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At the Fashion Rocks 5 show on September 5, 2008, Justin Timberlake and Beyonce rocked the house, which begs the question: Why isn't their duet entitled "Until the End of Time" getting a helluva lot more airplay?
And yes, Mary J. Blige and Kid Rock were also part of the show but Justin Timberlake and Beyonce were the highlight no doubt.
All in all, the performances included the songs "Give Me One More Chance," "Stop! In The Name of Love," "Got To Give It Up," "I'm Losing You," "Papa Was A Rolling Stone," and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing." It was pretty damn phenomenal and methinks that Justin Timberlake and Beyonce could easily make many more millions if they got together for more than one song and whored it up on stage together.
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Despite the fact that she's at least three generations younger than me, I greatly enjoy her postings. Perhaps her health problems have given her a maturity that goes beyond her years.
In her latest posting BBB spoke of her Christian faith, describing how the misery of her health situation left her with no choice but to hold fast to that faith. It's a valid reason. As she continued, she noted that God can take it from there, dealing with pride issues.
Her thoughts remind me of Peter, and of how he responded to Jesus in John 6:63-68 after He spoke to them of the Spirit:
"It is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you who don't believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who should betray Him. And He said, Therefore I said to you that no man can come to Me, except it were given to him of my Father.
"From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then Jesus said to the twelve, Will you also go away? Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."
Peter knew that there was nowhere else for him to turn – that he would be desolate without Jesus.
Some very wonderful Christians have come to God in ways that are close to BBB's. Among them is the late Charles Colson, a brash ex-Marine (Semper Fi) a member of President Nixon's staff who went to jail for his part in the Watergate fiasco. Stripped of his pride there and in emotional desolation, he turned to God. In his book Born Again, he described his coming to Christ as a "foxhole conversion". From the remarkable life that followed, people the world over saw in him the love of God. Like Peter and BBB, he came to God under stressful conditions, but then God took it from there to place His love into Colson's heart. And that reminds me of the immortal words of Ruth:
"And Ruth said, entreat me not to leave thee, or to turn away from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me."
At the end of her post, BBB raised a question, inviting her readers to respond. Her question was this: "How do you keep God in your life?"
BBB, I respond to you by claiming three basic reasons for my Christian faith in the face of a family for the most part committed to agnosticism at best, and of my living in a world committed to secularism. The first of these reasons is personal, being the direct and obvious intervention of God to get me out of some serious jams. The second is the supernatural character of Scripture, including its amazing consistency and prophetic accuracy. The third, like the first, is personal, involving the love of God toward me, and my responsive love toward Him.
As for the first reason, I have always had a love for adventure but, unfortunately, I'm rather clumsy. I have a history of getting into difficulty with devices that move, with the result that I've gotten into a lot of jams. The good part of that is that I've given God a whole lot of chances to intervene to the rescue. God has handled many of these opportunities with a good dose of humor.
