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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don...
Malcolm Gladwell
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September 10, 2019
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A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true?
While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you'll hear the voices of people he interviewed--scientists, criminologists, military psychologists. Court transcripts are brought to life with re-enactments. You actually hear the contentious arrest of Sandra Bland by the side of the road in Texas. As Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, and the suicide of Sylvia Plath, you hear directly from many of the players in these real-life tragedies. There's even a theme song - Janelle Monae's "Hell You Talmbout."
Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Publication Date
February 10, 2015
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New York Times Bestseller

A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity鈥檚 creation and evolution鈥攁 #1 international bestseller鈥攖hat explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be 鈥渉uman.鈥?lt;/p>
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one鈥攈omo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?

Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.

Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become?

Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.

Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
Publication Date
January 28, 2020
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The New York Times Bestseller

The Wall Street Journal Bestseller

鈥淔ew books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein鈥檚 Why We鈥檙e Polarized.鈥?鈥擠an Hopkins, The Washington Post

鈥淚t is likely to become the political book of the year....Powerful [and] intelligent.鈥?鈥擣areed Zakaria, CNN

鈥淪uperbly researched and written..." 鈥擣rancis Fukuyama, The Washington Post

America鈥檚 political system isn鈥檛 broken. The truth is scarier: it鈥檚 working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us鈥攁nd how we are polarizing it鈥攚ith disastrous results.

鈥淭he American political system鈥攚hich includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president鈥攊s full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,鈥?writes political analyst Ezra Klein. 鈥淲e are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole.鈥?lt;br />
In Why We鈥檙e Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America鈥檚 descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump鈥檚 rise to the Democratic Party鈥檚 leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture.

America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together.

Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the twentieth century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis.

This is a revelatory book that will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself.
Hermann Giliomee: Historikus: 'n Outobiografie (Afrikaans Edition...
Hermann Giliomee
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November 14, 2016
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Hermann Giliomee verweef die verhaal van sy lewensverloop met di茅 van 'n land wat hom boei en besiel, 'n land waar die geskiedskrywing sentraal staan tot die hedendaagse politiek. As internasionaal gerekende historikus ondersoek Giliomee lewenslank die ontstaan en handhawing van die skerp verdeeldheid in die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing. Sy werk is vars en vreesloos, en vind aanklank by kenners 茅n gewone Afrikaanse lesers wat oor hulself en hul verlede begin herbesin. Sy uitgesprokenheid haal hom dikwels die gramskap op die hals - uit wyd uiteenlopende oorde. Hy is al gebrandmerk as 'n slang in ons midde", 'n oorbeligte", 'n taalbul" en die boer in the woodpile". Hoewel Giliomee as kind van die Afrikaner-volksbeweging in die 1950's grootword, wyk hy af van die nasionalistiese tradisie in sy kritiese ondersoek na die opkoms, hoogty en ondergang van eksklusiewe Afrikanermag. Hy lewer veral in die 1980's en 1990's skerp kritiek op die regering se alleenheerskappy en sy onwilligheid om vanuit 'n posisie van mag te begin onderhandel. Met binnekring-kennis is sy verstaan van Afrikanermag ingelig en genuanseerd, iets wat saam met sy onderhoudende vertelwyse lei tot talle topverkopers, waaronder die magistrale The Afrikaners, wat in 2003 deur The Economist uitgesonder is as een van sy boeke van die jaar.
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Irelan...
Patrick Radden Keefe
Publication Date
February 26, 2019
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One of the聽New York Times聽10 Best Books of the Year

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - TIME MAGAZINE

ONE OF THE BEST 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR - WASHINGTON POST

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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"Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book -- as finely paced as a novel -- Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga." - New York Times Book Review, Ten Best Books of the Year

From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.

Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
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February 28, 2017
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#1聽New York Times聽Bestseller 鈥⒙?lt;b>A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism.

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.

On Tyranny聽is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.

"Mr. Snyder is a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present." 鈥?lt;i>The New York Times
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
Alexis Coe
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February 04, 2020
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"Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It's a public service, and it's also a lot of fun." --Irin Carmon, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBG

Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he is not quite the man we remember

Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became the kind of man who named his dog Sweetlips and hated to leave home. He took up arms against the British only when there was no other way, though he lost more battles than he won.

After an unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War cast him as the nation's hero, he was desperate to retire, but the founders pressured him into the presidency--twice. When he retired years later, no one talked him out of it. He left the highest office heartbroken over the partisan nightmare his backstabbing cabinet had created.

Back on his plantation, the man who fought for liberty must confront his greatest hypocrisy--what to do with the men, women, and children he owns--before he succumbs to death.

With irresistible style and warm humor, You Never Forget Your First combines rigorous research and lively storytelling that will have readers--including those who thought presidential biographies were just for dads--inhaling every page.
Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kenned...
, Lisa McCubbin
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May 03, 2016
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years on the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.

The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and the swearing-in of the two who followed those traumatic events. Clint Hill was there, on duty, through Five Presidents.

 After an extraordinary career as a Special Agent on the White House Detail, Clint Hill retired in 1975. His career spanned the administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford. A witness to some of the most pivotal moments in the twentieth century, Hill lets you walk in his shoes alongside the most powerful men in the world during tumultuous times in America鈥檚 history鈥攖he Cold War; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy; the Vietnam War; Watergate; and the resignations of Vice President Spiro Agnew and President Nixon.

