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Former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad ‘Saheb’ Shahabuddin on Saturday walked out of jail after 11 years, as the Patna high court granted him bail in the Rajiv Roshan murder case.

Rajiv Roshan, an eyewitness in the acid attack case of Siwan, was gunned down allegedly by Shahabuddin’s sharp shooters in 2011. Roshan was the eyewitness in the murder of his two brothers Satish Raj and Girish Raj who were sons of a noted businessman Chandrakeshwar Prasad.

Satish and Girish were kidnapped and murdered on August 16, 2004 in Siwan, the turf of the former RJD MP Shahabuddin. However, it was the brutal manner in which both brothers were killed that shocked everyone. Both, brothers were drenched in acid before being killed allegedly on Shahabuddin’s direction.

The four time RJD MP and bahubali was given a hero’s welcome with his supporters and followers from across Bihar collecting outside the Bhagalpur jail where he was lodged.

Describing the chaos, a district police official said, “It was like a stampede in front the main jail gate with Shahabuddin’s followers chanting slogans.”

Now after being let out of jail, the strongman, accompanied with a cavalcade of hundreds of cars, made their to Pratappur in Siwan, his native village.

His village has already begun the celebrations with sweets being distributed and firecrackers bursting.

Soon after his release, Shahabuddin addressing the media in chaste Hindi said that it was wrong to describe him as ‘Siwan terror’ and that no one was afraid of him. “Mujhe aantak ka paryay kahna galat hai.”

Main tera saal ke baad apne ghar ja raha hoon. Main khush hoon, logon se milunga (I am going home after 13 years. I am very happy; will meet people)” said the RJD strongman.

And soon after his release, the Lalu loyalist took a dig at the state’s chief minister saying, “My leader is Lalu Yadav.”

Shahabuddin, who faces more than 40 criminal cases, including those of abduction and murder, and has been in jail for the past 11 years, was shifted from Siwan district jail to Bhagalpur in May this year after it was alleged that he had pulled strings from jail and played a role in the murder of Hindi newspaper journalist Rajdeo Ranjan.

The former MP gained ‘popularity’ with his ‘pro-poor’ diktats like ordering Siwan’s doctors and lawyers in the mid 1990s to stop charging their patients and clients exorbitant fees.

He is said to have helped the poor by providing dowry and cash for their daughters’ wedding expenses and also paid for their children’s higher education.

Shahabuddin’s electoral career commenced in 1989 when he was elected a member of the Bihar assembly from Jiradei. He also represented Siwan four times in the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 2009 as an RJD MP.

Talking of his close ties with RJD chief, a leader said, “Only he was able to sit across Laluji with one leg crossed over the other. That he could talk to Laluji while looking him in the eye was evidence of his power.”


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Police investigate sexual assault

Police are investigating a sexual assault that occurred on May 6 in Halifax and was reported to police on the evening of May 16.

Investigators with the Sexual Assault Investigation Team of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division spoke to the 23-year-old victim at length yesterday afternoon and learned that sometime between 2:45-3:15 a.m. on May 6, a man driving a taxi in the area of Argyle and Prince Streets picked her up in a black van with a roof light. The man stopped in the area of Walnut and Cedar Streets and when the woman asked how much the fare was, the man said “no charge” and forcibly put his lips on hers and then touched the victim in a sexual manner without her consent. The victim jumped out of the cab and hid until the man left the area.

The suspect is described as possibly a Middle Eastern or a light-complected black man with an accent, 35-40 years of age, approximately 5’8” with a medium build, a bald shiny head, a clean shaven face and dark eyes.

Police are asking anyone with information about this incident to contact police at 902-490-5016. Anonymous tips can be sent to Crime Stoppers by calling toll-free 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), submitting a secure web tip at www.crimestoppers.ns.ca or texting a tip – Tip 202 + your message to 274637.

Sexual assault investigations are very complex. As part of our victim-centered, trauma-informed approach to sexualized violence, we work closely with victims to ensure they’re willing to proceed with a police investigation, which includes giving a statement about the incident and providing a description of the suspect if possible. Police must also ensure the victim’s privacy is upheld and well-being is fully considered; sexual assault investigators have been taking these measures since first speaking with the victim, and we’re now in a position to report this incident to the public.

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{recipe} Chicken Pesto Pasta With Roasted Yellow Zucchini

When a box arrives at your door containing a box of super greens pasta, yellow zucchini, and a lemon you can’t help, but think about what you’re going to create with it. I had a vague idea of what went into pesto, so I kind of just tossed a bunch of things into a blender, and crossed my fingers it would work out.

We don’t eat a lot of pasta in our house, but I think it makes a great treat and it’s perfect if you need to feed a crowd. Some of the things I liked about the Catelli Supergreen Pasta was that it was GMO free, and the ingredient list was super simple (100% wheat spinach, zucchini, broccoli and kale).
I also think that because the sauce is green you might be able to trick kids (or your hubby) into eating it we all know how picky they can be. If green things aren’t their thing this could be the ticket.
I didn’t have pine nuts, or fresh basil on hand, but I figured walnuts and dry basil would work just fine. And it did looking at these photos know I really want to be eating this again for lunch today lol. If you have fresh definitely go for it, it would be REALLY delicious, but if you’re lazy like me simply follow the recipe below.

1 box Super Greens Pasta
1 chicken breasts, cubed
2 green or yellow zucchini
Parmesan for topping
Olive Oil
Salt and pepper
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup of dried basil or 3 handfuls of fresh
1 TBS garlic powder
1 TBS onion powder
1 handful of walnuts
1 handful of parmesan cheese
splash of lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste

Start  with your zucchini first (it will take the longest).
Simply slice zucchini into coins, and toss with olive oil salt and pepper, and spread out on a baking sheet. Cook for about 15-20 minutes on 350 and then flip and cook the other side for another 15-20 minutes until cooked to desired texture.

Prepare pesto in blender or food processor. If using a blender be sure to start with olive oil first, and add all ingredients and blend until combined. Feel free to add more olive oil an necessary. You could also make your pesto ahead of time, as this would allow for it to get thicker (if that’s preferred) if you like it thinner just add more olive oil.

Cook pasta according to directions, drain and set aside.

Season the chicken with salt and pepper, and saute until cooked thoroughly.

Combine chicken, and pesto sauce, and either serve over your cooked pasta or toss to combine (entirely your choice).
Top with more parmesan, and serve with your zucchini coins on the side. This recipe keeps very well, so you could for sure make a bunch of it, and eat it as leftovers or for lunch the next day (I definitely did).

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• Forge World
  • Child of the Creed
  • Renegade
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  • Prestige

Class: Explorator
Favourite weapon: Storm Bolter (aka the Legapitator)

Leto was not born an orphan, although he might as well have been. Within a day of his birth, his mother expired in his father’s arms, her mostly-flesh body unable to recover from the arduously long and painful process of bringing him into this world. When asked what the newborn’s name was, his father was said to mutter, ‘Leto’. Was it coincidence that the word meant ‘murder’ in High Gothic? Leto didn’t think so.

He would ask his father, had the man lived long enough. The incident report listed his cause of death as ‘safety protocol violation’. Having seen and worked the forge-lathe that his father supposedly forgot to secure and subsequently tripped into, Leto had arrived at a different conclusion. His father had written the safety protocols for that forge-lathe, among many other. There was no doubt in Leto’s mind that no safety protocol was violated. He noted that his father managed to have his accidental death without injuring anyone else, and more importantly, without damaging any machinery. In fact, if you believe the servitors’ binary whispers, the forge-lathe has since been operating at 9.2% improved efficiency.

