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Now that ex-Frank Zappa man and 'real musician' STEVE VAI has taken over from guitarist YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, the new-look ALCATRAZZ are taking no prisoners, reports PAUL SUTER

FAR DISTANT memories flash through my palpitating cerebral cortex, jarring the prickling synapses with, their vibrant energy. Flicking on and off like some supernatural intrusion into the id, the minutiae of dementia burn deeply into the inner self, scourging and cleansing away the disease-encrusted remains of a former life. My Roget's Thesaurus falls by my side. I have successfully fleshed out the first paragraph with complete and utter bollocks.

But beware the logic, of it all; the crucial link: bollocks Well, nearly the crucial link, only a gallstone's throw away, actually. Graham Bonnet must be extremely relieved that the pertinency of his plonker to the history of Alcatrazz is rapidly fading away, with the band now established as a going concern rather than an unknown quantity, and with much more musical questions to ask than whether he really did and was it worth it.

Probably reflecting the fact that there is now a band to talk about rather than just a bunch of people relating their own life stories because their band doesn't have one, the atmosphere in the Alcatrazz camp is relaxed and jovial, with Bonnet in particular anxious to couch common sense in as much silliness as possible. His bouncy repartee invokes memories of a previous encounter for Snouds years ago.

"God, we talked for ages and I can't remember a thing we said. I was f**king smashed!" It was at the time of his 'Night Moves' album (which I never heard - aargh!) and Graham still had a few interesting moves ahead of him at the time, but at last he appears to have settled in his path, doing what he wants to do with people he wants to work with.

NOT THAT this was the case with Alcatrazz not so long ago, as Bonnet made clear when the tape started to roll, with the inevitable first question focussing on the departure of guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, Mr Hot Property of 1983 having evidently, failed to become Mr Most Wanted of 1984. Bearing in mind the main topic of the last round of Alcatrazz interviews, is Bonnet perhaps thinking that the subject matter is merely moving from one prick to another?

"No comment, I'd rather not talk about him. He was very fortunate to be in this band, and he's fortunate to be out of it, too, so the less said about that person the better. I don't want to promote him in any way.

"Now we have Steve Vai who's a real individual, he doesn't try to emulate anybody. We have someone who's a musician, who isn't just looking out for himself as a rock star. And, of course, he'll drop his trousers for anyone...

"No, seriously, our other guitarist had a real individual style put that in inverted commas, please! - and... Steve had something which this band needed - talent. We're very proud to have him in the band (round of applause, Steve grins with embarrassment). There are a lot of little things which are showing now that weren't there before; the band was far too guitar oriented but this time Steve has considered how the band should be arranged musically, how all the parts should be put together."

Indeed Steve Vai is credited with arranging all the material and has clearly taken over as the musical director of Alcatrazz, but in a manner much more sympathetic to his colleagues than that of his predecessor. It's a little bizarre, then, to reflect that Vai came to Alcatrazz from five years with Frank Zappa - you can see the heritage with other former Zappa men like Eddie Job son and Terry Bozzio, but what's one of his guitarists doing in a talented but clearly straight ahead rock band? Spill the beans Steve, are you busking madly or what?

"This is just as challenging, let me tell you. I've always had rock music in my heart - before I played with Frank I was studying at Berkeley, but before that I was in a rock band so it's always been there, and after Frank I wanted to get back into it.

"I heard that Alcatrazz were looking for a guitarist and I knew of Graham just by reputation; Yngwie was still with the band at the time but they had decided to replace him and Jimmy (keyboards player Jimmy Waldo) gave me a call. I don't think that the fact that I'd been with Zappa helped a lot, and it had crossed my mind that it might obstruct me getting involved with a rock band again. In fact I had submitted tapes to Ozzy and Kiss but I never got calls and I heard later that the Zappa background had put them off."

"We needed a real musician," is how Jimmy Waldo explains the band's positive interest in Vai with his Zappa background. "Of course we wanted flash, someone who could play his ass off," he concedes, "but we also wanted a musician who understod all about writing and arranging. Someone who didn't just think about guitar, but about music and vocals too - about the whole band. With a background in Zappa's outfit we knew he'd be a gret musician."

