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May the best 'Kenyans' win: Kenyan team faces stiff competition from brothers in diaspora at World Cross meet
Last updated 3 years ago | By Kimathi Kamau
Leonard Barsoton and Geoffrey Kamworor leads in senior men 10km race during the National Cross Country Championship at Uhuru Gardens on Feb 18, 2017.[PHOTO/DENNIS OKEYO/STANDARD]
The Team Kenya team captain for this year's IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Leonard Patrick Komon, is a seasoned runner.
He is a former senior men 12km silver medallist at the event besides holding the world 10K and 15K road running records.
Across the Atlantic, Leonard Essau Korir, 30, will lead a full United States of America squad to the March 26 event at the Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala.
The oldest of the IAAF World Athletics Series competitions, this year's event will mark the 42nd staging of the global cross country championships.
It will also be the fifth time the championships will be hosted in Africa after Rabat in 1975, Stellenbosch in 1996, Marrakech in 1998 and Mombasa in 2007.
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Both Leonards were born in Kenya but while Komon has continued to represent his nation of birth with distinction since making his debut at the 2007 World Cross in Mombasa where he finished fourth in the junior race, Korir gained citizenship to wear Stars and Stripes on the tracks last year.
As the countdown to Kampala continues, all competing nations are eyeing the scalp of Kenya that has topped the medal tables at four of the past five editions. Also, its rivalry with Ethiopia is expected to remain fierce.
The two nations split the four individual titles in 2015 at two apiece, while Ethiopia captured 11 medals in all to Kenya's nine but the team training at their traditional St Mark's Teachers College, Kigari in Embu has to contend with the 'enemy within' besides their arch-rivals from the north.
Korir is not the only Kenya-born athlete who is expected to face the starting gun in Kampala under the US banner.
Olympics men 5000m silver winner, Paul Chelimo is the star of their 4x2000m mixed relay team having been led to the altar in Rio by double champion Mo Farah of Britain at an event where Kenya's pick for the distance failed to qualify from the heats.
In the senior men 10km, Korir will run alongside multiple National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) star, Samuel Chelanga, the younger brother of 2002 Commonwealth and 2007 Rotterdam marathon winner, Joshua Chelanga.
While the elder Chelanga ran for Kenya at the 1997 and 1999 editions of the World Cross in Turin, Italy and Belfast, Ireland winning the senior men long race (12km) team title besides finishing fourth in the latter, Samuel, 32, born in Baringo opted to declare for the US.
Stanley Kebenei and Shadrack Kipchirchir are the other Kenyan-born runners in the US senior men meaning five of the 28 runners who will run for the Donald Trump nation hail from one East African state.
Kebenei won nine NCAA junior national championship titles at Iowa Central Community College before joining the University of Arkansas and has now signed a professional contract with Nike.
Kipchirchir, born in Eldoret qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics in 10,000m and not only does he run for the US but when called upon, he can fight for his adopted nation as a member of the US Army. In 2015, he finished 16th at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in the 25 lap-race.
It is little wonder then that ideally, Kenya also gave the US their 44th President, Barack Obama!
Outside the US, Turkey is another country that is expected to be a strong contender for the medals in Kampala with Aras Kaya, who led the nation to the European Cross Country Championships glory expected to lead their onslaught.
And you guessed it, Kaya was born Amos Kibitok in April 1994 and at last year's European Championships in Amsterdam, he won silver medal in the 3000m steeplechase. Before representing Turkey, Kaya competed for Kenya, and surprisingly, Russia.
"I felt very well in my training, so I decided to compete here and it was worth it. I thought it was going to be windy but after two or three laps I was okay," Kaya told the IAAF after winning the European Cross title for Turkey.
Behind him across the line for the Turkish 1-2 is the curiously named Polat Kemboi Arikan (born Paul Kipkosgei Kemboi in Cheptiret in 1990). Kemboi switched allegiance to Turkey on June 8, 2011 and changed his name to Polat. Normally he would have to wait for two years following his naturalisation to be able to represent his adoptive country.
However, it was announced in February 2012 that he had received permission from the IAAF to run for Turkey starting with the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul.
At the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, Polat won gold in the men 10000m and together with Kaya, they are quietly confident of scaling podium heights in Kampala.
Their women senior 10km team is led by European Cross winner, Yasemin Can -- born Vivian Jemutai -- in, you guessed it, Kenya.
Jemutai, born December 11, 1996 never competed for Kenya in professional races and on March 13, 2016, she officially became eligible to represent Turkey. At the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, she was a finalist in the fastest 10,000m race in the history. She was seventh while recording a Personal Best time of 30:26:41.
If Can would have been three weeks younger at the time, her time would have been a Juniors (U20) World Record. She took gold in the women's 10,000m at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam.
Finishing at 31:12.86, she improved her own European under-23 record by 18 seconds; she had set at the Turkish Championships in Mersin on May 1, 2016 before she sealed the distance double at the same championships after scooping the 5000m title.
"Victory is a nice birthday present. The only complication was a slight wind. The race was important for me but I will focus more on the track events," Can who turned 20 when she won the European Cross title told the IAAF.
And just like in the men's long race, Can led her compatriot, Meryem Akda across the line for the Turkish 1-2 at the European Cross and there are no prizes for identifying where Akda was born!
Formerly Mirriam Jepchirchir Maiyo (born August 5, 1992) Akda is a Turkish female middle-distance and long-distance runner of Kenyan origin. She competes in the 3000 m steeplechase and 5000 m events.
She competed for Kenya until May 21, 2015 before being allowed to compete as a Turk on March 13, 2016.
Last month, reports indicated Bahrain was training 15 Kenya-born runners in Kapsabet to represent them in Kampala. Qatar is also expected to field their naturalised athletes from these shores.
Team Kenya head coach, James Ndiwa who will lead the team to the World Cross remains optimistic his cast of champions and seasoned runners have enough quality to crush even competition from within.
"The team I have is a clean team. They are ready since we are going to war. When you go to war, the mission is to win and that is our prayer," Ndiwa said from Embu earlier in the week.
Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor, who led Bedan Karoki to the Kenyan 1-2 in the senior men (12km) showdown at the 2015 World Cross in Guiyang, China shares the belief they will prevail against any challenge to retain their overall crown.
"The team we have is largely the same we had in 2015. We have strong athletes and we are working together as a team. If we work together as we have started this week, I foresee us retaining the title," the 2011 World Cross junior and two-time World Half marathon winner added.
Hosts Uganda are also expected to wage war for both individual and team crowns, with Eritrea and Bahrain also likely to play key roles in several of the medal fights. Others expected in the mix for team medals include Turkey, the United States, Japan, and Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
All said and done, may the best Kenyan win.
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Animals Screening + Q&A
Director Sophie Hyde
Australia, Ireland | 139 mins (Animals 109 mins) | 2018
Tags ADL Film Fest Investment Fund, Special Event, Australian ,
This screening includes special guests from cast and crew.
Laura and Tyler have been flatmates and best friends for 10 years, marauding around the streets of Dublin, rejecting the expectations that bombard modern women and acting purely on desire. For Tyler, this is the best version of life, even with the inevitable hangovers, but when Laura's (younger) sister Jean gets pregnant… on purpose… Laura panics. Should she still be partying into her mid-thirties? And what has her supposed talent as an aspiring writer got her, apart from notebooks full of scribbles?
