The heart-warming moment a UK family was reunited with their pet dog thought to be dead has been captured on camera.
Dawn Bradbury, 29, was convinced her two-year-old dog Leo had died after the Manchester animal shelter where he was being kept was gutted by a fire last week, the Telegraph reports.
The fire, believed to have been an arson attack, killed more than 60 other dogs at the kennel but a staff member managed to pluck Leo from the blazing building.
Leo, a two-year-old bichon frisé, had been taken to the Manchester Dogs' Home after he escaped from the Bradbury's family garden and was found wandering the streets.
After an extensive social media campaign, a mother-of-four Ms Bradbury tracked Leo down to the dogs' home and was due to pick him up the day after the fire broke out.
"We were devastated because he is part of the family and the children were very upset. We put out messages on social media and found on Wednesday that he had been taken to the dogs' home. But when I got there I didn't have the fee and could not get the money until Friday," Ms Bradbury said.
When Ms Bradbury heard of the fire and, fearing the worst, raced to the scene.
"I have been awake all night and haven't slept. I spent all night down at the dogs' home to try and locate him, it was horrendous," she said before she had found out that Leo was alive.
"I have four kids here and they are all screaming and crying for him."
Ms Bradbury said reuniting Leo with his family was a joyful moment.
"The kids were all over him when we got back. We are absolutely delighted," she said.


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Homage to Mañjuśrī, the youthful!
Devotion fills my body, speech and mind.
Each one bowing in prostration to all the buddhas.
Completely the entire space of reality.
And praise all those who have gone to perfect bliss.
The brightest lamps and finest incense.
I prostrate and offer to all you victorious ones.
Before you, I confess and purify each and every one.
And every living being, throughout the entire universe.
Turn the unsurpassable wheel of Dharma.
And bring well-being and happiness to all living beings.
I dedicate to the enlightenment of all beings!
And all who now dwell throughout the ten directions of this universe!
And attain the stages of enlightenment and buddhahood!
Around them all their bodhisattva sons and daughters!
Live always and forever in happiness and health!
That befits them best! And so may all they hope for be fulfilled!
May I always renounce the worldly life!
Never lapsing, and always free from fault!
I shall proclaim the Dharma in the language of all!
Be completely purified, every single one!
Or sun and moon that course unhindered through the sky.
And work for the ultimate benefit of each and every one!
And continue this, throughout all the aeons to come!
May our actions and aspirations always be one!
Never will I disappoint them!
And around them all their bodhisattva sons and daughters.
May the offerings I make them be endless and vast!
And practise these in every age to come!
Of skill and discernment, samādhi and liberation!
Encircled by all their bodhisattva heirs.
Along with them, may I perform the actions of enlightenment!
And throughout an ocean of aeons, may I enter into enlightened action in each and every one!
May I always be engaged with the speech of the buddhas!
As they turn the wheels of Dharma!
All that will ever be, in past, present and future!
The buddhas of past, present and future!
Through the power of liberation, where all is realized as like an illusion!
In each atom, and in each and every direction.
May I be always in their presence!
May I perfectly accomplish the power of enlightenment!
And perfect the power of Good Actions!
And perform these, without ever growing weary, through oceans of aeons!
May I fulfil them all completely!
I dedicate fully all these merits!
In his skill in good dedication!
I shall perfectly fulfil every one of his aims!
Let my bodhisattva acts be beyond measure!
Let my enlightened qualities be measureless too!
May I accomplish all the miraculous powers of enlightenment!
Be as limitless as their karma and harmful emotions!
For as many aeons as there are atoms in those realms.
Soon behold the Buddha of Boundless Light.
They will become just like Samantabhadra.
If they recite this Aspiration to Good Actions.
Be born in a good family, and with a radiant appearance.
And all three worlds will honour them with offerings.
And tame Māra with all his hordes.
Have no doubt: supreme enlightenment will be yours!
To train and follow in their footsteps.
For all beings to perfect Good Actions.
And go at once to his pure land of Sukhāvatī.
And bring help to beings for as long as the universe remains!
Grant me the prophecy foretelling my enlightenment!
May I bring enormous benefit to sentient beings, in all the ten directions!
Reach the supreme realm of Amitābha!
May they perfect what is described in this holy prayer, uttered by Samantabhadra!
May the lower realms be entirely emptied!
May all the aspirations and dedication prayers be fulfilled!
This provisional English version is based on the translations by: Tulku Thondup Rinpoche and Harold Talbott, Professor R.A.F. Thurman, and Elizabeth Callahan and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso. The last two verses Translation from Essential Prayers related to the Guru Yoga Practice according to the Seven Line Prayer.


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I truly do think
That the semi-acquatic Mink
Needs its own fur coat
To keep afloat
In chilly, bone-freezing water;
If a modiste wants fur,
Deny it to her:
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THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has urged the Constitutional Court not to entertain the case where 2016 losing Lundazi parliamentary candidate Bizwayo Nkunika wants the election of area member of parliament to be nullified on allegations that the former does not have a grade 12 certificate.
Nkunika petitioned the election of Lawrence Nyirenda as Lundazi member of parliament on ground that he did not have the minimum academic qualifications as prescribed under Article 70 (1) (d) of the Constitution of Zambia.
Nkunika, who also cited the ECZ, in a petition filed last year, is further seeking an order to compel the ECZ to hold elections in Lundazi within 90 days.
But ECZ has urged the Concourt to dismiss the petition, saying hearing it would be elevating a parliamentary election petition to the level of Presidential election petition.
The ECZ has argued that if the court goes ahead to hear the election petition, it would effectively elevate a parliamentary election to a level of Presidential petition which the Constitution has given exclusive jurisdiction to the Constitutional Court as a court of first instance.
The electoral body stated that the Lundazi election petition was supposed to be heard by the High Court and not the Concourt.
The ECZ added that the Constitution dictates that a parliamentary election was supposed to be first heard by the High Court to leave room for one to appeal to the Constitutional Court in an event they were not satisfied with the decision of the High Court.
ECZ in its skeleton arguments filed in court, stated further that matters relating to the election of members of parliament and councilors, the Constitutional Court could only entertain such matters on appeal as provided for under Article 128 (1)(d) of the Constitution.
