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Craft Bike TransAlp, 13-20 July
The Craft Bike TransAlp is an 8 day mountain bike stage race traversing the majestic European Alps. The 16th edition started in Mittenwald, Germany from where it moved into Austria for a couple of days and then into Italy finishing at Riva del Garda. Over the period of 8 days riders covered a total distance of 676km which included 20,243m of ascending.
It's been 5 years since I last visited Europe and this year I was very fortunate when a good friend of mine, Aurelie Halbwachs, invited me to join her for The Craft Bike TransAlp. We have completed the Joberg2C (9 day event) together and also two Omnicane Southern Tropical Challenges (4 day event in Mauritius). However, it was the first TransAlp that Aurelie and I would attempt, and whatever happened it would be a memorable experience for both of us.
Stage 1 – Mittenwald to Mayrhofen, 111km and 2106m ascent
On day one we left Germany behind and headed to the finishing venue at Mayrhofen in Austria.
At the beginning of the stage we were to tackle two long climbs of around 15km each, followed by a 45km bike path section which took us all the way home. Despite climbing for more than an hour at a time I felt comfortable on the ascents and enjoyed the dramatic scenery of the Alps.
The flat bike path section proved to be the biggest challenge on the day. Small groups started to form as some riders got picked up while others got left behind. A strong tail wind really upped the speed as Aurelie and I found ourselves hanging onto a group for dear life. It wasn't long before a small group of riders joined our group which contained our competitors Andrea Kuster and Daniele Troesch (Team Mountain Heroes). Luckily for us within the last 2km our group's speed proved to be too much for them and they got tailed off earning us a hard fought 4th place on the day.
Stage 2 – Mayrhofen to Brixen, 100km and 24097m ascent
On day two we crossed borders for the second time in as many days as we made our way into Italy to finish at the alpine town of Brixen.
The day started with a long 30km climb at the beginning and finished with a ' fairly short' 5km climb near the end. It was ideal for me to start climbing so soon into the stage as you settle into your own rhythm on the ascent without being forced to follow wheels on the more gentle gradients. The pair of climbs was split up by a flat cycle path section which again proved the bigger challenge on the day for me. I think if I could have ridden at my own pace it would have been better, but with so many riders in the event groups inevitably formed on the tarmac sections.
By the time we hit the final climb it felt more like hitting a wall face on. One moment I was flying at 35 km/h and the next fighting not to fall over on the steep gradient of the climb. Luckily once we crested the climb we had 5km downhill singe track section which spat us out right at the finish line. We were both very happy to finish the stage and did so in 5th place. We lost a bit of time to Team Mountain Heroes on the day which saw us moving back to 5th place on the overall standings.
Finishing was always a highlight, not only did it mean the pain was over but also you have time to take in the beautiful scenery of the Alps which formed the backdrop of each small town we visited.
Stage 3 – Brixen to St. Vigil 56km and 2833m of ascent
Short stage on paper but the exact opposite in reality. The stage opened yet again with a long climb of 20km which included 1800m of ascent. It took us two long hours to reach the summit and each time the pain wanted to get the better of me I told myself "lift your head, look were you are" and what my eyes saw always made the suffering worth it. Seeing the wild horses grazing upon the higher slopes was not only a great reward but also my highlight on this stage.
From there on we had mixture of gravel road, single track and a small piece on the tarmac. The stage suited us more as there weren't a lot of places to hang on in groups and we crossed the finish line at St Vigil in 4th place. We managed to regain some time on Team Mountain Heroes, but were still lying in 5th overall.
Stage 4 – St Vigil to Alleghe, 76km and 2839m ascent
St. Vigil is nestled in a valley surrounded by majestic mountains at 1100m above sea level. This together with our 8am departure made for a chilly morning start. On the up side, we didn't stay cold for long as our front wheels were pointing skywards even before we were given the word go.
Today's menu included two long climbs, the first being around 20km and the second 15km, each followed by a tricky descent. On the first ascent my muscles felt as if they were on the edge of cramping. This was a new experience for me and I'm sure it must have been from all the sustained climbing we've been doing thus far. Luckily I warmed up pretty quickly allowing me to find a good rhythm for the day.
Up until this point into the race we haven't had any of the fast flowing single track that we get at home and to have the last 10km of the stage finishing on fun flowing downhill single track was exhilarating. The burning in my legs disappeared and I was smiling all the way to the finish line at the beautiful village of Alleghe. Aurelie and I finished in 4th place on the stage and also took back our 4th place overall in the ladies category.
Stage 5 – Alleghe to San Martino di Castrozza, 73km and 3137m of ascent
With 3137m of ascending, stage 5 contained the most climbing in this year's edition of the race.
The route profile resembled crocodile's teeth as we were to go up and down the whole day. Some of the hills had gradients so steep we were forced to dismount and push our bikes over the top.
Personally this day was the hardest day on the bike for me. You never got into a rhythm with all the ups, downs and bike pushing on the day. The course didn't provide sections of respite as the rocky down hills were at times more energy sapping than the uphills.
I guess everybody was going through the same suffering just different degrees thereof. Aurelie and I again finished 4th on the stage but this time around we extended our lead in the overall classification over the 5th placed ladies Andrea and Daniele.
Stage 6, San Martino di Castrozza to Crespano del Grappa 104km and 2781m ascent
The first part of the race consisted of a 20km jeep track descent. Your speed on a downhill is very dependent on the amount of risk you are willing to take and that morning there were plenty of riders willing to take crazy risks on the descents. It is called 'Euro bombing' – a technique whereby one lets the bike go, refuse to brake and let it get as out of control as it will go.
The fact that there were only a 30 sec time gap between the seeded batch starts didn't help either as the B batch closed in within the first 500m and this led to total chaos on the descent.
Aurelie and I were both very relieved when we reached the bottom safely. Luckily the 15km climb thereafter broke up the masses into smaller groups and we could settle into our own race pace for the day.
On the descent of the final (20km) climb we rode up to the 3rd place in the ladies category. There were only 2 km left to the finish line and Aurelie and I decided to give everything in the sprint as we might not get so close again to a podium spot in the days to come. We both crossed the finish line just ahead of Katrin Schwing and Lisa Pleyer (Team Cancer Rehab St. Veit) to give us a 3rd place finish on the day. We were both extremely happy with our result to say the least.
Stage 7 – Crespano del Grappa to Rovereto 118.5km and 3005m ascent
We left Crespano del Grappa at 8am with the temperature soaring high in the twenties already.