His father was an ordained enginseer, and his rank was sufficiently high that the Lucius tech-priests took custody of Leto and ensured that he would become a productive cog in the machinery of the cult. He was often told that he could recite the Credo Omnissiah when he was barely three, and that he had mastered his first rite at five, a year earlier than his peers. Few things mattered to Leto other than his work and the mysteries of the Omnissiah, so it was no surprise that he steadily rose through the ranks of the Mechanicus.

At first, Leto was largely indistinguishable from his enginseer peers. He knew the rites better, spoke to the machine spirits more fluently, and made fewer procedural mistakes, but still he was just another part in the greater whole. It was not until later, when by chance he was seconded to a visiting explorator, that his path diverged. He spent a week performing third-level maintenance on the explorator’s implants and mechadendrites, and during that week his mind was irreversibly opened.

The chatty explorator was happy to regale him with tales of xenos artifacts and archaeotech excavations, piquing Leto’s latent wanderlust. “Xenos technology is extremely dangerous, and forbidden,” Leto had protested.

“It is so,” replied the explorator, who went by the name Fatus, “Yet the secrets of the Omnissiah are often found among them. Among them, mind you, not within them. Do not mistake me for an Abraxas daydreamer.”

Fatus laughed. “Mind the tines, boy, they are expensive to replace. If you can manage your job and listen to my babbling at the same time, I will tell you of Abraxas.”

Leto made sure Fatus told him exactly how he attained the rank of explorator before he left. Leto had faith in procedures: of one step leading to another, if done properly, and in each juncture having alternatives and contingencies. All things are attainable, if one is mindful of the procedure and is willing to work through the steps. Leto dilligently followed Fatus’ procedure, tweaking when the needs arises, and within two years the Mechanicus saw fit to assign him the rank of explorator. The Fabricator General himself welded the seal of the explorator to Leto’s cyber-mantle, and gave him his first assignment aboard the explorator ship Rakinos.

Fatus sent Leto a communique, congratulating him on his assignment. “Be mindful of your mindful mind, Leto of Lucius. The path of the explorator is not as ordered as you would like it to be,” Fatus wrote. Leto had already understood this, but he did not mind his mentor’s warning. While the procedure of becoming an explorator was mostly standard, there was no obvious equivalent for being an explorator. If there were standard procedures for finding STCs, then all of them would have been found by now. No, the path of the explorator required a different way of looking at the world, a different viewpoint that Leto had slowly been working to cultivate. Still, he had the advantage of knowing that procedures still had their place within his work. The steps towards an STC may not be known to him entirely at the beginning, but when the immediate steps become known, then he knew he could apply known procedures to get there, and then discover his next options, the apply the procedures, and so on. There was, indeed, if not a procedure, a meta-procedure to exploration.

His faith in the procedures proved well-founded when Rakinos warped into the Malfian Sub-Sector and found itself unexpectedly face-to-face with a squad of Meritech pirates. Leto had earlier followed standard protocol by checking last-known scans of the area and knew that the rogue trader ship Malefica Halitosia was undertaking a local survey within a few light years away. Leto immediately voxed this knowledge to the Rakinos’ astropath, who in turn transmitted a request for help. Leto and the machine spirits managed to jury-rig the void shields to withstand the Meritech macrobatteries long enough for Malefica Halitosia to locally warp in and drive the pirates away.

Magos Explorator Karven commended him on his quick thinking and sent him as envoy to the Malefica Halitosa. There he met rogue trader Bob Fay and his crew. Leto thanked his saviours and set the servitors to installing upgrades onto Malefica Halitosia, upgrades that Magos Karven had sent as a token of gratitude. “Let the servitors do their serving. You will stay for a feast. First, a tour of the ship,” Captain Fay said.

At first, the chaos of the rogue trader ship overwhelmed and unsettled Leto. Slowly, however, he came to appreciate how the multitude of entities inexplicably worked together, and did so well. By the time he sat down for the feast, plied with endless amasec and intently listening to Fay’s tales of adventure, his mind was reeling with admiration and awe. He was impressed, among many things, by the autonomy and prestige of the rogue trader life. Not as rich as it used to be, still the Fay dynasty had explored more forgotten worlds in a month than Rakinos was planning to do in its five-year expedition. This was exactly the kind of ship and crew that would lead Leto to knowledge of an STC, nay, perhaps even to an STC itself.

The Omnissiah had shown him an alternative procedure.

The Rakinos survived the battle, but was so severely damaged that it had to return to Lucius for repairs. Leto appealed to Magos Karven to let him serve aboard Malefica Halitosia, to settle the cult’s debt to Captain Fay. Karven was not entirely convinced, but he saw he would lose Leto anyway if he had said no. So he gave Leto a writ of secondment and the related paperwork, and gave him instructions to report back to Karven on a monthly basis. “You will go far,” Karven predicted. “I would have you remember where you came from.”

So that was how Leto took this particular path aboard Malefica Halitosia, where he again he rose among the ranks and eventually made Chief Enginseer. He knew what lied ahead for him, a progression all they way up to Magos Explorator, and then, who knows? Fabricator General? Would he be the next explorator to discover a whole STC? Leto considered these, and was pleased. He will get there.

Procedures: One step leading to another, if done properly, and in each juncture having alternatives and contingencies. All things are attainable, if one is mindful of the procedure and is willing to work through the steps.

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Emma Prusch Farm Park // San Jose, CA

One of the things that’s on my photography short list is photographing farm animals. So when my husband found out about Emma Prusch Park, a park in which chickens, peacocks, and sheep were wandering around, I was psyched. Chickens were indeed roaming around, but the rest of the animals were penned up. Still, such a charming place. And it was free!

(Although I did learn that chickens don’t really like me. One saw me standing 5 feet away and let out a long, sustained scream. I didn’t even know they could do that.)

Still on the short list: cows and horses. Still trying to figure out it’s possible to photograph them in the bay area.

Emma Prusch Farm Park
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San Jose, CA 95116

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  1. As always, your photos are beautiful. You’re not alone in the “chickens don’t like me” department. My youngest daughter got “pecked” by a chicken when she was 3 and to this day, every now and then, she still snuggles up in my lap and says “Mommy, do you remember when PawPaw’s mean chicken pecked me?” She says it in the most pitiful voice…it makes me want to cry and laugh all at once. Makes me wonder what she’d have to say about your photos though…

  2. Props to your hubby for finding it!

    HA! I’m sure the chicken was just making you aware that she was in charge.

    I would love to photograph horses too. I should look into where I could go do that. I know there are plenty around!

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USA Today Best Selling Author of adult and new adult contemporary romance

Sneak Peek!

Hi guys!

Here’s a sneak peek of Discovering Us, the first book from my new trilogy entitled True Love.

Tentative publication date is October 6, 2013

Have a look-see and let me know what you think!

Discovering Us (True Love #1)

They say nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

Well, this “They” can bite me.

 As far as I’m concerned, the hippocampus in my brain which stores long-term memory (yeah, I’ve looked that shit up) can go screw itself.  And since I’m going there, the prefrontal cortex can take a hike too. If it wasn’t for my stupid cranium, I think my mental health would be just fine, thank you very much. And that’s not a weirdly ironic statement, huh? But as it stands, my awesome retention of past happenings has played just too strong a role in my life leading me to some serious heartache.