In an inky-dark bar she meets rising-star pianist Jim, who falls for Laura's wit and passionate attitude to life, and the two soon become engaged. Inspired – or maybe intimidated – by teetotaler Jim's commitment to his work, Laura knuckles down to finish the novel she's been writing for a decade.
Tyler, however, is convinced that marriage is the wrong thing for Laura and that her literary success depends on a life of excess, adventure and – crucially – variety… starting with the devilishly handsome Marty. As Laura tries to balance these precarious pieces of her life, she only makes things worse. Can she really have it all? Or is her life of debauchery with Tyler ruining her attempts to create something meaningful? As Laura struggles to come to grips with what it is that she really wants, she begins to realise that living a life for herself might mean leaving someone else behind.
Schedule Saturday 6th:
3:15pm: Animals Screening
5pm - 5:35pm: Q&A with host Penny Debelle and guests Sophie Hyde (Director/Producer), Emma Jane Unsworth (Screenwriter), Rebecca Summerton (Producer), Bryan Mason (Cinematographer), Renate Henschke (Costume Designer)
Director Sophie Hyde | Producer Sarah Brocklehurst, Rebecca Summerton, Cormac Fox, Sophie Hyde | Screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth | Cast Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee, Dermot Murphy, Amy Molloy, Kwaku Fortune, Olwen Fouéré, Pat Shortt
GU Film House Adelaide
Animals Screening + Q&A (139 mins)
Sophie's debut-fiction film 52 Tuesdays (director/producer/co-writer) was set and shot every Tuesday for one year and won the directing award in World Cinema Dramatic at Sundance and the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her first episodic series F*!#ing Adelaide, which she created, produced and directed screened at Berlin Film Festival and Series Mania in 2018 and screened on Australia's ABC1 and iview to glowing reviews. She produced and co-directed the acclaimed feature documentary Life in Movement, winner of the Australian Documentary Prize in 2011 and the Cinedans Jury and Audience prizes. She has been commissioned to make made screen based work for the National Portrait Gallery, Carriageworks and the Art Gallery of South Australia. She also works as a Producer and believes strongly in nurturing new voices. She was recently mentor and executive producer on A Field Guide to Being A 12-year-old-girl, the directorial debut of Tilda Cobham-Hervey which won the short film Crystal Bear at Berlin Film Festival this year. She produced Matt Bate's feature documentaries Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure and Sam Klemke's Time Machine, which both premiered at Sundance. She is currently producing a feature documentary by Maya Newell (Gayby Baby) and in will go into production as creator/director of The Hunt, a 4 x 1 hour TV series in 2019. She is a co-founder of film collaborative, Closer Productions.
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Johnny Graphic
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Tuesday, October 1, 1935, Silver City, Coastal Federation
Twenty mounted ghost warriors charged through the stormy night sky. Through torrents of rain and deafening thunder. Through lightning bolts and blasts of hail.
Burilgi, their leader, rode out in front on a brown gelding. With seeping, empty eye sockets he surveyed the wrathful heavens. Many centuries dead, the wraith did not feel the chill and damp that would have pained an ordinary mortal.
After long hours pounding southward, the ghost troop soared out of the storm and into ragged clouds that reflected a salmon-colored dawn. Burilgi bent his bloody, eyeless gaze downward.
Spiderwebs of dirt roads spread out beneath him. Then came thousands of little houses on grids of streets. Automobiles belched smoke and puttered along. Farther to the south, a huge city glittered on the shore of a vast ocean.
The troop of Steppe Warriors flew in over the metropolis and scattered. Burilgi made his way to an abandoned herbalist's shop in a part of the city where immigrants from the Jade Kingdom had settled. There he waited.
Some hours later, he heard a key snick into the lock of the shop's front door. It swung open as he watched from his hiding place in the wall.
In stepped a tall, heavy white man—a living man—who wore a long black coat. His head was perfectly, glisteningly bald. The only hair he seemed to have was a trim white mustache. He didn't even have eyebrows.
Fishing a flashlight out of his pocket, the man shot a beam of light around the room. Nothing was revealed but dusty display cases and cascades of cobwebs.
"Burilgi, are you here?" the man asked quietly.
The eyeless ghost emerged out of the far wall.
The very instant the bald man saw the wraith, he gasped and took a step backward. His narrow slits of eyes opened wide. He stood there stock still, except for the constant twitching of his left hand. Finally composing himself, he asked, "Are you all here?"
"All twenty." Burilgi's voice sounded like sandpaper rubbing on stone.
"You know your mission."
"To exterminate the enemies of our khan. Now tell me where to find them."
The Exquisite Pearl Temple sat on a narrow side street in Silver City's teeming Jadetown. Burilgi entered the temple's meditation chamber from the rear, through brick and mortar and iron, a spear in his hand. Butter lamps flickered here and there among the sculptures and tapestries.
At this late hour in the evening, only one person remained in the chamber—a thin, elderly man kneeling on a prayer rug before a large golden statue of the sacred one. He wore a shabby, wrinkled jacket of light blue, trousers of threadbare khaki, and a white shirt. A few strands of gray hair trailed across the top of his head.
"Mongke Eng," hissed the specter.
The old man lifted his head, gingerly rose to his feet, wobbled, and turned around. He had a face very much like Burilgi's—but without the cruelty and hatred. Mongke Eng focused his rheumy eyes on the ghost and nodded.
"Where are your guards?" snorted the specter. "I was told you would have guards."
"None are needed," replied Mongke Eng.
"Because I am dying anyway."
Burilgi tilted his head. "Of what?"
"Cancer. In my blood. Better to die quickly, I think."
Burilgi couldn't help but admire the old man. "To bravely face death at the hands of your enemy is honorable."
"But why am I your enemy?"
"Orders from the khan."
Mongke Eng looked astonished. "You have a new khan? A new leader? Remarkable. There has not been a khan in over three centuries."
Burigli saw the face of the old man transform itself—from dismal acceptance of his doom to bright-eyed fascination. As if he was delighted to learn something new and wonderful, even in the very last moments of his life.
"You are from the era of Semei Khan, unless I am mistaken," said Mongke Eng. "Circa 1220 to 1250. Am I right?"
"From the army of the One-Armed General? Your uniform is most distinctive. The rampant wolf that you wear on your tunic was unique among the Steppe armies. The bronze-pointed leather helmet, as well."
The Steppe Warrior said nothing.
"Can you see without eyes?" Mongke Eng asked with sincere curiosity.
"Would I be here if I could not?"
Mongke Eng smiled at the terse reply. "What is your name?"
"Burilgi."
The old man chuckled. "Destroyer? Your parents called you Destroyer?"
"A good name," the ghost said. "You know why I am here."
Mongke Eng nodded tiredly, like a man ready for a long, long sleep. "You've killed at least three others—and now me. Who is next?"
"Someone called Melanie Graphic."
The old scholar shut his eyes and shook his head. "But she's so very young."
"She must die, too, old man. The khan has given me my orders."
Mongke Eng was about to say something else when the spear caught him in the chest, tumbling him backward into the statue of the sacred one.
Wednesday, October 2, 1935, Zenith, Plains Republic
Wearing a brown cloth cap and shabby overcoat, Johnny Graphic trudged along the north side of Superior Avenue, head down. I can't believe I'm doing this, he thought.
No one noticed him. The people bustling around were far too busy chattering among themselves. If shoppers wondered about the square object in the canvas bag slung over his shoulder, they didn't say so. If they were curious about the peculiar grin that kept breaking out on his round, freckled face, they didn't mention it. And as far as he was concerned, that was just fine. They had no idea they might be seeing his photo in tomorrow's newspaper.
