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An independent newspaper in Burundi will file a complaint against unknown persons before the end of the week, after one of its journalists, Jean Bigirimana, was allegedly abducted on 22 July, IBTimes UK can reveal.

Burundi's media was among the first casualties of the months of violence that have rocked the country since end of April, after Burundi's main independent radio station Radio Publique Africaine (RPA) was burned down and the government severed the lines of two other key independent stations, Radio Isanganiro and Bonesha FM. In May 2015, IBTimes UK exclusively reported how local journalists had gone into hiding as they feared they were on an alleged hit-list rolled out by the country's government after the failed coup d'etat.

According to his family, Bigirimana was arrested 11 days ago after leaving his home at around 13:00pm (12:00 GMT) for Bugarama, in the central province of Muramvya. Relatives, who went to the scene of the arrest, were told that the young father had been taken away by agents of the National Intelligence Service (Service National des Renseignements, SNR) accompanied by local officials.

Freedom of press in Burundi

The environment for the media in Burundi continues to be hostile, and as many as 100 journalists are now in exile, according to Reporters Without Borders.

The organisation says: "Since early 2015, persecution of the media has been constant and has taken all forms, from judicial harassment to firing with heavy weapons on privately-owned radio stations in order to force them to close.

"Journalists have been jailed arbitrarily and their media outlets have been banned. Those who criticise President Pierre Nkurunziza's very authoritarian and abusive regime are nowadays likely to be beaten or tortured."

Last month, authorities released Radio Bonesha journalist Egide Ndayisenga after he was held arbitrarily without a warrant for two days. The authorities gave no official explanation for either his arrest or his release.

On 1 August, another Radio Bonesha journalist, Boaz Ntaconayigize, living in exile in Uganda says he was stabbed in the capital, Kampala, and recognised two of his attackers as Burundians.

In October 2015, Burundian journalist Esdras Ndikumana, who worked for RFI, testified against the country's secret services, who he claimed beat him hundred of times with iron bars and clubs.

Meanwhile, several Iwacu journalists − one of which had received direct death threats − have already fled Burundi, including Iwacu director Antoine Kabuhare.

Bigirimana's employer, independent media group Iwacu, claimed the journalist had received a call from an officer of the SNR the same day, but that it was not aware Bgirimana had received any death threats.

"We will file a criminal complaint against persons unknown with the Prosecutor of Bujumbura, the competent authorities," Antoine Kaburahe, Iwacu founder and director, told IBTimes UK from Belgium, where he has been in exile since mid-November 2015.

Two lawyers working for Iwacu are expected to file the complaint no later than Thursday (4 August).

A flurry of hypothesis

Originally from the Eastern province of Cankuzo, Bigirimana only recently started working for Iwacu, a press group the regime considers to be the media of the opposition.

A lawyer by training, Bigirimana is described as "an excellent and very hard-working journalist who was pernickety and extremely knowledgeable".

His employer said he spent around four months unemployed after the pro-government radio station Radio Rema FM, for which he previously worked, failed to hire him again when the government re-opened it in February.

Rema FM was one of two private radio stations allowed to re-open nine months after they had been shut for their alleged role in the 13 May 2015 foiled military coup.

"That's one of the hypothesis behind his abduction − the fact of having been recruited by Iwacu after having worked for the government radio. He may have made enemies because was known to be against the third mandate, I find it strange he would be targeted for working at Iwacu, as he just only joined and did not publish any sensitive material," Kaburahe said. "I was very happy to recruit someone of his calibre".

The young man is the nephew of Leonidas Hatungimana, former personal president's spokesperson for a decade and a "frondeur" − a defiant high-ranking member of Burundi's ruling party, the CNDD-FDD. Indeed, Hatungimana in April last year signed a letter demanding President Pierre Nkurunziza refrain from seeking a third mandate.

"He moved over to the opposition, and is now living in exile in Belgium. Could that be a reason for arresting Jean?" Kaburahe said, referring to the fact that, after allegedly failing to assassinate prominent rights activist Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa, "the authorities went after his family and killed both his son and son-in-law". Hatungimana, meanwhile, has said he is "desperate" and feels convinced his nephew may have been killed.

Iwacu carries out own investigation

An investigation carried out by Bigirimana's colleagues has found evidence that the journalist may have been abducted in the area of Bugarama.

A woman, who spoke anonymously, called the newsroom to inform the newspaper Bigirimana has been allegedly abducted there. Secondly, Iwacu received testimony of a phone card vendor, who now refuses to speak after apparently coming under pressure from the authorities.

Jean Bigirimana, journalist at Iwacu
Jean Bigirimana, a father of two young children, was allegedly abducted on 22 July in Bugarama in the central province of Muramvya in Burundi Iwacu

The editor has urged the police to investigate the evidence found by his reporters. "Iwacu has found some credible leads but unfortunately, we can't go any further."

He added: "We know that in Burundi, it is possible to trace back all the phone numbers, especially today, through the regulatory agency (ART). This is a serious lead, and one doesn't need to be a criminal investigations expert to find out who the woman is."

