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Posted: May 08, 2019
University of Mary Washington sophomore Moses Hutchison and senior Matt Miles will advance to the NCAA Division III men's tennis individual championships, and will compete in the doubles bracket. The championships will begin on May 24 at Kalamazoo College.
For the individual championships, the national committee selected seven singles players and three doubles teams from each of the four regions. Additionally, the committee selected the remaining four singles players and four doubles team berths from a national at-large pool. The individual championships consist of 32 singles players and 16 doubles teams. The selection of teams and individuals for the championships is based on won-lost record, strength of schedule and eligibility and availability of student-athletes.
SINGLES QUALIFIERS (Alphabetical by school):
Sean Wei, Amherst
Yangeng Jiang, Bowdoin
Grant Urken, Bowdoin
Varun Shanker, Caltech
Leo Vithoontien, Carleton
Chaz Downing, Carnegie Mellon
Daniel Levine, Carnegie Mellon
Matthew Chen, Case Western Reserve
Erik Kerrigan, Chicago
Jeremy Yuan, Chicago (At-Large)
Dominic Lacombe, Christopher Newport
Jack Katzman, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Nikolai Parodi, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Adrien Bouchet, Emory
Hayden Cassone, Emory
Jonathan Jemison, Emory
Patrick Whaling, Gustavus Adolphus
Ian Yi, Kalamazoo
Jake Zalenski, Kenyon
Lubomir Cuba, Middlebury
Noah Farrell, Middlebury (At-Large)
Jed Kronenberg, Pomona-Pitzer
Chase Lipscomb, Redlands
Alex Angradi, Salisbury
JT Wynne, Skidmore
Wilson Lambeth, Trinity (Texas)
Jordan Pitts, Trinity (Texas) (At-Large)
Boris Sorkin, Tufts
Chad Leduff, UC Santa Cruz
Ethan Hillis, Washington University in St. Louis
Bernardo Neves, Washington University in St. Louis (At-Large)
Andrew Finkelman, Wesleyan (Connecticut)
First alternate: Vishnu Joshi, Johns Hopkins
Second alternate: Austin Diehl, Kenyon
Third alternate: Josh Quijano, Bates
Fourth alternate: Tyler Barr, MIT
DOUBLES QUALIFIERS (Alphabetical by school):
Yangeng Jiang/Grant Urken, Bowdoin
Jordon O'Kelly/Leo Vithoontien, Carleton
Chaz Downing/Daniel Levine, Carnegie Mellon
Erik Kerrigan/Ninan Kumar, Chicago
Julian Gordy/Nikolai Parodi, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Adrien Bouchet/Jonathan Jemison, Emory
Chase Johnson/Patrick Whaling, Gustavus Adolphus
Joe Cartledge/Austin Gu, Johns Hopkins
Moses Hutchinson/Matt Miles, Mary Washington (At-Large)
Alex Cauneac/Tyler Barr, MIT (At-Large)
Brad Cummins/Brysl Libao, Redlands
Marc Feliu Gomez/Bryan Szayna, Stevens (At-Large)
Wilson Lambeth/Jordan Pitts, Trinity (Texas)
Konrad Kozlowski/Bernardo Neves, Washington University in St. Louis (At-Large)
Noah Lilienthal/Adrian Roji, Wesleyan (Connecticut)
Peter Frelinghuysen/Alex Taylor, Williams
First alternate: JT Wynne/Noah Williamson, Skidmore
Second alternate: David Aizenberg/Anupreeth Coramutla, Brandeis
Third alternate: Jayson Fung/Sean Wei, Amherst
Fourth alternate: Daniel Blongquist/Kukutla Motlojoa, Southern Virginia
Any singles player or doubles team that scratches from the tournament will be replaced in sequential order by the published list of alternates.
The draw for the individual championship will be done by the men's tennis committee and will be released on May 23 by 1 p.m. Eastern time.
The 2018 singles title went to Grant Urken of Bowdoin. Lubomir Cuba and Kyle Schlanger of Middlebury took the doubles title. Middlebury is the defending national champion, having defeated Bowdoin, 5-3, to claim the team title. For more information about the championships, including the championships bracket, log on to www.ncaa.com.


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When the reports of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris began to break out in the evening of November 13, a mixed feeling of fright and misery immediately inundated me. I was frightened at the depth of cruelty that had transpired and affected the French people once again. I felt sympathy with the people of France who were undeservedly victimized and terrorized.
And at the same time, I felt miserable. As a Muslim, it was my initial impression that the terrorist attacks in Paris would be eventually blamed on Muslims, and it didn't take so long before the media held "Islamic terrorists" accountable for the cataclysm of that horrific night, so my expectation had been realized. I didn't make such a prediction because I shared their view that the Muslims are innately violent and prone to commit acts of terrorism. My surmise was based on what I've learnt in the recent years, that it's become conventional to automatically attribute violent extremism everywhere in the world to the Muslims and accuse them of undermining the values of Western civilization.
President François Hollande impatiently declared a "merciless war" against the terrorists, and even though I think he was right to appease his wounded nation by promising to give a crushing response to the perpetrators of the mass killing, what crossed my mind after his speech was that, okay, we'll have to brace for the War on Terror 2.0.
There's absolutely no reason to resist a war against terrorism. The entire world should unite to eradicate this menace and give the extremists and terrorists a lesson they'll never forget. But the problem is that people in my part of the world don't have a very pleasant memory of what the War on Terror 1.0, masterminded by President George W. Bush, turned out to be. That war, announced in 2001 and translated into action immediately the same year through the unprompted invasion of Afghanistan - which apparently didn't have anything to do with the collapsing of the World Trade Center towers - ultimately transformed into a war on the Muslim world, and paved the way for the demonization and disenfranchisement of the Muslims worldwide. The idea was that they were the "Islamic fundamentalists" who plotted the 9/11 attacks and should be punished so severely that they'll never dream of repeating the same blunder in the US soil.
Now, the politicians, media personalities and decision-makers in Europe are fretfully talking of taking harsh actions, closing the borders to the immigrants, refusing to admit asylum-seekers fleeing war and devastation in the Middle East, toughening the visa regulations for the people of the Third World - mostly Muslims, raising the security measures at the airports, extending the state of emergency and adopting other restrictive procedures to make sure that the security of their people won't be dented. Logically, they have a right to do so. But why should all of these measures discriminate against the Muslims and target them in such a way that essentially chips away at their dignity and self-esteem and alienates them unduly?
It seems like the Western world has not yet made a distinction between the minority of so-called Muslims who engage in violent, suicidal operations - not on the basis of their religious convictions, but because they're radicalized due to a variety of reasons, and the vast peaceful majority of Muslims scattered across the world, who are constructively contributing to the progress and prosperity of their societies. Muslims are not simply Arabs or Iranians. You've got Muslims in such diverse places as Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, China, Greece, India, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore and Sweden. At the heart of Europe, there is Kosovo, which is a predominantly Muslim country - Muslims comprise 91.7% of its population. Albania, which harbors plans for getting accession to the European Union, is 82.1% Muslim. One can find the best physicians, university professors, computer scientists, scholars, authors, philanthropists and public servants among them, and there's barely anybody who could complain of aggressive, immoral or immodest behavior by the Muslims in these places against the other people.
