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My rating: 💗💗💗💗💗 of 5!
Published: the 14th of July 2018
Written by: Yumoyori Wilson
Series: Familiar Blessed Chronicles (a spin off from Unicorn Blessed Chronicles)
Length: 284 pages
Source: Free copy generously provided by the author.
Disclaimer: I was lucky enough to receive a free copy of this book, in exchange for my honest review. However, please note that all opinions and views are my own.
The blurb:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the familiar of a badass unicorn shifter? FEAR NOT! Your prayers have been answered.
My life wasn't always centered around my one-of-a-kind mistress, Celestia Rainbow. I was born into a world that wasn't so fond of a phoenix-harpy hybrid like myself.
Regardless of the hate my own kind bestowed upon me, my family did their best to love me, no matter how different I was. But being different comes with challenges and heartbreak as my loving family is slaughtered and I'm left with nowhere to call home.
Thanks to a little girl who didn't judge me by my cover, my new life begins, a life where I'm loved for the little creature I am within. Fifteen years later, I'm now by my mistress' side, ready to watch her prove her worth.
I didn't know I, too, would get my chance to shine, but you never know what the future has in store-especially when the future delivers me six men of my own.
My name is Arielle Rainbow and this is my story of how love came knocking on my door…quite literally.
Oh my… what an emotional roller coaster!
After finishing the second book in Yumo's Unicorn Blessed Chronicles series, I was ready for bed. But I just had to have a little peak into this spin off about Arielle. I knew that the feisty phoenix-harpy hybrid familiar had a tough start to life, but nothing, I mean nothing, could prepare me for the emotional journey I was about to embark on. For some reason, I just kind of thought Arielle had experienced a bit of hardship, maybe some bullying like her mistress. But wow. Yumo had a world of pain and sadness in store for me, at least for the first 20% of the book. I actually had to sneak out of bed, without waking my boyfriend, go downstairs and sad there silently reading while tears flowed down my cheeks. Yumo's writing is out of this world! It's intense, raw and just fantastic. Yes, Arielle was bullied by the other familiars, who didn't want a filthy hybrid in their nest. But what's more important is, that Arielle had a loving family. She wasn't alone. She lived with her father, mother and two brothers – who all adored and loved her. She and her brothers loved nothing more, than to go hunting for shiny buttons. As an avid internet shopper I can relate, I love buying shiny things. So I already felt like I could relate.
One day while Arielle and her brothers are on their way back, after having found a particularly shiny and pretty button, they're attacked which leads to the entire nest being slaughtered. Arielle is too young to properly understand the concept of death, so she believes her family to be resting. In an attempt to save them, she starts moving toward the hybrid nest, and finds help on her way. Unfortunately, her new hybrid friend cannot heal those who are already dead, so instead she helps Arielle lay them to rest. As they leave to go to the hybrid nest together, they're attacked and only Arielle survives. As she's heartbroken, injured and alone she's attacked by a wolf. Enter Celestia Rainbow, who saves Arielle and brings her back home with her. That's the beginning of not only an awesome Mistress/familiar bond, but a bond that goes way beyond. It's like they're each others soul mates and Arielle finally dares to believe she belongs.
Getting to read some of the scenes, that readers have previously read from Celestia's point of view, from Arielle's perspective was really interesting. The sceptic within me was afraid it would just be repetition, but those negative thoughts were quickly dispersed. Because even though the situations are the same, it's so refreshing to see and feel them from Arielle. For me I cannot get enough of this phoenix/harpy hybrid! As she gets to experience the world as human, she's so endearing, funny and just downright loveable, that I don't want the book to end. Though, she's bonded with Celestia it quickly becomes clear, that she doesn't always share her Mistress' view on things, and their squabbles had me laughing so hard. Especially when Arielle fights to come to grasp with what it truly means to be human.
If you've read Unicorn Blessed Chronicles you'll quickly realise that the harem recipe is almost the same one. Arielle gets her own harem of 6 familiars, which could have a bit "been there, done that" – but once again Yumo manages to make it different. What I wasn't prepared for, is that I now actually like Arielle and her guys a lot more than I do Celestia and hers. I can't pinpoint exactly why, but the fact that everything is new to Arielle, is really refreshing. And I especially like that she's so fiercely loyal to those she loves – and she doesn't have a selfish bone within her!
Important note: This should be read after Unicorn Blessed Chronicles 2, but before book 3 in order to avoid confusion!
Have you read this book? Or any of Yumo's books? What's your take on hybrid shifters? Let's talk in the comments!
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When you live anywhere for an extended period of time, you slowly become more aware of the culture, texture and general feel of the place. Nowhere does the culture, texture and feel come alive more than on the streets of the city.
We have now been here in Perugia for two and half years. The streets of this city tell its story of triumphs, whisper its secrets, and bear its scars. Slowly, as we've walked the streets prayerfully over these past few years we've become better attuned to the story this beautiful city tells.
Upon arrival in Perugia you can't help but come face to face with its massive walls. There are actually three layers of walls spanning a whole history of wars fought. They shape and define this city. Perugia is a city built as a fortress. It functions as a fortress. I believe that the shape and definition, both geographically and physically of a city affect the people who inhabit it. A city built as a fortress, functions as a fortress. The are reasons for the way a city is built, functions and behaves. Culture doesn't happen in a vacuum. A history of war, famine, suffering, autonomy and oppression will undoubtedly mark and shape a people and their city.
The story our city tells is a story of great victory but also of loss and sorrow. Over the past few years we've felt the weight of the city, a once proud city at the center of the Etruscan empire has been left behind and forgotten by a nation. Its people wear the heaviness of unresolved sorrow on their faces. The problem with sorrow is that it doesn't simply disappear over time.
Unresolved sorrow will almost always undoubtedly lead to bitterness. Sorrow that is dealt with in a healthy way however, will eventually lead to hope. This reality is on display throughout the book of Lamentations. In the midst of loss, sorrow and crisis, Lamentations points toward God and acknowledges his sovereignty regardless of the circumstances. Throughout scripture, lament is a liturgical response to the reality of suffering and engages God in the context of pain and trouble. The hope of lament is that God would respond to human suffering that is wholeheartedly communicated through lament. A lament allows someone or someones to engage with the reality of their situation. To feel it. To hold it. To allow the sorrow of loss to run its course. Plumbing the depths of sorrow paves a wave forward with God, it allows us to cry out for help and a way out, which undoubtedly leads to praise for the ways in which He responds.
When we see the brokenness in our cities it is certainly not surprising that we cry out for health, wholeness and justice. We desire to be part of the change and transformation of a place. But often in ministry we go straight for the fix. This method, though helpful sometimes in the short term, often undermines true healing and a wholistic way forward. Rah and McNeil in their book "Prophetic Lament" summarize it well:
Ministry in the city can often focus on symbolic ideals. We may idealize and even romanticize the city beyond its material reality. Instead of lamenting the actual situation of the city as demanded by the city-lament genre as employed in the book of Lamentations, we may long for an idealized future for our city. In urban ministry, there is a strong tendency toward an image of what the city should be. Often, that image may reflect the image of a successful suburban ministry and assumptions about a flourishing life in a gentrified urban neighborhood. A city lament brings the story of the city to its actual material setting and reality. The city is not an object to be fixed or manipulated—it is the concrete reality of lives and souls that live in the city (85).