The first 20km of the stage was neutralized as the group was rolling through small towns on tarmac roads. Everyone in the bunch was pushing and shoving to improve their spot in the group which made it quite daunting especially as there was a lot of road furniture to deal with as well.
The first 22km ascent was mainly on tarmac which is always hard for me as you end up riding alongside other riders and never ride at a constant speed. Luckily around half way up we turned onto a gravel road giving Aurelie and I a chance to ride at our own race pace. The following and final climb was 12km which I honestly can't remember much of apart from puncturing on the descent. Luckily it was a quick stop costing as minimum time. I actually can't remember much of the scenery either. My body was getting tired as it should after 6 days of racing for 5-6h a day. During stage races your body eventually gets into a cycle of sleep, eat, suffer, eat, and sleep. You kind of switch off as you know that you have to keep this partner dialled until the end because if you lose focus you lose your race.
Aurelie and I were still keeping focus and holding onto our 4th overall after placing 5th on the stage.
Stage 8 – Rovereto to Riva Del Garda 39km and 1269m of ascent
The final stage included only one climb of 16km and one descent that would to take us into the finish area at Riva Del Garda.
I hope by now you are tired of reading about all the climbing we did, as it might give you an idea of how we felt after having to pedal up all of them.
Aurelie and I fought our last battle on the day to finish 4th on the stage and so retain our 4th place overall.
It's been a close race between us and Team Mountain Heroes for the 4th spot. Some days we lost time to them and on other times we gained time again. Also during the last 2 days the Belgium National Champion, Sara Mertens and her teammate Laure Turpijn (Team C-Bear) gave us a run for our money as they rode most of the time with us and finished in front of us on stage 7.
The competition this year in the ladies category was very tough. Aurelie and I finished in 4th place overall that at first glance might not seem so impressive but we managed to place in front of Team C-Bear and Mountain Heroes who have finished both on top of the Absa Cape Epic ladies podium in past years and to me that says a lot. We are both very happy with our result. It was an unforgettable journey and we are richer in experience from it.
The beauty that the Alps possess is indescribable and the riding is very rewarding. This year's edition saw the TransAlp being run by a new event company. I haven't ridden previous editions, but for me the organisation was world class. The route was properly marked, bags were dropped off and collected at whatever hotel you made a booking and the route laid out through the Dolomites was simply beautiful.
Thanks Aurelie for being a great partner and thank you to our tour sponsor, Velogic for making this experience possible. Also thank you to Shimano Germany for looking after us throughout the entire tour. You treated us like your own team and for that we can't say thank you enough.
Last but not least thank you to my team (bizhub), our sponsors, my friends and family for making it possible for me to do what I love doing – riding my bike.
Final results
1st Sally Bigham and Borghild Loevset (Topeak Ergon Racing)
2nd Cornelia Hug and Andria Fassler (Velo Shop Scott)
3rd Katrin Schwing and Lisa Pleyer (Cancer Rehab St. Veit)
4th Yolandi du Toit and Aurelie Halbwachs (Velogic)
5th Andrea Kuster and Daniele Troesch (Mountain Heroes)


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The Tumor Immunology Track at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is focused on the increasingly complex interactions between tumors and the immune system and runs the complete gamut from basic mechanisms of immune responses, through translational development of novel therapies, to clinical trials. We offer a highly interactive, multidisciplinary course of study leading to a doctoral degree that prepares students for successful careers as independent investigators in cellular, molecular and tumor immunology.
As part of a world-class comprehensive cancer center we offer students the invaluable opportunity to become involved in translational research that brings investigator-initiated approaches for treating cancer into a clinical setting. We are the recipient of a unique NIH NCI sponsored pre-doctoral fellowship program in Translational Tumor Immunology, which provides funds for student stipends and travel and enhances the professional development of our students. Over the past several years, our students have:
- Published papers in high impact journals such as The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Nature Communications, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Blood, Cancer Research and The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Spoken about their research in front of international experts at prestigious national meetings such as the American Association of Immunology and the American Society of Hematology
- Received highly competitive pre-doctoral fellowships from the National Institutes of Health
Immunology graduates have gone on to careers in academia, industry and government. Recent graduates have accepted post-doctoral positions at institutions such as The Ohio State University, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University.
"My time in the Immunology PhD program at Roswell Park taught me not only the skills I needed to be a successful post-doc but also the drive to help others achieve that status as well. As a post-doctoral fellow at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and one of two PhDs serving on the American Society of Hematology Trainee Council, I am happy to share what I learned from the great mentorship at Roswell Park."— Maegan L. Capitano, PhD, 2012
The application deadline for fall 2018 admission has passed. The next opportunity to apply for doctoral study at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center will be for fall 2019, and the application deadline will be January 5, 2019.
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I started writing this days ago, and meant to publish on her birthday, but I couldn't finish it. I can't imagine why it felt so much harder this year.
Dear Lucy,
Happy third birthday, sweetheart. It's hard to believe you would have been such a big girl by now. Time keeps passing, but you're still just a baby. It's so wrong and heartbreaking that you don't get to grow up. What would you be doing now? Would you be an outgoing little chatterbox? That's how I imagine you. I see you as a little adventurer. You would have loved to go exploring with William, I think. He loves to be outside, and he's not afraid of anything. You two would have scared me during your explorations. You would have loved your little brothers. I have two little brothers too, and although we fought a lot growing up, I love them very much. Would you have been a daddy's girl? I suspect so. You had your daddy wrapped around your tiny finger from the moment he first saw you.
As we enter the season of your life, I feel like I'm in limbo. For these next two months, my mind will flit back and forth between two alternate realities – the one we live in now, without you, and one where you are alive. Every day, I look at pictures of you from that day and try to remember what we were doing. Easter – the day you had to have steroids, and we missed Easter dinner with a nice family who'd invited us over because I couldn't stop crying. Every memory I have with you is a memory that I cherish, but so many of them are sad or scary. I try to focus on the others: May 3, the day I first held you, my beautiful girl. April 18, the day we first got to take down the walls of the isolette and give you kisses and nuzzle your neck. April 19, the day you looked at me and I knew you saw me, and I knew that I would die for you.
