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1. International Herald Tribune, March 11, 2013,

Maureen Dawd in March 9 wrote in the New York Times column, which was appearing on yesterday's IHT column, "As Time Goes Bye," describing how she started her career firstly in Time, now a Time Warner company 'as The New York Post’s Keith Kelly put it, “untethered from the Time Warner mother ship”'.

The title "As Time Goes Bye" made me think the lyric of Hooligans album, but that album was ever notified to be a duplicate UK band, and I haven't put that information on the internet before. That was a UK made without doubt, and not cheap, a NTD$400 thirty minutes compact disk of a creative band, with electronic background music playing with single words and paragraph of flotsam and jettison style vocal performing. It was said in the album that they perform this album to imitate the Rap style pop music.

But I did not understand in Mareen Dawd's column about "Salt" and "Salt II". "Salt on table"?

2. Harvard Business Review, March 2013,

Editor Adi Ignatius in the opening article "From the editor: Advertising is an art -- and a science" introduced Julia Kirby's article, which was on page 86.

Julia Kirby wrote on page 86, HBR March 2013, "Creative that cracks the code", depicting how she find that in the advertising website, she saw mortgage and weight loss ads, but failed to see the came-off of the drawing board great art directors. I see the illustrated picture there was a raccoon picked up a green snake. Terrible feeling.

DB, SSN057-86-4042
March 12, 2013,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

Psychology Today January/February 2013 in Final Analysis suggests that where we're almost finding love in an atlas(map). In Kansas State, we found in the map of the USA that this state had the highest percentage of ads from women seeking men. Site of Missed Connection by median age of poster: McDonald's.

the psychologist january 2013, On the shoulders of giants, Alan D. Pickering in this article depicting individual differences by adopting Eysenck's tripartite division of personality(the 'Giant Three' model) as launching point: extraversion(E), neuroticism(N) and psychoticism(P). Alan says that "It should be noted that this choice does not reflect some Anglocentric bias against the Big Five model()McCrae & Costa, 2003) that originated in the US."

DB, SSN057-86-4042,
January 24, 2013, Thursday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

"The five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching," as we are finding on page 908 of the psychologist december 2012 issue. What make sense to the october issue of a touching story lies with the night sky cover, echoing with the recently on-lined Facebook timeline cover scene with a cartoon girl in Japanese blue. Another picture in a cloudy moon, makes that Stephen King's quote from D.H. Lawrence, Boo'ya Moon. That's the Merlin's style in a novel. Something you did not know and you seeking for it long enough, and you will find it. Except that in the Holy Bible we find out wisdom in the other facet of things in Matthew. If I would not have known that earlier, it could be a taste bitter than sorrow decades later. I know that. It's nice.

DB, SSN057-86-4042,
January 9, 2013,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

Harvard Business Review, September 2012
Spotlight
The (Surprisingly) Simple Rules of Strategy
Page 72,

The Science
How Simple Rules Make It Easier to Act
Complex situations create many possible courses of action, which can confound employees on the front line. A recent body of research by psychologists demonstrates that when faced with a superabundance of alternatives, people are afraid of making the wrong choice. As a result they delay decisions, default to the safest option, or avoid choosing altogether...

How Simple Rules Fare Against Complex Models
A growing body of evidence shows that simple rules match or beat more-complicated analysis across a wide range of decisions. Simple rules outperformed state-of-the-art statistical models in forecasting the likelihood that customers would repurchase in two out of three industries(and tried them in the third). They matched sophisticated algorithms in effectiveness at allocating funds across asset classes...

How Simple Rules Differ from Checklists
All firm must balance two conflicting but equally important demands: efficiency(which comes from exploiting standard opportunities) and flexibility(which allows an organization to seize unexpected opportunities). Checklists like the ones that pilots use before takeoff or that surgical teams run through to prepare for an operation are extremely helpful...

