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Now the story continues on..........
This is a story that is best started at the beginning.........in case you haven't read part 1, 2 and 3.
Prince Armor now had the chance to lead another life. Yet there was a part of him that saw that his future of being king, was drifting away. Now his sister was becoming more like a brother. She seemed even less content then ever to help him in any way. In fact it was the prince that always ended up helping his sister, that wasn�t really a sister anymore, but more like a brother that he was constantly competing with. The harder he tried to get close to her, the more it seemed like she was trying to get rid of him. In fact, that was exactly what she was trying to do. She was now living only for the kingdom that she always had dreamed of, and she didn�t want her brother to have any part of that kingdom. He had his own. Prince Armor was starting to loose all hope of ever having a kingdom of his own. Without the wisdom of his sister to help him, he would never make a good king. Prince Armor had another problem. His love for this world and all the living things in it, was growing stronger every day. He especially loved Shepherd and Beauty and their son that he had lived in. He had never loved anything as much except for his father, the King. The father that would always remain forever the greatest love in his heart. He was even starting to love the hosts more than the princess, the sister that he was starting to not know or understand anymore. Because of his love for this new world, the prince started to be concerned about what his sister was doing to them. She never seemed to be happy with the being she was living in and so she kept leaving for a new one. And the ones she left were changed forever. They seemed to be getting characteristics more like the new person that his sister was becoming.. She was leaving beings and they were becoming as discontent as she was becoming. He was starting to notice a deceit, selfishness, and pride that he had never seen before. These behaviors were even turning to violence. The hosts were beginning to kill each other. He was very confused. How could this be? All the beauty and wisdom that his sister once was, was now something he couldn�t even recognize. What had happened? He knew that there was only one thing left to do. He must see his father right away and tell him everything that has happened. He needed his father�s help and he needed it now, before all this new violence would destroy the world he had come to love. And so Prince Armor left and went to be with his father.
Princess Morus was overjoyed. Prince Armor had left without her even having to manipulate him again. She now had everything she ever wanted. She would find the perfect host to live in and would rule this world.
But something was happening and it was beginning to be different than she had planned. The hosts that she had made prideful, were never content. The were always fighting. They were getting so violent that there would be no controlling them. Even though each host was given love from the prince, the pride in each host seemed to be taking over. All the new hosts were becoming so violent and greedy, that they were always fighting and killing each other. She was losing her kingdom before she had a chance to even enjoy it. It would not be long before the hosts destroyed each other and everything she had worked so hard for. She realized that she needed her brother to return. Her brother could always get the help she needed from their father, the help she needed to keep the world going, until she could come up with a better plan.
Meanwhile, King Armorus and Prince Armor were so happy to be together. It was hard to think of the problems that Prince Armor had left behind, so they didn�t at first. They were content to enjoy each other for quite awhile. But it could not be avoided forever. The father saw the grief in his son�s heart and could stand it no longer. What can I do to ease your pain, he asked his son. The prince told his father that he had failed and that he would never be able to rule a kingdom. He also told his father that he had such a great love for the hosts and that his heart would ache for them forever. Then he told his father, that he had failed the hosts that they were living in and with. He had talked his father into allowing his sister and himself to live within these beings and so had ended up destroying the very beings he had grown to love so much. Life had become too much to bear.
King Armorus told his son that he had seen all these things come to pass and that there was still hope. He told the prince that even though his sister had outwitted the prince, she also outwitted herself. He told his son that he could redeem himself if he would return and bear out the burden of the fate of these hosts that were now inhabited by the seeds of the prince and the princess. Because your love is so strong and you have proven yourself faithful to me, I will send a part of me that will remain with you forever and will protect you always. It will give you the wisdom that you have always needed to overcome the pride that your sister has passed onto each host. You will then be able to pass on this wisdom that will never change, to those offspring, that will accept it. Because the host you live in will also have the pride from your sister, you will have a life of battles, but your love is strong and my wisdom will never fail you.
Since you have shown such a great love for these hosts, I have decided to make you their prince. Your sister considers herself their king and she will not give up without a great and terrible fight. Your troubles are now truly beginning. You must give up all hope of your sister helping you rule your kingdom. She will never be content unless she is the king. She will always try and rule over you, but you must never let her. You must persevere.
And so he returned. His sister welcomed him back and told him that it was hard for her when he was away. She hoped that he would never leave again. He remembered that his father had told him that his sister had changed, but he was not ready for this. What was his sister up to now? The princess told her brother that she had made many mistakes and that she knew better now. Together they could make everything right. The prince couldn�t believe what he was hearing. He knew that what his father had told him about his sister was the truth. He was going to have more trouble with her than he ever thought. She had become so deceitful, that he no longer could trust anything that she said.
There was also a new problem. There were too many hosts that had turned to violence. And he knew that with all the violence in this world, that they would never last. It would be over before it started. It would not be long before the violent hosts would soon destroy all the good in the world. So he talked to his father that was with him and asked for his help. So the father destroyed all the hosts that were violent and the prince and princess began again.
The prince lived with the constant battle of trying to convince the hosts, that life is better when lived under the boundaries of love and to stay in these boundaries, one must seek out the King. But the princess had different thoughts. She was always trying to figure a way to trick the hosts into believing that the only good in this world is what you can get now, because once you die, your life is over. The prince had seen what destruction could come about if wisdom ever ruled and he wasn�t about to let that happen again to the beings he loved so dearly. So the battle continued on and on. The princess with her cunning and deceit, kept the hosts filled with pride and the prince kept the hosts filled with love. But the one thing they could never fully overcome, was the will of the hosts. The battle of wit against love seemed like it would never end. And when things seemed lost again, the prince would always call upon his father that was with him and he would always help him out. And when the father helped, things were good for awhile. Pride was kept under control and love prevailed.
How long could this go on? I don�t know. It seemed endless. In fact it was starting to seem endless to the hosts themselves. They were starting to see a pattern but they couldn�t quite figure out what was happening. It seemed that when all was lost and they cried out for help, that help always seemed to come. Maybe if they cried out for help more often, then things would finally change.
The princess was also noticing that when things got bad, then her brother would call to their father and he would come and help. She realized that she needed to add more confusion into the hosts lives, so that they wouldn�t need the help of their father. If the King kept helping, she knew that the hosts would start to figure out that there was someone great helping them out. The hosts must never find out about their father the King or they would never allow her to rule over them. She would never gain control over this kingdom. She realized that the hosts must be made to rely upon anyone or anything else but their father, the King. She would put to use every trick she knew. She knew well how to disguise pride for love, how to buy their loyalty with great objects of beauty, magic tricks and many kinds of pleasures. She also knew that the love in them could also be easily tricked, as she had tricked her brother so many times before. She had also become a master of instilling great pain and fear, and knew which hosts would do anything to avoid such pain and to even avoid death. She must convince them that love cannot exist without pride and good feelings without pain. It doesn�t matter if they overcome their pride and pain, just so they don�t learn to call for the help of the King, their father.