Just visit Turkey, and see how the Muslims there donate to charities and provide food for the hungry and impoverished children of all faiths during the holy month of Ramadan pro bono publico. Go to Malaysia and see how the young Muslims offer their seats in the buses and metro to the elderly or the women holding small children; this is something not necessarily extraordinary, but highlights the humaneness of the Muslims repeatedly portrayed as evil creatures. Come to Iran and see how many young people have set up charity organizations to protect the orphan and street-sleeping children and provide them with shelter, food and free education. These are all the beautiful things that take place in the Muslim world, and are often withheld from the public. In the same Iran, several people held candlelight vigils outside the compounds of the French embassy in Tehran in memory of the victims of the Paris attacks.
It has always surprised me that many of the perpetrators of terrorist operations in the West, like Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Paris attacks, are "Muslims converts." It reasonably indicates an unequivocal, straightforward truth: they're not true Muslims. I'd call them concocted Muslims. They've been attracted by a perverted, fundamentalist and adventurous interpretation of Islam presented to them by some radical Imams, adopted the religion and carried out these heinous actions to fulfill the rapture they'd been promised: ascending to heaven.
Radicals and extremists are everywhere. Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian Christian, killed 77 people on July 22, 2011 exclusively on racial and religious grounds. Nobody called him a Christian terrorist, nor did any politician or media organization lament the rise of "Christian fundamentalism." What emerged from the media was that a "mass killer" shot dead the participants of a summer camp in the island of Utøya. Just that.
Ostracizing and defaming the Muslims doesn't smoothen the way for combating terrorism and violent extremism. It needs to be understood that Muslims are not genuinely responsible for what a mad minority does in the name of their religion, and they shouldn't account for that. Indubitably, it's difficult to be a Muslim while the ISIS terrorists continue to wreak havoc on Syria and Iraq and destabilize other parts of the world, because a peaceful Muslim always carries the stigma of being a fundamentalist wherever he goes. He is monitored, spied on, eavesdropped and interrogated intrusively. It's guilt by association, and seems to be overly unfair. Combating terrorism in general, and rooting out ISIS, in particular, requires some degree of realism and firmness. That's what is missing now.


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The Bonsai 101 2018-2019 class will meet January 5th from 10-2. We will continue to meet the first Saturday of the month until May. If you are interested in joining as an observer, talk to Eileen at the general meeting.
The Mentorship 102 group will be held on June 8th from 10-2. Members who have successfully completed Bonsai 101 are invited to attend as participants. This is a bring your own tree class. All other members are welcome to attend as observers.


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Participating in a count at your home feeder
Let's say you want to participate in the fall or spring bird count, but don't want to leave your home and join a field group—luckily, you can still contribute valuable data to these community-science efforts! Just adhere to the following protocol, then email your results to the Science & Conservation Director, subject line: "Bird Count Data." For info on how to participate from home for the Great Backyard Bird Count, visit gbbc.birdcount.org.
- Count all the birds at your feeder for a minimum of fifteen minutes.
- Record the maximum number of individuals of each species you see during that fifteen-minute window.
- Record the time frame (clock-times during which you observed), your precise location (address or GPS), and the date, then submit your results via email.
- If you believe you have seen an out-of-range or rare bird at your feeder, please submit a photograph if possible, or if not, a detailed description of the bird.
Some key things to consider: it's very important that participants not double count individual birds. Imagine a scenario in which you observe five Carolina Chickadees at your feeder around 9:10 a.m., those birds leave, and then four Carolina Chickadees show up around 9:45. Do you count five birds or nine? Because we're not very good at separating individual birds from one another, there's a good chance these four are just a subset of the original five. If you say "nine chickadees," you're likely double counting a smaller number of birds. As such, you should only report the maximum number of individuals of a given species observed at one time.
If you count in several different fifteen-minute intervals throughout the day, you'll still want to report only the maximum number of individuals of a given species observed at any one time. But what if you see species during the afternoon that you didn't see in the morning, or during one time interval, but not during another? In this case, it's perfectly acceptable to merge your counts—after all, we're interested in getting a sense of how many individuals of each bird species show up at your feeder during the day of the count. As long as you report the times during which you observed, we'll be able to keep track of your "birding effort" (the amount of time you spent observing) and the data will be useful.
Questions? We can help! Email the Science & Conservation Director.
Participating with a field group
If you know a field group participating, join a party leader the day of the count, or you may contact the Science & Conservation Director to arrange for a party to join. Expect a full day in the field, and remember to bring a packed lunch with plenty of water, insect repellent, rain gear, sunblock, and seasonally appropriate attire.
While we encourage participation in the counts, they are not the best times for learning your bird identifications because time is of the essence. If you are seeking to build your birding skills, a better opportunity would be to enroll in one of our birding classes or attend a field trip. (Click here for upcoming events and field trips.)


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Gail Walker: Remembrance is not a time to ask why others went to fight... it is a solemn sacrifice that we all share
Our complex history defies the simplicities of communal myths and political posturing, writes Gail Walker
They said this was to be the "decade of centenaries" and they weren't wrong. We've had everything from the Plantation of Ulster to the Covenant to the Easter Rising to the suffragettes and even now we're in the middle of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918, as it were.
And there is more history just round the corner.
Still, the big centenary has certainly been the Great War, the one which might not have ended all wars, but certainly provided the context for much of what went on to happen in the 20th century, at home and abroad.
I think it might just be possible to say this now - that particular centenary has been a success. Many people from diverse cultural and political backgrounds here have been able to make surprising discoveries about their family histories, some that complicate otherwise predictable narratives, some that just confirm the human truths at the core of every life.
My own ancestors have long come tumbling out of the past; stepping out of their sepia portraits, breathless and with adrenalin pumping, as if they have just arrived back from the front or dodged that fatal bullet after all. I like to imagine they're as surprised to meet me as I am them. Real people with real lives.
Here comes my great-grandfather whose heartsore little daughter - my granny - secretly slipped the front door key into the pocket of his uniform at Banbridge railway station as he headed off to the Somme, a lucky charm to bring him home again, one of the few to survive.
That was a favourite family story, revisited with affection, unlike the reticence that surrounded the literal unspooling of his ensuing life back home. A life irrevocably changed. A man who nowadays would be seen to be in the throes of PTSD.