DB, SSN057-86-4042,
September 21, 2012, Friday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

the psychologist, june 2012
Page 472,
The curious case of Sherlock Holmes and perceptual load
David James Robertson on an intriguing modern detective story...

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which are vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated(Conan Doyle, 1894/2001, p.391)

The preceding quote is elegant enough to have been written by William James in The Principles of Psychology(1890) as an explanation of our essential cognitive ability to focus our attention on relevant goal-directed information, while ignoring irrelevant and potentially distracting noise. Yet it is actually a description of the deductive processes of that most extraordinary of consulting detectives, Mr Sherlock Holmes. For Holmes, the ability to select only those relevant clues that are required to solve a case, while ignoring irrelevant and extraneous information that could cloud his reasoning, is an indispensible element of his expertise.
Psychological research has made great progress over the last 60 years in understanding the cognitive and perceptual mechanisms that govern this essential selective process...

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
July 12, 2012, Thursday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

Harvard Business Review, June 2012
Page 135, Case Study
How should a business owner handle a conflict between two senior manager?
by H. Irving Grousbeck
When Key Employees Clash

The caller ID on Matthew Spark's phone read "Kid Spectrum, Inc." It was someone from the Orlando office, probably administrative director Ellen Larson. She had been in daily contact with Matthew since he purchased the company, a provider of in-home services for autistic children, eight month ago. He appreciated Ellen's eagerness to help him build the business, even if she was sometimes high-maintenance. Kid Spectrum's previous owner, Arthur Hamel, had told Matthew that Ellen, with nearly two decades of experience in health services, would be one of his biggest assets.

"Matthew, it's Ellen. I don't want to bother you again, but we have a situation down here."

Matthew sat back in his chair and readied himself. The "situation" could be anything from the copier running out of ink to the building catching on fire...

DB, SSN057-86-4042,
June 29, 2012, Friday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

the psychologist, may 2012
page 360
At the interface
Jon Sutton interviews Trevor Robbins CBE(University of Cambridge)

I hear that the two 'department' of psychology in Cambridge--Experimental Psychology and Social and Developmental Psychology--look set to merge. How has that come about?  

That's an impressive piece of investigative journalism! I can confirm that this historic merger is likely to take place, pending the decision of the University's General Board. The factors leading to it have been based on teaching and research considerations, as well as a desire to simplify admissions for promising sixth formers who wants to read psychology at Cambridge. In terms of teaching, we will now have a new 'Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Tripos'. This will allow students to be admitted to read psychology, including initially biological and experimental, as well as developmental and social aspects. Those students doing the Natural Science Tripos(i.e. some combination of chemistry, physics and biological courses) will also still be able to study psychology, as at present.

On the research front, the Department has wanted to have a broader as well as greater critical mass which will allow us to develop exciting new bridging areas such as social neuroscience and behavioural economics, as well as consolidate our joint strengths in developmental psychology, including our newly established Center for Neuroscience in Education...

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
June 19, 2012, Tuesday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

The Economist, May 26TH-June 1ST, 2012
Page 48
Lexington; Moral quandary
Mitt Romney wants to talk about the economy, not social issues. It isn't working out that way

In many respects, Mitt Romney makes a perfect spokesman for America's religious right. He certainly looks the part: his clothes crisply creased, his hair neatly gelled, his face habitually frozen in a look of square-jawed conviction. His personal life seems blameless. He is a regular churchgoer, and appears to live by the tenet of his faith. He married his high-school sweetheart, who bore him five strapping sons, who in turn have provided him with 18 grandchildren. He is a teetotaller, but not, like George W. Bush, as a break with the waywardness of his youth. Mr Romney spent much of his youth as a missionary, trying to persuade the French to give up wine. He once told a reporter that his greatest failing was that he devoted only one day a week to helping the needy(smugness is clearly a bit of an issue, too). The closest he has come to a scandal is the revelation that in his teens he once forcibly cut the hair of one of his schoolmates, in a prank that strayed across the line into bullying.