Burundian authorities deny arrest or detention

The case was officially referred to National Council for Communication (CNC) president Ramadhan Karenga, who undertook to follow the case, on 25 July. In a tweet, police spokesman, Pierre Nkurukiye denied detaining the young father of two little boys − Don Douglas, 8, and 3-year-old John Kiny − and said authorities had opened an investigation.

For Kaburahe, however, this is not enough. "This has been the only communication, and that has chilled our blood because I would have preferred to hear that Jean was detained, even when we know how awful the conditions are, and that detainees are tortured. But the police has denied and said the SNR is not implicated."

"I want to remain optimistic but the police's silence and refusal to investigate give little cause for optimism," the director said, highlighting that, in other cases where police denied an arrest, detention or disappearance, persons are still missing or mutilated bodies of missing persons had been later found.

For instance, there have been increasing concerns for the welfare of rights organisation Ligue Iteka's treasurer, Marie-Claudette Kwizera, who was reportedly forcefully arrested on 10 December 2015 in the capital Bujumbura and driven off in a vehicle of the SNR − something the authorities have denied. To date, little is known regarding Kwizera's arrest and conditions of detention.

Jean Bigirimana, journalist at Iwacu
Jean Bigirimana, the new journalist at Iwacu who has disappeared Iwacu

Bigirimana's case 'symbolic' of atrocities in Burundi

"Given what has happened to Jean, I don't know what will happen to our journalists − they are fearful now, which is very understandable, but they are extremely courageous. I am more scared for them but at the same time we cannot remain silent."

The editor said that, while Bigirimana's disappearance had roused the public's interest, it was symbolic of the continued rise in violence in Burundi.

Kaburahe added: "Jean is a journalist who mobilises public opinion on social media. But imagine what happens to other unknown and ordinary poor guys from Musaga, Nyakabiga? It's horrible what happens in that country and I am preoccupied by the fact that Jean's case may eclipse everything else that is happening in Burundi."

Reporters Without Borders said it regarded Bigirimana's detention as "arbitrary". The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power on Twitter also urged the government to "account for his whereabouts".

02/08/2016 20:00 GMT

Iwacu has learned that Jean Bigirimana may still be alive. According to sources quoted by the press group, the journalist may be detained in the SNR cells in Muramvya. "The journalist has been seriously beaten and he is starving", Iwacu reported one source as saying.

The press group has urged the president of Burundi's Independent National Commission on Human Rights (Commission Nationale Indépendante des Droits de l'Homme, CNIDH) to "act before it is too late".


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  1. crazy_bitch's avatar

    It's strange for me that so many people here seem to love this film so much.

    I find the technique and style very interesting - not the act of shooting live, and then painting over each frame; that's been done before (and perhaps better, in my opinion), even if here it was done by oil painters instead of animation artists and using oil on canvas, which of course meant a lot of work and is a huge achievement by itself. But I don't find the end result of all that work to be that amazing, even when seen on a cinema screen. What I liked more was the composition of the shots based on van Gogh's paintings, a bit similar to "Shirley: Visions of Reality".

    That being said, I think this should have been made as a short, like it was originally intended. At a length of one and a half hours, the style of the animation is not enough for me to judge the film only based on that, and I take everything else much more into account - the plot, the acting, the strange casting choices of (generally good) actors with inopportune (and different) accents - and considered as a whole, this is a bad movie for me.
    The story is a boring and unengaging neo-noir murder mystery, which in the end obsesses so much about van Gogh's death that I feel the movie missed out on the opportunity to paint a portrait of his life using his own technique and style and the acting is puzzlingly bad (even apart from the accents), mostly due to the very odd body language, as Lumen points out.

    I'd recommend having a look at this film, but watching through all of it was quite a dull experience for me as the fascination with the style faded over time and the moments of recognizing scenes copying / alluding to van Gogh's paintings were not enough to make up for all the film's shortcomings.
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    The animation is wonderful. But for the rest it is a really average detective/docu/film noir. The acting (even if their faces are painted over, it's still acting) is really terrible, with weird and over-the-top body language.
    And why the accents?? Scottish or Irish whatever it was, or both, to represent southern France? A Polish imitating the (ugly, I know) Dutch accent? Why? Was it that hard to find French and Dutch actors? And the music was a bit too cheesy, no?
    Still a feast for the eye, and compliments to all the painters working on this project!
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    Loving Vincent uses animation techniques developed for Waking Life and A Scanner, Darkly to bring Vincent Van Gogh's paintings to life in the most gorgeous way, using his characters and environments in a coherent detective story. It looks beautiful, but is frankly a little dull (I'm surprised I haven't seen some uncharitable soul compare it to watching paint dry), consisting mostly of talking heads as the lead character interviews various people in Vincent's life to elucidate either why he committed suicide or who might have murdered him instead. Despite considerable talent both in the animation department and in the actors involved, the work feels at a remove from its audience, not at all immediate. I do appreciate the underlying metaphor though. It's really about refusing to accept a person's suicide and trying to make sense of something lacking all sense, i.e. clinical depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-nihilism. 2 years 7 months ago
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In a few short years, the quest to develop a viable quantum computer, one that is capable of outperforming “classical” computers, has gone from science fiction to science fact.