Johnny still couldn't imagine never having to go to school again. Unless he wanted to. He'd spent a year studying hard and had passed the high school exams on his very first try. And here he was, at twelve and a half, taking photos for the Zenith Clarion. He was an honest-to-goodness newspaper photographer. The youngest ever in the history of Zenith, the second biggest city in the Plains Republic.
His seventeen-year-old sister, Melanie, had warned him—in that gloomy way of hers—that he'd be missing some of the best years of his life by getting out of school early. The way he looked at it, staying in school meant missing five years of taking pictures. Now that would really be sad.
From the time he was a little kid, Johnny thought that shooting photos was something almost magical. Frame the shot. Focus. Press the shutter at just the right moment. Then, when the prints came back from the drugstore, the things and people you saw through the viewfinder would be on paper, captured forever. Every time he opened up that envelope and saw his newest pictures, it was like getting presents on his birthday.
At first, the idea that formed in his head seemed too impossible, too incredible. But as he studied every newspaper photo he could get his hands on, he began to think, why couldn't I do this?
And now he was. Getting paid for his pictures in the newspaper. Getting a byline under his shots—"Photo by Johnny Graphic."
The photo editor at the Zenith Clarion had hired Johnny at first to do a simple freelance assignment. Then another and another. A press conference at the Zenith Geographical Society. The launching of a new lake boat down at the shipyards. Triplets born at Hilltop Hospital.
But today was the first time he had been given an important assignment, a dangerous story. Miss Maude Beale, managing editor of the Clarion, had personally told Johnny what it was all about and what he had to do and why he was the best "man" for the job.
Here I am, he thought, wearing my first disguise. The shabby, dirty coat. The tattered newsboy cap tugged down over his head. The dirt he'd purposely smudged on his face. He looked just like a poor, homeless kid. Too bad Miss Beale had nixed his idea of a mustache.
Maybe, he daydreamed, I'll even get on the front page.
He was just plodding past a newsstand when a headline on the Clarion late edition stopped him in his tracks.
Ghostly Murder Mystery: Who Killed the Etherist
Johnny grabbed a copy. He scanned the article and let out a gasp. The subhead read: "Silver City etherist run through with a spear."
The article went on to say that Mongke Eng had been slain early the morning before. Police didn't know who was responsible for the death but suspected renegade ghosts—possibly ancient warriors that had been seen in the vicinity.
Johnny put the paper back down, shaking his head. Mongke Eng was a family friend. Johnny had met him several times and thought he was a nice old guy. Like Johnny's sister Melanie, Mongke Eng was an etherist, or "wraith handler." Johnny explained to people that etherists were professionals who hired ghosts or fired ghosts. The technical term that etherists sometimes used to refer to themselves was "effectuators."
In fact, right now Mel was out in the suburbs somewhere, trying to evict a particularly noxious specter from someone's house. She probably hadn't heard about what happened to Mongke Eng. As soon as he was done with the assignment, Johnny had to get home and give her the bad news.
Out of nowhere a very large, strong hand grabbed him by the collar and twisted him around.
"What the heck are you doing?" Johnny yelled, struggling to break free. Then he looked up into the long, acne-scarred face of the biggest, tallest policeman he'd ever seen.
"Shouldn't you be in school, young man?" the officer said in a voice that rumbled like a foghorn.
"I tested out," Johnny answered. "Earned my high school diploma a couple months ago."
The officer scowled. "I'll need some proof."
Johnny glanced down the busy sidewalk behind the policeman. A throng of pedestrians flowed along on both sides of them, like a stream around a boulder. Just then he saw a ghost rider on a ghost horse trotting toward him. The bearded rider, looking very grim, had his saber drawn as if ready to attack.
Johnny was one of the few people on Superior Avenue that afternoon who could see the wraith. Only two or three in a hundred humans had the gift of etheric sight.
When Johnny noticed the ghost approaching them, he shook his head violently and threw up his open left hand, as if to say, STOP. And the spectral rider did just that.
The officer squinted down at him in puzzlement. "Are you okay, kid?"
"Here, just a minute," Johnny sputtered, putting down his backpack and reaching into his coat pocket. He fished out a new leather wallet and flipped it open. Beneath a clear celluloid window was an official-looking card bearing the signature of the Superintendent of Zenith Public Schools. It had a tiny photo of Johnny glued in the upper right corner and it stated: John Joshua Graphic, having earned the Zenith Public Schools high school graduation equivalency certificate, is hereby relieved of any further requirement for regular attendance in school session. Granted this 23rd day of July, 1935.
The policeman took the wallet and examined Johnny's get-out-of-school card. "Not right that a kid your age ain't in school," the copper grumbled. "Guess you're legal, though." He let go of Johnny's collar and handed back the wallet. "Just don't get into any mischief," he said, and sauntered away.
Johnny stuck his wallet back in his pocket and picked up the canvas bag. He glared up at the waiting ghost rider and frowned. "What were you going to do, Colonel? Cut his head off?"
Dead now over seventy years, the ghost still maintained his ramrod military posture. A barely visible smile broke out among his whiskers. "Are we just going to stand here, then, Master Graphic? Don't we have work to do?"
Johnny found the four sewer workers sitting around an upended wooden cable spool, down a shadowy alleyway. Just as Miss Beale had said he would find them. They were playing poker, cracking wise, and drinking beer straight out of the bottles—right in the middle of what ought to have been their afternoon shift. The game so occupied them that it took half a minute before one of the men noticed Johnny standing there. "Get outta here, kid," he snarled.
Johnny just slouched there and waited for the men—all in dirty brown overalls, tin hats, and tall, black rubber boots—to stop noticing him. When they finally did, he reached into the canvas bag and pulled out his Zoom 4×5 press camera. The film and flashbulb were ready to go.
He lifted the camera up to his eye, framed the picture at just the perfect instant, and pressed the shutter release. A bright explosion of light filled the alley.
With roars of outrage, the sewer men rushed at him.
Johnny was already halfway down the alley, his legs pumping, his feet pounding the pavement. But the men were catching up. No way could he outrun them.
Suddenly he threw a hand high into the air. The colonel hauled him up into the saddle and they galloped off down the street.
Johnny saw the startled looks on faces all around, as he bounced along five feet above the street with no apparent means of support. Glancing back, he caught sight of one of the sewer men angrily throwing his tin hat on the sidewalk.
"Spooks!" the worker hollered in disgust, as if it were the filthiest word imaginable. "That kid's in cahoots with spooks!"
Johnny was tempted to shout back a retort. Instead, he held tightly to the ghost horse's luxuriant mane and laughed in giddy relief.
Holy maroley, he thought, I really did it.
Johnny did not enjoy flying with Colonel MacFarlane and his ghost horse, Buck. Not one little bit.
To tumble off Buck from the height of several hundred feet, Johnny figured, would be every bit as fatal as falling off a cliff or a tall building. Gravity doesn't care how a fellow got up there.
But after reading the headline on the front page of the Clarion—about Mongke Eng getting murdered by ghosts—Johnny knew he had to tell Mel the bad news as soon as he could. Mel really respected the old man, and hearing about his death from Johnny might soften the blow. The streetcar and bus would take too long. So after turning in his film at the newspaper office, he asked the colonel to fly him home.