 It was indeed a turbulent time鈥攁nd through it all, Clint Hill had a unique insider perspective. His fascinating stories will shed new light on the character and personality of each of these five presidents, as Hill witnesses their human sides in the face of grave decisions.
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Wh...
Sonia Purnell
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April 09, 2019
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London

鈥淓xcellent鈥his book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.鈥?-- The New York Times Book Review

"A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people -- and a little resistance." - NPR

A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine.

In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."

The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.

Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. Even as her face covered wanted posters and a bounty was placed on her head, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped through a death-defying hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown. But she plunged back in, adamant that she had more lives to save, and led a victorious guerilla campaign, liberating swathes of France from the Nazis after D-Day.

Based on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has for the first time uncovered the full secret life of Virginia Hall--an astounding and inspiring story of heroism, spycraft, resistance, and personal triumph over shocking adversity. A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war.
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest N...
Adam Higginbotham
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February 12, 2019
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A New York Times Best Book of the Year
 A Time Best Book of the Year
 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner
 One of NPR鈥檚 Best Books of 2019

Journalist Adam Higginbotham鈥檚 definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster鈥攁nd a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century鈥檚 greatest disasters.

Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history鈥檚 worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute.

Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a masterful nonfiction thriller, and the definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth.

Midnight in Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human resilience and ingenuity, and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will鈥攍essons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.
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With the General Certificate of Education Advanced Level examination now into its third week and the pressure building up for next Sunday's Grade five scholarship examination it would be educative and enlightening for parents, teachers and other authorities to reflect on this letter sent by a Kolkata school to the parents. It said:
"Dear Parent,
The exams of children are to start soon. We know you are all really anxious for your child to do well. But, please do remember amongst the students who will sit the exams, there is a potential artist who does not need to understand maths. There is a potential entrepreneur who does not care about history or English literature. There is a potential musician whose chemistry marks won't matter. There is a potential sports champion whose physical fitness is more important than physics. If your child does get top marks then great. But, if he or she does not, please don't take away the child's self- confidence. Tell them it's okay, it's just an exam. They are cut out for much bigger things in life.
Tell them, no matter what they score, you love them and will not judge them.
Please do this and if you do, watch your children conquer the world. One exam or a 90 per cent won't take away their dreams and talent. And please do not think that doctors and engineers are the only happy people in the world. Wishing you all and the children the very best.
With Warm Regards,
We hope principals or class teachers who reflect on this will be inspired to read this or something like it to their students as an important step towards a major attitudinal change that is needed as the national unity or consensus government implements measures to restructure and reform the education process.
For too long, the education system and general attitudes taught directly or indirectly have been far too much oriented towards passing examinations. Specially during the past four decades of the globalised crony capitalist market economy, the vices of selfishness and self-centredness have created a moral crisis where children are being forced to pass exams with high marks at any cost. If they cannot do it by fair means, then even foul means are tolerated if not encouraged either in the family, in the school or society. Few of the children are committed to the hallowed, time tested principle that it is better to fail than to cheat. Competitiveness essentially is good but when it is taken too far to the levels of cut throat competition then it seriously damages the lives of the children and social values or standards.
A good place to start the reform or transformation process would be the grade five scholarship examination. Last year some 350,000 children sat this highly competitive examination which is also presumed to be prestigious. Knowingly or unknowingly the parents often put the children under pressure from grade 2 to push hard and study for longer hours so that they would go over the cut off mark which varies from district to district. The district quota system also has its plus and minus points with most social analysts agreeing that it was one of the issues that led to the student revolts and ethnic war which devastated Sri Lanka for more than 25 years.
Earlier this week, the government announced it was banning tuition classes, lectures, seminars and workshops for the grade 5 scholarships examination. We do not know how effective this ban would be or whether it came too late. But we know the huge profit making tuition industry has often found ways of unbanning the ban and the tuition business is able to do it only because the parents cooperate. Most educationists who see the higher vision and goals of character formation and good citizen building in education, are urging that the grade 5 scholarship exam be cancelled and it is hoped the government would do so from next year.
Due to lack of space we cannot reflect on other dimensions of secondary and higher education, but briefly we could say the best result would be for the education process to produce good eco-friendly citizens who would go beyond self and work for the welfare of all our people, for interracial and interreligious unity in diversity.
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Culture and Customs of Cameroon
Music and dance are an integral part of Cameroonian ceremonies, festivals, social gatherings, and storytelling. Traditional dances are highly choreographed and separate men and women or forbid participation by one sex altogether. The goals of dances range from pure entertainment to religious devotion. Traditionally, music is transmitted orally. In a typical performance, a chorus of singers echoes a soloist.
Musical accompaniment may be as simple as clapping hands and stomping feet, but traditional instruments include bells worn by dancers, clappers, drums and talking drums, flutes, horns, rattles, scrapers, stringed instruments, whistles, and xylophones; the exact combination varies with ethnic group and region.
Mbaku, John Mukum (2005). Culture and Customs of Cameroon. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press
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Archaeological evidence proves that the Baluba had settlements around the lakes and marshes of the Upemba Depression by the fifth century CE. The evidence suggesting an advanced Iron Age society by then comes from multiple sites, and these are among the best developed archaeological records in Central Africa. The Kamilambian, Kisalian and Kabambian series of evidence has been dated to be from 5th to 14th-century, suggesting a settled stable Luba culture over many centuries. Of these, the Kisalian period (8th to 11th century) pottery and utensils found, were crafted with extraordinary excellence. The finds dated to pre-8th century by modern dating methods are iron objects or pottery, thereafter copper objects appear.