Quantum computers leverage the core principles of quantum physics to exponentially increase their computational power. Classical computers use bits of data, available in one of two states – either one or zero. In a quantum computer, their counterparts, the qubits (quantum bits) exist in a simultaneous superposition of the two states, which allow them to process and store data in an exponentially more efficient way.

In August of 2016 Google announced its plan to achieve quantum supremacy by the end of 2017. This may seem like an audacious claim, but Google has been active in the field for a while now and is one of the leading lights in this emerging field. Therefore, this claim has to be taken seriously.

To demonstrate the potential of quantum computers, Google set a challenge – simulating the behaviour of quantum circuits. This is something that a quantum computer will do naturally, but represents a significant challenge to classical computers.

The challenge in modelling quantum circuits comes from the exponential growth in memory required every time the number of qubits involved increases. Simulating a 6×4 grid of cubits is child’s play and requires just 268MB of memory. However, as the grid size increases, so does the required memory. A 6×7 grid for example, requires 70TB of storage. In effect, a 75% increase in the number of qubits results in a 260,000-fold increase in the required memory.

Going into battle for the classical computer was Edison, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Google had Edison simulate the behaviour of the quantum circuits on larger and larger grids of qubits, up to a 6×7 grid. This was as far as it could go, as simulating a 6×8 grid would require 2.2PB of memory – something that simply wasn’t available. This means that a classical computer today cannot simulate the behaviour of a 48-qubit array, something the quantum computer with 48 qubits will do.

In the intervening months, Google and others have been making regular advances. In an MIT Technology Review article earlier this year, Russ Juskalian looks at the efforts of Google alongside IBM, Intel and Microsoft.

In the article, he re-articulates the quantum supremacy threshold – the point at which the quantum computer outperforms its classical counterpart. “All the academic and corporate quantum researchers I spoke with agreed that somewhere between 30 and 100 qubits—particularly qubits stable enough to perform a wide range of computations for longer durations—is where quantum computers start to have commercial value. “

Google already has a 9-qubit system in place, but it is not the only company with a stake in the race. In March, IBM announced that it had a 5-qubit system available for use. By May this had been superseded by a 16-qubit processor, powering the IBM Q system that is delivered from the IBM Cloud.

Even more recently, a team of Russian and American scientists at Harvard University have announced successful laboratory testing of a 51-qubit quantum computer, reported Mikhail Lukin, the co-founder of the Russian Quantum Center last week.

If this technology is to complete the transition to practical application, there is one crucial element missing: Error correction. In classical computers, due to the discrete nature of the bits, errors do not accumulate during a calculation. This does not exist in a quantum computer.

To achieve a “universal” quantum computer, there will be a need for many more qubits, which will be used for error protection. A quantum computer without this design may still have many interesting applications, but they will be limited.

Now, it seems that a universal quantum computer would be required to run Shor’s algorithm and threaten the existing public key cryptographic systems that sit at the core of today’s IT security infrastructure. Quantum supremacy does not yet threaten the security of all our transactions over the Internet, but it is clearly a step towards it.

If cryptographers are to stay ahead of the cyber criminals, they need to start adopting quantum-safe encryption solutions today. The long-term value of sensitive data means that data stolen today could be hacked by a quantum computer in 3-5 years and still retain much of its value to criminals.

Quantum Key Distribution aka Quantum-Safe Cryptography

Current conventional cryptographic techniques rely on public key crypto-systems to secure the initial exchange of a master key, which will be used to generate symmetric sessions keys, as used in AES. As explained above, the security of this master key will be destroyed by the quantum computer. In an interesting twist, this security can be restored by the same quantum technologies, which threaten key distribution in the first place.

Quantum Key Distribution (or QKD) is a breakthrough technology exploiting the strengths of quantum physics. A fundamental principle of quantum physics – observation causes perturbation – is exploited to exchange secret keys between two remote parties over an optical fibre or over free space. This means that any eavesdropper can be detected and passive interception becomes impossible, providing unprecedented security as well as forward secrecy of the encryption keys.

In contrast to the quantum computer, QKD is available today. It has already been implemented in real-world conditions. In fact, a 2000 km-long QKD backbone is now available in China and will be used to secure data exchange between Beijing and Shanghai, and all points between. along the way. Other links are under construction in other parts of the world.

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Gandinnovations has improves its Graphic User Interface (GUI). The new software now offers operators access to a faster and more powerful program that will drag and drop files, as well as manipulate and manage artwork files.

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If you’re looking to get your loved one a gift, flowers would be a perfect choice. Frankly, they are one of the best presents you can give someone. That being said, make sure you’re working with a florist that’s fit enough for the task. That is why we’ll be discussing how you can find one best suited for you. So, keep reading.

What Do They Offer?

A florist is only as good as their selection of flowers. Therefore, look for one that offers a wide assortment for you to choose from. If you work with one that doesn’t offer this privilege, you’ll be limited at what you can get your loved one. Thus, they’ll be disappointed as you didn’t get them something they’d like.