I’m twenty-five years old, I’ve had a mostly decent life so far, but when the memories invade my mind… they always lead me back to Jag.

And I become a mess.

See, Jagger Knox Jensen was already set up for stardom with a cooler-than-hell name (his father had played lead guitar in a pretty famous rock band in the 70s and decided that any kids of his needed awesome names to go with the “cool” that came with, well, playing in a pretty famous rock band in the 70s).

Then there was me, set on the path to the humdrums with my very plain, very average name. Um, thanks again, Mom, for naming me after that Ripley chick in those Alien movies. Appreciate it. No, really.

My name is Ellen Love. Bleh. Saying my name aloud sounds like you’re trying to tell someone what letter’s in my last name. Insert look of disgust here.

Anyway, growing up, Jag and I lived on the same block in a suburb just outside of Chicago. I was a certified tomboy (having three older brothers I really had no other choice), and since Jag and I were the only kids around the same age in our neighborhood, we played together almost every day for years.

Summers found us riding our bikes up and down our tree-lined street, swimming in the heated pool in my backyard, or writing our names with silvery sparklers on the Fourth of July; winters we’d plop onto our backs to make snow angels in each other’s powdery-white-blanketed front yards, drink hot chocolate loaded with melty marshmallows in the clubhouse in his backyard, or run to each other’s houses hauling along what wonderful wealth of goodies Santa had brought us.

The entwinement of our lives was fated from the moment the ice cream truck slowly meandered its way through the neighborhood, and as we both eagerly licked on our Spiderman pops, we realized we were the only kids our age in the area.

And thus our story began.

This is the first part of it. Bear with me. There’s been a lot of shit that’s gone down.

Chapter 1

I was five when I first kissed Jag.

 I’ll never forget it. Ever.

Jag’s older by ten years sister Starr—see? Cool rock star kid name—had taken us to see Beauty and the Beast the weekend before and we’d both been awed that when Beast had kissed Belle at the end, a profusion of sparkles had shot up around them into a display of fireworks and then the ugly gargoyles on his castle turned to radiant angels. How freaking cool was that? So the next school day when we were at recess on the playground (Jag was on the big-kid side of the fence since he was a second grader and I was trapped in kindergarten-land), he came to the chain link fence that separated us and hollered out, “El, come here!” In my little girls’ red, pleated coat and black Mary Janes (Mom was still trying to turn me into a girl) I ran over to see what he wanted. His glacier blue eyes great big in his little boy face danced when he shouted, “Let’s see if it works!” Then he stuck his lips through the links all pursed and ready to be smacked. Without a second thought, I leaned in and landed a big one on him. We pulled back and looked around, a little disappointed that there was no sparkle, no fireworks, no changing of statues from evil to good (there were no statues around but we thought maybe some of the mean teachers could’ve been transformed… it was worth a shot), but then we both giggled and he ran away, swiping at that one hunk of his dark hair that always fell into his eyes, telling me over his shoulder that he’d see me after school.

I didn’t know then that that particular scene, his running from me, would play out again in our lives as I stood laughing after him.

 Well, I’m definitely not laughing now.

Chapter 2

I was ten when I fell in love with Jag.

We were on the bus riding home from school when Kyle Wade decided he wanted the Giordano’s gift card I’d won in math class that day. Kyle was a huge kid—he was supposed to be in Jag’s class but he’d flunked a couple times—and the class bully. He’d gotten in my face telling me I was a dumbass, which had earned a gasp from me since I wasn’t used to that kind of language from kids our age, then he’d grabbed my backpack, digging through it to pilfer the card. Of course, since I wasn’t a sissy by any means, I’d stood up to him, grabbing my bag back indignantly which was when he hauled off and punched me in the face, breaking my nose. Um, who knew pizza meant that much to the kid? Jeez.

I dropped back down into my bus seat stunned, while my best friend Rebecca Stark who sat with me freaked out as she dug to find a tissue in her bag as the blood from my nose continued to drip onto my Ace of Base (yeah, I know) t-shirt. We watched as Kyle proceeded to dig diligently through my bag, haphazardly tossing everything out into the aisle. That was until he suddenly went flying, landing face first on the bus floor with a loud “Oomph!” I watched in amazement as Jag pinned him there, his knee digging into Kyle’s back, and he whispered in the kid’s ear that if he touched me again, he’d kill him. Wow.

 After Jag jerked Kyle up off the floor by his shirt collar—the kid was now snot bawling which almost made me feel sorry for him… almost—Jag made him pick everything up and put it back in my bag, hand it back to me nicely, and apologize. When he was satisfied, Jag reminded Kyle of his previous warning then Jag punched him good and hard in the stomach as he sat him in a bus seat, telling him he’d better stop crying or he and his friends would mess him up but good.

Jag’s blue eyes glittered wildly as he smiled at me while he pushed that shock of dark hair out of his face, asking, “That good enough, El?”

All I could do was nod at him in admiration then he went to the back of the bus to sit with his buddies once again.

Rebecca looked at me, her brown eyes huge. “That was awesome,” she whispered.

“Yeah,” I said all nasally, holding the tissue to my nose.

Great. Mom was going to kill me for getting blood on my shirt. But God knew she loved her Spray ‘N Wash. With my three older brothers practically rolling in dirt all day long, the woman literally had a black belt in cleaning, so her eyes would probably glaze over in lust at the opportunity of scrubbing my shirt into submission, getting it back to looking like new.

But when I got home, lo and behold, my sanguine-stained shirt wasn’t even an issue as my mother whisked me off to the emergency room to have my nose reset. And a great, big YEOWWCH on that one. When I got home, I looked in the mirror and let out a groan when I saw two black eyes glaring back at me like two multicolored beacons of pain behind the bandage that covered my nose. Pretty. But my brothers had thought I was “The Shit,” which garnered them a dirty look from Mom, and their approval through giving me soft arm punches made me happy, so it was all good.

 Since Dad was an attorney, he’d contacted Kyle’s parents to let them know what’d happened, and after they told Dad they’d cover all medical costs, he let them off the hook, an apology being all he was after, well, that and a promise that they’d look into their son’s bullying problem.

Dad had also wanted to contact the school about Mr. Abernathy, the bus driver, but I talked him out of it. He’d asked me why he hadn’t stopped the bus when Kyle had started his crap. Well, Mr. A was hard of hearing and when one of the littler kids had told him what’d happened (after he’d dropped off Kyle), Mr. A had felt horrible and had apologized about a kabillion times to me for not stopping and taking care of things. He said his hearing aid batteries had gone out that afternoon and he hadn’t had time to replace them, so he hadn’t heard what was going on. And since his hearing was impaired, he’d had to really pay attention to traffic; therefore, he hadn’t seen what had occurred in the bus mirror. But he was a sweet old man who’d lost his wife two years before and I told Dad that he was a good driver, he was nice to all us kids, and that if he’d heard what was going on, he would’ve stopped. So taking that all into consideration, Dad didn’t call, thank goodness.

The best part of the whole situation? Jag had thought I looked cool and badass with two black eyes and I didn’t think I could love him any more.