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Pierre de Maret (1979), Luba Roots: The First Complete Iron Age Sequence in Zaire, Current Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, volume 20, number 1 (Mar., 1979), pages 233-235
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The Bamileke Tradition
According to Bamileke tradition the Succession and inheritance rules are determined by the principle of patrilineal descent. According to custom, the eldest son is the probable heir, but a father may choose any one of his sons to succeed him. An heir takes his dead father's name and inherits any titles held by the latter, including the right to membership in any societies to which he belonged. And, until the mid-1960s, when the law governing polygamy was changed, the heir also inherited his father's wives a considerable economic responsibility. The rights in land held by the deceased were conferred upon the heir subject to the approval of the chief, and, in the event of financial inheritance, the heir was not obliged to share this with other family members. The ramifications of this are significant. First, dispossessed family members were not automatically entitled to live off the wealth of the heir. Siblings who did not share in the inheritance were, therefore, strongly encouraged to make it on their own through individual initiative and by assuming responsibility for earning their livelihood. Second, this practice of individual responsibility in contrast to a system of strong family obligations prevented a drain on individual financial resources. Rather than spend all of the inheritance maintaining unproductive family members, the heir could, in the contemporary period, utilize his resources in more financially productive ways such as for savings and investment. Finally, the system of inheritance, along with the large scale migration resulting from population density and land pressures, is one of the internal incentives that accounts for Bamileke success in the nontraditional world.
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31 July 2013
Vacationing with old friends
My wife and I vacation in Port Townsend, Washington most years, as I have written before (and before). She spends most of the week taking music lessons and I spend mine communing with the muse, or trying to.
But sometimes the best part of a week off is spending time with old friends. That is certainly true of this trip. Not only did I see various music buddies, but I also ran into two writing friends: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and Clyde Curley.
However, those aren't the friends I want to write about today.
I first met Leopold Longshanks almost thirty years ago in a coffeeshop in Montclair, New Jersey. I didn't really meet him there; I just got an inkling that he existed. It took many years for him to solidify into enough of a character to write a story about.
I spent two days on vacation writing a story about Shanks and his wife and had a great time visiting with them. After a dozen tales, they are like old pals and it is great to catch up with them, see what trouble they are getting into.
Then there are Thomas Gray and Delgardo. They have only appeared in one novella and it is by no means certain that I can turn them into series characters, but I got 2000 words into a new piece, and had a lot of fun with them. Since they have had only one outing I am still trying to figure out what is essential to their stories and what is, so to speak, accidental.
These are pleasures you only get by writing about a character more than once. I was thinking about this recently as I read Janice Law's third story about Madame Selina in AHMM. As I recall Janice said she had never talked about reusing a character until I suggested this dishonest but oh so clever spiritualist needed a return voyage.
So, hwo do you guys feel about revisiting your old friends/enemies?
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- Unknown said...
Mr. Lopresti: I most certainly would like to tune in on Thomas Gray and Delgardo again. Their exploits don't always have to be novella length, do they? Bring us more of the beat generation. Late 50s to early 60s, there were many up-and-coming stylists who earned their props in Greenwhich Village. Bob Dylan for one. These guys don't have to occupy uptown N.Y. but they can sure as heck serve those in need locally. Life to these people is essential,but what happens to them is random. Or accidental, as you put it. I really want to see these guys and the entire cast of characters again. I swear, this is Damon Runyon stuff. Yours truly, Toe.
- 31 July, 2013 00:57
- Robert Lopresti said...
Toe, thanks so much. I have a chunk of a Delgardo story written. No idea how long it will be yet, or if it willever be published. If you like the folk music era in Greenwich Village, hou might want to read my novel Such A Killing Crime. And thanks for the kind words bout my new story in AHMM, by the way.
- 31 July, 2013 01:21
- Unknown said...
I should've known. Got the book! Thanks. Toe.
- 31 July, 2013 02:21
- John Floyd said...
Rob, I agree--series characters can be great fun to write and to revisit. Most of my stories are standalones and probably always will be, but I've written two different series so far and I'm thinking about doing another. At latest tally I've done 61 series stories, and those have been published 109 times in different magazines and anthologies--recurring characters have been good to me.
As I've said before, I think series characters are great for the reader AND the writer, because the reader already "knows" the people and the writer doesn't have to put in as much backstory each time.
I've always liked Shanks, by the way. You picked a winner, there.
- 31 July, 2013 10:16
And many thanks again for the advice as Madame S. shows no signs of going away!
- 31 July, 2013 10:28
- Eve Fisher said...
Series characters are great - most of my favorite mysteries involve series characters. And there are some others I only wish WERE part of a series (Liza Cody, please write a sequel to "Rift"!) Keep working with Shanks, et al!
- 31 July, 2013 10:45
- Leigh Lundin said...
After 8 Across appeared in AHMM, readers asked for more Sheriff José and Deputy Miller, but thus far I haven't come up with a brilliant sequel. I have been working on a series, though. I usually like series by other authors, including yours, Janice's, RT's, Fran's, Jan's, and John Floyd's. Now who did I leave out?
- 31 July, 2013 12:22
- Herschel Cozine said...
I enjoy writing about a character more than once. You can immediately find your voice and not worry about establishing the character. The downside of this is simply that you will be reaching first time readers and have to do some measure of re-introduction.
I have written about my series character, Nathaniel P. Osgood III many times, and still put a line or two at the beginning to identify him to new readers. (Sometimes I think that the only readers I have are new ones.)
And I join with John and Eve about Shanks. Keep 'em coming.
- 31 July, 2013 12:25
- R.T. Lawton said...
To paraphrase John, the (prior) reader can immediately fall in step with the characters of a series for their next adventure, which is good.
And, to paraphrase Herschel, the series author will always be reaching new readers and therefore needs to do a re-introduction of the character(s).
For myself, I run into two problems with my series: carrying the baggage forward from past stories and continuity. I have to keep finding new ways of passing along the same info on characters, plus keep a log of what has happened in the past to each character and who has which traits or character imperfections.
No matter, my series characters keep talking to me at different times, so they will probably be around for a while. It helps me to have several series to jump around in.
Nice blog, Rob.
- 31 July, 2013 21:06