Yet Mr Romney does not like to talk about his faith in any but the broadest terms, presumably to avoid reminding voters that he is Mormon, a religion that many Americans find peculiar and some doctrinaire Christians consider heretical...

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
June 6, 2012,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

The Economist, May 19TH-25TH, 2012
Page 41
Financing football stadiums
Bread, circuses and leather balls
Atlanta
Gouging taxpayers for sport

The Falcons, Atlanta's professional football team, have played their home games at the Geogia Dome, America's largest indoor sports arena, since 1992. It cost $214m to build and another $55m to renovate. In those 20 seasons they have an overall losing record, including seven losses and four wins in the playoffs, and no Super Bowl titles. Attendance has been respectable, but below capacity--perhaps because fans dislike the prospect of watching a football game indoors on a beautiful autumn day. That said, many may also dislike the prospect of watching a football game in the rain, or on a sweltering day in early autumn. The Georgia Dome also hosts non-football events, such as basketball games and trade shows, that require an enclosed space...

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
May 30, 2012,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

Bloomberg Businessweek, May 14-May 20, 2012
Page 40
Internet
Can Yahoo! Hang On in The Ad Market?

It's al the rage to predict the demise of online display ads and Yahoo!, the company that pioneered the business. Display advertising is the old man of online marketing--website banners are much less fashionable than, say, a personalized coupon delivered to your smartphone. Yahoo has had years of stagnation and leadership crises, the latest being Chief Executive Officer Scott Thompson's résumé inflation.

...The issue isn't the viability of display ads but whether Yahoo can stay in the game. From 2009 to 2011, the company's share of the market fell from 15.4 percent to10.8 percent, according to EMarketer. The drop was largely due to the growth of Facebook(its display revenue in the U.S. more than tripled, from an estimated $518 million in 2009 to $1.7 billion in 2011, according to EMarketer) and Google's YouTube($435 million to $1.7 billion over the same period)...

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
May 29, 2012,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

Psychology Today June 2012 issue

Public occasion impromptu on health insurance topic of the soapbox preachers, a private jet passenger without 18-carat diamond-drop earrings, that was not whom you found in ordinary school days. However, you are in a summer vacation transporting something to the east continent of the dream land(Switzerland, Germany). Sunny sky, gentle weather, everything seemed so perfect. Then, a decade lapses, what happened at that time? How do you know? You know, therefore I know.

Recently I checked out several books from the New Taipei City Library using recently renewed library card, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and this month with Stephen King's novel, Under the Dome. I have read a third of this dictionary alike, hardcover book. Hmm, living dictionary with 1074 pages. What I could say is that this is really a good book, teaches me a lot of things, since a decade ago when I first read his Different Seasons novel. When I was in my university days, borrowed a hard cover of Stephen King's novel but except for the first page the whole book left unread for that all check out period. This situation is improved quite a lot since I have this Psychology Today magazine subscription. To subscribe to the Psychology Today magazine is really, really helpful, and I mean it.

Up to this moment on May 23, I still have to deal with the aftermath of house intruding seizure from the New Taipei City Criminal Police on December 29 just after last Christmas, of a libel case on my Yahoo! website article accused by the Breeze Center owner Liao Cheng-han whom was obscured referred by the criminal police officers during the inquiring. There have already been two investigating courts held, due process as well has been endured lasting for the fifth month. Previously I had filed a malfeasance case against the prosecutor Lieu Dong-yun, but earlier was casually dismissed by the court prosecutor office with judicial arrogance, an arbitrary prosecutor office sealed letter scripted with two irrelevant law provisions inferred that my psychiatric NTU hospital record was queried in that very court and known, also without hiring any lawyer to defend a plea of innocence but paper works myself. The prosecutor accused in my filed malfeasance case, Mr Lieu Dong-yun was my acquaintance who had signed a CIA contract in October 1996, also contacted with the US First Lady Mrs Hillary Clinton to seek her backing and it was notified she granted him and his peers to fight with the US revenge listed international Taipei student and dropout student Mr David Chang, me, whose grandmother had just died of medical gross negligence at TVG(Taipei Veteran General) Hospital Taipei after the First Lady Hillary taken a picture with David on August 2, 1996 the City University of New York school open day. The dialogue alike message was delivered at the Newark airport before the airplane taking off in the midnight on October 22, 1996. I was pestered to leave the City University of New York Baruch Business School graduate program with my grandmother killed on TVG Hospital at Taipei City, message form the notification by the White House staff at city university classroom. It is recently notified that Prosecutor Lieu Dong-yun have just renewed his CIA contract before the first investigating court held on January 30.