The ECZ also submitted that Article 73 of the Constitution prescribes the High Court as a court of first instance and the Constitutional Court as an appellate court for challenging an election of an MP.
"Given that parliamentary petitions are preserve of the high court, it would follow that it would be a violation of the Constitution to allow the constitutional court to handle a parliamentary petition as a first instance court," ECZ submitted.
The ECZ also argued that if a parliamentary petition was entertained by the Concourt, there is bound to be prejudice to a dissatisfied petitioner who may wish to pursue his or her petition to its logical conclusion.
The electoral body added that Nkunika has not demonstrated any special reasons why a parliamentary election in which he participated should not be subjected to the procedures that govern election petition in the Zambian legal system.
It further stated that the fact that Nkunika had an opportunity to challenge both the nomination process and election outcome should no doubt work against him and does not entitle him to earn sympathy.
The ECZ stated that Nkunika should be told in no uncertain terms that courts cannot be swayed by sympathy into making moral judgment.
The ECZ claimed that the petition was a veiled attempt to circumvent the Constitution and the electoral process act and should therefore, not be entertained as it is also way out of the prescribed
Witness tells court Kambwili is principal signatory of Mwamona
Amos Chanda resigns, prepares for political office

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Randall Silvis: I am always aiming for the perfect sentence
February 20, 2018 December 3, 2019 bgstoryteller	interview, Randall Silvis
I envy people who are yet to encounter the work of Randall Silvis. I envy them for the thrill that they will experience from his picturesque language, his poetic descriptions, and his skillful comparisons. They will rediscover the crime genre and the delight it can bring to the connoisseur. But then I stop envying them. Randall raises the bar so high that after him it's difficult to read anything else. Days, and maybe weeks, pass before the feeling begins to fade slightly, but his characters never leave you. I can guarantee that. They remain alive in the conscious mind, as if they belong to real people whom destiny has brought into your path.
I have to admit that my interest in his novel "Two Days Gone" escalated in stages. I saw a review of the book and ticked it off as one I should read because I have a weakness for stories involving characters of creative artists, especially writers, and the criminal genre is my favorite. That is until I met the editor of the BG edition, Boryana Stoyanova, at an event and chatted with her about the book. How could I not get so excited about reading a book with such an original story? Detective DeMarco is investigating the brutal murder of the family of a famous writer and is searching for the suspected husband by digging into the incomplete manuscript of his new novel. I don't know why Boryana was so modest in her praise of the novel as a literary masterpiece, or she said nothing of the skillfully crafted tension in the thriller, or the pure, natural dialogue, or why she failed to mention that the author (not the main character 🙂 ) is a writer and playwright, teacher of creative writing and award-winning writer, whose books have been translated into more than 10 languages, or that in America 17 of his novels, numerous essays, articles, poems and short stories have been published, or that he is a winner of the prestigious Drue Heinz literary prize, or that the acknowledgements pages in the "Two Days Gone" are so extraordinary. Or what an extraordinary person Randall Silvis is.
Even before I had read the last pages of "Two Days Gone", I searched for Randall on the internet. I sent him an invitation for an interview at bgstoryteller, and the very next day he replied that he accepted and would take part with pleasure. The email correspondence and his desire to share his advice with aspiring Bulgarian writers only proved to me what a professional he was. We talked about "Two days Gone", about writing, about his team, about good and bad advice. He was always so elegant in his choice of words, detailed and good-natured. He answered the questions (which were by no means few in number) and gladly gave more of himself; he even shone light on certain areas in the subject of writing which my original interest had left in the dark. But what less can we expect from a real writer and teacher?
Special thanks to David Mossop for the English translation!
Randall Silvis: "I do write something every day, seven days a week"
An interview by Valentina Miziiska
Photo: Maddison Hodge
Here in Bulgaria you are known for your novel "Two Days Gone", so I would like to discuss it first. How did the idea of the book come to you? Was it first the case that came to your mind or the idea of a detective investigating a crime by delving into the suspect's notes on his novel-in-progress?
"Two Days Gone" began with the setting: a vast, dark lake in late autumn, surrounded by thick woods. From what I've seen in the many fine films shot in Bulgaria, your country has similar places – foreboding and hauntingly beautiful.
Several years ago I was teaching at a local university, making a long early morning drive into northwestern Pennsylvania. Three days a week I would cross over an extension of Lake Wilhelm in a couple of places, and the scene always struck me as either idyllic or full of menace, depending on whether the sun was rising orange and clear over the water, or was enshrouded in a portentous fog. One morning when I looked across the lake to the dark woods, I thought, This would be a great place to hide a body. With that thought, "Two Days Gone" was born.
I didn't end up hiding a body there, nor does anyone in the novel, but the site did generate ideas for a mystery novel, with the lake and dark woods playing important roles.
Your characters have a complicated past. Did you know everything about them before you started writing or did you develop their backstories and arcs during the writing process?
It all happened during the writing. Initially, I planned that the murderer would be an academic – my revenge on having to spend so many years in academia – but as the novel grew, things changed. New characters appeared and claimed a role, and characters I thought I understood, especially Ryan DeMarco, proved me wrong by defining themselves in ways I hadn't imagined. This is the mystery and magic of writing; I sit down at my desk, listen and watch and write what I see and hear inside my head. I like the sense of discovery every morning brings, and I try to give my readers that same journey.
Although it is a mystery, your novel is very sad and dark. Everybody is fighting his/her own demons. And you kill so many characters. Why? What is the message you would like to send to your readers?
My goal is to give the reader an emotional experience. If I succeed, the reader will impose her own message, her own determination of what the story means to her. If the story is sad and dark, it's because I see life, and literature, as a place where its inhabitants must learn difficult lessons, usually about themselves, through situations rife with conflict.
Young writers especially, and older, narcissistic ones of any age, write so as to profess their viewpoints and impose them on others. They hope to "teach" the world. To provide answers and solutions.
I'm a storyteller, so I see this attitude as anathema. I'm not a preacher or proselytizer or propagandist or reformer, nor do I believe a storyteller should engage in that kind of intellectual tyranny. There are already too many tyrants at work in politics and religion and education and other professions, yet how effective are they? Only the uninformed or oppressed will succumb to somebody else's opinion. What readers of adult fiction want are not moral or philosophical precepts but the experience of connection engendered by a good story.