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At present I am wondering what I can do with my new webcam, and how best to take stills with it, when I'm not making video. I'm guessing you can't import straight from a camera into Affinity, so I'm wondering what other people use to get best quality, non-jpg stills from their webcam. As a Mac user, I'm not expecting a miracle (webcams seem to be the least developed part of any Mac setup), but I'm sure there are better options than Photobooth. I'm interested in non-Mac related feedback for future reference. If this question seems obscure, it probably is. It's based on having had a stop motion building section, in a Logitec software we owned when I was a kid. Made a lot of work with that. Combined with how often I use my phone's camera and apps in my projects, it would be cool to have a similar function to my computer layout sometimes too.
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SEALs of Honor Book 12
by Dale Mayer
Valley Publishing
Contemporary Romance, Contemporary Romance: Romantic Suspense
May 1, 2017
Available in: e-Book
A four man unit brushes up against Mason and his 'Keepers' unit. Sparks fly from the beginning as not one of the men are looking for romance. But there's no choice — cupid has a soft spot for SEALS and he's lined his sights up on Devlin next.
The right place at the right time… or the very wrong place…
As part of a group helping to train Iraq soldiers, Devin is doing additional training on how to use the latest drones. But when a murder is committed on the base and suspicion is thrown on the drone's designer, he can't stop himself from helping her. When they return stateside, another employee in the same company is murdered. Once again suspicion falls on the designer. And as tension climbs, Devin wonders who will be next…
Bristol didn't want to take her latest drone models to Iraq, but she was behind schedule and her bosses were pushing.
Then disaster strikes, and she's the one everyone blames. She loses her research and her best friend, and now she's determined to find out who did this… no matter how dangerous it is.
The killer isn't done. He got what he wanted but there's more that he needs… and he'll kill to get it. After all, it wouldn't be the first time…
Dale Mayer is a USA Today bestselling author best known for her Psychic Visions and Family Blood Ties series. Her contemporary romances are raw and full of passion and emotion (Second Chances, SKIN), her thrillers will keep you guessing (By Death series), and her romantic comedies will keep you giggling (It's a Dog's Life and Charmin Marvin Romantic Comedy series).
She honors the stories that come to her — and some of them are crazy and break all the rules and cross multiple genres!
To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books available on resume writing, companion gardening and the US mortgage system. She has recently published her Career Essentials Series. All her books are available in print and ebook format.
To find out more about Dale and her books, visit her at http://www.dalemayer.com. Or connect with her online with Twitter at www.twitter.com/dalemayer and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dalemayer.author. If you like Dale Mayer's books and are interested in joining her street team, sign up here — https://www.facebook.com/groups/402384989872660/
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Psychic Vision Series
Tuesday's Child
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Maddy's Floor
Garden of Sorrow
Knock, Knock...
Rare Find
Eyes to the Soul — fall/winter 2014
By Death Series
Touched by Death - Part 1 - Free
Touched by Death - Part 2
Touched by Death - Full book
Haunted by Death
Chilled by Death - fall/winter 2014
Second Chances...at Love Series
Second Chances - Part 1
Second Chances - Part 2
Second Chances - Full book
It's a Dog's Life- romantic comedy
Charmin Marvin Romantic Comedy
Broken Protocols #1
Broken Protocols #2
Broken Protocols #3
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In Cassie's Corner
Gem Stone (a Gemma Stone mystery)
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Deadly Designs
Darkest Designs
Family Blood Ties Series
Vampire in Denial
Vampire in Distress
Vampire in Design
Vampire in Deceit
Vampire in Defiance
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Career Essentials: The Resume
Career Essentials: The Cover Letter
Career Essentials: The Interview
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text: The Mars Rover Spirit caught an interesting object with it's panoramic camera earlier this month. While taking images of the crepuscular sky on Mars, Spirit captured an image with a streaking object passing overhead. It could be either the first meteor imaged from another world or one of seven decommissioned Earth probes still in orbit around Mars. Judging from the streak's north/south orientation, it could possibly be the Viking 2 orbiter, which is in a polar orbit around Mars.