A month ago, you got a new little brother, Andrew. Maybe you already knew him. Maybe you chose him to be your little brother, because you knew he'd be the perfect fit for our family. If so, you were right, he is the perfect fit. Sometimes he looks just like William, but somehow he reminds me more of you. While I was pregnant with Andrew, I couldn't think about you the way I wanted to. When the memories got hard and I cried, I got really sick and my contractions got out of hand. So, to protect Andrew, I had to stop thinking about you so much. It felt like a betrayal, and I'm sorry. After Andrew was born, it all came crashing down, and I've done a lot of crying. It seems strange to cry so much at such a happy time, but Spring will always be bittersweet for me. When I see the grass greening and the wildflowers blooming, I think of you. The daffodils remind me of your short bright life. When the magnolias start to bloom, I'll know we're nearing the end, and my heart will break all over again.
Lucy, your mommy and daddy and brothers have a beautiful life together, but we'll always miss you. Now that we have Andrew, I keep thinking that maybe if we have a girl, our family will feel complete. Then I realize that our family will never ever feel complete without you. We'll just do our best to keep you with us, and hope that it will be enough. Darling girl, your light and beauty changed us forever.
For your birthday, we took William and Andrew for a picnic in the mountains, like we wanted to do with you. When we came home, we had Matilda cake and sang happy birthday. William sings "happy to LeeLee," which is very cute.
First cuddles:
The last picture of happy, hopeful times with Lucy:
Loving and missing you, baby girl.


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I later discovered that actually there were only two indigenous families left on Eigg. In some ways this makes me kinda sad. Indigenous families believed there was nothing there for their kids, they were encouraged to leave to make a better life. How things have changed, how many of us now see island life as an idyl and if we had the cohones would love to live that existance?
I think there is a deeper question though. Why aren't Scottish people embracing their own country, more welcoming to outsiders and more capable of providing the hospitality that tourism demands ? It seems to me that the settlers throughout the H & I and very often these are English families are far more geared up to doing this successfully.
After initially being slightly perturbed at the Scots/English mix living and owning Eigg, I soon realised something. People on Eigg, NEVER walk past you, everyone waves as they go past, everyone has a decent word to say to visitors, they genuinely seem to want to share their little spot of paradise with you or if thats not the case, they at least appreciate your tourism dollars, either way your made to feel welcomed. This sadly is not always the case in many of the more Scottish tourist spots in the highlands/Islands. I think you can often feel like your not wanted, almost a hinderance. I've certainly experienced this on Skye and I love Skye BTW.
What makes Eigg that wee bit extra special is that the community that now own it, are in my opinion mindful, that they too were once outsiders.
more @ http://wikitravel.org/en/Eigg
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -- Lao Tzu Copyright © Demetrios the Traveler


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Famous poopers spread holiday cheer
Dec. 16 - Catalans get into the Christmas spirit with ''poopers'' - the iconic ''caganer'' figurine littered among garlands, lights and nativities as part of the region's holiday traditions. Elly Park reports.
In the Spanish region of Catalonia, Christmas tradition has gone to the toilet. Here, the iconic "caganer" or the ''pooper" has been part of the nativity scene since the 17th century, showcasing extreme realism and believed to bring good fortune. But thanks to Marc Alos and his workshop, this Spanish tradition is finding its ways overseas, with famous poopers such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama being steady sellers on the Christmas market. SOUNDBITE: Caganer Designer, Marc Alos, saying (Catalan) "Thanks to creating international poopers, we have been able to expand this tradition not only to Catalan and Spanish homes, but also abroad. The Catalan tradition is indeed a hit with international travelers such as Christina, who is from the U.S. SOUNDBITE: American Tourists, Cristina, saying (English) "I think we should really start bringing it to America. It is a great tradition. Fertilisation? We should have that." Besides politicians, the British royal family and even superheroes squat to help fertilize the new year.


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Monsanto Canada on Track to Launch the Roundup Ready® Xtend Crop System
Jan 29, 2013
Monsanto has received full regulatory approval in Canada for Genuity® Roundup Ready® 2 Xtend soybeans, the industry's first biotech product with herbicide tolerance to both glyphosate and dicamba.
This exciting new soybean product will be a component of the new Roundup Ready® Xtend Crop System which will combine Genuity® Roundup Ready® 2 Xtend with glyphosate and dicamba herbicide products, providing soybean growers with greater flexibility in weed control to help maximize yield potential.
"The Roundup Ready® Xtend Crop System is designed to offer future solutions and choice within the Roundup Ready® WMS Weed Management Solutions Platform," said Bill Lester, corn and soybean trait marketing lead for Monsanto Canada. "It will offer our soybean customers enhanced overall weed control, expanded weed resistance management strategies, and increased yield potential. In addition, field research data has shown that dicamba can provide residual value under certain conditions, helping to "xtend" the weed control window and protect yield."
Dicamba is a group 4 chemistry, something previously not available to soybean growers. Dicamba is known to provide effective control of over 95 annual and biennial weed species and suppression of over 100 perennial broadleaf and woody species world wide.
"Our existing recommendations around sustainable weed management solutions in soybeans support the use of additional chemistries and modes of action as part of an integrated weed management strategy," said Derek Freitag, Monsanto Canada's technology development lead in Eastern Canada. "Incorporating the use of dicamba and glyphosate with Genuity® Roundup Ready® 2 Xtend soybeans will build upon this strategy and will also provide farmers with a much‐needed tool to help control and manage against the development of herbicide resistance weeds."
Field testing of Genuity® Roundup Ready® 2 Xtend soybeans conducted by Monsanto Canada and academics at the University of Guelph over the past two years indicates that the application of dicamba prior to planting soybeans, or applying dicamba in‐crop, has proven effective on glyphosate‐resistant giant ragweed and Canada fleabane populations. This new dicamba option in soybeans will also offer improved control of other populations of herbicide resistant weeds such as those that are resistant to group 2 or group 5 that are also known to exist in Canada.
The dicamba‐tolerant trait within Genuity® Roundup Ready® 2 Xtend soybeans is stacked with the proven yield performance from Monsanto's Genuity® Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybean technology, and pending herbicide, key global import and regulatory approvals, is anticipated for commercial release for the 2014 growing season.
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Late period while traveling? You're not alone!
Travel affects loads of things in your life, but one thing you might not expect is your period.
Many women travelers find their usual menstrual cycle changes or even stops while they're on the road. Just scroll down to the comments on this post (or add your own) if you don't believe us!
There's little way to know exactly how travel might affect your period. But first and foremost, you can avoid panic or worry just by knowing that there might be some anomalies.
The trick here is being well-armed with a little info and a lot of awareness.
Why would travel change your cycle?
The broad answer is that your body and its regular rhythms and functions are all involved with, or dependent on, your situation and environment. When you're in a new place or on the go, there's bound to be some noticeable affects.