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Then there's my great uncle whose Gallipoli adventures always came second in family folklore to his heroics at home. Coming across a bully terrorising a youth, his opening salvo - "I suppose you think that makes you the big fella" - was the graceful prelude to an epic righting of wrongs. Just a few weeks ago, traversing history and time thanks to the internet, I found - and within minutes lost - another great uncle. Dead at just 22. A blood relative who set out from rolling drumlins I know so well for France where he now lies.
There are few families in Northern Ireland not touched by the losses of the First World War. Indeed, even the names of the battles have become engrained in our consciousness: Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele, Mons, Thiepval, Ypres, Arras, Jutland, Verdun, Cambrai. They are places that have become intertwined with our communal topography - Waringstown, Enniskillen, Moira, Derry. In fact, any town with a war memorial echoes those names, those images, those emotions.
Of course, there is no one left with direct memories of the conflict, but that doesn't make the links any less imperishable and vital. More than 200,000 men, north and south, fought in the Great War. More than 35,000 died. Those figures on their own give us pause for thought.
It is one of the great sorrows of this benighted place that even the sacrifice of our forbears became a way of looking at our neighbourly civil war.
For Ulster Protestants, the sacrifice was a blood covenant, a symbol of their loyalty to the Empire and their inherent Britishness.
The nationalist response was - until very recently - a mixture of communal amnesia and unease. The thousands who joined from nationalist Catholic Ireland were fighting for Home Rule - a cause eclipsed by the full-bore republicanism of 1916 and the War of Independence.
The Catholic Irish fallen were remembered, of course, by families but collectively they were viewed as being on the "wrong side" of history. Dupes at best.
This politicisation of the fallen played a symbolic part in our own Troubles, with some in the Protestant community using the sacrifice made by their forebears as a psychological support for modern-day unionism and loyalism. Nationalists, in turn, were troubled with the rituals of remembrance, the wearing of the poppy and the laying down of wreaths.
But we have come a long way. We are more willing to accept that our historical complexity defies the simplicities of communal myths and political posturing. A greater recognition that the world little cares who is king of our castle is forcing us to not reject the old certainties, but to re-evaluate, to become more imaginative in our responses.
It doesn't take a Lundy or a West Brit to imagine that their great grandfathers joined up for a mixture of reasons. Yes, many joined to demonstrate the loyalty of Ulster, but many joined out of a more civic patriotism, or because their families had a proud military traditions.
And, in the other camp, who can honestly portray those who fell as somehow "less" Irish? They were fighting for their country as much as anyone.
And many - thousands upon thousands - probably couldn't say why precisely they joined up. Travel? Excitement? A desire to do what their mates were doing? The harshness and dourness of the dump that was early 20th century Ireland for working-class people? Thousands joined not because of Carson and Redmond or Empire or Ireland. They did what they did for a subtle convergence of reasons, impulses and drives. And, regardless, they fell equal in death before German machine-guns.
That simple, brutal fact should be at the forefront of this weekend's commemorations.
They weren't just symbols of this or that ideological belief. It is a kind of affront to those who died to consider them as so many ciphers indicating this or that. They left behind sweethearts, wives, children, friends. They left behind jobs and clubs. Hobbies and passions. Regrets and foolishness. They were every bit as human as you or I. We have perhaps grown too accustomed to viewing the slaughter of France and Flanders as primarily a moral tale. Even away from our wee place, the complexity has been reduced to a simple morality tale about the "senselessness of war".
The causes, the concerns, the unfolding of geopolitics are little discussed today, preferring as we do to see it all as the result of "mindless patriotism" and "belligerent jingoism".
And, of course, those were important social influences. But they were not the only social forces at work. In order to understand we have to allow the dead the full complexity and paradoxes of their times.
In other words, we can't rob those who fought of their full humanity because their motives don't suit ours.
After a near-half century of unnamed civil war, we should know better than most the true costs of indulging in stereotypes and denying common humanity.
We'll probably never see the poppy or even Remembrance Sunday accepted in Catholic Ireland, north or south. Any more than we will see a unionist leader taking the salute at an Easter Rising commemoration in Dublin. Though, you know, neither of those things need be impossible. And we would all be much better off if they occurred.
Which is why this Sunday can be even more significant for us, here, as we emerge into a whole new century - maybe the first one in Ireland - which needn't be spattered by assassinations and bombings and ambushes. It is an opportunity for us to reach out today, to each other, in this contested place, not to justify the past, but to recognise hurt, understand loss, empathise with those caught up and those cut down in the fairly grubby business of history.
We owe ourselves - and our dead of every generation - that much.
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A2500, Lower Road Improvement, Minster
The A2500 Lower Road is an important route between the A249 Sheppey and the east part of the Isle of Sheppey. It is also the primary through route to the 3 prisons on the island.
The proposed improvements will be provided in 2 phases:
- Phase 1 will provide a new roundabout at the junction of Lower Road with Barton Hill Drive
- Phase 2 will improve a 1.1km section of the A2500 Lower Road between the A249 and Barton Hill Drive on the Isle of Sheppey. This will include widening of the road and building a new shared footway/cycleway, supporting future growth and transforming the journey experience for all road users.
Formal scheme approval was made by:
Scheme objectives
The objectives of the scheme are to:
- provide a new roundabout at Barton Hill Drive
- widen a 1.1km section of the A2500 Lower Road
- provide a new shared footway / cycleway
- ease congestion
- support economic growth.
Bid submissions
A2500, Lower Road Improvement, Minster proposal bid (PDF, 4.0 MB)
- Phase 1 – A2500 Lower Road junction with Barton Hill Drive Roundabout – scheme plan (PDF, 542.6 KB)
- Phase 2 – A2500 Lower Road widening – feasibility design (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Newsletter 5 - August 2019 (PDF, 3.0 MB)
- Newsletter 4 - March 2019 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Newsletter 3 - October 2018 (PDF, 2.0 MB)
- Newsletter 2 - August 2018 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Newsletter 1 - June 2018 (PDF, 378.2 KB)
Formal decision
The approval to progress the A2500 Lower Road Improvement was taken by Kent County Council on 13 March 2017, with a phase two committee decision on 15 May 2018.
The decision by the SELEP Accountability Board to grant Local Growth Funding for the A2500 the Lower Road Improvement was made on the 22 September 2017.
Proposed dates
Phase 1
- Design works:
- Construction start:
25 June 2018
- Planned completion:
January 2019
Phase 2
- Detailed design:
up to November 2018
- Planning works:
December 2018 to February 2019
- Construction:
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Couples with children who are going through a divorce in Texas will most likely find that child custody decisions are the most difficult to make. Going from a house always full of children to a house where children are only present half the time can make divorcing couples more emotionally charged and unable to agree on what the best custody arrangement is. When a couple is unable to make this decision, the court steps in and makes the custody award based on the best interests of the children involved.
