so. There is no parallel to it not only in Physics but aJso in other disciplines of science. These lectures described Feynman's approach to physics.
His lectures were self-contained, they had a beginning, a middle and an end. The lectures not only provided a great mass of information, but also opportunity to go beyond the formal teaching.
In the long run what is the importance of Feynman's scientific achievements? To quote David Goodstein: "His scientific contributions were profound. They are not ordinary. They are not similar to other peoples". He imposed his personality and his views on the world of science; he reformulated quantum mechanics, he virtually reinvented it. And gave it to us in a form that's still widely used throughout theoretical physics, in every field.
Feynman died on 15 February 1988.
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Now more than ever, it's crucial for families to discuss race and racism at home. It is a great opportunity to talk about these topics—as well as teach your kids about Black history, civil rights, segregation, and acceptance. Here are some black history movies and documentaries for kids from Common Sense Media and other sources that can help get the conversation about race started in your home, many of which feature Black main characters who face prejudices and overcome racial adversities. For tips on discussing race with your family, read our article here.
Black History Movies for Kids Ages 4-9
March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
For purchase ($1.99) on Prime Video
The story includes readings of the book written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister Dr. Christine King Ferris about the March on Washington.
Garrett's Gift
DVD available to purchase on Amazon.com
This movie tells the inspiring story of Black inventor Garrett Morgan and teaches us that we are all born with a gift.
The Journey of Henry Box Brown
Available to watch on Kanopy.com with a library card
The story of Henry "Box" Brown, a former slave who shipped himself in a wooden box to freedom. On the way, he meets a bird, a cricket, and a mouse and he teaches them about slavery and what it means to be free.
Dancing in the Light: The Janet Collins Story
This movie tells the story of the first African-American ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera House. However, she was asked to paint her face white.
The Color of Friendship
For rent/ purchase on Prime Video
The Disney movie takes place in 1977, where two girls—one white and one black—from opposite sides of the world come together and learn about tolerance and friendship and change each other's lives. The movie tackles race, apartheid, and racial slurs.Hidden Figures
A Ballerina's Tale
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This documentary tells the incredible story of Misty Copeland—the first African-American principal dancer in a major international ballet troupe—including all of the adversity she faced to become one of the best dancers in the world.
Black History Movies for Kids Ages 10-12
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This movie is based on the true story of three Black women who worked for NASA in the 1950's—doing complex math and engineering tasks to help launched the manned spaceflight program.
Stream on Disney+; purchase on iTunes; Purchase or rent on YouTube; Purchase or rent on Prime Video
Based on the true story of the 6-year-old Black girl selected to be the first Black child to attend an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960.
Remember the Titans
Stream on Disney+; Purchase or rent on iTunes; Rent or buy on Amazon; Rent or buy on DirectTV
This movie tells the story of the real-life integration of a Virginia high school team.
Rent or purchase on Prime Video; Rent or buy on iTunes; Buy on DIRECTV
This faith-based movie focuses on the newly desegregated high school in Birmingham, Alabama welcoming its first Black football players.
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Rent or purchase on Prime Video; Rent or purchase on iTunes; Stream on HBO Max
This movie follows the story of and pays tribute to John Robert Lewis, the legendary civil rights leader and then politician. It also serves as a call to action that the work of fighting racial injustice isn't done.
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42: The Jackie Robinson Story
Rent or purchase on Prime Video; Rent or purchase on iTunes; Watch on DIRECTV
Biopic about the first Black baseball player in the MLB and his achievements despite facing racism throughout his career.
Black History Movies for ages 12+
Stream on Hulu Premium; Rent or Purchase on Prime Video
The story of the three months between Martin Luther King Jr. accepting his Nobel Peace Prie and the Selma-to-Montgomery march for voters' rights in March 1965.
Betty & Coretta
Purchase on Prime Video ($4.99); Watch on DIRECTV
A docudrama about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X's widows (Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz) raising their children to fight for the causes their father's fought for.
Stream on Prime Video (or rent or purchase); Rent or purchase on iTunes; Stream on Hulu
Set in the 1970's this movie follows Jim Ellis, the competitive-swimmer-turned-coach, as he turns an unlikely group of teens into a competitive swim team. It displays racism, segregation, and class divide.
The Gabby Douglas Story
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A biopic about the first woman of color to win individual all-around champion at the summer olympics.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Stream on Vudu
Wilona Watson brings her family to Birmingham to get away from bad influences and escape the cold winter in Flint, Michigan. However, Jim Crow laws are still enforced there, schoolchildren are marching, and there are police riots.
Stream on HBO Max; Purchase on Prime Video
The story of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Stream on Prime Video; Stream on Netflix; Stream on Hulu
This political documentary tells the story of writer-activist James Baldwin's plans to write Remember This House about Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. (his three friends) and their influence on the state of race in America.
Stream on Prime Video; Rent or purchase on YouTube; Stream on HBO Max
This documentary tells the story of two young Black basketball standouts and the struggles they faced growing up in an inner city, including potentially fatal temptations, limited opportunities, and poor odds.
Purchase on Prime Video; Purchase on iTunes; Stream on HBO Max
A young lawyer devotes himself to helping Death Row inmates in Monroeville Alabama and focuses on the case of Walter "Johnny D." McMillian, a man accused of killing a teen girl based on the testimony of two unreliable witnesses.
Rent or purchase on Prime Video
The little-known true story of two friends struggling to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards.
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This is a season-by-season list of records compiled by North Dakota in men's ice hockey.