© Harper Bentley 2013

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So this is xmas…. December 24, 2005

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I am back east for the holidays…

Its supposed to be freezing cold right now, but it is in the 50’s. This is a good thing so I can ease into the sub-temps not that my nethers dont usually agree with…

Since I dont have much to say at the moment, go check out Penny-Arcade for some good (web-comic) reading… Go all the way back through the archives and get caught up. You can really see how they have progressed to where they are now… and you can see all the good work they do with their charity Childsplay.

I will try to post a few more times while I am out here…. even though I am the only one reading this right now…

All pro athletes are sell outs, we as fans have to get over this… Thanks for showing me the truth Johnny D.

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Surprised the kids this morning when over the intercom it was my voice reading the daily announcements and not the principal’s. “Good morning kids, this is Jonah and Aida’s mom please stand for e pledge of allegiance…”. Reading the lunch menu and encouraging them to buy me petunia’s from the fundraiser for Mother’s Day was the the best. By the end, Jonah’s entire class along with Aida rushed to the office to ask me to do the announcements every day. Just made a memory.

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Why Search No Longer Has A Chokehold On Marketing

How To Think Beyond Search Marketing In 2016

Think beyond search marketingSearch is no longer marketing’s safety school.

Don’t rely on search marketing in 2016. It won’t ensure that you’ll appear on your audience’s radar if your other marketing fails.

Like a college applicant, you must hedge your marketing bets to reach your maximum potential audience.

Hoping search marketing in general or Google in specific will succeed is myopic. Google, like Facebook, changes its algorithms without notice.

More importantly, focusing on a tight search marketing definition misses the key issue:

Digital marketing has evolved into contextual marketing.

Therefore: think beyond search marketing in 2016.

Your audience’s context is key to providing an appropriate marketing response.

Examine who and what has a hold on your target audience’s attention and pocketbooks. To know what’s on your customer’s mind, understand what’s in their hands, what they’re doing, and where they are.

Mobile has matured. Think mobile first, not mobile only. To be effective, make your marketing cross-platform.

Even if you’re standing in front of your prospect, there’s a good chance you don’t have her undivided attention.

You no longer compete against marketing messages from your direct rivals and close substitutes.

Instead you compete in real time against input from her family, friends, boss, work associates and social media connections. Your message has to fight for her attention along with her personal life, work responsibilities and other interests.

I learned this lesson working for my father’s hyper-local print newspaper in Queens, NY. Often, local merchants had to weighed the cost of advertising against taking their wives out to Saturday dinner.

When money was tight, you could almost see the owners sweat their advertising decisions. Advertising results were intangible. Listening to their wives’ disappointment wasn’t. It was a tough call.

You’re vying for your readers’ and customers’ time, focus and discretionary purchasing power.

Due to the competition for audience attention, no one marketing approach alone can yield the optimal results to build your audience.

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You need a combination of marketing strategies working together to reach your maximum potential audience. To yield optimal results, use a mix of owned, social and third party media.

Numbers can be deceptive.

You don’t need everyone. You only need the people interested in your offering.

To succeed in today’s contextual marketing environment, plan your coordinated marketing approach. Think both macro-level audience attention and micro-level audience attention.

Macro-level audience attention: The major players

From a macro audience attention level, assume the top players across platforms have at least one major entry point to your potential audience.

Remember Google extends beyond search marketing. It owns YouTube, a video platform that’s the second largest search engine after Google. Further Google offers Gmail, Google Docs (and other Microsoft Office competitive options) and Google Analytics for free. These business tools yield other non-search entry points.

Just as Google is no longer the only search option, the other major players have multiple ways to reach and connect with your prospective audience.

Here are 5 key macro-level audience attention players. Assess their sway over your key audiences’ attention when you look beyond search marketing in 2016.

  • Facebook continues to dominate global reach and time on the Internet and apps. Facebook isn’t just social media. It’s also messaging via FaceTime and WhatsApp. Instagram provides another prospect entry point.Beyond Search Marketing
  • Amazon is where 44% of shoppers turn first online for product information. Where they ultimately purchase doesn’t matter. Amazon is the granddaddy of review sites. More importantly, Amazon requires sign in, unlike most non-social media sites.Shoppers check Amazon First
  • Apple dominates the app world via the iTunes store. This translates to entry via podcasts and apps.
  • Voice search continues expanding its reach. Your fingers no longer have to do anything to search. Convenience rocks. This includes Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana and Amazon’s Alexa. Expect voice search to cut into Google’s mobile search position.Mobile Voice Search-16-34 year olds-International-Chart-3Q2015-GlobalWebIndex-1
  • Niche rating and review search alternatives such as Yelp and TripAdvisor are goto sites and apps. If you’re in one of these verticals, be present and rank well. Otherwise, you’re invisible. Want more rating and review information check Dan Lemin’s ManipuRATED.

Micro-level audience attention: Diversify marketing options

Marketers face increased challenges to attract and retain their micro-level audience attention.

To increase your chances of reaching your potential audience, diversify your marketing to maximize return. Translation: Think beyond search marketing in 2016.

Reduce or even better, eliminate once and done marketing. As a result, you’ll decrease your marketing spend. It’s a necessity as marketing budgets stop increasing and start requiring measurable ROI.

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Marketers will extend their content marketing efforts to include the entire business, not just the marketing department. This will streamline content creation, eliminate duplicate activity, and reduce costs.

Here are 5 key internal micro-level audience attention tactics. Assess their audience reach when you look beyond search marketing in 2016.

  • Make your blog the jewel in your marketing crown. A successful blog supports your customers, social media, search and influencers.
  • Be part of your audience’s content inner circle or be invisible. Where possible, build customer relationships directly.
  • Atomize content across the organization. When content is created, develop additional presentations for owned, social and third party media. This reduces costs by creating all of your marketing materials at once.
  • Extend content distribution and repromotion. Most content is only distributed for a day, week or month. Where appropriate, batch schedule  content distribution over a longer time horizon. Plan for 3, 6 or 12 months at a time.
  • Actively republish and update existing content. This helps balance your workload while giving your content a second lifetime of distribution. Incorporate enhanced existing content marketing.

Think beyond search marketing in 2016 to extend your potential audience.

Embrace contextual marketing to maximize your content marketing, social media and mobile spend while eliminating redundant activities.

Understand your potential audience’s context when they seek your information regardless of their need, device, location, or step in the purchase process.

Remove the barriers that hinder your prospects ability to access your content and give it their attention.

Be ready to serve your audience when they turn their focus to your marketing.

If you don’t you may lose them forever.

Happy Marketing,
Heidi Cohen

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3 Responses to Why Search No Longer Has A Chokehold On Marketing

  1. Chris Hooker says:

    Whoooah Heidi! You have certainly placed burrs under some saddles there! I think that you are right on the money though, I already have my posts scheduled for periodic release on a two month cycle. Do you think that is a reasonable time frame?
    As to mobile and Smartphones, my stuff is optimised for mobiles (I don’t own a Smartphone), does that work for the ‘Smarties’ as well?
    By third party I’m assuming that you mean guestposting? that’s a bit more difficult as no-one will accept posts from people who aren’t already ‘names’!
    You say in your post ” If you’re in one of these verticals, be present and rank well,” you are speaking of Yelp and such, do you recommend that bloggers join similar platforms?
    Thanks for the post, well written and very informative (I just wish that I was better informed myself), a nice one.


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Skater Spotlight: August 2017

It’s time to learn a little bit more about one of our all important Skaters!

August’s Skater Spotlight is going to introduce you to the wonderful #297 Mane-iac – Helgin’s Treasurer; last remaining founding member; and one of our BRSF qualified Beginners’ Coaches!