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Penne Pasta with Roasted Veggies, Chicken and Pesto
- 8 oz of cooked Penne pasta
- 5 oz cooked/sliced chicken breast
- Tbs of Olive oil
- Tbs of butter
- Tbs chopped garlic
- 2 Tbs Pesto
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 cup pre roasted/chopped vegetables
- 2 oz shredded Parmesan cheese
Heat butter, oil and garlic in large sauté pan.
Add pasta, chicken and chicken broth.
Reduce by half and add pesto and veggies, then
stir, season with salt and pepper and top with parmesan and enjoy.
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Stakeholders canvass establishment of research funding agency
Speaking at a three-day national workshop held at the Lagos State University (LASU) in collaboration with the National Universities Commission (NUC), the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), and Open Africa Innovation Research (OpenAIR), the participants expressed concern over the non-availability of research agencies.
The Director of Research and Innovation at the NUC, Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf had pointed out that access to funds rather than funding was the problem with research in Nigeria.
While acknowledging the existence of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) and the research grants provided through the NUC, Prof Segun Adewuya of LASU said the establishment of a research funding agency is imperative.
A former Executive Secretary of NUC, Peter Okebukola faulted foreign donor agencies that dictate to African researchers the areas they should research on.
Okebukola believed that since the funds were loans rather than gifts, the agencies should rather let African researchers decide on how to utilise them for researches.
Similarly, LASU vice Chancellor, Olarewaju Fagbohun stressed the need for universities and industries to work together to produce meaningful research towards national development.
He stated that industries don't fund universities' researches because the institutions undertake researches without carrying industry players along.
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"As long as there is disconnect between the universities and industry, in terms of research, there is no way to achieve coherence for development,'' he said.
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I wonder whether Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, is ready for what he is bargaining for regarding moves to recall German-born Ghanaian Kevin-Prince (KP) Boateng into the senior national team. I don't want to believe that the Stars coach is succumbing to any external pressure to bring KP back into his team at this material moment, since the timing seems not to be right.
Last week, the usual drama which often characterises the inclusion of KP prior to major tournaments began to play out when Kwasi Appiah hinted of the possible return of the player into his set up if only he was willing to apologise to Ghanaians and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) as directed by the Government White Paper on the Dzamefe Commission's report.
If my memory serves me right that was the first public statement by the Stars coach on the player after he had appeared before the Dzamefe Commission to tell his side of the story on the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup brouhaha.
Simply put, Appiah said despite showing him and the GFA gross disrespect in Brazil, he was ready to forgive KP and give him another chance to give the Black Stars more striking options. That's certainly not a bad idea from a coach who is hungry for results.
But the question is whether the midfielder-cum-attacker, who is in great form for Sassuolo in the Italian Serie A, is willing to change his mind after recently stating that he owed the GFA no apology for the amateurish manner in which it organised the Brazil 2014 campaign. That is where the problem is.
If KP's stance is that he has done no wrong despite his regrettable encounter with Kwasi Appiah and the GFA, which resulted in his being thrown out of Brazil in the course of the tournament, alongside Sulley Muntari, then it is clear that he is still not remorseful. If for nothing at all, Muntari has since written to the GFA to apologise for his misconduct in Brazil, following that infamous encounter with the owner of Medeama SC, Moses Armah.
If that is indeed the case, it would be worth the while of the Stars coach not to dream of recalling such a player to create more conflicts in his otherwise peaceful team. Coming out to declare his intention to recall the player should be enough for the whole world to know that Kwasi Appiah has put the past behind him.
We are dealing with a player who has a track record of being a last minute addition for the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups in South Africa and Brazil, respectively. On both occasions, he missed the qualifiers only to resurface in the final squad at the last minute.
In the case of the Brazil 2014 qualifiers especially, he only featured in the final qualifier between Egypt and Ghana in Cairo as a substitute. KP got Ghana's consolation goal in the game which ended 2-1 in favour of the North Africans. But that was after Kwasi Appiah had already made history as the first Ghanaian coach to qualify the Black Stars to the senior World Cup, following a historic 6-1 thrashing of the Pharaohs of Egypt in Kumasi.
That historic feat was achieved without KP. And as it happened prior to the South Africa 2010 World Cup, KP found his way into the final team to Brazil due to his good form then as is the case presently.
However, the difference is that the Stars are now preparing not for another World Cup but an African tournament, AFCON 2019, which the player has not featured in before. The bare fact is that KP is not keen on playing in Africa perhaps due to the several knee surgeries he has had in his career. It is also an open secret that most pitches in Africa are not the best as compared to Europe and other parts of the world.
If the player is not ready to feature in the rest of the AFCON qualifiers and the tournament proper if Ghana qualifies, then the issue is not even worth discussing in the first place. I don't think the issue on hand is that simple as we are being made to believe.
KP may truly be in top form currently at club level, but another question is whether he is ready to play under the same coach he allegedly had a fracas with in Brazil?
Without belabouring the point, if indeed the player actually told the foreign media that he had nothing to apologise for but rather thought GFA officials were unfair to him in Brazil, then it is obvious that Kwasi Appiah is dealing with a remorseless character and could, therefore, be courting trouble for himself and his promising side.
I would rather advise the Stars coach to concentrate on building a solid team out of his hungry bunch of young players at his disposal now instead of focusing on players who are over the hill and have nothing to prove any longer.
If you ask me, I think the current pool of the Stars such as the squad that was assembled for the Sierra Leone duel is talent-filled and has the potential of taking on the world just as the Stephen Appiah generation did in the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup in Germany and South Africa, respectively. All they need is to play together for sometime to build their confidence with the support of the entire nation.
Kwasi Appiah has said time and again that his ambition is to leave a legacy of a formidable team that can last for the next decade. If that vision still holds, then I don't think any of the so-called superstars should be entertained in this future plan.
The nature of Kwasi Appiah and his dream for the Black Stars surely do not require football politicians but young promising and hungry players who are willing to submit and cooperate with the technical team to achieve their targets. For now, the presence of skipper Asamoah Gyan in the team should be enough to inspire quality players such as Kwadwo Asamoah, Thomas Partey, Emmanuel Boateng, Christian Atsu, and others to give the coach and Ghanaians the needed results.
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There are a lot of great things involving ghosts in entertainment. There's Ghostbusters, there's the ghost I saw at Lombard's while working security at Universal Studios Orlando, there was the analyst on CNN hypothesizing that missing Malaysia plane MH370 may have been a "ghost plane" (not even kidding about that) and, of course, the classic cornerstone of American cinema, Ghost Dad.
So naturally, I was super excited when I saw today's MASK episode was titled "Ghost Bomb" because I couldn't wait to see if we were getting bombs placed and set off by ghosts or maybe it was a bomb to trap ghosts! The options are endless! Either way, we're getting some fucking ghosts!
We open in motherfucking Panama. Once again, who the fuck is Matt Trakker?
OK, so Panama and Scott and T-Bob are parasailing when a nearby yacht is destroyed by a runaway submarine. Matt recognizes the logo on the sub's periscope as a company he's donated tons of money to for research.