Home was a twenty-mile flight from downtown Zenith. The Graphics' house, Birchwood, was a couple hundred yards up from the rocky shore of Great Lake, the largest freshwater lake in the world. From Lake Highway down by the shore, the brick house could barely be seen through the evergreens, birches, and poplars that filled its big front yard.
The instant they touched down on the driveway, Johnny hopped off the ghost horse and rushed up the porch steps. He threw open the front door and shouted, "Mel! Are you home yet?"
No one answered.
Johnny trotted into the living room, tossing his camera bag onto the sofa. "Mel?"
Again, not a peep from anyone.
Johnny went back into the hallway and ran up the stairway two steps at a time. Maybe, he thought, Mel was back, working in her bedroom. When she was really busy with a project, it took a stick of dynamite to get her attention. But when he peered into her open bedroom door, no one was there. Just her stuff. A cluttered desk and bookshelves. Her upright piano. Her bed, neatly made up, with the crossed army sabers up above it, hanging on the wall. The landscape painting by the Contessa di Altamonta, the famous ghost artist and friend of their mom.
"Master Johnny?"
Johnny nearly jumped out of his skin. He twirled around and saw Mrs. Lundgren standing in the hallway by the bathroom door. Pale and translucent, the ghost housekeeper held a real bucket in one hand and a real mop in the other. Her apple-doll face showed a look of worry.
"What's wrong, child?" she asked in that peculiar whispery tone. "Is anything the matter?"
"I'm looking for Mel, Mrs. Lundgren. Something important's come up and she needs to know about it."
"I believe Miss Melanie said she would be back by suppertime."
"Thanks, Mrs. Lundgren," Johnny said, and headed back downstairs. He went out on the front porch and sat on the long oak bench, waiting for Mel's return. It wasn't very long before someone arrived home—but not his sister.
Puffing up the driveway on her balloon-tired bicycle came Nina Bain, attired in a khaki safari jacket and stout skirt of olive drab. Her short, black corkscrew curls bobbed with every pump of the pedals. The dark-skinned girl and Johnny had been best friends ever since she and Uncle Louie came to live in the big brick house—right after Will and Lydia Graphic had vanished.
Johnny thought it was swell, how Uncle Louie had been granted custody of Nina after her father died. That kind of made her Johnny's honorary cousin. The two were about the same age and natural allies in the fight against sober adult points of view. Johnny sometimes called her "Sparks," because she was a dedicated ham radio operator. She had her radio gear up in the attic and a tall antenna on the roof.
Almost out of breath, Nina rested her bike against the side of the porch and joined Johnny on the bench. "So how'd it go?" she asked, taking off her backpack and laying it on the floor.
"It went okay, Sparks, but it was a little bit scary. First time I've taken shots of people who don't want their photos taken."
"Is your picture going to be on the front page?"
"Yup, they said it would be."
"That's great. So what happened exactly?"
And Johnny told Nina about the whole adventure. At several points during his narrative she shook her head in amazement. But when he finished she had a kind of funny expression on her face. "What?" he said. "What's wrong?"
Nina narrowed her eyes. "The Johnny Graphic I know would be grinning and jumping up and down. You seem awfully subdued, considering you're getting your first front-page photo credit. Smells a little fishy to me. You have a bellyache or something?"
"I wish that's all it was," Johnny said. Then he told her about Mongke Eng.
Melanie Graphic didn't make it home for supper that evening. By the time she finally came through the front door at half past ten, almost everyone else had gone to bed. But Johnny was waiting for her in the entranceway.
Mel looked utterly exhausted. Her limp black hair was limper and stringier than usual, and the circles under her eyes more pronounced. She wearily took off her green plaid jacket and hung it on the coat rack, then headed toward the kitchen, giving her brother a half-hearted wave.
He hopped out of his chair and followed her. "Bad haunting?" he asked.
"I'll say," Mel yawned, making straight for the refrigerator. She pulled the door open, extracted a bottle of milk, and found the cheese-and-sausage sandwich Mrs. Lundgren had made for her.
Johnny sat down opposite his sister at the table. "So what happened?"
"People sometimes don't know how lucky they are, not seeing and hearing ghosts," she said after her first mouthful of sandwich. "New family bought an old house in Hector Town. The daughter can see ghosts. Of course, she can hear them, too. Moved into a place with a screamer, and the mom and dad didn't know it beforehand."
Johnny winced. Screamers were ghosts that howled and screeched pretty much non-stop. Not because they couldn't stop, but because they were angry with everyone and everything.
"It wasn't easy," said Mel, "but I got him to move to an abandoned mansion about a mile away. I convinced him he'd sound even louder in a big empty house like that. Took a while, though." She took another bite of sandwich and regarded Johnny with a quizzical look. "You seem suspiciously grim. Do you want to tell me something?"
Johnny looked at his seventeen-year-old sister. She had the same spray of freckles across the cheeks and nose as him. But her eyes were hazel, not blue; her hair black, not dark blond. Sometimes they almost didn't look like siblings. She resembled their mom, he was a lot like their pop.
"What is it, Johnny?" Mel asked, suddenly concerned.
Johnny took a deep breath. "They killed Mongke Eng. Some ghost assassin in Silver City. The article in the Clarion said it was some kind of a warrior."
He expected her to show some shock, but to his surprise she didn't. She merely slumped down in her chair.
"Steppe Warriors," Mel said, almost in a whisper. "They're called Steppe Warriors. Now that you know about it, I might as well tell you everything."
Johnny's mouth dropped open. "'Everything'? What do you mean, 'everything'?"
"It's not just Mongke," Mel said. "Five other members of the Hausenhofer Gesellschaft have been murdered by ghost assassins. The first two or three, we hoped it was just some grisly coincidence. But now…" She trailed off.
What Mel had just said hit Johnny like a ton of bricks.
It wasn't just a single etherist who had gotten himself killed. It was specifically members of the group to which Mel belonged—the Gessellschaft. There were only about twenty-five of them in the outfit. And now six were dead. This was a lot worse than he had thought.
If someone was targeting members of the Gessellschaft, then Mel's life was in danger, too!
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Gomti water level plunges to 3 year low
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LUCKNOW: More than 14 lakh residents in Old City are grappling with drinking water crisis for 10 days now with the water level in Gomti river plummeting to a three-year low this scorching summer.
General manager, Jal Sansthan, SK Verma said the ideal water level of the lifeline river was 356ft, but it had dropped to 346.8ft since April. This, in turn, has reduced supply from the three surface water stations by 20%, he said.
"The three waterworks in Aishbagh, Balaganj and Gaughat, which channelise Gomti water for household consumption, can effectively work till the river level is 340ft. We have decided to ration water supply because the plunge is likely to continue till the arrival of monsoon expected in the last week of June," Verma added.
Gomti is mainly a groundwater and monsoon-fed river, but is also dependent on a few tributaries from its origin in Pilibhit to Lucknow.
Sources said the supply from the three waterworks had been curtailed from 125 million litres per day (MLD) to 100 MLD, leading to scarcity in areas like Aishbagh, Balaganj, Rakabagnj, Thakurganj, Yahiyaganj and Musabagh. When TOI visited these areas, many residents complained of dirty water supply.
Residents rue poor supply, muddy water
We have been receiving erratic supply for the past few days and that too only muddy water. How can one even drink that?" asked Pragya Mishra of Balaganj. Chetan Singh of Aishbagh couldn't agree more. "The water has sand and algae in it. It tastes disgusting even after we filter it," said Singh.