Good writing, unlike religious, political, and philosophical arguments, can transform, but through the heart, not the head. Of those two organs, those two ways of confronting the world, the first is eminently preferable to the second. The head – by which I mean logic and practicality, the strategies of self-advancement – should at best be employed as a tempering agent for the sometimes heedless notions of the heart.
But when it comes to fictional creative writing (stories, novels, stage plays and film scripts, as well as memoir and the personal essay), the heart brain must take the lead. The only message conveyed should be one of feeling. Story, a shared experience of high emotion, is the vehicle that conveys that feeling to the reader – the feeling of empathy, of connection to one or more of the story's characters, and therefore to a larger portion of the world than a typical reader usually has access to.
In so doing, yes, a truth is conveyed. But it is not the writer's truth, nor should it be. A writer's truth is only one small truth in a vast multiverse of truths, none more important nor true than any other. A story's truth belongs to the reader. It arises out of the reader's experience – in collaboration with the writer's experience, but, make no doubt about it, predominantly from the reader's. It is, then, unlike any message the writer hopes to impose, neither naïve nor arrogant, but wholly and beautifully relevant.
Did you know how the novel would end in the beginning? Do you plot your novels?
I always think I know how a novel will end, but I am almost always wrong. The characters decide what happens. Knowing this, I don't do a detailed plot before writing, just an opening scene and a couple of plot points further along. It's useful to know, at the end of a morning's work, where the story will go the next day. If you know that much, and only that much, you can write every day, and without trying to force the story where it might not want to go.
How do you get your people/characters to act so naturally? Do you have a friend psychologist or someone else for a beta reader?
It is my belief that to be a good writer, an individual must be a sensitive and perceptive student of human nature. This requires an ability to see things from others' points of view, to understand human motivation and psychology. Studying psychology might be of some benefit, but only in a general way; the sciences predict patterns of behavior, but every individual, real or fictional, will react differently because of their own unique life experiences and biological/neurological make-up. In my opinion, the best course of study for an aspiring writer is a life-long curiosity and ability to observe others uncritically, free of the impositions of ego.
One of your lead characters is a popular teacher and a bestselling author, just like you. How much of you is there with him? And how much of you is there in the other main character – the detective?
For the most part, both characters behave as I would were I in the exact same situation. Sometimes I have to stop and ask myself, If I were faced with that decision, and I saw the world as she/he does, what would I do? I suppose it's like being a character actor; you have to know your character so completely that you, the writer, can inhabit him/her whenever necessary.
I very much like your decision to reveal the killer's motivation at the end of the novel – there was no 10-pages-long monologue explaining his past; something, which is very typical for this genre. Everything is smoothly presented, very naturally. I just want to say "You are great, Randall!", but I also want to ask you how was it that you were not influenced by other writers?
Thank you for the kind words. My greatest gift as a writer is my ignorance. I don't have an MFA, and in fact have never taken a creative writing course. I have taught creative writing for most of thirty years, but the first thing I tell my students is that a writing program is likely to do more harm than good to their writing. Writing classes too frequently teach conventions, tropes, examples of what other writers have done, and the workshop model encourages homogeneity of writing. Without meaning to, such programs promote conventional writing. And who wants to be conventional?
I taught myself to write by studying the writers I love, from Hemingway to Faulkner to Camus and Hamsun and Garcia-Marquez and many others – every one of them an original, innovative writer who eschewed convention. Back when I was writing plays, the man who directed several of them once said, "What I love about your writing is that you break all the rules." And I said, "What are the rules?" He said, "Never mind; don't learn them. It will only ruin you."
I took his advice. And I give the same advice to my own students. Forget about classes, forget about rules, forget about pleasing a workshop full of other unpublished writers. First learn the basics of story structure – you can do this in ten minutes or less – then write the best damn novel you can. Then write another, and another, and another. If you keep learning and improving and developing your voice, eventually you will succeed.
Unfortunately, the students always choose to stay in class anyway. It then becomes my responsibility to be the promoter of original writing and to encourage every aspiring writer to be fearless, to take risks, break the rules, and forge their own paths – in life as well as in writing.
Great Acknowledgements' pages! I've never read anything like it. It's an essay of thanksgiving that any writer should dedicate to his/her team. Is your current team so different from the previous ones? Tell us more about Sandy and Anna.
Sandy Lu, my literary agent, was a godsend. I found her after spending twenty or so years with two other agents. The first agent came as part of the prize package when my first book, a collection of stories titled "The Luckiest Man in the World", was awarded the Drue Heinz Literature Prize by Joyce Carol Oates. He also represented my first novel. Then, around 1990 or so, I wrote "An Occasional Hell", my first crime novel, and he told me, "I can't sell this. The writing is too literary for a mystery, and the plot is too strong for a literary novel. If I can't categorize it, I can't sell it." I told him, "It's a literary mystery." He said, "There's no such thing." And I said, "That's why I wrote it." In the end, he declined to represent it. So I marketed and sold it myself, and the book was more successful than any of my previous books.
I then acquired another agent, but I made the mistake of disregarding my intuition. He represented me, but his tastes never matched my own, and after fifteen years or so I finally terminated our relationship and went searching for another agent. But this time I was careful; I interviewed several agents, some of them very big names in the industry. But none of them felt like a good fit. Then I found Sandy. The rapport was immediate, and my intuition spoke loud and clear: This is the one.
Sandy loved "Two Days Gone" but warned that it might take a while for her to find "the right editor" for it. The search took over six months. But when I met Sourcebooks' Anna Michels, through her long, insightful letters and phone calls, I knew that Sandy had found the perfect editor for me. Not only does Anna love a good mystery, but she also adores rich, descriptive writing and character exploration. And the entire Sourcebooks team is a treasure. In all my years of bouncing around through the Big Five to independents and back again, I never received a tenth of the support that Anna and her team provide. Every one of them is a jewel.
How long did it take to write this novel? How much research, plotting, actual writing and editing is behind this title?
The first draft was written in 2006. Every summer, and during holidays from teaching, I would do another draft. Ten years later, Sandy Lu read the full manuscript.