Here are a few things that often change when you travel, which can certainly cause or affect a late period:
- Diet
Whether you're eating your way around the world, or suddenly you're forgetting breakfast because there are too many places to explore in a day, your eating habits will probably change quite a bit while traveling.
And it's not just a flux in calorie quantity that could affect your period. You'll be in new places with new menus and ingredients. You're switching up the nutrients you usually eat, so it's not surprising that this changes how your body feels and functions.
- Exercise
Physical activity is another thing that often changes when you travel. Many people have set routines for exercise at home, but being on the road doesn't always allow for regularly scheduled runs or reps.
On the other hand, now that you're outward bound, climbing those mountains and walking for hours through unfamiliar streets will be a jumpstart to your system.
Increased exercise and weight loss often causes women's periods to stop or skip cycles. Weight gain can do the same.
- Stress
Just like at home, you may find that sometimes you feel worried or anxious while on a trip. And stress can put a different spin on your menstrual cycle, bringing you the dreaded late period.
But remember: Stress doesn't only come from bad situations.
New sights, sounds, smells, experiences, and people swirl around you with an overwhelming frequency when you're on a trip. While your mind may be thinking "Woohoo, this is great!" your body may be a little overtaxed coping with all the stimulation.
- Schedule
Jetlag, new sleep schedules, or the lack of 9 to 5 routine can affect your body's clockwork. And in fact, the schedule shake-up can be one more stressor that puts a little strain on your body.
When you're not on a regular schedule, sometimes your period isn't either.
All of these factors affect different women in different ways – you might find traveling is a whirlwind of ups, downs, and other surprises but that your period remains constant. Just travel prepared.
Taking care of yourself on the road isn't that different from taking care of yourself at home.
It might feel harder, but give a little attention to getting healthy food, good doses of exercise, relaxation and plenty of sleep. While this won't guarantee your period will stay the course, it'll make you feel better and less prone to PMS symptoms that are harder to predict on an irregular cycle.
Ultimately, in order to take care of your body, you have to be mindful of how you're treating it and how you're feeling.
A few final tips:
#1. Be responsible!
If you're on the road and utterly perplexed as to why your period might be erratic, know that it could just be the effect of traveling.
But if you're really worried about the changes, or they persist, try to plan for a trip to get it checked up on by a doctor. This will banish fears and ensure your changes aren't linked with any other health problems or changes.
#2. Be safe!
A late period or an erratic period that starts and stops doesn't mean you're off the hook for considering the consequences of sexual activity. Even when you're not getting your period, you can still become pregnant. Use protection while traveling if you're not trying to become pregnant.
#3. Be prepared!
Travel with the usual period-supplies you're used to. These could include things like menstrual cups (we like Lunette) or tampons brought from home (they can be hard to find in some places).
If you use them with a different frequency on the road, no worries, it's just nice to have things on hand when you need them. If your cycle is irregular while traveling, it's more than worth investing in a few pairs of leakproof period panties like these, or those you can find from Thinx.
If you need to restock on the road but don't know where to go, don't forget, hey, there are loads of women who live here. Don't be shy to ask for advice on where to get things like tampons, cramp-relief meds or heating pads or just a nice dose of something sweet to knock off those PMS cravings.
Happy travels, ladies!
Had some experience with late periods on the road? Do you have other health-related queries or qualms? Talking it through and asking for as much info as you can is the quickest step to healthy, happy travels: let us know what's on your mind about your body!


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What could be more important in business than "Personal Effectiveness?" The motivation this course engenders is captured in the simple question, "Is your team smiling, too?"
Our educational system helps us hone specialized skills intended to make us better managers, salespeople, controllers, operators, etc. However, the most important set of tools rarely gets a single mention until much later in our professional careers… the behaviors that make us more or less effective. This is the subject matter of "Personal Effectiveness."
For example, how can we expect a team member to be effective if he or she lacks self-awareness? Think about it. The most effective people you know are aware of how they are seen by others most of the time and use this knowledge to their advantage. They also listen actively, and have learned to use questions to build rapport, clarify, lead a discussion, and resolve issues.
They probably manage their time effectively, too, and seem more productive than others as a result. Beyond this, they have learned to reflect on themselves, their colleagues, their enterprise, competitors, and even market conditions to draw conclusions that others may miss.
Then they leverage above average communication skills to be more influential and often, better leaders.
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The New York Times has posted the text of President Obama's proposed resolution for the authorization of the use of force against the Islamic State here. The White House has posted the text of President Obama's remarks on the proposed resolution here. NRO's Mario Loyola observes that the proposed resolution contains three "poison pills." He writes:
First is the time limit of three years. This is another of Obama's signature declarations that we're going to fight the enemy for a time certain, regardless of the outcome and regardless of whether the enemy continues fighting after that deadline. Once again, instead of a strategy, we have a deadline.
Second, and even worse, is the repeal of the Iraq war resolution of 2002. That is unacceptable because the twin objectives of that resolution — to remove the threat to the United States posed by Iraq and to bring Iraq into compliance with 16 Security Council resolutions, including protection of minorities and ending support for terrorism — are still in doubt. When Obama withdrew forces from Iraq prematurely in 2011, he in effect pushed Iraq into the control of terroristic Shiite militias and into the orbit of terror-sponsor Iran. That means Iraq is dangerous again, and the results of our war there are still in doubt, which means that — as a result of Obama's own actions — the 2002 resolution remains necessary.
Third, and worst of all, is the proposed resolution's specific exclusion of ground troops: "The authority granted . . . does not authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces in enduring offensive ground combat operations." Because the starting baseline for any authorization is the 2001 resolution against al-Qaeda (which Obama has used as the basis for operations against the Islamic State for the last six months) and the 2002 resolution against Iraq, this new authorization would actually reduce the scope of what is authorized now.
Loyola speculates that the proposed resolution is calculated "to place political obstacles in the path of using ground forces in a strategy that might actually work. It is not an authorization, it is a de-authorization. The strategy behind it seems to be to force Republicans into a painful vote that will pit the GOP's foreign-policy hawks against its libertarian doves."
The peculiarities of the proposed resolution represent Obama trademarks. The killer clown show of the Obama administration's closing years continues. Confronting the terrorist threat we see growing before our eyes, President Obama sounds an uncertain kazoo.


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I'll tell you, I have to give a lot of you ladies credit for the work some of you do. You go to work all day, come home and take care of a family and then STILL crank out projects like crazy. Me, I clean my kitchen so I can have a nice area to cut fabric with, and i'm pretty much finished.