Mane-iac in action, photos courtesy of Laura MacDonald.

What is your day job?
I used to be an accountant, but with three kids, I’m currently a stay at home mum.

What do you do for fun (other than derby)?
I like to read, spend time outdoors and enjoy the occasional crafty project.

What is your dream holiday destination?
I’d love to go to the Maldives, but I’d settle for any sunny, peaceful beach with plenty of cocktails on hand.

What is your specialist skill (on skates or off)?
I can knit – I design and knit novelty Christmas jumpers for my children every year.

What attracted you to join roller derby?
I’ve always enjoyed roller skating. A couple of years before starting with Helgin, I bought a pair of skates and went out in those a few times. I’d seen Whip It and thought derby looked amazing fun, so when I saw a post on Facebook about a group trying to start a roller derby team, I just had to be part of it!

Which derby player do you look up to/ most aspire to be like?
There are so many amazing people involved in derby but if I had to choose one that stands out to me, it would be Krusty from Granite City Roller Derby. She has helped Helgin from the very beginning, supported us in our development and is always there for advice when needed. She’s also a fantastic skater and all round lovely lady!

What’s your top tip for those just starting roller derby?
Don’t compare yourself to other people, try to look at how far you’ve come personally and be kind to yourself!

One positive thing roller derby has brought to your life:
I’ve met the most amazing bunch of people and it’s always great fun spending time with them, whether it’s on the track or off.

What is your proudest derby moment to date?
Playing in Helgin’s first game. It felt as though Helgin had finally achieved what it set out to do, we were a bouting team. It was an amazing day and I was very proud to be part of it.

Roller derby to you, in three words:
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Old School Assessment

One of my greatest flaws as an educator deals with the notion of assessment. I struggle perpetually about how to assess, what I am truly assessing, and whether or not the tools and methods I select are actually meaningful. I am constantly stealing ideas, reading articles, and lurking in the background trying to discover the secrets of master teachers who have, as it would seem, an innate sense of what good assessment looks like.

Enter my colleague Rachel Collishaw – a Senior Years history teacher from Ottawa who I had the pleasure of visiting with in November at the Governor General Awards:

Rachel is the bee’s knees and when I heard that she was delivering a webinar for Canada’s History on assessment, I was stoked. In the webinar, she spoke of turning the idea of traditional assessment on its head, and seeing the process as a confversation. She asked the big “what if?”  What if a summative assessment was a conversation between people?

Now, this is not a new idea. Humans have been doing this for thousands of years. But for me, it was a new idea in terms of my practice. What if I really wanted to hear what my students knew, what they cared about, and what they could do? What if I could go deeper into their brains and souls without the worry of plagiarism or the idea that they might be trying to conform to a test, as opposed to expressing their ideas?

Based on her inspiration, I decided to take the plunge! Over the course of the year, I realized that I had not developed the relationship with my Grade 9 Canada in the Contemporary World class that I had wanted. Through a perfect storm of inservices, PD, and, and something called Sochi, I had missed quite a bit of face time with this crew. As such, I decided that I needed to have a conversation with them. Their term test at the end of February would be an interview.

As a group, we began to prepare for these interviews. We initially developed a list of content, skills, concepts, experiences, and “big ideas” that we thought were appropriate for discussion. Next, we created a Google Document which contained a list of questions that might elicit the type of responses that would allow us to determine whether or not we had actually learned something over the past few months. From there, we developed an assessment criteria that would help guide whether or not we had to go back and take a second look at things that we may not be sure of. It also helped me create a “mark,” an apparent and necessary evil of the industrialized education model.

The result was perhaps the best assessment that I have ever done. Not only was I able to see into the mids of the learners in my class, but I was able to see where I needed to improve as a teacher. I saw common themes where my teaching lacked (in argument development, for instance), and where certain learners needed some scaffolding. Most importantly, I began to develop a relationship with the students – the cornerstone of collaborative learning.

Here is a sample:

Granted, the oral assessment is not a new idea, but I am eternally thankful to Rachel for kicking me in the assessment pants. I am really looking forward to playing around with this methodology for the years to come. As per usual, I am late to the game in terms of many things related to pedagogy, so I look to you all for guidance.

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We head to the New Orleans Marigny to meet up with Chef Kristopher Doll of the neighborhood-first, one-man show, Shank Charcuterie, for a talk about butchering, and what it’s like living upstairs from your office.

We then make our way back up north, home to Brooklyn for a live in-studio performance from feminist punk guitar-and-drums duo, True Dreams. We also explore hairdressing, pastry chef-ing and find out if a certain bodega owner in Ridgewood, Queens, has seen them perform.

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While working on my family tree today, I stumbled on someone’s tree on Ancestry.com and she had a link to her blog. So I thought what better way to not only help me sort through all this information I have and figure out what is right and what is wrong, but also connect with other family members who can help me with this long and tiring process. And hey it’s a good way to connect to others who are connected to my family in one way or another.

So, please bare with me as I figure out how to not only sort through my tree, but also blogging.


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So I finally ordered my DNA test from I just checked and it is at the post office now, so I am hoping I will get it tomorrow. I have been wanting to do this test for a long time now. I hope it will answer some questions I have had. It will be great if I am connected to new family who may be able to answers questions as well.

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The first report

The first report on June 20 came out like this:

Emergency services responded to a report of a 7 year old boy who was having difficulty breathing. Paramedics attempted to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.

The boy, his grandmother and his 8 year old sister were visiting with the boy’s 85 year old great grandfather when the boy apparently fell down the stairs. Investigators say the boy died of blunt force trauma to the abdomen.

Neighbors said that officers spent the evening removing items from the home.

The second report says:

 Carolyn Cattin, 44, committed suicide in a doctors office on Tues. She and her husband were reportedly there for counseling, and she learned that the charges were to be filed against her. Authorities say that she excused herself from the session to go to the bathroom, and shot herself in a stall. Allegedly neither the husband or the counsler were aware of the shooting, until police announced they were sealing the building off because of the shooting. Cattin had full custody of Aaron Hutson, and she was his grandmother.

Police say they prepared charges against her and were about to file them when they recieved word of her suicide. The charges to be filed against her were first-degree murder, abuse of a child and two counts aggravated intimidation of a victim or witness. Police have said the last two counts were for the alleged intimidation of two children were were present at the time that Aaron died. Both children also lived with Cattin and both children are now in protective custody.

According to an aquaintance, this was a surprise. From her discussions with Cattin, she thought that Cattin was trying to protect the two children from the birth mother and father and she acted like they were her first priorty.

Cattin’s husband, Patrick Cattin, 46, is awaiting extradition back to Kansas where the murder occured. Police say that he has been charged with aiding a felon.

A grandparent is an experienced parent. In order to have a grandchild, they had to have had at least one child. Often the grandparent will be the first one asked for advice when coping with the grandchild gets tough.

This grandmother had raised her child or children. Whether they would be counted as a success or not, at least they lived and were grown and gone. But she was acting as a parent to not one, but evidently three more children. She was not required to. And there were other options out there. Maybe not great ones, but there are options.  So she had choices.

I don’t know what happened that day. I don’t know how Aaron recieved the blunt force trauma. But I know it shouldn’t have been from a grandparents hands.

Two other children. Now they are in protective care. After they witness an alleged murder of ones brother, at the hand of their grandmother. After allegedly being threatened and intimidated by their grandmother. I hope they are now somewhere safe and happy.