So, go through the florists, making note of their selection before you choose one.

How Good Are Their Flowers?

Even if they have the widest assortment of flowers in the country, it would be useless if what they offer are horrible in quality. Hence, go through the flowers individually, feeling their quality, even asking the shop owner about his suppliers

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Certain arrangements of bouquets can be expensive. This is as you’re filling it with an assortment of flowers that are costly. However, you may be paying double, or even triple for it compared to other stores.

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Through fitness, Nakisha Ramsey gained the strength to fight back against abuse.

Often, unhappiness and fear beget binge eating, and it was this exact scenario that compelled Nakisha Ramsey to sequester herself in her car and consume a gallon of ice cream and a pack of Oreos on the reg. “I was having babies back-to-back, was in an abusive relationship, and no matter how much I prayed for happiness, I couldn’t seem to grasp it,” Ramsey says. Before she knew it, she had lost her identity and had swelled to 220 pounds.

Taking hold of her self-esteem began, ironically, when her father told her she couldn’t in 2004. Ramsey opened up about wanting to leave her abusive marriage and raise her children on her own, and he insisted there was no way she could do it alone. “From that moment, I started to plan my ‘how to,’” she says. “It didn’t happen overnight or even a year after that, but it did happen.”

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Without the support of her actual family, Ramsey found sanctuary within the fitness community. “I remember the first time I picked up a copy of Oxygen at Walmart — I was in awe of the cover,” she says. “I wanted to look like that and learn how to transform my body and be healthy.” Her first workouts came straight from the pages of that magazine, and even though her husband regularly mocked her efforts, Ramsey kept at it and slowly gained confidence.

But Ramsey and her children — now there were six — were still in peril, and in 2007 when her youngest son was only 4 weeks old, her husband threatened their lives. That was the final straw; Ramsey took her children and left. They lived out of their van until Ramsey could land a job and find a place to live, but as soon as they were settled, they all began to thrive.

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Though working out had become a lifestyle for Ramsey, eating right was still a challenge. She journaled everything she ate, yet those nefarious ice cream binges persisted. Because as much as she was healing on the outside, Ramsey’s emotional issues remained unresolved. But just as she had done with exercise, Ramsey studied all she could about nutrition and soon found that the better she ate, the better she felt and vice versa.

Fast-forward 15 years and Ramsey is 70 pounds lighter, has a degree in nutrition and is a vegan. She shares her home with her new husband — also a bodybuilder — and all her children, now ages 19, 17, 15, 13, 12 and 8. “This journey of getting physically fit is about more than just your body, it forces you to heal on the inside, too,” she says. “I believe each day, month and year is getting better, and you can never stop growing or learning.”

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“I am sorry sweetie, you have cancer.” It was 2016 when 23-year-old Cheyann Shaw first heard those words. The diagnosis: low-grade serous ovarian cancer. “Ovarian cancer survival is statistically pretty low, but it is even lower for the sub-type that I had,” Shaw says. “But I knew I was going to win, even if the odds were stacked against me.”

Her fighting spirit came as no surprise. Shaw had always been competitive, and growing up she played baseball with the boys, raced BMX (and became a five-time state champion!), played soccer, ran track and field, and earned all-state honors for basketball. An ACL injury ended her basketball career when she was 20, but Shaw never stopped striving for excellence.

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Before her diagnosis, Shaw had seen a friend compete in a bodybuilding competition and was inspired to try it herself. Soon enough, she hit the stage at 130 pounds and 14 percent body fat for her first NPC bikini competition. It was then that she first began to see symptoms of her illness. “I was throwing up, my stomach was cramping and I could hardly walk,” she remembers. She was officially diagnosed the following June and started chemotherapy shortly thereafter.

That fall, Shaw underwent a six-hour surgery during which doctors performed a full hysterectomy and removed parts of her bladder, colon and small intestine. They also completely removed her gallbladder, several lymph nodes, her appendix, her spleen and five cancerous tumors — one was the size of a beach ball and completely filled her pelvis.

“After my surgery, I didn’t recognize myself in the mirror,” Shaw says. “I was 97 pounds and bald, I had an ileostomy bag, and was practically skin and bones. Then I looked at my face and I looked so sad. I decided in that moment that I had to get my smile back. I knew I had to learn how to love myself at all stages of life. I didn’t look like my old self, but I was still me.”

Cheyann Shaw, before beating cancer.

Kicking Cancer’s Butt

For Shaw, the path back to health was about gaining strength — and weight. “After surgery, I was only 2 pounds away from needing a feeding tube,” she says. Working with a hospital nutritionist and a fitness coach, Shaw focused on eating a more plant-based diet in order to gain back some weight.

She also went back to the gym, despite her insecurities. “People kept looking at me — I had no hair and looked like a skeleton,” Shaw says. “But I put my headphones on and felt great. I was ready to kick cancer’s butt.”