Matt contacts the research group because he's the only guy in Panama with available telecommunications and finds out that not only was the submarine stolen a few days ago, but so was "Brian the Brain" a super-computer with an incredible realistic AI that is powerful enough to ghost-run the sub.
Turns out, VENOM (who else) stole this equipment and plans on using it to take over the Panama Canal. If the world doesn't comply, the submarine is rigged with plastic explosives and Brian the Brain will detonate it if someone tries interfering with their plans which will…I dunno…I guess it'll blow up all of Panama or something.
Matt calls in the MASK agents best suited for this mission and, upon arrival, places a direct call to Brian the Brain himself which Hondo is able to trace to get Brian's location. It's found at a cabin in the woods being watched by Vanessa Warfield of VENOM, but she's no match for Dusty's freeze spray that allows them to put Brian the Brain on ice and chase off Vanessa so they're able to disable the explosives and take back control of the submarine to return it to the lab.
Miles Mayhem is incredibly unhappy and swears revenge.
Was kinda feeling this in the beginning, but then it takes forever to develop. We're more than halfway through the episode when Trakker calls in for the rest of MASK and the end is rushed to shit after that. There's a quasi-interesting bit with T-Bob and Gloria where both save each other's life within minutes of each other, but you could remove that scene completely and not miss anything from the episode.
Another case where MASK sets me up to be let down.
No PSA in this one. We get a sloppy, non-sensical scene at the end with Mayhem following MASK from his helicopter as they guide the submarine away. He grumbles about always having his plans foiled and fires a missile at the submarine so that nobody can have it. MASK simply catches it in a net and send it away harmlessly as Mayhem swears to fight another day.
Final Grade:
* 1/2*. I am honestly worried that all the cartoons I liked as a child are fucking terrible and MASK is just letting me down not so easy. There is no possible way everything I love was this shitty, was it? Oh jesus god no. We are going to be watching a lot of cartoons, people.
I'm going to finish this series. I'm letting you know that. If I don't, I'll never come back to it and maybe it gets better. Who knows? But I will finish this. After this, however, we're going to have to find something I loved as a kid and see if I still love it. Genuinely worried here, people. I don't want to hate my childhood.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - London Stock Exchange Group is making a big bet on big data. The bourse operator on Thursday confirmed its plan to take over financial information purveyor Refinitiv for $27 billion, including debt. To make the numbers add up, Chief Executive David Schwimmer will not just have to cut costs, but find new sources of growth.
It's only 10 months since Refinitiv was carved out of Thomson Reuters, owner of Breakingviews, in a partial buyout worth $20 billion. Major shareholder Blackstone has been busy slashing costs: the buyout group is more than half way to its target of lowering annual expenses by $650 million. Schwimmer reckons combining with LSE will enable him to slice off a further 350 million pounds a year, or about $425 million.
Add those figures to Refinitiv's underlying results for last year, and the data provider's EBITDA would rise to roughly $3.1 billion. Deduct Refinitiv's depreciation and amortisation charge of $864 million for 2017 - the last full year before the buyout - and tax what's left at the LSE's 22% rate. This produces a return on investment of 6.5%, below the company's weighted average cost of capital of 8-9%.
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To be sure of earning an economic return for shareholders, Schwimmer will therefore have to boost growth at Refinitiv, which has been grappling with shrinking demand for its Eikon desktop terminals. One option is to package and sell more LSE data to Refinitiv customers. The former Goldman Sachs banker also sees scope for using Refinitiv's statistics on environmental, social and governance - the current investment fad - to create new stock indices.
LSE shareholders appear to be giving him the benefit of the doubt. The company's market value has risen by around a quarter - equivalent to about 5 billion pounds - since it confirmed talks last weekend. That raises the price for any rival which might be considering pouncing on LSE. It also adds to the pressure on Schwimmer to make sure his numbers add up.
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Hemis National Park
Hemis National Park
Hemis NP
National Park
Stok Kangri peak inside Hemis NP
|Coordinates: 33°59′00″N 77°26′00″E / 33.98333°N 77.43333°ECoordinates: 33°59′00″N 77°26′00″E / 33.98333°N 77.43333°E
|Union Territory
|Leh District
|• Total
|4,400 km2 (1,700 sq mi)
|3,000 - 6,000 m (−17,000 ft)
|• Official
|Tibetan, Ladakhi, Hindi
|Time zone
|Nearest city
|IUCN category
|Governing body
|Government of India, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council
|160.5 millimetres (6.32 in)
|Avg. summer temperature
|Avg. winter temperature
Hemis National Park (or Hemis High Altitude National Park) is a high altitude national park in the eastern Ladakh Union Territory of the Republic of India. Globally famous for its snow leopards, it is believed to have the highest density of them in any protected area in the world.[1] It is the only national park in India that is north of the Himalayas, the largest notified protected area in India (largest National park) and is the second largest contiguous protected area, after the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve and surrounding protected areas. The park is home to a number of species of endangered mammals, including the snow leopard. Hemis National Park is India's protected area inside the Palearctic ecozone, outside the Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary northeast of Hemis, and the proposed Tso Lhamo Cold Desert Conservation Area in North Sikkim.
The park is bounded on the north by the banks of the Indus River, and includes the catchments of Markha, Sumdah and Rumbak, and parts of the Zanskar Range.
The park was founded in 1981 by protecting the Rumbak and Markha catchments, an area of about 600 km2 (230 sq mi). It grew in 1988 to around 3,350 km2 (1,290 sq mi), by incorporating neighboring lands,[2] before increasing in 1990 to 4,400 km2 (1,700 sq mi),[3] and is the largest national park in South Asia.
Geography and ecological significance[edit]
The park lies within the Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe ecoregion, and contains pine forests, alpine shrublands and meadows, and alpine tundra.
The park is home to a viable breeding population of about 200 snow leopards, especially in the Rumbak catchment area. The prey base for the apex predator in the Central Asian Highlands is primarily supported in Hemis by Argali (Great Tibetan Sheep), Bharal (Blue Sheep), Shapu (Ladakhi Urial), and livestock. A small population of the Asiatic ibex is also present in Hemis. Hemis is the only refuge in India containing the Shapu.[4]
The Tibetan wolf, the Eurasian brown bear (endangered in India), and the red fox are also present in Hemis.[5] Small mammals include the Himalayan marmot, mountain weasel and the Himalayan mouse hare.[6]
Among birds of prey noted here are Himalayan and Trans-Himalayan birds of prey: the golden eagle, lammergeier vulture, and Himalayan griffon vulture.[6] The Rumbak Valley offers opportunities for birdwatching[6], including several Tibetan species not common in other parts of India. Birds present here include brown accentor, robin accentor, Tickell's leaf warbler, streaked rosefinch, black-winged snowfinch, chukar, Blyth's swift, red-billed chough, Himalayan snowcock, and the fire-fronted serin[6].