In Rakabganj, Pritam Srivastava said the situation was pathetic for those who didn't have water purifiers. "The water has been dirty for a week now. We don't have a purifier at home. We are boiling water twice a day, but that doesn't guarantee complete purity," he said.


Different people write different ways. Some need absolute silence. Others write best in a room full of people. Me? I feel the most inspired when I have on my huge earphones and I'm surrounded by my favorite music.
Whenever I'm writing a book, I tend to listen to the same music the whole way through the process. It kind of gives the theme for the book, and reflects what I'm feeling as I write it (and translates into what the characters are feeling, too).
I mean, how can you not be inspired by this song? One of my coworkers used this song as his ring tone, bringing me right back to my teenage years, when mod rock was where it was at. By the way, Shawn Colvin does a kickass remake of this song that also made it onto my playlist. It's a must listen.
This song makes me want to cry, it's so good. I'm a sucker for a good remake of a great song, and Birdy totally does this song by Phoenix justice. Her whole album is filled with awesome covers of songs I love, and is worth a listen as a whole.
I still remember that one year Bon Iver won Best New Artist at the Grammys, and they gave the worst acceptance speech I ever heard – basically spitting in the face of those who voted them in, telling everyone they were NOT a new band, and that receiving an award like this stood against everything they believe in. Their speech was kind of awful, but I get it. They want to keep themselves from being sucked into the industry. And for that, I can forgive them for being assholes in their acceptance speech, because their music makes me want to lie in it forever.
If you guys aren't watching So You Think You Can Dance, you're missing out on something amazing. I've always loved this song, but now I can't listen to this song without being overcome with emotion, thanks to this performance by Kayla and Kupono as they danced out the expressions of addiction.
This is the best band you've never heard of. You may not get the chance, either. The band is on a break right now, taking time after one band member moved on, and another recently passed away. I had the great fortune of hearing about these guys when they came local to perform and I got to write about them. I instantly fell in love with their music.
What are your go-to songs when writing?
I don't know how you write with lyric songs, but then I'm sure people would wonder how I could write without it. 😉 I have this great 100 mp3 collection of "dark classical music pieces." Since my book is on the darker side, it's really helped me get in the mood for certain scenes. Sometimes I listen to soundtracks too. And sometimes I listen to nothing at all if I really need a lot of brainpower for a certain difficult scene. It's funny though, I have a writer friend who needs absolute silence always. I just couldn't work like that. I guess we all have our processes. Thanks for a great post!
Oooh, I'll have to check this band out. Thanks!
The other day I totally got sucked into the Great Gatsby soundtrack. What a great album!


We've been putting in long, hard days at the hospital with our friends Jim and Shar Lewis as she draws closer to what appears to be the inevitable. It's not the way we'd prefer to be spending our time, but it's what is needed now for the people we love.
Jim and I go back over 25 years and even though we're not related by blood we're like brothers and all of his real family passed on long ago. 21 years ago we traveled this same path together when he lost his first wife to cancer. We were talking yesterday and he said he doesn't know if he should feel blessed to have had two wonderful women in his life, or cursed to lose them. What do you say when somebody tells you something like that?
The one thing this whole experience has reinforced for us is that Terry and I are so glad we followed our dreams and became fulltime RVers 15 years ago. Jim and Shar had dreams that they were going to follow someday too. They wanted to spend at least a year living in Hawaii, and then a year fulltiming in an RV and then they'd decide whether to continue with one or the other. But first they wanted to finish remodeling the house to get it ready to sell, and this and that, and the dream would get pushed back another year.
Friends, if you have a dream, forget all of those silly reasons why you can't do it today and go for it. You won't regret it. In all of our time on the road, that is the singular most common thing people tell us over and over again, that they wish they had not waited so long. And I can't begin to tell you how many stories just like Jim and Shar's we have heard, where people waited too long and illness or death put a stop to their dreams before they ever began.
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Unfortunately, we are having to wait. Selling our business is a requirement, between not being able to run it from the road, not being able to hire/have some one else manage it for us and needing the sale proceeds to finish the bus with the final basics required, it's is the deciding factor.
We do have a very active prospect (finally) so we're encouraged that just maybe, this might be the year, Class of 2014.
You all hope and pray with us.
We've been following our dream for 7 years now. Prayers to Jim & Shar and to you and Terry as well.
May I post a link on my FB page to this?
As you said, follow your dreams ASAP. You never know. We retired at ages 55 and 49. I have had breast cancer twice since then. Hubby has had a bout with severe diverticulitis. We are still RVing through the good times and bad times. We believe the RVing and the people we have met have been so helpful to us through the bad times. This physical life is short.
What do you say to him? I would say you are blessed to have had two such wonderful women to love and love you. So many people never find love at all. Count your blessings each day. You will find that the blessings far out weigh the sad times. So glad you are both there to give support. Hugs, Connie B.
Thanks to your inspiration we now have two years of full-timing under our belts and I wish we had started sooner. It's a great life. I learned the "don't wait" lesson while working for SSA and seeing people get sick or too old to follow their dreams. We are so blessed to be able to pursue ours.
Our prayers are with you guys. Let Jim know it's better to be blessed than not. Pam and I are constantly looking for ways to make our dreams of RVing a reality. We're slowly but surely getting there.
Your friend has been way more blessed than most…2 good spouses!! But none of that is much comfort at the moment and in loosing yet another loved one. But I have found in grief times, someone just listening, putting their arm around me and hugging me and saying they are sorry and so wish it was not so…that is what helped the most!! (Saying that, I have not lost my mate yet…but other very important people in my life that will never be replaced in any way). My main comfort is in knowing that this life is short and the LONG life yet awaits…and I fully expect to be with these awesome people who have already gone ahead. So this goodbye is temporary!
Blessings on you and Terri for caring so much for this couple and being there!!
Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your friends, Nick. What great friends you all are.


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This past Wednesday was our Allie's first official night in youth.
We knew this was coming. We have been preparing ourselves for this all summer.
It really shouldn't be that big of a change. I mean, she was at all of our events and functions anyway.
It is a huge deal though.
She is not just our kid that's always around or one of the "little kids". She's official.
I made her fill out a guest card, gave her a welcome packet and everything!
Her first night was a little bittersweet. Her daddy was not there, since he is at youth camp this week. That part made me slightly sad. On the flip side of that was the fact that I was handling service in his absence. So, I had the privilege of speaking at our daughters very first youth service. It was my honor to do so.
She is growing up so fast and I am so proud of her. Literally, I have tears in my eyes right now as I'm typing this. She is such an amazing kid with a truly loving heart. I will be forever grateful that I was chosen to be her mommy. She makes me proud and inspires me daily.
Welcome to youth group, Allie! We look forward to continuing to watch you grow!! You are a blessing to us always!


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Mikel Arteta hints at Arsenal keeping hold of Cedric Soares amid Fulham interest
Cedric Soares has been linked with an Arsenal exit in January (Picture: Getty Images)
Mikel Arteta says Arsenal will be very careful about which players they let go during the January transfer window, as Fulham pursue Cedric Soares.
The full-back is struggling for game time with the Gunners, falling further down the pecking order this season under Arteta.
Ben White has been playing at right-back, with Tomehiro Tomiyasu also ahead of Soares in the fight for that position. Soares is versatile and can play on the other side of defence, but Oleksandr Zinchenko and Kieran Tierney are battling it out for the left-back slot.