She was also faced with something she had thought she would dread. She was now coming in contact with her father again. But now that she had changed so much, she had fooled even herself into thinking that she had become wiser than her father and that if she could gain his sympathy, she could even outwit him into getting things that she desired. He had all the power and maybe she could trick him into sharing some of that power with her. It was a power that she desperately needed. She had never been able to rule over her brother, even though she was able to rule over so many of the hosts. It was getting easier and easier to get them to choose pride over love. Even though the hosts had strong wills, she was quickly learning their many weaknesses and exactly how to use these weaknesses against them. Without wisdom her brother constantly struggled. But then he would call on the King, their father and the power of his wisdom and love would destroy everything she had worked so hard for. This was a battle that she didn�t anticipate, but it was making her more determined. She finally turned from all the wisdom that was ever in her. She had changed forever. Her wisdom was completely transformed into a cunningness and pride that could never be healed.
Prince Amor was also starting to realize that his sister was changed into something completely different. She was only getting worse and worse. She was getting more and more deceitful and her tricks were causing more and more pain to the ones he loved. If she was allowed to continue, all would be lost again. The only hope he had was the help he received from his father. He would never be able to rule a kingdom without the strength of his father, the King. So he asked his father to come and be there always. Prince Amor had finally realized that he would never be content or complete unless he was ruling under the leadership of his father. Because the King loved his son so much, and knew that this was the way that things were always meant to be, he told his son that it was time. You will have your final battle with your sister. You will finally show yourself to the hosts and you will prove yourself more worthy than her. You will show them that they can have the strength of your father, the King, when they choose you. You will prove to them once and for all, that when we rule over them, that they will have the freedom that they have always dreamed of. They can finally live in peace and harmony forever.
But the prince had one last concern. What about my sister? And the father told his son that his sister had died a long time ago. There is nothing left of her, so there is nothing left of her to love or to hold on to. It was always her choice. She was wise enough to know what she was giving up.
You gave up the idea of being the ruler, even though it was always yours to have. She would never give up the idea of ruling, even though it was never hers to have. And therefore you will co-rule with me for an eternity. Your sister could have co-ruled with you for an eternity, but she would never be content as you are, to rule under someone else.
Now you will go and reveal yourself and me to the hosts. I have chosen for you a host that your sister will be unable to live in. Without pride to interfere with our great love and my pure wisdom you will be able to prove yourself worthy to all of those that will listen to you. Those who are willing to follow our rule, will return with you. Those who aren�t, will remain with your sister and will have their own fate. And what happened before, when you left and took your love with you, will happen again. But as you could not force your sister to be ruled by you, either can you force them to come either. Because like your sister, if they were forced to go, they would all die of unhappiness.
And so the King and his son collected all the subjects willing to serve the great and wonderful King Amorus and his son, Prince Amor and they all returned to the kingdom of King Amorustus. And of course, they all lived happily ever after.
As for the ones that stayed with the princess, that also is another story. One that is too sad to tell.
Moral of this story: Love is the greatest of all and never changes, but it still is not complete without wisdom. Wisdom is only safe in the heart and mind of God. So nurture the Love that God has given you and then get the wisdom and understanding you need, from God Himself. In this, way God�s Peace and Harmony will remain forever and death will no longer reign over you.
And so you have another story.... and like all stories you must decide for yourself what is means to you or if it means anything at all.
To be continued with scripture to ponder
. Critiques of this story and suggestions for scripture would be very welcome.....................
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Joyce Poet
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Sister, your story is most excellently written and gives the heart much to consider. Many, many scriptures came to mind from the beginning of your series, all the way to the end. Very well done.
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Pop Quiz: How many flaws can you find in Randy's approach? The following was sent to hundreds of Randy's LinkedIn connections:
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"In New York You Get Swallowed by a Horse"
We had been talking of this and that when I asked him, "Have you ever been in New York, Hector?"
"Yes, yes, I've been to New York."
"And what did you think of life there?"
"New York! I want no part of it! Man, do you know what it's like? You get up in a rush, have breakfast in a rush, get to work in a rush, go home in a rush, even shit in a rush. That's life in New York! Not for me! Never again! Not unless I was crazy.
"Look, I'll explain. The way things are in New York, you'll get nothing there. But nothing! It's different in Puerto Rico. Here, if you're hungry, you come to me and say, 'Man, I'm broke, I've had nothing to eat.' And I'd say, 'Ay, Bendito! Poor thing!' And I'd give you some food. No matter what, you wouldn't have to go to bed hungry. Here in Puerto Rico you can make out. But in New York, if you don't have a nickel, or twenty cents, you're worthless, and that's for sure. You don't count. You get swallowed by a horse!
"Don't mention New York to me, man! I suffered too much there. I had to sleep in the street, in alleys and doorways. When that happened, I went two or three days without a bite of food. If I approached anyone and told him I hadn't eaten, he'd just say, 'Get out of here!' If you ask for food in New York that's all the answer you get; you won't find a soul who'll give you a nickel or a bit of bread or a plate of rice. No 'Ay, Bendito' there, muchacho. There you have to look out for yourself. If you're one of those teenager bums, the kind who goes around asking for hand-outs, New York will make a man out of you. Because if you don't work, you starve.
"What made me decide to go to New York? Nothing special, really. I had problems with my family, so I left home and went to work for a couple of weeks until I saved enough to pay my fare. When I got there, I went to my uncle's on 138th Street, in the Bronx. And you know? I was broke because I had to pay ten dollars' taxi fare from the airport. Ten dollars! All I had left was seventy-five cents.
"So you know what happens? Your uncle, being a relative, gives you room and board for a week while you look for a job. You're still jobless by the end of the week? Well, muchacho, you haven't got a chance. Because, right off, your uncle kicks you out. Now, suppose you did find a job. Your uncle may decide to let you stay on with him. That'll be twelve dollars at least. Twelve dollars for three meals a day and a room to keep your clothes in. And don't think he'll allow his wife to do your washing. Oh, no! You'll have to take it to the laundry. You'll have to pay all your other expenses too . . . beer, everything! Your life isn't worth a plugged nickel there. Just like the songs says, 'La vida no vale na'.'
"That's not the worst of it, either. Let me tell you, boy, New York's a madhouse. You can live twenty years in the same building without ever getting acquainted with your next-door neighbor. Twenty years! My friends here say, 'Oh, New York! It's so pretty, so wonderful, the best!' But if you stop to look at the city, what is it? Nothing but big, big buildings. Just walls and windows.
"Then I explain to my friends about New York in winter. Closed doors, closed windows, no people. If you do see people, you just see them walking. Walking, walking, all the time. You can't stop to talk to them because you are rushing off to work. Besides, you'll freeze. When I wanted to go out I had to put on a coat and an overcoat, woolen underwear, wool pants, three pairs of woolen socks. I'd go out bundled up in all those clothes and, man, my legs would shake with cold. Comes winter, people in New York put their milk bottles on the window sills and don't need a refrigerator at all. Spit outdoors and it turns to ice before it hits the ground!