Two more surgeries and three years later, Shaw weighed in at a healthy 125 pounds
and was cancer-free. To celebrate, she returned to the competition stage at the Christian Guzman Summer Shredding Classic in the transformation category.
Needless to say she was the victor — in more ways than one.

Cheyann Shaw, after beating cancer.

Location: Seattle

Age: 27

Height: 5’6”

Weight before cancer: 130

Weight after cancer: 125

Occupation: Online personal trainer

Favorite healthy recipe: Sweet and sour tofu with quinoa

Inspirational words: “There is always light in the darkness.”

Favorite moves: “Deadlifts because they hit almost every muscle group in my body and they make me feel so powerful. And for shoulders, the seated dumbbell shoulder press is my favorite.”

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For Brianna Bernard, the journey of losing 100 pounds began in the checkout line.

As she stood in line at the grocery store with her 10-month-old son Tye, Brianna Bernard noticed a magazine headline that read, “How They Lost 100 Pounds.” At the time, the admitted emotional eater weighed 245 pounds and suffered from knee pain simply from walking up the stairs. She bought the magazine because, although she had been hoping her pregnancy weight would magically fall off, as Tye’s first birthday approached, it was clear that was not going to happen.

Brianna Bernard, before.

Out With the Old Habits

Once home, Bernard devoured that eye-catching article and latched on to a story of a woman who had lost 130 pounds after hiring a personal trainer — a trainer who worked at a gym just 40 minutes from Bernard’s home. She hired this trainer herself and began a regimen of weight training, cardio, food tracking and healthy eating — well, at least most of the time: Though the weight started coming off, Bernard’s pattern of emotional eating persisted.

But one day, something clicked: Instead of binging on junk food when she got upset, Bernard reached for something healthy. “I realized I didn’t need to eat a bunch of garbage in order to feel better,” she says. “The negative feelings were going to pass whether I ate grilled chicken and asparagus or a row of Oreos. Making a healthy choice rather than an unhealthy one also made me feel strong and in control.”

Powering Up

Within a year, Bernard had lost 107 pounds, and with that loss came a change in goals. “I didn’t want to be skinny — I wanted to be strong,” she says. “I began lifting heavy weights, and a group of women in my gym who competed in powerlifting noticed and encouraged me to give it a try. In my first competition, I bench-pressed my bodyweight, deadlifted more than twice my bodyweight, won my age and weight class, set a state record and received the Best Lifter award from the director of the organization. After that, I was hooked.”

Bernard also became a personal trainer and nutrition coach so she could help others prioritize self-care and succeed as she had done. “The physical changes that happened [to me] are perhaps the most obvious, but the transformation that happened on the inside is far more profound,” she says. “My mission now is to arm parents and educators with the tools to teach our younger generations about healthy relationships with food and exercise. Leading by example sets children up for a lifetime of heathy habits and success.”

Brianna Bernard, after.

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Age: 34

Height: 5’7”

Size before: 16

Size after: 0

Weight before: 245

Weight after: 138

Occupation: Personal trainer and nutrition coach

Brianna’s Favorites

Quote: “You have been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved.”

Shoulder Moves: Lateral raises and barbell presses.

Breakfast: Chocolate peanut butter protein oatmeal: Mix together ½ cup oats (cooked with water in the microwave) + 1 scoop chocolate protein powder + 2 tablespoons powdered peanut butter.

Brianna’s Powerlifting Personal Records

Bench Press: 142 pounds
Deadlift: 315 pounds
Squat: 237 pounds

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After years of weight losses and gains, Megan Thibault finally found balance.

Few words sting as much as a snide comment about your weight, but at age 7, that’s exactly what Megan Thibault faced when her grandmother’s friend exclaimed, “Oh wow, she’s a chunky one!” That sentiment stuck in her mind with such tenacity that Thibault chose to attend high school online rather than face the bullying from her classmates.

Megan Thibault, before.

Ups and Downs

At age 16, Thibault started going to the gym in hopes of “getting skinny,” and countless hours of cardio and undereating helped her lose 60 pounds. But in college, a steady stream of stresses — including losing her grandfather, being in an unhealthy relationship and dealing with an uncertain career path — turned into three years of emotional eating. By her senior year, Thibault weighed 260 pounds.

She decided to shed some weight — first in the form of her toxic relationship and then in the form of body fat. She reignited her excessive cardio/restricted eating habit, and within nine months, she had lost more than 100 pounds. “I was scale-obsessed, weighing myself multiple times a day,” Thibault admits. “Around that time, I was also introduced to bodybuilding and fell in love with the sport, but my disordered eating habits were too pervasive, so I put bodybuilding on hold.”

After graduation, Thibault landed a job but was not happy with her direction and fell back into her unhealthy patterns, resulting in a weight gain of 50 pounds. Finally, she vowed to stop the cycle. “I was tired of being unhappy and unfulfilled and didn’t want anxiety and depression to control my life,” she says.

Living the Lifestyle

Thibault decided to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle, and with the loving support of her new husband, she took small, incremental steps toward wellness. “My goal was to improve in some way every single day, and rather than wishing to be skinny, I wanted to be healthy and strong,” she says.