In my college years I commuted on a motorcycle, a Triumph 650, the precursor to the popular Bonneville. One day a car turned left in front of me, causing me to crash into her grille. Helmetless, I flew off the bike, leaving my shoes behind and heading directly toward a fire hydrant. My journey there was interrupted by a telephone pole, which I grazed with my chin. Although that encounter did nothing but break off a chip of bone, it put me into a flat spin that caused me to land on a grass strip and roll into the hydrant with my side instead of my head. The entire incident involved a millimeter-level precision that allowed me to live instead of die. In my mid-thirties I tried to carry a log much too big for me, with the result that for three years I was virtually a cripple, suffering under an almost unbearable back pain. One day I decided to go skiing anyway, which led to an excess of pain and caution causing me to go down the slope in a straight line, building up so much speed that when I crashed I cratered in like a bomb. Rather than aggravating my pain, it healed me. I'm pretty sure that God had a hand in that. My wife Carolyn and I still have a bike, a Goldwing, on which we have taken several major trips. On one such trip we found ourselves next to an ancient dump truck. Its worn out rear tire couldn't handle the weight of the load and it exploded, sending shrapnel in all directions our way. We could see pieces whizzing past us, but not one piece hit Carolyn or me. On that same freeway, a car suddenly swerved to the right in front of us, exposing us to a ladder on the roadway. There was a jerk on the handlebars, and we missed the ladder by less than an inch. The jerk didn't come from me. I know my limitations. In my early thirties, I took up flying. Among other things, I had an engine-out on takeoff on a very busy airfield in the middle of a very crowded city. I'm still here. Later I borrowed my twin brother's ultralight and ran into a wind shear where I became the ball in an intense and protracted game of ping-pong. I don't know how the craft remained intact. In the hang gliding community the phrase "Oh SHIT!" is repeated with distressing frequency. These words are mostly shouted when failing to hook in before launching off, looking at the face of a cliff, approaching a fence, landing on a cow or, like me, tumbling down to earth in a rotor. The glider hit the ground head-first, ripping my hands off the downtubes and crashing my head into the keel. It was eleven weeks before I could raise my arms above the horizontal, and there's a bulb on my left arm where the tendons separated from the bones and left a useless muscle. But I'm still here. And I had taken Carolyn flying with me before that incident where she realized that I wasn't to be trusted.
There have been many other incidents, in all of which I've seen the Hand of God along with a gentle chuckle. It's a wonderful intimacy.
I'll continue with my response in the next posting.
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Pepe Moreno, Principal Consultant (Mine Waste)
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Fig 1. Schematic TSF with revised deposition strategy by which central and perimeter tailings discharge creates a water-shedding surface directing runoff towards a controlled spilling outlet.
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You wouldn't have known it watching the mainstream media, including Fox News, but the 4 year-old Russia-Ukraine crisis is heating up again. Russia opened fire on and subsequently captured 3 Ukrainian naval ships. The cabinet under Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is seeking the imposition of martial law, which partially mobilizes the army, in response to the crisis. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov maintains that the Ukrainian ships were violating their territory. Poroshenko, it should be added, is highly unlikely to win the upcoming presidential election and could be using martial law as a pretext to delay the vote.
What are Americans to make of this crisis? Leaving aside our stock-response of hating Russia and siding with the weaker power, or our reflexive knee-jerk siding with Russia because they've been scapegoated by Girondists that run the New York Times and MSNBC, how should we respond?
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A dispute over access to a strait in de-facto Russian territory between two states that are arguably part of the same nation; this is not the kind of moral calamity that necessitates the involvement of the United States. Furthermore, if the crisis were to escalate to the scale of the 2014 military operations, that would make the matter even less our business. Russia has nuclear weapons. We have nuclear weapons. The UK has nuclear weapons. China and North Korea have nuclear weapons. We have good reason to be skeptical of the risk of nuclear war. But that doesn't mean we should push our luck. Even a conventional conflict, in which President Trump pressures Russia internationally to cover himself from the Dems domestically, could be disastrous.
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Georgia author Steven Arnett earned his degrees from Michigan State University and the University of Maine. Born in Detroit, Michigan he currently lives in Johns Creek, Georgia. To date he has published three novels – THE LABYRINTH, WINNERS AND LOSERS, THE SUMMER OF ROBERT BYRON and DEATH ON LAKE MICHIGAN.