That's the gift of lament. It forces us to linger in the concrete reality of life in a city. It prevents us from simply jumping to the fix. As we pray for our city, we've seen the way unresolved sorrow has stunted life. The losses from over two thousand years of history, history that is full of conquering and being conquered, have a way of seeping into the very fabric of life. Lamentations reminds us that hope is found only in submission to God and not in our ability to scratch and claw our way out of it. As we've prayed for the city, a lament came forth, one we offer in hope that God would respond and remember again this beautiful city.
A Lament For Our City
Remember, O Lord, what happened to us and our city;
look, and see the layers of our disgrace.
Our inheritance was given over to strangers;
our land buried by those whom you had appointed.
Whole families slaughtered – widows, orphans, fatherless;
all left to grieve with no one to comfort them.
The crops we grow are no longer ours;
our autonomy and freedom has become our isolation.
The one's whom claim your name harass and murder our people;
so then, to whom shall we turn?
We tried in vain to protect ourselves;
just so we'd have enough to eat.
Our fathers built more walls and killed in the name of protection;
and now we bear their sin.
We kept building walls, trying to protect and hold back destruction;
instead, those walls became our prison – with no one to save us.
We walk the streets plagued by suspicion;
who will attack us next?
Our bodies burn with fear;
fear of looming threat from every direction.
Women have been violated, forgotten, ignored throughout our history;
there is no place for you young woman – stay in your home.
Young men, you are forced to shed your innocence before it's time;
elders, leaders forced to hold your built up disappointments and sorrows.
The youth are left without work and without hope because of unjust practices;
young men buried under the weight of expectation that they are to be strong yet never having developed strength.
The elders of the city silently fade into pension;
the youth who raise their cries for justice are met with mockery.
What was once a beautiful, vibrant and colorful city
is now faded under the tinge of pollution; reduced to grey.
Our great warriors and walls have failed us;
woe to us; for we have sinned.
For this our hearts have grown faint;
our eyes are made dim and set ever towards the ground.
This city on a hill is forgotten;
we are left disconnected, for Italy has passed us by.
You oh Lord reign forever;
your throne endures from generation to generation.
Why have you also forgotten us?
why have you left us to die in our prison cell?
Restore us to yourself, Lord, that we may be free;
renew and restore the color and hope that once was.
Unless you've rejected us completely;
and your anger rests on us without measure.
Would you join us in lamenting the brokenness of a city and praying for the hope that is found in God's faithful response.


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It's a miracle.
I didn't think it would happen. This was by far the HARDEST holiday season to date. I couldn't go more than 15 minutes without an internal pity party and it was killing me. I really love the holidays and have always been able to suck it up enough to have a great time, but not this year.
I was the person that I truly am not. I judged my closest friends and sweet family members. I coldly straight-up ignored people. My heart was bitter and I didn't care. I felt justified in my selfishness. And while, I completely get that these are normal emotions, I am mortified because they're just not normal for me. Especially all at once. And especially during the holidays with 2 very loving and supportive families! I haven't even told my husband how I've been feeling. I think part of me is scared that he'll tell me my awfulness so noticeable.
I really hope this is my last childless holiday season. Please, please God, don't let me ever feel like this again. I am at the point where I just don't think I can take anymore.
I mean, I'm better now, but shit got real real this year, if you know what I mean.
So. To all my fellow wanna-be-mommas out there, BIG BIG HUGS! And to all of you who have started your families, merry Christmas and I'm so glad for your blessings.


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Dear Reader,
New York City is a wonderful place to live. Many times it is thought of as THE place to live. Not just by American standards, but internationally, too. For over a century people have looked to New York as the shining light at the end of the tunnel. The goal is to get there, make a life for yourself, because we all want to make it in New York City…
Isn't that the dream?
That's the dream I had. I first came here when I was fifteen or sixteen. My father thought it would be a good vacation for my mother and me to take with him. Family bonding. So off we went to the big city. I was so excited. I remember pulling up to our hotel that was smack dab in midtown, across from Madison Square Garden, and not even being able to comprehend what life must be like to live in this city. Everyone looked so glamorous and cool to me. I saw tall women with the longest legs wearing the prettiest dresses. I saw guys wearing their headphones, forcing their way through the crowd because they were natives, and they knew the streets well. They left all the tourists who were too terrified to cross the street when the red hand would start blinking in the dust.
I thought.."I want to be like that."
I left NYC to go back to what I presumed to be a dull life in Virginia Beach, VA. I thought there was nothing there worth anything. Yeah we had a beach, and a tourist season… but we didn't have rooftop parties going on every night, we didn't have cool bands playing secret shows in warehouses! The closest thing we had were small house shows and hanging out at the boardwalk, hoping something fun and adventurous would come our way.
So I booked it from Virginia Beach. At the age of 22, after taking a few years off from school to try to "figure myself out" I decided to apply to Parsons. I thought, for some reason, that I needed to head to the biggest, best, most glamorous place I could reach. I remembered the tall women and the cool guys with headphones. I still thought.. "I want to be that".
And now I'm here. Sometimes it feels surreal. I never thought in a million years that I'd be walking up and down these streets doing normal everyday things like buying groceries, or running to the laundromat. I never thought I'd understand the subway system, that I'd be able to navigate where I was going in the blink of an eye. I never thought I could do any of it. But I'm here, and I'm living it every second of the day. And you are about to, too.
I wanted to write this piece because if there is any advice I can give to those of you that I know have felt the same way, had the same dream, it's this: cherish every moment you have here, but also take the time cherish every moment you have back home.
I went back to Virginia Beach recently, and the place I remember as being dull and outdated all of a sudden has this glimmer about it. New York City is fun, but it is tough. Not in a scary way- just in the most real of ways. Yes, there are those cool shows happening, and all of the best food, drinks, and sightseeing, but sometimes it's easy to forget where you come from. The place I call home, that I thought lacked vigor and passion, is so special to me now. The funny thing is nothing about it changed. Only I did.
Understand that what you are about to do is an incredible step toward the rest of your life. And that it's something to be excited about. Just remember to take these last moments to be grateful for the life you already have, along with your friends and family, too. Home isn't about glamour, it's about love. The funny thing is it took me chasing the former to realize I needed the latter.
Upon these realizations, I can't help but I feel incredibly grateful because I have not only one, but two homes. And if I can feel this way about this place, who knows how many other homes I'll get to have?
How many homes will you get to have?
…I think it's as many as you want.
So get excited! New York is about to be added to that list. Just never forget who you are and where you come from, because that person and place is lovelier than you think.
Also, if anyone ever needs advice, is feeling overwhelmed, or just wants to blab about how much you love your new city once you move up, know that we're all here to lend an ear. After all, we're all in this together.
Until next time,
Renee 🙂


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"What's Sex Got To Do With It" by Jody Joldersma, reprinted here with her permission
Today was bright white, as I've come to appreciate about Seattle. I feared dark days. Instead, the ocean near the Paccar Pavilion was lit up by a bar of pale sparkle across the far side of what water we could see as Charlotte Austin, the editor of the Better Bombshell anthology, stood with the wind whipping her blonde hair, counting the pillars to be wrapped with christmas lights for the book's release party on February 14th.