Fulham are keen to take advantage of the situation and bring the 31-year-old to west London, while Bayer Leverkusen and Villarreal have also been linked with a move for the Portuguese defender.
It seemed that Arsenal were open to letting him go, but Arteta says they will be very careful with any outgoings in January, well aware of the busy schedule ahead and a relatively thin squad compared to their rivals at the top of the Premier League table.
'We know where we are in terms of the squad and the numbers that we have, so we're going to be extremely cautious in what we do in this window,' said the Spaniard.
Arsenal return to Premier League action at home to West Ham on Boxing Day as they look to extend their impressive five point lead at the top of the table.
Manchester City are not playing until 28 December when they travel to Leeds United so Arteta has the chance to open up an eight point gap on their rivals if they can beat the Hammers.
MORE : 'Even Wolves wouldn't sign him' – Paul Merson says Arsenal star Eddie Nketiah can't replace Gabriel Jesus
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Nothing is known of his history before coming to BEHS.
Woodrow Call has no known health or lameness issues.
Woodrow Call is a cute, sweet donkey who would make a good pet or companion. Someone with donkey experience could train him to ride or drive.
Woodrow needs encouragement to load in a trailer but travels well once loaded.


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Círculo menor, em aposição ao círculo máximo, é um círculo da esfera terrestre cujo plano divide a esfera em duas partes desiguais e está paralelo à linha do Equador.

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Senior Lecturer The University of Auckland: Criminology
Robert is a senior lecturer who completed his university studies at the University of Auckland. His teaching and research interests are in criminology and sociology. He is currently on the Editorial board of the Journal of Sociology (TASA- The Australian Sociological Association).
Maori and criminal justice policy
Indigenous criminology
Bio-identity, organ donation and transplantation
CRIM 702 Advanced Issues in Penology
I am available for supervisions in the area of criminal justice policy and Indigenous criminology. Examples of previous and current supervisions include PhD research on cultural programmes in NZ prisons, mass incarceration and Maori, Samoan perspectives on youth offending and crime, and comparative community justice models between Maori and Romani.
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Co-Principal Investigator of a three-year 2016 Marsden Funded Research Project on Maori and Samoan experiences of Youth Justice in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S.A.
Faculty of Arts, Māori Ethics Adviser
Undergraduate Adviser, Criminology
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Editorial Board Journal of Sociology
Critical Theory Network
Māori Association of Social Science
Suaalii, T., Tauri, J., & Webb, R. (2018). Exploring Māori and Samoan Youth Justice: Aims of an International Research Study. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 2 (5), 29-40. Related URL.
Webb, R. (2018). Rethinking the utility of the risk factors and criminogenic needs approaches in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal for Global Indigeneity, 3 (1), 1-21. Related URL.
Webb, R. (2017). Towards an indigenous criminology. Global Dialogue, 7 (3), 30-31.
Webb, R. (2017). Māori experiences of colonisation and Māori criminology. In A. Deckert, R. Sarre (Eds.) The Palgrave handbook of Australian and New Zealand criminology, crime and justice (pp. 683-696). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Shaw, R. M., & Webb, R. (2015). Multiple meanings of "gift" and its value for organ donation. Qualitative Health Research, 25 (5), 600-611. 10.1177/1049732314553853
Furze, B., Savy, P., Webb, R. D., James, S., Petray, T., Brym, R., & Lie, J. (2015). Sociology in Today's World (3rd). London: Cengage Learning. Pages: 608. Related URL.
Tauri, J. M., & Webb, R. (2012). A Critical Appraisal of Responses to Māori Offending. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 3 (4).10.18584/iipj.2012.3.4.5
Shaw, R., Bell, L., & Webb, R. (2012). New Zealanders' perceptions of gift and giving back as participants of organ transfer procedures. Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 7 (1), 26-36. 10.1080/1177083X.2012.670651
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Kirkwood Hospice
Runners enjoy a Great day out
DOZENS of people from Huddersfield joined the thousands of fun runners who took part in the BUPA Great North Run.
Neil Atkinson
00:00, 1 OCT 2007
A large Huddersfield contingent joined the throng in the sun in Newcastle yesterday, helping to raise many thousands of pounds for charity.
The event was blessed with cool but dry conditions.
A host of celebrities, including TV presenter Ben Fogle, Olympic gold medal rower James Cracknell and England football boss Steve McClaren, joined elite athletes and fun runners for the half-marathon.
World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe, who was taking part in her first competitive race since giving birth to daughter Isla, was beaten into second place in the elite race.
Radcliffe, whose last competition was on New Year's Eve, 2005, lost decisively to Kara Goucher.
American star Goucher, a World Championships 10,000 metres bronze medalist, stormed to victory over the 13.1-mile course in 66mins 57secs.
Martin Lel won a thrilling battle with Sammy Wanjiru to win the men's title by eight seconds from his fellow Kenyan with a time of 60mins 10secs.
The vast majority of people taking part were fun runners, raising money for charity.
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Are we obsessed? Maybe. But why? Because proper SEO can greatly help you increase traffic, improve your search rankings and overall make your site more successful.
However, it's also a field that is constantly changing and evolving over time. Many tactics and strategies that used to work are no longer up to snuff in today's online world. In fact, some of the obsolete SEO techniques still out there can greatly hurt your site.
In order to prevent you from going down that rabbit hole, in this article we will look at a number of SEO techniques to avoid at all costs and what to do instead. So, strap in and let's get going.
If you are using any of the strategies below, stop now and follow our alternative advice instead!
In 2014 Matt Cutts announced the end of guest blogging for link building. It threw the online world into shock and caused cries of agony around the blogosphere.
Because (legitimate) guest blogging is a pillar of SEO, especially among bloggers. However, over time it has been turned into a black hat technique by spammers (like all good things — some people just want to see the world burn).
So, does that mean we are back to writing only on our own blogs and hoping people will link to us by chance? Not quite.
If you avoid the above, guest blogging can still be used for link building and SEO, however, with a few caveats.
If you only guest blog to pepper in a link to your own site, Google will sooner or later catch on to it. A much better idea is to concentrate on guest blogging for growing your personal brand, reaching a wider audience and cooperating with other bloggers.
When you contribute great content to other websites that is helpful, unique and helps their visitors, the latter will happily come to your site — even through a nofollow link in your author bio.
Don't worry if that's not a "real" backlink, with additional eyeballs on your content the chances of someone shooting you a link also increase. Plus, search engines will notice the additional traffic and reward you for it.
Putting exact keywords into anchor texts of both internal and external links (such as those from guest posts) used to be a thing to get your site ahead in the search rankings.
In case you don't know what exactly I'm talking about, here's an example: Let's say you want to rank for the keyword "best health insurance," then a link with an optimized anchor text would look like this: best health insurance.
Yes, that really used to make a difference in search rankings and people went crazy with it. However, today it's the complete opposite and using this outdated SEO technique will quickly put you on the business end of a Google penalty.
Why? Because this is what Google considers an "unnatural" link and you best do your darndest to stay away from it.
Ok, but if using exact keywords gets you banned, what are safe ways to phrase anchor texts? As usual, the best way is to forget about search engines and concentrate on users instead. In the case of anchor texts that means building them into the text naturally.
For example, since this is a blog post on SEO, I would maybe point you to our article about on-page SEO for WordPress. Longer phrases like this are a safe type of anchor text and one that feels more natural.
