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		<title>Dershowitz on Palestine – blinkers and bombast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Let me put it this way, I have never met anybody except perhaps Palestinians who really give one good goddamn about the Palestinian people. The love of the Palestinian people is largely a function of the hatred of the nation state of the Jewish people. People who don’t care about the Kurds, who don’t care [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2313&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drone warfare – crossing the Rubicon between morality and expediency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the interesting comments that arose out of the recent Pakistani elections came from an unnamed aide of Nawaz Sharif. The Prime Minister-elect had been campaigning on the basis that the US use of drones in Pakistan was an infringement of US sovereignty, and that he would put an end to the attacks. His [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2310&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving Arabic in the GCC &#8211; is legislation the answer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was in Jeddah last week I had a pleasant chat with a guy called Mourad. I was facilitating a workshop at a government organisation, and Mourad was sent to collect me from the hotel. The conversation didn’t start well. He told me that he didn’t speak much English. After I said a few [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2303&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expatriate Life in the Middle East &#8211; Ten Things I Would Miss, and Ten Things I Wouldn’t</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a lot of coming and going in the Gulf region of late. In Saudi Arabia, which is making strenuous efforts to slim down its expatriate population, and Bahrain, where foreigners are reconsidering their status in light of the country’s continuing instability, the going has been more frequent than the coming. I’m currently on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2300&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East Airports &#8211; Overcautious or Under-equipped?</title>
		<link>http://59steps.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/middle-east-airports-overcautious-or-under-equipped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I the only person who has noticed that of late some of the airports in the Middle East have closed with greater frequency? A couple of weeks ago, a colleague was diverted to Bahrain in a flight from Paris to Doha. Doha is only 150 kilometres from Bahrain, and yes, there was some rain in the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2296&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain – The Season of the Galloping Gurus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dylan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is motivational speaker season in Bahrain. Before the weather gets insufferably hot – between June and October &#8211; a stream of high-profile personalities come here on paid gigs to bestow their wisdom upon us locals. If you’re Bahraini, the government pays most of the cost of the ticket. If not, you’ll have to stump [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2290&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boston and its Aftermath</title>
		<link>http://59steps.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/boston-and-its-aftermath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Boston, it seems, has had its 9/11. Not on the scale of the New York attacks, of course. But the shock will be almost as deep. The average American  &#8211; if there is such a person – will be thinking dark thoughts. “We’ve spent billions on homeland security since 9/11, but these guys still [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2286&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Thatcher &#8211; Enough</title>
		<link>http://59steps.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/margaret-thatcher-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I said my piece about Margaret Thatcher a few hours after she died. I’m not at all surprised by the vitriolic celebration of her death among the Twitterati, the “witch is dead” posts going viral on Facebook, the headlong rush of anyone who’s anyone to comment on her death, and the subsequent gleeful feeding frenzy [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2278&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing – The Sweetest Water Flows from Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What drives people to spend days, months and sometimes years expressing themselves through writing? One such person is Tim Mackintosh-Smith, chronicler of Ibn Battutah and my favourite travel writer, who was back in Bahrain last week. Tim gave what was billed as a masterclass in travel writing. The event was part of the Bahrain Spring [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2269&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bushehr Earthquake &#8211; Fear in the Gulf</title>
		<link>http://59steps.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/bushehr-earthquake-fear-in-the-gulf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed my first earthquake! I happened to be at home when the Bushehr earthquake rattled the Gulf coast at 3pm local time yesterday. The local media reported severe shaking in large buildings over several parts of Bahrain, including the Salmaniya Medical Centre. Yet I felt nothing, despite being no more than a couple of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2258&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Thatcher &#8211; 1925-2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I breathed a sigh of relief when Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister in 1990. She was a divisive politician, and I found myself on the anti-Thatcher side of the divide. I couldn’t stand the woman, as much for her style as for her policies. I hated her Churchillian posturing over the Falklands crisis, her [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2252&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Dark Red Hat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[59steps has always been pretty eclectic in its choice of subjects. That’s because I have a fairly wide range of interests. The style of the blog is not to present opinions “in your face”. I prefer to let you, the reader, come to your own conclusions. I try and present coherent arguments, yes. But it’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2240&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain &#8211; Email At Your Peril!