The last time I was in Seattle, my system was in shock. The sky winked. My muscles flicked, trembled, and with any movement of my body, spasmed in ways so painful, I'd have to stop laughing, stop reaching. Every interaction ended with spirals of anxiety that only had room for one. I knew something was wrong, but not what; the PTS diagnosis wouldn't come down the pike until I finally got health care that fall in Indiana. To return to the setting of such hopelesness--Seattle, the long green bodies of buses tipping and climbing, the bright bar of water, magnolia blossoms and rain-soaked air -- is a test of my restored spirit. Less than three years ago, I left Seattle for the doctor in California I had known for a decade. He took one look at me, quaking and swollen and sure I couldn't stay wherever I was, whoever I was, and said gently, "I think your neurotransmitters are damaged."
Less than a year later, I was in Africa, sitting in a soiled room in a slum of Nairobi with four girls from Congo: refugees, orphaned, carrying memories of slaughtered family members, and, as I would learn, unthinkable violations. The group grew to six, and the girls began to respond to my introduction of the idea of "safe space" in our arts workshop: they named themselves the Survival Girls and started to voice their shame and their anger to each other, creating theater pieces about rape that brought grown men to tears. They started to confide in me: "I can't control my thoughts. I can't stop replaying what happened. I'm afraid I'll never be like the other girls. I can't stay where I am, I keep going back." To each of them, quaking in my arms, in spite of how little my trauma was compard to theirs and how little I knew of God, I said: "I know what you mean, and what is happening is normal. Your heart works properly, and your mind will come back. There are some things I can teach you to help. You are not tainted and not dirty: you are perfect in my eyes, and in the eyes of God."
"Lion and the Lamb" by Jody Joldersma, reprinted here with her permission
This isn't a story of how I am the girls' role model: it's a story of how they are mine. The sun inside them, and the alchemy of their will to turn the most unthinkable violence into the strongest singing voice, the broadest smile, must have something to do with why the Survival Girls stayed together independently, doubled in membership, won contests and contracts to perform, continue to this day to comfort other girls. Here in Seattle, writers from Roxane Gay to Dave Barry and artists from Deborah Scott to Chris Sheridan collaborated in pairs on words and images about what it means to redefine the female role model for The Better Bombshell. If it weren't for the artist I was paired with, my writing about the Survival Girls wouldn't have seen the light of day. Jody Joldersma, a slender, kind, attentive woman I didn't meet in person until yesterday, surmounted the impossible task of creating paintings that honored the girls' travails and spectacular spirits. When I saw the paintings, I didn't just cry; I knew that Jody could see the girls, which visibility is the only morally sound reason I have for putting pen to paper about them.
Holding our coffees shyly, runners loping around Greenlake out the window, Jody and I chatted about the girls, about Jody's paintings (Jody is the only Better Bombshell contributor to identify in her bio as a 'feminist', and we wondered about what a dirty term it has become), about Anne-Marie Slaughter's re-ignition of the furor around what it means for women to have it all. Jody, one of the most gentle people I have ever met, whose paintings disturb and upset notions of sex and gender with twists on "two biases together," said something that resonated with me as the best description of the Survival Girls' strength yet: "To have it all, internally, is to keep an open heart, without giving any ins to those who would drain us."
"Sing the Songs" by Jody Joldersma, from the Better Bombshell anthology, reprinted here with her permission
And that's what I believe the Survival Girls continue to do. It's the balance their hearts have mastered. The war tore their hearts open, their bodies open, their families open. But they learned to create a wheel with their human presence for each other: what they lose through those gaps, they transform into performance, and enacting it with one another gives nourishment back. When Dr. Slaughter points out that not only the figureheads, but the practice of foreign policy would indeed change if more women took the helm of it, she speaks to the legacy of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which is a reflection of such circularity: Clinton knew that empowering women in emergent democracies was a component not only of the broader struggle for human rights, but a direct pillar of support to our national security. Keep an open heart, without giving any ins: protect and educate the women and children, who will not then take up arms in desperation, who will not grow up hungry and optionless enough to hop on hateful extremist bandwagons.
As a development worker, I often wonder where sustainability begins as a cycle, where it takes root. I believe it takes root in people like the Survival Girls, in their very bodies, the way my body was a blueprint for the informed empathy I needed to grasp the effects of post-traumatic stress on the girls and treat them in a way that provided for those effects. Where I once saw a distinction between my bodily feeling of grief about world issues and my cerebral, head-centric assessment of facts about them, forming the Survival Girls--by every measure a successful development project--was a question of consulting my very body for answers when I met the girls: answers about where their emotional selves stood, lost in the mist of airless, windowless memories, the limbs of their loved ones strewn about an internal wasteland. It meant taking into my own heart the time I spent broken and frightened, and consulting it as a teacher. I trained myself and the girls to think once again of their bodies as safe places to be. Arnold Weinstein, a literature teacher I had in college, once threw up his hands and said, "Literature always asks the same question! It's always: 'Who is in control of the woman's body?'"
The Survival Girls are now more in control of theirs as a result of nourishing each other, and when I redefine the female role model, I think of them -- and of Charlotte and Jody, of Slaughter and Clinton, who have all worked tirelessly and thanklessly for years, in the face of criticism, to improve things the way they know how: to keep an open heart without giving any ins.
My forthcoming nonfiction book, "The Survival Girls," coming this year, features full illustrations by Jody Joldersma and its proceeds will benefit the Survival Girls.


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The Joy of Discovery Lecture prof. Ben Feringa in Eindhoven
May 8, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
On May 8, prof. Ben Feringa (RUG) will give a Studium Generale Lecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in collaboration with the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) on 'The Joy of Discovery'.
Tickets can be ordered here.


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Was reading this report and with the current situation in Belize and the hinting to similar by the PM I thought I'd share. Preventative Detention is the word today in Belize and if nothing starts to be done about the underlying issues that causes our Belizean youth to go rampant into gang life, crimes, drugs and violence; nothing will change and they will only escalate.
Preventative Detention – the proposed amendment to the constitution was the cause of fiery debate, controversy and contention. So much so that Prime Minister Dean Barrow backed down from the law which would have made it legal for police to detain persons before the commission of any crime. While the amendment never materialized, at least on paper, Matura-Shepherd says it's happening right now, and she can prove it.
Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Attorney
"We've always said when we debated it then, and I say it now – preventative detention is illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional. It is not part of our constitution. But clearly what is happening although we never got to make those amendments to the constitution, it has been practiced for a while. And the reason I know is that I am one of those attorneys who come to the Police Station to deal with persons that have been brought in. I have had to come to the Police Station after the forty-eight hours for persons that they don't want to release, especially I notice it happened around the holiday weekend. I remember during the Easter celebration how many people were just detained and the Police had no intention of charging them. So we have to go and review these situations because we have to be law-abiding. Remember, I am of the view that someone has to be committing these crimes. It cannot be that nobody is committing these crimes. So I am of the view that we have to investigate properly. We have to restore the confidence, because a lot of people in the community that are not involved in these crimes see these thing but they don't help. They don't help because of the way the Police treat them. They don't help because sometimes when they want to help the treatment they get at the Police Station. I have had instances where the very person that could help the Police, when they come to offer help, are locked up because they are profiled a certain way. For example, I have two clients detained right now, and no matter how you tell the Police where they were and you could prove it, you could go to their employer…that's not in their interest. So when you do that entire families turn against you."
Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:59 pm | Updated: 9:02 pm, Thu Sep 18, 2014.
Associated Press |
ARCELIA, Mexico (AP) — A woman says she saw Mexican soldiers shoot and kill her 15-year-old daughter after a confrontation with a suspected drug gang even though the teenager was lying wounded on the ground. Twenty others also were shot and killed in rural southern Mexico after they surrendered and were disarmed, the mother told The Associated Press.
The Mexican government has maintained that all died during a fierce shootout when soldiers were fired on in the early morning of June 30. That version came into question because government troops suffered only one wounded, and physical evidence at the scene pointed toward more selective killings.
The witness said the army fired first at the armed group holed up at the warehouse. She said one gunman died in the initial shootout, and another gang member and her daughter were wounded. The rest of the gunmen surrendered on the promise they would not be hurt, she said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
the shootout was initiated by the army, a violation of its own rules of engagement, which allow soldiers to fire on armed civilians only if the civilians fire first, and if soldiers' or civilians' lives are in danger.
After the gang surrendered, the girl, Erika Gomez Gonzalez, lay face down in the ground, a bullet wound in her leg. Soldiers rolled her over while she was still alive and shot her more than half a dozen times in the chest, her mother said. Another suspected gang member was injured in the initial attack.
"A soldier stood the kid up and killed him," said the witness, who said she had gone to the warehouse the night before to try to retrieve her daughter from the gang she had apparently joined.
The soldiers interrogated the rest of the gang members in front of the warehouse, and then took them inside one-by-one, she said. From where she stood just outside the warehouse and in army custody, she heard gunshots and moans of the dying.
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission has an investigation underway to find out exactly what happened the day of the killings, Commission President Raul Plascencia said Thursday. He said he could not give any details.
Several days after the killings, AP reporters visited and took pictures of the warehouse and found little evidence of sustained fighting. There were few stray bullet marks and no shell casings. At least five spots along the warehouse's inside walls showed the same pattern: One or two closely placed bullet pocks, surrounded by a mass of spattered blood, giving the appearance that some of those killed had been standing against the wall and shot at about chest level.
After the AP report, the state of Mexico prosecutors' office released a statement saying there was "no evidence at all of possible executions." The office said it found ballistic evidence of "crossfire with a proportionate interchange of gunshots."
The state government refused to release autopsy reports the AP requested under Mexico's freedom of information law, declaring them state secrets to be guarded for nine years.
Interviewed separately, relatives of three other gang members who were killed and a doctor who saw Erika's body said the wounds were consistent with the mother's account of how they were killed — with an incapacitating wound and a burst of gunshots to the chest. The death certificate for Erika, seen by reporters, confirmed that she died on June 30 outside the town of San Pedro Limon, where the killings occurred, and gave bullet wounds as the cause of death. There are no details in the certificate on ballistics or the type of weapon used. The gravestones of two other of those killed, Marcos Salgado Burgos, 20, and his brother, Juan Jose Salgado Burgos, 18, also record their death on June 30.
Separately, a teenager in the nearby town of Ixcapuzalco, said his older brother was among the 22 dead. He said he saw the body and said there was a bullet wound to the left leg — "it destroyed his knee" — and a shot through the back with an exit wound through the chest. His account could not be independently corroborated.
None of the relatives wanted to be identified for fear of reprisals. The army and the state of Mexico so far have not provided a list of those killed. Human Rights Watch has demanded that the case be thoroughly investigated and that the witness be protected.
According to Erika's mother, the shootout was initiated by the army, a violation of its own rules of engagement, which allow soldiers to fire on armed civilians only if the civilians fire first, and if soldiers' or civilians' lives are in danger. The army did not respond to requests for comment.
The federal attorney general's office said there is an open investigation into the incident but that no evidence has been found so far to corroborate the witness' account, originally reported by the magazine Esquire Latinoamerica.
The woman spoke angrily last weekend about her daughter's death. She said she spent a sleepless night sitting on a pile of bricks on June 29, after arriving to retrieve her runaway daughter.
The girl was involved with the wrong crowd, she said. The group had traveled from the town of Arcelia in Guerrero state to nearby San Pedro Limon in three pickups with guns. All were teenagers or in their early 20s. Little is known about what the gang was up to or had been doing in the days before the shootings.
Local officials said Arcelia is controlled by the La Familia drug gang, which was run out of Michoacan state, where it was founded and now controls parts of the impoverished Tierra Caliente, or hot land, in neighboring Guerrero. Drug trafficking and conflicts with the military have occurred there for decades. Some farmers grow and traffic marijuana and poppies for opium, and violence is common.
Recently, supporters of the gang blocked roads and burned four Coca Cola trucks, leading the soft drink company to shutter its distribution center in Arcelia. Local journalists say they have been threatened for publishing stories the drug cartel didn't like.
It was unclear if the AP was allowed to report freely in the area because the story casts the army in a poor light. But the gang appeared to keep close tabs on AP reporters while they were in the region. During an interview with the dead girl's mother in a parking lot, a young man appeared, arms propped on the back of a pickup truck, staring fixedly and remaining until the end.
The area is patrolled heavily by army and marine units. When reporters were at a local soccer match interviewing a relative of the two dead brothers, a three-man marine detachment stood nearby. The unit's leader told the journalists, "It's my turn to interview you," and asked them what they were doing and where they were staying. Other marines photographed the journalists and their press I.D. cards.
Recalling the morning of her daughter's death, the mother said confusion broke out inside the warehouse before dawn when one of the young gunmen appeared, shouting, "They're on us!"
Troops from the Mexican army's 22nd military zone were on patrol. Soldiers trained a spotlight on the warehouse and opened fire on those inside, she said.
After an initial exchange of gunfire, soldiers called out to those inside, saying their lives would be spared if they surrendered. They walked out with their hands on the back of their necks, she said.
The soldiers took her, two other women and two young men who claimed to be kidnap victims to a semi-enclosed room at one side of the entrance to the warehouse.
From there, under soldiers' custody, the woman could only catch glimpses of what was happening inside
"I was afraid to see too much," she said, noting some of the detainees were shot standing, some were kneeling.
After a couple of hours, the two men who had claimed to be kidnap victim were separated from the three women, taken off by soldiers and shot, apparently because they did not believe their claims, she said.
The army said in its initial press release that soldiers rescued three women who were kidnap victims. The mother says she was one of three women taken by the army to the Mexico state capital, Toluca, and turned over to a state prosecutors' agent. The other two women were promptly arrested and are still in custody.
The mother said she was photographed next to the guns confiscated from the gang and told she too would be arrested if she didn't cooperate with authorities and confirm their version of events. She said she did not know the agent's name, but described her as a tall woman with close-cropped hair who was constantly holding a cigarette. She was later taken to the federal attorney general's organized crime unit in Mexico City, and finally released with no charges.