Other possibilities are using branded links such as TorqueMag or the naked URL like torquemag.io. Again, a good rule of thumb is to see whether the link fits the flow of the content and provides extra value for users.
Yet, at the same time, links continue to be one of the strongest ranking signals and link building definitely has its place in the SEO puzzle. So, what is a website owner to do?
The solution is to concentrate on natural link building and link quality rather than quantity.
First and foremost that means creating something worth linking to. If you want backlinks, make something that others can't help but share with their own readers (or what's commonly known as content marketing).
However, there are also more active ways of link building such as developing relationships with high-quality sites in your industry so that they naturally link to you. Another example is doing email outreach and actively asking for links from other such sites (especially if they have link collections). Of course, guest posts are also still an option (despite what some people tell you).
For more ideas, check this awesome article on link building strategies.
Don't worry, this is not the part where I give you generic advice like "keyword stuffing is bad." If you are not aware of that yet, your SEO education really needs to start somewhere further down the ladder.
Not that keywords aren't important. In fact, we recently published an entire article on keyword research and the importance of using them in your content. However, go overboard with it and you will achieve the opposite of what you are trying to do.
What does overdoing it look like?
Well, the classic example is repeating the same (long-tail) keyword over and over again. For readers, that's the equivalent of talking to a sales representative who keeps repeating the same sentences from their script.
However, some people also opt for stuffing all possible keyword variations in their page title and meta description.
While this might seem like good SEO practice, it is far from a pretty sight, is it?
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Concentrate on clicks over keywords — Especially true for titles and meta descriptions. These are not made purely for search engines but primarily for the ones clicking on the links — the users. For that reason concentrate on making them appealing to human visitors. Use proper calls to action and good writing. Google takes clicks into account and a high click-through rate will propel you forward in the search results over time.
Content quality over keywords — Likewise, when someone does click on your link make sure it's worth their while. Instead of stuffing keywords, concentrate on more and better content and user friendliness. Write for readers first, deliver value, help them, make their life better and do it in style. Use your energy to become a better writer (especially SEO Copywriting) instead of a better keyword user.
Use related keywords — Google uses LSI — Latent Semantic Indexing. It basically means that the search engine has a thesaurus and thus understands synonyms. Therefore don't be shy to use related keywords instead of the same one over and over. Makes for more readable content and gives you a wider range of keywords to rank for.
An SEO technique that was effective for a long time was creating single pages for every possible keyword variation. Think "best health insurance," "cheap health insurance," "health insurance for families" etc.
The thinking behind it was solid. You could target each keyword independently, provide search engines with more pages to index and appear more relevant.
However, as you can probably understand, this is a usability nightmare and thus no longer goes unpunished. Today, Google is much more concerned with user intent than pure technical optimization and setting up your site structure like that will no longer have the desired effect.
It starts to feel like we are repeating ourselves but, again, the solution is to concentrate on what is best for the user. What is the intent behind their search phrase? What kind of result would be most relevant to them? How can you get closest to that result?
In many cases, the intent behind different keyphrase variations is the same and you are best advised to create one in-depth resource that addresses it all at once rather than several pages with thin content. Most of the time, it's possible to fit keyword variations intelligently into your content (something you should be doing anyway).
Sure, if you have an online shop with different categories, the division might make sense. But again, usability should always be your first and foremost consideration.
SEO used to be just links, code, and content. In 2017 that is no longer so. Social networks and social signals now also play a role in search engine rankings as both Google and Bing use their data to determine where to place websites.
Don't believe me? Neil Patel has posted several case studies on this matter to convince you.
Apart from that, more social followers also means more people who see your content and thus more chances to acquire backlinks. Plus, social networks are great for initial exposure and to gain traction for your content.
For that reason, ignore social networks for SEO at your own peril.
A better idea is to make social networking part of your SEO efforts together with content marketing, link building, and on-page optimization.
The posts above are just a starting point.
Generally, start by creating a posting schedule and publishing useful content on a regular basis. Then include ways to sign up to your social accounts on your site and in your email newsletter. Plus, don't forget to share your own content to get people to your site!
Search engine optimization is an essential part of growing a website and attracting organic traffic. However, SEO is neither a trick nor a single technique but a puzzle with many moving parts and a field that is constantly changing.
As a consequence, SEO today is not what it was just a few years ago. Despite that, outdated SEO techniques are still used a lot.
In the article above you have learned a number of SEO tactics to avoid, from spammy guest blogging and links to overuse of keywords and ignoring social signals.
Instead, shift your focus to delivering excellent and user-friendly content and a long-term sustained effort for the success of your site. This will pay off much more than any quick-fix schemes.
Which SEO mistakes have you made or do you see others commit? Anything to add to the above? Let us know in the comment section below.


Your puppy needs to meet at least one hundred people before it is three months old, preferably during the first month. Since your puppy is still too young to venture out to dog parks and pavements, you will need to start inviting people to your home right away. Your most important priority is that your puppy learns to inhibit the force of its bites and develops a 'soft mouth' before it is eighteen weeks old.
Whenever a dog bites a person or fights with another dog, the single most important prognostic factor is the degree of bite inhibition and, hence, the likelihood and seriousness of injury. Accidents happen. Someone may tread on the dog's paw, or a child may trip over the dog while it's gnawing a bone. A dog may snap and lunge at a person when hurt or frightened, but if the dog has well-established bite inhibition it is unlikely the dog's teeth will puncture or even touch the skin.
The most enjoyable priority of dog ownership is to introduce your well-socialised puppy to the world at large. Your dog will only remain sociable and confident if it continues to meet and greet at least three unfamiliar people and three unfamiliar dogs every day. Meeting the same people and dogs over and over again is not sufficient. Your dog needs to practise meeting, greeting and getting along with strangers, not simply getting along with old friends. Regular walks with your dog are as essential as they are enjoyable.


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Case Study - Swissport Cargo Services
"Transputec has implemented a technology solution that will reduce costs, enable fast and accurate archiving, provide instant document retrieval and create value added customer service."
Tony Lodder, IT Systems Manager, Swissport Cargo Services
Swissport Cargo Services provides single-source air freight logistics to more than 100 airlines around the world, including major carriers such as KLM and Singapore Airlines. In 2002 it handled 2.5 metric tons in over 55 airports and generated an income of $138million. The company delivers a seamless range of services to its customers including full export and import documentation handling, preparation of manifests, issuance of delivery orders, customs clearing and comprehensive security checks.
Every consignment of air freight is accompanied by an Air Waybill (AWB) - an instrument of air transport which serves as a receipt for the shipper. AWBs provide detailed information as well as associated documents. As part of the paper handling and document archive procedure, the AWBs used to be photocopied and then microfiched by Swissport Cargo Services, a time consuming and expensive operation.
Business Challenge
"We were taking more than 2.5 million photocopies a year with microfiching costs exceeding £35,000. That represents a huge volume of paper and a cumbersome and expensive way to store it," said Tony Lodder, IT Systems Manager at Swissport Cargo Services. "Sending the documents to microfiche could take up to six weeks, quite a time lag before archived documents could be accessed."
Copy quality could be very poor and document retention compliance was also an issue – HM Customs stipulate that some air-freight records must be stored for as long as seven years. Both agents and airlines regularly need to access AWB documents for various purposes such as to establish proof of delivery, deal with claims, check freight charges or resolve other payment queries.
A priority was to reduce the sheer volume of paper, create an instant retrieval facility and improve document image quality. Document storage was a growing problem as filing cabinets took up valuable office space and filing itself was a particularly onerous task.