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In the past week, it may seem like East Contra Costa County has had an uptick in vehicle crashes, but the truth is 2018 data is showing East County is actually having an increase in vehicle crashes.
Over the weekend, on Saturday, there was one fatal crash in Pittsburg while East Contra Costa Fire reported 10 patients in a matter of two-hours in three separate vehicle crashes. On Sunday, there were more crashes.
On Monday, sadly a 10-year-old juvenile was struck in a cross walk in Brentwood and remains in critical condition. Meanwhile in Antioch, 3 juveniles were struck near Antioch high School—one being a hit and run. There was also another hit-and-run on Kirker Pass involving a motorcycle. All of this within about a 90-minutes time frame.
The point is, there are hundreds of other examples including a female who was struck in a crosswalk on Empire Ave on September 5 in the City of Oakley. She was airlifted to a local hospital.
Further proof of peoples inability to drive safely these days, Contra Costa County Fire Engines have been struck at least 4-times in 2018. Hitting a fire engine is pretty impressive on Highway 4, especially with an excuse of "I didn't see the fire truck". If people are hitting fire engines, we all may be in trouble on East County roads.
According to data requested by this publication from Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (CONFIRE) and East Contra Costa Fire Protection District (ECCFPD), here are the number of vehicle crashes between January 1 through September 17, 2018 when compared to 2017:
CONFIRE (Battalion 8 only)
- 2017 – 494 total accidents / 2018 – 554 total accidents (10.83 % increase)
- 2017 – 72 accidents with rescue / 2018 – 118 accidents w/rescue (38.98 increase)
- Overall increase is 15.77% in accidents
ECCFPD (Battalion 5 only)
- 2017 – 339 total accidents / 2018 – 434 total accidents (8.7% increase)
- 2018 – 59 accidents with rescue / 2018 – 84 accidents w/rescue (42% increase)
From the data, not only are there more vehicle crashes, the crashes are bigger and more serious. Furthermore, we have not even hit rainy season and the issue is not limited to just one city or area, but all of East Contra Costa from Bay Point to Discovery Bay.
A 40% increase in accidents with rescue equate to more time spent on scene of a vehicle crash as multiple fire engines are required which also requires more police to shut down roadways and in some cases, multiple AMR units are requested to the scene for transport. No one wins in this scenario.
I'd also like to point out that due to the high number of vehicle crashes, this publication has actually stopped publishing traffic crashes because it would be full of them each day. We now focus on the more major crashes that impact traffic.
It is time for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclist to become more willing to follow traffic laws, speed limits, parking, and laws around school zones. Each are equally responsible for road safety and need to begin paying more attention.
Let's go a step further.
Think about it, how much trust are you putting into other drivers not to crash into you? Not to hurt you? If you are crossing a cross walk, trust that a driver will actually stop and let you cross? We are getting to a point where people are either ignoring traffic laws and speed limits, or simply just do not care anymore.
We are almost at the point where we may begin having to wear mouth guards where we drive, even a football helmet or gear just to make it home safely. If you put trust in others, they should return the favor and put trust in you to not be a jackass on the road.
Do we all need to login to our Amazon Accounts and purchase a Dash Cam? Just to have in case someone else hits us?
Some will argue we need more police and traffic units. Yes, I agree, but even if they doubled in staffing they still can't be everywhere. Furthermore, even if police gave out more tickets, which they have been doing, it wouldn't change driving habits.
Here are some of the recent reporting of citations from proactive traffic enforcement details over the past several months.
On September 5, Antioch Police reported that a traffic enforcement detail netted in 120 citations to citizens while Pittsburg Police say on June 26 a similar operation resulted in 124 citations. Brentwood police reported on June 27 an operation in Brentwood and Oakley resulted in 86 citations—with one citation for a driver going 105-mph.
One conversation I had with a traffic officer recently was they could give 100-tickets per day times 7-officers and it would still not change habit because some people do not want to change their habit. Traffic cops are doing their part, which we should all appreciate as they are giving tickets out on their way to work.
For example, officers that live in Brentwood and Oakley that commute westbound are now patrolling Highway 4 on their way to work–this is brilliant by the way!
If officers are stepping up, its time the community also step up with regards to traffic safety. There is no reason for a huge jump in major accidents–especially 40%. I will not pretend to know the answer, it is a big problem, especially with marijuana DUI's, but there has to come a point where we all become responsible in changing driving habits and the mentality that people can get away with speeding, running red lights, parking illegal, and other non-safe traffic maneuvers east county drivers have created for themselves.
As a community, we need to become more self-aware of their own driving habits, remove distracted driving opportunities such as phones and other idiocies and simply drive from Point A to Point B in a safe manner.
Ultimately, we should all become more patient and courteous on our roadways when people's lives are at risk.
Mike Burkholder
Publisher of ECT
[email protected]