And I hope Aaron rests in peace.

Charges against Patrick Cattin were dropped.

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  1. Brandy said,

    July 27, 2008 at 12:27 am

    My name is Brandy. Carol Cattin was my godmother I had known her ever since i was born. She was there when I was born. I do not believe that she was the one that killed Aaron. I believe it was a tragic accident. I knew Aaron very well to. Even by my self with Carol and the three kids did she EVER lay a hand on them. I believe he did fall down the stairs and a child that is that small, if they fall down the stairs they are going to have head trauma, think about it you hit your head hard enouph it will cause trauma and as for the rest of his body that has trauma when you fall your going to get bruises (trauma). I believe Carol committed suicide due to not any grandparent would want to be accused for killing their grandson. And for having people from the News stations constantly at your door and will not leave, it gets to people! This is my first time really speaking up about this subject. It has been really hard for me, exspecailly due to what might as well of been my Mom killing herself and for Aaron death. Aaron was like a nephew to me. I miss them both dearly. And I am ready to start speaking up abut my opinion. She wanted Nothing more but the best for All THREE of the kids!
    Rest in Peace Aaron & Carol (Carolyn) Cattin.

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The 911 Call

Sometime just before 2 pm on Monday police recieved  a 911 from James Morris, 51. He allegedly told the dispatcher that his wife had come home from work for lunch, and had planned to return to work. He said he had gone to work that day, but had come home because he was sick. He said he and his wife had been in a struggle, and that he had shot her. He also stated he was armed with a shotgun.

Police who responded to the home report they heard a single shot being fired. Upon searching the home they found Royceanne Miller, 49, on the back deck. She was covered in a blanket and according to reports she had been shot once in the back, near the lumbar spine.

They found James Morris on the back patio. He was in a chair with the shotgun by his side. He was dead from what they are calling an “apparent self-inflicted injury.”

Detectives say it did appear there had been a struggle in the home as there were several decorative items that had been knocked over. Police say there had been no previous calls to the home for domestic violence.

Royceanne Miller was still alive. She was taken to the hospital where she has undergone 4 surgeries. She remains in critical condition. She did not have health insurance, and the community is banding together to come up with funds to try to assist with her health care costs.

Domestic violence detective Tommy Roberts is reviewing the case to determine the cause and “I’m going to try to piece this together to hopefully prevent this from happening in the future.” (911 call at link)

They are calling them domestic violence detectives, though they do not explain the term. Somehow the thought that perhaps they have assembled a team that deals with only domestic violence cases is somehow reassuring to me.

Just the action of appointing a DV team does acknowlege there is a difference between DV and other types of cases. Experience will help a lot, and if there is training also, then they may be taking a step ahead.  If they are actually talking to survivors- finding out what worked for them and what didn’t, then they will really be making major strides.

  1. Becky J said,

    January 12, 2007 at 6:42 am

    Hi home, i was just wondering if you know how to contact the police station that has the “domestic violence dectectives” it sounds very interesting to me and something that i would like to research so that at some point i can present something like that to our police force in my town, with the education awareness weve been doing i think it would be something we could try to get going on here. Thanks. Also i hope that Royceanne makes a full recovery, were there any children in the household? If so i hope they utilize some counseling to help them learn to deal with such an awful tragedy.

  2. Laura said,

    January 12, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    Domestic Violence Detective sounds like a brilliant bit of police theory. I would love to read more about it.

  3. January 12, 2007 at 2:39 pm

    From the first Murfreeboro link it says this:
    “couples who are experiencing domestic problems may seek help from the detectives at 893-2717 or the Domestic Violence Program services at 896-2012.”
    And it is North Carolina

  4. becky j said,

    January 12, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    Thanks home for the information, you do a great job!!

  5. January 12, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    You’re welcome. Hope it helps.

  6. Susanna Viljanen said,

    November 25, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    With sadness I announce that Royceanne Miller passed away 18 November 2008. She fought bravely for her life and was recovering from her injuries, but they eventually proved too much for her.

    Royceanne Miller, 51, was an amateur poet and songwriter, and well known amongst the musical hobby community. She is survived by her older sister.

  7. November 26, 2008 at 1:40 am

    Susanna I am so sorry to hear that. It is hard to tell the severity of the injuries from a newspaper article. I was so hoping that she would make it and she did make it just under 2 years. So she must have been a very strong woman. This has to be a big loss not only to her family and friends but also to her community. I am so sorry.

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How to tame the Mind?

This is a subject which interests equally to psychologists, philosophers and spiritualists! The power of the mind is immeasurable. When the mind is quiescent, every thing is OK. But for most of the people, mind is a rude jumbo which can't be controlled so easily. Now i will tell the readers one concept about the mind which is spelled out in many metaphysical and spiritual texts. Mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts. It is the thoughts which give shape to the mind. If there are no thoughts, there is no mind. A small example. Here is a piece of cloth. How it acquired its form. It is woven by the threads in both the directions. The intermingling of the threads on both the directions gives the form to the cloth. Now, remove the threads one by one patiently. What happens ultimately? There is no form of cloth. Likewise our thoughts form a web like pattern which gives a subtle form to the mind. We have observed that thoughts always emanate without our own volition. We may be attending some tasks but still some random thoughts will arise which has no connection with the task in hand. Controlling the thought process is very difficult but diverting the thoughts is always possible with practice.

Mind is an instrument which need to be disciplined. In many scriptures it is written, our food and environment decide the pattern of thoughts. Especially those who want to tread spiritual path should be careful about their food habits. They should not eat spicy, hot and fried goods since these foods tend to induce our passions. By eating fish and animal foods, certain ferocious qualities will arise in us. Food that are sore, and the food refrigerated and used many hours after preparation tend to dull our intelligence and discriminating tendencies and it will induce sloth and sleep. Hence those who are on the path of spirituality may consume fruits, fresh vegetables, steamed food, whole grains, a little milk and curd. Green leaves and vegetables promotes in us human qualities like peace, brotherhood, non-violence etc. Hence the eating habits contribute much to the pattern of thoughts that arise. Whenever you get negative thought, slowly divert it to positive thoughts by remembering good days, counting our blessings instead of brooding over the lack of things.

There is a way to discipline the mind. If you try to control it, it will come out with more fury. Watch your thoughts in a disinterested manner. Usually what we do is to follow the thoughts and plan out a strategy to achieve a desire. Instead, do not do anything when thoughts arise. Simply watch them rise in the mind but do not follow them. Be indifferent to the thoughts. Initially, it would be difficult but with constant and consistent practice, we can become a 'witness' to our own thoughts. If you cultivate this particular practice, in coarse of time, thoughts will subside on its own or slow down. The mad rush of thoughts will definitely slow down and you will enjoy a strange peace! Secondly focus only on the Present moment. The secret is "Mind can not survive in the Present". Mind always owe its existence from the thoughts of past and plans of future. It will flee away from the present. A fly will sit on the eatable as well as in the dustbin. If it sees the fire, it won't go near it. Likewise the "Present" will not entertain the mind. Only after practicing this, we can learn the Truth. I can give you one more example. Everywhere, mothers feed their babies. What happens is that the babies will run ahead of the mother and mother will follow it to cajole the child to eat. The children finding that the mother is after them, runs here and there. If the mother stops a little and retrace her steps, the babies will start crying and follow suit. The mind too has to be treated in this pattern. As long as you follow the mind(thoughts) it will run ahead. If you stop following it but simply witness its stratagems, it will not wander again but will come back to you. Experiment this and write your experiences. Rest in next hub.