I was happy to know your Ryan DeMarco novel #2 – "Walking the Bones" – is already a fact. How many cases/stories do you plan?
I am currently working on #3. Its working title is "All the Pretty Girls But One". It will be published in 2019. A fourth book in the series is scheduled for 2020. As for whether or not the series will continue beyond four novels, that depends on the readers.
How do you select your next story? How do you know if an idea will have the potential to become a good story?
I keep my eyes and ears open. Sometimes the kernel of a story will grab my interest and begin to blossom. Sometimes a character or setting will fascinate me and begin to spin out a tale. Once, with the magic realism novel "In A Town Called Mundomuerto", I had the title running through my head for five or more years before I envisioned the main character, Lucia Luna. I then wrote her story as a novella, but it wasn't quite right. Then I wrote it as a film script; I still wasn't satisfied. Then as a novel, which went through numerous drafts, none of them acceptable to me. A full fifteen years after I first conceived of the title, I did another draft, and this time the voice was there. The voice the story had been searching for. The novel was published in 2007 and was named a Top Ten Fantasy Book of the Year by the editors of SFSite.com.
More recently, my psychological suspense novel "Only the Rain", which was published last month (January 2018), began with a house I passed several times a week. It was a small, shabby house in a secluded area, surrounded by trees, and, each time I rode past it on my motorcycle, I wondered if it was a meth house. One day I rode past it in the rain, and saw a pit bull chained to the porch. And just like that a story started to build itself about a young ex-soldier who, while riding past that house on his motorcycle, on the day he has lost his job, sees a young woman dancing naked in the rain. She slips in the mud and crashes down onto her back; he stops to make sure she is all right; and the trouble begins.
Any moment, any word, any person, any place that resonates with the writer can become a story. It is up to the writer to be an open and eager receiver for these moments.
Tell us more about your writing process. Do you have a routine?
I try to write every morning after forty minutes or so of meditation. If I'm working on a novel, I do my best not to let any other writing projects interfere, but I'm not always successful. Sometimes I get an idea for a short essay, and the energy of the idea will compel me to write it immediately. But I do write something every day, seven days a week. On days when I have to travel to promote my work, and the routine is disrupted, I feel off-balance and guilty for not writing. Writing, I suppose, now that my sons are grown and on their own, is how I justify my existence. It's my small way of giving something to the world.
When do you realize that you need to stop revising and your manuscript is final?
It's finished when I can read through the manuscript from first page to last, and never experience that little flinch that tells me something isn't right. Only then do I send it to my editor.
I must admit, however, that I am never wholly satisfied that a novel is as good as it can be. Often I give readings of my work– work that was published a year or more earlier – and, prior to the reading, I edit the passage I will read. I am always aiming for the perfect sentence, the perfect paragraph, the perfect scene. Revision never stops.
How many manuscript revisions does an experienced writer and a teacher like you make? Do they get less with each book?
I did 26 drafts of my first novel, "Excelsior". And this was in the days before computers and word processors, so I retyped the entire manuscript, which for a while was 800 pages long, 26 times. I now usually do three drafts before a novel goes to my editor, but it feels like only two; I start every morning by reading what I wrote the day before and making small revisions. So when I finish the first full draft, I've actually done two drafts. Then I do a careful polish, and that's it until I get my editor's notes.
Of course, this definition changes depending on one's interpretation of "a draft". My second and third drafts are little more than read-throughs to catch inconsistencies, awkward sentences, wordy passages, or missing information. When not teaching I can write a full draft, with one extra read-through, in six months or less. Then I read the manuscript carefully a third time for the final polish. The first draft is the only one in which I make substantial changes, trying out different voices or structures. For nearly all of my recent novels, the published book differs from that first draft only in minor ways.
I know you have a police officer for a beta reader – officer Jason Urbany. How did you know he would be the one?
A friend of mine, named Mike, often mentioned his brother-in-law, Jason. So I simply asked Mike if Jason would be willing to answer a few questions from me about police procedure. Lucky for me, he agreed.
Hemingway said that a writer needs a friend in every profession. Today, that need is augmented by the internet. I do a lot of online research every single day. But nothing beats having a handful of knowledgeable friends willing to lend their expertise and authority to a novel. From them you get not just facts but examples and anecdotes and characters. I've been blessed with several such friends, and they always make my work richer.
How many rejections did you have before you started selling your books? How did you feel and how do you feel about that now?
I don't know the exact number, but I collected rejections for nine full years before selling my first short story. So there were a lot. Hundreds. Every rejection made me more determined to succeed, especially after I started receiving encouraging notes from editors. Being a writer was my only ambition, and I wasn't going to let anybody tell me I couldn't achieve it, no matter how long it took. Besides, I knew from Hemingway that every writer must undergo an apprenticeship, and I was happy to undergo my own. I worked numerous manual labor jobs during those years, despite having a couple of advanced degrees. But while I was painting a house, for example, or sweeping a factory floor, I was thinking about what I was going to write when I got home. And every job provided stories, scenes, and characters for future pieces of fiction. The jobs also allowed me time to mature as a writer and a human being. The jobs paid the bills and fed my body. The writing fed my soul.
Too many young writers are unwilling to undergo the necessary apprenticeship that will not only allow their voices to develop, but will give them the maturity and depth of insight essential to good writing. They want a shortcut; they want formulas and guidelines. But no degree, and no number of classes, can provide this. Only life – unfiltered, joyous, brutal, tragic and triumphant – can provide it.
Hemingway also said – and I believe this with all my heart – that as writers, we are all apprentices. There are no masters.
Another relevant quote here is one from Henry David Thoreau that should be tattooed onto every young writers' wrist: How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
What is the worst writing advice you've ever received?
Non-writers, and particularly academics who are not successful writers, are full of bad advice, because all they know is theory, and theory can only get in the way of talent. To counter all that bad advice, I wrote an essay called "10 Easy Steps to Becoming a Writer". For those interested in listening to it, the essay can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/randall-silvis/10-easy-steps-to-becoming-a-writer
And the best advice?
The best advice I ever received came as a handwritten note scribbled on one of my earliest rejections: Never quit.
There is plenty of room in the industry for writers with varying degrees of talent. You don't have to write like a Nobel Prize winner to break into the business, but you absolutely must be prepared to work hard and to face rejection again and again and again. You must love solitude and respect language. You must understand the power of words, and how to utilize that power.