"In New York, you freeze in the winter and bake in summer. My little girl had one cold after another, fevers, all kinds of illnesses there. Here, blessed be God, she hasn't had so much as a running nose since we returned. How can anyone compare New York with Puerto Rico, with the sun and the pretty flowers and things we have here?
"Sure, some guys have good luck in New York and like it there. Some even make a lot of money. Suppose you want to get rich. First thing you do is begin to sell narcotics or get into the numbers racket. Gambling in New York can make you a profit of ninety cents to the dollar. If you manage to sell drugs for a whole year without getting caught by the police, you'll make eight, twelve thousand dollars for sure. On the other hand, if the cops catch you, you get ten years in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. So, tell me, which would you rather have?
"We honest people, who don't know how to get mixed up in a racket, just have to work. But it takes some doing to get a job. To find a job in New York you have to really take yourself in hand. To get from where you live to the street, you have to go down a lot of steps because the houses are four or five stories high. You go down those stairs and if you don't want to get lost—like I did that first time—you stop in front of the door and take a good look at your building and at the one across the way. So you will remember, see? It's easy to get lost there. I've cried like a baby in those New York streets where you can get lost worse than in a jungle. There'll be a lot of people around you, but what do the sons of bitches do when you ask for help? They'll realize you're a rookie and they'll say, 'Go that way,' and it'll be the wrong way so you'll get more lost and the hell with you.
"Here in San Juan you can go up to anybody and say, 'Pardon me, where is Cristo Street?' or Tanca Street or any street you want to find and whoever you ask stops and listens. If you happen to ask someone in a car that's going your way he'll say, 'Hop in, I'll take you there.' But not in New York!
"Well, so you're looking for a job and you start walking. Man, how long, how long are the streets of New York! You can walk and walk and never get to the end of them. While you walk you keep your eyes peeled for places where they might hire someone. You go into a shop. 'Do you need a man to work here?' In some places they tell you 'No.' In other places they say, 'I don't speak Spanish.' You just walk on and on and on. One time, you know what happened to me? I went to this place and they had a latino there, the son of a bitch. I knew he was a latino, so I went and talked to him in Spanish. I said, 'Muchacho, you know, I'm down and out. I'm broke, see, and I'm looking for a job.'
"This son of a great whore answered in English, 'Wat you min? I no spik Spanish.' I'm telling you, it's the Puerto Ricans themselves who'll be your worst enemies in New York.
"So you keep on walking until you finally land a job. At least that's the way I got mine, at a brassiere factory. I was hired as shipping clerk for forty dollars a week. I had ambition, you know, that thing that makes a man want to earn more, and I paid attention and learned my job and was promoted to another department and another and another. Five years I worked there. The most I ever earned was seventy-five dollars a week and I had to work hard for it. Because in New York you have to work, really work, see?
"Here in Puerto Rico you have more freedom. You can stand on a street corner, in a park—you can even stand in front of the Governor's Palace all day long and nobody asks you to move on or interferes with you in any way. Not in New York. That's not allowed there.
"When you land a job they give you a form to fill out. You look at it and think, 'What's this all about?' You have to fill it out, see? So you read it, if you can read English. If you can't you're out of luck. They ask you your name, where were you born, are you single or do you have a couple of children and a wife to support. Two children plus a wife makes three, right? That's four people to support counting you, because you support yourself, too. You start with a salary of forty-two dollars. If you have four people to support, they won't deduct a cent, not one single cent, from your pay check. But if you mark that bit of paper with a circle around the word 'Single,' then you're done for.
"Out of forty-two dollars, all you'll get your hands on is thirty-two. Out of those thirty-two, you'll pay ten dollars for a room, if you're lucky. And you won't have it to yourself . . . you'll be sharing it with the rats. You can't expect a nice room for ten dollars a week. Then there's the laundry, and breakfast, lunch, and dinner. How much will be left after you pay all that? Just figure it out.
"By that time, you'll be wanting to get back to Puerto Rico, but you haven't been able to save a cent to pay your fare. So you write, 'Mami, things are bad here and I want to go back. Send me money for my fare.'
"Suppose when you filled in that little paper you said you had a family to support. The police come around to investigate, to see if you told the truth. If it turns out you're single, man! you have to return every cent they were supposed to deduct. All the tax money. If not, you'll land in jail. So, which would you choose? No, manl Deja eso. Leave New York alone. You can't live there. You just can't live. You get swallowed by a horse!
"I got sick shortly after I had started working. Ave Maria! I was in the hospital two months and felt so bad that every night I thought I wouldn't live to see the next morning. My girl friend rushed over to see me the minute she heard I was in the hospital. She came every day for a whole month in every kind of weather: rain, thunder, lightning, freezing cold. If it rained fire she would still have come. We were not really sweethearts or engaged at that time, but we went out together and liked each other and all.
"When I went back to work I kept thinking, 'They'll fire me, they'll fire me, for sure. I'm new here, just arrived from Puerto Rico and I was out so long . . .' At the factory, I didn't speak to anybody. I just sort of sneaked in and looked at the time cards. When I saw mine was still there, oh, man! hope stirred in me. Hope, that beautiful thing. You know what I mean? After seeing my card, I went to work.
"The man from the office came in and I tried to explain, 'Oh, sir, I'm sorry . . . you know . . . I was . . .'
"'Never mind, man! We had a call from the hospital letting us know you were sick. Social Security called, too, to tell us you were hospitalized. So never mind. Just get to work.'
"When it was time to go home, what happened? They asked me to go to the office. Oh, my God! My heart leaped into my throat. I thought, 'Now they're going to fire me.'
"I go to the office and they tell me, 'You've worked here for such and such a length of time and, let's see . . .' Then they start bringing out papers and more papers . . . man! I was sweating. Then that man grabs a paper and gives me an envelope. I didn't open it. I swear, I didn't dare open it. I just thought, 'I'm fired.' I put it in my pocket and walked out. I got home and was taking off my shirt and shoes when my sweetheart walks in. 'Oh, baby, look here. I'm afraid they've fired me. Get that envelope in my shirt pocket and open it. I'd rather you saw it first.'
"She opened the envelope. 'Look here, Hector. It's a check!'
"'A check? You must be going blind, girl.' Then I looked, and what do I see? Man! I couldn't believe my eyes! A check for two-hundred-forty-five dollars! Payment for three or four weeks of illness plus per diem or something, I don't know. Two-hundred-forty-five dollars! That's when I really started sweating and my legs began to tremble all over.
"Next day, when I got to work, one of my friends calls me, 'Hector, come here.' Then he gives me another envelope with forty-five dollars that had been collected among the other workers. There were nine-hundred workers in that company. After that I really threw myself into my work. What with the two hundred and forty-five and the money my friends collected and the work I did that week, I was able to tell my sweetheart, 'Look, baby, you know what? I don't want a fancy wedding. This money is enough for us to get married on.' So we did. We got married. And that woman has turned out to be straight as a shot. What a woman! She still looks at me like on the first day. She's with me all the way. She adores me, you know. She loves me completely.