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The plot of this engrossing mystery follows: 'A mystery is set in a glamorous town on the shore of Lake Michigan in the summer of '73. Mike O'Brien, once the crusading editor of the Michigan State News, now the assistant editor of the Gull Haven Observer, becomes obsessed with solving the murder of Rich Mallon, one of the most notorious and well-known summer citizens of Gull Haven—and finds love in the process. A body washes ashore late one night during the biggest party night of the year in Gull Haven. Murders are almost unheard of in this rich and trendy town, so the story is really big news—especially when it turns out that it belongs to Rich Mallon, one of the most notorious and well-known summer citizens of Gull Haven, a man who most of the locals believe was in the drug dealing business. Mike O'Brien is as fascinated about the murder as anyone and is glad to finally have a story with some meat to it to investigate. His investigation ends up becoming almost an obsession, especially as more and more leads surface about it and it becomes known that Rich Mallon was really Richard Nearing, the prodigal son of Edward Nearing, scion of a wealthy and prominent family from Chicago. As he follows up the leads in the story, he encounters an oddball and unlikely group of suspects that only deepens the mystery rather than leading closer to a solution. Who will the murderer turn out to be? Grant Fields, who rumor has it, was his partner in crime but whom he had a terrible argument with on the night Rich was killed? Could it be Becky Westworth, the beautiful and sexy but notorious woman who was Rich's girlfriend until they had a bitter breakup just a couple of weeks before the murder? Or could it be Jack Engler, a fairly respectable young business owner in Gull Haven who has never committed a crime in his life but has hated Rich since he stole his girlfriend away from him a few months before the murder and who has been heard to say he'd like to kill Rich. Another suspect is Langdon Smith, owner of the largest fruit operation in the area, whose son died of an overdose of drugs that he always believed he got from Rich. It could even be Virginia Nearing, Rich's elegant young stepmother whom he hated so much he hadn't visited his father in many years but who may need to get Rich out of the way if she is going to stand any chance of inheriting her husband's millions. With the help of the irascible Lt. George Dirkman of the Lake County sheriff's department, Mike unravels the mystery and even finds love along the way.'
That hints at the fascinating story Steven brings to life. He has a fine sense of place and his pacing in excellent. Refreshingly, there is enough humor to make the story sail along. This is a fine novel for an exciting and entertaining summer read. Grady Harp, July 18
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The color of Capel Rugs
If you need a quick splash of color, nothing does it quicker than adding a rug. I was looking through Home Fashion Forecast this morning and saw this ad for Capel rugs featuring Genevieve Gorder from HGTV.
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TÜV SÜD South Asia lab successfully accredited for BIS scope of LED
June 2017
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On 28th of June 2017, TÜV SÜD South Asia Pvt. Ltd successfully got its LED scope extended and approved by BIS. The accredited scope include:
- IS 10322(PART5/SEC1):2012 Luminaries, Part 5 – Particular Requirements, Section 1 – Fixed General Purpose Luminaries
- IS 15885(PART2/SEC 13):2012 Safety of Lamp Controlgear, Part 2 – Particular Requirements, Section 13 – d.c or a.c Supplied Electronic Control gear for LED Modules
- IS 16102(PART1):2012 Self-Ballasted LED Lamps for General Lighting Services, Part 1 – Safety Requirements
BIS Compulsory Registration Scheme (CRS) now has regulated 30 products including lighting products under the above three standards. All manufacturers of India as well as overseas who are exporting their lighting products to India must comply to the standards and finish the CRS process. Testing must be performed in local BIS recognized lab before getting BIS registration. In this case, with our scope extension of LED, we are now happy to provide customer testing service with favourable pricing as well as good turnaround time and all necessary supports for the BIS registration. Please contact your nearest TÜV SÜD office for more details.


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City netballers raise money for Children In Need
PUBLISHED: 11:21 22 November 2018 | UPDATED: 13:05 22 November 2018
Netball players played a friendly match with cakes added as extra to raise money for BBC Children In Need.
Ely Netball Club spent a very cold evening playing the charity match and raised almost £200.
Victoria Cutforth said: "It might have been freezing but still a fun tournament and £197 raised for Children In Need.
"Thank you for all the cakes and raffle prizes! Well done ladies.
"We are also really trying to promote our brand new walking netball team which has only been going a couple of months but already has 14 members.
"We are keen to grow the numbers and spread the word that although walking it is still a great form of exercise, very sociable with a competitive edge."