As I have said many times, there are lots of writers with talent, but few with talent and discipline and perseverance.
Who are your favourite crime authors today? Is there anything you still can learn from them?
James Lee Burke is the only traditional crime novelist I read. His prose is musical and evocative, his descriptions rich and palpable. His history as a writer is much like my own; he started out writing literary stories and novels, then switched to crime so as to make a living from his writing. Among literary stylists, he can't be beat.
Many of my novels are marketed as crime/mystery/thriller/psychological suspense, but I have never seen myself as a genre writer. My goal has always been to bridge the gap between so-called serious fiction and commercial fiction. My characters all struggle with the moral complexities of life, the universal themes of all literature – what Faulkner called the verities and truths of the heart. The inner journey of the character is my concern; the external plot is simply a device for testing and illuminating character. It also serves the essential function of maintaining the reader's attention.
I also read a lot of creative nonfiction, because some of today's finest prose can be found in that genre. Overall, however, I watch a lot more crime fiction than I read.
I am a produced screenwriter, and also try to make my novels as cinematic as possible. Some of the best character-driven crime stories being produced today can be found on cable TV and Netflix. Dramas such as "True Detective", "Fargo", "Peaky Blinders", "Mind Hunters", and a dozen or so others not only provide compelling plots but also delve deeply into the complex personalities of criminals and non-criminals alike.
Is there anything to learn from other writers? I learn something from every writer I encounter. Sometimes it is how to do something more effectively, and sometimes it is how not to do something.
The only issue that matters when analyzing writing is this: Does it work? If the answer is yes, try to figure out why it works, why it holds your attention, why it leaves you breathless, why you can't stop reading or watching. And if it doesn't work, why not?
That's the only formula any writer or student of writing needs.
What is your current project?
In addition to tending to the promotion of "Walking the Bones" and "Only the Rain", I spend most of my time working on the first draft of "All the Pretty Girls But One", plus an occasional short essay. However, there is a mainstream/literary novel called "Esperando" that I've been aching to write, plus several other novels that currently exist only as concepts. Any one of them might start clamoring for attention and force me to pull up the file to add a few lines of dialogue or summary of a scene.
Any so-called spare time is spent trying to elevate my consciousness so as to use my remaining days in this life as a better father, a better writer, and a better light of the Light. I am at the age when I keep one foot in the corporeal world and one in the spiritual. Everything I do in each affects the other. That's probably why my protagonist in the Ryan DeMarco series is on the same journey. In "Walking the Bones", he finally realizes that there is far more to reality than what we experience through the physical senses.
What advice do you have for aspiring Bulgarian writers who read bgstoryteller.co?
Read, write, read, write, repeat.
Don't sit around talking about your writing or about what you want to write; that will only dilute the creative energy necessary to write. You can be a writer who talks about writing, or a writer who writes. Writing is not a social activity; it is a solitary one. That's why the profession attracts an abundance of introverts. If you are the kind of person who needs to be around people all the time, you should probably consider another vocation.
Don't waste your day on social media. Don't waste time reading how-to-books. Don't waste time moaning that you have no time to write. Make the time. It can be as little as thirty minutes a day, but you must do it. Life is short, so do it now.
Get outside the bubble you live in. Travel. Challenge yourself. Confront what you fear. You will always learn more from an uncomfortable situation than a comfortable one. Make frequent contact with the unknown.
If you believe, as I do, that life is not an accident, not a finite breath of time that comes and goes leaving no trace on eternity, then every thought and action matters. Every moment must be made relevant and essential. If you believe, as I do, that every life is a gift to be utilized and cherished because it surely does leave its signature on eternity, there is no spare time. There is no time to spare.
Thank you, Randall! It was a pleasure!
Thank you, Valentina. My warmest wishes to you and to every aspiring writer, and every reader, in Bulgaria!
Here is a link where you can find more about Randall:
http://www.randallsilvis.com/
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Netanyahu Charged With Bribery and Fraud
Michael Ruark November 22, 2019 November 22, 2019 Israel, Middle East, Palestine, USA, World
For the first time in Israel's history, a sitting prime minister is accused of bribery: Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit announced Thursday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be charged with bribery, fraud and breach in three corruption cases, dubbed Cases 4000, 2000 and 1000.
The indictment comes after a four-day hearing with Netanyahu's defense team last month, followed by weeks of intensive discussion at the attorney general's offices.
Laying out the charges in a press conference, Mendelblit said he made the decision to indict the prime minister "with a heavy heart, but wholeheartedly," stressing it was not an issue of left-wing or right-wing politics and that enforcing the law is not a matter of choice.
The attorney general lamented that "while conducting a professional hearing process, we've witnessed repeated attempts to delegitimize the people who were involved" in the investigations. He defended his colleagues, saying "These people acted out of proper motives."
The delegitimization "was meant to create the impression that any decision taken would be wrong. The investigations are based on broad-based evidence and testimony, which were professionally reviewed. No stone was left unturned," the attorney general said.
Following the announcement, Netanyahu called the indictment "an attempted coup" against him, and that the process was meant to topple him.
After Netanyahu had delivered his statement, his political rival and Kahol Lavan Gantz said he has "complete confidence in the judicial system led by Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit. I'm sure they are doing their job with professionalism, integrity and loyalty.
"Israel is not undergoing a government coup, rather an entrenchment in power. Netanyahu has proven tonight that he must leave his post and focus on his legal woes. He too is aware of the major complex challenges Israel is facing both in the field of security and in socioeconomic matters, which require the full attention, strength and energy of a prime minister," Gantz said.
Former deputy army chief and Democratic Union lawmaker Yair Golan called on the legal adviser to the Knesset, Eyal Yinon and the attorney general to clarify whether a person charged with criminal offenses can be nominated by a majority of lawmakers as a candidate tasked to form a governing coalition.
Case 4000
Case 4000 is considered the most serious, and revolves around an alleged bribery deal between Netanyahu and businessman Shaul Elovich, who controlled the Bezeq telecommunications company and the Walla News site. According to the indictment, Netanyahu and Elovich engaged in a quid-pro-pro deal in which Netanyahu – as communication minister – led regulatory steps directly tied to Elovich's businesses and interests that yielded the tycoon some $500 million.