"My wife and I both had to work. I was paid on Friday and she on Saturday and by the time Friday came around again we didn't have any money. Not one cent. I had to pay ninety-six dollars rent for a tiny apartment. The bedroom barely had room for a bed and a crib. The front room was even smaller. For ninety-six dollars!
"In New York if you owe a month's rent, the landlady sends you a bit of paper. Suppose you're two months behind in your rent, you haven't been able to land a job and you spend your time walking like crazy looking for work because you have your wife and child to take care of, and all sorts of debts. You know what'll happen to you? One evening after walking the streets like a madman, you get home and you find your furniture piled up on the sidewalk in the rain, the snow, the heat, in no matter what weather, because the sheriff came with a court order. It won't make any difference that your wife or child is sick, or that you've tried hard to look for a job and it isn't your fault you haven't found one. That's New York for you.
"You have to watch out how you go at things, see? And you need luck in New York, especially to choose a woman and to get married, because there a woman can get away with anything. Suppose you get married. Then one day you come home from work. You've had a hard day. You got out of bed in a hurry, had breakfast in a hurry, went to work in a hurry, and hurried home, tired, worn out. And what do you find? There's your wife in bed with another man. You rush out to get the cops so they can see what's going on. Then, what happens? She wins! Even if you screw your soul working all day long to provide for her needs, she'll win all the same. If you slap her, she'll go and call the cops. Slap a woman! Don't dream of it! You get six months in jail, see? Not just a fine—jail! If you kill the man, you'll fry for it. That kind of thing isn't allowed there. No, sir!
"New York is a crazy place. Suppose you have children. You take off your belt and whack them a couple of times. If you do it in front of a cop, you get six months. And if you should leave a bruise, muchacho! you're really out of luck. That's why things are so screwed up in New York. That's why there's so much evil, so many criminals, so many gangs. How could it be otherwise? A place where you can't even beat your own wife and children!
"In New York a dog is worth more than a man. Yes, sir, only three things are valued there, dogs, women, and children! As long as you're a minor, you can kill, belong to a gang, steal, or raise hell. No matter what you do, you won't fry, see? Of course, if you're a woman you can get away with anything as long as you live. But if you're a man and over twenty-one and you so much as pick up a stone and aim it at a dog, it means six months in jail. If you hit the dog, it's worse. You can't even defend yourself. Women and dogs can attack you any time and you lose the case, no matter what. Know why? It's the law. That's the way it's written, man. And if you never heard of that law, you're sunk. After you're twenty-one you're an adult and know what you are doing, see? A dog can't talk, so he wins, but you get eaten by a horse.
"It was because of a woman that I left New York and returned to Puerto Rico. One day I went to work. It was a Monday and when I got there I found about twelve badly made brassieres at my place. The girl claimed I was the one who had sewn them. I told her, 'Damn it to hell, you're a liar! You might have noticed that I work a two-needle machine and these were made with a single needle. You were the one who made them!' But women can get away with anything there. They can call a man an imbecile, a fool and anything else they please. She called me all those names. Man! She'd better have kept her mouth shut because I just grabbed that bundle and was going to crack her skull with it when the foreman came up and said, 'Hector, what are you doing? She's a woman. Stop that! Don't go looking for trouble.'
"I said, 'Give me my money because I'm leaving. Quick, right now.'
"So he takes me to the office. The boss says, 'Think it over, Hector. You've worked with us several years. You've made a lot of friends who are very fond of you. Yet you want to leave over a little thing like this?'
"Then I said, 'This isn't all. How about that raise you promised me? I've never seen it. And on top of everything else that idiot calls me a fool in front of everyone. I'm quitting. If I stay I'll be in trouble for sure, because next time I'll really break her head. I don't want to argue any more. Make arrangements so I can get my money and leave.'
"I worked the rest of that day and on Tuesday I took a plane to Puerto Rico. Now I'm thankful to that woman. I am infinitely thankful to her. If it hadn't been for her, I'd still be stuck there."
All this time, Hector and I had been talking in the restaurant where he worked. The bartender had been listening to our conversation while he washed the glasses and cleaned up. It was late and the place was completely deserted except for us and another man who worked in the kitchen. When Hector stopped speaking, the bartender leaned over the bar and, looking straight at Hector, said in a booming voice, "New York, the best in the world!"
Hector and I turned around in surprise.
"Yes, sir. The best in the world. Whoever hasn't lived in New York, hasn't lived. In New York, there's money to burn. When I arrived I bought a bakery for a thousand dollars and after nine months, I sold it for seven thousand. New York is good, son, if you can't be happy in New York, you can't be happy anywhere. It's the best in the world."


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PHOTO: City assessor Greg Swartwoudt, left, answers a question posed by Chamber Director of Policy and Education Roger Wedin.
Despite complaints about a spike in commercial property reassessments, city and county assessors said Thursday that values should have been raised long ago in parts of Duluth.
"I have to apologize. We should have been out there doing incremental increases," Terry Johnson, a city assessor, said at a forum co-sponsored by the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce and Duluth News Tribune. He said some properties have been undervalued for years, "but nobody complains when their assessment is too low."
His explanation didn't sit well with some in the audience. Bryan Flaherty of Blackwoods Restaurant said the higher valuation caused a sharp tax spike.
"This is a difficult situation right now. I just can't believe this," he said.
Jerry Kortesmaki, owner of London Road Rental Center, said bankers believe his property is overvalued approximately 30 percent by city assessors. Property owners, however, can only obtain loans based on the lower equity value as determined by financiers, he noted.
Assessors argued the assessments are correct, based on underlying land values and typical selling prices for commercial properties. Assessments are audited by the state, and localities must justify increases, Johnson said.
Typical selling prices, however, aren't always an accurate reflection of a commercial property's actual value, argued Dave Holappa of Holappa Commercial Real Estate Inc. For a variety of reasons, certain parcels will sell at a price that exceeds actual value, he said.
In part, the overarching issue of high property taxes can be blamed on state decisions, said St. Louis County Recorder Mark Monacelli.
"There has been a shift at the state level. They've kicked the can down the road and shifted the (tax) burden to the local level," he said, moving the burden from income taxes to property taxes.
It's difficult for small businesses to prepare their annual budgets when unexpectedly hit with such tax spikes, said Chamber Director of Policy and Education Roger Wedin, a veteran of the commercial property business. Numerous companies have contacted the Chamber with complaints, he said.
"It's our goal to have a system that's uniform, timely and fair. That's all we can do," Monacelli said.
During 2013, the city of Duluth and St. Louis County plan to consolidate their property assessment functions in a unified county-administered department that's intended to be more efficient and cost effective.