by David CK Chang,
SSN:057-86-4042, P.T. Subscribe ID:26--501,
May 23, 2012, Wednesday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

Bill Clinton, An American Journey, Great Expectations, Nigel Hamilton, 2003
Chapter 40, Declaring;

1. Before page 577 Chapter 40 of the 2003 Random House hardcover Bill Clinton biography, on page 575 titled Part Eight, Democratic Nomination, is a photo of (February 4, 1992) Star magazine's cover, with both Gov. Clinton and Singer Gennifer Flowers appeared on the cover. We can easily see that Clinton's head on the cover looked leaner and more slim than the pictures on page 519, Part Seven, The Sun King, Arkansas and on page 471, Part Five, Saying no to a presidential run, 1987. The face looks more like the November 1, 1990's "Daddy Long-Legs", when he seemed to get a replying word from me, a sophomore student of National Chiao Tung University(NCTU) at HsinChu City, Taiwan, as an Attorney General and Governor, but was described as a desperado alike character in Charles Dickens' novels David Copperfield and Great Expectations.

Fraud Busters 1:
On page 579 Bill Clinton's best friend (both Arkansas, of the same height, both earned law degrees), Jim Blair asked rhetorically, and said, "We're a close cousin of the primates..."
Actually the former Governor's daughter, the singer Gennifer Flowers had a cousin who was called by "Geannie" as boyfriend when she was trying to relate to the Governor. He was ordered to commit suicide at Taiwan around 1985.

Fraud Busters 2:
Educational background of Gennifer Flowers:
(1) BA and MBA, Chinese Culture University, 1990-1994
(2) MS in psychology, University of Texas, 1994-1996
(3) PhD in psychology, University of Arkansas, 1996-2001;
(meanwhile, also served as faculty, assistant professor in University of Arkansas)

2.Bill Clinton, An American Journey, Great Expectations, Chapter 40, Declaring, on page 585, "The Debris of a Broken Promise" Nigel Hamilton, as a historian wrote his pretext in this way, "The Arkansas Democrat would, in due course, have to eat its words, but the negative sentiment was widely echoed among those who liked Bill Clinton and/or Hillary--and especially among those who didn't."
Then the historian Nigel Hamilton's citing Meredith Oakley's words,
"His word is dirt."
(page 586) "The bleaters who care more for celebrity than veracity are basking in a false and empty light."
"They trumpet the basest form of political expediency, for they revel amid the debris of a broken promise."
Fraud Busters 1:
This section on page 585 is opposite to the section "Totally Crazy" on page 584, which is ended by journalist John Brummett's words, "But why would you want to? Your life will be ripped apart, you'll be so exposed!"

Fraud Busters 2:
"His word is dirt." The word "dirt" is slang for "money".
That could mean you as a privy have to pay money, not only to the author historian himself on the biography, but also to the law firm for lawyers when an implication occurs.

Fraud Busters 3:
The Star magazine cover, Feb. 4, 1992, was used for the pending 1980's Arkansas Law Court as a piece of plaintiff evidence, and was accepted by the law court against the Rose Law Firm skirted lawyers' defending. The historian author mentions in the biography of this paragraph could be a protesting in that very law court(1992), and to be a legal document recorded or filed properly in his history masterpiece.

