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Crime Scene Scotland: CHOKE HOLD by Christa Faust

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Friday, September 23, 2011. CHOKE HOLD by Christa Faust. Hard Case Crime, ISBN 9780857682857, $7.99, $9.95. Dare is an intriguing character. More than simply an avenging angel, she is a truly human creation who tries to deny her own humanity to cope with the situations she finds herself in. She is one of the most engaging heroes to emerge from the crime scene in a long time, and honestly, we here at Crime Scene Scotland are hoping and praying for a third instalment. View my complete profile. Many books r...

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Le Rififi: July 2007

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Enter your email address below to subscribe to my newsletter:. Tom Kirk on Mastermind. Old before my time. A Sting in the tale. How to write the perfect thriller. In praise of . Geneva. He said. She said. Blood from a stone. This blog is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. Tuesday, 31 July 2007. An innocent enough question,...

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Think Boxless: singularity

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Conceptual Parables for the 21st Century. Thursday, 17 May 2007. Singularity is the political philosophy of stripping the processes of government down to one layer. To some extent, whilst recognizing the need for the natural checks and balances of a bicameral system of government, it even supports the removal of extraneous layers of elected government (for example, in the UK, why have both borough and county councils? Unfortunately, whilst most politicians pay lip service to singularity – and they ...

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Think Boxless: The People You Know

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Conceptual Parables for the 21st Century. Friday, 18 May 2007. The People You Know. The People You Know. Was extrapolated from the Six Degrees of Separation. By the environmental activist, Carl Bailey. His argument was that the Six Degrees was actually little more than a mathematical exercise with no real-world significance. Does that mean I can contact any of these people? As a committed environmentalist, Bailey was interested in finding systems of cooperative action which could start at a very local le...

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Think Boxless: Disengagement Theory

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Conceptual Parables for the 21st Century. Friday, 13 July 2007. Is designed specifically to tackle the perceived terrorist threat against the West from Islamic extremism. Intriguingly, it was developed not by a specialist in the Middle East or in Islam, but by Peter Samuels. A Cold War Historian from Cambridge. Samuels at first accepted the received wisdom that the battle against Al Qaeda. Was unlike any previous conflict, including the Cold War. Of course, the Islamic world is still predominantly a geog...

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Think Boxless: Demographic Optimization

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Conceptual Parables for the 21st Century. Monday, 4 June 2007. Is a rather dry term to describe an intriguing area of social and economic policy which is already important in some developed countries and is set to become even more so. The phrase was coined by Stanford academic, Rainer Weiss. At the same time, Weiss argued that governments and industry should be seeking to enhance non-human productivity. Posted by Kevin Wignall. Any technology or medium so new that there's no box outside of which to think.

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Think Boxless: Pot Theory

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Conceptual Parables for the 21st Century. Wednesday, 9 May 2007. The “Pot” in Pot Theory refers to Pol Pot who infamously returned Cambodia to the Year Zero when the Khmer Rouge seized control. Put simply then, Pot Theory takes an intractable problem and looks at how it might be tackled if the clock were reset to the year zero. The drawback of Pot Theory is perhaps obvious – unless policy-makers can actually introduce Year Zero Thinking. Nevertheless, although Pot Theory in its purest form rarely provide...

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Think Boxless: The Ostalgie Paradox

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Conceptual Parables for the 21st Century. Friday, 11 May 2007. Is a familiar enough term, referring as it does to the nostalgia felt by former citizens of Communist East Germany. For the country that disappeared after reunification. It was social scientist Sarah McClusky. Of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, who first coined the broader term, the ostalgie paradox. To sum up similar behaviour in varying situations. In all cases, people become nostalgic for the very thing they bridled against ...

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Think Boxless: Q & A Strategy

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Conceptual Parables for the 21st Century. Wednesday, 16 May 2007. Q and A Strategy. This is part two of the post below on. When military historian, Karl Maschler. Asked a set of simplified questions about the Vietnam War, he was surprised to find that his third grade audience simply responded with more questions, and no matter how many times he answered, more questions came back at him. I don’t understand why they’re fighting. What’s needed, Maschler argued, is a Question and Answer Strategy. It may soun...