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Thursday, 19th Apr 2012
Earlier this year we mentioned Strummerville, a Foundation set up by the family and friends of Clash frontman Joe Strummer after he sadly passed away in 2002. Since its launch, Strummerville has helped up and coming musicians up and down the country gain access to musical and recording equipment to nurture and develop new talent that may have gone unnoticed without a little extra help. This year, the Foundation will commemorate the ten year anniversary since Joe's death with a 'Strummer of Love' 3 day music festival in Somerset.
The initial line-up has been released, and features a great mix of new and established talent. The Pogues and Badly Drawn Boy have been confirmed as headliners, with performers ranging from Billy Bragg to David Rodigan in close support. Fred Perry collaborator Don Letts will feature at the event, as will Subculture favourites Dog is Dead. Ticket sales from the event will benefit the Strummerville Foundation.


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Shepley Orr is a Senior Research Fellow at University
College London, in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, in the Centre for Transport Studies.
He is completing a doctorate in sociology at Oxford University, and was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of East Anglia for three years before moving to UCL.
His research interests include the relationship between political philosophy and economic policy, measuring and benefits for purposes of public policy, and philosophical and experimental approaches in decision theory.
His current research project concerns the
measurement and comparison of benefits across government sectors for
purposes of cost-benefit analysis, and the weighting of benefits based
on ethical considerations.
He is currently, with Jonathan Wolff, advising an inter-departmental government committee on the valuation of life and health.
Selected Papers and Publications:
Loomes, G., S.W. Orr and R. Sugden. (2008). "Taste Uncertainty and Status Quo Effects in Consumer Choice." Currently under Review.
Orr, S.W. (2007). "Values, Preferences, and the Citizen-Consumer Distinction in Cost-Benefit Analysis", Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 6:107- 129.
Orr, S.W. (2007). "Review of The Methodology of Experimental Economics, by F. Guala", Economics and Philosophy, 22: 401-7
Orr, S.W. (2001). "The Economics of Shame in Work Groups: How Mutual Monitoring can Crowd Out Cooperation", Kyklos, 54: 49-66.


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Internal, External, Prolapsed, and Thrombosed
The good news is that, for most of us, hemorrhoids will never develop into a problem requiring surgery. But that doesn't mean they aren't a painful nuisance. To prevent hemorrhoids from becoming a major intruder into our lives, we need to learn the things we do to make them welcome in the first place. Never was it more true that knowledge is power than when dealing with hemorrhoids. By understanding how they form in our body, we can take the right steps to prevent hemorrhoids and make them a distant memeory.
We begin with the basics. (WARNING: The picture below is of a real hemorrhoid.)
What Are Hemorrhoids?
The Symptoms of Hemorrhoids
What About the Bleeding?
Who Gets Hemorrhoids?
What Are Hemorrhoids?Hemorrhoids, sometimes referred to as piles, are swollen and inflamed varicose veins found inside the rectum and outside the anus (which is the opening at the end of the rectum that lets you empty your bowels). These veins have become stretched and weakened, often after repeated straining while sitting on the toilet.
After repeated straining and stretching, the veins lose their elasticity. So blood, rather than flowing smoothly through these veins, collects there, gorges, and balloons. Interestingly, the term hemorrhoids is from a Greek word that means "flowing blood." It's from the same family as the term hemorrhage.
When hemorrhoids are cured, this trapped blood is freed to flow once again and is reabsorbed into the bloodstream.
Left untreated, in severe cases, the veins continue to gorge with trapped blood and the hemorrhoids can grow to the size of golf balls.
Hemorrhoids can be internal or external:
- Internal hemorrhoids lie inside the rectum and are covered by a mucous membrane. You can't see or feel these hemorrhoids (although doctors often can during an examination). Internal hemorrhoids usually don't cause discomfort, but they may still bleed. Generally, you can't see internal hemorrhoids unless they drop below the anal canal. Internal hemorrhoids that have "protruded" through the anus outside the body are called protruding hemorrhoids.
- External hemorrhoids These are the ones we can feel and often call "piles." External hemorrhoids lie outside the anal canal and are covered by skin. Because they have many more nerve endings than internal hemorrhoids, they can bleed heavily and be very painful. The pain in external hemorrhoids often results from blood clots. A hemorrhoid that has developed blood clots is known as a thrombosed external hemorrhoid, because it is in a state of thrombosis.
This is a diagram of both types of hemorrhoids:
This is a picture of a thrombosed external hemorrhoid:
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The Symptoms Of HemorrhoidsSymptoms include itching, burning, and, sometimes, bleeding accompanied by a lot of pain. In most cases, hemorrhoidal symptoms will go away within a few days if you relieve constipation and stop straining on the toilet.
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What About The Bleeding?The bleeding is often the result of a hard bowel movement that bursts one of these sensitive, protruding veins. The blood on your toilet paper after wiping yourself may be the first time you realize you have a problem. It's important to know when bleeding hemorrhoids are a signal that it's time to see the doctor.
Doctors classify hemorrhoids based on their severity. To judge this, they look at whether they can be seen outside the anus and whether they bleed. Even the least severe, or Grade I, hemorrhoids can bleed.
The system used by most doctors recognizes four grades of hemorrhoids. Each type is larger and more severe than the previous one:
Grade I. Hemorrhoids bleed, but they have not dropped outside the anus, where they can be seen (called "prolapsed").
Grade II. Hemorrhoids may prolapse with straining during attempted bowel movements, but they return to their normal position, inside the anus, on their own once the straining stops.
Grade III. Hemorrhoids prolapse with straining or by themselves, but you can push them back inside your anus (out of sight) with your fingers.
Grade IV. Hemorrhoids protrude with straining or by themselves, but they cannot be pushed back in manually. They drop outside the anus and stay out. Often, these are thrombosed hemorrhoids (engorged because of a blood clot) and are very painful.
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Who Gets Hemorrhoids Most Often?Studies tell us that 4 out of 5 of us will at some point develop hemorrhoids, so it's important to know what to do to prevent or cure them. Who gets hemorrhoids?
- Young and middle-aged people get external hemorrhoids
- Ages 45-65 get hemorrhoids more frequently than the general population
- Higher earners
- Pregnant women
- Whites more than nonwhites
- Rural dwellers more than city folks
- Men and women equally
- Those with a family history
What Are Hemorrhoids?
The Symptoms of Hemorrhoids
What About the Bleeding?
Who Gets Hemorrhoids?
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$20 per hour at 40 hours per week 50 weeks per
year is $40K.
$50 figures similarly at $100K.
Practically nobody works 40 hours per week 50
weeks per year. Industry statistics estimate about
60% of each employee's week's hours are filled
with actual work.
For contractors, there's the issue of downtime--
time spent looking for the next contract, time
spent doing one's taxes and setting up office
stuff and files, time researching and skill-building....
A contractor who charges $20 per hour will be
lucky to make $20K for the year, thanks to the
downtime that accompanies the work.
I'd love to know what people charge. I've seen
ridiculously low rates proposed on Craigslist. I
hope the general population is willing to pay
enough for a reasonable livelihood. What would
you pay someone else to help you?