Ely Netball Club welcomes new members of all ages and abilities.
The club offers an opportunity to play competitive netball within six teams who compete in the Cambridge and District Netball League. Victoria said: "Although we have a competitive streak, we also appreciate keeping fit and having fun and a number of our members only take part in training without playing competitively in a team."
They train every Wednesday at Witchford Village College from 7.30pm until 9pm.
For more information see their website.
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We love hearing how our guests enjoyed their experience, see below for reviews from past guests of Pretty Beach House and write your own if you've stayed with us write a review.
Thank you Joe we had such an amazing time. Pretty Beach House is incredible. You were such an awesome host - you made our stay just terrific. Good luck with your wedding at Bells – that is an awesome place as well. We loved our lunch there too. Thanks again. Prue
Review by Prue (18-Mar-2016)
Forever Grateful
Dear Joe, We wanted to thank you again for the thoughtful gesture of giving me the pillow to travel back with. It made a huge difference in the car ride to the airport, helped keep my leg comfortably propped up the whole flight to minimize swelling and is now propped up behind me as I "sit" with my leg propped up recuperating from the ankle surgery, which I was fortunate to have performed promptly 2 days after I got back. Also the helpful tips about using crutches! While it was not quite the way we anticipated spending the last 3 days of a wonderful 4-week vacation, you, Dale, Clem, Jeffrey, Ben and Renny made our stay a memorable one. As we told you, it was by far the best food we had eaten the whole trip. More importantly, Elias and I will be forever grateful to you all for your many kindnesses during a tricky time for us. We hope to visit again soon to be able to really take full advantage of your beautiful location! With many thanks, Catherine
Review by Catherine (18-Mar-2016)
Possibly the best resort in the world
I was really hoping this place would remain a secret. Just tried to book and can't get in on the dates I want! Oh well . . . so I thought I may as well let a few other people know. Pretty Beach House is the most private, peaceful, perfect place I've ever stayed. If you like bushwalking or mountain bike riding through national park to secluded beaches, it's a must. If you like doing nothing much at all and just eating amazing food looking at a perfect view, it's probably even better.
Review by Jack (25-Feb-2016)
Staff are incredible
Just a quick note to let you know I had the best stay at pretty beach house. It is such a beautiful place and the staff are incredible especially Clementine, Joe and Rennie. They made our stay so perfect! It's a gorgeous place and everything was perfect I have no fault!! Best Regards, Kerry
Review by Kerry (24-Feb-2016)
It's not the place, but the love in that place that makes it special
To all the awesome team at Pretty Beach House, Thank you all for such a fantastic and relaxing break. You were all awesome. I wont single out anyone as you were ALL great! From the clean, comfortable rooms, to the gardens, the hospitality, to the amazing food all made for a truly luxurious experience. I have been a lucky girl and have experienced some of the most amazing hotels in the world and you are definitely one of them. Its not the place, but the love in that place that makes it special. Thank you all again. Lots of Love, Gabi & Matt.
Review by Gabi & Matt (24-Feb-2016)
Wanted to say we had a great stay with you, Clementine and the team. Wonderful! We hope to come back and thank you.
Review by Peter (23-Feb-2016)
Outstanding Service
My husband and I recently stayed at Pretty Beach for three nights in October. Joseph and Geoffrey greeted us upon arrival and from that moment on we were given personal service and made to feel like we were part of their family living in the "house". The accommodation is outstanding with all the luxuries and more that you would expect in a luxury accommodation. Joseph provided us with more than what we expected and I thank you very much for the change in our accommodation. Geoffrey provided extra service in taking us to a walking destination and then picked us up so that we did not have to walk up the driveway!!! It is a wonderful place to relax, sit back and just find yourself again. We will return. Thank you so much.A special mention to Dale (Chef) for his outstanding meals and accommodating our food preferences.