In return, according to the indictment, Netanyahu and his wife Sara made consistent requests to alter the coverage on the Walla News website in order to serve the Netanyahus' interests and target their opponents. Elovich allegedly pressed the editors of the website to comply with the Netanyahus' demands. Substantial circumstantial evidence convinced Mendelblit that both Elovich and Netanyahu were aware of the quid-pro-quo, though there is no evidence of an explicit coordination of the deal.
Netanyahu's attorneys argued that favorable coverage does not constitute a bribe and that in any case the prime minister didn't try to skew the coverage in his favor but rather pushed for balanced coverage out of ideology. In addition, they claimed all decisions made by Netanyahu in his role as communication minister were approved by the ministry's professional staff.
In reference to Case 4000, the indictment alleges that Netanyahu acted to benefit Shaul Elovitch in exchange for favorable media coverage, and created a conflict of interest in light of his public positions and his personal matters.
"Netanyahu and Elovitch created a give-and-take relationship, based on their mutual understanding that each of them had a significant interest that the other could advance… As part of that give-and-take relationship, Elovitch and his wife agreed to all of defendant Netanyahu's demands, and did everything in their power to comply with those demands.
"Media coverage was of great importance to defendant Netanyahu, as well for his family members, and he considered it highly important in its effect on his political future," the indictment said.
"Netanyahu systematically and consistently concealed his relationship with Elovitch and his wife from a number of officials to whom he gave partial and deceiving information about the nature of his relationship with Elovitch," according to the indictment.
At the center of Case 2000 is a series of meetings between Netanyahu and the publisher of Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper, Arnon Mozes, in which they allegedly discussed a bribery deal. According to the indictment, the deal called for Netanyahu to try to limit the circulation of rival newspaper Israel Hayom, and in return Mozes would give Netanyahu favorable coverage. In this case, Netanyahu is accused of fraud and breach of trust.
At the hearing, Netanyahu's lawyers argued that Netanyahu's actions were meant to fool Mozes, and that he cannot be accused of an offense since there are no indications he planned to bring the deal to fruition. In addition, the defense team argued that contact between media figures and politicians is commonplace and should not be criminalized.
According to the indictment, in Case 2000 "defendant Netanyahu gave defendant Mozes the impression that there was a plausible option that he — the prime minister of Israel — would take a bribe. By doing so, Netanyahu conveyed the message that bribery was a tool that could be used to promote the mutual interests of senior public servants and businessmen and that there was nothing wrong with bribery transactions when significant public interests such as freedom of the press and elections integrity are at stake.
"Such conduct on the part of the person holding the highest-ranking position in the executive branch deeply and fundamentally harms the rule of law, integrity and public trust," the indictment states.
"Netanyahu took advantage of the bribe offered by defendant Mozes and [Moses'] understanding that he would be able to significantly influence legislation. At the same time, defendant Netanyahu used his power as prime minister to receive personal favors, while fundamentally harming the integrity of the public service and public trust," the indictment adds.
In Case 1000, Netanyahu is also accused of fraud and breach of trust over gifts he allegedly received from Hollywood Mogul Arnon Milchan and billionaire James Packer. According to the indictment, Netanyahu received cigars and champagne from the two over the course of several years. Netanyahu's family members, the indictment states, also demanded and received gifts from the businessmen, and Netanyahu was aware of this fact. Mendelblit writes in the indictment that Netanyahu put himself in a conflict of interests and used his public role to receive gifts.
Netanyahu's defense in this case has been that "it is allowed to receive gifts from friends." According to his lawyers, Milchan gave him the gifts because the two are friends, and Netanyahu was not aware of the requests made by his family members.
– https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-charged-bribery-fraud-corruption-israel-election-1.8137771
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"Boogie Wonderland" — Earth, Wind and Fire with The Emotions
Photo by Matthew LeJune on Unsplash
The great thing about music is there's a song for every feeling. And the feeling I get from "Boogie Wonderland" is always one of joy.
After a run of more serious-minded posts, I figured it was about time to let some joy into our lives and as Earth, Wind and Fire's 1979 classic is the most joyous song I know, I figured that had to be the next record on my virtual turntable.
When I say joy, I don't just mean "happy"…it's the spirit of devil-may-care abandon infusing "Boogie Wonderland" which makes it such a pleasure to listen to. Joy isn't something better than happy, although it's certainly in the same part of the spectrum…it's something different.
Perhaps joyful is happy with an extra dose of carefree abandon. Who knows, I'm not a dictionary compiler. But I do know that my mood lifts every time "Boogie Wonderland" comes along.
Or even hints at coming along…in the UK, a short instrumental section of "Boogie Wonderland" is being used for a commercial at the moment and my family thinks I'm slightly crazy for inserting the "Haahhh, haahhh" sections at the appropriate point in the instrumental.
I admit it, that probably is slightly crazy. But I can't listen to "Boogie Wonderland"…or even a short instrumental section from it…without wanting to join in and start grooving. That's what joy does for you…you want to be part of the experience in any way you can.
Now, "Boogie Wonderland" is definitely from the golden age of disco. I know some of you might question whether that's an era that ever had a golden age, but I'd argue "Boogie Wonderland" is a classic song by any standard…which just happens to be strongly associated in people's minds with gold lame jumpsuits and an infectious disco beat.
A bit like the Bee Gees, perhaps, Earth, Wind and Fire will probably be firmly associated in music lovers' minds with the disco sound until the end of time, but that's in danger of trivialising and typecasting them in the face of a much more comprehensive body of work, and indeed the superior quality of the disco records they did make.
Earth, Wind and Fire were formed by lead singer, and former Chess Records session drummer, Maurice White in 1969. In the years since, they've picked up six Grammys, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and were awarded their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
They were so much more than a fluffy "filler" act who somehow managed to scrape out a formulaic hit at the height of disco's popularity (not that "Boogie Wonderland" is remotely formulaic, although you might think it is…that's because they set the formula which everyone coming after them copied).
I got that first-hand when I saw Earth, Wind and Fire live in London some time in the mid-1980s. My goodness, they certainly knew how to put on a show…
There wasn't a single person in the huge venue that day who wasn't grooving around before Earth, Wind and Fire were more than a song or two into their repertoire. We just couldn't help ourselves…the band were like modern-day Pied Pipers and we all moved in sync to their music.