Over the next two years, Thibault focused on improving her relationship with food and body image. She began eating more protein and vegetables and limited her intake of refined sugars and fried foods. In the gym, Thibault focused on consistency and setting realistic goals — and abandoned the scale completely. “This [lifestyle] wasn’t about an end result but rather about loving what I do,” she says.

By June 2018, Thibault had come to peace with her issues and was ready to tackle her long-ago dream of bodybuilding. She hired a professional IFBB coach for guidance and was instantly thankful. “My coach helped me achieve the conditioning and shape of a bikini competitor,” Thibault says. She also can max out the StairMaster at her gym, execute pull-ups without issue and easily run without getting winded.

And while she hasn’t yet taken the competitive stage, Thibault has done several fitness photo shoots and is looking forward to that next step. “This journey has been surreal, and I am very excited for what is to come,” she says.

Megan Thibault, after.

Location: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Age: 29

Height: 5’6”

Weight before: 260

Weight after: 140

Occupation: Geological assistant

Megan’s Weekly Training Split

Thibault trains six days a week with one day off. She also does abs two to three times per week and 30 minutes of fasted cardio five days a week.

Megan’s Favorites

Mental technique: When I have a craving, I replace the food focus by visualizing my goals for that week.

Healthy Recipe: Basa fish pan-fried in coconut oil, hazelnut-flavored stevia, garlic powder and pink sea salt.

Exercise: I love to train hamstrings, and my favorite move is single-leg stiff-legged deadlifts.

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Account Executive, 10+ Years of Sales Strategy and Account Management

December 3rd, 2018 min read

To hashtag or not to hashtag? Post an image or video? Add or skip the emoji?

These and many other Instagram best practices were analyzed in a recent study published by social media analytics company, Quintly.

The company set out to better understand not only usage behaviors but engagement best practices across Instagram’s 1 billion users worldwide.

Analyzing the performance of 44,432 Instagram Business profiles and over 8.9 million posts between January 1 and September 30, 2018, Quintly’s findings may have you rethinking your current Instagram business strategy.

Here are some of its key findings:

1. Scrolling Through Images Is So 2018: Post Video

Interactions can be defined as the sum of likes + comments.

With this metric in mind, images are the most common format posted on Instagram, with 72.6% of all published posts versus video and carousel posts, but are users actually interacting with photos?

With 21.2% more interactions via video than images, the answer is not really.

Videos draw higher engagement numbers, which is not exactly groundbreaking news, but what is interesting, is bigger profiles post more video.

The higher the number of followers a profile has, the more that you see an upward trend in using videos.

Post Type distribution on Instagram

Source Quintly

Does this mean your business should be posting more videos over images? There’s no guarantee that videos will positively impact interactions as this is all dependent on your audience, but it’s not a bad idea to test.

With only 16.7% of users posting video, it is time to capitalize on the user interaction and get noticed.

2. Don’t Wink At Me (or Maybe You Should?): Use Emojis

Ah, the ubiquitous emoji.

While hard to escape the 😂 Face With Tears of Joy and 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes in personal communication, businesses and influencers on Instagram use the small digital icons on the regular too, but what’s the value in an emoji?

Do emojis lead to more interactions or are they simply used for dramatic effect?

Source Quintly

As shown in the above graphic, using 1-3 emojis in a post may have a positive impact on interactions.

It appears the little icons may be doing more than insinuating an emotion. Emojis help humanize your brand by expressing emotion, as their name suggests. People use emojis to communicate in their regular lives, so using them in a business post help them better connect with audiences. They make a brand seem more approachable and in touch.

So, before you post, you may want to consider including at least one emoji to spark engagement.

3. Cheers to the Freakin’ Weekend: Post on the Weekends

How often are you on Instagram at work?  Actually, don’t answer that question 😉

When determining a strategy around when to post, it’s important to analyze the content competition, as saturation is a huge issue in today’s market.

Quintly’s study found a total of 76.13% of Instagram posts are published from Monday to Friday. That means only about  23.8% of are made on the weekends, even though 22.3% more interactions occur on the weekend than during the week.

Average Interactions per Instagram post

 Source Quintly

This particular finding may inspire you to capitalize on when people have more free time.

Consider weekend posting to maximize engagement performance and to reduce algorithm competition.

Do I Need to Scrap My Instagram Strategy?

While Quintly’s study did include a data set of 9 million posts, it’s important to not assume that you will see the same results/trends. Rather, you can test their findings in a way that is fit for your business.

Use this data as inspiration for experimentation in your social media marketing strategy.

A/B testing is a great way to make educated decisions before revamping marketing strategies, but be sure to keep an eye on performance metrics and adjust accordingly! Happy ‘gramming

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All of the Bard’s comedies, histories, and tragedies are presented in one 97-minute show! Will audiences leave as Shakespearean scholars? Umm, no. Will they leave with their sides hurting from laughter? Most definitely!