Review by Lyn Best (11-Oct-2015)
One hell of a property! Wow! Thanks so much for the opportunity to experience the extraordinary Pretty Beach House. In so many ways, it is right up there with world luxury standard and we've got to tell people about it. Please pass on my thanks to Stefano and the whole team… we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Chris & Suzie
Review by Chris Smith (08-Aug-2015)
The Best of Australia
A perfect reflection of Australia - a fabulous bush setting, exclusive surf beaches, and some of the best food I've had in a long time! With just four rooms it feels like you are staying at a very fortune friends holiday home (well one with personalised service!). We'll be back for sure...
Review by Tim (07-Aug-2015)
Pure Luxury
Hi Joe, Jose and Geoffrey, We wanted to say thank you for such a memorable experience over the past 3 days. It was the perfect getaway and just what we both needed, even though the intention was for a babymoon I definitely enjoyed it as much (or maybe even a little more) as Catherine. It was pure luxury. From the little touches of arranging the beers and popcorn for the cricket, the thoughtful touches for Catherine to the exquisitely amazing food that Jose prepared, everything was just perfect. To be honest, it was you guys that made our stay perfect. Everything was professional yet familiar, warm, and homely. It was so comfortable that we felt right at home at Pretty Beach House, just a lot more luxurious and with much better food. We also can not forget to thank Brian, Steve, Dean, Bree and Larry for the ever so professional service they provided. Thank you for the little gift bags, again another very thoughtful touch. Please tell Jose that we have already used the Saba with some strawberries last night, amazing. We may see some of you guys at Bells for Christmas lunch if not sooner. We can not wait to come back and visit your amazing property again and I will be sure to bring along a homemade Salami and slab of pancetta for you all.
Review by Chandaka (18-Jul-2015)
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In Birmingham in 1834, the Englishman Robert Lucas Chance (1782-1865) and Frenchman Georges Bontemp developed an improved industrial process for the manufacture of cylinder sheet glass. Production of the glass took off in 1837 and the method was considered groundbreaking as glazing for façades and glass roofs. In 1851 Chance Brothers & Company was asked to deliver glazing to London's Crystal Palace, constructed for the Great Exhibition in the same year. Saint-Gobain also contributed glazing to the same contract.
The building was designed by the architect Joseph Paxton (1802-1865) and measured 560 metres (about 1850 feet) long and 33 metres (about 108 feet) high. The glass constructions in the structure's façades and roof were exceptional. Crystal Palace was later moved from Hyde Park to Upper Norwood, where it gained the name Crystal Palace. The building burnt down in 1936.
Thanks to its 'patent plate' glass, Chance Brothers Company was commissioned for some of London's most prestigious buildings, such as the House of Parliament (1840-60) and the Westminster Palace Clock Tower, better known as Big Ben. The company became Great Britain's foremost name for the production of façade glass, holding a leading position in England's production thereof until the beginning of the 20th century. In 1945, Chance Brothers & Company was overtaken by competitors Pilkington Brothers (Pilkington Glass Company).


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Good Riddance
Well I was just about to write this weeks blog about the things I most would like to see happen in 2014. Then I happened to be watching the news and heard that Saturday was the seventh annual "Good Riddance … Continue reading
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George P. Shultz is too often overlooked when analysts discuss the most significant American diplomats of the last half century.
Soft-spoken, methodical and steady, Shultz lacked the star quality of Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Colin Powell, the conspicuous deal-making acumen of his successor at State, James Baker, or the conceptual creativity of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security adviser.
But Shultz's career in government and diplomacy was extremely consequential, especially while he worked as President Ronald Reagan's secretary of state to guide U.S. foreign policy through the final tumultuous years of the Cold War. And now, at the age of 90, Shultz continues to make contributions to public policy. He is an important leader in a growing movement that seeks the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons, and he has made constructive proposals to tackle America's fiscal problems. He's even written about how to make health care in California more affordable and, more recently, reflected on the WikiLeaks scandal.