Related articles
- 21 gang members killed by Mexican Army after surrender, witness says (latino.foxnews.com)
- Mexico Rights Body Probes Deadly Army-Gang Faceoff (abcnews.go.com)
- Witness: 21 killed by Mexico army had surrendered (miamiherald.com)


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The chickens that live next door to Morgan.
Cardiff Castle tower.
The best shop in the whole of Cardiff!
Look at all the exciting play things!
First customer of the day.
Wheelie Chair Wheels Spinning...
Customers hanging out in boxes
Pretty in a pink-totally-handmade-and-very-awesome tutu! :)
Morgan investigates huge knitting needles!
I had a wonderful weekend of play and play discussion, and had many many inspired thoughts whilst I was away from home. It's wonderful to see playwork in action in unlikely places and it's good to see people getting the right idea too! I'm a bit tired from travelling, but I am filled with renewed readiness for my degree assignments and for future Pop-Up Play Shop developments. Yay for Morgan and yay for Pop-Up Play Shops! :)


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The revolving door of the college hockey world saw another two teams relocate this past week to new conferences. Leaving the WCHA is the St. Cloud State Huskies, a program who had sated in the conference since the 1990-91season.
The Huskies are headed to the newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) after they received an official invite to join the new super-conference that had seen five WCHA teams commit to playing beginning in the 2013-14 season. St. Cloud State will join the likes of North Dakota, Nebraska-Omaha, Minnesota-Duluth, Colorado College, and Denver as members of the current WCHA who will head to "The National" after two seasons.
Also receiving an invite to the NCHC was the Western Michigan Broncos, a current member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Conference. The Broncos were also quick to accept the invite and will join Miami (Ohio) University as the second current CCHA team to commit to the NCHC.
With the inclusion of these two teams, the NCHC has grown to an eight-team conference and comes as a bit of a blow to the WCHA.
With St. Cloud State leaving, the WCHA now drops to eight-remaining teams set to begin play in 2013 14. Left to carry the WCHA flag is UAA, UAF, Michigan Tech, Bemidji State, Minnesota State, Lake Superior State, Northern Michigan, and Ferris State. On Aug. 25, the WCHA issued an official invitation to five teams from the CCHA to join the WCHA beginning in 2013-14.
While UAF, Lake Superior State, and Ferris State all responded quickly with acceptance, Western Michigan and Bowling Green University remained mum on if they would accept. While the hockey world now knows Western Michigan's answer, Bowling Green looks to be running out of time on the one-month long window to join the WCHA.
Rumors still swirl that the WCHA and CCHA may not be through with looking to add to their conference numbers and stabilize their positions in the continually volatile college hockey landscape.


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07 Aug ART IMITATES LIFE: THE NEW WORLD OF "DIGITAL INFLUENCERS"
We live in very interesting times. Things are changing so fast. Technology and innovation are in the fore front of things, and everyday people are designing things to make life easier, faster and just, well, different.
It is through one of these inventions that Shudu was created. In April, 2017 Shudu was created, by fashion photographer, Cameron-James Wilson. Shudu was designed to be a striking South African woman in her mid- to late-20s. She has 135,000 followers and 28 posts on Instagram.
Shudu was catapulted to fame after being featured on Rihanna's Instagram wearing the new Fenty beauty lipstick, and then an interview with Cameron-James Wilson for Cosmopolitan.
Image via @shudu.gram
Cameron-James has gotten a fair amount of backlash for the the creation of the virtual model from people accusing him, a white man of presenting a model in a way that takes jobs away from black models and creating an opportunity for people to work with a black woman without "working with" a black woman.
Shudu is not the first model of her kind. There are @LilMiquela, @Noonoouri and @Lightning, all digitally created, ultra realistic models.
We are not sure what the future holds with the creation of these virtual models, but one thing is sure, it is definitely a sign of things to come and we are not sure we are ready.


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What is the difference between a salon and a saloon?
A salon is where you go to make yourself look better.
A saloon is where you go to make everyone else look better.
What should you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?
My wife got a mud-pack, and looked great for two days…
Then the mud fell off.
In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the mystic delivered grave news: "There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just be blunt – prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death this year."
Visibly shaken, the wife simply had to know. She met the fortune teller's gaze, steadied her voice, and asked:
"Will I be acquitted?"
I walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist asked me what I had. I said: 'Shingles.' So she wrote down my name, address, medical insurance number and told me to have a seat.
Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked me what I had.
I said, 'Shingles' So she wrote down my height, weight, a complete medical history and told me to wait in the examining room.
A half hour later a nurse came in and asked me what I had. I said, 'Shingles…'
So the nurse gave me a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told me to take off all my clothes and wait for the doctor.
An hour later the doctor came in and found me sitting patiently in the nude and asked me what I had.
I said, 'Shingles.' The doctor asked, 'Where?'
I said, 'Outside on the truck. Where do you want me to unload 'em??'
I told my boss that three companies were after me, so I needed a raise in pay to stay with the current job.
He asked which companies?
I told him gas, electric, and cable.
A magician comes up to our table and does a card trick.
Impressed, I asked him how he did it.
He says "I can tell you, but I'd then have to kidnap you and take you away."
I said, "Can you tell my mother in law?"
Wife to husband: Do you know what a closet is for?
Husband: Yes. A closet it wear I hang my clothes when all the door knobs are full.
A guy is walking down the street with his friend. He says to his friend, "I'm just a walking economy."
His friend replies, "What do you mean?"
"It's like this: My hairline is in recession, my stomach is a victim of inflation, and the combination of these factors is putting me into a deep depression.
What is the difference between in-laws and outlaws?
Outlaws are usually wanted.
It's not hard to meet expenses. They're pretty much everywhere.
A young boy watched his grandfather put on shoes with a device he'd never seen before.
The boy asked what it was. As he handed it to the boy, the grandfather answered, "It's a shoehorn."
After looking at it and turning it over the boy asked, "How do you play it?"
It was a day before his vacation and the judge was in a happy mood as he asked the defendant, "What are you charged with?"
"Getting my July 4th deals early," replied the defendant.
"That's no offense", said the judge. "How early were you doing this shopping?"
"Before the store opened."
I'm driving with this guy, and he runs right through a Stop sign. So I say, "Hey, that was a Stop sign." And he says, "I drive like my brother!"
A few blocks later, he plows right through a red light. I say, "You just ran a red light." And he says, "I drive like my brother!"
Closer to their house, we're coming up on a green light, and he slows down. I'm confused, so I say, "It's green; why are you slowing down?"
He says, "My brother might be coming."
My barber was trying to to console a debt ridden cutomer: "Cheer up. I knew a guy who owed $5,000 he couldn't pay. He drove his vehicle to the edge of a cliff, where he sat for over an hour. A group of concerned citizens heard about his problem and passed a hat around. Relieved, the man pulled back from the cliff's edge."
"Incredible," said the client. "Who were these kind people?"
"Hmm, not sure, but I believe they were the passengers on the bus he was driving.
A man comes to the therapist with his wife and says, "Doctor, you've got to help us. My wife thinks she's a chicken!"