"Essentially we wanted to move towards a new era of document handling", said Tony. "The air-freight industry is complex and heavily dependent on outdated legacy systems. A document imaging initiative would be the first step away from such a heavy dependence on paper, bring archiving procedures up to date and reduce operating costs."
The company was put in touch with Transputec Business Solutions who scoped the company's existing procedures, assessed the critical business challenges and proposed a project plan. The aim was to replace photocopying and microfiching with an intelligent scanning and retrieval solution based on recognition of unique AWB numbers.
Working in partnership with Cardiff Software Ltd, leading global provider of document capture software, Transputec delivered a bespoke scanning retrieval solution. This comprised an SQL database and the programming expertise to create a search engine to read each unique AWB number with 100% accuracy.
The crux of the challenge was the development of a generic template for complex documents. "Air Waybills are generally of poor quality and the layout of data can vary significantly. That's not helped by archaic dot matrix printouts which can often cause misaligned data on the document," said Tony. "We needed a solution that could deliver optimum retrieval performance – the ability to access a unique document without any margin for error. We are very pleased with the result."
The AWB scanning and retrieval system is enabling Swissport Cargo Services to radically reduce its photocopying and microfiche costs. "We can see some impressive savings in terms of machine maintenance and leasing, particularly as we were using such heavy duty machines." The company previously dealt with many thousands of pieces of paper on a daily basis but now has a database of scanned documents which can be easily handled, managed and archived.
According to Tony, the retrieval benefits are particularly welcome. "There is tremendous potential in offering a value added service for our customers - it's something we can actively promote." Instead of waiting six weeks for a document to be archived, retrieval is instant and anyone can access the database of scanned AWBs from a PC desktop. As documents are online as soon as they are scanned they can be quickly and efficiently emailed to customers, together with all associated documents, in a single pdf. "By reducing a lengthy and cumbersome procedure to a series of key strokes we can enhance customer service and bring competitive advantage."
This ability to respond quickly and electronically to a customer's query represents a welcome leap forward in an industry beset with legacy systems and complex document handling procedures. "As documentation is such a critical element of the air-freight industry the Transputec solution has helped us create value right along the business chain."
The new system also eliminates the frustrating delays associated with selecting the correct microfiche reel, locating a microfiche reader and scanning for the correct record, a process that could sometimes take hours. The use of email to deliver AWBs also means that documentation can be simultaneously sent to multiple locations, along with an audit trail.
Tony concluded: "Managing a high volume of paper is fast becoming an unacceptable overhead in the electronic age. Transputec has implemented a technology solution that will reduce costs, enable fast and accurate archiving, provide instant document retrieval and create value added customer service."
For more information about SHIELD Intelefile, call the Sales Information Centre at +44 (0)208 584 1400. This case study is for information only. Transputec Computers Plc makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.
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Opinion|When Will Congress Get Serious About the Suffering at the Border?
When Will Congress Get Serious About the Suffering at the Border?
It's time to cut the squabbling and pass an emergency relief package.
By The Editorial Board
The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.
A recently arrived migrant praying at a church that doubles as a shelter in El Paso.CreditCreditMario Tama/Getty Images
Last week, as American and Mexican officials haggled over how to address the migrant crisis at their countries' shared border, United States Customs and Border Protection released its monthly migration statistics. They tell an alarming story.
In May, 144,278 migrants were taken into custody. It was the third consecutive month in which apprehensions topped 100,000 and the highest one-month total in 13 years.
Unequipped to deal with the crush, border facilities and migrant shelters are dangerously overcrowded, and the staff is overburdened. Dysfunction, disease and even death are a growing reality.
"We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger: The system is broken," the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, John Sanders, said.
Also last week, officials said that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency assigned to care for unaccompanied migrant children, would begin cutting services "not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety." This includes English classes, legal aid and recreational programs.
Democrats and other administration critics called the move "cruel" and "illegal," but the financial reality is that the agency is overwhelmed. So far this fiscal year, it has taken charge of nearly 41,000 unaccompanied children — a 57 percent increase over last year. The entire program could run out of funding by the end of June.
In short, it is time for Congress to stop dithering and pass emergency funding to deal with this nightmare.
It has been more than a month since the administration sent Congress a request for $4.5 billion in additional border assistance. A large portion of the money, $3.3 billion, was earmarked for humanitarian aid — which most lawmakers agree is sorely needed. But a relatively modest piece of the request aimed at shoring up border security operations, roughly a quarter of the total, has tied negotiators in knots.
Early on, Democrats were opposed to funding additional detention beds for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Republicans had problems with Democrats' demands for changes in the administration's asylum policies. At one point, negotiators thought they were close to resolving these conflicts, only to have other issues snarl the process. Beyond the money for security, one of the remaining disagreements is how much data sharing will be allowed between the agencies responsible for caring for migrant children and those that handle border enforcement.
The broader problem is that many Democrats have come to view the Trump administration as untrustworthy, and they are loath to hand over one more penny for anything to do with immigration. Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus have been particularly adamant, insisting that their leadership take a hard line in negotiations. In part, they fear that the administration, despite its promises, will spend any additional funding on enforcement rather than humanitarian needs.
There is much to despise about this administration's immigration policies, which are exacerbating this crisis, but there should be no ambivalence about the urgency of addressing the humanitarian needs. While lawmakers wring their hands and drag their feet, tens of thousands of migrant children are suffering.
Congress needs to get serious about dealing with that suffering.
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Report: Ex-Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch once asked for $5,000 ... in quarters
By Ben Arthur, SeattlePI
Published 10:27 am PDT, Thursday, May 9, 2019
Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch looks on during the first half of an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Chargers Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in Carson, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Photo: Jae C. Hong, Associated Press
In the fallout of the Alliance of American Football league, the weirdest story about the recently-retired Marshawn Lynch has emerged.
Apparently, Lynch prefers to receive large amounts of money in ... coins?
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The story, per Sports Illustrated, goes like this: In November 2018, the former Seattle Seahawks running back was in Las Vegas to support his cousin for the quarterback's draft of the now-defunct AAF (that cousin, Josh Johnson, would be the first pick).
Lynch agreed to a two-minute interview with the league at the Luxor casino in exchange for $5,000. But when a check was presented to him, the former Pro Bowler said he wanted the money in quarters instead.
"In the end, 20,000 quarters were delivered to Lynch's room and the interview apparently took place," Sports Illustrated wrote, citing AAF co-founder Charlie Ebersol. "But no one ever saw it. It didn't air."
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The story "spread far" across the league, per the news outlet. It's funny. It's a very Lynch-ish story. It's shame, too, that the sit-down never saw the light of day. In Seattle, we saw all too often Lynch's propensity to avoid talking to the media. Before Super Bowl XLVIII, he famously said "I'm just here so I don't get fined" at his mandatory press conference.
As for what happened with those 20,000 quarters ... as the old Tootsie Pop commercials back in the day famously went, "The world may never know."
Ben Arthur covers the Seattle Seahawks for the SeattlePI. He can be reached by email at benjaminarthur@seattlepi.com. Follow him on twitter at @benyarthur.
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Since the late 1960s, the small island nation of Jamaica has maintained one of the world's most vibrant music scenes, sparked various musical styles and revolutions (reggae, ska, dub, and dancehall to name a few), and introduced new recording and production techniques to the world. Without question, Jamaican music and culture continues to influence a wide variety of musical genres around the globe.
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