During his stellar career — which included leadership positions in academia, business and government — Shultz held four cabinet-level postings. In addition to serving as Reagan's secretary of state from 1982 to 1989, he served as secretary of labor, secretary of treasury and the White House budget director under President Richard Nixon. Shultz has taught at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, where he was also dean of the university's Graduate School of Business. Today, he is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
In his latest book, "Ideas and Action," Shultz distills the lessons he learned during this remarkably productive and varied career. Not a full-scale memoir, the book is a kind of George Shultz sampler of what he dubs the "10 Commandments of Negotiation" — with personal reflections on his work, his views on negotiating tactics, the perils of nuclear weapons, and the leadership skills of Ronald Reagan. It also includes plenty of photos and several short essays by others about Shultz.
Shultz's central thesis is the importance of blending ideas and action into his professional life. "We have grown accustomed to drawing a bright divide between the world of ideas, a world dominated by ivory towers, and the world of action, a world dominated by oval offices, market floors and fields of battle. My life and career, however, have known no such bright dividing line," he writes.
Describing his moves from university to government to business and back into government, Shultz says this "mixed-up career" has given him valuable insights. "I have benefitted enormously from having had the chance to move back and forth from a life of ideas to a life of action, from a world of reflection to a world of high-level decision making," he said.
Shultz writes wryly about the different worlds he has inhabited and the lessons he has drawn from each. "When I went into business, I quickly learned that you need to be careful when you tell someone working for you to do something because the chances are high that he or she will do it. In government, you don't have to worry about it, and in the university, you are not supposed to tell anybody to do anything in the first place," he quips.
He makes a strong case for the value of sheer persistence, especially when working in government, arguing that "certain problems just have to be worked at — must be worked at — if a situation is to be prevented from deteriorating." Shultz adds that in the U.S. government, few decisions are ever final. Those on the losing side of a policy debate often begin to work immediately to reverse the decision.
Shultz's reflections on negotiating are compelling. His "10 commandants" showcase his vast experience, practicality and wisdom, deriving lessons from labor mediations and university administration that were useful in his later diplomatic work.
The first commandment of negotiating, according to Shultz, is to be in control of your constituency. By this he means that a negotiator must fully understand the needs and goals of those he represents in the negotiation.
As an example, Shultz recalled that as he prepared to lead the U.S. delegation in arms control talks with the Soviet Union in 1985, he purposely assembled a large team with representatives from all agencies in the U.S. government interested in the talks. This was cumbersome but helped him to fully understand the perspectives of all the key players, keep them informed about the substance of the talks, and secure their full support when an agreement was reached. He noted that a group of senators were official observers to the negotiations. This was critical because arms control agreements require Senate approval and senators made it clear that if Shultz wanted their support when the treaty was ultimately voted on, they wanted to be brought in at the start of the talks.
Shultz says it's also essential to understand the needs of the other side and to develop strong personal relationships with your counterparts. But he argues convincingly that it's possible to put too much weight on personal compatibility — overlooking the fact that ultimately all parties are negotiating on the basis of their perceived interests, not whether they like their interlocutors.
To that end, Shultz believes negotiators should always try to ascertain what is most important to their counterparts. And while negotiations should be viewed as an ongoing process, it's vital that negotiators not become too intent on preserving their relationships with their counterparts. Shultz recalled that when he joined the Reagan administration in 1982, the U.S.-China relationship was strained. Reflecting on the impasse and drawing from academic studies showing that negotiating parties sometimes come to value their relationship too much, he directed American diplomats to shift their focus to substantive issues and pay less attention to just tending to the relationship. This led to progress in several areas.
Shultz writes that negotiators must be seen as credible, operate truthfully and set realistic goals. Timing is especially critical, he adds, and negotiators must assess if the situation is ripe for an agreement.