The wife clucks and starts pecking at the couch.
The doctor asks with wide eyes, "How long has she had this condition?"
"Two years," says the man.
"What? Two years? Why did it take you so long to come and see me?" asked the shrink.
The man shrugs his shoulders and replies, "We needed the eggs."
Relationships are like algebra. You ever look at your 'X' and wonder 'Y'?
What kind of exercise do lazy people do?


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MILLER, William F. 1836-1917
Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 9/28/2016 at 10:47:51
Death Takes Melrose Pioneer
W. F. Miller Died at His Home Last Saturday
William F. Miller died at his home in Melrose township last Saturday forenoon. Death was due largely to kidney trouble from which Mr. Miller had been a sufferer for some time. Funeral services were held at the church at Ivester Monday afternoon beginning at 1:30. The remains were laid to rest in the cemetery north of Ivester.
Mr. Miller was a pioneer resident of Melrose township and of Grundy county. He came to Iowa about fifty years ago. Shortly after he acquired land in Melrose township and that was his home up to the time of his death.
Mr. Miller was born at Mr. Carroll, Ill. He would have been eighty-one years old had he lived until his next birthday. He grew to manhood in Illinois. During the war of the Rebellion he responded to the call for volunteers and enlisted with a company of Illinois infantry and saw several years of active army life. Shortly after the war, Mr. and Mrs. Miller came to Iowa and located in Grundy county. They were married fifty-four years ago at Mt. Carroll.
Mr. Miller is survived by his wife and five children. The children are Mrs. Fred Draper, Mrs. P. K. Albright, D. O. Miller, Mrs. S. S. Myers and Mrs. R. F. Button. All but Mrs. Meyers live in Grundy county. The children were all enabled to be with the father in the days before his death.
Mr. Miller was widely known through the west portion of Grundy county and in the east part of Hardin and he was held in high regard as a man and a citizen.
William F. Miller was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1836. When he was 12 years old his parents moved to Carroll County, Illinois. There were thirteen children in his father's family and Mr. Miller was one of the oldest. There is but one, a sister, Mrs. Clara Kneedy, surviving in this large family.
September 1863 his marriage to Miss Mary Sheller took place. In 1866, he moved to Melrose township with his family and one year later to the present home which was improved by himself and family. 50 years of continuous residence on the present farm.
Seven children came to this home. The two oldest having passed on in infancy and childhood. The mother and wife who has been an invalid for many years with the children mourn the loss of the father. The children are Lillie, Cynthia, Byrd, Orrie and Frances. There are 12 grandchildren. He was of extraordinary constitution. Very seldom ill. About ten years ago a short spell of sickness overtook him. He was in bed three weeks to the day of his death. Death came March 17, 1917, having reached the ripe age of 80 years, 8 months and 9 days.
Funeral services were conducted in the Ivester church Monday, at 1:30 p.m. by the local pastor. A large attendance was in attendance at the services. Burial in the Ivester cemetery, two miles north of the church.
--Grundy County Democrat (Grundy Center, Iowa), 22 March 1917, pg 1
Grundy Obituaries maintained by Tammy D. Mount.
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When the proverbial shit hits the fan, who are you going to call up and spew your feelings to? For my money, there's no better option than the Lord. By Lord, of course, I mean the all-knowing Lord Scott Disick. Rob Kardashian is very in tune with this universal truth and put the Lord to good use in a new clip from Rob & Chyna, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians spin-off centered on his relationship with Blac Chyna.
"Chyna and I got in a fight so she kicked me out," Rob tells Lord Disick in the latest peek at the new series, adding that he needs to make a quick stop to pick up a few I-just-got-kicked-out-of-my-house essentials like deodorant and a toothbrush. "I'm just gonna let her be, give her her space." Speaking to the camera (i.e. you and me!), Rob said this "cycle" has happened multiple times and he's "sick" of it.
"I know that it feels like you're not wanted there but it sounds like you just got into a fight," Lord Disick notes. But Rob doesn't seem fully consoled. "This is what happens every time when we get into an argument or whatever when it's supposed to be our house," Rob adds. "I'm just [going to] not sell my house and stay in my house because it's not a good feeling when you kicked out."
But, hey, the Lord works in mysterious ways. Allow the Lord himself to explain: "Dude you're telling me my own life," Disick jokes. "It happens! And by the way, she's hormonal. She's pregnant. If you weren't to get kicked out, it would be weird."
Rob & Chyna sprinkles some love on your television starting Sept. 11.


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Nowadays it seems that it is almost customary to be a customer.
On any City Rail train or station we have our "customer" status drilled into our heads via loudspeaker "Customers are advised that…"
I can't help but wonder when we stopped being passengers and became customers. When did we start being treated as consumers of services rather than citizens using a public service? It seems to me that along with the growth of consumption of products (and the simultaneous growth in advertising of consumer goods) over the past few decades, we've had a gradual creep of the customer service mentality into a broader range of areas.
Since the 1970s more and more services have become privatised and more and more "customer service charters" seem to have appeared. In the early 1990s a new era of privatisation kicked off for big Australian institutions like the Commonwealth Bank with a logo change to match, and Telecom dropped its orange T logo to become Telstra, with its modern blue and orange (decidedly corporate) logo. Public institutions and services have arguably had to adopt an increasing focus on the customer after privatising. Now it seems to be the turn of our public services like City Rail, Sydney Buses and Ferries to develop an increasing "customer" focus and follow suit with big business.
I'm all for the delivery of quality, responsive services that address the needs of passengers, but I wonder if this can be achieved without delineating us as customers. I wonder if by adopting an approach where we treat those who use a public service as customers means we lose a sense of the relationship between citizens and government. We lose the sense that it is a public service we're using.
Maybe it's semantics, but I'd much rather be a passenger than a customer. When I'm at a shop front, or buying stuff online, I'm happy to be a customer. Then I'm undoubtedly a consumer of products. When I'm paying for professional services, like say those of an accountant, lawyer, or architect, I think perhaps I'd rather be a client – it has the connotation of a professional relationship.
The health sector has its various proponents of "customers" and "patients". Thankfully I have yet to encounter a doctor's surgery or hospital that had treated me as a customer and so far during my various spells in educational institutions I've been a student, and not a customer. I want to be cared for in a doctor – patient relationship, not to have it be all about a commercial transaction.
Do you mind being a customer at an ever increasing array of places or is it all just semantics?
Are there areas where you think it is inappropriate to use the word "customer"?
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Igor Chuprina
Igor Chuprina ready to serve put the quarantine.
The main goalkeeper of the national team of Ukraine on hockey Igor Chuprina take Slovak citizenship. This was stated by the coach of Ukraine Sergey Bebeshko, and then this information was confirmed and the handball.
28-year-old fourth year stands for the strongest Slovak club Tatran. And with the offer on change of citizenship approached the Slovak handball Federation. The Slovaks will host the championship of Europe 2020 and hope this time to prepare a strong national team.
"Talk about the change of citizenship goes a long way. I was contacted about a year ago, but then I thought about it. Then I had a conversation with the President of the handball Federation of Slovakia, club President, coach of the national team of Slovakia.