Fraud Busters 4:
The questionable contents is the detail description of Bill Clinton's daily routine on page 584,
"Jogging downtown in his running shorts in Little Rock on the morning of October 3, 1991, 'Jell-O' Bill Clinton thought of the many times he'd nipped in to see Gennifer Flowers in the Quapaw Towers."
Actually, as a student of Chinese Culture University from 1990 though 1994, Gennifer Flowers would only show up at these places: Taipei, Tainan(Taiwan), and Texas, where in Texas because her Senator father assumed the post after leaving Arkansas. She would not be in Little Rock to be a perfect alibi. And the legal stance is further extended by the following sentence in Nigel Hamilton's Bill Clinton biography, "Although their sexual relationship had ended in 1989, they were still friends, and they still spoke intimately on the telephone." Therefore, what could be expected is "Totally Crazy" as the section title goes and hints on page 584.

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
May 21, 2012, Monday,
New Taipei City Library,
Panchiao, New Taipei City

Harvard Business Review, May 2012
Page 142, Case Study
Do Social Deal Sites Really Work?
The Experts Respond
Gideon Lask

Allie James is right that Flanagan needs to provide a better customer experience to sustain the business for the long term. What she doesn't see is that social-media discounts might be the perfect way to help the company work toward that goal. But those discounts must be handled with care.

A part of a broad promotional mix, price is a powerful way to drive sales--it always has been and always will be. Social-media discounts extend and refine the benefits of pricing by allowing merchants to reach beyond their usual pools of potential consumers and turn newly acquired customers into online advocates for a product or brand. The advocacy raises brand awareness.

But discounts can destroy margins. At BuyaPowa, we have a sign on the wall that says "Revenue is vanity. Profit is sanity." Many business owners forget that and focus more on the total dollars coming in than on how profitable each customer is. That makes it too easy for merchants--and their customers--to get addicted to discounts...

DB, SSN057-86-4042,
May 9, 2012, Wednesday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

The Economist, April 14TH-20TH, 2012
Page 69, E-book publishing
A too-cosy world?
New York
Readers may not be the ultimate winners in an e-book antitrust case

The price-fixing complaint that America's Department of Justice(DOJ) filed this week against Apple and five of the world's "Big Six" book publishers has a triumphalist tone, describing secret meetings in "upscale Manhattan restaurants". But it seems to take a rather narrow view of what is going on in the e-book industry.

Until two years ago Amazon, the dominant player in the market thanks to its Kindle e-reader, kept publishers on the "wholesale model" for e-books. This let them set the wholesale price but let Amazon sell the books at a loss, making it harder for newer e-reader makers such as Barnes & Noble to challenge its near-monopoly. That made for cheap e-books, competing against the print versions. Publishers and authors also feared that if Amazon remained dominant, it would eventually impose wholesale prices on them too, forcing weaker publishers and other book booksellers out of business. They were therefore delighted when Apple, on launching the iPad in 2010, offered them an "agency model", whereby they set the retail prices and give the retailer a fixed cut...

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
April 26, 2012,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

Time, April 23, 2012 

Page 30, United States
Inside the Presidents Club
By Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

...No matter what may separate American Presidents when it comes to politics, personalities or petty grievances, they are members of unique and exclusive fraternity, and they are bound together by experiences that no one else can understand...The Presidents club may not be in the Constitution or any book or bylaw, but neither is it a metaphor or figure of speech. It was created in 1953 at Dwight Eisenhower's Inauguration...

"You will be our President when you read this note," George H.W. Bush wrote to Clinton, the man who had just defeated him...Bush who had to contend with four former Presidents during his time in office, consented to meet. And so in October, Obama flew to Texas A&M in College Station, home of Bush's presidential library, to toast Bush in a speech about public service...

...His work helped earned him the Nobel Prize in 2002; Carter even admits he is a better former President than he was a President...Even Carter points to what he calls "a quiet, fraternal feeling" that exists among the men who have sat at the big desk...