16 mammal species and 73 bird species have been recorded in the park so far.[6]
Mountain weasel (Mustela altaica)
This region is in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, and does not receive much precipitation. Hence, dry forests of juniper, Populus - Salix forests, subalpine dry birch - fir are present at lower altitudes. Alpine and steppe trees are predominantly found here. These trees and shrubs are spread across the valley bottoms. Since the upper mountain slopes are moist, this area is characterized by alpine vegetation including Anemone, Gentiana, Thallctrwn, Lloydia, Veronica, Delphinum, Carex and Kobresia. The other parts of the park support steppe vegetation which is dominated by Caragana, Artemisia, Stachys, and Ephedra, present along the lower river courses. A study conducted by CP Kala reports 15 rare and endangered medicinal plants growing in the park, which include Acantholimon lycopodiodes, Arnebia euchroma, Artimisia maritima, Bergenia stracheyi, Ephedra gerardiana, Ferula jaeschkeana, and Hyoscyamus niger.[7][8]
Environmental issues[edit]
Over 1,600 people live inside the park boundaries, mostly pastoralists raising poultry, goats, and sheep. This results in considerable animal-human conflict within the region. Snow leopards prey on livestock, sometimes killing several animals from a single flock in one hunt. This has been attributed to the overgrazing of livestock. Crop damage caused by bharal has also been seen.
The Department of Wildlife Protection, Government of Jammu and Kashmir is the custodian of the park. Any activity in the park is prohibited unless special permission is obtained from the Chief Wildlife Warden J&K. The department has initiated many projects for biodiversity conservation and rural livelihood improvement in Ladakh, including the Hemis National Park, such as:
- Project Snow Leopard for Conserving the entire Himalayan biosphere. The project was initiated by the department in 2004 and was formally launched on 20 February 2009.
- Ladakh Eco tourism Project
- Ladakh Homestays: A program for providing tourists with access to homestays in local villagers' residences (source of additional income).
- Nature Guide Training for the educated unemployed youth.
- Eco Cafe for the women Help Group to run the cafe and sell the local handicraft products to the tourist.
- Creation of a no-grazing zone for domestic livestock
- Predator-proofing livestock pens in the area[3][5]
No metalled or motorable roads traverse the park. The park offers a number of routes for trekking from mid-June to mid-October. The best season for spotting snow leopards, is, however, in late winter. The historic Hemis Monastery is home to the Hemis Festival (Hemis Tsechu) every summer. Lodging is restricted to backcountry camps, villager homestays and accommodation at the monasteries.
- Nearest airport: Leh Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport, Leh district about 5 km (3.1 mi) away
- Nearest railhead: Kalka, Haryana
- Nearest highway: Leh-Manali Highway, and National Highway 1D (Srinagar - Kargil - Leh), both near the northern borders of the park
- Nearest town: There are quite a few villages, and gumphas (monasteries) inside the national park
- Nearest city: The city of Leh is 10 km (6.2 mi) to the north of the park.
Ganda La[edit]
|Ganda La
The top of Ganda La (winter pass); the way to Skiu
|4,980 m (16,339 ft)
Ganda La (also called the Kanda La,[9] 34°2′29.62″N 77°21′45.42″E / 34.0415611°N 77.3626167°E) is a high mountain pass located at around 4980 metres above sea level in Ladakh, 23 km (14 mi) south-west of Leh, in the Himalayas in India.[9] It lies within the Hemis National Park.[10] and connects the Markha valley villages to Leh, and is regularly used by local people. The summer pass is open from June, and the winter pass (half kilometre north-west of summer pass) is open from late April.
The Markha Valley trek crosses the pass on the section between Rumbak and Skiu villages, which is usually done over 2 days.[9] The other pass on the trek is the Gongmaru La (Kongmaru La).[9]
The top of Ganda La Winter Pass on the way to Skiu
Courtyard of the historic Hemis Monastery inside the NP
In culture[edit]
The park houses numerous Tibetan gompas and holy chortens within its boundaries. These include the famous 400-year-old Hemis Monastery. Hemis was a destination and via point on the silk routes of Tibet. Over 1,600 people live inside the park presently, with a large number of tourists and pilgrims visiting during the Hemis Tsechu festival.
The 400-year-old Hemis Monastery has long been a place of pilgrimage for Tibetan Buddhists. However, in the late 19th and early 20th century, the monastery attracted some attention due to the writings of Nicolas Notovitch, a Russian aristocrat and journalist, who claimed that Jesus had spent the missing years of his life in Tibet and Ladakh, specifically in Hemis. (see Lost years of Jesus)
The national park, monastery and the Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary were prominently featured in the award-winning documentary Riding Solo to the Top of the World.
See also[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hemis National Park.
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- ^ Wild Sheep and Goats and Their Relatives: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Caprinae By David M. Shackleton, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Species Survival Commission. Caprinae Specialist Group Contributor David M. Shackleton, Published by IUCN, 1997 (ISBN 2831703530), (ISBN 9782831703534)
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- ^ a b c d e Khan, Asif (2016). "Ladakh: The Land Beyond". Buceros. Vol.21, Issue 3: 6–15.
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The Goethe Pop Up Houston will host and support cultural and social events throughout the city, with the aim of bringing a wider understanding of the deep cultural ties between Germany and the USA. The Pop Up is part of the "Year of German American Friendship" ("Deutschlandjahr USA"), a comprehensive collaborative initiative funded by the German Federal Office, implemented by the Goethe-Institut, with support from the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
Director: Grant Aymond
Before beginning as the Managing Director of the Goethe Pop Up Houston Grant Aymond was the Membership Coördinator at the Dallas Citizens Council, a civic non-profit comprising of CEOs who engage in local civic projects. He also sat on the board as Membership Chair of the Dallas Goethe Center, an organization dedicated to promoting German language and culture in North Texas.
Program Assistant: Katie L. Bruton
Before returning to Texas, Katie L. Bruton was based in Berlin, where she was working towards her Master's in Applied Literature with a focus on artists' publications. She previously worked for the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and Berlin University of the Arts and currently serves on the editorial team for the Austin-established art and literary journal fields.


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New Zealanders can fight pollution and "sweat shops" by becoming "anti-consumers" who buy guilt free clothing.
University of Auckland researcher Miriam Seifert says because clothing has become so affordable, many people are caught in a vicious cycle of buying too many unnecessary items.
The fashion industry is regarded as one of the most polluting in the world, generating millions of tons of waste every year. Globally production has doubled since 2000 and Seifert says it is time for it - and shoppers - to slow down.
She says being an anti-consumer could help: "An anti-consumer is someone who chooses not to consume certain products because, among other reasons, they are aware of the environmental damage they cause.
"This may help shoppers in identifying high quality, guilt free clothing options and fashion companies achieving competitive advantage."
But Seifert realises changing buying habits could take years. "The trouble is when you go shopping you are not thinking about the supply chain, you are looking only at a beautiful garment."