ALCATRAZZ HAVE surely made great advances in the transition from first album to second. Whilst I'll not stir from the notion that on record at least Malmsteen did bring a touch of class to the band's delivery, Vai brings something much more immediate and equally desirable with him - a touch of rock and roll. Malmsteen evidently did exactly what he wanted, Vai wants to do what Alcatrazz need. He co-wrote every track on the album, with his rock and roll heart clearly on his sleeve despite his sublimation into the world of Zappa for five years.

"I knew the guys and what they needed. I'd seen the band before I joined (Vai was actually selected before the final tour with Malmsteen) and it looked awkward, things were going on which weren't quite gelling, the music they were playing didn't seem to come naturally."

"We wanted to be a real aggressive rock and roll band and pump it out," bassist Gary Shea nods, "but we found that there was nothing progressive in trying to play classical licks that were written centuries ago; by, people who were better than us. Anyway Ritchie Blackmore and those, guys were doing all that stuff 15 years ago. We felt awkward, and because of its precision it was very cold too - you have to play it the proper way, but rock and roll has more of a groove to it, there's a bit of give and take and that's where the character comes out.

"A lot of your ability comes from your environment," Steve continues, "and I learned a lot of adaptability from working with Zappa. I saw him do things that defied a musician's logic, but they worked. We were listening to a cowboy station once on the radio and he said 'I could write a song like that in five minutes'. And in five minutes he'd got it he wrote and arranged it whilst we played it with him yelling out the chords. It's a country song that would fool anybody - it's called 'Harder Than Your Husband'. And then I've also seen him write a symphony for the LSO, and then he'll go on stage and sing'f**k me you ugly sonofabitch'! Just like people didn't realise that they could sing and play guitar until they saw the Beatles do it, I didn't realise that I could play for him and write for a real rock and roll band until I saw what he could do. He convinced me."

THE RESULT of Steve Vai's creative input is 'Disturbing The Peace', a release the ever-studious Mr Johnson dubbed in these pages 'a bloody great album' (Kerrang! 90), a much more upstanding effort than its predecessor, and chock full of class and clout. Just to prod Mr Johnson a smidgeon I'll point out that he didn't even mention the best track, the vibrant 'Painted Lover', but overall it's a much more balanced and effective record than the first album.

"After the first album," Graham agrees, "we realised that there had too be some sort of improvement and we took much more time to work out the songs this time. Actually the first album was really rushed, it was even a rush to find a guitar player in time. We tried out a few', and 'Ingrid' was only the one who came closest to what we needed.

"I think this album is 100% better than the first because of all the preparation which went into it, and we managed to steer away from that Heavy Metal tag into a wider audience."

Jimmy Waldo seems particularly perturbed by the fact that Alcatrazz were getting classified as an HM band. Fair enough, it's an audience, but for their own ambitions the wrong one.

"Even with the first record I couldn't really see us as a Metal band, just a heavy rock band. Heavy Metal is like Walt Disney, caricatures like Motley Crüe and so on - it's a role I don't want to play."

"What we're trying to, put across on this album," Graham continues, "is that it's music, it's not just guys trying to show how well they can play. We're not part of any trend, we play what comes naturally now. The guys in Deep Purple could play anything,; C&W if they wanted, but they're too scared to make any move away from what's expected of them. We're lucky because we're still new and we do whatever comes naturally and it's still us.

"We don't have to contrive to play Alcatrazz music, there's no fashion to follow and it doesn't have to be done in a certain way. We're not going to try and copy Ratt, we're not going to sing about the devil well we might, but it'll be as a joke!"

"When you're writing," Steve confesses, "there are a lot of things trying to get into your head - like Ratt! - and it is hard to sit down and be original. You can't let anything take control of you, you've got to just let it come, naturally."

In the course of our conversation the theme of doing what comes naturally seemed to be a recurrent one, with Alcatrazz showing a clear disdain for most of the trappings of the modem day music biz and its tendency too allocate a certain image whether you like or not, Bonnet in particular stressing an affection for the days of the Beatles when music was all that it was about. Nowadays the concept of image is an overpowering one, and lyrically Bonnet takes a sharp shot at a certain wellknown bunch of Midlanders in 'God Blessed Video', the opening track and first single from the 'Disturbing The Peace' album. Take your clues from 'Let's take a plane and go somewhere exotic/To play with a nondescript song or 'Some cheap kid from Birmingham ... just one more puppet, piss poor marionette/He's just a fast buck for sale'. Care to explain, Mr Bonnet?