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Purchased a new iPad Pro and want to transfer data to it? As an Apple user who has just purchased the iPad Pro, you are excited to start using their new iPad but you will need to first transfer all your data from your old iPad to the new device. There are many options you can choose to transfer the data. You can transfer data to new iPad Pro using iCloud, iTunes or data transfer software that is quick and easy to use.
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How to Sync Old iPad to New iPad with TunesMate?
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- You can preview all the data in your old iPad to selectively pick the data you want to transfer to the new iPad.
- With just a simple click you can quickly transfer all the media files to another iOS device or PC.
You can easily transfer data from one iPad to another iPad without the use of entering your password.
- Download TunesMate then run it on your computer then connect your iPad to your computer using a USB cable.
- From the apps Home interface, click on the Transfer iTunes media to iDevice tab. All the media files in your iTunes library will be scanned and displayed as a list.
- The entire library will be checked by default. You can select the files you want to transfer to the new iPad then click on the Transfer button to start the transfer process. Click on OK for the process to be completed.
- Once the transfer is completed, connect your new iPad. And click on "Transfer iTunes media to iDevice" option.
- Choose the files you want to sync with your new iPhone and it's done!
How to Transfer Data to New iPad Pro 2019 with iTunes
Before you transfer data to new iPad Pro, you need to back up your old iPad with iTunes.
- Launch iTunes then connect your old iPad to your computer. Click on the Device tab then select Restore backup from the Summary tab.
- Go to iTunes and click on the iPad icon then click on the Back up now tab.
- Wait for the backup process to be complete then connect your new iPad to your computer.
- Click on the iPad icon then select Restore from this backup.
- Click on the last backup from your old iPad then click Continue on your iPad and iTunes. The backup process will take a few minutes depending on the size of the files. Once all the data has been restored, your iPad will restart automatically and all the data will be synced to your new iPad Pro.
How to Transfer Data to New iPad Pro 2019 with iCloud
You can also use iCloud to transfer data to new iPad Pro by making sure you have previously backed up on iCloud.
- On your old iPad go to Settings then click on iCloud ID then click on iCloud on your old iPad.
- Tap on the iCloud backup tab then click on the Back up now button.
- Take your new iPad and connect it to your computer to restore the backup.
- To activate the process click on the Restore button from iCloud backup.
- Enter your iCloud credentials then select the latest backup from your old iPad then click on the Restore button. Wait until the restore process is complete.
A point to note is that depending on the compatibility of the device you are setting up, some types of data will not be transferred like apps that are not compatible with the device, messages and the attachments to the messages, voice memos, and photos. Also, iCloud has only a 5GB data storage space and depending on the size of the backup it might not transfer all the data.
The new iPad Pro is a unique iPad that has great features that will give you a more interactive experience and make it easier for you to use it. You can easily transfer data to new iPad Pro if you use the right method and the right data transfer software. With every method, there are some limitations. It is good to have all the facts before transferring your data to avoid losing it in the process.