The University of North Dakota has won eight NCAA Championship in its history, the most recent coming in 2016 (as of March, 2020).

Season-by-season results

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties

* Winning percentage is used when conference schedules are unbalanced.

Footnotes

References

Lists of college men's ice hockey seasons in the United States
North Dakota Fighting Hawks ice hockey seasons

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Samsung Galaxy Note 7 features you should know about
Samsung has just launched the much-awaited Galaxy Note 7 flagship with several interesting features. With this year's Galaxy Note, the company focussed more on refinement than upgrading the horsepower. The Note 7 comes with the identical internals of the Galaxy S7, but with a host of other improvements. Let's check out the Galaxy Note 7 features.
Curved Display
The brand new flagship from Samsung comes with a wraparound display. This display has a tighter curve but less sloping in comparison to the Galaxy S7 Edge. On paper, the display has similar specifications to the previous S7 Edge.
The main attraction of the screen is that it is the first smartphone to feature HDR (High Dynamic Range) capability. This technology dramatically improves the display quality of the device. The Note 7 can render some of the most optimized colors and brightness perceivable by human eyes.
Built Quality
Samsung has put a good amount of attention to the build quality of its newest flagship. The Note 7 is the first smartphone in the world to sport the Gorilla Glass 5. This makes the handset immune to shoulder height drops most of the time.
The Gorilla Glass is proved to survive drops from a height of 1.6 meters on hard concrete surfaces almost 80 percent of the time. This glass also provides better resistance to scratches and pressures. The back of the Note 7 is constructed by a more durable 7000 series aluminum.
Symmetrical Construction
The latest smartphone from Samsung boasts an absolutely symmetrical body. The newest Note is accurately symmetrical from front to back, top to bottom and side to side. The phone is also quite resistant to damages from dust and water, and comes with IP68 certification. The S Pen also bears the same certificate.
A new type of biometric verification method has its presence in the Galaxy Note 7. The Iris scanner of the smartphone offers unmatchable security to the device. It is arguably much more secure than any of the current security systems in smartphones. Every human being comes with two unique Iris patterns in both their eyes. The Note 7 scans both the Iris of an individual to provide the ultimate privacy protection. This Iris scanner is fool proof and also works in low lighted areas.
This is Samsung's first smartphone to rope in a USB Type-C version 1.0 USB port. The Note 7 will feature much-improved transfer speeds and enhanced charging capabilities. The USB-C port is rapidly becoming the standard in the technology world.
The new S Pen is also revamped with better sensitivity and more accuracy. It is also reduced in thickness and the side button placement has also been improved. The signature Note 7 stylus also comes with GIF creating capability. This time, Samsung has solved the issue in which the S Pen got stuck in its compartment when reversely inserted.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 comes with increased battery with a capacity of 3500mAH with improved fast charging ability. On top of all these, the phone carries all the good things of the Galaxy S7 series. Samsung is expected to launch the Note 7 in India on 11th August. In the US, the phone is available for pre-order from today and will be available on 19th this month.
The smartphone comes with four color options which are Gold Platinum, Black Onyx, Silver Titanium and Blue Coral. The Note 7 is priced just a little bit above the price of the Galaxy S7 Edge.
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Palamar entertained teammates, his students and colleagues
By Staff | Aug 7, 2020
Tom Palamar played three years in the lower reaches of the Senators and Minnesota Twins farm minor league baseball systems. Courtesy photo
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Tom Palamar appeared to be about as uncomplicated as a joyous, first-year golfer is after scoring a hole-in-one.
Coming to Shepherd College after graduating from Rahway (New Jersey) High School in 1953, the athletic Palamar began his long service of making those around him laugh, have fun and enjoy his company. His face was always covered with a perpetual smile and his wise cracks and jokes flowed like maple syrup onto hot cakes.
Simply put, he was an entertainer.
And he was a talented baseball player.
The Washington Senators of the Calvin Griffith era signed him to a professional contract and he went off to the minor leagues to see if he could climb the ladder toward the major leagues. He played three years in the lower reaches of the Senators and Minnesota Twins farm systems. After rounds in Wilson (North Carolina), Missoula (Montana) and Fox Cities (Wisconsin), Palamar was released by the Twins organization.
Palamar