If you've read some of the other things I've written around here, you'll know I'm a sucker for a great brass section and Earth, Wind and Fire's brass section is one of the most smoking-hot brass sections you're ever likely to encounter — not just in the disco era, but at just about any other time in the history of recorded music.
There's a serious side to "Boogie Wonderland", though, alongside the smoking hot brass section and infectious disco beat.
It's the story of someone dancing the night away to forget all the troubles they encounter during the day. That was a pretty common theme for films, TV programmes and records during the late 1970s, but not many disco-era hits told the story like this…
Midnight creeps so slowly into hearts of men
Who need more than they get
Daylight deals a bad hand to a woman
Who has laid too many bets
The mirror stares you in the face and says
"Baby, uh, uh, it don't work"
You say your prayers though you don't care
You dance and you shake the hurt
Let's face it, "dark, but dance-able" is a relatively rare musical style…although in this case we hardly notice the darkness as we're far too busy grooving away to that disco beat…
And of course The Emotions…they're the three ladies in the red trousers and billowing tops in the video below…lighten the mood with their vocal, over and above their choice of clothing.
A casual listen to "Boogie Wonderland" probably wouldn't have most people realising the song was as dark as it is. It's like one of those Russian dolls where you take off the outer layer, but there's so much more than you'd expect to find on the inside…
But this is disco, of course, so there are no problems which can't be solved by a quick spin around the dance floor…
I find romance
When I start to dance
In boogie wonderland
We're on a journey. A journey from a hum-drum life where, try as we might, we can't find comfort and contentment in the arms of someone who loves us.
So every night after work we set off on a journey to our own magical kingdom…a bit like Dorothy's journey to Oz…except our disco kingdom only comes alive when we pull on our sequinned lame jumpsuit and set off for the bright lights of the club.
There we leave all our daytime cares behind us and come alive once more in the company of the beautiful people and an infectious beat that gets inside us and won't let go until we've danced the night away…
All the love in the world can't be gone
And the need to be loved can't be wrong
All the records are playing
And my heart keep saying
Boogie wonderland, wonderland
The need to be loved can't be wrong…but until love comes along we're going to have quite a party without it, is what I take from Earth, Wind and Fire's performance.
And, as rules for life go, I can think of plenty worse plans than dancing the night away at the disco while you wait for love to strike. You're doing nobody any harm and the music lets you feel truly alive again.
We all need to feel loved, and I earnestly wish that you find the love you deserve.
But in the meantime, why not join me down at boogie wonderland for a bit of a groove?
I'm a terrible dancer, so don't get too close as I'm very likely to stand on your toes.
However I love the music and if you want to be instantly transported to a more joyful place, I couldn't think of a better way to lift anybody's mood than putting Earth, Wind and Fire…with The Emotions…and "Boogie Wonderland" on the turntable.
C'mon…sing along with me at the top of your voice…boogie wonderlaaaaand, haahhh, haahhh…!
I promise you'll feel better…
If you've read this far, thank you for spending a few moments in the company of one of my favourite songs. The video is below, but if you prefer listening to your music on Spotify, you can find today's track here… https://open.spotify.com/track/6ztstiyZL6FXzh4aG46ZPD
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Church-State Clash in China Coalesces Around a Toppled Spire
WENZHOU, China — For nearly a year, the Sanjiang Church was the pride of this city's growing Christian population. A landmark in the fast-developing northern suburbs, its 180-foot spire rose dramatically against a rocky promontory. Wenzhou, called "China's Jerusalem" for the churches dotting the cityscape, was known for its relaxed ties between church and state, and local officials lauded the church as a model project.
Late last month, however, the government ordered it torn down, saying it violated zoning regulations. After fruitless negotiations and a failed effort by the congregation to occupy the church, on April 28 backhoes and bulldozers knocked down the walls and sent the spire toppling to the ground.
"People are stunned," said one member of the congregation, who asked that she be identified only by her English name, Mabel, out of fear of government reprisals. "They have completely lost faith in the local religious authorities."
This urban area of nine million in eastern China, nestled between rugged mountains and a jagged coastline, has moved to the center of a national battle with a Communist Party increasingly suspicious of Christianity and the Western values it represents. Since March, at least a dozen other churches across Zhejiang Province have been told to remove their crosses or have received demolition orders, a significant escalation in a party campaign to counter the influence of China's fastest-growing religion.
The government has defended its actions, saying the churches violated zoning restrictions. However, an internal government document reviewed by The New York Times makes it clear the demolitions are part of a strategy to reduce Christianity's public profile.
The nine-page provincial policy statement says the government aims to regulate "excessive religious sites" and "overly popular" religious activities, but it specifies only one religion, Christianity, and one symbol, crosses.
"The priority is to remove crosses at religious activity sites on both sides of expressways, national highways and provincial highways," the document says. "Over time and in batches, bring down the crosses from the rooftops to the facade of the buildings."
The Sanjiang demolition in particular drew national attention because the church was officially sanctioned, not one of the independent, underground churches that often run afoul of the government. Moreover, a central ally of President Xi Jinping played a decisive role in its destruction.
The case created a backlash even in government-controlled religious circles, with prominent theologians at government seminaries publicly criticizing the handling of it.
"Nothing hurts the people more than bulldozing their church," Chen Yilu, head of the government-sponsored Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, the country's most influential, said in an interview. "It was handled too aggressively."
Gao Ying, dean of the official Yanjing Theological Seminary in Beijing, said: "The Sanjiang Church was a legal and registered congregation. I think they deserved a better outcome."
The leveling of the Sanjiang Church came amid growing tensions not only between Christianity and the Communist government, but also between Christianity and other religions. It was preceded by a local petition accusing the church of destroying the area's feng shui, geomantic principles that underlie traditional Chinese folk religion. Others complained that churches were crowding out traditional temples, which compete for space in the hilly region.
"As Christianity becomes stronger, it jostles up against other religions," said Mayfair Yang, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has done field work on religious land conflicts in Wenzhou.