I did somehow mange to get Jalie 3132 cut. I even managed to get the kangaroo pocket finished. Then I was done, it was time to clean up. However, that's progress, and I might get the top done within the next week or so.
I do have to say to my credit though. I've pretty stressed the last few weeks, and that could explain the tiredness. Hopefully that's going to clear up here real soon, and I can get back to sewing. There are TONS of things I would like to get to.
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LINCOLN — When Jesus Rosa-Ivey Jr., a student with severe cerebral palsy, entered the fifth grade at Lincoln Community School last fall, his teacher Alice Leeds dedicated a unit of study in her fifth- and sixth-grade class to disability rights and awareness in the United States.
Stripped down to its structural elements, Middlebury's Pulp Mill Bridge is undergoing a $1.7 million renovation. The project, which will provide new siding, roofing and decking for the 192-year-old span, is scheduled to be completed by November. But don't worry walkers, joggers and bikers, the adjacent footbridge of the Otter Creek will remain open during construction.
Last week, our one and only Trent campbell got down and dirty in construction rubble to expose the fabled bridge's bare essentials. Click below to enjoy the slideshow!
MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Chili Festival last Saturday afternoon generated the largest turnout in the annual event's four-year history, drawing a crowd that organizers estimate to be as large as 5,000 to downtown Middlebury (click here to read the story).
This past week, photographer Trent Campbell raced across Addison County to capture some of the best town meeting moments at as many meetings as he could. With a bit of help from our reporters, we've compiled a sample of our favorite photos, from Bristol to Monkton to Salisbury to Shoreham.
To New Haven sculptor Dennis Sparling, "art is about the mystery of things."
Sparling, 67, fabricates sheet copper and wire into dynamic sculpture. Last year, Sparling finished work on his 9-foot-tall, 600-pound representation of Leonardo daVinci. The sculpture integrates daVinci's drawings and paintings with his feats of engineering, architecture, and anatomy – all ranged around the standing patriarch.
Every Valentine's Day since 1999, the walls of Mount Abraham Union Middle and High School have resonated with love songs. In her then-second year teaching at Mount Abe, chorus teacher Megan LaRose urged the school's a cappella group to spice up the day of love with "singing valentines," as she calls them. Since then, the act of endearment, or embarrassment, has become a school tradition. Check out the sound slideshow, and look for the complete story in Thursday's edition.
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Digital marketing is often dominated by talk of data, analytics and performance. Endless hours are spent analyzing numbers and conducting tests. All of this is fine and good. But ai??i?? what if itai??i??s not?
- What if you thought you were producing results, but you were missing out on far greater opportunities?
- What if you were spending significant time improving your campaign, but you were totally missing the goal?
- What if you could point to metrics proving that your campaigns were successful, but you were actually missing out on true success?
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1.Ai?? Reclaim Your Identity
Who are you? Whatai??i??s your positioning in the market? What's your differentiation and values? Why should I care about you?
These are all extremely basic marketing questions. Yet, when was the last time you thought deeply about them? Try answering them right now. Howai??i??d you do? If you struggled, or couldnai??i??t find anything impactful, youai??i??re not alone. Itai??i??s actually stunning how many companies cannot articulate immediate answers to these simple questions.
Many organizations have a vague sense of who they are and how they might be a bit different. Some even have a vague sense of why someone would select them rather than the competition. If all you have is a vague sense, stop everything and figure out who you are, what you do, how you're different, and why people should care. Without this backbone, you may be a paid search stud, social media guru, or conversion optimization expert, but you won't maximize revenue.
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What emotions do you want prospects and customers to feel when they touch your brand, see your campaigns, or visit your website? Anyone can sell a Kamagra Jelly buy online, acquire Zoloft. widget. Anyone can run a paid search campaign promoting the widget. Anyone can develop a corresponding custom landing page to optimize conversions. But ai??i?? can you get me to think about you, remember you, and be loyal to you? Can you get me excited, so I'll buy from you and recommend you to others?
OK, quiz time. Which would you prefer:
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- Or being at the beach with the wind in your hair, a cocktail in one hand, and your loving partner by your side.
Your brand needs to achieve #3. Period. End of story. If it doesnai??i??t, you are selling a widget. And people can buy widgets from levothroid buy online any company, which is bad news for your organizationai??i??s future.
Think of Ben & Jerryai??i??s ice cream. There are endless ice cream brands out there, many of them quite forgettable. The weaker brands may be doing all the right things by deploying SEO, paid search, or display advertising, but they're operating with handcuffs on. They aren't beloved like Ben & Jerry's. They can test, analyze, and optimize all they want. Their digital marketing results will never be as stellar as if they had a solid, powerful core brand.
When I'm at the market, I grab a container of Ben & Jerryai??i??s. The brand is zany, offbeat, socially-conscious, and fun. All these things draw me in and make me choose them. See how much more powerful a marketing campaign can be just by having a stronger starting line?
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What are the conversations you should be having with your prospective clients? You might think, ai???Thatai??i??s a silly question. I sell widgets, and so I want to talk to them about widgets.ai???
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- DreamWorks talks about having fun.
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One of our clients sells supplies to the restaurant industry. The conversation they have with their clients, however, isn't about their supplies. Instead, it centers on two major issues ai??i?? fighting hunger in America and ensuring food safety. By having a completely different conversation with their prospects, they totally differentiate themselves. They demonstrate their passions while staying true to who they are. They have much more memorable and engaging messages than "we sell supplies to restaurants."
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Do this, and youai??i??ll be totally fired up for your next digital marketing campaign. And when youai??i??re fired up and emotional, itai??i??s more likely that your audience will get fired up and emotional, too. Then the opportunities for successful social marketing and sharing ai??i?? really connecting with your audience ai??i?? will go through the roof.
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Apple helped the world see how design could impact business results. They went from the brink of bankruptcy (back when operations were their focus) and transformed into the most valuable business in the world after refocusing on design. People remember their ads, marketing, and products. Thereai??i??s something about effective design that just feels right. And when a business can hook into this, it can be a powerful thing.
Itai??i??s not just Apple. Think about Braun, Pixar, Nike, Target, and Pinterest. Design matters. So why do so many companies have ugly websites? Or ugly ads? Or ugly email campaigns?
There is simply no good reason to market ugly. Your marketing should be beautiful, brilliant, bold. It should be stunning, memorable and powerful, drawing people in and inspiring them to action.