Seifert, a doctoral candidate in business and management at the university's Faculty of Business and Economics, is soon to publish a thesis on ethical fashion. Her research is based on interviews she has conducted with 50 clothing companies around the world, exploring how firms make money by asking people to buy less.
It comes as the relief and development group Tearfund has released a report in which it graded international companies on their ethical fashion practices. One hundred and fourteen companies – including 18 from New Zealand – were graded.
Three of the five highest rated brands were from New Zealand and overall Kiwi companies scored an average of B-, a rating unchanged from last year. The companies were assessed through three stages – raw materials, input production and final stage production.
But Seifert says much of the clothing available in New Zealand shops is produced in low-cost countries using manufacturing processes that put pressure on working conditions and the environment. She says shoppers deserve to know the wages of the person who made the clothes and how much pollution was generated in making them.
"As consumers we think when we spend $5 on a T-shirt we are saving money," she says. "But we are overlooking the real cost of making clothes because many fashion companies shift production to low cost countries using sweat shop labour and the world's limited resources."
Seifert believes the solution is what she calls 'slow' fashion where shoppers are encouraged to re-think their buying behavior and consume more consciously - and for fashion businesses to slow down production.
Seifert believes more information needs to be provided on clothing labels - similar to food labelling - so people are more easily able to assess the supply chain history of products coming into New Zealand.
While consumer laws in New Zealand hold producers to account for label claims, consumers have to rely on what companies tell them.
"Regulation is very low and I think responsible, socially and environmentally-oriented companies would like to see legislation in the industry," she says. "This would help them stay ahead of competitors – at least for a short time – and would enable shoppers who are becoming more environmentally aware to connect with the value of these firms by being able to identify and buy higher quality, guilt-free clothing."
But Seifert says the push for greater regulation needs to come from consumers and the companies themselves because "they will be the ones positively or negatively affected by legislation."
She also believes industry waste should be used as a resource: "I don't have figures for New Zealand but in Hong Kong I understand every minute up to 1400 T-shirts are thrown out, while in the US more than 15 million tons of textile waste is generated each year " she says. "So why not make pillows out of it, or make shoes from recycled plastic bottles?"
International opinion supports Seifert's view. An article earlier this year in Britain's The Guardian newspaper said fashion was arguably the world's second-most polluting industry behind oil.
"The fashion industry is contributing to major environmental destruction – mainly because consumers insist on buying so many clothes at such cheap prices," the article said. "This has terrible impacts on people too, with workers in developing nations often paid a pittance to labour in unsafe conditions.
"The solution lies in buying less and choosing better quality items that are made as ethically as possible."
According to Greenpeace, global clothing production has doubled since 2000. The average person buys 60 per cent more items every year but keeps them for about half as long as 15 years ago while around only 15 per cent of them are recycled.
In the US, Americans throw away around 80lbs (36kg) of used clothing per person every year.
Of the 15 million tons of textile waste generated in the US, just 2.6 million tons is recycled with more than 10 million tons going into landfill, much of it synthetic material which can take hundreds of years to decompose.


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No Kids for me
The fact that it took Quebec filmmaker Magenta Baribeau 6 years to self-fund No Kids for me, Thanks (Maman? Non merci!) is somewhat alarming. Her documentary is by no means a big budget production. The subject of rejecting motherhood is taboo and provocative, although maybe it shouldn't be. It is a personal issue for the filmmaker; when she turned 30 it surprised her that so many people had opinions about her what she did with her womb. Baribeau interviews French-speaking women ranging in age from their 20s to 80 in Canada, Belgium and France. They discuss their decisions to live without children.
Quebec professor and author Lucie Joubert reveals that after writing a book about women choosing childlessness, she was a little hesitant about publishing it. Many people were still not open to this public discussion. Joubert reflects on the time a stranger on the train tried convincing her to have kids. She was forced to lie to this woman, saying that she couldn't have kids, which resulted in the woman pushing for adoption. This interrogation about one's life choice, from a stranger no less, is unnecessary. Joubert was not alone in this regard, as other interviewees also share similar pressure they get from family, friends and strangers. Melanie, a mother of a 5-year-old boy, chooses not to have another child but is still pressured by friends to have more.
Most of the interviews are held out in nature, with natural lighting and still frames – possibly due to Baribeau's limited budget. Baribeau's camera tracks 71-year-old Claudette while she's on the move, never at rest and clearly proud to take care of herself. Claudette is always on the go, never wanting to stay home too much. Her point of view counters the argument that having kids means someone will always be around to take care of you. She points out that as a single aging woman she is more proactive in finding friends, while some of her peers are often left waiting in the nursing home for sporadic visits from their kids. Melissa volunteers at a cat shelter busily cleaning litter boxes while she explains that her past experience as a stepmother made her realize that she did not want to have her own kids. She loves her freedom and desires the same respect she gives those who have kids, free of judgment.
Baribeau shows the childfree male perspective, too. These men also take offense when people call their lifestyle choice a selfish one. Two Canadian men chose to have vasectomies, one whose decision was supported by his girlfriend and the other supported by his mother. They had their procedures without protest from their physicians, but when Baribeau considered having a tubal ligation she was told that Canadian doctors will not perform a tubal until a woman is 30, stating that they think she will change her mind. These impassioned men have no regrets about their vasectomies so who's to say that a woman is any different.
It's a shame that this film has yet to reach a wider audience since its initial November 2015 release. Most of the press that No Kids for me, Thanks has received has been in the French-speaking world, which is a little limiting. Baribeau even receives hate mail from people who have not even seen the film. They seem to think that the documentary is a pro-childfree film when, in fact, it's just showing a different perspective that is very present in society. French graphic novelist Véronique Cazot discusses the pressure in society and how that led her to write the comic strip Et Toi, Quand est-ce que tu t'y mets? (And When Are You Going to Start Trying for a Baby?), trying to break down the taboo in a comic way.
After the Berlin Feminist Film Week 2017 screening, Baribeau asked the audience about their current status, and she was happy to see mixed responses because at her other screenings most of the audience members were happy to stay childfree. The Berlin audience was divided with those who already had children, those who didn't want any and those who were still undecided. These are the types of audiences that hopefully see this film in the future.
No Kids for me, Thanks shows a modern perspective that is often left out of mainstream discussions. Bravo to Magenta Baribeau for putting her blood, sweat and tears and 6+ years of her life into making a documentary that sheds light on a life choice that is still seem as an abnormal one. The honest and simplistic dialogue in Baribeau's documentary is one that deserves to have a wider audience.