Increasingly, those other religions are receiving greater support from the Communist Party. In March, Mr. Xi praised Buddhism for its contributions to China. And late last year, on a visit to Confucius' hometown, he picked up two volumes on Confucianism and, in a reversal of the party's longtime antagonism, issued a rare endorsement: "I need to read these books very carefully."
While churches in China are mainly privately financed — Sanjiang was built with $5.5 million in donations — traditional religious sites have expanded with strong government support. The government has also made a U-turn on how it treats indigenous religious practices. Just a decade ago, the Communist Party condemned fortunetelling, feng shui and many traditional funerary rites as "feudal superstition." Now, these are protected under government programs to support "intangible cultural heritage."
Christianity, however, is seen by some in the government as a colonial vestige at odds with the party's control of political and social life.
"There's also uneasiness that some of these Christian religions are getting infusions of logistical and financial and doctrinal support from abroad," Professor Yang said.
Protestantism is also linked to a national debate about "universal values." Some Chinese Protestants argue that rights such as freedom of expression are God-given, and thus cannot be taken away by the state. These beliefs have led many Protestants to take up human rights work. A disproportionate number of lawyers handling prominent political cases, for example, are Protestant.
Fenggang Yang, a professor of religion at Purdue University, said that Protestantism did not directly challenge the state, but that leaders had come to see it that way.
"The political threat of Christianity to the regime has been exaggerated by some officials," he said. "So much so that it's become a shared perception by top officials."
Officials refused to comment for this article, but in reports in the government-run news media, they have said they are simply trying to come to grips with the sometimes anarchic construction in this freewheeling city.
Wenzhou has demolished 32 million square feet of buildings, mostly commercial properties, since last year, according to news reports. Officials were quoted as saying that Sanjiang Church was built without proper zoning, taking up five times the 20,000 square feet allowed by its permits and sitting on land zoned for agricultural use. Non-Christian religious sites are being torn down, too, they said, including a smaller folk religion temple near the church.
"Right now, certain believers online suspect that the government 'selectively operates law' in the case of forced demolition of Sanjiang religious facility," a Wenzhou official was quoted as saying in the government-run Morning Express newspaper. "Here, we'd like to restate that we will continue to abide by the party's religious policy, respect religious freedom of the people and provide protection for legal religious venues."
The church's problems seem to have begun with a visit to the region in October by the provincial party secretary, Xia Baolong, a close ally of President Xi. Visiting a new economic zone north of Wenzhou, Mr. Xia was reportedly disturbed that a religious building, especially one seen as representing a foreign belief, dominated the skyline. The next month, members of the congregation said, they were told to remove the cross atop their church's steeple.
"Xia Baolong came to inspect last autumn, and he saw the cross," said an official in the Wenzhou government's religious hierarchy. "He said: 'Take down the cross. It's so high, and it's not appropriate.' But the people said: 'Well, we've already put it up there, and from a faith point of view, it's our faith, the cross. How can we take it down?' "
Officials argued that the church violated zoning rules, but the provincial policy paper suggests that argument was a tactical cover. The paper, called "Working Document Concerning the Realization of Handling of Illegal Religious Buildings," said the policy would face international scrutiny so officials should be careful to cloak their effort under the guise of cracking down on building codes. "Be particular about tactics, be careful about methods," it said, urging officials to focus on the idea of "illegal construction." "This is crucial to investigate and prosecute from the perspective of laws and regulations to avoid inviting heavy criticism."
The document is undated, but government religious officials say it was issued last summer by the Wenzhou administration of religious affairs in conjunction with a government bureau charged with demolishing illegal buildings.
In March, the government increased the pressure, saying if the cross was not removed and most of an auxiliary building torn down, the entire church would be demolished.
Senior members of the congregation and Wenzhou officials tried to broker a deal. But in interviews, they said they were opposed by a majority of the congregation, who would not agree to remove the cross, and by provincial officials working for Mr. Xia, who insisted that the church was illegal and must be torn down.
The 2011 agreement to build the church had been signed by the congregation and by the local bureau of religious affairs, representing the government. That the religious affairs bureau now says it did not get the land rezoned strikes many as an internal government problem. So, too, does the argument that the church was bigger than planned, a violation that officials and members of the congregation agree the government encouraged.
"They said, 'This will be your last church for 20 years, so make it big,' " said a member of the Sanjiang congregation involved in the negotiations. "They also told us that the development zone was a big project and needed a big church as a sign of how this was an outward-looking community."
An official in the city's religious affairs bureau acknowledged that "officials said it could be bigger, but perhaps this was a mistake."
The provincial government announced this month that it had arrested two Wenzhou officials and was investigating another three in connection with the church. The accusations against them appear to be that they approved the church's prominent location and size.
Sim Chi Yin contributed reporting from Wenzhou. Lucy Chen and Mia Li contributed research from Beijing.
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These stories crop up ever so often, either about the police, councils or other public bodies. I've seen a number of FOIs that hope to uncover some secret scandal about hundreds of public officials unable to control themselves as soon as they're left in charge of a twitter account.
The truth is, some people say or do stupid or even offensive things sometimes. And where there is serious offence caused of course, it should be investigated – the same way as it would if it occurred offline. But these kinds of issues existed long before social media was invented – Facebook didn't make this happen.
Amanda Coleman told PRWeek that just three of the 88 incidents investigated involved official police accounts and off-duty use was the main issue.
Often when I'm training people to use social media for work one of the things they ask is: "what if I say the wrong thing?" I just ask them whether they trust themselves to speak face to face with members of the public (of course they do) and then ask them why they would be saying something online that they wouldn't say in person.
It's true that social media has blurred the lines between our professional and individual personas. And I would agree that the standards we're asked to maintain in our work life should carry on into our personal lives, especially if we're making public statements on the internet. I think that's common sense and good advice for anyone to follow.
Of course, we're all human and we all make mistakes. If an organisation encourages its employees to use social media in their work and wants to enjoy the positive benefits that having actively engaged employees online can bring, they need to adopt a supportive and understanding culture. Otherwise staff won't want to 'take the risk' and won't be willing to be the online advocates you would wish them to be.
If people use their common sense and their professionalism, then, like Amanda says, there shouldn't be too many issues. And, if we trust staff to be a representative of the organisation in person then we should be able to do the same online.


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