On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Marc Elliot Hall wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 01:50:28PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
My main question, though, is how to figure out how much I should
Nobody can legally *tell* you how much to charge if they are currently
engaged in the same business activity - that would be collusion, and
it's a no-no.
However, competitors *can* share the factors they consider when setting
their rates, and even state those rates directly.
That being said, there are three general ways to go about determining
your rate: time-and-materials, flat-fee, or cost-plus.
* Time-and-materials means you charge an hourly rate and bill
your costs for hardware directly, with no profit margin added
to your costs.
* Flat-fee means you determine what you think is a fair amount
to bill for the entire project, in advance, agree on that
number with the customer, and charge that and only that.
* Cost-plus means that you price the hardware and software
(heh), add a profit margin that accounts for the time you will
be spending assembling and installing same, and charge that
Which one you choose will depend on your individual circumstances and
the demands of the customer. Sometimes, variants are useful as well,
i.e., time-and-materials with an overall cap.
Personally, I've used all three of these methods to come up with
when installing hardware and software for customers. In general, I
prefer time-and-materials, as I can eke the highest margins out of
Most of my customers, however, seem to prefer flat-fee, as they are
assured that I won't break their budgets.
When I bill time directly, I generally charge between $60-80 hourly,
though. My justification for that is:
1. I've done this for a long time, and my hourly rate reflects
how quickly I can complete the job compared to a newbie.
2. I have non-billable downtime that I must spend in research,
customer acquisition, and other business-related activities.
3. Unlike an employee, whose benefits are employer-subsidized
(if not outright paid in full), and whose payroll taxes,
Social Security contributions, and other ancillary expenses
are covered by same, I have overhead costs that must be taken
into account.
Your mileage may vary. ;-)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 photo, Sony signs hang from a store in Tokyo. Sony is expected to unveil its next-generation gaming system at a New York event Wednesday Feb. 20, 2013, a development that would give the struggling electronics company a head start over Microsoft and an Xbox 360 successor. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
Sony is unveiled its next-generation gaming system, PlayStation 4, at an event in New York, saying the console will be part of a new ecosystem focused on hardware, software and services.
The console is Sony Corp.'s first major game console since the PlayStation 3 went on sale in 2006.
Wednesday's unveiling is an attempt to give Sony the spotlight on video games, at least until Microsoft Corp. unveils the next Xbox in June, as expected, at the E3 video game expo in Los Angeles.
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EastEnders to feature gay Muslim storyline but Muslim group calls for a "normal character" 53
5:34 PM — EastEnders is to screen a storyline involving a Muslim character who has a gay affair. New character Syed Masood, a Muslim property developer who has a girlfriend, is to fall for openly gay Christian Clarke. But the Muslim Public Affairs Committee say that the BBC should have a "normal friendly Muslim character."
California parole board appointee rejected over homophobic comments 3
5:01 PM — An appointee selected by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve on the state's parole board has been rejected over homophobic comments he had made in 1993, despite apologising for his words.
India's only gay magazine back on newsstands 13
4:34 PM — Bombay Dost, India's first and only gay magazine, has been relaunched and is now back on sale. The English-language magazine was forced out of print in 2002 when it ran out of money.
David Cameron voted worst politician of the year 75
4:07 PM — Tory leader David Cameron has been voted the worst politician of the year. Cameron, who reportedly plans to prioritise outreach to gay groups, topped the poll of bad politicians in the Gay Times Readers' Awards.
Civil servant escapes jail over gay male prostitute service 4
3:09 PM — An Irish civil servant who was exposed by journalists for running a gay escort service has avoided jail. Eugene Leech, 48, given a six-month suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to controlling or directing the activities of prostitutes for gain on dates between May and July in 2005
Video: Britney Spears films spoof gay perfume ad 6
2:05 PM — Britney Spears has been reinforcing her status as a gay icon by filming a spoof perfume advertisement for gays. The perfume, named 'Mo', has the tagline "One spray and the gays will run your way!"
Majority of Rhode Island residents support gay marriage
1:53 PM — A survey of Rhode Island voters has found that 60 per cent support the introduction of a law allowing gay couples to marry. The New England state is now the only one which does not allow gay marriage.
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WEF, US Department of Labor team to develop operator training standards
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The United States Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced its adoption of new national guidelines for wastewater systems operator apprenticeship programs. The new guidelines, developed as a joint effort between DOL and the Water Environment Federation (WEF), define minimum educational and on-the-job learning requirements for operators and establish a clear point of entry into the profession.
"The development of these new guidelines has really been a team effort," said Christine Radke, technical and educational program manager for WEF. "We are delighted that DOL looked to WEF to lead this process, and we could not have seen it to fruition without industry support."
RELATED: Students from University of Colorado Boulder, University of South Florida win 2012 WEF Student Design Competition
Water professionals from around the country, including individuals who developed recognized operator apprenticeship standards in South Carolina and Wisconsin, were instrumental to bringing the guidelines to the national level, Radke said.
The National Guidelines for Wastewater Systems Operator Apprenticeship suggests a two-year intensive schedule of 3,520 work process hours and 480 instructional hours. Work process hours will provide on-the-job experience alongside supervisors and coworkers. Industry curriculum is structured around six pillars: orientation and safety, operations, maintenance, quality control, logistics and administration. Additional instruction focuses on the theoretical aspects of the occupation, such as pumping systems, mathematics and solids management.


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The 55th European Go Congress
23.07.2011-06.08.2011, Bordeaux, France
Sponsored by Zhuyeqing Tea
The 55th European Go Congress, sponsored by Zhuyeqing Tea, was held in Bordeaux in France.640 players took part in the first day of the main Open Championship, including a few strong visitors from outside Europe.
757 players took part in all.
European Open/Championship, Results
After seven rounds top 8 European players were selected for knockout stage (Dmitrij Surin lost a relegation game to Cornel Burzo).
Quarter Finals
Final Places
Ilya and Catalin both ended on 8 wins, but Ilya won the final.
Young-Sam Kim, 7d Korea, was unbeaten after 10 rounds to be European Open Champion.
Weekend Tournament Results
435 players took part.
Pandanet Go European Team Championship Finals
Pair Go Tournament
Played by some 90 Pairs, large prize money.
13x13 Tournament
Youth Yournament
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17-19 years
Veteran Tournament
Blitz Tournament
Rengo Tournament
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TWO X-ray flashes from the Sun have lit up the asteroid Eros, giving astronomers their first chance to see which chemical elements are present on an asteroid's surface. NASA's NEAR spacecraft, which is spiralling towards Eros, carries an X-ray spectrometer designed to see the X-ray "fingerprints"of the elements.
The two flashes showed that the surface contains magnesium, aluminium, silicon and iron. But it won't be clear how abundant these elements are until the spacecraft gets closer to the asteroid in mid-May. "This will yield information on the origin and evolution of Eros," says Jacob Trombka, leader of the spectrometer science team at NASA. Eros may turn out to be a fragment of a larger body, or a collection of small objects that clumped together in the early Solar System.