In his mid-20s, he graduated from Shepherd in 1961 and began his teaching career at Shepherdstown High School. His laugh-provoking ways weren't wasted on those high school teens when he was appointed head baseball coach and held assistant coaching positions in both football and basketball.
The summer months of 1961 were spent playing the outfield for the Charles Town Post 71 American Legion adult team that played against Leone's of Baltimore, Fort Myer, the Frederick Hustlers and Federal Storage of Washington, D.C. among others.
Serious when the situation called for concentration on baseball, Palamar was never too far from keeping things light. Between innings of the games staged at Legion Field in Charles Town, he kept pace with the latest country music songs being blasted along the public address airways by disc jockey Bill Peer, a friend of Gore, Virginia's Patsy Cline whose singles were rapidly capturing the musical hearts of the nation.
His voice joined Patsy's in an unplanned duet and he strummed an imaginary guitar as Charles Town pitcher Dick Forrest got in his warm-up pitches before facing another Legion opponent.
After earning a master's degree from Coppin State in Baltimore, Md., it was off to Washington County to teach at South Potomac Junior High in Hagerstown, Md. It wasn't too many years later, and he was in the Vocational Education Department of the county's public school system.
Later, the Washington County Sports Hall of Fame inducted him after he had done well enough around the county in the fastpitch softball circles.
A car accident at age 47 left him with knee and back problems, and then a heart attack at age 50 further slowed his gait, but not the pace of his laugh-provoking banter, which had seen an impersonation of comedian Rodney Dangerfield be added to his lengthy list of jokes.
Another heart attack in 1993 led to triple bypass surgery, and he went to reside at the Fahrney-Keedy facility near Boonsboro in 2014.
It was only after he passed in 2017 at age 81 that his entertaining ways were silenced.
Tom Palamar had been a personable teammate, a perfect colleague when teaching in several public schools and a much-appreciated teacher by the teens in both Shepherdstown and Washington County. And unlike Rodney Dangerfield, who claimed to get "no respect," he gained the admiration of people across many walks of life.
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I have been stalking…I mean following Nadia from @my2to4 for a long time now and we have both found it odd how similar be are in so many aspects of our lives. In fact its almost creepy. However it has been amazing to connect with women all over the world and I am truly grateful to have found this absolute gem of a woman. She is a hilarious mum of 2 boys and a decent looking husband #bydecentimeansmoking.
Check out the hilarious guest blog that she generously did for me and let us know what you think and who's up for moving to Holland?
Dutch mom's do it Better!
Wow, that's a very judgy title, isn't it? Can I say that without implying that there are moms out there who do it…well… less good? I can? Ok, then I will continue.
As a new "dutchy", I have to say I spend a lot off time simply admiring how these Amsterdam moms always seem so hmmm…. well… happy…and no matter the culture you are from. happy mummy equals happy family.
So, what do Dutch moms do that is different from the rest of us?
Let us start from the very beginning; Dutch women (well, over 40% of them) give birth at home, only with a midwife making their first moments of motherhood as natural and familiar as possible.
After a few months, only 22% of them decides to go back to work full time and about the same percentage actually decided to be a stay at home mum. The other bigger half is working aprox 20 hours a week; enough to step away from the mummy world, but not to much so that they can still spend one day a week with their babies and be in time to pick them up from school at 15 every day.
Dutch mum do not hover over their kids; while you are "helicoptering" over your toddlers wobbling steps, they are just sitting and peacefully reading a book (yes, an actual book) in the park.
They are also the first ones to leave because by 6pm their kids are fed, washed and ready for a bedtime story. This leaves them enough time to spend a nice, intimate evening with their partner or even have friends over.
I guess it has a lot to do with our own confidence, because God forbid our kid wasn't amongst brightest at kindergarten ? Here, they just do not care!!!
They want to raise a happy and content human being, not a future Ivy league student.
Also, kids here are given immense feeling of freedom at the very early age; they play unsupervised in the neighborhood park at the age of 4, they drive bikes to school from the age of 6 and they get to have romantic sleepover with their boyfriend/ girlfriend at their own house when they want to- better that than sneaking out, no??
Hell yes… only that if I tried that anywhere but here, I could probably risk an "encouraging minor for sexual activity" lawsuit from my neighbor. Please, like teenagers need any encouraging today???
But yes, Dutch moms do it better because they do not live in a society that expects them to "do it all" or to be perfect in any way, but as they often say here in the Netherlands: "Just be normal, that's already crazy enough"!