5.Ai?? Maximize Messaging
Great messaging can be just as powerful as great design. Sometimes, the message can be the most memorable aspect of your marketing. For example:
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Consider the HSBC campaign about perception and different values, with three identical photos of the back of a bald bland cialis paypal. head. The text on each head respectively was ai???Style,ai??? ai???Soldier,ai??? ai???Survivor.ai???
With any marketing campaign, itai??i??s critical to nail the headline. Grab attention. Inspire people to learn more and take action.
If you're working on a landing page, itai??i??s tempting to follow so-called best practices by inserting keywords into the headline. But what if you didnai??i??t? What if you instead focused exclusively on creating something as powerful as ai???Got Milk?ai??? Think of the potential to take your landing page to an entirely new level, outside of typical best practices parameters.
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Unlock the potential of your marketing and you'll be amazed at what you can Lasix online ultimately achieve. Itai??i??s not enough to optimize what youai??i??ve got, if what youai??i??ve got is mediocre. Achieving a 10% lift in clickthroughs means nothing if you could have achieved a 1,000% lift in conversions.
Hereai??i??s an exercise to help your break through. Gather your troops, grab some great grub, and give yourselves an entire day (or two or threeai??i??) to brainstorm what it would take to transform your $10 million product into a $100 million product while staying true to your brand. In other words, how can you increase results ten-fold? Weai??i??re not looking for a 5% lift here. Instead, weai??i??re looking to smash the mold and figure out how 10 times the number of people are going to be eager to be a part of your brand. There are several ways to achieve this type of transformation, including:
- Scalable product models
- Identification of new or additional audiences
- Customization for specific audiences
- Innovation
- Personalization
- New pricing structures
- Disruption of your current products and market
For example, if you sell consulting services, can you offer software and apps that help your clients achieve their goals? If you sell to the restaurant industry, could you also sell to universities or hospitals? If you sell a service, could you move to a subscription-based model?
Are these digital marketing questions, per se? Not really. But this new way of thinking will take your prednisone online digital marketing results to completely new heights, breaking through any boundaries or plateaus youai??i??ve experienced. Certainly the fundamentals of data, testing, and analysis are critical. However, to achieve massive success, itai??i??s precisely these weightier questions, more so than any optimization or multivariate testing you're doing, that will get you there.
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in our premium subscriber area of Search Marketing Standard and was featured in our last magazine issue. We have now opened it up for general access.


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text: Can a piece of clothing inspire a shoe, can a back pack do the same ? We all know the answer to that. And recently many brands have been having fun with it! You can go straight to the same look or keep the shoe as the forefront and influence part of it with hints from the outerwear piece. It all depends how far you want to go. We sometimes forget to get out of the world we design in and go get influences from other universe, but I find it's essential in order to stand out and not fall in the wheel.


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You may have noticed I've been absent lately. To meet my deadline I've had to pull away from social media while I work on my first rounds of edits for Marred, design my cover with the art department, and write my tagline and jacket blurb. It's an exciting time, but I also had a stark realization that I cannot squeeze forty-eight hours into twenty-four. Which was a little disheartening. Admitting that one is human is never easy. It's humbling, to say the least.
How self-published authors find time to blog and engage on social media is mind-boggling. Of course I suppose they don't have a deadline hanging over their head, but still…they have to do everything alone. So before I get into this post I think a round of applause is warranted to all of you who choose this path. You're very brave, and I commend you for having the guts to walk this path. That's not to say traditional publishing is easier. In my experience there's more heartbreak and devastation, but at least you end up with a team to help you once you climb out of the slush pile.
Anyway, back to my point.
While editing I find myself consumed with sentence rhythm, matching the character's inner emotion to the words on the page. Not only by choosing the correct word, but also by concentrating on the way sentences are constructed.
Perhaps sentence rhythm excites me because I'm an auditory writer, as my last guest, Paul Dale Anderson, clarified for me. If you haven't read his post What Kind Of Writer Are You? you can find it here.
I've always noticed rhythmic beats while reading, the way some authors can captivate me by how they place words on a page. I'm not talking about a writer's voice, though that also plays a part. No, this is something else, something magical, a certain je né sais quoi. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I discovered this mysterious attraction had a name…sentence rhythm.
For some reason there's not a lot out there about sentence rhythm. Why, I have no idea. Because by assigning it a label we can look at a paragraph, or an entire scene, that's not working and have another tool to use to fix it.
Sentence Rhythm
To give you a better understanding of what I'm talking about, let's talk music for a minute.
When you hear a love song your breathing relaxes, your pulse rate slows, muscles ease with the flow of the music, your body begins to sway…back and forth…the sweet sounds lulling you into tranquility.
A fast beat makes you want to jump up and dance, fling out your hands, belt out the song.
Hard core rock. Muscles tense. Head bobs. You want to shout, stomp your feet.
It's the same for writing.
For example:
Following a winding dirt trail, Sarah strolled through the woods near her home. Beauty and nature surrounded her; she loved being alone with her thoughts. Admiring a hawk overhead, she heard sweet serenades of bullfrogs croaking in a nearby pond and squirrels scurrying through pine needles, scattering chestnuts across the forest floor.
Last Saturday she entertained friends. Three couples relaxed on the back deck of her cozy log cabin, laughing at life, basking in the warmth of friendship. The women sipped fine wine and picked on a succulent fruit platter while their husbands inhaled every piece of barbecue chicken on the grill. The men did not know their wives had outsmarted them, with three juicy steaks marinating in the fridge. Suppressing a titter, Sarah nonchalantly wiped steak sauce off her lips before kissing Carl.
As Sarah's new Nikes swept across the soft soil she hummed a sweet melody that reminded her of a time long ago–the treasured day she first met Carl. A smile spread across her face, her heart overflowing with love.
What a perfect day.
Can you feel her joy, her peacefulness?
Danger loomed ahead. A dark figure craned his neck around the side of a wide ash tree. Piercing black eyes. Long leather coat. Nature concealed the rest of his body.
Sarah's heart slammed against her ribs.
He pulled back, out of sight. No shadow. No sign of where he went.
Eyes wide, she stopped dead.
A quick glance behind told her she was alone. Except for him, the man who invaded her space. The man who reeked of evil intentions. The man she never expected to see again. What if he lunged from the bushes? No one would know, no one would help.
She gaped left, right. Panic drummed at her ears. She couldn't move, couldn't run. Her feet rooted to the soil.
An icy tongue licked up her spine. How did he find me?