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Opinion: Beijing's Sovereignty Ruse Blocks Tibet Negotiation
March 1, 2010
By Tsering Tsomo
February 27, 2010
The concept of mianzi or "face" in dealing with
the Chinese is being stressed in many orientation
briefings to foreigners visiting China where face
is generally equated with image, reputation, prestige, pride and respect.
Losing, saving or giving face is a social concept
common in many Asian societies but for the
ever-resourceful leaders in Beijing, face takes
on political meanings such as "sovereignty" and
the "territorial integrity" of the People's
Republic of China (PRC). To save face, Beijing
uses these politically loaded words to brush off
prying questions about its authoritarian
behavior. Criticizing China's abuse of the word
"sovereignty" to escape accountability and stave
off inconvenient issues like Tibet, Liu
Jianqiang, a senior reporter with Southern
Weekend, an influential Chinese weekly, wrote
recently, "This expression is used for human
rights issues, for the Taiwan issue, and for many
other issues. Sometimes China loves sovereignty
even more than it loves the facts."
The late January discussions, the ninth such
meeting since 2002, between envoys of His
Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Chinese
leadership have achieved little in terms of
agreement on issues that the Chinese side thinks
are linked to sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the PRC. Beijing again accused His
Holiness of demanding a "high level of autonomy"
for "greater Tibet" in order to realize Tibetan
independence. In the press statements after the
talks, Du Qingli, head of the United Front Work
Department - the body tasked specifically to
handle the Tibet talks - and his deputy Zhu
Weiqun reiterated the non-negotiability of sovereign and territorial issues.
But the Tibetan proposal for genuine autonomy
calls for a uniform policy for all Tibetans in
Kham, Amdo and U-tsang provinces under a single
administration. Clearly, for Tibetans, it is less
of a territorial issue than one of administration
and policy. Meaningful autonomy is possible only
when culturally compact Tibetan communities are
allowed to create their own space within which to
preserve and promote their culture, religion,
language and identity. The reorganization of
Tibetan cultural areas under a self-governing
entity within the PRC territory should not be a
sovereignty problem. Even India since its
inception as a federal republic has successfully
negotiated with its numerous languages and
cultures by carving out states on a linguistic
basis. Events in Tibet in the last decades have
proved that direct governance from Beijing has
failed to address grievances of the Tibetan
people. The fact is that Tibet is still a hot bed
of resistance and revolt even after 60 years of
Chinese rule. No amount of money has brought
stability or Tibetan loyalty for the government.
And frankly, China wouldn't want an ignominious
remnant of its divide and rule policy reflected
in the still dismembered territory of traditional
Tibet if it was serious about respecting Tibetan
sentiments and establishing lasting stability in
PRC. Further, the Tibetan proposal makes no
mention of independence or any insinuation
thereof. The extent of autonomy that Tibetans are
asking for on specific issues is justifiable
considering their distinctive historical and cultural characteristics.
During the early years of occupation, this
distinctiveness was vital in China recognizing
the special status of Tibet as evident in the
17-point agreement China forced the Tibetans to
sign in 1951. It was the first agreement signed
by the Chinese Communists with any minority
nationality in PRC. The agreement inspired Deng
Xiaoping to devise the one-country-two-systems
policy for Hong Kong. Among Chinese leadership,
there was implicit understanding of Tibet as a
complete whole comprising of Tibetans living in
all three provinces. In the early 1950s, Premier
Chou Enlai promised Ngabo Ngawang Jigme (former
commander-in-chief of the then independent
Tibetan government) orally to return the areas
incorporated into Chinese provinces to Tibet.
Ulanfu, former head of the Nationalities Affairs
Commission who represented the Chinese side
during the first exploratory talks with the exile
Tibetan delegation in 1982 had reportedly favored
reunification of Tibetan cultural areas. In 1956,
at an internal meeting of senior party cadres,
PLA Marshall Chen Yi called for the establishment
of a "united autonomous region of Tibetan
nationalities" with Lhasa as its capital,
according to Bawa Phuntsok Wangyal, the veteran
Tibetan communist in his essay In Memory of
Comrade Tashi Wangchuk. At the time, Yi was a
politburo member and vice-premier of the State
Council. He headed the Chinese delegation at the
founding ceremony of the Preparatory Committee of
the Tibet Autonomous Region. The establishment of
Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) formally marked
China's redefinition of Tibet. The 10th Panchen
Lama - who in 1989 died unexpectedly a couple of
days after he made a speech in the southern
Tibetan town of Shigatse attacking Chinese rule -
had called the demand for a united autonomous
Tibet "fair, reasonable and legal" and in line
with "the aspirations of the Tibetan people".
Bawa Phuntsok Wangyal wrote that the Chinese
policy of "Divide Administratively for Better
Control and Sinicization" was not limited to
administrative and territorial matters in Tibet.
But it mutated into censorship tactics employed
in the case of Tsering Dhondup, a Tibetan
historian in Tibet whose book Tibetan History was
banned by the authorities who insisted the title
be changed to Tibet History, an obvious reference
to the official definition of Tibet as Tibet
Autonomous Region only. As is demonstrated by
history, the demand for "greater Tibet", as
Beijing calls it, is not a recent invention. It
is as old as the occupation itself - ever since
the Chinese Communists re-delineated the borders of traditional Tibet.
Among experts, there is a broad consensus that
Tibetans are a people with distinct identity,
culture, language and core values. "There's a
general view that the Tibetans are a distinct
nationality, and an indigenous one, and that the
Chinese government should have some obligation to
work with their leaders to sort out how they are
to be treated. Yet the Chinese government has
consistently refused to do so," Michael Davis, a
law professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong
was quoted by New York Times on Feb 2.
During the eighth round of talks in Nov. 2008,
the Tibetan side presented a copy of Memorandum
on Genuine Autonomy to their Chinese
interlocutors urging them to make it the basis
for negotiation. Earlier in July 2008, Du had
explicitly invited suggestions from His Holiness
for the stability and development of Tibet. Even
Zhu requested more information on the degree or
form of autonomy Tibetans were seeking under the
PRC. But China rejected the memorandum saying it
still contained "semi-independence" and "disguised independence".
Interestingly, in an interview last December, Zhu
said that the proposal was "good but not enough".
However, on Feb. 3 Zhu told China Daily that
Beijing wanted to "give the Dalai Lama a chance
to correct his mistakes" by holding talks with
his envoys. While such statements give rise to
that old nagging doubts of China buying time
until His Holiness' demise to "settle" the issue,
it is also symptomatic of the regime's fears and frustrations over Tibet.
The official narrative of benevolent PLA troops