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The Saint Index© — The Annual Measure of the Politics of Land Development
Why The Saint Index is important — and why now?
In the fourth quarter of 2005, The Saint Consulting Group conducted its first annual Saint Index, which for the first time ever quantified and tracked the politics of land use in the US. This survey spotlighted who actively opposed and supports real estate projects and why. It answered: Where is it most difficult to build today and why? How well is local government doing with planning and zoning? Which land uses experienced the most opposition and from whom?
In 2006, we conducted the first annual Saint Index for the United Kingdom, and in 2007 the first ever study of public attitudes toward real estate development projects across Canada.
Development of real property has become agonizingly tough. What started on both coasts of the US has spread throughout heartland America: population density, maturing markets, and intense competition are causing battle lines to be drawn in numerous wars over how cities and towns are being developed.
In the United Kingdom, development often faces even tougher public opposition than in the US, the Saint Index shows. Canadians oppose certain land uses more than Americans, but also show more support for other types of development.
The stakeholders in these battles over development include the businesses who must continue to find and build on new prime locations, residents who are standing up to fight to protect their neighborhoods, and elected officials and municipalities who are under conflicting pressures to increase tax revenues while protecting constituent neighborhoods.
The outcomes are determining which companies gain market share, who wins local elections, and what communities are going to look like into the future.
Because Saint Consulting is on the front lines of land-use battles across the US, UK and Canada, it has immediate perspective and information on the real estate scene, the implications of a strengthened economy, and the increasing need for a national statistical instrument to measure the impact of politics on land-use development.
The Saint Index survey will be conducted annually in the US, Canada and UK, allowing us to build a cumulative database that will identify and track trends over an extended period.
The intention of the Saint Index is to benefit companies that want to understand from where their active opposition is coming, and what they can do to get more projects approved. The Index will also benefit policy makers and planning officials who want to craft "smart growth" policies that meet the needs of their constituents and the economic development needs of their communities.
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Mississippi State women's basketball coach Vic Schaefer liked what he saw on Sunday from his guard position.
It was mainly due to the toughness that led to the Bulldogs taking seven charges during a 69-62 victory over the Missouri Tigers.
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It looks pretty decent. Might give it a try.. Just might.
While I am not much of a fan of the show (it does have its moments), this looks like it will be very entertaining. I like how it has a flare for old-school style games; thqt classic turn-based style for example. While I wnt personally play it, i hope it is a solid game and it does well.
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May 11th, 2007 by Dre
Stemming from the list and analysis of the Top 10 Trinidad and Tobago Blogs I realized that there were other high quality blogs that either just missed the Top 10 or were not nominated and therefore not on the radar for the compilation.
This list therefore creates a stepping stone into the Top 10.
1. Trinidad Media Arts and Culture
A product of journalist Raymond Ramcharitar who is using it to keep a diary of my last few months in Trinidad and Tobago, because the stories told in the media are about as reliable as a sweaty priest at a choirboy convention, and about as destructive. Raymond's posts are relatively lengthy but are complete with high quality analysis.
2. Jeremy Taylor – Notes from Port Of Spain
Jeremy Taylor personal blog on International affairs from a Trinidadian perspective also publishes the Caribbean Beat magazine and a contributor to their blog.
4. Chookonloonks
A unique photoblog by Karen featuring daily snapshots and musings. Having recently migrated the archives can be scoured for Trinidad photos with the Flickr stream.
5. Jumbie's Watch
Jumbie's Watch is a fairly recent blog authored by self confessed addicted, insomniac technophile, net junkie. Having recently grabbed our attention enough to elicit a response to one of his post with Topical Trini Bloggers, he has provided content on a consistent basis.
These five in addition to the top ten are all ready for RSS prime time and gives you a rounded view of the thoughts and pulse of Trinidad and Tobago.
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I was there on Sunday and ordered dim sum, the food was cold, the fried bean curd was not crispy seems like it had been leftover there for hours.
The staff are not attentive to our request despite calling them on several occasion. Food was not spectacular, service was bad in the past now worse.
We complained that the food was cold and they just ignored us.
Ill never come back in a lifetime. Why be abused by them if they don't want your business bring it elsewhere. On top of that they still have the nerve to charge us service it was included in the tab without our knowledge.
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Food 2 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 3
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Visited Lido for a dim sum lunch here about a week ago and really enjoyed the food! Although it was quite busy, service was well paced and the servers were very friendly attentive. We really enjoyed the prawn dumplings and the roast pork puffs - absolutely delicious! I would definitely recommend Lido for dim sum and will definitely be bringing friends here next time.
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Friday, December 06, 2013
£8.80 set menu was appalling - duck was stringy and chewy - lent a whole new meaning to the word crispy - and dry; chicken and beef were greasy and vile. As were the noodles. Dim sum was tolerable, but nothing more. Completely not interested in any feedback on quality of the food. I will not be going there again in this lifetime.
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I've been to the restaurant since i was a kid and service still remains the same. Very good, the service is prompt, staff are very friendly and easy going. During less busy hours they even let you sit in the restaurant for free to avoid the rain. I recommend trying out their dim sum which is wide in variety and very nice compared to a lot of the chinese restaurants in china town, though they have downsized the portions a little bit but i promise you won't be disappointed. As for their dinner menu, the options seems to be quite limited but still taste good.
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My husband and I went there for the first time yesterday after reading good reviews. We opted for the Dim sum menu.
We were definitely not disappointed.
Excellent dim sum, the staff was friendly and attentive. We didn't feel rushed. Chinese tea was topped up throughout the meal.
Very good value for money, food was light and not greasy. Yummy.
Will definitely be going back back for dim sum in the future.
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Cyber-attack vector? Who, me?
Robert Tie, CFE, CFP
November 2012
Some of us complain about the blurring boundaries between our work and personal lives, but fraudsters love it. Why? Because the way many of us use personal email
accounts and social media sites influences our approaches to working on corporate systems. However, the relatively indiscriminate sharing of personal data that so many consumer websites encourage is antithetical to the safe use of corporate information resources.
"Users are the predominant vector for cyber attacks on corporate systems," said Jim Butterworth, CFE, an ACFE faculty member and chief security officer at HBGary, a cyber-security consultancy in Sacramento, Calif. "Fraudsters know that the user is the weak link in system security."
Recent research shows how serious and widespread this problem is. In September, Symantec Corp., a maker of anti-virus software, released its
2012 Norton Cybercrime Report
, which found that in the prior 12 months an estimated 556 million people around the world fell prey to cybercrime.
Responses to Norton's survey of more than 13,000 adults in 24 countries revealed that even though users were aware of the security risks they face online, many still didn't take steps to mitigate those dangers. While 75 percent of users said they believed cyber criminals focus on social networks, only 44 percent took advantage of applications that can protect them at such sites and only 49 percent use those sites' privacy settings to limit how much and with whom they share information.
When such computing habits persist at work, they can threaten the safety of corporate systems and hurt the bottom line. Another study, released in October, paints a clear, worrisome picture of how badly organizations need — but often don't have — effective cyber security programs.