They have questions for goalkeepers and they asked me if I wanted to try. Slovakia will adopt the European championship and they put large tasks. I did a lot of thinking before you make a decision. I have already settled in Slovakia, my daughter goes to a local school, she has friends here.
Now documents are being processed. It is a long process. My last official match for the national team of Ukraine took place on January 14, will now have to serve sports quarantine. Maybe next year I'll be able to play for Slovakia," said Chuprin.
Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian basketball player Bolombi take Russian citizenship.
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Cultural Adaptation of Erasmus Students in Latvia and Host University Responsibility
References Archer, W., Davison, J. (2008). Graduate Employability: What do Employers Think and Want? London: The Council for Industry and Higher Education. Altbach, P. G., Knight, J. (2007). The internationalisation of higher education: Motivations and realities. Journal of Studies in International Educational , (11), 290-305. Bennett, M. J. (2004). Becoming Interculturally Competent. Towards Multiculturalism. A Reader in Multicultural Education. Newton, MA: Intercultural Resource Corporation, 62-77. Bhandari, R., Blumenthal, P. (2011
The Analysis and Assesstment of International Capital Flows in the Form of Foreign Direct Investments and Foreign Direct Divestments: The Cases of Latvia and Poland
References Bamberger I., Upitz A. (2007). De-Internationalisierung . "WiSt — WirtschaftswissenschaftlichesStudium", nr 10. Bank of Latvia. [Accessed 6.04.2018]. Available from Internet: www.statdb.bank.lv . Benito G., Welch L. (1997). De –Internationalization , "Management International Review", 37(2). Boddewyn J. (1983). Foreign Direct Divestment Theory: Is It the Reverse of FDI Theory , "WeltwirtschaftlichesArchiv", No 119. Bożyk P., Misala J., Puławski M. (2002). Międzynarodowe stosunki gospodarcze , Warszawa: PWE, p. 147
Ethical Leadership: Meaning and Measurement. Latvian Retail Traders' Perspective
In the contemporary situation of ever-growing market internationalisation, local and global competition different company leadership aspects, especially ethical leadership, gain a special importance. It is possible to say that in theoretical literature, there is more or less consensual agreement upon the meaning of ethical leadership still regarding the evaluation models there are many models. Therefore, the main challenge is to determine the case sensitive model(s) for the industry or the type of business organisation. The goal of the article is to delineate theoretically and to test empirically amongst Latvian retail traders one of the models of evaluation (the one of the Executive Servant Leadership Scale, ESLS). The research questions are (1) What is the ranking of the ESLS first-order factors? and (2) What are the possible problem areas in the ethical leadership as seen by the Latvian retail traders? The authors of the present paper aspire to identify the problem areas out the future lines of investigation. The current research uses the following research methods: the monographic (the literature study related to the concept of ethical leadership and its evaluations models); expert interviews to narrow down the items to be tested; and the survey with the following factor analysis.


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On Saturday 4th June Port Ellen Primary School choir went to the Local mod on Islay. The mod was held in the high school in Bowmore. The choir won the unison and came 2nd in the peaurt a bheil. Also ten people from the choir won the psalm. For the unison you have two songs […]
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How to Use Google Search Console: Here you can find the most complete and up to date guide about probably the most important SEO tool for your website.
Google Search Console Information
If you have a site or blog you are probably using Google Search Console (previously known as Google Webmaster Tools), and if not you should start using it immediately.
How do I set up a search console?
Some of the features that Google Search Console offers us are:
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Google Search Console Guide
Search Appearance
Search Traffic
Google Index
Crawl Section
Security Issues
Other Resources
1.Search Appearance:
Search Appearance is a section that is focused on the structure of the site and where you can find:
a) Structured Data:
It is useful to see if your sites' Structured Data Markup is working fine and if there are any errors.
Structured Data Markup is very important for your site's SEO although it is not used very much by bloggers.
b) Data Highlighter:
Just like Structured Data also Data Highlighter helps you to markup your articles, books, events, reviews,etc..
c)HTML Improvements:
You can find information about your site's Meta Description, Title Tags, and Non-indexable content and if there are any errors you should start fixing them because you may get penalized by Google if not.
The most important part is to see if there are any Duplicate Titles and Meta Descriptions because that is a sign of Duplicate Content inside your site and your site may get hit by Google Panda penalty if you are not going to fix these errors by removing duplicate content from your site.
The biggest cause for creating Duplicate content on your site may be not resolving domain redirects properly, for example:
- domain with www not redirecting to a naked domain without www, or,
- you are not informing search engines about a mobile version of your site with "rel=canonical" tag.
Also, you can use HTTP Headers to tell robots about your site redirects and notify them of the mobile version of your site.
If there are error signs of Short or Long Title Tags or Meta Description improve them because that will help you to rank better in Google Search and increase CTR (click-through-rate) of your site.
Sitelinks are automatically generated links that may appear under your site's search results. If you don't want a page of your site to appear as a site link in SERP,
2. Search Traffic:
Search Traffic is the most important section of Search Console because as the name suggests it will tell you about what you should improve to rank higher in Google.
a)Search Analytics:
Search Analytics will show you details about queries, clicks, impressions and average position of your site for a particular keyword in the Google search results.
Analyze your performance in Google Search.
Filter and compare your results to better understand your user's search patterns.
The Search Analytics Report shows how often your site appears in Google search results.
Filter and group data by categories such as search query, date, or device.
Use the results to improve your site's search performance.
See how your search traffic changes over time, where it's coming from, and what search queries are most likely to show your site.
Learn which queries are searched from smartphones, and use this to improve your mobile targeting.
See which pages have the highest (and lowest) click-through rate from Google search results.
Bonus Tip:
Filter your queries with Impressions, Clicks, CTR and Position so tick all those boxes.
The top of the chart will be keywords that you're on the first page for, but those are not much important right now because you already are in good search ranking position with those pages now.
Set the number of rows to show to "500" and scroll down until you see an about average position of 11 to 20, then look at those queries that are ranking for those positions.
Impressions and CTR will tell you how much those queries are searchable in Google and if it is worth it to try ranking for those queries, or even better you can use Google Keyword Planner to check their search volume.
If you find any keyword that has decent search volume and is worth it then you can click on that exact queries in the Search Analytics section of Search Console and then select Pages to see the top pages for the current results.
That will show you the page on your site that's ranking for that query.
And incorporate that keyword as part of that page's SEO, and try to optimize that page even more for example: by linking from other pages that have a higher reputation on your site and also try to earn some external backlinks directly to that page of the site.
The great part of the Search Analytics section is that you can even download all the data to your PC and export them to the spreadsheet.
Read also: Best Keyword Research Tools
Full Keyword Research Guide
b) Links to Your Site:
In this section, you can see Total links to your site, Your most linked content and How your data is linked.
At total links to your site, you can see top domains that have linked to pages on your site.
You already know that Google sees external backlinks as votes from other webmasters and website owners to your site,so the more the number of backlinks here is better but only if those sites that link to you have relevant content to the content of your site and if you didn't earn these links in an illegal way, for example by buying them, spamming other sites and other Black Hat SEO Techniques.
At your most linked content, you can see which of your site's pages are the most linked and have earned those votes from other sites.