"No. Oh, alright - it's just a dig at what's going on really, take a kid from the street, dress him up and cut his hair and send him to all the posh clubs in London. It's about the business, how false it is and how stupid it is - and why the f**k am I in it?

"But in the last verse I say, 'If you can't beat them you might as well join them/And be, glad to say you were there'. It's crap really isn't it, but you're very serious when you write things!"

Stout parties collapse as Bonnet adopts a little old lady voice to deliver the last line, but underneath the play acting there's no doubting the sincerity of the topic, even though the targets may have been chosen almost at random. Maybe Bonnet and the boys don't feel too much animosity towards the business right now though, for it certainly saved them from a sticky ending when their original record; company Rocshire collapsed last year. Very rapidly the band were put in touch with Capitol through the services of our very own LA favourite, the legendary Ev (well done guys, you got her name wrong on the sleeve credits!) and were rapidily snapped up before they had much time to worry about what was going to happen to them. Bassist Gary Shea takes up the story:

"It all coincided with us coming off the road from our last tour with Yngwie and getting ready to go into the studio with Steve to do our next album for Rocshire. The label folded, but we were lucky that we already had a name of sorts, and Capitol seem to be really into us. We had four or five offers but they were the first people that we spoke to and they seemed to be really into the band, not just going for us because we were available and any old rock band would do. Anyway, they had the Beatles, and anyone who had the Beatles is good enough for us!"

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India vs Bangladesh - Almost Heartbroken!

After a thumping win against Pakistan, we all thought India was back on track with their world cup campaign. They just had to brush aside Bangladesh before they faced Australia in almost a knock-out game, to make it to the Semis. Indians were facing Bangladesh in Bengaluru and luckily I didn't have to travel anywhere this time around, this was supposed to be more of a relaxed game. It was expected of India to score 180+ if they batted first or bowl out Bangladesh under 140 and chase it comfortably. Bangladesh had already been knocked out of the tournament and hence they were playing for pride and probably try cause an upset against India and odds were none.

Dhoni throws the toss

Bangladesh wins the toss and puts India to bat first. Something, I wanted personally since we wanted the Indin batting line-up to fire against Bangladesh and post a commendable total at a venue which was supposedly batsman friendly and smaller to earlier venues where India played.

Raina goes big

India started slowly and cautiously with both their openers Rohit & Dhawan getting good starts but failing to convert them into big scores. They were dismissed early before they caused any damage to the scoreboard. Raina going big with his heave!

Mushfiqur jumps behind stumps

Even Virat Kohli found it difficult to score against Bangladeshi bowlers, as to everyone's surprise the pitch was on the slower and sluggish side. He scored run a ball 24 before he was bowled by Shuvagata.

Raina and Hardik partnership

Hardik & Raina combined together to hit some lusty blows to push India's run rate.

Raina walks back to pavilion

But soon, Raina & Hardik were dismissed in quick succession to restrict India's run flow. Bangladesh were disciplined with their bowling and fielding effort, they definitely looked hungry to win the game.

Jadeja gets bowled

Jadeja loses his stump trying to score some big runs to push India's total. It was indeed becoming obvious that once again, India's famed batting line-up was facing difficulties in the tournament to score quick runs.

Bangladesh celebrate fall of Indian wickets

Bangladesh was playing fearless cricket, they had nothing to lose as they had been knocked out of the tournament already and were hungry to cause a major upset

Dhoni hits a boundary

Dhoni plays an unorthodox shot trying to push India's total past 150. India ended up scoring 146 in 20 overs against a spirited Bangladeshi attack on a sluggish pitch.  They were expected to at least go past 160-170 plus with their famed batting line-up

Mortaza goes for the big shot

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal started strongly by smashing Indian bowlers all around the park. Indians made it easy for Bangladesh to get away with plenty of misfields and drop catches.

Dhoni stumps Tamim Iqbal

Just when we thought Tamim Iqbal would do what he did to India in 2007, Dhoni did his magic behind stumps to dismiss the dangerous Tamim Iqbal for 35 off 32 balls.