The former secretary of state also argues that strength and diplomacy go hand in hand. A strong, confident nation has significant diplomatic leverage, he says, while emphasizing the need for governments to stay engaged with other nations even when they disagree with them.
"The test of successful diplomacy is whether objectives are accomplished. While diplomacy without pressure is idle talk, refusing to talk is no substitute for the pressure essential to elicit change," he writes.
Throughout the book, Shultz offers frequent and fulsome praise for Reagan, describing the former president as principled and practical, courageous and trustworthy, forceful but restrained. He tells the story of Reagan honoring his pledge to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to attend a ceremony at the Bitburg cemetery despite fierce public criticism when Americans learned the cemetery included the remains of SS troops. Reagan hoped Kohl would move the event to a different venue but when Kohl refused, Reagan still attended the ceremony. He had given his word to Kohl and felt it would be wrong to back out.
Shultz also recounts the story of Reagan's confrontation with air traffic controllers over a threatened strike early in his presidency. While some advisors urged him to consider a compromise, Reagan said only one fact was pertinent: The air traffic controllers were striking illegally. Whether one agrees with his stance on the strike, few can disagree that the episode was critical in establishing Reagan's reputation as a tough and formidable president.
Shultz himself remained a major public policy figure long after Reagan's term. In the book, he briefly describes his current work advocating for a world without nuclear weapons — a project that began with a conference Shultz hosted at the Hoover Institution in 2006 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Reykjavik summit between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The Hoover conference delved into the history of the 1986 summit but also considered the current nuclear situation.
Shultz continued to study the issue and then joined Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn in writing a landmark essay in the Wall Street Journal in January 2007. "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons" argued that the United States should endorse a long-term vision of eliminating nuclear weapons while supporting a number of specific, short-term steps to advance that goal. It captured the attention of global leaders and may go down as one of the most important op-eds in recent history.
"The impact around the world has been dramatic," Shultz wrote, noting that the Hoover conference and the Wall Street Journal essay led to the convening of important conferences on the challenge of nuclear abolition. Both Barack Obama and John McCain endorsed the vision of world without nuclear weapons during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, and the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution in September 2009 supporting the idea. "Progress has been breathtaking, but the most difficult work lies ahead," Shultz writes. "We are at a nuclear tipping point and we must succeed in turning the vision of world without nuclear weapons into a reality."
Near the end of the book, Shultz questions if a multilayered career such as his is possible in the current polarized political environment, in which both parties use the Senate confirmation process to settle scores.
"I can't help but wonder if even the government part of it could be duplicated these days, let alone the movement back and forth from university to government, then business, then back to government, and now back to a life based on the university but mixed with business and government involvement," he muses.
"Ideas and Action" is an enjoyable and instructive book that presents valuable insights in an easy-to-digest format. However, I would have liked a fuller discussion of Shultz's work on the nuclear issue. The decision by four of America's coldest Cold War warriors to support a nuclear-free world was a seminal event and has given the anti-nuclear movement a huge boost. Shultz could have more fully discussed the evolution of his thinking in this arena, just as he could have better examined the linkage between U.S. foreign policy and America's domestic economic challenges. After all, few statesmen have been more steeped in economic issues than Shultz has, and his insights on the connection between international strength and a vibrant domestic economy would have been important to consider, especially given today's fiscal constraints.
Those who are interested in a more detailed account of Shultz's career should read his memoir, "Turmoil and Triumph: My Years As Secretary of State," which was published in 1993. And those interested in his current thoughts on America's domestic challenges should read "Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform," written with John Shoven in 2008.
"Ideas and Action" gives the reader an appreciation for the fluidity of the U.S. political and governmental system, in which a person with Shultz's rich, multifaceted background could reach the pinnacle of American diplomacy. We can only hope that more public servants of George Shultz's caliber are on the horizon, both in the United States and around the world.
About the Author
John Shaw is a contributing writer for The Washington Diplomat.
Last Edited on June 24, 2014