These pages will have more chances to rank higher in Google search results.
How your data is linked tells you about the Anchor text that is used to link to your site.
Learn more about how Anchor text will help improve your site in SERP and usability of your site by decreasing the bounce rate of your site (also a Google ranking signal).
c) Internal Links:
Here you can find how your site is using Internal linking as a part of improving the structure of your site by increasing user experience.
Internal links are important just as external links so try to improve as much as you can your internal linking, but don't overdo it because keep in mind that one of the Google Webmaster Guidelines is to keep the number of links (both internal and external) per page under 100, otherwise Google may consider your site spammy.
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d) Manual Actions:
Here is a part of the search console where you don't want to be displayed any data about your site because here Google will display data if they find that you are not following Google Webmaster Guidelines and they have already penalized your site.
Here will be displayed those manual webspam actions taken by your site trying to cheat Google or sometimes when you are not being aware or not knowing what you are doing.
Google algorithms change very often so this can happen even to the best Webmasters and SEO experts.
Two types of actions are displayed on the Manual Actions page.
The Site-wide matches section lists actions that impact an entire site.
The Partial matches section lists actions that impact individual URLs or sections of a site.
Some common types of manual actions include:
Unnatural links to your site, Unnatural links from your site, Hidden text and/or keyword stuffing, Spammy structured markup, etc...
If your site isn't appearing in search results or isn't performing as well as it once did, you should check the Manual Actions report and take steps to address the problem.
e) International Targeting:
Use this section to target your audience based on location and language settings.
Language setting:
If your site has a section or pages that are written in different languages compared to your site's main language then this is the place to notify Google about this so that search results display the relevant language and a country version of your pages.
To make sure that your content reaches the correct audience, you can use these mechanisms for this:
- Hreflang Tags or Page-level markup in the HTML head (<head></head>) section of your pages-for example: <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x" href="alternateURL">
- Use a sitemap to indicate alternate language pages
- Use HTTP headers to indicate alternate language pages
Country setting:
If your site has a neutral top-level domain, such as .com, .org, .net, .info. geotargeting helps Google determine how your site appears in search results and improves Google search results for geographic queries.
If your site has a country-code TLD (top-level domain) it is already associated with a geographic region, so, therefore, you won't be able to specify a geographic location.
f)Mobile Usability:
Here you can see mobile usability issues affecting your site.
Websites with mobile usability issues will be demoted in mobile search results.
Google confirmed on the Webmaster Central blog that starting from April 21st, 2015 they started a new mobile-friendly update to its mobile search algorithm.
Because global web traffic from mobile devices is on the rise, and recent studies show that mobile visitors are more likely to revisit mobile-friendly sites, mobile usability is now relevant for optimal search results.
For best practice use Responsive Template for your site.
3. Google Index:
a) Index Status:
The total number of URLs from your site that have been added to Google's index.
At advanced tab you can find these data:
Total indexed: the total number of URLs from your site that have been added to Google's index.
Blocked by robots:
URLs Google could not access because they are blocked in your robots.txt file.
This is useful to understand how is Google indexing your site and if there is any page that you have accidentally blocked by robot.txt.
b) Content Keywords:
It shows the keywords that are used on your site, along with keyword variations and significance.
These data help you quickly determine if you need more content created around certain keywords, themes, and topics.
c) Blocked Resources:
Rendering without certain resources can impair the indexing of your web pages and usability of your site.
Keep an eye on this section and remove from your site any blocked resources that appear in here.
d)Remove URLs:
Temporary you can remove your site URLs from search result pages. This useful if you don't want some URLs to appear in SERP.
To remove Permanently you must remove or update the source page.
4. Crawl Section:
You can use this section of Google Search Console to take information about how Google crawls your content, is there any crawl errors, to test your robots.txt and most importantly where you can send a sitemap file to Google.
a) Crawl Errors:
Crawl Errors it gives you a lot of information like 404 errors and server errors on both desktop and smartphone.
When there is a 404 error on the page click it and it will give you information about that error, like for example when was the last time this error got crawled and when was first detected and also from where was linked.
You can use this information to fix those broken links that are causing these 404 errors and if they are on your site, you can redirect them to an existing working link that has relevant content inside your website.
After fixing these issues you can mark them as fixed in Google Search Console.
Generally, 404s don't harm your site's performance in search, but you can use them to help improve the user experience.
b) Crawl Stats:
Here you can find the information about how many pages are getting crawled per day and how much time is spent on Google Robots for downloading a page.
c) Fetch as Google:
The Fetch as Google tool enables you to test how Google crawls or renders a URL on your site.
You can fetch a page as a Desktop Google Robot or as a Mobile Robot.
Bonus tip: when you write a new post or update an existing post you can then fetch that post and submit it to Google for indexing.
You can submit a single page for indexing or a page with all the linked URLs.
You have 500 monthly submissions for a single page URL and 10 submissions for a page with all the data linked to that page.
Use it smartly to get your content indexed by Google.
d) robots.txt Tester:
Here you can test your site's robots.txt for any errors or if you have accidentally blocked any part of your website to get indexed.
e) Sitemaps:
In this section, you can send the Sitemap to your site in XML format to give Google information about your pages on your site that you want to get indexed.
Always send a sitemap to Google in XML format.
Bonus tip: send also an RSS or Atom feed of your blog as a sitemap here because that will tell Google immediately about a new page after you make a post on your blog.
f) URL Parameters:
This is a part where everybody including Google itself tells you to use it with caution. So use it only if necessary.
Incorrectly configuring parameters can result in pages from your site being dropped from Google index, so I (and Google itself) don't recommend you to use this tool.
Anyway, this tool's role is to exclude URLs from SERP based on URL parameters and it is useful for those huge e-commerce sites with long not-SEO friendly URLs.
5. Security Issues Section:
If your site gets infected by some malware script or you are using some malicious code on your site, here in this section of Google Search Console you can find a warning from Google that your site is infected.
If that happens you should find the malicious code within your site and remove it because if not, that will decrease traffic from your site because Google will show a warning message to users that will visit your site on Google Chrome.
6.Other Resources:
In this section of the Google Search Console, you can find other Google Tools that will help you to analyze SEO for your site.
Here you can find:
a)Structured Data Testing Tool
b)Structured Data Markup Helper
c)Email Markup Tester
d)Google My Business
e)Google Merchant Center
f)PageSpeed Insights
g)Custom Search
h)Google Domains
i)Webmaster Academy
I will not write about these tools here because I will create separate posts about these tools.
Google Search Console Says Goodbye to Content Keywords
|Google Search Console Says Goodbye to Content Keywords
The words on your pages, the keywords if you will, are still important for Google's (and your users') understanding of your pages.
While our systems have gotten better, they can't read your mind: be clear about what your site is about, and what you'd like to be found for.
Tell visitors what makes your site, your products, and services, special!
In the early days - back when Search Console was still called Webmaster Tools - the content keywords feature was the only way to see what Googlebot found when it crawled a website.
In the early days - back when Search Console was still called Webmaster Tools - the content keywords feature was the only way to see what Googlebot found when it crawled a website.
It was useful to see that Google was able to crawl your pages at all, or if your site was hacked.
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