Hardik Pandya leaps in the air

Hardik Pandya leaping in air after successfully taking a catch to dismiss opener Mithun off Ashwin.

Shakib takes Bangladesh forward

Although India had pegged Bangladesh with a couple of quick wickets, Shakib Al Hasan looked like the key batsman for Bangladesh to take them through and he looked comfortable middling the ball well and putting pressure on India.

Cheering Bangladesh fans

Bangladesh found some good support in their fans who were happy to see their team perform well against mighty India.

Ashwin the hero of the match

Ashwin came back to bowl a magical spell of 4 overs for 20 runs taking 2 wickets including the dangerous Shakib Al Hasan. The spin trio of Ashwin, Raina & Jadeja had pegged Bangladesh back but it seemed like Bangladesh were still in control of the match with a good run rate chasing the total and batting depth.

Bumrah comes back to bowl 19th over

Bumrah had a terrible first spell where he was hammered by Tamim Iqbal and co. He had also dropped a sitter while on the field which had made it difficult for India. He was brought back to bowl his second spell is when he bowled an excellent 16th over before he was given the task of bowling the 19th penultimate over when Bangladesh needed 17 runs off 12 balls. He ended up giving only 6 runs to take it to 11 runs needed off 6 balls for Bangladesh to register a historic win against India.

Dhoni and Pandya discuss strategy

Dhoni picked Pandya to bowl the last over, not that he had too many options but he could have still gone with Raina, Yuvraj but he went for Pandya who's proven a bit expensive in the past. Dhoni seen discussing strategies with Pandya, later he was joined by half the team. Not sure who Pandya listened to, though!

Mushfiqur celebrates too early

With 11 runs needed off 6 balls, Mahmudullah took a single off the first ball and gave strike to Mushfiqur Rahim. Mushfiqur did the unthinkable by striking two boundaries off the next 2 deliveries off Pandya to bring the score down to just 2 runs needed off 3 balls. All this while when Dhoni, Nehra, Virat and Ashwin were seen talking to young Pandya on bowling strategies. Bangladesh had come very close to upsetting India. Mushfiqur was already seen yelling and celebrating his shots. As a photographer trying to capture all these emotions were extremely difficult and the fact India were losing made it very hard for me.

Mushfiqur gets out

Pandya bowls a slower short ball and Mushfiqur skies it to deep midwicket where Dhawan took the catch quite easily. Mushfiqur can't believe what he's done, Maybe, it was too early to celebrate Mushfiqur! The job isn't done until it's DONE! Someone gotta teach these guys a bit about controlling emotions.

Mahmudullah departs with great sadness

With 2 runs required off 2 balls, Mahmudullah was on strike, being an experienced batsman he only had to play sensibly to take Bangladesh past the finishing line but what does he do ? He plays the heroic slog off a full toss by Pandya. Dhoni had just changed the field by bringing Jadeja, one of the better fielders there and Jaddu took the stunning catch to dismiss Mahmudullah. Oh! What have you done Mahmudullah?

Dhoni does Usain Bolt

Bangladesh had dug themselves in hole but still they just needed one good hit or even a single to get a draw and take it to the super overs. After an extensive discussion over what to bowl, how to bowl between the entire Indian team, Pandya bowls short ball outside off which Shuvagata misses clearly and takes off for a single, this is where Dhoni comes into the picture he had already prepared for the scenario with his right-hand gloves off who collects and dashes to break the stump racing against non-striker who was already on full sprint to cover the distance. Dhoni dashes and breaks the stumps running the non-striker out and India wins a thriller against Bangladesh. By now, the entire Chinnaswamy stadium had erupted a few times, gone silent and was in a state of shock only to realise that how India had snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

Team India celebrates the victory

Team India celebrates victory. You can't script this, Unbelievable scenes from Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.

Hardik Pandya goes for the victory run

No one could have stopped the young Pandya after his stunning last over especially his last three balls which produced 3 wickets. I am sure he himself couldn't believe his feat, he had just kept India's semi-finals hope alive. He went for a long victory lap before he went out of breath!

Indian fans celebrate Indian victory

Indian fans celebrating!! Bengaluru has seen some epic cricket duels and this will definitely go down as one of those memorable nail biters.