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Martin Dočekal (7. prosince 1990 Třebíč) je český hokejový útočník, hráč SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč

Biografie
Martin Dočekal se narodil v roce 1990 v Třebíči, v roce 2005 začal hrát za dorost SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč a v roce 2007 za juniorský tým. Roku 2010 nastoupil za A tým SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč v 1. české hokejové lize a od roku 2012 do roku 2019 nastupoval v české hokejové extralize za tým HC Kometa Brno, v sezóně 2019/20 postupně prošel týmy HC Kometa Brno, HC Sparta Praha a HC Vítkovice Ridera, v klubu HC Vítkovice Ridera působil i v roce 2020, kdy v klubu odehrál několik zápasů v rámci Generali Česká Cup.

Od roku 2022 je na celosezónním hostování v SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč s opcí na další sezónu.

Má jediného syna Nicolase Dočekala.

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Reprezentační kariéra

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Five Years of Francis: CFN Editor Discusses Pontificate in New Interview
Matt Gaspers
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Five years ago today, Cardinal Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran announced what the Church and entire world had been anxiously awaiting:
Habemus Papam! Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Georgium Marium Sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ Cardinalem Bergoglio, qui sibi nomen imposuit Franciscum.
"We have a Pope! The most eminent and reverend lord, Lord Jorge Mario, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Bergoglio, who takes to himself the name Francis."
The initial signs of the first Jesuit Pope – selected from "the ends of the earth," as he described himself during his first public address – seemed positive. His chosen name, another first in Church history, bespoke two powerful Saints: Francis of Assisi (1181/1182-1226), to whom Christ said (as recorded by St. Bonaventure), "Francis, go and repair My House, which, as thou seest, is falling utterly into ruin" (The Life of Saint Francis, Chapter II, sect. 1); and Francis Xavier (1506-1552), the renowned Jesuit missionary who personally baptized many thousands of converts in India, southeast Asia, and Japan.
The morning after his election, the new Pope kept his word "to go and pray to Our Lady" (first public address) by visiting the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome and venerating Her famous icon, Salus Populi Romani ("Salvation of the Roman People"). Later that day, during his first papal sermon, he declared with striking clarity: "When we do not profess Jesus Christ, the saying of Léon Bloy comes to mind: 'Anyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the devil.' When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness."
And perhaps most astounding, roughly one month later (April 2013) it was revealed that Pope Francis had personally asked the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal to consecrate his pontificate to Our Lady of Fatima.
Five years later, amidst the ongoing chaos and destruction long since synonymous with this pontificate, we can only shake our heads in amazement and confess that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not the man we thought he was.
I recently discussed this reality, particularly in light of Francis' Chinese Ostpolitik, with Cliff Kincaid, President of America's Survival, Inc.
Marcantonio Colonna, the mysterious author of The Dictator Pope (whose identity will soon be revealed), describes the reality of Pope Francis quite well in the Introduction to his explosive book:
"If you speak to the Catholics of Buenos Aires, they will tell you of the miraculous change that has taken over Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Their dour, unsmiling archbishop was turned overnight into the smiling, jolly Pope Francis, the idol of the people with whom he so fully identifies. If you speak to anyone working in the Vatican, they will tell you about the miracle in reverse. When the publicity cameras are off him, Pope Francis turns into a different figure: arrogant, dismissive of people, prodigal of bad language and notorious for furious outbursts of temper which are known to everyone from the cardinals to the chauffeurs."[1]
Although Pope Francis is clearly not the man many (including myself) had hoped he was – in fact, he may even be "a destroyer" foretold by St. Francis of Assisi – Our Lord's guarantee that "the gates of hell shall not prevail against" His Church (Matt. 16:18) remains, as does Our Lady of Fatima's promise: "In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world."
Let us redouble our prayers and penances, especially during this season of Lent, and thus do our part to hasten Her triumph!
[1] Colonna, Marcantonio. The Dictator Pope (Kindle Locations 22-26). Kindle Edition.
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Matt Gaspers is the Managing Editor of Catholic Family News. He was asked by John Vennari (1958-2017), longtime Editor of CFN and stalwart defender of the Faith, to carry on CFN's important work shortly before Mr. Vennari's passing. In addition to writing for CFN, Mr. Gaspers has also been published by The Fatima Crusader, OnePeterFive, and LifeSiteNews. His study and writing interests include theology, Church history, Fatima, Islam, and the spiritual life. He has spoken at conferences hosted by Catholic Family News and the Fatima Center. He and his wife, together with their children, reside in Colorado.
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