...But, Clinton added, "When my President summons me, then I come, and I would play golf in a driving snowstorm." Which is just another duty that comes with membership in the Presidents Club.

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
April 24, 2012,
New Taipei City Library,
Panchiao, New Taipei City

Page 48, The Culture
James' Bondage
The shy British mum whose naughty book set U.S. hearts afire
By Belinda Luscombe

...Until recently James was posting her stories online for free, and she readily acknowledges that they are heavily based on another person's work. Yet her trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed is set to be published by Vintage, a division of Random House, in a reported seven-figure deal...Grey dearly wishes that Ms. Steele, as he often calls her, would sign a nondisclosure agreement as well as a contract in which she agrees to let him control everything she eats and wears and to let him "flog, spank, whip or corporally punish" her as he sees fit. And she can't ever touch him. Also she's a virgin.

Despite the field-size red flags all this raises, she's torn: "No man has ever affected me the way Christian Grey has, and I cannot fathom why. Is it his looks? His civility? Wealth? Power?" Nothing, after all, says civility like a guy who, when he trusses you up, uses an expensive necktie.

In some hands, exploration of the erotic hinterlands where danger and desire coexist can be thought-provoking and perceptive. Story of O. Last Tango in Paris, Beauty and the Breast...

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
April 23, 2012,
New Taipei City Library,
Panchiao, New Taipei City

Bill Clinton, An American Journey, Great Expectations, Nigel Hamilton, 2003
Chapter 39, The Perils of Running for President;

1. p.568, section: The Money Factor;
..Jim McDougal's wife later recalled how at college she had been asked by Bill for a campaign contribution the first time he met her--and when she'd protested she was only twenty and a student, he had told Jim to give her the money to contribute!

Myth 1: Governor Frank White's daughter studied in the Chinese Culture University(CCU) in 1990, MBA program until 1994.
Myth 2: Because Ms Betsey White her mother had died for quite a while since 1981 or 1982. Who was Jim McDougal's wife? A relative, friend, or her (Betsey White's) step-mother?

2.p.570, section: A Court Summons;
..Bakker had become president of the most successful of American televangelist ministries ever created, only to be literally thrown into chains and locked up in Rochester, Minnesota where, as Tammy Faye Bakker later described, he was "given the dirtiest job in the prison": cleaning the toilets.

Myth 1: A doubting conflict point found. Mr Bakker's wife Mrs Bakker had died at 1981's or 1982's Thanksgiving Eve of a car crash.
Myth 2: Another reference of reminding description found in Deception Point, by Dan Brown, a novel 2001 and 2011, paperback, page 65, section 16, "Rachel Sexton"; page 66, "Thanksgiving Day apart."; page 67, "Route Twenty-five..I'm sorry. She died on impact."

3a. Clinton before 1990 was publicly against the secret service(anti-war) and the behavior of using pseudonyms(to sign military or government contracts). The first request in exchange for presidential nomination was asking Governor Clinton to concede for this point. And W.J. Clinton openly granted to change his name to "Bill Clinton".

3b. The Republican and Yale University fraternal order was asking Governor Clinton to take care of his political strategist "Dick Morris", a short guy, because they said Dick Morris had insulted them. And Clinton after collecting election funds at Taiwan, which was Republican source, back to the US, gave Dick Morris a blow. The Republicans were satisfied with this because "Bill hit his own man."

3c. The Arkansas former governor Frank White was detained in prison on November 1, 1990 because he planned to identify Clinton who appeared at Taiwan. Then US President George Bush who was a Yale alumni of Ivy League and a Republican politician as Governor Frank White, seeking ways to save the governor from prison, also solving the multiple identity issue presented publicly, granted to assist Bill and Hillary couples to elect into the White House.