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is a madly hilarious, fast-paced roller-coaster ride through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays. Irreverent, bawdy, and wildly funny, this show has been known to leave audience members rolling on the floor with nonstop laughter. The Complete Works was London’s longest-running comedy, and The Today Show said of it: “If you like Shakespeare, you’ll love this show. If you hate Shakespeare, you’ll love this show!”

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An Indianapolis man was killed in a four-vehicle crash Monday on I-69 in Grant County, according to state police.

Just before 7 p.m., officers from the Indiana State Police and Grant County were called to the scene where two semi-tractors pulling box trailers, a semi-tractor pulling a livestock trailer and a Kia Sedona collided near the 267 mile marker of southbound I-69.

Gary Byrd, 62, of Indianapolis, the driver of the Kia, was killed in the accident.

Police determined that when the four vehicles encountered a traffic backup near a construction work zone, the driver of a one of the semi-tractors pulling a box trailer did not slow down.

That semi then ran into the Kia Sedona, pushing the Kia into the livestock trailer directly in front of it. The semi-tractor with the livestock trailer then rear-ended the semi-tractor and trailer in front of it.

One of the semi-tractor drivers was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The other two drivers were not injured.

Police are continuing to investigate, but do not believe the consumption of alcohol or narcotics contributed to the crash.

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The Most Common Causes of Death in Developing Countries

Knowing the causes of death in developing countries is extremely important at assessing the effectiveness of a country’s health care system.

The statistics help authorities determine whether they are focusing on the right health programs.

For example, if a country notices an increase in deaths caused by diabetes, then the authorities may want to consider programs which promote a healthy lifestyle in order to prevent this disease.

Furthermore, if a lot of children are dying from malaria, changes can be made to the health budget, so more money will be allocated towards malaria vaccines and treatments.

The World Health Organization has released the statistics with the top causes of death in developing countries, so we will talk about their findings in today’s post.

Common Causes of Death in Developing Countries

1. Lower Respiratory Infections

Pneumonia and bronchiolitis are the top lower respiratory infections which occur in these countries. Children under the age of five are predisposed to these infections, mainly because they are living in poor conditions which are not optimal for their health.

2. Diarrheal Diseases

These diseases kill over half a million children under the age of five every year. Drinking clean water and practicing good sanitation habits can successfully prevent diarrheal diseases.

Due to the lack of education when it comes to health care practices and not having access to clean water, prevention is an issue in developing countries.

3. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)

Millions of people die of CHD every year as it continues to be one of the leading causes of death in low-income countries.

This disease occurs when the coronary arteries are narrowed due to fatty material, which will lead to a poor supply of oxygen-rich blood to the heart.

The coronary heart disease occurs because of poor dieting habits, physical inactivity and excessive drinking or smoking.

Nearly 1 in 25 adults are living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, which remains the most affected area in the world.

Even though hundreds of thousands of people are dying from HIV every year, there are ongoing programs which focus on education and prevention in these regions.

The numbers have shown that the situation has changed for the better and that today, more people in low-income countries have access to HIV treatment.

5. Stroke

Two-thirds of worldwide strokes occur in developing countries, which means that it affects somewhere around 20 million people each year.

Similar to CHD, it can be prevented by eliminating smoking, improving dietary habits and increasing physical activity.

6. Malaria

90% of malaria cases occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. Kids, pregnant women and their unborn children are the ones which are more at risk at contracting it or dying from it.

Even those that survive the disease will develop serious physical and mental impairment.

In this case, prevention is an important part of reducing the number of people who suffer from malaria because treatment can be quite expensive for the African economy.

By improving healthcare services and prevention programs, these common causes of death in developing countries can be reduced in the next few years.

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DataSift founder secures $3 million for new venture

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February 9, 2016

InfoSum, a new UK company founded by DataSift founder Nick Halstead, today announced that it has it has secured $3 million in series seed financing from US investors Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures. The company will invest the capital into product development, transforming its vision of connecting and analysing businesses’ disparate datasets into a reality.

Organisations worldwide are currently struggling to cope with the numerous challenges associated with storing information on their customers.

The key issues with holding such data include security, the sheer volume of information that has to be stored and analysed, and maintaining the privacy of individuals while enabling the data to be processed effectively.

Without the ability to process and connect the numerous pools of consumer data available to them, organisations are failing to gain real business value from the wealth of information now out there.

InfoSum recognises that businesses have silos of information on customers and prospects locked away in different departments that cannot be combined in a privacy-safe way. It solves this issue by aggregating the data and ensuring no personally identifiable information (PII) is available.

In addition, InfoSum’s service will enable different companies to join forces and combine two completely different datasets in order to identify key trends and insights into the behaviour of customers and prospects. For example, a financial services provider has access to spending behaviour data and a retailer has information on purchasing patterns.

By combining the two sets of data in an anonymous and aggregated manner, both companies can gain insight into the demographics of high spending groups, what products are proving most popular, when purchases are most likely to be made and more.