The area betrayed her, turned deadly quiet. Animal sounds coiled through her bones. Sticks cracked in half. Leaves shuffled under heavy boots. The hawk squawked short, quick caws…a cry of danger. For those terrified moments everything stopped. The bullfrogs went silent, chipmunks froze in their tracks. Even the wind didn't dare move.
Can you feel her fear?
I've exaggerated both scenes to make my point. You can probably guess what sort of words affect rhythm. For a languid feel we want run-on or complex sentences. Past particles, verbs ending with -ing, give the impression of time passing, a sense of continuation. We can also put descriptive phrases before the subject and verb, like I did in the first sentence of the first paragraph.
When trouble happens sentences fragment. Jerk. Split in two. The reader tenses, her fight or flight response kicks in, eyes narrow on the page. Lots of -ed, hard sounding verbs and sentence fragments increase tension and build suspense. We want our most important word–the verb–in a place of prominence. I like to also break up my paragraphs. The more white space, the faster someone reads. Drag the reader along, force them to continue. If we have huge blocks of words they're more apt to stop, lose their place, or get thrown out of the story. Not a good thing for us.
Examples of hard sounding verbs are: crash, halt, thunder, thud, screech, explode, bark… Add -ed to any of these and feel your heart race.
Examples of soft sounding verbs are: whisper, swish, snap, patter, drawl, rustle… Add -ing to any of these and feel your breathing slow, your neck muscles ease.
Here is an excellent resource with words broken down by the five senses…sight, touch, hearing, taste, smell: http://fcw.needham.k12.ma.us/~cristina_malinn/S02B36079.0/ for those times when the right word escapes you. I love this list; it's my go-to place when my brain refuses to cooperate.
When I'm in the "zone" writing with rhythmic beats becomes natural. I even find myself striking the keys during suspenseful moments. Or brushing over them as I write easy-going passages. Perhaps Robert Frost was including sentence rhythm when he wrote his famous quote: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader."
If we don't feel our words we cannot expect anyone else to, either.
As I go through Marred I remember how I felt when I wrote the words. And, in turn, the passages evoke the same visceral responses in me. It's wonderful, like reuniting with family members I haven't seen for a while. I'd forgotten how much I loved this story. I poured a lot of myself into this book. Not the plot, not even the main conflict. Little things in each character, but real, sometimes raw, pieces of my soul. I think all writers do that to a certain extent. Don't you?
Your turn. Do you like to use sentence rhythm in your writing? What attracts you to certain authors? How much of yourself are in your stories and/or characters?
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Every person should have the absolute right to pursue his or her dream. Even more so, a man of the status of Usain St Leo Bolt, definitely the greatest sprinter ever and arguably the greatest sportsman of all time should have that freedom.
It is conversely reprehensible though, that some people have the effrontery to suggest or even to imply that Bolt, by virtue of his documented greatness as a sprinter should not be critiqued as the professional footballer he is now purporting to be. I had to ask one such colleague recently, if a fully qualified and world renowned nuclear physicist should all of a sudden without the requisite competence knowledge or experience decide that he's going to start performing heart surgeries, should there not be an outcry about his competence as a surgeon, simply because despite the act that he was so great as a nuclear physicist?
The fact of the matter is that Bolt's exploits on the football pitch ought not to be confused with his greatness as a sprinter. They are two separate endeavours requiring separate analysis. For those of us who still have the appetite for objective analysis devoid of emotions, it is easy to appreciate that Usain Bolt is nowhere near being a good footballer not even by 'Sunday evening scrimmage' standards.
As it is right now, the only reason this issue is even being discussed with any semblance of seriousness is that the party involved is the eight-time Olympic champion and multiple world record holder .
It has nothing to do with his football skills. Having scrutinised almost all of Bolt's attempts at football since it became evident that his intent is serious, it is clear to see that Bolt's technical flaws are countless. His first touch is atrocious. His movement, his ball control, his reading of the game, his anticipation, and most importantly his level of fitness are all but non-existent. It's also instructively ironic that the big man is afraid of the physicality of football.
One should never, ever underestimate the heart of a champion, and a champion Usain Bolt most truly is. But it will take much more than heart, passion and desire to play the level of football that Bolt wants to play, starting from level zero, which is basically where he is. The fundamentals of the game are generally learnt from as early as age six or seven, sometimes earlier.
The earlier these basics are grasped, the better chance the player will have of excelling in football.
The tactical and technical nuances of the game are usually built on the foundations set by these fundamentals. Over time, with practice and experience, these acquired skills become second nature and are thus executed without conscious thought.
Usain Bolt, at 32, is yet to grasp the simple fundamentals of the game. He will therefore not have the time to acquire these skill sets to the extent where he can competently execute them in intense competition.
Another aspect of the struggle facing Bolt is the stark contrast in the dynamics of sprinting compared to football. Athletics is an individual sport that Bolt has been involved in for the majority of his life. Usain Bolt has successfully executed his craft in a lane exclusively assigned to him. He ran his races independently of what his competitors and counterparts did. After operating with ultimate success in that mental and physical space for so long, Bolt must be totally discombobulated and downright confused with the team concept of football, having to share his physical and mental space with 21 other individuals, as well as a referee, all with the unrestricted licence to fight and scrap for a common space.
Importantly also, Bolt was far superior to his peers in athletics. He has now ventured into a space where he is far inferior to those around him. The mountains are high, the terrain is rough, and time is limited.
Bolt's ambition to become a big-time professional footballer is really and truly a joke, but the fact that it is a fantasy of the world's greatest sprint superstar adds a little more visibility to the insanity.
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I picked up the above ceramic owl light at an Etcetera thrift store a few months ago. It was quite a find. Inside was a little red light bulb that made the glass eyes and belly holes glow a startling red. The color…I hadn't seen it since changing the last breastfed baby diaper. It didn't match my taste at all, but I thought it would look great spray painted white.
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On a weekly basis, John Dike travels to Abuja through the Port Harcourt/Elele/Owerri road to transact one business or another. But the danger constituted by armed bandits on that road has forced him to change his mode of transportation. He now goes by air. Although his new means of transportation is quite expensive, he said his safety was more important than the additional money he spends on his trips.
The Port Harcourt/Elele/Owerri road, as well as Ubima/Omeleru road, in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, has become a deathtrap. On a daily basis, passengers and motorists are abducted and taken hostage. Despite the presence of a combined team of policemen and soldiers who mount many roadblocks on the road, kidnappers operate without hindrance. There are more than 13 police and army roadblocks on the road, along which there's a thick forest.
The road is the gateway to Imo, Anambra and Delta states, as well as Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Lagos.