3d. 1991. President George Bush talked to his son Mr Bush Jr.(who seemed to be visiting friend at Taiwan), that Yale as well as Harvard were all Ivy League universities, shared the same brotherhood and university fund donation sources. Do not restrict in partisan issue to help a Democrat candidate to be elected. Actually, Mr Clinton had his Yale recommendation from his step-father seniors coming to seek our paternal seniors to the admission to the Yale University.(And in return, they help you in the Harvard admission of MBA program.)

3e. 1991 July or September(Picture in "Living History", Hillary Clinton's autobiography, 2003), Bill and Roger came to visit the White House per request of China Embassy to identify a man previously in spring 1991, appeared in the Library of "Chinese" National Chiao Tung University(NCTU, or Jiao Tong University). Mr Roger was wearing the same polo-shirt when seeing me from behind my library seat to the White House. After the Ford-truck nation-wide campaigns, the Bill and Hillary won the presidential election.

3f. 1991 June or April, Mrs Hillary Clinton came to Taipei City YWCA, ICRT(International Community Radio Taipei) music club, with a word said to me(David Chang, NCTU sophomore), saying not to use Chinese language in the gathering. She was previously coming to visit DPP(Democratic Progressive Party) Mr Chen Sui-bian, who told her that he could not meet her because he was no longer a local city council member but a "central" legislator. Mrs Hillary then was seeking to visit the KMT(Kuomintang) officials which were also rejected her because they were sided with the Republican presidential candidate. It was notified that this was a lose-face for the USA, because the Ivy League alumni was rejected by Taiwan. No sooner had Mrs Hillary Clinton returned to the US(White House aide job) than Bill was announced elected to the White House.

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
April 20, 2012, Friday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

the psychologist march 2012
Page 250, Looking Back
George Kelly and the Garden of Eden
Trever Butt finds an interesting recurring theme in the later work of the famous personality theorist

...Following the publication of The Psychology of Personal Constructs, Kelly became a key figure in the development of clinical psychology in the USA. He was invited to speak all over the country and embarked on a world tour in 1961. Many of his essays, articles and talks were drawn together after his death and published by one of his ex-students, Professor Brendan Maher(1969). In these collected papers, Kelly moved to correct the growing misapprehension that construing was synonymous with thinking, and therefore the cause of behavior. There is an emphasis on construing as action and not in some strange way behind it. Personal constructs are not yet another way of constituting the ghost in the machine.

Although Kelly always insisted that a construct was not a concept, his 1955 definition focused on things: 'A way in which some things are construed as being alike and yet different from others'(1955, p.105). This allows(and perhaps even encourages) the reader to think in terms of concepts...

David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
April 18, 2012, Wednesday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City

Harvard Business Review, April 2012
Page 137, Case Study
A supplier contemplates cutting off one of its biggest accounts,
by Robert S. Kaplan
When to Drop an Unprofitable Customer

…"And what about that industry conference last month?" Jane prompted.

"Yes, the conference. In London. Well, lots of talk about Chinese suppliers there. Impressive group, actually. Lots of buzz about them. But our CEO gave the keynote, focusing on the benefits of our relationships with local suppliers. He's passionate about supporting UK businesses, you know, and the press ate it up."

"We so often overlook the intangibles that we get from our loyal customers," Jane said. "The showrooms, too." She picked up a glossy booklet from Steve's desk and handed to Tommy. He flipped through it, glancing at the photos of Westmid's new chain of decorator showrooms at high-end sites around London. She pointed to a picture. "Our doors," she said.

"This is a small part of Westmid's business now," she went on, "but it's bound to grow once the economy picks up. Our products have to be in these showrooms. Am I right?" This time Steve refrained from speaking, because the question was clearly aimed at Tommy.

The only sound in Steve's office was that of Tommy turning the heavy pages. The booklet showed many images of Egan's doors--beautiful, top-of-the-line, thermally insulating products with fan lights and other expensive features. He looked at Jane...

DB, SSN057-86-4042,
April 13, 2012, Friday,
National Central Library,
Taipei City