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a message to the exalted Ministers of Bahrain who are being urged by their Crown Prince to use email in their communications with each other: don’t do it! That&#8217;s a joke, of course. I am not encouraging the top echelon of government to disobey the Crown Prince, who is a man for whom [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2234&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia &#8211; The Paralysis Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent case of a man in Saudi Arabia who has reportedly been sentenced to being paralysed has implications beyond the unusual method of punishment. Commentators in the West, including Amnesty International and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have expressed outrage at the sentence, which is based on Quranic interpretation of “an eye [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2226&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robotics – A Third Industrial Revolution, But Don’t Ignore the Social Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went to the launch event for a new organisation in Bahrain called Ebtikar Association. It’s a not-for-profit foundation set up to promote innovation by bringing together scientists and entrepreneurs – innovators, the business skills and the money to turn ideas into intellectual property, and intellectual property into economic prosperity. In a region [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2218&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those temperate souls in the Bahrain Parliament were at it again yesterday. The Gulf Daily News &#8211; demonstrating what a bastion of unbiased reporting it is &#8211; took a break from reporting the daily condemnations by leading ministers of the “thugs and terrorists” who are blamed for the current state of the country. Instead, they [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2201&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>59steps – Three Years On</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s coming up to three years since 59steps crept on to the internet. Since then I have posted 335 articles – well over half a million words, most of them mine. I would be the first to admit that the content on 59steps is an acquired taste – well actually, many acquired tastes! That’s because [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2196&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain Versus Dubai – Two Years On</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago I wrote a piece comparing Bahrain to Dubai. Even though Bahrain was going through the worst of its trauma at the time, I still gave my vote to it. Would I do so again today? I’m not sure. Many of the things that I cited then as reasons why I personally preferred [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2191&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olympus Has Fallen &#8211; Through the Floor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t often review movies. Books are more my thing. But occasionally I stumble upon a film so awful that I can’t contain myself. The last one that drove me to apoplexy was 300, in which Gerard Butler and his band of CGI-enhanced, muscle-bound Spartans hold off the Persian army of Xerxes, at Thermopylae. As [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2187&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain Spring of Culture – The Bright Side of a Difficult Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I turn into a bit of a pedantic old grump whenever I see the word culture associated with centrally organised series of events and activities. Cities of Culture, Springs of Culture and so on make me want to ask nobody in particular “are you implying that culture hibernates when you’re not promoting? Whose culture are [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2173&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English Football &#8211; A Little Piece of Globalised Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top flight football in England continues to be at the wild frontier of business – to the extent that it’s a business at all. I’m with Richard Bevan, the chief executive of the English League Managers Association when he says that the number of sackings of soccer managers in the English professional game is “embarrassing”. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2167&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friendships in Business and Business with Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I broke one of my major rules in life. In consequence, shortly thereafter, I broke another. The first rule is: never do business with friends. Actually I have broken that one more than once, to the extent that I have come up with a qualifier:  it’s OK to make friends of people [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2165&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Western world kneels at the altar of productivity. From the evidence of a recent conference in which I was a speaker, business people within the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia are pretty keen on it too. At the 3rd Annual GCC Productivity and Leadership Conference in Bahrain this week, US productivity expert Laura Stack [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2160&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain – Making the Little Acorns Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just about everywhere in the world, the conventional wisdom is that small and medium enterprises are the engine for economic growth. Encourage them, create the right regulatory conditions for them, and some of the little acorns will grow into mighty oaks. But does this philosophy pay dividends in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries – [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2155&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know little about Yahoo beyond what I read in the media. But the decision by the new CEO Marissa Mayer that remote workers will have to start coming to the office tells me one thing: that the company is a dead man walking. Here’s why. One of the reasons quoted in the memo for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2151&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Gray in Bahrain – An Evening on Mars and Venus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I spent an evening at a seminar on personal relationships in Bahrain by Dr John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. I also sat in on his morning seminar that covered relationships at work. John Gray is about my age. Though we come from countries far apart, in many [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2139&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I wrote a rather bitchy piece about LinkedIn. It produced a bit of a reaction here and there, and a noticeable spike in traffic to this blog. Which of course I appreciate. Though my friends know that it’s very dangerous to encourage me. So since we&#8217;ve been talking about my relationship with its suited [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2136&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LinkedIn and the Law of Reciprocity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bible says “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. This principle is known in secular circles as The Law of Reciprocity. It’s also a widely used technique for influencing people. Give somebody something, according to Robert Cialdini, author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, and you can often expect to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2130&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Meat Scandal &#8211; We Are All Dobbin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweeney Todd would be cackling in his grave. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who transformed his human victims into meat pies for the benefit of 18th century Londoners, would have enjoyed the thought that meat eaters throughout Europe have been unwitting consumers of horse flesh and perhaps even donkey meat in their burgers and lasagne. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2123&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carnival Triumph &#8211; A Trauma for the Underbelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To hear the tales of woe emanating from the passengers of the Carnival Triumph cruise liner marooned in the Gulf of Mexico for the past few days, you would think they had just escaped from the Titanic. Blocked toilets, defecating in bags – OMG! Cold food for three days – disaster!! Sleeping on deck – [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=59steps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14330426&#038;post=2119&#038;subd=59steps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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