The road has become so dangerous that a lot of travellers avoid it like a plague and those who do not have an alternative ply it with much fear and anguish.
In August this year, the Rivers State command of the police said it rescued eight persons from an 18-seater passenger bus that was hijacked at night by gunmen along Elele-Omarelu road.
Confirming the incident in Port Harcourt, the public relations officer of the command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said six of the passengers were held captive for days before they were rescued, adding that two corpses were recovered from the kidnappers.
The bus was reportedly travelling from Owerri, Imo State, to Port Harcourt when the bandits ambushed and diverted it to an unknown destination.
The commander of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) monitoring unit in the state, Bennett Igwe, whose team rescued the victims, had assured members of the public that efforts had been intensified by his team to ensure a successful and safe rescue of the remaining passengers.
The victims were later rescued after spending six nights in the kidnappers' den.
Shortly after that incident, another 18-seater bus returning to Port Harcourt from Abuja was hijacked along the same road. All the passengers were taken hostage for days until they were rescued by the IGP monitoring team.
The wife of a Port Harcourt-based Anglican Church pastor, Rejoice Nwosu and her colleague were also kidnapped around the Isiokpo-Elele axis of Port Harcourt-Owerri road recently. They later regained freedom through the efforts of the IGP monitoring team.
Our correspondent gathered that a man, his wife and two children who were also abducted along the same route by the same criminal gang were later set free by their abductors. They were reported to have embarked on a journey from Port Harcourt to Owerri with their children who were going back to school when they were ambushed and taken to a nearby forest.
A brother-in-law to Rejoice, who identified himself as Wosu, said the kidnappers called the clergy when they realised that one of their victims was his wife.
A source who simply identified himself as Owhonda said the victims were released without any ransom. He disclosed that the wife of the pastor and her friend were admitted in a hospital for medical attention, while the man who was abducted alongside three members of his family was taken to Isiokpo police division to recover his car.
Also, residents of the state, especially motorists and travellers who ply Elele, Omerelu and Ubima routes are scared over the activities of notorious kidnappers and ritual killers.
Our correspondent learnt that in most cases, kidnap victims are killed after huge sums of money are collected from their relatives.
A kidnap victim, Precious Isiguzo, who escaped from kidnappers' den, narrated how she escaped from ritual killers operating along Chokocho, near Igwurita. Isiguzo told our reporter that she boarded a bus from Igwurita to Chokocho but ended up in a bush where kidnap victims were kept and butchered for ritual purposes.
"I came back from church and I was to go for child dedication. I stopped at Igwurita junction because I was going to Chokocho. When I entered a bus I met four young women and three boys. I entered the bus because I thought it was a genuine passenger bus. After the police checkpoint, the bus was parked and we were ordered to come down. The next place I saw myself was inside a bush.
Inside the bush, I saw how human beings were slaughtered. Those criminals told us that they dealt on human parts – they don't kidnap for ransom. The girl who was with me in the bush was shot. She was crying and shouting the name of Jesus, pleading for mercy. They butchered her into parts and one of them immediately put up a call to somebody to come and pick them,'' she narrated.
Isiguzo was lucky as she escaped from the bush when the killers started quarreling.
"I would have been the next victim but God put quarrel among and I escaped,'' she disclosed.
Isiguzo commended the police for their efforts at rescuing kidnap victims in the state, saying the pressure mounted on the criminals through the tracking device assists victims to escape from their abductors.
One of the victims of the Omerelu incident, who pleaded anonymity, said all the female passengers of the vehicle were stripped and raped by the bandits.
Narrating their ordeal, one of the drivers of the 18-seater buses hijacked by the kidnappers, Martins Aluziwe, said they took off from Control Station in Owerri, en route Port Harcourt, but the incident happened about 7:15am.
When contacted, the Commissioner of Police, Rivers State command, Almed Zaki, said his men had increased patrol along the road. He said he had directed them to redouble their efforts at raiding all the hideouts of the criminals, including bushes and forests.
A victim of a recent kidnap incident along Omeleru road, who pleaded anonymity, said he paid a ransom of N200,000 to regain freedom when he was abducted.
"I was in a passenger bus while returning from Owerri. It was about 7:00pm, and as we approached Omerelu we sighted a roadblock mounted by three young men. I thought it was a police roadblock until we got close to the barricade. As soon as we got close, two gun-wielding youths flagged us down and ordered everybody to come down. We came down and everybody was matched inside the bush. They demanded N10 million, but I was later able to free myself with N200,000 after spending five nights inside the bush,'' he narrated.
He called on the Rivers State Government and security agencies to beef up security in all the routes.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Wisconsin's St. Croix Valley Branch has been honored for years by the support of County Materials Corporation.
Their support helps Big Brothers Big Sisters Northwestern Wisconsin to serve children in St. Croix and Pierce counties. In fact, last year the program staff in the St. Croix Valley matched 173 children with caring adult mentors from the community. This programming is only possible due to support from organizations such County Materials Corporation.
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Boglarka Balogh, a Hungarian human rights lawyer and journalist has caused a furore on the internet after publishing controversial pictures interpolating her own face on to those of African women from seven different ethnic groups.
Balogh received widespread criticism and accused of cultural appropriation, which involves "the adoption of aspects of a culture that are not one's own". While Balogh's intentions were seemingly good, meant to raise awareness of "secluded cultures," the journalist has received backlash from various circles for inappropriately representing the ethnic groups and cultures.
In a project, "I Morphed Myself Into Tribal Women To Raise Awareness Of Their Secluded Cultures," Balogh reportedly wanted raise awareness on her experiences in various Africa countries to expose, "endangered tribes, and the speed at which they are fading away".
Following the criticism, the human rights lawyer deleted the post and posted an apology. According to the Guardian, Balogh wrote: "My intention was 100% pure with this tribal art, being a human right [sic] lawyer and journalist who knows pretty much about racism and similar issues. I have never imagined that my work will annoy so many people and that I will have to explain myself. And sure, I will not do that. Keep calm and love every human."
However, the series of portraits continue to stimulate debate on social media with some comments supporting her actions. A Facebook user Arletta Scott Randolph wrote: "Instead of condemning this woman we should be applauding her. She is using her white privilege to bring attention to a serious issue for the African community…".
Other commentators on social media believe Balogh could have raised the awareness on the plight of the endangered ethnic groups differently, by showing "the actual photos of the endangered tribes," given the women a platform to share their lived experiences and stories or simply written about the issues without the perceived objectification.
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