Stars: 4.0 out of 5
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Lucie Jourbert, Melissa Berniqué, Melanie Roy, Claudette Valiquette
Director & Writer: Magenta Baribeau
Rating: F
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Language: French (Canada, Belgium, France)
Country: Canada
Production Company: Self-funded
Website: http://mamannonmerci.blogspot.com
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Following the roll-out of a revamped mobile search earlier this year, Google has begun testing a version of AdSense for mobile Web sites. In typical Google fashion, it ushered in the beta program not with an announcement, but by sending invites to AdSense users late last week.
Internet entrepreneur Scott Jones posted on his blog, Self Made Minds, that he received an invite to the Google beta. The news garnered attention throughout the blogosphere and SEO community.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the beta. "Google is committed to finding new and better ways to get users the information they need while on the go, and to opening up new revenue opportunities for our partners. We are currently conducting a limited beta to test AdSense for mobile, a monetization product for mobile publishers. We will continue to evaluate the beta and will refine the product based on feedback from our users, publishers, and advertisers."
"At present it just appears in my AdSense in the list of products and has not been tested," Jones told ClickZ News. He went on to say ad units include single and double ads, WAP 1.0 or 2.0 in the normal color palette for integration.
While positive about the move, industry analysts question the size of the market for contextually delivered mobile ads. "How big is mobile advertising at this time, and how much is Google coming into the space going to impact positively or negatively?" asked M:Metrics's vice president consulting and senior analyst Evan Neufeld.
Google's mobile AdSense limited beta may bring mobile one step closer to becoming a line item in advertisers' budgets, rather than an experimental entry.
"Google's AdSense is a very powerful product online, but it fits a particular niche for advertising. I don't think that niche is currently filled in mobile, but I don't know how big that niche is," said Lee Hancock, founder and CEO of go2 Wireless, pointing to Google's offering of standardized ads, contextually-based units, PPC and impression-based models.
"If you look at the way AdSense works online, typically associated with content that is relevant, it's typically displayed in extra areas on the page," Hancock said. "You're not going to have that flexibility and capability on the mobile phone, with its small screen."
Skepticism aside, Hancock said "Google will likely be successful; the question is the magnitude of that success."
The appearance of ads through AdSense has at least one potential benefit to the user experience. "It will probably assist in the discovery of information on a mobile phone," said Hancock. "But what will be really interesting to see is how monetizible mobile traffic is."
AdSense's inventory is one component of the mobile marketing platform, cautions Neufeld. "Is it strictly a banner ad-serving tool?" he said. If it ignores SMS and MMS messaging, he added, Google is "missing a big piece of it."
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The great Richard Matheson does solid work turning a novel by the often clunky Dennis Wheatley into a crisply executed occult thriller that clocks in at barely 100 minutes. Lee commands the screen as a reluctant, learning-on-the-fly white magician who must battle the powerful Mocata (a terrifically oily, ingratiating Charles Gray) for the souls of two people who have been pulled into Satanic worship.
The rites and spells sometimes sound so odd that you'd swear they were lifted from H.P. Lovecraft or William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost-Finder series and not from actual occult sources. This Hammer film has a fairly low budget, as Hammer films always did, but the cinematography, direction, and set design mostly make up for it. There are a couple of goofy moments involving visual effects, but a couple of things also work quite well.
The film is at its creepiest when it keeps its demons off-stage, but that's true of virtually all horror movies. Wait for the moment in which a crucifix operates pretty much like the Holy Hand-grenade of Antioch. Reportedly this was Christopher Lee's favourite of his many Hammer Horror Films, partially because he himself suggested they make it and partially, I assume, because he got to be a commanding good guy for once. Recommended.
Woman in Gold: adapted by Alexi Kaye Campbell from the life stories of E. Randal Schoenberg and Maria Altmann; directed by Simon Curtis; starring Helen Mirren (Maria Altmann), Ryan Reynolds (Randy Schoenberg), Tatiana Maslany (Young Maria), and Max Irons (Fritz Altmann) (2015): Fascinating true-life story of the 1990's quest of an Austrian-American Jewish woman who strives to get her family paintings back from the Austrian government more than 50 years after they were stolen after the Nazi occupation of Austria. The kicker is that these aren't just any paintings -- five of them are by Gustav Klimt, and one of those is Portrait of Adele, aka Woman in Gold, Klimt's most famous painting and one valued in the 1990's at over $100 million.
Apparently I found the narrative and the legal manueverings more interesting than 45% of all reviewers. So it goes. Helen Mirren is wonderful as usual, as are the actors playing her character and others in flashback. Ryan Reynolds is surprisingly sturdy as the young Jewish-American lawyer who reluctantly takes on Mirren's case. Perfunctory scenes between Reynolds and Katie Holmes as his initially doubting wife could have been cut from the film.
As judges, Elizabeth McGovern and Jonathan Pryce steal their only scenes. And I think the film does a laudable job of showing some of the moral horror of the Holocaust, and of anti-Semitism, still hanging on in the modern world: Austria's attitude towards attempts to get stolen art back show a government and a group of people who still regard certain types of people as objects to be eliminated. But there are also "good" Austrians, as the film shows, both past and present. Recommended.
Shakespeare in Love: written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard with additional dialogue by William Shakespeare; directed by John Madden; starring Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare), Gwyneth Paltrow (Viola de Lesseps), Colin Firth (Wessex), Judi Dench (Queen Elizabeth), Ben Affleck (Alleyn), Rupert Everett (Christopher Marlowe), Geoffrey Rush (Henslowe), and Tom Wilkinson (Fennyman) (1998):
Hollywood insiders generally consider Shakespeare in Love to be a masterpiece -- specifically, producer/studio head Harvey Weinstein's masterpiece of lobbying for awards. It took down the heavily favoured Saving Private Ryan for the Oscar for Best Picture of 1998, and garnered six other Oscars besides, including Best Actress for Gwyneth Paltrow and Best Supporting Actress for Judi Dench.
It's a very tight movie, wittily written and ably performed by pretty much everyone. The greatest weakness on the acting side isn't Ben Affleck but Joseph Fiennes as Shakespeare -- he makes for a lovable romantic lead, sort of like a puppy dog, but there really isn't a moment where one believes that he has much of an intellect or any artistic ability. Dench's Oscar win now looks like the Academy voting for a showy piece of work in heavy make-up and costume: as Queen Elizabeth, Dench is a prickly, sarcastic lawn ornament.
The movie's bathed for the most part in golden light for the romantic scenes; the rest of the time, it's realistically lighted for the dirty streets and alleys of Elizabethan London. The wit of the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard can get a bit twee, and there's a self-congratulatory air in the movie's view of the Greatness of Theatre that can get a bit wearing at times.
Nonetheless, it's funny and at times quite moving, never moreso than in its final few minutes. I don't know that its Oscar win was that much of an upset -- it's certainly better written than Saving Private Ryan, and unlike that film, Shakespeare in Love doesn't have major third-act plot problems. Recommended.


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Hear more in all of your movies and music with this 2.1 channel sound bar. A 300W power output fills the room, while a wireless subwoofer adds depth for resounding basslines.
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