2012 Cost of Cybercrime Study
conducted by the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and security think tank, under the sponsorship of tech giant HP, found that the average annualized cost of cybercrime incurred by a sample of U.S. organizations was $8.9 million — 6 percent more than in 2011 and 38 percent more than in 2010. The 2012 report also found that the average corporation experienced 102 successful cyber attacks a week, up from 72 attacks a week in 2011 and 50 attacks a week in 2010.
It's clear that organizations — and the CFEs who serve them as employees or consultants — need to come up with effective countermeasures quickly. Sometimes, though, that's easier said than done.
Case in point: In October, a client of Butterworth's firm requested a routine assessment of its system security. During its analysis, HBGary discovered that five of the client's PCs were infected with a
remote administration tool
(RAT), a form of malware that surreptitiously executed commands the hackers sent it while the PC was connected to the Internet. HBGary also found that the hackers' software had been in place
for more than two years
, secretly monitoring the client's system and transmitting confidential information to a group that Butterworth's firm determined is located in China's Shandong province — the same region to which Google traced hackers who broke into its system in 2011.
Butterworth and his colleagues found that the RAT first entered the client's system when an employee clicked on an Adobe Flash Player link in an email he opened on his corporate PC. As he intended, clicking on that link connected him to a pornographic website. However, he didn't realize that it also connected his computer to the hackers' server, which covertly installed the RAT. The RAT then spread to four other computers connected to the corporate system, which gave the hackers mostly unfettered — and completely undetected — access to proprietary information.
The HBGary team also determined that the RAT captured the names of all drives and files on the client's system and installed a
keystroke logger
that recorded every key pressed by the users of the five infected PCs and a
password dumper
that captured users' login details. The RAT collected that information in a file that it transmitted to the hackers in China whenever they remotely commanded it to do so.
"The most effective fraudsters are the sneaky ones," Butterworth said. "Their idea of a break-in," he continued metaphorically, "is to dress up as a pizza delivery guy, knock on your door and get you to gladly carry their infected pie inside. That's how they victimized this user and so many others."
Because this scheme went undetected for more than two years, it was difficult to estimate the client's informational losses and their financial consequences. But there was little reason to doubt their significance.
Butterworth and his colleagues, with the client's approval, disconnected the infected computers from all corporate systems. They also analyzed communications between the RAT and the hackers to identify dozens of other websites under the hackers' control and set up a firewall to prevent anyone on the client's system from connecting to any of those Internet addresses.
Finally, Butterworth and his colleagues advised the client to scan all its systems for malware, to check all network and firewall logs for signs of traffic with the hacker sites to get a better sense of which and how much information was lost and to develop a plan for preserving evidence that might be useful if litigation ensues.
Despite Butterworth and his team's quick response and remedial action, there's only so much he and other CFEs can do when clients come to them for help on systems that have been infected for lengthy periods without anyone noticing. That's why preemptive policies and procedures are essential to minimize the number of cyber-attack vectors endangering your client's systems.
If there's anything that gets under Butterworth's skin, it's entities granting extensive system access to senior staff members who feel entitled to it simply because of their ranks.
"Being CFO doesn't necessarily mean you need access to every finance module in the system," he said. "Along with rights like that comes greater responsibility for security, and some executives just aren't able to shoulder that burden. Fortunately, they don't have to. A well-designed dashboard can give officers all the information they need without endangering corporate systems and information."
Digital dashboards pull summary data from various system modules and present it on an executive's desktop in diverse graphical views of business operations.
To illustrate how risky it can be for an executive to have more access than necessary, Butterworth described a case in which one of his clients — a law firm — suffered a successful cyber attack when a junior attorney unwittingly helped infect the PC of a senior partner. But, unlike the goof-off employee above, who inadvertently facilitated an attack by using a corporate PC to visit a porn site, the junior attorney was simply trying to do his job.
The trouble began when he received an email from an apparently known, legitimate source. Attached to the actually phony message was a malicious PDF attachment purporting to be a legal document of the kind the junior attorney and senior partner often worked on together — a court order for the preservation of evidence. Because neither its apparent source nor content appeared suspicious, the junior attorney opened the attachment. When its contents turned out to be unfamiliar, he sought guidance by forwarding the message to the senior partner, who also opened the attachment.
Neither had any way of knowing it, but opening the attachment executed malware that infected their PCs and spread to sensitive system modules that the senior partner had access to. As in the case discussed above, hackers were able to survey the entire system and take the type of information they were after, which, in this case, concerned intellectual property.
Unlike the earlier case, however, this was an attack that involved advance planning and research that had nothing to do with technology. These hackers were skilled
, whose precisely aimed attack sought a particular type of information accessible only to certain senior staff members of the law firm.
The hackers were anxious to not draw attention to their attempt, so they sent only one message to one carefully selected user — the junior attorney. How did they know to whom to send it? By performing extensive research and reconnaissance — much of it offline — on who worked with whom in the law firm and each attorney's kind of work.
At the same time, the hackers explored the firm's email address-naming convention. So, when the technological part of their scheme — a virus — was ready, the hackers knew to whom to send it. They also had figured out how to trick that lower-level user into persuading a senior and perhaps more cautious staff member to open the attachment and launch the cyber attack against several sensitive information resources to which few employees had access.
"Because this was the first message from this source and of this kind the firm's anti-virus software encountered, it appeared harmless," Butterworth said. "That's the inherent weakness of most such applications; the only threats they detect are those that have appeared previously; they can't detect new ones. The best way to protect corporate information from them is to limit access as much as possible without reducing productivity. CFEs should educate their clients and employers on the security virtues of executive dashboards, which provide only that information a staff member truly needs. If an executive resists the dashboard approach, I pose two questions: One, if your computer or account were compromised, what information would that give the hackers access to? Two, are you willing to accept that risk on behalf of the company? Personalizing it like that gets their attention."
Butterworth said hackers try to deduce prime email addresses for helping malware reach recipients by sending trial-and-error test messages. So, he said, CFEs should advise their clients and employers to make their email addresses less predictable and to fine-tune the security settings on their servers, which can suppress the granularity of information returned to senders of undeliverable messages.
"If a hacker guesses wrong on an email address, have the server simply reply 'Message not deliverable' and suppress the server name," he advised.
"When users find out that hackers targeted them, they say, 'These people somehow found my information on the Internet and decided
was going to be their cyber attack vector to carry out fraud?' " Butterworth said. "That's a very sobering realization."
Butterworth said that CFEs can try to persuade corporate leaders that the next cyber-intrusion headline might be about their organization by focusing on the consequences of a data security breach.
"Executives sometimes are more mindful of the expense and inconvenience of data security policies and procedures; they forget how much they've invested in research and development and how much intellectual property the organization has amassed," he said. "So, remind them: When that gets pilfered, their company itself has been stolen and moved overseas."
Robert Tie
, CFE, CFP, is contributing editor of Fraud Magazine and a New York business writer.
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