Bromance between Pandya & Nehra

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The presentation of Kurumoch International Airport was held for FIFA delegation and organizing committee “Russia-2018”

FIFA delegation and Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “Organizing committee “Russia-2018” made an inspection visit to Samara on June 21, 2012 within a selection procedure for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Host cities in Russia.

During the inspection visit representatives of evaluation commission inspected the objects of Samara and the Samara region that will be involved in hosting matches of FIFA World Cup 2018.

Presentation of Kurumoch International Airport organized by “Samara Region Development Corporation” OJSC in association with the Government of the Samara region, “Kurumoch International Airport” OJSC and group of companies “Renova” became one of the main events of this visit.
General Director of “Koltsovo Airport” OJSC Evgeny Chudnovsky made a presentation for the experts of FIFA and Organizing committee “Russia – 2018” concerning the prospects of further development of air gate of the region and investment program on Samara airport, including construction of a new air terminal complex.

Unique potential of Kurumoch International Airport development was noted during the presentation and investment program on the airport was presented in details. Particular attention was given to the plans of fulfillment of FIFA requirements to the infrastructure of the airport for serving the guests and fans of World Cup, teams, official persons and delegations.

It was emphasized that implementation of the projects on development of airport and airfield infrastructure will allow not only to prepare Kurumoch airport for hosting matches of World Cup in Samara, but also to develop the airport as a regional hub, to give powerful impetus for construction industry of the region, creation of new work places, development of cargo and passenger transportation.

Samara is second to last city in the inspection tour around the cities pretending to host matches of FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia.

13 Russian cities are currently pretending to host the matches of the competition. To make the selection procedure objective Organizing committee “Russia-2018” developed a system of candidate cities evaluation that includes 5 main criteria: current availability of relevant infrastructure, level of their social and economic development, investment program on preparation for the competition, the concept of hosting World Cup in participating cities as well as efficient use of competition heritage.

Final list of cities approved for hosting matches of World Cup will be announced in October 2012.


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Austin TX 90's power violence! Following their debut 7" on Mortville and a brutal split 7" with Short Hate Temper, this hardcore powerhouse released this, their 3rd release. Following this record, they'd soon move on to release a great LP on 625. Absolutely brutal and essential.

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An exceptional poll result for the Anti Austerity Alliance – People Before Profit today could be dismissed as potentially a rogue poll, or once off bump in results.  The party saw its share of the vote jump by 3% to leave them securing 9% of the first preference vote among very likely voters in todays poll.

The reality is though that AAA-PBP have been very good at taking big issues and garnering publicity around these focused “fights” for people rights.  They were the first party to really vocalise the fight against water charges, and only after their success on this issue and the clear support from the public, did the likes of Sinn Fein and even Fianna Fail change their stance to also campaign more heavily on an anti-water charge platform.

Likewise in recent weeks the party has received a lot of media coverage over its support of a referendum to Repeal the 8th Amendment.  While others have perhaps been seen to kick the issue down the street, the AAA-PBP have been clear in their unwavering support to Repeal the 8th Amendment, and certainly appear to have won over voters as a result.  The thing the party has been really good at is making full gains among the public for their stand. In contrast, Sinn Fein and Labour have both also supported Repealing the 8th Amendment, but don’t appear to have made this count in the eyes of the electorate.  In fact both parties appear to have lost support to some extent toward the AAA-PBP, Sinn Fein perhaps more directly than Labour.  You can see now why Micheal Martin wants to restrict their speaking rights.

The AAA-PBP result today is significant in itself, but much more so when taken in context with the previous number of polls since the last election.  This is not a one off gain for the party, but rather a continuation of an upward trend seen in those polls.  In the General Election in February the party secured 4% of the first preference vote.  In one of our first polls after the election in March they secured 5% and retained this over the summer months.  In our last poll in September they secured 6% share, and then today they have secured 9% share.  A very clear upward trend in support.

While it may perhaps be difficult to retain such a large increase in the future, continuing the overall upward trend is certainly possible, based on an analysis of support.  To start with the parties support is not “flaky”, in terms of being among people less likely to vote; or highly “restricted” to certain groups.  Their support is actually stronger among very likely voters, than it is among the electorate as a whole.  Support for the party is stronger among somewhat younger voters, but not limited to very young voters.  The party consistently reaches 11-13% among all those aged 18-55, and only falls off among older over 55 year old age groups.  Neither is its support focused on the less privileged in society, with just as strong support among upmarket social groups.