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Unconscious Bias: Cloning in the Workplace

It’s lonely being the only one in the room.

In my nearly 25-year career in media, I’ve often been the only Latino around a decision-making table. It’s frequently the same situation for any person of color.

Nielsen reports that the multicultural population is 120-million strong and increasing by 2.3 million per year in the United States. They make up 38 percent of the population today, and are projected to become the numeric majority by 2044.

According to a Fortune magazine 2014 report, more than 95 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs were white men. If you were to look at their organizational charts, then most of their direct reports (and their direct reports) would be reflective of them — white men.

How could it be there are so few of “us” and so many of “them” in top management positions, when study after study shows that the multicultural community is leading not only the country’s population growth, but also the economic growth as well?

The answer is unconscious bias.

Shaping our perceptions

We all have it. Unconscious bias is a fundamental way that human beings are wired that helps us make daily decisions. The filters we develop based on our life experiences shape instant perceptions about people. How we decide who is valuable is based on what is familiar to us.

Here’s a wonderful example of bias at work: In a Carlsberg TV commercial, unsuspecting moviegoers had to choose between sitting in a theater full of intimidating-looking characters or leave.

What would you do in this fight or flight situation? Most of us would choose to leave due to our perceptions of who’s dangerous and safe.

This Carlsberg spot might be apples and oranges when applied to your workplace, but there are similarities. At my office, relationships are forged based on the sports we play, the teams we follow and our alma mater. In a matter of seconds, we make decisions about a person we meet based on how closely they resemble us.

Fitting into the culture

The first criterion that hiring managers use to recruit candidates is themselves — when measuring skill sets and experience, and when deciding if the person would be a good fit with the company’s culture. This culture is bred by the “haves,” which limits the “have-nots” because of a lack of shared experiences like socioeconomic factors, including education.

Homogeneity isn’t strictly a white male problem — it applies to any recruiter who a candidate is facing across the table. Research by the Kellogg School of Management found that hiring managers favored recruits who shared their experiences and interests. The demographic makeup of a company might look diverse, but what’s underneath is the same.

Breaking the cloning chain

So, how do we break this chain of cloning in the workplace? Well, like patients seeking help with an addiction, executives first need to accept that they have a problem. One can only help leaders who realize that they must embrace and apply a philosophical change.

In an effort to improve the underrepresentation of female musicians, the top 5 U.S. orchestras began using blind auditions in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The hopefuls played behind a screen for a committee who couldn’t see them.The results were noticeable. The population of female musicians increased from 5 percent to 25 percent in approximately 20 years.

So, if recruiters admit that the selection or promotion process can be flawed, then could something like this be applied in the evaluation of résumés, job experience and applications? Yes, but only if diversity is a priority in key decision-making.

Here are some best practices from The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA):

  • Train hiring managers about unconscious bias blind spots.
  • Ensure that the selection committee is diverse.
  • Develop job-related criteria that are reflective of a larger pool of candidates.
  • Educate on the internal and external demographic population for the position to be filled.

Consider making sure that you are regularly interacting with people who are different from you. The fact that I’m a Latino does not pardon me from unconscious bias.

As a hiring manager, I make it a point to engage and develop relationships with people from other backgrounds. You can do that in the workplace by inviting colleagues for coffee or lunch. I also travel to various markets across the country, attending events representative of different communities.

As the multicultural market grows, a diverse workforce is key in providing companies with a competitive edge that is vital to their future success. If not corrected, unconscious bias will lead to poor decision-making, and result in a company becoming irrelevant and inevitably obsolete.

Hugo Balta

(this article was written for PRSA Tactics on 10/29/15)

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Emerging Nations Have Taken the Lead on Renewable Energy

Historically speaking, wealthier, developed nations, particularly the US and Europe, have led the world on renewable energy, investing the most capital and building the most capacity. Last year, that changed.

In 2015, for the first time, countries outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) invested more in renewable energy and added more renewable capacity than the 15 OECD countries combined.

This is only a bit of symbolism — the lines have been converging for a while — but it is important symbolism.

Led by China, emerging nations have emerged

The finding comes from the 2016 Climatescope report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It’s an annual snapshot of the state of clean energy in non-OECD countries. It goes deep, ranking countries on policies, finance, value chains, and various other metrics.

They’ve got an excellent data visualization to walk you through the results, if you’re interested, and a cool widget that allows you to compare any two countries on any set of metrics.

To me, the headline news is illustrated by two charts. This shows renewable-energy capacity additions from 2011 to 2015:

climatesope capacity additions(BNEF)

As you can see, after some fluctuations, non-OECD countries nosed ahead last year. It might bump around another year or two, but the longer term trend is clear: The center of clean-energy gravity is moving south.

And it’s almost entirely due to China. The country installed 142 gigawatts (!) of new power generation capacity in 2015, of which 33 GW was wind and 18 GW was solar PV. (Compare to India, which installed 27.8 GW of new capacity — 2.6 GW of wind and 1.7 GW of solar PV.)

This shows renewable-energy investment from 2011 to 2015:

climatescope investment(BNEF)

Again, these numbers might bump around for a few years, but renewable-energy investment in non-OECD countries is headed up, whereas investment in developed nations seems to have plateaued.

The surge in non-OECD investment is led by solar:

Investment in utility-scale solar in Climatescope nations spiked 43% from 2014 to $71.8bn in 2015. Total clean energy investment in Climatescope countries rose $24.8bn with solar accounting for nearly all of that. Photovoltaic (PV) costs are essentially on par with wind and, as recent tenders for power contracts have demonstrated, PV can now out-compete fossil-fuelled projects on price.

Solar and wind now dominate renewable-energy investment. “Together, [wind and solar] accounted for 65% of new clean energy investment in 2011,” BNEF writes. “By 2015, that had risen to 94%.”

And investment is spreading beyond China as well (this is from a different BNEF report):

An expanded list of emerging countries committed billions to clean energy last year with record increases, including Mexico ($4.2bn, up 114%), Chile ($3.5bn, up 157%), South Africa ($4.5bn, up 329%) and Morocco ($2bn, up from almost zero in 2014).

The world’s fate will now be decided by the race between coal and renewable energy in the Southern Hemisphere. Coal growth is slowing, but we are still headed for catastrophe.

This (okay, fine, three charts) is from the US EIA’s International Energy Outlook 2016:

EIA: energy sources through 2040(EIA)

If this unfolds, global average temperatures will exceed 2 degrees — possibly even 3 or 4. To stop short of 2 degrees, global coal use will need to be close to zero by 2040, with oil not far behind.

Emerging nations, like their OECD counterparts, are moving in the right direction, but too slowly.