liberating uncivilized barbaric Tibet has fed the
minds of many Chinese at least since 1949.
Millions of Chinese still believe that they are
doing the Tibetans a favor by their presence in
Tibet. Little wonder that in the aftermath of the
2008 protests in Tibet the Chinese chat-rooms
were filled with patronizing attacks against the
"ungrateful blockhead" Tibetans." That the
protests exposed the truth behind the official
propaganda of "happy, prosperous" Tibetans never
reached the domestic audience. Instead Beijing
exploited this nationalistic mood to hit back at
criticisms from home and abroad. Chinese
nationalism thus feeds on the government views on
Tibet and has become a potent political weapon.
Beijing is least bothered about what the outside
world thinks as long as it can maintain the
artifice on Tibet intact. This constant struggle
to preserve "liberation" tales includes the
continued paternalistic and militaristic
treatment of Tibet. For 60 years, China has tried
all sorts of violent ideological and political
maneuvers to make Tibet Chinese but each time, it
has faced rejection and resistance. It is not
that China is out of touch with reality in Tibet,
it simply refuses to accept it. Acceptance would
expose the lies beneath the stories. The stories
the regime has ingeniously constructed over the
years around the "separatist" Dalai Lama and the "splittist" Tibetans.
The proposal for genuine autonomy is perhaps the
biggest challenge yet from a minority nationality
to Beijing in implementing the rights and
freedoms enshrined in Chinese constitution. The
reasonableness of the proposal is evident in the
kind of reactions and responses it engenders
among the Chinese leadership. Without stating
their reservations in concrete and logical terms,
it rejected the Tibetan demands outright for
threatening PRC's sovereignty and territorial
integrity blocking in a few words the path to a
meaningful negotiation on Tibet. Beijing knows
going into the heart of the matter raised by the
proposal would open the Pandora's Box in Tibet.
Thus, rejecting Tibetan peace overtures with the
broad strokes of sovereignty excuse provides the
shortest escape route. When faced with questions
it cannot and will not answer, China thinks this
phrasal ruse does the trick. Still, if China
really wants to settle the Tibet issue without
losing face, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is their best bet.
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Our guest this week is singer and songwriter, Matthew West. Matthew just released a brand new album called "All In." When we heard about Matthew's heart behind the album, we knew we had to interview him.
Most noteworthy, our conversation centers around a song on the album called, "The Beautiful Things We Miss." If you listen to our podcast, you can already tell where this is going.
As a self-described "professional Christian," West knows how easy it can be to coast, to pretend his spiritual life is in a better place than it actually is.
"That's a dangerous place to be," he says. "That's what the Bible talks about. Being lukewarm. So I've had this idea that I want to be all in like never before. I want to be all in with the songs that I write, I want to be all in with my time with the Lord, I want to be all in with my wife, I want to be all in with my relationship with my daughters."
As a husband, dad, and "professional Christian," Matthew takes us behind his crooked picture frame, and tells us what it means for him to be "all in." As you listen to this episode, may you ponder these lyrics:
Open up my eyes, Lord
Keep me in the moment just like this
Before the beautiful things we love
Become the beautiful things we miss
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'But with the greatest respect, I found your feedback unsubtle to say the least' 'Sorry, but I've done my best to derive something positive from your proposal.' You'll recognise the situation: the conversation is polite. You don't raise your voice and he doesn't start swearing. Nobody needs to dial 911. But you know your relationship
How do you ensure that employees utilize the space they are given?
I have two guests. A white one and a flecked one. They are residing in a small hutch. I can't bear to see it. I go to the DIY store and buy a folding rabbit-run. I assemble it, attach it to the hutch and open the small hutch door. Nothing happens. Every now and then
Why should you involve people?
Not so long ago I came across this sentence in a management book: "People are generally opposing their own ideas far less frequently" I let this sink in for a while. Now I realise what was disturbing me. Firstly It's just wrong! I can name any number of my own ideas that have floundered due
Should you want to be the best?
It's an ambition you regularly encounter in organisations: being the best. Ranking highest on the list. Reaching the Champions League. I grant any organisation the feeling of euphoria if they are recognised as being the best. But I wouldn't easily advise people to choose this as the ambition to change. This is because of the following
Can you only help someone if you've been in his shoes?
'Never Judge a Man Until You've Walked a Mile In His Shoes, sang Elvis in 1968. If this was true, I might as well close my business. Because I have made it my business to help top and middle managers but have never been one myself. So, how literally should we take these words from
What is organic change?
The term organic change can be heard regularly in many organisations. This of course has a lot to do with the fickleness and complexity that is typical of contemporary change. What's so hard is that the term is also a rich source of Babel-like confusion, which only increases the complexity of change. So I wondered
Do you prefer commitment or compliance?
It seems a truism to me that a change can only succeed if it is supported by people. When they show commitment to the change. However, I still see in practice that there are change leaders who settle for a situation where people do not support the change. When they show the 'desired' behaviour, but
What's wrong with a learning organisation?
The desire to become a learning organisation takes a prominent position in many plans for change. However, I've noticed that this aim for change rarely leads to action. What's more, it seems to have the effect of a self-denying prophecy. The aim for a learning organisation gets in the way of learning itself. I wondered
Does time heal all wounds?
There are few people who never experience a period when life hurts. One piece of advice these people often get is that they should 'give it time'. And for this month's blog I wondered whether this is true. The question 'does time heal all wounds?' can be asked in two ways. The first one is
Is humour a change strategy?
Some time ago a manager came to me after a lecture. I had talked about change strategies and he was wondering where humour fits in. We had a pleasant talk about this. And then the cogwheels continued to turn about this. In this month's blog I would like to share my progressing insight with you.
What is the most critical success factor in change?
Many authors on change management have throught about what makes change successful. So have I. This has resulted in several models consisting of forces, drivers, habits, keys or sources are indicated. And naturally, all these models are related. The question that intrigues me is whether there is a ranking, whether one aspect stands above the


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