Companies need a whole new way to safely store, share and examine consumer information while maintaining the security and privacy requirements of new legislation being introduced in Europe,” said Nick Halstead, CEO and founder of InfoSum. “Our service will enable businesses to gain far more value from the datasets they have available and enable companies to work together to gain a greater understanding of the groups that they’re targeting without compromising privacy and security. By bringing together datasets with InfoSum, industries such as healthcare and government, can benefit from deeper analytics without accessing information on individuals.

"Nick is amongst the smartest thinkers I know dealing with large datasets in real-time and with privacy. Given a chance to work together again, my answer was 'absolutely' even before asking what his company would do," said Mark Suster, Managing Partner of Upfront Ventures.

I’ve worked with Nick on solving complex data problems for more than six years. He is a true visionary in the fields of ETL, data normalisation, real-time data streams and data privacy, and I’m excited to be his partner once again,” said Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner of IA Ventures.

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Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic

Another early morning walk, definitely the bird hour. I was taking pictures of the pond when this black-crowned night heron flew up from the water and perched on the evergreens. I had to use the telephoto lens but he seemed well aware that I was looking at him and seemed determined to stay right there until I went away. He won! After moving myself to different vantage points and taking five zillion pictures I finally left him there. Most birds fly away before I can get a good shot.

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across the Mystic River

The restlessness of shorebirds, their kinship with the distance and swift seasons, the wistful signal of their voices down the long coastlines of the world make them, for me, the most affecting of wild creatures.
~ Peter Matthiessen
(The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction, 1959-1991)

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  1. It’s always so interesting to see the birds you have in your area, Barbara. They’re so different to those we have in my part of Australia.
    Hope you are keeping well. xx

    1. I feel the same way about the wildlife in Australia, Joanne, it seems so exotic to me! We are doing well here so far, three and a half months into self-quarantine. Hope you are staying safe and well, too. *hugs*

  2. I didn’t even know about black-crowned night herons! I don’t think we have them here in Ohio. But You are right–early morning is the best time to find waterfowl, for sure!

    1. After looking at the All About Birds range map and eBirds sightings map, I see that the black-crowned night heron is sometimes seen up around Lake Erie, but less often here. Still, now that I know of its existence, I will keep an eye out for one! 🙂

      1. I was pretty excited to come across this black-crowned night heron because Tim had got some pictures of one three years ago, in a different place, when I wasn’t with him, and I finally had a chance to get my own shots! So hopefully one will surprise you with an appearance, too, when you least expect it. 🙂 I’m getting itchy to explore some of the Connecticut Audubon bird sanctuaries I learned about in the bird-watching course, but I’m wary of summer’s deterrents, disease carrying bugs, poison ivy, humidity….

  3. The black-crowned night heron is a beautiful bird. There are no birds like that around here. Your photos show its pretty coloring. Fun to come along with you on your walks.

    1. It was nice to have you along on my walks, Ally! If I continue going out early I might find some more of the shorebirds who live around here, ones I haven’t encountered yet. Yesterday I saw an osprey but the pictures were terrible.

  4. You so love photographing birds, don’t you, Barbara? What an eye you have for capturing their wee nuances and feathers and expressions. Glad you’re enjoying early morning walks. Me too. It’s so hot this week that’s the only time to get out and about and enjoy the natural world.

    1. Thank you, Kathy. It’s funny. I love taking pictures outdoors in natural settings and somehow birds keep showing up in my life. It all started with the gull with with the mangled leg in 2011. Oh dear summer, your heat waves are so difficult to cope with. We haven’t had one yet, being so close to the shore, but it won’t be long. May yours not last too much longer…

  5. This heron made sure that you could get all of her good sides! Looks like she was beautiful all the way around. Fabulous photography, Barbara. I do believe the birds are looking at us while we’re looking at them. From my bedroom window our hummingbird feeder is about 2 feet away and as a hummingbird sips her water she stares at me as I stare at her.

    1. Thank you so much, Pam! It was loads of fun “working” with such a photogenic bird. That must be quite a treat having your hummingbirds close enough to make eye contact. My husband’s cousin is a passionate lover of hummingbirds — don’t remember just how many feeders she has — but so far I haven’t seen any around here. They must be challenging to catch on camera. Hope you’re enjoying the summer with all the lovely birds in your garden.

      1. We are loving the summer songbirds as well as the fairy-like hummers. All so friendly! Except for the large Hawk family who live nearby and terrorize the bird neighborhood from time to time. Amazing watching nature at its finest every day. xo

        1. Ah, nature and the circle of life. Every bird has to feed its family. I was thrilled once when a barred owl landed on a tree right by our balcony — until I realized it was probably hunting my songbirds. Nature does look for balance. *hugs*

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PHOTOS: Crash is Still Causing Backups on QEW in Oakville and Burlington

Emergency crews remain on scene for a collision along the QEW near the Oakville-Burlington border on Saturday afternoon.

A transport truck carrying lumber materials rolled over in the eastbound lanes of the QEW at Burloak Dr. around noon.

Drivers have since been delayed in both directions, due to rubbernecking.

One eastbound lane will remain closed for several hours for cleanup, said OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt at 4:40 p.m.

Expect delays.

Photos courtesy of Ontario Provincial Police

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