Its support base is currently very focused in Dublin, with well over half of all supporters living in Dublin, but I would imagine the party would see that as an opportunity to extend their base nationwide, rather than a negative.

So are gains for AAA-PBP threatening the so called “Middle” that Pascal Donohoe was concerned about holding in his budget speech?    At present it would appear not, with little change in support for the two largest parties.  Fine Gael remains unchanged at 25% and Fianna Fail support is down 1% at 26%.  However the broad church of supporters seen for the AAA-PBP today suggests that the party can appeal across the electorate and if they can continue to gain momentum, may have a few other parties watching over their shoulders.

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Lesson #185: B2B Marketing Mix & Budget Benchmarks

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Back in Lesson #171, I wrote about the Basics of B2B Marketing.  This lesson takes the discussion to the next level, and talks about how much budget should you set aside, and more specifically, how that overall budget should be split up, across marketing tactics.

To help me here, I referenced data from the 2013 Tech Marketing Benchmarks Study from IDC.  The study basically suggested that most B2B tech companies spend around 4.5% of their revenues on annual marketing spend.  The average was 7.0% for B2B software companies, 3.9% for B2B hardware companies and 1.9% for B2B tech services companies.  So, in the example chart below, that would suggest a company shooting for $5,000,000 in revenues, would have budgeted $225,000, or 4.5% of revenues, on average.  That spend would cover both the media dollars and the team implementing such initiatives.

The study further goes on to recommend a mix of how your overall B2B marketing budget should be spent, based on the marketing mix reported by the comparable companies in their study.  I applied that mix to our $225,000 overall budget below, as a case study.  For your business, you would simply adjust the below chart for whatever revenue target you are shooting for, times the 4.5% average (or the other percentages suggested above), times the percentages by tactics recommended below.

For convenience, the first part of the chart looks at the mix by marketing type, the second part of the chart looks at the mix by marketing channel (e.g., digital vs. offline) and the third part of the chart details the suggested mix solely for the $76,500 digital marketing budget, in this case study.

Here is a link to the data from IDC's 2013 Tech Marketing Benchmarks Study, to which the above chart was based.

The above is not intended to be a perfect science, but more a rough ballpark to help point you in the right direction.  As an example, the mix of things you would do for a $1MM business, would be different than the mix of things you would do for a $10MM business. But, the above should help to get you close.

So, long story short, B2B revenues should not solely be driven by your sales team.  Your sales team needs support, in the form of leads coming to them from your marketing efforts.  And, the above, is a good way to help you calculate how much marketing budget you should set aside, and how best to spend that budget. And, thank goodness you are not a B2C business, where your marketing budgets could be 10-30% of revenues!!

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Chapter 12 discusses the concept of dialogue. It is described as a kind or quality of communication that happens when the people involved are present to each other as persons. In order for dialogue to occur the interaction must be unique, reflective, choosing, valuing, thinking-and-feeling beings. It is synonymous with interpersonal communication discussed in chapter 12. One concept within dialogue that I was able to reflect on was the idea of letting the other happen to me. I did this while I was in Europe last summer. When I was with my aunt who I do not know very well I let her culture influence me. We come from different cultures and hers is different then mine. She was born in Iran and has lived in Paris, France for many years. Her life was much simpler then mine and she was more drawn to simple things and beauty then other materialistic things. She acted as my tour guide while I was in Paris and I was able to connect to her interpersonally because I “let her happen to me”. Although we did not speak the same language we were able to connect to one another, and learn from one another in a way that was very interpersonal. It was a unique experience in which I believe has helped me make of my recent decisions regarding what I want to do after I graduate. The book defines letting the other happen to me as you allow who they are— especially their differences from you— to touch, connect with, and influence you. That is exactly what me happened between my aunt and my communication while I was in Europe. Another big idea in chapter 12 was the five crucial elements of dialogue: listening with care, speaking respectfully, sharing airtime, learning about others’ perspectives, and reflecting on one’s own views. An example of this was when I had the…...

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