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Date: 2007-03-07 14:38
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...the world probably isn't so bad when stuff like this happens. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6425333.stm)

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Date: 2007-01-13 00:23
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I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm reading the subtext incorrectly, but didn't Tony Blair (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6254253.stm) actually mean that we have to keep intervening overseas in order to remain a world power? That what makes us great is that we can still reach out with the mighty smiting British fist? Otherwise we're just like Germany, which only gets involved when it's absolutely necessary? Or worse, like France? Not sure I like that view of our role in the world. I really think Blair has developed a taste for gunboat diplomacy; I believe he's taken us to war more than any other Prime Minister, and if memory serves more than any American President in history. If that's how he measures our standing in the world, I'm not sure I want any part of it.
I feel a political rant coming on.
I would not have liked to have been in a room with John Reid this week. I have been in a room with John Reid when he wasn't upset about something and he still scared the living daylights out of me. I understand that in private he's rather charming and funny, but speaking personally that seems unlikely.
For the uninitiated, the latest faux pas to come out of the Home Office involves Britons who have committed crimes abroad and then returned to this country. The normal procedure is for details of their crimes to be entered in the Police National Database so that police forces around the country can keep an eye on them, but now it seems that the details of several hundred were not. This includes a number of people convicted overseas of murder, rape and paedophile crimes. Because they weren't entered into the database, the fear is that they could now be in positions which bring them into contact with vulnerable people such as children. John Reid came into the post of Home Secretary some months ago saying that the Home Office was `not fit for purpose' and implying that he was exactly the humourless Glasgow bruiser to sort it out. We can only imagine the scene when he discovered that he had inherited yet another cockup. We can only imagine it because I don't suppose it was pretty to watch.
Blair's explanation of the cockup at Prime Minister's Questions this week simply won't wash, I'm afraid. He stood up and basically blamed the whole thing on the countries where the crimes had been committed, saying it was up to them to pass dossiers on the criminals on to us, which - because they're foreign and not, you know, as good as us - they didn't do.
No one seems to have commented on this particularly sucky act of trying to sleaze out from under a bureaucratic snafu by blaming Johnny Foreigner. Was the Prime Minister trying to kid us that British nationals convicted of serious crimes overseas don't come to the attention of the British Embassy in that particular country? And that those embassies don't report back? And that those reports don't wind up, eventually, at the Home Office? The fault, it seems to me, isn't with foreign law enforcement agencies but with the system here, and blaming those agencies just seems like the worst kind of passing the buck and Blair ought to be ashamed of himself.

I know I'm going to get a slapping for this, but I'm afraid I'm on Ruth Kelly's side.
Once again, for those on the other side of the Village Pond, Ruth Kelly is a government minister who was not so long ago Minister of Education. She recently decided to take her son, who is dyslexic, out of his local school and send him to a private school which she believes will fulfill his special educational needs. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6240165.stm) This was news because New Labour is supposed to support state schools and most if not all of the state schools in Ruth Kelly's area are said to have pretty good provision for chldren with special needs, and the idea of a Labour minister sending her child to a private school is supposed to be anathema. It's basically an ideological thing.
Now, you'd have to be out of your mind to describe me as a friend of Ruth Kelly or anyone in this gang of maniacs who are supposed to be leading our country, but in this case I think she's right. I know her neighbouring state schools are supposed to be good in this area, but she took a decision based on what was right for her child. She's not stupid; she ran the numbers and she knew she'd have media problems, and she abandoned ideology to make sure that her son got the best education that his needs required. What? Was she going to hew to the ideological line and send him to a school where he wouldn't get the right care? Come on. Personally, she made the decision I would have made. You do the best you can for your kids, everything else gets sidelined. I was going to say it took balls to do that, but really it's a no-brainer, and I'm annoyed that it became, briefly, a stick for the media to beat the government with.
I'm building up a head of steam for a rant about the media, but it's late and hutch needs his bed and he has also taken strong drink this evening, so stay tuned.

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Date: 2007-01-15 13:51 (UTC)
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Blair's statement did seem to hark back to the days of Empire, didn't it? That was really rather alarming. I can't even remember Thatcher saying anything like that, not out loud - she just managed to transmit it by body language.
I did feel a certain schadenfreude when I first heard about what Ruth Kelly had done, thinking, `Well, think yourself lucky - at least there's a special school left that you can send your child to.'
As I understand it, there are state schools in Tower Hamlets that could have catered for her son's needs; the exact reasons why she chose a private school instead are unknown to me, but clearly she thought it had something the state schools did not.
She might not stand up and say that the system is crap and it's all their fault, but I do wonder if this episode hasn't altered her view of Labour ideology somewhat. Although probably not.
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Date: 2007-01-15 17:48 (UTC)
Subject: uninformed, west of the puddle, Blair comment
To quote Michael Flanders (and possibly Donald Swann), shortened for my convenience --

The English the English the English are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

....And crossing the channel one cannot say much
For the French or the Spanish, the Danish or Dutch
The Germans are German, the Russians are red
And the Greeks and Italians eat garlic in bed

The English are noble, the English are nice
And worth any other at double the price

And all the world over each nation's the same
They've simply no notion of playing the game
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won
And they practice before hand which spoils all the fun...

It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad
It's just that they're foreign that makes them so mad
The English are all that a nation should be
And the pride of the English are <> and <>

-- the other Jean-Marie (not the writer)
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Date: 2007-01-16 15:41 (UTC)
Subject: Re: uninformed, west of the puddle, Blair comment
Noble sentiments indeed...
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Date: 2007-01-14 05:41 (UTC)
Subject: as always, I'll opt to disagree with hutch...
While I am not familiar with the minute details of Ms Kelly's public or private life, I must say that her decision to pull her child from the state schools after professionally "improving" them is hypocritical to say the least.
IMHO, it is far more important that one models integrity, consistency (as much as anyone can), and living by principle to one's own child/children than to have them in the "right program."
I am married to a severe dyslexic, have a reading diability myself (or is it just hutch's writing style that's been the problem all these years?), and have three children each with their own learning issues. Thus, I speak from experience. Sure, dyslexia is a pain in the sas, knec, and every ohetr bdoy prat, but the coping mechanisms that one acquires to function with it, are attainable through many avenues, the most important being parenting with the progress of the soul in mind.
Finally, that the media latched onto it seems to me to be more indicative of a slow news day, not a crusade for integrity, consitency, and living by principle on the part of the Fifth Estate (or whatever it's called on your side of the Atlantic).

another Jean Marie (but not a writer)

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Date: 2007-01-15 14:09 (UTC)
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I did try very hard to put myself in Ruth Kelly's position, which as you'll appreciate was something of a stretch for a number of reasons, and the only honest conclusion I could come to was that she decided to do what she thought was best for her son, by her own lights, and in my heart I couldn't argue with that.
I don't know what influenced her decision, or whether there were other alternatives available. Was it hypocritical? Maybe so, but what would have been better - to stand by her work as a Labour MP and former Education Secretary and send him to a school she believed wouldn't be suitable for him, or to be a hypocrite and give him what she thought was the best chance?
I'm more inclined to be critical of those Labour MPs who marched for CND while they were in opposition and now they're in power advocate continuing with our independent nuclear deterrent.
It wasn't a slow news day so much; the Press just grab any stick to beat the government with these days.
I didn't know MQ was dyslexic. Or that you had a reading thing.
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Date: 2007-01-15 18:01 (UTC)
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Yup. He is big time. It was not diagnosed until his penultimate year in high school.

I got my degree in Math and CS only because there was minimal reading involved (that and the fact that I'd have MUCH better chances of finally getting asked out on a date if I was the only girl in a class -- ancient days, ancient days).

- the other Jean Marie (not the writer)
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Date: 2007-01-16 15:44 (UTC)
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I never realised that.
You should get yourself an LJ, you know. Then you can have a cool LJ name and a userpic and all that stuff. If an old Luddite like myself can have fun here, you'd have the time of your life.
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